Return of Jin Yi

Chapter 117 The Suicide Note Is Forged
Duke Zhen understood Meng Jing's thoughts. After sending Han Zhe away, he asked the remaining four Qinglong guards to change into the clothes of the secret guards of Duke Zhen's mansion. He ordered them to lift the box again, and followed him into the palace overnight. went.

In Qianyuan Hall, Emperor Jingming was not asleep, ever since Meng Jing was taken into Dali Temple, he was very restless, not to mention the daytime, even at night he couldn't sleep for two hours.

Suddenly hearing a sound from outside, he sat up almost immediately, and shouted violently towards the outer hall, "Li Zhong, what's going on outside?"

Li Zhong was on duty tonight. Originally, he had already got out of bed when he heard the voice from outside, and wanted to go out to have a look. Who knows, as soon as he got down to the ground, Emperor Jingming's voice came over.

He immediately walked a few steps toward the dragon bed, bowed and said, "If you go back to the emperor, it should be the foreign ministers who have an audience with you. This servant will go out now to see who is the lord who dares to disturb the emperor's sleep in the middle of the night!"

Emperor Jingming snorted and motioned him to go back quickly.

Li Zhong took the order and immediately walked out.

When he came out of the Qianyuan Hall and saw Duke Zhen Guo on the terrace outside, he was completely surprised—how could it be this Duke?Isn't he the regent's teacher? Why did he come into the palace suddenly?

Lord Zhen Guo was dressed in a dewy suit, and he also saw Li Zhong, and immediately stepped forward and said, "Eunuch Li, I wonder if the emperor is asleep at this moment?"

Li Zhong pondered for a moment, then cupped his hands and said with a smile, "Going back to the Lord, when the Emperor arrived last night to review the scriptures, he was naturally still staring at him at this time." Then, he changed the subject suddenly, and asked again suspiciously, " I don't know what is the matter that my grandfather entered the palace late at night?"

Lord Zhen gave him a majestic look, and said, "It is a big event to break into the palace at this time to play! I hope that Eunuch Li can go in and pass on a word, saying that I have a big gift for the emperor!"

When Li Zhong heard this, a look of embarrassment appeared on his face, he paused, then lowered his voice and said, "Then, can you tell me what the big deal is? If the emperor asks, the servant will have an explanation!"

"It's an important matter for Guozuo!" Lord Zhen Guo looked at him and spit out four words one by one.

That dignified and extremely coercive appearance made Li Zhong, a great eunuch who grew up in the palace, tremble in his heart.

He didn't dare to delay any longer, he said to Lord Zhen, "Please wait a moment, Lord", then turned and walked towards Qianyuan Hall.

In the Qianyuan Hall, Emperor Jingming didn't fall asleep either, so he simply got out of bed and put on his usual clothes.

After a while, seeing Li Zhong came back, he glanced at him indifferently and asked, "What's going on outside?"

Hearing this, Li Zhong hurriedly repeated what Lord Zhen Guo said to him just now.

After Emperor Jing Ming finished listening, his face suddenly darkened.

With his hands behind his back, he walked back and forth in the bedroom.

After a long time passed, he suddenly stopped, flicked his sleeves, and pointed at Li Zhongdao, "Go, call me over, I want to see what important national affairs he wants to report!"

Hearing this, Li Zhong immediately responded and retreated.

As soon as he went out to deliver the message, Lord Zhen brought Qinglongwei and carried the box into the Qianyuan Hall on his back.

At this time, Emperor Jing Ming had also calmed down, he sat upright behind the desk in the outer hall, waiting for Zhen Guo to speak.

After the ceremony, Duke Zhenguo didn't say any more nonsense, he just said, "Can the emperor please back away from the left and right?"

Hearing this, Emperor Jingming subconsciously looked to his left and right. He froze for a while, but instead of listening to Duke Zhen, he looked at him and said, "Mr. confidant."

Seeing him like this, Zhen Guogong knew that he didn't fully believe in himself.

He didn't force himself, and took out two signed confessions and evidence from his sleeve, and handed them to Li Zhong, motioning him to hand them over to Emperor Jingming.

Li Zhong hurriedly stepped forward to take it, without daring to look at it, lowered his head, and presented it respectfully in front of Emperor Jingming.

