Chapter 29: The Culprit 3

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On the shore covered with emerald green grass, Leng Qing, who had a black, straight, long wet hair, and only a short wrap and an ankle-length white cotton underpants, and the pale yellow narrow-sleeved brocade robe that was very wide on her body, sat quietly on the shore.

Basking in the scorching sun, looking at the vibrant lotus flowers blooming in the pond in front of her, quietly feeling the coolness of the breeze and the crisp lotus fragrance sandwiched in the wind, the cold and sunny look can be described as bland to the extreme.

Leng Qing's side was the ink-painted breast-length skirt and white shoes and socks that she had taken off before and spread on the grass to dry.

In the past, it was Cheng Yiying and the five little palace maids standing by the pond, as well as the ginkgo biloba kneeling in front of Cheng Yiying, dirty and sloppy, with wrinkled and tattered clothes like beggars.

At this moment, Ginkgo was crying and said to Cheng Yiying: "Niangniang, you have seen the slave's father and brother before, you should know that they are honest people. Especially the younger brother of the slave and maid, he didn't even dare to go out of the house at night when he was timid, and he fainted when he saw a little blood, how could he do such a murderous and stealing thing?

But the queen mother said that the slave's father and younger brother had done such a hurtful thing, and even the people in Jingzhao Yin's yamen could only do what the queen mother wanted, and the slave's father and brother were all imprisoned.

When the slave's father and brother refused to confess their guilt in prison, they tortured the slave's father and brother with sticks, whips, and various torture instruments, trying to extract a confession. Although the slave and maid knew that the slave's father and brother were wronged, the person who ordered the slave's father and brother to be imprisoned was the queen's mother, and the slave and maid had nowhere to redress their grievances.

Niangniang, you always warn the slave and the maid, do not resent the slave's father, let the slave and the maid remember that the slave's life is given by the slave's father, no matter whether the slave's father is right or wrong, the slave and the maid, as children, cannot blame the slave's father. Niangniang, you also said that the slave's younger brother is younger than the slave's maid, and the slave maid should love the younger brother as a sister......

Niangniang, the slave and maid know that the fetus in Niangniang's womb is innocent, but the slave and maid really can't help it! The slave's father and younger brother were arrested by the queen mother, and the slightest carelessness will save their lives. Mother, slave and maid can't ignore the lives of their father and brother, and can't ignore human ethics, mother......"

Ginkgo biloba said a long sentence like a bamboo tube pouring beans, and when she said the last two sentences, Ginkgo was lying at Cheng Yiying's feet, crying out of breath, and her body trembled.

And after Ginkgo said this long sentence, Leng Qing inexplicably felt that the air around her seemed to be stagnant?!

With an unknown reason, Leng Qing looked sideways at Cheng Yiying, but saw Cheng Yiying pursing her two red lips, even in such a bright sun, her face looked very dark and uncertain. The five little palace maids beside Cheng Yiying were all pale, and they all looked like they hadn't heard anything just now.

As for the ginkgo biloba lying at Cheng Yiying's feet, crying bitterly...... Poor child, already crying and dying.

Looking at such a strange situation on Cheng Yiying's side, Leng Qing couldn't help but start rummaging through the situation of the royal family of the Great Liang Kingdom in her mind:

The queen of the Great Liang Dynasty is named Gu Linyu, who is the second daughter of the deceased Shangshu Guxian of the Ministry of War before the Great Liang Dynasty, and has a son and a daughter for the emperor of the Great Liang Dynasty, Liang Ruming, the son is Liang Shengxiao, the seventh prince of the Great Liang, and the daughter is Liang Shengting, the tenth princess of the Great Liang.

Gu Linyu has a sister named Gu Linshu. And this Gu Lin Shu is the crown princess of Liang Ruming and his first queen.

Gu Lin Shu has a daughter and a son for Liang Ruming, the daughter is Liang Shenglan, the eldest princess of Daliang, and the son is Liang Shengde, the prince of Daliang Dynasty. Cheng Yiying is the concubine of Prince Liang Shengde and the only concubine of Prince Liang Shengde.

Because Gulin Shu was already in poor health, and gave birth to two children for Liang Ruming, his body was extremely weak, and he had already died of illness at the beginning of the first year of the Great Liang Dynasty.

