Chapter 203 It was the Crown Princess who ordered it!
The whole audience was silent.
Everyone's eyes were on Xie Yao and Xiao Ji, waiting for their answers.
Your Majesty's move... clearly shows an intention to cover up.
Xiao Ning frowned and wanted to say something, but when she received a warning look, she swallowed the words back.
Xie Yao stood up, walked slowly to the center of the hall and knelt down.
"Father, the innocent are innocent. I will not admit anything I have never done."
"I also want to ask you, father, to thoroughly investigate this matter, give me justice, and give father the truth."
she……
Zhang's heart skipped a beat.
She suddenly turned to look at Xie Yao in disbelief. She was not afraid at all!
Why is she not afraid at all? No one knows what happened in the past better than them!
But the emperor did not give her time to think, and said: "In this case, then we should investigate this matter immediately."
"Father." Xiao Ji walked to Xie Yao, lifted his robe and knelt down, "This matter concerns the innocence of the Crown Princess. I beg you to personally judge this matter."
"allow."
At the emperor's command, people immediately brought up various witnesses.
The imperial physician who had examined Xie Cheng that day and the people from the Xie family who had taken care of Xie Cheng were the first to be affected.
The emperor said, "Eunuch Li, go to the Xie family and bring the witness."
"Your Majesty," Zhang said, "Ever since I suspected that my husband was murdered, I have secretly kept the medicine residue."
Zhang said a location.
The emperor said, "Bring them here so that I can see for myself how Xie Aiqing is doing now."
Li Dajian replied "yes" and turned to leave with his men.
When Zhang saw this, her heart skipped a beat, for she knew Xie Cheng's miserable condition now.
She subconsciously looked at Xie Yao.
But he saw Xie Yao sitting next to Xiao Ji, her brows slightly furrowed, as if she was worried about Xie Cheng.
Zhang clenched his fists subconsciously under his sleeves.
Xie Yao...what's the back-up plan?
The imperial physician knelt on the ground, trembling.
The Third Prince took a look at the Emperor's expression and asked, "Doctor Ye, what happened to Master Xie that day?"
The imperial physician did not even dare to raise his head and immediately replied, "Your Majesty, I dare not hide the truth from you. Mr. Xie did suffer a stroke that day!"
"Are you sure?" The Third Prince had already done several things for the Emperor, and his true face was revealed without a doubt. He looked very majestic. "If you dare to deceive His Majesty, it will be a heinous crime punishable by the execution of all nine generations of your clan!"
Doctor Ye shuddered all over, and subconsciously, he carefully glanced in the direction of Xie Yao, and then said: "Your Majesty, I dare not hide it."
There was a moment of silence in the room.
Doctor Ye's actions, which he thought were "hidden", were clearly seen by the emperor and others.
Concubine Shu snorted coldly and said, "Just talk, what are you looking at the Crown Princess doing?"
Doctor Ye shuddered, fell to the ground, and dared not say anything more.
Soon, Li Dajian came back.
His face looked rather ugly, and as soon as he entered the door, he said, "Your Majesty, Master Xie is in such a miserable state... He is so skinny, and the flesh on his waist and back is all rotten..."
"The house stinks..."
Everyone in the room changed their expressions when Li Dajian said that. Zhang, Xie Yujiao and Xie Yuru began to sob quietly.
Xie Yao turned sideways and leaned on Xiao Ji.
Although I couldn't see her expression at the moment, I could tell from her trembling body that she was probably crying sadly.
Xiao Ji patted Xie Yao's back soothingly, and pricked up his ears to listen to Xie Yao's movements.
Afraid she would laugh out loud.
Concubine Shu frowned and interrupted Li Dajian's words, "Where is the person you asked me to bring?"
Li Dajian smiled and said, "Don't worry, Madam, I'll be right there."
Eunuch Li clapped his hands, and immediately someone led a few servants in. They were the people from the Xie family who served Xie Cheng.
