Chapter 221: Storytelling

It was already late at night, the moonlight was like water and the stars were dim, the lights of thousands of homes in the capital had long since returned to the night, and even the officers and soldiers patrolling the streets had been reduced by half.

In the brightly lit room, Ning Zhiyuan, who had not yet experienced the joy of the victor, Ning Zhiyuan, who wanted to get drunk, had to drink two glasses of green plum wine under the supervision of Chang Liu, he didn't expect that when he took Ziyue to the backyard, he actually let Chang's mother see it, and he didn't expect Chang's mother to be bold enough to tell Du Yiyi the news.

Ning Yi's marriage has not yet been resolved, and now there is another purple moon, and Ning Zhiyuan, who has a big head like a fight, is already in turmoil.

Mother Xu stood outside the study with the door closed, anxiously and angrily looking at Ning Zhiyuan, who was lying on the table and sneering, thinking that as long as the princess gave an order, she would be the first to rush into the study and tear Ziyue's slut to pieces.

In the study, the candle that burned to the point of only half was lit again, and the window in which the cool breeze poured in was also closed.

Du Yiyi's pure hands rested naturally on the armrests of the chair, the drooping fingers were slender and slender, the long nails had been trimmed with the sword, the fingers shook rhythmically, and the small bell on the silver bracelet on the wrist jingled, disrupting the silence of the study. The bright eyes were locked on the slightly bulging lower abdomen of the person opposite, watching Ziyue slowly caress her belly in an orderly manner to announce her identity, Du Yiyi sneered coldly.

She knew Ziyue's identity, although she wasn't sure if there was a man or woman between Ziyue and Ning Zhiyuan, but because of the identity of the person behind Ziyue, she couldn't simply believe the so-called truth she saw.

"You said that this child belongs to the prince, what evidence do you have, and where did you come from? Where did these two months go? As long as the prince says what happened between you and Mr. Du, no one will believe your nonsense! ”

On the opposite side, less than two meters away from Du Yiyi, Ziyue replied with a smile: "Where does Ziyue come from, the princess should go and ask the prince." The princess is an understanding person, and I will get straight to the point with you, the child in my belly has been more than three months, and it has been there long before entering the Rui Palace, the prince is a lover, this princess should know very well! ”

"If you want to live in the Rui Wangfu through the child, then you are very wrong, the Rui Wangfu will not recognize this child!"

"The blood of the Heavenly Family, how can you be out, Princess, you are really ruthless!"

The previous silence, Du Yiyi has cleared her thoughts, Ziyue can even do the thing that framed Mr. Du and Mr. Du in bed, how can a person who can not even be chaste have a big realization for a child, she came to King Rui's Mansion tonight, it can only be instructed by King Chao, so in the two months that she disappeared, could she also raise a baby under the care of King Chao? She came here, and it would not bring much benefit or loss to Ning Zhiyuan, after all, whether it was from his status as a prince or as a cabinet leader, it was just his family matter.

King Chao played such a game of chess, did he just want to discredit Ning Zhiyuan?

Syllable............ As soon as the bolt of the closed window broke, no one opened it, and the quiet man blew in from outside, blowing out the candle flame and bringing darkness.

The gentle wind reminded her of that day, on that day, she was invited by King Chao to go to a small shop on Duihua Street, and King Chao made a very serious joke with her.

Could it be that it has something to do with yourself?

She can't determine exactly whether the child in Ziyue's belly is Ning Zhiyuan's, but she knows the attitude of the people in the palace, Ning Zhiyuan has mentioned many times that she wants to have a child, if the people in the palace know about Ziyue's child, they will definitely let her give birth to the child, and her own princess will not only have one more side princess who hates her in the future, but also have one more Ziyue who is more than three months pregnant, and her situation is not different from that of the queen who is the lord of the harem?

"Mother Xu!"

Mother Xu, who had been listening to the movement outside the door, heard the call and immediately pushed open the door and walked in.

"Prepare the carriage and call the prince in!"

Preparing the carriage, it is natural to send Ziyue away, and call Ning Zhiyuan to let him block the news, now that the night is late, Ziyue came to the Ruiwang Mansion only the officers and soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses on patrol knew, as long as their mouths were sealed, even if King Chao told the emperor about this matter, Ziyue could no longer be found in the palace.

