Zhe Chuntang: She regretted it after provoking crazy critics of powerful officials

Chapter 35 Let everyone see who she is
The palace door was pushed open from the outside.

Pei Yan looked stern and quickly covered the eldest princess's face with his cloak.

"Pei Aiqing? Why are you here!"

The little emperor saw the mess on the ground and looked at Pei Yan suspiciously, but found that he seemed to be holding a woman in his arms.

The ministers following the emperor were also confused and couldn't figure out what the situation was, and they all turned their questioning eyes to Princess Anhe.

As soon as Princess Anhe opened the door, she looked around for the figure of Princess Chongning, and asked the man beside her in a low voice: "No, brother, where is she?"

Just when the animal taming slaves saw that the prince wanted to speak, Pei Yan spoke calmly——

"I was passing by here and heard a woman calling for help, so I came in to check. A palace maid was drunk and accidentally broke into this place. She was almost defiled, but I rescued her."

After hearing his words, others noticed that Pei Yan was holding a woman whose face was covered in his arms.

"You're talking nonsense. There's no palace maid there, she's clearly..."

"An He!" The Crown Prince Jiang Yang quickly grabbed his sister to stop her from saying the next words.

It was obvious that Pei Yan wanted to protect the woman in his arms, and no one else could see her face clearly. If the two of them identified her rashly, even a fool would know that this was their fault.

Although the emperor has been quite cold to the eldest princess these days, after all, they are the only biological siblings in the world, and they will definitely protect the imperial sister when the time comes.

Their original intention was to let everyone see Chongning drunkenly taking the initiative to make peace with these despicable men. The impact in full view of Chongning was more intense than the usual rumors about Chongning.

With such a royal scandal, she might never be able to appear in public again in the future. Maybe the emperor, who was already dissatisfied with her, could directly depose her as the eldest princess.

As for those slaves, who cares what they say?
"Your Majesty, uncles and ministers, my sister-in-law originally wanted to prepare a good show of taming animals for everyone, but I didn't expect these beasts to have evil thoughts towards the innocent palace girls, which made everyone laugh. Fortunately, Mr. Pei listened. If you don’t notice the movement, it would be a sin.”

Jiang Yang came out to smooth things over before his sister could speak. He saw that since Pei Yan blocked the face of the eldest princess, he must be caring about the dignity of the royal family and did not want to expose this royal scandal, so naturally he would not expose him.

In fact, when he met Pei Yan on the road just now, he was not at all panicked. He knew how much Pei Yan hated Princess Chongning, not to mention that Pei Yan never liked to meddle in other people's business.

He basically doesn't care about matters that have little to do with government affairs.

In his opinion, Pei Yan saved Chongning just for the royal family's sake, and he couldn't figure out why he was disgusting with her.

Otherwise, he would definitely expose it on the spot and ask His Majesty to recover this situation from Chongning.

After such an analysis, he felt much more at ease.

"Your Highness, it's unfair. You didn't say that this woman..."

"Shut up! At this time, you still want to bite me! Someone, drag them all down and chop them down!"

Jiang Yang glanced at them with a sinister look, carrying a clear threat.

Although they are slaves and untouchables, most of them have families and families.A single word from these big men can not only kill them, but also kill their wives and children.

So they immediately fell silent, knelt on the ground with pale faces, and all drank soberly.

"Wait a minute," Pei Yan covered the woman in his arms more tightly before taking a step forward: "The Crown Prince is so eager to kill someone, doesn't it further prove that they just mentioned the Crown Prince and it's not a biting thing? Tonight is It’s New Year’s Eve and it’s not appropriate to see blood, so why not take these people into custody in Dali Temple first, and then slowly interrogate and convict them.”

Everyone always believed what he said.Seeing that there was nothing to watch, the little emperor said in a waning tone, "Then just listen to Pei Aiqing. It's getting late, so you should go back quickly."

Seeing that everyone was about to leave, An He pushed his little sister anxiously.

"Ah, why didn't you see the eldest princess? Cousin Chongning likes to watch the excitement of taming animals the most. Maybe she got drunk and got lost. Has anyone seen her?"

This drew everyone's attention again, and several people even looked at the woman in Pei Yan's arms with unclear eyes.

An He took the opportunity to speak: "I, the princess, noticed that this little palace lady's clothes are very similar to those of cousin Chongning. Could it be..."

Everyone looked at Pei Yan again.

"Just now Cai Chen met the girl Hong Shao beside the eldest princess. She helped His Highness out of the palace and went back. She said she was dizzy."

Pei Yan saw that the red peony root hadn't been found yet, so he had to lie.

He almost never lies, so no one will doubt what he says.

"Did the little palace maid steal my cousin's clothes? Mr. Pei, how about we let everyone take a look?" An Heda had a attitude of not giving up until she achieved her goal, and even the prince could not stop her.

People with sharp eyes had already noticed that something was wrong with today's scene, and they all said goodbye to the emperor and ran away.

There are still some people who are watching the excitement and don't mind it. Some people who have eaten too much and drank too much and can't figure out the situation are stretching their necks to look at it.

"The princess is both a woman. She should know how important a woman's reputation and innocence are in this world. It's just a similar piece of clothing. In full view of everyone, is the princess forcing another innocent woman to die?"

Pei Yan looked very worried, and his tone became serious when he spoke.

But the opportunity to make the enemy suffer is right in front of him. It is only a little short of all calculations. How can Anhe give up so easily!

"In this case, wouldn't it be even more inappropriate for Mr. Pei to have a foreign man holding this palace maid? We are both women, so why not leave it to the care of this princess." Before anyone could react, she rushed over with her hands. Wearing the clothes covering the woman's face.

Pei Yan suddenly took half a step back and saw that the cloak had slipped a little, and the woman's face was about to be exposed.

"what--"

But before he could even reach the woman, Princess Anhe fell hard to the ground.

Prince Huai shook his head while holding the jug: "I'm sorry, little niece Anhe, I'm not walking smoothly, hehe."

After saying that, he stepped forward and stood in front of Pei Yan, blocking everyone's sight. Pei Yan quickly put the blocking clothes back together.

"Uncle Seventeen, what are you doing!"

An He got up dissatisfied, gritted his teeth and questioned Jiang Chongxiao.

"Oh my, little niece, your rouge is all stained. Come on, come on, Uncle Seventeen will wipe it for you."

King Huai took out a small crumpled handkerchief from somewhere, and said hello to Anhe's face.

She loved beauty the most, and naturally she didn't want Jiang Chongxiao to touch her. During the struggle, the wine bottle in his hand became unstable, and all the wine in it spilled on her body, especially her chest, which was almost soaked.

(End of this chapter)