Chapter 287 The truth of that year
For the rest of the journey, no matter how Song Rouxi tried to talk to the prince, he looked cold. She couldn't understand why the prince suddenly got angry again when he was fine just now?
In the Queen's Palace, Concubine Rong was followed by the well-behaved Lian'er. She was wearing a light red skirt, and the belt around her waist made her waist so thin that it could hardly be held. She had a jade hairpin in her hair and smiled very well.
"This child is really adorable."
Rong Guipin glanced at her niece and patted her hands. "Your Majesty, you are too kind. This child is a naughty child. It's only because you are here today that she has calmed down a little. She is always a naughty monkey."
The queen took off the spicy green bracelet on her wrist, took Lian'er's hand without saying a word, and put it on her naturally.
"Empress..." Lian'er was surprised.
"How could the Queen give such a valuable thing to this child? She doesn't deserve it..."
"This is my dowry, from the Huan family. If this is successful today, you will have done a good deed for my family. This bracelet is nothing."
Lian'er knew what she meant and nodded, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I know what to do." More importantly, after this matter is over, she will get what she wants. Over the years, no matter how she hinted, Master Ji never even looked at her.
Song Rouxi is really an eyesore.
"Meet the Queen."
"Mother."
Seeing the Crown Prince and Song Rouxi coming together, the Queen's eyes turned slightly cold, and she quickly said, "Song, do you know why I called you here today?"
Song Rouxi glanced at Lian'er beside her, smiled at her, but said, "I don't know."
Rong Guipin frowned at her expression. How could the Crown Prince fall for such a person? It was really rude. She was making faces in front of the palace, as if she really thought she and the Queen were blind.
"Don't know? Then I'll ask you, how did you and the Crown Prince meet?"
Thinking back to the past, Song Rouxi's cheeks flushed. "I happened to meet the Crown Prince. His purse was stolen by a thief. I happened to see it and stepped forward to warn him. That's how I got to know His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
The prince's stiff expression finally eased for a moment. A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He turned his head to glance at Song Rouxi. When their eyes met, both of them were sweet.
The queen sat firmly on the high platform, but this scene seemed extremely ironic to her.
Happy? You'll be in trouble later.
Your son knows everything clearly, so it would be fine if you don't expose him. If he finds out that everything is a lie, he will hate him as much as he loved him in the beginning.
"Lian'er, you have something to say today, right? Good boy, come here."
Shocked by the Crown Prince's feelings for Song Rouxi, Lian'er's wavering heart gradually settled after hearing the Queen's words. She walked to the Queen's side and coughed softly, "Song Rouxi, I didn't want to say this, but if I don't, my conscience will be uneasy. After much thought, I still have to tell the truth... I can't make the same mistake again."
Song Rouxi's expression changed drastically, and she quickly realized what the other party was going to say.
"No........."
Lian'er told the story in detail without pausing.
"This servant and Song Rouxi are good friends. When we're together, we often speak openly. I happened to learn that the Crown Prince likes ambergris and dark clothes, so I mentioned it to Song Rouxi. Who could have known... she would take it to heart, even develop feelings for him."
The prince's face turned as dark as a casserole. Song Rouxi hurriedly shook his hand, "Prince, she's talking nonsense. I didn't do that! You know you wouldn't do that."
"She secretly discovered that the Crown Prince was often leaving the palace and going to a restaurant during that period, so she hired someone and made a careful plan, all in order to secretly befriend His Royal Highness. In fact, she succeeded."
Song Rouxi didn't expect that even her son knew about this. She was so shocked that she had no time to refute and her face was full of surprise.
"Do you have anything else to say?" The prince looked at her expression and, considering some of his previous discoveries, thought there was nothing she didn't know.
"I didn't! I really didn't! You must believe me! I know the Queen doesn't like me, but why did she let my former best sister come along and frame me?"
Needless to say, this sentence hit the prince's heart.
Huan Yingsi had just died not long ago, and now it was too coincidental that someone came up with the story saying that Song Rouxi was plotting something.
Seeing that the prince was persuaded, Song Rouxi finally breathed a sigh of relief. She turned around and said aggrievedly, "Lian'er, we are like sisters. Even if you are jealous of me, you can't do this. I knew you were jealous of my family's favor and the prince's love. I knew all this, but I thought we were good sisters and you would never do anything to me. I didn't expect..."
Lian'er took a deep breath at her accusation, preventing him from yelling out loud, "Song Rouxi, you're talking nonsense! When have I ever been jealous of you?"
Song Rouxi didn't say anything, but her face showed an expression that said, "I've seen through you, stop pretending, you really hurt my heart."
The queen frowned, thinking that he was a powerful person who came to her to make trouble, but she didn't expect him to be so disappointing.
She calmed her voice and said, "Didn't you say that you found the thief who stole things back then? Where is he now? As long as he is there, whether it was the Song family who ordered it back then will be clear."
Song Rouxi's body trembled, and her eyes rolled around. She didn't expect that Lian'er was so cruel that he even found the thief she had arranged for that year.
Just as I was anxiously wondering how to refute, a man of about eighteen or nineteen came in and knelt down with a plop as soon as he saw me.
"I am Zhao Si, your humble servant! Greetings to all the distinguished guests."
"Zhao Si, stand up and tell us everything that happened back then. Don't hide anything."
Zhao Si was overjoyed. When Song Rouxi found him, he gave her a valuable piece of jewelry and ten taels of silver. He didn't expect that two years later, there would be another show to perform. Someone found him again and spent fifty taels of silver to expose Miss Song.
It's really one thing after another, so wonderful.
He was worried about having no money to spend, so he told everything without any burden at all, and even defended himself at the end.
"I know I was wrong. My father was seriously ill back then. If it weren't for the silver, how could I have dared to deceive the prince? This is a capital crime! I can expose it today, and I have repaid the debt I owed you."
I have to say that Zhao Si's acting skills are much better than Lian'er's. He speaks with sincerity and the prince's eyes become colder and colder. Many details from that year really match the scene.
Including the fact that Song Rouxi specifically told Zhao Si about the prince's clothes and appearance, he still remembers it to this day.
If he was just an ordinary thief who would forget about stealing from one person, why would he deliberately remember so many things?
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