Chapter 22: Proving Innocence
After saying goodbye to Xiao Yu, the emperor's gaze fell back on Dong Ce and asked, "Since you denied what he just said, and have another argument, can you tell me what is important when he pulled you away from the brocade?"
Gu Yuqing sighed in his heart, in the final analysis, the emperor still defended his son, even though he already had an answer of eight or nine points in his heart, but until the last step, I am afraid that he would never let Xiao Duo bear the responsibility of drugging Dong Ce. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Even if it was a punishment, he would not punish him in this matter, but find another interface.
This is the emperor of the dynasty, vain and face-loving, but it is also his biggest weakness, Gu Yuqing assisted Xiao Duo for six years in the previous life, and he has long felt the emperor's temperament clearly.
Dong Ce was asked by the emperor, his face immediately tightened, he pursed his lips, and was silent again and again, without saying a word.
Let him speak how to speak!
Dong Ce and his cousin Bai Yuetang have a personal relationship, and Bai Yuetang is not the niece of Dong Ce's mother Bai, but the concubine of the Bai family's concubine room, so the Dong family naturally should not allow this family affair that is not the right family.
What's more, the main wife of the Bai family, Chang Shi, has her own daughter, who has already been married, and her husband's family is the prefectural commander of Zhending County, not far from Kyoto.
Although he is a new champion, handsome and chic, he is just a county order in the end, and his family is ordinary, not rich.
The concubine married the county order, but let the daughter of the concubine marry into a high-ranking family like the Dong family to be a wife, and the Chang family never had such a mind and bearing.
Moreover, there is no such thing in this world.
Bai Yuetang wants to enter the door of the Dong family, and being a concubine is already to promote her.
Therefore, Dong Ce's mother Bai Shi came to her mother's house and hit it off with her sister-in-law Chang, and Bai made a promise that as long as Bai Yuetang no longer entangles Dong Ce, there is no more relationship between the two, she will take out a thousand taels of silver as a thank you.
Chang's is the most wealthy, and she was so happy to get this promise that she smiled, and as soon as Bai left, she asked Bai Yuetang to be locked in the house.
Before she set up a family affair for Bai Yuetang, she was not allowed to go out for half a step.
Bai Yuetang's biological mother naturally cried in front of Bai Yaozhi, the master of the Bai family, and blew out all kinds of pillow winds she could think of, even the marginal words such as the main mother being the reincarnation of the fox demon she also said, but it was still to no avail.
Dong Ce's mother, Bai, is Bai Yaozhi's sister-in-law, and he can't use one of his concubines to ruin the Dong family's children.
What's more, his official fortune, the official fortune of his eldest daughter-in-law, and his son's future official fortune all depend on the big tree of the Dong family, plus the Dong family has a Hui Guifei, who is the person on the tip of the emperor's heart, and he can't afford to offend.
Reasonably, he supports Chang's approach.
Bai Yuetang's biological mother saw that the pillow wind did not blow, so she quietly asked the maid to see Dong Ce, and told Dong Ce what had happened, saying that Chang not only locked Bai Yuetang up, but also did not give her food, and wanted to send her to a nunnery in the countryside to be a sister-in-law, and begged Dong Ce to save Bai Yuetang.
Dong Ce already admired Bai Yuetang, and when he got the maid's words, he suddenly became anxious, but today, the queen held a banquet, and his mother was sick and couldn't come, so he had to come to the banquet instead of his mother.
During the banquet, Xiao Duo whispered to him that he had something to tell him about Bai Yuetang, Dong Ce was naturally frightened, and wanted to know what Xiao Duo wanted to tell him, so he came out with him.
After all, he has a personal relationship with Bai Yuetang, and very few people know about it.
Which Cheng thought, when he came out of the brocade shed, Xiao Duo didn't say anything important, just gossip and joked with him.
Now the emperor asked, but how could Dong Ce open his mouth to tell the emperor about such a thing.
Once he speaks, he will trap the Bai family, Bai Yuetang, and his parents, these three parties are unjust, and if it spreads, it will be a scandal.
It's okay for the Dong family to fall in a big way, the most pitiful thing is Bai Yuetang, if the marriage with himself is not successful, and such a joke is made, I am afraid that there will not even be a marriage proposal in the future.
In the Heart Nourishing Palace, Dong Ce frowned, and he was embarrassed in his heart.
Xiao Yu and Dong Ce grew up together since childhood, they have both cousin kinship and brotherly feelings of playing together with bare butts.
Dong Ce's embarrassment fell in the eyes of the emperor, and that was suspicious.
Originally, Xiao Duo lifted a stone to shoot himself in the foot, and when he made such a scene, the emperor had already made a conclusion in his heart, but now, he was shaken again.
The son is his own child, and everyone wants to think of his son in a good way.
Xiao Duo knew in his heart that he and Dong Ce didn't say anything inconsequential, and originally thought that Dong Ce would turn out the words and tell the emperor without hesitation, but he never thought that Dong Ce would be silent, and his face turned purple.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, how could Xiao Duo miss it.
Dong Ce didn't speak, so he would come.
"Father, the son is really wronged, Dong Ce was drugged, and he has nothing to do with the son, the father knows best, the son has always done things above board, how could he do such a bad thing, besides, the son must have a motive to drug him, and the son has no reason to harm Dong Ce!" Xiao Duo showed his sincerity to the fullest.
Breathing a sigh of relief, Xiao Duo continued: "None of what Erchen said is false, from beginning to end, Erchen is telling the truth, and those words of Fang Cai Erchen are indeed relayed Dong Ce's original words word by word, and my father is aware of it. ”
Looking at Xiao Duo's performance that he couldn't wait to whitewash, Gu Yuqing sneered in his heart.
Xiao Duo is best at disguise, disguising himself as an extremely high-spirited person, almost a moral model saint.
But under this sanctimonious skin, there is a black heart that is so cruel that people can't look at it directly.
Dong Ce's face was blue and white at Xiao Duo's nonsense, his eyelids jumped suddenly, and his clenched fists were distinct, but under the emperor's angry gaze, he couldn't break down half of the sentence.
He can't be sorry for Bai Yuetang.
"It's really not clear about this matter, but my cousin's poisoning is real, and now it's important to quickly find out the real murderer, and the second emperor brother should not prove his innocence here, find out the real murderer, and you will naturally be innocent." Seeing that Dong Ce was embarrassed, he was about to cry, Xiao Yu came forward to say for Dong Ce.
Anyway, he dared to say anything.
Concubine Shu, who had been silent, suddenly said a sentence and said coolly: "Who knows if it's a thief shouting to catch a thief." ”
Her voice was not loud, but it was enough for everyone in the room to hear it.
Concubine Hui immediately swept towards Concubine Shu with a pair of eyes like poisonous needles, but in an instant, her eyes were calm again.
Concubine Shu's words made the emperor frown, glanced at Hui Guifei, and saw that Hui Guifei just lowered her head and lowered her eyes with a peaceful and quiet expression, her heart turned a few times, and she turned her face to look at the queen again, "You just said that in the end he came back with the Gu family's daughter, right?"
Gu Yuqing took a breath, and the ball was finally kicked in front of her.