CHAPTER XIII 5
"That incident Yuzhu was just unintentional, she lost her child, so she regarded the Zhou family's child as her own child. She didn't hurt the child. Shangguan Beitang explained.
"But the Zhou family wouldn't think so, they and their sons came to visit you, but they didn't want the child to be snatched away by Yuzhu. After all, it was the Beixuan Wangfu who inherited his love for the Zhou family. Mu Nanfeng said again.
"So, this will be accepted." Shangguan Beitang Road.
"You, you're so stubborn, if Yuzhu really makes something happen one day, I'm afraid it's too late to regret it." Mu Nanfeng shook his head helplessly.
Having said so, after all, the future events still fulfilled Mu Nanfeng's advice today. This is a later story, so I don't need to mention it for now.
Besides, since Xiao Yiqing was beaten into Dali Temple, he is very hard-mouthed, and he refuses to admit a word about the murder of the concubine of the Beixuan Palace.
Dali Siqing tried his best to interrogate, but Xiao Yiqing never said one sentence: "Tell me to meet her, let me meet her." ”
Helplessly, half a month has passed, and there is still no progress in this case.
Dali Siqing had no choice but to report to Shangguan Beitang as he did.
After hearing such a report, Shangguan Beitang couldn't help but fall into silence.
Mu Nanfeng suggested to him: "Lord Wang, it's better to let him meet, maybe if he does, he will be relieved." ”
Shangguan Beitang thought for a moment and said, "In this case, then let him meet!" ”
In the evening, Shangguan Beitang raised people from Dali Temple to Beixuan Palace.
When he arrived at the house, he directly took Xiao Yiqing to Yuzhu's courtyard.
He looked at Xiao Yiqing and said, "Don't you want to see her?" Let's go inside! ”
Xiao Yiqing looked at Shangguan Beitang suspiciously, as if he didn't believe that he would bring him to see Yuzhu.
He cautiously walked into the courtyard, pushed open Yuzhu's door, and in the dim light, he saw Yuzhu holding a swaddling baby in his arms, gently and gently coaxing him to sleep.
"Good baby, sleep. Baby ,。。。 She patted the swaddling baby gently. Seeing Xiao Yiqing coming in, he didn't make any waves, just put his finger in front of his mouth, made a soft expression, and said, "Shhh, lighter." ”
Xiao Yiqing couldn't help but get up lightly, he wondered in his heart, Yuzhu's child is still there? She has already given birth, but it has only been a few months, is it premature?
He stepped forward and looked at the swaddling clothes in her arms, only to see that all that was wrapped in the swaddling clothes was a pillow.
But Yuzhu coaxed him to sleep tenderly. Xiao Yiqing's heart couldn't help but become desolate.
That kid fell, really fell.
He squatted down and called softly, "Yuzhu, I've come to see you." ”
Yuzhu ignored him, just pointed to the pillow and said, "Look, how cute his nose is, and these eyelashes, they are so long." ”
Xiao Yiqing said again: "Yuzhu, don't you recognize me?" I'm Xiao Yiqing. ”
But Yuzhu still ignored him, just hugged the pillow and hummed the tune softly.
Xiao Yiqing couldn't help but be a little angry, thinking that Yuzhu had lost his child, so he would turn a blind eye to him.
He snatched the swaddling clothes from Yuzhu's arms and said, "It's just a pillow, what are you coaxing it to do, am I standing in front of you, can't you really see it?" ”
Yuzhu, who was robbed of her child, immediately went wild, she grabbed her hair frantically, grabbed Xiao Yiqing's sleeve and roared: "You return my child, you give me back my child." ”
"Why are you harming my child? What about me, me, my child, my child? She looked around frantically, looking for it, and then picked up the pillow that Xiao Yiqing had thrown away.
Holding it in his arms, he whispered, "Oh, oh, baby, sleep." But he looked at it for a while, and wept, "My child is dead, and he is dead." ”
Suddenly, he raised his cold eyes and glared at Xiao Yiqing angrily: "Say, did you kill him?" Why kill him? ”
"I, I" Xiao Yiqing was speechless for a while.
That Yuzhu laughed twice again and sang Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai.
Xiao Yiqing realized that Yuzhu was crazy. Two tears crossed the corners of his eyes. He wiped it away lightly and muttered, "Yuzhu, everything I did was just to take you away, and I didn't want to hurt you like this." ”
Out of Yuzhu's room, Xiao Yiqing asked Shangguan Beitang, "When did she start doing this?" ”
"That day, she learned from Yulan that the person behind the scenes was you." Shangguan Beitang replied.
"Yes, it's me, don't you want to know all this? I'll tell you today! Xiao Yiqing finally admitted everything.
After the matter was reported to Dugu Yanxiang, he was sentenced to a hundred rods. dismissed from his official position and exiled to Saibei.
Two months later, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the emperor and the queen mother gave vegetables to the ministers of the court.
The moon was shining brightly this night, round and lovely. When this round of the full moon rose, the eunuchs who came to give vegetables in the palace happened to come to the Beixuan Palace.
With the sound of announcing the food, everyone in the Beixuan Palace's mansion knelt down to thank him.
"The emperor gave a banquet, roasted suckling pig, Qingyin foie gras, eight treasures reunion dinner, glass jade hot." Chen Gonggong, the eunuch in charge of the Internal Affairs Office, said in a shrill voice.
Shangguan Beitang and everyone in the Beixuan Palace knelt down and thanked: "Weichen thank the emperor, long live the emperor, long live the emperor." ”
"King Beixuan, please get up." Gonggong Chen stepped forward to help Shangguan Beitang.
