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"Princess, where did you go? "The green plum was terrified."

While she was speaking, a young girl, who looked to be about the age of a cardamom, walked over with her hair in a bun. She looked worried and did not pretend to be worried.

Ruan Qiuyan sized him up. The way he dressed was no different from the plum blossoms she wrote.

Qing Mei was the son of the family, and she was the servant girl that married her into the palace. She had just changed into Ruan Qiuyan, and she needed this kind of loyalty.

She suddenly regretted it greatly. Why didn't the book give the female lead a few top martial arts experts as guards? Otherwise, how could he be restrained by Xiao Jingran at the edge of the cliff tonight?

She had come here to enjoy her fortune, not to be controlled, not even by her husband.

Ruan Qiuyan thought, not only being a loyal servant, but also dealing with it. She replied offhandedly, "I'm going to take a walk in the Hundred Step Bamboo Forest with Prince. Don't make such a fuss."

If the wangfei wasn't in the mansion late at night, it would be easy for people to gossip about her. If someone wanted to take advantage of her, she could eat a pot of tea.

Not wanting to, Qingmei was even more surprised when she heard her words. "Princess said …" Go for a walk with the Prince? "

Hm? What did she not know?

"What's the problem?"

"Ever since Princess Hua-Yang married into the house, the prince came to visit every once in a while. After that, she gradually stopped coming, and also … "She's not staying in the wangfei's room either."

Ruan Qiuyan was astounded.

She didn't write it like that. The prince's wife, Qin Se, and Ming Dong had deep feelings for each other and loved each other!

She had a faint feeling that something was different from what she had read in the books, but she could not tell what exactly it was.

Forget it, she was only 16 or 17 years old now.

However, she wasn't going to the Hundred Step Bamboo Forest with Xiao Jingran. It was the peak of the precipice!

This matter couldn't be asked in detail, so she changed the subject, "It's fine if you don't bring this up, but you, why are you in my room now?"

Qingmei thought that the wangfei was sad and didn't dare to bring it up again. She told Xiao Yi to pass on the message to Ruan Qiuyan without missing a word.

"The prince has asked me to come and tell her. Tomorrow, I will go to the hall and ask her. I will let her think it through first."

Ruan Qiuyan was greatly displeased in her heart.

Even Xiao Jingran, the wangfei, treated her coldly. She vaguely remembered that there was no side room in the mansion. How could anyone try to court someone and kill him? Do you really need the Three Halls to interrogate her?

"This matter... "I've already made up my mind. You can go now. I'm tired and don't want to wake up early tomorrow. Don't bother me with people."

Ruan Qiuyan felt that she had to think about it more carefully. This wasn't something written by someone from her previous life. If she made a mistake, she could repeat it. If she made a mistake tomorrow, it would be to prove her innocence.

"But …"

Qingmei didn't know why the wangfei suddenly didn't go to say good morning to the prince. But the prince avoided her every day, so it didn't matter if the wangfei didn't go for a day, right?

"Is there something else?"

"No more, rest early, Princess. I'll come knock on the door again for breakfast tomorrow morning."

Qingmei quietly retreated. When she closed the door, she saw the princess sitting in front of a candle flame. The light from the fire illuminated her face, making her thoughts exceptionally heavy.

She felt that Princess Hua-Yang was different from before. No matter how different she was, she couldn't say.

The next day was over.

Xiao Jingran held onto a flying pigeon in her hand as she said unhappily, "Ann Ting, the wangfei still hasn't come to greet you?"

Normally, this would be the time …

Xiao Jingran's expression suddenly turned cold — — Ruan Qiuyan, as a wangfei, was becoming more and more unruly.

Ann Ting saw that the prince's expression wasn't right, so he said with a meaningful look, "The wangfei might be having a meal this time, so I forgot. Should I rush her?"

He indifferently swept a glance at the old geezer and said, "There's no need."

Xiao Jingran casually burned the secret report into ashes. He wanted to see when Ruan Qiuyan would come to greet him.

There was still no sound from the backyard even though it was almost morning.

Xiao Jingran instructed with a dark face, "Go to the front hall and bring those people along as well. Also, send someone to invite the wangfei!"

He was biting the word "please" very hard, so it was obvious that he was truly angry.

When they reached the front hall, everyone was already there. Only then did Ruan Qiuyan appear, looking full of energy. It was evident that she had rested well last night.

"Greetings, Prince."

The entire hall was silent. Everyone knew that this prince didn't like to wait for people, but someone made him wait.

Xiao Jingran's gaze swept across her face indifferently. She neither responded nor sat down as she said to the people below her, "Tell me everything that you told me yesterday."

Ruan Qiuyan raised her eyebrows and looked at the people who were tied up and kneeling on the ground.

Face to face?

When his gaze landed on Xiao Jingran again, it became a bit thin, like a prince who didn't have anything to do with this affair.

The person on the ground had the strip of cloth untied from his mouth, and in the next second, he was crying as he complained, "It was the princess who told us to sell that girl to the Red Courtyard. All of the silver would belong to us, as long as that woman doesn't flatter you in front of the king."

Xiao Jingran didn't care about these words. It was just a little trick a woman would use to win a favor.

"Princess, do you have something to say?"

Ruan Qiuyan took a step forward and instead of getting angry, she smiled at the kneeling man. "You said that you were ordered by the wangfei, but did my wangfei personally explain all this to you?"

"Of course, we have all seen it with our own eyes. How could an ordinary person possibly use a palanquin curtain made of gold silk, which is the consort of the Duke Nan Qi Palace? We can see it clearly. " They all testified to each other, insisting that it was the princess.

"Since it's my wangfei, then when you meet someone, how can you possibly identify them?" Ruan Qiuyan's face was full of righteousness, like a god that had broken the clear sky.

"Of course."

Ruan Qiuyan smiled.

Xiao Jingran, who was sitting in the middle of the hall, didn't seem surprised at all.

It was at this moment that Qing Mei, who should have been by Ruan Qiuyan's side, appeared, wearing a robe no different from Ruan Qiuyan's.

'This must be the Royal Concubine? '

'Yes, it must have come after this.'

"..."

Ruan Qiuyan walked over to the crowd and greeted in a neither too loud nor too low voice, "Greetings, wangfei."

The few of them looked at each other, pointed at Qing Mei and shouted, "It's this man, please uphold justice."

"All of you better watch carefully so that you don't feel wronged." Ruan Qiuyan sniggered as she interrupted their identification.

If they couldn't even identify the wangfei, then these people couldn't be trusted.

"Don't try to cover up for my wife!" The people kneeling on the ground firmly believed that the green plum was the real wangfei.

The next second, the identified wangfei suddenly knelt on the ground and asked Xiao Jingran for punishment. "Servant girl Qingmei, as evidence of wangfei's innocence, pretends to be the wangfei and asks for punishment."

"This …" The few people who had pointed out with confidence a moment ago looked at each other in dismay and were rendered speechless.

Ruan Qiuyan had a complacent expression on her face. She was waiting for Xiao Jingran to say, 'You have done something wrong to make up for it,' but who knew that this man didn't say anything. He just sat in front of the hall and acted as if he didn't care.

Was he really going to be punished?

She suddenly said, "Your Highness, the truth of this matter has already been revealed, it is these villains who framed you for no reason. As for the real culprit, Your Highness, I shall interrogate them again, and with the help of my servant, Qingmei, who was lucky enough to see through the deceitful plot of a scoundrel.