After rebirth, I teamed up with the scumbag's mistress

"Prince, Prince... He also said, he also said..."

The palace maid trembled and looked at the prince with shaking hands, as if she was afraid to tell the truth.

"What else?" said His Majesty.

"Speak." The emperor said in a deep and majestic voice, with an implication of supporting the palace maid.

The palace maid immediately knelt on the ground and spilled the beans, "The prince also said that the emperor is old and can be easily seduced by the imperial concubine."

After the palace maid said this, she lay motionless on the ground, not daring to raise her head.

Concubine Wan's eyes deepened, but she said nothing.

This sentence is old, but it violates the emperor's taboo.

His Majesty slapped the wooden square table beside him with his palm. There was a loud "bang" sound, which seemed particularly abrupt in the silence of the room.

The emperor did not get angry but laughed, "Prince, do you think you can replace me?"

The prince's eyes widened immediately, and he was extremely terrified. He knelt down quickly and said with a trembling voice: "No, no, it's all nonsense."

The Queen also chimed in, "I've been coming and going in the East Palace, but I've never seen this maid before."

The prince knelt down and turned to look at the maidservant in the East Palace. He said angrily, "Why did you harm me? Tell me, who ordered you to do that? Tell me!"

The prince asked again and again.

The East Palace maid lost all her fear and looked at the Crown Prince and said, "How dare this slave lie to you?"

Concubine Wan raised her lips and said, "Prince, please don't be so rude. I am only telling the truth."

Concubine Wan was once again trying to flatter the Crown Prince in front of His Majesty, implying that he did not look like a crown prince.

The queen was so angry that her teeth itched, but she still smiled and said, "The prince was just wrongly accused, and he is very angry, so he is a little excited."

After the Queen's words, the Emperor's angry expression eased a little.

The nanny beside the queen whispered something in her ear, and the queen smiled and said, "My lord, maybe this maid heard it wrongly. She is not a servant in the East Palace, but just a maid in the East Palace."

What the Queen meant was that this servant girl could not get close to the Crown Prince at all, and was too far away to hear correctly.

The emperor's expression softened a little, he nodded, and then winked at the eunuch beside him. The eunuch nodded and retreated.

After a while, the eunuch came in carrying a tray.

On the tray, there was a dagger with the blood stains already dried off.

"This is the evidence presented by the Dali Temple. It's the dagger that severely injured Concubine Wan." The chief eunuch said calmly without any haste.

"This dagger is made of rare fine iron, and it has the prince's small words engraved on it," said the emperor.

The Queen secretly cursed Concubine Wan for her dirty tricks, saying that she could use such despicable means and had no regard for decency at all.

"This is not my dagger at all," said the prince.

"With such material and your small words engraved on it, if it's not your dagger, then whose dagger is it?!" the emperor asked.

"I had someone use a dagger engraved with my small words to kill people, and it was Concubine Wan and my seventh sister. Wouldn't it be too easy to be exposed by doing this?" The prince defended himself somewhat depressedly.

"The key point is that this was not found at the crime scene, but was discovered by a scholar in the bushes of his own home outside Beijing after the crime occurred, and was presented to the Dali Temple," said the emperor.

"It's just that the assassin he hired didn't expect anyone to recognize the small words "Prince" on the dagger, so he just threw it into the bushes. Unfortunately, he met a scholar." The second prince said sarcastically.

The queen could only shed tears and said, "The prince is innocent. He has always been kind and benevolent. How could he do such a thing?"

Concubine Wan seemed to know something, "Do you have any witnesses to prove that the prince was not involved in this incident that night?"

"I heard from Li Sizheng that according to the file, the people from the Dali Temple chased the murderer to the vicinity of the Eastern Palace, but he disappeared." Concubine Wan spoke again, pushing the prince's situation one step further into the abyss.

The emperor's face darkened, and his eyes were filled with disappointment as he looked at the prince.

"Wen Dong, do you have anything else to say?" asked the emperor.

The prince was speechless for a moment. He was not in the Eastern Palace that day at all. He had recently become infatuated with Chi Xi, a prostitute in Cuiyun Tower.

That night, he was listening to music in Cuiyun Tower.

But how do I say this?

The prince finally understood that all this might have been arranged by the mother and son.

If he confessed that he was not in the East Palace that night but in Cuiyun Tower, he would be accused of being arrogant and debauched.

If he did not confess, he would be suspected and accused of attempting to murder his mother and sister.

The prince sighed in his heart, but still spoke, "That night, I was not in the East Palace at all, so how could I command that operation? Even if I commanded that operation, how could I let those people return to the East Palace so brazenly after killing them?"

Upon hearing this, His Majesty pondered for a few moments, nodded, and then asked, "Where was the prince that night?"

The prince said helplessly, "Listening to music in Cuiyun Tower."

"It's so late, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is still having fun in Cuiyun Tower. He is in such a good mood." Concubine Wan smiled, covering her sleeves.

"I was just listening to a song. The people in Cuiyun Tower and my guards can testify to this." said the prince.

After listening to what everyone said, the emperor looked at the file submitted by the Dali Temple in his hand. He was afraid that this was a self-torture trick by Concubine Wan, the purpose of which was to file a complaint, accusing the prince of murdering his mother and sister, or of being greedy for pleasure and living a life of extravagance and debauchery.

He hoped that he would depose the crown prince because of a momentary fit of anger.

The emperor felt a little tired for a moment. He doted on Concubine Wan, and his beloved concubine was still injured.

Although she always had some plans in her mind, it was rare to have such freshness in this deep palace.

He didn't want to make a big deal out of it. Besides, there was a possibility that the prince was stupid enough to kill his mother and sister, but there were loopholes everywhere. It was unknown.

The Crown Prince is the foundation of the country and the eldest son. He cannot be deposed easily. Otherwise, won't those old ministers argue against it until their death?

The emperor thought for a while, and then he said, "The crown prince will be confined to the East Palace for three months to reflect on his mistakes."

The emperor waved his hand and said, "I am tired, you all may leave."

Everyone said "yes" in unison.

Liang Jiuan felt even more depressed when he saw that the Second Prince did not seem disappointed.

As an opponent, the second elder brother is really powerful. His mother is the still extremely favored Concubine Wan. His mother's family, the Wan family, is a noble family with a long tradition of scholarship. His wife's family is of military origin, and Taishan holds the military power in the northwest.

He is a man of deep temperament. He appears to be docile and intelligent, but in fact he is cruel and ruthless.

This time he was probably just trying to seize the crown prince's position, and his purpose was more to shake the crown prince's position in the emperor's mind.

This time the official raised it high, but then put it down gently, which had already sent a signal.

I heard that the second prince is selecting a concubine, but I don't know which girl he will choose.