Chapter 278: Questioning
In Jing'an Palace.
Empress Dowager Cui leaned on the beauty couch and looked at Yu Wenhong, who was leading Wan Smug from afar to walk in from the door, with almost no other expression on her face except for the pale in her illness, and even her brows barely wrinkled.
There were palace maids standing on both sides of the hall, but at this time, they all lowered their heads, and they couldn't wait to put their heads on their chests, and they didn't dare to take a breath.
Yu Wenhong stepped forward unhurriedly, with a smile on his face, and said to the Empress Dowager Cui, "I've seen the Empress Dowager." ”
Wan Deyi behind him also bent down and respectfully greeted An, and said, "The slave has seen the Queen Mother." ”
Empress Dowager Cui didn't speak, just glanced at Yu Wenhong, and then withdrew her gaze in disregard.
Yu Wenhong glanced left and right at the main hall, but didn't see the person he should see, so he asked, "Queen Mother, what about the good works around you?"
Empress Dowager Cui paused for a moment, and then said in a lazy tone that didn't seem to take his question into account: "The mourning family asked her to go to the Ningguo Mansion to do something, what's the matter, the emperor is here to ask for the guilt." ”
Yu Wenhong walked to the chair next to the Empress Dowager Cui and sat down, and said, "My concubine has just lost a child, and the Empress Dowager said that I should come to ask for the guilt?" Although I rushed back in time to frustrate her plot, the concubine was still stimulated to have a miscarriage. Murdering the royal heir, such a great crime, good work can not escape the blame. ”
Empress Dowager Cui snorted coldly and said: "Everything that good work does is the order of the mourning family, if the emperor wants to ask the guilt, it is better to ask the mourning family first." ”
Yu Wenhong smiled and said: "What did the Queen Mother say, the Queen Mother regards me as a parent, and regards the royal inheritance as the most important, more than anyone else, she wants to see the harem concubines have children, how can she let people poison the concubines with cold medicine." The Queen Mother must have been deceived by the villain, so the good man would hide from the Queen Mother to do such a rebellious thing. The queen mother doesn't have to stop the blame on herself for the sake of a minion. ”
Empress Dowager Cui snorted coldly again and said, "If the concubine follows the rules, the mourning family will naturally be happy to see her give birth to an heir for the emperor and the royal family." But she does not abide by women's morals, when she does not enter the palace, she makes a private agreement with a man for life, and after entering the palace as a concubine, she privately receives it with a foreign man. Even if an heir is born, who dares to guarantee that it is the bloodline of the Yuwen family. The mourning family just rewarded her with a bowl of cold medicine, and did not ask for her life, which is already the kindness of the mourning family. The emperor said that the mourning family was bewildered by the villain, and the mourning family saw that the emperor was mistaken by beauty, and he couldn't even distinguish right from wrong. ”
Saying that, a purse was thrown on Yu Wenhong's body, and he said in a fierce voice: "The emperor takes a good look at the things that your good concubine gave to other men." ”
Yu Wenhong picked up the purse and looked at it, the fabric of the purse was a little old, and the fabric on it was even a little fluffy, it should be some years, and it was often rubbed in people's hands. The purse is made of lotus lotus-colored cloth, on which the colorful silk thread is embroidered with the picture of the begonia winged bird----- under a round of beautiful sunshine, the begonia flowers are in full bloom, and the female and male winged birds on the flower branches spread their wings and fly.
On the other side of the purse, half a poem is embroidered, "I wish to have a heart, and the white head is not separated", and the signature next to it is embroidered with the word "蘅".
Yu Wenhong recognized that this was indeed Meng Yuyu's craftsmanship, not a fabrication made by Empress Dowager Cui in order to frame people. But this purse was probably embroidered before she entered the palace.
Yu Wenhong opened the purse, and there was a bunch of hair inside, forming a concentric knot.