After Gu Lin Shu died of illness, Liang Ruming issued an order to posthumously seal Gu Lin Shu as the queen of Shengwuxian, and the whole country banned dance music, wine banquets, and red ceremonies for three months, and used the blue pen of the national funeral to correct and play for more than half a year, which shows that Liang Ruming has deep affection for his former queen Gu Lin Shu.

According to Yan Ziming, long before Gu Linshu's death, when Liang Ruming was still the crown prince of the Great Liang Kingdom, Gu Linyu had already married Liang Ruming, and her status was only one rank lower than Gu Linshu, the sister who was the crown princess.

Later, after Gu Linshu died, Liang Ruming promoted Gu Linyu to the second queen.

At that time, when Yan Ziming talked about the relationship between the two sisters Gu Linshu and Gu Linyu and Liang Ruming, although the expression on Leng Qing's face was very flat, Leng Qing's heart kept slandering: It's not enough to marry a sister to marry a sister, and after sleeping with a sister, you have to sleep with a sister-in-law, the noble (emperor) circle (room) is really messy!

In short, Gu Linshu and Gu Linyu are not only sisters of the same father and mother, but both of them are Liang Ruming's wives and are both queens, so calculated, this Gu Linyu is the aunt and stepmother of Liang Shengde and Cheng Yiying!!

This kind of relationship with blood relatives, if it is placed in ordinary people's homes, should get along very harmoniously, but the affairs of the heavenly family are never covered up in a word.

sorted out one by one, and analyzed the relationship between the characters, Leng Qing can probably understand why the strange faces of Cheng Yiying and the five little palace maids are-

Her husband's aunt and stepmother, who is also her own mother-in-law, caught the family of the palace maid who was serving by her side, and used this as a threat to ask the palace maid next to her to find a way to get rid of the fetus in her womb...... Cheng Yiying's mood at the moment is estimated to be complicated and bad to an indescribable point.

As for the five little palace maids, they must be in a very bad mood now--in the inner courtyard of the palace, the most taboo thing is to know too many things that should not be known-

The queen wanted to murder the child in the crown princess's womb, and even did not hesitate to name the family of the palace maid who served by the crown princess's side on trumped-up charges, put them in prison and lynched them, as a threat to let the palace maid persecute the child in the crown princess's womb...... If you know this kind of secret, it's almost fatal!!

Just when Leng Qing was thinking like this, she suddenly heard Cheng Yiying, who had been silent before, ask in a low voice, "Queen Mother, ...... What did you promise?"

Lying at the feet of Cheng Yiying, crying out of breath, the crying body trembled and trembled Ginkgo heard this, and slowly accepted the crying momentum, but still a little sobbed and replied: "The queen mother promised the slave maid, if the slave and the maid succeed and successfully get rid of the fetus in the mother's womb, the queen mother will release the slave's father and younger brother, and will also give the slave and maid a large sum of silver, so that the slave and maid can treat the injuries and pension of the father and mother at home......"

"Heh......" After hearing Ginkgo's words, without waiting for Cheng Yiying to react, Leng Qing, who was sitting on the grass basking in the sun, couldn't help but laugh again.

Leng Qing's sneer successfully attracted the attention of Cheng Yiying, Ginkgo and the five little palace maids.

Cheng Yiying looked at Leng Qing's gaze, although he was indifferent, it was difficult to hide his gentleness, the five little palace maids looked at Leng Qing's gaze, they were a little unhappy, and Ginkgo looked at Leng Qing's gaze, it was simply naked hatred!

On this side, Leng Qing very calmly looked at Ginkgo's hateful gaze with a gaze full of disdain, only to hear Leng Qing sneer and say, "Little Ginkgo girl, you are so ...... Naive, so naïve that I don't even know what words to use to describe you. She said she would release people, and you believed it? You're not naïve, you're just stupid!

Although I don't know what the queen lady in your mouth usually is, I do know that a person who can do something to an unborn child is by no means ordinary vicious. I think that when you do it, it will not be the day when your parents and brothers will see the light of day again, but they and your death!"

"How could it be ......" Listening to Leng Qing's words, Ginkgo, who was kneeling in front of Cheng Yiying, almost subconsciously muttered. Then the voice changed, but when she heard it, Ginkgo retorted to Leng Qing in a firm tone: "No! The queen mother promised me, she promised me that I would let my father and brother go!"

"How could it not?" Before Ginkgo finished speaking, Leng Qing asked Ginkgo in such a flat voice but speaking very quickly.

