Chapter 36: Innocent Punishment
On this day, it had just rained, and the surroundings were clean. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 After the emperor had lunch with the queen mother in the Ciming Palace, he took the little horse back to the Qianwen Palace. I'm busy with the expedition today, and I still have a lot of things to do!
Halfway through, the emperor asked Gonggong Ma beside him, "Have the people of the Ji family entered the palace recently?" ”
Gonggong Ma shook his head, "Except for the second lady of the Ji family who entered the palace two days ago to take the blame, there is nothing else. ”
The emperor nodded and said, "This Ji Jade also has the courage to really dare to enter the palace with Jing Jing." The daughters of the Ji family are really not simple characters. ”
Now the harem is talking about this, some say that the Ji family is bold and reckless, and dare to insult the imperial concubine, and some say that Concubine Li is ungrateful, and she doesn't even let go of her own sister.
At lunch just now, the Queen Mother praised how virtuous the second lady of the Naji family was. That day, she accidentally bumped into Concubine Li in the Jade Immortal Palace, and she personally took the blame! I want to know what kind of calculation they are playing, although Moyu is also the young lady of the Ji family, but in the end, she is a concubine, and her identity has never been raised to the table.
"By the way, is Concubine Li still staying in her palace?" The emperor continued to ask, and Gonggong Ma nodded lightly and replied, "Yes." ”
said that after the old lady punished Ji Feicui for kneeling that night, she ordered them to go back to their courtyard. After Ji Gangyang returned to his courtyard, he interrogated the Yuan family overnight about what was going on, and the Yuan family had to tell all kinds of conditions in the Jade Immortal Palace.
Yuan felt aggrieved. "You can't blame me, I'm just begging her for a small favor, if she doesn't help, forget it, why quarrel with our jadeite, in the end, she started it first."
"You still have a reason, are you stupid to me? I don't think about lying first, and besides, it's not the master's thing to talk about it, do you still want to live? ”
Although Moyu is not a concubine, but now she is already the imperial concubine, how can the people of the heavenly family insult at will, not to mention what will happen if the emperor knows, just if Moyu wants to embarrass the Ji family with this matter, the Ji family will have to be busy enough. Besides, if there is no eyeliner from other palaces in the Jade Immortal Palace, then their words that day will reach the ears of those who have a heart without any difference, then the reputation of her Yuan family and Ji Feicui will be ruined, and the reputation of the Ji family will be ruined.
Yuan Shi was still not afraid of death and said: "Does she still want to cure my sins, and she dares to cure her mother's sins?" Oh no jokes. ”
Ji Gangyang really wanted to slap her, and secretly said how could there be such a stupid woman. "She is related to us, and the emperor has nothing to do with us. Isn't Liu Jingguang also the emperor's father-in-law, but as a result, the emperor hasn't copied him all over the house, and even Concubine Liu in the palace finally gave him poisoned wine, and you don't want to think about how many heads you have. ”
Yuan's mouth pursed and muttered: "The emperor doesn't know about this." ”
Ji Gang rolled his eyes several times, and he wanted to hit the pillar. "I, Ji Gangyang, am simply eight lifetimes old and married such a stupid woman as you. There are many people in the palace, and the Jade Immortal Palace may also have other people's eyeliner, do you ...... You...... You ......"
"You" for a long time, and didn't know how to scold to scold more smoothly, so he simply flicked his sleeves and sat at the table to take a deep breath.
Yuan Shi had to bow her head and be speechless, she really didn't expect this. But things have already happened, and no matter how much you scold, it won't help, and finding a way to remedy it is the most important way out at the moment. Ji Gangyang rubbed his temples with a faint pain, he really regretted how he married a big-chested woman, even if he couldn't help, he would make a mess in his backyard, and his family was unfortunate!
So he called Ji Feicui overnight, asking her to clean her face tomorrow morning, and take Jing Tiao into the palace to ask the Queen Mother for her guilt. Ji Feicui had been kneeling for most of the night, her heart was hot, hungry, tired and sleepy, and she was about to fall asleep when she returned to Yiyuan, and when she heard that her father was going to see her at this time, she also knew in her heart that most of it was about entering the palace today.
When I came to Xilanyuan, I saw that my father was angry, and my mother hid to the side and bowed her head, and I knew that I must be extremely angry at this moment. Regardless of the pain in his knees, he immediately knelt down and begged his father for forgiveness. Ji Gangyang was originally equal to Ji Feicui who scolded after coming in, but seeing that she was so sensible at this moment, he gave up. He only asked, "Since you know that you are wrong, then you say, what should I do?" ”
"My daughter will go to the palace tomorrow to see the Queen Mother and ask her to punish her."
