That night, Du Jinning slept under the guard of eunuchs and palace maids such as Gonggong Jin.

Early the next morning, she went to the palace and waited for a summons from the palace.

Probably the most important thing in the court now is her, the palace is just the hour after the salute, and a eunuch came to announce the decree, announcing that Du Jinning entered the palace to meet her.

Although Du Jinning's official position as the governor of Runzhou has not been publicly removed, last night Zhao Yu said that she was no longer an official, and Du Jinning did not wear court clothes today, but wore a dark green satin men's robe, which made her skin more and more pale and her face thin.

Probably before she came in, there was a dispute among the officials in the palace, she followed the eunuch into the hall and stood still, and Dali Siqing couldn't wait to ask her: "Du Jinning, how did you disappear, and where have you stayed for so long, please come with me." ”

Zhao Yu made a deal with the Jiang family, and when he received Du Jinning yesterday, Qi Muyuan had already explained the situation to Du Jinning in the carriage and told her how to answer such questions.

Du Jinning said: "I had dinner with Lord Yao in the Xianhe Tower that day, probably because there was a drug in the wine, and I fainted after only drinking a small glass. When he woke up, he was taken to a black hole. After staying for about half a month, they drugged my food, and when I woke up, I changed places. ”

"This place seems to be in the countryside, the surroundings are very quiet, there are many birds and insects, and they did not lock me in the house as they used to, but allowed me to walk around the yard for a while, and the food did not treat me harshly. The guards were very strict, and the guards never spoke to me, and I tried to escape and failed to talk. ”

"About ten days later, they took me to another place, and this time they locked me in the tunnel, in the dark. Because there was no light, I couldn't tell the difference between day and night, and after a while, they took me to a courtyard. I lived there for a long time, so long that I thought I would die there, but I didn't think that they changed places again half a month ago and took me to the Jiang family's courtyard. ”

"How do you know it's the Jiang family's courtyard?" Dali Siqing asked.

Du Jinning glanced at him strangely: "Naturally, it was Lord Qi who rescued me, they said." ”

Before Dali Siqing could speak, an old man with a long white beard said proudly to Dali Siqing: "Heard? Do you hear that? Hmph, I still want to dig a pit for someone Du, let me tell you, the facts are the facts. ”

As he spoke, he shook his head on the throne and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the minister said that our other courtyard is rarely used in ordinary times, and there are only three subordinates guarding a huge courtyard, and those bad goods are used to being lazy and slippery, and there is no master in the estimation that they will not even go to the courtyard, so they naturally took advantage of the loopholes, stuffed a Master Du into the dungeon, and framed our Jiang family." The minister estimated that this must have been the original Zhang family who took Master Du away, but something happened to the Zhang family, and the subordinates who kidnapped Lord Du knew that something had happened to the Zhang family, and they didn't dare to kill or let Master Du go, so they hid in Tibet, and finally simply planted the blame on our Jiang family. ”

The courtiers were speechless for a while.

Anyway, the Zhang family was beheaded all over the house, and no one could get up from the ground to argue, and the Jiang family grabbed the basin and buckled it on people's heads, so they bullied the Zhang family and couldn't talk anymore.

The dead are gone, and the living need to live. No matter how personal the court has with the Zhang family, whether they are related or not, they dare not stand up and speak for the Zhang family. Therefore, after the head of the Jiang family finished speaking, there was a huge hall, and more than a hundred courtiers were standing, but no one spoke, and the hall fell silent for a while.

Zhao Yu asked Dali Siqing to question him in the court, which was nothing more than to give the ministers an explanation, and also to give the well-informed head of the Jiang family a chance to defend himself.

At this time, seeing that he did not refute the words of the head of the Jiang family, he cleared his throat and said: "In my opinion, if this matter is really done by the Jiang family, they will not lock people in their own courtyards in a big way, especially when they know that there are young masters and young ladies from various families who are going to visit the other courtyards these days, and let the girl in Anyang easily find out." ”

The head of the Jiang family suddenly burst into tears, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Zhao Yu, crying: "Your Majesty." ”

Zhao Yu motioned to the eunuch to help him up, turned his head to Dali Siqing and said, "Wait for the next court, you can ask Du Jinning again to see who did this." “

"Yes, Your Majesty." Dali Siqing saluted and retreated into the ranks.

Zhao Yu looked at Du Jinning: "Du Aiqing, you have suffered." ”

"Thanks to the emperor's blessings, Jinning has not suffered much." Du Jinning said.

The reason why she made up the treatment so well was naturally because her body couldn't deceive people, and she couldn't make the appearance of being starved and abused for many years.

Zhao Yu nodded and said, "You should recuperate for a while." After the body is recuperated, you still have to go and see the high-yield rice. He sighed heavily, "Since you disappeared, the yield of that rice has been worse than that of one season, and now it is not even as good as ordinary rice." ”

Du Jinning was taken aback: "How can this be? He turned his head to look at Wu Zheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Works.

Wu Zheng nodded at her in shame.

Zhao Yu said again: "Du Jinning, you were saved this time thanks to the county lord of Anyang of the British Mansion. I see that you are also eighteen years old this year, and you have not yet married a wife, how about I give you a marriage with the county lord of Anyang? ”

"This ...... Your Majesty, by all means. Du Jinning was shocked, and hurriedly knelt down and said to Zhao Yu, "Ministers, ministers can't marry wives." ”

"Why is that?"

Du Jinning squeaked, but he couldn't say why.

Qi Bokun came out and said: "Your Majesty, Du Jinning may have something unspeakable, it is better to ask her privately after retiring from the dynasty." ”

Zhao Yu bowed: "It's okay." He turned his head and instructed Gonggong Wu, "Take her to the side hall to rest, and bring her over after I go down." ”

"Yes." Gonggong Wu motioned to Du Jinning and led her to the side hall.

In this era of extreme lack of entertainment, men are actually very gossipy. Everyone is very curious about the reason why Du Jinning can't marry a wife. When Zhao Yu asked everyone if they had something to play, after everyone said two things that needed to be solved urgently, they were silent, so they retired early.

Although they left the palace, everyone was very concerned about this matter. At noon, someone found out the news, ran into the yamen, and said loudly: "Do you guess why Lord Du can't marry a wife?" ”

"Why?" Everyone gathered around.

The messenger let out a thunderbolt: "Because she's a woman." ”

"Cut, nonsense."

"Yes. Telling lies also has to go through the brain. ”

Seeing that everyone didn't believe it, the messenger immediately became anxious: "Really." The British princess and the eldest princess had just come out of the palace, and their faces were very ugly. They said that Master Du had already admitted that she was a woman, so she could not marry a wife. ”