Chapter 147 From the real trick
After listening to Wu Zetian's questioning words, Shangguan Wan'er was like a 2-year-old King, unable to touch her head. Her brain quickly turned to search for what she had done recently. What was wrong with her? However, she got nothing and could only answer in a low voice: "I don't know what the crime is! Please make it clear to you!"
Wu Zetian turned around suddenly, her face was not as obvious as when she threw the porcelain, but her expression was very cold. Shangguan had only seen such a look two years ago. At that time, she was captured by Wu Zetian and wanted to kill and cut them all in the words of the latter. At this moment, the emperor's expression made Shangguan Wan'er feel the same, as if the emperor wanted to kill and scrape her.
Seeing Wu Zetian's scary expression, Shangguan Wan'er quickly fell down and knelt down, and said softly: "Your Majesty, please punish me if you have any mistakes."
"Look at what this is!" Wu Zetian squeezed out a sentence from his teeth, raised his hand to Shangguan Wan'er, and a white handkerchief was thrown out, crossed the dragon's desk and flew towards Shangguan Wan'er.
In theory, the handkerchief has a soft texture and cannot control the projection direction. However, Wu Zetian, in anger, used too much force and even threw the handkerchief in front of Shangguan Wan'er.
Shangguan Wan'er walked a few steps forward, picked up the handkerchief and saw it, and immediately recognized it. It was Yan'er's handkerchief, but she didn't know how Yan'er's handkerchief was in the hands of the emperor.
"Your Majesty, this is my maid Yan'er's handkerchief." Shangguan Wan'er said, her tone calmly. She thought in her heart that the emperor must have had some misunderstandings.
"Yan'er's handkerchief?" Wu Zetian frowned at the hearing, almost believing Lin Shangguan Wan'er's words. However, she immediately thought that Shangguan Wan'er was extremely smart. She must have used words to make excuses her when the situation was not good. Therefore, she became even more angry. She pointed to the latter with her hand and said sternly, "Then tell me, how did Yan'er's handkerchief come to the hands of the man in Jixian County!"
Why did Yan'er's handkerchief get into Zhang Lin's handkerchief?
Hearing this, Shangguan Wan'er immediately remembered that day Zhang Lin forced himself to break into Yingtianmen and had a conflict with Zhang Jianzhi. She was slapped by the latter and bleeding from the corner of her mouth. She asked Yan'er to take a handkerchief to wipe Zhang Lin's face. Later, she didn't remember whether the handkerchief was returned. To be honest, Shangguan Wan'er had a lot of things to do, so how could she remember a handkerchief? If it was not returned, the handkerchief should have been left with Zhang Lin. How could it be here for the emperor? Could it be that Zhang Lin took the initiative to hand it over to the emperor? That shouldn't be. Zhang Lin wouldn't be so stupid that he was uncomfortable. Perhaps the emperor discovered it accidentally when he arrived at the Cuiyang Palace? Perhaps there was such a possibility.
It seems that the emperor is very angry! For such a handkerchief, is it? Perhaps the emperor thinks from the handkerchief that the owner of the handkerchief has an affair with Zhang Lin, so this must be the case.
Shangguan Wan'er immediately figured it out and felt that she had to explain to the emperor that the handkerchief was used to wipe blood for Zhang Lin and had nothing to do with her affair!
But how to explain it? Tell the truth to the emperor, then the matter of Zhang Lin stealing the emperor's order from the palace will be exposed. This is not conducive to Zhang Lin. If you don't explain, the emperor will not be able to pass this level.
Also, why did the emperor get angry at me? Could it be that the emperor thinks that the handkerchief belongs to mine? It must be like this. But the emperor did not say that the handkerchief belongs to mine. I am eager to clear it up, and it may aggravate her suspicion. It is better to explain later.
Seeing Shangguan Wan'er lowering her head and silent, Wu Zetian became even more angry and shouted: "What, are you talking about?"
"Your Majesty, this is Yan'er's handkerchief, you should ask Yan'er." Shangguan Wan'er's expression was as usual and said quickly.
