Before anyone could speak, Ye Qingxue immediately moved in front of Yun Zhuo, trying to hide him behind her, and then said:
"In that case, I would like to ask Your Highness, what color clothes was Prince Jing wearing when you saw him just now, and was there any burn on his body?"
Upon hearing her question, Yun Xun seemed to only then realize her presence and turned around to look at her.
Yun Zhuo instantly understood Ye Qingxue's intention, and shrank back behind Ye Qingxue to prevent Yun Xun from seeing him.
Yun Xun was taken aback; he couldn't answer such a detailed question for a moment.
He tried to look past Ye Qingxue at Yun Zhuo, but he could only see the edges and corners of Yun Zhuo and couldn't be sure where on his body he was burned.
"Your Highness Prince Xuan can't answer? You can't answer, yet you dare to say you saw my prince when he was apprehending criminals? Isn't that slander?"
Ye Qingxue sneered, "What, seeing my lord imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison and nearly burned to death, is Your Highness Prince Xuan so eager to kick him while he's down?"
Yun Xun frowned and said, "I did see Prince Jing just now, but he ran too fast, so I can't be sure where he was burned."
Ye Qingxue snorted: "Since you saw him turn and run away, then let me ask Prince Xuan, is my Prince Jing lame in his left leg or his right leg? You saw that, didn't you?"
Yun Xun subconsciously wanted to look at Ling Ya, but he controlled his subconscious action and recalled the scene that Ling Ya had told him.
Ling Ya said that Yun Zhuo was not dead at all, and the body they found did not belong to Yun Zhuo. When the fire started, Yun Zhuo hid...
Yun Xun immediately led his men to search for Yun Zhuo, but they were too late; Yun Zhuo had already run to the emperor.
However, his subordinates told him that Yun Zhuo had been running while crouching down. At the time, he thought that Yun Zhuo was crouching down to avoid his eyes and ears and to reach the emperor safely.
But now, listening to Ye Qingxue's words, it seems that Yun Zhuo has actually injured his legs?
Left leg or right leg?
Yun Xun pondered for a moment and suddenly had an answer: it didn't matter whether Yun Zhuo injured his left leg or his right leg.
He could just answer with any answer about one leg. If he got it wrong, he would simply say that the situation was tense at the time and he was busy catching criminals, so it was possible that he couldn't see clearly!
Yun Xun frowned and replied, "I did see it. Prince Jing did indeed injure a leg, it seems to be his right leg, but the situation was urgent at the time, so I'm not entirely sure which leg it was."
As he finished speaking, silence fell over the surroundings, and Yun Xun had a very bad feeling.
Ye Qingxue chuckled and snorted, stood up, turned around and pulled Yun Zhuo up from the ground, "Walk a few steps so His Highness Prince Xuan can see which leg is injured!"
Yun Zhuo obediently followed Ye Qingxue's words, walked a few steps with his head held high and chest out, showing no signs of being lame.
Ye Qingxue looked at Yun Xun and said, "It seems that what Prince Xuan said earlier, that he turned and ran away upon seeing my lord, was utter nonsense! My lord's legs are not injured at all. You still say that you saw him limping? That's utterly ridiculous!"
Yun Xun's face was grim. He lowered his head, carefully considering how to phrase his words to gloss over the matter.
However, Ye Qingxue did not give him that chance. Even if she could not bring down Prince Xuan tonight, she had to plant the seed in everyone's mind that "Prince Xuan wanted to put Prince Jing to death!"
This would make it easier for her to carry out her subsequent actions.
She quickly said, "Did Prince Xuan say that on purpose to make Father and all the officials think that my prince originally wanted to escape from prison, but when he saw you coming with the guards, he knew he couldn't escape, so he ran back?"
"Your Highness Prince Xuan, what a meticulous and ruthless mind you have! My lord has already been sentenced to death, yet you still worry that things might get complicated and want to add more charges against him! This will ensure his certain death!"
"It seems that the one who truly wants to kill his own brother is not my lord, but His Highness Prince Xuan!"
Ye Qingxue spoke in a loud voice and very quickly, giving no one a chance to interrupt.
Yun Xun's face darkened inch by inch.
Yan Shizheng, Lü An, and the others stared wide-eyed, trying to interrupt her, but their voices were drowned out several times.
Moreover, it was Prince Jing who was guilty, not Princess Jing, so they didn't dare to interrupt too openly, otherwise they would expose their purpose.
Now that Ye Qingxue had finished speaking and everyone had heard her clearly, they all looked at Yun Xun with a questioning gaze.
Yun Xun lowered his head and tried his best to suppress his surging emotions. Before long, he knelt before the emperor.
“Father, I did not mean to slander Prince Jing. The direction the criminal fled was dimly lit with very few streetlights, so it is understandable that I could not see clearly at first.”
"The world is vast and full of wonders, let alone two people with similar builds? Perhaps I have mistaken another criminal for my brother, Prince Jing."
"I was wondering why Prince Jing and I have always had a good brotherly relationship. It turns out that the person was not Prince Jing. He must have been a fugitive criminal."
Before the emperor could respond, Ye Qingxue spoke first: "What you said makes perfect sense. Of course, we have no evidence to prove that His Highness Prince Xuan is slandering Prince Jing! So, whatever Prince Xuan says is true."
Yun Xun's hands, hanging at his sides, slowly clenched into fists.
He truly hadn't expected to face a counterattack from Ye Qingxue in this matter.
But it doesn't matter. He didn't come here tonight to argue about such a trivial matter.
He came here to kill Ye Qingxue and destroy the entire Marquis of Zhongyong's mansion.
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