Mrs. Yan stared at the grandmother and thought to herself, it must be impossible, who wants to sell herself? It's not that there is nothing to eat. It must be that grandma's own, where is the deed of sale? At this moment's time, it is too late to get the deed of betrayal.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Yan regained her composure and said, "Hmph, you said that she is the princess's slave?" Where is the deed of sale? ”

The grandmother sneered, slowly took out a thing from her arms, and handed it to the prefect, Mrs. Yan secretly screamed in her heart, sure enough, the prefect looked at it, and her face sank and said: "Mrs. Yan, this is Wan Shuhui's deed of sale, she sold herself to the princess in Shanghai City, and now she is the princess's house slave, the royal house slave, what crime should you be guilty of seizing and beating the royal house slave without permission?" Let's wait for Lord Yan to explain. Come on, take Wan Shuhui away, and let's go back to the yamen. ”

The prefect left without looking back, and the grandmother said to the stunned Mrs. Yan with a smile: "Mrs. Yan, you wait for it, where will you go?" Exile to the Northwest seems good, huh? ”

Mrs. Yan's heart trembled, but she did not show weakness on her lips: "Hmph, it's just a servant who beat the princess, how can she be exiled?" ”

The grandmother still glanced at Mrs. Yan with a smile, did not speak, took people, and walked out with the prefect. When they were all gone, Mrs. Yan seemed to lose her strength and sat down, and the young grandmother Yan next to her hurriedly asked, "Mother, what should I do?" How could he be exiled? How big is that? Even if she is the slave of the princess's family, we beat us a few times, but we didn't kill her, what is it? It's a big deal, if we accompany us, how can we be exiled? ”

Mrs. Yan thought the same as her daughter-in-law, but she had an ominous premonition, why was this? Why is there so much of that mamma. She knows this grandma, one of the few grandmothers who have followed the princess since childhood, and many ladies in the capital know that this grandma is not a person who speaks wildly casually.

It's a weird thing. After all, Mrs. Yan has gone through a lot of things, and keenly feels that this matter is not so simple, she asked the dumbfounded big housekeeper on the side: "Big housekeeper, when you went to find this little slut, did she resist?" ”

In fact, she wanted to ask this question as soon as she saw Aunt Wan, but when she saw that Aunt Wan was wearing a cloak and had finger marks on her cheeks, she thought that she had resisted. But it was still brought back by the big butler. Where could she have thought that it was a rough mother-in-law without an order. What about the private hits?

The chief butler immediately said, "This is a strange thing, we went to get her back, I thought there would be a big fight, but I was well prepared for this." The rough mother-in-law, the guards, the thugs, and the family went to many people, and how did they know that she followed without any resistance. Moreover, the guards of her bank were about to come up at that time, but she also stopped them. ”

Mrs. Yan's heart sank and said, "It's not good, I'm in a trap." ”

At this time, Princess Lichuan's concubine Xu Wenchang had already put on his official uniform and entered the palace. In the Royal Palace. Xu Wenchang told the emperor about the matter, and the emperor asked: "You mean, your shopkeeper was arrested by Yan Songbai's wife and beaten up?" ”

Xu Wenchang said respectfully: "Yes, the princess is very angry. I had to ask for an explanation, and I was persuaded to do so. Later, when the princess was about to enter the palace again, I did not let her come, considering that her month was already very large. ”

The emperor smiled slightly, this daughter is still so short-tempered, and she has to be unforgiving, but this Yan Songbai's wife is too bold, and the princess's servants dare to move, it's really lawless, don't you know that the princess is the most favored? It's really a sight to behold: "Hey, such an ignorant stupid woman, it's really a headache, you did a good job, at this time, you can't let Lichuan be angry, you have to take care of yourself, I will sue Yan Songbai, I must let him discipline his mother-in-law well." ”

Xu Wenchang was not happy, but said with a calm face: "There is one more thing to tell Your Majesty." ”

The emperor was slightly stunned and said, "Say it." ”

Xu Wenchang said: "If it's an ordinary servant, it's just that she was beaten, it's nothing, it's just that this servant is not ordinary, she is still in charge of that matter, I'm afraid, is this Mrs. Yan aware of it, or why would she be tortured, would it be to ask something?" Of course, this is just our speculation, but we also have to tell Your Majesty first. ”

At this moment, the emperor's face became heavy.

Xu Wenchang said: "Because we arrived in time, Mrs. Yan didn't have time to ask, so this slave didn't say anything, perhaps, this is just the jealousy of ordinary women, after all, this slave was once the aunt of Yan's house." ”

The emperor groaned and said, "Are you suspicious of Yan Songbai?" Then don't doubt it, I'll just test it. In this way, let Yan Songbai explain this matter. ”

Xu Wenchang hurriedly said: "Your Majesty xià Shengming." ”

The emperor directly asked a eunuch to pass the decree and call Yan Songbai over. Xu Wenchang just stood there and waited.

