Chapter 253: Rebellion

After a brief moment of anger, Emperor Xuanwu regained his composure. He looked at the angry Jiang Xinyue, then at the gentle and upright Xie Chenghui, and moved his lips, wanting to say something: "I..."

"I met with painter Xie in private?"

Jiang Xinyue snorted coldly: "If I really want to disturb the harem, none of you can catch me. I will do things quietly. I will not be stupid enough to bring the servants in the whole palace to meet my lover in a big way, so that you all know that I am here. If you want to frame me, please use some advanced means."

Her chest rose and fell violently, obviously she was very angry. She picked up the scroll on the ground and threw it into Emperor Xuanwu's arms: "Relying on a portrait without even a face, you say that I disturbed the harem with empty words. Fine! Kill me now. I don't want to be this useless imperial concubine."

"Jiang Xinyue!"

Emperor Xuanwu shouted angrily. He always felt that she seemed to want to leave him all the time.

"You want to leave the palace when you encounter something, and now you say you don't want to be the imperial concubine. What do you think of me? What do you think of my harem?" Is

she so annoying and doesn't want to stay by his side?

"Then what does the emperor think of me?"

Having already committed rebellion, Jiang Xinyue simply rebelled to the end: "The emperor calls me and I come, and he sends me away at will. Because of a few rumors from others, the emperor suspects that I am unfaithful. What does the emperor think of me?"

"My Lady, you said that the painting was found in my residence?"

"How can this be false?"

Concubine Yu raised her head proudly, looking at Jiang Xinyue and Painter Xie with contempt: "I have long noticed that something is wrong with you two. As soon as you left, I received a secret letter saying that you and Painter Xie were planning to elope and run away. I immediately chased you. Even the emperor received the news, so he sent people to search Painter Xie's residence, and sure enough, this painting was found. Jiang Xinyue, the emperor treats you so well, are you worthy of his trust in you?"

"Wait!"

Xie Chenghui was amused by her, and said speechlessly: "Who told Concubine Yu that the terrible painting was painted by me?" Concubine

Yu was stunned: "It was searched from your residence. If it's not yours, then whose is it?"

Xie Chenghui did not answer her, but winked at the book boy beside him. The book boy was already worried about his son. After receiving the look, he quickly put down the book basket on his back, spread the best rice paper on the stone table in the middle of the bamboo forest, took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone and began to grind ink.

In the past, his son often traveled far away, and the people who followed him had to carry painting tools with them so that his son could paint the beautiful scenery of mountains, rivers and lakes at any time.

Today, it came in handy.

Emperor Xuanwu closed his eyes in regret. He was so jealous just now that he was so cruel to Yue'er. She should be angry.

But Concubine Yu was still nagging in his ear: "Your Majesty, Painter Li is right. The palace should not summon these delicate and tender pretty boys to be court painters. Not only are they arrogant, but they dare to seduce the concubines in the palace just because they have a good face. The Royal Concubine is only 18 years old. How can she..."

"What did you say just now?" The emperor frowned: "Painter Li?"

Jiang Xinyue also turned her head to look at Concubine Yu. In other words, there was no real evidence at all. She just believed in Painter Li's jealous provocation and Concubine Yu concluded that she had an affair with Painter Xie?

The remaining concubine didn't know what she had said wrong yet, and smiled smugly at Jiang Xinyue: "Yes! The Imperial Noble Consort probably didn't expect it, right? Humph, where do the secrets in the palace come from? Painter Li said that he seemed to have seen you two contacting privately, so I was on guard, and only then was I able to catch you by the tail today."

She turned to the emperor and hugged his arm: "Your Majesty, please don't be soft-hearted this time. Kill the Imperial Noble Consort and investigate the Sixth Prince's life experience, so as not to confuse the royal bloodline and let a bastard enjoy the treatment of the royal family. Wouldn't that be a laughing stock? Imperial Noble..."

"Pah!"

Jiang Xinyue could accept all kinds of slander against herself because they were enemies, but she could not tolerate the remaining concubine's humiliating words against the Sixth Prince.

"You..."

Concubine Yu didn't expect that at this time, Jiang Xinyue could still be so arrogant and dare to attack in front of the emperor. She also raised her hand, ready to return the slap.

"What are you doing?"

But as soon as she raised her hand, she was grabbed by Emperor Xuanwu, and the look in his eyes on her was piercingly cold.

"Emperor..."

But the emperor seemed to have caught something dirty, and didn't want to hear a word from her. He shook her hand away with force. If Shuxiang hadn't been quick to support her, she would have fallen to the ground.

"Your Majesty, I have finished the painting. Please come and take a look. The painting that Concubine Yu brought was indeed not from my hand."

Emperor Xuanwu looked at Jiang Xinyue subconsciously, but Jiang Xinyue didn't look away and walked directly to Xie the painter.

Since someone could prove her innocence quickly, she didn't have to bother proving herself. She could just take a look at the evidence from painter Xie first.

On the stone table were crudely placed pens, ink, paper and inkstone. Because there wasn't enough space, some colored pigments got stuck on Xie Chenghui's body.

He has always been reserved and would never let himself appear in front of others like this. But today, it's about the Royal Concubine and his own reputation. He ignored his own cleanliness and pointed to the painting on the stone table: "Your Majesty, I am your teacher, and the Mo family's master Mo Ziye has been making paper for generations. Now, the most expensive and best paper in the Great Yan Dynasty comes from the hands of my master. The paper I use for painting is all made by my master himself. Every painting I make has his own unique seal in the paper interlayer, and the quality of the paper is slightly different from that on the market. This colleague who wants to frame me is... "The official may not know my habits, and he just took the drawing paper in the palace and imitated my style, wanting to kill me. His heart is so vicious that I never thought of it."

Xie Chenghui bowed to Jiang Xinyue again to apologize: "I have implicated the Royal Concubine, and I really deserve to die. Please ask the emperor to investigate the truth and restore the Queen and I to innocence."

Not to mention that the drawing paper used by Xie Chenghui has specific marks, just look at the brushstrokes, composition, color and character postures of the two paintings. If you look carefully, you can see that Xie Chenghui is much better.

He doesn't paint portraits, but it doesn't mean he doesn't know how to paint portraits.

The portraits of the emperor and empress and the portraits of the emperor and the Royal Concubine were all painted by him, but Painter Li was not qualified to see them.

Thinking that you can pull him down from the altar by imitating him a little bit is really underestimating his strength.

"Impossible!"

The first one to break the defense was the concubine who took the lead in exposing all this.