64. You should confess your sins
Maybe it's because it's late, or maybe it's because the emperor really doesn't have the strength to be angry, in short, this time it's a lot of thunder and a little rain, the two of them didn't suffer too much trouble, and they were interrogated by the emperor and put back to listen to Shui Xuan.
There are few people listening to Shui Xuan, and no one will make noise about those rumors anymore.
I thought that this matter would be over, but unexpectedly, in the afternoon of the second day, another attendant came to deliver the message, and instead of summoning Shen Yu to leave to do things, he simply named Huanlin and asked her to go to the emperor's side to serve the decoction.
"Me? To wait for Your Majesty? Huan Lin Zhi suspected that he had heard it wrong, "Whose idea was this?" Are you sure you're not crazy? I've always been so-so, and two of the three things have to go wrong! I serve the decoction, does Your Majesty dare to drink it? ”
The little eunuch who delivered the decree looked at the ground with drooping eyelids, and said with a straight look: "The girl knows that she has a sloppy problem, so she should try her best to overcome this problem, instead of using this to shirk her errand!" How many people in the palace have dreamed of going to His Majesty to serve him, and there is no such blessing! ”
After saying that, the person left, only to jump around the forest in anger, angry: "Which one is this singing?" If you want to kill or chop, it's a pleasure for me, what kind of fun is this now! ”
"I'm afraid it's not good," Shen Yu said, "I'll accompany you." ”
There will be no shortage of people around the emperor, and even if there is a real shortage, it is impossible to hand over such an important errand as serving the decoction to a reckless little girl. This trap is set too obviously.
The difficulty is that the person who set up the trap here is the emperor of the dynasty, and even if the courtiers know that it is a dead end, sometimes they have to go over hard.
When the emperor saw Shen Yuli coming, he pulled down his face on the spot and sneered: "It's just that I asked you to borrow someone to make an envoy, and you are in a hurry to follow her, can I still do anything to her!" ”
Shen Yuli was not frightened, and saluted calmly: "Father and Emperor misunderstood his son." There is a lack of people in the palace, and it is natural to say that the father and the emperor only need a little girl, and it is natural for the son to come to serve. It's just that there are no rules around Lin Suri, so Erchen is not at ease, so he came to tell her a few words. ”
The emperor snorted coldly, looked at the top of the tent and said coldly: "Okay, now that you have finished instructing, retreat!" ”
Shen Yuli responded, and really didn't say anything more, and glanced at Huan Lin and retreated.
It made Lin angry and annoyed: "I didn't say a word at all, what is this 'instructing' me?" After a while, I accidentally smashed the medicine bowl, and you don't cry when you kill your head together! ”
Shen Yuli didn't know the little girl's complaints. After bidding farewell to the emperor, he went straight to the side hall and found the official who had come to serve the sick today.
Coincidentally, Prime Minister Wu Cheng and several of them are here.
As soon as Shen Yuli appeared, all the officials hurriedly surrounded him, gossiping and saying things such as "His Royal Highness King Qing is working hard to supervise the country", and told him some news reported from various places today.
Shen Yuli ignored those miscellaneous political affairs, and asked the first thing he said when he sat down: "Have you ever heard of the rumors in the palace yesterday?" ”
Several officials exchanged glances with each other, and Prime Minister Wu Cheng said: "The rumors in the palace are nothing more than such ambitious mediocre people making waves, and Your Highness doesn't have to take it to heart." When His Majesty summoned him this morning, he briefly mentioned that the ministers had already defended His Highness. His Majesty is not a person who cannot distinguish between good and evil, and he has already punished the eldest prince to kneel in front of the Taihe Palace. ”
Shen Yuli took the tea offered by the little eunuch and put it on the table casually, with a faint expression: "Whether my father believes it or not is my father's business, what do you think in your hearts?" ”
"Wait," Prime Minister Wu Cheng said hesitantly, "...... Naturally, the ministers did not believe it. His Royal Highness is pure filial piety and kindness, and it is impossible for him to do such an appalling thing as killing the king and killing his father! As for saying that the girl who went around the forest was a 'fairy lady', it was even more nonsense and not enough to worry about. ”
"Oh, nonsense!" Shen Yuli smiled lightly, "Since it is nonsense and not enough to worry about, how did she labor a few of your pillars of the country to make a statement to her father and ask her to come here to serve the decoction?" ”
Prime Minister Wu stood up in fright.
