Zhu Sijia quickly changed the topic:
"Your Majesty, I'm still sleepy, so I won't waste the sisters' time. It's hot in the summer, so let them finish their greetings and go back as soon as possible."
Du Xian gloated and stuck out his tongue.
The harem is nothing more than trivial matters. What kind of trees do you want to plant in this palace, what materials do you want to make, what clothes do you want to wear in that palace, how much do you want to spend, and how much is the budget? All these things make Yan Xiu tired of listening to them. .
I don’t know how Zhu Sijia usually gets through it.
Until everyone had nothing to say and was about to leave, Yan Xiu raised his eyelids and looked calmly at Fang Xinyue, who was sitting at the end.
Zhang Wanyao also looked at her.
Fang Xinyue stepped forward and knelt on her knees: "I still have something to report."
Zhu Sijia: "Fang Shunchang just says it doesn't matter."
Fang Xinyue: "I want to report that Zhang Chongyi tortured and killed the palace maid and dumped her body at the bottom of the lake!"
Everyone in the hall started talking, and Zhang Wanyao even stood up with an eyebrow raised, pointing at Fang Xinyue and yelling:
"Fang Xinyue, you, a little Shunchang, dare to publicly slander me! Do you know that you are committing the crime of deceiving the emperor?"
Zhang Wanyao's face was extremely ugly. Before coming to Changle Palace today to pay her respects, didn't Fang Xinyue weepingly agree to take the blame for her? Why are you going back on your word now!
Fang Xinyue was hurt by Zhang Wanyao and cried so hard that she crawled to Zhu Sijia's feet:
"Your Majesty, Empress Zhaoyi, everything I said is true. Please make the decision for me."
Zhu Sijia touched her shoulder to comfort her: "Don't worry, I have the ability to distinguish myself. Zhang Chongyi, how can you be so rude in front of His Majesty? Sit down for me!"
Looking back at Yan Xiu, he still had a faceless expression, staring coldly at everything in the palace, as if it had nothing to do with him.
The moody emperor is certainly intimidating, but Yan Xiu, who is indifferent and careless in everything, makes people feel like they are in an ice cave.
Zhang Wanyao stared at Fang Xinyue, her beautiful eyes so excited and restrained that they turned red with blood.
Yang Bixue, who was originally sitting next to her, heard about her murder and silently moved his chair to the upper position.
Fang Xinyue's emotions were calmed down by Zhu Sijia and others, and then she slowly told the story of being threatened by the Zhang family to take the blame for Zhang Wanyao.
But when she heard about Fang's father and Fang's mother, she turned into a loving father and mother who was eager to protect her daughter and did not want to join in the trouble with her relatives.
Fang Xinyue squeezed her handkerchief and cried: "This matter is of great importance. I and the Fang family know that people speak lightly, but they dare not easily slander the reputation of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and I do not dare to deceive His Majesty. After thinking about it, I think that even if I I will tell the harem the truth even if I die."
Yan Xiu: "I will summon your father, and let Zhaoyi deal with the death of Miss Duan first."
Fang Xinyue asked the palace maid to call someone to witness.
When Zhang Wanyao saw the group of miscellaneous maids, she was so frightened that she became unsteady and almost fell off her chair.
How could Fang Xinyue, a helpless little Shunchang, be able to find so accurately the palace ladies whom she had punished to kneel? Only now did she understand that there must be someone helping Fang Xinyue!
She looked desperately at Zhu Sijia, then at Yan Xiu, and at the person in the palace whose mother's family had a powerful seat in the harem.
Who came to help?
Without leaving much time for Zhang Wanyao to breathe, the maids knelt on the ground and cried:
"Your Majesty, my empress, last winter, the slaves were summoned to Weiyang Palace by the beauty Zhang Chongyi. Also there was Miss Duan from the Shangyi Bureau."
"Zhang Chongyi said at that time, who told us to look like Zhu Zhaoyi? Your Majesty looked at us too many times, which made her tired."
Yan Xiu: "Is this the reason why she punished you by kneeling down?"
He didn't see any resemblance between these palace maids and Zhu Sijia. What's more, wasn't it normal for him to look more at whom and less at others?
