Chapter III: Fornication
The next day I yawned and would go to the antechamber to wait for them to say goodbye. I scanned around and found that people were uneven.
Concubine Li is not here, I think I came to serve His Majesty to get up late. Concubine De was not used by me, but Luo Zhaoyi didn't come. Has Hongu's face been dispersed to this extent now?
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but be very angry, and just as I was about to open my mouth to ask, I saw Luo Zhaoyi coming in a hurry. I couldn't help but wonder why I was late.
"The queen mother forgives her sins, and the concubine is late to report something important to her mother!" "Say it."
But I saw her kneeling down, but her expression was raised, as if she was excited, and she said with a little confidence: "The concubine wants to accuse Concubine De of fornicating with others!" ”
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The crowd was so shocked that my heart almost stopped. Isn't someone going to do a dragon fetus?! It's not a secret palace fight, the palace maintains order! What's going on with this frame-up? This is different from what Hongu thought! How do you let me pick this up?!
I was angry and slapped the small table on the table: "Bold Luo Zhaoyi!" Such a ridiculous thing! If you talk nonsense again, don't blame this palace for not thinking about sisterhood! ”
"The queen mother is clear, the concubines never have the courage to arrange the concubines at will, and the concubines have conclusive evidence! The concubine can prove that Concubine De secretly communicated with others and did bad things! The person has been detained in the palace by the concubine, please ask the queen to allow the concubine to bring this person, and call Concubine De to confront him face to face! ”
What is this heading! Oh my God! What I hesitate the most now is whether to call the emperor, if I do, I'm afraid that I will be thunderous again. But it's not called ............ It is more of a responsibility for me to settle this matter privately. Forget it, even if you are cold-eyed, it is better than being wasted!
I hurriedly called Zhishuang to call Concubine De first, and told her to be sure! Immediately! Bring people to Chonghua Palace. Luo Zhaoyi saw that he was about to send someone back to the palace to get people, so I didn't worry about asking Zhilu to go with three or five guards. Zhiyu personally went to wait for the emperor to go to the court, and please return immediately after the next court, if he used state affairs to prevaricate, and directly said that Luo Zhaoyi reported Concubine De's unchastity, he would definitely come immediately.
After everything was arranged, I was settled. First of all, I don't believe that Concubine De has an affair, he has the love of His Majesty, why should he have an affair with others? Yes!!!! Say?! Your Majesty can't do that?! I don't know, I haven't felt much. Wait, don't think about this yet! What evidence does Luo Zhaoyi have, curious! How will Your Majesty react? Curious!
Maybe my expression was too weird, Song Jieyu got up and comforted me, "Niangniang don't have to worry, who is right and wrong, there will be a conclusion." I nodded, and when I looked up, because I was closer to Luo Zhaoyi, the person escorting the guard had arrived first. Brought to me, I couldn't help but frown.
He was so hungry that he was skinny and bone-ty, and his body smelled and scarred. I don't know if I was locked up for a few days, and it seems that I was tortured again. I asked: "Luo Zhaoyi is so bold that she was lynched in her own palace?!" Where is the law of the harem? After this incident, this palace will definitely hold you accountable! She got up and replied, "Niangniang, in order to expose the crime of the slut as soon as possible, the concubine used extraordinary means. I stopped talking, and the audience waited quietly for Concubine De to arrive.
I heard someone coming from afar, and when I looked around, many people's expressions actually showed anticipation. I secretly mocked in my heart, on weekdays, Concubine Lide is favored, and there are jealous people, but more often than not, they are flatterers. Those who rarely come to my palace to walk around, but they go to Concubine De's place to drink tea when they have nothing to do. If it weren't for the New Year's Pass and the emperor's decree that Concubine De would raise the fetus quietly, I am afraid that even the threshold would have to be broken.
At the moment, they are even more desperate, if they curry favor with this palace in the future, this palace will definitely drive these people out.
was thinking about it, but saw that the person who came was not Concubine De, but Concubine Li, who had come belatedly. Concubine Li hid a smile, staggered in, and was stunned for a moment when she saw the current scene, and looked at me puzzled.
I rubbed my eyebrows worriedly, "Why is Concubine Li late?" ”
After hearing this, she regained her proud look, as if to show off, but she pretended to be shy, and said to me, and also to the people present, "The queen mother forgives her sins, and she served Your Majesty until late at night last night. This morning, when His Majesty got up, he couldn't even stand steadily, so His Majesty promised me to rest for a while. He smiled stupidly, "I think the queen won't blame the concubines, right?" ”
After hearing her words, my old face turned red, and when I looked down, everyone's expressions were different, and I quickly waved my hand to give me a seat.
As soon as Concubine Li sat down, she asked what was wrong, and when she asked around and saw that no one answered, Song Jieyu glanced at her and said in a salty and nonchalant manner, "Sister Luo Zhaoyi said that the evidence is conclusive, Concubine De Niangniang is having an affair with someone, and she is waiting to invite someone to confront her." "Uh-huh, concise and to the point, very close to the heart of the palace.
Concubine Li's eyes were suddenly as big as copper bells, and her mouth was open like the bracelet that Jiangnan paid tribute to yesterday. However, this was only for a moment, and in the next second, he was extremely excited, and he couldn't wait to make a decision about it immediately. Seeing her lean back, shaking her head as if she was about to say something unspeakable, I hurriedly coughed and told her to stop.
I asked Zhilu to change everyone into a new cup of tea, and Concubine De finally arrived. The main lord has come, and the show has begun.
Zhishuang went first, and gave me a look, I will care, this should be on the way without telling why Concubine De was called, so as to catch her off guard.
