After quietly discussing the next scene with Yan Xiu, Zhu Scarlett felt relaxed and put on the palace dress that Yan Xiu had found for her from nowhere.
In this life, she finally saved her sister. This was the first person she saved in her new life.
In her previous life, she ran out of the Dragon Tent in the middle of the night and dragged her exhausted body to the rabbit hunting competition. When Zhu Siyi saw her, it was like seeing a ghost.
However, Zhu Siyi had already ordered people to spread the rumor that the person who visited Yan Xiu last night was a concubine from Prince Yan's palace.
Regardless of whether the rumors were true or false, it was true that Yan Xiu was carried into the palace by a beauty. Prince Yan's palace was so anxious that he finally decided to let his sister enter the palace in her place.
But within a few years of entering the palace, her sister died. She didn't even see Yan Xiu a few times before her death.
She should bear the consequences of her own suffering, and she can no longer let her sister bear it for her.
Yan Xiu threw his fancy clothes to Zhu Sijia: "Change my clothes."
Zhu Sijia had just changed Yan Xiu's clothes when the eunuch's throat-breaking voice came from outside the tent:
"The Queen Mother has arrived——"
Yan Xiu's face seemed to be shrouded by dark clouds, and he turned away with a flourish of his sleeves.
Emperor Wu had a bad relationship with his biological mother, which was clearly recorded by historians, but Zhu Sijia never thought that mother and son were at odds to such an extent.
The door curtain opened, and the Queen Mother walked in with a group of people. Yan Xing suddenly appeared in the crowd behind her.
Zhu Sijia quickly knelt on the ground and saluted. She lowered her head and sighed in her heart that Yan Xing was really good at planning.
He, the fiancé involved, had to take action in person to further substantiate her and Yan Xiu's absurd behavior.
"Your Majesty didn't go to the hunt today, but what's wrong with you?"
Empress Dowager Zhang's face was full of concern but it didn't reach her eyes. She didn't even notice anything unusual, and her eyes couldn't hide the joy of success. She simply ignored Zhu Sijia, who was bowing her head, and walked behind Yan Xiu.
Yan Xiu replied coldly: "I'm not feeling unwell. The Queen Mother is just worrying too much."
Empress Dowager Zhang showed her face and continued to ask: "That's good. Did the palace maid last night still--"
"Scarlett! Why are you here!"
A sudden male voice interrupted Queen Mother Zhang's words.
Yan Xing's eyes were about to burst when he saw Zhu Sijia, who had been kneeling on the carpet for a long time and hadn't gotten up.
Zhu Sijia raised her eyes and faced that face that was so familiar that it disgusted and frightened her. All the tears that had been prepared in advance burst into her eyes, and her voice was trembling and helpless:
"Your Majesty..."
Even though she had made countless mental preparations, the moment she saw Yan Xing again, the strong hatred and bone-gnawing pain still made her weak and unable to stop trembling.
I even had pain in my hands that I experienced before I died.
"Sijia? Are you Zhu Sijia from the Yan Palace?"
Queen Mother Zhang shuddered. Only now did she realize that the woman kneeling on the carpet was not Zhu Siyi at all! If it was Zhu Siyi, she would have run to his side and acted coquettishly as usual. It was impossible for her to kneel down and salute like this!
In addition to Queen Mother Zhang and Yan Xing in the tent, there were also the King of Xiang, Yan Wei, and several maids around the Queen Mother.
Yan Xiu felt that they were noisy. He pretended not to care and glanced at Zhu Sijia:
"Isn't she just a concubine from Prince Yan's palace? I favored her last night. What worries does the Queen Mother have?"
Empress Dowager Zhang was so furious that she almost lost her footing. Seeing the situation, Yan Wei stepped forward to help her and added:
"Your Majesty... you! You are confused! The person whom my father proposed to marry to Sixth Brother is the second Miss Zhu Scarlett!"
Yan Xing saw the opportunity and knelt on the ground, forcing out a bit of disappointment in his throat: "I beg your Majesty and the Queen Mother to make the decision for this humble minister."
