Chapter 169: Rumors in the Palace
"Most of what people say is true.
They didn't know they would be bumped into by us. Eight or nine is not far from ten. Yang Qiqi felt like he was stuck with a ball of cotton wool, which was very uncomfortable.
She stood on the railing on the second floor, looking at the sparkling lights in the other courtyards. Suddenly, I felt that the backyard of the Yang family was like a dirty and deep quagmire. They are caught in it, and no one wants to pull it out. One day it will come out, and it will still be covered in mud, who will not have dirty hands?
"The seventh son is still so young, why does the third aunt want to harm people like this!" Zhuzhi was a little indignant, "In the past, when I looked at the third aunt and the sixth girl, I felt very pitiful. ”
Zhu Yi said: "Poor people, there must be something hateful!" We have a lot of bad things in our own yard, but we don't have the time to pity others. ”
Yang Qiqi didn't bother to think about it, only turned sideways slightly, and instructed the bamboo branch standing in front of him: "Let people go to Mrs. Li's side and keep an eye on it!" Zhuzhi answered, and immediately went downstairs to do something.
Yang Qiqi asked Zhuyi to prepare pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and copied scriptures in the study.
Zhu Yi knows Yang Qiqi's personality too well, and whenever she is in turmoil, she will definitely copy something. In the past, she either copied Zhou Yi or copied the Tao Te Ching. Since she went to the White Horse Temple to listen to the lectures of Zen Master Huijue, she likes to copy the "Diamond Sutra" and "Heart Sutra".
Zhu Yi got a cup of tea for her, and whispered: "Girl, just now in the Baixilou, did the county lord of Zhaoping say something to you that shouldn't be said." ”
Yang Qiqi didn't answer Zhu Yi's words, and copied silently for a while, before putting down the pen and asking Zhu Yi: "Zhu Yi, you are not too young, do you have a crush on someone?" ”
Zhu Yi was stunned for a moment, and was very confused, and said with a red face: "Girl, you, why do you ask like this?" Slaves, there is no ......."
Yang Qiqi looked at her shy and timid expression, and felt that it was really a beautiful thing for the two to be happy. Otherwise, how could there be so many love poems in this world?
"I'm just asking casually, if you meet someone you like, remember to tell me. You're not young with Zhuzhi, and I don't want to delay you from following me all the time. Yang Qiqi smiled warmly.
This smile made Zhu Yi feel extraordinarily vicissitudes, as if he was an old man who had seen through the world. Zhu Yi's heart suddenly felt a little sour, and he whispered: "Girl, you ......" But when the words came to his mouth, Zhu Yi didn't dare to ask.
She wanted to talk to Yang Qiqi about the eleventh prince in her heart, she was really anxious, and if she waited for another year, the eleventh prince would really marry the girl of the Chen family. She always felt that Yang Qiqi was still affectionate to the eleventh prince, since the two were happy, why should they see each other if they didn't see each other, how could they be ruthless?
Yang Qiqi raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at Zhuyi, and asked with a smile, "What am I?" ”
Zhu Yi turned a corner and asked Yang Qiqi: "You don't plan to marry the prince of Yongping Hou, and the filial piety period on your body is more than half." What do you plan to do next? ”
Yang Qiqi's eyes were a little sloppy, and after thinking for a long time, he said quietly: "This kind of thing, let's take a step at a time." ”
Zhu Yi didn't dare to ask any more questions, but only silently gave Yang Qiqi an ink.
After a while, the bamboo branch guarding the news in the front yard turned back, and as soon as he entered the door, he smiled proudly at the two of them, and said, "Girl, the little guy next to Gongzi Wei has come to our house to deliver a letter." Although I don't know what I said, Duke Yu and Mrs. Li deliberately changed into court clothes and went out. It must have entered the palace. ”
Yang Qiqi smiled slightly, she was about to get it.
The fifth prince is the biological son of the queen, and the queen and Concubine Li have been in the palace for many years, and they have been in the limelight with each other. Mrs. Li is the mother of the Yuguo Mansion and a person from Concubine Li's side. Now that the five princes have such an opportunity, they will naturally hit the Yuguo Mansion hard. As long as there are people from the queen and the five princes, Yang Jingqian and the county lord of Zhaoping don't want to cover it up easily.
"If the fifth prince covers this matter, this is a ghost! He is fornicating with the royal lord in filial piety, and if the Xinwang Mansion does not plan to stop there, he can only wait for death. ”
Zhuzhi couldn't help but ask Yang Qiqi worriedly: "Girl, the letter of the king's mansion and our mansion have torn their faces. Do you say that King Xin can easily let go of the fourth son? Can the county lord of Zhaoping honestly marry our house? ”
Yang Qiqi squinted slightly, and said in a cold voice: "She doesn't want to marry, she has to marry!" ”
When the second watch drum was beaten, a decree suddenly came from the palace, and Yang Qiqi was rumored to enter the palace to meet him.
Yang Qiqi changed his clothes and freshened up, looking energetic, and soon entered the palace with the inner servants of the decree.
It's not early, but the Queen Mother's courtyard is still brightly lit.
When Yang Qiqi entered the door, the Queen Mother, Emperor Yonghui, the Empress, Concubine Li, King Xin's family, and the people from the Yuguo Mansion were all there. Yang Jingqian knelt on the main hall, his eyes were red. Among them, only Murong Mian is missing.
Yang Qiqi stepped over the high threshold, walked into the hall with great grace, and saluted respectfully to the Queen Mother, Emperor Yonghui and others.
