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Liang Fang's face was full of disbelief, "My father... my father is indeed..."
I interrupted him: "In the 14th year of Emperor Yuanzong's reign, Liang Dusi defeated 50,000 bandits from the southern barbarians with a mere 10,000 troops. Later, he died of injuries. Before his death, he asked the former governor of the Central Army to bring you back to the capital to be placed as a personal soldier in the princess' mansion. At that time, you were arguing about your spear training every night, which made it hard for this palace to sleep. I wanted to drive you away, but seeing your marksmanship, I recommended you to His Royal Highness... Liang Fang, Liang Fang, as the prince's personal soldier, you are not. Following orders from the Crown Prince, others are very enthusiastic when they issue orders, has your honor not taught you that there are no rules and circles?!"
With a "bang", the long knife fell to the ground, and Liang Fang knelt down on the ground, "His Royal Highness... my subordinates are guilty..."
"Chi Dong!"
"Qiu Mingfei!"
"The King's Will!"
I named the names of the guards in front of the palace, and counted the details of their enlistment in the army. I watched them kneel down and shouted "Princess Chitose" one by one, and finally the corners of my mouth twitched.
My father once taught me that I would rather not remember the names of those nobles in the palace, but also the names of every soldier who is responsible for guarding you.
Because what they protect is your safety.
It's true that King Kang's painstaking planning is not to be underestimated, but, after all, he missed one thing.
I am the real Princess Xiangyi.
That is an indelible fact, even if there are thousands of irrefutable proofs.
It was also this morning when I asked the concubine if he was worried or not, and what he whispered in my earββ
"Worrying? I've never seen anything more than scheming... Xiao Qitang will lose."
My eyes swept coldly across the stunned eyes of a man in the hall, the strange spirit, and fell on King Kang before stopping.
At this moment, his face was already full of panic, but he still calmed down: "You...you thought you could pretend to be Princess Xiangyi if you recorded the files of these personal soldiers. Is it?"
Uncle Huang, have you finally used up the last bit of your skills?
I raised my eyebrows.
Well, next, it's my turn.
Chapter 33
I got up and left the golden stool, walked down the steps step by step, walked slowly to King Kang, and asked, "Write down the roster? The lord is saying that a person who pretends to be a princess is deliberately investigating the files of the nearly 1,000 guards and soldiers in the palace. She also put people's heads against each other, just to hide people's eyes and ears when someone exposes her?" When I said this, I seemed to be amused and laughed, "Kang Kang's idea is really unique."
As soon as I finished speaking, I restrained my smile and glanced at the civil and military officials, "Do all the ministers think so too?"
The minister of the DPRK and China was a little stunned by my question.
King Kang, who has always been peaceful and loyal, was first "falsely accused" today, and then he was asked by the crown prince if he had ordered someone to murder the princess. With some action, even a fool can see that something is wrong, let alone these courtiers are all immersed. A person who has been in the temple for many years?
If the Princess Jianguo is really dead, the crown prince is still young, and he needs to re-select important ministers to help the country. However, Prince Rui is far away from the border, and Wang Lian is innocent and has no intention of political affairs, and the one who can best take on this important task is King Kang. Who else?
At this moment, the civil and military officials still have doubts about my identity. How many people will be truly convinced of King Kang?
They came to look back at Pan, looked at Prince Wang, looked at King Kang, and finally fell back to the head of their respective party members. The two chief ministers in the cabinet stood there, Zhao Shoufu bowed his head and pondered, and Li Guoji kept staring at me. , I asked, "Uncle, don't you think I'm fake?"
My uncle has always been well-rounded, and if I am really a fake, then nine times out of ten, it is also the prince's inspiration, how can he refute his nephew's face?
Li Guojiu respectfully raised his hand and saluted me, "I don't dare, how could the princess' body of all gold be impersonated by ignorant pariahs? It's just that the evidence presented by the Ministry of Punishment is really puzzling, which is strange and should be Only after checking can we correct the princess' name."
I walked up to Jiang Feng, the minister of punishment, and asked, "Did you investigate this case?"
Jiang Feng was nervous by the god I looked at, and swallowed, "It's Wei Chen."
But he forgot that since he suspected that I was not a princess, he should not call "Wei Chen" in front of me.
I said lightly: "The cliff woman's corpse case more than a year ago was a headless koan that was tried by the capital's yamen. Since it is a headless koan, I wonder how Mr. Jiang knew about it?"
Jiang Feng said: "Shen Rong, the new governor of the capital's yamen, overturned the old case, found clues from it, and reported it to the Ministry of Punishment, so..."
I interrupted: "The dossier."
Jiang Feng was stunned, "Huh?"
I said coldly: "Do I need this princess to repeat it a second time!"
So I read the case file presented by Jiang Feng in full view, and I didn't close it after scanning it, I just said, "Where is Shen Rong?"
Shen Rong raised his sleeves and stood up: "The minister is here."
Holding the file with one hand, I speeded up my speech: "In this volume, more than a year ago, under the leadership of an old couple, the imperial yamen found a female corpse at the bottom of the cliff of Lingshan, only because the corpse had its head on the ground. The brain was split and the face was blurred. Only a hairpin could not identify the identity, and it became an unsolved case; but when you re-investigated the case, you found that the jade of this hairpin is rare, and it is very likely to come from the palace, Fang Fang. Report to the Ministry of Punishment, is there any omission in the above?"
Shen Rong nodded and said, "There is no omission."
"Then," I stretched out my hand to pick up the hosta on the tray and spread it flat in my palm, "Why don't you let Lord Shen repeat it, why is this jade?"
"This jade is called Liuli Jadeite. Its texture is clear and like ice, and its color is green to blue. It is a rare blue flower ice. It should be a tribute to the southern border."
