Good morning Mr. Zhongtang

Chapter 44

As soon as Yin Yuan finished speaking, he heard singing from outside, Concubine Rou arrived.

Concubine Rou's complexion was calm, she walked into the Xiyuan Hall without worry or agitation, came to the emperor, saluted and greeted her, Long live let her calm down, and Concubine Rou's eyes fell on Yin Yuan who seemed to be struck by lightning.

"Shameless and lowly servant girl, how dare you frame me."

Long live looked at Concubine Rou, said calmly: "If you are innocent, why would she frame it?"

After listening to Long Live's words, Concubine Rou couldn't help but her face froze, then she straightened her spine, Yingying knelt down in front of the emperor, and said neither humble nor overbearing:

"The emperor has clearly observed that there has never been any enmity between ministers and concubines and virtuous people. This lowly maid is expelled from my palace. If she is still in Dongyuan today, then the ministers and concubines are bound to be responsible for this incident, but this lowly maid has already They are not from Dongyuan, they have trouble in Xiyuan, but they come to find me bad luck in Dongyuan, and now they instigate this lowly servant girl to frame me, my concubine is so wronged."

Tong Wanrou glanced at the virtuous man, Concubine Rou's calm rebuttal did make sense to outsiders, the virtuous man gave Tong Wanrou a calm look, only to hear the emperor say again:
"Then according to what you said, everything was done by this lowly servant girl without permission, and you don't even know about it."

Concubine Rou responded calmly: "Your Majesty knows it well, but my concubines really don't know about it."

Wan Sui sighed for a long time, and said: "Okay, if this is the case, then this lowly servant girl has another crime of slandering the former master, plus setting snakes and poisoning, and murdering a pregnant nobleman, Li Dequan."

"The slave is here."

"Go to the House of Internal Affairs and transfer the life experience of this lowly servant girl, causing disaster to the entire family, copying and beheading the whole family!"

"..."

The emperor's words made Yin Yuan scream like crazy:

"No—no! Your Majesty, this servant did not lie. This servant was ordered by Concubine Rou, and she was also ordered by her to be kicked out of Dongyuan before. The servant was foolish enough to cooperate with her to perform this bitter trick in order to sneak into Xiyuan. Looking for the right time is not good for a nobleman. The day before yesterday, the Ministry of Internal Affairs ordered a troupe to perform in the palace. Concubine Rou got the news that there was a snake in the troupe, so she sent someone to kill the snake. They stole it and forced the servants to come to Xiyuan. The servants know that their crimes are serious, but their family members are always innocent. They don’t know what the servants are doing in the palace. Please forgive me and let them go."

Concubine Rou clenched her teeth, and said to Yin Yuan: "Your maidservant made false accusations out of thin air, she must be instigated by others."

After saying this, Concubine Rou cast her eyes on the noble man standing beside the emperor and looked at them, and said viciously:
"The concubine has always been peaceful, but she doesn't want to suffer this humiliation today. Your Majesty, the concubine has a way to prove her innocence. Come and pass on the class leader."

Tong Wanrou frowned, wondering where did the class leader come from?
After a while, a middle-aged man in colorful entertainment uniform came in, saluted the emperor tremblingly, and then heard Concubine Rou say:

"This person is the head of the theater troupe. Your majesty can ask him, what happened to those snakes?"

The class leader who was so frightened and sweating coldly swallowed his saliva, knelt down on the ground and said:

"Yes, the girl bought it from the villain. The villain didn't want to sell it to her, but he said that their master wanted to eat snake soup, and there was no such thing in the palace. I, I, the villain didn't know that she bought it to scare her." Yours. Otherwise, if you lend me a hundred guts, I wouldn't dare to buy it for her."

After hearing the testimony of the troupe leader, the atmosphere in the hall became more dignified. Li Dequan stood up and asked the troupe leader:
"You can see clearly, the one who bought the snake from you, but that girl?"

As he spoke, he pointed to Yin Yuan who was soaked in cold sweat, nodded his head firmly, and said:
"Yes, yes! The villain remembers it very clearly, it is the girl who is dressed up, she, she bought it from me with two golden phoenix hairpins, and I brought the hairpins, too."

Li Dequan took the phoenix hairpin from the trembling hand of the class leader, threw it in front of Yinyuan, and said:

"What else can you say, cheap maid? Is this your golden hairpin?"

