Chapter 496 - Show Her Ability, and Match Point by Point (2/2)
Mo Xuetong was nothing like her usual submissive look. She said decidedly, with a slight sneer. She was still on her knees, but her upper body was straight.
At this point, she knelt on the ground, and You Yue’e sat beside, which was very inappropriate.
As for the guilty person, You Yue’e should kneel to plead guilty, but she, an irrelevant person, was sentenced to kneel.
The Empress had no shame in helping Feng Yulei.
If the Emperor saw this scene, how should the Empress defend!
“You… you…” The Empress didn’t expect Mo Xuetong to be so stubborn. She was so angry that she pointed at Mo Xuetong and her fingers trembled, but she could not speak. To ask the Emperor to reason? Of course she did not dare to go. Even if she had a point now, she was out of it. The Emperor asked her to deal with this matter, she did not deal with Consort Yan, but drag Consort Xuan down. The Emperor would be furious.
“Consort Xuan, how could you say that? Mother is the Empress. How can she favor King Yan? The fact is that Mo Manor’s people came to make trouble, and someone even tried to break into King Yan’s Manor and kill King Yan. If it hadn’t been for the guards there, this time the King Yan’s Manor would have been doomed.”
Finding that the Empress could not resist Mo Xuetong, You Yue’e hurriedly said.
Her words were tactful, as if she were frightened. She brought the topic to the level where someone was killing Feng Yulei. If someone else had said that, it would have been somewhat persuasive, but on Consort Yan’s part, it just made her look suspiciously like she was hiding something.
“Someone tried to kill King Yan?” Mo Xuetong caught the point of You Yue’e’s words and asked.
“Yes; if it hadn’t been for the guards sent by His Majesty, the King Yan’s Manor would have been in danger this time.” You Yue’e replied hurriedly.
“Does it have anything to do with the Mo Manor?”
“Of course. How could this have happened if those people hadn’t come to make trouble? King Yan was so frightened that he still lay in bed and could not get up. So many things happened all at once, I…” You Yue’e looked worried and panicky, as if King Yan really met the a.s.sa.s.sination. “I don’t know who deliberately brought people to a.s.sa.s.sinate King Yan on the day the Mo Manor came to make trouble.”
What she said was misleading, making people think that the people who incited the Mo Manor to make trouble must be the people who killed Feng Yulei!
It was scheming and malicious!
As long as Mo Xuetong admitted one thing, the second was naturally her fault.
“Consort Yan, apart from the fact that my fourth sister died unjustly. Even if a common second consort dies, shouldn’t the King Yan’s Manor return justice to her family and make the matter known to the public? Why are all the people involved dead? Consort Yan, you, too, come from a great family. You must have seen how the wives of great families killed the concubines, right? Which of the reasons they used was not false? Can such an excuse really be used as a reason?”
Mo Xuetong coldly smiled and did not excuse, but on the other hand, gave You Yue’e a hard blow.
You Yue’e was born in the Mingguo Manor, so she could be regarded as a daughter of a great family. She had seen back yard fight, of course, many times. How could she not understand it was an excuse when all the people involved were dead? Anyway, Mo Xueqiong was a second consort of the royal family. Why did she die without any explanation?
“As far as I know, in addition to a few old maids who went to your manor this time, they are only young maids and a concubine of the highest status. How did a couple of women get to be the ones who tried to kill King Yan? Could King Yan have been frightened and sick because of some women?” Mo Xuetong did not give You Yue’e a chance to react. She looked at her in the eye and coldly pressed.
King Yan was scared to lie on the bed by a concubine and some maids. Even ordinary men would feel ashamed, not to mention the n.o.ble prince. If this got out, Feng Yulei was going be a jerk. Everyone would despise him and wouldn’t support his bid to the throne in the least.
Through a few words, Mo Xuetong refuted You Yue’e until she couldn’t say a word. Her legs seemed to be numb, and she forced herself to stand up, holding on to the step beside her. Then she turned to the Empress up above, and said sadly, “Your Majesty, since you are protecting Consort Yan, I have nothing to say. Now that you want me to kneel, I am willing to kneel in the Qianqing Palace to face His Majesty, asking him to give me and King Xuan justice, so that he will not be implicated by me and become other’s target.”
Now that they were willing to make a fuss, she was not afraid. Just making it as big as possible. Rebellion? Then adding a charge of trying to kill his brother in the struggle for the throne!
At her words, the fury on the Empress’ face miraculously disappeared. There was a flicker of confusion in her eyes. She knew better than anyone that if they did come to the Emperor, she would get nothing out of it.
The Emperor had always had a problem with her because of King Yan. This time he had asked her to deal with the matter of Consort Yan, which was a warning to her. If she really stimulated Mo Xuetong to go to the Qianqing Palace, the Emperor would never spare her, not to mention the arrogant and eccentric King Xuan Feng Yuran.
She had thought that Mo Xuetong could only swallow her pride and obey her orders when she entered her Tianfeng Palace. As long as she suppressed her with her status and pushed everything on her, she could torture Mo Xuetong and even kill her. She would call the shots. Then King Yan could get away with it, and his wife could push it all on Mo Xuetong.
However, the Empress did not expect that Mo Xuetong, who had always been a delicate girl, would suddenly become so rebellious, as if she were someone else. She dared to speak up to the Empress and asked to see the Emperor. She really grasped the Empress’s weakness. The Empress could hardly believe her ears.
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