Started as a thatched house and ended up as a female figure

"What nonsense!" The Dali Temple official glared at the maid and asked, "Since those people were so brutal and stabbed you, how come you are still here alive?"

The maid endured the pain in her thigh and reached out to unbutton her coat.

"You! How can you behave like this in the court! Take her away! Take her away!" The Minister of Revenue Hao Chi hurriedly turned his body, his voice filled with anger.

"The emperor hasn't spoken yet, Lord Hao is being too noisy."

Crown Prince Mu Yao, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke with an expressionless face. Just this one words made Hao Chi want to dig a hole in the ground and bury himself in it.

The maid ignored Hao Chi and tried to straighten her back and show the cloth armor on her body to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, this cloth armor on my body is enough to prove that I am not talking nonsense. Everything I said is true!"

The emperor looked at the hole in the cloth armor and narrowed his eyes meaningfully.

The Dali Temple official carefully observed the emperor's expression and questioned the maid again: "How can a maid like you wear cloth armor?"

The maid couldn't hold on any longer, so she fell forward, supporting herself on the ground with her hands, and tears suddenly overflowed from her eyes.

“Before we separated from the old lady and the others, my Lord said that the road ahead might not be smooth sailing, and asked us to decide whether to follow the old lady and the others or the Lord.

My Lord Marquis is so kind, so naturally we are willing to follow him.

Later, the Marquis said that she didn't prepare so many cloth armors, so she chose those of us who were stronger and faster to follow, and gave us cloth armors to wear inside. "

The maid couldn't help sobbing, and tried her best to keep her voice steady as she continued:

“My Lord said that if we are attacked along the way, we don’t need to worry about anything else but run. She will attract the enemy and do her best to protect us.

My Lord Marquis said that if we were caught, we should answer whatever they asked us honestly. Saving our lives is the most important thing. She would never blame us.

My lord said that the cloth armor we were wearing was a simple version and the level of protection was not that high, so he told us to be smarter and pretend to be dead in the critical moment to save our lives.

My master also said that if we accompany her on this journey, and if we die, she will bury us in the Cheng family cemetery, so that we can be worshipped by the descendants of the Cheng family and our families will be treated well.

My Lord..."

The maid suddenly burst into tears and cried bitterly in the hall.

"My Lord is the most... the best person, but those people wanted to kill him. His body was covered in blood. It snowed so heavily and it was so cold that day, but he was forced into a desperate situation and jumped off a cliff!"

The maid fell to the ground with a thud, her voice hoarse and shrill: "Your Majesty, my master died unjustly! Please, Your Majesty, make a decision for my master! Please, Your Majesty, make a decision for my master!"

"I beg the Emperor to make the decision for my Lord!"

Xia Yun and other servants of Marquis Zhaoping's mansion also kowtowed heavily to the ground with red eyes.

There was no other sound in the hall except the crying of the servants in Marquis Zhaoping's mansion.

Those who can stand here all have servants at home.

If you ask yourself honestly, except for a few trusted individuals, they look upon slaves no differently than they look upon ants.

For the first time, they realized that their masters could take their slaves so seriously and value their slaves' lives so much.

However, they had seen many loyal servants, but this was the first time they had seen a servant who dared to beat the drum and go to the court for his master.

The Dali Temple Minister sorted out his complicated feelings, glanced at the emperor who was facing the dragon throne, and calmly pointed out the problem: "You are all Zhaoping Hou's men, so what you said is naturally favorable to Zhaoping Hou. But without other evidence, it is difficult to prove that there is something strange about Zhaoping Hou's death. How do you know that you didn't deliberately collude with each other and come to the emperor to act?"

"I swear to heaven, if I say even a single word that is false today, I will be struck by five thunderbolts and die without a burial place!"

"I dare to swear!"

……

"Your Majesty, we have witnesses." Xia Yun looked at the emperor's back with a calm expression:

"My Lord seemed to have anticipated her misfortune, and had the butler hire a bodyguard to follow the team from a distance.

The escort's task is to find an opportunity to gather the servants and protect the team back to the capital in case the team is attacked and the marquis is too busy to take care of others.

When my master was cornered by those masked men, several bodyguards happened to see the whole process.

Those bodyguards heard and saw with their own ears that the masked man called my master the Marquis of Zhaoping and asked my master to surrender.

My Lord Marquis refused to obey, so the masked man ordered to shoot arrows, and then my Lord Marquis jumped off the cliff.

Your Majesty, if those masked men were ordinary robbers, how could they dare to kill my Marquis knowing his identity?

If they were afraid that the court would cause trouble for them later, they should have killed all the servants to silence them, then quickly collected the money and fled.

But they don’t care about money, they are not in a hurry to kill me, they just want to kill my master.”

Xia Yun looked up at the officials around him and said in a resounding voice, "May I ask, sirs, are there any robbers like this in the world?"

The officials were silent for a moment.

Everyone already had the answer in their hearts as to whether those people were robbers or not.

They just didn't expect that Marquis Zhaoping was so perceptive and made many arrangements in advance, which led to the flaws in this perfect play.

“I know that even if I say this, there will definitely be people who will say that what we heard and saw was a conspiracy between us and the escorts and cannot be trusted.

We servants have little influence and it is normal for you gentlemen to be suspicious. We only ask that His Majesty order those escorts to come to the palace. In front of His Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and all the gentlemen, those escorts will never dare to lie.

In addition, I have to say this in advance. Those escorts are strong and healthy. They will never die suddenly. If they encounter an accident later, it means that there must be someone else behind the death of my master."

The hall fell into silence again.

Yan Mu and Ying Changlin looked at each other and saw the amazement in each other's eyes.

Why do I feel like I can't use them at all? Why is Marquis Zhaoping always so foresighted? After arriving in the capital, he actually thought of asking the emperor for two aunts in the palace first.

Look, this aunt’s request was not in vain.

He is really capable of taking responsibility at critical moments.

"Even if there was someone behind Marquis Zhaoping's death, how do we know that it wasn't Marquis Zhaoping who committed the crime first..."

"enough!"

The emperor turned around, his face grim and his voice chilling.

Hao Chi was so frightened that he felt a chill on his back. He immediately lowered his head, shut his mouth, and dared not say another word.

The other people in the hall also lowered their heads and turned into wooden figures instantly.

"Pass on my order to arrest all the 'robbers' and turn them into ashes one by one.

Prince, you personally investigate the death of Marquis Zhaoping. I want the mastermind behind this to regret making this decision."