Little Palace Maid: "At that time, Miss Duan was kneeling next to the slave girl. When she entered the Weiyang Palace, she expressed that she was not feeling well, but Zhang Chengyi did not let her go. Instead, he ordered his aunt to hold her down and kneel down. Until Miss Duan fainted and collapsed. I lost my breath in my slave's arms..."
"Afterwards, Zhang Chongyi strictly checked the household registration status of the slaves and others, and asked the slaves and others to guard against this matter, otherwise their families would be ruined."
Seeing that the matter was revealed, Zhang Wanyao could no longer hide it. She knelt in front of Yan Xiu and held his knees to admit her mistake:
"Your Majesty! I was obsessed for a moment and made such a big mistake. I am not your Majesty with the best intentions!"
"I have been in love with you since I was a child, and I wanted to marry you into the palace and be by your side. But on this day, I can't even see you! I was so jealous that I vented my anger. As for the palace maids, I just wanted to teach them a lesson and had no intention of harming anyone."
Yan Xiu brushed her hand away and wiped his knees subconsciously, which hurt Zhang Wanyao's heart even more.
"I have long heard that Zhang Chongyi was domineering when he was in the Prime Minister's Mansion." Yan Xiu supported his head with one hand and looked at her sideways, "I will never forgive Prime Minister Zhang for his incompetent teachings. You know that according to the laws of the Qin Dynasty, powerful people use their power to dominate. What crime should a person commit if he causes people to die?"
"And as a concubine in the harem, you ignored Qin's laws and blatantly killed people in the harem. You also tried to frame Yu Changshi. You will not be able to escape the death penalty."
Hearing the words "Death penalty is inevitable", Zhang Wanyao felt dizzy and tinnitus, unable to hear any sound. The tall figure of Yan Xiu overlapped in her eyes.
Yan Xiu said: "But because I think of the achievements of Prime Minister Zhang and the Zhang family, I can spare you from death. Zhaoyi made a decree and immediately deposed the Zhang family as a commoner, with a fifty-fifty rod and banished to the cold palace."
"Yu Chang made the innocent suffer injustice, lifted the ban, and was promoted to a beauty."
"Fang Shunchang is not afraid of force and is a good man."
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Du Xian and Zhenzhen walked out of Changle Palace side by side.
Zhenzhen patted her chest, shocked:
"The Great Qin Palace is several times more terrifying than our Beiliang Palace. The women of my father are not as troublesome as you Great Qin women. They harm people in an honest and upright manner."
Du Xian was used to seeing strong winds and waves, but today's scene also left her with lingering fears. She couldn't bear to hear the sound of Zhang Wanyao being executed, and said to herself curiously:
"I didn't expect that His Majesty would impose such a severe punishment. Although Your Majesty has always been committed to governing according to law, the Zhang family... thought that being banished to the cold palace was not enough, and they even had to be punished with fifty canes."
Even the men in the army with rough skin and thick flesh could not withstand such a beating, let alone Zhang Wanyao with thin skin and tender flesh?
The only possibility is that when the time comes, Yan Xiu is no longer afraid of the Zhang family.
Zhenzhen whispered: "I also think the punishment is too severe. Isn't it just beating a slave to death? In our Beiliang, the weak are not qualified to be protected by the strong."
Yan Xiu was indeed a notorious tyrant.
Du Xian covered her mouth: "Shhh - this is not a question of whether it is serious or not, this is the foundation of our country in Da Qin. Da Qin is not like you grassland people who pay attention to the law of the jungle and the strong. In our country, the emperor's crimes are the same as those of the common people."
Yan Xiu in Changle Palace sneezed several times in succession.
Zhu Scarlett took off his coat for him: "Are you cold? I'll put your clothes on for you."
Yan Xiu held her wrist: "Cicada, do you think my punishment will be severe?"
After all, Zhang Wanyao is a weak woman.
Zhu Sijia shook her head: "Those who do evil should not be divided into men, women, old and young. They deserve what they deserve. If there are no laws and regulations, wouldn't the world be in chaos?"
