Chapter 116: Handwriting Imitation
These words hit the nail on the head.
The impact of today's events on the Crown Prince and the Queen was directly fatal.
Emperor Chi Yan believed that they were innocent, so he killed Cai Kun and exterminated all nine members of Cai Kun's clan. But even so, there were still people who talked about it with relish and argued endlessly.
Moreover, under the premise that Cai Kun shouted that he had evidence in his hands, if Emperor Chi Yan did not look at what his so-called evidence was, it would definitely give people a reason to think that Emperor Chi Yan chose to hastily end the matter for the sake of the royal family's face.
That would make the prince's situation more than ten times more dangerous. I'm afraid that after today, those court officials who support him will definitely reconsider whether or not they should continue to stay in the prince's camp.
As time went on, Yuwen Yan gained power in the court and the crown prince became a dispensable figure who could be deposed at any pretext.
Otherwise, the plan of Emperor Chiyan and Yuwen Yan was vicious! "Let him go!" Emperor Chiyan thought it made sense, so he ordered the imperial guards to let Cai Kun go.
"Cai Kun, you'd better produce evidence, otherwise, I will grind you to dust!" Emperor Chi Yan calmed down a little.
"Yes, thank you, Your Majesty!" Cai Kun kowtowed continuously, "Your Majesty, I have a letter here, which is the evidence of the Queen's secret dealings with someone. The Queen mentioned in person that the Prince is her son with this person!" Cai Kun took out a letter from his sleeve and presented it to Emperor Chi Yan.
Emperor Chi Yan opened the letter and found that it was indeed the Queen's handwritten letter with her private seal on it.
After reading it, Emperor Chi Yan was furious. He threw the letter in his hand fiercely in the queen's face.
"Look for yourself!" His eyes were bloodshot, as if he would strangle the queen to death with one hand in the next second.
When the queen saw this, she was extremely flustered. She hurriedly grabbed the letter and started reading it. The more she read, the paler her face became.
"Your Majesty, this is a pure false accusation!" The Queen burst into tears, "This was not written by me. Someone framed me, Your Majesty." She didn't know where these things came from.
"How dare you quibble? Queen, oh Queen, I have treated you well, but you actually did something that disappointed me!" He was deeply shocked and his steps were a little staggering.
"Your Majesty, I am innocent!" Empress Gao was speechless. Apart from saying that she was innocent, she didn't know what else to say. "Your Majesty, please look into this matter. I and the Crown Prince are innocent."
"Father, this must have been deliberately framed by someone!" The prince also knelt down and begged, "Father, please don't be deceived by the traitor, please believe in mother, father!"
"Someone, come and banish this shameless slut and evil creature to the cold palace!" Emperor Chi Yan would not listen to their explanation.
For a moment, the Queen and the Prince kowtowed and cried out for justice, but it seemed that they could not change the outcome.
"Wait a minute!" At this time, Shu Wan slowly spoke to stop him.
Everyone looked at her at the same time, not knowing what she wanted to do.
Even the Queen looked at her in surprise. She did not think Shu Wan was going to speak for her. After all, on that day, the Prince had publicly refused the marriage proposal and instead asked to marry Yang Xinru, which made Shu Wan, a foreign princess, lose face.
In the current situation, it’s good enough that Shu Wan didn’t add insult to injury to the mother and son.
How could he possibly plead for them and their child?
"Princess Shuyin, do you have anything to say?" Emperor Chi Yan hated Shu Wan for doing bad things at this time, but he could only be patient. Although he looked unhappy, no one would think that it was Shu Wan's fault.
"Your Majesty, Shu Yin feels that it is a bit hasty to judge the Queen's guilt based on a letter alone!" Shu Wan spoke loudly and clearly for everyone present to hear.
Everyone looked at Shu Wan with mixed feelings.
She was questioning Emperor Chi Yan in public, thinking that he couldn't tell right from wrong!
He is really very courageous!
But think about it, everything Princess Beishuo said and did since she came to Chiyan has left a deep impression on everyone.
"Then according to Princess Shuyin's opinion, what is your opinion on this matter?" Emperor Chi Yan suppressed his anger and spoke word by word. If he had known this earlier, he would have found a way to prevent her from entering the palace today.
The Queen and the Crown Prince were somewhat touched. They did not expect that at this time, Shu Wan would say, "It's just a letter. How can it be a capital crime for treason?" Shu Wan looked at Cai Kun, who was still kneeling on the ground, with a half-smile, "Lord Cai, do you have any other evidence? If not, then this cannot be used as evidence to convict the Queen and the Crown Prince!!"
