Chapter 12: Self-righteousness
"Your Majesty, the minister has been wronged!"
When the man was dragged down by the guards, he struggled and shouted that he had been wronged.
Suddenly, Min Guiren caught a glimpse of the crescent moon accessory he hung around his waist and said loudly, "Wait a minute!"
In an instant, the eyes of everyone in the hall looked at her.
The guards also stopped dragging the man out.
"This accessory ......" Min Guiren slowly walked out of his seat, his eyes fell on Lin Guifei, "Your Majesty, the accessories that the concubine saw the concubine's sister wearing today happen to be the other half of his jade pendant." ”
At this moment, even Yunluo felt that it was Min Guifei who was calculating Lin Guifei.
However, will calculating a person in the harem be so obvious?
As soon as Min Guiren's words came out, the emperor immediately sank his face and turned his head to look at Lin Guifei.
Concubine Lin knelt on the ground, her voice soft and soft, "As soon as he came in just now, the concubine saw the jade pendant." It should be that my sister is wrong, that jade pendant is the concubine's maidservant Ning An. ”
"What about the people of Ning'an?" the emperor asked with a gloomy face.
Concubine Lin replied, "Today she is not well, so the concubine didn't let her serve." ”
The emperor looked at the head of the Imperial Forest Army, "Pass on Ning'an." ”
"Yes!" the Captain of the Imperial Guards replied with a fist clenched and turned to leave.
When waiting for Ning An to come to the palace, Lin Guifei was still crying quietly, as if she had been greatly wronged.
Yunluo returned to Jiang Lingyan and sat down, looked up and saw that Min Guiren was staring at him, as if he had robbed her of something.
This is a concubine, and her mind is still on Jiang Lingyan, which is not a good thing.
Yunluo turned his head and looked at Jiang Lingyan with a smile, "Lord Wang, your peach blossoms are so prosperous, even His Majesty's concubine can't forget you." ”
Jiang Lingyan turned his head to look at her, and suddenly raised his hand to touch her forehead, and said with an ugly face.
"If you don't have a fever, you talk nonsense, and you don't know if you can't talk nonsense?"
"I'm not talking nonsense. After Yunluo finished with a smile, he gestured in the direction of the lower Min nobles with his eyes.
Jiang Lingyan followed her gaze and happened to meet the fiery gaze of the noble Min.
Seeing this, Min Guiren put away the fierceness in his eyes and smiled softly at Jiang Lingyan.
Jiang Lingyan frowned.
Yunluo propped his head with one hand and said with a smile, "The beauty smiled, it was really a country and a city, which man in this world can pass the beauty pass?"
Jiang Lingyan said coldly, "Self-righteous." ”
At this moment, the Imperial Forest Army walked in with Ning An, whose face was pale.
Ning An's clothes were intact, and the scars could not be seen from the outside, but his face was obviously freshly tortured.
When he reached the center of the hall, the head of the Imperial Forest Army pushed Ning An to the ground, "Tell me everything you do, otherwise you will have to suffer." ”
Ning An's body smashed to the ground, adding new injuries to the old injuries, and her painful facial features were all twisted together.
"Slave maid, slave maid is guilty......"
As soon as she opened her mouth, her body shook violently, and she spat out a mouthful of black blood, and then fell to the ground with her eyes open.
The emperor was furious, "What the hell is going on?"
The head of the Imperial Forest Army hugged his fists and said, "When the minister found Ning An just now, she was fed poison, but she was not killed yet, obviously the people behind the scenes were afraid that she would tell the truth, so she killed people." ”
"What a murderer," in a fit of rage, the emperor suddenly overturned the table in front of him, "It's really good to dare to kill people in front of me, and even take me in your eyes." ”
"Check, check for me!"
As soon as the emperor's words fell, two imperial guards hurriedly walked in from outside.
They originally wanted to announce it in the ear of the commander of the Imperial Forest Army, but the emperor saw it and said directly, "Is there anything hidden that you dare not say?"
The imperial guards paused, glanced at each other, and walked over tacitly.
The guard standing on the left arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, just now the ministers and others were ordered to interrogate the people in the palace of the concubine, and they took some means to ask something from the mouth of a grandmother, but the grandmother did not endure the torture and was already dead." ”
"The concubine was wronged?" the emperor sat on the high platform, with dragon power on his face.
"Yes, the grandmother said that it was she who threatened Ning An, knew about the birthmark of the concubine, and bribed the guards to slander the concubine, and even the matter of the palace maid knocking over the concubine's wine glass was also in the calculation, and when it came to the person who commanded the people behind the scenes, she died before she finished speaking. ”
"With such a ring in turn, it seems that someone really wants to harm Sister Guifei, and my sister was almost wronged. Min Guiren said loudly, it seemed that she was not the one who led the trouble to the concubine a few times just now.
Lin Guifei cried pear blossoms with rain, "Someone is planning to harm the concubine, Your Majesty must be the master of the concubine!"
The emperor comforted her and said, "Don't worry, concubine, at this time, I will definitely find out and give an explanation to the concubine." ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty. Concubine Lin choked up and said, "Mama Zhang and Ning An have followed their concubines since they were children and entered the palace with their concubines. ”
She tactfully reminded the emperor that the person who framed her was high and powerful, and poured the disaster on the queen.
The queen, who had been sitting on the side with a calm face, also heard the meaning of her words, and she turned her head to look at it with a majestic face, "What does the concubine mean by this, is she alluding to the palace?"
As if she was frightened, Concubine Lin hurriedly moved her knees and knelt towards the queen, "The concubine doesn't dare, the concubine is just saying the question in her heart, not who she is talking about." ”
When the emperor looked at Lin Guifei's pitiful appearance, his face also changed and he looked at the queen.
"The concubine was framed today, and what she just said is not inappropriate, why should the queen embarrass her? Tomorrow, you will choose some diligent palace people to send to the concubine's palace, and let her pick a few to fill the vacancy. ”
After speaking, he looked down at Concubine Lin and helped her up with both hands, "Concubine Ai, I'm frightened today, let's go down and rest first." ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty. ”
After Lin Guifei finished crying, she got up and left the hall.
This was the end of the matter, and the ministers who attended the birthday banquet also stood up to take their leave.
After everyone left, the emperor was the only one who left.
The Temple of Nourishing the Heart.
The emperor stood in the room with his hands behind his back, with a displeased face, "Brother Huang, the princess said to help the concubine get rid of the crime, but you instructed it?"
Jiang Lingyan was stunned and shook his head, "No." ”
"If you didn't order it, it's General Yun. The emperor's face was gloomy.
Jiang Lingyan said in a low voice, "Just now, the younger brother asked the maid beside the princess, she was indeed made difficult to kneel by the Min nobles today, and was rescued by the concubine. Thinking about it, she just wanted to repay the concubine's kindness, and did not collude with the Lin family. ”
The emperor snorted coldly, "If that's the case, it's the best." The Lin family has self-respect and wants to raise troops to rebel, I thought I would be able to deal with the Lin family tonight, but who knew that I was disrupted by you, a good princess. ”
Jiang Lingyan said in a deep voice, "It's the younger brother who is teaching and is not responsible, and I ask the imperial brother to punish him." ”