218. Chapter 218
Ginkgo didn't understand why the young lady looked unhappy, but looked at Yuan Jinyu in a daze: "Slave maid...... I don't know......"
Listening to her unconfident statement, Yuan Jinyu knew that there should be a reason for the damage to her reputation. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info sighed slightly, Yuan Jinyu simply didn't want to, wait until he saw King Ning, and then make it clear to him.
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In the palace at this moment, the emperor is sitting in Shen Guifei's bedroom, he is only wearing a middle coat, his hair is scattered behind him, although he is old, his eyes are still sharp.
It's a pity that he still can't accept old age all these years, and he will always feel tired, so he leans on the bed at the moment and looks at Shen Guifei, who has been arranging the bedroom in front of him.
Shen Guifei has been able to pamper for so many years, and she has more or less captured the emperor's heart, if other concubines see the emperor coming, they must have tried their best to sleep, but Shen Guifei sensitively discovered the emperor's irritability, and slowly stepped forward, and the weak and boneless little hand gently pressed on the emperor's temple: "Your Majesty, why are you bothered, if it is not a matter of the court, can you talk to the concubine?"
Shen Guifei is a person who knows how to grasp people's hearts, and what the emperor needs now is not some physical comfort, but a woman who listens.
The emperor glanced at Shen Guifei, and when he saw the fine lines growing from the corners of Shen Guifei's eyes, he couldn't help but sigh that time always urges people to grow old.
Since Mu Zhao was grounded, Shen Guifei has also lived in this harem, except for going to the queen mother and the queen mother to say goodbye, she has been very quiet in her own palace.
The emperor thought for a while, and said to Shen Guifei: "The ban order of Eleven has been around for a while, and tomorrow I will pass on the word of mouth, let that child go to the court with a few imperial brothers." ”
Shen Guifei was happy in her heart, but she still looked worried about the emperor on her face: "Your Majesty, he is a stubborn personality, he has no bad intentions, he has been grounded for so long, he really knows that he is wrong, and in the future, with a few imperial brothers going to the court, he will definitely learn more and do more, and strive to satisfy His Majesty!"
Shen Guifei is facing her son, and if she says anything at this time, "Your Majesty can be locked up for a while if you don't lose your anger", it would be a bit fake.
The emperor's anger really eased a lot, and then he mentioned some things in the court, although they were all painless and trivial things, Shen Guifei listened very seriously.
In the end, the emperor actually mentioned King Ning and Yuan Jinyu. "This Xiangfu's Miss Shu was taken away by the bandits, although the village has been blown up, and those bandits are also blown up and drowned, but this young lady's reputation can't be saved, Xiangye's side, I still have to give a few thin noodles, at the moment there is a lot of uproar in the capital, and I really don't know what to do. ”
Shen Guifei and Yuan Jinyu were rivals, because of the matter of the eleventh prince, the two of them had long looked at each other, and the other party was not pleasing to the eye. So after the accident, Shen Guifei pushed the rumors around.
However, when she arranged for someone to do this, she found that there were other forces in the way, and it was obvious that Yuan Jinyu had offended too many people.
She is also very happy to see this matter, and at this moment she wants to say a word to the emperor: Since the name of Miss Nashu of the Prime Minister's Mansion has been damaged, it is better to give her a three-foot white silk.
But she didn't dare to say that, the emperor must be to blame when he heard it.
So Shen Guifei just sighed for a while, and then lamented for a while, like that, as if her daughter was taken captive by thieves.
"What a poor child, now that his reputation is damaged, how can he marry in the future. Shen Guifei didn't say what to do about this matter in the end, but just persuaded the emperor: "Your Majesty, please relax, presumably the Xiangye himself has a countermeasure, and Miss Xiangfu Shu encountered such a thing, and she was also destined to have this catastrophe." ”
Shen Guifei secretly added in her heart, it is best to be directly killed by this catastrophe.
The emperor stared at Shen Guifei again, and did not delve into the deep meaning of her words, but his expression was much more relaxed than just now, and motioned to the palace people to put out the lights, and fell asleep with Shen Guifei in his arms.
Early in the morning of the second day, His Royal Highness King Ning, who had not come to the court for two days, put on his court clothes and came to the court.
When he first appeared in the court, several ministers came to congratulate him, and he eliminated the thieves this time, which was a great achievement.
However, the staff of Duanwang's faction stood up and said that even if the cottage was leveled this time, a dam in Weishui would be destroyed, and if it was built again, the embankment would also be time-consuming and labor-intensive, so whether it was a merit or a fault this time has not yet been decided.
King Ning just stood aside lightly, disdainful of even looking at their mouths.
A shrill "The emperor has arrived" pulled everyone's thoughts back. The ministers took their positions and bowed their heads in silence.