"How can such irrefutable evidence not be called proof? What other evidence does Princess Shuyin want?" Cai Kun loudly refuted Shu Wan.
"Since Lord Cai said this is irrefutable evidence, then this princess would like to ask Lord Cai, who is the person who has an affair with the queen? Since Lord Cai is determined to expose the queen today, and has prepared evidence of the queen's correspondence with him long ago, then why doesn't he just bring the person up? Furthermore, if they have been having an affair for many years, why does Lord Cai only have one letter in his hand? There should be many letters exchanged. Why don't you tell me the person's name, Lord Cai? This princess will take people to capture him now and search his house. I am sure that we will find a lot of evidence." She spoke slowly. Cai Kun's words were full of loopholes.
Only Emperor Chi Yan, who wanted the Queen and the Crown Prince dead and who manipulated this matter, would believe it.
"This..." Cai Kun was choked.
"Yes, Your Majesty, what Princess Shuyin said makes sense!" The Queen grasped at the straw. She was innocent to begin with. True gold is not afraid of fire, and he is not afraid of investigation. The more thoroughly this matter is investigated, the better. "This is obviously a conspiracy, Your Majesty!"
The Red Flame Emperor stood there with a gloomy expression, not moving or speaking, but in his heart he had already cut Shu Wan into pieces.
"Your Majesty, I got this letter by accident!" Cai Kun kowtowed and explained the cause and effect. "This matter is of great importance. I dare not conceal it, so I reported it to Your Majesty. Therefore, I did not have time to find out who was exchanging letters with the Queen!"
"What Lord Cai said is not right again!" Without waiting for the Emperor Chi Yan to speak, Shu Wan took over the conversation with a smile, "Since this matter is of great importance, Lord Cai should have investigated it thoroughly before reporting. Otherwise, if it is found that the letter is a forgery, it will not be just you, Lord Cai, who will die. This is a serious crime punishable by the extermination of nine generations of your clan. Lord Cai was able to gamble the future and lives of all his relatives because of a letter of unknown origin. It can be seen that Lord Cai, apart from this loyalty that is worthy of praise, your actions are really not convincing!" Shu Wan's words made a lot of sense.
Not only Cai Kun was panicking, everyone present felt that what Shu Wan said was absolutely right.
Revealing the current empress and the crown prince is a huge matter that anyone should think through, but Cai Kun came with a letter whose authenticity was unknown.
There are only two possibilities for Cai Kun to do such a thing. First, Cai Kun must be so stupid that it is outrageous and he is hated by both humans and gods. But obviously not. Although he has some problems with his brain, he is not hopeless.
Then there is only the last possibility, this is a blatant conspiracy! Although they couldn't figure out why Cai Kun would do such a thing that would not end well no matter what the result was, they still felt that the reason he did this was the second one.
"Your Majesty!" Cai Kun knew that he could not win the argument with Shu Wan, so he simply gave up the argument and turned to express his true feelings to Emperor Chi Yan. "My loyalty is evident to the sun and the moon. I indeed got this letter accidentally in the Queen's palace. It is the Queen's handwritten letter with her private seal. There is absolutely no mistake about it!" He almost died to make his determination known.
"Nonsense!" Shu Wan didn't want to give Chi Yandi a chance to pretend, so she cut the conversation straight to the point, "Lord Cai, we are all smart people. If the queen really had been communicating with someone for many years, why was it not discovered for so many years, and you easily picked up such fatal evidence? I won't ask you. This princess only asks you, as long as the handwriting is consistent and there is a private seal, Lord Cai will think it is ironclad evidence?"
"Of course!" Cai Kun always felt that something was wrong, but he didn't have the time to think about it and could only answer like this.
"Master Cai, then I will give you another piece of evidence!" This was the answer Shu Wan wanted. "Master Cai, where is your private seal?" She said with a half-smile.
"Why did Princess Shuyin say these irrelevant things?" Cai Kun asked back, "What does this have to do with the evidence the princess mentioned!"
"My personal seal is naturally placed in a secret compartment under the desk in my study. It is hidden very secretly and no one can find it!"
The smile on Shu Wan's face grew infinitely larger. She just liked this kind of giving away lives.
"Yu Duo, I'll give you an incense stick of time to go to Lord Cai's house and get Lord Cai's private seal. The seal is placed in a secret compartment on the desk in his study. Don't forget to also get Lord Cai's daily correspondence with others. I can use them! Can you do it?" Shu Wan said directly to Yu Jianning behind him.
