Qi Ziyu asked someone to bring a basket, in which lay two belts of different colors and styles.

At first they didn't find anything wrong with the two belts, but after a careful search, they discovered that the two belts contained a secret.

Qi Ziyu bowed and reported: "Father, we found two unfinished men's belts in Concubine Xin's cold palace."

The emperor stared at the bamboo basket. Eunuch Gu walked forward and took out one of the belts inside.

Gu Yuan took a look and said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, this is indeed a men's belt."

The emperor's eyes darkened, and he asked coldly, "My Lady, who did you make this belt for?"

"Who else could it be? Besides Your Majesty, who else would I make a belt for?"

The tears on Concubine Xin's face had not yet dried, and tears were now falling from her eyes.

She sniffed, her eyes full of grievance, "Why? Only Concubine Liu is allowed to make calming incense for Your Majesty, but I am not allowed to make a belt for Your Majesty?"

The emperor was speechless. Is this really the belt made for him?

Xin Ya sneered at Si Yan and said, "Why? You're making such a fuss about a belt?"

Si Yan spoke calmly and calmly, "Your Majesty, may I ask if Concubine Xin has ever made a belt for you before?"

"Never." The emperor thought for a moment and replied with some disappointment.

Not only did Xinya never make him a belt, she never even made him a piece of clothing.

Xin Ya quickly said, "Your Majesty, I was previously busy with harem affairs and really didn't have the time to make clothes for Your Majesty. Now that I've been banished to the cold palace, you're not even allowed to make two belts to pass the time?"

No one spoke, but Xinya opened her mouth and said whatever she wanted to say.

Qi Ziyu said calmly: "Father, the waist size of this belt doesn't seem to match your size."

As soon as Qi Ziyu opened his mouth, everyone's eyes immediately fell on the belt.

Anyone with a sharp eye could see at a glance that the emperor had gained weight, his belly was protruding, and his waist was obviously much larger than the belt.

Xin Ya's face flushed with anger as she asked, "Why? This noble concubine has never done such rough work, and I don't know your majesty's waist measurements, so my work is a little off. Is that not okay?"

She wasn't really doing it for this dog emperor, so the size was certainly wrong, but she couldn't admit that she was doing it for another man.

Qi Ziyu said with a cold expression, "The wrong size isn't a big deal, but it's strange that there's a tiger head embroidered on the inside of the belt."

Qi Ziyu took the belt and turned out the tiger head pattern sewn inside.

"We all know that this tiger head pattern is used by the royal family of Beimang. This shows that Concubine Xin's belt was made for the people of Beimang."

As soon as Prince Yong finished speaking, there was an uproar in the Si family hall, but considering that the Xin family had colluded with the enemy and committed treason, it was not surprising.

Xin Ya clenched her fingers and clenched her fists. "Prince Yong is simply slandering me. How can the tiger head pattern be forbidden? How can it be exclusive to the Northern Mang Kingdom? Why can't people like me in Daxuan use it?"

Si Yan said coldly: "It is useful, but even if you want to embroider bird and animal patterns, the imperial concubine is embroidering it for His Majesty, so it should be a dragon, not a tiger... Obviously, this is not for His Majesty."

When Si Yan said this, Xin Ya's face turned pale for a moment.

Her lips trembled: "Si Yan, it's just a belt, how can you make so many fuss about it?"

The emperor picked up the belt and looked at it, and felt that the belt did not seem to be for him.

Xinya had never made these things for him before, and after being banished to the cold palace, she was even less in the mood to do them for him.

Besides, she had just gritted her teeth and pointed the sharp hairpin at his throat.

The emperor didn't believe anything she said.

Seeing the emperor's expression as cold as ice, Xin Ya couldn't help but add: "Okay, this concubine admits that this belt is not for Your Majesty, but for Prince Xin."

Everyone sneered and no one believed it.

The Xin siblings are full of nonsense and are good at shirking responsibility.

Si Yan glanced at the other belt in the basket calmly: "This is not about one belt, but two belts. Concubine Xin gave them to two men respectively."

Xinya's heart started beating wildly. Si Yan's eyes were so vicious.

Xin Ya said gloomily, "Anyway, you are now a first-rank court lady in front of His Majesty. Whatever you say is what goes."

Si Yan took out another belt from the basket and put it on the dead Gan Li without saying a word.

Everyone looked up and their expressions suddenly changed.

The emperor's expression suddenly changed color.

I saw that the blue belt that Si Yan put on Gan Li was exactly the same as the belt Gan Li was wearing.

"Noble Concubine Xin, how come the belt you're embroidering looks exactly like the one Gan Li is wearing?"

Xin Ya was speechless for a moment. After she was banished to the cold palace, she personally embroidered a belt for Gan Li to remind him not to forget her.

Unexpectedly, Gan Li came to see her overnight, wearing the belt she gave him and saying that he liked it very much.

She then said she would embroider another one for Gan Li to wear as a change... Before she finished embroidering this one, she escaped from the palace.

Xin Rui was able to secretly enter the palace and escape with her through the secret passage thanks to Gan Li's secret help.

But they didn't expect that the brother and sister would be caught by Si Yan.

"What a coincidence!" Xin Ya's face flushed. "Aren't these the only beautiful patterns? I just randomly picked one in the shape of a white crane, and it just so happens to be the same pattern chosen by the embroiderer at General Gan's house..."

Si Yan sneered, "The Imperial Concubine is truly the most cunning person in the world. The same pattern is fine, but the same embroidery is strange... Moreover, this blue belt really matches Gan Li's Imperial Guard uniform."

Without waiting for Xin Ya to speak, Si Yan turned to look at the emperor, "Your Majesty, Gan Li, as the commander of the Imperial Guard, was willing to rebel against Your Majesty for Concubine Xin, and ultimately sacrificed his own life, committing suicide to apologize. I believe he had a close relationship with Concubine Xin."

The emperor also thought of this and couldn't help but feel so angry that his chest ached.

He doted on Concubine Xin for more than twenty years and never doubted her loyalty.

But he didn't expect that Xinya had already colluded with the commander of his imperial guards.

Xin Ya burst into tears and said, "Your Majesty, I am wronged. I am truly wronged..."

"Your Majesty, I have also heard that Noble Concubine Xin and Wei Shu, an aide to Prince Chen's palace, grew up together. Wei Shu is from Beimang. Presumably, Noble Concubine Xin intended this belt with a tiger head pattern for Wei Shu?"

"Si Yan, stop slandering me!" Xin Ya stared at Si Yan coldly, her eyes bloodshot.

The emperor's eyes darkened: "Si Yan, don't go too far."

At this moment, Prince An Qi Guang'an stepped forward and said, "My Royal Highness, have you forgotten? Your Highness Prince Chen looks a bit like Wei Shu..."

The emperor looked at Prince An with a stern gaze and said sternly, "Fifth Brother, Prince Xin's identity cannot be doubted!"

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