Chapter 117 Could it be that you are my son?
The queen clung to this life-saving straw.
Before today, she didn't like Shu Wan, but from now on, she could never repay what she owed Shu Wan.
If she can escape this disaster today, she will definitely repay Shu Wan's kindness with all her strength.
If Shu Wan hadn't saved them and their son today, she would still remember this kindness. If she didn't have the chance in this life, she would repay him by working like a slave in the next life!
The situation has been broken, and Emperor Chi Yan and Yuwen Yan are at a disadvantage!
At this time, many people also spoke up to plead for mercy to the Queen and the Prince. There were many people like Shu Wan who could imitate other people's handwriting. Cai Kun only had such a letter, but without witnesses or other stronger evidence, he could not prove what he said.
"Your Majesty, I am loyal to you, and heaven and earth can bear witness to that!" Cai Kun was so anxious that he didn't know what to do. "The Queen and the Crown Prince have no grudges against me, so why would I frame you, Your Majesty? This scheme is indeed full of loopholes, but it is because it is true that I ignored other chains of evidence. Your Majesty, if I had prepared complete evidence early on, with each link linked to the next, that would be a frame-up, Your Majesty! If I had intended to frame you, I would not be so stupid!" It must be said that Cai Kun's reaction was still very quick, and he soon found a point of counterattack from Shu Wan's words.
Shu Wan said that his argument was full of loopholes, so he said that this was exactly the case, and that was the only way the matter was convincing.
"Cai Kun!" The Queen pointed at Cai Kun and shouted angrily, "Why did you frame me like this?"
"The Empress and I have no grudges in the past or today, so why would you say you are framing me? I am just loyal to Chi Yan and Your Majesty, so I cannot bear to see anyone deceiving Your Majesty. I want to clear the court of evildoers!" Cai Kun said this with great righteousness and integrity.
"No matter how beautifully you talk, if there is no other evidence, you will still be dead today. Not only you, but also your family and your clan members will be implicated by you and become a wisp of ghost on the road to the underworld!" Shu Wan said expressionlessly.
Since Cai Kun could not produce any other evidence, the situation became visibly one-sided.
They all demanded severe punishment for Cai Kun.
"Your Majesty!" Cai Kun raised his hand to take off the official hat on his head and put it beside him. "I have no other evidence now and cannot prove that what I said is true. It was my negligence that caused such a big mistake. But I still say with certainty that the queen had an affair with a man outside, and the prince was not your majesty's son. Now I have no choice but to die to make my determination clear. I beg your majesty to thoroughly investigate this matter!" After he finished speaking loudly, he seized the opportunity and banged his head against the pillar in the hall.
He rushed forward with the determination to die.
So he hit his head and died on the spot with a bloody mess.
Shu Wan turned his head slightly and closed his eyes, unwilling to watch this scene.
Why would you risk your own life to frame someone like this?
Cai Kun was loyal, but he was also a pedantic person, stupid! Loyal, because of the internal calculations of the imperial family, he lost his life in vain!
In fact, Cai Kun's move was beneficial to him, because no matter what the final outcome of this matter was, he would die.
But now he died by hitting a pillar, and accused Queen Gao of his death.
All of a sudden, their chances of winning were infinitely high.
No one would believe that a person would commit suicide in public just to frame someone.
So, now most people have changed their previous ideas and started to believe what he said.
The Queen obviously understood this as well.
The Red Flame Emperor looked at the Queen. Although he did not say a word, the emotions in his eyes were obvious. Like everyone else, he chose to believe Cai Kun. If the Queen could not prove her innocence, "Your Majesty!" The Queen burst into tears, "I am really wronged. I don't know why this person would dare to slander me with his own death. I have no way to defend myself now. If you must give Your Majesty and the world an explanation, I swear on the fact that my mother's clan, the Gao family, will have no descendants. I have never done anything to let Your Majesty down. If what I said today is even a lie, all the people in the Gao family will be killed!" The Queen raised her hand and swore to the sky, then kowtowed heavily to the Red Flame Emperor, "And, I am willing to die to prove my innocence today!"
She just didn't believe that Emperor Chi Yan would not believe her after she swore such a solemn oath using her life and the future of the Gao family.
But what she had never expected was that Emperor Chi Yan would not choose to believe her.
