The little lady in the palace

Chapter 102 Forcing the Palace
When the group arrived in Jinan, it was very hot.Concubine Ding's mother clan arranged a residence for them first. They lived in the house of the well-known local squire Jin's family. It was obviously refurbished inside and out, and it looked not much worse than the palace.

The children were all tired, and after they settled down, Qiao and Yuyin coaxed Azuo and Ayou to rest.Looking around, Mrs. Qiao said worriedly: "This house doesn't look like another courtyard. It means that their own family has moved to another place? Is it not good for us to do this? It feels like we have robbed someone else's residence."

Yu Yin said: "You don't have to worry about it. The emperor's relatives stay here and put them in ordinary people's homes. That's a matter of smoke from the ancestral graves."

Let's talk about the royal relatives, even the Xie family, a family that is not used to the royal relatives at all, is still a little particular about this aspect.There is a pavilion in the courtyard of Xie’s house, children in the family are not allowed to enter, and only those who are older and more sensible are allowed to have a break and drink tea inside. Poems were recited in the pavilion, and that pavilion has become a "sacred place" since then.

Yu Yin was puzzled by this when she was a child, and she asked her mother, "Why did this happen? The emperor doesn't care whether we go to the pavilion or not."

Mother said: "Then if you don't recite scriptures, the Buddha will not care about you."

She raised her head and retorted: "The Buddha will, the Buddha can see everything! But the emperor can't see it? The emperor lives in the palace and doesn't know what's going on in our family!"

She said so, forcing her mother to explain to her in a different way.The mother told her: "The emperor is the son of heaven, he is blessed, and the places where he has been will leave blessings. So we want to keep that blessing, and we can't let the children play around and ruin the blessing. In this way, the family Only then can it last forever.”

Yu Yin believed these words at the time.In addition, the family has indeed been prosperous, and she feels that it has something to do with the family's respect for the emperor.So she was in awe of that pavilion for a time, and sometimes she would copy a volume of scriptures and pay homage to the pavilion when she returned home during the festival, hoping that the heaven and the emperor would bless Xie's family.

But that was actually many years ago, and when she suddenly remembered it now, she suddenly felt sad and ridiculous.

What is sad and ridiculous is not the Xie family, but the saying "blessed is the son of heaven".

She thought, if the Holy Majesty is really so blessed, how could the court have made such a fuss?When a traitor is in power, the descendants of the dragon and the phoenix are bullied. This is something that ordinary people would feel unfortunate about, let alone the royal family?
Yu Yin shook her head, pushed her thoughts away, called Zhao Chengrui, and told him to pick up some jewelry and other things to send to the female relatives of the Jin family, as a thank you to his family for lending the house.Then he called Shan Shan and said: "Prepare paper and pen, I will write a letter to the prince."

As a result, she wrote this letter very long probably because she was too preoccupied.Unknowingly, I talked a lot of gossip. Why did I meet a female cat giving birth to kittens under the car on the road? When I passed by a small village, I saw villagers who were so fresh that they wanted to come forward to watch, and because there were too many guards, they dared not get close Ah wait, told him all.

After she finished writing it, she read it again, and thought what was going on with it?It's embarrassing.

So she changed another piece of paper to rewrite, and stopped writing after writing the sentence "We have arrived in Jinan, everyone is safe, don't read it", thinking that it is best to be concise and concise, as he may be very busy now, it is best not to add extra words to him Something for him to read... But looking at the two pages next to it, she wanted to hand it to him too.

After hesitating for a while, Yuyin took two envelopes and sealed them.When handing it over to the courier, she took the letter with only one sentence in it, and told him that it was an urgent letter, and that the prince must open it and read it on the spot, and then gave him the other one, telling him that it was not urgent, and let the prince read it on the spot. Have a look at it later.

Then she breathed a sigh of relief and went back to the bedroom. When she looked up, she saw that Azuo Ayou had another convulsion...

