144. Farce in prison
The eldest grandson Tai's eyes were like copper bells, and he slapped the rough fence with both hands, and roared angrily: "Queen? What a queen! Where is the Queen? I only know that the queen of Da Chu is the daughter of my eldest grandson Tai, eldest grandson Lingfang! Anyone else is not qualified to call himself a queen in front of me! ”
"Sir!" Fan's voice came from next door, "Forget it, Zhiying is also your daughter, and she is also the daughter you watched grow up!" ”
The eldest grandson Tai was full of backbone and had no intention of giving in: "Shut up!" I don't have such an unfaithful and unfilial daughter! ”
Fan threw himself into the corner of the cell and looked at his daughter with a sad face: "Zhiying, you can pity your poor father, your father is just angry for a while, how much he loved you in the past, you won't remember it, right?" ”
Zhiying turned half a little in the chair: "Mother." ”
Fan hurriedly agreed: "Hey! Zhiying, my mother is sorry for you, and my mother has no choice! You and Ling Fang are both mother's daughters, and the palms and backs of your hands are full of meat, and your mother doesn't want to! ”
Although the words of apology are not worth a penny, it is better to hear them than not to hear them, and Zhiying nodded: "I know." ”
Fan begged: "Mother beg, forgive mother, forgive your father!" ”
Zhiying looked at her expressionlessly: "Mother, where did the first emperor go?" ”
Fan choked, and before he could speak, Changsun Tai roared angrily: "Don't tell her!" Ignorant woman, do you want to put me in the land of unfaithfulness and unrighteousness? ”
"I know, I know!" Before Fan could speak, Guo on the side hurriedly squeezed over, and couldn't wait to say, "The emperor fled to the southwest!" ”
Zhiying smiled with satisfaction: "Very good, do you know where they are going?" ”
Guo Shi hurriedly said: "The folk woman is not very clear, but the folk woman has heard the forbidden army escorting the first emperor mention the names of Gui County, Wen County and other places, so she should have gone over there!" ”
Guixian and Wenxian are all in Qinzhou, Qin Zhoumu's sister was the sister-in-law of the Queen Mother's mother's family before her death, and it is reasonable for Cui Jie to flee there to ask for help. Zhiying praised Guo's cooperation: "My aunt is a smart person, although you were sorry for me at the beginning, but you also helped me indirectly, we are not to blame in the past, you confessed the whereabouts of the tyrant today, which can be regarded as a credit, and I will give you a good house for your mother and son, and An Ansheng will live this life." ”
Guo Shi hurriedly kowtowed and thanked: "Thank you, Queen Mother!" Thank you, Queen! ”
The eldest grandson Tai was almost blown up, he wanted to keep Cui Jie's whereabouts as a handle, first put up the shelves of loyal ministers, leave a clear note for future generations, and then use the information he has to exchange with Cui Yi. No matter what happens, his eldest grandson Tai is always Zhiying's father, the undoubted national abbot, Cui Yi cares about his reputation, and he will not be too embarrassed by him, maybe he can still make him a prince, maybe he can be promoted!
But his wishful thinking was in vain, Guo Shi betrayed him without hesitation, Changsun Tai was so angry that his brain was bruised, and his fingers trembled at her: "You-you, you!" ”
Guo Shi was taken out of the cell and looked at him contemptuously: "Master, I have been with you for seventeen years, have you ever really cared for me and Pei'er?" You only have two daughters in your eyes, only the queen's throne and only the glory of the country! Now that you are willing to be a loyal minister of the high wind and bright festival, please forgive the concubine for not being accompanied. ”
Changsun Tai was so angry that his eyes turned black, and he jumped to his feet and scolded: "Slut! ”
Guo Shi smiled: "The master is confused, the concubine was born in a prostitute family, and she was originally a slut." ”
The eldest grandson Tai was so angry that he couldn't say a word, so he had to watch her being taken away.
