A Thousand Gold Order: Inheritance

Chapter 272 Abandoning the car to protect the handsome man, Concubine Wen was abolished (second update)

Everyone has their own deliberations and judgments about the involvement behind this.

Now that Xu Qiu has spoken, he no longer hides anything.

As she spoke, she looked for Qi Huan again in the crowd, and said with her lips drawn together, "Miss Qi guessed right, I also know about Yuxiu, she usually looks cold and withdrawn, but she is a fool, actually I believe that a man will take her away from birth. Chu Qin found someone who pretended to be Master Yang, a concubine of the Imperial Academy, and lied to her with sweet words, and took her body. It started on the day of the palace exam in mid-April The layout, designed a so-called chance encounter... for the purpose of getting her pregnant for today's use, and in order to ensure that things will not be discovered before today, I have been secretly covering up for their private meeting."

Qi Huan understood: "The person pretending to be my cousin can often come and go in and out of the palace. Those adults with serious fame and a bright future in the previous dynasty should not be able to do so. Is it the guards pretending to be?"

Xu Qiudao: "I don't know what their identity is, but they have always met privately at night. I know the man's face. If necessary, my servant can help identify him."

At this point, the whole incident became clear, so Qi Huan didn't say any more.

Empress Gu pondered: "The palace will never allow such lunatics to mess up the palace."

She looked at Chu Qin, and said in a cold and stern tone: "You found the person, did you confess it, or did I ask someone to investigate directly?"

At this point, Chu Qin also knew that it was a dead end.

She is the son of the Yang family. She grew up with her old mother beside the Ning family. She is convinced and respectful of the old lady, even if something happened now...

I also wanted to procrastinate as much as possible, so I had to leave more time for the family to deal with.

She asked the guards to pretend to be Yang Qingyun to defile the maids, and naturally she would get benefits. The guards also have a future, unlike those eunuch palace ladies who can only die in the palace for the rest of their lives. They can be bought with money, and if they promise to let them out of the palace, they can Going through all kinds of hardships, she wanted to bribe the guard, not only gave money, but also verbally promised that she would help him get promoted in the future.

Although Ning has arranged for someone to silence this person two days ago, he is still worried that he may have left clues at home, so it is best to delay as much as possible.

Therefore, Chu Qin mustered up all his courage, gritted his teeth, and remained silent.

Empress Gu was calm and didn't mind the result, then she turned her gaze away and said to Xu Qiu: "Since it's a private meeting, it's easier to cover it up in the dead of night, think back to the days of the last few private meetings between the two of them. "

She raised her eyebrows at Gu Zhan.

Gu Zhan also understood it instantly, and told the military captain: "Write down the date, time and place of her confession. The guards in the palace are on duty. Your guards have detailed records on duty. Find the names of people that overlapped during these times, and write them down." All of them were brought over and asked her to identify them on the spot."

"Yes." The captain of the martial arts school clapped his hands in agreement, and quickly took Xu Qiu to the side to inquire.

But at this moment, Concubine Wen suddenly had a flash of inspiration——

She belatedly realized that this person should not be the general of the Imperial Forest Army on duty at this hour tonight!
If she could have found out earlier, she could have preemptively questioned this person and caught Qi Huan and the others by surprise, but now...

All kinds of clues and spearheads are directly and clearly revealed, and they point directly at their family!
If she pretends to be stupid, or if she still has a chance to get away with it, if she suddenly reveals her true colors and starts to fight back with all her strength, grabbing some trivial matters to bite Qi Huan and the others, then she will be more convinced that she is the mastermind behind the scenes.
In Concubine Wen's heart, she was also flustered and confused at this time.

Rather—

She didn't dare to show the slightest thing on her face, she could only use her nails to pinch the palm under the wide-sleeved dress to maintain her posture.

At this time, the Minister of Dali Temple, who had gone back to the warehouse of Dali Temple to pick up the files, also rushed back.

Escorted by the Imperial Forest Army, he personally presented the retrieved dossier and the evidence collected by Qi Wenyan: "Your Majesty, this is the dossier that Lord Qi mentioned, and our company's booklet recording the date the dossier was put into the warehouse. This dossier was indeed sent to the warehouse by Lord Qi for storage on the afternoon of April [-] this year. Weichen also called the master book who was in charge of recording the file into the warehouse at that time, as well as the copying of the records mentioned by Lord Qi. Su Qingmu, the petty official of this file, these two are waiting outside the courtyard now, and His Majesty can summon them at any time."