The two brothers stacked themselves into a pile, A Zuo was at the bottom, A You was at the bottom, and they were still pressing on Qiao Liangdi, giggling happily!
"You two! Come down!" Yuyin went over with a serious face and hugged Ayou down first, and scolded them, "Don't bully Qiao Liangdi! No big or small!"

"Princess, calm down." Qiao sat up holding A Zuo, and said with a smile, "Princess, these days in Jinan...can I help the concubine bring the two young masters?"

"Aren't you tired?" Yuyin also laughed, hugged Ayou and sat beside her and said, "Lan Jing is still young, and it's hard work for you to take her with you. It's hard for you to come and play with these two Do as you like, don't let them make trouble too much, they can't count."

"...Princess." Mrs. Qiao looked a little timidly, hesitated for a while, and then said, "Concubine He is on the way... I have talked to my concubine for a long time, and I thought, we haven't been in Jinan for long. The prince is not here...can you let Concubine He accompany Lan Jing?"

"No." Yu Yin's complexion suddenly darkened.

She frowned and looked at Qiao for a long time, and then said something blunt to warn her: "Who allowed you to deceive the prince? Do you think I let you bring Lan Jing just to show the prince? Do you think I Will you agree?"

"Princess..." Qiao's complexion was pale, and she didn't dare to mention this matter any more, she put down A Zuo and knelt down, "Princess forgive me, I was confused for a while..."

Yuyin stopped looking at her: "Go and talk to Nanny Rui about it yourself, and do whatever she says, I won't talk about you anymore."

Mammy Rui...

Qiao Shi remembered the incident when she first entered the mansion, and was frightened and cried by these three words.She begged Yuyin for a few more words, but Yuyin still ignored her with a cold face, so she finally had to kowtow and resign, regretting that she went to Nanny Rui to receive the punishment.

In Beijing, Meng Junhuai asked Prince Jin about the specific arrangements several times, but he didn't ask a single word.

All their brothers felt that Prince Jin's Mansion's tone was too strict, they didn't reveal anything, no matter how close they were, they could only wait foolishly.

Meng Junhuai was a little anxious, he felt that his eldest brother shouldn't be like this, and no matter what kind of big event there is, the brothers should share it together.At the same time, an intensified uneasiness spread in his heart day by day...

He felt that the elder brother's arrangement might be a desperate arrangement.

The eldest brother was afraid of implicating them, so he deliberately went around them?
Meng Junhuai felt that this might be the case.Because he couldn't even see Xie Jiqing these days, he sent someone to invite him several times, but Xie Jiqing always said that Prince Jin had told him that he had something to do.

——But how could it be possible that the eldest brother just happened to pass on something to him as soon as he went back to him?It was clear that the eldest brother instructed him to use this as an excuse to shirk, intentionally.

It was not until the end of July that there was a sudden movement.

It was a cloudy day, and the dark clouds were very low. Meng Junhuai didn't go out, but he heard that there were more officers and soldiers patrolling the street, and Jin Yiwei personally came out to check.

But this is not a rare thing, the foot is the capital, and Jin Yiwei often came out to patrol the streets in the past.

But when night fell, Yang Enlu, the great eunuch in the mansion, rushed in like a shit: "Master! Master! It's not good, Master!"

"Master..." Yang Enlu held his breath in front of him, his face was still bloodless.

He shivered for a while before he said the next sentence: "Jin, Jin Yiwei... suddenly gathered together and headed for the palace!"

"What?!" Meng Junhuai stood up against the table and collected himself, "Whose order?"

"No, I don't know..." Yang Enlu's face was so wrinkled that he was about to cry, "The slave didn't find out, but I heard that the leader seems to be Mr. Xie... Now there are several His Highnesses with him. The guards in the mansion rushed to the palace, you see, don't you also..."

Meng Junhuai's eyes froze: "Order 200 people to follow me, and send someone to ask Xie Jiqing to call me back quickly!"

