Cover The Sky With One Hand, Beat The Ground With The Other Chapter 33: (complete)

I got up and left the golden bench, walked down the steps step by step, walked slowly to King Kang, and asked, "Write down the roster? The lord is saying, a person who pretended to be a princess, deliberately investigated the nearly 1,000 guards and personal soldiers in the palace. She also put people's heads on one by one, just to hide people's eyes and ears when someone exposes her?" I said this, as if I was amused and laughed, "Kang Wang'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 whether he ordered someone to murder the princess. Yes, with such an action, even a fool can see that something is wrong, let alone these courtiers are all immersed. A person who has been in a temple for many years?

If the princess of the country is really dead and the crown prince is still young, it is necessary to re-elect important ministers of the auxiliary country. However, Prince Rui is far away from the border thousands of miles away, and Wang Lian has few desires and no political affairs. Besides him, who else is King Kang?

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 on Pan, looked at the Prince Wang and looked at King Kang, and finally fell back to the heads of their respective party members. The two chief ministers of the cabinet stood there with a pestle, Zhao Shoufu bowed his head and pondered, and Li Guojie kept staring at him. Looking at me, I asked, "Uncle, don't you think I'm fake?"

My uncle has always been well-rounded. If I am really a fake, the ten out of ten are also instructed by the prince, how can he refute his nephew's face?

Uncle Li respectfully raised his hand and saluted me, "I don't dare, how could the princess' body of all gold be impersonated by an ignorant pariah? It's just that the evidence presented by the Ministry of Punishment is really puzzling, which is strange. , and you should find out before you can correct the princess' name."

I walked up to Jiang Feng, the minister of punishment, and asked, "You investigated this case?"

Jiang Feng was nervous when I looked at him, he swallowed, "It's Wei Chen."

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 female 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 Fengdao: "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: "Dossier."

Jiang Feng was stunned, "Huh?"

I said coldly: "Do I need to repeat this princess a second time!"

So I read the case file presented by Jiang Feng in full view of the public, but I didn't close it after scanning it, and only said, "Where is Shen Rong?"

Shen Rong raised his sleeves and stood up: "The minister is here."

I held the file with one hand and spoke more quickly: "It is recorded in this volume that more than a year ago, under the leadership of an old couple, the yamen of the capital found a female corpse at the bottom of the cliff of Lingshan. The corpse's head was on the ground, its brain burst, and its face was blurred. Only a hairpin could not identify its identity, and it became an unsolved case. When you re-examined the case, you found that the jade of this hairpin is rare, and it is very likely that it came from the palace. , Fang reported 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 lay it flat in my palm, "Why don't you let Master Shen repeat it, why is this jade?"

"This jade is called Liuli Jadeite. Its texture is clear like ice, and its color is green and blue. It is a rare blue flower ice, which should be a tribute to the southern Xinjiang."

"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 empress, presumably many maids in the princess' residence can recognize it. But..." I intend to I paused and turned to look at King Kang. His expression had changed a bit. I turned to look at the court officials, and said loudly, "I think Master Shen has 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 set 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, such a slender hairpin will fall to the ground..." Before I finished speaking, I let go. He held his hand, and let the hosta in his hand hang in the air, while everyone sucked in a breath of cold air, only to hear a click—

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!"

"What should I do with this princess's things, and what should I do with others!"

Kang Wang is angry: "You!"

I didn't bother to pay attention to him, so I turned around and stretched my arms toward everyone: "This precious hosta just slipped out of Ben Gong's hands and was torn apart, not to mention standing a thousand miles?! Back then, the female corpse at the bottom of the mountain was completely shattered, and The hosta is still intact, and there is not even a trace of bumps. Don't you think it is incredible?! If you can determine your identity based on just one piece of jewelry, if one day the princess's palace was stolen and the treasure was shipped to the people, it could be that all the girls on the street are Xiang Xiang. Where's Princess Yi!"

The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty said yes again and again. 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. I leaned over and looked at the witness who was kneeling on the ground. With a smile, I walked up to the old couple in the mountain village, squatting, and asked them to raise their heads and take a good look. I, 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" is naturally the second personal ID card that King Kang brought. The one who looks 70 to 80 percent 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 obviously the same, which one fell? Entering the cliff, I, how can I tell the difference, old lady, you, come and see..."

The hall is full of grief.

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 would have 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 card would confirm the crime of impersonating me. This move was actually a bit worse.

I got up and looked at King Kang, and then I returned to his question: "The so-called witness of the king, I can't even tell that girl apart, how can I prove that what they saw that day was indeed Princess Xiangyi. No doubt?"

