Chapter 73: The concubine gives way
"The result?" Long Jingming naturally also saw the black lacquer brocade box that Miao Shangshan was holding in his hand, but his expression was a little strange and complicated, "But you found a hundred taels of gold?" ”
Miao Shangshan has always been a neat person, but at this moment, he was holding a brocade box with a rare hesitation, "Qi Qi Sheng, the servant has already dug the residence of the Wei female official, but in the end, he failed to find the hundred taels of gold she said. ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the hall was surprised and full of doubts.
"Qi Qi Shengshang," Miao Shangshan held the brocade box in his arms high above his head, "This brocade box was found in the underground compartment under the bed of the Wei female official, and there was no gold hundred taels in it, only a few saffron petals, and a few letters. ”
When Lady Wei saw the brocade box, her face had already changed greatly, and when she heard Miao Shangshan tell the contents of the box, the whole person was completely soft on the ground.
Long Jingming opened the black lacquer brocade box with his own hands, and was about to take out the letterhead with only a few numbers, and after reading it word by word, his cold gaze like a blade fell straight on Feng Qingwan, whose face was blue and white, "It seems that Concubine Guan already knows what is written in these letters." ”
Hearing this, the puzzled eyes of everyone in the palace turned to Guan Guifei, only to find that the noble concubine, who had always been graceful and gorgeous, was as ugly as ashes, and the beads of sweat as big as rain dyed her delicate makeup into a mess.
"Holy mercy, concubines, concubines, concubines......"
Feng Qingwan wanted to explain something more, but her self-proclaimed smart brain was ineffective at this time, and she couldn't even think of a completed excuse, she only felt that it was dark in front of her, and then passed out.
What was contained in the black lacquer brocade box was the letterhead that Feng Qingwan had told the female official Wei to burn to ashes after reading it, and the content written in front of her was not much, but it was enough to prove that she was tempting and threatening the female official Wei, waiting for the opportunity to mix saffron pollen in the diet that Princess Cheyue gave to Feng Zhaorong.
As for Lady Wei leaving these things, she originally thought that if the matter was completed, Concubine Guan would regret her original promise, and she could at least have a coercion to protect her interests and life.
Female official Wei confessed before that it was Princess Cheyue who bought her the hundred taels of gold, and it was also Concubine Guan who gave her and confessed to hide it under the bed, and confessed it in time for someone to search for it in her room. But she couldn't figure out why the gold, which was simply hidden in the secret compartment under the bed, was not found, but the things she had painstakingly hidden in the underground compartment were found out.
Just when everyone in the hall was holding their breath in a daze, Long Jingming, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke: "Concubine Guan is too frightened, don't you really carry her back to Nian Cizhai soon!" ”
Another Miao Shangshan in the palace, who knew the contents of the brocade box, heard the words, and was only slightly stunned before answering the "yes", and ordered someone to carry out the Guan Guifei who was dead on the ground.
Immediately, Long Jingming looked at the female official Wei and said: "Feng Zhaorong's belly dragon descendant, it is this traitorous and lowly who is greedy for money and secretly swallows the master's property, but he vainly tries to take the opportunity of rumors to blame the innocent Princess Cheyue, whose crimes are difficult to pay for, and will be immediately dragged down to give Ling Chi the punishment, and all his nine clans will be sent to Beizhuang!" ”
"Holy Lord, the slave and maid have been wronged, and the letters in the brocade box are clearly ......"
didn't give Lady Wei a chance to finish her words at all, and with a glance from Miao Shangshan, a guard immediately stepped forward to knock her unconscious, and then carried her down neatly with her hands and feet to be tortured.
When Long Jingming looked at Princess Cheyue again, the usual kind smile already appeared on her face, "I really wronged the princess today, I know that you and Feng Zhaorong have a deep sisterhood, in order to make up for the pain of Feng Zhaorong's loss of a child, I will promote her to Concubine De when I return to Beijing!" ”
"Holy Wisdom."
Although he didn't see what was written on the letters in the black lacquer brocade box, Feng Huanling had already guessed that those letters must have something to do with Female Official Wei and Feng Qingwan, and most of them conspired to kill two birds with one stone, not only to solve the dragonborn in Feng Huan's icy belly, but also to let her bear this crime and be punished or even killed!
However, as long as Long Jingming is still unwilling to touch his Guan Guifei, then even if it is not a female official of Wei, there will eventually be other ghosts who will appear for the dead.
At noon that day, Feng Huanbing, who had just woken up, received an edict from Emperor Xuan to make her a concubine, and it was determined that she would be crowned, and she would only be officially canonized after returning to Beijing.
For Feng Qingwan, Long Jingming did not punish her, but found an excuse for poor maintenance, and demoted her directly from the concubine to Zhaoyi, which was one level shorter than Feng Huanbing.
Even after tossing in the middle of the night, when he returned to Fengyi Pavilion, Feng Huanling had no sleep, and he and Long Yucang waved away all the palace minions, and the two were alone in the outer room of the bedroom.
After a while, they heard a faint and inaudible sound from the half-hidden window tower, and then a fiery figure appeared out of thin air standing in front of them.
Long Yucang arched his hand and said, "This time, I have to thank Brother Xiao for his help." ”
Xiao Yan threw the bulging red brocade bag in his hand into his arms and said: "It's just a trivial matter, even if I usually see this kind of bad thing that harms others and seeks to harm others, I won't care about it, not to mention that it is related to you and your younger siblings." ”
Long Yucang couldn't hand over the heavy brocade back, "Since this golden hundred taels were found by Brother Xiao, let Brother Xiao dispose of it, anyway, it is the money that Concubine Guan designed to harm people, and it is better to squander it sooner or later." ”
"Okay, then I'll stay." Xiao Yan didn't say much, he had never cared much about gold and silver, and usually the ill-gotten gains would be distributed to the poor people, thinking that the gold would be distributed to the victims of the Northland later.