He walked away with a flick of his sleeves as he said that, because he couldn't figure out the situation, his heart was in a mess like beating a drum.

If it is said that the Xie family rebelled, he does not believe it; but if it is not the Xie family's rebellion, then that is what the elder brother meant.

Big Brother took advantage of the night to force the palace...?
He also doesn't believe it.

In the Forbidden City, outside the Duanmen Gate, there was chaos.

The eunuchs at the gate fainted several times, and the princes who lived nearby rushed over first, and sent their own people away before Jin Yiwei reached the gate of the palace.

When Xie Jiqing brought people to the door, he heard someone stop drinking: "Who gave you the courage to enter the imperial city! Bring the father and the leader!!"

Xie Jiqing, who was riding a horse, raised his left hand, and the neatly lined guards behind him stopped in response.

"His Royal Highness Prince Ping, His Royal Highness Pujun, and His Royal Highness Twelve." Xie Jiqing glanced at the three of them calmly, and nodded, "I am here on the order of Prince Jin, and I ask the three Highnesses to make concessions."

"Brother?" The three of them frowned and looked at each other, visibly shaken.King Pingjun quickly said again, "Elder brother Huang asked you to do this, it is impossible to do this without evidence, you take the elder brother's warrant!"

Xie Jiqing was not surprised, turned over and got off the horse: "His Royal Highness is in the palace, and the warrant will be sent out in a while. If the three Highnesses don't mind, we will wait together."

"..." The three of them froze slightly, none of them knowing what kind of medicine he was selling in the gourd.

In Qianqing Palace, the chess game between Prince Jin and the emperor has lasted for an hour.

His chess skills have always been good, but he has always defeated the enemy gently, but today even he can feel that there is more murderous intent in the chess game, and it is obvious that his father has lost the wind.

Prince Jin looked up, and the emperor seemed to be in good spirits and in a good mood.

"Father." He put down the chess piece in his hand for the time being, and said with a smile, "Is it almost time for you to take the medicine?"

The emperor glanced at the sky outside the window, and smiled: "It's so late? It's time to take medicine."

As he spoke, he waved his hand to signal Wei Yulin to bring the medicine, and Wei Yulin went to bring it in person, and presented it to him respectfully: "Your Majesty..."

The emperor was about to pick it up, when Prince Jin suddenly stretched out his hand, taking the medicine bowl in his hand before he did.

He smiled easily: "This medicine looks hot, Erchen will blow it for you."

"Let's put it aside when it's hot, and drink it later. You don't need to blow it." The emperor looked very excited, and then picked up the chess piece again, "Come on, let's finish this chess. I haven't seen you for a few days gone."

His voice fell, but Prince Jin did not respond.

The emperor looked at him again with his clinging chess piece, only to see that he was holding on to the medicine bowl with one hand, and his gaze fell completely into the medicine juice.

"Father hasn't seen my ministers for a while, but it's not that my sons don't come to see me, and I think it's not that my father doesn't want to see me, but..." He looked at Wei Yulin indifferently, "It's Eunuch Wei who stopped me .”

The emperor was taken aback, and Wei Yulin was obviously terrified.

Prince Jin smiled plainly, stood up holding the medicine bowl, and walked up to Wei Yulin step by step: "How long has it been since you stopped me from seeing my father? It must have been a year or two. Today I suddenly said that my father I'm flattered to see you."

"...Your Highness is joking, Your Highness is joking." Wei Yulin smiled apologetically and wiped off his cold sweat.

"I'm afraid there is something hidden." Prince Jin looked at him, "Back in May, you wrote a letter to Xichang. What did you say in the letter?"

As soon as the voice fell, the room was deadly and awe-inspiring.

Prince Jin still looked at Wei Yulin, his gaze became colder every minute.

Wei Yulin's letter was not very clear. At that time, they only had a rough idea, knowing that Wei Yulin might want to kill the king.