Several people knelt on the ground, trembling, "Please spare us, sir, please spare us, sir, please spare us..."
"Silence!" Li Dajian ordered, and asked with a stern face: "Tell me! Who ordered you to humiliate the imperial officials?"
"Yes, it was the Crown Princess...it was the Crown Princess who ordered it."
After one of them spoke up, the other two also spoke up quickly, "Yes, it's the Crown Princess."
"The Crown Princess said, said...she didn't want the Master to have an easy life, so she ordered the servants to starve the Master, and also, they were not allowed to clean up the Master..."
"Please forgive me, my lord. We are just following your orders and we dare not disobey the Crown Princess."
Several people were talking to each other, but all their words were directed at Xie Yao.
Xie Yao had already sat up straight, her eyes were still slightly red, her expression was serious and stern, "Father, this is slander, I have never done it!"
"Crown Princess." Concubine Li sneered, "The evidence is irrefutable. Why are you still quibbling? I didn't expect... that you are this kind of person."
There was a gleam of light in Concubine Li's eyes.
God-given opportunity!
If Xie Yao could be sentenced to death this time, then Xie Yao's son would not have any chance.
As for Xiao Ji...
As a dying man, Xiao Ji would have nothing to fear as long as he could destroy the little grandson of the emperor.
Xie Yao ignored these accusations and said calmly, "Eunuch Li, please take them away and question them separately."
"When and where did I instruct you? How did I bribe or threaten you? What was the weather like? What color clothes did I wear? What jewelry did I wear?"
Xie Yao spoke clearly and logically, and Li Dajian immediately agreed and took the panicked people away.
At this moment, there was only one thought in everyone's mind: Xie Yao...are you really not afraid at all?
Xie Yao continued: "Check the drug residue."
Zhang and Xie Yujiao have been playing the leading role for such a long time, now... it's her turn!
As soon as Xie Yao said this, an imperial physician came forward and checked the medicine residue against the prescription written by the imperial physician.
"Your Majesty, this prescription is for the right condition, but there is an extra medicine in the dregs. If this medicine is added, the medicine will lose its medicinal properties and increase its toxicity."
"No wonder the situation became worse after Master Xie took the medicine."
Without waiting for others to speak, Xie Yao said, "So, is it true that someone deliberately murdered my father?"
"Your Majesty." Li Dajian hurried back with a strange expression, "I just asked those servants, and each of them said something different."
"Maybe it was a combination of coercion and inducement." Someone said.
Li Dajian said awkwardly: "But... our time is the same."
"It's impossible for the Crown Princess to split herself into two, threatening here and luring there at the same time..."
The whole audience was speechless.
There is plenty of time to testify, how could this happen?
So... the Crown Princess is really innocent?
"I had people torture them, but they refused to reveal who was behind this..."
"Of course they don't dare!" At this moment, another voice came from the door.
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound.
Pei Chen was seen striding into the room, accompanied by a gentlemanly young man, who turned out to be Changning Marquis Cheng Fengqi.
"Your Majesty, I, Pei Chen, pay my respects to you."
The two of them saluted together.
The emperor said, "Please stand up, my dear minister. Do you know about this?"
Pei Chen said: "In reply to your Majesty, I returned to the capital today, but I ran into Lord Changning on the way."
"I heard from Marquis Changning that someone dared to kidnap someone in the capital. I am a military commander, and seeing Marquis Changning's thin body, I am afraid that I am not strong enough to do it. I happen to be good at this and have some martial arts skills, so I naturally have no choice but to do it..."
Emperor: "Speak to the point."
Stop bragging about how heroic he is. Didn’t you see that the face of Marquis Changning next to him has turned dark?
Pei Chen coughed. Isn't that Yingying behind?
"Yes, Your Majesty." Pei Chen said, "In short, I assisted Marquis Changning in solving this case, and I only found out during the interrogation."
"These people are actually the relatives of Xie's servants, and they ordered their imprisonment..."
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