The two palace maids holding the chairs below whispered a reminder.
Dun Guiyuan lay on the wall and watched secretly, while the guards searched nervously and orderly, looking extremely carefully.
After all, Emperor Xuanwu was present, so they were very careful when searching, avoiding bumping into anything and destroying nothing.
After a while, Commander Xue of the Imperial Guards reported back, "Your Majesty, no suspicious objects were found."
Xuan Ling nodded slightly, walked up the steps to the porch, and looked down at Sheng Xiyan.
"Someone has reported that you have items used to commemorate your late husband. What do you have to say, Concubine Sheng?"
Sheng Xiyan lowered her head, not looking at him, and said calmly, "Then I wonder if you found it?"
Xuan Ling gently stroked the jade ring, "I haven't found it yet."
He looked at the top of her head, her drooping eyelashes, and said coldly, "Raise your head."
Sheng Xiyan raised her eyes and asked, "Your Majesty, could you tell me what I am searching for?"
"Yes, someone reported it to the tablet."
Sheng Xiyan shouted, "Xiao Zhuozi, bring the wood to the emperor for his inspection."
Xiao Zhuozi got up and went to the stone table at the edge of the yard and brought over a wooden box.
There were wooden swords, small hammers, nails, and some long split wooden strips.
Sheng Xiyan asked, "Is this what the Emperor is looking for? The general wanted a boat, and I asked Xiao Zhuozi to go to the Imperial Household Department to find some discarded wood. How did it become a memorial tablet?"
On the courtyard wall, Dun Guiyuan cried out anxiously, "Your Majesty, when I saw it, there were words on it! And the tablet was black!"
Xuan Ling curled his lips slightly, "Idiot, if there really is one, it must be the wooden board that Sheng Xiyan had painted with black ink, and then washed and used to make a boat."
He stretched out his hand towards her, but Sheng Xiyan stubbornly refused to take his hand and stood up. She continued to kneel with an angry look on her face.
"Come here, pass on my oral order. Dun Guiyuan and Xue Jieyu falsely accused Sheng Xiuyuan. Each of them will be demoted one level on the Jade Steps and punished with fifty slaps as a warning to others."
He didn't withdraw his hand, and his voice softened a little, "Is my beloved Concubine Sheng satisfied with my handling of this matter?"
Sheng Xiyan looked up and said aggrievedly, "Since I entered the palace, I have never been obsessed with my future, but Your Majesty doesn't believe me. Is that the kind of person I am in Your Majesty's heart?"
"I am overly suspicious. If I truly believed you were capable of such a thing, I would not have brought people here myself, much less blocked the informer from entering the palace. Isn't it obvious that I want to protect you?"
Sheng Xiyan lowered her eyelashes and said coldly, "If the emperor really believed me, he wouldn't have brought people to search the palace."
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