Chapter 242, Negligence
The queen's murder of the concubine insulted the reputation of the royal family, and when she announced it to the world, she said that the queen died violently, although she concealed the truth, but the responsibility for this crime is still there.
Although the burial was carried out according to the queen's regulations, the scale was greatly reduced.
In this way, he stopped in the Yong'an Temple for three days, and then he was hurriedly buried!
And Concubine Mei's long-term illness has long been known to the world, and finally posthumously crowned the imperial concubine Yurong, and the funeral was completely in accordance with the regulations of the imperial concubine.
Even so, the queen has been from Jane, stopped for three days, and Concubine Mei's coffin was also buried in the imperial mausoleum with the queen!
Subsequently, King Xiao asked for an order to take the five princes out of the palace, arrange for training in the army, and protect the five princes in disguise.
After packing up Concubine Mei's relics, King Xiao and Weiyang ordered people to move a few boxes, and were planning to pull these things out of the palace and send them to Lu Yubin's small courtyard.
These things can be worth a lot of money, enough for Concubine Mei and Lu Dongbin to live a rich life, and the queen also needs a sum of money to start a new life.
Supported by King Xiao, Weiyang stepped into the carriage with his legs, and when he turned his head, he saw a woman with a disheveled hair, rushing towards King Xiao like crazy, holding a sharp hairpin in her hand.
It really scared Weiyang to the core!
"Your Highness, be careful!" Weiyang screamed.
"Bang dang!" The king flew up and kicked the mad woman aside.
"Give me back Huai'er, you give me back Huai'er! You devil, you beast, give me back my child......"
The woman with her hair was disheveled and wept, her gray hair was disheveled, and her face was covered with blood from her fingernails. The long nails dive deep into the palm of the hand and tear out all the flesh of yourself!
Xiao Wang's kick was really not light, and the kick made the woman cough twice and spit out a mouthful of blood.
"Your Highness spares your life!" The guards who took care of the woman also chased after them at this time, and four or five people turned pale with fright, and knelt down in front of King Xiao to plead guilty.
"What's going on?" King Xiao's eyes widened and his face was furious.
"Concubine Wan Niangniang...... Completely insane! The emperor ordered to enter the cold palace, but just now she knocked out the guards and ran out by herself, and almost injured His Royal Highness. The leading guards hurriedly pleaded guilty, and a large number of people fell to their knees.
After hearing this, King Xiao frowned, and turned his head to look at Concubine Wan.
I saw that she had been tied up by two guards at this time, and a pair of eyes were staring at him fiercely, and she let out a howl that did not look like a human.
"Huai'er...... My baby...... Where are you? ”
The screams were really mournful and bloody, and it sounded heart-wrenching.
"Take it away! Add people to watch it, hurt people for you to ask! ”
King Xiao waved his hand and let Concubine Wan take away, seeing her crazy appearance, King Xiao felt very uncomfortable.
Putting down the car curtain, King Xiao retracted his gaze and sat beside Weiyang with a gloomy expression.
"How the hell did you say her child died?"
The carriage had already left the palace gate, and gradually lost hearing the mournful cry of Concubine Wan, so King Xiao stabilized his mind and opened his mouth.
The queen said that she had seen the eldest prince and the second prince playing in the water by the lake. But after the accident, Concubine Rong said that the second prince had never left her, and even Chen Julian, who was next to Concubine Wan, came out to testify, saying that the eldest prince went to the lake to play alone. ”
Therefore, it was difficult for the queen to clear her suspicions back then. From this analysis, Concubine Rong and Chen Julian's confessions are surprisingly consistent, if the queen is innocent, then these two people must have made a confession in advance! ”
Recalling what the queen had said, and thinking of the unusual connection between King Changyi and Chen Julian, Weiyang felt that their connection seemed to have been established more than 20 years ago.
Thinking about Weiyang's words, King Xiao took out a yellowed shoe from his arms, which was found in the box of Chen Julian's house that day.
"This ...... Could it be the second child's shoes? ”
Looking at the size of this shoe, it should belong to a boy, King Xiao frowned and thought, could this be the second child who threw it by the lake back then, right?
"If this shoe belongs to the second prince, and later, it was picked up by Chen Julian, he can overturn the rumor that the queen pushed the eldest prince into the water and clear the queen's responsibility. At the same time, it also shows that the second prince is suspected of committing a major crime! Weiyang looked at the shoe and frowned.
"It's just...... He did not do this, but chose to commit perjury with Concubine Rong to open up the blame for the second prince. But...... Why did he do it? Weiyang raised his eyebrows and asked.
King Xiao was silent for a long time, lowered his eyes and pondered this question carefully, and suddenly a flash of inspiration raised his head to answer.
"Handle, Chen Julian not only witnessed the whole process of the second prince pushing the eldest prince into the water, but also found one of the second prince's shoes by the lotus pond."
"After the second prince returned to Concubine Rong, he used this shoe as a handle to put forward his appeal to Concubine Rong, and wanted to coerce Concubine Rong and the second prince to die for him!"
King Xiao was led down by Weiyang, and suddenly he thought it all clearly.
"If that's the case, then it makes sense that the King of Changyi listened to Chen Julian's arrangement to return to Beijing to offer his sister and relatives! At that time, I didn't understand why he was a dignified prince, why he had to listen to the instructions of a eunuch, it turned out that he was grabbed by someone. Therefore, Chen Julian is such an important witness, and he can't be killed easily! ”
Weiyang reminded King Xiao that he would leave Chen Julian's life no matter what.
