Chapter Ninety-Nine: Unscrupulous Means
"Father! The sixth sister secretly went out of the palace because the son had no way to discipline her, and asked her father to forgive her sins! The sixth sister is just greedy for fun, so she begged her father to forgive her this time! The eldest princess was overwhelmed by the emperor's words, and she temporarily put aside the matter of Cangming Gong and pleaded for the little princess.
"Sister Huang! Don't ask your father! If the father wants to punish the crime, he will punish the crime! He is so arrogant that if you are engaged, you will be engaged, and if you say that you will be married, you will be married, and where can he treat us as his daughters! The little princess stubbornly straightened her waist, and her eyes were bright and fearless staring at the Ninety-Five Venerable Father, who was facing away from her.
The eldest princess's expression changed greatly, and she secretly slapped the little princess's thigh with her hand: "Xiao Xiao, don't say that about your father!" Hurry up and ask your father for forgiveness! Come on! ”
"I'm telling the truth! Sister Huang! Don't you know that your father has long intended to eradicate the Cangming family? I also pleaded with my father! ”
"What nonsense!" The eldest princess was angry and afraid that the emperor would be angry, so she slapped the little princess with a gritted tooth.
"Sister Huang! I'm telling the truth! There are a few people who don't know the thoughts of my father, and you know it, but you don't say it! Even if you kneel here, he will never change his mind with relenting emotion! Sister Huang! ”
The little princess covered her cheeks and pursed her mouth, her eyes reddened.
"You can't say that about the Emperor! Sixth sister, you go back for me first! ”
Holding her wrist, which was still numb, the eldest princess was stunned for a moment, but as soon as she saw the emperor's fierce gaze, she suddenly sobered up and stopped in front of the little princess: "Father, the sixth sister didn't mean to collide with you, father!" The sixth sister made an unintentional mistake, and the father forgave the sin! ”
"Stubborn, unrelievable, such a daughter, don't do it! Get out of the way, this time I must let her know the price of being open-mouthed! ”
"Father! Sixth sister, she just blurted out without brains, father forgives sins! The eldest princess was lying in front of the little princess with her whole body, and she protected the little princess behind her.
"Sister Huang, get out of the way, it's not the first time he's beaten me! Even though I'm telling the truth, he's going to be angry! is so arrogant and unreasonable, what kind of Ming Jun can he be! What a father! The little princess was also determined to fight against the emperor, straightened up, raised her head and looked directly at the angry emperor with Long Yan.
"Sixth sister, you can ask your father for a favor! Sixth sister, my father also has something unspeakable! Father, the sixth sister made an unintentional mistake, and the father saw that she was still young and forgave her sins! "The eldest princess took advantage of the importance of her body to suppress the little princess who wanted to stand up.
"Humph! I don't have a mouth to stop my tongue, I can't cure her, let people say it, and say that I have no way to teach my daughter! The emperor took another step forward in front of the eldest princess, and reached out to hit the little princess's unruly cheek.
"Your Majesty, Qi Zhaoyi is asking to see her outside!"
The eunuch hurriedly came in, and immediately knelt down when he saw the posture and look of the father and daughter.
"The son is not the fault of the father, Xiao Er has become like this, how can it not be her arrogance, let her in, today I will discipline this daughter well." The emperor's movements were stopped by the eunuch's words, and his anger was held in his chest, and his whole face was bloodshot and red.
"Yes!" The eunuch got up tremblingly, and left in a panic, these things were done by Shu Ruhai in the past, and now Shu Ruhai is not there, where has this little eunuch seen the emperor so angry, not long ago he was so frightened that the seven souls lost their five souls.
Qi Zhaoyi came in a hurry, and when she saw the posture of the two fathers and daughters, she rushed behind the little princess in two steps and lifted her ears.
"Makes your tongue quick! This is your father, you dare to be disrespectful to your father! Your Majesty, the concubines and daughters have no way, and please ask the emperor to forgive your sins! Your Majesty, you are young and ignorant in Xiao'er, you forgive her this time, and the concubine promises that there will be no next time! Concubine ......"
The little princess was pinched by Qi Zhaoyi and babbled, but her eyes were still staring at the emperor angrily.
"You are still interceding for her, it is indeed your fault to teach such a daughter, I will discipline you well today! At a young age, I dared to shout with me, and I turned against the sky! Come on, come with sticks! The emperor clenched his fists indignantly, put down his raised hand, and shouted loudly to the frightened little eunuch standing at the threshold outside.
"Your Majesty, Xiao Er is still young, the emperor forgives her sins!"
