Chapter 29: Fourteen Years Ago
The new batch of porcelain is cracked on the surface, the cracks are obvious, and the appearance is not perfect but it does not affect the use, but it is probably not possible to pay tribute to the Dongxiao royal family.
None of the workers are willing to admit their dereliction of duty, porcelain making is all with a master and an apprenticeship, it is indispensable to help each other, Miao Zhifeng wanted to help Chu Yu figure out the reason, no one was willing to say, so she thought of a way, she asked the workers to line up, tied up one by one and asked.
In terms of everyone's dereliction of duty, first of all, each person is punished with a blow, and a silver ingot is given when he says the source, and the workers are afraid of being punished, and they also want to make money, and finally many people say the big and small reasons, but they are not the core content.
Miao Zhifeng listened to it for a long time, felt sleepy, and was going to rest, at this time there was a little thin man rushing to say, Zhifeng yawned and ignored him, it was not his turn, and before he was caught and beaten, he waved a small hammer, shouting that he could tell the reason, and stupidly knocked on his head, knocked himself unconscious, and made everyone laugh.
Isn't this guy crazy?
The thin man may really know something, so he was taken down and imprisoned, and the rest of the things were left to Chu Yu to deal with by himself, Miao Zhifeng still had things to do, and he went to the palace to meet the emperor. It's the third day, and she's going to die.
Miao Zhifeng wrote a chapter to report on the clues he had found in the past two days, and also wrote about the snake cave in the Shengwang Mansion, but the emperor said that the evidence was insufficient, and one person's empty words were not enough to believe, and Chu Yu still couldn't let go. She was anxious, clamoring to go to the prison to see Chu Hao, and the emperor issued another edict not to let anyone visit, I don't know what this father thinks, maybe it is not his own.
She wondered if the emperor was going to kill Chu Yu and make her a widow, or let her marry someone else, and she couldn't understand what was going on with the Chu family.
At this hour, he still could not sleep peacefully, and that night, the palace was attacked by assassins.
I heard that the assassin failed to assassinate, but he was not arrested, but in the emperor's inner hall, he cut himself on the spot, the news was blocked tightly, and there were not many people who knew the inside story, and the specific reason is unknown.
Immediately afterwards, the emperor issued a decree to abolish the position of Empress Yuanling and confined her up, and she could not move around at will without amnesty, just like entering a cold palace.
The news that came one after another was more shocking, the news reached the ears of the queen mother, her old man was shocked when she heard it, and her heart was also entangled, outsiders didn't know why the queen mother was in a trance, only heard her mutter: "Things have come to this point after all......"
There is a cause and effect, and we have to go back to 14 years ago.
At that time, Queen Yuanling was still Concubine Yan, and Concubine Li was like sisters, and the two often played chess together in the palace, drank tea and wrote poems, and they were always good friends. Later, Concubine Li gave birth to Chu Hui, and their relationship gradually became estranged, and it was not that no one doubted it, Concubine Yan was worried that Chu Hui would snatch the position of prince with the fourth prince and kill Concubine Li, but there was no real evidence, they had a good relationship, how could Concubine Yan harm her sisters, even if she said it, no one believed it. Moreover, there is no physical evidence, so it is difficult to identify. At that time, Chu Hui was only six years old, the age of ignorance, the death of his mother and concubine hit him a lot, the emperor loved Concubine Li thousands of times, and also cherished Chu Hui, thinking of Chu Hui's loss of his mother at a young age, Chu Hui was sent to the queen mother's knee to raise, and the nurse who had been taking care of him also followed, and later Concubine Yan became the queen, and then, Chu Hui's nurse said that she was crazy, and the queen mother ordered someone to be sent out of the city, so that people could live and settle.
The face of the nurse in the memory is the same as the face of the woman of the family who woke up after the wonderful wind came out of the dark river in Wulipo outside the city, and this woman is Chu Hui's nurse, and it is reminiscent of that she is not crazy, but incognito, lurking around Kyoto for more than ten years, and the queen has not dared to confirm it, and she is half-convinced, the old woman is really crazy and crazy, so she was left alive.
The queen also regrets it now, why didn't she solve her in the first place, it's a hundred.
The queen should know that Concubine Situ Shuang is from a family of military generals, and the nurse is also found by Situ Shuang's father Situ Jing, and she is also a practitioner who knows some kung fu and puts her in the palace to take care of her daughter. One of the sayings of the nurse's madness: she didn't protect her own lady, she felt guilty and embarrassed, and she had nightmares all year round, so she went crazy; Argument 2: The nurse knows some truths, watching Chu Yu grow up day by day, she feels that her sin is unforgivable, she has no face to face, she can't tell it, and she can't make any changes, she would rather pretend to be crazy and leave the palace, which is a place of right and wrong.
Back to the present day, the palace assassination in the middle of the night, when it was not acted, there was a prequel.