"Weiyang, what can I do? The old boy refused to say a word, and I was so saddened. "The interrogation of Chen Julian seems to have reached a bottleneck, which makes King Xiao feel very helpless.
Weiyang patted his chest and smiled proudly at King Xiao.
"Your Highness, Chen Julian must have a weak heart when he killed so many people, let's pretend to be a ghost and scare that old boy to see how bold he is!"
After saying that, Weiyang took out Ruxi's mask from his arms and covered his face, and came towards King Xiao with straight eyes.
"I died so miserably! What a miserable death I had! Grandpa Chen, your knife hurt me so much......"
Weiyang's gloomy emphasis made King Xiao's hair explode, and he took the mask off Weiyang's face and pulled her into his arms.
"Enough, just go and scare Chen Julian, now think about going back and eating something?" King Xiao held Ruxi's mask with one hand, and wrapped his arms around her thin waist with the other, and asked softly in her ear.
I haven't eaten anything decent for a few days, and King Xiao's stomach has long been seriously protested!
"What else can I eat? During the funeral, it is better not to be luxurious, and vegetarian food is better. Weiyang struggled and pushed his approaching body away.
"Great mourning? You know what's going on, my mother is fine! "Pretending to be filial piety for a few days, King Xiao has endured it very irritably, he doesn't want to wronged himself anymore!
"Even if it looks like it, you have to do it, otherwise it will make people see the problem and make a big fuss about it, and it will be troublesome!"
Weiyang earnestly guided King Xiao, a wayward child.
"Tofu can also be made very delicious, and it can also make the taste of fish, and there is a dish in Zhongshan country, which is called fish-flavored tofu, which tastes very good."
"Baby, will you do it? I want to eat your food, and your food is always so special. ”
Thinking of the pigeons she baked, and the baked wedding cakes on the wedding night, although the appearance is not very good-looking, the taste is unique.
"Huh? I'm just talking about it, how can I get to the top of the hall of elegance with those two moments? Your Highness, don't make fun of me! ”
Accidentally, Weiyang got into trouble for herself, and was pestered by King Xiao to force her to cook.
After returning to the palace to change their clothes, the two took an inconspicuous carriage and rushed to the house purchased by Lu Tongbin in Dongliu Lane.
As soon as I entered the courtyard gate, I saw Lu Tongbin struggling to chop firewood in the yard!
"Why are you here? Do you remember the existence of my mother? As soon as King Xiao entered the door, Lu Yubin was angry and complained to King Xiao.
He is the only one who has been busy in the past few days, but he has really exhausted Lu Dongbin, and he is harboring a lot of resentment in his heart.
"You just came out of the palace, and you're still not satisfied? What about the mother? King Xiao was thinking about Concubine Mei in his heart, so he didn't pay attention to his emotions.
"Mother and Queen are cooking in the kitchen! I don't have anyone these days, where will I serve a man? You're so good, you don't even arrange a subordinate, you just forget about us in the back of your head, and the two mothers can only do it themselves! ”
Hearing Lu Yubin's complaint, King Xiao realized that he was negligent, and the wedding and the funeral in the palace were rushed together, so that he neglected his own mother!
"Go back and buy a few maids, there will be no shortage of coachmen, cooks, and gardeners, and you can't do it well, so you have to hire a few decent guards to protect the courtyard."
Although King Xiao was deeply sorry, the tone of his voice was still high, and Lu Dongbin's face turned pale.
"Humph! You're good, you've chopped all this firewood! With that, he handed the axe in his hand forward.
"Dong Bin, I just came back, how can I do this? It's windy outside, come in and talk. ”
Concubine Mei heard that her two sons were arguing again, and hurriedly poked her head out of the kitchen to mediate.
As soon as Weiyang entered the kitchen, he saw Concubine Mei and the queen in green clothes, busy around the board.
The two mothers are now dressed plainly, and they look like real women, if it weren't for the elegance and luxury of their gestures, they really look like the mother-in-law of which family!
"Niangniang, what are you doing delicious?"
Seeing that the two mothers were busy, Weiyang and King Xiao also came over to help.
"I learned a few dishes when I was in the boudoir, and I haven't done it since I married into the palace, and I have been doing it slowly according to my memory these days, once raw and twice cooked, and I can do it a few more times!" The queen smiled a little awkwardly.
"Yes! After decades in the palace, even the most basic survival skills have to be forgotten! Now that you have time, the next time you come back, you will definitely be able to eat a delicious meal! But today...... Only this ......"
Concubine Mei brought out a plate of black things, and Weiyang didn't see what it was after identifying it for a long time!
After King Xiao saw the dish, he took Weiyang's hand and looked at her pitifully.
"Daughter-in-law, I haven't eaten seriously for my husband for a few days, can you bear to let me eat that?" Pulling Weiyang to the side, King Xiao prayed in a low voice, and his miserable appearance made people unbearable to refuse.
Weiyang sighed and said in his heart: No wonder Lu Tongbin has so much resentment! I was eating those things all day!
She thinks that her cooking skills are not elegant, but the skills of these two ladies are also ...... It's so unsophisticated!
What is made can't be called food at all!
Thinking of this, Weiyang only felt full of confidence, compared to them, he was simply the reincarnation of the kitchen god.
"That's it! Don't you want to eat fish-flavored tofu? Wrapped up in me! ”