When the two of them arrived slowly, there were already quite a few people standing in the imperial study.
When they saw Xiao Li coming in, those people glanced over, their faces were all gloomy and full of resentment, obviously they came to ask for punishment.
Xiao Li walked over as if he hadn't seen it: "Royal brother, I'm here."
The emperor looked at her attire and felt it was inappropriate, but he was in no mood to care about it. He sternly scolded her, "What have you done?"
Xiao Li chuckled: "I just taught a few low-class thugs a lesson. I don't need the emperor to praise me personally."
The emperor glared and said, "Where did you hear me praising you?"
The official next to him couldn't wait any longer and asked directly: "Excuse me, Princess, why did you beat my nephew for no reason?"
Xiao Li turned around and glanced at the middle-aged man. Well, he didn't know him.
Xiao Jingyi reminded: "Zhang De, the Minister of Justice."
Oh, that man’s uncle.
Glancing at the others, he saw that the man standing at the front was obviously the highest-ranking person in charge that the four could find.
"Minister of Justice, I have a question for you. Is it a crime for a nobleman to molest a decent woman in the street? And what is the crime for insulting the princess and saying he would kill me and cut me into pieces?"
Zhang De said with a stern face, "The princess struck them first. They didn't know the princess's identity at the time, so they spoke without thinking. Ignorance is not a crime."
Xiao Li sneered, "What a great idiom: ignorance is not a crime. Does it mean that if it weren't for me, the princess, they could have killed me at will?"
Another person shouted angrily, "The princess was the first to hit someone!"
Xiao Li: "They are teasing me, so what if I hit them?"
"Enough!" the emperor shouted.
Zhang De suppressed his anger and bowed, "Your Majesty, I have inquired. My nephew and the girl were already acquaintances. They just met and exchanged a few jokes. Suddenly, the princess attacked and assaulted my nephew and four others, but she didn't even touch the young master of the Feng family. I don't know what the princess's intentions are."
The emperor's gaze changed immediately when he looked at Xiao Li. Although he hadn't spoken yet, he must have had a guess.
Xiao Li: “…” She had just said that she was looking for a lover, but that was just a joke. How could this boomerang stab her again and again?
God is my witness, she just wanted to tease Feng Yin and had no dirty thoughts at all. But it was obvious that the emperor did not believe her innocence. Looking at his eyes, he seemed to be nailing her down.
"What do you have to say?"
Xiao Li was speechless, but she couldn't help but speak.
"Young Master Feng was just looking for his brother-in-law. They wanted to drag him into the water to molest the girl. He kept struggling and resisting, but they still kept pulling him. I'm not blind. I saw that he was innocent, so why would I hit him?"
At this moment, Xiao Jingyi bowed and said, "Brother Emperor, I want to file a complaint with the Emperor."
"Your younger brother is suing the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Zhang De, for misconduct, murder and abduction of his wife." This sentence was earth-shattering.
Everyone was confused and shocked.
King Wei, what are you doing?
Zhang De was visibly panicked for a moment, but forced himself to calm down and shouted, "Prince Wei, please stop talking nonsense to exonerate the princess. I am an official appointed by the court after all. How can I allow Your Majesty to slander me so casually?"
Xiao Jingyi's expression didn't change at all. He said confidently, "Your Majesty, I have evidence. Minister Zhang's concubine, Mei, was originally the wife of a butcher on West Street. Minister Zhang..."
"Your Majesty!" Zhang De interrupted loudly, "Your Majesty, the issue now is that the princess assaulted someone, and the King of Wei is rambling on about irrelevant matters. Could it be that he's trying to protect the princess?"
So, as a Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, you really want to convict the princess?
Xiao Li: "Royal brother, since we are all here, let Jingyi finish his story and we can deal with it together. As for the incident of me hitting someone, I will let you punish me."
She only hit someone, not killed him, so what's the point of these people complaining? Can they fight back?
Even if the emperor believed what they said, he would not beat his sister because of these people's complaints. Otherwise, where is the emperor's majesty?
Xiao Li was originally planning to use PUA to control him, but as soon as the King of Wei opened his mouth, Xiao Li felt that the play could be performed in a different way.
Zhang De knew clearly what he had done, and he couldn't let the King of Wei continue talking.
Even if we are not sure whether King Wei has evidence, the crime cannot withstand investigation.
"Your Majesty, it was my nephew who offended the princess. He deserved the beating. I apologize to the princess on my nephew's behalf."
When the fire burned himself, he knew he had to retreat, but unfortunately, it was too late.
Begging for mercy did not stop the King of Wei from filing a complaint. Zhang De collapsed to the ground and was finally dragged off like a dead dog.
Of course, even though he himself had committed a crime, he hated Xiao Li at this moment. When he was dragged away, he looked at Xiao Li with resentment, his eyes as if he wanted to eat him.
Xiao Li grabbed something and threw it at him without even looking at it: "What are you looking at? I didn't force you to steal someone else's wife, you scumbag!"
Xiao Li grabbed the lid of the incense burner with excellent accuracy, and hit Zhang De on the forehead. There was no bleeding, but a bump instantly appeared, which made everyone else feel a pain in their forehead.
"Xuan Yang!"
The emperor slammed the table and angrily said, "How dare you, a princess, hit people at every turn? How can you be so rude?"
"Go back to your residence immediately and copy the Heart Purification Mantra for me one hundred times. You are not allowed to eat until you have finished."
Xiao Li vomited blood, copying Buddhist scriptures, copying Buddhist scriptures again, is there any novelty? She didn't copy.
"Brother, I am not wrong. I was just standing up for justice. You should reward me."
The emperor was so angry that he laughed: "How dare you ask me for a reward? Look at you now, do you look like a princess? Two hundred times, I will send people to supervise you, and not a single word is allowed to be missed."
Xiao Li clenched his fist and said, "You damn emperor, I'm going to kill you!"
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Xiao Li was driven away and asked to go back to copy Buddhist scriptures. This time Xiao Jingyi could not help her because he had to provide evidence to the emperor to try Zhang De's murder case.
Although he helped her out of trouble, Xiao Li was not grateful to him at all.
This kid is full of bad intentions.
He obviously knew about Zhang De's evil deeds a long time ago, but he never did anything to him. Now that it is exposed at this point, everyone will think that he had to drag Zhang De into it for Xiao Li.
Just look at Zhang De’s expression at the end and you will know that he does not hate King Wei who exposed his evidence, but he hates Xiao Li.
Xiao Li invisibly helped Xiao Jingyi bear the hatred, but he had to thank him for his help on the surface.
How could there be a stupid person among the surviving children of the imperial family?
However, Xiao Li had just stepped into the house when King Wei's steward came to the door with a box full of gifts.
"Princess, this is a specialty that the prince has been collecting along the way. It just arrived, and he hurriedly asked me to bring it to you. Please accept it."
Xiao Li opened the box, and inside was a box of blood-red coral beads. Just by looking at the color, you could tell that they were of high quality.
Xiao Li pinched a bead and played with it for a long time before he laughed: "Okay, stay."
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