While waiting, Xu Wenchang couldn't help but admire his wife, Princess Lichuan, who was worthy of being the emperor's favorite daughter and could grasp the emperor's mind very well. If Princess Lichuan came to the emperor to make trouble and asked the emperor to punish Yan Songbai, the emperor might laugh it off. Let him enter the palace in this way, not only let the emperor know her anger, but also take care of the emperor's face, the emperor feels sorry for his daughter, and he will not let his daughter suffer.

Moreover, if he had expressed his suspicions at the beginning, the emperor would not have believed it, but as soon as Yan Songbai was exonerated in this way, the emperor became suspicious. Princess Lichuan is really smart, no wonder, the emperor often sighs that if Princess Lichuan is a man, he will definitely pass the throne to her.

Just thinking about it, Yan Songbai has arrived. Yan Songbai is in the sixth office on the edge of the palace, so he will be able to come soon. Yan Songbai knew that it was bad as soon as he saw Xu Wenchang standing in the emperor's house, here he was thinking about dealing with Aunt Wan, why did Xu Wenchang come, you must know that although he had already thought of countermeasures, he did not implement it.

The emperor said with a bad face: "Yan Aiqing, do you know that your mother-in-law kidnapped the slaves and maids of the Lichuan family to your house without permission and beat them up. Your mother-in-law is so majestic? ”

Yan Songbai's heart tightened, and he was already scolding in his heart, this stupid woman, first let go of Aunt Wan, and then deposited all the money in the family's Futai Bank, and now she actually did even more outrageous things, actually went to arrest Wan Shuhui, and beat someone, this is really stupid? I don't know if it's the princess's person? It's not a backyard aunt under her jurisdiction, it's really stupid, it depends on the owner to beat the dog, doesn't she know that the princess is hot now, even his backstage His Royal Highness the Prince doesn't dare to mess with it?

Yan Songbai hurriedly knelt down and said: "It's all the ministers who are incompetent and can't control their wives well, so they offended the princess, please Princess Lichuan and the concubine to calm their anger, I will definitely take that stupid woman to the door to make amends." ”

According to the general truth, at this time, his attitude is so soft, Xu Wenchang should say, it's nothing, don't be so polite, and then the two families reconcile.

Who knows, Xu Wenchang, who is usually a good man, actually didn't say a word, and stood with a gloomy face.

Yan Songbai instinctively felt that things were not so simple.

The Emperor asked, "Are you incompetent?" Didn't you instruct it? Without your permission, how dare she, a woman in the inner house, beat the slave of my beloved daughter? ”

Yan Songbai said badly, and hurriedly kowtowed and said: "How dare the minister, the minister will never offend the princess, please ask the emperor to investigate." ”

But the emperor said, "Normally, you wouldn't do it, because it's not worth it, but you're just a slave, but what if you have any special purpose?" Do you know something? Who is behind you? What are you doing? ”

This series of questions, Yan Songbai's head was dizzy, one shouted injustice, one vigorously said that he didn't know anything, and finally climbed to Xu Wenchang's feet and begged Xu Wenchang for mercy.

The emperor got impatient and let him go down.

After Yan Songbai left, the emperor had a gloomy face and said to Xu Wenchang, "What do you think? Like not? ”

Xu Wenchang said: "Back to the emperor, the minister feels suspicious, but he shouts injustice like this, it's not like it, let's see what he will do next." ”

The emperor said: "You, you are good in all aspects, that is, you are too kind and peaceful, how can you be rigid when you do great things?" Let's just see what Yan Songbai will do next? ”

Yan Songbai returned home and was still shocked, what should I do? How could such a trivial matter arouse the emperor's suspicion? It's not good to say, maybe it's a small thing to lose your official position, but it's a big thing to lose your life.

It's all bad to say that stupid woman, how can she be so stupid? Is this emperor's beloved daughter so offended? Even the prince didn't dare to offend, how could she be so bold as a lady? Thinking of this, Yan Songbai was angry, called the housekeeper over, and asked in detail what happened.

When he heard the housekeeper say what Mama said before leaving, his heart tightened, he had been an official for so many years, and he was very clear about the law, how could he be exiled if he beat a slave or maid, even if he was killed, he would not be exiled, even if he beat a common people, he would not be exiled, and what crime would be exiled, only rebellion. The crime of treason was to kill all the adult men of his Yan family, and then exile the female dependents.

Oh my God, how can this be a rebellion? Could it be that Wan Shuhui's identity is different? By the way, the housekeeper said just now that when this Wan Shuhui was arrested, she didn't panic at all, she didn't resist, this is very unusual, it must be a trap, her stupid lady must have fallen into a trap, no, she must not be affected by this mother-in-law.

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