Since the robbery and murder of the bandits, Xiao Yan left on the surface, but in fact, he still secretly followed King Cheyue and his party, and with his skills, it was naturally not difficult to stay in the summer palace that was a little looser than the guards of the Dragon City Palace, and he didn't even need anyone to cover and protect him, and he could come and go as freely as the wind.
As early as the afternoon before the incident, Long Yucang smelled the residual smell of saffron on Feng Huanling's fingertips, and after a little speculation, he deduced that some people finally couldn't hold back and wanted to take action on Feng Huanbing's fake pregnant belly.
At that time, they didn't know Feng Qingwan's specific conspiracy, but they just tried their best to arrange everything, for example, when Lady Wei said in public that Princess Cheyue had bought her with a hundred taels of gold, and she hid all the gold under her bed, Xiao Yan, who was hidden in the shadows, took a step ahead of Eunuch Miao and found out the gold. As for the black lacquer brocade box that they dug up later, it was completely unexpected by them, and it can be said that there is evil retribution.
However, Long Jingming was finally hindered by the power of the Feng family, and did not put the charge of murdering the dragon descendant on Feng Qingwan's head, and only let Female Official Wei be a substitute for the ghost, which somewhat disappointed Feng Huanling, but he was not surprised.
Because this is the Emperor Xuan she knows, Long Jingming, who can endure what others can't endure and do what people can't do for the sake of the country!
For him, the most important thing in this world is only his throne, his ambition, and his splendid country, what is the meaning of other rights and wrongs? They are just the means and stepping stones he needs to achieve his goals, and no matter who he is, he can only be of use or useless.
is as valuable as Feng Qingwan, even if the design kills his flesh and bones, he can endure it for a while and continue to keep her. But when she loses her use value, I am afraid that Queen Yan, who died tragically that year, will be her final end!
"It's really a companion like a tiger, how can there be anything right or wrong in front of the imperial power, it all depends on who the dog emperor wants to let die and who lives!"
Xiao Yan had long been unaccustomed to Emperor Xuan's many actions, and now he saw how Long Jingming reversed right and wrong, conniving at the real evildoers to make the humble and unimportant minions scapegoat, making him even more disdainful and shameless of this dog emperor.
"Brother Xiao, aren't you afraid of trouble coming out of your mouth? He even insulted the current emperor so blatantly. Feng Huanling pretended to be disgusted and displeased, but he couldn't help laughing out loud after a while, "That's it, there are no outsiders here on the left and right, and there is nothing wrong with Brother Xiao wanting to speak so fast." ”
Hearing this, Xiao Yan said with a straight face: "Hey, I'm not a person who can only play lip service, if someone dares to oppose this dog emperor, I will be the first to support it!" ”
When Feng Huanling heard this, the smile on his lips suddenly bent deeper, and the bright smile that was close at hand made Xiao Yan a little stupid.
Although Feng Huanbing showed signs of pregnancy through Cangyun's false pregnancy technique, she had a miscarriage under the pretense of saffron, but it was somewhat damaging to her body, so the weakness of bed rest was not all pretended.
The matter of fake pregnancy has already come to an end, and Feng Huanling no longer has to deliberately avoid Feng Huanbing in order to condone those rumors, so Derong will go to Yixin Xuan to accompany her in bed.
"Now, what happened to Feng Zhaoyi, who was reading Ci Zhai?"
Although she also felt that she had spelled out a "fake son", it only caused Feng Qingwan to be demoted to Zhaoyi, which made Feng Huanbing very unwilling, but she could only choose to accept it.
"It is said that she has woken up, but the saint has decreed, although she is still allowed to stay in the summer palace, in fact, it is equivalent to being placed under house arrest in Nian Cizhai, and she will not even go out of the gate." Feng Huanling personally peeled a crystal clear grape and sent it to her sister's mouth, "The Holy Lord has already decided to return to Beijing after the Mid-Autumn Festival, so we can still enjoy a few days here." ”
Compared with the Dragon City Imperial Palace, which has many palace gates, the summer palace built by the mountain is really much more comfortable and relaxed, at least it is much easier and more convenient for their sisters to meet than when they are in the palace.
Feng Huanbing, who was lying down, suddenly remembered something, and sat up stiffly, "By the way, the people who assassinated you, King Cheyue, and the envoys of the Flower God Kingdom together with Xuanwu Kingdom at the beginning, have you found out what your identity is?" Could it have something to do with the bandits who robbed us this time? ”
Feng Huanling pondered and said, "Those people belong to a very powerful killer sect in the rivers and lakes, and they are not aimed at us, they are just taking people's money and people to eliminate disasters. It's really a coincidence, Xiao Daxia, who saved us in time on the mountain before, is the head of that sect, so the prince and I have already inquired through him that the killer who intended to assassinate us that day was actually hired by a person who wanted us to die. ”
"Who is it?"
"Wind and jade."
"He? Then you ......"
"We have passed this news to Pei Qing of the Flower God Kingdom, as for how to deal with this matter, it is up to her. After all, in her opinion, those killers were also going to kill them. ”
"That's fine, no matter what, he's also the cousin of our sisters, it's not good to kill his relatives with his own hands after all, right?"
"Well, I didn't want to kill him, many times being alive is the greatest torture for a person."
“……”