Chapter VIII: Complaints
At this time, in the Jinyang Palace, chickens and dogs were jumping, and there was a lot of commotion.
Li Liang, the king of Qin, knelt on the ground and tore his clothes and hats messily, while pushing away the group of palace maids and eunuchs who tried to dissuade him, he kept grabbing the ground with his head, shouting with tears, "The prince is acting like this, he wants to put my royal majesty somewhere!" β
Immediately afterwards, he began to talk loudly in public about Yun Niang's erotic past with a group of prostitutes, and when he was frightened, a group of palace maids and eunuchs knelt on the ground, and they also kowtowed violently, crying and begging King Qin to stop and spare their lives.
When Empress Changle arrived in a hurry, she saw such a scene: King Qin was full of indignation, and he was full of spittle. The palace people were pale, and their bodies were shaky with fright.
"Ridiculous!"
Queen Changle listened to her son's foul language, and angrily stepped forward and slapped her son first.
Li Liang's eyes widened, and when he saw that his mother was coming, he immediately changed his howl to crying, and sat on his knees in a decadent voice and said, "Queen Mother, it's not the son-in-law who is ridiculous, it's the imperial brother!" β
He wiped his tears and complained, "The son got the news that the imperial brother fell in love with a dusty woman a few days ago and wanted to be accepted as a concubine, but he was afraid that his father and queen mother would be blamed if he found out, so he designed to send her to Xie Mansion first to ask Xie Xiang to recognize him as an adopted daughter, and then marry into the East Palace...... Now that the woman has entered the Xie Mansion, she has begun to prepare her wedding dress! β
Li Liang whined and cried, "On the way to the palace, I heard the people on the street talking, saying that the prince is going to accept a woman as a concubine, and in the future, the mother of my Qi country will be a prostitute......"
Sensing the loss of his words, he hurriedly stopped his mouth, silent and did not dare to pronounce the last note.
However, it is enough.
The blood on the queen's face instantly receded, becoming extremely blue, and the fists in her sleeves began to clench unconsciously, until the knuckles turned white, and the tips of the nails were pinched into the palms.
"You, say, what?" She stared at Li Liang fiercely, as if she was going to eat him alive, and repeated the question word by word.
It was the first time for Li Liang to see his mother so angry, Rao was not the one who made the mistake, and he couldn't help but panic for a while, and when he was wandering and didn't know whether to repeat it, Yu Guang suddenly caught a glimpse of Li Ronghe who was standing on one side with his eyebrows lowered.
Li Liang's conscience was overjoyed, and he hurriedly pointed at Li Ronghe and said hurriedly, "If the queen mother doesn't believe it, you can ask Ronghe first, and then you will know if the imperial brother really sent a woman named Yun Niang to the Xie Mansion." β
The queen immediately turned her head and looked at her most beloved granddaughter in front of her, her eyes flashing with the last hope, expecting to get a denial.
And her disappointment was quickly dashed.
She saw Li Ronghe kneeling straight down and kowtowing to the ground.
She heard Li Ronghe's voice come into her ears and said, "Imperial Grandmother, Ronghe can explain this matter to you." β
Empress Changle only felt that a thunderbolt suddenly struck her in the blue sky and daylight, hitting the center of her chest.
What more to explain.
How else is it going to be explained?
The queen looked at the girl in front of her in pain, and her voice trembled with anger, "Okay, good! Is this the surprise you have to give me? β
She gasped heavily, raised her hands to her chest, and her body staggered. Under the urgency of attacking, his steps were also unstable, and he couldn't help but take a few steps backwards.
The attendant eunuch hurriedly bowed forward, trying to hold the queen up.
", I'm not dead yet! No need for support! β
The queen pushed him away with hatred in her eyes.
Li Ronghe's explanation that was about to open his mouth was interrupted by this terrifying anger, and he could only continue to kneel quietly, hanging his head and not daring to say more.
And the angry queen naturally didn't want to listen to her defense, and only asked her subordinates, "What about Li Yong?" Call me the rebel at once! β
The eunuchs were busy making promises, and the small broken steps ran out.
The queen held on to several dragon pillars in the main hall and stumbled to the dragon chair in front of her and sat down.
The wait was long and painful.
The queen was under pressure, and the people kneeling on the ground were so frightened that they didn't dare to raise their heads, let alone get up, so they could only endure the pain in their knees, silently hoping that the prince would come soon.
The atmosphere is oppressive, freezing time, and even the air is still. It wasn't until the eunuch's shrill voice finally sounded in the silent Jinyang Palace that time seemed to suddenly come back to his senses and breathe again.
The person who came was not the crown prince Li Yong, but the emperor and Li Jin, the king of Shu.
At this moment, the queen's mood had calmed down a little, and the iron blue slowly faded on her face, but it was still pale. Seeing the emperor walk in, he got up and was about to salute.
Emperor Yongping hurriedly walked a few steps and held her up, and said distressedly, "Why are you so angry." β
Empress Changle's nose was sour for an instant, and she almost burst into tears, and said in a trembling voice, "The family is unfortunate!" β
The emperor pulled her to sit with her, and asked with a straight face, "What about the prince?" Does it take that long for Donggong to walk here? β
Li Jin hurriedly knelt on the ground, "Father, don't be impatient." When the son came, he happened to meet Gonggong Chen from the East Palace to Xie's Mansion, and he wanted to come to the Emperor's Mansion in Xie Xiang's Mansion. β
When his words fell, the air pressure in the hall instantly sank a little more.
Li Jin pretended to be speechless, lowered his head, and covered his eyes: his east wind had already blown, and now he just had to wait for the fire to ignite.
Anger began to grow slowly in silence.
The longer the people in Jinyang Palace waited, the more depressed their emotions became.
Li Jin tasted a hint of the pleasure of a successful plan in this depression.
At some point, he even began to look forward to some accident to the crown prince, and then it would come laterβthe emperor's tolerance would be reduced to the lowest in waiting, and perhaps he might just be deposed.
And as he wished, the prince on the other side did not go fast.
Even the summoned eunuch and Yuanshou Yuanyi who followed behind him were already so frightened that they began to tremble, but he was still unhurried.
In the end, Li Yong, who was finally standing at the gate of Jinyang Palace, went through the lines one last time in his heart, and then raised his head and chest, with a gangster spirit who was about to go down the mountain to block the road and rob, and waved his hand excitedly, "Let's go!" β
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As Li Yong stepped forward, the people in the hall quickly got an unexpected response.
"Father! Queen mother! My son is wrongedβ"
Before the person arrived, the sound had arrived.
Li Yong's heart-rending cry instantly resounded throughout the entire Jinyang Palace, and its sound was no less than the sound made by Li Liang, the king of Qin, when he promoted Yun Niang's past erotic history.
Even if the Yulin Army on duty outside the Jinyang Palace pricked up his ears and listened carefully at this time, he could discern the great grievances conveyed in this voice, which really made the listeners sad and the listeners wept.
Therefore, the emperor and queen sitting in the palace were really startled, and the two princes kneeling under the palace were also shocked.
No one knows better than a few people in this palace: Li Yong has been stubborn and perverse since he was a child, and he has been beaten and scolded by the emperor a lot for this, and punishment for kneeling is even more common for him.
But he always compares himself to a ranger, only sheds blood and not tears, and would rather be beaten than show weakness. It was because they had never seen the sensible prince cry even once.
Could it be that there is really something wrong with this time?
The idea entered everyone's minds almost at the same time.
This time, even Li Liang, who was originally holding the chance to win, began to weaken his knees a little and couldn't kneel.