Yan Xiu's face turned pale.
Zhu Sijia was impressed by how superb his acting skills were, but for a moment, he glanced at the Queen Mother, and a sinister sneer appeared on his handsome face:
"Why do I favor Miss Zhu for no reason? Doesn't the Queen Mother know better than anyone else?"
Empress Dowager Zhang was breathing rapidly and her heart was beating like a drum. She sat on the chair and remained calm:
"The Ai family clearly arranged for a palace maid named Tongfang last night, how could she become Zhu Er?"
Her eyebrows stood up, she pointed at Zhu Sijia and yelled angrily:
"It must be you! It's you who are shameless and greedy for fame and fortune. Princess Yi can no longer satisfy your appetite, and now you dare to set your sights on His Majesty! If this matter spreads, how will our reputation in Daqin exist? Come on? Man, drag this immoral bitch down and beat her to death with sticks!"
Now she just wants to get rid of Zhu Scarlett as soon as possible to avoid finding out anything that shouldn't be found out.
The two ladies in charge of Empress Dowager Zhang's palace were proficient in observing words and expressions, and immediately walked towards Zhu Sijia with eager hands.
Zhu Scarlett quickly crawled to Yan Xiu, hugged his long legs and begged for mercy loudly:
"Your Majesty! I am willing to use the lives of seventy-two people in Prince Yan's palace as a guarantee. Please investigate this matter clearly! I have no such intention, Your Majesty!"
"My daughter was too drunk at the banquet last night. A palace maid warned her not to behave inappropriately in front of the emperor and took her to a banquet to rest. I don't remember anything about what happened next."
The beauty was thin and crying, and a pair of butterfly bones on her back shook pitifully, like a withered butterfly whose life was hanging by a thread in autumn.
Interesting, good acting.
Yan Xiu secretly raised the corners of his lips.
She risked the lives of seventy-two members of her family to prove her innocence. She was acting too cruelly.
His face suddenly softened and his heart softened, and his tone of voice when speaking to Zhu Sijia was filled with unconscious softness:
"I will make the decision for you."
"Making the decision? Your Majesty, even if Second Miss Zhu is innocent, she can only keep the royal family's reputation by dying! If Princess Yi is gone, then she can choose another person to marry. Now is the autumn hunting ceremony that is rare in a century. If What happened, how can we, the Qin Dynasty, establish our power in the world?"
Empress Dowager Zhang still refused to give up.
"Is it unfair for the Queen Mother to want to execute Miss Zhu Er without any reason? Is it a waste of human life? Have you considered that it will chill the hearts of millions of subjects in the Qin Dynasty? Could it be that in the eyes of the Queen Mother and the eyes of the world, I just let it go? Are you a fool who fools others and doesn't know right from wrong?"
The emperor's wrath can range from blood splattering three feet, to a million corpses.
Yan Xiu was so arrogant that his voice resounded through the sky. Everyone inside and outside the tent, except the Queen Mother, knelt down when they saw this.
He put such a high hat on Empress Dowager Zhang, and it was obviously useless for Empress Dowager Zhang to find ways to make amends.
Yan Wei, who had been watching the fire from the other side, suddenly reminded him: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, please forgive me for being bold. Now that things have come to a point, Miss Zhu Er must be promoted to a higher rank and welcome into the palace to accompany Your Majesty."
Yan Xiu raised his eyebrows: "Old Qi, how do you say this?"
Yan Wei explained helplessly:
"Miss Zhu Er's absence from the rabbit hunting competition has spread in the camp, and just at midnight last night, rumors began to flow out that His Majesty favored the concubine of Prince Yan's palace. This morning, there were different opinions about the noble lady in the capital at the rabbit hunting competition. Yan There are a total of five concubines in the palace, and the only one absent is Zhu Er. Even the legitimate daughters of the palace appeared in the rabbit hunting competition——"
"So everyone knows that the woman who entered His Majesty's dragon tent last night was Zhu Sijia."
