My Lady is well

Chapter 147 The Truth

Lady Meng stared at her intently, her eyes full of confusion and disbelief.

"Sister Shen, how did you do it?"

Shen Yueyao raised her hand and gently rubbed her chest a few times, then looked back at her and chuckled.

"It's very simple. If you want to learn, I'll teach you some other day."

A sharp-eyed concubine saw the emperor standing not far away and shouted hurriedly.

"Your Majesty, the Emperor is here."

Everyone quickly suppressed their surprised expressions and forced themselves to maintain a dignified demeanor to welcome the emperor.

Upon hearing the voice, Shen Yueyao also stood aside and greeted with everyone else.

"I, my concubine, see you, Your Majesty."

When the man passed by her, he stopped and glanced at her. Shen Yueyao caught a glimpse of the corner of his robe being slightly wet. She raised her head and glanced at him. There were a few tiny drops of water on his eyelashes, and he was staring at her seriously.

It seems that he didn't hold an umbrella on the way here.

He said in a deep voice: "This harem is so lively!"

As he was speaking, palace servants had already arranged a chair behind him.

Of course, these words were spoken to the mistress of the harem. The queen immediately took two steps forward, bowed, and explained the whole story.

The emperor frowned and glanced at Master Kongzhi with a cold look. When he withdrew his gaze, he swept past the queen. He picked up his robe, sat on the armchair, took out a memorial from his sleeve and handed it to the queen.

"What a coincidence! Today, I also received a memorial from the Imperial Observatory, saying that the child in Concubine Shen's belly is incompatible with my fate."

The queen's eyes trembled slightly, and she looked at the memorial at hand in panic. She turned her head to glance at Shen Yueyao, and seemed to have made some kind of decision, with a sharp light flashing in her eyes.

"Your Majesty, what Concubine Shen did today was too strange. It's beyond the capability of an ordinary woman to do this. It's no wonder..."

The emperor glanced at her coldly and she fell silent. However, if she missed the opportunity today, it would be difficult for her to take action against Shen Yueyao again.

She choked and coughed for a while, her breathing was disordered, and it took her a long time to catch her breath.

She had never gone against his wishes in her life, but for Cheng'an, she decided to go against him this time, she knelt down and said.

"Your Majesty, what Concubine Shen did today is no different from a demon. In addition, what the Imperial Observatory said, I dare to ask Your Majesty to treat Shen Yueyao as a demon."

The emperor said coldly, "No hurry, the queen has already set up the stage today, we have to let the actors sing a few more lines to make the show more enjoyable, the queen should get up first."

He raised his eyes to look at Shen Yueyao and said, "Shen Jieyu, tell me, what's going on? Don't tell me that you really have any magical powers."

Shen Yueyao stepped forward, bowed and said, "How could I, your concubine, have such ability?"

If she really had magical powers, she would have flown out of the palace long ago.

"It's just some tricks."

She casually picked up a piece of yellow paper, which happened to be the one that Concubine Li had just seen. Looking at the word "Rakshasa" that appeared on it, her long eyelashes flickered a few times. Her peripheral vision unconsciously observed the expression on Li Ning's face. She seemed to have sensed something and glanced at Shen Yueyao with murderous eyes. She immediately retracted her gaze and continued.

"There is a folk saying that this is called catching ghosts in the act. In fact, the principle is very simple. Use iodine to write what you want to write on paper in advance, and then dip it in starch water. Iodine does not dissolve in water, so the blue words will appear. In simple terms, starch turns blue when it meets iodine."

Jing Ruzhang had never heard of what she said. He considered himself to be well-read and had seen records of this in books.

How did she know this?

“What is iodine?”

"It's a chemical substance. Uh... Iodine is found in many things, the most common of which is salt."

After hearing this explanation, everyone immediately understood.

"Oh my, this monk is a liar! This... this is Master Kongzhi, how could he do such a thing?"

"What kind of master? He got the title by cheating and swindling."

"No, I really heard that Master Kong Zhi is very powerful."

"..."

Jing Ruzhang was silent, thought for a moment, and continued to ask.

"That fire-breathing...but rosin powder?"

Shen Yueyao smiled and nodded.

"Back to the emperor, exactly."

Lady Meng also reacted, glanced at the person sitting there, walked over and asked in a low voice.

"Is this the same as those fire-breathing performances on the street? Do they also use rosin powder?"

This stumped her. She had never seen those fire-breathing performances, so she shook her head.

"I don't know. I just know that rosin powder can spit fire, which is very intimidating."

Jing Ruzhang glanced at the monk with his hands clasped together. Master Kongzhi was a high-ranking monk in Jinfa Temple. How could he do such a fraudulent thing?

He even tricked his way into the palace!

He ordered, "Luo Zhong, go and ask Censor Chen to come over."

His cold eyes were fixed on Master Kongzhi, with an ambiguous look in his eyes.

"I heard that Lord Chen had the honor to play chess with Master Kongzhi in Jinfa Temple. You two played chess for three days. Now that the master has come to the palace, I want you to have a good reunion."

When the monk heard this, his face changed drastically. He knew the emperor was here, and if he continued to lie, his whole family might be in danger.

His eyes were filled with panic, his legs went weak and he fell to the ground, sweat dripping from his forehead and he was shaking like a sieve.

Concubine Song Rong also shrank and hid behind the queen, trembling all over.

"Your Majesty, I am not a commoner, not Master Kongzhi."

After hearing this, even the Queen was so shocked that she was speechless, and looked at Concubine Song Rong with a blank look.

Shen Yueyao was not that surprised. In her opinion, this monk was just a charlatan, and an unreliable one at that.

But she never imagined who was so stupid as to invite a charlatan to come to the palace to cheat!

If he dressed up as a Taoist priest, perhaps she would believe him a little. But why did he have to dress up as a monk to catch monsters, thinking he was Fahai?

How could the queen, who is such a smart person, do such a lowly thing?

What the emperor just said about the Imperial Observatory seemed like her work.

Jing Ruzhang said coldly.

"Excuse me, Queen, where did you find such a thing?"

The queen was so shocked by the monk's words that she couldn't recover for a long time and shouted.

"Rong Fei, didn't you invite Master Kong Zhi here?"

Concubine Song Rong immediately knelt on the ground and explained while crying.

"I... I didn't know it was so difficult to invite Master Kongzhi..."

Jing Ruzhang's brows were already filled with anger, and he spoke in a deep voice.

"what happened?"

The monk was so frightened that he kowtowed repeatedly: "Your Majesty, please spare my life, Your Majesty, please spare my life, I confess, I confess everything. It was Concubine Rong. Concubine Rong failed to invite Master Kongzhi, and she happened to see me catching ghosts for someone, so she gave me two thousand taels of silver and asked me to dress up as Master Kongzhi and go into the palace to perform a ritual, accusing Concubine Shen of being a demon."

Concubine Song Rong knew that the matter had become a big deal, and she panicked and spoke incoherently.

"I... I, I, I was also deceived. He was clearly very powerful at that time. He cut the paper man with a wooden sword and the paper man was bleeding. Who knew that he..."

The emperor angrily asked, "Concubine Song Rong, do you know what you are talking about?"