The palace wall reflects the moon

Chapter 46: Throwing bricks and attracting others [-]

Except for the emperor, King Xuan, and a few guards, the rest of the people in the palace were all the concubines in the harem who were not busy at first. When they heard this obscene poem, they were all ashamed and at a loss.

Before Cao Zhaoyi finished reading, she couldn't restrain her excitement. She pointed her finger at Xin Wei and accused: "You actually wrote this obscene poem to give to your adulterer! You must have been innocent!"

Xin Wei was still not timid after being pointed at this, she just raised the corners of her lips at her.

Cao Zhaoyi suddenly felt that her reaction was wrong...

At this time, Eunuch Xi said calmly: "This is not written by Xiaozhu Xin... Empress Cao Zhaoyi, this poem is signed with your name."

Cao Zhaoyi suddenly turned her eyes and looked at Eunuch Xi, who was holding a letter. The blood on his face suddenly faded and turned pale.

"impossible!"

Eunuch Xi read an obscene poem in public, and looked embarrassed: "I don't know what I am saying, but I do have your name on the bottom of this poem."

He turned to ask the emperor for instructions: "How about checking the handwriting?"

Shen Xiao nodded to confirm.

The palace officials immediately prepared pens, inks, paper and inkstones for Cao Zhaoyi to write in public.

Cao Zhaoyi held the pen, but his hand began to shake, but he could not finish the words.

After hesitating for a moment, she put down her ink pen and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, if Xin Jieyu intends to frame my concubine, she will definitely be able to imitate my concubine's handwriting. No matter how much I try to prove myself, it will be in vain!"

Then, Cao Zhaoyi looked at Xin Wei, her eyes splitting with anger: "If I wrote obscene poems, how could I put them in the flower vase in your house! It was clearly your intention!"

"Sister Zhaoyi's words make no sense." Xin Wei's tears were welling up in her eyes, but they never fell down. She looked most innocent like this, "How could I have expected that someone would report or even search for my concubine today?" Concubine’s house? Sister Zhaoyi said that concubine has the ability to predict the future?”

Cao Zhaoyi was angry and anxious, her beautiful face turned as red as if she was drunk, and she asked sternly: "Then you can explain why there are poems written by me in your flower vase!"

Xin Wei looked embarrassed and said frankly: "Sister Zhaoyi, because you came to my house this morning and put it into the vase with your own hands."

Cao Zhaoyi was stunned.

She thought that Xin Jieyu would use many excuses, but she never thought that Xin Jieyu would actually tell the truth.

Xin Wei continued: "After my sister left, I took out the letter and read it, but I didn't read much and couldn't understand what the poem meant. But I thought since it was my sister's masterpiece, I would help sign it with her name. Bar."

After finishing speaking, Xin Wei asked Eunuch Xi, "Eunuch, you should have seen it too. The signature at the back was written separately, which is different from the handwriting of the poem itself."

Eunuch Xi looked at it again and agreed: "As Xiaozhu Xin said, it is indeed the case."

Xin Wei added: "There is a long way from Sister Zhaoyi's house to my place. My sister always attracts attention. I guess someone must have seen my sister coming along this way."

After hearing this, Chu Ying immediately stood up to attend, knelt down next to Xin Wei and replied, "Your Majesty, I can testify! My concubine's residence is separated from Xin Jieyu by a wall. This morning, I was enjoying the scenery outside the house and saw this person. Empress Zhaoyi went to Xin Jieyu's house and stayed there for more than a stick of incense!"

Her clear yet timid voice hit his ears like a reminder. Cao Zhaoyi looked around, but his eyes were suddenly blurred and he couldn't see everyone's expressions clearly.

Such a development was completely beyond her expectation.

She desperately thought about how to deal with it, and the more she thought about it, the more panicked she became. Something seemed to have invaded her head, and it kept buzzing.