"Sir Shen really has good eyesight, yes, this is indeed the dowry of Princess Xiangyi when she got married, not to mention the maid next to the queen, presumably many maids in the princess' mansion can recognize it. But..." I paused intentionally, Turning to look at King Kang, his spirit has changed a bit. I turned my head to look at the officials of the Manchu Dynasty, and said loudly, "I think, Master Shen must have forgotten that jadeite is jadeite."
Shen Rong was stunned when he heard the words, as if remembering something and looking at the hosta in my hand.
I raised the corners of my mouth and put my eyes on the hosta in my palm, "Jadeite, its toughness is not as good as that of Hetian. If the shape is round enough, but such a slender hairpin will fall to the ground..." Before I finished speaking, I let go of my hand. Letting the hosta hang in the air, everyone sucked in a breath of cold air, only to hear a clickβ
I smiled and said, "...that's broken."
The hosta, broken into three pieces.
Shen Rong's face was ashen, and the rest of the people were even more stunned. King Kang immediately pointed at me: "Bold! How dare you destroy the evidence in court!"
"How should this princess deal with this princess' things, and what is wrong with others!"
Kang Wang was angry: "You!"
I was too lazy to pay attention to him, so I turned around and stretched my arms towards everyone: "This precious hosta just slipped out of Ben Gong's hands and was already torn apart, let alone standing on a wall?! Back then, the female corpse at the bottom of the mountain had all the skulls shattered, but the hosta was intact. No damage, not even a single bump, don't you think it's incredible?! If you can determine your identity based on just one piece of jewelry, if one day the princess's palace is stolen and the treasure is flowed into the private sector, could it be that all the girls on the street are Princess Xiangyi? !"
When the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty heard the words, they repeatedly said yes. Seeing that the momentum was not good, King Kang said: "Don't listen to her nonsense! She is not a real princess at all! Apart from physical evidence, there are so many witnesses..."
"Witness?" I intercepted his words leisurely, leaned over and looked at the witness who was sitting on the ground, smiled, walked to the old couple in the mountain village, squatted down, and asked them to raise their heads to take a good look at me, and asked : "Grandpa and grandma, you don't have to be afraid, think back carefully, is the woman who fell into the cliff that day more like me, or more like her?"
That "she" was naturally the second personal ID card that King Kang brought. The one who looked seven or eight similar to me and claimed to have been a stand-in for two years, "Princess Xiangyi".
The old farmer in the mountain village mustered up the courage to look up, looked at her, then looked back at me, and rubbed his eyes in disbelief, "This, these two girls are clearly the same, which one fell off the cliff? I, how can I tell the difference, old lady, you, come and see..."
Full of mourning.
I let out a sigh of relief.
Sure enough, even if this old couple really saw me being chased and killed on the day I disappeared, they had been silent for a long time under the extreme danger, how could they have the spare time to carefully identify people's appearance? Now after nearly two years, they dared to go to the hall to testify when they could not even walk steadily.
And Kang Wang thought that finding a second personal certificate would be able to confirm that I was impersonating. This move was actually a bit worse.
I got up, looked at King Kang, and then returned to his question: "The so-called witness of the prince, I can't even tell that girl apart, how can we prove that what they saw that day was indeed Princess Xiangyi? "
King Kang was shocked. At this moment, he realized his flaws. Before he opened his mouth, the witness who looked very much like a "princess" shared the master's worries and said, "I am the evidence. If you really are Princess Xiangyi, , why has the concubine asked me to pretend to be her for more than a year!"
At this time, if I tell the truth and say that I have been living in the people for more than a year, how can a princess who has not been in charge of state affairs for more than a year take on the responsibility of supervising the state again? On the other hand, King Kang immediately knelt down and suddenly said that he did not know that the real princess had returned. The so-called ignorant person was not guilty. He was loyal to the king and patriotic, and the prince could not blame him. On the contrary, the prince deceived the world during the disappearance of the princess and found a substitute instead. How should the ministers view him?
As expected of a girl who slept on my bed in the Princess Mansion for a year, I thought she was infected by my innate intelligence, and she could ask such embarrassing questions.
I blinked and asked, "What's your name, girl?"
"Yuri."
"Miss Yuli, you just said, 'The concubine saw that you were born very similar to the princess, and used your family as a threat to let you pretend to be the princess', right?"
Yu Li said, "Yes."
I stared at her face that looked exactly like my own, and bent down, "Then, do you still remember when and where you were seen by the concubine, and in what way did he blackmail your family?"
Yu Li was a little stunned and said: "The fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month of the previous year was the season of plum blossoms. The people's daughter burned incense at Putuo Temple to pray for safety. The concubine was also in the temple. Entering the princess's mansion, he asked Minnu to pretend to be a princess, if you don't obey, Minnu's parents will be in danger."
"I see." I stood up with both hands on my knees. At this time, the courtiers were already frowning, and several officials of the Dali Temple shook their heads, and Xu Ningzhi, the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple, couldn't help but said: " You are talking nonsense!"
Yu Li knelt on the spot and didn't know what she said wrong, she tilted her head slightly and looked back, Xu Ningzhi pointed at her and said, "Lord Song and I were still investigating the case in Jizhou in the twelfth month of the previous year, how could it possibly appear in Putuo in the capital? In the temple!"
Song Langsheng and I looked at each other, both of them couldn't hide their smiles.
As early as when I reunited with Song Langsheng, I asked him how the fake princess they invited to pretend to be me was placed. If she exposes all this, will it be detrimental to the prince?
He said that the prince himself did not show up, but sent someone to trick the girl into the princess mansion for a long talk as his consort. After ten days and a half, Song Langsheng returned from Jizhou and asked him to cooperate with the previous play and continue acting. It's for today's day.