Chapter 35 Good Show
"Liu Yuetang, what are you doing? Get up!"
She was about to reach out to pull Liu Yuetang when the man's deep voice echoed throughout the inner hall.
"stop!"
Xiao Heng strode in and glanced at Jiang Baolin sharply.
Jiang Baolin was horrified and hurriedly greeted him tremblingly: "Why is the emperor here? I...I greet the emperor."
Xiao Heng said with a hint of anger: "Do I need to report to you where I go?"
Jiang Baolin's heart trembled, her legs went weak, and she knelt down and explained anxiously: "No, that's not what I meant. I just didn't expect the emperor to come."
"You didn't expect me to see such an unbearable side of you, did you?"
After saying this, Xiao Heng didn't even look at her.
He walked straight towards the dazzlingly beautiful and tempting Liu Yuetang, and helped her up from the ground with both hands.
Liu Yuetang raised her flushed face, met his gaze with wet eyes, and called out softly and tenderly, "Your Majesty..."
She deliberately lowered her voice, sounding even more delicate and vulnerable, and one could tell from her voice that she had suffered great injustice.
Xiao Heng patted her shoulder and said, "Don't be afraid. I will make the decision for you."
He looked around and saw that the tables and the floor in the hall were smashed into a mess.
Porcelain, pearls, jade, and hair accessories were scattered all over the floor in all colors.
Jiang Baolin was afraid that he would blame her, so she quickly explained, "Your Majesty, it was Liu Baolin who spoke rudely to me, and I got angry and threw some things."
"Did you drop something?"
"I just gave these things to Liu Baolin, and you were so quick to throw them all over the floor."
"I didn't know Jiang Baolin was so bold as to vent his anger on the gift bestowed by the Emperor."
Damaging the imperial gifts is a great disrespect to the imperial power.
Jiang Baolin trembled with fear, her face as pale as paper, "Your Majesty, I didn't know these were gifts from the emperor. I am so angry."
"It's her!" She said, pointing her finger at Liu Yuetang.
"Liu Yuetang deliberately provoked me and slapped me just now! She was the one who disrespected me first!"
Liu Yuetang took a quick look at Jiang Baolin's face and felt relieved when she saw that he was under control and there were no slap marks.
Her long eyelashes trembled as fragile as cicada wings, and she covered her cheeks. "Sister Jiang, you... why are you confusing right and wrong? It was clearly you who slapped me, and I slipped and fell."
At this time, men trust the weaker party more.
When Xiao Heng came in, he heard the slapping sound with his own ears, and happened to see Liu Yuetang fall down.
He only trusts his ears and eyes.
Seeing Liu Yuetang pretending to be weak, Jiang Baolin was so angry that his face turned red.
"Liu Yuetang! You are such a vicious bitch! How dare you wrongly accuse me in front of the Emperor?"
As she said that, she stepped forward to teach Liu Yuetang a lesson.
Liu Yuetang was startled and hid behind Xiao Heng's arms like a frightened deer.
Xiao Heng subconsciously reached out to cover her face, his tone cold: "Jiang Baolin, it seems that the punishment I gave you before was too light."
Jiang Baolin's body suddenly stiffened. Just as he was about to speak, Liu Zheng beside him knelt down with a thud.
"Your Majesty, after being demoted, Jiang Baolin not only did not correct his character, but instead he continued to pressure our young master. If Your Majesty had not come to take charge today, our young master would still have no choice but to swallow her grievances."
"Tell us all how Jiang Baolin bullied your master in the past." Xiao Heng was intimidating without even getting angry.
"Your Majesty, since entering the palace, Jiang Baolin has punished my lady for various reasons almost eight out of ten days. Whether it's something bestowed by the Emperor or the other ladies, Jiang Baolin takes it away if he likes it, or destroys it like he did today. Not only that, but even..."
Seeing Liu Zheng throwing all the dirty water on him with her truth, Jiang Baolin was even more terrified. He interrupted Liu Zheng loudly: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, you must not believe my one-sided words. I did not do those things."
"Shut up! I didn't ask you to speak." Xiao Heng glanced at her, his calm eyes full of sharpness and coldness.
He then gestured for Liu Zheng to continue.
Liu Zheng continued, "Last winter, Jiang Baolin took all of our young master's charcoal. If Su Yunv hadn't kindly given us some, I'm afraid our young master wouldn't have been able to survive the winter."
At this point, Liu Zheng's voice was choked with sobs.
Seeing that they had almost finished speaking, Liu Yuetang hurriedly stopped Liu Zheng: "Liu Zheng, be careful with your words in front of the Emperor!"
Speak, she said to Xiao Heng: "Your Majesty, Liu Zheng is my personal maid. Please don't blame me for my careless words."
Her behavior made Xiao Heng pity her even more, and he said in a gentle voice: "How could I blame such a loyal servant? But you have suffered so much injustice, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Liu Yuetang sneered in his heart. When she refused the favor, he sent spies to keep an eye on Yaoyue Palace. He didn't believe that she was unaware of what Jiang Baolin had done.
In order to satisfy his own desire to conquer and tame, he simply turned a blind eye.
So if a man says something, just believe three points and ignore the other seven points.
"I don't want to bother the emperor with these trivial matters."
There was a vicious light in Jiang Baolin's eyes. When did Liu Yuetang become so good at pretending?
She raised her head and said hurriedly, "Your Majesty, please don't listen to Liu Yuetang's words. I am innocent. Liu Yuetang didn't like me outside the palace. She is slandering me."
Liu Yuetang was stunned, as if disappointed. "Sister Jiang, is it you who dislikes me or me? You've always said I was a concubine, destined to be suppressed by you my whole life. That's why you bullied and scolded me every time I entered the palace. But now you're telling the emperor that I've slandered you?"
As she spoke, she looked at the emperor, tears welling up in her eyes: "Your Majesty, I did not, I did not slander her."
"I know, I believe you." Xiao Heng gave him a reassuring look.
Jiang Baolin panicked for a moment, his heart pounding like thunder. He grabbed Xiao Heng's skirt and said, "Your Majesty, you can't trust Liu Yuetang. She didn't grow up in the Liu family. She has evil intentions. When she was outside the palace, she was restless. As a concubine's daughter, she wanted to have everything..."
"So what if I'm a concubine? If a legitimate daughter can fight for something, why can't a concubine?" Xiao Heng, whose face had always been calm, now looked extremely gloomy, with a hint of impending storm.
Jiang Baolin realized that he had said something wrong and suddenly stood there in a daze, his body shaking.
Liu Yuetang's mouth twitched slightly: Speak, the more you speak, the worse the outcome will be.
She knew that Jiang Baolin despised her status as a concubine's daughter the most, so she deliberately used the word "concubine's daughter" to lure her to continue.
Unexpectedly, she really fell for it.
Now another crime has been added: offending the emperor.
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