At this time, the Jiafu Hall was already in chaos, Concubine Zheng was sitting in the center of the main hall, and the palace maids Yueqing and Luan Cui in her palace dragged Ying'e up from the couch and knelt in front of the concubine. According to Concubine Zheng's instructions, Yueru announced that Ying'e was resentful, tried to kill herself, lost her woman's morality, and committed a taboo in the palace.

Ying'e smiled indifferently, "But Erchen doesn't know that if he hurts himself by mistake, he is not virtuous, not dignified, and not humble." The concubine is deaf and clear-sighted, and her concern for her sons is really nuanced. It's just that if the ministers are not mistaken, the emperor should have sealed the Taihua Palace, but the concubine can still be so well-informed. ”

Concubine Zheng didn't answer, picked up the teacup and took a sip, and immediately spat on the ground, "This slave of the Jiafu Hall is really undertrained, such cold water, do you want to make the mourning family's cough worse?" ”

Yueru wanted to reach out and take it, and go to change a cup for Concubine Zheng in person, but was stopped by Concubine Zheng's eyes, she knew in her heart that she was standing aside and waiting for Concubine Zheng to speak, "Queen, the mourning family has been hurting you since you entered the palace, pity you, I haven't let you do half of those red tape and false courtesies." For more than two years, the mourning family has not even drunk a cup of tea served by you, and now you are still the daughter-in-law of the mourning family, coming to serve the queen to serve tea to the mourning family. ”

Ying'e saw that what she said was reasonable, and although she was worried that she would be bad, she couldn't refute it directly. She reached out to take the empty lamp and wanted to get up to pour the tea, but was pressed back by Yueqing.

Yue Qing smiled humbly, "Queen, let Yueqing serve the queen's mother tea." He turned around and went to the small kitchen and came directly with a kettle for boiling water.

Ying'e held the tea cup in both hands, watching the boiling water pour into the cup, although her right hand had been medicated, but for the convenience of movement, it was not too thickly bandaged. Ying'e said respectfully, "Please use the concubine for tea." ”

Concubine Zheng didn't take it, nor did she say anything, pretending not to see it, and playing with her nails, "Yueru, this morning's impatiens are still a little tender, this color is not good, I think the palace people are lazy, this flower is not fresh enough." ”

Yueru could see that Ying'e's hand was trembling badly, she gritted her teeth in pain and insisted, she couldn't bear it, she wanted to step forward to take it, but she didn't expect Concubine Zheng to talk to her about impatiens as if nothing happened, so she had to reply first, "It's cold, this flower is more defeated, this morning I used the flowers that were dried a few days ago, and the color is worse." When the slave and maid go back, they will punish them, and see if they dare not be unwilling. ”

The master and servant, you and I are dyeing your nails word by word, and at this time, the temperature of the boiling water has spread throughout the tea cup, and even the palace maid who is used to doing chores can't bear the hot temperature, not to mention that Ying'e's hands are still injured. Her fingers took turns pinching the teacup, and gradually all ten fingers felt the pain of the heart, she gritted her teeth and endured it, but she still trembled slightly, the hot tea flowed down the rim of the cup to her wound, and Ying'e's aching forehead began to break out in cold sweat.

Concubine Zheng looked at everything and deliberately provoked, "What, let you give a cup of tea to the mourning family, you are so wronged?" It can be seen that the Hu people have no education after all, even if they are given a respectful position, they can't be the mother of the world and become a model of the world. also self-mutilated, ruined the royal face, and the mourning family did not teach you, you are becoming more and more bold. Today, the mourning family will sharpen your temperament, don't stir up the world at every turn. Hold the teacup steady, and the mourning family won't let you put it, so you will hold it with both hands. Yueqing, keep an eye on it, once this water is out of fog, it will be replaced with a new one, and the mourning family can't drink cold tea. ”

