Pei Yuanhao looked at me with a burning look: "The imperial concubine's testimony just now, Yue Qingying, do you admit your guilt?"

“…”

I didn't say anything, but just stood there, with a strange silence, the palm of my hand holding me was already sweating. The skin that was close to me was trembling slightly, and the caressed it was hot.

Qinghan's chest was constantly rising and falling violently, as if he couldn't bear the violent beating of the heart in his chest.

Every heartbeat is accompanied by my heartbeat.

I didn't speak, and the atmosphere slowly sank. No one in the entire hall was talking, and everyone was waiting for me to speak. At this moment, although there were so many beauties in the harem of civil and military officials in the hall, there was no sound at all. Only the whistling sound of wind came from outside the closed door.

It turned out that when it started, there was already strong wind outside, and the door was blowing loudly.

Sure enough, the weather has changed.

Is this a sign of heaven?

Pei Yuanhao spoke again and said word by word: "Yue Qingying."

“…”

"Can you confess?"

“…”

His voice was obviously not loud, but in this tall and quiet hall, it echoed, as if it hit the hearts of a person, deafening.

At this time, another gust of wind was blowing, and the tall vermilion door was shaking, but this time I heard it vaguely, as if it was not just the sound of the wind, but someone knocking outside.

Everyone turned around and looked at the door.

Pei Yuanhao frowned slightly, waved his hand, and Eunuch Yu immediately took the people over to open the door.

As soon as the door opened, a strong wind blew up, rolling up the cold temperature, which made the people in the hall tremble for a moment. Then it turned out that it was already snowing outside!

This is the first heavy snow this winter.

The heavy snow fell from the sky, and the roofs of the palace in the distance had accumulated, as if a layer of frost was spread on the entire imperial city.

The person standing at the gate also had a lot of snow on his head and shoulders, and he was a little clear, like a beauty carved from ice and snow.

As soon as he saw her, all the civil and military officials immediately stood up: "Your Highness, Princess!"

Yes, Pei Yuanzhen.

As soon as I saw her, an indescribable feeling immediately surged in my heart. I felt that the hand holding me was a little tight. Pei Yuanzhen was wearing a bright red cloak. The bright colors made her eyes look like varnish and her lips were red. She took off her hat and walked in with a smile: "It's so lively here."

When Pei Yuanhao saw her, his face showed an unexpected look, but he quickly calmed down and smiled and said, "My sister is here too."

"The emperor's brother is partial to him. He has no share of a minister to entertain so many people."

"Haha, in such a cold weather, I'm worried that I won't be invited."

"How could it be?"

Pei Yuanzhen walked in with a smile, and the door was closed immediately. As she walked along the way, a lot of snow foam fell, causing a chill. When she walked in front of us, she stopped and turned to look at us: "Sir Fu is here too."

"The eldest princess is polite."

Pei Yuanzhen smiled, but I could see that there was no smile in her eyes, and she didn't actually look at Fu Badai.

In her eyes, there was only one person from the beginning of entering the door.

I subconsciously grabbed the hand even tighter.

And she seemed to feel something, Rushui's eyes turned to me. Perhaps because she came from the snow and ice, her eyes also had a chill, which made me tremble in my heart. Then she saw her smile slightly, turned her head to look at Pei Yuanhao in the hall, and said, "What are you doing with such a big show of the emperor?"

Pei Yuanhao smiled faintly: "Try a case."

"Oh, the case is tried." Pei Yuanzhen smiled and said, "What case is it that the emperor's brother, civil and military officials, and so many concubines in the harem come to trial together."

“…”

"Is it because it involves the eldest lady of the Yan family in Nishikawa?"

The atmosphere in the hall was condensed again.

Pei Yuanzhen stood in the center of the hall, clearly at the center of the storm, but was calm and motionless. She said with a smile: "Just just now, my sister knocked on the door outside and accidentally heard the name Yan Qingying, so she asked this question."

Pei Yuanhao's eyes seemed to be felt by the cold outside the hall, and a layer of frost condensed. He looked at her with a smile: "My sister seems to be familiar with this name, do you know this person?"

Pei Yuanzhen smiled and said, "I know."

“How do you know?”

"My sister knows her."

"What?"

Pei Yuanhao raised his eyebrows slightly, and the people around him were even more shocked. Even Chang Qing's face changed a little, and he said, "Princess, be careful. This Yan Qingying is the eldest lady of the Yan family in Xichuan. How do you recognize him?"

Pei Yuanzhen smiled sweeter: "Not only can I recognize her, but my sister also saw her two years ago."

As soon as this sentence was said, it looked like a thunder. Everyone changed their faces. My heart also thumped, but there was no expression of surprise. It was just that my breath stopped at this moment.

Others were not so calm, and even Pei Yuanhao's face changed: "What did you say? Have you seen Yan Qingying two years ago?"

"yes."

“Where did you see it?”

"It's right in Huangze Temple."

Huangze Temple? I vaguely remember that it was the temple where Pei Yuanzhen's mother Zhao Shuyuan became a monk. Zhao Shuyuan's hometown was Zhaohua, a small town on the junction of Sichuan and Shaanxi. After Pei Yuanhao ascended the throne, she returned there and became a nun in Huangze Temple.

Pei Yuanzhen met Yan Qingying in Huangze Temple?

This time Shen Rou couldn't hold back her anger. She looked at Taifu Shen and asked hurriedly: "What are she doing there?"