Emperor Jing Ming didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of Lord Zhen Guo, so he took another look at him, and then opened the two documents in front of him.

"..."

He watched in silence, the more he looked back, the worse his face became.

In the end, the color on his face was gone, the veins on his forehead were bulging, and the hands holding the two documents trembled angrily.

"Are these, are these true?" He raised his head suddenly, looked at Duke Zhen and asked sharply.

Hearing the words, Duke Zhen knelt down with a sullen face, and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty is clearly aware, and I will never dare to lie to you. If the Emperor does not believe me, then there will be witnesses in the box!" As he spoke, he He pointed to the box behind him.

When Emperor Jingming heard what Lord Zhen said, his eyes changed, and he also looked at the box, and ordered Qinglong Weidao beside him, "Open the box!"

Qinglongwei didn't say much, and opened the box directly, and there were four men in black lying on top of each other inside, but at this time their clothes on their left shoulders had been ripped off.

Even those who kept Emperor Jingming far away could see the tattoos on their shoulders.

And that tattoo is exactly the team of blood drops he gave to the Queen Mother earlier.

Emperor Jing Ming stared straight at it, and didn't speak for a long time.

There was pain, rage, and despair in his eyes...

He thought that his mother was thinking of everything for him, but she didn't discuss it with him before using the blood drops... That's all, but she, she actually helped her niece, his cousin fake pregnancy , hugged the Ren family's child to deceive him, saying that it was his eldest son!

And he, too, was stupid to the end, seeing that child who didn't resemble him in the slightest, didn't even have the slightest doubt, so he couldn't wait to make him the crown prince, and even pardoned the world for him!
Now, he just wants to kill him, kill the queen!
Kill these villains who dare to deceive him!
Duke Zhen could clearly see the anger in Emperor Jingming's eyes. After a moment of silence, he remembered the last thing Han Zhe had told him, cupped his hands again, and said, "Your Majesty, I have one more thing to report to the Emperor!"

But Emperor Jing Ming seemed to be immersed in his own anger, and he couldn't hear his report at all, but just stared at his eyes tightly, and his knuckles were clenched.

Duke Zhen couldn't help it, so he had to raise his volume again, changed his wording, and said loudly, "I report to the emperor, I have a happy event to report to the emperor!"

After his volume increased, the entire vocal range widened, like a Hong Zhong.

Only then did Emperor Jingming come back to his senses, looked at him coldly, and said with a smile, "It's all over, what else can I have for joy?!"

"Your Majesty still has the eldest son of the Emperor!" Lord Zhen Guo didn't want to see the sarcasm on Emperor Jingming's face, and directly said what the Regent wanted him to convey.

After hearing this, Emperor Jingming jumped up, stood up excitedly, looked at him in disbelief, and said anxiously, "Liang Qing's family, what are you talking about? Say what you just said again!"

Duke Zhen cupped his hands again and said, "Returning to the emperor, I just said that the emperor still has a real eldest son!"

"Is this true?" Emperor Jingming asked anxiously as if grasping at the last straw, "Where is he?! Tell me quickly, where is he?"

Lord Zhen Guo pondered for a moment, looked deeply at Emperor Jingming, and said, "The emperor's eldest son is here—the Fanghua Hall of the West Sixth Palace!"

"Fanghua Hall... you mean Concubine Ning?"

"Your majesty is wise, the eldest princess Meng Yu is actually not the eldest princess, but should be the eldest prince! It was only because she was too weak at birth that Concubine Ning concealed it, and then followed the customs of their hometown to raise her son as a daughter in order to hope It can deceive ghosts and gods, so that children can live a long life!"

"So, so it's like this!" Emperor Jing Ming was so excited now that he had no time to distinguish the truth from the truth in Zhenguo Gong's words.

While muttering to himself, he was about to walk outside.

Lord Zhen didn't stop him, he just glanced at Li Zhong indifferently, pointed at the big box behind him, and said, "Then I will leave these to Eunuch Li for disposal!"

Li Zhong heard the words and hurriedly agreed.

Lord Zhen Guo glanced at him, and said, "There is Fanghua Hall, if it is convenient for Eunuch Li, please take care of him."

