Hidden golden branches

Chapter 32 Punishment
  The emperor was really dissatisfied that Chen Rong had to deal with such a painless result on his own. He only hated that there were countless outstanding young men in the world. Why did the little girl Chen Rong prefer Sun Yi, who was blind and blind?

"However, I am not willing to let him go so easily." Chen Wanru has a temperament that is bound to retaliate, and her light words directly caused Yue Wanlan, who was still taking good care of her in the mansion, to end her future career.

Regarding the matter of Yue Wanlan slandering the imperial concubine, according to the idea of ​​the old lady of the Yue Mansion, when her second son came back from being sent by the emperor, she would discuss it with him and first send Yue Wanlan to the family temple. After a year and a half, when the incident subsided, no one would come back. Bring her back from the family temple, give her a good education for a few months, and then find an honest family to marry her to.

Unexpectedly, the emperor put pressure on Yue Yun, and the incident was not that simple.

On the morning of the second day, Xiao Xuan wore a black robe, with black hair tied in a purple gold crown. His figure was as tall and majestic as a green pine. The interlocking white jade belts with lion patterns around his waist outlined his strong waist. As he strode, The Qiongju worn on the body struck, and the sound of jingling passed through the sound of silk and bamboo, echoing in the hall.

The sound was not loud, but it seemed to hit everyone's hearts.

Xiao Xuan's face was calm, and his pair of deep and cold phoenix eyes looked around lightly, and his gestures were full of the majesty of a superior.

Baiguan couldn't help but bend his back that had just been straightened up again. The chill on his back naturally made him bend even more piously.

"I pay my respects to the Emperor." "Your Majesty, be safe."

Deafening shouts resounded throughout the hall and echoed endlessly.

While accepting the worship of hundreds of officials, Xiao Xuan was filled with the majesty of a superior, which made people intimidated and gave him a feeling of surrender from the bottom of his heart.

Faced with the pressure from the emperor, Yue Yun, the Minister of Civil Affairs, stiffened and a thin layer of sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Yue Yun, I have thought that you have been an official for many years and have treated you with great courtesy. I don't want you to rely on the power in your hands and think that there is a clear faction in the court to follow you, so you can be arrogant, despise the emperor, and be aggressive. You actually condone the slanderous comments of the women in your family. My harem, am I too kind to you?"

Yue Yun had been an official for many years and never slandered matters in the royal backyard easily.

He has always upheld the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, and the ancestral motto of the Yue family for hundreds of years: build one's life with trust, accept things with forgiveness, don't be greedy for fame and fortune, learn with virtue, don't be snobbish in treating others, and don't be frivolous in your career.

Seeing this, he hurriedly bent down and knelt down in front of Xiao Xuan's golden lacquered dragon throne, and said sincerely: "Your Majesty, please calm down. When I return, I will definitely give you a satisfactory result!"

As soon as Yue Yun said this, the other courtiers' hearts trembled, and they planned to go back and ask the madam to arrest the female family members and beat them together. It was related to the royal harem, especially the imperial concubine and the head of Jiahe County. Don't talk nonsense, any offenders will be sent to the family temple to avoid dragging down the family!
  "Father! Father! Father, you can't do this to me! I won't go to Qingyan Temple! How can I go there to take care of my hair and practice?" Yue Wanlan still had a black ointment on her face, and a lot of it was rubbed off now, so she couldn't care less. This is a lot.

The words her father brought were close to killing her.

Yue Wanlan didn't care that she couldn't see anyone because of the injury on her face. She immediately ran to her mother Cao and asked her mother to go with her to beg her father not to send her to Qingyan Temple to practice.

Wouldn't it destroy the hope that she could come back?
  Yue Zhong knew about this as soon as he came back, and secretly blamed himself for being so focused on officialdom that he only disciplined and taught his sons and lacked control over his daughters.

This is what caused today's disaster
  Mrs. Cao also knelt at the feet of her husband Yue Zhong for the sake of her daughter. She pulled Yue Zhong with both hands, crying and begging for mercy, saying: "Lan'er is still young and only got haircut at the end of the year. It is better for the ancient Buddha of Qingdeng to end his life now." Her life."

He turned around and pulled his two sons standing aside to help him intercede.

Yue Wanshu stood outside the door with her little cousin, with sympathy in her eyes, but she was on good terms with Chen Rong, but Chen Rong was humiliated in her own house and had no face to plead for Yue Wanru.

Yue Zhong was heartbroken and angry. Yue Wanlan was his eldest daughter, how could he not love her? However, no matter what, you can’t gamble with the future of everyone in the house!

He could only say to the sobbing Yue Wanlan: "This is an explanation that the Imperial Concubine wants from our Yue family. If I don't take your life and bring down the whole family, you are already extra merciful. What else do you want? I really feel that it is better to die. For Father can help you!" After saying that, Yue Zhong ordered someone to take out a piece of white silk and threw it on the ground and continued: "Whether you die or go to Qingyan Temple, you can choose for yourself!"

Yue Wanlan stared blankly at the white silk that fell in front of her. She didn't dare to pick it up for a long time, but she still cherished her life.

When Yue Wanlan accepted her fate, she packed up her rituals like a zombie and prepared to rush to the Qingyan Temple overnight. When she said goodbye to her father, she asked with hatred: "Father, if my daughter ends up like this, what will happen to Zhang Xiuxi?"

Yue Zhong said in a deep voice: "Old Mrs. Sun was originally the extremely honorable first-grade imperial concubine's wife, but now she has been scolded for lax discipline and has given up her imperial status."

Not only that, Sun Shangshu is still idle at home and cannot be used by the emperor.

The Sun family is now only an empty shell of the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion. Sun Qingyue, the eldest son of the Sun family, is also an incompetent person. It is estimated that soon, the Sun family will not even have the last shell of the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion.
  Sun Qingwu was ashamed of his ancestors and his father!

Upon hearing this, Yue Wanlan knew that Mrs. Sun must have hated Zhang Xiuxi deeply!

Even if Zhang Xiuxi gave birth to countless sons in her life, they would not be able to enter the Sun family or be included in the family tree. She didn't have to worry about her children's birth and the hard times in the future, so she half-heartedly wanted to run away.

snort!
  It was the two of them who caused the disaster, so I had no choice but to suffer alone!
  Chen Rong punished Yue Wanlan and slapped her in the face. Zhang Xiuxi knew that she would definitely offend Sun Yi, so she sulked in Jinxiu Courtyard for several days.

It wasn't until Chen Ying, the eldest daughter in the long house next door, got married that she managed to cheer up.

However, choosing a good day is not a good day.

Last night's night wind carried the smell of rain from the sky. Light thin clouds covered the starry sky, with only one or two cold stars remaining, squinting at the world from the cracks in the clouds.

In the second half of the night, the wind blew violently, the thunder roared, and suddenly it started raining heavily, like a waterfall falling from the sky, turning the capital into darkness and chaos.

The Chen Mansion is located on a high ground, and there is water accumulation in the yard, not to mention the low-lying areas.

With this heavy rain, the summer heat has been swept away, and with the cicadas’ increasingly miserable cries, autumn has quietly entered the streets and alleys of the capital.

The wind passed, leaving only a net of water pouring down.

　Chen Wanru: If she is not punished, I will feel very unwilling!

　　Xiao Xuan: Hum! If you are a girl from the Yue family who has a bad moral character, she should go to Qingyan Temple to pray for the imperial concubine! Until death!

　　Xiao Zi: Alas, misfortune comes from the mouth!

　　
  　
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