Chapter 104: Belief or Unbelief
As soon as Lingxi's words came out, Mo Liu's face turned pale, and after getting up, he hurriedly denied it, "The slave and maid are wrong, it is the slave and the maid who are wrong." At that time, the mother was not pregnant, and she was not pregnant......"
Xian Guifei knelt on the ground and sneered, "It was already three months when Cao Guifei was diagnosed as pregnant. You said that you remember the real thing, it was the warbler concubine you met in the peony garden. The palace was surprised, it turned out that in February, the peony in the peony garden had bloomed with the newly sprouted willows! ”
Mo Liu knelt on the ground, unable to say a word, and his body trembled like chaff.
Concubine Rou looked at Mo Liu, who was kneeling on the ground, and her eyes swept up like a knife. Mo Liu saw Rou Gui Concubine's eyes, and her body trembled even more.
Gonggong Feng walked in from outside the Changxia Palace, followed by several eunuchs and palace maids. Xian Guifei bowed to Emperor Yong'an, then stood up and asked one by one, all of whom knew that Xiao Dezi was blackmailed by Xiao Linzi.
Xiao Linzi wanted to open his mouth to defend several times, but he was glared back by the noble concubine with her eyes.
In the end, Xiao Wuzi took out a pale yellow paper from Xiao Yiyi in his arms, held it in his hand, and said in a trembling voice, "Xiangui Concubine Niangniang, after the slave listened to what Gonggong Feng said, he took Gonggong Feng to search Xiaolinzi's residence on his own initiative. Finally, I found this ......"
Xian Guifei took the piece of paper in her hand, turned around and presented it to Emperor Yong'an.
Emperor Yong'an raised his eyes and glanced at the piece of paper, and saw that it clearly recorded that Xiao Dezi stole Yingcairen's jewelry and lost it to Xiao Linzi, and Xiao Dezi wrote the wrong note and was willing to return it on a monthly basis. said that it was returned, but the IOU did not say how many taels of silver to be returned. However, since the fourth year of Yong'an, Xiao Dezi returned the amount of silver taels to Xiao Linzi with one stroke, and the total number of Lin Lin added up to nearly two hundred taels.
At this time, Xiao Dezi had already woken up from the ground, and his mouth was broken and he couldn't speak. Qiaozhu knelt beside Xiao Dezi and told Xiao Dezi what had just happened in the hall in a whisper, little by little.
After hearing this, Xiao Dezi trembled his hands, and wrote a paragraph with his fingers on the side of Supa, which Qiaozhu held, and then knelt in front of Emperor Yong'an, kowtowed three times and then gave it to Emperor Yong'an.
Emperor Yong'an took the Supa, and saw that it was bloodstained, and the font was difficult to argue.
Seeing this, the concubine took the handkerchief and read aloud, "The slave gambles badly, and the crime deserves death, but the concubine is wronged." Xiao Linzi once used this to threaten the slave to listen to his orders, but the slave couldn't do anything to betray the master, so he let him threaten the slave with an IOU. But since three months ago, Xiao Linzi suddenly disagreed with the slave to ask for money......"
The words behind were a mess, and the noble concubine squinted her eyes and didn't make out it.
Emperor Yong'an finally turned around, faced the concubine who was kneeling on the ground, waved his hand to the concubine, and said, "No need to read it, I already understand." ”
Xian Guifei handed the blood handkerchief to Gonggong Feng, who was standing aside, and knelt down to Emperor Yong'an with tears in her eyes, "The concubine knows that the emperor must think that the concubine and the concubine are together, but the concubine still has to say that the emperor must not wronged the concubine." The concubine is still the old saying, the concubine doesn't believe that the concubine will do such a vicious thing. The emperor suspected that Concubine Ying had just had an accident, and it was too late to verify whether what the people in the palace said was true or false. Now it has been proven that ......"
Xian Gui Concubine was only halfway through her words, when Mo Liu suddenly let out a scream like killing a pig. When everyone turned around, they saw Mo Liu lying on the ground, rolling around with his stomach clutched.
Gonggong Feng hurriedly took the little eunuch to check, and saw that purple-black blood was flowing from the corner of Mo Liu's mouth, which was obviously poisoned.
Imperial Physician Liu turned around to check Mo Liu's pulse, looked at Mo Liu's eyelids again, pressed Mo Liu's stomach twice, and replied to Emperor Yong'an amid Mo Liu's piercing scream, "Your Majesty, this palace maid has been poisoned with highly poisonous ......."
Before the last poisonous word of Imperial Physician Liu could be spoken, Mo Liu's screams stopped abruptly and he lost his breath.
Xiao Linzi saw that Mo Liu was dead, kneeling on the ground, his face turned from blue to white, from white to purple, and finally stood up and knocked towards the door of the Changxia Palace.
Xiao Wuzi knelt behind Xiao Linzi, rushed forward with his hand, and immediately knocked Xiao Linzi to the ground, hugged Xiao Linzi's legs, and didn't let go no matter how Xiao Linzi kicked him.
