Chapter 140: The Old Trick Repeated
Mo Yu walked all the way back to the Jade Immortal Palace, thinking about the repetition of the case just now. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info assuming that the target of this murderer is the little prince, then why didn't he kill the little prince with a knife in the nurse's room embedded in the night before? How did the little prince die? Poisoned? Strangled? Suffocated? Why did the Imperial Physician and the Servant lie? Are they complicit? If according to the imperial doctor and the servant, the little prince has been dead for an hour, that is, from midnight to noon. The first time the child feeds is in the hour, and what happens during the period from the hour to the time? Did the child really die an hour ago? Or is it another time?
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After thinking about it all the way, Mo Yu couldn't think of a reason. When he returned to the Jade Immortal Palace, Biyue came to report that Master Ji had been waiting for a long time.
Ji-sama? There are still a few people in this capital who can be called Ji-sama. Ji Boyuan is called Young Master Ji, and Ji Zhongting is called Second Young Master Ji. The only person who can be called Master Ji is Ji Gangyang, her father.
Ji Gangyang has been wandering in the palace, and Biyue once suggested whether to go to Lanyue Palace to call the concubine Niangniang back, but was stopped by Ji Gangyang. said that the matter of the little prince was important, and it didn't matter if he waited, so he waited in the Jade Immortal Palace for an hour and a half. Seeing Mo Yu walking in, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Weichen see the concubine Niangniang." ”
Mo Yu waved his hand and said, "Get up, my lord enters the palace, don't go to see Concubine Xian, but wait for me here, but what's the urgency?" Mo Yu said as she walked over to the chair and sat down.
Ji Gangyang followed behind her, walked in front of her and stood still, "The minister originally wanted to go to the Moon Palace, but the noble concubine Niangniang, you are there to handle the case, and the minister is inconvenient to disturb." So, just wait for the mother. ”
took the teacup handed over by Tian'er, took a sip to moisten his throat, and then said, "What's the matter, say it!" ”
Ji Gangyang wanted to say something, but after looking at the people in the palace, he didn't dare to say it. Mo Yu understood, sent them all out, and then listened quietly to Ji Gangyang's words. Ji Gang looked left and right, hesitated for a while, and finally asked something that was not painful, "Niangniang has been in good health recently?" ”
Mo Yu secretly scolded in her heart that there was something wrong, she was more than six months pregnant, so she came to ask her if she was okay, why did she go earlier? "Between you and me, you don't have to beat around the bush, just talk about things if you have something!"
Ji Gangyang was embarrassed for a moment, "Let Niangniang laugh, Concubine Xian Niangniang just lost her child, it must be very painful." Fortunately, she was relieved to have you by her side, and she felt better. ”
"She's so strong, she doesn't need me to comfort her. The child is gone, and there will be another in the future, you don't have to worry. ”
"Yes, yes." Ji Gangyang bowed down and said with a smile: "The virtuous concubine is blessed with the sky, and she must be blessed by the Bodhisattva." You are the same concubine, you are deeply favored by the emperor, and now you are pregnant with a dragon, and you will be an inexhaustible blessing in the future. ”
Mo Yu glanced at him and said with a pout: "I didn't say that I was pregnant with a prince, what if I was a princess?" ”
Ji Gangyang asked softly, "Doesn't Niangniang know if she is pregnant with a boy or a girl?" ”
Mo Yu raised her head to look at him, "What about a boy, what about a girl?" Will Master Ji be a little more lenient? ”
"This ......" Ji Gang Yang smiled, "Niangniang, forgive the minister." Since ancient times, the former dynasty and the harem have been inseparable, you can not recognize us, but in the end, you are also surnamed Ji, you don't think about the Ji family, you have to think about yourself! If you give birth to a prince in the future, the mother is more expensive than the son, then the throne is naturally at your fingertips. But if you give birth to a princess, the emperor is now pampering you, but the emperor's love, there will always be a day when the color decays and loves to relax, when the time comes, how can you rely on it? ”
"In this way, if I give birth to a prince, maybe one day I will be the queen, my child, it may be the future emperor of the Zhou Kingdom, then you will be the grandfather of the future emperor. You say, when the time comes, will you be more beautiful, or will I be more beautiful? ”
The smile on the corner of Ji Gangyang's mouth couldn't help but spread, and said: "Naturally, it's you, you are not only the biological mother of the future emperor, but also the queen mother." You have the powerful Ji family behind you, and when the time comes, who will dare to be against you. ”
Mo Yu put the teacup on the table, and his fingers teased the lid of the cup intentionally or unintentionally, "But if I'm pregnant with a girl, I can't become a prince!" ”
"Don't worry about this mother, the minister will arrange everything for you, the mother must be a prince."
