Situ Jian probably expected that Situ Ce would say this, so he turned to look at Yun Shen and said with a smile: "Xiangu, please tell me why the prince invited you here."
Yun Shen knelt on the ground, his voice trembling with fear, "The prince said that the color of the birthmark has faded, and asked Pindao to come and touch up the color for him. Xiaodao is waiting outside the door, Your Majesty, you are here... Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please forgive me." !”
"Yun Shen, how many benefits have they given you, and you want to frame me like this." Situ Ce looked at Yun Shen coldly and couldn't help coughing twice, "It's not too late for you to tell the truth in front of His Majesty."
"Your Majesty, what I am telling the truth is true!" Yun Shen cried, unable to stand in disbelief.
Emperor Yuan He glanced at Yun Shen coldly, stood up and walked towards Situ Ce.
"Father..." Situ Ce looked at Emperor Yuan He in disbelief, "These are all her one-sided words, Father..."
"Your Majesty -" Cheng Shehe hurriedly stepped forward and knelt in front of Emperor Yuan He, "Your Majesty, the prince became a monk for you when he was less than a month old, and he went through eight years of hardships outside. Now this happened out of the blue, someone must have wanted to To frame the prince, Your Majesty, all those people from back then should be arrested and interrogated one by one. You cannot just listen to Yun Shen's words, Your Majesty!"
"Get out of the way!" Emperor Yuan He said coldly.
"Your Majesty—" Cheng Hehe looked at Emperor Yuan He and tears fell unexpectedly.
"Hehe, get out of the way." Situ Ce called softly.
Cheng Hehe took a deep breath, his tears were like broken beads, but he could only let them go.
Emperor Yuan He stepped forward, grabbed Situ Ce's collar, and pulled it open to see that the red birthmark was still there, but a little lighter.
"Tell me, are you true or false?" Emperor Yuan He looked at Situ Ce, with murderous intent gradually rising in his eyes.
Situ Ce smiled bitterly, "Since my son returned to the palace, the rumors about the real and fake prince have never stopped, and you have never believed it, Aye. I didn't believe it in the past, but I believe it today. My son said that I am real. You still have to believe it?" Do you believe it?"
"I believe it, but Yun Shen took care of your mother and son back then, so I have to believe her words." Emperor Yuan He let go of Situ Ce's collar, "One of you must be lying."
"Yun Shen was not summoned by his son, and his son doesn't understand why Aye is coming, and Yun Shen is waiting for him." Situ Ce looked at Emperor Yuan He with firm eyes, "Father, I don't think there is anything fishy in this. ?"
"Who summoned Yun Shen? Even if the prince doesn't admit it, there must always be someone to send the message, otherwise Immortal Yun Shen won't be able to come just as she says." Situ Jian sneered from the side.
"According to what King Jin said, who is this messenger?" Situ Ce turned to look at Situ Jian and said coldly, "I also want to get to know him."
"Second brother really doesn't shed tears until he sees the coffin." Situ Jian sneered, "Fu Sigui, tell me, who asked Yun Shen to come and touch up the crown prince's birthmark?"
Fu Qingchu glanced at Situ Ce, his eyes full of ridicule, and walked forward and knelt in front of Emperor Yuanhe, "Your Majesty, the Crown Prince has indeed asked me to send a message to invite Immortal Yun Shen to come down the mountain."
Hearing this, everyone present was shocked. Emperor Yuan He looked at Fu Qingchu closely, with uncontrollable anger in his eyes.
"Bitch maid——"
Emperor Yuan He slapped Fu Qingchu so hard that Fu Qingchu's ears rang, and blood immediately oozed from the corners of his mouth. "Come here, drag this bastard down and kill her with a cane!"
"Your Majesty!" Situ Jian hurriedly stepped forward and knelt in front of Situ Ce, "The matter has not been investigated yet, why should she be executed?"
"Can't you see it yet?" Emperor Yuan He was furious, "This bastard must have believed the rumors in the palace, and in order to take revenge on the prince, she conspired with Yun Shen to frame the prince!"
"Come here, pull Yun Shen and this bitch down and kill them immediately!"
When Fu Qingchu heard this, his heart was shocked. He turned to look at Situ Ce and then at Situ Jian. People say that a tiger's poison cannot eat its seeds. Fu Qingchu could not understand this sentence before, but he understands it now.
In fact, Emperor Yuan He had long understood that this was a conspiracy. A conspiracy planned by Situ Jian, but he didn't want to see their brothers fighting each other, so he had to sacrifice her and Yun Shen. As long as he was convicted and Yun Shen died, no one would make a fuss about Situ Ce's identity in the future.
He not only cleared up the rumors for Situ Ce, but also protected Situ Jian. What a good father.
However, she didn't achieve her goal, so how could she die so mysteriously? Her family's revenge was not avenged, and her enemies were still at large. She couldn't just die like this.
"Prince Jin, save me!" She looked at Situ Jian with tears in her eyes, "If Yun Shen and I die, this fake will really steal the country from now on!"
"Fu Qingchu! You are so stubborn when you are about to die!" Cheng Hehe scolded, "I didn't expect you to be such a ruthless person!"
Fu Qingchu glanced at Cheng Hehe, then looked at Situ Jian, and shouted eagerly: "Your Highness!"
Situ Jian panicked, took a deep breath, and bowed his head: "Your Majesty - Yun Shen was not the only one who knew about this back then!"
Emperor Yuan He frowned slightly, feeling a little unsure, "Who else?"
"Lantian County Magistrate, Zhang Yu."
Hearing this, Fu Qingchu and Situ Ce were shocked.
