Empress Jinghua: The eunuch is nine thousand years old

Chapter 101
When Xia Zijin woke up again, it was already the morning of the second day.

She couldn't remember how she got back to Moshengyuan. The last image in her mind was holding hands with Xia Shengqing across the railing, and moving forward... was the kiss that passed by.

Xia Shengqing's warmth seemed to remain on her lips, the soft and warm touch was better than countless in the world.

"Princess, you are awake!"

Xia Zijin was still dazedly stuck in the memory of last night, but her mind was interrupted by a half-angry, half-resentful call. She rubbed her sleepy eyes, and saw that the blurred shadows in front of her eyes gradually became clearer, and she was full of tender buds. Xiaokui in the green palace skirt was holding a bowl of candied date porridge in her hand, she seemed relieved, she pouted and complained, put down the bowl and helped Xia Zijin to sit up.

"Why is this princess here? She is obviously in the sky prison..." Xia Zijin sat up holding Xiaokui's hand, and leaned against the gold brocade cushion that Xiaokui put on behind her. When she moved like this, she felt a pain in her head Terribly.

"The princess still said it! The emperor ordered you to be grounded, but he couldn't prevent you from sneaking away. The servant waited and waited in the room wearing the princess's clothes yesterday, but he didn't see you back. I was really anxious!"

Xiaokui grumbled and complained that Xia Zijin's body was hot yesterday, and she was almost confused by the fever. She was worried and impatient, but she couldn't hold Xia Zijin back, so she had to let her go to the prison.

"Fortunately, Father-in-law Xiao Xia sent you back after being burned unconscious. Otherwise, the maidservant and Xiao Huanzi would rush to the prison to find you back!" Xiao Kui took a spoonful of the jujube porridge on the table and blew it Liang, fed it into Xia Zijin's mouth, shook his head and sighed.

Xia Zijin couldn't help but chuckle when he heard Xiaokui's ramblings, and the memory of last night also surfaced.

Last night, after she finished talking with Xia Shengqing, she had a high fever and the illness in her body began to wreak havoc. She was dizzy and passed out. Before she fainted, she heard Xia Shengqing's anxious shouting through the railing, and dazedly saw a pair of feet running towards her. around, and then there was darkness.

Now I heard from Xiaokui that it was Xiao Xiazi who sent her back to the Mosheng Garden in a coma, so the feet she saw before she passed out last night should belong to Xiao Xiazi.

After eating the candied date porridge fed by Xiaokui, the sweet warmth melted in the mouth, as if the strength lost in the illness had also recovered a little bit.

Xia Zijin was thinking about something while sucking the sweet glutinous porridge.Xiao Xiazi is a person close to Ming Shengdi, even if he has a good relationship with her on weekdays, it is not good enough to pick her up in the prison himself.

It seems...Ming Shengdi knew that she had left the palace to go to the prison without permission, and had already sent someone to follow her, so he saw Xiao Xiazi the first time she was unconscious.

Xia Zijin blinked her eyes, and suddenly began to ponder the thoughts of the opaque Holy Emperor. It was a case that she knelt in the imperial study room twice before and was turned away, but this time she was grounded, but she acquiesced in allowing her to secretly go to the prison. Sending someone to follow her is another matter.What exactly did Ming Shengdi intend to do?

Could it be that she had thought too much before, Ming Shengdi actually... cared about her safety, so he deliberately didn't see her, so as not to let her get involved in this conspiracy?

"Princess, what are you thinking about?" Xiaokui asked while feeding the porridge, seeing Xia Zijin's frown wrinkled and then relaxed, and then wrinkled slowly, her heart seemed to go back and forth many times. .

Xia Zijin came back to his senses and shook his head, suddenly thought of something, and asked urgently: "Where is the front... What is the situation first?"

Xiaokui put down the porridge bowl, wiped off the water stains on Xia Zijin's lips with a handkerchief, and said with a smile, "Princess, don't worry, when Father-in-law Xia sent you back yesterday, he specially explained to the servant girl. If you wake up and ask, I can rest assured." That is, Director Xia will definitely appear in front of you again in a safe and sound manner."

Xia Zijin heard that these words were conveyed by Ming Shengdi through Xiao Xiazi's mouth, and he really let go of his heart that had been hanging for several days.Fortunately, everything was just a surprise. Fortunately, she did not lose the person she wanted to protect the most in the next life. There are too many fortunately, Xia Zijin has never felt so comfortable these days.

"Xiaokui, let the small kitchen prepare some food. I want... purple potato and barley cake, sweet and sour shrimp balls, and yam and potato soup!" Xia Zijin said while rubbing her flat belly, letting go of the big stone in her heart. , Appetite also inexplicably improved.

"Okay! The servant will go immediately!"

Xiaokui said with a smile, her round eyes curved into crescent moons, nothing could make her happier than Xia Zijin's vitality.

There is a joyful atmosphere in Mosheng Garden, but the North Hall Jinluan Hall, which is separated by many palace walls, is a completely different scene.

In the center of the hall, a group of people were already kneeling, including the incomparably noble and eldest son of the emperor.All the courtiers stood upright, for fear that Ming Shengdi, who was on the high seat, would take his anger on him.

I saw Emperor Ming was sitting on the dragon chair, with his hands resting on his knees, but his joints had already turned white, and his majestic eyebrows were even more solemn and terrifying.