Later, after careful investigation, it was discovered that Wei Yulin was probably planning to poison him.

He once fell into a dilemma, not knowing when and where to stop this matter, until Jin Yiwei accidentally found out that Wei Yulin was fabricating evidence of his regicide and treason, and he suddenly realized it.

He thought that Wei Yulin probably wanted to get rid of him while killing the king.This is not difficult, as long as he was by his side when the father died, those who served near insisted that he had done something and pushed two eunuchs to testify that they were bribed by him, and he would not be able to argue.

At that time, even if the courtiers have doubts, it will be difficult to prove his innocence.As long as Dongchang insisted that the emperor passed on the throne to his tenth brother, he would have no choice but to die.

Prince Jin turned this conjecture back and forth hundreds of times in his mind, and combined with various evidences to think about it from all aspects, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was so.

The only thing that still makes him uneasy is that maybe Dongchang will kill the king without him being present, and then he can still accuse him of this crime, then they can do it at any time, and he can't stop it in time .

In the end he felt...probably not.He wanted to put all his eggs in one basket, and Wei Yulin must have thought too. They both wanted to be sure of winning, so it was much more convincing that he happened to be there than not being there.

He bet his guess on this part was right.

So when he should have an audience, he would have an audience as usual, and if he should have waited a whole day in front of the Qianqing Palace, he would have waited a whole day as usual.Finally, he waited until the day when Wei Yulin smiled and invited him in, and this was the day when Wei Yulin was going to do something.

Prince Jin put the bowl on the chess table, took a silver needle from his sleeve, and threw it into the bowl with a blank expression.

There was a "nail" sound of the silver needle hitting the jade bowl, and Prince Jin looked at Wei Yulin indifferently: "Eunuch Wei, do you dare to take out this silver needle and show it to the emperor?"

"Respect..." Wei Yulin was already sweating profusely, and knelt down with a plop, "Your Majesty's lesson, Your Majesty's lesson! This slave didn't do this, and this slave doesn't know what's going on with this medicine!"

"How dare you say you don't know!" Prince Jin said sternly, "Since the matter of Princess Shumin, this prince has been watching you for more than four years! You have the power to monopolize the formation of cliques for personal gain, and all the princes are willing to follow your tenth brother, who else is there?" I haven't been manipulated by you!"

He looked at the emperor with all his teeth: "Father, this treacherous eunuch will do it for you today!"

"Jun Ya..." The emperor hadn't recovered from the sudden change, and Prince Jin waved his hand: "Come on!"

"Your Highness." Two guards appeared at the entrance of the main hall. Meng Junya didn't bother to think too much, and directly handed them the medicine bowl on the case: "Drag it out to feed him, and throw the body out to feed the dogs. The eunuchs in the Qing Palace Kill them all with sticks, and the maids will not be allowed to enter the capital again!"

"Yes!" The guards sounded forcefully, entered the hall, grabbed Wei Yulin, and dragged him out neatly.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty's servants have been wronged!" Wei Yulin's shout echoed in the hall, Prince Jin listened to the scream, and turned his eyes to his father: "Father is frightened."

"Jun Ya, you..." The emperor just woke up like a dream, picked up the handkerchief to wipe off his cold sweat, and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Prince Jin sat back on the previous seat, watched the chess game in front of him, and enjoyed the silence for a while.

The emperor finally regained his composure, frowning slightly dissatisfied: "Jun Ya, you acted too hastily. Even if you have doubts about him, you can investigate and deal with it carefully. Why take someone's life directly!"

"Father, please abdicate."

The few words that Meng Junya said calmly were like a silver needle thrown into a bowl just now, it disappeared after a slight sound.

The emperor was stunned: "You...what did you say?"

Meng Junya raised his eyes and looked at him: "You can no longer be the emperor. Otherwise, if I saved you this time, there will be another time. I also don't want to see the court gradually chaotic and the people living in dire straits."

