Harem for a living

Chapter 221

Hearing Tang Wan'er's cry, Chen Manrou turned to look at the emperor.Although judging by the emperor's appearance, he believes in himself and the eldest princess, but there must be a conclusion on this matter today, otherwise, the emperor will directly press this matter in the previous court instead of taking Tang Wan'er to Yongshou The palace is coming.

"Your Majesty, since Tang Zhaorong kept saying that the concubine and the eldest princess conspired to suppress the empress dowager, why don't you send someone to call the eldest princess over as well, and let's come to testify in court? The concubine has served the emperor all these years, and she has worked hard without credit. I beg the emperor to see that the concubine is still devoted to the emperor and filial to the empress dowager, so I can be innocent."

Now that the emperor has stated that the matter needs to be thoroughly investigated, then Chen Manrou made a gesture, we are very cooperative with the emperor, we will act as the emperor says.Calling the eldest princess means that the matter is going to Dali. According to the normal procedure, someone from the clan has to come forward, and someone from the court has to come forward.

Sure enough, after Chen Manrou finished speaking, the emperor nodded with a smile: "I believe in Zi Tong, don't worry, I will definitely clear you up. This matter must be thoroughly investigated today, dare to suppress the empress dowager , when the nine clans are punished."

Tang Zhaorong, who was covering half of his face with a handkerchief beside him, turned pale, and then burst into tears: "The evidence is complete, and the emperor is still partial to the murderer..."

The emperor picked up the teacup at hand and aimed it at Tang Zhaorong's head, and smashed it down. The aim was very precise, fast and ruthless, and then there was a click. The teacup broke on Tang Zhaorong's forehead, fell to the ground, and split into five or six petals. Son.

Tang Zhaorong's face was dull, and on his forehead, a trace of blood snaked down his face, taking advantage of the two tear stains at the corners of his eyes, the blood was even more red and glaring.

Chen Manrou secretly laughed inwardly, Tang Zhaorong was really impatient, she must also know the seriousness of witchcraft, she was afraid that the situation would be reversed if the framing failed, so she thought that the Princess Chen Manrou had no time to fight back, and she persuaded the emperor to charge him with this crime settle down.

But if you say too much, you will make mistakes.She originally planned to say that the evidence is solid, the emperor, you can punish the eldest princess and the empress.However, once the words were spoken, it turned out that the emperor was a fool, and seeing the evidence in front of him, he was unwilling to convict him.

So, I suffered this.

After the emperor smashed Tang Zhaorong, he looked at Chen Manrou indifferently. Chen Manrou was dumbfounded for a while, and then quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe the emperor's hands.The emperor turned his head and told Liu Cheng: "Go and invite the eldest princess to enter the palace. In addition, there are also Prince Zhuang, Prince Duan, Prince Chun, Prince Ning, Prince An, Prince Li, Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Lord Guan, and Ministers of the Left and Right Ministry of Justice. "

Prince Zhuang is the highest seniority in the clan. He is the uncle of the late emperor, who is also the grandfather of the current emperor.Prince Duan is only the emperor's cousin, the patriarch of the clan.Prince Chun is the patriarchal order. Although he has five uniforms with the emperor, the patriarchal order is no worse than the patriarch.

Prince Ning is the third elder brother of the emperor, Prince An is the seventh younger brother of the emperor's mother and compatriots, and Prince Li is the ninth prince who has just been married for two or three years.

Together, these few people can represent the royal family and the Feng clan.In addition, letting people from the Ministry of Punishments intervene means that this matter cannot be easily understood, and one person is bound to be completely dusted.

Liu Cheng responded, quickly exited the door, and ran away in a hurry.Tang Wan'er was a little nervous, but Chen Manrou asked someone to serve the tea again without haste.Then I started to think back to the whole story Tang Wan'er made up before, to see if there was anything in it that Tang Wan'er was sure to plant successfully.

First of all, Tang Wan'er said that the reason why the empress dowager fell into a coma was because the eldest princess brought the ashes of the talisman paper into the palace, and then made the empress dowager drink the ashes.This talisman paper ashes has become an important tool for committing crimes.