Ji Gangyang nodded with satisfaction and said: "It's right to do this, but you have to enter the palace with a clean face, take the thorn strip and go to the Queen Mother to ask for guilt, and what the Queen Mother will do to you depends on your own creation." ”
Entering the palace with a thorn strip, this is even more serious than the family law, and the Yuan family hurriedly shouted: "No." Master, it's my fault alone, I went into the palace to explain the facts to the Queen Mother, we Jade can't do this, she still has to marry! ”
Even if you have plain clothes and clean faces, you still have to hold wattles. As soon as this matter spread in the palace, the whole Tokyo people knew about it, so how would her woman gain a foothold among the nobles in the capital in the future, what kind of face would she have to attend the gathering of the noblewomen, and how would she make the emperor favor her in the future?
Ji Feicui's eyes also widened, looking at his father in disbelief. "Father, the daughter knows that she is wrong, and the daughter will definitely not do it in the future. begged the father to think of other ways, and the daughter was willing to accept the family law. ”
"What you have committed is no longer a simple family rule, what you have committed is not at home, but in the Jade Immortal Palace of the palace, what you insult is the concubine Li Niangniang in the palace, not the eldest lady who lives in our house! You have to remember that Concubine Li is now a member of the royal family, and if you insult her, you are despising the power of heaven. ”
Ji Feicui said hurriedly: "Father, doesn't the Queen Mother help us mediate?" ”
"If the Queen Mother didn't help, she wouldn't have sent someone here."
Ji Feicui sat down on the ground, "Is there really no other way?" ”
Ji Gangyang picked up his daughter and patted her hand, he didn't want to do this, he also felt sorry for this daughter. "Daughter, it's not that I don't feel sorry for you, if this matter is not handled properly, our family will have to bear the following charges, disrespect, and deception. The Queen Mother will not be embarrassed with you, and with Concubine Li's character, she will definitely not be embarrassed with you. ”
Jade is the queen mother's last chess piece, and she will definitely not embarrass her. As for the Jade Immortal Palace, it's almost the same if you go through the form. But when she entered, it still had some impact on her reputation.
Ji Feicui didn't say anything, and entered the palace early the next morning, first to the Queen Mother's Ciming Palace. The Queen Mother didn't say much, just reproached her and let her go. Jade then went to the Jade Immortal Palace, entered the Jade Immortal Palace, Mo Yu retreated from everyone, leaving only Ji Jade and her two in the hall, more than an hour later, Ji Jade came out of the Jade Immortal Palace, and when she came out, she had changed into bright clothes, and her hair was coiled up. No one knows what has happened in the temple in the past hour or so, and what they have said.
Since Ji Feiyu left, Mo Yu summoned everyone in the Jade Immortal Palace, prohibiting them not to leave the Jade Immortal Palace at will from today onwards. The emperor once asked her what she said to Ji Feicui that day, and Ji Feicui only said lightly, "I asked her what kind of person she wants to marry."
The emperor suddenly remembered that the portrait she put on the bookcase, he knew exactly what was in the portrait. She never told him, and he pretended not to know. Seeing her in the past two days, she was either in a daze or sleeping, I am afraid that the slightest temperature in her heart is slowly getting colder!
After the rain, the scenery is good, and the natural mood is also good, the emperor thinks that Moyu has stayed in the palace for a long time, it is better to go to the Jade Immortal Palace to see her, he wants to tell her that he will not accept Ji Jade as a concubine, since her relatives have abandoned her, at least she can lie down in his arms.
As soon as I turned a rockery, I saw two people kneeling faintly on the bridge in front of me, presumably the palace maid made a mistake and was punished by the master for kneeling, and asked curiously: "Ma Xing, who is the person kneeling on it?" ”
Ma Gonggong looked over, the sun was too big, the sun was too dazzling, and he couldn't see who it was. "Your Majesty, wait for the slave to check it out."
The emperor nodded, and after a while, Ma Gonggong ran back out of breath and said breathlessly: "Oh no, Your Majesty, the person kneeling on the bridge is Concubine Li and her maid Xiangrong." ”
What the? Mo? Didn't she stay in her palace well?
Quickly ran to the bridge, the ground was sweating, the pale face was not Mo Yu and who was it, such a big sun, the ground was so hot, and it didn't burn his knees.
"Moyu."
The emperor hurriedly squatted down to help her up. Mo Yu had been kneeling for a long time, his legs and feet had become numb, he couldn't stand steadily, and he was pulled up too quickly, his head was dizzy, and the sky was spinning in darkness in front of him. Seeing that she was not doing well, the emperor hurriedly picked her up and walked to the pavilion and sat down.
After a long time, Moyu finally recovered, and his vision returned to clarity, and then he felt a faint pain in his knees, and found himself sitting on the emperor's lap, struggling to stand up. "Your Majesty."