Fu Qingchu never expected that person would be Zhang Yu! Does he really not want to live?
"What's going on?" Emperor Yuan He asked with a frown.
"As far as I know, Zhang Yu is now in Chang'an City. Your Majesty will know after you send someone to announce him."
Emperor Yuan He turned around and returned to his seat, thought for a moment and said, "Xuan."
Fu Qingchu was still kneeling on the ground. Cheng Hehe brought hot tea to Situ Ce. He took a sip, his expression softened, and he whispered something to Cheng Hehe so that she could not hear it.
Cheng Hehe, on the other hand, glared at Fu Qingchu so hard that he wanted to peel her skin off and convulse her when she met Fu Qingchu's eyes. Fu Qingchu secretly smiled, it was Cheng Shehe who was doing well.
After a while, Zhang Yu arrived in a hurry. As soon as he arrived at the door, he bowed his head and bowed: "Your Majesty, Zhang Yu, I wish you all the best."
"Come forward and answer." Emperor Yuanhe's chamberlain said.
Zhang Yu hurriedly climbed forward and said hello again.
Emperor Yuan He suppressed the displeasure in his heart and asked in a deep voice: "Do you know the man on the left?"
"know."
"who is it?"
"It's the prince."
Emperor Yuan He snorted coldly, "Have you looked carefully?"
"During the prince's wedding, I met him once in the street and I will never admit his mistake." Zhang Yu said cautiously.
"I'm afraid it's not just this time, right? During the scientific examination, you took the prince's recommendation letter and just approved the imperial examination. You went to a wealthy county like Lantian to be the county magistrate. Is it really only once?" Situ Jian asked with a sneer.
"I...I know the crime." Zhang Yu said nervously.
"Zhang Yu, Your Majesty knows everything now. You'd better tell everything you know about the prince, otherwise he will not be lenient."
Hearing this, Zhang Yu shouted for mercy several times, and then said tremblingly: "Back then, my nephew spent some money to become a monk in Qingyunduan and was lucky enough to get to know the prince. Later, my nephew contracted malaria and was taken to his home for treatment. A few days later, the prince also suffered from the disease, and Queen Mingde came to ask for help. The brother invited a doctor and tried his best to cure the prince. However, the prince was weak and could not survive the illness. Queen Mingde was heartbroken and was afraid that the Holy Emperor would blame him, so she Discuss with my brother and exchange the nephew with the prince, and announce to the outside world that the nephew is dead."
"Is there any evidence?" Emperor Yuanhe asked gloomily.
"My nephew has a black mole on his left wrist. In order to hide it from others, they burned the mole off. If your majesty doesn't believe it, you can check whether there is such a scar on the prince's wrist."
Emperor Yuan He glanced at the chamberlain. The chamberlain immediately stepped forward and looked at Situ Ce's wrist. There was indeed such a scar.
"Prince, what do you have to say?" Emperor Yuan He turned to look at Situ Ce, and his eyes became sharp.
Situ Ce stood up from his seat, knelt down, and said in a deep voice: "This scar was accidentally burned when the child was offering incense for Zhang Jin after his death. Your Majesty also knows about the incident between the child and the Zhang family. As for Zhang Yu It was true that the child was promoted, and it was also to repay the kindness of the Zhang family.
"But after he became the magistrate of Lantian County, the common people were taxed and levied excessively. A few days ago, Ha'er reprimanded him for illegally annexing people's land and ordered him to find out the situation of the land annexation. Unexpectedly, he actually harbored a grudge and framed Ha'er like this today! "
"Your Majesty, I have been wronged. I was deceived by lard before, and I have already committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. How can I dare to deceive the emperor now? There is no benefit to me in framing the prince like this!" Zhang Yu said again Jishou bows.
"Your Majesty, in my opinion, both Zhang Yu and Yun Shen are two-faced people who cannot tell the truth without being tortured." Cheng An stepped forward and said, "Why don't we hand them over to Dali Temple and torture them severely. "
"Your Majesty, spare your life, Your Majesty, spare your life. Everything I said is true!" Zhang Yu and Yun Shen kowtow like garlic.
"Your Majesty, with all the witnesses and material evidence, everything is clear." Situ Jian stepped forward and knelt in front of Emperor Yuanhe, "I have a confession of my eldest brother here, which was interrogated by the prince and was not handed over to your majesty. "
The chamberlain hurriedly presented the confession to Emperor Yuan He. When Emperor Yuan He saw it, his face darkened little by little, and he crumpled it into a ball and threw it on Situ Ce's face, "Take a good look at it yourself!"
Situ Ce glanced at the paper ball but did not pick it up. In order to prevent Emperor Yuan He from becoming suspicious, he did not report Situ Li's suspicion of his identity. Unexpectedly, he handed Situ Jian a knife.
"What do you have to say?" Emperor Yuan He looked at him sharply.
"My son, I have nothing to say!" Situ Ce said in a deep voice.
"You are not my son!" Emperor Yuanhe said angrily.
Situ Ce looked up at Emperor Yuan He, and suddenly felt that he had become ferocious and strange. And maybe it was because of that dream, but at this moment, he was not disappointed at all.
"Li Ping!" he shouted loudly.
Li Ping hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Your Highness."
"Bring everyone here."
Hearing this, Situ Jian couldn't help but frown. Even Fu Qingchu was a little surprised. Who else?
Li Ping walked to the door, waved to the door, and saw several eunuchs escorting two eunuchs and two maids in. The four came in and knelt down in front of Emperor Yuan He.
Situ Ce turned to look at them and said coldly: "Who are you? Who sent you to the East Palace? What are you doing here?"
