lcionline Chapter 286 Hehehe, you didn’t!
Chapter 286 Hehehe, you didn’t!
Luo Xiaoran nodded to Huo Qingyun, then quickly walked around the two rows of palace maids and soon stood next to a palace maid.
She pointed to the clothes on the tray held by the maid and said with certainty: "This dress has something on it, but the smell is different from the stuff on Concubine Bai's dress."
After these words were spoken, the reactions of the people present varied.
Chen Ji raised his eyebrows slightly. He didn’t expect Luo Xiaoran to recognize him so quickly. She was really... gifted.
Huo Qingyun was also a little surprised. She could remain so calm under the questioning of Emperor Tianqi and Concubine Bai. Luo Xiaoran was indeed not an ordinary woman.
Chen Lingyi and Emperor Tianqi glanced at each other inadvertently. Emperor Tianqi was the first to look away, staring into the void, as if thinking about something.
As the representative of the accuser, Concubine Bai made a sarcastic remark without hesitation:
"You haven't even picked it up and smelled it carefully. Even if you have a dog's nose, you can't tell the difference so quickly. This must be nonsense!"
"Whether it is nonsense or not, neither your Majesty nor I can make a decision. It is better to ask the imperial physician to know the answer."
Luo Xiaoran replied calmly, unperturbed by praise or criticism, in stark contrast to the noisy Concubine Bai.
Concubine Bai was very angry at Luo Xiaoran's stubborn attitude, so she immediately turned to see the imperial physician and asked him to announce the results.
The imperial physician was also shocked by Luo Xiaoran's speed. When he saw Concubine Bai asking him about it, he hesitated for a moment and finally lowered his head:
"The herbs on the imperial concubine's clothes are rare. I couldn't find any at the moment, so I used another kind of colorless and odorless herb and applied it on the clothes that the lady pointed to."
The imperial physician finished his trembling words, and the scene fell into an eerie silence. Finally, Emperor Tianqi showed an interested expression on his face again and spoke first:
"Your sense of smell is so keen. Is it innate? Or did you develop it through some method?"
Luo Xiaoran: …She discovered that Emperor Tianqi was quite similar to herself in a way: they both liked to go off topic and had peculiar focuses.
"Your Majesty, I was born with this." Are you envious? Hehehe, you don't!
A trace of disappointment flashed across Emperor Tianqi's face. After sending the imperial physician and the palace maid away, he stared at Luo Xiaoran, wondering what he was thinking.
"As for the fact that I am in league with Magistrate An, Your Majesty can send someone to Hexi Village to investigate. They will then find out that I do not respect Magistrate An at all, and I even have some complaints against him."
"Oh? Why?" Emperor Tianqi asked.
“I think when the emperor came to Anruo Temple, he must have taken the official road from Yizhou to Fuyuan County. It was built with lime and is flat and solid. It is probably the greatest achievement of the An County Magistrate this year.
But the emperor did not know that this lime official road was built by An County Magistrate under the pretext of corvee labor, forcing the people of Hexi Village and Hedong Village to do so.
Not to mention that the corvée labor this time delayed the spring ploughing of two villages, the magistrate of An County asked us to build a lime road but did not provide us with lime, and even the corvée labor rations were pitifully small.
Later, we went to Chui'an Kiln to burn lime ourselves, raised money to buy lime and food ourselves, and contributed both money and manpower, and only then did we manage to repair this official road within two months.
For the sake of his own political achievements, County Magistrate An has disregarded the lives of ordinary people like us and has disregarded the title of a parent official!"
Luo Xiaoran accused An Luhai indignantly, firmly stating that she would never go along with him, and finally patted her chest and vowed:
"I am just a country girl, making a living in the fields. I never thought that I would be able to see the emperor one day. This is simply a blessing that my ancestors have accumulated for eight lifetimes.
As a subject of the Emperor, I have the courage to respect the Emperor, so how dare I harm the Emperor's concubine?"
yue~~
Luo Xiaoran silently shuddered in her heart, and couldn't help but sigh, it turns out that flattery also depends on the person.
When flattering Prince Yan, Luo Xiaoran did not feel any aversion. It might be because Prince Yan had always blurred the huge gap between their identities in his interactions with her, which made her subtly treat him as a friend and make jokes about him, praising him.
As for flattering Emperor Tianqi, well, you have to bow your head when you are under someone's eaves!
Anyway, she has said everything she should and could say. As for how Emperor Tianqi wants to deal with her, it’s up to him!
Spreading his hands, Luo Xiaoran started to show off!
"What a mean person's words!"
Seeing that Emperor Tianqi was quite moved by what Luo Xiaoran said, Concubine Bai felt sour as to bubble up like a fountain in her heart, and she wished she could tear Luo Xiaoran apart on the spot.
When the incident happened, Chen Ji arrived at the century-old ginkgo tree later, so he had no idea why Concubine Bai targeted Luo Xiaoran.
After sitting here and looking around, he roughly understood, especially when Emperor Tianqi's gaze was cast at Luo Xiaoran many times, his brows would involuntarily frown.
"Empress Bai is a twin. She gets angry repeatedly. I'm afraid it will be bad for the heir in her belly, right?"
"I……"
When Concubine Bai faced Prince Yan, her arrogance suddenly subsided. Prince Yan was a person feared by the entire court, and the Emperor respected him very much. She didn't dare to act rashly towards him.
"I just can't stand Luo Xiaoran's fawning attitude. Everything she said is one-sided..."
"I can prove that everything she said is true." Except for those who are flattering Emperor Tianqi.
Before Concubine Bai could finish her words, Chen Ji interrupted her. There was a cold light in his dark pupils, which attracted the attention of Emperor Tianqi and Chen Lingyi.
"The little monk has already confessed that he was the one who released the snake. Why did An Luhai arrange for Luo Xiaoran to lurk on the ginkgo tree? Isn't it a waste of effort?"
"Maybe he was afraid that the venomous snake couldn't bite me, so he made another preparation and let Luo Xiaoran climb the tree in advance to scare me."
“With the special herbs on Concubine Bai’s clothes, the venomous snakes will follow Concubine Bai whether they are on or under a tree. This is a perfect assassination.
If what Concubine Bai said is true, how did An Luhai know for sure that you would climb the tree, and therefore arranged for Luo Xiaoran to hide in the tree canopy in advance, so that you would be frightened and fall?"
Pretty!
Luo Xiaoran gave Chen Ji a 360-degree thumbs up in her heart, thanking him for using careful logical reasoning to leave Concubine Bai speechless.
"Noble Concubine Bai should pay more attention to taking good care of her clothes. This time, thanks to the protection of the gods and Buddhas, no disaster has occurred. If the royal heir is harmed, is Noble Concubine Bai worthy of the emperor's kindness?"
Chen Ji added one last blow, completely extinguishing Concubine Bai's arrogance. Concubine Bai turned to look at Emperor Tianqi, but received a condemning look from him, and suddenly dared not say a word.
"Uncle, what you said makes sense."
Chen Lingyi, who had only exchanged a few pleasantries with Concubine Bai at the beginning and remained silent throughout the whole process, suddenly spoke up, "It seems that this little girl named Luo Xiaoran was indeed not sent by An Luhai."