Rebirth of the Phoenix Princess novel Chapter 552

"She sneaked into the palace with the Hanshi Drug and planned to murder the emperor and the son of the former crown prince. Lady Rui, do you plead a crime?" Said Xia Huanyu lightly and slowly to her.

Yun Shang looked up at Xia Huanyu and asked, "what crime? Your majesty, is there any evidence to prove that I did it?"

Hearing this, Xia Huanyu turned to look at the empress. "Did the empress just say that you already have proof? Show Lady Rui the evidences."

The empress nodded her head. She looked at Yun Shang, who was half kneeling in the palace, with a cold sneer in her eyes, and said, "I have the evidences, and so does the witness." The empress clapped her hands, and the door of the meeting hall was opened again. Yun Shang turned around and saw several people walking in. Three of them were the ladies in the imperial household, whom she had met in the Xiang Zhu Palace before. Judging from their clothes, Yun Shang assumed that there are two of them who were ordinary people. She narrowed her eyes and assumed that they must be someone in the pharmacy of the Jin city. But she didn't know what they were doing.

The empress said coldly, "you admitted in front of other ladies that you brought the poison into the palace for Yun Xi. I think you have no objection. Lady Yu, Miss Wang, and Miss Liu can all testify."

Yun Shang raised her eyebrows at her words. She had no objection to the empress' decision. But she was afraid that only the empress and herself knew what had really happened when it came to bringing the drug into the palace.

The empress glanced at Yun Shang, and then pointed at the three persons in the middle. "This afternoon, I had sent someone to take your picture to the pharmacy of the Jin city. This is the shop assistant of the Zi Yan Pharmacy in the Yan Yu Alley. According to him, they have seen you three days ago, but because you are dressed in men's clothes instead of women's clothes, your appearance is too outstanding, so they have no choice but to look at you. They remembered them clearly. The prescription you gave me contains five ingredients to make the Hanshi Drug. " Then she handed a piece of paper to Liu Wenan, who was standing aside. She gestured him to take it to Yun Shang for her to have a look.

"This is your prescription sent to the Zi Yan Pharmacy. Have a look. Is this your handwriting?" The empress' gaze grew colder and colder.

Yun Shang took a closer look at the handwriting. It was almost the same as hers. Yun Shang smiled but said nothing about it.

The empress then pointed at the last three servants and said, "these three servants are the servants of the Wei Yang Palace. A few days ago, when the son of the former crown prince entered the palace, I asked them to serve him. Actually, it should be four people. There is a maid named Yan Yu and you should be familiar with her. Today, after the boy had an accident, you were found out and sent to prison. The maid named Yan Yu committed suicide in fear. The guards found these things in her room. Do them look familiar to you, Lady Rui?"

Liu Wenan took the things over and handed them to Yun Shang. Yun Shang straightened herself. She reached out her hand to touch the things on the plate, but her lips curled into a smile. She once wore the earrings of the Qianshui Pavilion, although she remembered clearly what she had seen in the make-up box in her room this morning. It was a piece of paper beside the ear drop. Yun Shang unfolded it and had a look at it. A small smile appeared on her face.

"Your majesty and her majesty do know that neither of the items on the plate has anything to do with me. This pair of earrings belongs to Qianshui Pavilion, and we can buy them with silver coins. I did have one, but it's not this pair. My ear drops are still in the mansion of Prince Rui. We can ask the shopkeeper of the Qianshui pavilion to come here and confirm it. But this piece of paper... " Yun Shang lifted her eyes to look at the empress, "are you sure that I have something to do with it, your majesty?"

The empress snorted coldly, "these are your handwriting. Of course they are yours."

"Really?" Yun Shang smiled, "although I didn't write that prescription, it was kind of similar to my handwriting. It could be said that it belonged to me. But this one's handwriting is opposite to my handwriting. It's too hard for anyone to insist that my handwriting is written on this paper."

