Chapter 14: True and False
"Master, you're having a high fever." After Wen Qing exclaimed, he hurriedly said to Shi Rui, who came in with a tea cup, "Shi Rui, quickly let someone go to the imperial doctor." ”
Ye Tingfeng raised her hand to touch her forehead, and the hot and cold touched her, which made her shiver. She looked up at the two of them and said, "I'll take a nap for a while, and the imperial doctor will come and wake me up." ”
Cai Xiang nodded and went out, Ye Tingfeng was lying on the beauty couch, and Ren Wenqing covered a brocade quilt on his body.
Listening to the night maple's eyes are not yet solid, the incense comes back from outside.
She stood in front of Ye Tingfeng and said softly, "Princess, Gonggong Lu is here, saying that the emperor invited the princess to the Qingxin Palace." ”
Ye Tingfeng opened his eyes and asked, "Where is Lu Zhi?" ”
Cai Xiang turned around and went out, taking Lu Shi to the inner hall.
Lu Zhi had no smile on his face, and after bowing to Ye Tingfeng, he said respectfully, "Mrs. Zhaoyue, the emperor invites you to go to the Qingxin Palace." ”
Ye Tingfeng raised his eyes and glanced at the drip, at this time, it was when Emperor Jianning received the minister, how could he think of summoning her?
What's more, what would Emperor Jianning summon her? Emperor Jianning had something to look for her, and he always came directly to the Fengyang Palace.
"Mrs. Zhaoyue, this matter is very urgent." Lu Zhi saw that Ye Tingfeng was lying on the beauty couch and did not move, and urged softly, "Please also ask Mrs. Zhaoyue to ......."
"I'll go right away." Ye Tingfeng sat up.
Cai Xiang frowned, her eyes were anxious, "Princess, are you still sick......"
Lu Zhi didn't soften his attitude when he heard that Ye Tingfeng was sick, and he stood there very persistently.
"Go now, go back quickly." Ye Tingfeng smiled at Cai Xiang, and said, "I'm back, and the imperial doctor is here." ”
As he spoke, he stood up and instructed Wen Qing to change his clothes.
changed into a slightly thicker orange palace dress, re-tied his hair bun, and shook the hairpin with beaded flowers.
Seeing that his complexion was not good, he listened to Feng at night and used rouge gouache to hide his pale face as much as possible.
After packing up, he put a moon-white cloak on his shoulders and went to the Qingxin Hall with incense.
When Ye Tingfeng arrived at the Qingxin Palace, Lu Zhi, who had returned to the Qingxin Hall one step earlier, was already waiting outside.
Cai Xiang let go of the hand that was holding Ye Tingfeng, wanting to stay outside the hall, but Lu Shi said in a low voice, "Let's go in together." ”
Cai Xiang panicked for no reason, and his face became transparent, but he still helped Ye Tingfeng to enter the Qingxin Hall together.
In the study of the Qingxin Palace, Emperor Jianning was not alone.
On the left side of the bookcase, there stood Mrs. Jade, dressed in dark purple, full of pearls, with her head held high. And in a Taishi chair on the right side of the bookcase, there is a girl dressed in dark pink clothes and holding a girl's hair in a bun. The girl was weeping, and I felt pity.
When leaving the Fengyang Palace, Ye Ting Feng thought that Emperor Jianning had called her for the matter between Dashun and Dayue.
She had already prepared for the worst in her heart, and heard the war between the two countries from the mouth of Emperor Jianning. Even worse, I directly saw Emperor Jianning throw out a holy decree to send her out.
But she never imagined that she would see an old man in the Pure Heart Palace.
The person sitting there crying in a low voice was none other than the fourth princess of the Great Shun Dynasty, the real Princess Zhaoyue, Li Qingshi.
Cai Xiang was stunned for a moment, holding Ye Tingfeng's hand, clenching it tightly, and her eyes were as wide as copper bells.