The emperor glanced at everyone majestically, sat down on the dragon chair, and after being shouted long live, he said lightly: "Zhongqing's family is flat." Lao Jiu, I'm back to the court. ”
When King Ning heard this, he knelt on the ground: "Father, the son of the emperor exterminated the thieves and returned to the court, and specially asked his father for his guilt." ”
The emperor's hair can already see a lot of gray hair, and the chief manager wanted to dye him black, but he didn't agree, so now he looks a little older than before.
"It is a matter of merit to exterminate the bandits, but it seems that you have also realized your mistake, the Weishui embankment was blown up by you, do you know how much money and manpower it will take to rebuild such a dam?" The emperor had already learned about this matter, and his face was not good.
King Rui stood up and spoke for King Ning, with a strange and respectful attitude: "Father, this time Lao Jiuhui blew up the embankment, and it was also a last resort, the explosives in the bandit village exploded, and the village was built in the mountains and forests, if the embankment was not blown up, the entire mountain and forest would be burned." I also asked my father to send the old nine lightly. ”
King Ning still knelt on the ground, and although his attitude was respectful, he did not appear humble. This time, if he were to choose again, he would do the same, the embankment in Weishui is gone, and it can be repaired again, but the Jinglin Mountain Range has been a mountain range for I don't know how many years, and if the trees are burned, how many years will it take to grow?
The emperor glanced at King Rui, with a slight anger in his eyes: "I am talking to Lao Jiu, Lao Wu, you step aside." ”
Although King Rui still wanted to say a few more words, but when he saw the coldness in the emperor's eyes, he didn't dare to say more, so he had to step aside.
King Ning was still kneeling straight, and when King Rui retreated, he turned his head to look at him. There was peace in his eyes, as if he was kneeling here, about to accept the emperor's punishment, just an ordinary thing.
You must know that he was the prince first, or the famous general of Zhenxi, if the emperor wanted to take away his military power, it was just a reason, a matter of words.
King Ning really didn't care about this, knelt in place with a clear conscience, and set his eyes on the emperor's body again.
Several other ministers in the court stood up to speak for King Ning, some of them thought that the merits were greater than the faults and should be rewarded, while others thought that the merits and demerits were offset, but they still had to be punished.
The emperor listened quietly and did not interject, these ministers were very eloquent, and when they pulled out those reasons, they were eager to quote the scriptures and make a long speech.
This morning, there was no discussion of why. And King Ning still knelt on the ground, the emperor didn't let him get up, and he wouldn't get up.
Finally, the emperor raised his hand at King Ning: "Get up, this time, I think you have more merit than fault." ”
King Ning stood up, his legs shook slightly because he had been kneeling for an hour, and then he stood firm, because he had to look at the shape of people's mouths, so he always looked at the emperor.
Hearing this, King Rui's heart relaxed a little, it's okay, as long as it doesn't punish King Ning.
"But you've made a big mistake this time. I decided to ...... "Before the emperor said this, he first looked around the court, and sure enough, everyone pricked up their ears and listened, as if they were afraid that they had missed something. "You came to supervise the construction of this embankment, but the treasury only allocated you 100,000 taels of silver, and you have to figure out the rest by yourself, can you be convinced?"
As soon as King Rui heard this, he directly stood up and wanted to speak for King Ning. Although the embankment is not big, but the combined manpower and material resources will cost 300,000 taels, and now the emperor will press all this to 100,000 taels, which is too little!
But before King Rui could speak, someone had already spoken first.
"The retainers will obey their will. King Ning saluted to the emperor. This time, the emperor can allocate 100,000 taels to him is already the limit, and he will find a way to find the rest of the money.
After King Ning said this, the emperor glanced at him with satisfaction, and then said to him: "I have other things to ask you, I think you also have other things to explain to me, come to the imperial study with me, King Rui, King Duan, you also come along." ”
After the emperor said this, he went directly to the early court.
Although these ministers didn't know what the emperor was going to ask King Ning, they also guessed something. Yesterday evening, King Ning led people to raid several teahouses, and many people were directly imprisoned, and they have not been released yet.
As for why those people were arrested? The reason seemed a little ridiculous to them, but it was just that he said a few bad things about the third lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion in the teahouse, and King Ning's low face made him want to kill them.
Before, they only knew that this third lady was rumored to be the first beauty in the capital, but they didn't expect that the charm of this beauty was so great that even King Ning couldn't hold it.
Or maybe when Yuan Jinyu was arrested and taken to the cottage, what happened to King Tongning was not necessarily?
King Ning went to the imperial study with the emperor and the two royal brothers, and the emperor was still sitting on the main seat, and the three of them stood at the bottom.
The emperor's fingers slowly tapped on the tabletop, and the pampered hands, although they had some wrinkles, were calm and powerful.
The emperor's eyes are still deep, this man who was also bloody when he was young, after he is old, standing in front of the minister and his son, there is still a kind of oppressive momentum. When these princes were laughing, none of them dared to look at him, they all felt that his aura was too strong.
The emperor just stared at the three brothers and asked, "Who told me about the whole story of Miss Xiangfu's abduction this time?"