"Queen, Queen, of course I believe you!" Emperor Chi Yan spoke thoughtfully.
The queen looked happy, after all, they had been married for many years.
Her oath shocked everyone present. After all, in this era, once a person made such an oath, its weight was really great.
But, Cai Kun’s body is lying below!
The court official who had stood up to speak for Cai Kun before now stood up again to refute the queen.
"Your Majesty, the Queen's oath is credible, but Lord Cai also proved that he did not lie with such a heroic sacrifice. No matter how this matter is resolved, there will always be people who talk nonsense!" He has always known that Emperor Chi Yan wanted to depose the prince and support him to the throne, but he did not know that today's situation was set up by Emperor Chi Yan. "Therefore, this old minister has a way to verify who is telling the truth between Lord Cai and the Queen!" Even he underestimated the insidiousness of Emperor Chi Yan and thought that this matter was indeed true, so Emperor Chi Yan launched the attack.
Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. He thought that Emperor Chi Yan would not do such a cruel thing!
"What method?" Emperor Chi Yan asked in a cold voice.
"Blood test!" he said word by word.
This statement shocked everyone, but then everyone felt that this was indeed the most likely way to find out the truth of the matter.
Except for Shu Wan, who scoffed at this method. He thought that this boring and groundless method was invented by some old antique.
I don't know why so many people believe in such a method without any basis.
The court officials held different opinions. Some thought that this method would not work as it would not damage the dragon's body, while others thought that this was the safest and most effective way.
Even the queen thought that this method was feasible. The prince was the son of Emperor Chi Yan, so what did she have to be afraid of?
Even the Queen wanted to use this method, and Emperor Chi Yan had no choice but to agree to it.
"May I know this gentleman's surname?" At this time, Shu Wan, who knew that the blood test was unreliable, asked the court official who proposed the blood test.
"In reply to Princess Shuyin, my surname is Zhang!" Lord Zhang answered Shu Wan in a gentle tone. Although he didn't know why Shu Wan asked this, he still answered the question seriously.
"Okay, Lord Zhang, the method of blood test is good. This princess will use this method to tell you a secret!" Shu Wan is determined to help the Queen and the Prince today. He must make Emperor Chi Yan and Yuwen Yan suffer heavy losses!
"I wonder what Princess Shuyin wants to tell me?" Lord Zhang asked respectfully.
"What's the hurry?" Shu Wan asked instead of answering, "You'll know soon!" She said, turning to look at Yu Jianning.
"Please go get me two bowls of clean water! It must be pure and not mixed with anything else, okay?" She spoke seriously and meaningfully.
"Okay!" Yu Jianning answered and walked out.
"I wonder what Princess Shuyin wants two bowls of water for?" For some reason, Emperor Chi Yan felt uneasy, as if Shu Wan was up to something bad again! He was now deeply wary of Shu Wan.
Not only Emperor Chi Yan, but everyone present was also wondering if Shu Wan was going to do something fancy again. They were secretly looking forward to it, hoping that Shu Wan would give them another surprise.
But it seemed that Shu Wan's surprise was a bit too scary. A letter copied in public caused Cai Kun to lose his life.
Then, if she does something jaw-dropping again, will this Lord Zhang be skinned alive? But I am still looking forward to it.
Rong Chen felt somewhat proud unconsciously, and was looking forward to what surprises the little girl could bring him next.
It was very simple to get two bowls of water. Yu Jianning came back in just a few words. He personally carried two bowls of water, followed by an old eunuch who had gone out to get water from Emperor Chi Yan.
"Why did you take so long?" Emperor Chi Yan asked unhappily, why did he go first but come back with Yu Jianning.
"Your Majesty, I deserve to die!" After putting down the water, the old eunuch knelt down to apologize, "I accidentally spilled the water on the way back, and happened to meet Master Yu, so I went back with Yu Jianning to fetch the water!" He said that he accidentally spilled the water, but in fact it was Yu Jianning who poured it.
The meaning behind Shu Wan's words was so obvious that anyone could hear it. It was telling him to be careful not to let the Red Flame Emperor's people tamper with the water.
So after he went out, he said directly that the bowl of water brought by the old eunuch was not clean, so he simply poured it out and got another bowl.
