"Are you really Ah Wu? Why did it become the way it is? The Queen Mother was a little excited, and she didn't believe her eyes.

For the answer to this question, Xiao Fei has been prepared for a long time. It was originally used to prevaricate her daughter-in-law, but she didn't want to go back to Beijing for so long, only the Queen Mother asked.

"Qi Yu Niangniang, the Valley of the Medicine King is full of strange flowers and plants, and the concubine accidentally ate a poisonous herb half a year ago, although she was finally treated by a divine doctor and saved her life, her appearance has changed dramatically."

This statement is reasonable, and the Queen Mother nodded, confirming her identity in her heart. She pondered, maybe it was because of the great change in Xiao Fei's appearance that caused the misunderstanding between her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and she wanted to make a round, so she asked Xiang Zhihua with a smile: "Ah Hua, this palace is also familiar with your mother-in-law, according to this palace's opinion, she is exactly ......."

Zhihua hurriedly stood up and interrupted the Queen Mother's conclusion.

"Niangniang, the reason why the concubine said that this person was fake was because there was enough evidence in her hands. Just last month, my father wrote a letter to my family, saying that my mother-in-law, Fei, had died of illness a month and a half ago. The father was afraid that his husband would be distracted on the battlefield, and he was sympathetic to the concubine who was pregnant and not suitable for work, so he planned to wait for him to return home before handling the funeral, and explained to the concubine. ”

"Bah, in front of Your Majesty, you wicked woman can't be allowed to speak well here! If you take my words, I learned that Grandpa Guo is still recuperating in the Valley of the Medicine King and cannot return for the time being, so he told a big lie in a vain attempt to harm his mother-in-law! Such evil deeds are intolerable! Xiao Fei smacked the ground, his eyes glowing with a devouring ghost.

Thinking about her excitement and resentment, Zhihua became more and more calm. She asked softly: "Although I am not from an illusory background, I have also been familiar with the female ring since I was a child, and I dare not say that I am virtuous and virtuous, but at least the least filial piety can still be done by my in-laws." My mother-in-law and I have never been masked, there is no grievance, it is too late to respect her and love her, so what reason is there to curse and harm her? ”

Xiao Fei was dumbfounded. Zhihua has any reason to harm her, of course she knows, but can she say it? Shen Bin's father and son did not expose her true face in front of the world with many scruples, she wants to say that her daughter-in-law is avenging her husband, isn't this a self-confession?

Xiao Fei couldn't find a rebuttal, so he simply avoided answering. "You said that there is a letter from Grandpa Guo, so what about the letter? Don't blame me for not reminding you, there is a piece of the old handwriting of the grandfather of the country in the palace, as long as the handwriting is compared, the truth is immediately obvious, if you want to play any crooked ideas, take advantage of this thought as soon as possible, and save people from being embarrassed. ”

She expected that Shen Bin had never written such a letter to her family, but seeing that Zhihua was still confident, she suspected that she would find someone to copy Shen Bin's handwriting, and deliberately proposed to compare the handwriting through a warning.

The emperor, who had watched the play for a long time, spoke out at the right time. "Yes, princess, if you really have such a letter in your hand, please present it."

To Xiao Fei's disappointment, Zhihua's face was still calm, and she did not feel empty as she expected. She watched the other party take out a letter from her sleeve and present it respectfully, as if this so-called family letter was true, and she couldn't help but start to feel uneasy.

The letter seemed to be very long, and the emperor read it for a long time. The three of Xiao Fei's mother and son, who lowered their heads and didn't dare to peep at Long Yan, didn't notice the shocked look on the emperor's face.

The sound of paper folding sounded in his ears, announcing that the emperor had finished reading the letter. The hearts of the three of them lifted together, waiting for him to order someone to confirm the handwriting before making a final judgment.

Clinker, the emperor did not ask people to find Wei Guogong's past recitals, but asked Xiang Zhihua meaninglessly: "Princess, this is the family letter you said?" ”

Among those present, only Zhihua had already expected the emperor's reaction, she bowed her head and replied respectfully: "Your Majesty, what is said in this letter should not be publicized, lest it be spread out and disturb people's hearts." Since receiving this letter, the concubine had planned to enter the palace to face the saint, but she didn't want this thief woman pretending to be my mother-in-law to come to the door at the same time. According to the concubine's opinion, this is God's eyes, if the concubine receives this letter one step later and recognizes the thief as her mother, it will inevitably stain the lintel of my Weiguo Mansion. ”

This answer made everyone hear in a fog and full of doubts. Among those present, only the Queen Mother dared to ask the doubts in her heart: "Didn't the princess say the letter sent by Duke Wei last month?" Why does it look like you just received it? ”

Before Zhihua could reply, the emperor said perfunctorily: "Yunzhou is far away from the capital, maybe it is a delay on the way." After appeasing the Queen Mother, he turned his head to the mother and son and ordered: "You guys retreat first, I have something to ask the princess alone." ”

The sense of uneasiness in Xiao Fei's heart became stronger and stronger, and his kneeling legs were even more powerless in the panic, and with the support of Shen Pei and Shen Hao, the three of them retreated to the small hall behind the side hall with the palace maid. The palace is not a place to talk, they are surrounded by palace maids, in this environment, several people have no heart to talk, each holding the tea cup offered by the palace people, silently thinking about their own thoughts, waiting for the emperor to summon again.

