Chapter 98: Desire to add sin
Early in the morning of the second day, a succession of exciting news spread in the imperial city.
Legend has it that yesterday's dinner party was thrilling, first of all, a beautiful and supple lord of He'an County was jealous because of the jealousy with the eldest lady of the Rui Wangfu, and his mouth repeatedly contradicted the queen mother; In order to win back the favor of the Queen Mother, the lord of He'an County reported many evil deeds of his father, Prime Minister Zuo, who confessed and was pressed into prison to await trial, but committed suicide in prison that night.
And this third news has made the inside and outside of the imperial city completely boiling, now His Majesty took the beauty to visit the Imperial Garden at night last night, but was attacked by someone halfway, and His Majesty was bravely injured in order to protect the safety of the beauty. This incident has alarmed the inside and outside of the imperial city, and the queen mother was furious and ordered all the cities leading to the palace to be strictly guarded and checked, and it was bound to catch the gangsters who dared to assassinate the emperor.
These three short messages contain too much information, in the blink of an eye, the power-leaning Zuo Xiang became a prisoner, everyone knows that Zuo Xiang and the regent want to be at odds, and now the biggest benefit from his downfall is the Rui Wangfu, many people are speculating that the Zuo Xiang did not commit suicide, but was cut down by the people of the Rui Wangfu. What's more, there is gossip that the beautiful woman who was attacked with the emperor was none other than Qu Junyan, the eldest lady of the Rui Wangfu. The little emperor was alone with such a bad woman on this big night, and as a result, he was attacked by someone in the heavily guarded palace, who can enter and leave the palace at will under the nose of the Praetorian Guards, and accurately assassinate His Majesty? Obviously, the secret of this matter is about to come out!
If you want to say that this Qu Junyan is also a tyrant in the imperial city! Everyone knows that the eldest lady of the Ruiwang Mansion is extremely arrogant and arrogant, and she has done evil in the city. People can't help but speculate that the attack on His Majesty will be the work of this beautiful woman who "guards and steals", after all, Qu Junyan has an impermanent personality, she is not afraid of heaven and earth, what can't she do?
In just one morning, it spread in the imperial city that His Majesty had a night meeting with the eldest lady of the Rui Wangfu, but there was a quarrel with him, so the female king of Hades was furious, smashed the jade order to summon the Rui family army, intending to assassinate His Majesty, and simply His Majesty had a magic weapon to protect his body, so he escaped.
Rumor has it that there are noses and eyes, and those people seem to have seen it with their own eyes. This spread has added another stroke of color to the glorious image of Qu Junyan and the female king of Hades.
The rumors of the emperor's assassination were still on the cusp, and the next morning, an even more exciting news blew up everyone in the imperial city. The Queen Mother issued an edict ordering the regent to thoroughly investigate the matter with the Ruijia army, and it was bound to give an explanation to the people of the world as soon as possible.
Yesterday, people were still speculating whether the attack on His Majesty was related to Qu Junyan, and today the Queen Mother "ordered" the regent to give an explanation, which is simply a naked hint that Qu Junyan has nothing to do with this gangster!
For a time, the discussion about Qu Junyan in the imperial city has reached its peak, and Qu Junyan has become synonymous with tyrannical temperament and lawlessness in everyone's hearts. Many girls in the city have stood in the camp of the crusade against Qu Junyan because they love the little emperor.
Suddenly, Qu Junyan's reputation was rotten to the extreme.
Qu Junyan didn't know about all this, she was still studying the reagents configured for the little emperor's detoxification, since she returned to the Ruiwang Mansion after the palace banquet, she never took half a step out of the house, where would she know what the people outside had scolded her.
In the study of the Rui Wang's Mansion, Qu Rui sat behind the desk with a gloomy face, resisting the urge to tear the Yi Zhi in his hand apart.
"Good! Good! Good! I think my Ruiwangfu Mansion is about to collapse, and now anyone can wronged my granddaughter at will! True ......" Qu Rui gritted her teeth and clenched the holy decree in her hand, closed her eyes worriedly, and her old face was full of exhaustion.
