Madam Jin shut her mouth, and Bai Qing looked at Hong Ping: "You continue."
Hongping gritted her teeth and recounted everything that Madam Jin had done in the month since the princess married into the Jin family, including the wall that had been erected in the backyard of the Jin family when Jin Chang'an and the princess separated, and the fact that the Jin family had held another wedding within a month and welcomed Dan Niang, a courtesan, into the family.
After listening, Bai Qing remained silent for a long time, then walked to Madam Jin's side and said, "What do people say?"
Bai Qing suddenly roared in fury, "You wicked woman!"
He suddenly kicked Madam Jin in the chest. Bai Qing was a martial artist, and the kick to the heart caused Madam Jin to vomit blood immediately. Jin Chang'an cried out in pain, "Mother!"
"If you shout again, you'll become mute along with your mother!" Bai Qing said coldly.
Jin Chang'an immediately trembled and dared not utter a sound.
"Empress!" Bai Qing suddenly called out to Lady Jin.
Jin's heart sank as she saw the emperor staring at her with a grim face: "Let me ask you, when you married into the palace, did I get so drunk on our wedding night that I left you alone in your room?"
Madam Jin's face turned somewhat pale, and Empress Jin shook her head: "No."
The emperor asked again, "On the second day after the wedding, did the Empress Dowager feel unwell and send the Empress to attend to her?"
Madam Jin's face paled even more, and Empress Jin continued to shake her head: "The Empress Dowager is kind and benevolent, she has not."
The emperor sneered, and finally asked, "Have I ever taken any courtesans into the palace, so that you, the empress, would share a husband with a prostitute?"
Empress Jin closed her eyes: "How could His Majesty do such a dissolute thing?"
"The Empress speaks well! What a dissolute and unrestrained person you are!" Bai Qing pointed at Jin Chang'an: "Your Jin family's wicked children first humiliated the imperial princess, and then the mother-in-law failed to show any love to her daughter-in-law. How can you have the nerve to complain to me about the princess's spoiled behavior?"
"How can a princess not be considered spoiled? Does my princess have to serve tea to this two-faced, hypocritical woman during the day and then serve this beast in human clothing and his concubine in bed at night to be considered filial?"
"A whole family of ruthless villains, are they trying to bully my princess because they think the royal family is weak?" Bai Qing looked at the Jin family with a chilling gaze.
"You want to demote the princess to a commoner so you can bully her again?"
"I might as well just depose you all first!"
Lord Jin knelt on the ground with a thud, kowtowing repeatedly, tears streaming down his face, and said, "It is my fault for not managing the household properly, which allowed this foolish woman to do such a perverse thing. I beg Your Majesty to show leniency."
"No matter how wrong the Jin family is, they are still the princess's in-laws and the crown prince's maternal relatives..." Lord Jin crawled forward on his knees: "If His Majesty really punishes the Jin family, how can the princess and the crown prince save face?"
"In the end, it is a family matter. If Your Majesty will be lenient, I will definitely keep a close eye on her in the future and never let the princess suffer any grievances in the mansion!"
Empress Jin sighed and rose to her knees, her face pale. "Your Majesty, I am not pleading for my family, but my elder brother's words make sense. The princess has already married into the Jin family. Must she really have a falling out with her husband and mother-in-law?"
"Furthermore, if they are all demoted to commoners, how will the Crown Prince face himself?"
Bai Qing waved his hand and looked at his daughter: "You tell me."
Bai Yan rose and walked to the emperor, then knelt down with a thud: "Your subject begs the emperor to forgive your subject's next words, and also begs the emperor not to be angry after hearing them, and to take care of yourself."
Bai Qing found her words rather strange.
But when he met his daughter's concerned and worried eyes, he simply nodded and said, "I promise you."
For some reason, Madam Jin felt a sudden chill run through her heart, making her shiver.
"Your subject will denounce the Imperial Son-in-Law for having an affair with Consort Yun!" Bai Yan declared emphatically.
If Madam Jin's face was merely pale before, now it has suddenly lost all color, turning as white as a painted wall: she knows, she actually knows about this... How could it be that her husband doesn't know?
Lord Jin turned to look at Madam Jin and saw her face, which was as pale as paper.
A sudden alarm bell rang in his mind; he didn't even have time to consider whether the matter was true or false.
He immediately kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, how could my son, if he were so ignorant, have committed such a rebellious act? The princess is clearly making false accusations!"
After a moment of fury, Bai Qing's first reaction was disbelief... Yun Fei was a woman who loved him deeply, but she was too controlling of her personality, and he had been intentionally keeping her cold lately.
Upon seeing Madam Jin's expression, Bai Qingxin's expression darkened: "How could Consort Yun have been having an affair with the Imperial Son-in-Law while in the palace?"
Bai Yan said, "On our wedding night, the Prince Consort told me that he already had someone he loved and that he was certain she was his wife. He also held a pair of boots and couldn't put them down. I was unwilling to accept this, so I wanted to investigate the matter. I first discovered cloud patterns on those boots, which are unique to the Meng family."
Consort Yun was a woman from the Meng family.
"Shortly afterward, another undergarment appeared in the prince consort's room. The fabric and needlework used to make the garment were all from the imperial palace, and the garment also had cloud patterns on it."
"Go to his room and fetch his boots." Bai Qing's face was as dark as if it were about to rain. He knew how intelligent his daughter was; the clothes and boots definitely belonged to the Meng family.
Of all the women from the Meng family who entered the palace, only Consort Yun was selected.
Bai Qing pointed to the person beside him: "You, go to the palace and summon Consort Yun."
"yes."
The Jin family members all knelt on the ground. Madam Jin crawled two steps and said, "Your Majesty, my son is an outsider. How could he have had contact with the palace concubines? Your Majesty, please be wise. It is clearly the princess who framed him!"
"Chang'an, speak up! Clear your name!"
Jin Chang'an was in pain from being pinched by his mother. Although he was unwilling to deny his feelings for his beloved, with the guillotine hanging over his head, how could he dare to admit it?
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