On that side, in response to Leng Qing's short rhetorical question, Ginkgo, who was kneeling in front of Cheng Yiying, opened her mouth, but she never said why.

Leng Qing, who was sitting on the green grass basking in the sun on the side, saw this, and the sneer on his lips was even worse.

The pink lips opened slightly, cold and sarcastic, but the extremely affirmative voice slowly spit out from Leng Qing's mouth: "You see, even you can't convince yourself." ”

Looking at the silent Ginkgo, Leng Qing restrained the sneer on her lips, and said word by word with an expressionless face in a cold and almost piercing voice: "Those who can sit in high positions have never lacked ruthless people." If what I expected, your queen mother should be the best of the best.

As for the fact that she once let people harm your crown princess and the child in her womb, it is natural that the fewer people who know about it, the better, and every more person who knows, the more dangerous she is. So you say, how could she keep the life of you, the person who did things for her? If she kills you, she will naturally not spare your family. ”

Although the makeup on Ginkgo's face has been spent, and a small round face is covered with tears, it is not difficult to see that with Leng Qing's voice, Ginkgo's face turned pale little by little.

However, Leng Qing was still saying slowly word by word: "Or, you will understand better if I say so." ”

After a pause in her voice, Leng Qing turned her eyes and glanced at Cheng Yiying, who was looking at her silently, and seeing that Cheng Yiying did not react, Leng Qing turned her head to look at Ginkgo who was kneeling in front of Cheng Yiying, and said sentence by sentence: "If you are the queen mother in your mouth, you arrested someone else's family, and threatened that person to help you harm people......"

At this point, Leng Qing suddenly stopped speaking leisurely.

Turning his gaze from the faces of Cheng Yiying and the others one by one, Leng Qing saw that most of the faces of Cheng Yiying and the others showed a thoughtful look.

In the end, Leng Qing stopped her eyes on Ginkgo's face, and said almost word for word: "After the deed is completed, will you leave the lives of that person and his family, and let them become a threat to you, and threaten you all the time, or will you quickly cut through the chaos and kill everyone?" Ginkgo, at your age, you don't understand the truth that cutting grass must be eradicated, right?"

After saying this, Leng Qing, who was sitting on the green grass, temporarily stopped talking and quietly watched Ginkgo's reaction.

Seeing that a dazed and hesitant look slowly appeared on Ginkgo's pale face, Leng Qing knew that Ginkgo completely understood what she meant, and believed what she said.

But Leng Qing has to say much more than that-

After a short pause, Leng Qing continued to open her mouth, her voice was cold, and she said in a slow tone: "Now there are still seven days before the official start of the Qinshan gathering. In fact, when the Qinshan gathering is over seven days later, and you go back to Daliang Kingdom, you will have more opportunities to do it. After all, compared to Qin Mountain, you are more familiar with the environment of the Great Liang Kingdom.

But you chose to do it at this time, I think, it should be the queen mother in your mouth before you set off to Qinshan, giving you an ultimatum, so that you must get rid of the child in the belly of your crown princess during the Qinshan party, otherwise you will never see your father and brother again.

Although the Qinshan gathering did not limit the time for the princes of various countries to arrive at Qinshan, under normal circumstances, the princes of various countries arrived at Qinshan no earlier or later, and one thing is certain, the closer to August 15, the more people gathered on Qinshan. And once August 15 has passed, starting from August 16, the princes of various countries will embark on their return journey.

You can't wait until there are too many people gathered on Qinshan before you make a move, although the more people there are, the easier it is to create chaos, but when the princes of all countries gather in Qinshan, your crown princess will not easily leave the palace of your Great Liang Kingdom because she is pregnant, so you choose to do it today.

Moreover, I estimate that these little palace maids who traveled with you as the crown princess today are only the result of your careful selection! The status of the Great Liang Kingdom is naturally in the southern part of the continent, and there are many waterways and rivers, and there are floods from time to time, so most of the people of the Great Liang can swim in the water.

I think it is impossible for the palace maids in your dignified prince's mansion not to even have a single one who can swim. However, the five little palace maids here today, except for you, are all landlubbers, and even some people are very afraid of water, and they dare not get too close to the water's edge.

If your crown princess really fell into the water by accident today, I can understand that this is a coincidence. Unfortunately, I happened to see that your crown princess was pushed into the water by you, so such a 'coincidence' is not a coincidence. Am I right?" )