Before listening to Feng at night, Feng stepped forward to say hello to Emperor Jianning, and the fourth princess had already seen someone coming with her spare eyes. She raised her jade hand holding Jinpa, pointed at Ye Tingfeng and complained to Emperor Jianning, "Your Majesty, it is this thief who robbed me of Luan when he arrived at the border of Dayue with his relatives and his relatives, and asked the emperor to make the decision for me." ”
Faced with the accusations of the fourth princess, Ye Tingfeng walked to the book case without changing his face, and bowed down to Emperor Jianning, "The concubine asks the emperor for peace." ”
Mrs. Yu, who was standing on the side, sneered, "Pretending to be a princess to enter the palace as a concubine, you dare to call yourself a 'concubine'......"
“…… Get up. Emperor Jianning's eyes swept over Madam Yu, and with a gloomy face, he pointed at the fourth princess and asked Ye Tingfeng, "What she said, is it true?" ”
Ye Tingfeng looked up at Emperor Jianning, pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "The concubine doesn't know." ”
"I don't know?" Emperor Jianning raised his eyebrows and asked, "Do you know if you are a pretending princess?" ”
"A concubine is not a pretending princess." She heard at night that Feng was the upright princess of the Dashun Dynasty.
"Whether it's fake or not, you can find out when you argue with her." Madam Yu pointed at the fourth princess and smiled, "This matter is related to the diplomatic relations between the two countries, and there is no negligence." ”
Soft and soft, she looked at the night and listened to what Feng said, but she said it to Emperor Jianning.
The dignified princess can be hijacked and replaced, if it is passed to Dashun, it must cause the dissatisfaction of the Dashun royal family, then it is not a family matter in the harem of Dayue.
Emperor Jianning once again looked at Madame Yu with a cold gaze, and Madame Yu shuddered in her heart and was silent.
She knew that her move was extremely risky, but when she thought that she had found the real Princess Zhaoyue, her chest couldn't help but straighten up again.
Even if Ye Tingfeng is a pawn planted by Emperor Jianning, there are two countries under the pressure of diplomatic relations, Emperor Jianning just wants to maintain Ye Tingfeng, and he has to grit his teeth to pull Ye Tingfeng from the identity of the princess.
The fake princess Heqin is unwilling to help her bring down Queen Qin, and the real princess Heqin is very interested in the posterior. “
How could Emperor Jianning not hear the meaning of Madame Yu's words, he gritted his teeth secretly, withdrew his gaze from Madame Yu's body and looked at Ye Tingfeng, and said coldly, "It is a matter of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and we will not be negligent." ”
The corners of Ye Tingfeng's mouth twitched and stopped talking.
She tilted her head to look at the four princesses, trying to see what the four princesses wanted to do.
It was she who teamed up with Wu Yue to send her to the palace as a princess. Now he ran to Emperor Jianning and cried, saying that he was a fake princess, or her.
The fourth princess felt Ye Tingfeng's probing gaze, stopped crying, and said, "You said that you are not a fake princess, what evidence do you have?" ”
"Don't you know if this palace is a princess?" Ye Tingfeng raised his eyebrows and asked with a sneer, "What do you want to do?" ”
"I just want to get back what belongs to me." The fourth princess stood up, took two things from the hands of the palace maid behind her, and put them on the bookcase in front of Emperor Jianning, and sobbed, "Your Majesty, this is evidence that can prove that I am Princess Zhaoyue, and I ask the emperor to make the decision for me." ”
Ye Tingfeng looked up and saw a holy decree and a small half-moon-shaped jade plate in front of Emperor Jianning.
That holy decree is the holy decree of Emperor Jianning, the emperor of Dashun, who gave marriage. This decree is given to the princess, which is different from the decree held by the envoy. And that jade plate is a royal jade plate that proves the identity of the fourth princess and princess.