Since returning home from the birthday banquet, the outside world has been talking about what happened at the banquet, she thought that the queen mother and her party would be afraid of Yanyan's divine beast, but she didn't expect that although they no longer made things difficult for them on the surface, they added fuel to the fire behind the scenes, and led the spearhead of rumors to Qu Junyan.
His Majesty was attacked, and people outside suspected that Qu Junyan had done it. If some of the famous ladies who participated in the banquet gave more guidance at this time, the wind of public opinion would soon burn Qu Junyan. According to the queen mother's gesture at the birthday banquet, it is not difficult for Qu Rui to imagine what this group of famous ladies who "can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour" will do.
The problem is that Qu Junyan didn't eat grapes either! It's nothing more than the Queen Mother who drew a big pie and didn't get any benefits, and she caused a commotion for no reason.
Although Qu Rui knew that her granddaughter was a little arrogant, she never dared to do anything to kill, let alone murder the emperor! They have been loyal and good generals for generations in the Rui Palace, such rumors are simply nonsense!
Besides, it is even more impossible for him to assassinate Zuo Xiang, not only him, but even Qu Junyan has stayed alone in the room since he came back from the palace banquet to study the medicine classics, and he has never even left the house, how can they have anything to do with Zuo Xiang's death? Although the Rui family army is at the disposal of the people who are waiting for the Qu family, but the jade order that Qu Rui gave to Qu Junyan is specially marked, once the jade is broken, he will inevitably be aware of it, saying that Qu Junyan instructed the Rui family army to do evil, which is simply impossible!
The circumstances of His Majesty's assassination have not yet been clarified, but the Queen Mother handed over this hot potato to him at this time, so that no matter what the result he gave, he could not get rid of the suspicion of cover-up! This is undoubtedly leading the people to push this crime to Qu Junyan, and even smear the entire Ruiwang Mansion! Generations of loyalty, but in exchange for such treatment, Qu Rui is really chilled.
"The head of the family, do you want to tell the eldest lady about this matter?" It was also difficult to see the extreme on the face of the dark hiro. He hated that he would never be able to justifiably dispel the rumors that "there is no successor" in the outside world as the second generation of King Rui, hated that he couldn't share his adoptive father's worries, and couldn't shelter the person he wanted to protect the most in his heart.
Qu Rui shook her head.
"If Yanyan knew about this, how could she give up with her temperament? Now that she's just healed, don't tell her. Since the Queen Mother has ordered me to hunt down the gangsters who assassinated the emperor, I will definitely find out the truth and return Yanyan's innocence. "My three sons all died on the battlefield to defend the country, and the only daughter was also sent to Dingguo Anbang to be close to each other, and died in a foreign land. Qu Junyan is all his emotional sustenance, but now, this ambiguous edict has completely ruined Qu Junyan's reputation.
Even if they had no intention of clinging to the imperial power, but even if they wanted to marry others, with such a bad reputation of assassinating the emperor, who good people would dare to ask for it?
"The first emperor entrusted him with no people." The more Qu Rui thought about it, the more heartache she felt. In the early years, he followed the first emperor to fight in the south and the north without complaints, and now their Qu clan is almost extinct for the Yong country, but the wife who has a deep affection with the first emperor and his wife is even his only granddaughter has to be pushed into the abyss.
He bowed his head in silence and clenched his fists with both hands.
Over the years, Qu Rui is afraid that his military achievements are too prosperous, and has continuously reduced the number of the Ruijia army, at the time of the founding of the country, seventy percent of the soldiers of the Yong country are from the Ruijia army, and now, with the gradual reduction of Qu Rui, only fifty percent remains. Why did the first emperor rest assured that he would hand over the country to him with a foreign surname to be the regent? is because he knows that if Qu Rui is interested in imperial power, the throne of this Yong State will not be surnamed Bai for a long time.