Ying'e knew that Concubine Zheng was taking revenge for herself, and deliberately corrected her, wanting to stand up for theory, but she was held down by Yueqing and Luan Cui. The anger that she had endured for a long time was aroused, and she had already torn her face, she put the teacup on the ground, "Concubine, are you angry for your niece, or for yourself." If it is for the sake of that Qihua, she betrays the Lord first, and harms me last, she will die and cannot be redeemed; If it was for yesterday when I broke into the Taihua Palace, the purse I gave you, but I don't know why you punished me, but it is filial piety to give you the relics of the old people, and what is the crime. If it was because I accidentally pricked my hand with a comb, and it reached the concubine, it was actually me who attempted suicide, and the concubine didn't find out what was done to chew the root of her tongue and add oil and vinegar to slander me, and she should be beaten to death with a stick, why did she punish me? ”

Concubine Zheng saw Ying'e looking at herself with a stubborn face, her face full of theory, she said unhurriedly to Yueru, "The queen doesn't call herself a son, she is rebellious and unfilial, you are the head of the mourning family, what should you do according to the rules?" ”

Yueru hesitated, after all, the queen still didn't dare in her heart, Concubine Zheng wanted to give the queen a face, so that she would have no shame to preside over the harem in the harem. Yueru has served Princess Pengcheng for more than 20 years, the princess's adept etiquette, deep understanding of righteousness made her also touched, although she later followed Concubine Zheng because of her kindness, but after she actually used tricks to mutilate the prince, she gradually had an opinion on what she did, but because of obscenity and pretending to be deaf and dumb, but also weakened the original loyalty. She looked at Concubine Zheng and wanted to ask for a favor, but was glared back by Concubine Zheng fiercely, so she didn't dare to say anything, so she stepped forward slowly, and while Concubine Zheng didn't pay attention, she covered the nail of her little finger with a silk handkerchief, and said to Ying'e, "The queen mother and slave maid are in accordance with the palace rules to slap your mouth, the slave and maid have exceeded the rules, and the queen mother forgives her sins." ”

Ying'e was unconvinced, "Concubine, you educate me, I am a junior and deserve to be suffered, what a humiliation to let a slave beat me?" ”

Concubine Zheng yelled at Yueru, "If you don't do it yet, do you want the mourning family to fight it personally?" ”

Yueru slowly rolled up her sleeves, looked outside the hall, as if waiting for someone to appear, under the urging of Concubine Zheng, she raised her hand helplessly, and raised her hand to Ying'e's delicate cheeks, but her strength was a little less. aroused the dissatisfaction of Concubine Zheng, "Beat the mourning family hard, and there is no blood, how can she have a long memory." ”

Yueru couldn't, so she had to raise her hand high, close her eyes, and hit Ying'e in the face again, and half of Ying'e's cheeks became red and swollen in an instant. When he raised his hand to hit him for the second time, he was stopped by Yuan Ziyou, who had just entered the door, "Stop." ”

Concubine Zheng straightened the silk handkerchief in her hand, gestured to Yueru to stand behind her, and pretended to be sad and pointed at Ying'e, "The emperor came to see how your good queen disobeyed the mourning family, and the mourning family heard that the queen had injured herself, so she came to take a look." The reigning queen who committed suicide since ancient times was either wronged and aggrieved, or was forced to commit suicide because of her virtue, so the mourning family came to ask the queen, whether she was wronged or aggrieved, and no one forced her to commit suicide, why can't she think about it, let the world laugh at the royal family? ”

"The emperor knows that whoever committed suicide is in the palm of his hand, even if he sees the bone bleeding, it has not reached the point of hurting his life. It's just that Ying'e doesn't understand, I didn't ask the imperial doctor for this injury, it was bandaged by the girl in my palace, how it alarmed the Taihua Palace, which was separated by five palaces, and disturbed the concubine's rest. Ying'e raised her red and swollen cheeks and met Yuan Ziyu's gaze.

