Chapter 49: The Liar

"I don't believe it, in fact, I don't believe in praying for rain either, it's just a formality, and I say it so that the people can relax their hearts."

"Yes, that means Master Huiyuan is lying, as long as you start with him, you will definitely be able to find the flaws, and I look at the celestial phenomena, Huaizhong, Yongzhou, and Lizhou, it should rain soon."

"You mean we're going to ask Abbot Huiyuan? But he has obviously been bought by Concubine Hua, so he shouldn't be able to ask anything. The queen replied.

"No, since he can be bought by Concubine Hua, he will definitely be able to be bought by us, the person who cultivates pays the most attention to the reputation after death, the queen mother, you are the mother of a country, you told him that after his death, you can build a Buddhist shrine for him, and worship relics, I think no matter how much gold and silver Concubine Hua gives him, it should not be as good as the mother of the world to build a Buddhist shrine for him and worship the honor."

"This is feasible, Huaiyao, you go to Bodhi Garden and invite Abbot Huiyuan to Yaoguang Palace."

"Yes, slave and maid obey." So Huai Yao quickly took small steps towards Bodhi Garden.

"The concubine thanks the queen mother, she is willing to bother so much for one of the concubine's maidservants." Tang Ningnan bent down and saluted the queen.

Seeing this, the queen hurriedly helped Tang Ningnan up, and said: "Sister, please get up, so it seems to be a raw part, Hongzhu's girl is smart and lovely, and the palace also likes it, I really can't bear to let her be harmed by a traitor like this, not to mention that it is my duty as a queen to maintain the harem Gangji."

"This palace will go back to the Yaoguang Hall to negotiate with Abbot Huiyuan first, don't worry too much, once it is successful, this palace will come to inform you immediately."

"Yes, the concubine sends her mother."

Watching the queen leave, Tang Ningnan's heart was still hanging high.

"Niangniang, it's all Weichen who is not good, three days and two ends of the red beads sneaked out to play, let others see it, so that today's thing happened, don't worry too much about self-blame."

"How can I not worry, Concubine Hua and I have a grudge for a long time, and now that the red beads are in their hands, even if the truth is finally found out, she will definitely suffer a lot."

"Mother." Pu Julian suddenly knelt in front of her.

"Niangniang, Weichen wants to ask Niangniang and the emperor to marry Weichen and Hongzhu, although I don't have a serious day, but Hongzhu marries me, I will definitely support my family with peace of mind and not let her suffer." After speaking, he kowtowed deeply.

"Get up, I and the queen know about you and Hongzhu, I'll talk about it on the emperor's side, I should be happy to see you get married, but the most important thing at the moment is to save Hongzhu." Tang Ningnan waved his hand and motioned for Pu Julian to stand up first, still looking anxious.

Hongzhu is indeed the target of Concubine Hua, but the ultimate goal is Tang Ningnan herself, using such a thing to shake her prestige in the harem, removing Hongzhu is equivalent to going out of Tang Ningnan's wings.

In the final analysis, it was my fault, Tang Ningnan closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"The girl really doesn't admit that this thing is yours." The old lady in the palace punishment family pinched Hongzhu's neck and asked.

With Concubine Hua behind them, how could these grandmothers be soft, horsewhips, and clamping sticks, all of which were used for Hongzhu. Hongzhu hung her head, her face was covered with bruises, and thick blood was flowing from the corners of her mouth.

"You, also, want me, I said, how many times, the purse, it's mine, but I, never, never, have never seen, what kind of dirty clothes." This matter was not done by her in the first place, of course she can't admit it, once she admits it, the crime of destroying the blessing and defiling the palace will be confirmed.

Tang Ningnan, who just has the right to associate the six palaces, will be criticized by everyone in the harem, and may also affect Pu Julian, he does not belong to the palace, and he can't harm him in the palace because he is calculated.

Hongzhu said intermittently, her consciousness was already very blurred.

Seeing that she was about to fall asleep, a basin of cold water poured down from the top of her head, and the old woman grabbed the red beaded hair, raised her head, and said to her face: "I see whether your mouth is hard or this iron is hard."

"What are you going to do, let go of me, the concubine will not let you go! Yes! The pain in the cone hit, Hongzhu let out a painful moan, and fell asleep completely, and the collarbone, clothes and skin were scorched together, and it was already a blur of flesh and blood.

"I don't know what the queen wants to summon the poor monks to meet?"

"Master Huiyuan, this palace heard that after the death of the monk, will form a relic, the mother of the palace has been a Buddha for ten years, some time ago someone dedicated a relic to her, the palace wants Master Huiyuan to have profound attainments, I want to ask Master Huiyuan to help see if this relic is true or false."

"The queen's entrustment, the poor monk is willing to serve."

"That's very good, Huaiyao."

So Huai Yao took out a square mahogany box from the room and handed it to Hui Yuan, and there was Bizhu standing next to her, who was sent by Tang Ningnan.

As soon as he opened the box, Master Huiyuan's eyes widened: "Niangniang, this is a genuine relic, only those who are destined can see such precious items."

After Huiyuan finished reading, Huaiyao came over to take away the relics, but Huiyuan seemed to be very reluctant, and his eyes kept following the box.

When the queen saw him like this, she said: "The mother of this palace said that this is a relic formed after the death of a high monk in the Tang Dynasty, and there are only three in the world."

