funbook-pk Chapter 272: A single bite back at the Xie family, and the Xie family is doomed.
Chapter 272: A single bite back at the Xie family, and the Xie family is doomed.
"Mingzhu?!" Xie Ansheng and Xie Yuhe both looked at Xie Mingzhu in shock.
Above the palace, all the courtiers stared in astonishment at the woman who had dared to barge into the Golden Palace.
Luo Cheng'an was also stunned.
"Mingzhu, what are you doing here? This is the Golden Palace! Guards, take her away immediately!" Luo Cheng'an's voice was urgent.
She was afraid that if she was too late, the emperor would drag her out and kill her.
"Your Majesty!" Xie Mingzhu's heart pounded. She raised her voice and knelt down in the center of the Golden Palace, shouting, "Your Majesty, I have something important to report!"
Jun Lanjin stood to one side, looking at Xie Mingzhu with a deep gaze.
"Miss Xie had better have something important to do. Trespassing into the Golden Palace is a capital offense."
Jun Lanjin's voice was soft and low.
Xie Mingzhu froze, her eyes searching aimlessly for a familiar voice in the palace.
Luo Hanfeng stood in the crowd and gave her an affirming look.
Xie Mingzhu then opened and closed her eyes and said, "Your Majesty! The one who poisoned me in the imperial kitchen yesterday, trying to kill me, was my father, the Grand General Xie Ansheng, who raised me!"
Boom!
Xie Ansheng was struck dumb, staring wide-eyed at Xie Mingzhu in disbelief.
How could she know?
"Mingzhu?!" Xie Yu exclaimed, his voice rising slightly, "Nonsense!"
"Have you lost your mind?"
"How could Father do such a thing?"
The Chu Emperor's angry expression paused. He narrowed his eyes, sat back on the dragon throne, and looked at Xie Mingzhu with narrowed eyes, asking, "Hmm? Where did you get this idea?"
"Since Xie Qing is the father who raised you, how could he do such a thing?"
Xie Mingzhu glared angrily at Xie Ansheng, a tear sliding down her cheek as she said, "Your Majesty, when I learned of this, I couldn't believe it either."
"Perhaps I have learned something I shouldn't have known, so Father intends to kill me to silence me."
"Since Father doesn't care about our past relationship, don't blame me for being ruthless."
Xie Mingzhu kowtowed three times in the direction of Xie Ansheng.
In an instant, Xie Ansheng's body felt extremely cold, and he swayed.
If it weren't for someone supporting him from behind, he probably wouldn't have been able to hold on by now.
Xie Ansheng would not have believed it if he hadn't witnessed it firsthand.
Xie Mingzhu actually did such a thing, and even in such an extreme way.
Xie Ansheng turned his head, and at that moment his eyes were filled with despair and helplessness.
He is afraid.
She feared that Xie Mingzhu, upon learning the truth, would angrily reveal her identity to the public.
In that case, the Xie family will be wiped out without a proper burial.
Xie Yu's heart skipped a beat. Although he already knew how things would turn out, when he actually faced this scene, his heart felt as cold as ice.
He looked at Xie Mingzhu with icy eyes: "Mingzhu, have you been used?"
"Are all these words things you wanted to say yourself, or did someone else teach you to say them?"
Xie Mingzhu avoided Xie Yuhe's gaze.
A sarcastic smile curled at the corner of her lips: "Lately, Father and Brother have been so cold to me, isn't it because I'm not their biological child, and they want to abandon me!"
"Now they're sending people to the palace to poison me. If I don't speak up, I'm afraid what I'll see next in a few days is my own corpse!"
Xie Mingzhu's arguments became increasingly logical, and her voice resonated powerfully.
"Mingzhu," Grand Tutor Gu said in a trembling voice, "do you know what you're saying?"
"If you throw a tantrum, the whole family can close the door and resolve it together, but this is the Imperial Palace, not a place for you to play around!"
Grand Tutor Gu, being quite old, must have been terrified his heart would have jumped out of his chest.
Xie Mingzhu felt guilty.
She didn't want to look at Grand Tutor Gu's face.
Although Xie Ansheng wanted to secretly kill her, the Gu family treated her very well. However, this kindness was taken back after they discovered that she was not Gu Wanyin's biological daughter.
What she's about to say might implicate the Grand Tutor's family as well.
But Xie Mingzhu can't care about that anymore.
She clasped her hands together, placed them flat on the ground, and kowtowed to the back of her hands, loudly proclaiming: "General Xie Ansheng, the protector of the nation, harbors the heart of a villain, hoards countless silver coins at home, trains a private army, and hides dragon cannons!"
Boom!
These words caused an uproar throughout the hall.
what? !
The emperor suddenly stood up and shouted, "Guards!"
The Imperial Guards rushed in from outside in an instant.
The Chu Emperor looked directly at Xie Ansheng and Xie Yuhe, and said, "Take them both away for me!"
"Your Majesty!" Xie Ansheng cried out, kneeling on the ground, "I am completely innocent!"
"Your subject is utterly loyal; how could I have done such a thing?"
"You mean, your own precious daughter would lie and frame you?" Emperor Chu looked at Xie Ansheng coldly.
Xie Ansheng is truly innocent.
Aside from wanting to kill Xie Mingzhu, everything else is just Xie Mingzhu talking nonsense!
That's all made up!
"Your Majesty!" Jun Lanjin slowly walked to the center of the hall, put his hands together, bowed to the emperor, and said in a gentle voice, "Please, Your Highness, do not be agitated."
The veracity of this matter remains to be verified.
Jun Lanjin said, looking at Xie Mingzhu with a cold gaze, "Do you have any evidence to support your claims?"
Xie Mingzhu said, "Father did things very secretly. The reason I know is because Father hid the Dragon Cannon in my boudoir."
"I discovered this before I entered the palace. I was hesitating whether to tell His Majesty, but I never expected that my father would bribe a eunuch to poison me in order to prevent me from telling anyone!"
"Bullshit!" Xie Ansheng's eyes turned red with anger.
He glared at Xie Mingzhu with eyes wide with fury: "My Xie family has treated you well, why are you making up such lies to frame us?"
"You're such an ungrateful wretch!"
Xie Mingzhu pursed her lips, turned her face away, and said coldly, "I'm an ingrate. My father wants to kill me, so am I not allowed to protect myself?"
"Your Majesty!" Xie Mingzhu kowtowed to the Chu Emperor again and said loudly, "Every word I have said is true. I beg Your Majesty to investigate thoroughly!"
Finished!
Xie Yuhe looked at Xie Mingzhu's resolute expression.
We don't know where they came from; this person probably came prepared.
Hiding the dragon robe in her boudoir, she really dares to say that.
Xie Yuhe laughed in anger: "Xie Mingzhu, you say we hid the dragon robe in your boudoir, do you have any evidence?"
"How can you prove that this dragon robe was hidden by us, and not by you, to frame us?"
Xie Mingzhu's eyes were red and brimming with tears as she looked at Xie Yuhe with immense grievance: "Big brother, if you hadn't driven me to this dead end, why would I have done something so self-destructive?"
"Your Majesty," Xie Mingzhu said to the Chu Emperor, "that dragon robe is something I've kept hidden since I was a child. If I hadn't discovered it by chance, I'm afraid I would never have known about it in my entire life."