Chapter 209: Secret Song
Zhou Huiru is the second daughter of the Marquis of Dingyuan, and she is quite favored by the Marquis of Dingyuan on weekdays, but all this has changed greatly after Gu Qingyi appeared, she is no longer the daughter of the Houfu who has attracted much attention, not only the sister-in-law and servants in the family talk nonsense, but even her father's attention falls more on Gu Qingyi.
Why? It's just a recognized daughter, who not only robbed her of her favor and dowry, but also affected her reputation! The news that Princess Qin was reprimanded by the queen has spread all over the streets and alleys of the capital, and her husband's family has also learned the news and has a lot of complaints about her, coupled with her mother-in-law's refusal to attend her wedding, her status has plummeted, and she was given a cold reception as soon as she entered the door, and there is no more tragic experience than here.
In order to save face, she learned the words of Marquis Dingyuan to appease her last night, "Mother doesn't like to be lively in the first place, my eldest sister didn't participate in the marriage when she got married, not to mention that when the third sister is pregnant, my mother wants to stay in the Qin Wangfu to take care of her, so she can't leave." ”
The news that Princess Qin was pregnant again came out.
The secret guard of the Qin Wangfu got the direction of the capital's words for the first time, and the next day, Gu Qingyi got the news from Feng Ming.
These things did not avoid Mrs. Zhou, and when Mrs. Zhou heard it, she immediately lowered her face, "Bastard, what time is this?" actually spread the news that you are pregnant, it is simply a wolf ambition, I don't know what to say! ”
Ordinary people, who are only three months pregnant, will not leak the news, because they are afraid that the fetus will not sit firmly, which will alarm the mother who sent the child. It is estimated that Dingyuan Marquis did not expect that Zhou Huiru would be so ignorant of the depth and talk nonsense regardless of the occasion.
Gu Qingyi didn't want the relationship between A-Niang and her father-in-law to ease down again, and grabbed Mrs. Zhou, who was going back to the Hou Mansion to find trouble, "A-Niang, don't get excited, I can't hide the news of my pregnancy after all, but it's just a matter of time or time, the prince sent a letter from the previous son, saying that he was coming back, and when he came back, we didn't need to be so scared." ”
It is inconvenient to have no man in the mansion after all, and it is inconvenient for Gu Qingyi to come forward for many things, but in order not to distract King Qin, she did not tell him the news of her pregnancy, but only let him slowly figure it out, and don't let the secret people take advantage of the loopholes.
I got the news from Feng Ming, the corrupt officials below already knew that the dirty silver had been transferred, and they were looking for silver and evading the pursuit of the king of Qin like a headless fly, but it was useless, the king of Qin had an account book in his hand, and he grabbed a quasi, almost uprooting the prince's party, and the news was transmitted back to the capital, and the dynasty was in an uproar, and the impeachment of the imperial history flew to the emperor's desk like a snowflake. Well-informed people are avoiding the prince, for fear of becoming the next punching bag.
The crown prince already knew that the account book was in the hands of the King of Qin, and he didn't even care about revenge from the Marquis of Yongyi's Mansion, and wave after wave of assassins were sent to Qingning Mansion, which was the Qin Palace, and there was an endless stream of assassins visiting every night, not to kill Gu Qingyi, but to find dirty silver.
After learning that the dirty silver had disappeared, the prince and others checked all possible targets, and felt that the carload of Qingning Mansion specialties brought back by Gu Qingyi back to Beijing was the most likely to contain silver, and they felt that the silver might still stay in the Qin Palace, so they came to inquire about the news and tried to find the silver back to fill the hole - but they didn't know that it was too late, because the silver had not entered the Qin Palace, and was secretly given to the emperor by Li Shida as soon as he entered the capital, and the silver had been put into the emperor's private treasury.
Those endless stream of assassins were handled cleanly by Feng Ming, and they did not alarm the ladies in the mansion at all, so Gu Qingyi didn't know that there was such a thing as assassins, and he raised the fetus with peace of mind every day, counting the days and waiting for King Qin to come back.
However, if she wants to live in peace, others may not let her go, and the problem is in her stomach.
The county lord of Yu'an suddenly put down a shocking thunder, accusing Princess Qin Gu Qingyi of being watery Yanghua, unchaste and unclean, and secretly married to Yongyi Hou Shizi Zhu, the child she was carrying in her belly was not King Qin's at all, but the evil seed she got by having a tryst with Shao Yanjin after returning to Beijing, and the golden hairpin that Shao Yanjin carried with him was evidence of the innocence of the two.
The people all over the capital were stunned, and people who didn't know the depth patronized to watch the excitement, but some of them were sensitive, and they immediately contacted King Qin to thoroughly investigate the corruption case, knowing that it was a game between the East Palace and King Qin's Mansion. As the saying goes, when immortals fight, mortals suffer, except for those officials who can't dock when they get on the boat, everyone else has nothing to do with themselves, hanging high and watching the development of the situation.
The county lord of Yu'an sued the Zongren Mansion, and the Zongren Mansion Zongling is Prince Duan, on one side is the nephew and daughter-in-law, on the other hand is the daughter-in-law's maiden brother, and there is also a Yu'an county lord and Princess Chengping who refuse to suffer, he did not dare to be good at it, and reported it directly to Emperor Zhaoming, and asked Emperor Zhaoming to decide.