As soon as Shen Yuli smiled, his expression became a little cold: "Don't try to shirk denial." My father had always been tired of circling the forest, and he would not take the initiative to ask her to serve the decoction. Concubine Ye is the best at figuring out her father's intentions, and she will not do such a thing. You are the only ones who can do this kind of trick. ”
Several officials looked at each other, and after a while, Prime Minister Wu Cheng knelt down with the corner of his robe: "Your Highness, this matter is indeed proposed by Weichen to Your Majesty, in order to do your filial piety for Miss Lin in front of Your Majesty." The prejudice of the people's hearts has always been nothing more than speculation because they are not familiar with each other, but now Miss Lin is serving by His Majesty's side, and His Majesty will no longer be suspicious when he sees his loyalty and sincerity. ”
Shen Yuli asked in a cold voice: "It is harmless for Huanlin to serve well by her father's side, if she does not serve well and causes trouble, you naturally have the idea to let her bear it herself, and it will not affect the king, right?" ”
Prime Minister Wu hurriedly replied "yes", and said: "This is her duty as a servant." ”
Shen Yuli knocked on the corner of the table and sank his face: "Without the permission of this king, you calculated the people of this king, and this king thought that you were kind and did not care." But this king has something to say here: no matter what happens in the future, if there is a half-point mistake around the forest, this king will not rest with you! ”
"The ministers must be careful," Prime Minister Wu Cheng said busily, "Please rest assured, Your Highness, unless that girl around the forest is really a demon, there will be no mistakes!" ”
"It was better to do so." Shen Yuli flicked his sleeves and got up and walked out angrily.
Several officials in the side hall immediately gathered around Prime Minister Wu Cheng and asked in a low voice: "Why did you suddenly come to us to lose your temper?" Should he ...... See what, right? ”
Prime Minister Wu shook his head: "His temperament, if he really sees it, it won't be like this." He should just be reluctant to give up that girl, nothing else. ”
"That's fine," said one official, "I'm really afraid of ......."
He leaned into Prime Minister Wu's ear and lowered his voice: "I'm really afraid that we will underestimate his cleverness and raise tigers!" ”
Prime Minister Wu shook his head and also lowered his voice: "You overestimated him." Young people, you are angry at the crown, but also for your confidant, it is your own weak heart that you think too much. ”
Several officials laughed in unison and nodded to each other, tacitly.
At this time, Shen Yuli had already walked out of the door, summoned the commander of the guards and Xiao Anzi, and said bluntly: "You help me pay attention, try not to let Huanlin go around in front of my father and Ye Guifei these days, no matter who is looking for trouble around Lin, try to inform me as soon as possible!" ”
The commander of the guards immediately surrendered. Xiao Anzi comforted: "Just now I saw the concubine Niangniang teaching the forest to knock walnuts, and she looked happy, not like she wanted to ask for sin." ”
"But it looks like it's going to set a trap!" Shen Yuli said coldly.
Xiao Anzi realized that things were not simple, and he was busy and bowed down.
Shen Yuli thought about it for a while, and then instructed the commander of the guards: "Once ...... There was a change in the palace, and he immediately tried to take her away. If not, try to delay the time, and let no one hurt her! ”
The commander of the guards knew what this "change in the palace" meant, and his heart sank, and he hurriedly and solemnly responded.
Shen Yuli instructed the two of them, and then immediately turned around and hurried to the study.
Huan Lin accompanied Ye Guifei in the hall and smashed more than 20 walnuts, watching the eunuchs and palace maids go back and forth several times, but Shen Yuli never showed up again.
So she finally knew that she was indeed left here, and immediately felt aggrieved again, and the walnuts refused to be smashed, and she didn't want to talk to Ye Guifei when she talked to her.
After a while, a little eunuch slipped in from outside, walked to the emperor's bedside, and whispered something. The emperor did not answer, waved his hand and let him go.
This whispering in the ear has always been denied to a third person. But Huanlin is not human.
Her ears are so good that she can hear clearly.
