Chapter 52: Discernment
Empress Dowager Cui's face was colorless, but the Buddha beads in her hand were turning faster and faster. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
After a long while, she said lightly: "What the emperor said is reasonable, this harem should be reasonable." ”
Yu Wenhong slapped his knee with a happy face, and said with a smile: "My son knows that the Queen Mother is reasonable, and she will definitely know what is at stake and agree with what her son said." ”
He turned his head to look at the queen again, and pretended to be annoyed: "Speaking of this mess in the harem, I have to talk about you, the queen." Since you married into the palace, I have handed over this harem to you to take care of, and I am diligent in political affairs and have no time to distract from the affairs of the harem. But look at what you've done to the harem, Queen. ”
The queen flattened her mouth, of course she was not convinced, and said: "Your Majesty, you only wronged the concubines, the concubines have been in charge of the harem for so many years after entering the palace, and this time is Xu Zhaorong's temporary care of the harem." As soon as she is in charge, something will happen, what will happen to the concubine? If you want to blame, blame Xu Zhaorong. ”
The words are a bit strong, the harem fence is not tight, it is not a day's cold, the queen's management of the harem has always been confused, and it is controlled by the Empress Dowager Cui, how can it be caused by Xu Zhaorong's management in the past few days.
But Yu Wenhong nodded, and actually recognized her words: "What the queen said also makes sense." ”
Xu Zhaorong's face turned blue, and he was even more unconvinced, stood up and looked at Yu Wenhong, and shouted: "Your Majesty, this Ma Gonggong Yuyu and his ilk have not been in the harem for a day or two, and the concubine has only taken over the palace affairs for a few days, how can you blame the concubine." As he spoke, he looked at Jiang Yu again, said coldly, expanded the flames of war, and said: "Tourmaline is a palace maid brought in by the concubine from outside the palace. ”
She knew that she didn't come to see the excitement, but to create excitement for others to see.
Jiang Yu turned his head to look at Yu Wenhong and Empress Dowager Cui, and sighed: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager, since Zhaorong said tourmaline, the concubine should indeed ask for a crime, because the concubine is not strict with the unknown person." As he spoke, he stood up and curtsied his knees to Yu Wenhong and Empress Dowager Cui.
But then he continued: "But there is one thing, the concubine must distinguish one from the other, otherwise the concubine can only hang the southeast branch with three feet of white silk to wash away her innocence." ”
Yu Wenhong's face was displeased, he pulled down his face, and said: "If you have anything to say, just say it, don't you say these negative words, don't you know that it is a big crime for the palace concubine to commit suicide." ”
Jiang Yu said in her heart, she made an analogy, what is she doing so nervously.
He also said: "Zhou Zhonglang wants to abduct tourmaline out of the palace, and he really blames the concubine for not discovering tourmaline's mind in advance. Zhou Zhonglang is the cousin of the concubine, and he can occasionally meet when he is young, and Tourmaline is a maid who has served the concubine since he was a child, and he thinks that she and Zhou Zhonglang fell in love at that time. If the concubines knew that they were happy with each other before entering the palace and fulfilled their wishes, the events of the previous days would not have happened. But ......"
Jiang Yu wiped his eyes with a handkerchief, his eyes turned red instantly, tears flowed out of his eyes, and a clear spring flowed through his cheeks.
The beauty weeps, Xu is a weak willow that supports the wind, and it is like a scattered flower red, and the pear blossom brings rain, which is always pitiful and distressing.
Jiang Yu said: "But Sister Zhaorong said everywhere that it was the concubine who wanted to elope with Zhou Zhonglang, and it was also the concubine who secretly communicated with Zhou Zhonglang, and the concubine was very wronged." The concubine didn't know what evidence Zhaorong had to accuse the concubine of having an affair with Zhou Zhonglang, so the concubine simply argued with Zhaorong generously today, otherwise the concubine would have the face to live in the harem with this trumped-up charge. ”
Xu Zhaorong snorted: "Whether it is unwarranted or true, the concubine knows it in her heart." The concubine and Zhou Zhonglang were childhood sweethearts, and it was a semi-open secret that they almost got married before entering the palace. ”
Jiang Yu said: "This palace really doesn't understand what Zhaorong means. The Meng family and the Zhou family are relatives, and it is common for them to come and go often, and Bengong and Zhou Zhonglang can occasionally meet once or twice under the eyelids of their elders, and they are childhood sweethearts? The girl's family has reached the marriageable age, which husband and wife are not seen a few times, but there are some negotiators and some negotiators, and Bengong and Zhou Zhonglang are not negotiable. The palace has the honor to enter the palace to serve the emperor, the emperor is brave and mighty, majestic and majestic, the dragon and phoenix, the jade tree is in the wind, is the best man in the world, the palace naturally admires the emperor to death. ”
As he spoke, he looked at Xu Zhaorong again and said, "Xu Zhaorong, you have to put this hat on this palace, not only to question the moral vision of this palace, to question the tutor of the Meng family, but also to question the charm of the emperor." Could it be that in Zhaorong's heart, the emperor's charm is not as good as Zhou Zhonglang, and he actually thinks that this palace will abandon the emperor and love Zhou Zhonglang?"
Xu Zhaorong was so angry that he stood up again, stared at Jiang Yu and said angrily: "The concubine is simply a strong word. ”
As he spoke, he looked at Yu Wenhong and said, "Your Majesty, the concubine is ......."
Jiang Yu interrupted her and said, "Since Xu Zhaorong said that this palace is reasonable, then we will discuss the actual evidence today." Zhaorong has a token in his hand that the palace and Zhou Zhonglang privately conferred and received, or has he seen the private meeting between the palace and Zhou Zhonglang with his own eyes. ”
As he spoke, he turned his head and pointed at the rest of the palace concubines, and asked, "You, you, you, have you seen it?"
The palace concubines looked at each other, but they didn't speak, no one was willing to offend her concubine or Xu Zhaorong first.
After a while, in the end, a green-clothed palace concubine said with a smile: "Back to the concubine Niangniang, the concubine has never seen it." Said and said with a smile: "When the concubines heard this rumor, they also felt unbelievable, thinking that it was a joke told by Sister Zhaorong and the concubines, but it couldn't be true, and the concubines never believed it." ”
Jiang Yu recognized her, Li Jieyu of Ning'an Palace. Her name was Qing'e, and later she avoided the queen's name and changed it to Li Qing'er. is the earliest palace person who served Yu Wenhong when he was in the palace, and his father is only a seven-pin county, and his family background is not good, so he has only mixed the name of Jieyu until now. Because he is not favored, he is quite low-key in Yuwenhong's harem, and he takes the road of self-preservation.
Jiang Yu didn't expect that the first person to help her speak would be Li Jieyu, who didn't come forward first.
After Li Jieyu finished speaking, Zheng Cairen also said: "The concubine has never seen it." ”
Then there was Cui Chongyi, who was born in the maiden family of the Empress Dowager Cui, and the palace concubine who was a cousin of the queen, and said with a smile: "The concubine has never seen it, but the concubine has seen tourmaline meet with Zhou Zhonglang in private once or twice." ”
The queen was dissatisfied with Cui Chongyi helping Jiang Yu speak, so she turned her head and glared at Cui Chongyi fiercely. Jiang Yu looked at the Empress Dowager Cui, but saw that the Empress Dowager Cui's face was not displeased, obviously this Cui Chongyi's actions were approved by the Empress Dowager Cui.
It's just that Jiang Yu doesn't know when Empress Dowager Cui changed her strategy to her, and she would be so kind.
It can't be another conspiracy.
Jiang Yu shuddered in his heart when he thought about it.