The emperor held her down and didn't let her move. "Don't move, you think you're dying too long, don't you, why are you kneeling there on this hot day?" If it were someone else, I was afraid that she would have suffered from heat stroke a long time ago, but she was quite powerful and carried it.
Mo Yu kept her mouth shut, not knowing how to answer. The emperor turned to Xiang Rong on the side and said, "You?" You say. ”
Xiang Rong looked at her mother, saw her mother shook her head gently, and lowered her head in understanding. Although she is usually reckless, she has been in the palace for a few months, she has suffered a lot of losses and learned a lot of lessons, and she also knows some measure.
Mo Yu straightened his back and said with a smile: "Your Majesty ......"
"I didn't let you speak." The emperor drank, and then looked at Xiang Rong who hung his head on the side, "Do you listen to your master or listen to me, if you don't explain honestly, you will be put in prison." "He's angry, there's something in this harem that he can't let know.
Xiang Rong was so frightened that he knelt directly on the ground, and said fearfully: "Your Majesty, the slave said that the slave said." This morning, Concubine De said that my mother was in a bad mood for the past two days, so she invited my mother and Concubine Ning to enjoy the flowers here, and when she walked to the bridge, Concubine Ning didn't know how the soles of her feet slipped a little, and my mother was just the closest to her, so she wanted to reach out and pull her. But instead of holding it, he also fell. After Concubine Ning fell down the steps, she said that it was our mother who pushed her, and Concubine De did not ask the reason, so she punished the mother to kneel here, saying that she would wait for the queen mother to finish the Buddha and then tell the queen mother. ”
After the Queen Mother finishes worshipping the Buddha, then she can't wait until the evening? The emperor looked down at the person in his arms and asked with concern, "Is there any injury?" ”
Mo Yu hurriedly shook his head, "There is no injury, and he is not a very expensive person, how can he be injured so easily." ”
"I don't believe you," he turned his head to look at the girl kneeling on the ground, "Tell me, where is your master injured?" ”
Xiang Rong lowered his head and didn't see Moyu's eyes. "My mother-in-law has a big bag on the left side of the mountain."
The emperor touched Moyu's left head, and sure enough, it was swollen, probably hitting the stone pillar! Why are you so stubborn, and you don't shout that it hurts. "Why did you fall down?"
The injured place was very painful, especially after the emperor touched it, but Moyu couldn't help but make a sound. "Probably accidentally!"
Thinking that Rong would not wait for the emperor to call her, she took the initiative to tell the truth. "No, after Concubine De and Concubine Ning left, Niangniang checked the ground......"
"Shut up, the emperor will allow you to talk nonsense in front of you." Mo Yu stopped.
"Go on." It seems that there is an inside story, the emperor continued to ask.
Xiang Rong realized that he had said the wrong thing again, and he said the wrong thing in front of the emperor, and he thought that this was the end. The emperor also asked her to continue, and Xiang Rong glanced up at her master and listened to what her master meant.
"Don't look at your master, say." There was already coldness in his voice.
No way, let's talk! "My mother said that oil was poured on the ground."
Poured oil! It seems that it is another trick to compete for favor in the harem. It's just that I don't know who it is aimed at this time, is it Concubine De, or Concubine Ning, or Moyu? It's still one of the three of them, a play directed and acted by himself.
"You have always been a loner in this palace, a quiet existence, and you never ask about the rights and wrongs of the palace. But you see, you're not in it yet. The emperor touched her hair and hugged her into his arms.
She knows that this harem is always right and wrong, but she hides as far as she goes, and even shrinks into her own palace and doesn't come out. But now it seems that she is also deeply involved, and it is not that you can hide if you want to.
The emperor sighed and said: "Look, now that the sun is scorching, and the oil on the ground has dried up, even if you are wronged, people will destroy the evidence without much effort, and you will not have a chance to argue." ”
Mo Yu closed her eyes and felt the man's heartbeat, and even she didn't realize that she leaked a sincere smile. It turned out that it was a beautiful thing to be cared for and trusted, and she seemed to feel that her heartbeat was a little different from usual.
His voice came from overhead, "Let's go, go to the Changde Palace, I will wash away your grievances." ”
Mo Yu shook her head, in fact, this grievance, whether it is washed away or not does not matter to her at all. She didn't want to hurt the relationship between the emperor and others because of her. To put it bluntly, she is used to hiding herself and making herself transparent because she is afraid to stand in the middle of the crowd and let others point her way. "Don't, Your Majesty, I didn't get hurt anyway, forget it! The Queen Mother's worship of the Buddha must be very hard, don't alarm her old man. ”
"It's not up to you for this matter, my woman, I can't be wronged in the slightest." He wanted to see that there was still that restless cat in the harem, coming out to bite people. "Don't worry, the Queen Mother, I'll explain to her when I get back."