As soon as the Queen Mother heard the emperor's words, she knew that there was something else hidden in this matter. She didn't ask any more questions, and listened intently.

"Why is the county lord of Minyi in Yunzhou? When did she leave the capital? The emperor's first question surprised the Queen Mother.

"Your Majesty, the county lord met a master of the rivers and lakes more than three months ago, admired the other party's ability, and made a fool of himself to apprentice. The eldest princess didn't allow it, but it happened that she heard about the concubine's cousin leaving home to join the army, so she wanted to follow suit and quietly ran away from home in the middle of the night with her two maids. Her Royal Highness the eldest princess was afraid that this matter would damage the reputation of the county lord, so she ordered her concubines not to make a noise. ”

This is true, but the order of Minyi's running away from home and apprenticeship was reversed, so Zhihua said it sincerely, and the emperor believed it when he heard it.

"Hmm...... This is indeed in line with the girl's personality. The Emperor muttered to himself, and then asked, "Who is the master she worships?" Why did you take her to Yunzhou so coincidentally? ”

"Back to the emperor, the master of the county lord is the younger sister of the divine doctor Bi Tuo, and the concubine heard earlier that this master is terminally ill, and her time is running out, and her only wish is to see her senior brother one last time. This can be proved by the several letters sent back by the county lord of the eldest princess's mansion along the way earlier. At that time, we didn't know that the senior brother her master was looking for was Bi Laoshang. ”

"So, this Fei Shi is indeed real?"

"It was a moment of urgency just now, and now the concubine does not dare to hide it, according to what this letter said and the time when she arrived in the capital, the concubine thinks that she is indeed my mother-in-law Fei." The smart Zhihua knows when to tell a lie and when to tell the truth.

"You also admit that she is your mother-in-law, isn't it unfilial piety for you to treat her like this?" The Queen Mother finally couldn't help it, and suddenly accused sharply. She is also a mother-in-law, so she is naturally not used to this kind of disobedience.

"In order not to embarrass the husband again in the future, the concubine is willing to bear this unfilial name, and ask the queen mother to condemn her!" After Zhihua finished speaking, she walked into the middle of the hall and knelt down to ask for sin.

The queen mother was furious when she saw that she was unrepentant, but the emperor handed her the letter in his hand: "The queen mother is angry, she also has a hard time." The death of the Duchess of Guo is actually Wei Guogong's own mentions, you can take a look. ”

The Queen Mother took the letter and quickly flipped through it, the more she looked at it, the less angry she became, and when she put it down, her face had eased a lot, she closed her eyes and was silent.

It turned out that what Zhihua presented to the emperor was not a letter written by Wei Guogong himself, but a reminder letter sent by Minyi. Zhihua, who copied a large number of calligraphy and paintings in her previous life, has a skill that no one knows about in this life - anyone's calligraphy and painting, she can imitate it at a glance and make it nine points similar, so as to confuse the real with the fake. She took advantage of the last gap to write a new one in Minyi's handwriting, slightly revising some of the things written in the original letter. For example, concealing Feng Feifei's help to Limengren, and for example, writing Xiao Fei's "death" as Shen Bin's instructions. Of course, she can directly forge a so-called family letter, but Xiao Fei's people are right in front of her, and telling nonsense with her eyes open will inevitably be exposed. And now, Xiao Fei's has become a rebellious wicked woman who obeys Fei Ning's orders and colludes with the Meng people to kidnap her husband, in this case, as long as the emperor still has a little conscience, he can't bear to kill his relatives not long ago, and inexplicably get this kind of evil mother again, and make another loyal and filial piety choice that could have been avoided.

The two people sitting at the top were speechless, and Zhihua raised her head a little invisibly, catching a glimpse of the emperor's hesitation, knowing that they were still carefully distinguishing the truth from the falsehood of her words. So he turned his heart sideways and threw out the witness.

"There is one more thing that I almost forgot to play His Majesty, there is another visitor today, who arrived in the mansion earlier than this letter."

"Oh? Who is it? ”

"The person who came was someone from the Medicine King Valley, and he also came to report about his father's captivity. This person has been eating and sleeping all the way, and the concubine saw that he was really hard, so she let him rest in the mansion first. His Majesty can order someone to announce his coming, and the specific details will be known as soon as you ask. ”

Minyi's letter explained the origin of the alum, and Zhihua knew that this was a credible person, so while tampering with the letter, he asked him to come over and unify the rhetoric, and it was only now that he dared to generously propose it to let him enter the palace to face the saint.

The emperor was in high spirits because of the appearance of the witness, and immediately announced him to the palace.

The Weiguo Mansion was not far from the palace, and the rejuvenated alum was soon summoned to the palace by the eunuchs and appeared in front of the emperor.

