Chapter 72 The truth is

revealed As expected, the servant knelt down with a pale face when he heard this.

"Your Majesty, please spare my life! I have advised the head of the family before that this is treason and a serious crime punishable by beheading! But the head of the family was blinded by greed and insisted on doing it. I am just a servant and there is nothing I can do!"

Zhou Fangze looked at Qin Shu with a heartbroken face.

"I didn't expect the Qin family to really do such a thing! Thanks to you, the Qin family, you have a top scholar. I thought you had so much..."

"Enough!"

The emperor, who had been silent all the time, finally spoke and interrupted Zhou Fangze.

Although he was in the palace, he also heard about the Zhou and Qin families.

Now that Zhou Fangze and Zhou Fangyu invited him to watch this good show, he began to wonder if this was a dog-eat-dog drama.

However, Qin Shu had known the eldest princess since childhood, and she didn't seem like the type to collude with the enemy.

The king of a country would naturally not be led by the nose by others.

He still had a gloomy face, but still gave Qin Shu a chance to explain.

"Qin family, tell me, what's going on."

Zhou Fangyu was a little anxious when he heard it.

"At this time, there is evidence and witnesses. It is clear that Qin Shu had a secret collusion with the enemy country. If you ask her now, she will definitely not admit it!"

Pei Xuanyi asked coldly.

"The emperor said that the head of the Qin family should speak. Who are you? How dare you disobey the rules in front of the emperor?"

Zhou Fangyu's face turned pale when he heard this, and he dared not say another word.

In fact, the emperor originally wanted to take Qin Shu away directly and let the Dali Temple to try her.

But seeing the little Xixi in Qin Shu's arms, he still couldn't bear it, so he listened to Qin Shu's explanation here.

Qin Shu was not panicked at all.

"The Qin family has recently had a grudge with the Zhou family. It is understandable that these two children from the illegitimate family came to frame me. But your majesty is busy with all kinds of affairs, and such a drama really wastes your majesty's time. Since everyone is here, why not let this boss Hu explain it."

Let Hu Tong explain?

Zhou Fangze and Zhou Fangyu were both stunned.

How dare she let Hu Tong, who was doing grain business with Zhou Yiyang, explain?

Both of them were a little panicked, but they felt that the plan was foolproof and there would be no problems.

Hu Tong took out a pile of documents.

"These are the documents we signed when we did the deal before."

The emperor signaled the guards to bring the documents over.

After the emperor finished reading the documents, he was furious.

"Well! You really put on a good show!"

Zhou Fangyu didn't know the seriousness of the matter at this time, so she quickly agreed.

"That's right, the Qin family..."

But the emperor shouted at her to shut up.

"You Zhou family are really lying!"

The emperor angrily threw all the documents in Zhou Fangze's face.

"Take a good look, whose names are written on these documents!"

Zhou Fangze picked up a document with trembling hands.

He was shocked to find that the name signed on the document was Zhou Yiyang's!

He widened his eyes.

"How could it be..."

How could this Huchuan man still keep the documents from the previous transaction!

The emperor questioned angrily.

"How could it be? You keep saying that it was Qin Shu who made the deal with the Huchuan people, but this is clearly Zhou Yiyang's name!"

Zhou Fangyu cursed Zhou Yiyang in his heart for leaving his name on it and not letting him destroy it in time.

Zhou Fangze wanted to use this incident to gain merit.

He changed his mind and pointed the finger at Qin Shu again.

"Your Majesty, please understand! If Lord Zhou did not have Qin Shu's order, how dare he sell grain and grass privately!"

He still habitually called Zhou Yiyang Lord Zhou. The emperor

frowned when he heard this

. Zhou Fangze wanted the emperor to think that Qin Shu was the one who colluded with the enemy and betrayed the country, and the emperor naturally saw this.

Although the emperor hated scheming people like Zhou Fangze, what he said was not entirely unreasonable.

After all, Zhou Yiyang is still Qin Shu's husband.

It is said that quarrels at the head of the bed are reconciled at the foot of the bed. Besides, these things happened before the adultery was caught, and Qin Shu might have arranged Zhou Yiyang to do these things. Qin

Shu looked at Zhou Fangze sarcastically.

"Don't you remember what happened that day?"

Zhou Fangze was immediately annoyed when she heard her mention it again.

"Zhou Yiyang and I don't have such a harmonious relationship!"

Qin Shu explained to the emperor again.

"Your Majesty, I have been preparing to divorce Zhou Yiyang these days! He has not signed the divorce agreement, and I beg your majesty to agree to my divorce!"

The emperor had indeed heard about this matter a long time ago.

However, there are many versions circulating in the capital, and the emperor now doesn't know which part is true and which part is false.

"Tell me about it."

Qin Shu knelt down immediately after hearing this and began to tell the story of Zhou Yiyang.

"I only recently discovered that this so-called husband has been in cahoots with his mistress from the beginning. Not only is my eldest son the same age as Zhou Fangze, but even my youngest daughter is the same age as Zhou Fangyu. In order to marry Zhou Fangyu, Zhou Yiyang even tried to drown Xixi!"

The emperor liked Xixi very much, but he got angry when he heard this.

"Wang Shanquan, is this true?"

The eunuch beside him, who was listening to the secrets of the world, nodded at this time.

With Wang Shanquan's affirmation, the emperor was even more furious.

"He actually wanted to drown Xixi! How ridiculous! Give him twenty lashes of the cane!"

The emperor originally thought that Zhou Yiyang was just keeping a mistress, but he didn't expect that he was guilty of almost murdering someone!

This is not the end, Qin Shu continued.

"Not only that, Zhou Yiyang also sold the shops that the common people had entrusted to him to manage. Those seven shops are the best shops in the capital! Zhou Yiyang sold these shops to have enough capital to buy grain and grass."

Buy grain and grass?

The emperor heard the key point.

"You said Zhou Yiyang used this method to raise money to buy grain and grass? Do you have any evidence?"

Before Qin Shu could say anything, she heard Qin Qixuan's voice outside the door.

"There are witnesses!"

Qin Qixuan brought several shop owners in, followed by Zhou Yiyang with a bruised face.

After Qin Qixuan bowed to the emperor, he began to testify for his mother.

"These bosses are the ones who bought the Qin family shop from Zhou Yiyang before."

The bosses all nodded.

"Yes, it was that man who traded with us. If we had known it was the Qin family's shop, we would not have bought it from him!"

One of the bosses spoke angrily.

Going against the Qin family is equivalent to provoking the local bosses in the capital. No businessman would do such a thankless task.

Zhou Yiyang lowered his head with a guilty conscience and dared not say anything.

Hu Tong's eyes lit up when he saw him.

"Yes, it was him who traded with us a few times before."

Qin Qixuan brought in a few more maids at this time.

"It was Zhou Yiyang who instructed them to drown Xixi."

The two maids knew they were wrong and tried to excuse themselves.

"Your Majesty, this was all Zhou Yiyang's order! As servants, we dare not rebel against the master!"

Qin Qixuan promised that as long as they told the truth, he would let them go free.

How could the two maids not agree?

They didn't want to go back to that horrible place...