His eyes instantly turned cold, and Mo Yu looked at him obliquely, "You mean, stealing dragons and turning phoenixes?" Seeing that Ji Gangyang was silent with a smile, Mo Yu slowly stood up, leaned in front of Ji Gangyang, and said coldly: "I am very suspicious now, whether the child who died in the Lanyue Palace is really the prince?" ”
Ji Gangyang's face didn't change, but his waist bent down a little more, "That's Concubine Xian's child." ”
The child was raised in Lanyue Palace, and in the future, he will be called Concubine Xian as his mother, of course, he is the child of Concubine Xian, but he is not the emperor's child, and his body is not the blood of the Chai family. Now they want to do it again, and they have applied it to her. Mo Yu walked past him and walked behind him, "This matter, Queen Mother, how much does the old lady know?" ”
"If the mother cooperates, the queen mother will arrange everything in the palace. Matters outside the palace are handled by the ministers. Rest assured, if you want to see the child in the future, you can go to see it at any time. ”
Her hand gently stroked her belly, and her face revealed a different kind of maternal love. "Is this move really that important? It is so important that you will pay for the lives of your whole people. In fact, you can wait, Concubine Xian is still young, and she will definitely have children in the future. ”
"Mother, I can't wait." Ji Gangyang turned around, "The emperor has sent the people of the Guo clan to the border, and some people are going to build ditches. As soon as the Guo family fell, the next one was the Ji family. ”
If the Ji family is sitting upright, why should they be afraid. "I can promise you to save the Ji family, but you have to answer me a question."
"Mother, please speak."
Mo Yu turned around and walked in front of him, "Why is the Queen Mother in such a hurry to kill Concubine De?" ”
Ji Gangyang didn't expect Moyu to ask such a question, and his face was full of embarrassment, "This, unprovoked, how could Niangniang ask such a question?" ”
"Since I asked, it means that I know, and you don't have to guess where I know, just tell me why. If you want to talk about the facts, it's not trying to deceive me, I'm not as easy to deceive as Ji Feicui. ”
Ji Gangyang's mind was full of thoughts, once he said it, it would be a betrayal of the Queen Mother, but if he didn't say it, the concubine would not agree to him. After weighing the two, he still chose the Ji family. "Niangniang wants to promise that this matter must not be known to a third person."
"Say it!" Moyu sat down and listened to his story.
"Things have to start from the first year of Xingyuan." Ji Gang Yang Youyou Road, the first year of Xingyuan, is the Tang Mingzong period. "Twenty-five years ago, that is, in the first year of Xingyuan, the two rivers were big, and the Tang Emperor sent people to kill them. In troubled times, many soldiers could not bear the arrogance and tyranny of the Tang Emperor, and became deserters one after another. One of them, named Xiao Zhendong, also became a deserter. At the beginning of the troubled times, the people were miserable and miserable, and Xiao Zhendong, a deserter, found that he had no foothold. By mistake, he was framed and sent to the palace, quieted down, and exchanged for silver. ”
In the troubled times, in order to survive, some people sold their sons into the palace as eunuchs in exchange for food. It is normal for this Xiao Zhendong to be brought into the palace to sell silver. Ji Gangyang continued: "When I first entered the palace, I was often suppressed and bullied, and my life was precarious. Just when he was desperate, the nobleman in his life appeared, that is, the Chai nobleman of the Tang Emperor, after hearing what happened to him, Chai Guiren felt sympathy, so he took him in. ”
Chai nobleman? Dowager? Mo Yu was still a little shocked in her heart, she had a hunch that Ji Gangyang's words would make her even more shocked. "And then?"