Although Li Zhong didn't know what was written in the two documents that made the emperor's face change, but in order not to offend others, he still complied with Duke Zhen's words, and then sent Duke Zhen out respectfully.

Let's talk about Emperor Jingming, after he left Qianyuan Hall, he put on a normal suit and strode towards Fanghua Hall in the Sixth West Palace without even lighting a lantern.

When Li Zhong packed up his things and chased after him, the gate of Fanghua Palace was already wide open.

And in the brightly lit side hall, Emperor Jing Ming was picking off the clothes of the eldest princess Meng Yu.

When he saw the features between his legs that belonged exclusively to men, he almost went crazy with joy!

He can't wait to cry up to the sky, God treats him kindly in the end, it will be difficult for him to have his own children in his life, but he never thought that God will send him a nine-year-old eldest son in the blink of an eye!
"Luo'er! Yuner!" He held Meng Yu's arm tightly, looked into his somewhat dazed eyes, and shouted excitedly, "Luo'er, it was the father who was sorry for you before, and I will never, ever again By the way, you are the Crown Prince of the Yun Dynasty, the heir of the father after a hundred years, Yuner, are you happy?"

Hearing this, Meng Jing moved his lips, resisting the pain from his arm, and said to Emperor Jingming, "Father, doesn't the Yun Dynasty already have a crown prince? He is the son of the mother's heir..."

Emperor Jingming originally had a smile on his face, but now when he heard Meng Yu mentioning the evil son he named the prince, he suddenly became furious, with scarlet eyes, flicked his sleeves, and shouted at Meng Yu, " What is he... You are Father's favorite son, Father can't wait to give you all the good things in this world!"

"Tomorrow, tomorrow, I will make your mother and concubine the imperial concubine! I will make you... first I will make you Prince Jing!"

As for the crown prince, it will take some time.

At the critical moment, Emperor Jing Ming finally calmed down a little.

At this time, the concubine Ning who lived in the main hall was also supported by Ah Ju to the side hall, Meng Yu's place.

"The concubine has met the emperor, long live the emperor!" After reaching Emperor Jing Ming's side, she gently blessed her lower body and said in a gentle voice.

When Emperor Jingming heard the voice, he turned his head and looked at the strange but familiar concubine Ning. After a moment's pause, he patted her on the shoulder and praised her again, "Okay! Yun'er, you are so kind, it's not in vain. I love you so much that you have raised such a good son for me without making a fuss!"

Happiness comes too suddenly.

Looking at Emperor Jing Ming's eyes full of admiration, she was still a little unaccustomed to it. After a moment of stunned, she finally recovered, lowered her head and said with a sob, "As long as the emperor doesn't blame the ministers and concubines for not telling the emperor the identity of the emperor early, that's fine." ..."

"I know your suffering!" Hearing what Concubine Ning said, Emperor Jing Ming quickly helped her up, held her hand, and sighed in a low voice, "I don't blame you, I don't blame you at all... this harem In the middle, the empress is jealous, and the empress protects the empress, it's not easy for you to raise Yuner so much!"

Concubine Ning heard what Emperor Jing Ming said, her eyes fluttered, and she choked up again. She raised her head gently, looked at Emperor Jing Ming for a long while, then glanced at Meng Yu next to her, and then whispered, " Now that the emperor has announced the identity of Yun'er, how will the concubine on the empress' side explain... Your majesty, the concubine is really afraid..."

As she spoke, she began to cry again.

Emperor Jing Ming saw her worry and fear in his eyes, how could he not feel pity or love in his heart.

Immediately embraced her, and said harshly, "She will not be a queen soon! As for the position of crown prince, it only belongs to our Lu'er..."

Concubine Ning didn't know the real life experience of the crown prince yet, upon hearing this, her shoulders trembled a few times, she raised her head again, looked at Emperor Jingming with tears in her eyes, and said, "Then the queen mother... will the queen mother allow the emperor to do this? "

"The queen mother... Maybe she can get it, and if she doesn't, she can get it!" Emperor Jing Ming was really angry this time.

He will never be like a puppet again, at the mercy of the queen mother and queen...

On the other side, Kunning Palace.