Kang Kang's body was shaken. At this moment, he realized his flaws. Before he opened his mouth, the witness who looked like a "princess" shared the Lord's worries and said, "I am the evidence. If you are serious 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 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 in my bed in the Princess Mansion for a year, I think she was infected by my innate intelligence, and she could ask such embarrassing questions.

I blinked and asked, "What's your name, girl?"

"Yu Li."

"Miss Yuli, you just said, 'The concubine saw that you were born very similar to the princess, and threatened you with your family to make you pretend to be the princess', isn't it?"

Yu Li said: "Yes."

I stared at her face that looked like my own, and bent down, "Then, do you still remember when and where you were seen by the concubine, and how did he threaten 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. When he saw the people's daughter from a distance, he dispatched people Let the girl go into the princess's mansion, he will let the girl pretend to be the princess, if you don't obey, the parents of the girl will be in danger."

"I see." I stood up with both hands on my knees. At this time, the courtiers were already frowning and whispering to each other. 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 last year, how could it be possible to show up in Jizhou? In the Putuo Temple in the capital!"

Song Langsheng and I looked at each other and couldn't hide the smiles in their eyes.

As early as when I reunited with Song Langsheng, I asked him how the fake princess they invited to pretend to be me was arranged. If she exposed all this, would it be detrimental to the crown prince?

He said that the prince himself did not show up, but he sent someone to trick the girl into entering the princess' mansion for a long conversation. After ten days and a half, Song Langsheng returned from Jizhou to let him cooperate and continue the previous scene. Acting, it is to prevent the day today.

The blood on Yu Li's face instantly turned pale, and the hand at the corner of her sleeve was silently tightened, and I said, "I don't know who this princess asked you to come here to talk nonsense, but I want to remind you one thing, if You really pretended to be a princess, and you deceived the king..."

Yu Li raised her head suddenly, I stared into her eyes calmly, and said, "The crime should be punished."

Yu Li stared at me with trembling lips, and her tears had already fallen unconsciously. After she realized my last words, she finally kowtowed a few times and burst into tears: "Princess, spare your life, It was King Kang, who saw that the little girl was very similar to the princess and forced the little girl to go to the palace to give false testimony..."

Kang Kang's face was as pale as rice paper, and there was fine sweat on his forehead. Not only did he not accuse others of his injustice, but he was beaten down. I am afraid that this step of the situation was unexpected.

How could he give up so easily after years of hard planning?

Kang Kang still maintained a calm posture with his hands behind his back, looked at Yu Li coldly and said, "This woman said she wanted to identify the fake princess when she came to me, but now she heard that she would be beheaded and immediately changed her caliber, such a strange change. Is it gullible?"

He pointed to the person kneeling on the ground in Chenjia Village and asked me, "Could it be that this king can bribe the entire village to do this perjury!"

I opened my eyes and said nonsense: "But these people don't know this princess. What is Chenjia Village, this princess has never stepped out of the capital, but there is evidence of His Royal Highness the Prince and the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty."

"...you!"

I calmly said: "There are always similar people in the world. This girl Yuli is in front of me. I just heard what these villagers said about the 'Hefeng' girl. Maybe it's the same. The prince can determine the authenticity of the princess based on her appearance. Isn't it too hasty?"

Kang Kang gritted his teeth and sneered a few times: "Do all the ministers think so!" His eyes swept the audience, as if waiting for someone to speak for him.

There are smart people standing on the hall. Who dares to speak for King Kang?

Of course, there may be another person who can prove that I lived in Chenjia Village.

It was Nie Ran who remained silent from beginning to end.

Today, Xia Yanghou is also one of the masterminds behind all this, so Nie Ran will not sit idly by.

Sure enough, Nie Ran raised his head slightly, raised his sleeves and said, "Wei minister thought that even that girl Yu Li was different from the princess..."

"But," Nie Ran said, "Wei Chen once passed through a town on his way to Beijing to report his work, and met a fisherman who was so similar to Wei Chen that it was difficult to distinguish...

"The minister knows that the world is so big that if there are villagers who have seen a woman who looks like the princess and mistaken it for the princess, it is not impossible."

Nie Ran finished.

It's true that he didn't carry much weight in the courtroom. However, after a few words, as far as King Kang was concerned, the backer of the Marquis of Xiayang was gone.

Kang Kang was dumbfounded, and everyone was stunned, including me.

I was surprised, not because he didn't help King Kang.

After all, during the two years when Nie Ran was still Xu Fang, Xia Yanghou claimed to the outside world that the prince was ill.

Marquis Xiayang has more important plans, and King Kang is just a **** he wants to use.