Later, Chai Guiren took him into his palace. At this time, Chai Guiren was just a small imperial concubine, and he had no chance to see the face of heaven at all. The deep palace is lonely, and there is no way to pass it. Fortunately, the little eunuch she just received was not bad, often amused her, told her about things outside the palace, and Chai Guiren also taught this little eunuch pipa music, and his life was quite passable. Over time, the two have been in love for a long time, inseparable, like glue. Fortunately, the courtyard where Chai Guiren lives is remote, and no one usually walks around, and the affairs of the two of them have not been discovered. ”
The hand under the sleeve couldn't help but tighten, she probably guessed half a point. "This little eunuch is Grandpa An."
That pipa, it turns out that he is not just a pipa, it is the only connection between the Queen Mother and Father-in-law An! It was she who indirectly killed Father-in-law An at the beginning, how could the Queen Mother let her go!
Ji Gangyang was surprised by her answer, but after a while, he understood that it was possible for her to guess as a smart person. "That's right, this little eunuch is Grandpa An. It's a pity that one is a normal woman and the other is a crippled man, even if there is love and affection, they are destined to not be able to unite. So they can only snuggle up to each other, but they are not half intimate. After Tang Zhuangzong died, Tang Mingzong dismissed his harem and released all the concubines of the former emperor and returned home. However, the minions still had to stay in the palace. ”
After Tang Mingzong ascended the throne as emperor, in order to demonstrate his benevolence, he did release the concubines of the former emperor and sent them home, but the slaves could not be let go, and they had to stay and continue to serve their masters. Ji Gangyang continued: "After Chai Guiren left the palace, on the way home, he met the former emperor, who is the adoptive father of the current emperor. The emperor fell in love with her beauty and accepted her as his wife. At a party, she met the old lady, and the two became Jin Lan and talked about everything. Later, the old lady helped her take the father-in-law An out of the Tang Palace and sent him to her. The first emperor established the Zhou State, and she was respected as the queen, and this father-in-law became her personal eunuch. ”
The old lady did her such a big favor, so after she was respected as the queen, she was naturally rewarded. It's the Jinlan sisters again, and what the Queen Mother can't do outside the palace is inconvenient to do, so the Ji family will help her do it. Over time, this relationship can't be broken even if you want to. With the help of the Queen Mother, the Ji family's honor and favor became bigger and bigger, and Ji Gangyang's official became bigger and bigger, until he reached the position of Zhongshu. "You can achieve today's position, it is all up to the old lady's planning, otherwise, with your wisdom and ability, you will not be able to achieve this position. So what does this matter have to do with Concubine De? ”
Ji Gang Yang sneered and did not refute Moyu's words. Concubine De inadvertently discovered the Queen Mother's secret and used it to blackmail the Queen Mother. If the Queen Mother doesn't kill Prince Zongyi, she will make this secret public. ”
Concubine De has a huge influence in the palace and is good at gathering intelligence, so it is not surprising that she discovered the secrets of the Queen Mother. She found that she couldn't kill the child even if she did it herself a few times. So, he decided to use this incident to blackmail the queen mother, so that the queen mother could solve her grandson. That's why the Queen Mother found Moyu and asked her to kill Concubine De. But Moyu's move was too long, and she couldn't wait. Therefore, she agreed to the request of the Ji family, she helped the Ji family take the Yuan family back, and the Ji family helped her kill Concubine De.
