Chapter 400: Accusing the Empress

The emperor's brows were locked tightly, and the ravine between them could pinch a fly to death. However, Concubine Tong was immersed in the pleasure of exposing Jiang Xinyue, and did not notice the emperor's displeasure at all.

"As far as I know, the relationship between the Empress and the Cui family is not ordinary. It just so happens that a few servants came into my house a few days ago. They were the apprentices of the Cui Liyuan in the past. They may know something."

It turned out that Concubine Tong asked the emperor for mercy the other day to let the Tong family members enter the palace to accompany the second princess for this.

It's hard for her, she should have investigated and prepared for a long time.

And the fragments that suddenly flashed in Jiang Xinyue's mind also told her that the original body seemed to have such a relationship with this Lan Xiaolou.

However, Lan Xiaolou was addicted to gambling at that time and did not cherish her original body. The original body was disheartened and listened to the arrangement of her family to accompany her elder sister to the palace for the selection.

Just as she was sorting out her thoughts, the two men and two women had already knelt behind Lan Xiaolou.

"I pay my respects to the emperor, the queen, and all the noble masters. We are apprentices and servants of the Cui Pear Garden who were sold to the Tong family after the Cui Pear Garden was closed. My name is Sanzi, and I am in charge of chores in the Pear Garden."

"I am Xiao Taohua, the apprentice of Cui Dajia. After Cui Dajia withdrew from Cui Pear Garden, I..."

"I am not interested in your life experience, Concubine Tong, what do you want to say?"

Is it to prove that his Yue'er had a beloved before entering the palace, and that her love for him is all lies to deceive him?

Concubine Tong, who was named, also knelt on the ground, revealing an uneasy look: "Your Majesty, I also learned by chance that the Empress had already secretly agreed to spend her life with someone before entering the palace, and they were already husband and wife. I hesitated for a long time, but still had the courage to tell Your Majesty the truth. The Jiang family sent a daughter who was engaged to someone else into the palace, which is a crime of deceiving the emperor. Your Majesty, please investigate clearly and don't be blinded by people who are false and hypocritical."

"What are you talking about?"

Ruan was so angry that her eyes turned red: "The Empress was promised to someone else, how could I, as a mother, not know anything about it? Before my sister Yue left the palace, she never left the main door or the second door. She was the most well-behaved and sensible. Who do you think would betroth a young lady from an official family who was raised in luxury to an actor?"

"Grand Scholar Jiang naturally did not betroth the Empress to such a family, but didn't I say that? They have secretly decided to spend their lives together!"

The more he spoke, the more outrageous it became!

"If Your Majesty doesn't believe it, just ask Xiao Taohua and the truth will be revealed, right?"

The look in the eyes of the emperor was full of oppression, as if to say that if they lied, they would be torn into pieces.

Xiao Taohua's lips and teeth were trembling, and she said tremblingly: "The Empress rarely comes when she is dressed as a woman, but she often comes when she is dressed as a man. Master Cui's room is often brightly lit, and many people in the garden have seen the Empress in men's clothes, and... and Master Cui once introduced the Empress to people close to her, saying... that she was his wife-to-be."

Quiet...

The Yu Garden was as quiet as death.

The veins on the emperor's arm as he held Jiang Xinyue were bulging, and there was a storm brewing in his eyes, as if a storm was about to come.

Cold sweat broke out on Princess Yunyang's forehead, and her old bones were almost broken by fear.

What kind of sin had she committed? It was

just a viewing banquet for her grandson, but it ended up like this. She was guilty of a great sin!

This Concubine Tong really didn't know the general situation.

No matter what happened before the Empress entered the palace, she was examined by the maid who selected the concubines.

She came in with a clean record, and the past should have been written off. Why was she digging up the past now? Who hasn't had someone they like? Was that a damnable sin?

Even if this is a crime, today is the day when the second princess and the grandson of the Princess of Yunyang are getting engaged, and she shouldn't shout this out in public and let everyone laugh at the emperor.

Wouldn't it be better to report it to the emperor quietly when no one is around?

If they want to overthrow the Empress, they should tell the emperor in private and let him investigate secretly to catch them off guard. Would

n't it be more credible if the emperor finds out himself than if she reveals it?

"Bang!"

The emperor raised his foot and kicked Xiao Taohua away. The woman vomited blood, rolled down the steps, and fell on the cobblestone road. It was unknown whether she was dead or alive.

"Ah..."

Several ladies who were nearby screamed and dodged, and turned their heads away in fear, not wanting to see Xiao Taohua's miserable condition.

"Your Majesty!"

Concubine Tong cried out in surprise, her little face turned pale in an instant, and she said in shock: "Your Majesty, you..."

"Pa!"

She was also slapped hard on the face, her ears were still buzzing, and she heard the emperor say: "Concubine Tong has committed treason, fabricated false evidence, and framed the empress. She will be taken away and beaten with thirty boards. From today on, she will be demoted to a commoner and sent to the cold palace."

"Your Majesty! Everything I said is true, I did not lie. Why are you so partial to the empress? You are like this... It's really unacceptable!"

"Unacceptable, huh?"

The emperor let go of Jiang Xinyue and gently put her on the couch. He also took a soft cushion and put it on her waist so that she could sit more comfortably.

"Swish!"

When Qingyu felt the direction in which the emperor was drawing his sword, he pushed the handle of the sword forward, then took a big step back and drew out his sword without letting the emperor waste any effort. He put it on the neck of another so-called witness: "Tell me, was what she just said true? I want to hear the truth. If you say even a single lie, I will chop off your heads right now."

The third son, whose neck was cut by the knife and who felt the pain, was breathing rapidly, sweating all over, and looking at Concubine Tong with horror.

The emperor's knife sank on his shoulder: "I'm asking you, what do you see her doing?"

The third son swallowed his saliva and trembled even more: "I...I'm just a thug, I heard...I heard Xiao Taohua say it, I didn't see it with my own eyes, I...I wasn't...I wasn't sold to the Tong Mansion after I left the opera house, it was...it was Concubine Tong who told us to say so." "

Quite honest."

The emperor took away the black iron knife, Qingyu quickly took it, put it back into his scabbard, and glanced at the angry Xi Que.

The little girl should be a little calmer!

The emperor looked at Concubine Tong again: "If, as you said, Lan Xiaolou quit the opera business and closed Cui Liyuan, you took in these people, and they are so careless, you should have known about this earlier. I don't think you are someone who can hold back. Three years ago, when the empress was in favor, you would have exposed her. Why wait until now?"

These people must have been found by the Tong family at a great cost of money, material and manpower. They

have lived in the Tong family for a while, waiting for this opportunity to bring these people into the palace to testify against the empress.

Only a fool like Concubine Tong thought she was flawless with such crude means.