After a month, Gu Qingyi was summoned into the palace again, and met Shao Yanjin at the gate of the palace, not seen for many days, Shao Yanjin has changed greatly, he is really very thin, his graceful demeanor and uninhibited have precipitated into stability and depression, his eyes were a little evasive and guilty when he saw Gu Qingyi, if it wasn't for his delay in returning the golden hairpin, there would not be this false accusation today.
Gu Qingyi, who was innocently implicated, originally had resentment in her heart, but the moment she saw Shao Yanjin, it almost dissipated, Shao Yanjin took the risk to give her the account book, and the entire family was implicated because of this.
Shao Yanjin has been paying attention to Gu Qingyi's expression, seeing that she has never been angry, he doesn't know what it feels like in his heart, he took the initiative to walk over and apologize, "I'm sorry, I didn't know that the county lord of Yu'an would flip through my things, that golden hairpin ......"
"Isn't that golden hairpin a gift from you to the county lord of Yu'an?" Gu Qingyi was planning Shao Yanjin's words, his eyes turned around the surrounding eunuchs and palace maids, and his face was calm, "The pure one is self-purifying, Shao Shizi, you and I were innocent before, and we are not afraid of research." ”
"What Princess Qin said is very true, that golden hairpin is a gift prepared by the son of this world." Shao Yanjin lowered his eyelids and said.
The two of them unified their rhetoric, and when they met Emperor Zhaoming and King Duan, they said the same, Emperor Zhaoming knew very well about Princess Qin's southward search for King Qin, coupled with the secret fold of King Qin, he didn't believe that Princess Qin would secretly communicate with Yongyi Hou Shizi, as a suspicious emperor, he had begun to suspect that this was the prince who borrowed a knife to kill people - the account book was stolen by Yongyi Hou Shizi from the prince, and he already knew this.
At this time, the eunuch came to report, "Your Majesty, the queen's mother, Princess Chengping and the lord of Yu'an ask to see you." ”
They are very well informed.
A hint of displeasure flashed in Emperor Zhaoming's eyes, "Let them in." ”
The queen soon came in with Princess Chengping's mother and daughter, and the three of them saluted in a proper manner, and the queen took the lead in speaking, "Your Majesty, Yu'an, this child entered the palace early in the morning, and let the concubine help her preside over justice, the child in the womb of Princess Qin is related to the royal bloodline, and it must not be confused, and the concubine, as the mother-in-law, has to be a little more careful, I heard that Prince Duan entered the palace to ask to see Your Majesty, and the concubine dared to bring Yu'an over to confront her, and asked Your Majesty to forgive the concubine for making her own claims." ”
The queen's posture was very low, Emperor Zhaoming's face softened slightly, and he gave the queen a seat, only then did he look at the instigator of the incident, Lord Yu'an, his eyes were as sharp as a knife, and his voice was calm without ups and downs and bias, "Yu'an, tell me, what the hell is going on?" ”
The lawless lord of Yu'an, she didn't dare to be presumptuous in front of the emperor, she always felt that under her grandfather's gaze, everything she had was hidden, but when she looked at Shao Yanjin and Gu Qingyi next to her, the resentment, jealousy and unwillingness in her heart surged up, and she only thought about revenge, so she couldn't care about anything.
So she took out a golden hairpin from her sleeve, handed it to the eunuch next to her, and said, "Your Majesty, this is physical evidence." Yu'an didn't dare to lie and deceive your grandfather, in fact, Princess Qin had a crush on my husband Shao Yanjin before she got married, and even made a private lifelong decision, Shao Yanjin once wanted to marry Princess Qin, but she was stopped by Yong Yihou, so she couldn't succeed. Later, after Princess Qin got married, the two never broke off contact, Shao Yanjin even had a tryst with Princess Qin before getting married, and at that time in the teahouse, many people were witnesses. The golden hairpin I just presented is Princess Qin's, and this is the physical evidence of the secret communication between the two! ”
The eunuch carefully presented the golden hairpin to the front of the emperor, and Emperor Zhaoming glanced at it, but there was no obvious mark on it, and it was not any physical evidence at all.
Shao Yanjin also knew, and stood up to defend, "Your Majesty, the relationship between Weichen and Princess Qin is upright and upright, and there is nothing that cannot be said to others, this golden hairpin was bought by Weichen a long time ago, and he plans to wait until the birthday of the county lord of Yu'an to give it to her, but I don't know how she misunderstood, but it is said that it is Princess Qin's, which is obviously a crime to be added, and please ask Your Majesty to be clear, and return Weichen and Princess Qin a clean slate." ”
"You talk nonsense!" The county lord of Yu'an sneered, "Where are you and Princess Qin still innocent, you talk in your dreams at night, shouting that you are the name of Princess Qin, is this also innocent?" ”
Shao Yanjin's face changed greatly, and the expressions of everyone present became subtle, if the golden hairpin was just suspicious, and now with the confession of the county lord of Yu'an, whether Shao Yanjin and Princess Qin were innocent is open to discussion.
Shao Yanjin didn't know if he was talking in his dreams at all, but the stakes were so high, he still denied it, but the county lord of Yu'an, as his wife, had a very high credibility in his testimony, even Emperor Zhaoming, who didn't believe it very much, was suspicious at this time, and the situation began to be unfavorable to them.
He thought about it again and again, and finally knelt down and kowtowed, "Your Majesty Mingjian, Weichen does admire Princess Qin, but he has never had the luxury of not having it. Princess Qin and King Qin have a deep affection for each other, and they are unswerving, and they will not take a fancy to Weichen at all, and naturally there is no secret communication, and please ask Your Majesty to investigate thoroughly, and don't let the villain who was framed succeed. ”