Seeing that he had stood in the hall for a long time and had no intention of saluting, the chief eunuch beside the emperor, Gao Gong, was about to shout loudly, Zhihua stood up first and explained for him: "Your Majesty, don't blame, the Medicine King Valley has been isolated from the world all the year round, and most of the people inside don't pay much attention to secular etiquette, please forgive your sins." ”

Turning his head and reminding Bai Alum: "Little Brother Bai, you have to remember that when you see the emperor in the future, you should bow three times and bow nine times, and you must not be rude like today." ”

Alum nodded, indicating that he understood. Master also said that if he saw the dignitaries and nobles outside, he should kneel down and salute, but he didn't think about it for a while, and after being reminded by Zhihua, he didn't mean to be unwilling.

He knelt down "plopped", meticulously kowtowed three times, and bowed nine times, the etiquette was thoughtful, but his mouth was still like a gourd with a sawed mouth, without saying a word.

The emperor and the queen mother were the first time to see such a person who did not know how to be polite, not only was it not strange, but they also thought it was very interesting.

After ordering him to be flattened, the emperor asked with great interest, "What is your name?" What is the identity in the Valley of the Medicine King? ”

"Bai Alum, disciple of the Medicine King."

The man spoke unexpectedly concisely, and the emperor raised his eyebrows and continued to ask, "Shen Bin is there for treatment?" ”

"......" didn't answer this time, the other party just nodded.

Gao Gonggong dutifully reprimanded him for being rude, but the emperor raised his hand to stop him, saying that he was not surprised.

"Then when did he arrive in the Medicine King Valley?"

"August 26 last year."

The Emperor closed his eyes and recalled for a moment, and after confirming that the date he said roughly matched the vague memory, he was somewhat sure of his origin.

"How is he doing now? Have you recovered? ”

"Healed at the end of August."

……

The alum is like a wooden fish, knocking and answering. At the end of August, Wei Guogong, who had fully recovered, was in a hurry to leave for Beijing, but because his wife Fei was greedy for a peaceful life in the valley, he stayed for another half a month. Unexpectedly, as soon as they walked out of the Medicine King Valley in September, they were caught by a team of people who were already waiting outside. Coincidentally, Feng Feifei's master and apprentice, who came to look for his senior brother, also happened to arrive outside the valley on that day, and was finally implicated by Bi Tuo, and was taken away by Limeng by mistake. And Bai Alum, who was a disciple of the Medicine King Valley, was of no use to them, and escaped by luck. These people didn't expect that Bai Alum, who had an ice cube face, had a chivalrous heart, and would actually come to the capital thousands of miles to report the news.

Bai Alum and Min Yi didn't know each other, and neither of them knew that the other party would pass the news to Jingzhong, so this is the situation that Renhe and Xin arrived at the Weiguo Mansion today, and it also confirmed that Xiao Fei's collusion with Li Mengren was true.

It's no wonder that the emperor believed Bai Alum so easily, it was really because his frank and honest style that was not polluted by the world was too easy to win people's trust, coupled with his always expressionless face, even if he said a lie, his tone and eyes did not fluctuate at all, if he didn't know the truth in advance, it would be difficult to tell which sentence he said was true and which was false.

It is true that alum is not polluted by the world, but this does not mean that he does not know how to tell lies. The master told him to obey Shen Bin's orders, but Shen Bin was not there, of course he should listen to his daughter-in-law. Shen Bin's daughter-in-law asked him to lie, and Bai Alum, who did not have the slightest reverence for the emperor, naturally would not refuse such a "simple" request.

The Queen Mother, who originally had some trust in Xiao Fei's perfect image in the past, after listening to Bai Alum's testimony, remembered her hideous look just now when she kept shouting to get rid of Zhihua, and immediately decided that she had an ulterior motive for returning alone this time. After exchanging glances with the emperor, the mother and son reached a consensus in an instant.

***

The few people of Xiao Fei's family, who had been waiting in the small hall for half a morning, finally waited for the chief eunuch Gao Gonggong beside His Majesty, but Gao Gonggong did not come to take them to face the saint, but directly announced the holy decree.

"It has been ascertained that the Duchess of Weiguo, Fei, died on August 17 this year. Today, the person who pretended to be Fei in the Weiguo Mansion had ill intentions, and his heart could be punished, so he immediately dragged him out of the noon gate and beheaded him to show the public! ”

The three of them were stunned as if they had been struck by lightning. Xiao Fei didn't expect that she returned to the capital after a lot of hardships, and what she got was actually this kind of result, and she screamed unwillingly: "Wronged! Your Majesty, the concubine is the real Duchess of the Kingdom! ”

Gao Gonggong turned a deaf ear, waved his hand fiercely, and the two Janissaries behind him rushed up, tied Xiao Fei's tightly at once, and gagged his mouth again.

This time, the Shen Pei brothers didn't have time to stop them at all, the two couldn't bear it for a while, and they pulled the sleeves of Gao's father-in-law and wanted to plead again, but the other party warned with a smile: "Second son Shen, third son, the truth of the matter has come out." Your Majesty is thinking of your mother's heart, so that you will be deceived by the traitor, and you will not be held accountable for your court misdeeds today. I hope that the two of you will think twice about everything in the future, so that you can do it yourself. Leave! (To be continued.) )