Yang Qingyun's jade pendant, at that time the tassel rope was cut and was taken away by someone, probably because the tassels on the jade pendant would be more eye-catching and recognizable than the jade pendant itself, Ning's side was trying to leave clues, so that they could wait Someone could identify him today, so the tassels were not changed, but the tassels were woven with silk threads of the same texture and color.

At first glance, it is not too obvious, but if you carefully identify it, you can sort out the degree of newness and oldness.

Now the physical evidence retrieved from Dali Temple is a small piece of tassel rope and the remains of the cut silk thread left by Yang Qingyun after being cut.

In the dossier, there is indeed what Qi Wenyan said, the jade pendant blueprint.

After the emperor looked at these things, there was no need to summon the two little officials outside, so he passed the things to the concubine Xian who was also interested in the matter.

After Concubine Sheng Xian saw it, she passed it on to other people who also wanted to see it.

"Ai Qing has worked hard, go back and take a seat first." The emperor waved his hands, his tone was still normal, and there was no sound of joy or anger.

Dali Siqing returned to his seat at the table and sat down again.

The emperor leaned back in his chair and even closed his eyes.

Concubine Wen was actually waiting for him to speak, so that she could judge his exact attitude and see what she should do next.

But now that he was so ambiguous, he didn't show any attitude at all.

In the entire courtyard, there were hundreds of people, from the crown prince to the married courtiers, all of them lowered their breathing subconsciously.

There are so many people, but they can't make a sound——

This scene is really weird.

Qi Huan couldn't help looking up at Gu Zhan, Gu Zhan felt something, and smiled at her with lowered eyes, then put his arms around her shoulders, and patted her shoulders lightly.

But after all, there are a lot of people here, after comforting him, he lowered his arms in a timely manner.

Then, Empress Gu stepped forward to break the silence.

She glanced at Concubine Wen and her natal family with clear and clear eyes, and when she spoke again, her tone was harsh and harsh: "Why don't you speak? There are hundreds of pairs of eyes staring at you here, and you expect all of them to keep silent. Can this matter be smoothed out in the end?"

She didn't name them, and she couldn't tell who she was talking about.

Concubine Wen shuddered suddenly, subconsciously turned her head to look at her grandmother and father.

Her exact attitude of waiting for the emperor was true, but at the same time she was helpless, not knowing how to deal with it in order to save the day and escape the catastrophe.

But she seems to have forgotten—

This is in the palace, her home field, and the maid involved in the case is her confidant!

If Yang Chenglian or Ning Shi speak up first, what is the excuse...

On the contrary, it further proves that this is a situation where their whole family got together to do it.

Concubine Wen glanced at it, but Ning still gritted her teeth and refused to speak. Yang Chenglian could only bite the bullet and said: "Empress, Concubine Wen has served His Majesty for many years, she has always abided by the palace rules, and has never done anything bad... Even if there are some clues pointing to Empress The people around me, my lady...my lady, she probably didn't know about it either!"

This can be regarded as a suggestion and guidance for Concubine Wen.

Concubine Wen immediately settled her mind and regrouped. Huo De turned his head and stared at Chu Qin, and said with a heartbroken look: "You still don't understand? If it's a misunderstanding, explain it clearly. What's going on?"

Chu Qin still lay on the ground, and only after hearing her voice did she find an excuse to raise her head very slowly inch by inch, but she was actually observing Ning's face.

Seeing Ning's eyes slowly blinking at her, she also suppressed her emotions to the extreme. She knelt her head on the ground and cried bitterly. hands."

It stands to reason that she pleaded guilty, which was considered a big breakthrough, but everyone present was very calm.

because--

Everyone understood that she, a mere maid in charge of the Yonghe Palace, could not handle this matter.