King Xin saw Yang Qiqi's indifferent and breezy appearance, and angrily patted the case, "Cunning slut!" It's you who calculated Zhaoping! ”
Yang Qiqi was frightened by King Xin's angry appearance, and looked at the Queen Mother and Emperor Yonghui with a pair of big eyes, like a frightened deer, innocent and helpless, "Your Majesty, Queen Mother, what happened?" Could it be that Qiqi has done something wrong again? ”
The Queen Mother didn't know how to explain to Yang Qiqi for a while, glanced at Hui Silk, and said slowly: "You go over and talk to her." She's a girl's family, so you don't have to be so careful. ”
Hui Silk responded, approached Yang Qiqi, and whispered the reason for this matter beside her, and at the end, she lowered her voice and didn't say anything, "The county lord of Zhaoping insisted that you want to harm her, and you are resting in the side hall at this time." Therefore, King Xin asked the Queen Mother to issue an order and find you to confront you. ”
Yang Qiqi nodded slowly, and then bowed respectfully to the Queen Mother and the others, and said, "The courtiers have already understood the reason before and after." However, the courtier's daughter returned home from her daughter's school today, and she has not gone out in the house, and she also asked the kitchen to make Longjing fried shrimp and steamed duck paws during dinner. After the fourth sister of the courtiers finished eating, they also came to talk to the courtiers to eat. If it is said that the county lord is with the courtiers at dusk, is it possible, and the courtiers still have the ability to doppelganger? ”
King Xin slapped the armrest of the chair suddenly, pointed at Yang Qiqi and said, "Obviously, it was the carriage of the Yuguo Mansion that took Zhaoping away, and you still dare to open your eyes and say nonsense!" ”
Yang Qiqi smiled casually and said, "Whenever there are female dependents in our house who go out, they will use a carriage. Did the carriage of the Yuguo Mansion go to the letter to the palace to pick up the lord of Zhaoping, just ask the coachman and the porter in the mansion. As she spoke, she immediately asked Yang Fu for instructions: "Father, if I go out today and use a carriage, the concierge must have a record, so it is better to let someone go and take the list of people who have entered and exited the Yuguo Mansion today to show King Xin." ”
When Yang Fu just entered the palace, the county lord of Zhaoping was not awake yet, and the two families were fighting a war of words, and no one thought of this.
When the county lord of Zhaoping woke up and shouted that Yang Qiqi had harmed her, Yang Fu and Mrs. Li were still in shock, and King Xin only waited for Yang Qiqi to enter the palace to confront her, and did not mention this.
At this time, Yang Qiqi mentioned it, and he suddenly remembered, and hurriedly asked the Queen Mother and Emperor Yonghui for instructions.
Yang Qiqi said again: "I also want to ask the fourth sister to make a certificate for me to prove that I have been in the Shuying Building all night." ”
Emperor Yonghui and the Empress Dowager naturally did not disagree, and immediately asked the competent steward beside Yang Fu to lead the chamberlain to the Yang family to bring people.
The princess of the Xin Wang family sneered very disapprovingly: "The people of the Yang family are naturally going to talk to you." My maid can also testify that it is clear that you invited my daughter out. ”
Yang Qiqi asked the princess instead: "It's okay for the princess to say this, but please ask the personal attendant of the county lord of Zhaoping to confront me." ”
The princess immediately asked the Queen Mother to announce Bai Yi.
Bai Yi entered the door tremblingly, saluted everyone, and greeted timidly.
Emperor Yonghui sat in the hall and asked Bai Yi very solemnly: "You are the maidservant of the lord of Zhaoping?" Bai Yicheng said "yes" in fear. Emperor Yonghui said again: "You said, it was Yang Nucheng who made an appointment with the county lord of Zhaoping to go out, and even sent a car from the Yuguo Mansion to the palace to pick up your county lord?" ”
Bai Yi whispered back "yes".
Yang Qiqi Zhengse asked Emperor Yonghui: "Your Majesty, can you let the courtiers ask her two words?" ”
Emperor Yonghui said: "Ask." ”
Yang Qiqi immediately faced Bai Yi, smiled softly, and said in a manly voice: "You said that I made an appointment with your county lord, and I also sent a car to pick up your county lord." Do you see me? ”
When Bai Yi heard this, her heart was shocked, and she was obviously a little panicked. She didn't seem to have seen Yang Qiqi from beginning to end, even after the county lord entered the door, she only glanced at it in a hurry. There were only two of them in the house. Later, she somehow fell asleep, but she didn't dare to say it.
"Look...... See. Bai Yi stumbled to speak.
"And what am I wearing, and you can see it clearly?" Yang Qiqi sneered and asked again.
Bai Yi tried her best to recall, "Yang Nucheng is wearing a moon-white robe, which is a men's dress. ”
When Yang Qiqi heard this, he couldn't hold back his laughter anymore, and said, "Not to mention why I wear men's clothes when I meet with the county lord of Zhaoping." When it comes to the moon-white men's robe, I don't have one. ”
The Queen Mother frowned at this time and asked Bai Yi: "What did you see, but this dress?" The Queen Mother pointed to Yang Jingqian's moon platinum and silver embroidered eight-treasure flower clothes and asked Bai Yi.
Bai Yi looked at Yang Qiqi's face with some doubts, and then looked at Yang Jingqian's face, unable to say a word.
The princess had a bad heart, and hurriedly replied: "Queen Mother, I think this is clearly a conspiracy between her brother and sister." ”
Mrs. Li's face also changed greatly, hinting at Yang Qiqi and said, "Seven girls, what the hell is going on?" Your fourth brother doesn't know anything, and the county lord of Zhaoping keeps saying that you hurt her. ”
Yang Qiqi couldn't help but feel that Mrs. Li's position was really funny, no wonder Yang Yuyan and Yang Jingqian liked to turn their elbows out, and the root cause was Mrs. Li.
The meaning of her words was obviously to help Xinwangfu interrogate. For fear that the crime of believing in the palace would not fall on her.