Chapter 15: Tears
"Yes, please. ”
After Liu Wei's permission, the little eunuch on duty led Zhang Rang and Guo Sheng to the palace.
"Guo Gong, why are you back?"
Only then did Liu Wei get up, pretending not to know the purpose of Zhang and Guo's coming.
Guo Sheng explained with a smile: "Shi Hou, it's like this, the minister met Zhang Changshi on the road......"
As he spoke, he gave way to the side so that Liu Wei could see Zhang Rang.
"Shi Hou. Zhang Rang stepped forward and saluted with a smile on his face.
At this moment, it was time to test Liu Wei's acting skills, and I saw that he quickly restrained the smile on his face, and responded seemingly reluctantly: "Zhang Chang waits ......"
Seeing this, Guo Sheng couldn't help laughing, and Zhang Rang also felt a little embarrassed.
But embarrassment is embarrassment, Zhang Rang didn't care much about the little hostility shown by Liu Wei at the moment, after all, in his opinion, it was too normal for a ten-year-old child to have this kind of reaction.
On the contrary, if this Shi Hou showed that he didn't care about Feng Yu's incident, then he would feel suspicious.
"Shi Hou, the old minister deserves to die!"
Hearing only a mournful shout, Zhang Rang, an old man in his forties, ignored his position as the head of the permanent attendants, and knelt down in front of Liu Wei with a puff.
It was so neat that Liu Wei couldn't help but be stunned: Really kneeling?
Just when Liu Wei was stunned, he heard Zhang Rang shouting sadly: "The old minister is trusted by the first emperor and His Majesty, and he should serve the Han family, but the old minister is dizzy, and he mistakenly argues about loyalty and treachery, and he actually promoted Feng Yu and other thieves to Shi Hou's side, fortunately Shi Hou Ji is a natural person, otherwise even if the generals are cut by a thousand knives, the old minister will not be able to escape the blame!"
After that, he cried loudly, making Liu Wei stunned.
Zhang Rang, the head of the ten permanent servants, is actually such a faceless guy?
Think about it carefully, in history, when He Jin wanted to eradicate them, Zhang Rang even kowtowed to his adopted son's wife and Queen He's sister, and begged his wife to come forward and plead with Queen He, who had become the queen mother at that time.
However, thinking that this faceless and skinless guy later deceived He Jin into recruiting He Jin into the Han Palace when he had no way to retreat, and led fifty sword and axe men to cut He Jin's head, Liu Wei didn't dare to take this guy lightly.
From the side, Guo Sheng may have seen Liu Wei look stunned and did not react, so he coughed and interceded on behalf of Zhang Rang: "Shi Hou, according to the minister's opinion, this matter is probably not Zhang Changshou's fault." Do you know that Zhang Changshou's adopted son, the imperial physician Ling Zhang Feng, he married the queen's sister, your aunt, if you talk about intimacy, Zhang Changshou and Shi Hou are a family, how can you condone Feng Yu to be rude to Shi Hou?"
"Hmm, are you already married?" It seems that it should have happened a few years ago when He Jin had not yet gained a firm foothold in the DPRK......
Liu Wei frowned slightly, and a little disgust flashed in his heart.
Although he has little contact with Queen He's sister, that is, his aunt, and has only met once since returning to the palace, and he doesn't even know what the other party's name is, but nominally, the other party is indeed his aunt, and he feels a little uncomfortable when he thinks that this aunt is married to Zhang Rang's adopted son Zhang Feng.
After all, he just regarded the eunuch as a tool, but he didn't think about becoming any relative with the other party.
What's more, Zhang Rang's adopted son, the Imperial Doctor, made Zhang Feng debauched by nature, and he was not a serious person.
After thinking about it again, Liu Wei had some doubts about He Jin.
But he didn't have time to think about it for the time being, after all, the scene in front of him still had to be played.
I saw that he deliberately showed a contemplative look, and said with a half-sound and unconfident: "In this way, Feng Yu's matter is actually related to Zhang Changshi...... Nothing to do with it?"