Yin Yuan picked up the hairpin, tears gushed out, she couldn't help shaking her head, she was so frightened that she lost her mind:
"No, I don't! I've lost this hairpin for a long time. I didn't use it to buy a snake. The snake was sent to me by Concubine Rou. I really didn't buy a snake."

Yin Yuan seemed to have reached the limit, exhausted physically and mentally, and was so powerless even to defend himself.

Concubine Rou didn't care about the relationship between master and servant in the past, and made amends to her death:

"A lowly maid is a lowly maid. Not only did she fail to repent when she made a mistake, but she also framed the original owner. Her heart can be punished. Your Majesty, my concubines begged the Emperor to order the whole family to be beheaded, so as to put an end to this scourge."

Concubine Rou's words chilled everyone in the field. Everyone was a slave in the palace, and they all knew that if they served their master improperly, they would bring death to themselves, but no matter what, Yin Yuan was once Rou Concubine Dongyuan's slave made a mistake, not only did Concubine Rou not plead for mercy, but she was so vicious that she asked the emperor to decree that the servant be executed all over the house. This kind of seemingly heartfelt, but actually vicious heart is the most chilling and frightening.

Yin Yuan yelled like crazy in the hall, broke free from her captors, pointed at Concubine Rou and shouted:

"You have to die! It turns out that you wanted to frame me a long time ago! I was so determined to work for you, and you actually framed me! Even if I was a ghost, I would never let you go." After the crazy clamor, Yin Yuan seemed to be a different person Like a ghost from hell, pointing at Concubine Rou, approaching her step by step, saying word by word:

"You have resented the virtuous for a long time. Do you think I don't know that you stabbed a villain in the palace to harm her? If you want me to die, I don't want you to live a good life. That villain is under her pillow. She has three pillars of ghost incense every day, attracting ghosts and souls, nailing the villain to a wooden stick, poking it every day, and cursing the virtuous person to die suddenly, I have heard it, and everyone else in Dongyuan has heard it. She is the most vicious poisonous woman!"

"..."

It was beyond everyone's expectation that things would develop like this.

Ever since she heard Concubine Rou's fall into trouble and asked the emperor to kill Yin Yuan's family, Tong Wan exchanged glances with the virtuous and noble for several times, and finally decided not to say anything and just wait and see what happened. days of accusations.

After hearing this, Tong Wanrou made a look of sudden realization, and whispered to the virtuous man:
"No wonder the nobleman had a headache a while ago, it turned out to be..."

Tong Wanrou's voice was very small, but it 'coincidentally' could be heard by the emperor next to her, and what she said was without any evidence or objection. This kind of tone, which seemed to be narrating the facts, was actually more convincing.

The emperor stood up from his seat and said to Li Dequan: "Go and search."

Li Dequan was also shocked by this matter, and after receiving the emperor's order, he walked towards Concubine Rou's Dongyuan without saying a word.

Concubine Rou suddenly bounced off the ground like a spring, and quickly walked to the door, blocking Li Dequan's way.

"Don't listen to her nonsense. How can there be such filth in my palace? Even if there is, it is framed by others. You don't have to go."

Li Dequan turned his head and glanced at the emperor in embarrassment, only to see that the face of Long Live Lord was getting uglier, and he growled in a cold voice:
"Pull her away, Li Dequan!"

Li Dequan reacted hastily, after beating Qian'er to the emperor, he pushed aside Concubine Rou's obstruction with his own hands, and walked towards Concubine Rou's Dongyuan with a dozen or so young eunuchs accompanying her.

Concubine Rou looked at their leaving figures and fell to the ground, her face ashen.

While waiting for the results of Li Dequan's search, no one dared to speak in the main hall of Xiyuan. The emperor took the cold hand of the virtuous man, held it in the palm of his hand as a sign of comfort, and stroked her stomach twice to make her feel more comfortable. She sat back on her main seat and waited, while she paced around the hall with her hands behind her back.

In a short while, Li Dequan fulfilled his mission and returned quickly, bringing back some dancing masters and a human figure made of corn. A piece of yellow paper was pasted on the back of the human figure. The birth date written on the paper was Xian The nobleman's human body is covered with silver needles, with the most needles on the head and stomach, just looking at it makes people feel shuddering.

Who can imagine a concubine in the harem, making such vicious curses on the nobles who are only separated by a wall. The silver needles on this human figure are enough to show her vicious conscience.

