As soon as she heard that it was the emperor's decree, Zhang Yan immediately announced it.

The door opened, and Liu Mingguo walked in slowly, "The emperor's message!" ”

Liu Mingguo came from the mandate of heaven, even the queen had to make a gesture, and Mrs. Taikang didn't have to say it, so she quickly knelt down. But without waiting for Zhang Yan to kneel, Liu Mingguo said with a smile: "The queen is pregnant with a dragon species, and there are no outsiders here, so if you can avoid it, you can avoid it." ”

Subsequently, he preached, "The emperor said, because the queen is pregnant, the queen is specially allowed to recruit two old personal maids into the palace to serve." ”

"Thank you, Lord Longen, long live my emperor, long live, long live."

After reciting the message, the queen and the old lady thanked each other repeatedly, and then it was Liu Mingguo's turn to kneel down to the queen to say goodbye.

At this time, Mrs. Taikang said: "Empress, Your Majesty really loves you, and the holy favor is great, and your brother's affairs are ......."

Zhang Yan didn't reply to her mother immediately, she wondered in her heart, she didn't understand why the emperor would be so careful, and suddenly passed such an edict. Let Liu Mingguo get up, and then ask: "Gonggong Liu, do you know why the emperor gave this edict?" ”

"This ...... The slave and maid are not very clear, but when His Majesty gave this message, Lord Yue was present, and the two of them said a lot before, and I don't know if it has anything to do with it. Liu Mingguo replied cautiously.

Zhang Yan nodded, personally went to the dresser on the side and took out a silver ingot, handed it to Liu Mingguo, and said softly: "Go down." ”

"The queen's reward, how dare the slave and maid accept it." Liu Mingguo excused himself.

"If you take it, you will take it." After Zhang Yan finished speaking, she made a gesture, Liu Mingguo took the silver and hurriedly retreated.

Zhang Yan helped her mother sit down, thinking to herself, "Yue Su is acting above board, and his private pleas will be fruitless, and it is even more inappropriate to ask the emperor to force Yue Su, and now I have won his favor, what should I do?" ”

After all, Zhang Zhongxin is his own brother, so he has to think of a way. After weighing it for a long time, Zhang Yan finally made up her mind. He said softly: "Brother's matter, I will tell the emperor that as long as it is not a life lawsuit, I guarantee that there is no worries, mother, you can rest assured." ”

"If you come forward to tell the emperor, then I will rest assured." Seeing that her daughter agreed, the old lady's nervous heart finally let go, but he then said: "Your brother was bullied, if we don't give the Shuntianfu a few colors to see, who will still put you as the queen in the future." I think you'd better ask for a holy decree and give that bullshit Mansion Yin to eight pieces. ”

Seeing that her mother had to make inches, Zhang Yan couldn't fight directly, and said gently: "My daughter will ask the emperor to reclaim it, but I don't know how the emperor will make a holy decision." Then, she changed her words and said: "Your Majesty allowed me to recruit two old maids into the palace to serve, Wen Jin and Wen Xiu, two girls who used to follow me, I don't know if they are still in the mansion now?" I still think about them all the time. ”

"It's a coincidence, since you entered the palace, Wen Jin and Wen Xiu have been following me, and now they are waiting outside the palace with me." The old lady said.

"That's the best, let them both in. I don't know what they've become now. After Zhang Yan finished speaking, she immediately met the two girls.