Pei Yuanzhen said: "She also became a nun in the Huangze Temple, with the name Jingxu. I often went to visit my mother, so I met her. Later, when I chatted, I realized that her secular name was Yan Qingying, and she was originally the eldest lady of the Yan family in Xichuan."

"Then, did she say why she became a nun?"

"I didn't ask too much about this, but I just heard that she seemed to have escaped from somewhere, and she was afraid that she would be found again, so she entered the empty door and almost stopped mentioning her own subdistrict name."

After hearing this, Chang Qing nodded and said, "This is the right way. I'm afraid she escaped by herself on the way to the palace. She was afraid she would be caught back, so she became a monk and a nun."

Pei Yuanhao's brows were slightly frowning, his eyes were dark.

When Shen Rou heard this, her face became ugly and she asked, "Where is she now?"

Pei Yuanzhen said: "She was too scared on the way to escape and was injured. She has been lingering in sickness for years. She was seriously ill two years ago and died."

"Dead?"

Shen Rou immediately sneered and said, "This is great. If a person dies, there will be no evidence of death."

Pei Yuanzhen also sneered and looked at her: "What? The concubine means, is this princess lying?"

“…”

Pei Yuanzhen is still the eldest princess. She wants to turn against her face. Everyone in the palace has to give her some face. Shen Rou was blocked by her words and couldn't speak sarcastically. At this moment, no one else dared to speak again.

Everyone looked at Pei Yuanhao.

The person who tried the case was Concubine Shen, and the princess was the one who testified. The final decision was naturally the emperor. At this time, his face had already sunk, without any extra expression, but with a bit of bone-bone chill. When his eyes looked at me, I could also feel the bone-bone chill, which made me tremble.

Fortunately, the hand holding my fingertips was still warm.

I don’t know how long it took, Pei Yuanhao finally spoke slowly and said word by word: “I am certain that I am sure of the words of Yumei.”

Pei Yuanzhen glanced at him and then smiled: "Thank you, my brother."

There was a surging like an undercurrent in the smile patterns in the eyes of this brother and sister.

I stood beside me and just watched silently. At this point, I had already seen many things in the court clearly. I believe that the person sitting at a higher place could see clearly. His face was as normal. He turned his head to look at me and said, "Yue Qingying, then should you tell me why you had so much money when you entered the palace?"

I said calmly: "When the emperor said, the money was indeed Yan Qingying, but it was not the robbery of wealth in Weichen, but it was given to Weichen by her."

Shen Rou said coldly: "Why did she give it to you?"

I smiled faintly and said, "Actually, I didn't know anything before. I just heard what the eldest princess said, and I understood. Perhaps Yan Qingying had been preparing to enter the monk, so she certainly didn't care about those things outside, so she gave them to Weichen."

Speaking of this, the whole thing is already in close contact.

Shen Rou had already turned her face upset. Although Taifu Shen was always serious and had a bad look, it was obvious that the carefully prepared schedule today was completely disturbed by Pei Yuanzhen's appearance. They all looked at the eldest princess standing in the center of the hall, with a very gloomy face, but she had no choice.

Pei Yuanhao sat on it and saw all this, and his face was not good-looking either.

He obviously did not expect this ending. Speaking of this state banquet today, he also took every step of the way. He designed it so carefully, but failed at the last moment.

Although this was not the most critical moment in my life, I did sweat a lot. As soon as I breathed a sigh of relief, I felt that my hand that had been holding me tightly was released.

My heart moved, and before I could turn my head to look, I heard Pei Yuanhao's low voice ringing in the hall: "This is the end of today. Lord Yue-"

"I am here."

"From now on, you must be careful and honest in your work. Not every time, there will be a noble person like the eldest princess who will help you and prove your innocence."

"…I am following the order."

After saying this, I stepped down.

This time, the case was completely completed. Almost everyone in the hall breathed a sigh of relief. Only the Taifu Shen and others who were sitting opposite us had even more vicious needle tips in their eyes.

The case is over, but some things are not over.

This is the court.

I smiled faintly in my heart and looked at me subconsciously.

Liu Qinghan still stood there calmly, from beginning to end, he didn't say a word, as if he was completely out of the matter. If it weren't for the fact that he had been holding my hand during the whole thing, I would even feel that he wasn't there at all.

But now he looked calm, as if he was really not here, as if the man holding my hand and skin just now was just an hallucination of mine.

.

The banquet was in a turbulent rush, and even shone with blood several times, but the final ending was so fast, as if a piece of falling snow fell in the palm of the palm of the hand, and it had melted before I could see it clearly.

Everyone left the hall with their own thoughts, and when they went out, the heavy snow was still falling outside.

I wrapped my clothes tightly. This time there was no sedan chair to pick me up. Chang Qing originally asked me to go back with her, but I politely declined and said that I would go back later and went to the Imperial Garden from another door.

The snow fell one after another, and the earth slowly turned white, as if it wanted to cleanse all the filth in this world.

As I walked along, I saw a graceful figure standing in the pavilion in the middle of the lake.

She was still wearing the big red cloak, and the surroundings were snow-white, which made her look extremely beautiful, but she had a strange sense of loneliness. There was not a single person around, only the sound of falling snow falling on the lake, as quiet as if she was the only one left in the world.

I walked slowly over and walked to the pavilion before she turned around, her eyes colder than before in the hall, and looked at me.

I gave her a gentle blessing: "Thank you, Princess."

"What are you thanking me?"

I smiled faintly, and did not answer the words, only saying, "This matter should have been solved by someone else today, but I didn't expect it to alarm the eldest princess and the empress was frightened."
Chapter completed!