Yu Sangning was choked with sobs by the end of his speech.
"You are talking nonsense, you are slandering me!" Madam Yu Wu had a ferocious look on her face and pounced on Yu Sangning, but was stopped by the guards who were quick-eyed and quick-handed.
Yu Sangning turned around reluctantly and kowtowed to His Majesty: "Every word I said is true, I beg Your Majesty to examine it. I was forced by others, and I also took into account the relationship between sisters, which led to a big mistake. I am willing to accept the punishment."
Xiao Changmin, who was kneeling beside Yu Sangning and stretched out his hands to protect Yu Sangning when Yu Wu Niangzi was about to pounce on him, couldn't help but praise Yu Sangning in his heart. At this moment, he admired Yu Sangning from the bottom of his heart. They had escaped this disaster.
As long as he was not the one who put the aphrodisiac incense, it would not be considered as treason. As long as Bu Shulin was safe and sound, at most he would be reprimanded by His Majesty.
Yu Sangning resolved this crisis in a way that even Xiao Changmin was impressed.
It was all a plot from the moment she deliberately spread the news that she had parted with him on bad terms and ran back to her parents' home full of resentment. She knew clearly that Cui Jinbai and others were always watching them, and no matter what they did, they would be incriminating themselves. So she let her incrimination be successfully exposed by Cui Jinbai.
She did go to find her uncle and aunt, and she did want them to sacrifice Yu Wu Niangzi. Her uncle and aunt could not bear to refuse the benefits she promised, so they went to the Tianlao to persuade Yu Wu Niangzi. Yu Sangning also expected how Cui Jinbai would threaten Yu Wu Niangzi to tell the truth, because she knew her cousin too well. She knew she was an unreliable person and could be made to tell the truth by just a casual threat.
The real plan started when Cui Jinbai thought he had obtained Yu Wuniang's confession.
At this time, Cui Jinbaihui would report to His Majesty immediately. Since the matter involved the prince, the prince of Southern Shu, and the princess's mansion, His Majesty would definitely come to inspect it in person. It was at this time that the Dali Temple and the Zongzheng Temple would think that the truth was out and would completely relax their guard.
During the time she was brought to the palace, her uncle and aunt had already arranged everything in her cousin's room, which was evidence of her cousin's love for Bu Shulin.
Both the witnesses and the physical evidence will be clean and neat.
By the time Yu Sangning and Yu Wu Niangzi have finished their confrontation, all the evidence will be ready for His Majesty to order someone to get it.
The evidence is very simple, but in order to achieve perfection, one must rely on Xiao Changmin's connections.
Xiao Changmin has a brothel, and there is a painter in the brothel. This painter did not appear out of nowhere, but has been working in the brothel for many years, so his identity can withstand investigation.
As early as when Xiao Changmin told him that he suspected Bu Shulin was a girl, Yu Sangning guessed that the brothel belonged to Xiao Changmin. She had ordered people to secretly find the painter last night, and painted a lot of portraits of Bu Shulin overnight, some of which were even made to look old, and handed them to her uncle and aunt. When she was brought into the palace, she decorated them in her cousin's room.
My cousin's maid couldn't stand the interrogation, so she committed suicide out of fear of punishment. Before her death, she wrote down what her master had done. It may seem clumsy and won't stand up to scrutiny, but there can be no evidence after death. As long as it was written by the maid herself, it would be irrefutable evidence.
The last step was for the palace to go buy servants for perfumery and medicinal materials. This servant was naturally ordered by Yu Sangning. Yu Sangning had already been married to Xiao Changmin, so it was not unreasonable for the servants in the palace to obey her orders.
As for why Yu Sangning thought of instructing the people in the palace so early instead of the people around him, Yu Sangning also had an explanation for Cui Jinbai's questioning: "Although I am not very smart, I can guess that these spices are different from the fact that Fifth Sister is obsessed with Bu Shizi. Otherwise, why would Fifth Sister not go to look for them herself and have to force me?"