"Bai Cainu said that you are her distant cousin, but there is such a thing?"

Wu Hongche's throat was dry for a while, and he stumbled back, "Back to the emperor, there is indeed such a thing, Xiaomin is Bai Cainu's cousin." ”

The emperor hummed out as if he didn't have anything, Wu Hongche pricked up his ears and listened carefully, but he couldn't hear anything clearly.

And Bai Jingxue was already staying in the study room across the door, guarded by the two Shang Palaces, who would tie her up and gag her as long as she made a sound.

"Bai Cainu said that Yao Shunrong could meet you before entering the palace, and there was a marriage contract, is this true?"

A drop of cold sweat fell between Wu Hongche's forehead, and before he could answer, the emperor said, "Don't worry, I'm not unreasonable, and I won't pursue what happened before entering the palace." ”

Pan Zhenan interjected on the side, "Don't worry, it's not important for the emperor to call you into the palace today, I just want to ask Yao Shunrong about before entering the palace, now Bai Cainu and Yao Shunrong have a very good relationship, once I talked about Yao Shunrong and you had a marriage contract when I was in my hometown, I wanted to summon you to ask, you can rest assured, Bai Cainu is very favored by Yao Shunrong's light, don't think that the emperor is making it difficult for you." ”

Hearing this, Wu Hongche looked up at Pan Zhenan suspiciously, and saw that he was smiling, not like he was deliberately hurting him, so he was relieved.

"The emperor knows people well, and he will not make things difficult for the people."

"Then you answer truthfully." The emperor said again.

Wu Hongche raised his eyes and looked at the woman behind the screen, he didn't know if that person was Yao Chuxi or his cousin of the Bai family, so he didn't dare to talk nonsense.

"Your Majesty, it will be clear if you ask Bai Cainu about this, she knows everything back then, Xiaomin is clumsy and blunt, and he is not too good at talking, for fear of disturbing your sacred heart."

"The emperor doesn't want to listen to those superfluous words, you just tell the truth."

Wu Hongche swallowed his saliva again, clasped the flesh in his palm tightly between his fingers, and said after a while, "Xiaomin doesn't dare to deceive the emperor, Yao Shunrong did have a marriage contract with Xiaomin before entering the palace, but later she entered the palace, and Xiaomin also returned to her hometown, so she slowly forgot about it, don't take it seriously, it's all a child's play, although there is a marriage contract, we are innocent." ”

The emperor hooked the corners of his mouth lightly behind the screen, and the woman sitting down slowly opened her mouth, "Are you Wu Hongche?" ”

"Back to the nobles, Xiaomin is exactly." Wu Hongche hurriedly kowtowed.

"It was Yao Shunrong who spoke just now, didn't you hear it?" Pan Zhenan's seemingly joking words were actually like a knife, which stabbed Wu Hongche's heart fiercely.

"No, no, Xiaomin heard it, but he didn't dare to confirm it, I haven't seen it for so many years, where can I remember to please?"

The emperor snorted again.

"But why haven't I seen you?" The woman said, "Lift up your head and let me take a closer look." ”

Haven't you seen it before? Where has Wu Hongche seen any Yao Chuxi, even Bai Jingxue has not seen it a few times.

Hearing this, Wu Hongche's bean-sized beads of sweat on his forehead slid down like flowing water, frightening him to fight between his upper and lower teeth, and replied tremblingly, "You are really a noble person, how forgetful!" But if you can't remember, it's not right for the small people, and it will bother you and the emperor. ”

In the study, Bai Jingxue closed her eyes violently, and her heart chuckled, as if she had foreshadowed death.

She looked left and right at Shang Gong on both sides, and the two of them pressed one of her shoulders on one side, and slowly exerted force in their hands, so that she didn't dare to make a sound.

"Oh? I hear you mean we've met before? But I remember, we haven't seen each other. ”

"How do you say? We've really seen it before, even with Bai Cainu, we have always played together since we were children! Wu Hongche gritted his teeth, thinking that Yao Chuxi alone could not match the two of them, and the emperor would always believe in the side with more people.

"Your Majesty, Wu Hongche provoked the relationship between you and your concubine, and the concubine has never met him, so how can you talk about a marriage contract? I think he said this in order to bite his white sister and concubine. ”

Wu Hongche had already thought of this, and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, you believe in Xiaomin!" Xiao Min is by no means provoking the relationship between you and Yao Shunrong, it is really the friendship from childhood to adulthood here, Yao Shunrong She first had a marriage contract with Xiao Min, but then turned around and entered the palace, which made Xiao Min unable to tell lies, even if he hurt Yao Shunrong, he couldn't take care of it, Xiao Min only knew that he couldn't bully the king! ”

"Oh?" The emperor raised his eyebrows slightly, "Isn't it that you know Yao Shunrong very well?" ”

Wu Hongche licked his dry lips while no one was paying attention, and said tremblingly, "I don't know too much, but I often saw it when I was young, and when I was older, I had a marriage contract, so I barely understood it." ”

"Is she beautiful?" When the emperor asked this, Wu Hongche trembled, and his frightened heart seemed to be tightly pinched by a pair of big hands.

What does that mean?

What does the emperor mean by this?

Wu Hongche breathed rapidly, the sweat on his face was like running water, he was not idle at all, the dampness and heat behind his ears and neck were hot, and it turned into cold sweat after a while.