It wasn't until dawn that the queen learned about the events of Qianyuan Hall and Fanghua Hall last night.

"You said that the emperor suddenly rushed from the Qianyuan Hall to the Fanghua Hall last night?" The queen looked at Yuanwei coldly and asked sharply.

Iris nodded hastily, and then took the opportunity to blackmail Ning Concubine again.

The queen was so fueled by the maid next to her, she immediately dropped a teacup and said angrily, "Bring that bitch here!"

"Yes, empress!" Yuanwei agreed, and led a few martial eunuchs towards Fanghua Hall in the West Sixth Palace.

But when she arrived at Fanghua Palace, she found that today's Fanghua Palace is not comparable to yesterday.

The gatekeeper has become the guard of Qianyuan Hall.

And between opening and closing, it's all about the imperial concubine...

After hearing this, Iris was more than a little startled.

Immediately, he didn't dare to trouble Fanghua Palace any more, so he brought the people from the Queen's Palace back to Kunning Palace.

But what she didn't expect was that just as she turned around, on the other side, Emperor Jing Ming approached her with a dozen guards.

"The emperor... I have seen the emperor!" Yuanwei panicked and hurriedly knelt down to salute.

But Emperor Jingming ignored her, and walked directly to the guards of the Fanghua Palace, and said harshly, "Those palace people dared to disrespect the imperial concubine, dragged them all out and beat them to death with sticks!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The guard responded, and went to call for someone to get the torture tools.

As for Yuanwei, after hearing what Emperor Jingming said, she almost fainted.

The next moment, he opened his mouth, and begged for mercy with fear, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please forgive me. This servant just obeyed the Queen's orders, please come over and speak... Your Majesty, please forgive me!"

The eunuchs who came with her were also frightened, knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately.

But Emperor Jingming seemed to have not seen it, he just curled his lips coldly, and added to the guards who were executing the sentence, "The imperial concubine and the eldest prince are still resting, shut their mouths, don't disturb them." Your noble master!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The guard replied again, and immediately wanted to gag the mouths of Yuanwei and the others.

The cane used by the palace was already heavy and heavy, but after thirty or so strokes, it was enough to bleed to death from the seven orifices of a person... plus the location of Fanghua Hall was remote.

By the time the news here reached Kunning Palace, the bodies of Iris and the others had already been dragged out of the palace...

No matter how angry the empress was, she did not dare to confront Emperor Jingming, her chest heaved violently, and she walked towards the Palace of Compassionate Ning full of anger.

In the Compassionate Ning Palace, when she arrived, the Empress Dowager hadn't gotten up yet.

She couldn't care about so much anymore, and broke into the Queen Mother's bedroom crying.

The queen mother had a sweet dream, but she broke it up like this.

Can't help feeling a little angry, sat up, glared at her and said, "You majestic queen, how decent is it to cry like this! If you forget all the rules you learned before, then Aijia will find you some more This nanny is learning from the beginning...the more she lives, the more she goes back, and now she even dares to break into the Ai family's bedroom, do you still have the queen mother of the Ai family in your eyes!"

The queen was so trained by the queen mother, she was panicked for a moment, and even forgot to cry.

With red eyes, she cautiously looked at the awe-inspiring Empress Dowager Ren on the bed, sniffed, leaned forward, and said in a low voice, "Auntie, niece knew it was wrong! You shouldn't rush into your aunt's bedroom recklessly!" Come on! My niece really got it wrong!"

As he said that, his knees softened and he knelt down.

Empress Dowager Ren watched and couldn't help sighing.

After all, it was the junior she was closest to since she was a child. As soon as she admitted her mistake, her heart immediately softened.

After a while, she let out a long sigh, calmed down, looked at Aunt Ju Rui who was standing by, and ordered, "Go, help your queen up, you are the mother of a country, don't just kneel!"

When the queen heard what her aunt said, she knew that she had forgiven herself again.

At that moment, without Ju Rui's help, he stood up quickly, then took two steps forward, sat down on the bedside chair, hugged the Empress Dowager Ren's arm, and said with red eyes, "Auntie, look at me This queen can't do it anymore, you don't know, the emperor actually named that bitch in Fanghua Palace as imperial concubine last night, but this morning I just want Yuanwei and the others to invite that little bitch to talk, the emperor doesn't ask why I beat Lili and the rest to death, saying they were disrespectful to the imperial concubine..."

