Facing Liu Pei'er's questioning, Su Ningxin still acted calmly and without any panic.
"It's impossible for your father, princess, and concubine to lie to others. Your husband must have never left the courtyard of your mother's concubine. You may have met someone else in the palace. Why don't you describe your attire and I'll send someone to look for it?"
At this time, Liu Pei'er was deeply trapped in the fear of being seen by a servant. Naturally, she could not describe the other party's attire calmly, but the girl who was with her at the lake told her about the other party's attire.
Su Ningxin showed a clear look and looked at Liu Pei'er apologetically, "Miss Liu, you may have met Eunuch Mu. He was rewarded by the palace and has been waiting in my husband's yard."
The father-in-law Mu in Su Ning's heart was naturally Xia Mutou. She asked Xia Mutou to go to the garden and see what tricks these girls could do.
She originally wanted Chu Jihan to go, but Chu Jihan was called away by the princess. Su Ningxin saw that Xia Mumu was also tall and straight, and looked very similar to Chu Jihan in stature. She might be able to confuse the fake with the real one.
Moreover, Xia Mumu's treatment in the house has always been good, and he has never been treated like a servant when it comes to dressing up. He is basically given good materials, so when he goes out wearing ordinary clothes, it makes people feel like a young master from aristocratic families. This will not make people feel deliberate.
Unexpectedly, these girls really disappointed her. They actually played the trick of falling into the water. She had lived in ancient times for two lifetimes and had seen such scenes more than twenty times. All she could say was that ancient people really had no imagination. I don’t know how to read more travel notes.
"Eunuch?" The old lady of the Liu family couldn't help but lost her voice, and the slightly higher volume brought Su Ningxin back from her thoughts.
Su Ningxin nodded, "That's right. If Miss Liu doesn't believe it, I'll have someone call him over so you can identify it with the other girls."
After saying that, Su Ningxin winked at Shuanghua behind her, and Shuanghua obeyed the order.
While waiting for Xia Mutou to come over, the old lady of the Liu family and Liu Pei'er were worried. They didn't know whether the result was good or bad.
If you say it's bad, eunuchs are not considered men after all. Being looked down upon by a eunuch shouldn't be considered a loss of innocence. But if you're good, being slighted by a eunuch doesn't have a good reputation no matter how you look at it.
Su Ningxin stood aside and looked at the expressions of the Liu family's ancestors and grandsons, and couldn't help but want to laugh. They really underestimated the prejudices of the world.
If Liu Pei'er was seen by servants, it would be okay for her to go to the family temple and nunnery for a few years, wait until people forget about it, then come back low-key, and finally marry someone with a poorer family background.
But if the person who scorns her is a eunuch, that kind of person will look at Liu Pei'er strangely, and people will talk about it for who knows how long. After all, eunuchs, servants of the royal family, do not have a good reputation among the people, especially The border is a place where military commanders are popular, but military commanders hate eunuchs.
Shuanghua soon brought Xia Mutou over, and the girl who was with Liu Pei'er at the lake recognized Xia Mutou at a glance as the person who was at the lake at that time, making Liu Pei'er unable to even quibble.
It's a pity that Liu Pei'er still didn't give up at this time, "He is your servant, you must have framed me."
Liu Pei'er yelled at Su Ningxin that she just wanted to bite others. In fact, she didn't even think that Su Ningxin framed her. After all, how could Su Ningxin calculate when she would fall into the water? Liu Pei'er just thinks that Su Ningxin is a soft persimmon and thinks that Su Ningxin is easy to handle.
Su Ningxin said calmly, "Ahem, cough, cough, why did Miss Liu say this?"
"You know that I am the old princess who wants to betrothed to the prince as a concubine, so she wants to make me lose my innocence and not be able to enter the palace." Liu Pei'er said directly, regardless of the obstruction of the old lady of the Liu family.
Her words made everyone present look ugly. After all, being a concubine was not a glorious thing. Everyone had tacitly agreed not to mention it, but now it was exposed by Liu Pei'er.
"Miss Liu, are you kidding me? It is impossible for a husband to take a concubine. Our county prince has been loyal for generations, how can he disobey the imperial edict?" Su Ningxin said calmly.
Listening to Su Ningxin's words, Princess Yaoyi and the others couldn't help but get a little excited. Come, come, come, Tu Qiongdagger has met.
However, they didn't know that the dagger that appeared after the plot was not meant to stab Liu Pei'er.
"What is disobeying the imperial edict? What do you mean?" the old princess asked.
It is estimated that everyone wanted to ask this question, but it was difficult for others to ask, and Liu Peier was pressed down by her grandmother.
Su Ningxin looked at the old princess with doubtful eyes, "Grandma, don't you know? When the emperor issued the decree for the marriage, it was written in the imperial edict that Chu Jihan was not allowed to take concubines and marry concubines. If you don't believe it, you can get the edict. Take a look and enshrine it in the ancestral hall."
"Dong Ping, go get the imperial edict and show it to me." The old princess said angrily. She didn't believe there was such an edict. Doesn't this prevent people from spreading their ideas
Dongmei on the side said cautiously, "Old princess, Dong Ping hasn't come back yet."
When the old princess heard this, she was so angry that her temples jumped, but now there were more important things, so she could only hold back again and let Dongmei get the imperial edict.
After a while, Dongmei ran back with the imperial edict in her hand. Judging from the panting look, she ran very fast. As soon as she entered the door, she knelt on the ground holding the edict and said in horror, "The old princess is not good. The imperial edict is lost."
This sentence once again shocked everyone present. How could the imperial edict be lost
"Go and call the princess over to discuss the matter." The old princess was also a little panicked, and Dongmei hurried away again before she could take a breath.
Su Ningxin looked at this chaotic scene, hiding her merits and fame.
In fact, Su Ningxin didn't just want to play with them about what happened today. She also had her own purpose, and the purpose was the imperial edict of the ancestral hall.
In fact, the ancestral hall of the County Prince's Mansion cannot be said to be well-guarded, because it is relatively remote and no one except the master is allowed to enter, so the usually gloomy servants walk around it. No one thought that anything would be lost there, so the princess went there. I enshrined the imperial edict in front of the ancestor's shrine as before and didn't think much about it.
This gave Su Ningxin an opportunity. When she replaced the fragment of the imperial edict in Xiao An's brocade box, she cut out her own marriage edict. Although the emperor later sent another blank edict, she There was no intention to turn the blank imperial edict into a marriage edict. It was really not a waste of natural resources.
So she put the blank edict together with Chu Jihan's edict in the ancestral hall. Because the princess accompanied her in putting it in, no one took a look before putting it in, so she got away with it.
After putting it away, Su Ningxin turned around and stole the blank imperial edict again. What happened today was to get rid of the blame for losing the imperial edict. As for who would pick it up, she had naturally chosen a candidate.
(End of chapter)