Tang Wan'er has come to this point, and she is bound to be ruined. Then, this bit of talisman paper dust can probably be found in Ci'an Palace, or it may be on Tang Wan'er's body, or it has already appeared. to the emperor.

Then if she wants to blame this matter on herself, maybe her Yongshou Palace will also be a little ashes.

However, this evidence is a little weak. After all, talisman paper ashes are just the powder of some burned paper. If Yongshou Palace wants to find an excuse, it can find a reason to burn some paper in the past half month. For example, Chen Manrou A piece of paper was broken while drawing, and Xiaoba mischievously burned a book.

Unless there is an expert who can identify, what kind of paper is used to burn all kinds of paper ashes.However, this is unlikely, because paper is basically plant fiber, and the composition left after burning should be the same.If there is a chemical identification method at this moment, there is still a [-]% possibility.

However, there are only a few identification methods now, and it is completely impossible to identify the composition of the burned ashes.

No, there is also cinnabar.Just as Chen Manrou was about to let go of this doubt, she suddenly thought of this.On the talisman paper, things are drawn with cinnabar or dog blood. These two things can probably be identified, right?
Thinking of Chen Manrou's heart tightened, Yongshou Palace has never burned any paper with cinnabar during this period.Just now Manager Ming and Li Chun also said that nothing was found in Yongshou Palace, I hope they all searched carefully and carefully.

In addition, on the side of the eldest princess, the origin of this talisman is also a big breakthrough.Tang Wan'er said that she and the eldest princess were dissatisfied with the queen mother, so she came up with her own idea, the eldest princess acted, and then sold the queen mother's birthday horoscope.

Then, the position of the eldest princess is very important.If the eldest princess is still very dissatisfied with herself now, maybe...

Here Chen Manrou was thinking wildly, feeling restless for a moment, while the emperor slowly sipping tea with the newly replaced teacup from Lichun, as if a flower suddenly bloomed in the teacup, and he couldn't move his eyes away.

If the two masters didn't speak, the people below naturally didn't dare to speak.Tang Zhaorong wanted to talk, but the blood on her head hadn't been cleaned up, and no one told her to go down and take care of it, let alone talk to her, so she could only stand in the corner aggrieved and pretended to cry.

After crying for a while, seeing that no one paid her any attention, probably because her mouth was dry from crying, she gradually stopped crying.

"His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince seeks to see you, His Highness the Eighth Prince seeks to see you, and the Fifth Princess seeks to see you." The room was quiet when a young eunuch suddenly came in to report. Chen Manrou listened to Director Ming's report before and asked someone to send Xiao Ba to Xiao Si There, and told them not to come over.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, all three brothers and sisters came over.

Chen Manrou was terrified, lest her children would be involved, and was about to ask someone to stop them, the emperor put down the teacup and said with a smile: "Let them all come in, by the way, the princes and princesses have come to greet you today ?”

Chen Manrou's face was a little stiff, she rubbed the corner of her mouth with a handkerchief, and then said with a smile: "I have already invited An, they invited An earlier than Concubine Hui and the others, Hong Hao and the others still have to go to the Chongwen Museum, so every day Didn't dare to delay."

The emperor nodded, looked at Xiaosi who entered the door and said with a smile: "Don't you need to go to the Chongwen Museum today?"

Xiaosi pulled Xiaoba forward and saluted: "Greetings to my father, the Chongwen Museum is not closed today, but yesterday, my husband asked my son to write an article on water control, and I will show it to you tomorrow, so today my son It's gone."

Xiaosi now has a husband alone, so she doesn't attend classes with other princes.It's not that Xiao Si is special, the second prince, the third prince and others now also have their own husbands.

The emperor is very generous in educating his children, and there are seven or eight grand tutors.Almost one prince and one, except for the enlightenment, basically when they started to make a fuss, they were already one teacher per person.