"What did you say?! The emperor actually made Concubine Ning the Imperial Concubine?" The Queen Mother glanced at the iris and directly mentioned Concubine Ning's promotion.

When the queen heard her aunt's question, she immediately became annoyed again, "That's right! She was promoted directly from the concubine to imperial concubine! Then the next step is to slap me, the queen, and give it to her..."

"Shut up!" The Empress Dowager Ren suddenly changed her complexion when she heard the empress speak so freely, her eyes were deep, and she glanced at her coldly, "I won't allow you to say these things that will grow others' ambitions and destroy your own prestige. !"

"You are the queen, as long as you live for a day, then you are the queen of the Dayun Dynasty, and no one can depose you!"

"Then what if I insist on abolishing her!"

As soon as the queen mother finished speaking, a male voice implying anger took the words.

The queen and the queen mother looked at each other, and their expressions changed at the same time.

The next moment, Emperor Jing Ming opened the curtain and walked in from the outside.

This time, he didn't even perform the ceremony, and walked directly to the Hu bed opposite the bed, and sat down with a flick of his robe. Then, he looked at Queen Mother Ren coldly and angrily, and said word by word, "Ren Mingwei, the queen, I will depose you!" deal!"

"If the Queen Mother agrees, she must agree, and if she disagrees, she must agree!"

The last sentence he said was full of coercion.

After hearing this, Empress Dowager Ren's face turned red, she was angry, and even more angry.

She didn't expect that her own son, who was raised by herself and supported by the superior, would one day refute her face like this.

On the other side, the queen's face also changed completely.

"Ju Rui, you take someone down first..."

After a long time, Queen Mother Ren spoke, but she gave orders to Ju Rui.

Ju Rui knew that the three masters had some private matters to discuss, so she agreed and withdrew respectfully...

This morning, no one knew how tense the Empress Dowager's dormitory was.

Civil and military officials and the common people in the capital only know——

Within a few days, the new prince who was appointed by the emperor died of illness.

As for Empress Ren, because it was not good to take care of the prince, she asked to be deposed, and went out of the palace to Chengtian Temple to pray for the royal family.

On the second day after the abolished empress left the palace, the emperor, in order to have someone to control the harem, specially conferred the concubine Concubine Ning of the Fanghua Palace as the imperial concubine, who was in the same position as the deputy empress, and held the golden treasure book.

On the same day, the Eldest Princess died of illness, and was born with the same birth as the Eldest Princess. The Eldest Prince who was sent to Mount Wutai in order to solve his fate was also taken back.

Chu house.

When Chu Ci heard the news, there was a slight smile on his face—the matter of the fake prince was finally resolved, and Emperor Jingming and the Ren family had completely turned their faces.

As for Meng Jing.

He wanted to leave Dali Temple, but it was just a matter of time.

With all the witnesses and material evidence, even if Emperor Jing Ming wanted to delay, he couldn't delay it for long.

Sure enough, before the Eldest Prince was appointed as the Crown Prince of the East Palace, Emperor Jingming finally issued an edict, proving that the regent's blood was pure and that he was indeed the son of the late Emperor.

After that, he not only returned all the powers of the regent to him, but also named him the iron hat regent.

That is to say, as long as Meng Jing has an heir, his eldest son will be able to inherit the title of regent king for generations and enjoy the special favor of one person under one person and above ten thousand people.

After Chu Ci learned this from Han Zhe, he pondered for a moment, looked at him again, and then asked thoughtfully, "What about Concubine Yun? How did she react when she saw Mother Wu's suicide note?" ?”

When Han Zhe heard Chuci's question about Concubine Yun, his face turned ashen. After gritting his teeth for a long time, he cupped his hands and said, "She still refuses to believe it! Even if the evidence is in front of her, she still feels that the prince is not her own son." I feel that the prince is lying to her, that the suicide note written by Madam Wu was forged by the prince!"

"and then?"

She asked again, what she wanted to know was how Concubine Yun would live the rest of her life.

(End of this chapter)