Chapter 025: Execution
"Bring it up." Long Zeye waved his hand when he heard this.
Not long after Jian Ning came back from the Tai Hospital, Long Zeye looked at the medicine bags in Jian Ning and Qing Zhi's hands, and immediately stepped forward and asked with concern, "What's wrong, is there something uncomfortable?" ”
Jian Ning handed over all the things in her hand to Qing Zhi, and after instructing her to put them away, she smiled and said to Long Zeye: "I'm fine, I don't have anything at all." ”
"Then those just now" Long Zeye just wanted to ask what was going on with those medicine bags just now, but Jian Ning couldn't help but laugh out loud and said, "I see that you are really concerned, then it is messy, if I am really unwell, I will also look for Qianlan to see, how can I go to the Tai Hospital to get the medicine by myself." ”
Jian Ning continued: "Those are some of the raw materials I took from the Tai Hospital just now, which are to be used elsewhere, not for eating. ”
In the past few days, Jian Ning has been a little cautious in studying gunpowder, so he thought about finding some raw materials such as sulfur and saltpeter to try. Now that she is in the palace, the only person who can get these things is the Tai Hospital, but fortunately, the Tai Hospital is temporarily managed by Qianlan, and it is not troublesome to want those raw materials.
Jian Ning didn't want Long Zeye to delve deeper, so she took the lead in diverting the topic and asked, "How is Ai Gaoyi's matter handled?" Did he confess his sins? ”
Hearing this, Long Zeye shook his head helplessly. Seeing this, Jian Ning thought that she had encountered some difficulties again, and hurriedly asked, "What, aren't those letters enough to convict Ai Gaoyi?" Can he still defend himself? ”
"Ai Gaoyi is dead." Long Zeye said lightly: "Died under the Gu poison of those rebel generals." ”
"Dead?" When Jian Ning heard this, she was also shocked in her heart, such an ending was completely unexpected by her, but it didn't seem impossible if she thought about it carefully. In her opinion, Qiao Qiben is not a simple person, he is extremely ambitious, and he seems to have some inexplicable hostility towards this world, how can such a person be willing to surrender to the feet of others and be a lowly minion.
"Ai Gaoyi has been calculating all his life, I'm afraid he didn't calculate that he would end up like this!" Jian Ning couldn't help but sigh.
"He is to blame for this."
"Then what are you going to do with the woman surnamed Ai in the harem? Especially Ai Duoer" Jian Ning looked at Long Zeye's eyes. Somewhat tentatively asked.
Long Zeye sensed the faint temptation in Jian Ning's tone. Raised his hand to caress her cheek, and said gently: "You have to believe that I only have you in my heart." Although Ador has been by my side for many years. But I don't have love for her, and I will follow the rules, and I won't favor her or anyone else. ”
Jian Ning didn't say anything more, since she found out that she had Long Zeye in her heart. With the growth of time and the difficulties she has gone through with him, Jian Ning is more and more worried that she will lose Long Zeye one day. is also becoming more and more unbearable, Long Zeye may have other women in his heart.
Jian Ning never thought that she would one day become so free and easy. It turns out that the so-called free and easy is just because I don't care.
The next day, Long Zeye took Jian Ning to Ningshou Palace to discuss how to deal with Ai Duoer and the Ai clan. Originally, these things should have been resolved by the queen. But since Leling talked to Long Zeye that time, he has been calling himself sick in Fengyi Palace, and he does not interfere in all the affairs of the harem.
"Imperial Grandmother, this is what I have done after weighing it. See if it's possible, if not. Then I commanded to go down and draw up the decree. Long Zeye made a detailed report to the Empress Dowager about the disposition of Ai Duoer and others.
Jian Ning listened quietly on the side, and the general disposal plan was: cut off Ai Duoer's title of concubine, give Bai Aya, and keep her whole body. The rest of Aiwei, Aime, Ailan and others were all stripped of their titles, and they were beheaded two days later along with the rest of the Ai clan's relatives.
Hearing such a result, Jian Ning couldn't help but feel a little cruel. She has some sympathy for Aimei and Alan, especially Ailan, who is just a woman who has just grown up, and this life is over in a daze.
But even though she felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, in front of the Empress Dowager and Long Zeye, Jian Ning didn't have the slightest position to plead for anyone.
Jian Ning has always known that the Empress Dowager is a person who cares very much about Yuan Chu's country and laws, and she completely feels that the Empress Dowager will definitely approve of such a way of dealing with it. But to Jian Ning's surprise and even Long Zeye's surprise, the Empress Dowager objected.
