Chapter 36: How Do You Explain It?
In the evening, the rain became heavier, and the crackling sound of the rain made people panic.
Yan He left the Hou Mansion, thought all the way, and unconsciously smiled all the way, the little guy next to him couldn't look at it, and said in disgust: "Childe, what are you smiling at?" ”
"You don't understand." Yan He also smiled a little, but his eyes were still full of smiles, "This Shen girl, she is really a second person, but it's a pity that she is a girl, if it is a boy, he will definitely be able to control the 800,000 people under General Shen." ”
The little guy didn't believe it, but when he thought that other people's daughters were cute, he teased and answered, "Son, if you hurry up and marry your daughter-in-law and give birth to ten or eight daughters of him, you don't have to envy General Shen." ”
Yan He was speechless, but after thinking about it, wouldn't it be interesting if he gave birth to a smart girl like Shen?
No, no, no, he immediately shook his head, it is difficult to find an in-law to give birth to such a smart girl, who can be worthy of it? There must be no one to match!
Besides, when he thought that his daughter would get married, and he didn't have a daughter yet, he felt distressed first.
Xiyue didn't know that Yan He had so many interesting thoughts in her heart, and after she finished speaking, she obediently rested in her yard, Shen Xinan lay on the table and looked down on her, refusing to go back to her yard, so she had to stay in front of Xiyue to take care of her.
In fact, after listening to Xiyue's words, he felt that his sister was too bold and reckless, so it was better to keep an eye on it himself, and he was not at ease to let others take care of him.
Time passed one by one, and soon the light was gone, and the night rain was desolate, and Yan He went to the East Palace in the rain.
He is the prince's confidant, and it is common for him to ask for a meeting in the middle of the night, and the prince also receives him very often.
"Your Highness, the minister has received several reports concerning General Shen." Yan He handed the fold with both hands, with a complicated look on his face, and after the prince took it, he sighed.
The prince's heart trembled, someone reported General Shen? How is it possible, what about other generals, he doesn't know very well, but General Shen is definitely not that person of inferior character.
There is not much content in the excerpt, but the careful listing of several crimes made the prince frown.
The more he looked at it, the more ugly his face became, and when he saw the end, he closed the fold angrily, "Slander! How could General Shen do such a thing! No way! ”
"Your Highness, do you want to report this matter to Your Majesty?" Yan He asked in a low voice, "Although the minister, like His Royal Highness, thinks that these must be slander, but those people swear that they are not afraid to confront ...... face to face."
"Although this palace is the crown prince, he assists his father in handling government affairs, but he can't fail to report it." The crown prince sighed, "Yan Qing, you go and visit, General Shen is a person with great merits, and this palace can't bear to let him be wronged." ”
"Yes." Yan He was convinced by the prince and assisted him wholeheartedly.
In the palace in the past few days, Gao Shuliu brought meals from the imperial dining room, and then the Tan family took it to Shen Qingtai to eat, and watched him eat before returning to the house to see the two children.
But today's meal has not been delivered for a long time, and Tan is a little anxious.
How could Empress Yang not see that she was in a hurry?
I told the palace people to ask a few times, but there was no result, and the last time the palace people got an answer, their faces turned white with fright.
"Mother's ......"
The palace people were panicked, and Empress Yang frowned angrily, "What's wrong?" ”
"The emperor is furious, and he ordered that General Shen should not be allowed to take care of food, and someone reported General Shen's ......"
"Smack." The pen in Tan's hand fell to the ground, and she was stupid.
Or Empress Yang was calm and asked rationally: "What do you report General Shen?" ”
"The slave didn't dare to say it." The palace man knelt down and trembled with fear.
Empress Yang was not embarrassed by the palace people, she got up and patted Tan's shoulder, "You wait for me here, I'll go see what's going on, don't worry, I'm not dead yet, I can't tolerate others to scorn!" ”
Tan forced herself to calm down, but the tears of panic still fell all over her clothes, and she grabbed Queen Yang's hand with her backhand, "Niangniang, you must save him, save him!" ”
"Don't worry." Empress Yang didn't dare to give a guarantee, she needed to go and see it first.
