As soon as Ji Chenan entered the room, Concubine Duan immediately got up from the ground and was about to throw herself into the arms of His Majesty with a wronged look on her face.
However, Ji Chenan dodged it with a flick of his body, his expression looking a bit disgusted.
When Jiang Ziyi saw this scene, she almost couldn't help laughing out loud.
Seeing that her attempt to throw herself into his arms failed and His Majesty's obvious rejection attitude made it difficult for her to continue forcing him, Concubine Duan could only take two steps back awkwardly.
With a sad face, she said, "Your Majesty, please make the decision for me~"
Ji Chenan frowned. He was not very interested in women in normal times, and there were not many people in his harem, yet these kinds of things always happened.
In the past, Concubine Duan always had unpleasantness with those women without official status, but at that time he thought that Concubine Duan was the destined person as Master Xuanfa said, so he never punished Concubine Duan. Unexpectedly, she became more and more aggressive.
He was handling official business today. The recent flood outside the city gave him a headache. As a result, the palace maid beside Concubine Duan came running over in a hurry and said that Jiang Ziyi had killed Concubine Duan's people and a fight had broken out. Only then did he put down what he was doing and hurried to take a look.
He came here not because he was worried about Concubine Duan, but because he was worried about Jiang Ziyi. He didn't believe that Jiang Ziyi would kill Concubine Duan's people.
Ji Chenan rubbed his brows and said, "Tell me, what happened?"
Seeing that Ji Chenan finally answered her, Concubine Duan quickly put on a wronged expression again, "I know that my sister doesn't like me, but she can't kidnap my maids just because she doesn't like me. She kidnapped Caixia before, and now she has taken Caidie away too. Your Majesty, you must make the decision for me!"
"Who is Caixia you are talking about? I have never seen her before."
It is true that she kidnapped Caidie, but she has never heard of who Caixia is. Jiang Ziyi still needs to take the blame for something that does not belong to her.
At this moment, Ah Xin was looking at the well behind the yard, seeming to be lost in thought.
She still remembered that night two men in black threw something that looked like a corpse into the well. Afterwards, she and Ah Qing jumped down to check it out. They touched the snakeskin bag and found that there was indeed a person inside. However, she thought it was a bait, so she did not move the corpse out, but let it stay in the well.
From this point of view, the person in the well was most likely the palace maid named Caixia. However, they saw with their own eyes that this person was not killed by Jiang Ziyi, but someone came in the middle of the night to frame her.
"Your Majesty, I wanted to borrow the calligraphy you bestowed upon my sister a few days ago to examine it, but the maidservant beside her refused, and so we had a quarrel."
"After she came back, I scolded her severely and even prepared some small gifts for her to send to the Cangjiao Palace. However, Caixia never came back..."
After saying this, Concubine Duan glared at Jiang Ziyi hatefully, "Sister, if you don't like me, just send Caixia back. How can you be so cruel..."
After hearing what Concubine Duan said, Jiang Ziyi remembered that Caiyun and Caixia had indeed told her about this matter a few days ago. However, Caixia had dismissed them at that time with the excuse that the imperial gift was inconvenient to lend out. It was not like what Concubine Duan said that they had an argument, let alone that they had come to apologize afterwards.
If this were modern times, Jiang Ziyi would give her performance five stars. She almost believed the deep affection between the master and servant. However, she was well aware of human nature. A domineering master like her would not have such deep feelings for her servants, because she had seen people similar to her in the palace of Shen State.
"If you say that Caixia was harmed by me, then you can look for her here." Jiang Ziyi has nothing to fear because she is upright. Besides, Axin and Aqing are the secret guards sent by His Majesty to be by her side. It seems that Concubine Duan doesn't know about this yet.
She has two of the best witnesses by her side. The more dirty water she throws now, the more like a clown she will look like later.
Ji Chenan didn't say a word the whole time. Instead, he stared at Jiang Ziyi for a long time. He found that there was no panic expression on her face and she remained calm. He was a little curious about how she would end this farce.
When Concubine Duan heard that Jiang Ziyi had given her the opportunity to search and her evil plan had succeeded, the expression on her face was so excited that she almost lost control.
Jiang Ziyi, oh Jiang Ziyi, you are so noble, so great, but when His Majesty finds the body in your palace, I wonder how you can still be so noble! She thought viciously in her heart.
Concubine Duan was also busy talking, and immediately arranged for her palace maids to search the palace.
But she had already informed the people around her before she came, and she only needed to make a symbolic search in other places. The real focus was on the covered dry well in the backyard of the hall.
The palace maids were indeed searching according to Concubine Duan's instructions. In order to avoid getting too obvious by going straight to the point, they first wandered around aimlessly for a while, and then Concubine Duan's personal maid Caichun went towards the dry well.
Ah Xin saw everything and she already had the answer in her mind. She knew that the palace maids who were searching in other places were just pretending to do so and were about to walk towards the well, as if they knew there was something there.
Then the body in the snakeskin bag must have been killed by Concubine Duan herself and thrown here to frame her. If she and Ah Qing hadn't seen it with their own eyes that night, then it would be hard to explain. She saw the determined smile on Concubine Duan's face and shook her head secretly in her heart. Self-righteous people usually don't end up well...
"ah!!!!!"
Suddenly, a scream broke through the sky, coming from the direction of the dry well.
The guards around Ji Chenan were alarmed and ran over quickly.
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