Unexpectedly, he Qu Rui had been fighting horses all his life, but he was led by a female streamer, and he retreated step by step, not only did he let the queen mother let go of her vigilance against the Rui Wangfu, but instead appeased the traitors and gave them the opportunity to get rid of the Rui Wangfu, which made the country he had fought for half his life also precarious.
"No matter what, I will never let anyone frame Yanyan's innocence at will, as long as I still have a breath left, no one will want to touch my granddaughter!" Qu Rui's current obsession is only Qu Junyan, which is his bottom line, and he will never back down.
He has already lost four children and can no longer afford to lose his only granddaughter. Qu Rui and Minghong were worried about the future of the Rui Wangfu in the study, but a petite figure stood quietly at the door for a long time.
Qu Junyan stared at the locked door expressionlessly, and the words of the two of them came into her ears word for word, her bright eyes lowered slightly, she stared at the crack of the door, her brows furrowed slightly.
The word grandfather is an emotion that Qu Junyan has never experienced in the previous life, and the impression of the grandparents' generation only stays on the uncle and aunt who sit at the mouth of the alley and point at her. After being reborn, the first relative she saw turned out to be the grandfather of this shell, perhaps it should be said that grandfather. is different from the old men who scolded her for being unlucky and unlucky in the previous life, even if she didn't do anything, she would be pointed at, and Qu Rui's concern for Qu Junyan was always meticulous, as long as Qu Rui got enough good things to get her hands on, she would be sent to her room as soon as possible to make her happy, even if she only frowned slightly, Qu Rui would try her best to coax her for a long time.
People always say "next generation", but this is a feeling that Qu Junyan has never experienced in her previous life, and Qu Rui's unscrupulous pampering once made her a little overwhelmed. When she first arrived, she even subconsciously avoided contact with Qu Rui, she didn't know how to respond to the old man's concern, Qu Rui was completely different from the old people in her memory.
But she didn't expect that this old man would be able to do this for her.
Although the Rui Wangfu has always been suspicious of the royal family, Qu Rui has always been loyal to the will of the first emperor, but today, when the spearhead of the royal family is pointed at his granddaughter, this old man who has been foolish and loyal all his life, is finally angry.
For the sake of his granddaughter, he is willing to give everything.
The heart seemed to be filled with something warm, Qu Junyan laughed at himself, his past cognition was completely overturned, and his soul, which had been cold for a lifetime, was wrapped in a scorching heat. On the delicate face, after slowly blooming into the other world, the first smile from the bottom of my heart.
"Grandpa, uncle." Qu Junyan knocked on the door gently, originally to discuss with Qu Rui about the mysterious person that Minghong had hunted down on the day of the birthday banquet, but he didn't expect to hear this unexpectedly.
"Ahh ...... did you hear it all? Don't worry, grandpa will definitely return your innocence! Qu Rui picked up the Queen Mother's decree with a resentful face, for fear that the gossip from the outside world would hurt Qu Junyan's "fragile" little heart: "Don't care what outsiders say, if you don't do it, you don't do it, grandpa will dispatch the Praetorian Guard, and he will definitely catch that gangster!" ”
Qu Junyan touched his nose, his eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and he nodded obediently. In Qu Rui's heart, the image of his baby granddaughter is really a pure white rabbit, in fact, only Qi Qi knows that his master has a bad stomach, not only has a black belly, but also has no lower limit.
If you don't do it, you don't do it, but his master not only did it, but also did it without dragging it in the slightest!
Zuo Xiang "committed suicide" in the cell, Qu Junyan is clear! Implement the so-called "take advantage of his illness to kill him" predecessor experience, after all, the night is long and dreamy, it is difficult to say whether he will make a comeback through this relationship with the Queen Mother, rather than waiting for him to turn over and continue to suppress the Rui Wangfu, Qu Junyan feels that it is more in line with her personality to cut through the mess quickly.
The moon is dark and the wind is high at night, when people are killed and set on fire. A teacher who is a model teacher is gradually exposing the bad factors in his heart......