"You did it?" After tossing around half the night, Qi Huan was also annoyed, and she still wanted to try to find out the inside story of the feud between the two of them and the murder of her uncle, so she immediately stood up and choked, "You are a harem." He is not at all with my cousin, and even before that, if you hadn't gone to the front court to peep at him, you wouldn't have recognized him. What kind of hatred is there that deserves you to do such a thing to harm him? Don't tell me what kind of woman Simu Haoerlang is, you are already in your thirties, if you hadn't entered the palace, you would be a grandmother by now, don't come up with some stupid excuses to make fun of yourself."

When she was running on people, she was a little out of choice.

Qi Wenjing couldn't hold back his old face, he coughed, and immediately reminded him in a low voice: "Don't keep your mouth shut."

I looked at the prospective son-in-law's reaction with trepidation, but saw that the prospective son-in-law not only did not show disgust as expected, but took it calmly, and even looked proud, as if saying "my wife is awesome".

Now—

The father-in-law felt that his daughter and son-in-law were so thick-skinned that he couldn't bear to look directly at them.

Then he was heartbroken, and simply pretended to be dead, and looked away with a muffled voice.

Chu Qin was also ashamed of being squeezed by Qi Huan, but the most urgent task now is to quickly turn this matter over, so she gritted her teeth again and turned to look at Yang Pan'er.

Yang Pan'er met her gaze, and immediately her expression changed as if she had seen a ghost.

"It's Miss Ba." But before she could react, Chu Qin had already poured all the dirty water on her, "Since Gu Shizi returned to Beijing at the beginning of the year, Miss Ba had a deep-rooted love for him after seeing him once. But he is engaged to Miss Qi of the Changning Hou Mansion. We found out that Miss Qi has a very good relationship with her cousin, Mr. Yang, so we planned to make such a situation, and wanted to use this to completely ruin Yang. , and the reputation of the Qi family. Once Gu Shizi divorces her, we Eighth Miss will have a chance."

Yang Pan'er, the person involved, was dumbfounded, opened his mouth in astonishment, and didn't respond for a long time.

Gu Zhan's face turned black——

If he didn't come back, he would have nothing to do with this matter. That's good, if he came back, he would take the blame and become a troublemaker.

He also never thought that one day he would suffer such unfair injustice, and he was annoyed on the spot, so he wanted to come forward to argue...

Qi Huan looked at his expression, but wanted to laugh a little.

But she is too aware of Gu Zhan's character. For twenty years, he has been a good young man who follows the rules and is upright. Even with her, he always cares about his reputation and propriety, and he will never mess around. Concubine Wen's family The son ruined him so much...

That really stepped on his tail!
Seeing that he was going to run away violently, Qi Huan didn't dare to provoke him, so he suppressed a smile, stepped forward first, stood in front of him, and asked Yang Pan'er: "What do you say?"

No matter how angry Gu Zhan would be, he would never lose his temper at her, so he held back and didn't bring her over, and just stood behind her like a black-faced god.

Yang Pan'er looked straight at them.

Gu Zhan was half a head taller than Qi Huan, and their two faces were staring at her covetously.

Ning's words of warning to her were thrown out of the blue right now, and Yang Pan'er was about to deny it: "I..."

As soon as she opened her mouth, Ning was already furious, and slapped her backhand, interrupting her.

Then, under the watchful eyes of everyone, the old lady got up in a healthy and vigorous way, swung the dove stick in her hand, and put a stick on Yang Pan'er's chest, then turned her to the ground and cursed: "I'm usually How did I teach you, do you still have a sense of shame?"

It must be that she was using too much force, and Yang Pan'er vomited a mouthful of blood.

Then he fell to the ground, clutching his chest, but he couldn't even cry, but kept crying with fear and aggrieved eyes.

Ning's teaching her granddaughter a lesson, it's their family's business, not to mention that his girl gets into trouble, and others don't want to care about it, but seeing Yang Pan'er vomit blood...

Concubine Wen could only get up on her own, and ran over to grab Ning Shi: "Grandmother, please calm down..."

But as soon as she touched her hand, she saw the old lady's heroic figure shaking while holding the dove stick.

"Grandmother!" Concubine Wen screamed terribly.

The next moment, Ning rolled her eyes and passed out.

Yang Chenglian was also shocked, he got up first without regard to etiquette, he and Concubine Wen worked together to support the old lady.