Shangguan Beitang also said politely: "There is Lao Chen's father-in-law." ”
As he spoke, he took a bag of silver from Uncle Qin and stuffed it into Gonggong Chen's hand.
Gonggong Chen said with a smile: "The prince is polite. ”
The two were talking and laughing, but they heard a sharp and miserable laugh outside: "Hahaha, hahahaha." ”
Then came a voice like a singing voice on the stage: "Yao~, hey~." ”
Everyone was stunned, and they all came out of the house to check. But he saw that there was no one in the courtyard.
Just as he was wondering, he heard a giggling laugh again. Then the crowd looked for the sound and looked at the roof.
saw Yuzhu wearing a reddish costume, fiddling with long sleeves, walking around on the bricks and tiles on the roof.
Shangguan Beitang was shocked, and hurriedly stepped forward and called, "Yuzhu, how did you go up?" Hurry down. But she was afraid of distracting her spirit, and called softly.
Yuzhu looked at him, just smiled stupidly, picked up his sleeves, and sang: "I'm a Jiao'e daughter, and I'm not a man... ”
This red dress with wide sleeves, reflected under the full moon, is extremely beautiful and wonderful.
When everyone heard such a song, they were even more panicked and guessed.
This jade bamboo has been crazy for a long time, and often speaks upside down, why is he singing such words today?
Gonggong Chen didn't say a word, and went back to the palace to resume his life.
This night, Shangguan Beitang was uneasy and couldn't sleep. He seemed to have a premonition, but he couldn't tell what it was.
Early the next morning, the big eunuch beside the Queen Mother came to the Beixuan Palace, and Shangguan Beitang asked him for clarification.
"I don't know what happened when my father-in-law came here?"
"Back to the prince's words, the slave came by the will of the queen mother and came to give the princess a glass of imperial wine. The prince should quickly ask the princess to come out. ”
Shangguan Beitang was in a trance, and he almost stood unsteadily, but he still held his scalp and said to the eunuch: "Concubine Fang is a little unwell today, and it is inconvenient to go out to greet her, so I will not drink this imperial wine for the time being, and please go back to my father-in-law!" ”
"Lord, the slave is only acting on orders, and I ask the prince not to embarrass the slave." The eunuch said with a sad face.
Shangguan Beitang flicked his sleeves and said coldly: "If the queen mother insists on giving the royal wine, then give it to the king."
As he spoke, he stepped forward to take the wine from the eunuch's hand.
"Why should the prince be so embarrassed by the slaves, the servants are only acting on orders." The eunuch said with a look of embarrassment, and hurriedly stopped him.
"Then you can go back and resume your life, just say that I will not obey the will of Shangguan Beitang." Shangguan Beitang said coldly.
"Lord Wang, this" The eunuch tried to say something more, but Shangguan Beitang interrupted him.
"If you insist on giving this king's side concubine royal wine today, then give this king first. It's up to you to do it yourself. ”
The eunuch stopped talking, and Mu Nanfeng saw that the eunuch was frightened, so he hurriedly took advantage of the situation and said: "Father-in-law doesn't hurry back to resume his life, if there is anything wrong with the king of Beixuan, how can you afford it." ”
This father-in-law had no choice but to go back to the palace.
Seeing that the people in the palace were gone, Shangguan Beitang said to Mu Nanfeng: "Brother Nanfeng, this king has to go to the palace, you must take care of Yuzhu during this period, and you must not let her miss half a point." ”
"Understand, I will definitely take care of Yuzhu and wait for you to come back." Mu Nanfeng nodded and replied.
Shangguan Beitang changed into an official uniform and went straight to Fukang Palace.
When he arrived at Fukang Palace, it was the Queen Mother who was angry, and before he entered the palace, he heard the sound of the tea bowl breaking from the window.
Then the Queen Mother's angry scolding: "Shangguan Beitang is so bold that he dares to disobey the will of the mourning family." ”
The Queen Mother was angry. The king of Beixuan is also a person of great affection, so Yuzhu has served him for many years, how can he say that he will give up. Aunt Xu's voice also came out.
Shangguan Beitang understood that the Queen Mother already knew what he was doing today.
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw the eunuch who gave Yuzhu wine coming out of the palace, and when he saw him, he hurriedly stepped forward and whispered:
"Hey, King Beixuan, why are you here now, the Queen Mother just heard about this and is angry."
Shangguan Beitang said to him: "My father-in-law went in to report it, and said that I had come to ask for my guilt." ”
"The slave advised the prince not to go in at this time, I'm afraid it will add fuel to the fire!" The eunuch glanced inside and said cautiously.
The two were talking, but they heard another voice from inside: "Who is talking outside?" ”
But it was the Queen Mother who heard the voice outside and asked.
The eunuch had no choice, so he had to go in and report: "If you go back to the Queen Mother, the King of Beixuan has come to ask for the guilt." ”
I heard the Queen Mother sneer and said, "Hmph, he still dares to come, what are you doing?" Please? He didn't even dare to obey the will of the mourning family, so how could he come to ask for sin. ”
When Shangguan Beitang heard this outside, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and shouted: "The minister Shangguan Beitang came to ask for forgiveness from the Queen Mother." ”
"What sin do you have to ask for?" The Queen Mother walked out of the hall as she spoke.
Shangguan Beitang kowtowed and said, "The minister should not disobey the queen mother's decree. ”