She moved forward step by step, looking at the basin of water in front of her, as if she had seen some wild beast, and her heart was pounding.
She was calculating how sure she would be able to stay after Xuan Qianchen knew the truth, but in the end, she only had a slim chance.
Princess Yuanmin walked to the side of the basin and picked it up with both hands. The whole movement was very slow.
Just when she was about to put her hand into the basin, the maid next to her suddenly knelt down with a "dong" sound, and then began to kowtow to Xuan Qianchen, "Your Majesty, forgive me, Princess, all of these are slaves." If you do it, please ask the prince and the princess to punish you."
This change happened so fast that Princess Yuanmin turned around subconsciously and couldn't help but look at the people on the ground.
This is her personal maid, Xiaoyu, and the only one left from the Yuan family, and the two of them grew up together.
Hearing this, Xuan Qianchen and Lin Qingwan turned back at the same time, their eyes falling on the person kneeling on the ground.
The former was the first to react, his brows furrowed, his eyes slightly narrowed, his voice sounded like a dagger that could kill someone at any time, "What did you just say?"
Xiaoyu's face was filled with tears, and her whole body was shaking very much, especially after the man spoke, "Prince Qi, the gardenia pollen in Concubine Jing's plaster was put by a slave, please punish me."
Lin Qingwan didn't expect that Xiaoyu would be so loyal, and Xuan Qianchen's attitude would be so obvious, and he would even stand up to take the blame for Princess Yuanmin.
She was a little unwilling and asked with a sneer, "Oh? You did it? You are the princess's personal maid, could it be that the princess ordered you? The princess is the niece of the concubine Jing!"
These words instantly attracted the attention of others to Princess Yuanmin. Princess Yuanmin's eyes were a little panicked. The maids looked at each other and started talking in low voices.
"It can't be the princess, right? The princess is my niece."
"Yes, I have watched the princess grow up. How could the princess do such a thing?"
"But... have you ever thought that the only person who knows that the queen is allergic and can come into contact with the ointment, apart from us, is the princess. And Xiaoyu is the princess's maid. How could she commit such a beheading without the arrangement of the master? Something?"
"You are right..."
There were different opinions for a while, some chose to believe Princess Yuanmin, while others expressed doubts.
Xiaoyu, on the other hand, knelt down and crawled to Xuan Qianchen, and then began to kowtow repeatedly, "Prince Qi, this matter has nothing to do with our princess. Our princess has always respected the empress the most and would not do such a thing." All these things are done by myself.”
The man's whole body went cold, and he looked at the woman kneeling in front of him without any mercy.
Lin Qingwan continued to ask, "Really? Then there must be a reason for poisoning the empress."
Unexpectedly, as soon as these words came out, Xiaoyu quickly raised her head, her eyes full of resentment, "The reason is because of you!"
The woman was stunned and did not speak, but waited for the other party's next words.
"We, the princess, and the prince are childhood sweethearts. We have never suffered any grievances since we were young. Our Yuan family is full of loyal and loyal people. In order to put down the rebellion, they all died on the battlefield. So it stands to reason that we, the princess, should not be subjected to any injustice. A cold look and contempt from anyone.”
"But it is precisely because of your appearance that our princess has been wronged, and you also used your identity to yell at our princess. Who do you think you are? You are just a shameless substitute. Just a bitch!"
Xiaoyu came out to admit it, obviously she didn't want to go back alive, so she almost pointed at Lin Qingwan's nose and cursed in a very sharp voice.
"The person who should be the most suitable match for the prince in this world should be our princess, not you! You have no ideas, no talent and no virtue, and you are doing it just because you are the eldest daughter of the Prime Minister's Palace. It is really disgusting. !”
After scolding Lin Qingwan, Xiaoyu seemed to have accepted her fate. Her whole body relaxed and she almost fell to the ground.
"Today our princess came to see your empress and found a stick of ointment in front of her dressing mirror, so she asked a few questions and found out that it was a gift from this woman with no talent or virtue. Originally, the princess wanted to care for her. After a few words, who would have thought that the empress suddenly asked the princess to return to the palace and stop living in Prince Zhan's Mansion."
"Although the princess was sad, she didn't want to worry her too much, so she had no choice but to agree. I saw what the princess was thinking, so I came to eavesdrop in the corner, and then I heard that it was you, a bitch, who was instigating us behind the scenes. The princess returned to the palace. I didn’t want to see the princess be wronged, so I remembered that the queen was allergic to gardenia pollen, and wanted to deliberately frame you so that the queen and the prince would completely give up on you."
Xiaoyu said all this almost mechanically, as if he was memorizing a manuscript.
But others probably couldn't see it and thought she was just too scared and angry.
And Lin Qingwan also understood at this moment that this was probably the reason why Princess Yuanmin wanted to frame her.
She just stared at the people on the ground, and saw Xiaoyu kowtow to Xuan Qianchen again, "Your Majesty, I know that my sins are serious. If you don't ask for Your Majesty's forgiveness, I beg Your Majesty not to implicate the princess."
"In this world, the princess only has two relatives: the queen and the prince. When our head of the family died in the battle, he handed the princess over to the queen in person. It was in the hope that the queen could raise the princess, and even more so that the prince could. Protect the princess."
"Over the years, the princess has been serving my wife, and she has never had any other thoughts. She is the kindest and most innocent person in the world. Please be kind to our princess!"
Xiaoyu's words were so impassioned that Princess Yuanmin was stunned. She stopped where she was and her head was buzzing. She didn't expect that her maid would come out to take the blame and say these words.
She wanted to excuse Xiaoyu, but if she really spoke, all the blame would be pointed at herself again. In this world, she really only has Xuan Qianchen and Jing Fei to rely on.
She trembled, turned to look at Xiaoyu, and just when she was about to speak, Xiaoyu exhaled, "Princess, it's all my fault, you don't have to speak for me!"
The man kneeling on the ground burst into tears. After taking a deep breath, he smiled and said, "I can serve the slaves beside the princess for the rest of my life and die in peace."
After saying this, she stood up directly and banged her head against the corner of the table without hesitation.
In an instant, everyone in the room was in chaos, and some timid palace maids had already screamed, looking very frightened.
Lin Qingwan's pupils dilated, she didn't expect things to develop to this point.
Princess Yuanmin strode forward and picked up Xiaoyu from the ground, "Xiaoyu!"