The old eunuch had no choice but to listen to him, which led to the scene just now.
Three bowls of water were neatly placed together.
Since it was a blood test, the prince quickly took the lead in pricking his finger and dripping drops of blood into it.
There was not much expression on his face, but his heart was filled with hatred, so much hatred that his whole body was twisted.
Today, the Queen has done so much, but Emperor Chi Yan still insists on believing in Cai Kun and does a blood test with him.
After today, no matter what the result is, he will become a joke. He is the crown prince whose bloodline has been suspected by his father, and when he inherits the throne in the future, he will still be criticized and ridiculed.
So he hated, he hated the Red Flame Emperor, his father! He hated Cai Kun, he hated Lord Zhang, he hated everyone.
The humiliation he suffered today, he will pay back tenfold or a hundredfold tomorrow! The Red Flame Emperor slowly walked to the center of the hall, picked up the silver needle, and stabbed it into his hand.
Everyone was staring at the Red Flame Emperor intently. In addition to anticipation, they were also a little nervous about such an unknown outcome.
No matter what the result of today's blood test is, in the end, it will be a massacre with rivers of blood and mountains of corpses.
Everyone was waiting for the result cautiously, but everyone had different thoughts.
Some hoped that the blood would not mix, some hoped that the blood would melt together, and some just wanted to watch the show! After the blood of the Red Flame Emperor dripped into the bowl, everyone's heart was in their throat.
Then, the blood of the Red Flame Emperor and the blood of the prince did not mix in the bowl! The Red Flame Emperor's eyes were red with anger.
"Gao, what else do you want to say?" He was really angry this time. He was just acting before, slandering the prince as the son of the queen's affair with a man outside the palace. But now after the blood test, he found out that the prince was not his son. How could he not be angry? "Your Majesty?" Seeing this, the queen couldn't believe what she saw. Her mind was full of the word "impossible". How could this be possible? How could the prince have no blood relationship with the Red Flame Emperor? "Come here, banish Gao to the cold palace!" The Red Flame Emperor couldn't hear anything now. He only knew that Gao had betrayed him.
He is a man, and even more so an emperor. How could he allow his woman to give birth to another man's bastard and have him raise him as his son for so many years?
"Your Majesty, please be patient, be patient!" Shu Wan ran out quickly with a smile on her face. "Next, I will show you a magic trick!" As she spoke, she walked over, grabbed Lord Zhang's hand, quickly picked up a silver needle and pierced it into his finger, then squeezed a drop of blood into a bowl of clean water.
Lord Zhang gasped in pain, but endured it and said nothing.
After letting go of his hand, Shu Wan did the same thing and pricked a drop of blood from his fingertip into the bowl.
Soon, her blood mixed with Lord Zhang's blood! Shu Wan was also grimacing in pain. She gently put her fingers in her mouth to suck to stop the bleeding. Seeing this result, she didn't have time to take her hands out of her mouth. She looked at Emperor Chi Yan and Lord Zhang with a smile.
"How is it, Lord Zhang?" Shu Wan thought he was smiling very kindly, but it made Lord Zhang's back cold for a moment. He unconsciously glanced at Cai Kun who was lying dead on the ground. He seemed to foresee his own tragedy! "This... this... this is impossible!" Lord Zhang spoke tremblingly, and the panic in his eyes was very obvious. "How could the minister and Princess Shuyin be related by blood?" He felt that this world was fantasy, or that there was something wrong with the water.
"I guarantee with my own life that there is no problem with this water!" Seeing through his thoughts, Shu Wan quickly spoke up and shattered his last glimmer of fantasy. Lord Zhang, whose fantasy was shattered, looked as if he had eaten a fly. "Lord Zhang, you keep saying that as long as we do a blood test, we can know whether the prince and your majesty are related by blood. So now, Lord Zhang, my blood and yours have mixed. Does that prove that we are related by blood?" Shu Wan felt that her luck was really good. After only one try, the blood mixed. She was worried that she wouldn't be able to find out the result in one try, so she prepared two bowls of water!
"No, it's impossible!" Lord Zhang was already dumbfounded, "How can blood mix?"
"But if what you said is true, we are indeed related by blood!" Shu Wan's face turned cold, "Could it be that you are my son?"
(End of this chapter)
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