"Quickly tie him up, don't let him find a short-sighted!" Gonggong Feng said to the little eunuch beside him.
Emperor Yong'an was so angry by everything in front of him that he gritted his teeth and said, "Send it to the violent room, and give me a detailed investigation!" ”
Lingxi stood in the corner, watching Xian Guifei stand up for her, seeing Mo Liu take his finger into his mouth and lose his life, watching Xiao Linzi's eyes drift on Empress Zhu and Rou Guifei and then turn around to find a short sight, seeing that Emperor Yong'an, who still hated her to the bone just now, and easily said slave words, he was like thunder......
Lingxi suddenly felt that everything in front of her was not real, she was obviously the cause of the matter, but at this time, she was like a person watching a play, looking at Emperor Yong'an and Queen Zhu, Rou Gui Concubine, Xian Gui Concubine and Yigan Nucai playing Sheng, Dan, Jing, the end and the ugly, and staged a rare good show.
Lingxi suddenly felt very tired, she lived in this harem for a day, and she had to fight for a day like today. Lingxi suddenly didn't feel any joy in such a life, it was better to live like this than to die......
Ziwan walked in from outside the Changxia Palace, walked to Empress Zhu's side, and whispered a few words to Empress Zhu.
Empress Zhu glanced at the main hall, and then blessed Emperor Yong'an with a blessing, "Your Majesty, there is still one thing about the concubines, it is about the ...... of the concubines."
Emperor Yong'an raised his eyes and glanced at Lingxi, and saw Lingxi standing next to the pillar in the corner of the Changxia Palace, his little face was pale, and his eyes were devoid of the brilliance of the past, replaced by an indescribable emptiness, as if he had no soul.
Emperor Yong'an's heart suddenly twitched.
He had never seen such a spirit rhino before, the little woman who would nest in his arms and be coquettish, the little woman who fought for her life to give birth to their child, the little woman who had never asked him for anything, was gone......
Lingxi seemed to feel Emperor Yong'an's eyes, and raised his empty eyes to meet Emperor Yong'an's.
Lingxi saw the heartache, and Emperor Yong'an saw the indifference.
"Your Majesty......" Empress Zhu looked at Lingxi along Emperor Yong'an's line of sight, and swallowed the words in her stomach.
Lingxi smiled desolately, walked out of the corner, and said indifferently to Queen Zhu's blessing, "It's about concubines, then the queen will say it." The concubines on the left and right are already like this, and they are not afraid of adding any more sins. One cup of poisoned wine is no different from two glasses of poisoned wine. ”
Empress Zhu glanced at Emperor Yong'an, and then at Lingxi, who was blessed with a blessing in front of her, and her heart swayed.
Emperor Yong'an stared at the spirit rhino with red eyes from crying, and raised his hand to Empress Zhu and said, "Say it." ”
Empress Zhu closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths before she said, "The concubine sent someone to check whether what Mo Liu and Xiao Linzi said was real, and found two little eunuchs with strange whereabouts. A little eunuch named Xiao Deng Zi was about to take advantage of the rain to push a eunuch named Xiao Shi into the lotus pond......"
"What does it have to do with Ying Concubine?"
"Little Deng Zi used to be the person next to Concubine Ying, and that little stone was a person in the Jiyue Palace......"
When Concubine Ren heard the three words of Jiyue Palace, she suddenly turned her head to Empress Zhu.
So, Lingxi listened to another story.
It turned out that Xiao Shi and Xiao Dengzi were fellow villagers, and the Ying Concubine Niangniang of Yong'an sent Xiao Deng Zi back to Yeting Palace not because Xiao Deng Zi did not like it, but because Xiao Deng Zi had a greater role.
Concubine Ying Niangniang is small-minded and narrow-minded, and she has always held a grudge against Concubine Ren who punished her in the chrysanthemum garden. So, in October of the sixth year of Yong'an, Concubine Ying asked Xiao Deng Zituo to get a piece of clothing worn by a child dyed with smallpox from outside the palace. Xiao Dengzi then handed the smallpox-dyed clothes to Xiao Shi, and let Xiao Shi find an opportunity to mix in the clothes of the four princes......
When Empress Zhu said this, she ordered someone to bring Xiao Deng Zi and Xiao Shi, and behind them, she also took a lotus leaf with a burden.
Empress Zhu continued.
After the deed was completed, Concubine Yingniang specially asked Xiaoshi to leave a piece of clothing dyed with smallpox, and instructed him to send it to the Lingyan Hall when no one was around, saying that it was still useful.
But who knew that when Xiao Shi finished this errand and wanted to get paid, Xiao Dengzi, who was a fellow villager of Xiao Shi, wanted to kill people, but was discovered by the palace maid who happened to pass by the lotus pond.
