Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Eight: Mastermind
Guan Rong's face showed a look of despair, hesitated for a moment, and said bluntly: "Calm down, do you think that this spell was cast on you by this palace?" ”
"Chong Niangniang's words, the concubine will not suspect Niangniang." Calm down.
"Okay, you go with this palace to see the emperor, tell the emperor what you just said, say that I am not the mastermind of this matter at all, and I don't want to harm you at all."
Guan Rong got up violently, pulled his calm sleeves and walked out.
Calm was a little surprised, I didn't know that Guan Rong had such courage.
Guan Rong had good luck today, the two of them had just gone out, and they saw the emperor with his head down and his hands behind his back and pacing into the courtyard of Fengqi Palace.
"Your Majesty, the queen wants her concubine to tell you, it's not her disgusting technique, she wants her concubine to believe her words, the concubine believes it, and then asks the concubine to tell the emperor, and the concubine will tell you."
Calmly salute and say seriously.
Zhang glanced at Guan Rong stiffly, and snorted coldly: "She's threatening you?" ”
"No, Bengong didn't threaten her, what Bengong said was the truth." Guan Rong fell to his knees and shouted loudly.
"Guan Rong, some things have to be confessed, and some sins must be confessed, although you are rude, but you are not stupid, why don't you understand this truth?" Zhang said coldly.
When Guan Rong heard this, he collapsed to the ground and began to cry silently.
"Calm down, you follow me into the house, your policy is only the first half, although the cabinet people have discussed a lot of articles in the second half, but I always feel unreasonable, there seem to be many loopholes,
You write the second half together, and I will take it and discuss it with them. ”
Zhang walked into the hall with a calm hand, and didn't look at Guan Rong again.
Guan Rong has completely despaired, and even the last hope of saving his life has been wiped out.
She couldn't figure out what she was doing wrong.
Since marrying into the royal family, she follows the rules, and she strictly abides by the rules, in addition to abiding by the rules, she also tries her best to please the emperor and the queen mother.
She takes care of their daily life, and she even cooks for them herself.
In order to be a good queen, she has already put down the status of a young lady, and she does everything herself, just asking the queen mother and the emperor to say a good word about her.
The only thing she shouldn't do is to deal with a concubine like Calm.
But she is a wife and the mother of a country, can't she show a little jealousy?
And isn't this jealousy human?
Why is calmness so favorable?
She is obviously unruly, ignores etiquette, is lawless, threatens the emperor, despises the queen mother, and always makes mistakes and rules that can be violated in the harem.
But she is still the most favored one, and Guan Rong can't figure it out.
Calmly walked into the hall with the chapter, looking like a scoundrel: "It's not that the concubine doesn't want to write half of the article, but the first half of the article has been exhausted, and she can't write the second half." ”
Zhang personally studied ink for her, laid out paper for her, and urged her: "Don't be lazy, I know you can do it." ”
Calm has to write, the writing is mediocre, it seems to be uninnovative and worthless.
After reading it, he shook his head and smiled on his face: "At the end of the day, she is a little woman, the beginning is grandiose, and the people who read it are excited, but she is a tiger." ”
"I said it earlier, the concubine is just a ploy used to save her life, and all the hard work has been spent on the first half, so how can there be anything in the second half."
Calmly slumped on the chair and nibbled on the fruit, with a helpless look on his face.
Zhang folded the article and stuffed it into his sleeve, reached out and pinched her face: "Are you going to sleep with me tonight?" ”
"Don't go, the concubine still sleeps soundly in her own room, and it's good to talk to Nan You in a dream, the concubine likes that child, she talks straight and straight, and she won't hide it." Calmly refuse simply.
"I know that I have wronged you, I have asked the inner chamberlain to show mercy to her family, which can be regarded as a little compensation for her, you have always understood the general situation, and you are willing to think about me, will you not give me this face?" Zhang said softly.
"The concubine doesn't understand what the emperor means." Roll your eyes calmly.
Zhang pinched her face with a stronger hand, and smiled: "Don't make trouble, you are as good as a monkey, what can you mean by not being with Dao I, if I don't take a palace maid out to atone for the crime, do I really watch you and the queen mother stiffen?"
Are the little gold beads on the queen mother's hairpin still in your hand? Before going to Jingyue Palace, you first went to Chenghuan Palace, did you really think I knew nothing? ”
"I don't know, there are no little gold beads." Calmly continue to roll your eyes.
Zhang lifted her up across the table, pressed her down on the table, and leaned down to suppress her, gritting his teeth with hatred: "Little slut, let you talk nonsense with your eyes open, and treat me as two hundred and five,
I know your stinky temper very well, if you don't hurry up to put out the fire, I'm afraid that you won't lose both with your mother? How dare you take out that little golden bead in front of everyone?
The devil knows what evidence you have in your hand to defeat the queen mother, and if you take it out together, how will the queen mother be able to convince the public in the future? Your life hangs in the balance.
I don't want to see the two women I love the most get angry, and both lose. ”
Calm and convinced, sometimes, he is still quite smart, and suddenly thought that there would be evidence in his hands that was unfavorable to the Empress Dowager Guan.