"Father, just forgive the sixth sister this time! Erchen promises that she will not have a next time! ”
Although Ning Xiao has a wild temperament, he is also a golden branch and jade leaf, compared to a slap, that stick is simply a life-threatening thing!
"Don't let her know her fault this time! In the future, it will only get worse, if you hadn't been arrogant to her all these years, she would not have become what she is now! ”
The emperor under the anger has lost his mind, today's various incidents have stirred his mind in a mess, he can't govern the country well, he can't manage the courtiers well, and now even his own daughter is against him, this successive frustrations let his anger overwhelm everything, took the stick from the eunuch's hand and pushed the eldest princess away, raised the stick and smashed it towards the little princess's arm.
The eldest princess who was pushed to the ground by the emperor was short of breath and trembling in her limbs, the last time she was sick in the Shen Mansion, the little princess who was beaten by the emperor with a stick and screamed saw that the eldest princess was like this, and she grabbed the stick that the emperor was going to beat and got up.
"Yingying! Yingying! Qi Zhaoyi was about to scold the little princess for her presumptuousness, but when she saw the eldest princess who fell to the ground with her gaze, she suddenly became nervous.
"Your Majesty!"
A eunuch hurriedly ran in with a wet and panicked expression, followed by the little eunuch from before.
As soon as the eunuch entered the imperial study, he knelt in front of the emperor and shed tears before speaking.
"What?" The emperor was in anger, and when he saw these two lines of tears, he felt even more annoyed in his heart.
The eunuch bowed to the emperor and cried bitterly: "Your Majesty, Xi Shuyuan...... Xi Shuyuan, she... She slipped ............"
"What?"
The stick in his hand slipped down, and the emperor looked at the eunuch who was crying on the ground in shock, and the little princess who had forgotten to talk back to him.
Xi Shuyuan had abdominal pain just now, and the imperial doctor said that the fetus in Xi Shuyuan's womb was ...... Can't keep it! "The eunuch is the confidant eunuch in Xi Shuyuan's palace, and he didn't even bother to fight the umbrella all the way to tell him.
"Didn't the imperial doctor say that Xi Shuyuan's fetal position is very stable, how could there be sudden abdominal pain?" The emperor grabbed the eunuch's collar.
"Back to the emperor, the imperial doctor concluded that it was Xi Shuyuan who ate food mixed with musk............ "The eunuch prostrate on the ground, his rain-soaked clothes clinging to his back.
"Musk............ Who is so bold? Come on, drive to Jingqing Palace! ”
Musk, who doesn't know that musk is an ominous thing that will cause pregnant women to slip on the fetus, Xi Shuyuan has been carefully raising the fetus since she was pregnant, how could she make such a low-level mistake, the emperor exploded There was only one thought in his mind, that is, someone harmed his unborn child.
There have been no happy events in the harem for many years, Xi Shuyuan finally conceived the dragon species, and the emperor was also nervous, not only giving priority to Xi Shuyuan in everything, but also avoiding the red tape in the palace for Xi Shuyuan, it was the emperor who was angered by Qin Guogong and others and angered by the two princesses when he heard the news, and his eyes were already angry.
The eldest princess fell unconscious, but the emperor turned a deaf ear and left with the eunuch, fortunately, the eldest princess carried asthma medicine with her, and the little princess trumpeted for a long time according to the method she had done last time in the Shen Mansion, and the eldest princess woke up faintly, and heard the news of Xi Shuyuan's slippery tire, and the eldest princess, who had just recovered a little bit of qi and blood, went to Jingqing Palace with Qi Zhaoyi and the little princess.
There is no joy in Jingqing Palace, and the gloomy atmosphere makes the cry of pain from Xi Shuyuan's bedroom even more miserable, the fetus in Xi Shuyuan's womb can no longer take the pulse, it has been a fetus for more than three months and nearly four months, plus Xi Shuyuan has been nourishing and recuperating, the fetus already has a little weight, and now there is a stable mother in the palace to induce labor for Xi Shuyuan!
For this long-awaited child, the emperor has poured a lot of effort, and now seeing that he is being harmed by life, how can the emperor not be angry, the imperial doctor who treated Xi Shuyuan's illness is still there, as soon as the sedan chair landed, the emperor rushed into it to inquire about the matter.
The imperial doctor was 100% sure that Xi Shuyuan had eaten musk-related food, and the palace maid of Jingqing Palace also testified that intern Shuyuan only started abdominal pain after eating assorted honey soup, and the imperial doctor also checked the assorted honey soup that Xi Shuyuan drank and had a few sips left, and confirmed that there was musk in it.