Hearing this, Hui Yuan's expression was even more exaggerated, and he couldn't wait to take the box for himself.

"The palace feels that there is a fate with the master, so this relic will be given to the master."

"Can it really be given to a poor monk?" It was obviously a question sentence, but Hui Yuan's tone was full of excitement.

"The mother of this palace also eats fasting and recites Buddha, and this palace naturally will not tease the master."

"The poor monk accepted it, thank you to the queen." Like the queen made a Buddhist salute, she couldn't wait to walk towards Huaiyao and beg for the box.

Before saluting the queen, he planned to go to the Bodhi Garden of the Relic Society, but as soon as he arrived at the door, he was escorted back by two eunuchs outside the door.

The two eunuchs pinned him down in front of the Buddha statue enshrined in the Yaoguang Temple.

"Master Huiyuan is in such a hurry to leave? The mother gave you this relic to make a deal with you. Bizhu said coldly.

"What, what a deal." Huiyuan, who thought that he had prostituted a relic in vain, was frightened back by the actions of the two eunuchs with a happy expression, and he couldn't speak.

"This palace asks you if the words of the gods who are angry are all made up by you."

"The queen's mother, the monks don't speak, and the poor monks don't dare to deceive the mother."

"Really? Then do you know that your words are going to cause a girl to be innocently imprisoned, and she will be punished in the palace, you look at this Buddha statue, do you see a bloody girl staring at you, asking why you want to frame her? Bizhu yelled at him, Hongzhu and she have served Tang Ningnan since childhood, and they have long been ordinary sisters.

The two eunuchs pressed Hui Yuan's head so that his face was facing the Buddha statue.

"The queen spares her life, I said, I said, this sentence is indeed nonsense and unfounded." Huiyuan closed his eyes tightly, not daring to open his eyes to look at the Buddha statue in front of him.

"Who is it that commanded you?" The queen asked.

"Yes, yes......" Hui Yuan trembled, and couldn't spit out a person's name for a long time.

Bizhu picked up a stick of incense in front of the Buddha statue, lifted his collar, and approached Hui Yuan's eyes: "If you don't say it, if you don't say it, don't blame me for being polite."

"I said, I said, yes, yes, it's Zhang Jieyu, that day she asked me to meet in her palace, and gave me fifty taels of silver, so that I could say this when the things in the red bead girl's purse fell out."

"It's Zhang Jieyu, no one else?"

"Nope."

"Whatever else you know, you have brought it as it is."

"I don't know, I really don't know, that's all I know."

Seeing that she couldn't say anything more, Bizhu let go of her collar hand, and Huiyuan sat down on the ground.

"Put him in the firewood room first, keep a tight watch, don't let people escape." Huai Yao said to the two eunuchs.

"Yes."

"Niangniang forgive your sins, the slave maid broke your tribute in front of the Buddha statue." Bizhu knelt down, still holding the incense she had just drawn from the Buddha statue in her hand.

"It's okay, you get up, as long as the Buddha is sincere in his heart, then Huiyuan is false, he obviously claims to be a monk, and he doesn't even recognize the relics, this is just a bead polished out of ivory, but he regards it as a treasure.

You go and call your master to come over, Huaiyao sent Concubine Hua and Zhang Jieyu to find it, since Huiyuan said that sentence was instructed by Zhang Jieyu to say it, it means that there is another hidden meaning in this matter, and the palace should ask carefully. ”

"Yes, slave and maid obey."

"What's the matter with the queen, calling so many people to the palace, it's not fifteen today?" Before the person entered the Yaoguang Palace, Concubine Hua's voice came from the door.

"If the queen wants to see someone, do you still need to share her days?" Tang Ningnan, who was sitting in the hall, said.

"Yo, who should this palace be, it turned out to be Concubine Xiao Guifei, there is still a face to come out, if the slaves and maids in this palace do this kind of thing, this palace must close the palace door tightly, and no one will be seen."

"Concubine Hua, save the concubine, save the concubine!" Zhang Jieyu knelt on the ground, and when she saw Concubine Hua coming, she seemed to see a savior, pulling the corners of her clothes and not letting go.

"Zhang Jieyu, what do you mean by this, have you done anything wrong? Want Hongu to save you? If you really do something unforgivable, the palace rules are there, and the palace can't do anything about it. Concubine Hua stretched out her hand and pulled back the corner of Zhang Jieyu's clothes forcefully, pushing her to the side.

"Zhang Jieyu, don't you still admit your guilt? Master Huiyuan of Bodhi Garden has admitted that you instructed him to say the words of the gods in the ritual of praying for rain. The queen sat on the phoenix chair in the main hall and asked sternly.

"Is the dirty clothes in the red bead purse also made by someone you ordered?" Tang Ningnan spoke.

"No, no, the concubine didn't, Huiyuan was instructed by the concubine, but the concubine didn't do it." Zhang Jieyu lay on the ground and shook her head desperately.

"Do you still want to quibble? If you didn't put the dirty clothes, how could you buy Huiyuan in advance and let him say something like that. ”

"Concubine, because, because"

"Zhang Jieyu, I didn't expect your heart to be so narrow, just because Hongzhu inadvertently offended you, so you designed to kill her?" Concubine Hua took a sip of tea and said to Zhang Jieyu, who was kneeling on the ground and didn't know how to justify.