Chapter 028: Into the Heavenly Prison
Meng Qing was taken directly to Ci'an Palace by the guards, and when he looked up, he saw that all the people in the house were really there, the queen mother, the emperor, the four concubines and the little masters of each palace, it seems that this is going to be tried in three halls.
She broke free from the guards' restraints, and despite the hot pain of her legs being dragged on the ground, she still stood firm and did not fall behind.
She looked at the two people above and said, "The concubine please be safe for the emperor, please be safe for the queen mother." β
The Queen Mother's hand with long armor suddenly shook: "Presumptuous! The sinful body does not kneel down! β
Meng Qing stood straight, his eyes were arrogant: "Dare to ask the Queen Mother, what crime did the concubine commit?" β
Xiao Yiheng frowned, his thin lips pursed, and although he was angry in the court, he still held back a little anger from being locked out of the door by her last night.
"You went out of the palace for a private meeting, messed up the palace, and dared to be hard-mouthed? Do you dare to deny this garment? The Queen Mother said angrily.
Yi Mo knelt a few steps forward: "Queen Mother, you misunderstood, the Queen Mother has no private meeting, the slave maid can testify, the slave maid has not left an inchββ"
Father-in-law Quan suddenly kicked out, right in Yimo's chest: "Dead minion, you have to intervene!" β
Mengqing wanted to pick it up, but it was a step too late, and she glared at her father-in-law fiercely, who dared to hit her? She's not done with this account!
"The concubine just left the palace without permission, and as for the private meeting, it was made out of nothing!"
"Bring people in!" The Queen Mother commanded.
Immediately, a lean-looking man was dragged in, with a pink face and sunken cheeks, and he looked bad all day long.
was let go and knelt down and kowtowed: "The queen mother spares her life, the emperor spares her life, the villain is greedy for money for a while, so he ...... Moreover, the villain doesn't know that she is the queen's mother, please spare the queen mother! β
Xiao Yiheng finally opened his mouth, and his voice was majestic: "How did you contact her?" β
The man glanced at Meng lightly timidly, and his eyes were full of apology: "Don't blame the villain, there is an eighty old mother on the villain, it's really helpless." Then he "confessed": "Back to the emperor, the villain usually depends on this for a living, and that day a palace man handed over a note saying that this time he took over a big deal, so today he drove a carriage on the North Street outside the city gate, and he was in the car with her...... That's what. β
Meng smiled sarcastically: "You can really make it up, you can tell me, you can tell me what marks I have?" Is the waist thin? β
"Presumptuous! Such shameless words are even spoken! You are still the queen of the Great Liang. The Queen Mother then looked at the emperor: "Emperor, such a silver woman is directly sent to the prison!" β
Seeing that the emperor was silent, Concubine Xian hurriedly reminded: "Your Majesty, the guards said just now that I saw the queen mother come back in a carriage." β
"If you don't take a carriage in this palace, can't you still walk back?" Meng looked at Xiao Yiheng lightly, and looked at this man for the first time: "Your Majesty, don't you believe in your concubines either?" Let them slander your wife, and I still have your child in my belly. β
She put aside her title, hoping to get a trace of his mercy, at least, the few times she met him in the cold palace, it was not as ruthless as she remembered.
Xiao Yiheng looked at her deeply for a long time and asked, "Where did you go today and what are you doing out of the palace?" β
Hearing this, Mengqing's heart was cold, it seemed that he didn't believe it anymore, and the emperor's eyes really couldn't talk about love, not to mention that he was still a person who was bent on poisoning his own heirs.
This is also something she really can't figure out, how can a man never want his own heirs? If someone else did it, an overly cautious emperor like him wouldn't notice it?
"The emperor really doesn't believe it?"
Mengqing asked again, because of her situation today, even if she said it, she would still be charged with treason by collaborating with the enemy, and Beining was far from being as friendly with Daliang as she saw, as for the King of Anning who wanted to kill him, he would never testify for himself.
Xiao Yiheng stared at her eyes deeply, there was a trace of disappointment in his eyes, what was it that even he couldn't say?
The woman opposite looked straight at herself, under the long eyelashes was her unique arrogance recently, and her pink lips were gently hooked, cold and sarcastic.
At this moment, Xiao Yiheng actually felt that his heart was stabbed by something, because of his distrust?
Concubine Hui, who had been standing aside, finally stood up, the makeup on her face was disfigured by tears, she knelt in front of the Queen Mother, her purple clothes spread all over the ground.
"Queen Mother, the queen mother will never mess around, she is the daughter of the loyal and brave marquis, how can she be that kind of person, please check the queen mother."
Mengqing's eyes suddenly turned cold, didn't she even throw the entire Hou Mansion into it?
"Queen Mother, seeing that you insist that I did it, then I admit it, it has nothing to do with the Hou Mansion, one person does things and one person does it!"
She stroked her belly with her hand, child, I can only blame you for your thin life, your mother can't protect you, and I don't have that ability, I just hope that you don't look for such a disgusting father next time you are reincarnated.
Xiao Yiheng saw her hand holding her abdomen, turned around and said, "Queen Mother, don't be presumptuous at this time, it's not too late to make a decision after the son finds out." β
"The facts are here, are you trying to humiliate yourself enough? Our royal face is gone! β
Xiao Yiheng looked at the people below in embarrassment, and said ruthlessly: "It's better to put it in the prison first, and let my son check it." "If this is really deliberate, perhaps the prison is the safest place.
The Queen Mother waved her hand impatiently: "That's it, you can do the rest by yourself, the mourning family is old, and you can't see these dirty things." β
The two guards wanted to grab Mengqing's hand, but were swept away by her fierce gaze: "Are you afraid that this palace will not be able to escape?" β
Yimo wanted to move forward, but saw the queen mother shaking her head at her, so she had to take her hand back.
