Chapter 32: Confession and Leniency
Yuan Xiao went to the Heart Cultivation Hall to kneel and beg for a face, and soon spread to the Yuchun Palace, Concubine Xi was originally pinching a new crystal agate green grape to send to her mouth, hearing the news, her hand paused, and she got up with her arm on the couch and asked Yuliu, who came to report the news: "Has the emperor seen him?"
Yuliu shook his head: "I heard that the emperor had a fire in the early dynasty, and now he is worried in his heart, General Wei Lin and Dr. Yuan have been kneeling outside the Heart Cultivation Palace, and Gonggong Gao seems to have come out to ask a few words, but the emperor has not been summoned." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ ο½ο½foβ
Concubine Xi's phoenix eyes revealed a hint of fierceness: "Do you want to draw salary from the bottom of the kettle and lift the bottom of the palace? Concubine Xi suddenly thought that Cheng Yao swore that day that she had arranged everything, and she didn't ask in detail at that time, just thinking that Cheng Yao had been protected by her, she didn't understand anything, and she couldn't make any trouble.
But fortunately, the three holes of the cunning rabbit, she has already left a back hand, and it is not so easy to cut off her way.
Concubine Xi commanded Huanqing a few words left and right, Huanqing opened the curtain and went out, Concubine Xi fanned the fan in annoyance, "How is Cheng Yao today?"
Yuliu replied: "The fourth princess is weak, and Imperial Doctor Song said that she still needs to recuperate for a while before she can slip the tire." β
"When is it," Concubine Xi was slightly dissatisfied, "Cheng Yao has been for a month, and it can't be delayed any longer, Song Kui is not good at gynecology, whether you let him ask for advice from outside the palace or rummage through ancient books, Cheng Yao's body can't have the slightest loss due to slippery tires." β
In the Palace of Cultivating the Heart, Mu Yuanan looked at the last book of the book, lay down on the back of the chair, and beckoned Gao Yuan to come in: "Wei Lin and Yuan Xiao are still kneeling outside?"
"Yes," Gao Yuan nodded, and said again, "According to the emperor's orders, the servants each gave a cup of tea to the two of them. β
Mu Yuanan lowered his head and played with the floating tea leaves in the cup with the lid of the tea, and asked, "And then?"
Gao Yuan naturally knew what Mu Yuanan was asking, bowed his head and arched his hand: "General Wei drank it, but Dr. Yuan didn't drink it." β
"Let Yuan Xiao come in. β
Not long after, Gao Yuan led Dr. Yuan into the hall, although Yuan Xiao was only over fifty, but his sideburns were already full of white hair, Xu was kneeling for a long time, his steps were a little staggering, and his head was half bowed, and he made a big salute when he saw Mu Yuanan.
Although Dr. Yuan is not as respected as Dr. Tao, but in the end he is the doctor of Guozijian, Mu Yuanan let him get up and gave him a seat, but Yuan Xiao refused to sit down, just knelt down in front of Mu Yuanan, and said, "Your Majesty, the old minister is guilty." β
Mu Yuanan raised his eyebrows slightly, and put down the teacup: "What are you guilty of?"
Dr. Yuan said: "There is a slave called Xiao Kun in the old minister's house, since he came, he has been following the old slave for a long time, when preparing the test questions before, in order to keep improving, the old minister once took the test questions out of the palace to prepare, who expected, but was secretly remembered by Xiao Kun, Xiao Kun privately resold the questions and collected money, last night the old minister had interrogated Xiao Kun overnight, and got a few receipts and silver tickets from his hands, which is the evidence of iron Zhengzheng. β
Yuan Xiao naturally wouldn't poke himself out, he only put all the blame on Xiao Kun's head, and he only fell into the charge of leaving the palace with exam questions, even this as a receipt and silver ticket for government affairs, in fact, it was also a exchange of interests between himself and Concubine Xi.
"Buy the question?" Mu Yuanan's eyebrows raised slightly, becoming a Sichuan character, today's Guozijian talent has just sent the answer sheets of several princesses to the Palace of Heart Cultivation, Mu Yuanan's heart fell, and asked, "Who bought the question?"
"Nature is ....... Yuan Xiao was about to continue, but suddenly, a trace of blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth, and then, it felt like something was gambling on his throat, and his whole person shook violently, and he spit out a mouthful of blood.
Gao Yuan immediately stopped in front of Mu Yuanan: "Your Majesty, the place of blood is unlucky." β
Mu Yuanan didn't care about any auspicious or unlucky things, and said coldly: "Please ask the imperial doctor to come over." β
The Palace of Nourishing Heart was suddenly busy in and out, and the unconscious Yuan Xiao had been moved to the nearby Warm Pavilion, although several Imperial Doctors from the Imperial Hospital were surrounded outside, but this Warm Pavilion was also surrounded by the Imperial Forest Army, and looked at Yuan Xiao who confided the truth like a prisoner.
Mu Yuanan directly ordered several doctors from the Guozijian to enter the side hall of the Heart Cultivation Palace, spread out all the examination papers, and checked them in advance one by one, Mu Yuanan only sat on the dragon chair with the gold-patterned dragon playing pearls in the main hall of the Heart Cultivation Palace, slightly closed his eyes, and waited for the results.
At the same time, Jinglan Palace.
Mu Chenghuang held the flower scissors in one hand and a white moon flower in the other hand, but his mind was not at all on pruning the fallen leaves.
With a click, the knife fell in his hand, and Baojuan exclaimed next to him: "Gong...... Princess, you cut it wrong. β
Mu Chenghuang lowered his head, but found that he had cut off a small flower bud that had not yet fully bloomed, pouted slightly, and only handed the cut flower branch to Baojuan and said, "Stick it up." β
Baojuan was stunned: "Sticky...... Glue it up?" is to glue the flower branch back, Baojuan replied cutely: "Use ...... Is it okay to stick it with paste?"
