"You are lying." Zhang Caiyi scolded.

How could he speak so nonsense?

How dare you?

"Your Majesty, my lady, everything I said is true. That day, I went to buy jewelry with her. She despised me because I was a poor scholar and could only afford silver jewelry. When she saw Master Cheng bought a gold hairpin for his mother without blinking, she immediately pretended to be unsteady and threw herself into Master Cheng's arms..."

"You're lying, you're lying, I never did that." The woman retorted loudly, not caring about the imperial study, and rushed over to bite the man.

She never wanted to die. Before she died, they all poured dirty water on her, so don't blame her for taking them with her.

"Calm down." Qin Ruchu stopped her: "You are confirming his guilt by doing this. What we need to do is calmly expose his lies."

"Thank you." The woman took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down. "Your Majesty, what he said is not true. There were many people who saw it at the time, including the owner of the Dianzhu Lou. You can ask him."

"Summon the owner of Dianhuilou to come and see him." The old emperor said with a serious face.

It was impossible to do nothing while waiting, so Cheng Zhe glanced at the first witness.

The first witnesses were an old couple. They knelt before the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, ladies, we are He Feihua's parents..."

"Impossible, my parents died a long time ago, who are you pretending to be?" He Feihua stretched out his hands to grab the two people's faces, determined to peel off their skins.

The two of them hid while saying, "Feihua, we know you have climbed up the ladder, things are different now, but you can't deny your parents."

"Yes, you even cursed us to death. How unfilial of you."

The old woman and the old man each blamed He Feihua.

He Feihua was so angry that she wanted to run away. Seeing that her emotions were about to be controlled, Zhang Caiyi said softly, "Calm down, or you will do what they want."

He Feihua dug her nails deep into her flesh, the pain keeping her mind clear. She stared at the two of them coldly and said in a cold voice, "I saw with my own eyes that my parents were beaten to death by Cheng Zhe."

Her voice was extremely hoarse. Telling everyone in person that her parents had died was like stabbing a wound that had never healed. She trembled with pain.

"Bah, who told you we were dead? The people who beat us were kind enough to spare our lives." The old woman spat in He Feihua's face.

"Yeah, not everyone is as cruel as you." The old man agreed.

"Your Majesty, my people, we were just trying to stop her from marrying into a wealthy family, but she wanted to kill us. If it weren't for your compassion, we would have died." The old man burst into tears.

She was so old and cried so sadly, it's inevitable that people will be moved.

He Feihua dug her nails deeper into the flesh, and her dizzy head regained clarity. She whispered, "There is a deep scar on the palm of my mother's hand. You said you are my mother, open your hand and let me see."

When she was a child, she went up the mountain with her mother. While her mother was tying firewood, she would secretly pick up the firewood to play with.

Unexpectedly, due to an instability, the rooster fell from his hand and was about to chop his feet. When his mother looked back and saw this, she reached out to hold the rooster without thinking.

The blade nearly cut off half of her palm, and after the wound healed, it left a deep scar.

"So you still remember it." The old woman opened her hand, revealing a deep scar on the palm.

"Impossible, this can't be true." He Feihua grabbed the old woman's hand and kept rubbing it, but no matter how she rubbed it, the scar remained.

Qin Ruchu tried hard to look over there, "The scar can't be real, right?"

System: "It's true. Cheng Shihang had been preparing for this day for a long time. He found the old woman on purpose. It was almost as if He Feihua's parents had just died, and he found the old woman right after. Not only did he tell her that she had a scar on her hand, but he also soaked it in medicine because he was afraid that the scar was not old enough and would be noticed by others. Unless you have this kind of scar, ordinary people really can't see it."

Qin Ruchu was so shocked that her mouth dropped: "He is so well prepared for the future that it is a shame for him to be a minister of rites. He should be the emperor."

The old emperor: “…” You know what, he was really afraid that Cheng Shihang would plot a rebellion, and then his position would be very unstable.

Tang Yiqian: “…” He didn’t want to say anything anymore. He had already made up his mind to die together.

System: "Not only that, he is the one who cleans up every bad thing Cheng Zhegan does, otherwise it would have been exposed long ago."

Cheng Shihang couldn't hear the conversation between Qin Ruchu and the system. Seeing He Feihua's disbelief, he smiled smugly and turned serious in a second, "Your Majesty, Sun Hanruo's parents need a summons to come to the capital."

The implication was that he could ask Sun Hanruo's parents to come to Beijing to see if it was true, as Sun Hanruo said, that his son had stolen her away.

He was not afraid of confrontation.

Qin Ruchu: "What did he do again?"

System: "I didn't do anything. I just killed Sun Hanruo's family and replaced them with his people."

Sun Hanruo was so frightened that she couldn't control herself and rushed towards Cheng Shihang: "I'm going to kill you."

She wants to avenge her parents.

Cheng Shihang dodged to the side deliberately, and Sun Hanruo didn't have time to brake, so he hit the pillar and fell to the ground with a "bang".

"Call the imperial physician." The old emperor's brows were so wrinkled that they could pinch a mosquito to death.

Cheng Shihang knelt on the ground without saying a word. He did not defend himself and looked like he was completely at the mercy of the emperor.

At this time, a eunuch came in from outside, "Your Majesty, the shopkeeper of Dianzhulou has arrived."

"Xuan."

A sturdy middle-aged man with a mustache came in. Just as he was about to speak, the old emperor waved his hand and said, "Just kneel down. Do you know them? Answer honestly. If they dare to deceive me..."

"I dare not." The shopkeeper raised his head cautiously and looked at Zhang Caiyi. He stared at her for a while and said, "She is... I remember now. She came with a young man to buy jewelry. She disliked the silver one he bought. When she saw that Young Master Cheng bought gold, she threw herself into his arms. The young man who brought her here slapped her and said he wanted to cancel the engagement... It was the first time I saw such a fickle girl, so I was deeply impressed."

"Is he your man?" Zhang Caiyi unexpectedly rushed towards Cheng Shihang.

She finally understood that the shopkeeper had either been replaced or bribed.

Cheng Shihang kicked Zhang Caiyi, who flew out like a kite with a broken string. She fell to the ground, spit out blood, and could not get up again.

Cheng Shihang glanced at her and knelt down again: "Your Majesty, please forgive me. This is just my conscious reaction."

Zhang Caiyi attacked him first, and he was just protecting himself.

Without waiting for the emperor to answer, he continued, "My son's innocence has been proven. Please make your decision, Your Majesty."

His words were equivalent to reminding the emperor that Zhang Caiyi's behavior was shameful and angry, and the one who was guilty was not him, but Zhang Caiyi.