Chapter 102 Discovering the clues

Molan was so shocked that she stepped back repeatedly. She didn't know these two people at all. "You are talking nonsense. I don't know you at all! You said that I asked you to help me cheat, but I have never seen you before today!"

The maid who confessed first raised her head and confronted Molan, "Miss Sheng Si is a high-ranking official's daughter. Why does she need to personally deal with such a small matter? Just send someone to contact us!"

The maid's words were flawless. Molan was speechless. Molan listened to the slander coming from below and almost fainted. She didn't do it!

"She looked so pure and innocent, but she actually did such a dirty thing!"

"I have always regarded her as a goddess, but she is unscrupulous."

"Cheating is the most despised thing by scholars. This Fourth Miss Sheng, ah, let's not mention it in the future!"

"It turns out that her talent in poetry is fake. I'm afraid that what she did before was also the result of stealing from others."

"She climbed to the altar of the gods by plagiarizing others, and the end result is naturally to fall from the altar and never recover!"

The words from downstairs reached Molan's ears. Molan covered her ears and shouted "I didn't do it", but those doubts and insults still fell clearly into Molan's ears. Looking at Yu Niangzi's disappointed and sad eyes, Molan could no longer control herself and fell to the ground.

Someone downstairs wanted to rush up, it was Liang Han! "The fourth young lady has been known for her talent since she was young. She has also written poems in public many times. How could it be fake? There must be a misunderstanding!"

Someone was dissatisfied. "The evidence is as strong as a mountain. The maid has confessed. How can she be wrongly accused?"

Liang Han turned around suddenly and stared at the man fiercely. "This must be a false accusation! The books in the fourth young lady's study are piled up like a small mountain. She has read every volume, and some books are even worn out. She loves reading, and is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. She is talented in poetry. She can also write poems of the same level. Why bother to plagiarize her?"

Liang Han's words were thrown to the ground with a loud sound, which made the dissatisfied person speechless for a moment, but there were too many people who were disappointed with Yongxu's talent, and someone stood up and said: "Perhaps she is not worthy of her reputation, or maybe she has run out of talent, but she is reluctant to give up the title of the most talented woman in the Song Dynasty, so she resorted to this bad idea."

Someone immediately echoed, "She may be talented, but her mentality is unbalanced, and she did something wrong! In the end, it was just a flash in the pan, what a pity!"

Wen Shuyu in the crowd listened to what everyone said and agreed in his heart. He had high hopes for Molan, but he didn't expect her to do something wrong and disappoint his expectations.

Miss Han upstairs stared at Wen Shuyu without blinking, and seeing his disappointment, the corners of her mouth unconsciously curled up to smile.

Minglan and Rulan didn't care what those people said. When they saw Molan fall down, they immediately rushed upstairs, "Fourth sister!" "Little Fourth!" The two said in unison.

The two worked together to help Molan up. Minglan handed Molan to Minglan to hold. She walked to the two maids kneeling on the ground and said in a cold tone: "The two maids said that my fourth sister bribed you to cheat for her. What does that person look like?"

Minglan's words made the two people panic with their naked eyes. The two looked at each other, and one of them was about to speak. Minglan shouted, "Xiaotao, block her mouth!"

Xiaotao obeyed and immediately went upstairs. She stepped forward to cover the maid's mouth, preventing her from uttering any sound. One of the appraisers was angered by Minglan's behavior and shouted, "Who are you? Do you want to silence someone in public?"

Minglan was not intimidated by his momentum when she heard it. She calmly saluted the appraisers one by one. The standard of etiquette was so high that even Princess Pingning could not find any fault with it. Princess Pingning remembered that her etiquette was praised by the Empress. After paying her respects, Minglan spoke, "I am the younger sister of Fourth Miss Sheng, the sixth child in my family, and my name is Minglan. Do you want to convict my sister based on the one-sided words of these two maids and the so-called secret compartment? My fourth sister said she didn't do it, and that means she didn't do it!"

A woman downstairs shouted, "If you say it's not true, then it's not true. Lord Sheng is only a fifth-rank official, so are you so overbearing? Do you want to silence people even with the ironclad evidence?"

These words were spoken very impolitely, but many people agreed. Minglan did not get angry but laughed, "Why? Even when interrogating a prisoner, he will be given a chance to defend himself. What's more, it has not been determined whether my fourth sister really cheated. You will not allow us to appeal?"

After Minglan finished speaking, she looked at the girl who spoke, "Why are you in such a hurry, young lady?" After speaking, she turned to the two maids and said, "Since these two people keep saying that my fourth sister bribed them, let them describe what the person who bribed them looks like. We covered the maid's mouth because we are afraid that they will collude with each other. We will know the truth after questioning them separately later. Is there anyone

in the hall who is good at painting? Please come and help us!" "I'll do it!" Qi Heng stood out from the crowd and walked upstairs. Princess Pingning looked at her son, then at Minglan, with a dark light flashing in her eyes, and the atmosphere around her immediately turned cold.

"Thank you, young master! Thank you for your trouble!" Minglan bowed to Qi Heng, and then ordered Xiaotao to take the maid on the ground and Qi Heng to the compartment. Xiaotao was strong and pulled the maid up. The maid was panicked and struggled to turn her head to look in a certain direction, as if asking for help.

Minglan turned to the crowd again, "If you are worried, you can go with the young master to listen to the maid's statement, or you can supervise whether the young master will help us to bear false witness." There was another commotion below, but no one really supervised. They all looked up at Princess Pingning upstairs. Princess Pingning said calmly, "My son has always been a notary. If anyone is worried, you can go and see. Don't worry about it. You are jealous of me, how can I hold a grudge against you for this! After listening to the princess' words, some people really went upstairs to see, and when one person moved, others moved one after another. They were not really going to supervise Qi Heng, but they also wanted to see the so-called secret compartment.

Song Yunjin looked at so many people going upstairs to the compartments, and his expression was a little nervous. Minglan noticed it, "Miss Song seems a little scared?"

Song Yunjin trembled unconsciously when she heard Minglan's voice, but she concealed it very well and soon calmed down, "Miss Sheng Liu can't justify herself, so she wants to find loopholes in me?"

"There must be loopholes to find, is Miss Song guilty? "Minglan walked up to Song Yunjin and asked in her ear.

"I don't know what Sixth Miss Sheng is talking about. Sixth Miss Sheng should think carefully about how to defend her sister and stop focusing on me. "Song Yunjin looked indifferent, but Minglan noticed that one of her hands was holding the hem of her skirt tightly. At this time, Minglan noticed that Miss Song was dressed very elegantly. Although she said elegant, she was actually very simple. She didn't even have any decorations on her head. She only had a jade hairpin on her head. It sounded good to say that she was unconventional, but she still revealed a sense of shabbyness. It wasn't that Minglan was mean, but when she got closer to Miss Song, she could really smell the smell of soap. There were many dignitaries at the poetry meeting, and everyone was wearing new clothes, but Miss Song's outer coat was new, but the inside was old clothes, which made Minglan feel a little weird.