"Yao Shunrong's... It's beautiful... Otherwise, you won't be able to enter the palace, right? ”

As soon as the words fell, the woman behind the screen slowly walked out, and the palace maid on the side hurriedly helped her up and stood five steps away from Wu Hongche.

"You are Wu Hongche? It's not as jade as Sister Bai said, isn't it the two of you lying to me and deceiving the emperor together? ”

"Yao Shunrong... You can't say that, the two of us have truthfully explained to the emperor, and the emperor is not unreasonable, I don't think it will embarrass you, you can honestly explain it, this... Xiaomin can't help it... I really don't dare to deceive you! ”

As he said this, the emperor also walked out from behind the screen, and asked in a cold voice, "Open your dog's eyes wide and see clearly, who is the person in front of you!" ”

Wu Hongche heard this like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, his eyes widened and his mouth opened slightly, staring directly at the woman.

A person who has never met before, where can you tell who she is?

"From before you entered the palace, I knew that you were deceiving the king with Bai Cainu, do you think you can hide it? You said that you and Yao Shunrong often met before entering the palace, but in fact, Yao Shunrong didn't come to the East Palace at all, and the person in front of you was just a palace maid pretending, and she was ashamed to say that she was? ”

Wu Hongche collapsed on the ground from his knees, trembling and unable to straighten his waist, he didn't dare to look directly at the emperor, let alone the woman who was not Yao Shunrong, he only stared at the felt mat on the ground, and saw several beads of sweat hitting the ground.

"Before entering the palace, you discussed with Bai Cainu, and poured dirty water on Yao Shunrong with the marriage contract, whether I summoned you or not, this dirty water was spilled out, and it was only done to her reputation as a woman, and you kept saying that you didn't dare to bully the king, do you know what the fate of the bully was?"

After hearing these words, Wu Hongche's ears buzzed, and he was dizzy, and his mind echoed over and over again, 'The crime of killing the head... The sin of exterminating the Nine Clans... None of the people involved in this will survive...'

The door of the study was opened from the inside, and Bai Jingxue was tied up like a zongzi, staggering and being pushed out by the two Shang Palaces, and fell to the ground without taking two steps.

Emperor Fang Cai instructed that once Wu Hongche leaked the horse's feet, he didn't need to get used to Bai Jingxue, just tie it up and push it out.

When he saw his cousin, Wu Hongche didn't have the joy of seeing his relatives at all, on the contrary, his tongue was knotted with fright.

One of her 'favored' concubines has been tied up like this, and it won't end well, so what about Wu Hongche herself? He has nothing to do with the emperor, and he has nothing to do with him, so what reason does the emperor have to forgive him and treat him well?

Without waiting for Bai Jingxue to speak, Wu Hongche bit her first, "Your Majesty!" These are all things that Xiaomin's cousin asked Xiaomin to say so, she threatened Xiaomin, she... She forced Xiaomin to say this... She was jealous of Yao Shunrong, she had been jealous since she was a child, so she threatened Xiaomin to pour dirty water on Yao Shunrong. ”

Wu Hongche said as he crawled to the emperor's feet, reaching out to grab the corner of the emperor's robe.

And Pan Zhenan's eyes were quick, and he stepped on Wu Hongche's hand, and he grinned when he stepped on it, and hurriedly withdrew his hand.

Without waiting for the emperor to say anything, Bai Jingxue shouted again, "Your Majesty, you believe in the concubine, the concubine really loves you!" I didn't want my cousin to see the concubine enter the palace and want to get some benefits, so he threatened the concubine with this matter, the concubine wanted to protect Sister Yao, and didn't want to be slandered by a villain like him, the emperor, you believe in the concubine! ”

As the emperor walked back to the main seat step by step, the two palace maids came over one on the left and one on the right and lifted the screen and withdrew.

"The two of you are half a catty and eight taels, Bai Jingxue is ruined on the outside, she is full of lies and falsehood, jealousy and jealousy are like snakes and scorpions, and you are completely Bai Jingxue's accomplice, I have nothing to say to you."

There were already a circle of palace people outside, and there were many people who had never been to the Taihe Hall in their lives, but they were implicated because of this incident.

That time in the back garden, the people Pan Zhenan wrote down were them.

In order to save Yao Chuxi's reputation, the emperor can only use this method.

The end of both of them was to be put in prison, although they were not fatal, they had to serve hard labor every day, they were tired and half dead every day, and they ate hard steamed buns and straw quilts.

The Bai family's matter was very disgraceful, but due to Yao Chuxi's persuasion, in the end, the emperor did not dispose of the Bai family and the Wu family, did not ask for their lives, and did not connect the nine clans.

Yao Chuxi looked at the three princes and Princess Yunshu quietly in the Zhaoxi Palace, the two of them were sleeping soundly, and the three princes moved their arms to kick their legs from time to time, because the swaddling clothes were not tied too tightly, so they were often kicked away by him.

Princess Yunshu sleeps peacefully, as long as she eats and sleeps properly, she basically doesn't cry.

The emperor told her about Bai Jingxue and Wu Hongche being imprisoned, and asked her if she had lost her anger, and at that time, Yao Chuxi suddenly had a feeling, as if everything the emperor had done so far was to make her happy.