In a moment, the two maids who entered the palace with Mrs. Taikang entered the palace, first knelt down to Zhang Yan to say goodbye, Zhang Yan immediately asked the two to get up, beckoned to his side, and asked: "Just now the emperor has decreed that I will summon two personal maids into the palace to accompany me, I often miss you two, I don't know if you are willing to stay with me." ”

Wen Jin and Wen Xiu grew up with Zhang Yan, and the three of them are like sisters, and since Zhang Yan entered the palace, they have also been very concerned. Especially in the past year, the son-in-law Zhang Zhongxin has always been careless and frivolous with them, and the second daughter is angry in her heart, but she doesn't dare to speak up. The old lady is still spoiled, but it is estimated that it will not be long before she escapes the clutches of the son. Now listening to Zhang Yan's invitation to stay in the palace, thinking of the friendship of childhood and the scoundrel of the son-in-law, there is nothing to hesitate, and he hurriedly knelt on the ground, "Queen Mother, we are willing." ”

At that moment, Zhang Yan asked Gong'e to take her second daughter to change clothes, and she accompanied her mother to gossip and talk about parting. After chatting for an hour, the old lady took her leave. When parting, he did not forget to tell his daughter that she must remember her brother.

Zhang Yan didn't let Wen Jin and Wen Xiu go to see off their mother, leaving the two of them to wait, just now that their backs are sore, so they asked Wen Jin to help rub them. The person who was in charge of sending his mother was replaced by Luo'er, who had just pressed his waist for himself.

When her mother left, Zhang Yan asked about the situation at home and her brother's behavior, and the two girls did not hide it, and told Zhang Zhongxin about his rampant affairs as it was. After hearing this, Zhang Yan couldn't help but be furious in her heart, but after all, it was her brother, and she hated it, and she couldn't ignore his life or death. So I asked why my brother was arrested, but the two girls really didn't know this.

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In the evening, after Zhu Youxiao was busy, he rushed to Kunning Palace. As soon as I entered the queen's bedroom, I couldn't help but wonder when I saw the palace maid with a fresh face. Zhang Yan immediately explained that her mother came today, and when she left, she left the old maid, and she had to thank the emperor in person.

Zhu Youxiao saw Concubine Ai smiling, knowing that she was happy, and he was also happy. He didn't hide it, and gave the credit to Yue Su, saying that it was his proposal. Zhang Yan knew it in her heart, and after talking to the emperor, she went to bed with the emperor in a wide robe.

The pillow wind is known as a killer weapon for women to deal with men, almost all women have tried and failed, and of course Zhang Yan knows it. got into bed and said a few words of self-conscious Hu, Zhang Yan changed the conversation, "Your Majesty, when the mother of the concubine entered the palace, she said that my brother had violated the royal law and was taken by the Shuntian Mansion, but I don't know what happened. The concubine has heard that Lord Yue is clear, and she will never be arrested for no reason, and there must be a reason for it. Therefore, I want to ask Your Majesty to help ask what my brother has committed, this is not that the concubine intends to intercede for him, but I want to ask Your Majesty to punish him severely. ”

"Uncle Guo was taken by Yue Su? Bai said, why didn't I hear him mention it......" As soon as he said this, Zhu Youxiao immediately remembered the story told by Yue Su, and said: "I remember, when Yue Su asked to see him during the day, he said that he encountered a case of pretending to be an uncle and molesting his maid, and I also asked him to punish him severely." Could it be that the man is not a fake uncle, but a real uncle? ”

Hearing what Carpenter Zhu said, Zhang Yan immediately understood, this Yue Su is also smart, presumably because he was afraid that I would sue him for his black state, and he would tell His Majesty about the situation in advance, but he only said that he didn't know that he was Uncle Guo, so that people couldn't get his shortcomings. But Lord Yue, you really underestimate me Zhang Yan, you are the pillar of the country, how can I embarrass you because of this.

Then he said softly: "Then I think it's because my brother is worried about insulting the lintel, so he doesn't dare to report himself, so it's okay, Lord Yue's law enforcement is like a mountain, and the verdict is fair." His Majesty only did not mention it as a concubine, and after the province was made public, he lost the dignity of the court. This trick is called retreat as advance.