Guo Sheng hurriedly swore and said: "The minister guarantees his life, and it has nothing to do with it." ”
Seeing this, Liu Wei picked up Zhang Rang, pretended to be a little ashamed and said, "I misunderstood Zhang Gong...... Zhang Gong was resentful. ”
Zhang Rang also pretended to be a loyal minister who had been wronged, and choked up: "Shi Hou can distinguish between right and wrong, believe in the old minister, and the old minister is grateful, how dare he have resentment." ”
"Zhang Gong deserves to be a loyal minister. ”
Liu Wei couldn't help but praise with disgust, and then changed the conversation and asked, "Then what's going on with this Feng Yu? Why did he pull out Zhang Gong?"
"Ah......h
Seeing that Liu Wei still remembered this, Zhang Rang thought for a while, and said angrily: "The old minister doesn't know about this matter, obviously the old minister brought him, I didn't expect him to take revenge so kindly, it's really hateful...... If the old minister expected it was not bad, then Feng Yu must have accepted the benefits of others, and pretended to be unfavorable to Shi Hou in the name of the old minister, and the deeds were revealed and blamed on the old minister...... Shi Hou you know, how dare the old minister do that disloyal thing?"
"How dare you say it? You can tell you all the reasons for deceiving children......? Oh, that's what you said. 』
Liu Wei laughed secretly in his heart, his face pretended to be contemplative, and suddenly, he pretended to wake up and said, "I know, it's Empress Dowager Dong!"
"Huh?"
Zhang Rang and Guo Sheng looked at each other.
Liu Wei pretended not to see the strange expressions of the two, as if a child had found the truth, and said proudly and conceitedly: "That's right, it must be the Empress Dowager Dong, she has always been at odds with my mother, and she has always disliked me, and she has been trying to persuade my father to make my imperial brother Dong Hou the crown prince all these years, and she must have secretly instigated Feng Yu!"
“......”
Zhang Rang and Guo Sheng opened their mouths slightly and looked at each other.
The two of them never thought that this Shi Hou would actually contact Empress Dowager Dong about Feng Yu......
The two of them didn't know how to talk, but Liu Wei was still talking to himself: "I understand, it seems that what Feng Yu said about the 'Zhongchang Servant' is true, but it is not Zhang Gong, but the Zhongchang Attendant on the Empress Dowager Dong's side......"
As he spoke, he turned his head and asked Zhang Rang and Guo Sheng: "Gong Zhang, Gong Rang, among the regular servants in the palace, which people are attached to the Empress Dowager Dong?"
"Uh, this ......"
Zhang Rang was asked, not that he didn't know, but that he couldn't say.
After all, as soon as he saw the angry appearance of this Shi Hou, he guessed that there must be a follow-up to this matter, and if he confessed to the few regular servants who were attached to the Empress Dowager Dong, those people would definitely resent him later.
What's even worse is that this matter was completely caused by his henchman Feng Yu, and he brushed it off in order to shirk his responsibility, who would have thought that Shi Hou would think of Empress Dowager Dong's side.
"Yong, Yongle Ling Sun Zhang, or quite close to the Empress Dowager Dong......"
Zhang Rang said the name of the person in a hurry, and at the same time turned his head to look at Guo Sheng.
Guo Sheng obviously realized something, and looked at Zhang Rang with wide eyes, as if to say: What does this have to do with me?
"Sun Zhang?"
Liu Wei turned his head to look at Guo Sheng.
Guo Sheng glanced at Zhang Rang hatefully, licked his lips, and said with a bitter face: "Yes, yes, Shi Hou." ”
"Okay, Sun Zhang......"
Liu Wei deliberately read the names of people with hatred, and then asked, "Who else?" should be more than him, right?"
"And ......"
Zhang Rang pondered for a moment, gritted his teeth, and while looking at Guo Sheng, he said slowly: "Yongle Taifu Feng Yu, and Fang Lin Yuan Ling Xia Yun ......"
"......" Guo Sheng looked at Zhang Rang in astonishment, and then when Liu Wei turned his head to look at him, he struggled to squeeze out a few smiles: "...... It is indeed as Zhang Changzhi said. ”
"Hmm. ”
Liu Wei nodded angrily, and the resentment on his face made Zhang Rang and Guo Sheng feel a headache.
After a long time, Zhang Rang and Guo Sheng submitted their farewells, and Liu Wei sent Zhang Rang and Guo Sheng out of the Jiafang Palace in the name of blaming Zhang Rang.