Concubine Wen turned her head, originally wanting to beg the emperor, but found that there was such a big commotion in front of her, and he was still resting with his eyes closed, not even moving his eyelids.

Concubine Wen was in a panic, so she could only temporarily change the person she asked for help, and looked at Empress Gu who was beside him: "Empress, my grandmother is old and can't stand big stimulation, please..."

I want to fish in troubled waters, so I temporarily put things here on hold...

Empress Gu is still considerate, and there happened to be an imperial physician on the spot, she said: "Then help Mrs. Yang to the side hall, and ask the imperial physician to take a look first, just as Dirty Silver and Chu Qin's wrench haven't been brought over yet."

This is -

The matter must be settled tonight!
Concubine Wen's heart was pounding, she was in a hurry at the moment, and she could only muddle along.

Now that Empress Gu had spoken, Eunuch Li called for someone to help Concubine Wen and his daughter carry Ning to the side hall.

Yang Pan'er was stunned by the beating, she was crying and staring blankly at the same time.

It wasn't that she didn't want to follow, but in front of the empress, the prince and so many people, she didn't dare to move rashly at all, so she hugged her chest and sobbed silently on the ground.

After Ning's troubles came out, Qi Huan stopped embarrassing Yang Pan'er, but curled his lips in the direction of the side hall, and muttered: "Pretending to be."

It's just a tactic to delay the attack, and it should be that the three generations of their family want to take the opportunity to conspire to discuss how to divide the follow-up pot...

Gu Zhan was still angry about these people ruining his reputation, Qi Huan didn't hear the response behind him, so he turned to look at him.

Sure enough, Gu Zhan still had a stinky face, full of bitterness and hatred.

Qi Huan felt that this man was really stingy, and it was nothing serious at all, but he never dared to joke about it with him, so he could only coax him in a considerate and hypocritical manner: "Don't be angry, someone covets it, it means you are good enough Well!"

The people in the yard did not dare to speak loudly, but they were still heard by the prince Yun Zhan next to him.

"Cough! Cough!" His Royal Highness, who had never been around to watch the young couple, immediately coughed heavily.

I'm not ashamed to say——

They are clearly in a panic and use you as an excuse, as a shield, coveting or not, there is no such thing... This is so complacent, how thick-skinned it is!

But being interrupted by him like this, Gu Zhan's face softened a lot, perhaps because he found a sense of superiority compared to the single dog of His Highness the Crown Prince.

In the side hall, when the people were sent there, Eunuch Li also "considerately" led them all back out, leaving only Concubine Wen, father and daughter and the imperial physician inside.

The imperial doctor took a ready-made bottle of some kind of liquid medicine from his medicine box, poured some and rubbed it well, rubbed Ning's middle and temples, and then gave her a few needles, and Ning woke up very quickly.

She was lying on the couch moaning and whimpering, looking half-dead, and she still couldn't move.

"Grandmother, how are you?" Concubine Wen knelt beside her, holding her hand nervously and worriedly, her eyes were reddened.

"It's just... a sudden rush of anger." Ning said weakly, "I'm still a little dizzy, I... just take it easy."

Concubine Wen was only afraid that something might be wrong with her body, and just wanted to ask the imperial physician to ask for further pulse, but Yang Chenglian understood what his mother meant, and thanked the imperial physician beforehand: "I really have Lao Ling imperial physician, my mother is also an old problem, she is old I can't stand the mood swings too much for a while, you should do your work first, and my empress and I will stay here, if you don't feel better after a while, I'll go find you again."

The imperial physicians who wandered around the palace all the year round were able to understand everything.

Physician Ling immediately packed up his things: "Your Majesty Yang, you are too polite. It is the duty of a doctor to cure diseases and save lives. Then I will go and restore the life of the empress first. If you need it, please call again."

"Okay." Yang Chenglian had an excellent attitude and even sent him to the door himself.

Seeing him walking towards the crowd, he quickly closed the palace door and walked back quickly.

Jinyang Hall is specially designed for large-scale palace banquets. Both the palace itself and the courtyard are the largest and most spacious among all the palaces, even the side halls are also very large.

Now Mrs. Ning was lying in the inner hall, at least three feet away from the door of the outer hall. She was still lying motionless on the couch, but after Doctor Ling got up and left, her eyes turned from weak and cloudy to shrewd and stern.