This is the best way to deal with it before something big happens.

Ning Zhiyuan walked into the house, and saw that Du Yiyi's face was cold, but after all, he was not angry, and his heart was a lot more steady.

He agreed with Du Yiyi's handling method, "Then she will be handed over to you, I will go to greet the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division now, that old mother is afraid that there will be no chaos, lock it up first to avoid chaos, and try not to alarm the next person." ”

"Even if you send me away, it won't help, isn't the prince afraid that someone will say that you will kill your concubine and son?"

Ziyue, who is full of confidence, is calm, she dares to come here tonight, she knows that her meaning is just to show up with her stomach up, and other things will naturally be done by others.

Although it was late at night, there were still unclosed eyes at night.

Ning Zhiyuan, who had already been provoked by Ziyue, roared angrily: "You shut up for me!" Tie me up! Qin Huai, you take her to the east of the city, wait for the city gate to open and then send her out of the city, don't let her return to the capital. ”

Mother Xu, who ordered Forsythia to prepare the carriage and turned back, quickly took a rope, and with the help of Qin Huai, she finally tied up Ziyue.

As soon as Ning Zhiyuan left, Qin Huai and the others got into the carriage and went out through the back door of King Rui's mansion.

What should King Chao think at this time?

If he is King Chao, he will definitely use the power of public opinion to exaggerate and spread this matter, and then borrow the power of the imperial court to expose this matter, if he reports to Shuntian Mansion on the grounds of Ziyue's disappearance, Shuntianfu will file a case for investigation, it will rise to another level, and then it depends on the situation in the palace, she dares to say that there must be a lot of night owls outside Rui Wang's Mansion tonight, if there is a carriage leaving, it will definitely be closely monitored, and then Ning Zhiyuan can only passively fall into the quagmire, and can only wait for Ziyue, the child, to be born and confess his relatives.

To stop all this, it is necessary to break the boat, the heavenly family wants to save face, although the emperor wants to hug the emperor's grandson, but he will not let a water-based Yanghua woman be the mother of his emperor's eldest grandson, Ning Chaoge wants to discredit Ning Zhiyuan, she must discredit Ziyue.

She didn't know anything about Ziyue's background, but she knew that Ning Zhiyuan would definitely know that this child in Ziyue's belly, she could only force herself to believe that it was just a conspiracy.

I fell asleep when I woke up, it was already the fourth watch, the bright moon outside the house was faintly visible, but the stars had disappeared into the hazy sky, it was dawn, and soon the sun would rise, and the night would pass.

The golden sun rose from the east, the people in the capital woke up from their sleep, the gate of the Rui Wangfu opened again, and Ning Zhiyuan wore a royal robe, sat in a sedan chair and rushed to the palace.

The morning bell rings in the city, pulling people up from their beds and starting their day.

In the Rui Wang's Mansion, the subordinates began a busy day, they didn't know about last night's movements, and then there were three orders from the housekeeper not to talk about it, and the guard yard guarding the back door of the gate did not discuss the matter, the patrol team of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division was changed day and night, and the officers and soldiers who patrolled all night last night changed shifts and went back to sleep as soon as dawn, and those who came to take over did not know what happened last night.

This is just a temporary tranquility, Du Yiyi sent all her maidservants out early in the morning, Qin Huai also left the house early with people under Ning Zhiyuan's orders, and when the people who got up early and got up late talked about yesterday's Chunyu fraud case, there was already some gossip spread among them.

The courtiers could not go to the court for family affairs, and the topics of the early dynasty all revolved around the prince, and the emperor asked Shu Ruhai to read out the holy decree he had already prepared, abolishing the prince and sending him to the Zongren Mansion for five years.

The important thing for the courtiers is not to educate for five years, but to abolish the prince, although the crown prince has not yet worshiped the ancestors, but has been announced to the world, but it has been abolished in just a few months, and it has never been done since the establishment of the dynasty, but today the early dynasty in addition to the Chang Shenghou interceded for the prince, but no one objected to the emperor's decision.

After the next dynasty, the follow-up matters regarding the Chunyu fraud case still needed the cooperation of many departments, and the officials who had no time and did not dare to gather at this time to talk nonsense quickly returned to their posts.