Meng Qing was actually more worried about Yimo, thought about it and turned around and said, "Your Majesty, can you lock Yimo with your concubine?" β
The Queen Mother suddenly stopped: "A guilty body still dares to make a request?" β
"Queen Mother, it is not certain whether the concubine is guilty, if this matter is wronged, then what happened to the concubine and the child in the concubine's womb, who should this be?"
The queen mother suddenly stopped it, waved her hand, and agreed to it.
The prison is more than a meter deep into the stone below, and the stone walls around it are seamless, and only a few bamboo tubes pass through it for ventilation.
My brother's room is only made of logs, and it is full of iron doors and iron bars, so tight that even children's heads can't get in.
As soon as he entered, Yimo knelt on the ground and slammed it into his mouth: "Slaves and maids should be damned, it's all slaves and maids who are not good, if the slaves and maids stop the mother from going out today, this will not happen......"
Mengqing hurriedly pressed her hands: "Do you think that if you don't go out today, they won't be in this palace under other names?" As long as Hongu lives, he will always be a thorn in their side! β
"But Niangniang, now that we are all here, there is no one who can even think of a way, and those people in our palace don't expect it at all, they are all some who see the wind and steer."
"Well, you're not stupid." Meng Qing was thinking about Xiao Yiheng giving her poisonous wine later? Or a white silk?
"Niangniang, or just confess to the emperor, let's tell the truth."
"Do you think King Tranquility will testify to me?"
After listening to Yimo, there was only a lot of crying left, and nothing could help except blame himself for being useless.
The scorching sun was slanting in the west, taking away the anxiety of the day, and Qingqing, who was lying in the brocade box, suddenly woke up, blinking a pair of bulging eyes and looking around, it was empty.
The door was just pushed open, and Qingqing jumped out of the brocade box and looked at his little head, and found that it was the emperor in a dragon robe who came in.
Xiao Yiheng stood still, and on the left hand side was the table where the queen had come to make pots recently, and there was also a jujube red purple clay pot on it, with a round belly and a cute look.
He picked it up and played with it in his hand, as if there were traces of her touching.
Putting down the pot and walking inside, the paint on the panes was peeling off a little, and the corners of the door frame were also falling together, which had not been repaired for a long time.
This palace, which he had been bored with once before, now had more aura to attract him.
The words she scolded herself in the cold palace that day resurfaced in his ears, and he didn't even pick off her head angrily, not knowing whether to laugh at himself for looking for malaria or if life was too boring.
Further inside, a little green thing was lying on the dresser looking at herself, and I don't know when there was such a thing, always lying on her head, but she liked it tightly.
Stretch out your hand and grab Qingqing in the palm of your hand.
Qingqing's whole body suddenly tensed, and she screamed twice, staring at him with her eyes and looking at him, her little nose moving, as if she smelled something.
Pan Rongxi hurried in, and Xiao Yiheng casually put Qingqing aside when he saw this.
"How?"
Pan Rongxi's face was not very good, and his body bowed lower: "Back to the emperor, I didn't find any clues about the queen's mother leaving the palace." β
"Squeak-" Qingqing screamed, her eyes widening in horror, and she felt as if her master was in danger.
Xiao Yiheng glanced at it, and his amber eyes were even deeper.
"Send two quilts to the queen's mother, and don't slack off on meals." After saying that, I wanted to scold myself for owing.
"The minions obey."
Qingqing blinked, rushed out with a swish, and followed closely behind Pan Rongxi.
Yimo wanted to put her clothes on the mother, but was stopped by Mengqing, she was so squeamish, pulled some hay from the ground to the bed, and pulled her to sit down with her.
Yimo felt that Niangniang was so bold, the prison was gloomy, and the rats on the ground were running back and forth, and Niangniang was not afraid.
Of course, Mengqing is not afraid, once she had to camp for half a month when she went to the place where she collected ore, and the conditions were much more difficult than this.
There was the sound of footsteps outside, and Dream looked over and saw a little eunuch hand over the food box to the jailer and leave.
The jailer walked over and stuffed the food inside directly into the small hole under the fence, and his voice was indifferent to life and death: "Eat." β
Yimo was hungry for a long time, guessing that Niangniang must be even more hungry, so she swallowed her saliva and went to pick up the plate, "Niangniang, braised fish and stewed hoofs with sauce are all good dishes, they must have been ordered by the emperor." β
She endured her greed and picked up a piece and sent it to the queen's mouth.
Meng lightly knocked it off, scaring Yimo a lot: "Niangniang......"
She plucked the silver hairpin directly from Emo's head, tried it on the plate, and a wisp of black quickly climbed up the tip of the silver hairpin.
Yi Mo couldn't believe it, the plate in his hand fell to the ground, and the big apricot kernel's eyes instantly turned red: "They ...... They're going to kill the mother? β
The jailer who heard the sound rushed over, and when he saw the food spilled on the ground, his voice became even colder: "Give you delicious food and throw it on the ground, and wait to starve to death." β
Yimo rushed to the railing money: "The food you give is poisonous, it is clear that you want to swear by us, you vicious people will definitely have retribution!" β
A few of the people locked up here got out alive, no matter what kind of royal relatives you are, you are all waiting to lose your head here.
The jailer reached out to grab Yi Mo's hair, but Dream quickly walked over and pressed the hairpin in his hand directly against his throat while he was unprepared.
"If you dare to touch a hair of her, I'll kill you!"
How could the jailer be afraid of her small silver hairpin, and his hand turned directly to beckon to the other side.