Hearing the answer she wanted, Hua Yuanshan smiled contentedly.

She tried her best to hold down the corners of her mouth that were raised, and asked Hua Yuanzhao again: "What else do you have to say, elder sister?"

She just didn't believe that Hua Yuanzhao could escape this time!

When the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo heard what Princess Lin'an said, a cold look flashed in her eyes. She ordered in a deep voice: "Come here, tie up Miss Hua for me! Prime Minister Hua, your daughter is trying to murder my An'er. Let's go to the emperor and ask him to make a decision on this matter!"

"Madam Rong will take care of this evil girl!" Prime Minister Hua's face was as gloomy as the bottom of a pot. He said to the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, "Why should we alarm His Majesty?"

Hearing what Prime Minister Hua said, Hua Yuanzhao's heart suddenly sank into the abyss.

She stared at Princess Lin'an for several breaths, until she closed her eyes and leaned in the arms of the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo like an ostrich, then she sneered.

"It turns out that the person I saved was an ungrateful person."

This princess and Hua Yuanshan are colluding with each other and are probably going to put her to death!

"The water here is not even up to the knees. Even a child of seven or eight years old would not drown! May I ask, my lord, how did I push you into the water and kill you?"

Hua Yuanshan asked calmly while holding the golden needle, and her previous panic was no longer there.

She was supposed to be dead anyway, so at worst she could just treat today as a one-day trip to ancient times!

"Madam Rong, you have also commanded the three armies and are very observant. Do you also want to believe this one-sided statement?"

She asked frankly, and the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo laughed out of anger, feeling unhappy.

Although the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo is a woman, she has held power for many years and has the final say in the army.

Being accused of being partial and blind by a little girl, she naturally felt embarrassed. She asked back, "Shouldn't I trust you instead of my own daughter?"

Princess Lin'an's heart was beating fast, fearing that her lie would be exposed. She stole a glance at Hua Yuanzhao before continuing, "You held me in the water and I couldn't get up, so..."

"You have multiple scratches and bruises on your body, which are obviously caused by falling from a high place and rolling on the sharp rocks!"

"Besides, I just took off your shoes and there was coarse sand in your shoes and your dress! This is downstream, the gravel is dense, how could there be large pieces of sand and gravel?"

Hua Yuanzhao went over the clues and asked loudly, "Princess Lin'an, if my inference is correct, you must have fallen from Jingsi Cliff, right?"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Princess Lin'an interrupted her hastily, her voice so high and sharp that it almost broke.

"Why would I go to Jingsi Cliff for no reason? It was you who pushed me! Cough cough cough cough——"

She shouted too quickly and her body couldn't bear it and she coughed violently. Her pale face turned abnormally red from coughing and tears welled up in her eyes.

"You fell off the cliff, got caught on a branch, and then fell into the water, and were washed downstream by the current! When I found you, your clothes were still tangled in this broken log!" Hua Yuanzhao pointed to the stranded branch on the shore and said, "Madam, send someone to check whether what I said is true or not, and you will know!"

Princess Lin'an's pupils suddenly shrank. She anxiously grabbed the arm of the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo. Before she could stop coughing, she spoke hastily, "Mother! She is lying! Don't listen to her nonsense!"

"Who else would harm me except her?" Princess Lin'an had tears in her eyes.

The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo looked at her crying daughter with a subtle and complex look in her eyes.

If she still doesn't understand what's going on, then she has been a general for so many years in vain.

She was just overwhelmed by the pain of losing her daughter, but now that her daughter is fine, her lost sanity has returned.

With a sullen face, she pulled her daughter back into her arms and comforted her: "Don't be afraid, mother is here."

Her voice was low and cold, like the sound of ice. She was clearly speaking soothing words, but Princess Lin'an couldn't help but shiver.

Princess Lin'an shut up obediently and huddled under the wings of the Duke of Zhenguo's wife like a little bird.

The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo looked up at Hua Yuanzhao again. In the firelight, Hua Yuanzhao's face was illuminated red and yellow, but the hair and mud on her face mostly obscured her appearance.

Holding her daughter tightly, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo gave an order with difficulty: "Hua Yuanzhao is trying to kill Princess Lin'an, arrest her! Take her back to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion!"

She knew that she shouldn't do this, but if the truth was revealed at this time, how would Lin'an cope with it?

For the sake of her daughter's reputation, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo had to be cruel.