Yu Wenhong lowered his eyes, put his head back into the purse and closed it again, and still said to the Empress Dowager Cui slowly: "This is the purse that Yu Yu gave to me many years ago, I don't know what the Empress Dowager wants to prove with such a purse? Although the concubine was in love with me before entering the palace and gave me a purse, which makes people feel that the concubine is not reserved enough, but this does not seem to be a big problem." ”
Empress Dowager Cui snorted twice, as if she wanted to tell a joke, and said: "In order to cover up for the concubine, the emperor can really even open his eyes and say nonsense." The emperor knows where this purse mourning family got it from, from Zhou Bi's son Zhou Yun, that is, the cousin of the concubine's childhood sweetheart. And the mourning family listened to the maid next to Zhou Yun say that Zhou Yun had been wearing this purse for several years. This noble concubine is really so confused that the emperor is not shallow, such a woman who confuses the emperor's heart, for the sake of the Yuwen family and for the sake of the country, the mourning family should not just reward her with a bowl of cold medicine, but should reward her with a bowl of intestinal poison. and Zhou Yun, who had a personal affair with the concubine, should also be executed. ”
Since the Zhou family can't be used by her, Empress Dowager Cui is not even afraid to completely tear her face with the Zhou family.
Yu Wenhong completely ignored her later words, and said to herself: "Did the Queen Mother get this purse from Zhou Yun? I lost this purse for several days, and I have not been able to find it, and the concubine has been angry with me for a while, but it turned out to be picked up by Zhou Yun? This Zhou Yun, I didn't hand over my things when I found them, and I should indeed be punished." After speaking, he took the purse into his arms and continued: "But these things have nothing to do with today's crime and good work to murder the concubine and cause the concubine to have a miscarriage. ”
Empress Dowager Cui said: "The mourning family has already told the emperor that everything that the good work does is to obey the orders of the mourning family, and the emperor will come to discuss the guilt of the mourning family if he has the ability." What's more, the mourning family has already asked people to send her out of the palace. ”
Yu Wenhong looked at the Empress Dowager Cui, shook his head, and sighed: "It seems that this person is really harmful, not only committed the crime of great rebellion, but after the crime was revealed, he not only continued to confuse the Empress Dowager, but also planned to abscond in fear of the crime, and the crime was added to the first degree." As he spoke, he picked his eyes, and then curled the corners of his mouth and said: "Fortunately, the minions in the palace are not vegetarians, and they have long expected that she may escape from the palace, so they arrested her and brought her back." ”
After speaking, he shouted to the outside world: "Come on, bring up the guilty slave and good worker." ”
Empress Dowager Cui straightened up slightly from the couch in some surprise, and then saw that Lianggong, who was a little embarrassed, was escorted up by two palace people, one left and one right. Empress Dowager Cui was not surprised for too long, then lowered her eyes, regained her composure and slowly sat back on the couch.
She didn't expect this scene, she had always known Yu Wenhong's methods. But after all, Lianggong has been following her for a long time, and she still has to try to protect her.
Empress Dowager Cui said in a slightly angry tone: "What does the emperor want to do?"
Yu Wenhong said: "Such a slave and maid whose crimes are unforgivable, I don't even need to be tried, just kill them." Just executed in this Jing'an Palace, so as to give a warning to the subordinates of Jing'an Palace, the slaves who betrayed the master should be this fate. ”
Empress Dowager Cui patted the table and stood up, glared at Yu Wenhong angrily, and said, "You dare! Lianggong is a slave of the mourning family, how to deal with the mourning family." ”
Yu Wenhong said: "Come on, execution!"
Lianggong must not make trouble or beg for mercy, as if he had already expected his fate, his eyes looked deeply at the Empress Dowager Cui, and said, "Queen Mother, you will take care of yourself in the future." After speaking, he turned his head to Yu Wenhong, shook his fist and said resolutely: "Today's things are all the unauthorized claims of slaves and maids, and they have nothing to do with the Queen Mother." ”