"It won't take more than an incense stick of time!" Yu Jianning responded and walked out.
"If anyone dares to stop you, he will be killed without mercy. Just say it's your Majesty's order!" Shu Wan didn't look back and spoke to Jianning again.
Yu Jianning heard it, but did not answer. His figure whooshed out and disappeared on the spot.
Rong Chen couldn't help but feel curious about how Shu Wan knew all this.
He suddenly remembered that she seemed to have told him that she could read minds! Could it be that what she said was true? But if that was the case...
Doesn't she know everything he's thinking?
Rong Chen's face looked a little unnatural for a moment, but fortunately, at this moment, no one noticed his loss of composure.
"How did you know..." Cai Kun pointed at Shu Wan in disbelief. He had clearly hidden it so secretly, why did Shu Wan know where his private seal was?
"This is just my guess!" Shu Wan said in a furious tone.
Cai Kun almost vomited blood on the spot.
"I wonder what the meaning of this move is, Princess Shuyin?" Emperor Chi Yan asked with a somewhat unpleasant look on his face.
This Shu Wan is simply a time bomb. It would be great if she was eliminated earlier!
"Your Majesty!" Shu Wan simply ignored the anger in the eyes of the Chiyan Emperor, "Shu Yin wants to expose Lord Cai Kun for colluding with foreign enemies and selling out the secrets of the Chiyan army!" Shu Wan spoke slowly and clearly, and everyone present could hear it clearly.
Everyone was stunned. What did this have to do with anything? Lord Cai was colluding with foreign enemies? What did it have to do with the Queen having an affair with a foreign man? "This is nonsense!" After Cai Kun recovered from his shock, he angrily scolded Shu Wan with a red face, "Your Majesty, I am loyal to Chi Yan, and heaven and earth can bear witness to this. What Princess Shu Yin said is pure slander!" He seemed very angry. He was wronged by Shu Wan. It seemed that he had no other choice but to shout at the top of his lungs.
"It's not up to you to decide whether someone is loyal or not!" Shu Wan sneered and said, "Let the evidence speak for itself."
"What evidence do you have?" Cai Kun looked at Shu Wan with gritted teeth.
"Why are you in such a hurry? Didn't someone take it away from me?" Shu Wan said with disgust in his eyes.
Shu Wan had just finished speaking when Yu Jianning came back within a few breaths.
"Look, speak of the devil and he appears!" Shu Wan glanced at Cai Kun, "You come quickly!" Then he looked at Yu Jianning. In just an incense stick of time, Yu Jianning actually came back.
"It's just like taking something out of a bag. It's not difficult!" Yu Jianning said sarcastically and handed the thing he took back to Shu Wan.
Cai Kun was really angry again.
"Put pen and ink on it!" Shu Wan flipped through the letters that Cai Kun had written himself, and curled her lips. "Master Cai, if you want evidence, I'll give it to you!"
Soon, the palace servants brought up all the pens, ink, paper and inkstone.
Shu Wan spread out the paper, then picked up the pen and wrote something on the rice paper stroke by stroke. She didn't write fast, but she was very serious and focused. Inexplicably, people felt that she exuded a charming aura!
In fact, Shu Wan was always thinking about something.
It turns out that the saying "too many skills is always a disadvantage" is true. Otherwise, where could she find someone who could imitate other people's handwriting at this time?
Everyone was waiting attentively to see what Shu Wan would write.
Shu Wan lived up to everyone's expectations and finally stopped writing. She looked at her masterpiece with satisfaction, then took out Cai Kun's private seal and stamped it, and finally handed it to Emperor Chi Yan personally.
"Your Majesty, this is evidence that Lord Cai Kun is colluding with foreign enemies. Your Majesty, please severely punish this traitor!"
Emperor Chi Yan recognized Cai Kun's handwriting. If he still couldn't figure out what Shu Wan was up to, then he would be a pig.
After he finished reading it, he passed it on to everyone with a gloomy face.
"Your Majesty!" Cai Kun kowtowed heavily, "This was written by Princess Beishuo in public imitating my handwriting..." When he said this, he seemed to understand what Shu Wan meant.
"Yes, it was this princess who imitated it, so what?" Shu Wan nodded and admitted generously, "This princess can easily imitate Lord Cai's handwriting and frame him. So, the letter in your hand that denounces the queen cannot be taken as true!" She spoke in a somewhat harsh tone.
"Princess Shuyin is right!" The Queen was delighted. "Your Majesty, if you want, you can imitate the handwriting at will. I am innocent!"
(End of this chapter)
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