He was too clear about what he was talking about and what it meant to his father, so the more he said, the more he choked up: "You... abdicate. My son will protect your prosperity for the rest of your life, please allow me to clean up the court."

"You..." The emperor felt tight in his chest and coughed again and again, "Nizi..."

"Yes, I am a rebellious son, and the tenth brother is not in your eyes." Meng Junya looked at him calmly and with some compassion, "Father, when did you become like this...The tenth brother just flatters you That's all, you think he can inherit the throne?"

"Get out!" the emperor shouted angrily, "Get out! Get out!"

"Father." Meng Junya shook his head, "I tell you the truth, the entire Jinyiwei is currently outside the Forbidden City."

He looked at the emperor indifferently: "The reason why I haven't come in yet is because my younger brother and your other sons stopped me outside. Without knowing it, they are still loyal to your emperor and filial to your father."

"But if the son-in-law sends out a hand order to order them to get out of the way, order them to let Jin Yiwei enter the palace..." He laughed, "They will immediately understand what this means, and you dare to bet that they will definitely stand by your side? Or will you make all your efforts to help your ministers succeed to the throne? You have allowed Dongchang to play around for several years, and none of them have suffered less grievances."

The emperor looked at him in amazement, his face full of disbelief.

"Please save yourself some face, Father." Meng Junya stood up as he said, and stretched out his hand only a few feet away to the desk with ink and ink, "You write the imperial decree to let them go, or the servants write the order to let them go Jin Yiwei comes in. If you choose the latter..."

Prince Jin looked at the top of the hall in confusion: "What they found out when they came in was that you were poisoned by Wei Yulin."

"You dare to kill your father!" the emperor shouted loudly.

"Please don't force your son to kill his father." Prince Jin suddenly turned to him, and the emperor fixed his eyes in anger, only to see that the eye sockets of the eldest son in front of him were all red.

Time passed bit by bit, and the atmosphere of the confrontation outside the Forbidden City became more and more tense.

Meanwhile, Xie Jiqing ordered his subordinates to move forward three feet again, and the people brought by the princes immediately drew their swords.

Meng Junhuai let out a sigh, and said to Xie Jiqing again for the unknown number of times: "Master Xie, please give us brothers a thorough understanding."

"Your Highness forgive me, I really can't say anything about this matter." Xie Jiqing nodded, and the anger on Meng Junhuai's face was suppressed again.

Then the death-like silence spread again, it didn't sound like nearly ten thousand people flocking here, but like an empty wilderness.

Suddenly, the sound of a bell struck my ears.

"Boom-"

Everyone looked towards the bell tower in unison, and vaguely saw the person who held the bell upstairs hit it again: "Boom—"

"What's going on?" Several people looked at each other, and suddenly the door opened behind them.

Several eunuchs stepped out from the door, came to the crowd, and bowed to each other: "Master Xie, please come this way, please go back and rest."

The man said as he handed over a bronze waist badge, Xie Jiqing took it and saw that it was the waist badge of Prince Jin's residence.

"Retire. It's a crime to disturb your Highnesses." Xie Jiqing clasped his fists at the princes, and Meng Junhuai asked the eunuch: "Where is Prince Jin? Is it convenient to see all the brothers?"

"His Royal Highness Prince Yijun." The eunuch bowed to Meng Junhuai again, "The emperor is on the throne, and His Royal Highness Prince Jin is ordered to succeed him. The matter of ascension to the throne has been urgently called to all the adults in the Ministry of Rites. Please return to the residence first, and see you at another day."

"What?!" Everyone was stunned, and in a daze, they saw a row of fast horses galloping out of the palace, and the man in the lead ordered while riding the horses: "Go, pass the order quickly, the good prince will be banned from the ranks, and anyone who waits It is not allowed to enter or leave Prince Shan's mansion without authorization, and those who violate the order will be killed!"

Obviously, the person who passed down the imperial decree has changed.

(End of this chapter)