- What the eunuch said was, "His Royal Highness has gone to the study, but he has not read, and he is chatting with Mrs. Zhao about the scientific examination of next spring, and he also asked his subordinates to make tea, and he did not plan to come back for about a while." ”
After hearing this, the emperor subconsciously raised his eyes and looked at Huan Lin, but there was no expression on his face.
He pretended not to hear anything on the surface of the forest, but secretly he was already so vigilant that goosebumps stood up, and he waited with bated breath for the guards to break through the window and rush in to get her.
Thankfully, it didn't.
This "luck" flashed through Huan Lin's mind, and then something more terrible happened than the guards breaking through the window: the emperor waved his hand to signal the eunuchs and palace maids to retreat, and then beckoned to her: "You come here." ”
"I don't!" Huan Lin immediately jumped up and retreated in horror, "You're going to kill me if I go over!" ”
"Around the forest!" Ye Guifei frowned and reprimanded, "Your Majesty has a call, you must not disobey!" ”
Standing around the forest against the wall, with a vigilant face: "It's not that I want to resist the order, but I want to save my life!" Yesterday I heard a rumor that I knew sorcery and wanted to harm His Majesty, and today I was inexplicably called to serve, and it's good that I don't make mistakes, but if I make a mistake, it doesn't prove the crime! ”
Ye Guifei looked helpless, as if she couldn't cry or laugh: "In this case, you just be careful not to make mistakes!" ”
"No, no," Huan Lin shook his head frantically, "You don't know, concubine, my luck is terrible!" Even if I think in my heart that I can't make mistakes, I can't make mistakes, and if I'm not careful, I will cause a lot of trouble! So for the sake of Your Majesty's safety and my little life, I must stay away from Your Majesty! I don't want to end up with a mouth full of words that I can't tell! ”
What she said was a big rebellion, but her expression was very innocent. Ye Guifei wanted to take the opportunity to scold her a few words, but she always felt that she was suspected of bullying children, which made her, who has always been cowardly and kind, unable to open her mouth.
So the situation froze for a while. Finally, the emperor said helplessly: "I just want to ask you a few words, if you really refuse to come, you can still sit and say." Don't stand by the wall and look pitiful, so that people see it and think I'm going to eat people! ”
Huan Lin smiled wryly, and sure enough, he slowly rubbed back against the wall, and sat down carefully at the table: "What does Your Majesty want to ask?" ”
"What the hell are you?" The emperor asked.
Huan Lin was frightened, remembering Shen Yuli's instructions a few days ago, he hurriedly straightened his face and said with a straight face: "I'm really not a demon, I'm just an ordinary person who is undisciplined!" ”
"Hmph," the emperor sneered in disbelief, squinted his eyes and thought for a long time, and then said, "I know that the fourth brother is not allowed to tell you the truth. But, little girl, you have to think clearly, I am the emperor, and the world is still mine! Although the fourth child can cover the sky with one hand, as long as I bite the death and refuse to pass on the throne to him, he will have no way at all......"
He said this in a hurry, and then coughed a little. Seeing this, Ye Guifei took over the conversation and continued: "So around the forest, are you willing to make a great contribution in front of today's son, or do you insist on following a prince with an uncertain future to the dark?" ”
Huan Lin crouched on the table, looking dazed: "I don't understand what Niangniang said...... Why is following His Highness a path to the dark? Is His Highness on a dead end? He didn't do anything bad, why did he get darker and darker? If he had walked well, but the road ahead suddenly became dark, could it be because it was dark? ”
When it comes to the ability to mess around, few people can compare to her little sparrow.
The emperor was so angry that his face turned pale, and he snorted for a while before he sneered again: "Hmph, he didn't do anything bad? Even if he didn't design it this time, he didn't mess around in it! He wants to kill the king and seize the throne, does he want to be the emperor? I'm telling you, he's dreaming! I have already arranged this matter in the court, if I die, he Shen Yulin will be guilty of killing the king! ”
"How can you ......" Huan Lin was frightened, swallowed the three words "so bad", and his eyes were red with grievance.
Ye Guifei patted her shoulder comfortingly and comforted, "Don't be afraid. His Majesty does not intend to harm His Royal Highness, but this matter is full of suspicions, and he really can't be less careful. You just need to tell the truth of the matter, even if His Royal Highness really makes a mistake, His Majesty still has room for tolerance, so that he will not be unable to turn around. ”
No matter how confused the forest is, it should be clear what is going on by this time.