When she was tried in Jingyue Palace, she really thought about it, if Zhang couldn't come back in time to stop it, when the Queen Mother was about to kill her, should she take out the little gold bead and the two blood words written by Wu Sanji before she died, so that the murderer would be exposed to the world.
This tearing aroused Zhang's interest, and he kept calm, and really screamed that she was repairing it, and then stopped.
When the matter was over, he was calm and sore, and he curled up on the table and couldn't get up for a while.
Zhang was in good spirits, straightened his clothes, and smiled at her: "I came here while I was out of Gong, and I have to go back to the council, and I will wait for me at night, and there will be a good show." ”
"The concubine's wrist is not good yet, and she really can't serve the emperor." Said calmly and weakly.
"I didn't let you serve with your hands." After Zhang finished speaking, he stretched out with satisfaction and walked out.
When Zhang walked out of the courtyard, the laughing man came over with a copper basin of warm water to wash and dress calmly, looking at the calm bruises and purple eyes red, and sighed softly: "The emperor is him, he is too, too much." ”
Calmly hearing this, his heart was hot, and he reached out and touched her head.
"Niangniang, the slave maid took the paste prescribed by Master Zhu to wipe it with you?" The laughing man gently buttoned her underwear and asked distressedly.
"Forget it, no, it won't hurt much." Smile calmly.
Literati often say that this is elegant and fun, but Calm never feels it.
After getting dressed, he sat on the chair behind the desk, calmed down and straightened his eyes again, and after a while, he looked up and asked the smiling man who had been standing beside him: "The Jingyue Palace where the Queen Mother lives now is the former Cold Palace, and the cold palace used to kill people, did they all throw their bodies into the dry well behind the palace?"
Now, is that dry well still there? ”
The laughing man was stunned and shook his head to indicate that he didn't know.
"Go and call Dayong and let him go out and inquire." Calmly commanded.
The laughing man walked out, sat calmly for a while, and also walked out and went to the Chenghuan Hall to tease the child.
Calmly hugging the little prince, the funny child grinned non-stop, only to see the big panting and running over.
Calmly thought that what had brought him to inquire had come to fruition, so he handed the child to the nurse and asked him how he was.
Dayong slapped his thigh and shouted: "Master, I can't find you anymore, hurry, hurry up, the Queen Mother is waiting in Jingyue Palace, all the concubines have already gone, look at the posture, there is a big event." ”
Calmly pouted, and walked out.
The so-called big thing, is it last night? The emperor's visit is not uninteresting, this is to reassure her, and by the way, remind her that the scapegoat has been found, so let her not talk nonsense. First of all, I put on a big hat for her who knew the great sense of compassion and the holy will, and on her head was not.
There was silence in Jingyue Palace, only the rustle of the soles of the feet when I walked in calmly.
Empress Dowager Guan glared at her and said angrily: "It's too late to come back, but she looks like a concubine!" ”
Calmly bend down slightly and take a bow, and sit down in your place.
"Everyone is together, there is something to say today, what do you want to do, everyone knows what you want." Empress Dowager Guan opened her mouth gloomily.
As for what Empress Dowager Guan said later, she didn't hear it at all, she kept looking at Guan Rong who was sitting at the top.
Guan Rong seems to have foreseen her own end, and she is dressed very neatly today, in an authentic outfit, and even the decoration on her head is meticulous, showing her identity brightly.
"Guan Rong, are you guilty?"
After Empress Dowager Guan's long opening remarks, her tone was sharp, she pointed at Guan Rong, and said sternly.
Guan Rongran stood up, slowly knelt down in the center of the ground, and replied in a hoarse voice: "The concubine is guilty." ”
Empress Dowager Guan was stunned for a moment, and was speechless for a while.
Even calm was taken aback, she didn't expect Guan Rong to confess so easily, she originally wanted to see the dragon and tiger fight between the two of them, but Guan Rong obviously didn't mean to fight with the Empress Dowager Guan, so she confessed!
Life is really full of accidents, and these accidents are not all surprises.
"The queen mother, the concubine is guilty, it is not a pity to die, the concubine only asks the queen mother and the emperor to be gracious, spare the family of the concubine, the concubine is confused for a while, commits a serious crime, and is willing to bear all the responsibility." Guan Rong kowtowed.
Empress Dowager Guan was also surprised, and she didn't speak for a long time.
Calmly guessed that she had prepared a lot of arguments to put Guan Rong to death, but she never thought that Guan Rong would be able to admit this trumped-up crime so happily.
"Guan Rong, remember that your family is loyal and good, your father has meritorious service in the border, and your mother is the county lord, since you have confessed your guilt, then the mourning family is the master, and you are exempted from the sins of the nine clans, and only you are punished."
Empress Dowager Guan opened her mouth a little astringently.
Guan Rong kowtowed and thanked him, and was taken off by several palace maids and dragged out.
"If someone doesn't follow the rules and causes trouble again, she's doomed!"
Empress Dowager Guan stood up, her face was tense, and she shouted loudly, but her eyes were fixed on the calmness of the chair.
The concubines hurriedly got up and said yes.
I didn't get up when I was calm, and I sat very steadily.
Anyway, she doesn't care, she can live, and she lives well, not because she serves her master well, but because she is ruthless and a villain.
She wanted to blackmail them, not bend them.
She didn't need to surrender to them anymore.