20demayo Chapter 365 This is slander
Chapter 365 This is slander
"Shot!"
A surprised voice came from behind.
Deng Rong did not dare to delay for a moment. He struggled to get up and climbed up the wall again.
The next second, another arrow struck, this time aiming at his right calf.
"what."
Deng Rong fell heavily to the ground again, grimacing in pain.
After a burst of orderly footsteps, more than twenty royal guards surrounded Deng Rong.
As the surrounding torches were lit one by one.
Deng Rong, who was shaking with pain, looked up and squinted at the person walking towards him: "Luan, Commander Luan?"
"Governor Deng, nice to meet you."
Deng Rong was startled, looked up at the royal guards surrounding him, and suddenly realized: "Are you waiting for me to fall into your trap?"
"Jiedushi Deng, you have committed the crime of deceiving the emperor by not being summoned back to the capital. It is only natural that I arrest you." Luan Fengyu sneered and waved his hand, "Take him away!"
Just when Luan Fengyu led his men to Fengyi Palace.
Someone also sent the news to Changle Palace and Shoukang Palace.
"Kneel down."
"Deng Rong?"
The emperor looked at the person brought in by Luan Fengyu, his eyes filled with disbelief: "You, why are you here?"
Deng Rong was sweating profusely from the pain and suddenly crawled towards the emperor: "Your Majesty, please save me. Commander Luan wants to kill me."
"Commander Luan has no grudge against you, why would he want to kill you?" The emperor did not believe Deng Rong's words, and was very dissatisfied with him for not recalling him to the capital, "Deng Rong, you don't take me seriously at all."
"Your Majesty, I did not lie to you. Commander Luan really wants to kill..."
"Jiedushi Deng is such a liar. If I hadn't noticed something was wrong with you long ago, I don't know how long I would have been deceived by you."
Outside, Princess Jinghe and Yuan Buwei arrived on time.
"Hello, Brother Huang."
"See the Emperor."
"Jinghe, you...what are you doing here so late?" A hint of displeasure flashed in the emperor's eyes.
"Brother, you haven't checked what happened to Qing Xiye yet, have you?" Princess Jinghe took out the memorial and handed it to the emperor. "You will know after you read it."
The emperor opened the letter in confusion. After taking a quick look, his expression changed drastically. The next second, he threw the letter hard in Deng Rong's face: "Deng Rong, you are so outrageous. Why did you attack officials on New Year's Eve? Are you crazy?"
"I am innocent. It was Princess Jinghe who framed me."
"Deng Rong, I do have a grudge against you, but it's because I have a grudge against the Queen, and you are just helping the Queen vent her anger." Princess Jinghe sneered and took a wooden box from the maid Liuli. "Brother, you must be more interested in the things here."
The emperor stared at Princess Jinghe in a daze, but the next second he couldn't wait to open it.
It's a pile of letters.
The emperor opened one letter at random, took a look at it, his face turned pale, and then he quickly opened the next one, and read seven or eight letters in total.
His face was like a dark cloud, and the atmosphere in the hall was extremely depressing.
"Queen, get out here!"
The empress, who had been hiding in the back, heard the emperor's words, covered her stomach, and walked out slowly, with a bit of fear on her face. But when she saw Deng Rong injured on the ground, a trace of worry flashed in her eyes, and she immediately knelt down: "Your Majesty, I know nothing, I was wronged."
"Unjust? Look at these letters."
The Queen was so angry that she threw all the letters in her hand in her face: "These are the letters between you and Deng Rong. Didn't you promise me that after becoming the Queen, you would never contact him again? In the end, you lied to me."
Yuan Buwei, who was standing behind Princess Jinghe, rolled her eyes when she heard this.
Sometimes, the emperor is really naive when it comes to emotions.
"I don't have it. This... must be fake. It can't be true." The queen shook her head and cried bitterly.
"Your Majesty, please make the decision for this servant."
Liuli, who was originally standing, suddenly knelt down and kowtowed several times.
The emperor narrowed his eyes and looked at Liuli who was kowtowing: "Do you look familiar?"
"Your Majesty, my real name is Yunxiang. I was originally a maidservant of the Empress. During your birthday banquet, I accidentally caught the Empress and Governor Deng having a secret meeting. I was carried to the lotus pond in the palace. They wanted to kill me to silence me. Fortunately, Princess Jinghe passed by and saved my life. From then on, I changed my name to Liuli and accompanied Princess Jinghe. I wanted to expose their affair in front of Your Majesty one day!
"Nonsense, Yunxiang has already left the palace. Where did you come from? How dare you pretend to be Yunxiang?!"
"Prince, the Crown Princess is here."
At this moment, the eunuch's announcement came from outside.
Yuan Buwei turned her head and looked at the Crown Prince and Crown Princess who walked in quickly.
As far as I can remember, this was the first time I saw two people so closely.
"I, your son (daughter-in-law), pay my respects to my father, the emperor, and to my mother, the queen, and Aunt Jinghe."
"Yier, you've come at the right time. Please tell the emperor that this palace and Governor Deng have always been innocent. How could we have a secret meeting?" Seeing her son coming, the queen immediately felt reassured.
"Father, I think there must be a misunderstanding. Queen Mother has been assisting the six palaces. After she became pregnant, she has not left the house. Governor Deng is not in the capital all year round. There is no possibility of them having a secret meeting. Even if there is, I think someone deliberately framed them." As the prince spoke, he deliberately glanced at Princess Jinghe.
Princess Jinghe sneered, "Prince, what are you looking at me for? Why, do you think that I forced the Queen to have a tryst with Jiedushi Deng by holding her head down?"
"Your Majesty, I have something else to say." Liuli raised her head and said seriously, "The Queen Mother was not sick at all. She was poisoned. The Queen gave her the poison."
One word can cause a thousand waves.
"what?"
The emperor was shocked. If the matter only concerned the queen and Deng Rong, it would be enough to investigate it thoroughly.
But now the Queen Mother is also involved.
This is not something that can be explained in just a few words.
"It's unfair. How could I possibly poison my mother?" The Queen shook her head. "Your Majesty, please trust me."
"The palace servants around the Queen Mother are all smart and capable. If we want to poison them right under their noses, the poison must not only be colorless and odorless, but also effective. The Queen has no medical skills, and no one in her family works in the Imperial Hospital. So where did the poison come from?" Princess Jinghe analyzed, and her eyes fell on Deng Rong's face. She suddenly realized, "Could it be that Jiedushi Deng gave it to him?"
"Slander, Your Majesty, this is slander." Deng Rong shouted, "I beg Your Majesty to investigate and clear my name."
"Deng Rong, it seems that you won't cry until you see the coffin, so I will let you die knowingly." Princess Jinghe sneered, "Court Judge, why don't you come in?"
The queen's body stiffened. She turned her head and looked at the judge who came in. The blood color on her face disappeared instantly.