Mu Chenghuang's neck shrunk, only to realize that he had made a mistake, and changed his words: "No, I mean, plug it in." "If you are inserted in the water, you can live for at least ten days, and you can wait until the flowers bloom.
The parrot came over and said, "Princess, the emperor asks you to go to the Heart Cultivation Palace in a hurry." β
This should come, or come, before listening to the news that Dr. Yuan suddenly vomited blood and fainted in the Heart Cultivation Palace, she felt a little uneasy in her heart, even if she thought of a way to let Dr. Yuan know the purpose of Concubine Xi and Mu Chengyao, with Dr. Yuan's temperament, she would inevitably choose to abandon the pawn to protect the car and enter the palace to protect herself, but I don't know what Dr. Yuan and his father talked about, if the key thing was not said, it would put himself in a disadvantage.
"Who else did my father invite?"
The parrot said: "There are also three princesses, it is said that they also went out of the palace to invite the second son of Prince Yu's mansion." β
Mu Chenghuang only took Wen Zhi and Baojuan to go, breaking steps all the way, but the steps were sometimes fast and slow, and his mind was full of examples in the history books that were cheating in the imperial examination because of cheating, or colluding with the examiner, and finally being beheaded.
Prince Yu's mansion is outside the palace, Prince Yu's second son Mu Xiangbai will enter the palace later, just in front of the Yangxin Palace, Mu Chenghuang saw Mu Chengxin, who also came with a pale face, Mu Chengxin was in a confused mood, and when he saw Mu Chenghuang at this time, he didn't even have the energy to ridicule and ridicule, but he just waited for Mu Chenghuang, and Mu Chenghuang retreated slightly: "Third Emperor Sister please first." β
Mu Chengxin seemed to have something in her throat, and rolled unnaturally, only to carry the skirt up the steps.
The towering round stone pillars support the eaves of the Heart Cultivation Hall like a bird's wings, Mu Chenghuang walked on the steps, only to feel that the Heart Cultivation Hall in front of him was like a big bird crawling in the capital, looking down on everything under his feet, where there was wind and grass, it was clear.
When Mu Chenghuang and Mu Chengxin came, Dr. Yuan was still in a coma, the situation seemed to be very serious, Mu Xiangbai had not yet arrived, Mu Chengxin and Mu Chenghuang entered the main hall on their feet before and after, Mu Yuanan was sitting on the throne, on the desk with bright yellow auspicious clouds and dark pattern curtains, a few answer sheets of Guozi's invigilation were spread, and the handwriting on them was dense, which should be the volume of policy discussion.
Mu Chengxin and Mu Chenghuang knelt down one after another, but Mu Yuanan didn't mean to let them get up, but suddenly said: "Yi Yin let Taijia Yu Tong stand on his own." Taijia sneaked out of Tong and killed Yi Yin. He set up his sons Yi Zhi and Yi Fen, and ordered him to restore his father's field and divide it. Do you know where this sentence comes from?"
Mu Chengxin didn't dare to answer, before the exam, Mu Chengyao did tell her what would happen to the topic of the strategy, so after she finished the exam, she destroyed the previous "Bamboo Book Chronicle", just begging not to leave any handle.
"Bamboo Book Chronicle. Mu Chenghuang said slowly, her eyes were not shocked, and she answered so confidently that even Mu Yuanan couldn't help but glance at her more.
Mu Yuanan knocked on the middle of the policy theory, and said: "Cheng Huang's strategy this time, the test is very good, even many gentlemen of Guozi are full of praise, I remember, policy theory is not Cheng Huang's strength, this time to achieve such results, inevitably, it is not easy." Mu Yuanan's three words are not easy, and the three words are meaningful.
Mu Chenghuang smiled slightly: "Chenghuang is lucky, before the exam, I read this bamboo book chronicle." β
Mu Chengxin turned his head sideways and looked at Mu Chenghuang with a little surprise, Mu Yuanan remained silent, just said "oh", and then said: "The book of the Bamboo Book Chronicle is very cold, and there are not many people who read it. This sentence is full of countless meanings, but there is only a calmness in Mu Chenghuang's eyes.
"That's right," Mu Chenghuang raised his head, and his gorgeous and deep eyes seemed to bloom with a slight brilliance," This book, is recommended by Mrs. Lin, before the results of Chenghuang's policy repeatedly delayed, originally wanted to ask Dr. Tao to recommend a few good history books, but Dr. Tao was later injured at the poetry meeting, and could not bear to disturb, the imperial uncle often entered the palace, knowing that the imperial uncle and the old lady Lin had a very close relationship, so he begged the imperial uncle to ask the old lady Lin for Cheng Huang to ask for a few good books, the bamboo book in the Chenghuang Palace, and the seal of the Lin family, this bamboo book chronicle originally read, and I didn't think it was interesting, but the more I read, the more I felt that each allusion was written very special, although it was different from the official history, but some details, Cheng Huang felt that it was more appropriate to the real historyγ β
"For example?"
Just like this allusion to Taijia killing Yi Yin, it is recorded in the official history that after Taijia came back, he changed his past wrongs, and everyone else admonished Yi Yin for his plot to seize the throne, but Taijia let Yi Yin go safely, saying that he understood Yi Yin's hard work, Cheng Huang felt that this was not right. Mu Yuanan has always been taboo about harem politics, but Mu Chenghuang's childlike tone made him relax his vigilance, and instead asked, "Why?"