Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 843
That night, Du Jinning fell asleep under the protection of Eunuch Jin and other eunuchs and court ladies.

She went to the palace early the next morning, waiting to be summoned from the palace.

Probably the most important thing in the court right now is her matter. The eunuch came to announce the decree when the salute was over in the hall, announcing that Du Jinning would enter the hall to see her.

Although Du Jinning's official position as the prefect of Runzhou has not been publicly withdrawn, but last night Zhao Yu said that she is no longer an official, Du Jinning did not wear court clothes today, but a dark green silk and satin men's robe, which is more suitable She was pale and thin.

Probably because before she came in, there was a dispute among the officials in the hall. She followed the eunuch into the hall and stood still. Come together."

Zhao He made a deal with the Jiang family, and when he received Du Jinning yesterday, Qi Muyuan explained the situation to Du Jinning in the carriage and told her how to answer such questions.

Du Jinning said: "I had dinner with Mr. Yao at the Crane Tower that day. There was probably a drug in the wine. I just drank a small cup and passed out. After waking up, I was taken to a small dark room. For about half a month, they put medicine in my meals, and when I woke up, I changed to another place."

She showed memories: "This place seems to be in the countryside, the surroundings are very quiet, and there are many birds and insects. They didn't lock me in the house like they did before, but allowed me to walk around in the yard, and there was no food. They treated me harshly. The guards were very strict, and the guards never spoke to me, and I failed to escape and use tricks.”

"About ten days later, they took me to another place. This time, they locked me in a tunnel in the dark. Because there was no light, I couldn't tell the difference between day and night, and lived in a daze. After a while, they took me to a courtyard again. I lived there for a long time, so long that I thought I would die of old age there, but I didn’t expect that they changed the place half a month ago and took me to Jiang’s other courtyard inside."

"How do you know it's the Jiang family's other courtyard?" Dali Siqing asked.

Du Jinning gave him a strange look: "Naturally, Master Qi who rescued me said it."

Before Dali Siqing could speak, an old man with a long gray beard proudly said to Dali Siqing: "Did you hear that? Did you hear that? Hmph, I still want to dig a hole for Mr. Du. Let me tell you, facts are facts." .”

As he spoke, he bowed to the throne and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, as I said before, our other courtyard is rarely used, and there are only three servants guarding it in such a large courtyard. There is no master who is not even going to patrol the courtyard. Naturally, someone took advantage of the loopholes and stuffed Mr. Du into the dungeon to frame our Jiang family. I guessed that this must be the original Zhang family who took Mr. Du captive. As a result, something happened to the Zhang family, and those servants who kidnapped Master Du knew about the accident, but they didn’t dare to kill or release Master Du, so they hid in Tibet, and finally planted the blame on our Jiang family.”

The courtiers were speechless for a while.

Anyway, the Zhang family was ransacked and beheaded, and no one could get up from the ground to argue. The Jiang family just grabbed the shit pot and pinned it on their heads, so they bullied the Zhang family and couldn't speak anymore.

The dead are gone, the living still need to live.Regardless of the personal relationship with the Zhang family in the court, or whether they are related or not, they dare not stand up and speak for the Zhang family.Therefore, after the Patriarch of the Jiang family finished speaking, there was a huge hall, and hundreds of courtiers stood there. No one spoke, and the hall fell into silence for a while.

Zhao He asked the Minister of Dali Temple to interrogate in the court hall, which was nothing more than giving the ministers an explanation, and also giving the well-informed Jiang family Patriarch a chance to defend himself.

Seeing that he did not refute the words of the Patriarch of the Jiang family, he cleared his throat and said: "In my opinion, if this is really what the Jiang family did, they wouldn't want to imprison him in their own courtyard. , especially knowing that there are young masters and ladies from various families going to other courtyards to play in the past few days, and let that girl in Anyang easily find out."

The Patriarch of the Jiang family burst into tears, knelt down on the ground and kowtowed to Zhao Wei, crying, "Your Majesty, you have learned a lesson."

Zhao He motioned to the eunuch to help him up, then turned to Dali Temple Minister and said, "When the court is over, you can ask Du Jinning again to find out who did it."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Dali Siqing saluted and retreated into the line.

Zhao Yu looked at Du Jinning: "Du Aiqing, you have suffered."

"Thanks to the emperor's blessing, Jinning didn't suffer much." Du Jinning said.

The reason why she made up the treatment so well is naturally because her body can't deceive people, and she can't pretend to be hungry and abused for many years.

Zhao He nodded and said, "You should take a good rest for a while. After you recover, you have to go and see where the high-yield rice is." He sighed heavily, "Since you disappeared, the rice yield has been reduced. One season is not as good as one season, and now even ordinary rice is not as good as it is.”

Du Jinning was taken aback: "How could this be?" He turned his head to look at Wu Zheng, Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

Wu Zheng nodded to her in shame.

Zhao He said again: "Du Jinning, you were saved this time thanks to the Anyang county lord of the British government. I see that you have one this year, and you haven't married a wife yet. How about I give you a marriage with the Anyang county lord?"

"This... Your Majesty, absolutely not." Du Jinning turned pale with shock, and quickly knelt down and said to Zhao Wen, "I, I cannot marry a wife."

"Why is this?"

Du Jinning groaned but couldn't explain why.

Qi Bokun came out and said: "Your Majesty, Du Jinning may have something to hide, why don't you ask her in private after you retire from court."

Zhao Hue nodded: "Alright." Turning around, he told Eunuch Wu, "Take her to rest in the side hall, and bring her here after I come down."

"Yes." Eunuch Wu motioned to Du Jinning and led her to the side hall.

In this era of extreme lack of entertainment, men are actually very gossip.Everyone is very curious about the reason why Du Jinning cannot marry a wife.When Zhao Wen asked everyone if they had something to play, everyone said a few things that needed to be resolved, and then fell silent, so they withdrew early.

Although they left the palace, everyone was very concerned about this matter.At noon, someone inquired about the news, rushed into the yamen, and said loudly: "Why do you think Mrs. Du can't marry a wife?"

"Why?" Everyone gathered around.

The messenger let out a thunder: "Because she is a woman."

"Tch, nonsense."

"That's right. You have to think too hard about telling lies."

Seeing that everyone didn't believe it, the messenger immediately became anxious: "Really. The Duke of England and the eldest princess just came out of the palace, and their faces were very ugly. They said that Lord Du has admitted that she is a woman, so she cannot marry a wife. "

(End of this chapter)