The fake daughter of a fallen ghost is reborn

Everyone looked in the direction of Huo Zhiyu.

I saw a little girl, about the age of 16, with a cute and fair face. The jade rabbit glass hairpin on her head made her look even more charming.

And the person following behind him had a pair of rippling almond eyes, like a lake, sparkling in the sunlight, as if shining, but bottomless.

She was clearly wearing the clothes of a Master Attendant, but her steps were steady and she did not show any servility at all.

It was Huo Zhiyu and Xue Zhiyi.

Looking in the direction of Huo Wuyou, Xue Zhiyi exchanged a glance with him. She clearly saw that his shoulders, which were tense due to nervousness, relaxed for a moment.

After just a moment, she looked away.

She followed Huo Zhiyu and bowed, only to hear Huo Zhiyu say: "Anle pays respect to His Majesty, and to Grandmother."

Seeing her, the Queen Mother also breathed a sigh of relief.

Concubine Wu Lifei was struck by lightning, and her expression was a little hard to control... Just now, Yu Yu came to report clearly that Huo Zhiyu had been knocked unconscious and sent to Liuhuaxie, so how could he be safe and sound here now?

She almost blurted out: "Why did the princess come back at this time?"

The moment she said this, she realized she had spoken out of turn and quickly shut up. She felt the empress dowager's gaze on her was unsettling.

"Where have you been? Why did you come so late?" The empress dowager still spoke softly when facing Huo Zhiyu.

Huo Zhiyu rubbed his forehead and said, "Anle greedily drank the second brother's wine before the banquet, but he didn't expect that the alcohol was so strong that he was drunk and couldn't stand up. Anle was afraid that grandma would punish him, so he didn't dare to let anyone know, which made grandma worried."

"Zhiyi, is this the case?" the Queen Mother asked her.

Xue Zhiyi bowed and said, "Your Majesty, it is just as the princess said."

Seeing Huo Zhiyu coming back, the emperor was relieved: although Huo Zhiyu was not the only candidate for the marriage, even if she died, there were still others to choose from, but after all, she was the person Helian You liked, and he preferred Huo Zhiyu to be the one for the marriage.

It was a false alarm, so he just acted like an elder, joked with Huo Zhiyu for a few words, and then let her sit at the table.

Some were happy while others were sad. They returned safely. Everyone present, except Concubine Wu Lifei, Concubine Ge and Xue Panrou were also extremely shocked.

An Zhaoyi's eyes wandered over the faces of several people, and then she sighed leisurely, "Come to think of it, someone just reported that Master Xue Zhiyi was plotting to murder the princess."

Huo Zhiyu was surprised: "How could it be? Zhiyi has been taking care of me in Yuhua Pavilion, why would she want to harm me?"

Like watching a play, An Zhaoyi looked at the person who was trembling and kneeling on the ground: "Xue Panrou, tell me something?"

Xue Panrou, whose knees were numb from kneeling, suddenly shuddered. She was so scared that she almost broke her voice: "No... No! Your Majesty, I just found the princess's pearl hairpin by the Taiye Lake and I am worried about her! How dare I lie to you!"

The plan was completely disrupted. Concubine Ge panicked for a moment, but soon calmed down. With a bit of anger on her face, she said to the emperor beside her: "Your Majesty, Xue Panrou is so bold that she disrupted the banquet just by imagining things. I think the fact that Xue Zhiyi had murdered Anle in the Xue family was also a lie made up by this lowly slave."

Perhaps because she was about to die, Xue Panrou's brain suddenly came up with a rare excuse: "Your Majesty, I just made a wrong judgment this time and had no intention of deceiving you. But it is true that Xue Zhiyi pushed the princess into the water! Even if she didn't do it today, it doesn't prove that she is innocent!"

Hearing this, Huo Zhiyu refuted on the spot: "You are lying. Don't I know whether Zhiyi has harmed me or not?"

But Concubine Ge pretended to be concerned: "An Le, this servant was sure that you fainted that day, and did not see the real culprit who pushed you into the water, so he dared to speak nonsense."

Every word Concubine Ge said increased Xue Zhiyi's suspicion.

So everyone looked at Xue Zhiyi, she just lowered her eyes, walked to the center of the banquet, bowed slowly to the masters in the palace, and said: "I am Xue Zhiyi, I beg Your Majesty to allow me to ask Xue Panrou a question."

The emperor's face was gloomy after seeing all this trouble in front of the envoys, but he still agreed: "Go ahead."

Xue Zhiyi just glanced at Xue Panrou beside him, which made her shudder again.

Xue Panrou now no longer has the delicate appearance she once had. She is now pale and thin, with unkempt hair and dirty face. There is dirty mud on her clothes and fingers. She is hunched over and curled up on the ground.

Even so, Xue Panrou still stared at Xue Zhiyi, as if it was Xue Zhiyi who had robbed her of her good life, just like the clothes and jewelry she had robbed in the Xue Mansion before.

"Xue Panrou." Xue Zhiyi called out.

"You said you saw me harm the princess with your own eyes?"

"Yes!" Xue Panrou answered her with her neck stiff.

"Okay." Xue Zhiyi just smiled slightly: "Then do you remember the day when the princess fell into the water? What day was it?"

Xue Panrou was stunned for a moment. Before she could speak, Xue Zhiyi smiled slowly and said, "That day was the wedding ceremony of Zhao Shen, the third son of the Zhao family, the Marquis of Yongping, and your sister Xue Hanshu."

As she spoke, her smile deepened: "Because you admired the Third Young Master Zhao, you became jealous of Xue Hanshu and were sent to the Xue family's farm to reflect on your mistakes. The Third Young Master Zhao and the Third Young Master's wife should know about this."

At this moment, the faces of the Zhao family members all changed, and they seemed not to want to mention this disgraceful marriage.

"If that's the case, Xue Panrou, how can you be a witness?"

"I……"

After saying this, Xue Zhiyi bowed to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, this matter is very easy to verify. We only need to find the servants of the Xue family's farm at that time and ask them. In addition, many of the guests at that wedding were at today's banquet. I wonder if anyone saw Xue Panrou at the Xue family that day?"

Hearing this, Concubine Ge was also stunned: God damn it! Xue Panrou didn't mention this matter when she came to surrender that day.

At this moment, Xue Panrou finally felt scared... She was shaking like a sieve: It's not like that! The person who ordered her swore that there would be no problem, so she dared to make up this lie!

At this time, someone laughed and said, "I remember someone just said that if what she said was false, she would die as a token of apology?"

The Empress Dowager, who always had a kind face, now had a cold face: "You spread rumors to slander the people around me, and even tried to implicate A Yu. Not only did you disrupt the banquet, but you also committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. How could a servant in the palace have such courage? I'm afraid it's not a personal grudge, but someone's instigation. How do you think the emperor should deal with it?"

The emperor had already been embarrassed enough in front of the envoys. Hearing this, he just wanted to make a big deal out of it. He just said calmly: "It's just a servant's fault. There's no need to make a big fuss. Let the queen handle it according to the palace rules."

Although it was downplayed, who doesn't know that following palace rules would lead to death?

Xue Panrou almost fainted on the spot. When the guards came to drag her away, she screamed unwillingly, "Your Majesty, spare my life! Your Majesty!"

Seeing that the emperor was unmoved, she belatedly turned to someone else for help: "Empress Li! Empress Li, you can't just ignore me! It was you who asked me to slander that bitch Xue Zhiyi! You promised to take me out of the palace!"

For a moment, everyone's expression changed again.