Seeing that Guo Shi went out first, Fan Shi was not calm at all, and shouted while desperately stretching out his hand: "Hold Ying!" You can't die for your mother! My mother conceived and gave birth to you in October, and I have worked hard to raise you for more than ten years, how can you watch your mother die in prison! Hold Profit! ”
Holding Ying's eyebrows frowned slightly, feeling nauseous. It is said that the grace of birth and nurturing is greater than the sky, but when your parents raised you only for the sake of wealth and wealth in the future, and the authorities did not hesitate to ruin your life only for themselves, and in the end you became a prisoner, but they want to use the grace of birth and nurturing to blackmail you, except for disgust, there is really no better word to describe the feeling at this moment.
"Mother, since you said that I was born and raised by you with hard work, I don't want to deny it, I already know the whereabouts of the first emperor, and I still have one thing I haven't figured out, as long as you answer me truthfully, I will let you out."
Fan nodded hurriedly, and agreed: "You ask, you ask, you ask, as long as my mother knows, tell you, tell you!" ”
Zhiying's eyes were calm, but in her heart was the angry sea, the waves crashing on the shore, what she had always wanted to know, and finally had the opportunity to ask clearly.
She slowly said: "Lingfang's two children ......"
Fan's face turned pale in an instant.
“…… Who's it for, exactly? ”
Cui Jie told her in the soup pool that day that the eldest grandson Lingfang's two children were not her own, but Zhong Wei's, and she couldn't say that she didn't believe it at all, after all, with her understanding of Cui Jie, it was impossible for her to have children as his queen; But Cui Jie is not friend or foe after all, and he can't believe all what he says, as the person who brought the adulterer into the palace, Fan must know the truth, and in order to save his life, he will definitely say it.
It's just that before Fan Shi could think about whether to say it or not, Changsun Tai became angry first, and he slammed the cell door in pain, spitting stars flying wildly: "You-you brute!" Now you still have to touch your own sister, you are simply not as good as a beast! ”
Zhiying smiled slightly and looked at him: "I have won awards and awards, I learned from you, didn't I?" ”
The eldest grandson's eyes burst out, and he wanted to scold again, but Fan cried: "Master! Don't say it anymore, what's the point of hiding it now! ”
Eldest Sun Tai gasped: "What do you mean by that?" Ling Fang...... Kid ......"
Yo, it turns out that Dad really doesn't know? Zhiying suddenly wanted to laugh.
Fan slowly sat down on the ground, burst into tears and said: "Zhiying, it's all come to this point, and my mother won't hide it from you, Lingfang's child who died in the winter before last...... Not the emperor's. ”
When Changsun Tai heard the truth of this landslide and earth cracking, he crushed on the spot.
"So that's really the case...... Zhi Ying let out a long breath, it seems that Cui Jie didn't lie, so the eldest grandson's family was thrown on the middle of the road and was arrested, most of it was also deliberately done by him.
Fan mourned and cried: "My mother knows that this is wrong, it is a bully, and she wants to kill her head, but ...... But a queen without an heir, how long can she be beautiful! Zhiying, you are also a wife, you should also understand, when Emperor Jingzong was in power, you couldn't give birth to a son, so he had to set up another concubine for King Wu, and you were also a person from here! ”
Zhiying only felt unspeakably ridiculous, and was powerless to refute her.
"Your father was bent on cultivating you to be the crown princess, and she was ...... and Shuji are in love, your father originally planned to wait for Lingfang to grow up again, and then allow them to get married, if it wasn't for Guo's slut who calculated you, how could there be so many things later? All of this was harmed by that slut of the Guo family, she caused you to leave your homeland, and caused our family to turn against each other, she was the one who harmed you! ”
"Because you married King Wu, the prince has always distrusted our family, and later became the emperor, and even more snubbed Ling Fang, seeing that the harem concubines had children one by one, but your sister suffered from loneliness, she is so pitiful, don't you have responsibility?"
Zhiying interrupted indifferently: "Don't think that I will be moved by guilt when I say this, I just need to listen to what happened." ”
Fan's expression was a little Ai Ai, and he paused before continuing: "In October of that year, King Wu planned the assassination of the palace......