All the way from Fengqi Palace to Xuanzheng Palace, there were still many ministers standing outside the palace, and Emperor Hongzhao was angry in the inner hall, everyone was so frightened that they were quiet, only listening to the night rain.
Empress Yang entered the hall, the prince knelt on the ground, as if he had been reprimanded, she keenly found that the atmosphere was extremely tense, but as the person who was not afraid of Emperor Hongzhao, she naturally sat down and did not salute.
Emperor Hongzhao sat down by himself when he saw that she was not polite, and he was very dissatisfied.
He would definitely not be so hypocritical before, but now he is in a bad mood, and any inappropriateness will make him feel the urge to use it to vent his anger.
"This is the Xuanzheng Palace, can you enter casually as a woman? As a queen, you must lead by example! His cold voice was not loud, and the courtiers outside the palace could not hear it.
This can be regarded as giving face to the queen.
Empress Yang sneered, "What are you throwing a tantrum at me?" ”
"I'm still angry with you, look at you, the queen, he Shen Qingtai will let him kneel if he wants to, you still care about the food?!" Emperor Hongzhao doesn't look like the emperor this time, he is the queen's husband, and the two of them are like quarreling old husbands and wives, you come and go.
Empress Yang glanced at the broken fold on the ground, picked it up and looked at it carefully, looked at it and laughed, "Hey, who wrote this?" ”
Emperor Hongzhao listened to the laughter that he didn't care about very much, and he was angry, "You can still laugh?" If it weren't for his sake, I would have cut off his head eight hundred times! ”
Empress Yang put the excerpts on the dragon case, and then asked Emperor Hongzhao slowly, "Old Zhao, it said that Shen Qingtai killed the concubine who gave birth to him in order to marry the Tan family, do you also believe this?" ”
"They are all men with strong blood, others have three wives and four concubines, oh, with the exception of Shen Qingtai?" Emperor Hongzhao took it for granted, "I know, those scholarly families have many rules, and the wife can't take a concubine if she doesn't get started, but if you drive it away, why do you want to kill the concubine and kill the child?" ”
"Shen Qingtai was the first person to follow you, don't you know if he has any other sons?! Speaking of which, Fang Maokang has done a lot of things like driving away the concubines. ”
Emperor Hongzhao was stunned and speechless.
Fang Maokang has no big problems at present, he just likes to marry young and beautiful girls, but the one in his family can't control him, so he lets him marry, but he is old and doesn't have much energy, and many young concubines are spoiled and left behind after a few days.
Once the concubines of the Qi Mansion are not favored, they will be driven out or sold, and the end will not be miserable.
"He kills his son!" Emperor Hongzhao said angrily again.
"If you believe this, you will have no conscience!" Empress Yang was also angry, "In order to get rid of you, the previous dynasty sent several batches of fine workers to spy on you, including a group of children, Shen Qingtai saw that the child was pitiful and smart, so he wanted to accept him as a righteous son, who thought that he would poison Shen Qingtai the next day and kill a deputy general, so he killed the child." ”
Empress Yang brought up the past, and Emperor Hongzhao remembered it, and his face was scornful, "There are other things on the excerpt." ”
"Said that Shen Qingtai deducted military salaries and occupied the merits of his subordinates, did you name him the Marquis of Xinyong for those insignificant credits on the fold? How many times did you save you on the battlefield, and that time when you were surrounded by a million troops from the previous dynasty, and you were about to be wiped out, who led 3,000 people to save you from the sword of a million people? ”
"You yourself said, you are most at ease when you hand over your back to Shen Qingtai, the year before last, you were surrounded by people in Tengqing Lake, it was he who wore your clothes, attracted the enemy's idea, lured the enemy deep, and annihilated in one fell swoop, aren't these credits not great? Do you have to earn those insignificant ones with your subordinates? ”
"What about deducting military salaries?! How do you explain that? "The more Emperor Hongzhao said, the weaker his momentum became.