Chapter 33: Verifying the Palace Seal
The Beiling Emperor had a deep look in his eyes, but he turned his head and glanced at An Yunxi.
An Yunxi lowered his eyes slightly, and a cold color flashed across his eyes: "What the prince said is really ridiculous. Why didn't I say what I said at that time, so as to give the prince a chance to destroy the evidence?
As for the prince saying that I stole the tassels on your body, the thread was obviously pulled down, not cut by scissors or anything else. How could I steal it without being discovered by your highness?"
The prince Ling Changyue was slightly surprised.
How could An Yunxi know all this!
When he and An Ruxue had a secret meeting that day, he clearly arranged his men to watch at all the entrances. It was impossible for someone to break in and see it.
But the General's Mansion is An Yunxi's home after all. If there is any secret passage, who knows
. He pursed his lips, regretting deeply.
Even if he didn't want to marry An Yunxi, he couldn't let An Yunxi catch him and ruin his reputation.
"If you want to steal, you can do anything. Maybe you have wanted to marry Uncle Xian for a long time, so you made up such a lie. An Yunxi, you and Uncle Xian are together openly. Father will not believe anything you say!"
An Yunxi shook her head helplessly.
"I didn't lie. If Liusu can't testify, then please bring An Ruxue here to verify her identity. As a concubine of the general's mansion, she has been reading poetry since she was a child and is still unmarried. If she has lost her virginity now, it proves that what Yunxi said is true."
Emperor Beiling has been sitting upstairs and listening quietly without interrupting.
Seeing An Yunxi raise another point, he nodded slightly and said, "Go and bring that woman here as well."
The prince's heart skipped a beat. Seeing that An Yunxi wanted to drag An Ruxue into it, his eyes jumped with anger, and his lips turned blue with anger.
"Yes!"
Eunuch Wu went downstairs to find someone to do it.
The group waited patiently in the palace, and the guards brought An Ruxue from the general's mansion here as quickly as possible.
The people who came with them also included General An.
An Ruxue was surrounded and brought to the gate of Yangxin Palace. There was some confusion and fear in her eyes, and she subconsciously looked at General An.
"Dad, what's going on? Why does the emperor suddenly want to see Ruxue?"
General An raised his hand and touched An Ruxue's head affectionately, "You go in first, Dad is waiting for you here."
"Okay."
An Ruxue nodded obediently.
But there was still some fear in her expression.
She vaguely sensed that she had a bad premonition.
Under the leadership of Eunuch Wu, she stepped into the empty hall.
The weak and pitiful figure knelt in the hall, not daring to raise her head.
"Your servant greets the emperor!"
The voice of Emperor Beiling came from above.
"An Ruxue, what is your relationship with the Crown Prince?"
This question directly confused An Ruxue.
Her thoughts stopped and she felt that time around her was frozen.
However, the Emperor's voice still echoed in her ears.
"On the eve of the Crown Prince's marriage to the Crown Princess, can you go with the Crown Prince in the garden of the mansion?"
Seeing that his father was so ruthless and asked such a sharp question to his beloved without any tact, the Crown Prince said, "Father, how can a woman who has not yet left the house answer when you ask this? Isn't it shameful to death!"
This was almost an instinctive protection, which made Emperor Beiling frown.
However, An Ruxue reacted when she heard the prince's voice, and immediately kowtowed and said, "Ruxue has no relationship with His Royal Highness, and has never done such an extraordinary thing!"
The prince was slightly relieved.
He looked at An Ruxue with some worry. He was not afraid of An Yunxi's slander. Even if she had more evidence, as long as he refused to admit it, there was no way to convict him.
But An Ruxue couldn't do that.
She had no power and was just a concubine's daughter in the general's mansion. No one could protect her.
The prince looked at An Ruxue's figure with heartache. Seeing that she had knocked a red mark on her head, the fingers hanging by her side could not help but clenched.
The nails were deeply embedded in the palm of his hand.
If An Yunxi had not taken the initiative to expose his affair with Ruxue, things would not have gotten to this point!
Emperor Beiling raised his eyebrows.
"Then I won't ask any more questions. Come, examine me."
This sentence made the prince dumbfounded.
He didn't mean that
. However, the maids who had come earlier walked up. Two tall maids grabbed An Ruxue's arms on the left and right.
An Ruxue was in a panic, and her face turned pale.
"What are you doing? Let me go!"
"Miss, we are here to examine you according to the imperial decree. Please cooperate and follow us."
When An Ruxue heard that she was going to examine me, her eyes widened.
She trembled and turned her head to look at the prince, with a pleading look in her eyes.
How could this be!
She was shaking all over, her hands and feet were cold, like a stiff corpse.
But the maids in the palace were not used to her and forcibly pulled her to the side hall. When
An Yunxi saw this scene, a dark light flashed across her eyes.
She did not expect that her words would have such a great power to make the emperor make such a decision directly.
The emperor was obviously partial to her in handling this matter, as if it was just to make her calm down and then cancel the idea of breaking off the engagement. What
virtue and ability did she, An Yunxi, have that made the emperor care so much about her.
The unmarried women of the noble families in Beiling Kingdom would have aphrodisiac sand on their bodies, and the result would be known with just a glance.
An Ruxue was surrounded by three strong maids in the palace, two of whom held her shoulders and forced her to sit on the chair.
The already delicate figure turned extremely pale, "Don't touch me, get out!"
Her struggling shouts came from the room next to her.
The young prince's eyes were slightly red, and he stared at the direction of An Ruxue's room without blinking.
Because of this incident, his hatred for An Yunxi became even stronger, and he wanted to kill her!
Why did she treat her like this? Ruxue was obviously her sister, how could she be so cruel that she could even kill her sister! She
was indeed a vicious woman. Just as Ruxue said, An Yunxi's nature was like a snake!
A nanny grabbed one of An Ruxue's sleeves and tore it hard.
The already thin cuffs broke, revealing the arm underneath.
The maid examined it carefully, and her eyes suddenly froze, and then stopped at one place
. The people outside were still waiting for the result.
The examination did not take long, about a cup of tea.
Among them, a maid who had just entered the room came out, then lowered her head and knelt in the hall.
Emperor Beiling asked: "What is the result?"
"Your Majesty, several servants have carefully examined this Miss An's guard sand"