Seeing that the two of them wanted to speak and stopped, and finally left with a bitter face, Liu Wei smiled secretly in his heart.
As he expected, before he walked out of a hundred zhang distance, Zhang Rang grabbed Guo Sheng and whispered: "Today's matter, don't leak out." ”
Seeing that Zhang Rang kept saying that 'we can only coexist by joining hands with each other', in order to shirk responsibility, he turned his head and framed Sun Zhang, Feng Zhen, and Xia Yun in front of Shi Hou, so that the three of them were resented by Shi Hou, Guo Sheng secretly sneered in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, after all, he also had a share of Guo Sheng who framed Sun Zhang, although he was only pulled into the water by Zhang Rang.
So he took the opportunity to ask Zhang Rang for benefits, although Zhang Rang was angry, but he had no choice but to agree to Guo Sheng's request.
The two of them thought that this matter was over, even if that Shi Hou resented Sun Zhang, Feng Yu, and Xia Yun, he would not have the ability to condemn those three, but they didn't know that Liu Wei had already thought of a later move.
As soon as Zhang Rang and Guo Sheng left the Jiafang Palace with their front feet, Liu Wei went straight to Changqiu Palace with their back feet and complained to his mother, Empress He.
At this time, Empress He had also learned about what had happened in the Jiafang Palace, and she was originally going to summon Liu Wei to Changqiu Palace to inquire because she was worried about her son, but she heard that her son took Cai Yan to Dongguan, but she didn't expect that soon after, her son ran to him angrily.
So she hurriedly asked her son: "Bian'er, I heard that you ordered Feng Yu to be killed with a cane today?"
She was originally worried about her son's safety, and worried about whether this matter would lead to anger Zhang Rang, after all, she also knew that Feng Yu was Zhang Rang's confidant, but she didn't expect her son's words to make her dumbfounded: "...... The queen mother, the child is here for this matter, just now I asked Zhang Changshou and Guo Changshi, and the two of them said in their own mouths that Feng Yu's matter was done by Yongle Ling Sun Zhang, Yongle Taifu Feng Yu, and Fang Lin Yuan Ling Xia Yun and a few others to curry favor with Empress Dowager Dong......"
"What?"
Empress He was taken aback.
On the side, Da Changqiu Zhao Zhong's eyes widened even more in shock.
Others don't know, doesn't he know? Then Feng Yu is clearly Zhang Rang's henchman, how could he be instructed by Sun Zhang, Feng Yu, and Xia Yun?
Could it be that Zhang Rang threw the responsibility to Sun Zhang and others in order to compromise the responsibility?
Just when he was shocked, Queen He was also furious, and immediately sent someone to ask Zhang Rang and Guo Sheng to ask.
When they saw the palace maids sent by the Changqiu Palace, Zhang Rang and Guo Sheng had already guessed that something was wrong, and after asking, sure enough, that Shi Hou stabbed Feng Yu's matter to Queen He's side.
But the matter has come to this point, Zhang Rang and Guo Sheng can only come to Changqiu Palace hard.
After seeing the two of them, Queen He pointed to Liu Wei who was standing aside and questioned the two: "My son said that Fang Dian ordered Feng Yu to be rude and offended him, but Sun Zhang, Feng Zhen, and Xia Yun were instructed by the old woman in the river, can there be such a thing?"
Zhang Rang and Guo Sheng glanced at each other and smiled bitterly.
If you say no, then it is equivalent to them deceiving Shi Hou, and if you say yes, then you will offend Empress Dowager Dong.
After several struggles, the two finally made a decision: "...... That's true. ”
Hearing Zhang Rang and Guo Sheng's words, Queen He became more and more annoyed, but on the side, Da Changqiu Zhao Zhong was frightened.
Of course, Liu Wei could guess why Zhao Zhong was frightened, just because of the admission of Zhang Rang and Guo Sheng, the unity within their ten permanent servants would never exist.
"Huh. 』
With a secret laugh, Liu Wei brushed off his clothes, patted his ass and returned to his Jiafang Palace.
It is not difficult to predict that for the palace, especially for the ten permanent attendants, tonight will be a sleepless night.