"Red plum!"
Su Qingxue called her personal maid in front of her, opened her arms in front of everyone, and looked magnanimous.
"Then let's start with me." Her face was full of integrity: "Hongmei, search carefully."
"yes."
So, in front of everyone, Su Qingxue asked Hongmei to check her body thoroughly.
Although everyone admired Su Qingxue's behavior, they still refused to be searched.
They were royal daughters-in-law, married women, and no one dared to tell the truth after being searched. But the girls who are waiting for marriage will suffer. If today's incident is spread, how will they behave?
"Going back to the Queen and Concubine Hui, the sachet was not found on Princess An's body."
Concubine Hui nodded, indicating that she could continue.
So Hongmei came to Su Qingyu and said: "This slave is offended. Please open your arms, Princess Ling. This slave will conduct a routine inspection."
Everyone's eyes fell on Su Qingyu. She stood there and had no intention of letting Hongmei search her.
Hongmei frowned, dissatisfied. Since so many people were present, she did not dare to show it: "Please cooperate, Princess."
"What if I don't cooperate?"
Su Qingyu looked at Hongmei with a smile, and with her current appearance, just looking at her was quite scary.
Hongmei swallowed her saliva and silently took a step back, her face full of grievance after being embarrassed.
Su Qingyu's abnormality made Su Qingxue's eyes flash with excitement. You can imagine how excited she was.
But he still maintained a gentle and understanding look on his face: "Sister, it's just a routine checkup. Didn't I just have Hongmei check it out?"
Su Qingyu didn't say anything, she just curled her lips and looked at Su Qingxue.
Su Qingxue said sincerely: "Sister, if you are not cooperative, everyone will misunderstand me."
As for the misunderstanding, she didn't need to say anything, everyone would develop in the direction she wanted.
Su Qingyu refused to play riddles: "What's the misunderstanding?"
"Of course I misunderstood that you stole the princess's sachet!"
Seeing that Su Qingyu was uncooperative, Huo Jiao immediately suspected that she had taken the sachet.
Su Qingyu laughed: "Not to mention how outrageous your behavior of conducting a body search without permission is, you have no evidence at all, how come you think I stole your sachet?"
Huo Jiao raised her eyebrows angrily: "You weren't the one who stole the sachet, why don't you dare to search me?"
"I didn't steal your sachet, so why should I cooperate with your body search?" Su Qingyu asked without answering: "If we can't find the sachet you want from us, how can the princess punish these innocent victims?" Do the ladies and ladies involved apologize?”
Huo Jiao was immediately stunned by this question.
She was only anxious to find the sachet, and she really didn't think about how to explain it to the person who was being searched.
Seeing that something was wrong, Su Qingxue followed Su Qingyu's words and asked: "Sister, the loss of this sachet is of great importance, and it is reasonable for the princess to be anxious. Of course I believe you did not take the sachet, but in order to prove your innocence you will All I can do is cooperate with the body search."
Su Qingyu looked at Su Qingxue with a sneer. This look gave Su Qingxue a bad feeling for no reason.
"In this huge imperial garden, there was only one person who took the sachet, but you had the idea to have nearly a hundred people searched?"
Su Qingyu was not pleasing to look at and had a bad reputation. The number of people in Beijing who were willing to get close to her could be counted on one hand.
But what she just said was unanimously recognized by everyone.
Although no one dared to speak out in front of the Queen and Concubine Hui, everyone's eyes showed dissatisfaction.
Su Qingxue saw Concubine Hui giving her a silent warning from a distance. She knew in her heart that if she didn't handle this matter well today, Concubine Hui would definitely punish her heavily.
In desperation, she could no longer care about anything else: "The search was a decision made out of desperation. In order to find the sachet given to the princess by the late emperor, I am willing to risk being scolded by everyone."
"But eldest sister, no matter what, you have to get rid of suspicion before you are qualified to speak."
As she said that, Su Qingxue looked at Hongmei and saw that the other party nodded slightly towards her, so she took a strong dose of medicine.
"After all, there are a lot of dramas in this world where the thief shouts to catch the thief, isn't it?"
Huo Jiao's originally furious heart gradually calmed down. Standing next to the two sisters at this moment, I felt vaguely that something was not right, but I couldn't find anything wrong.
At this moment, a timid voice suddenly sounded from the crowd: "Perhaps Princess An's guess is right?"
Everyone followed the voice and found the woman who spoke. It was the girl from the Li family who had been discussing Prince Fu behind the scenes with everyone.
Seeing everyone looking at her, she began to regret that she had said such a thing.
Su Qingyu didn't expect that even God was helping her, and a 'witness' could come out, so she smiled kindly.
"Is this Miss Li from the Minister of Industry's family? Do you know anything? You might as well tell me."
Li Baozhen could only grit his teeth and tell the truth: "Before the two empresses came, I and you girls saw with your own eyes Princess Ling and His Highness Prince Qi talking in the pavilion. We also heard Princess Ling shouting, 'You let me Steal something'."
As soon as this statement came out, it was echoed by many people.
"I did hear it."
"Me too......"
"At first I thought it was just a joke between King Qi and Princess Ling, but now that I think about it, I don't know if there is any connection..."
After Li Baozhen finished speaking, the imperial garden was eerily quiet for a long time, with only the cicadas chirping boredly on the trees.
Su Qingxue wanted Su Qingyu to bear the crime of stealing the things given by the late emperor. It would be best if the cripple Lu Yuncheng was also punished by His Majesty. Now that King Qi is involved for no reason, it is not necessarily the case. Good thing.
The relationship between King Qi and King Ling has always been bad. Su Qingyu was crazy to steal Huo Jiao's sachet for King Qi. This relationship can be imagined by many people just by thinking about it.
Finally, it was Huo Jiao who broke the silence: "You mean, King Qi?"
Li Baozhen nodded seriously: "It's His Royal Highness King Qi."
Huo Jiao's mouth twitched, and she could only ask King Qi to come over to confront him.
For this chrysanthemum viewing feast, the Royal Garden specially used temporary chrysanthemums to block the flower viewing space for men and women. So to come from the side, just wait a little while.
But no one expected that not only King Qi, but also King An, a group of ministers and their sons would come.
Su Qingxue's heart became more and more nervous. After confirming with Hongmei's eyes again and again, she put her heart back in her stomach.
Before King Qi came, the palace maid who led the way gave a general overview of the situation on the female family members' side, so he was full of anger when he came.
Not to mention that what I wanted to do today didn't work out, and I even got into trouble.
How could he not be angry?
Of course, the tone of his words was quite harsh: "Who said that I asked Princess Ling to steal Gillian's sachet?"