Concubine De then came in impatiently, and the first thing she saw when she came in was the guard who was kneeling on the ground trembling, her face turned extremely pale in an instant, and her hand tightly held the hand of the palace maid who was holding her. The palace maid also froze in place, and then glanced at Concubine De in panic. Concubine De pressed her hand, looked at her, and walked in and said hello to me.
Because I have been staring at her closely, although her series of expressions changed only for a moment, I still saw them all, and I had a consideration in my heart at the moment. Look at her reaction, right? Really?!
I raised my hand to excuse me, glanced at Luo Zhaoyi, who was eager to try, and the gloating crowd, and gave Concubine De a seat. Concubine De sat down, looked at the blanket under her feet for a while, and then slowly spoke, "The queen called the concubine, what is the matter?" ”
I automatically skipped the connotation of don't come to me if it's okay to say nothing in this sentence, and I didn't talk nonsense, and said directly to Luo Zhaoyi, "Luo Zhaoyi, say what you just said to this palace." ”
Luo Zhaoyi got up again, and the words were repeated to me, but her eyes slashed at Concubine De like a sword, as if swallowing mountains and rivers, "The concubine wants to accuse Concubine De of fornicating with this person!" ”
Before she could finish speaking, I stared at Concubine De tightly, waiting for her reaction. I saw that after hearing this, she raised her head suddenly and looked at Luo Zhaoyi in a daze. After being stunned for a long time, his face changed to anger and incredulity.
"Luo Yu, are you crazy or have you eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall, and you dare to slander this palace! This palace will definitely want you to look good today! "After that, he was going to walk over and raise his hand to fight. I hurriedly asked Zhishuang to go up and stop it.
"Concubine De doesn't have to be angry, when Luo Zhaoyi finishes speaking, you can argue, if she frames you, this palace will definitely administer justice for you." Concubine Li looked at her nails and interjected: "That's it!" Why panic, if you are really innocent, can the queen still be wronged? Hahahaha. "I don't have the time to talk to her at the moment, so I let Luo Zhaoyi say it directly.
Luo Zhaoyi stepped forward and looked at Concubine De: "You slut not only fornicated with others, but also embezzled the palace's finances, pile up and pile up everything, I will make it clear to you today!" ”
Turning to look at me, "Queen Mother!" A few years ago, I had nothing to do, and one day I inadvertently climbed the Qixing Pavilion to look forward to the scenery, but I didn't want my palace maid Lan'er to see a side gate in the southeast corner that transported the filth in the palace to the palace gate, and a person sneaked out.
Normally, the eunuch palace maids and guards would go to the southwest corner to visit relatives or buy, or run errands, and the concubines were suspicious at that time, so they just asked someone to follow him secretly, and found evidence to kill him.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the concubine's people went out, they saw that he was exchanging something with people outside the palace, and the concubine's people pressed down on the spot along with the people outside the palace. It wasn't a tight deal, but my palace maid had sharp eyes, and at a glance she found that there was a hairpin of Concubine De in the goods they exchanged! ”
Luo Zhaoyi raised her hand and asked the palace maid to bring a hairpin, I looked at it and saw it at a glance, this is Concubine De's. It stands to reason that there are so many hairpins that no one can remember, but this one is different. Not long after His Majesty ascended the throne, the people below paid tribute to a piece of high-grade jadeite, and three hairpins were beaten, the one with the best color was given to Concubine De, and two times, one was given to me, and one was given to the Queen Mother.
Later, a palace maid accidentally broke off, and Sun Miaohua actually asked someone to beat her to death. His Majesty did not pursue it, but asked the skilled craftsman to inlay the gold in the fracture, and put a pair of earrings of similar colors and shapes to give Concubine De, who took it for more than half a month. This matter is known all over the palace, and everyone knows this hairpin.
As soon as Concubine Dade saw the hairpin, her face lost color. Luo Zhaoyi continued, "The palace maid came back to report to me, this hairpin is the only one in the palace. I had to return the things that Concubine De had lost, so I asked someone to search the guard's body carefully to see if there was anything else to return together. As a result, this was indeed found! ”
Luo Zhaoyi took the thing and threw it on the ground, "This is the ice silk's dirty pants!" Since Your Majesty ascended the throne, this ice silk has been offered to the Polar Moon Palace, Concubine De! What else do you have to say! ”
After speaking, except for Song Jieyu, everyone looked at Concubine De who was shaking non-stop. Concubine De looked at the dirty pants on the ground, looked at me, knelt down with a plop, and cried: "Niang Niang Mingjian! There are no concubines, there must be people in my palace who have unclean hands and feet who steal the things of the concubines and resell them, just such a thing can slander the concubines, the concubines are wronged, the queen mother wants to be the master of the concubines? ”
I knew in my heart that this accusation must not be established, and Song Jieyu, who didn't want to be plain from the beginning to the end, as if she had stayed out of the matter, spoke: "Yes, Zhaoyi, one is that Sister Concubine De said that someone with unclean hands and feet stole something, and second, if it was really Sister Concubine De, why use her unique things to give away, wouldn't that tell everyone that she had done something wrong, this third point, if there is really an fornication to send objects to each other, why does this person want to sell the palace again, isn't the chance of being found greater." ”
I glanced at Song Jieyu, and I didn't expect that she was silent before, but now she actually said everything that Bengong thought. Concubine De nodded as if grasping a life-saving straw, I motioned for her to get up first, and Luo Zhaoyi next to me snorted coldly, "Sun Miaohua, do you think I have this evidence?" ”
"The emperor has arrived!" There was a shout outside the door, and everyone's eyes were focused on the door.