The emperor and Ye Guifei sang and harmonized, forcing her to admit that she was a monster, that the stupid things that the Taoist priests did were all arranged by Shen Yuli, and that Shen Yuli deliberately killed his father and killed the monarch to seize the throne!
It's simply ...... Stinky and shameless!
Huan Lin couldn't figure out why the emperor did this, she only knew that she was very angry, very angry!
Angrily, he stood up around the forest, shook his sleeves and stomped his feet: "This is really a crime that you want to add, so why not!" Since you have already found His Highness guilty, why don't you just take him to Dali Temple for trial? You dare not try him because you know that the charge is false. Knowing that the charges are false, but trying every means to trick me into saying things and deceiving me into confessing to my guilt, this kind of stupid thing is done by bad people in the play, and the dignified emperor actually did such a thing! He's your son too, and he didn't pick it up! What's the benefit of you killing him? Waiting for your family to become the emperor and can't keep the country, this world has to be surnamed Chu and Han, don't think about being surnamed Shen anymore! ”
She has always been not afraid of heaven and earth when she scolds, but this time no one stopped her, which made her crackle and scold.
After she finished scolding, Ye Guifei looked at her and said, "You may feel wronged for your master, but there are no rootless rumors in the world!" If you really want the good of the Four Highnesses, tell the truth about the things you are hiding from others, whether it is what the Four Highnesses do in private, or you, the true identity! ”
Ye Guifei's image has always been cowardly and cowardly, although everyone knows that she is not simple, but it is only at this moment that Huanlin can see a bit of shrewdness and calculation on her face.
Laughed at her.
"You all treat me as stupid," Huan Lin gritted his teeth, "coax me to say stupid things, so that I can frame His Highness, and it can be said that the evidence is conclusive?" I'm not going to fall for you! My Highness is much better than you sinister villains! I can see clearly: no matter what I say or do today, it is useless, you have summoned me to force me to confess! I can only choose to plead guilty voluntarily or be forced to 'confess', right? ”
Ye Guifei sighed, lowered her head and did not answer, the emperor was already lying on the pillow and sneered: "Now you are smart, the fourth child really taught you well!" ”
During this time, Huanlin was indeed taught well by Shen Yuli, accompanying him to read and write, and listening to him talk about some inexplicable truths, and he was about to be forced to become half of his students.
So when she heard the emperor's "praise" at this time, she could already hear that it was not a good word, so she didn't get carried away, only bit the corner of her lip and secretly told herself to be careful of traps.
Seeing this, the emperor became even more angry, patted his pillow and shouted: "Since you insist on a hard mouth, I have fulfilled your loyalty!" - Xiao Anzi, take people to the violent room and torture them! ”
"Storm room?" Huan Lin was stunned for a moment.
She didn't seem to have heard of such a place, but she knew it wasn't good just by hearing the name.
The three words "I'm not going" were stuck in his throat, and then he looked at the guards who suddenly flashed out of the door window, and Huan Lin couldn't help but be very nervous.
Of course, with her ability, she can rush out and sneak out, and she can even hold the emperor or concubine hostage and walk sideways in this palace.
However, at this time, Shen Yuli was on the cusp. If she makes too much trouble, Shen Yuli will not be able to escape from the charge of "conspiracy to usurp the throne".
Being a human being is so annoying.
Huan Lin was complaining in his heart, Xiao Anzi had already walked in, and bowed: "Girl, please!" ”
The tone was very unkind, but Huan Lin remembered what Shen Yuli had instructed, and followed him honestly.
Outside the hall, it is even higher for the forest to fly. She just needs to burrow into a flower bush that no one is around, and hide in this palace at night, and let her run rampant.
Xiao Anzi probably saw her thoughts, and hurriedly stepped forward and whispered: "If you run away, Your Highness will not be able to explain clearly." Girl, relax, Your Highness has already made arrangements, and you won't be suffering! ”
General Lin glanced at him suspiciously, and saw that the little eunuch was indeed honest, so he had to suppress his desire to escape for the time being, and followed him to the unheard of "violent room" with fear.