When the emperor saw the human figure, he threw the thing directly on Concubine Rou's face, furious:

"You have failed the word Duan Rou in your name! You have failed my trust in you! You have failed a concubine's virtue! You have failed Wu Ya's loyalty! It is hard for me to imagine that there would be you in this palace." Such a vicious woman, come here! Put Wu Yashi Duanrou into the cold palace, Wu Yashi will never be hired by the court! Get out—”

"..."

It never occurred to Tong Wanrou that this vicious incident would trigger this fight, which would lead to the downfall of a concubine and a family in such a wide-ranging way.

Her original intention was just to remind Concubine Rou, so that she would not dare to hold Xiyuan in her hands in the future, but she did not expect such an astonishing result.

Concubine Rou's desperate voice echoed in the quiet harem, as if she wanted to warn the entire harem with her hissing voice, from Yonghe Palace, through Concubine Qi's Jianing Palace, and then from Jianing Palace to the imperial concubine's Yufu Although there were no other sounds in the palace, this sound shocked the entire harem.

After Concubine Rou and Yin Yuan were detained, the virtuous man took the initiative to kneel down in front of the emperor.

The emperor was puzzled and stepped forward to help her, but he heard the virtuous man say:
"The concubine has the guts to ask the emperor to pardon the concubine's crime of deceiving the emperor for the sake of the child in his womb."

"What's wrong with Minglan, get up quickly, the ground is cold." The emperor couldn't help but help the virtuous man up, only to see the virtuous man looking at him with a teary look, took a deep breath, and left When he arrived at the round table, he picked up the bowl of lily soup that was said to be poisonous, and said to the emperor:

"Actually, there is no poison in this bowl of soup. The concubine deliberately told the servant girl who released the snake. The purpose was to make her mess up and tell the truth. The concubine did not expect things to develop like this. It's just that Wanrou found the snake bag that was hastily abandoned in Xiyuan corner, and then found out the person who released the snake, and wanted to teach her a lesson. The concubine didn't know that everything was ordered by Concubine Rou, and she led out the snake bag Dolls."

What the virtuous man said was well-founded and convincing. Seeing that she had been tossed all night, the emperor had already shown a tired look on her face, and he felt pity in his heart, so he couldn't help saying:
"I know, these years have made you suffer. You don't need to think about it. From now on, I will strengthen the guards in your palace. You will live in Yonghe Palace alone. You can give birth to the emperor with peace of mind. Whether it is elder brother or Gege, I will ...will not treat you badly."

The emperor's words moved the nobles to tears. An emperor's ability to say these words to a woman is enough to show how much he cares about this woman.Since ancient times, there has never been a precedent for a noble person to monopolize the first palace in the harem, let alone the emperor's personal promise that he would treat the fetus well regardless of the gender of the fetus in the womb. This is an unprecedented favor.

The virtuous man bit his lower lip and hid in the embrace of the emperor.

After the matter was satisfactorily resolved, Tong Wanrou led a group of palace attendants to clean up the main hall. Before Li Dequan finished handling Concubine Rou and came back, she had already arranged everything that Li Dequan should have taken care of.

The emperor rested at the Yonghe Palace tonight, and stayed with the frightened nobleman until dawn, and his favor grew day by day.

In fact, what happened tonight, except for the puppet, which is an unexpected harvest, other things can be said to be in Tong Wanrou's calculations. She did find the snake bag by the wall in the south of Xiyuan, but the rouge and pearl earrings But it was her hands and feet. The bowl of lily soup from the sage was just an introduction, in order to preemptively catch Yin Yuan by surprise, and then use the poisoning incident to bring up the whole matter of releasing the snake, so that Yin Yuan Debate is indisputable.

I didn't expect to get rid of Concubine Rou completely, I just wanted to teach her a lesson, but I didn't expect that the emperor would give her a blow, and with the crime of exterminating the family, Yin Yuan's courage was completely frightened, and she was involved in Concubine Rou. She never expected that Concubine Rou would also be wary of Yin Yuan in advance, and she would have blamed her for buying the snake long ago, and she was ready to retreat. If she hadn't been vicious in her heart, she would have to plead with the emperor again in the end. If you cut Yin Yuan's entire family, you wouldn't be bitten out of a puppet by the dying and desperate Yin Yuan.

Putting snakes to scare concubines is originally a crime of confinement, but using witchcraft to curse the concubine, or even the unborn prince in the concubine's womb, is an unforgivable crime.

It can be said that Concubine Rou's results today are all her own retribution, no wonder others.

It's all right now, not to mention the loss of their status, but also for nothing, let them monopolize the Yonghe Palace as nobles, it is really comforting.

(End of this chapter)