It was at this time that Concubine Wen realized that her grandmother was faking it.

"Grandmother..." She felt a strange sense of excitement at this moment, and called out under her voice.

Yang Chenglian also turned back, with a gloomy face and helpless: "What should we do now? Chu Qin's rhetoric can only fool half of it. No one would believe that she and Pan girl can arrange things to this extent. And Gu Zhan is back, and his attitude towards that girl of the Qi family is far more firm than we thought, and there are queen mothers and sons in the middle, even if His Majesty wants to make a big deal easier..."

Ning didn't wait for her to finish, she looked at Concubine Wen fixedly and said: "You have to take care of this matter!"

Concubine Wen was stunned for a while, and did not respond for a while.

On the contrary, Yang Chenglian whispered in disbelief: "Mother..."

A trace of emotion flashed in his eyes, and he quickly restrained himself.

Ning stared into Concubine Wen's eyes without blinking, and explained again: "You are the birth mother of the sixth prince, and only if you take care of it, the queen can't just insist on calling His Majesty to be cruel, saying it's because of you." The younger sister's marriage is confusing. As long as you save your life first, with your father and the Yang family, we will be able to regroup sooner or later, and we will not be in trouble."

Concubine Wen felt horrified at this moment.

She never thought that going around in circles would require her to stand up and bear everything.

How is it possible to say that you are not afraid.

Kenning was right——

Even if she tried her best, the worst result would be the murder of a court lady. She was the birth mother of the sixth prince, and the emperor would punish her, but she would not be asked to kill a court lady.

But if this matter had to fall on Yang Chenglian, and Yang Chenglian was stripped of his official position and convicted, everything that the Yang family had worked hard for decades would be wiped out.

and--

From then on, their mother and son became isolated and helpless ghosts in the palace, with no one to rely on.

Seeing her delay in responding, Ning squeezed her fingers even more tightly: "This is the only road with the least loss at present, and the whole family cannot go on the road together!"

Yang Chenglian kept his mouth tightly shut at the moment, and only looked at his daughter with a slightly complicated expression.

Ning Shi was also a little anxious: "There is no time..."

Under her repeated urging, Concubine Wen finally broke the boat and nodded: "Okay! Granddaughter understands what to do."

Ning shi heaved a sigh of relief in her heart, but on her face, there was still a sorrowful, entangled, and sorrowful expression of giving up love.

Concubine Wen was raised by her grandmother at her knees since she was a child. She has a deep belief in Ning and has deep feelings for her.

Seeing the old grandmother so sad, I couldn't bear it from the bottom of my heart, but when I opened my mouth, I couldn't find any suitable words to comfort her.

ready to cry--

Yang Chenglian finally spoke again: "Then you go out first, we will hide here for a long time without showing our faces, and His Majesty will be suspicious. At that time, you must say that you were confused for a while, just cry and beg for mercy."

"Daughter understands." Concubine Wen nodded, she didn't wipe away her tears, but deliberately squeezed them out again, and then she walked out with red eye circles while turning her head three times.

After she left, Yang Chenglian looked at his mother with a heartbroken expression and frowned: "Mother, you pushed her out like this today, you know, once she is convicted... His Highness Six has A stain that will never be washed away, and from then on, he has no hope of ascending to the throne of God."

On Ning's face, there was no emotion at this time, and it became cold and cold.

She looked back at her son deeply: "Their mother and son have cut off their future, you and I can still live, if you are involved, according to Yang Moyin's mother and daughter's thoughts, there is a high probability that you and I will not even be able to save our lives."

As she spoke, she gave her son another hard look, and warned: "At this time and at that time, don't think about those unrealistic things. There is only one supreme position in the world, and there is no chance of winning. It’s good to think about it.”

Although my old lady made this decision a bit harshly, she was right in one sentence——

This is by far the least costly solution for the whole family.

Even though Yang Chenglian was not reconciled to the sixth prince being kicked out like this, in the end, saving his life and his official position were more important, so he had nothing to let go of.

The mother and son stopped talking after that, and each fell silent.

Waiting until there was another movement outside, it should be that Eunuch Jia came back with Chu Qin's finger puller and other things, and Chu Qin was kowtowing outside begging for mercy.