Yuan Ziyou looked at Ying'e's face, and felt faintly distressed in his heart, but he didn't show it, he first ordered the idlers to retreat, leaving only Yueru as a palace maid, and still walked up to Concubine Zheng with a respectful face to ask for an answer, "The concubine has been unwell recently, didn't I order the concubine to recuperate, and don't worry about the harem for the time being?" The slave who spread rumors and disturbed the concubine, I have ordered Zhang Haosong to kill him with a cane, and I keep Zhang Haosong in the Taiji Hall to reflect, and in the future, the minions summoned by the Taiji Hall will be selected more strictly, so as not to waste the concubine's worries about me. ”

When Concubine Zheng heard that San'er was killed with a cane, she saw that Yuan Ziyou's face was full of dissatisfaction with her eyeliner, and she knew that San'er had already recruited all of them, so she pretended to be relaxed and said, "The emperor has grown up watching the mourning family since childhood, and the mourning family is afraid that these servants will not serve well, so let Yueru sometimes ask your messenger how he serves." Today, the slave said that the queen committed suicide, which is a matter related to the royal face and the previous dynasty, how can the mourning family sit idly by. Naer Zhurong is now quelling the rebellion, and Erzhu Shilong is still staying in Luoyang, if he hears something, it has not been substantiated and spread, and then after some young people add oil and vinegar, disturb the dynasty but don't turn the sky upside down. So when the mourning family heard this, they were really anxious, but they were coughing and sick, and they had to let Yueru come to take a look. The mourning family has to consider the emperor, if it comes to see that there is nothing to do, but it is just a slave making a fuss, so he will cover up the matter. Unexpectedly, the mourning family just came, and the emperor heard the letter, which shows that the walls in this palace are too thin, and a slight cough can be transmitted to the closed door. ”

Seeing that she said it so lightly, Ying'e was angry, and simply showdowned, "The concubine is really thinking about the emperor everywhere, even the concubines around the emperor also have to arrange their own nieces, and it is difficult for the concubine to admit it when she sees her relatives every day." By the way, Ying'e forgot to tell you, that Ru Ting said, the former emperor has always disliked that Ru Hao, and the two have not had a deep relationship, how can Ru Hao make the former emperor agree to set the baby for the emperor, but today I am curious to ask the concubine. ”

Concubine Zheng was flustered, she looked at Yueru, and said with a fixed color, "Your Majesty, you, the queen, are afraid that you are crazy about losing your heart, and even the mourning family with red lips and white teeth wants to plant it, and this family affair is known to Yueru, and Ru Ting doesn't know what coercion and temptation they have suffered from their Erzhu family, what can a child who was only seven or eight years old know at the time." ”

Yueru was about to prove it for Concubine Zheng, but Yuan Ziyou spoke first, "Aunt Yueru, I have respected you since I was a child, because you are the most decent maid beside the queen mother, the queen mother is virtuous and virtuous, and understands righteousness, and the maidservants she taught are the same as her." I believe whatever you say today, because the Queen Mother believed in you most when she was alive. Yuan Ziyou looked at Yueru with deep meaning, which made her feel guilty and gradually panicked.

Seeing that Yueru couldn't speak, Concubine Zheng was anxious, "You said, the mourning family also saw that you were good, so they risked their lives to save you back then, but now you want to tell the truth clearly, and the emperor of the province is suspicious of the mourning family." ”

Yue Ru saw that Concubine Zheng was threatening to save her life, and squeezed out a few words from the bottom of her throat against her will, "Back to the emperor, the family is true, it is true." ”

Ying'e chuckled, pointed at Yueru and scolded, "Aunt Yueru, aren't you afraid that Queen Wenmu will find it funny in the Heavenly Spirit when you say this?" The girl she cultivated, in the end, reversed right and wrong, aided and abetted, deceived her son together, and murdered her grandson, this is your loyalty? Your conscience? ”

"Queen, shut up, I'm asking, when will it be your turn to interject." Yuan Ziyou deliberately scolded Ying'e, because she was no longer calm, and if she said too much, she would lose, and he wanted Concubine Zheng to follow his train of thought and admit everything she had done.