A man with a clear voice, about eight feet in height, and a long and stylish man, stayed in the house outside the city of Changjing for a while, and the old woman in her fifties was in good health, with a straight waist. She recognized the jade pendant at a glance, and it was returned to its original owner, which he had just retrieved from Dali Temple. Concubine Li's beloved thing back then. The woman trembled and talked to the man, and the words were all about the girl, because of the negligence of the year caused an unforgivable mistake, and was threatened with the life of the whole family, she just knew what clues and did not dare to tell the secret, fourteen years later, she saw the little master again, aroused the heat in her heart, so far she has no scruples, thinking about what to do, hoping that the girl's grievances can be revealed.
Back then, after Concubine Li was poisoned and died, the queen went to mourn and cry like a tearful child, Chu Hui also thought that Concubine Yan was really sad for her mother, but then there was one thing he always felt strange, Concubine Yan was in a bad mood, and said that he would be better if he wanted to accompany him to the imperial garden, Chu Hui was still young and didn't understand too much, but he wondered why Concubine Yan didn't bring the fourth brother, the fourth brother was a few years older than him, and it stands to reason that being with his own child is not more comforting than the son of a sister with him?
That day, Concubine Yan took him to fly a kite, the wind was really big, the kite flew so high, looking at the big dragonfly flying freely in the sky, he was not so sad, and began to laugh, the big dragonfly flew higher and higher, he kept putting the line, but the kite line was suddenly broken, and the big dragonfly fell into the lotus pond where the silt was hoarded, it was so helpless and complaining.
He cried sadly, walked to the edge of the lotus pond to pick up the kite, but couldn't reach it, suddenly didn't know who hit him in the back, he subconsciously reached out and grabbed back, but there was no life-saving straw at that time, his panicked little hand only caught a hairpin, and it fell into the lotus pond, the peacock golden hairpin was originally given to his mother by his father, the mother liked it, and often took it, and then I don't know what Yan Fei did, let her father transfer it to her, he inadvertently ripped it off from Yan Fei's head, and has been kept so far, Until a few days ago, she gave Miao Zhifeng and asked her to hand it over to her father again. At that time, he was only six years old, he was also small, he couldn't swim, and when he fell into the water, fortunately, Aunt Zhao next to the emperor's grandmother came out to look for him, and when she saw it, she quickly called someone to catch him. ”
The palace people were in chaos, but fortunately, he was lucky and got out of danger and did not lose his life because of this.
But after suffering from the cold, he was weak and sickly, and secretly vowed in his heart that he would grow up quickly and know how to protect himself. After coming up from the water, he overcame his fear of water, and even learned to swim, and then learned the truth about the death of his mother, he did not live an easy life, and he had a goal in his heart, and he was bound to punish the wicked and avenge his mother.
In his life, there are no good times, only going against the current, growing up over the years, facing the people around him, which time is not cautious, which thing is not step by step.
The mother concubine was poisoned, not all of it was the fault of the nurse, she had not been in the palace for a long time, at least not long enough to see through people's hearts, and she did not beware of Concubine Yan, a woman with a heart like a femme fatale. The imperial doctor said that Concubine Li was infected with the wind and cold, and when she was boiling the medicine, the nurse was transferred out of the kitchen by Jiu'er, the personal maid under Concubine Yan's hand, and it must have been Jiu'er who was ordered to increase the dossum of strychnine in the prescription prescribed by the imperial doctor.
Nux nux is not poisonous, but it cannot be taken in excess, this method of killing requires patience and perseverance, which shows that this person is extremely ruthless.
The emperor's grandmother often said, people must not be discouraged when they live, and when you wash the lead and the day, you will finally be able to see the moon and the clouds.
Now, the assassin who infiltrated the palace must have informed the emperor of the ins and outs of the assassination of Concubine Li. It is said that the scene was so lively, the imperial historian Cui Yuan came to report the recent mistakes in the official porcelain, the high priest Yao Ji proposed to discuss with His Majesty the death of Emperor Mingde's concubine, and Qin Zhongcheng Qin Taishi was also there, in order to check the revision of the historical records to see if there were any omissions. It was at this time that the assassin broke into the house, and several ministers were dumbfounded, the assassin was an old woman in her fifties who knew how to fight, and the woman told the truth about the murder of Concubine Li with tears in her eyes.
The hot blood sprayed on the annals in Qin Taishi's hands, scarlet and dazzling, and the residual warmth did not dissipate, so frightened that Lord Taishi rolled his eyes and fainted.
Once witnessed, the words were sonorous, the angry were excited, and the listeners were chilled.
At this point, the emperor issued the decree of the abolished queen, and once the matter came out, everyone in the court should be indignant, and Sima Xiangguo was above 10,000 people, and he could not plead and refute.
At the same time, something big and small happened in the inner palace, and no one paid attention to it, it was nothing more than Aunt Jiu'er hanging herself after the abolition. Everyone gossiped in private, who knows why she committed suicide, eighty percent of them did bad things, after her master was deposed again, it was difficult to protect herself, she couldn't rely on it, all the debts came to the door, and she committed suicide and suffered less, it was the right choice, very good.
The sunset on the horizon, this situation and this scene are very happy.
In the distance, a person with shawl hair, a resolute face, and sharp eyes sat on the roof with a pot of wine, looking at the court from afar, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth.
His gaze gradually softened, the tight strings stretched, and the relief was like a wave of water, which overwhelmed the ripples in his heart and buried them deeply.