"Is this really true?" Princess Consort De asked urgently.
"Yes, absolutely true. This maidservant is always at my lady's side. At that time Noble Lady Ying and Lady Li got into a conflict, my lady wanted to persuade them, and had only taken two steps forward when someone gave her a hard shove and she fell into the lotus pond."
After Mingzhen finished speaking, she kowtowed to Princess Consort De again and again.
"Please investigate clearly, Princess Consort De. Every word this maidservant says is true. My lady also said she vaguely noticed, within her line of sight, the hem of a jade-green skirt flash past."
Princess Consort De was greatly surprised. "Beauty Zhou, how could you conceal such a matter?"
"To reply to Princess Consort De, it all happened too suddenly, and this concubine was frightened. It's entirely possible that I saw wrong or remembered wrong," Beauty Zhou said in a soft, frail voice.