Dashun jade plate is two half-moon-shaped jade plates carved from the same piece of jade, and together, it is a full moon. Of these two jade plates, one is in the hands of the emperor himself, while the other is kept in the palace.
The princess and the relatives, the jade disc kept in the royal family will be sent with the envoy, and after arriving at the big moon, it will be handed over to the big moon royal family and entered the big moon royal family tree.
The jade plate that Ye Tingfeng was close to was placed in the Qingxin Pavilion many years ago for fear of being lost.
Hearing that Feng stopped talking, she suddenly didn't dare to be interested in justifying anything, she just wanted to see what Emperor Jianning said and how to do it.
Emperor Jianning stretched out his hand to take a closer look at the jade plate, and the two big shun characters engraved on the jade plate came into view.
He remembered these two words, he used to look at the person in the portrait on the wedding night of his and Ye Tingkaede.
Later, I heard Feng tell him at night that her name was Qingmu, not Qingshi. This made him think that the princess of Dashun had two names.
Seeing Emperor Jianning's expression, Madame Yu took the opportunity to say to Emperor Jianning, "Your Majesty, when my brother found Princess Zhaoyue, Princess Zhaoyue's situation was very miserable. She tried to tell the truth to the palace many times, but no one believed it. ”
Emperor Jianning came back to his senses and listened to the word brother in the mouth of the jade man.
"Zhaoyue ......," Emperor Jianning said lightly.
Ye Tingfeng and the fourth princess looked up at Emperor Jianning at the same time.
Ye Ting Feng didn't speak, and the fourth princess choked up.
After glancing at Ye Tingfeng, Emperor Jianning asked the fourth princess, "Li Qingshi...... There are more than a thousand escorts and guards. She is a weak woman, how did she break through the layers of obstacles......"
"Your Majesty, this, it's all because she has a good helper." The fourth princess looked at Ye Tingfeng and cried to Emperor Jianning, "She has a friend who knows witchcraft, named Wu Yue. Wu Yue will use witchcraft to easily control me. As for the guards of more than 1,000 people, they treated her as if they were fictitious, because the relationship between that greeting Shi and this person was not shallow, and he had been ambiguous and behaved in front of me many times, and his behavior was ......."
The history of welcoming relatives in the mouth of the four princesses is Wu Fengtian.
Ye Tingfeng looked up at Madame Yu, her eyes were like knives. It is impossible for the four princesses to know these things out of nothing, and now they can say it like this, all of them are from the handwriting of Madame Yu.
"Since she can get close to you, and let you see so many despicable things," Emperor Jianning put down the jade plate in his hand and asked indifferently to the fourth princess, "How can I let you leave alive?" ”
Emperor Jianning's face was gloomy, and a trace of unhappiness arose in his heart.
He knew that Wu Yue had a good relationship with Feng at night, but Wu Yue listened to Feng at night to change the princess who was close to him, and he really couldn't think of a reason.
I have to give a reason, and that is that Ye Tingfeng wants to marry him. For this, Emperor Jianning not only will not be angry, but will be happy from the heart.
As for Ye Tingfeng's personal relationship with Wu Fengtian, he had seen Ye Tingfeng's fall red with his own eyes, how could he believe such nonsense?
"There were a few grandmothers and palace maids around me, and with their help, I hurriedly escaped with the holy decree and the jade disc to prove my identity. I wanted to enter the palace to explain everything, but I didn't want to come to Cannes when she had already entered the palace. There are too many twists and turns...... the fourth princess hid her face and wept, "I can't find a way to enter the palace, if it weren't for Lord Liu believing what I said, I'm afraid I would have to wait outside the palace for another three years." ”
"You can't enter the palace of Dayue, and you can't enter the palace of Dashun?" Ye Tingfeng sneered when he heard this, "The pampered royal princess would rather be adrift outside for three years. ”
The fourth princess turned around, and her little face stained with tears showed a righteous and awe-inspiring look, "If I go back to the Dashun Palace, wouldn't it be as you wished." You robbed me in the territory of Dayue, and let me escape without hurting my life, didn't you just want me to go back to Dashun to provoke disputes between the two countries! As a princess of Heqin, I have the mission of friendship between the two states, how could I let the two countries fall into war! ”
"It's like the truth." Ye Tingfeng lowered his eyes, and the corners of his mouth provoked a good-looking arc, "If I didn't know you very well, I would have wanted to applaud what you said." ”
"Princess Zhaoyue, I really care about the people of the two countries." Madame Jade sighed softly on one side, "This is the true princess style." Madame Yu raised her head and whispered to Emperor Jianning, "Your Majesty, the human and material evidence is all there, and the fake Madam Zhaoyue has nothing to refute......"
