Chapter 9: The Deceased
Princess Yixing Mansion.
Xiao Yifu was lying on the beauty couch on his side, holding his forehead with one hand and a teacup in the other, and was leisurely sipping tea. ”
"Awake?" Xiao Yifu raised his eyes and glanced at Liu Nushi, seemed to be a little surprised, and seemed to be a little dissatisfied, and actually complained, "Didn't you say that people have already choked their breath?" How did this come back to life. ”
"It was said that a passing Lang Jun rescued him."
"It's really nosy," Xiao Yifu took a sip of tea, and then said lightly: "This palace is still thinking about going to condole." ”
Liu Nushi seemed to have something to say in her heart, and hesitated for a while before she spoke, "I heard that the concubine is haunted by female ghosts." ”
"Female ghosts?" Xiao Yifu smiled contemptuously, not believing it at all, and asked: "Where did the female ghost come from?" ”
Liu Nushi's face was frightened, quite uneasy, and he said hesitantly: "I heard that the female ghost, is it ...... It's ......"
"Who is it?" Xiao Yifu was extremely disdainful, and completely looked at the posture of a joke, until Liu Nushi timidly said the word "Xie Yu", her ruddy face suddenly turned pale, and the teacup in her hand fell to the ground in shock and shattered, and the crisp sound broke the silence in the room.
Xiao Yifu sat up straight in response, Liu Nushi was afraid that her hands would be burned by the tea, so she hurriedly wiped the water on her hands with a handkerchief.
"You just said ...... The female ghost...... Who is it? ”
Xiao Yifu's eyes widened, and after only one or two sentences, his forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, and Liu Nushi said again: "It's Xie Yu......"
"Is that true?"
Liu Nushi said with conviction: "This is said by the horse himself, it is absolutely true!" I heard that it was met in Qianhu on the fifth day of the new year, when Xie Yu was accompanied by a female ghost, the ox cart that the horse sat in that day, when the green cow went down the mountain, many people around saw it, and then the female ghost caught the horse to Qianhu, Xie Yu was waiting there, and said that he wanted to kill the horse for revenge...... Princess, do you think, didn't the Shen family find him in Qianhu when the horse disappeared that day? Thinking about it this way, I'm afraid this matter will not be fake. ”
Xiao Yifu was stunned, she listened to what Liu Nushi said, and there was indeed some truth, but when she thought of being teased a while ago, she inevitably became more worried, she always felt that there was something related to these two things......
"Is it really that slut back? Still is... Someone deliberately pretended to be a ghost to scare people? ”
Liu Nushi knew what she was thinking, and she understood it at all, so she immediately picked up, "What does the princess mean ......"
was teased by Yi'an Ziniang a while ago, Xiao Yifu was the first to suspect Xie Guifei, and today's incident is no exception.
"Hmph, this Concubine Xie put the palace together last time, and the palace didn't care about her, and this time she even bullied the horse's head, obviously trying to be the enemy of the palace!" Xiao Yifu said, clenched his fists, and slammed it on the beauty couch.
"The princess is angry, Concubine Xie has harmed the concubine this time, not you, the princess, which shows that she is still afraid of you."
"Afraid of Hongu?" Xiao Yifu glanced at Liu Nushi, and then sneered, "What is she afraid of in this palace?" Your eyelids are really shallow, don't you see that she is paving the way for her stupid son! ”
"Pave the way for the King of Linchuan?" Liu Nushi was puzzled, Xiao Yifu said: "Wuxing Shen family is powerful, but the Shen family's father and son support the fifth brother of the palace, not her son, she wants the third brother to take the throne, so naturally she wants to eradicate dissidents, seeing that the eldest brother is also coming back, she is afraid that it will be difficult to sleep and eat now." ”
Liu Nushi paused and said: "Three years ago, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had a lot of trouble with His Majesty because of Xie Yu's affairs, and he also scolded His Majesty for being stupid in front of hundreds of civil and military officials in the main hall, and was demoted to Liang County for this. ”
"So what? He can come back, but it is only through his aunt's birthday, how do you know if your father's anger has disappeared? Xiao Yifu sneered, and then mocked: "An unpopular outcast, with no power and no power, how much more storm can he set off?" Earlier, he still had Xie Yu to help, but now that Xie Yu is dead, there is no place for him in the current court. ”
Speaking of this, Xiao Yifu showed a very confident smile on his face, and imagined: "It's the fifth brother, with the big tree of Wuxing Shen at his back, and the support of the Hongnong Yang family and the Wujun Zhang family, the position of the prince belongs to him, and the seat in the East Palace, I'm afraid it will be handed over in the near future." ”
"Although His Royal Highness King Wuling is full-fledged in the court, the prince is still the prince after all, and the slave heard that there are many old ministers in the court who advocate Confucianism, and those elm heads all believe that the prince should be established and not young, not to mention that the prince is also the first queen's descendant, if you want to pull him down from the position of the prince, I am afraid it is not easy."
Xiao Yifu thought that her half-brother would be able to ascend to the throne in the future, and her heart was already happy, but Liu Nushi's words were like a basin of cold water, poured on her head defenselessly, she was angry, and immediately slapped Liu Nushi in the face, and then scolded: "Bastard thing!" What kind of identity are you, just a guest girl, and you dare to discuss the government in front of the palace! ”
Liu Nushi was beaten, and she couldn't care about the hot pain on her cheeks, so she knelt down with a "poof", and immediately begged for mercy, "Don't dare!" Please forgive the princess for her sins...... "She knew that Xiao Yifu was angry because she said that it was not easy to get rid of the prince, but what she said was indeed heartfelt, and the original intention was just to remind Xiao Yifu not to underestimate the enemy, but how could she know that a good heart was exchanged for such a slap......
Xiao Yifu glanced at her, as if he was angry, and then kicked her on the shoulder, kicked her down hard, and scolded: "Get out of the palace and kneel, block here, the palace looks an eyesore!" ”
"Yes," Liu Nushi had to do so, not daring to complain.
At that time, in the Hou Mansion, Xie Zheng was standing in the room to practice calligraphy against the window, Mao Yingcai dipped ink in the inkstone in his hand, and was about to write it on the paper, when Yuzhi suddenly came into the house and said: "Lady, the Marquis of Fangcai County sent Zeng Qionglin to hand over and said... The prince is back. ”
Hearing this, Xie Zheng was stunned, his hand holding Mao Ying hung stiffly in the air, and the ink on the tip of the pen dripped on the paper, and it was blurred in an instant, ruining this fine silver paper.
Xie Zheng was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses, but he only asked lightly: "Did he enter the palace to face the saint, or did he go back to the prince's mansion?" ”
"Qionglin said that he didn't enter the palace, and after entering the city, he went back to the prince's mansion directly."
Xie Zheng frowned, "It's really confusing!" If you return to the court with grace, how can you not see the Son of Heaven! ”