He snorted coldly, smashed the bright yellow memorial on the case on the face of the eldest son of the emperor, and said word by word: "This time the imperial examination fraud case, Dali Temple Secretary has completely written the cause and effect of the matter on it, What else do you have to argue about?"

The eldest son of the emperor looked solemn. He had always been pampered and pampered for a long time, his knees were already sore and numb, and he didn't know how to speak when facing Ming Shengdi's questioning.

"My son... my son..."

The eldest son of the emperor did not expect such a situation in the court today at all. He thought that he had done a perfect job, and today he just waited for Ming Shengdi to sentence Xia Shengqing to death, so as to vent his anger that he refused to submit to him.

Who would have thought that at the Golden Luan Hall today, Ming Shengdi and Dali Siqing seemed to have rehearsed in advance, and they threw out a bunch of criminal evidence that left him speechless, and even dug out the hidden clues he had laid in the Imperial Academy over the years. When he came out, the slap caught him off guard, and he didn't prepare any suitable words in advance.

"Why, can't you tell, huh?" Ming Shengdi roared, and all the courtiers trembled.

"I trust you so much, I never imagined that you would corrupt your virtues and the reputation of our royal family! Buying and selling palace test questions, and joining forces with the mob in the Imperial Academy to form a profit chain for imperial examinations to collect money. Is this how I teach you to do things? ?”

The eldest son of the emperor clenched his fists, but he couldn't find any rebuttal at all. Ming Shengdi seemed to have blocked half of all the excuses he could find in advance, and he was not allowed to argue with all the evidence.

"Father...my son was fascinated by ghosts for a while! Please forgive me! My son swears to heaven, there will never be a next time!" The eldest son of the emperor stretched out his finger and swore, pretending to be calm, he raised his head and looked at the Ming emperor full of anger. Angry eyes filled with anxiety.

But Ming Shengdi looked at him with such an attitude, but did not reduce his anger at all, instead it became more and more intense, and scolded: "Do you think that if you don't make an example, you can turn a big thing into a small thing? Oh, I am really angry. A good son!"

Ming Shengdi's sharp gaze swept over the main hall, looking at every minister involved in the fraud case, his gaze became colder and colder.

"All ministers listen to the order! This case of cheating on the sale of imperial examination questions is something I have never heard of since I took charge of Dalai. Its viciousness should be punished!"

The eldest son of the emperor clenched his fists tightly, feeling uneasy in his heart, he won't... He is Emperor Ming's own son, since a tiger's poison does not eat its offspring, Emperor Ming will not kill him.

However, the other ministers involved in the interference case seemed to have exhausted all their strength. Ming Shengdi had already said so, and it must be doomed this time...

"The eldest son of the emperor conspired to cheat in the imperial examinations, which chilled me. He released all the rights in his hands, pondered in the mansion, filled half of the property into the treasury, and was not allowed to participate in politics without my permission." Ming Shengdi said, his big sleeves waved away, and his eyes were sharp. The courtiers involved in the case on the ground were swept away, and they were even more indifferent, "The rest of the criminals will be punished according to the severity of the crime. The Dali Temple Minister will report the details later, and the serious ones will be executed! , fame and fame will be invalid, and you will not be allowed to enter the official career for life!"

"Your Majesty, please think twice!" At this time, Yue Taifu, who had been watching from the sidelines, said, holding the foreword on the wat board, "Although it is true that the eldest son of the emperor and the adults violated the laws and regulations, they are guilty, but they are indeed guilty. It is for the emperor, these years there is no credit but hard work, the emperor please lighten it!"

Yue Taifu is a veteran minister of the dynasty, and at this moment he is taking the lead in interceding for the eldest son of the emperor and others, and the courtiers who are friends with the eldest son of the emperor and the ministers involved in the case also knelt down and begged to follow: "I beg the emperor to think twice!"

"Okay, okay, really my good minister!" Ming Shengdi sneered and said three good words, the anger in his chest was about to spread to his throat, making the ministers look at each other but dare not speak.

"I haven't offended the Taifu yet, is the Taifu impatient to stand out? Since the Taifu wants to intercede for them, I will grant you!"

After finishing speaking, Ming Shengdi let out a dull snort from his throat, and said word by word: "As the head of the imperial examination, Yue Taifu didn't even realize that the interest chain that has poisoned thousands of students in the imperial examination for many years is not doing his duty. Pleading for mercy for a guilty minister is not enough! I think you have devoted yourself to the court for many years, and you will not be corrected deeply. You will be fined for three years, dismissed from the position of chief officer of the imperial examination, and demoted to Taibao, effective immediately!"

As soon as this remark came out, the courtiers were in an uproar.

Yue Taifu is a veteran minister who has presided over the imperial examination for many years, but this time Ming Shengdi not only fined his salary and demoted his post, but also removed the authority of the master, no doubt he wanted to severely suppress Yue Taifu!
The courtiers who had nothing to do with this time were a little stunned. The emperor punished Yue Taifu vigorously without any warning. What did he mean?
However, some ministers with clear eyes could already see clearly that the emperor was clearly going to attack the Yue family!I'm afraid that the ministers involved in the case who were punished were just a foil. What the emperor really wanted to punish was Tai Fu Yue who had been in charge of the imperial examination for many years but acquiesced in the existence of such a dirty and huge chain of interests!

(End of this chapter)