The scheming empress starts by conquering men

Emperor Feng said in a deep voice, "Raise your head."

The girl with pockmarks raised her head, and Emperor Feng stared at her fiercely.

Seeing that she was frightened and her eyes were evasive, Emperor Feng rubbed the ring on his thumb and did not speak in a hurry, but waited slowly.

Until the girl with pockmarked face could no longer bear the pressure and kowtowed to beg for mercy.

"Your Majesty, please spare me. I was forced by the Sixth Princess to buy and sell feathers! Your Majesty, please spare me!"

"The Sixth Princess also threatened me that if I dared to report her, she would kill my entire family."

"Please Your Majesty, please make the decision!"

Emperor Feng looked at her with a smile on his face.

"You're just admitting it yourself."

The girl with pockmarks lowered her eyes, her eyes rolling around, and said as Shaodian Haolan had instructed.

"I didn't know that selling feathers was illegal. It was because the Sixth Prince gave me too much money, and I was blinded by greed. In order to force me to collect more feathers for her, the Sixth Prince... caused many people's families to be ruined and deliberately forced them to sell feathers."

She spoke fluently, without any stumbling, just like she was reciting something.

Yin Wenqi frowned slightly, thinking to himself, this is bad.

She glanced at the Second Prince, then at Ma Nvzi, secretly observing the Emperor's expression.

I thought, could this person not be the Second Prince's man?

Just when she had some doubts in her heart, Ma Nvzi was still explaining.

"Many transactions were made by me. I was forced to do so. The weapons I made were also made by the Sixth Prince..."

"Enough!" Emperor Feng shouted coldly, his eyes piercing with poison as he looked at Shaodian Sishui. "Is this what you call injustice? What else do you have to say?"

Shaodian Sishui walked forward and knelt down quickly.

"Your Majesty, if you want to accuse me of something, you can always find a pretext. I don't know this person, and besides..."

"How dare you quibble!"

Emperor Feng glared at her and interrupted what she was about to say.

"Although you are the Sixth Princess of the Great Sixth State, and my daughter, a princess who breaks the law is subject to the same punishment as a commoner. From today on, the Sixth Princess Shaodian Sishui will be demoted to a commoner."

Emperor Feng looked distressed. "Sixth brother, please don't blame me. I want to give an explanation to the Great Zhou and the court officials."

"Come here and prepare a decree."

Shaodian Sishui raised his head and looked at Emperor Feng with pain in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, are you trying to convict me based on only one side of the story? Or are you trying to cover up for my second sister and frame my younger sister?"

"Bastard!"

Emperor Feng stared at her with murderous intent in his eyes.

"What nonsense are you talking about? When did I ever frame you? It's obvious that you are asking for death." Shaodian Haolan retorted angrily.

"Really?" Shaodian Sishui sneered, stood up, and said proudly, "I am the daughter of the great Zhou Emperor, of noble status. The feather matter is of great importance. How could I be involved with such an insignificant person?"

She looked at Shaodian Haolan, her expression full of sarcasm.

"Second sister, don't think that just because you found someone to teach her how to talk, you can really frame me upside down. You want to accuse me of something I didn't do. That's just wishful thinking."

"How dare you! I am the emperor's eldest daughter, how dare you speak to me like that!" Shaodian Haolan was furious.

Shaodian Sishui said, "Since Second Sister said that I know this person, and this person just said that all the cooperation was done through her, is that right?"

Shaodian Haolan narrowed his eyes and nodded as a matter of course.

"It's natural."

She had captured this person with great difficulty, and he confessed under severe torture. However, she was not an important contact person. However, in order to capture Shaodian Sishui, she deliberately made this person an important contact person.

Originally, she had a relationship with Shaodian Sishui. What she did was just to confirm it, not to really frame him.

"Okay!" Shaodian Sishui looked at Ma Nv; "Since the cooperation between me and you was all done through you, it means that you can read and write, and you have some skills, right?"

Ma Zi felt a little guilty and his eyes were a little evasive, but he still said with a stiff upper lip; "Of course."

"Okay!" Shaodian Sishui picked up the memorial and handed it over to the emperor. "This memorial says that I was bewitched into buying the feathers by the Second Princess. Do you admit it or not?"

Ma Zi took the memorial. She couldn't understand the words on it, but she could still understand the conversation.

This memorial must have been written by the Sixth Princess, who deliberately produced evidence to sue the Second Princess in order to clear herself.

Although she didn't understand why the royal family wanted to kill each other, the second princess said that only if the sixth princess was demoted today would she have a chance to survive.

Not only will she survive, but she will also have countless wealth and glory waiting for her.

Thinking of this, she pretended to take the memorial and read it, without even noticing that she was holding it upside down.

When Emperor Feng saw this scene, he felt his temples throbbing and sighed inwardly.

In order to pave the way for Hao Lan, she was too impatient.

"Haha, you are really amazing. You didn't even know that you held the memorial upside down?" Shaodian Sishui deliberately reminded him.

Shaodian Haolan was startled and looked at the people.

She can't read?

How could this happen? She can't even read...

Yin Wenqi closed his eyes and sighed to himself.

It's over. This person was indeed arranged by the Second Princess. The Second Princess was so confused that she even lied to her. She should have told me everything so that she wouldn't be so passive.

Not only will she fail to bring down Shaodian Sishui today, but she herself will become a discarded pawn.

Yin Wenqi had an ugly look on his face. He stood there without saying a word, but was thinking about what was right and wrong in his heart.

Ma Nvzi quickly held the memorial upright, and said tremblingly, "Yes, I held it upside down. This is a memorial, and I dare not read it."

Shaodian Sishui shouted, "You dare not read, or you can't read."

"Even if I am stupid, I would never collude with a lowly and illiterate person like you."

“They’re also selling feathers!”

Shaodian Sishui turned and looked at Emperor Feng.

"Mother Queen, please understand clearly."

"enough!"

Emperor Feng covered his chest with his hands, his expression became extremely ugly, his eyes swept across Shaodian Haolan and Yin Wenqi's faces, and then glanced at the kneeling Dengren.

"Come here, take this evil-minded man out and execute him."

When she heard that she was going to die, Ma Nv quickly begged for mercy.

"Your Majesty, please spare me! Please spare me, Your Majesty!"

She was carried out, and seeing that asking His Majesty for help was useless, she turned to Shaodian Haolan for help.

"Second Prince, help me, Second Prince. It was you who let me frame you..."

"Shut her mouth!" Emperor Feng ordered coldly.

Asako looked at the second princess with despair in her eyes, and even with her mouth blocked, she still did not forget to call for help.

“Mmmmm…Mmmmm…”

It seems to be shouting, Second Prince, Second Prince...

Shaodian Sishui looked at Shaodian Haolan with an unpleasant expression, and then at Emperor Feng.

"Mother Empress, my second sister has teamed up with others to frame me. How will Mother Empress deal with this?"

Shaodian Haolan knelt down quickly, his face full of fear.

"Mother Queen, I am wrong."

As soon as she said this, Yin Wenqi stood up, took off his official hat and knelt down to hand it to her.

"Your Majesty is wise. This matter is entirely due to me. It has nothing to do with Your Majesty. I found the witness and wrote the memorial."

"It was because I believed the slander and misunderstood the Sixth Prince that I deliberately asked the Second Prince to intervene, which led to the current situation."

"If I had not failed to find out the reason and been deceived by that person, I would not have misunderstood Your Highness."

"I am old and my eyesight is dim. I am no longer qualified to serve as the Imperial Censor. I beg Your Majesty to spare my life and allow me to retire and return home, considering my years of hard work for the Great Zhou."