Ru Yan was led in by the eunuch, and when Shen Dingzhu looked at her figure, she actually looked more plump and noble than the last time he saw her in the Zhao Mansion.
Although the clothes are still the rules of a maid, but for some reason, there is something different in the lowered eyebrows.
"See Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, His Royal Highness Prince Ning." Ru Yan saluted.
The chief eunuch spoke directly on behalf of the emperor: "What do you want to testify against the criminal Zhao Yuyuan? Report it quickly!"
Ru Yan lowered her head and said, "This slave wants to expose the second young lady. For her own personal affair, she forces the cousin to seduce King Xuan for her."
Zhao Yuyuan's eyes were about to burst. If the guards hadn't held her down, she would have rushed forward and tore Ruyan's mouth off.
"Nonsense, you are serving my mother, when will you know about me? You bastard!"
Fu Yunqiu followed calmly: "Your Majesty, I think Ru Yan may be lying. She is a maid of the Zhao family. Why would she suddenly become a witness and frame her master's family?"
The emperor nodded slightly, with a gloomy and serious look on his face: "That's true. You, a little maid, have harmed the master's family. What good will it do to you? Or maybe you have other friendships with others."
His majestic eyes instantly glanced at Xiao Langyan.
He has always been disgusted with this son because he has shown different abilities from other sons since he was a child.
But the more this happened, the more the emperor wanted to suppress him. Xiao Langyan's temperament was too high. If he didn't suppress him, sooner or later, he would get in front of his father.
Fortunately, personal relationships between men and women have always been Xiao Langyan's drawback!
Shen Dingzhu frowned slightly, feeling that the timing of Ruyan's appearance was not clever enough.
As a maid, she wanted to overthrow Zhao Yuyuan with just a few words, which was a wishful thinking.
However, Ruyan suddenly took out two crumpled pieces of letter paper from her sleeves.
"Your Majesty, please take a look at these two letters. They are waste manuscripts written by the Second Young Lady. Their love for His Highness Prince Xuan is beyond words. You can tell at a glance."
"You can also use your life as a guarantee. These are all written by the second lady. If the emperor wants to identify the handwriting, you can send someone to the Zhao Mansion to get the second lady's calligraphy."
Ru Yan blocked all the roads, and Zhao Yuyuan watched helplessly as the eunuch presented the two letters that she did not dare to send to the emperor with both hands.
"No...it won't..." How could Ruyan get the letter she wrote?
After she wrote it, she obviously felt that her words were bold and bold, and she was afraid that King Xuan would not like it, so she let her maid handle it.
Where did Ruyan find it?
The emperor glanced calmly, then became furious and threw the letter on the ground: "Shameless!"
Zhao Yuyuan's face turned pale immediately. This was the evidence she left in her own handwriting, and there was no excuse for it.
Therefore, his body trembled: "Your Majesty, have mercy on me. I just admire you, but I didn't force Shen Dingzhu to help me seduce His Highness Prince Xuan."
Believably, she wrote all her plans into it because she was afraid that King Xuan would fall in love with Shen Dingzhu's character.
Therefore, she confessed that it was because she was embarrassed that she entrusted Shen Dingzhu to go.
She never expected that these emotions belonging to the youngest daughter's family would turn into a sharp knife piercing her heart today!
When Zhao Yuyuan thought of this, her mind went blank and she cried uncontrollably and begged for mercy.
The prince angrily pointed out: "Stop her mouth, she is so noisy that she is upset!"
After a while, Zhao Yuyuan was gagged, and Shen Dingzhu could only hear muffled crying.
The emperor looked at Ruyan again: "You haven't answered me yet, why did you betray your master's family? Did anyone instruct you to do this?"
Ruyan shed two lines of clear tears and pulled up her sleeves, revealing her two scarred arms.
"Your Majesty, if it weren't for the fact that I couldn't bear the abuse and beatings of the Second Young Lady, I wouldn't have betrayed my master."
Zhao Yuyuan's eyes widened and he kept roaring, as if he wanted to defend himself, but it was all in vain.
Ruyan lowered her head and said: "This slave will serve as a second-class maid beside Madam, but she is not allowed to be reused. The lady has a pampered personality, but she has to show her magnanimity outside for fear of breaking the rules."
"So every time the young lady comes back to the house, the madam asks her to vent her anger on the slave and others. The slave really can't stand it anymore." She sobbed and wiped away tears, which was really pitiful.
Zhao Yuyuan's face was red, her eyes were bloodshot, and she stared at Ruyan.
The prince could no longer bear it. The thought of being seduced by such a beautiful woman made him feel sick to his stomach.
He stood up suddenly and raised his hands to the emperor: "Father, Zhao Yuyuan's behavior is bad, and his thoughts are even more vicious. Death is not enough to calm the anger in my heart!"
The emperor nodded, his eyes gloomy: "You are so audacious, and you disobey the female patrol, you are shameless! Someone, tell me my decree, put the criminal Zhao Yuyuan in prison, and kill him in three days."
Zhao Yuyuan's cry came out muffled from her throat. The veins on her forehead tensed up anxiously, and she looked at Shen Dingzhu reluctantly.
As for Shen Dingzhu, her head was lowered from beginning to end, her long and curly eyelashes were drooped, and her pretty shadow looked even thinner and innocent.
The moment the veil was taken off, Zhao Yuyuan was already dragged to the entrance of the hall.
Her expression was close to crazy and ferocious, and she yelled at Shen Dingzhu's back: "Shen Dingzhu, you don't dare let people know that the banditry at last year's Lantern Festival was actually related to you!"
This sentence suddenly made the emperor's eyes darken: "Wait!"
The Imperial Guards dragging Zhao Yuyuan suddenly stopped.
Xiao Langyan glanced at Shen Dingzhu out of the corner of his eye and saw that although her head was lowered, her pretty face was bloodless and her lips were tightly pursed.
Seeing that there was hope for dragging Shen Dingzhu into the water, Zhao Yuyuan said even louder: "Your Majesty, last year during the Lantern Festival, Shen Dingzhu was soaked all over and secretly came back through the back door. I saw it with my own eyes! As long as you torture her severely, you are not afraid that she will not do anything."
Last year's Lantern Festival caused quite a stir.
Although it was a holiday that day, we didn't expect that a vicious gang of bandits would sneak into the capital in disguise.
When the fireworks exploded that night, they used knives to burn, kill, and loot. It was a bloody crime.
There was even a third-grade official who died tragically on the spot. The bandits actually escaped afterwards. They managed to catch a few of them, but they were very violent and immediately committed suicide by biting their tongues.
The emperor suspected that these people were not ordinary bandits, so he ordered a strict investigation!
Finally, they discovered that the bandits swam directly out of the moat along the waterway that day, which was why they successfully escaped.
Adding up all kinds of deeds, Shen Dingzhu becomes suspicious.
Zhao Yuyuan is a dying person, so he must be so angry that he dares to say anything.
However, it was true that Shen Dingzhu returned home secretly. The emperor asked in a deep voice: "Ms. Shen, is what Zhao Yuyuan said true?"
Shen Dingzhu lowered his head: "Concubine..."
Before she could finish speaking, the emperor had already asked coldly again: "You must think carefully before answering, otherwise, I will have to ask your parents in Mobei to answer for you!"
These words were said with calm sternness, causing a layer of cold sweat to break out on Shen Dingzhu's back.
She took a deep breath, and her beautiful eyes showed a firm black color: "I can tell you, but I can only tell the emperor."