After Empress Zhu finished speaking, she said to Emperor Yong'an Fuli, "The concubine feels that Xiao Dengzi and Xiao Shi's words are full of loopholes, and someone must have framed Concubine Ying." Your Majesty, this matter must be investigated carefully! ”
Concubine Ren got up from the ground and shook a few times because she had been kneeling for a long time. She rushed in front of Lingxi, stared at Lingxi with her big thin eyes and asked, "Smallpox is not accidental?" It's you? You killed my emperor?! ”
Concubine Ren suddenly grabbed Lingxi's neck and shook violently, "Why are you so vicious!" I'm going to kill you and bury my emperor! ”
Lingxi was suffocated by Concubine Ren, and her originally pale face was unusually ruddy. Lotus Ye hurriedly put down her burden and ran forward, breaking Concubine Ren's hand with her hand.
But Concubine Ren's hand is clasped to death, how can the lotus leaf be broken? In the end, it was Gonggong Feng who led people forward to pull Concubine Ren away from Lingxi's side.
Lingxi sat on the ground, clutching his neck and gulping in the fresh air, snot and tears flowing out. Concubine Ren stared at Lingxi fiercely, still cursing constantly, sometimes Da Shun talking, sometimes mixed with Da Yue language.
Lotus Ye took a handkerchief and handed it to Lingxi, helped Lingxi up, and said to Concubine Ren behind him, "Concubine Ren, Concubine Ying Niangniang is wronged!" The four princes died, and the concubine cried for several days, and copied the Diamond Sutra ninety-nine times to burn it with the four princes......"
"Hahaha!" Concubine Ren laughed and cried, and scolded angrily, "If it weren't for the guilt in her heart, why would she burn Buddhist scriptures for my emperor!" ”
Lotus Ye knelt on the ground and said anxiously to Emperor Yong'an, "Your Majesty, Niangniang is really wronged." The burden was only sent to the Lingyan Hall this morning, if it was really ordered by the mother, why didn't it be sent as soon as possible? ”
Empress Zhu also said, "Your Majesty, this time you must investigate carefully, don't wronged Concubine Ying." ”
Emperor Yong'an looked at the spirit rhino holding his neck in front of him and asked, "Concubine Ying, do you have anything to say?" ”
Lingxi took his hand away from his neck, revealing a shocking red mark on his snow-white neck, and smiled indifferently at Emperor Yong'an and slowly blessed him, "The emperor can trust his concubines?" ”
Emperor Yong'an looked at the distant smile on Lingxi's face, reached out and stroked Lingxi's cheek, and said softly, "I believe in it." ”
Lingxi's eyes blinked lightly, tears slid down, and flowed into Emperor Yong'an's palm, "The emperor believes in the concubines, and the concubines don't need to explain." If the emperor does not believe in the concubines, it is useless for the concubines to explain. ”
Lingxi raised his eyes to look at Emperor Yong'an, his eyes seemed to be fixed on Emperor Yong'an's face, and he seemed to look into the distance, and said in a faint voice, "The concubine heard Yi'er crying...... Your Majesty, find a good mother for Yi'er......"
"Just sister, Yi'er can grow up with the third prince, it must be an excellent ......"
"Niangniang, Niangniang......" Lotus Ye knelt on the ground, gently shaking the skirt of Lingxi, and tears fell down in tears.
Qiaozhu knelt and crawled to Lingxi's feet, and let out a mournful roar after climbing up Lingxi's arm with both hands. turned around and kowtowed to Emperor Yong'an, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Niangniang is wronged." Niangniang has a high fever, Niangniang's health has not been good, the emperor, the emperor ......"
Lotus Ye listened to Qiaozhu's words, and also turned around and kowtowed to Emperor Yong'an, "Your Majesty, the five princes are still waiting for Niangniang to go back......"
Imperial Physician Liu knelt not far from the Lingxi, but Emperor Yongan didn't say anything, he didn't dare to come forward to diagnose and treat, he could only guess from the abnormally red face of the Lingxi that the Lingxi was probably drenched in the rain and frightened, which should be a disease of dampness and cold.
As soon as the three words 'Five Princes' came out of the lotus leaf's mouth, Lingxi's eyes seemed to have focus, and the words that were not close to the edge stopped in his mouth. Immediately, she blessed the blooming lily on the side of Emperor Yong'an, and the corner of her mouth provoked a gorgeous smile, and said, "Your Majesty, Yi'er is crying, looking for her mother, and the concubine ......will retire first."
Emperor Yong'an was dazzled by the gorgeous smile at the corner of Lingxi's mouth, but that smile was aimed at Lily.
After Lingxi finished speaking, he turned around and walked hurried towards the outside of the Changxia Palace, as if he really wanted to comfort the crying five princes.
Emperor Yong'an looked at such a spirit rhino and had mixed feelings in his heart, and just wanted to stop the spirit rhino, he saw that the spirit rhino's body fell to the ground of the Changxia Palace. The emaciated figure is like a withered leaf......