Chapter 593: Tracing Back to the Roots
Helian Furou saw that the Queen Mother Helan Yan was speaking for Zhu Sheng and the Qian couple, and it was difficult to say anything.
Helan Yan smiled and asked Zhu Sheng and Qian: "Yuanzhi County just said that your husband and wife had adopted Gongliang Zhu'er before?" But this Gongliang is the daughter of the Pingxi Hou Mansion, and his status is noble, how could he be exiled to the people and adopted by you two farmers and peasant women in the border fields and countryside? ”
Qian replied with a smile: "The Queen Mother doesn't know anything. Somehow, the good boy lived in the folk since he was a child, and he has been taken care of by a midwife. She and her mother-in-law depended on each other, and she was exiled to the border fields, and the old and the young barely survived. Later, Granny Yin was ill and couldn't take care of her, so she asked someone to find the grass people. Don't hide the jokes of the queen mother, the grass people and their wives have been childless after marriage, so when they heard that there was a well-behaved girl in the hidden mother's house who wanted to come over, the grass people saw that the child was pitiful, and saw the hidden mother-in-law begging bitterly, and their hearts softened, so they took the child in. But who knows, this child is sweet and lovely on the outside, and looks well-behaved and obedient, but he is stubborn and stubborn in his heart, and he does not obey discipline at all. He often sneaks out to play while the grass people and his wife are farming, and only comes back when it gets dark at night. The grass people have persuaded many times, that child has the right to turn a deaf ear, and the inferiority is difficult to change! Although the grass people adopted Yu'er, they were not her biological mother after all, and they couldn't beat or scold her, and they persuaded her many times, but the child just didn't listen. The grass people thought that the child might have had a grudge against the grass people and his wife at that time. Later, once, the grass people took the girl to the city of Huai to catch the market, thinking about adding two new clothes to the child by the way, but if he was not careful, the child ran away without a trace, and the grass people searched for a long time but did not find it. Later, I heard someone in the city say that Fu'er was abducted by traffickers and taken to the famous Qin Tower in Huaicheng - Zuichun Tower. The grass people and their husbands had the intention of ransomed her, but they had not been able to scrape together enough money for her redemption. Later, I finally scraped together enough ransom, but the child escaped from Zuichun Building at some point. Perhaps it was because the child resented the grass people and the couple that they never returned. It was only now that the grass people heard that after Su'er escaped from Zuichun Tower, she was taken in by the king of Annan and entered the palace of Annan, and then became a personal maid in the palace, and then entered the palace and became the maid of the palace. Until now, she has risen to the top again, and with the identity of the daughter of the Hou Mansion, she has regained the favor of the emperor. ”
The Qian family pinched his head and removed the tail, deliberately concealed the news that was unfavorable to him, and instead deliberately compromised all the responsibility to the head of Gongliang Er. Instead, he whitewashed himself into a kind and benevolent person.
Zhu Sheng did not agree with the Qian family's use of exposing Gongliang's past in exchange for a reward. Now that Zhu Sheng heard that his daughter-in-law Qian deliberately covered up the bad deeds of the couple in front of the Queen Mother, he was even more reluctant to be honest and good.
But Qian's words have been exported, and there is no room for recovery. Zhu Sheng had to hang his head and acquiesce, not saying much.
The Queen Mother He Lanyan listened carefully to every word Qian said, and saw that Qian spoke quickly and neatly, but her eyes were a little erratic, knowing that her heart was bad and her purpose was not pure, I was afraid that she was deliberately covering up something, so she raised her eyebrows and threatened: "You should know that if you don't explain it to the mourning family truthfully, or you can hide it!" ”
Qian Shi fell to the ground again in a panic, and said in fear: "What the grass people say is true, and they definitely dare not be false!" If the Queen Mother doesn't believe it, you can ask the grass people about Zhu Sheng! ”
Qian pushed the pot onto Zhu Sheng.
Zhu Sheng had to cooperate with his daughter-in-law Qian's statement and nodded yes.
The Empress Dowager He Lanyan said suspiciously: "You are a husband and wife, of course you will speak for each other!" ”
Qian swore to the sky: "The grass people swear to the sky, what the grass people said today is not half deceiving, and everything is true!" ”
The Empress Dowager He Lanyan looked at the sworn appearance of the Qian family in front of her, shook her head and sighed: "Even if what you just said is true, how can you believe that the current Pingxi Hou Qianjin Gongliang is the orphan girl adopted by your couple in the past?" ”
Qian saw that the Empress Dowager He Lanyan had begun to believe her words, and then explained, "The grass people were not sure at first, but later I heard that the daughter of Pingxi Hou in the rumors had fallen into the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion and the fireworks in Willow Street, and the two had exactly the same name and were very similar in age, so the grass people thought, where in the world is there a person with such a similar life and name, so I dare to be sure that the girl adopted by the grass people before is the same person as the daughter of Pingxi Hou, Miss Gongliang!" ”
The Empress Dowager He Lanyan asked: "Since you are so sure, the girl you said is the same person as the current Gongliang Gong'er of the Pingxi Hou Mansion, then, the mourning family asks you, if you are allowed to meet the orphan girl you adopted in the past, can you still recognize it?" ”
Qian replied repeatedly: "Although the Queen Mother can rest assured, the grass people have adopted the child for a few years, not to mention that it has only been a few years, even if it is another ten or twenty years, the grass people will also recognize the appearance of the child!" ”
Qian assured the Queen Mother vigorously, but Zhu Sheng on the side sweated for his daughter-in-law Qian who loved to talk big.
"Good! Since you have said so, then the mourning family will believe you first! Let the two of you go back and listen to the letter. If the mourning family is in need, they will naturally send you into the palace to testify. After the Queen Mother He Lanyan finished speaking, she ordered Mama Xing in the Jiaoyang Palace to take Zhu Sheng and the Qian family down.
The Queen Mother said to Yuan Yi, the magistrate of Zerong County: "Yuan Yi, you did a good job this time!" If you can really confirm the identity of Gongliang Er'er through these two witnesses this time, then you will definitely be indispensable. The mourning family will naturally reward you heavily, and it will not be difficult to become an official in the future. ”
When Yuan heard this, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed down to thank the Queen Mother He Lanyan.
After that, the Empress Dowager He Lanyan instructed the eunuch to send Yuan Yi and Zhu Sheng back to the county government of Zerong County.
After Helian Furou saw Yuan Yi and Zhu Sheng and his wife leaving, she asked He Lanyan: "Does the Queen Mother really believe what Zhu Sheng and his wife said?" Fu Rou saw that Qian Shi's eyebrows fluttered when she spoke, and her eyes fluttered, she was definitely not the kind person she said she said. Fu Rou felt that she couldn't believe how much water she had mixed in and how many branches and leaves she had added! ”
Helan Yan smiled: "How much water she added, how many branches and leaves she added, these mourners don't care. As long as their existence can prove the falsification of Gongliang'er's life experience, and can make the emperor wake up and stay away from Gongliang'er, then it will be a problem for the mourning family. ”
He Lanyan never wanted to verify the truth of what Zhu Sheng and Qian said. For Helan Yan, as long as someone is willing to jump out to expose Gongliang'er's life experience, as long as Gongliang'er's unbearable past can be confirmed, and as long as he can get rid of a scourge for the emperor as soon as possible, then whoever is used as a witness is the same.
"But what if the two of them recognize the wrong person, and Gongliang is not the child they once adopted?" Helian Floru couldn't help but ask.
"It's not simple, the gossip confuses the public, correct the Fa on the spot, pull it out and cut off the head." The Queen Mother He Lanyan said ruthlessly.