Hearing that, Xia Huanyu raised his eyebrows and said to Liu Wenan "give me the paper and let's have a look."

Liu Wenan quickly presented the paper in front of Xia Huanyu. Yun Shang continued, "I don't know the handwriting, but it says the same thing as before: add the Hanshi Drug into the medicine delivered by Lady Rui every day. I have no idea what the paper means. There is no Hanshi Drug in the medicine I have sent into the palace. Someone instigated a person to add it in the medicine."

Hearing this, a look of astonishment flashed across the empress's eyes. With a look of astonishment on her face, she turned her head to look at the paper in the hand of Xia Huanyu. She mumbled, "how could that be?" When she saw the handwriting on the paper, she was stunned again. "The handwriting..."

Xia Huanyu folded the paper and put it on the plate in Liu Wenan's hand. He said flatly, "it's lady Shu's."

Yun Shang looked up, "really? Why would lady Shu write this note to the servant of the Ruxin clan? And deliberately framed me... " Then she continued after a pause, "besides, I felt something strange when I was in Lady Shu's Palace this morning. Lady Shu told me that she had lost her consciousness, but Mr. Liu, who was standing next to the wall, didn't even notice it. As far as I know, Mr. Liu is a man of Kung Fu, and his hearing is more sensitive than others. His majesty is in Shu Ya palace, which is protected by many hidden guards. Who can it be? How could someone sneak into lady Shu's palace in this way? That's unbelievable."

The empress bit her teeth and looked up at Yun Shang. "Don't beat around the bush. Then tell me why was there someone identified in the pharmacy that you had bought the materials to make the Hanshi Drug?"

Yun Shang saw that the three servants hesitated when they were about to write, so she waited for a long time and asked, "Did i bring my maids with me on that day? Who did I bring with me? A servant girl or a servant boy? And who did I bring with me?"

When the three girls stopped writing, Yun Shang turned around and bowed to Xia Huanyu, "I'm done with my questions."

Xia Huanyu nodded his head. The maid put away the three pieces of paper and presented them in front of him. he looked through them one by one. After a long while, he said, "they gave the same answers to each other in the hour. Except for their first answers, the rest answers are different." Yun Shang smiled: "Your Majesty, the three of them must have made up their mind. They were bribed to slander me. If they don't remember the color of my clothes, what's wrong with my medicines? And I don't remember the materials of the Hanshi Drug in the prescription? I bet they don't even know what the Hanshi Drug is made of."

Keeping silent for a while, Xia Huanyu said, "take the three of them away and interrogate them. Find out who let them smear lady rui."

The three were hurriedly excused, but were dragged down by the guards. Yun Shang meditated for a moment before she said, "since the confession of the pharmacy is fake, and the paper found in the maid's room that I sent the drug and not the Hanshi Drug into the palace, but for someone instigated a person to do so, my crime cannot be convicted. I'd like to ask for your help, your majesty."

Xia Huanyu frowned and asked, "about this piece of paper?"

Yun Shang shook her head. "This is just one of the two things. The other is that when I was locked up in prison just now, a guard pretended to be the emperor and said that the emperor had brought me a quilt. I believed in him and rested on the bedding. But unexpectedly, the bedding was tampered with, and there were thirty or forty leeches hidden inside. And there was also someone who added incense in my room when I was asleep. If I hadn't noticed something wrong, I would have fallen asleep on the quilt made with all the leeches in it. When I was deep in sleep, those leeches would climb into my body. They will eat my blood and I will die soon."

Yun Shang glanced at the empress and saw her sitting on the chair with a calm expression. But Yun Shang noticed that her lips were slightly pale. "I pretended I didn't hear anything. The guards who summoned me left the prison. The man immediately found an excuse and went back to the prison to check. I and other guards caught him. They are afraid that I might have seen through their plot and try to frame me. Your majesty, please uphold justice for me." Yun Shang added.

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Translator: HCIO