Back In Time (The Reincarnation of the Cruel Concubine)

First plea

Zhou Ming Hao's plea was approved by the judges and the queen mother, so Yang Jia Li agreed. Irritated, the palace woman sat back on her throne, her hands clenched until her knuckles turned white.

The victory that is in sight must be delayed, even though he has desperately devised this cunning plan to succeed. Damn it, Yang Jia Li continued to grumble inwardly. True to his expectations all along, the desolate and peaceful state of the imperial family was merely a diversion. For Yang Jia Li to feel that he had won and his plan was proceeding normally.

Zhou Ming Hao faced the judge, "Let me bring the first witness."

"Please, Your Majesty."

Zhou Ming Hao immediately gave the code to one of his subordinate soldiers, the soldier hurriedly left the courtyard of the torture hall. Before long he returned while carrying a troupe escorting a middle-aged man. The man with the shabby hanfu who looks like a merchant.

"He was the one who sold the mercury from the Su Dynasty" Zhou Ming Hao said.

The crown prince forced the man to kneel before the judges, "Give me your confession!" her word.

"Ba.ba.ba.well, Your Majesty."

The man choked while quivering in fear, his hands tied and he was ordered to give a confession in front of the chief judge. "Sa. I am a wheat farmer from the southern side, I sell my crops to the Su Dynasty by boat. Every time I come back from the Su Dynasty, I. I always bring mer."

The middle-aged man trembled more and more in fear, but he was even more afraid to see the fierce face of the crown prince standing beside him. "On that day, a well-dressed man came to me to buy mercury, the man offered a very expensive price for a bag of mercury."

"Who is that guy?" ask the judge.

The mercury seller shook his head, "I don't know who he is, but he was wearing expensive silk hanfu. I think he's from the nobility."

"Did you remember his face?" ask the other judge, "What's he like?"

The seller looked up, trying to recall the look of the person who bought the mercury the other day. "An adult man, in his thirties, he was wearing a dark hanfu patterned on bamboo."

"Can you name her physical features!" said the chief judge.

The seller nodded, "In. His body was tall, but he had a scar on his forehead."

Hearing that, the Queen Mother frowned, the only one who might be the son of the person she hated. Of course he knew very well, because he was the one who gave the wound first.

"Zhou Xing Huan!!" said the Queen Mother.

The prince clenched his hands when his name was called out loud, but he was already sitting in the back seat but people were still looking at him.

He passed soon but the queen mother was no less quick, the queen mother ordered the soldiers to head off Zhou Xing Huan. There was a chase to catch the prince, but eventually the man was caught. Zhou Xing Haun was forcefully brought before the chief justice. Accompanied by the scorn of the imperial officials present there, they clearly knew the track record of the outcast prince.

"Is he the one?" ask the judge.

The mercury seller turned his head timidly, he narrowed his eyes as Zhou Xing Huan continued to turn her face away.

"No! Not me." defended the prince, "Where might I do---"

"True, there it is!" said the seller.

Zhou Xing Huan directly rounded her eyes, "How dare you accuse me!"

"Ta. ta. but it's true, you bought a bag of my mercury the other day" he replied.

"How dare you accuse me, you don't have any proof!"

Zhou Xing Huan rebelled as her hands were blocked by the soldiers, she tried to escape but could not. The prince looked at Yang Jia Li about to ask for help, but the woman was instead indifferent, as if she was not involved in it.

Zhou Xing Huan cursed at her choosing to join the scheming empress. He should have had one of his confidants instead of acting alone. The prince was indeed very amateurish for these evil acts, until he missteps. The burning jealous flames due to Wu Li Mei's refusal, were further made smoldering by Yang Jia Li's wiles.

Basically, Zhou Xing Huan was not an evil man. He is kind, polite, and friendly. Even in the queen mother he never held a grudge, he was only reluctant to meet because of the attitude of the queen mother who was always cold.

The queen mother always blamed Zhou Xing Huan's mother because the previous emperor loved her new concubine more. A week after the prince was born, the queen mother made baseless accusations. Little Zhou Xing Huan and her mother were forced to live a life of seclusion. Not enough to get there, the queen mother also scratched a pearl-clad conde stitch on Zhou Xing Huan's forehead.

"Tell me what happened back then!" the judges, they still haven't got enough evidence to make a decision.

The mercury seller nodded quickly, "That day, right on the fifth day of the candra calendar, there was a well-dressed noble and two bodyguards. Each of them carried a gallant and beautiful horse, just like a palace horse."

"Me.. they asked me if I was selling mercury, and I said yes."

"I gave him a bag of mercury powder that was already stored in a special container, the mercury was priced at a very high price."

"Then, is it true that Prince Zhou is the one?"

The mercury seller nodded confidently, he couldn't possibly mistakenly recognize people. Not many faces were that perfect in this Dynasty. "Be. right, the greater hakin."

"No!!!"

"What the fuck do you dare accuse me!"

"No!" the Zhou Xing Huan. "I never did that."

"Right, Your Majesty, you were the one who met me that day. I remember your face and your smile, like a crescent."

"Liar!"

"He's a liar." Zhou Xing Huan tried hard to defend herself, but her brain seemed to be at a dead end to find a way out.

"He didn't say that without proof, uncle." The originally silent Zhou Ming Hao, was busy observing every movement that came.

The crown prince stepped forward, stepping closer to give something to the judges.

"This is the evidence, chief judge."

An object wrapped in a piece of silk cloth was placed on the judge's table, the chief judge reached out to open it. The middle-aged man closed his eyes. He lifted a very beautiful green jade, inside which was a size inscribed.

'YANG JIA LI'

It was not separated from the observation of the empress, her body immediately broke out in cold sweat. He memorized very well with the jade decoration, Yang Jia Li's face became pias for a moment.

"This is saying, Yang Jia Li."