Meng You pursed his lips, his face full of shame and anger, as if he had suffered a great injustice.
The Sixth Princess' words were so harsh. Before, he had thought that the Sixth Princess looked lively and cute, much better than his wife at home. After all, his wife had to work in the fields. He didn't expect that the Sixth Princess only showed him appearance.
"Sixth Princess, I know I'm not worthy of you, but you don't have to humiliate me like this."
"Humiliating you?" The Sixth Princess sneered, "Not only did you scheme to startle the horse and run into me, but today you even followed me to Baiyun Temple. I'm really wrongly accusing you of all this."
Meng You widened his eyes in disbelief.
How could the Sixth Princess be so good at confusing right and wrong?
[Hahaha, you're dumbfounded, right? You're not the only one who confuses right and wrong.]
Hearing Yu Yiluo's voice, the Sixth Princess was greatly encouraged and pretended to be aggrieved.
"Mr. Meng is truly ill. He keeps saying that I am attracted to you. This is simply destroying my reputation."
"Your Majesty, I have observed clearly that I did not plot against the Sixth Princess, much less follow her. The Sixth Princess went to the restaurant to eat to express her gratitude to me."
Meng You was a little panicked. He finally understood why the Sixth Princess didn't let him ride in the carriage.
At that time, the Sixth Princess said that the carriage was full and asked him to follow behind. He didn't think much about it. Now it seems that the Sixth Princess had already made up her mind to deal with him.
But he couldn't figure out what he had done wrong that made the Sixth Princess suspect him.
"When we went to the restaurant for dinner, my fifth sister was there too. Master Meng was the host."
The Sixth Princess did not deny it. "But it's a coincidence that the Japanese princess and the fifth sister went to attend the flower viewing banquet at the Yao Mansion and ran into Master Meng when they left the house. This capital city is really small."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone looked at Meng You with a subtle look.
The capital is so big, and if you run into him when you go out, he must know the movements of the Sixth Princess. It's really scary when you think about it.
"I just happened to encounter it, it's not what you think."
Meng You wanted to explain, but under the pressure from the emperor and the scrutiny of the crowd, he could not come up with a better excuse to defend himself.
"You said that was a coincidence, what about this?"
The Sixth Princess took out Meng You's water bag and said, "Master Meng, you won't say that I stole this for you because I love you, right?"
[You said what they were thinking. What can they say?]
Meng You glanced at the water bag in the Sixth Princess's hand and felt a little flustered.
"Why aren't you talking?" The Sixth Princess shook the water bag in her hand. "Mr. Meng was caught following me, and he even enthusiastically offered me water from my water bag. I don't know what his intentions are."
"You're talking nonsense," Meng You said, becoming a little agitated. "I didn't follow you, and this isn't my water bag."
If he really admitted that this was his water bag and that there was medicine in it, he would have no way to defend himself.
"There's no point in quibbling. After all, so many people in Baiyun Temple saw you follow me inside and even threatened me to drink the water."
The Sixth Princess was not worried at all about Meng You's excuses. It was true that Meng You had followed her carriage all the way.
"Your Majesty," Cai Ze stepped forward, "This water bag is indeed Brother Meng's."
Both he and Yang Jin had seen Meng You use it.
But he never thought that Meng You would dare to treat the Sixth Princess like this.
Fortunately, he has nothing to do with this person.
Seeing that Cai Ze had spoken, Yang Jin also said that he had seen Meng You use this water bag.
"Meng You, do you have anything else to say?"
The emperor said in a deep voice, "I personally appointed you as the top scholar, and this is how you repay me?"
"Your Majesty, I feel wronged."
Meng You subconsciously wanted to kowtow, but he was tied up so he couldn't kowtow, so he could only lower his head slightly.
"The water bag is indeed mine, but I just felt that the weather was too hot and gave it to the Sixth Princess out of kindness. I didn't expect it to be misunderstood like this."
The Sixth Princess threw the water bag to one of the guards standing nearby and said, "Feed him this water."
The guard was stunned for a moment, and when he saw that the emperor didn't say anything, he took the water bag and went forward to do as he was told.
[Meng You must be yelling in his heart, "Don't come over here."]
What I thought was a two-person show turned into a one-man show, which is okay.
Meng You looked at the guards approaching him, his eyes full of resistance, but he was like a fish on a chopping board, unable to escape even if he wanted to, and could only be slaughtered.
The guard was not polite to Meng You at all. He simply pinched his chin and poured the water into his mouth.
Everyone was curious whether there was something in the water and stared at Meng You.
Meng You was very ruthless when he gave him the medicine. After drinking it for a while, he felt the changes in his body.
"Your Majesty, I have been wronged." He suppressed the discomfort in his body and told himself not to show it, otherwise it would be obvious to everyone that there was something in the water.
Unfortunately, Meng You underestimated the medicinal properties of the medicine. At the beginning, he was still able to endure it rationally, but later he lost all rationality and could no longer bear it.
The ministers were all experienced people and could tell what had been added to the water by looking at his expression.
"Beast," the emperor cursed angrily and ordered someone to splash water on Meng You to wake him up.
Meng You was so hot that he had to be splashed with water several times before he came to his senses.
At this time, a guard came in from outside the Golden Palace.
"Your Majesty, Meng You's wife has arrived."
Meng You froze upon hearing this. Shouldn't his wife be in Yueqing? Why was she in the capital?
Before he could react, a woman in linen clothes came in from the door. She had sallow skin and a thin figure. She looked very uneasy when she saw everyone in the Golden Palace.
"I, a humble woman, pay my respects to the emperor. Long live the emperor." Zhou Fang knelt on the ground uneasily, with so much pain in her heart that she wanted to tell Meng You.
The emperor looked at her and asked, "Do you know the man tied up next to you?"
Before Zhou Fang could speak, Meng You spoke first, "Your Majesty, this person is my cousin."
He had previously stated that he had no family, so he could not admit that this was his wife under any circumstances, otherwise it would be deceiving the emperor.
Zhou Fang had her head down, but when she heard that, she looked at Meng You in disbelief.
How could my husband lie to the emperor?
She is not good-looking, but her husband never despised her when they were in Yueqing. Now he wants to cut off ties with her not long after coming to the capital. Is it really as she heard on the street, that her husband wants to abandon her, his wife, after he became the top scorer in the imperial examination?
[She's just a cousin, she's just lying so much that she's even confused her own wife.]
"Your Majesty, I am Meng You's wife, not his cousin."
In front of the emperor, Zhou Fang didn't dare to lie. She knew what the emperor represented and she couldn't deceive him at will.
"You," Meng You's face turned red with anger.
He secretly cursed his wife for not being able to adapt. Isn't this pushing him to death?
"Meng You, you actually deceive the emperor."
Meng You couldn't bear the accusation, so he quickly thought of ways to defend himself.
"Your Majesty, she is really my cousin."
[Well, she's just your sister, the kind you call her during the day and sleep with at night.]
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