Seeing that Cao Zhaoyi's body was weak, her hands were on the ground, her chest was rising and falling hard, and her hair was wet with sweat on her forehead, Liu Qingshu looked at her coldly: "In this case, I don't understand. Cao Zhaoyi specially put an obscene poem on it. Xin Jieyu came to report in the flower bottle today, what exactly is she thinking?" Cao Zhaoyi curled up her palms that were pressed on the ground, her nails were deeply embedded in the flesh of her palms, and she bit her lower lip so hard that it turned white with blood. The stinging pain caused the chaos in her mind to dissipate, and she slowly regained her composure.

"Your Majesty... I can't defend what Xin Jieyu said, but I saw it with my own eyes that Xin Jieyu had an affair with his guard Feng Zhi. Please ask your Majesty to summon Feng Zhi into the palace. I am willing to confront him!"

Shen Xiao closed his eyes and pinched his eyebrows with his long fingers: "There is no need to confront him."

Cao Zhaoyi moved her knees and took two steps forward, pleading: "I swear by the honor of the Cao family, it is absolutely true that Xin Jieyu had an affair with someone..."

Shen Xiao opened his eyes and said calmly: "Last night at Haishi, Xin Jieyu was with me."

The understated voice fell in the hall, but the hearts of everyone were blowing like a hurricane, setting off turbulent waves that could not calm down for a long time.

Liu Qingshu and Chu Ying were startled at the same time, and turned to look at Xin Wei in disbelief.

Xin Wei nodded and lowered her eyebrows, remaining silent.

He could have said this a long time ago, but he had to wait until now, when Cao Zhaoyi's ugliness was revealed and all his face was lost...

Cao Zhaoyi retorted subconsciously: "Absolutely impossible!"

She saw with her own eyes that Xin Jieyu behaved intimately with others, and she also saw with her own eyes that the guards caught up with her and gave her flowers. How could it be false? !

Shen Xiao twitched the corners of his mouth, with a faint smile.

"You mean I lied?"

Cao Zhaoyi's eyes widened and she looked at the aloof emperor in horror and disbelief. She didn't understand why the emperor wanted to protect Xin Jieyu like this...

Could it be that the Emperor was really with Xin Jieyu last night, then the person who met Xin Jieyu under the crabapple tree was...

Thinking of this, Cao Zhaoyi suddenly realized.No wonder, no wonder Xin Jieyu is so calm!The moment when my mind finally became clear, it felt like a mountain was pressing down on me. I suddenly couldn't breathe, and my face couldn't help but turn pale as a sheet.

She actually did such a stupid thing!
Cao Zhaoyi kowtowed and said miserably: "I made a mistake. Your Majesty, I definitely did not intend to frame Xin Jieyu. It was really a misunderstanding. Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

She hit it extremely hard, hitting the glazed floor with every force, and a dull impact echoed in the hall.

"Tsk," King Xuan looked at the woman who was desperately begging for mercy and said with a tongue-tied tongue, "If Xin Jieyu hadn't happened to be in the same place with the emperor, or Xin Jieyu hadn't noticed that you put obscene poems into her flower bottle, today's incident would have You really succeeded."

Liu Qingshu dug out Cao Zhaoyi with cold eyes and said in a cold voice: "Cao Yan, you fell into the water in Taiye Pond last time. If Xin Jieyu hadn't saved you, you would have drowned at that time, and yet you still behave like this today. You are ungrateful. , Wolf-hearted and dog-feeling, I’m talking about people like you.”

"There is such a thing," King Xuan laughed with contempt, then looked at Shen Xiao and said, "The surname is Cao, could it be Cao Zhongxin's daughter? How did the Cao family raise a daughter with such a character?"

Cao Zhaoyi knocked so hard that there were blood marks on the ground, and the concubines turned their eyes one after another and couldn't bear to look at it anymore.

Disgust flashed in Shen Xiao's eyes, and he stopped him: "Okay. Depose Cao's position as Zhaoyi, demote him to a talented person, and move to Jingyang Palace."

The head of Jingyang Palace is Yu Zhaoyi, so she will go to Jingyang Palace to live under someone else's roof.

Cao Zhaoyi didn't know whether to be sad or happy to be in such embarrassment in front of everyone. Cao Zhaoyi didn't know whether to be sad or happy. Tears welled up in her eyes. She kowtowed again and said in a voice like a rag: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

(End of this chapter)