"This matter is very serious, and we must be cautious." Emperor Jianning put the jade plate and the holy decree aside and said indifferently.
Before Emperor Jianning's words fell, a little eunuch suddenly rushed in from outside and said to Emperor Jianning, "Your Majesty, the queen asks to see you." ”
Emperor Jianning raised his eyebrows, raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, "Hustle." ”
The little eunuch went out for a while, and Queen Qin held the hand of the balsam, holding up the nearly six-month-old pregnancy, and slowly walked in front of Emperor Jianning.
After greeting Emperor Jianning, Empress Qin sat down on one side and said calmly to Emperor Jianning, "Your Majesty, don't listen to outsiders' slander, when Sister Zhaoyue married into the palace, she was surrounded by palace maids and grandmothers in Dashun Palace, if she was fake, how could those people not know?" She can block one person's mouth, and two people's mouths, how can she block the mouths of dozens of people? ”
Although Empress Qin's words were slow, there was a hint of anxiety in her eyes.
She didn't care whether the Ye Tingfeng in front of her was a real princess or a fake princess, she only knew that the person in front of her had no intention of being an enemy of her. And the princess Zhaoyue who was found by Mrs. Jade is really Mrs. Jade's person.
Emperor Jianning looked up at Empress Qin, handed his gaze to Madam Yu again, and said, "What Empress said is not unreasonable. ”
Madame Yu looked at the fourth princess and asked with a puzzled look in her eyes, "Princess Zhaoyue, how could the palace maid who came with you listen to her and recognize her as the master?" ”
"This is because, this is because there are traitorous minions around me." The fourth princess suddenly turned around and shouted angrily at Cai Xiang, who was holding Ye Tingfeng, "Cai Xiang, you cheap maid, don't kneel down yet!" ”
Cai Xiang was shocked to see the old master suddenly, and at this time, when she heard the shouts of the fourth princess, her knees weakened and she knelt on the ground.
Without the support of Cai Xiang, Ye Tingfeng who was sick almost fell, and it took a few shakes to stabilize his body.
"Sit down." Emperor Jianning glanced at Ye Tingfeng, and said without joy or anger.
Lu Shi hurriedly stepped forward, handed his right arm to Ye Tingfeng, and asked her to sit down on the Taishi chair on one side.
Emperor Jianning looked up at Cai Xiang, and a question appeared in his eyes.
Cai Xiang shook his head again and again, and cried to Emperor Jianning, "Slave maid is not, slave maid is not, slave maid ......"
"You still don't admit it, you have been waiting by my side for more than ten years, and in the end you have joined forces with others to do such a great rebellion." The fourth princess stood up, pointed to Ye Tingfeng, who was sitting down and lowered her head slightly, and said to Cai Xiang, "So far, haven't you told the truth?" ”
"Princess, princess ......" Cai Xiang trembled with fright, and her frightened eyes swayed left and right between Ye Tingfeng and the fourth princess.
Ye Tingfeng suddenly frowned, raised his hand and pressed his temple lightly. She had a terrible headache, and the angry shouts of the fourth princess smashed into her head like a hammer, making her head buzz.
