Chapter 176: Outsmarting the Five Princesses?
"This..." The Fifth Princess was speechless for a moment, and she looked at Emperor Wen and burst into tears: "Father, you have to make the decision for me. It must be because I ordered someone to push Cheng into the water a few days ago. She holds a grudge and is deliberately seeking revenge!"
Emperor Wen frowned. "Push her into the water? How dare you push Zisheng's bride into the water?"
When the Fifth Princess heard Emperor Wen's questioning, she quickly explained, "Also, at that time, we all fell into the water, and someone grabbed our ankles and fell into the water. Some people choked on the water and had a high fever for several days. It must have been He Zhaojun who did it!"
When the queen heard that she had done these wrong things again, she was so angry that she was speechless.
"I am the legitimate princess born in the Central Palace. Even if you want to kill Cheng and He, it's okay! Father, you have to make the decision for me!" The fifth princess continued to clamor.
"Hey, what's His Majesty going to do for you? Are you going to punish you for pushing Shao Shang into trouble, or for framing him yesterday? If you want His Majesty to make the final decision, don't blame him for being merciless."
Concubine Yue pushed open the palace gate with a cold voice, followed by the third prince, the fifth prince, and Ling Buyi, who was escorting a girl, and they came before Emperor Wen together.
"This girl has confessed that the secret meeting between Shaoshang Zhaojun and the Fifth Prince at yesterday's birthday banquet was undoubtedly instructed by the Fifth Princess, and she has also threatened this girl's family members." Ling Buyi also had a bad attitude. He glanced at the Fifth Princess with a gloomy face.
Yesterday, Wen Ziduan came to the house in person, tied up all the people of the fifth princess in the other village, and pulled them out. Only then did the girl feel at ease to come and identify the person.
The Fifth Prince finally stood up for once: "I saw the Fifth Princess push Eleventh Prince's new wife into the water that day. They threatened me not to tell anyone then, and yesterday they deliberately framed me. This is really too much!"
When the Fifth Princess heard the truth, she stood up and berated the Fifth Prince, "You're just a lowly child born of a lowly palace maid, and you dare to challenge me? Do you understand the difference between nobility and inferiority?!"
"Pa!" Before she could continue, Concubine Yue slapped her to the ground. "You are unfilial to your elders, ruthless to your siblings, and disregard human life. How can you be worthy of being a princess?"
If it had been before, the Fifth Prince would have been scolded to the point of doubting his life, lowering his head and not daring to speak, but he remembered that someone had encouraged him.
"You're talking nonsense. Zhaojun told me that all people are created equal, regardless of status. Even ants have the right to continue living. How can you rely on your power to arbitrarily deprive someone of their life?"
The Fifth Princess spat at him, "Don't compare yourself to me. I find it disgusting! Don't listen to her nonsense. Is she planning a rebellion?"
She turned to look at Concubine Yue: "How dare you hit me? I just don't want to marry into the Yue family, but you rely on your favor to look down on Changqiu Palace and me. Only the world can look down on Changqiu Palace!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Shao Shang pinched the Queen's hand, looked at the Queen, then hugged her and shouted: "Queen! Queen! The Queen has fainted from anger!" As he said that, He Zhaojun and Shao Shang both knelt down.
Shao Shang said, "Your Majesty, everything that happened today was my fault alone. It has nothing to do with Sister Zhaojun. I did this only to avenge her for pushing me into the water and disrupting the birthday banquet."
The Fifth Princess went completely berserk: "You are worthless, yet you are worthy of taking revenge on me like this? If I had known this would happen, I would have dropped the venomous snake and bit you to death in the pond!"
As soon as the words fell, He Zhaojun burst into laughter: "Release a poisonous snake? It seems that the snake bite on the Fifth Princess is not painful enough, and a poisonous snake is necessary."
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