The mother and son cheered up again, Yang Chenglian helped Ning out of the side hall.

When they returned to the emperor and the others, Yang Pan'er's face was pale, like a panicked puppet, just kneeling there, Chu Qin was escorted by the guards, her face was covered with tears and snot, and she was just desperately arguing Call yourself confused.

Concubine Wen knelt in front of the empress, her face was also pale, with tears streaming down her face.

The sixth prince knelt down again at this moment, looking at his parents with a hesitant expression.

The emperor still had no expression on his face, and asked Concubine Wen in a tired and hoarse voice: "Is what you said true?"

Concubine Wen took two steps on her knees and grabbed the corner of his robe: "I know I'm wrong, I'm just such a direct younger sister, and I watched her grow up. I really don't want to see her hurt, so I'm obsessed. I took the wrong idea for a while, it was the concubine who lost His Majesty's face, and the concubine is guilty."

The sixth prince was obviously very frightened, Qi Qi Ai Ai also called out: "Father..."

Yang Chenglian's mother and son came close, and they all knelt down silently.

The emperor didn't seem to see them. She just stared at Concubine Wen in front of her. After a moment of silence, she suddenly let out a long breath: "As a concubine, she doesn't follow the palace rules, disregards human life, and framed courtiers for her own selfishness. The crime is heinous. With your conduct, you are not worthy to be my concubine, nor to be the biological mother of a prince."

Concubine Wen thought that the emperor would only punish her, but when he heard him mention the sixth prince, she suddenly realized that things were once again too much out of her control: "Your Majesty..."

The emperor didn't give her a chance to speak, and raised his hand directly: "Deprive her of her title, put her in the cold palace, and be imprisoned for life without taking a single step. In addition... Li Hongbao, Prince Xuanbao tomorrow, please open a ancestral hall for the old man, ask for a genealogy, and get rid of him." The identity of the concubine of the Yang family, the sixth prince will be recorded under the name of concubine Yu."

"Your Majesty..." Concubine Wen let out a shrill cry, and fell to the ground.

But such a thing, as long as the emperor exported it, he would not change it.

Both the Ning family and Yang Chenglian expected that the emperor would be serious, and might even demote Concubine Wen, but they didn't expect that they would be demoted directly to common people, and even erased her name from the imperial jade certificate, making the six princes all It was recorded under the names of other concubines.

The existence of Concubine Wen was once a symbol of the supreme glory of their entire family.

In one night, it was wiped out!

Both Ning Shi and Yang Chenglian also felt dizzy, almost unable to kneel.

But at this time, the emperor was so decisive in dealing with the people next to him, they wished they could dig a crack in the ground to avoid being implicated.

Eunuch Li gave a wink, and two eunuchs stepped forward, took off Concubine Wen's clothes, and dragged her out mercilessly amidst her cries for mercy.

And it should be that she was gagged as soon as she passed the screen wall. As soon as she disappeared, the crying stopped abruptly.

The sixth prince walked after his mother and concubine for two steps, unable to stop him, and could only turn his head and cry to the emperor: "Father, mother concubine is indeed at fault, but because of her momentary confusion..."

"Do you want to learn from her that she is ignorant of right and wrong and abused her royal status?" The emperor asked coldly, "As my son, you have to abide by the world's palace rules and laws. If she has already taught you badly, you can follow her." went!"

Whether the sixth prince is young or not, he doesn't know whether he thinks what the emperor said is reasonable, or he is simply afraid of being implicated. After being bluffed by the emperor, after a while, he only kowtowed to the emperor with tears in his eyes: "I don't dare, but I am willing to listen. Father's teaching!"

Eunuch Li stepped forward, helped him up himself, and pulled him aside to pat the ashes on his knees.

The sixth prince didn't dare to protest again.

All the people present were silent, just when everyone including Qi Huan thought this matter was over, the emperor suddenly looked at Yang Chenglian: "Yang Aiqing, you have nothing to say to me when you teach such a daughter? "

　Originally, I only wanted to write [-] words, but it took me until [-] words to force me to accept it. I’m really sorry for the baby who was waiting for the update. I’m overtime again. I love you all!

　　
　
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