She didn't explain anything, and said directly: "What to do with the rest of the people, the mourning family doesn't care, and they don't ask, but Ai Duoer not only can't be executed, but also must retain her concubine position." ”
"Imperial Grandmother, why is that?" After Long Zeye was surprised, he couldn't hide his strange mouth and said, "You know, if there is no reasonable reason, it will be difficult for me to hand it over to the ministers. Unless all the women in the harem are not disposed of, let them completely cut off relations with Ai. ”
"How to tell the ministers, that's the emperor's business, not the mourning family's thinking." The Empress Dowager said indifferently, "Before you woke up, it was Ai Duoer who told the mourning family the news that the frontier ministers had entered Kyoto, and as far as this matter is concerned, she is meritorious." And the mourning family also promised her in front of the Buddha at that time that as long as there is a mourning family for a day, they will protect her for a day, so the mourning family will not agree to deal with Ai Duoer. ”
After listening to the Empress Dowager's words, Long Zeye's brows furrowed more and more, and he couldn't imagine such a thing. Ador was much more far-sighted than her father, and had already found a talisman for herself.
"Naturally, the Imperial Grandmother said so, then I will do what the Imperial Grandmother wishes." Long Zeye has never disobeyed the Empress Dowager, and after nodding, he said lightly, "But I also ask the Imperial Grandmother to support me in the next way of dealing with me." ”
"The mourning family is old, and after this incident, the mourning family also knows that you two brothers definitely have the ability to protect the Yuanchu country. As long as the emperor doesn't move Ai Guifei, what the rest of the things want, the mourning family will not care anymore. The Empress Dowager waved her hand a little tiredly and said, "Now the matter in Kyoto has not been completely resolved, and the streets are still lifeless." The mourning family wanted Prince Xuan to accompany Princess Xuan to go to the Garan Temple to worship the Buddha for a period of time. ”
"Okay, I will arrange everything properly, and I will go back to tell the imperial uncle on the princess's side, and the imperial grandmother can rest assured." Long Zeye nodded.
In fact, Long Zeye understood in his heart that every time the imperial grandmother went to the Garan Temple, it was not entirely for the purpose of worshipping the Buddha. The temple was once the place where the imperial grandfather became a monk, and the imperial grandmother loved the imperial grandfather all his life, but the imperial grandfather loved another woman for a lifetime, and even finally became a monk for her.
The imperial grandmother was unwilling in her heart, so when she was young, she went to the Garan Temple to ridicule the imperial grandfather's cowardice and evasion, and then the imperial grandfather passed away, and the imperial grandmother's only hope was shattered. But since then, whenever there is something to worry about, or when she feels tired, the Imperial Grandmother will go to live at Garan Temple for a while.
Perhaps, Garan Temple has become the last spiritual sustenance of the imperial grandmother.
This day was the day when the Ai clan was beheaded at the noon gate, and the early execution ground was full of people, and it had not been a long time since so many people had been seen on the streets of Kyoto. After Ai Gaoyi's crimes were announced to the world, everyone hated him to the core, and naturally this hatred spread to all the people of the Ai clan.
After all, the poisoner developed by Ai Gaoyi almost turned the whole of Kyoto into a dead city, leaving more than half of the city's families facing the pain of losing their loved ones, and some even the whole family was spared.
On the execution ground, there were dozens of kneeling people, but there was no Ador, no Ivy and the other three sisters. In addition to the woman who has entered the palace in the Ai family, there is also one person who has absconded is Ai Gaoyi's only son, Ai Tao.
Now that Long Zeye has ordered the whole country to want Ai Tao, I believe that the days of hiding and hiding will not make him much better.
And the reason why Ai Duoer and others were able to survive was that Long Zeye used the reason of "marrying her husband, and so is the concubine", so did all the Ai women who married into the palace to break away from the Ai family, so that she was proud to save her life.
But without the big tree of the Ai family, their life in the palace will not be too easy in the future. After all, there are many people who hate them.
Naturally, Jian Ning is not without gains. Long Zeye finally unsealed the food taste garden and gave it back to her, not only that, Long Zeye also gave her a restaurant in Kyoto, and wrote the title: Food Taste Garden, and sent it to Jian Ning to make a plaque for the restaurant.
Jian Ning was very happy, but she didn't have much energy to deal with the restaurant at the moment, so she could only find someone to decorate it first, and only occasionally asked.
For a few days, Jian Ning and Qianlan were dealing with the people who were injured by the poison, and with Qianlan's continuous attempts, the toxin had gradually been charged, and the people would not go crazy. But at present, we still can't find an effective way to force out all the toxins in their bodies and completely cure them.
"Qianlan, in the past few days, you have tried more than 100 methods, and there are countless prescriptions, is there really no way?" Jian Ning looked at Qianlan, who was getting thinner, and asked a little distressed and helpless.
Qianlan shook her head a little dejectedly and said, "Qianlan's medical skills are really limited, and now it is not easy to control the toxins, and I really don't have the ability to cure them." Miss, I'm afraid Qianlan is going to disappoint you. ”
Looking at Qianlan like this, Jian Ning felt even more uncomfortable in her heart, and hurriedly comforted: "Qianlan, you have barely rested in the past few days, I believe you have done your best, we are not gods after all." You can only do your best, and the rest depends on the destiny of heaven! ”
Just when Jian Ning and Qianlan were both feeling a little frustrated, an eagle that was even more majestic than eighteen suddenly flew in and landed on Qianlan's shoulder.
Looking at the eagle on her shoulder, Qianlan's eyes immediately lit up, and her whole person seemed to be full of strength again. (To be continued)