At this moment, the spearhead was directly aimed at the imperial dining room, and immediately, the emperor asked people to pass on the imperial kitchen in the imperial dining room who was responsible for cooking meals for Xi Shuyuan, but what made the emperor angry was that this imperial chef had already committed suicide in fear of crime when the eunuch who delivered the decree arrived! The imperial chef is dead, so you can only start from the people who the imperial chef usually solves, this imperial doctor has no grievances with Xi Shuyuan, and even Xi Shuyuan has rewarded this imperial chef more in order to prevent others from doing tricks and feet in her diet, since it is not a grudge, the purpose of putting musk in Xi Shuyuan's diet is reverie! It can be said that almost all the women in this harem are suspicious.
The emperor's thunderous means is that the people who have dealings with this imperial chef on weekdays have been brought to the front of the imperial driver, and the emperor, who usually acts decisively and decisively, has been brought out of his anger by today's successive events, compared to the matter of Qin Guogong and others, the murder of this unborn child made him even more angry.
On a stormy night, the Duke of Qin Guo, who was close to ancient times, went to the north gate of the city with Chen Yin.
This is the time they agreed to act, they want to go to the city gate, borrow the reason to force the soldiers guarding the city to open the door, let the army outside the door rush in, the wind is loud, the rain on the carriage is to erase the rare silence of the night, in the carriage, a kerosene lamp is placed on the small desk in front of the legs of the Qin Guogong who closed his eyes and meditated, Changchang Bo Chen Yinzheng stared at this flickering flame in a daze, at this moment, their mood is too heavy, this step out, Chen family, Qin family, Yang family, It is to embark on a road of no return.
Outside the wind and rain, inside the silence like a mountain, Qin Guogong opened his eyes quietly, stared at the flame for a long time before opening his mouth: "Just now, a confidant soldier at the city gate came to report that the emperor had summoned the commanders of the four city gates to go for questioning. ”
"Don't worry, the emperor is already too busy to take care of himself!" Chen Yin chuckled and leaned his head on the bumpy and wet carriage.
"What did you do?" Qin Guogong's impression of Chen Yin has always been bad in the past, but Chen Yin's decisive style has also won Qin Guogong's love for this junior, even Qin Guogong didn't expect that Chen Yin, who was obsessed with women in the past, could actually come up with twice as many people as Cangming Gong when the big event was about to start, and the control of news and intelligence made him even more staggering.
"It's not me who does it, someone else does it! In the harem, Xi Shuyuan slipped a tire. ”
The faint smile made Qin Guogong gasp, but at this critical time, it was not the best strategy to reprimand Chen Yin for being cruel, compared to letting the emperor know the actions of several of his own people and sending people to suppress it, and letting the emperor's unborn child die and divert his attention was their best opportunity at the moment. "Who did it?"
"Someone that Qin Guogong will definitely not think of! Saying that we rebelled, in fact, how many people are willing to be mermaids? Chen Yin smiled, very proud.
"The childish is innocent, alas...... That's it, I've come to this point and I'm already too busy to take care of myself! There is one thing I must consult with you: if we succeed, who will we elect to the throne as emperor? I, Qin Huanyi, rebelled only for the lives of the descendants of the Qin family, not for the hegemony of the country. A drop of rain dripped in down the gap in the carriage and just got into Qin Guogong's neck, so cold that he couldn't help but shiver.
"Qin Guogong, it's too early to say this matter now, I, Chen Yin, can also make it clear to you, what I did today is definitely not for myself, let alone try to change the surname Ning to the surname Chen!" Chen Yin straightened his waist, and two flames flickered in his eyes.
Hearing this, Qin Guogong's furrowed brows finally stretched a little: "Okay!" The old man really didn't mistake you! The children and grandchildren of the Chen family are all good! ”
"Qin Guogong, do you remember ten years ago?"
Chen Yin raised his eyelids and glanced at the old man who was suddenly depressed on the opposite side, picked up the right hand hanging on his thigh, dipped it in the rain on the desk, and wrote on the desk in the dim light.
Qin Guogong's shrunken body suddenly moved, and the whole person fell on the desk, his upturned hair swept over the kerosene lamp, and Zizi had a burning smell. "He? When An Guogong's family was wiped out, the old man still remembered that he saw his charred corpse at that time. ”
Qin Guogong raised his old face full of folds, and opened his mouth with two missing front teeth wide, looking a little funny.