Peaceful Farm Life

Chapter 1092: Chapter 1093: Confrontation to Their Faces

Gong Juechen once again looked at Xiao Changyi with satisfaction, ”You hear that, you hear that? This is it, you still didn’t believe, now do you?”

Xiao Changyi also ignored Gong Juechen, unflinchingly continued to question the old woman, ”You only heard this sentence, and nothing else?”

The old woman spoke truthfully, ”I happened to hear just this sentence, and then, immediately after, my mistress was scared, she quickly covered her mouth and left, and I hastened away with the food box. I just heard this sentence, I didn’t hear anything else.”

Xiao Changyi fell silent.

Seeing Xiao Changyi silent, Gong Juechen looked at him askance, ”Stop thinking about it, the witness is right here, and the exact words have been told to you. You can’t think up an excuse for him now, and even if you could, it wouldn’t be persuasive.”

Xiao Changyi first glanced at the old woman, then stood up, and said to Gong Juechen, ”Let’s go, I will take you into the palace.”

”For what?”

”To confront him face-to-face.”

Seeing Xiao Changyi still did not believe, and even wanted to confront the issue, Gong Juechen became angry, ”I’m scared of you, am I? Fine, let’s go! But let me make it clear beforehand, you better take good care of my sister. If something happens to her as well, watch me turn into a vicious ghost and haunt you every day!”

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Upon entering the palace, Xiao Changyi straightaway led Gong Juechen to the Jun Palace.

The Emperor of Xiyun had just returned from court and was in the Jun Palace preparing to change out of his court attire but hadn’t yet, when he saw Xiao Changyi walk in with Gong Juechen.

”Chenglin...” Seeing Gong Juechen made the Emperor’s heart extremely complicated. Why doesn’t he look more like me?

Simultaneously, the Emperor gestured to the palace attendants to hold off on helping him change out of his court attire.

Upon seeing the Emperor, Gong Juechen scoffed, ”I’ve come to the palace today. Whether you want to kill or flay me, do as you please!”

”Chenglin, you...” The Emperor truly did not know what to say to his son, and instead, turned to Xiao Changyi. ”Yi Er, have you figured it out?” Otherwise, why would he have brought him here?

Xiao Changyi said, ”There are some words I would like to confirm with you, whether they were spoken by you.”

”What words?”

Xiao Changyi did not hesitate at all and blurted, ”’I will kill all of them, I only want Chengyu as my son, I really want to see, with just Chengyu as my son, who else would dare to contest with Chengyu for the position of the Crown Prince!’ These words, were they said by you?”

Gong Juechen once again felt both grief and envy. Who dares to speak as ’I, the Emperor’, except for Xiao Changyi, this adopted son? Yet Su Haoyu didn’t mind, didn’t mind at all.

”Where did you hear these words from? I have never said such a thing,” the Emperor felt utterly baffled.

Gong Juechen immediately became excited, ”My imperial consort mother heard them with her own ears outside your door, it was you who said it, and you still won’t admit it?! Shall we bring over that maid named Ling’er from my mother’s quarters to confront you right now? She also heard it!”

The Emperor felt wronged and also became indignant, ”If I said I haven’t said such things, then I haven’t, you keep trying to tarnish my reputation, are you sure you are really my son?”

Gong Juechen was both angry and sad, and replied, ”I wish I weren’t your son!”

Xiao Changyi seeing both the Emperor of Xiyun and Gong Juechen looking as if they weren’t lying, fell silent for a moment, but then asked the Emperor once more, ”Old man, on the tenth day of the third month of XX year, did you really not say this?”

”I did not—”

The Emperor opened his mouth intending to deny, but before he could finish his words, Eunuch Fu stepped forward, whispering to him, ”Emperor, you did say it, it was on that day, you truly did.”