Mrs. Yu looked at Ye Tingfeng and smiled coldly, "Mrs. Zhaoyue's illness came really quickly, her face is so ruddy, what is uncomfortable?" ”
Ye Tingfeng raised his eyes and glanced at Madam Yu, and said contemptuously, "In the past, this palace still thought you were very smart, but I didn't want you to be so stupid. ”
The two countries are about to go to war, and they still have the heart to make a mess about the real and false princesses, are you afraid that the two countries will be slow to send troops?
Madame Jade is not stupid, she is just different from Ye Tingfeng's entry point for the whole thing.
What I was concerned about at night was whether Dashun and Dayue would go to war, and whether Emperor Jianning would give her to Lu Boyun as a concubine because of this holy decree.
What Madame Yu cares about is whether she can defeat Queen Qin, seize the throne of the harem, and let the Liu family overwhelm the Xie family in the previous dynasty.
The fourth princess's hand clenched, and she looked at Cai Xiang and asked again, "Cai Xiang, you say, is she a princess?!" ”
Looking at the hideous face of the fourth princess, Cai Xiang nodded with a pale face, and affirmed, "Princess, it's a princess." ”
The fourth princess gritted her teeth and asked again, "Is she a princess?!" ”
Cai Xiang looked back at Ye Tingfeng, and saw that Ye Tingfeng's left hand was tightly clasped together, and choked up, "Princess...... It's a princess. ”
She has been by the side of the fourth princess since she was a child, and the relationship between master and servant for many years is not light. Listening to Feng at night, she has been treated well for two years......
The new lord and the old master, she didn't want to betray.
"That's it......" The fourth princess suddenly lowered her voice and burst into tears, "I didn't expect you to ignore my identity and waste my love for you for many years......"
Cai Xiang suddenly raised her head and looked at the fourth princess with heartache in her eyes.
The four princesses have not been valued in the Dashun Palace since they were children, and their masters and servants have suffered a lot. At this time, as soon as the fourth princess burst into tears, Cai Xiang suddenly felt that she was even more shameful than a traitor.
Looking back at Yeting Feng, Yeting Feng was a little pale because of the use of rouge gouache, but the knuckles of the left hand that could be clenched were white.
"Princess...... The princess ...... "Cai Xiang didn't know if she was calling Ye Tingfeng or the fourth princess, she suddenly burst into tears and choked up, "Slave, slave and maid are waiting for you as a ghost." ”
After saying that, he got up and slammed into the two dragon play bead incense burners that were one person high on one side.
Ye Tingfeng only felt a flower in front of him, and hurriedly stretched out his left hand to pull, but only touched the corner of the skirt of the fragrance.
Lu Zhi jumped out, but when he pressed on the incense picker's leg, the copper incense burner had already made a muffled 'bang'.
The fourth princess screamed 'ah', and Queen Qin's eyes closed and she fainted.
There was chaos in the Qingxin Hall for a while.
Listening to Feng's wide eyes red with blood, the words of picking incense lingered in his ears, princess, slave and maid are waiting for you. “
There was chaos in the Qingxin Palace, and the matter of the true and false princesses could not be tried.
Ye Tingfeng watched his eyes widen, and the blind incense was pulled away by the palace people in front of his eyes.
She wanted to go up and pull Cai Xiang back, but someone stopped her.
She slid from her chair and sat on the floor, clutching the hem of her incense-picking skirt and refusing to let go. Whoever comes forward to pull it will not let go, and whoever says nothing will let go.
In the end, Lu Zhi took out a knife and cut off the skirt of Cai Xiang.
As soon as the strength in his hand was loosened, Ye Tingfeng felt that there was a place in his heart that was cut by a sharp blade.
She looked up at the fourth princess, and saw the fourth princess looking at the paralyzed blood under the incense burner with frightened eyes, and her body trembled.
Standing up, Ye Tingfeng bit his lower lip and walked in front of the fourth princess, raised his right hand and slapped the fourth princess hard.