"Oh, then your article is ready?" The emperor pulled Xiao Ba to his side, hugged him on his lap, stuffed Xiao Ba with snacks, and asked Xiao Si casually.Xiaosi nodded quickly: "It's already done, please look over it, father."

As he spoke, he actually pulled out a few pieces of paper from his sleeve.The emperor took it over and looked at it with interest, nodded and said: "At your current age, it is not bad to be able to write this kind of article. However, there is still a lack of practice. Most of these things are just on paper. Like You wrote on it that you need to build an embankment, so let me ask you, do you know how many people are needed to build an embankment? How much soil is needed? Do the people around the embankment need to move? If they move, where do they want to move? Ren, do you want to pay for the relocation? Also, what season is the most suitable for building embankments?"

Xiao Si listened respectfully, and then saluted after being taught: "What my father taught me is that I take it for granted. Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. I will definitely accumulate more practical experience in the future."

The emperor nodded approvingly, and Xiao Ba shook the emperor's arm: "Father, you only talk to fourth brother and ignore me."

"Why did the father ignore you? Didn't the father give you back the snacks?" The emperor pinched Xiao Ba's cheeks funny, and Xiao Wu smiled and said: "Father, if you ignore him, he will rely on you Acting like a baby at a young age, he is acting like a baby with his father now, but he got into trouble."

"Oh, what's the trouble?" The emperor raised his eyebrows curiously and asked, Xiao Ba immediately stopped talking, just lowered his head and pointed at his fingers, Xiao Wu said with a smile: "He gave the queen mother's favorite painting this morning. If it is torn, the queen mother will punish him, but he ran to the fourth brother."

Chen Manrou turned her head to look at Xiao Wu, just as Xiao Wu also turned her head, she winked mischievously at Chen Manrou, she had discussed it with her fourth brother before, because the people in Yongshou Palace would not hide too much from them, brother and sister The two actually guessed the process almost exactly.

Even if their queen mother doesn't want them to come here, they will definitely not let the queen mother fight here alone.

The emperor hugged Xiao Ba and laughed, stretched out his hand to rub Xiao Ba's head: "Which painting of your mother did you burn?"

Xiao Ba carefully glanced at Chen Manrou, and then muttered, "That picture of appreciating plum blossoms." Painted, in front of the emperor on weekdays, she always treasures that painting, if Xiao Ba burns that painting, she will have to punish Xiao Ba even for her appearance.

Thinking of this, Chen Manrou's complexion darkened, and she snorted coldly: "Xiao Ba, don't you know what you did wrong now?"

Xiao Ba immediately burst into tears: "Mother, I know I was wrong~" That small appearance, no matter how pitiful it is, the small body twitches, the big tearful eyes look at you, and the hearts of those who look at it are softened to water.

The emperor usually loves Xiao Ba the most, and he couldn't take it any longer, so he quickly hugged Xiao Ba in his arms, and turned his head to look at Chen Manrou: "Oh, Rouer, isn't it just a painting? Since Xiao Ba knows it's wrong, let's not make an example. That's fine. If you really like that painting, when it snows this winter, let's draw another one?"

Chen Manrou froze for a moment, carefully looked at the emperor's face, trying to make sure that his last words were casual, or that he was making a guarantee for this matter.But after watching for a long time, she had to admit in frustration, observing the emperor's face and discerning the emperor's thoughts, she still couldn't cultivate well.

"Your Majesty~" Although she couldn't guess what the Emperor was thinking, Chen Manrou still wanted to say a few words of anger: "You've spoiled Xiao Ba! If he causes even bigger disasters in the future, I won't be able to stop him. "

The emperor laughed again: "It doesn't matter, Xiao Ba is my son, no matter how serious the disaster is, I can take care of him. Even if I'm gone one day, there will still be Xiao Si as an older brother. What's more Xiao Ba is still young, and when he is a few years older, he will be sensible."

This time, not only did Chen Manrou's complexion change, but Tang Wan'er, who was pretending to be an invisible person, even turned pale, with resentment flashing in her eyes, and after she lowered her head, her entire face turned ferocious.

(End of this chapter)