"Yan'er's handkerchief, Yan'er's handkerchief! You slut, you still want to fool me!" Wu Zetian's mouth twitched, and his voice was trembling! Wu Zetian is a master of palace fighting, so how could he fool her with such a trick!
Generally speaking, the emperor was very polite to Shangguan Wan'er, and the word "slut" was hardly used on the latter. It seems that this time, the emperor was very angry. Shangguan Wan'er felt a deep chill and even murderous intention from Wu Zetian's words.
Shangguan Wan'er was so scared that she trembled. She quickly took out her handkerchief from her arms, stacked it with Yan'er's handkerchief, held it up with both hands, and said in fear: "Master, although my handkerchief has the same color and pattern as Yan'er's handkerchief, there is a gold embroidered 'Wu Wang' on the horn of my handkerchief."
Wu Zetian rushed to Shangguan Wan'er angrily, reached out to grab the two handkerchiefs. When she looked at him, Shangguan Wan'er was right. The two handkerchiefs were almost exactly the same, but on the corners of the handkerchief, one was embroidered with gold silk with a word Wuwang in official script, and the other was embroidered with a curling smoke.
"What does this mean?"
"This is my reminder to myself that you will not Don't forget the mighty kindness of Your Majesty to me."
"Hmph~" After hearing Shangguan Wan'er's explanation, Wu Zetian sneered twice. She knew very well that "Wuwu'er" must be Shangguan Wan'er's hatred, but she did not get entangled in this matter because it was not a secret.
The reason why Wu Zetian got angry was because of a handkerchief! Even Yan'er's handkerchief, how could it be on Zhang Lin? This matter is untolerable! She shouted outside the door: "Trag Yan'er, that slut in!"
Is this handkerchief Yan'er's? Xing'er first thought that Shangguan Wan'er was lying. Later, when she heard the latter telling the difference between the two handkerchiefs, she believed it because the horns of the handkerchief were indeed embroidered with smoke. She was too excited at the time and did not notice this detail. After believing that, she began to be afraid because she falsely accused Shangguan Wan'er, and her guilt was not light. Fortunately, there were other evidences so that she could remain calm and not tremble.
When Cui'er heard this, she secretly thanked that if Panjie accused Shangguan Wan'er of accusation, she would definitely be a death sentence.
"Yes!" The guards standing outside the hall gate agreed. Not long after, the two guards dragged Yan'er into the hall gate, and threw them on the ground next to Shangguan Wan'er like a sack.
"You damn maid, you will bring the ugly things you have done!" An extremely strong murderous aura appeared on Wu Zetian's face, like a demon god who was about to start a killing, glaring at Yan'er.
When she was dragged in, Yan'er was already scared to death. She was thrown by two guards and almost died. It took a long time to recover. She saw Shangguan Wan'er lying on the ground, saw fragments of porcelain on the ground, Xing'er and Cui'er kneeling in the hall, and saw the emperor standing on the imperial stairs with murderous aura. Her heart sounded like a war drum. Although she didn't know what was going on, she knew it was definitely not a good thing.
"Your Majesty, I should die. I really don't know what ugly things I did, which made the emperor angry." Yan'er collapsed on the ground and said tremblingly.
"Tell me, whose handkerchief belongs to?" Wu Zetian threw down the handkerchief embroidered with a curling smoke.
Yan'er crawled over, picked up the handkerchief, and immediately understood what was going on. That day she followed Shangguan Wan'er all the way to Yingtianmen, and she felt that something would happen in the future. Later, the matter did not happen, which made her breath a little relieved, but her heart never put it back. Now when the emperor took out the handkerchief, he knew that something had broken out, and the paper could not contain the fire.
Yan'er lay on the ground, not thinking about how the handkerchief came to the emperor's hand, but was thinking about the answer. He turned his head and looked at Shangguan Wan'er, who knelt on the ground without saying a word, and did not look at her at all. Yan'er knew that the fate of their master and servant was hanging in her answer. If one answer was wrong, Shangguan Wan'er would inevitably be severely punished by the emperor, and she would suffer with it, and the consequences would even be more tragic than her master.
Chapter completed!