But since Concubine De had already planned to let the Queen Mother kill Prince Zongyi by herself, why did the Queen Mother say that the prince was killed by Concubine De? There's no need for Concubine De to do it herself? All she had to do was have it. "How much do you know about the death of Prince Zongyi?"
"We suspect that Concubine De killed her. Concubine De should have noticed something, so she struck first. ”
"Why does Concubine De have to kill the prince? Even if you want to be the queen mother in the future, it won't be her turn! ”
Ji Gangyang shook his head and said, "This, the minister doesn't know." Niangniang, your question has been answered truthfully, so what you promised the minister ......"
Mo Yu stood up and said with a smile: "I promised to help you save the Ji family, and I will do it, it depends on whether you are willing to do what I say?" ”
Ji Gangyang frowned, puzzled: "Niangniang, didn't you cooperate with our arrangement?" ”
"Huh. I only promised you to save the Ji family, but I didn't say that I would do what you said. To save the Ji family, my way is to unload my armor and return to the field. ”
"What did you say?" Ji Gangyang looked at the concubine in front of him in disbelief, and only then did he realize that he had fallen for her. "Concubine Niangniang, you can't do this."
Mo Yu walked past him and said, "You have achieved your current position, you have done enough, you have tried what you should have done and what you shouldn't do, and you will accept it when you see it." After you go back with this, you also tell the old lady that you take the initiative to leave Beijing, maybe you can still win a good name in your old age, don't wait until the guillotine to regret it. ”
"Niangniang, as long as you give birth to the prince, everything will be fine!"
"The Guo clan relied on being the clansmen of the former emperor, bullying and dominating the market, robbing the people's daughters, squeezing the people, and enclosing the land. The emperor can make them arrogant to this day, which can be regarded as a benevolent and righteous to the emperor and the queen mother. If he hadn't seen the affection you had for helping them break into Tokyo, would he have shown mercy to your men? Master Ji, Chai Rong is not Guo Wei, the current emperor is not the first emperor, your little thoughts, it is best to put it away. Take care of your people, the emperor even dares to move the ancestors of the emperor, so what is that affection? Even if I give birth to a prince, it is also the emperor's prince, and I have nothing to do with you. The queen mother is still the emperor's mother, what is the result, you have also seen it, do you need me to say more? ”
Ji Gangyang wiped the beads on his forehead, and said in a slightly pleading voice: "Niangniang, the minister knew that before, it was the minister who was ashamed of you." But the life and death of the Ji family, you have to take care of it! Anyway, for the sake of Zhong Ting, help us this time. ”
Mo Yu turned her head and asked, "Does Concubine Xian know?" ”
The look of embarrassment was fully revealed, and Ji Gangyang lowered his head weakly, "Concubine Xian will understand the minister's distress." ”
"Then if Concubine Xian has another child in the future, will my child and I have to die?" Mo Yu asked with a smile, and there were several layers of sarcasm in his smile.
"Rest assured, the minister will definitely keep his promise."
"Hahaha......" Mo Yu walked past him, walked to the table, and looked at the tea cup on the table, "If Zhong Ting knew that you would treat me like this, I am afraid that I would not return to the capital in this life." Also, I'm not a virtuous concubine, so don't try to hit me with ideas. I let go of the Yuan family, as if I was repaying your kindness over the years, as for whether it is a boy or a girl in my belly, I don't care, as long as he has my blood on him. That's it, and you get the idea. As for the Ji family, the old lady is such a powerful person, and there is a way. ”
"Concubine Niangniang." Behind him, Ji Gangyang's tears almost flowed, "The ministers are all for your good!" ”
"For my good, don't come to the Jade Immortal Palace again in the future. You should go and see Concubine Xian, who will soon be able to come out of her grief if she is comforted by your father. "Anyway, it's not her child who died.
Ji Gangyang walked to her side, "Guifei Niangniang, you think about it again, you can't die without help." ”
There was a "bang", it was the sound of the teacup colliding with the tea lid, and Mo Yu shouted coldly: "Biyue, send off." (To be continued.) )