Sure enough, I heard Zhu Youxiao say with emotion: "Concubine Ai is really thoughtful, everything is considered for my country, I don't know about it, now that I know, I can't let Uncle Guo suffer in prison." In this way, I Ming said to Yue Su and asked him to let your brother go. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for loving your concubine." Zhang Yan said softly: "But Yue Su has always been upright, if he is acquitted just because his brother is the uncle of the country, it is really unfair, and the courtiers know it, but they are afraid that they will be impeached again." The concubine thought that it was best to let his brother suffer some hardships, lest after he was released, he would still rely on his status as an uncle and be lawless, and let down His Majesty's Longen. ”

"Aiqing......" Zhu Youxiao took Zhang Yan's hand, held it tightly, and said with some emotion: "It's still the queen who thinks about me and has no selfish intentions, and she really deserves the four words of her mother's honor in the world." Then you say, how do I get out of order to be decent? ”

"The concubine thinks that it is not the following decree to reward my brother with some court rods, so that he can remember his surname for a long time, and he should not act nonsense in the future. Then punish him for thinking about it behind closed doors for a while, and say that he should cultivate himself and cultivate his surname at home. "No matter how you say it, it's my own brother, I can't bear to see him in prison, not to mention my mother's tears, no matter what, I have to help. Doing so not only gives you Yue Su's face, but also loses the face of the court, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone. The only thing that was lost was the face of the Zhang family, but it won the emperor's pity, and the gains outweighed the losses.

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "Aiqing's proposal is fair, so let's do it." ”

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The next time the early dynasty was dispersed, Zhu Youxiao asked the celebrant to draft the decree according to Zhang Yan's intentions, and then asked Liu Mingguo to take people to pass the decree. In addition to the accompanying eunuchs, there were also two forbidden soldiers in charge of the court staff. However, the emperor still had an instruct to let him call someone from the Guozhang Mansion to pick up his son along the way.

This was originally a piece of good intentions, but I was afraid that after Zhang Zhongxin was beaten, the person who sent him back would not be careful, and Zhang Zhongxin would be left with sequelae or something. But when Mrs. Taikang heard that she wanted to follow the eunuch to Shuntian Mansion, she thought that in addition to picking up her son, she would severely punish Yue Su at the same time, she was really happy, so she deliberately changed into a new set of clothes, called Zhang Fu and Zhang Shou, who were beaten yesterday, and led more than a dozen servants to Shuntian Mansion together.

When he arrived at the yamen, Yue Su heard that the holy decree had arrived, and hurriedly opened the middle door to greet him and invited Liu Mingguo to the main hall. Originally, before he went out, he had already expected that the will was about Uncle Guo, and when he saw Zhang Fu and Zhang Shou, he was even more certain.

Don't look at Zhang Fu and Zhang Shou yesterday said that they ate the board, and today they said that they came with the old lady, the momentum is completely different, they hold their heads up, show off their might, and look like they want to see Yue Su eat deflated. The old lady was even more so, her eyes glared at Yue Su fiercely, as if she wanted to eat Yue Su in one bite.

When they arrived at the main hall, everyone knelt down together, and Liu Mingguo read out the holy decree. "Fengtian carrier, the emperor said: Uncle Zhang Zhongxin, you are a relative, not grateful, but pampered and arrogant, in broad daylight, molesting the people's daughters, insulting the national body. Considering his first offense, which did not lead to evil results, and he had a heart of remorse, he was given a light decree, and he was given forty rods, and he was ordered to think about it behind closed doors for a year. I hope that he will be deeply repentant and reformed. If evil thoughts are regenerated, they will be punished as bullying the king. Chin this! ”

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live...... "Long live my emperor" After the holy decree was read, everyone shouted long live, and then they stood up.

Liu Mingguo walked up to Yue Su and said, "Lord Yue, this is the emperor's will, I hope you will hand over the proposal to the little one." ”

Handing over the person, Yue Su had expected this, but he didn't expect to reward Zhang Zhongxin with a staff. Not to mention him, the people of the Zhang family didn't expect that the punishment of Yue Su in this will was not mentioned, and his young master also dropped forty court rods. The old lady hurriedly ran to Liu Mingguo's side and asked, "Father-in-law Liu, are you right?" ”