Chapter 39: The Witnesses Who Emerge
Yang Yi was stunned, covering his face and looking at Concubine Shu in disbelief. Concubine Shu can be said to have pressed her life on Yang Yi's son, although she is not doting, she has grown up in the palm of her hand since she was a child, and she has never been willing to touch a hair of him. So after calming down, she slowed down her tone and said softly: "Mother knows that you have been wronged, and knows that you have endured very hard all these years, so why shouldn't Mother? Li Guifei has never given me a good face by relying on her background and your father's favor! Concubine De smiled when she saw her, but she hid a knife in her smile, and she was always thinking about how to pull you down from the position of the crown prince and let your son take his place, so as to kill our mother and son! Mother still laughs at them every day, do you know that my mother is smiling on her face but dripping blood in her heart?"
The words were sad and painful, Yang Yi was overwhelmed by the guilt that surged up in his heart before he could be angry, he looked at Concubine Shu opened her mouth but didn't know what to say, and finally hung her head without saying a word.
"Yi'er" Concubine Shu saw that he seemed to calm down, and hurriedly beat Tie Xiao while it was hot, and her tone became more and more soft, "My mother's background is not good, and she can't compare to Concubine Li and Concubine Chen De, one of them is the daughter of a family, and the other is Princess Chen Guo." Everyone in the world pays attention to blood, even if you are a prince, you will inevitably be despised because of your mother's background, and your mother is not afraid of her mother, but her mother is waiting!"
Concubine Shu is playing the warm card to persuade Yang Yi to focus on the overall situation, and Concubine Li is also very lively.
In the main hall of the Furong Palace, the emperor sat on the red sandalwood Ruyi cloud pattern chair, and listened to Xiuzhu with an uncertain expression about the encounter between Situ Ningbing and Cui's family. The concubine sat under him with a calm face, but Mrs. Situ, who was sitting next to the concubine, was full of indignation. Situ Ningbing sat beside his mother with his head down, looking like he was watching his nose and nose, but in fact, he had been secretly paying attention to the movements of Concubine De sitting on the head.
"Can you see clearly?" the emperor looked at Xiuzhu condescendingly and asked lightly, his voice was not high, but it had a terrifying majesty.
Xiuzhu didn't panic, only kowtowed respectfully, and then replied: "Back to Your Majesty, the slave maid was standing beside Miss Situ at that time, and the slave and maid did fall by herself, and the slave didn't dare to lie." ”
The emperor said "um", and he couldn't hear anything. Concubine De glanced at him and said leisurely: "Your Majesty, why don't you invite the two palace people around the Cui family to ask at that time?"
The emperor looked at Situ Ningbing's mother and daughter, then at Concubine Li beside him, and finally nodded after a moment of silence. There was no need for him to tell the prince who was standing on the side to give the little eunuch on the side a look, and the little eunuch turned around and hurriedly walked out, and after a while, he led two palace maids in.
"You will tell Cui Chenghui in detail about the fall, don't miss a word, don't add oil and vinegar, if there is half a lie, immediately drag it out and kill it!" After the two palace maids finished their salutes, Concubine De looked at them condescendingly, and changed her gentle and demure face. Naturally, there is no need to work the emperor for this kind of thing, originally Li Guifei was here, and it was not her turn to ask the emperor for him, but today's situation is a bit special, and Li Guifei is also half a party, so it is not good to open the interrogation. Since Concubine De is here to be a good person, she naturally wants to be a good person to the end.
Hearing this, the two palace maids knelt down again tremblingly, and said in unison: "The slave maid doesn't dare!"
Concubine De let out a faint "um", and seemed to be very satisfied with their reactions, and after seeing that the emperor and Concubine Li saw that they were not displeased, she continued: "Tell me, how did the Cui family fall?"
"Back to my mother's words. The palace maid kneeling on the left hurriedly replied: "Our wife was pushed down by Miss Situ, and I ask the emperor and Niangniang to be the master of our wife!"
Mrs. Situ's face immediately sank when she heard this, and before she could say the words of scolding, someone was already one step ahead of her. "Nonsense!" A crisp and immature voice sounded in the Furong Palace, and everyone followed the sound to look towards the door, only to see a little girl followed by two palace people walking in angrily.
Li Guifei's good-looking eyebrows frowned slightly, and said with a straight face: "Why are you so unruly, you broke in without being summoned!"
The little girl's little face, which was still angry a moment ago, was immediately full of grievances, a pair of big watery eyes filled with moisture, and she looked at the emperor pitifully with a flat mouth, "Erchen was reckless for a while and asked his father to forgive him." The speed of the instant change of face frightened Situ Ningbing, she was blind, why didn't she see that this little girl was so capable!
But the emperor still ate her set, and seeing that his baby daughter was wronged and distressed, he hurriedly waved his hand at Li Guifei and said: "Xiaoyu is still young and grows up, so she naturally understands the rules, so don't be too strict with your concubine." As he spoke, he beckoned to his daughter, "Come here, come to my father." ”
Although there was the emperor's support, Yi Fei didn't dare to be fearless, and looked at Li Guifei pitifully, seeing that she didn't object, she secretly winked at Situ Ningbing, and then lowered her head and walked to the emperor's side in a regular manner, and sat on the small pestle that the prince had ordered the little eunuch to move over.
"Why did you just say that the palace maid was talking nonsense?" In the face of his daughter, the emperor was extremely loving, and his voice became softer than ever. Situ Ningbing always thought that the emperor was a loving father in front of Yang Yi with his childhood impression, but now that he saw his attitude towards Yifei, he knew what a "loving father" was.
Yi Fei seemed to remember the purpose of his coming here, and pointed at the palace maid who had just spoken, and his face was full of anger, "She is talking nonsense and slandering Sister Allure! Erchen was playing hide and seek with the palace maids near the Furong Palace, and when he was hiding, he happened to see the Cui family blocking the way of Sister Allure, saying what to reverse right and wrong, find the lady concubine Niangniang to complain and the brother died... I didn't understand, in short, it was just looking for trouble, Sister Allure kindly persuaded her to take care of the emperor's heir, and for some reason she raised her hand like crazy to hit Sister Allure, Sister Allure avoided her and couldn't hold her hand and fell down accidentally. Yi Fei was hiding in a big camphor tree, and it was not easy for others to see her, but she could see the surrounding Qiqi clearly, and the place where Situ Ningbing and the Cui family had an argument was only a foot away from the big camphor tree, and their words naturally entered Yi Fei's ears word for word. Because of his preconceived impression of Situ Ningbing, although Yifei truthfully described what he saw and heard, he automatically ignored Situ Ningbing's provocation in Cui's words.