Ying'e didn't appreciate it, "Your Majesty, the concubine is still the queen of Great Wei, how can she not even have the qualifications to tell her grievances?" She stood up and raised her hands to face Yuan Ziyou, "As soon as the concubine entered the Jiafu Palace, she asked the two palace maids to hold down the concubines, let the concubines serve tea, and pour boiling water into the teacup, so that the concubines were not allowed to put it down, and it was disrespectful to let it go, and even the palace maids could hold the mouths of the concubines." It is said that the concubine is a Qihu person, barbaric and uncivilized, even in Erzhuchuan, there is no slave or maid who dares to beat the master, and the concubine wants to ask what kind of etiquette and education? Concubine, there is no problem with you concealing your relationship with Ru Qihua and giving her to the emperor, but what is the reason for being so secretive? Ru Qihua murdered the concubine's child, is the concubine just clean? The concubine has always said that she is not in good health, and now that she has been sitting here for so long, the concubine is still full of energy, why is she a little sick? ”

"Erzhu Ying'e, you are bold." Concubine Zheng roared angrily, and then deliberately pretended to cough a few times, and Yueru stroked her back. "The mourning family is miserable, I followed the emperor at the age of fourteen, and it was easy to have a child who was returned, and the emperor took pity on your eldest brother and let the mourning family raise you. After a few years of good life, the family road was defeated, and the mourning family worked hard to support this family, so it was easy for you all to grow up, but I didn't expect the god-killing Er Zhurong to kill your three brothers, the way of heaven is unfair, why let the wicked run rampant? Erzhu Ying'e, it was your father who killed the son of the mourning family, and now you are still framing the mourning family, Buddha, I knew that there was such sewage today, and the mourning family might as well have gone with the emperor back then, and it would have been quiet. After saying that, he cried and wailed, if that sad appearance could really make Yuan Ziyou feel sorry and feel unfilial before, but now he has a kind of disgust like watching a play.

Yuan Ziyou shouted loudly outside, "Come on, go to the Tai Hospital and invite Imperial Doctor Sun to consult the concubine, go quickly." ”

Yueru whispered, "Your Majesty, it has always been Imperial Doctor Zhao who treats the concubine, but it is very good, call him here." ”

Yuan Ziyou said, "That Imperial Doctor Zhao has always been stupid, and he has not seen him well for so long after seeing the concubine, I am very worried, so I asked Zhang Haosong to look for a famous doctor, but I didn't expect that there was a county order in Hanoi County called Sun Xiaobing, this person actually had good medical skills and cured my head disease." I thought that the concubine's cough had not been good, so I ordered someone to bring him into the palace and let him show the concubine first. ”

Concubine Zheng was already disease-free, and when she heard Yuan Ziyou say how good this person's medical skills were, she was naturally frightened and didn't want to show the clues. "No need, the mourning family has always been very good at taking Imperial Doctor Zhao's medicine, so let him come. It's been half a day, and the mourning family is also lacking, Yueru, let Imperial Doctor Zhao come to Taihua Hall to serve. ”

Yuan Ziyou thought about that trace of family affection, after all, when the Pengcheng Palace was in trouble, it was Concubine Zheng who stood up the door and took care of Li Yuanhua, who was depressed and ill. Even though he knew that this woman was controlling so many things behind his back, he was very protective of his throne, but he didn't like Ying'e and gave birth to a lot of right and wrong. He didn't want to embarrass her too much, so he approached her and helped her up, and whispered in Concubine Zheng's ear, "I have already found out the matter, and I don't want to break it out because I remember the concubine's nurturing grace, and the concubine is still born in the Taihua Palace to enjoy her old age, and I am determined to be filial." ”

Concubine Zheng knew that Yuan Ziyou was going to put herself under house arrest in the Taihua Palace, and her heart was sour, but she was helpless, this was Yuan Ziyou saving face for herself. She didn't want to say anything more, she withdrew Yuan Ziyou and held her arm, "The emperor doesn't need to send the mourning family, the mourning family is accompanied by Yueru." She knew that she had lost, but she was a little chilled when she saw Yuan Ziyou using her scheming, but she was a little relieved, she was relieved, Yuan Zizhi's revenge had a chance to be avenged, she didn't want to fight for anything, suddenly she felt that she was really old and tired, she trembled and helped Yueru and muttered, "The emperor is like an emperor, the mourning family is really old, I haven't seen it for so long, let's go, go back to Taihua Palace." Since then, Concubine Zheng has been calling herself sick and never going out again, and Imperial Doctor Zhao was dismissed from her post and kicked out of the palace on the same day.