If things fail, Xia Yanghou will only abandon his son.

However, Nie Ran just needs to keep silent, so why bother?

He was afraid that people in Chenjia Village would recognize him... Is he Xu Fang?

No, if he was buried in the crowd, Uncle Niu Tau and Aunt Niu Tau would not find him on his knees like that.

Instead of saying these words, it may cause unnecessary trouble for myself.

Could it be...he just wanted to help me?

I can't see through Nie Ran's deep, sea-like eyes. I shouldn't think too much about this season.

My heart is calm and I lift my skirt, step by step back to the golden seat.

Then, at the moment of turning around, he said awe-inspiringly: "Who else suspects that Ben Gong is impersonating, you can stand up!"

My voice echoed throughout the hall, and everyone looked around, but no one responded.

I waited and waited, but there was no movement, "So... all the ministers never doubted this palace, did they?"

All the ministers are obedient to their promises.

I suddenly slapped the case, and the memorial on the case jumped three times: "What did you all do when the princess was framed by others! Why, did you see the father and emperor lying ill in bed, you all thought about it one by one? It's impossible to drive Ben Gong from the position of supervising the country by disobeying him!!"

All the officials in the hall knelt down and shouted, "The ministers are negligent, the ministers should die".

"Who is standing in this temple today, who is not a high-ranking official, who is a very noble minister? But it is difficult to be the crown prince, and when the court is indiscriminately disturbed, all the princes are rolling, but no one dares to stand up, only Knowing and observing the situation and then moving, wisely protecting yourself..." I took a deep breath, "It makes this palace feel really cold."

As soon as these words came out, they stunned the hearts of everyone. Everyone dared not speak out, nodding their heads and kneeling.

Another person in the center of the hall did not kneel.

King Kang.

I no longer look peaceful, "Uncle, just now you said that if I were really the princess, you wouldn't ignore the courtesies of the king and ministers."

Kang Kang has a sad face. If he knelt down at this time, it would be an admission of my identity as a princess, and he admitted that he was conspiring to be framed and framed. ?

In the end, he knelt down: "I...I meet the princess, the princess is a thousand years old, a thousand years old."

"My ministers, be flat."

At this moment, everyone stood up, but King Kang kneeled alone.

I said, "Uncle Huang, can you plead guilty?"

King Kang said: "The minister mistakenly believed in others, thinking that the princess had been harmed by a traitor, so while I was heartbroken, I vowed to find out the envoy to avenge the princess. Loyalty can be to the shining sun and moon..."

"Used by others?!" Before he finished speaking, the crown prince could no longer listen, "You are deliberately planning to harm my imperial sister, and the confession of Lu Lingjun, a student of the Imperial College, is clearly written, and everything is your ambassador. , the assassins in Huafang and Guozijian were both sent by you, do you want to blame others now?"

King Kang said resolutely: "I really think that the princess has been unpredictable, so I asked my disciples to secretly check her true identity. If I knew the identity of the princess and wanted to kill it quickly, why would it be openly in the hall today? Testify against the princess?"

The crown prince was furious, "If that's the case, then..." He paused, put his head beside me, and asked in a low voice, "Imperial sister, what do you think of Lu Lingjun's testimony?"

I stayed for a while.

Brother Lu...

Before I came to the palace from the Princess Mansion today, I was kidnapped to see him in prison.

He was still in a coma when he opened the cell door due to the many scars from the interrogation. He only opened his eyes in a daze after the jailer drank a few words.

I asked the jailer to step down, but he had to stand outside because he couldn't squeeze into the cell because of his gorgeous clothes.

When Lu Lingjun saw me, his whole body froze for a moment, he turned his head away for a moment, because the arc was too large and seemed to twist his neck, so he raised his hand to support it, tilted the back of his head and said, "Since Her Royal Highness has already thought What are you going to do for the confession you want..."

I thought about it a thousand times in my mind: "For a while, I'm afraid I need you to testify against King Kang in the hall."

Lu Lingjun's sneering voice was exaggerated, and he still turned his back to me, "Anyway, I will never betray King Kang..."

My heart is a little bitter. At this juncture, he still wants to hide from me, "Okay."

Lu Lingjun sighed instead: "Huh?"

I repeated: "During the court trial, you said in front of the officials that you never knew my identity. You killed me, and King Quan Yinkang told me that I was going to plot against the prince."

Lu Lingjun listened to me quietly and asked, "Why?"