The emperor got down to the Golden Palace and sat on the dragon chariot, Shu Ruhai and others followed with the folds that were collected today, the square in front of the Golden Palace was blown up when the Fuhu Army mutinied, but it has been renovated in just two days after that, there are hundreds of meters from the square to the Ningyuan Palace, all the way is a vast square, and there is no palace and the scenery of green mountains and green waters.

Although there was an easterly wind last night, at dawn the square that had been cleaned was so clean that there were no fallen leaves, and where the emperor went, the palace people retreated three feet away.

But when Long Yuan was about to walk in front of Ning Yuan Palace, there was a young courtier in a cyan official uniform standing on the road that Long Yuan had to pass, and he had no intention of retreating.

Jin Yiwei stepped forward to check, the person who blocked the way, it was Guo Ming, who was newly promoted to the Ministry of Officials, Guo Ming is the best among the young officials, but after two years in the dynasty, he has been promoted all the way, not only won the appreciation of the Ministry of Officials, but also responded to the young officials of the same age, the emperor listened to the name of the Jinyi Guard's announcement, waved his sleeves, let the palace people stop the dragon chariot, and let the Jinyi Wei call Guo Ming to step forward.

"Your Majesty, the minister Guo Ming has something to do!"

Guo Ming stepped forward and saluted.

"Why didn't you play it earlier?" The emperor yawned sleepily and squinted at Guo Ming, who was kneeling ten steps away.

"Because this matter is not a national event, can not be played in the court, but the minister is the official minister, the minister's family affairs are also a part of the ministry assessment, the minister received a secret report, saying that the third lady of the Rui King has long been retired last night after returning to the Rui Wang's mansion there is no trace, some people suspect that there is an accident, let the Ministry of Officials investigate, so the matter is related to the reputation of the Rui King, the minister does not dare to make his own opinion, so he asks the emperor to order!"

Guo Ming knelt in front of the dragon chariot, his voice was like thunder, not to mention the emperor, even the palace people three feet away could hear it clearly.

The emperor frowned unhappily, this matter is a trivial matter, such a trivial matter has never been worth mentioning for the officials, let alone specifically stopping Long Yuan and the emperor to tell him, but Guo Ming stopped himself in the square and said it, and the emperor knew what he meant when he thought about it.

"If someone is missing, when they report it to the Shuntian Mansion, how can they report it to the Ministry of Officials?"

"I don't know!"

"You don't need to ask about this matter, I will take care of it!" The emperor didn't look at Guo Ming who was kneeling on the ground, and waved his hand with the person who carried the dragon chariot in the sea of books, and the gorgeous dragon chariot was lifted, Guo Ming hurriedly got up to avoid it, and watched the dragon chariot leave.

His mission has been accomplished.

He didn't say too much with his own clever brain, with the emperor's wisdom and wisdom, how could he not see through the so-called whistleblower reputation, if he said too much, it would only backfire.

In the Ningyuan Palace, the emperor sent the book to Zhu Ge.

Subsequently, Zhu Ge quickly left the palace with a team of people and came to the Rui Wangfu.

In order to welcome these people who will arrive sooner or later, Du Yiyi has already done enough work before, and when Zhu Ge asked about Ziyue, she told a story that was completely different from the truth.

Ziyue was pregnant after being expelled from the Rui Wangfu, and used her pregnancy as a bargaining chip to blackmail the Rui Wangfu to give her a huge amount of compensation, how could the dignified Rui Wangfu allow such a person to be chaotic, and in a fit of anger, the two of them sent Ziyue out of the Rui Wangfu, as for where Ziyue went, she didn't know, when telling this story, Du Yiyi naturally mixed some of Ziyue's past with it, including the reason why she was expelled from Rui Wangfu.

After doing this, and through the people of the Rui Wang's Mansion and the officers and soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses who were patrolling Liudong Street that night, Zhu Ge returned to the palace with the story he heard and told the emperor.

At the same time, Shuntianfu also received a case, and some rumors also spread among the neighborhoods.

Two completely different stories arrived at Ningyuan Palace one after another.

