The emperor's scheming: alluring the world

Chapter 125 Catastrophe is imminent
"An Guogong, Shaoyou, you should get up first, the emperor will return later, you sit and wait first." Empress Wu did not expect that Emperor Cheng would leave suddenly at the moment of conferring the award. Although she felt extremely ashamed, she had to maintain With the demeanor of the mother of a country, she spoke gracefully and calmly.

Although An Guogong and Wu Shaoyou were disturbed by Emperor Cheng's sudden departure, they didn't dare to show it on their faces, and they just got up and entered the table according to Empress Wu's intention.

About half an hour after Emperor Cheng left, Eunuch Zhang turned around drenched, he saluted Empress Wu and said: "Empress, the emperor summoned An Guogong and Mr. Wu in the imperial study."

Empress Wu felt uneasy when she heard the words, but the imperial decree cannot be disobeyed, so she could only say to An Guogong and Wu Shaoyou: "Since the emperor summons you to meet in the imperial study, you should go quickly, and don't keep the emperor waiting for a long time."

Empress Wu spoke, An Guogong and Wu Shaoyou had no choice but to get up, while Zhang Gonggong went to Wei Jinyang and Li Meiying's table and said: "Please, His Royal Highness and Princess Yingsu also go with the old slave to the imperial study."

Wei Jinyang and Li Meiying showed astonishment at the same time. Of course, Wei Jinyang's astonishment was unexpected, while Li Meiying's astonishment was deliberately pretended after knowing the whole story.

The two reacted one after another, and then got up, and left the Chengfu Hall together with Zhang Gonggong and An Guogong and his son.

Li Xueshang watched Li Sister-in-law leave, and worriedly said to Jiang Wenyuan who was beside him: "My lord, why did the emperor summon the princess, she will be fine!"

Jiang Wenyuan took a sip of tea before he said with a leisurely smile, "The princess will be fine, I'm afraid it's the Wu family father and son who are in trouble."

Li Xueshang saw that Jiang Wenyuan said so firmly, a strange feeling surged in her heart, she endured it and finally couldn't hold it back: "You are not familiar with the princess, but hearing your tone of voice when you mentioned the princess, it seems that you are very fond of the princess. learn!"

Jiang Wenyuan was neither angry nor flustered by his beloved wife's questioning. He just sighed and said, "Ni'er, the princess is not as indifferent to world affairs as you imagined. As a princess of subjugation and the adopted daughter of the emperor, Under such an embarrassing status, she can still live peacefully, even being praised by everyone. Do you think that this is just the emperor protecting her? If she didn't have the slightest ability, she would have been killed by those who would not tolerate her. There is not even a bone left. The princess and I just met and nodded, and we didn’t even talk. It’s not that I understand her, but her experience clearly told me that if she wants to live, she can’t do it like you Or boudoir girls like Miss Mu and Miss Guo."

Li Xueshang grew up under the love of her parents and elder brothers, and she didn't know much about intrigue. This is also the reason why she didn't like to make friends with those noble girls with big hearts. Now she only half-understands Jiang Wenyuan's words , because the Li Meiying she knew was a girl who was unparalleled in beauty and wisdom. In her eyes, Li Meiying was a piece of beautiful jade that was born naturally, and her beauty convinced her.

Seeing that his beloved wife didn't understand, Jiang Wenyuan just smiled and didn't intend to explain. He just said softly: "You have a good relationship with the princess, and you know that she is very intelligent and won't suffer at any time, so don't worry!"

Hearing this, Li Xueshang seemed to want to understand something. In the past, she made friends with Li Meiying because of Li Meiying's extraordinary talent, but she may have never really understood Li Meiying. Maybe her talent is not only It is only used for elegant things, perhaps her talent has already been used in more places.

Li Meiying and others braved the heavy rain to come to the imperial study room. Li Meiying was protected by Wei Jinyang along the way, and his body was not wet by the rain, while Wei Jinyang got most of his body wet.The four of them entered the imperial study room. After Emperor Cheng saw Wei Jinyang and Li Meiying, the gloomy look on his face disappeared a lot. He ordered the waiter who was waiting on the side to accompany Wei Jinyang to the inner bedroom to change his wet clothes, while Li The sister-in-law was led to the side hall by the maid to use ginger soup to dispel the cold, but she let An Guogong and Wu Shaoyou kneel on the ground in wet clothes.

Such disparity in treatment made An Guogong and Wu Shaoyou panic, but they wanted to break their heads, and they couldn't figure out why Chengdi treated their father and son so coldly.

The moment of silence in the Imperial Study Room was a bit strange, and suddenly Emperor Cheng said in a cold voice: "Mr. An, not long ago, the guards of the Hulong Pavilion came to report that due to the sudden rainstorm, the rising water level broke the Hulong Pavilion. The supervisor is you."

As soon as Emperor Cheng's words came out, beads of sweat immediately appeared on Duke An's forehead. What he did back then was extremely secretive, and it was impossible for any mistakes to be made, but Emperor Cheng's questioning made him feel uncomfortable. Feel guilty consciously.

Wu Shaoyou on the side didn't know what his father did when he was supervising the construction of Hulong Pavilion. After all, he was just a newborn baby at that time, and An Guogong would not mention those old things to him as an adult. I hope those things will just rot in the past like that, and there will never be a day when someone finds out.

"Hui, if you come back to the emperor, the Hulong Pavilion was indeed supervised by the minister back then, but there are unforeseen circumstances, and this natural disaster is not what I can predict." Thinking of what he did and what he had already been brought into the coffin by those people, Anguo Gong then dared to argue for himself.

Only after he finished speaking, Emperor Cheng angrily picked up a wooden box on the imperial case and threw it at Anguogong: "At this time, you still dare to quibble. I intend to give you a chance to admit your mistake, but you don't cherish it, do you want me to take your head off before you know how to repent."

The wooden box hit An Guogong's body, and finally fell to the ground. With a "pop", the box cracked open, revealing the yellowed account book inside. After seeing the words on the account book clearly, An Guogong breathed heavily. For a moment, he stared at the account book with a pale face but incomprehensible expression. He didn't understand why the account book that had been burned by him appeared on Chengdi's case. This time the evidence was conclusive. No chance of pleading guilty.

Wu Shaoyou had figured out the whole story from the conversation between Emperor Cheng and his father. The Hulong Pavilion was built under the supervision of his father. When he grew up, he heard his grandfather mention it, but he didn't know the details of the matter, but he didn't expect it. My father used the name of supervision to amass money wantonly. Two-thirds of the wood used to build the Hulong Pavilion was low-quality wood. Now that the Hulong Pavilion was destroyed by the flood, it directly affected Daxin's foundation. This time it was a big disaster.

"This humble minister deserves to die. It's my humble minister's ineffective supervision. I ask the emperor to punish my humble minister." After serving as an official for more than ten years, An Guogong's reaction was still extremely quick. He immediately confessed his guilt, but he didn't say a word. What does Ben have to do with him? He only said that he was not effective in supervising the production. This is also a disguised way to tell Emperor Cheng that his fault was in employing people poorly, and he didn't know about the account books.

(End of this chapter)