I didn't answer him, I lifted my skirt and tried to walk away. He was about to stand up, but he stumbled and fell back to the ground. I saw the **** cloth wrapped around his knee. His, I can't imagine how painful it would be for him to be interrogated after pulling out the arrow, but after he fell to the ground, he propped himself up again, leaned against the wall with one hand and jumped to the door on one leg, "You, don't you want to pull Has King Kang fallen?"

I shake my head.

Lu Lingjun was a little anxious, he wanted to hold my shoulder, but when he got close, he stopped in mid-air because of his dirty hands, "Don't you know that if he doesn't fall today, he will suffer endlessly in the future. Is it?"

"So what?"

"...so, so..."

Pantothenic acid in my nose, trying to suppress the waves of anger in front of my chest: "So, do you want me to defy my conscience and push you to death in exchange for temporary peace?"

Seeing me like this, Lu Lingjun was speechless, "You..."

"Do you know how angry I was when the concubine told me that you couldn't kill anyone in that spot?" I looked back at him and burst into tears, "How could you deceive me and use my hand to What about killing my best friend?!"

Lu Lingjun looked at me blankly, his eyes turned red in an instant, but he was so clever, but at the moment he couldn't say a word to refute.

I resolutely said, "So Brother Lu, even if you went to the main hall and said that you were indeed ordered to kill me by King Kang, I will try my best to overthrow me, so you don't have any hope of sacrificing yourself for others, so You don't look like a hero, and you don't look loyal."

However, Lu Lingjun suddenly knelt down and knelt in front of me.

That "dong" made my heart tremble.

Lu Lingjun lowered his head, his voice hoarse not like his, "Kang King Xiao Weiyan is my enemy who killed my father and mother."

I suspect I misheard, "What?"

"Brother Bai, you only know that I was a beggar when I was a child. Have you ever wondered why I became a beggar?"

"My father was originally an anti-Japanese navy officer along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. He and my mother were childhood sweethearts, and they were originally a pair of envious couples. When Xiao Weiyan was on his southern tour, he accidentally saw my mother and fell in love with me. Mother." Lu Lingjun brushed the corners of his eyes with his hand, "Brother Bai is so smart, you can guess the later story without mentioning it, right?"

I slowly squatted down: "He...killed your father to get your mother?"

"Like the official ship that exploded that day, my father did not die in the battle against the enemy, but was trapped on the military ship by his own design and burned alive."

I looked at him, he said so plainly, but every word was full of hatred, "I was only six years old the night my father died, she was afraid that Xiao Weiyan would not let me go, So he desperately took me all the way to escape, but in the end, in order to save me..."

He swallowed a few times, his breath was shaking, but he couldn't speak any more.

"Brother Bai. Remember when we first met, I said I wanted to be the head of Princess Xiangyi?"

He smiled at me, water in his eyes, "I always thought that Princess Xiangyi was omnipotent, and if she helped me, I would definitely be able to avenge my revenge. But I didn't expect that when I met you, I didn't know what to do. I didn't know you were the princess, and you were kidnapped to Guozijian because of your self-righteousness."

I didn't laugh. The past is really unbearable.

"I have always regarded you as my good brother. Once drinking, you ran to the back mountain of Guozijian while we were asleep. I quietly followed you, and then I found your daughter's body and eavesdropped on it. The conversation between you and Nie Siye and Wei Jijiu."

I was dumbfounded, "You..."

"Didn't you ask me when I started to know your identity? Only then did I know that you are a princess. You have amnesia... no wonder... you don't remember me."

I frown.

Lu Lingjun shook his head and did not continue the topic, "Afterwards, King Kang learned that you were in Guozijian, and ordered me and Su Qiao to monitor you all the way. Until the killing order was issued, although I was secretly careful, I didn't. It's time to save you from falling into the water."

It turns out...that's it.

"At that time, I thought you were dead, and I wanted to kill Xiao Weiyan immediately. But when I found out that you were still alive, I made a decision - if I acted as a guest of King Kang and treated you in front of everyone's eyes An assassination attempt, perhaps, is a good opportunity."

Lu Lingjun raised his head and looked at me, even if his clothes were ragged and his hair was disheveled, he still couldn't stop the brilliance of his eyes, "Although this road has no return, but..."

He smiled, "Brother Bai, if you really think of me as your best friend..."

He said word by word: "Finish me."

——End of this chapter

The author has something to say: The first two weeks were busy with various engagements, and I was very active in writing on the weekends! There are actually 14,000 words in this chapter. There are too many words. I'm afraid everyone will struggle to read it... The chapter of power and strategy is updated twice... So the meaning of this sentence is... The next update can be read in two days. ...all positive comments! ! ! There are so few messages, I can't help but wait for the message to update or something...

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