Zhi Ying stood up violently: "Who planned it?" Mother, you really can't be a fool when you think of your daughter, at this juncture, you still spend your mind on reversing black and white and shirking responsibility, I don't think you really want to figure it out. ”
Fan was taken aback and hurriedly said, "No, no, no, yes...... It was planned by your father and the prince together, and at that time, your father knew that the prince was guarding against our family and did not dare to let Ling Fang give birth to a child, so after you left, the emperor ...... Every time the first emperor stayed in Yaohua Palace, Lingfang didn't dare to eat the things sent by the imperial dining room the next day...... When I went to the palace, it was called a visit, but in fact, it was ...... Actually......"
Zhiying couldn't listen anymore, and turned her head irritably: "Enough! ”
"Yes, yes......" Fan wiped a handful of sweat and skipped this dirty, "Later, your sister became pregnant, and at first I didn't know whose it was, I just hoped that it was the emperor, but then the child was born, but there was a small black mole on the left cheek, which was exactly the same as Shuji's, Ling Fang...... As soon as she saw the child, she fainted......"
Later, the imperial doctor said that Ling Fang had lost too much blood and was afraid that she would not be able to have children in the future, and then the child died again...... We can't help it, your father thinks that you and Lingfang are sisters of the same mother, and they have been in good relationships since childhood, and they won't watch their sister lose power and be bullied, plus you don't have a good time with King Wu, if you can enter the palace, at least you don't have to worry about food and clothing, even if you only do a little Zhaoyi, it's better than being in Yanzhou! ”
At this point, Zhiying couldn't bear it anymore, and slapped the chair deputy hard: "Come on, take it out." ”
Fan was honestly dragged out, and before leaving the prison door, she turned her head back, and Zhiying found that there was still a person in the cell, and she thought it was her brother-in-law Tang, but after the jailer dragged the person from the corner of the cell, she saw that the face with a dull expression was actually her sister eldest grandson Lingfang.
Cui Jie actually abandoned his wife and hair?! Zhiying looked at her depressed sister, remembering that the scene just now happened in front of her eyes, and their mother Fan, in order to protect herself, even did not hesitate to tell her daughter about adultery in front of Dai Ping and a jailer, and couldn't help but feel even more chilled.
The abandonment of the husband and the betrayal of the relatives...... All this was a blow to the eldest grandson Lingfang, and it was even far better than what happened to him back then. Zhiying hated her, but after all, she felt sorry for her, so she got up from her chair, bent down into the cell, and squatted down in front of her sister.
The queen who was once glorious in the past is now a prisoner, her gray prison clothes wrap her thin body, her originally beautiful long hair is also unkempt like a chicken nest, there are countless small scratches on her hands and feet, and there are even blood stains on her feet.
The eldest grandson, Lingfang, lost her eyes and sat on the ground with her knees in her hands, not reacting to her arrival.
"Lingfang," Zhiying took her hand, "have you ever regretted it?" ”
The eldest grandson Lingfang's hand trembled, pulled back, hugged himself even tighter, buried half of his face between his knees, and let out a whimper.
Zhiying gently stroked her messy hair and said: "The matter between you and Zhong Wei is that I am sorry for you, the suffering you have suffered, originally, should have been borne by me, I knew that there was an abyss of bitterness in front of me, but I still pushed you in." ”
The eldest grandson Lingfang did not dodge or dodge, her eyes gradually moistened, and tears one by two, converging into strands and flowing down her dirty cheeks.
"I know you hate me too, just as I hate you," Zhiying wiped away her tears with a handkerchief, "I knew from the beginning that our family would not end well, and it was you or me who entered the palace at that time, Cui Jie is such a person, even his own mother is guarded, and he is even more destined not to be sincere to the person next to him. ”
The eldest grandson Lingfang let out a "wow", threw herself into her arms and cried loudly, holding Ying hugged her tightly, listening to her miserable call for her sister, she was extremely distressed, constantly caressing her bony back, whispering comfort, just like she used to do many years ago when they were still close sisters.