In the rumors that Yin of Shuntian Mansion discovered, King Rui's third wife Ziyue met King Rui before March, King Rui who fell under the skirt of Ziyue pomegranate fell in love with Ziyue at first sight, and the dry wood fire burned at a point, and last year King Rui of Layue connected Ziyue to King Rui's Mansion and let him live in Youlanju, who knew that on Chinese New Year's Eve, Ziyue was forced to leave the mansion because of Princess Rui's jealousy, and two months later, Ziyue, who was pregnant, returned to King Rui's Mansion, and then disappeared.

It was completely different from the story that Zhu Ge heard about the purple moon who was greedy for vanity and loved money.

The two stories are completely different, then only one of them can be true, Zhu Ge is the emperor's trusted person cannot be faked, and Shuntianfu Yin is so cautious and careful that it is impossible to fake, so the fake can only be the person who spread these two stories.

The emperor, who has always disliked Du Yiyi, although he trusts Zhu Ge, he believes in the story of Yin Caoliang of Shuntian Mansion even more, no matter whether Du Yiyi is jealous and evil, or Ziyue loves money and is shameless, the emperor has the most to do with it, but the belonging of Ziyue's child.

Zhu Ge left the palace again and came to an alley in the east of the city.

After Mr. Du left the Rui Palace, he grieved that he was not right, resigned from the position of Jinyiwei, and bought a small courtyard here for retirement.

After Mr. Du confirmed that what Du Yiyi said was true, Zhu Ge went to the north of the city again, where he met the person who reported the crime.

Receiving that the carriage with Ziyue from Beijing had left Beijing safely, Du Yiyi put her mind at ease, Ning Chaoge had already made a move, and her progress on this side was also smooth, as long as the emperor did not agree with Ziyue, it would be difficult for Ziyue to gain a firm foothold.

The crown prince abolished, although the ministers did not show much radical opposition, but the resignation of the seven imperial historians of the Imperial Court was a big headache for the cabinet, Ning Zhiyuan returned to Penglai Pavilion after the court, and when Zhu Ge came, he was helping Lu Yi'an to write a memorabilia.

Who the child is before he is born, no one can say for sure, Zhu Ge, who already knows that Ziyue is not a woman from a good family, brought Ning Zhiyuan to Ningyuan Palace, and then guarded outside Ningyuan Palace with Shu Ruhai.

No one knows where Ziyue is now, and Ning Zhiyuan, who has already spoken to Du Yiyi, answered without a single loophole.

"Did you know she was pregnant?"

According to Du Yiyi, Ziyue has been pregnant for more than three months, and she was already one month pregnant when she left the Rui Wangfu.

"Erchen didn't know, welcoming Ziyue into the mansion, it was Erchen who was confused for a while, and Erchen didn't expect that she would be so shameless, and she would dare to blackmail Erchen, father, Erchen is sure that this child is not Erchen's!"

Ning Zhiyuan responded respectfully.

The emperor looked at the eyebrows and eyes that were somewhat similar to himself, and thought to himself that he had never been so affectionate as you when he was young, and now he has made such an ugly thing.

But this is his most beloved son after all, the child in Ziyue's arms is indeed difficult to determine who it is, although Ziyue has a bad character and is not right, but the child in this belly is also the blood of the heavenly family after all, if this matter is not handled well, maybe it will make a joke.

"And where did she go after she entered the house last night?"

"I don't know."

Missing? The emperor rubbed his brows, if Ziyue was just for blackmail, then he shouldn't have taken such a big risk and then shook his head and left, the prince's affairs are over, and now such things have appeared, the things of the heavenly family are one after another, laughing and generous, laughing and generous!

The emperor, who was still reluctant to scold, sighed and held on to the armrest of the dragon chair and was silent for a long time.

"I will send someone to find it, Chaoge's big wedding is coming, I will let people suppress the momentum outside, no matter what, leave this matter to me to deal with, you go back first!"

Ning Zhiyuan, who was standing respectfully, lowered his head and said stubbornly: "Father, the minister suspects that someone is planning this matter, in order to separate the husband and wife relationship between the son and Yiyi, the son and Yiyi both know that the father wants to hug the emperor and grandson, and now they are working hard." ”

After speaking, Ning Zhiyuan left Ning Yuan Palace.

The emperor, who was already worried, glanced at the back of his steady footsteps, and smiled bitterly. How could he not see that there was someone making waves here.

"Try! Thought I didn't know if the two of you shared a room? ”

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