Chapter 365: The Present Empress
"Who can I be!" Ning Yunxiao's heart skipped a beat when she heard Honggu's question, she didn't care about the eyes of others like before.
Now that the queen was caught in a brothel, what kind of system did this spread?!
She didn't even pause, then said, "I am the daughter of a wealthy merchant, passing through this hundred miles of city, and seeing that this mask festival is interesting, I stayed here for one night, and when I went to the street to play, I accidentally walked into the alley, and I was arrested!" β
"Look at you, it's not like you're lying!" Honggu said, snorting, "But even if you are unlucky, don't think about going out if you are caught, and it is useless for rich businessmen!" β
Ning Yunxiao immediately leaned up when she heard this, took off the bracelet on her wrist, stuffed it into Honggu's hand, and said like a girl who had not been deeply involved in the world, "Good aunt, listen to what you mean, there are people on top of this brothel?" Then it's not like I can't get out for the rest of my life, I don't want to stay here for the rest of my life, please help, go and inform my entourage to save me, I see that you are also forced to be here in desperation, I will take you away with me! You don't have to be afraid, my father-in-law is the minister of the Tianyuan Kingdom, and I am also a native of the Tianyuan Kingdom, and I will enter the palace as a concubine in the future. β
"What do you say? Are you from Tianyuan Kingdom? Honggu was stunned, and then looked at the bracelet in her hand, her eyes widened suddenly, she had been drunk in the Red Mansion for so many years, and she could still see the priceless things, and she was also moved to hear that she could leave here, but she was afraid that after Ning Yunxiao was rescued, she would not be able to bear the humiliation today, and make things bigger, and she would be sat down.
Ning Yunxiao was so shrewd, she could see at a glance what Honggu was thinking.
"Auntie, I'm also a girl from a good family, how can I make a noise about being arrested in a brothel." She said, "When you find my entourage, you will say that you are the one who is drunk in the red mansion, and I have entrusted you with a good reward, and you can leave directly." β
After that, Ning Yunxiao took off the bead hairpin on his head again and gave it to Honggu.
Honggu also felt that this was reasonable, gritted her teeth, and finally agreed.
"Okay, I'll go!" "In order not to make my mother suspicious, you changed your clothes yourself and said that I went to the latrine." β
"It's natural, thank you Auntie!" Ning Yunxiao nodded again and again.
Seeing Honggu leave and close the door again, Ning Yunxiao breathed a sigh of relief, found a wide dress in the wardrobe to change into, and hid the dagger he carried in his arms.
After all this was done, the door was vigorously pushed open from the outside.
Ning Yunxiao's heart jumped, and he turned around and saw the old bustard coming in, followed by several tall men.
The old bustard was very satisfied when he saw that Ning Yunxiao had changed his clothes, "Yes, interesting, where did Honggu go?" β
"I don't know, I went out with my stomach covered!" Ning Yunxiao said, showing reluctance.
The old bustard didn't think about it, and ordered a few men, "Take her to the front yard!" β
Seeing a few men walk forward, Ning Yunxiao pretended to be very scared, struggled twice before being arrested and taken out of the room, this Daojing saw the prostitutes bare-chested and bare-backed, and when they arrived at the front yard that the bustard said, there were more men, scholars, squires, and everyone.
At the same time, there were girls who were usually no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, standing on the stage.
Ning Yunxiao was pushed onto the stage, which immediately attracted the attention of the audience, that is, at this time she was a little nervous, Honggu went out to report the news for only a quarter of an hour, and it would take a while for Li Yiyan to bring someone here, how could she delay the time?
"Yo, this is a pretty woman!"
"Recently, there have been a lot of vendors, and they are outsiders!"
"I don't know who will end up with the flowers!"
The guests below were buzzing and talking, and Ning Yunxiao's mind couldn't stop turning.
There are more than ten thugs watching the scene in this hall, if Li Yiyan can't catch up, he has only one way to hold the bustard hostage, but the bustard is now in the audience, personally holding a big box, it seems that he wants everyone to ask for a price!
Ning Yunxiao frowned, already displeased.
"The objective people sitting here are all old customers of this drunken red mansion, I, don't say much, look at this beauty, your saliva is going to flow out! Then the one with the highest price wins! The bustard said at this time.
As soon as the words fell, someone called the price, and the price soared.
"One hundred taels!"
"Three hundred taels!"
"Four hundred taels!"
"Four hundred and fifty taels!"
"Five hundred taels!" This time, it was an old man over sixty years old in a fancy costume who was asking for a price, and the price was high enough that others would not continue to bid.
The bustard's eyes narrowed when he was smiling.
Ning Yunxiao silently touched the dagger, and wanted to jump off the stage, but a cold voice sounded.
"One thousand taelsβ"
Everyone present was shocked, this is the first time to see such a high price!
Everyone's eyes, even Ning Yunxiao's own, all looked at the sound in unison, only to see Li Yiyan, who was dressed in black brocade, stepping in and standing with his hands in his hands.
Ning Yunxiao really rolled her eyes, and her whole person relaxed.
The high price of 1,000 taels made the old bustard's mouth grin behind his ears with pleasure, and before he could speak, he saw a large group of guards pouring in from the door, and the atmosphere in the hall immediately changed from relaxed and charming to tense silence.
"This ...... What is this for......" the bustard said.
Li Yiyan walked to the stage and stretched out his hand.
Ning Yunxiao immediately walked to the side of the stage, bent down, put his hand on it, and then the person fell from the stage and fell steadily into Li Yiyan's arms.
Li Yiyan snorted coldly.
"The money will be given to you, and you will wait to go to jail!" He said, holding Ning Yunxiao and leaving.
The bustard wanted to say something, but her eyes were covered by the oncoming silver ticket, and she heard the sound of Suosuo's footsteps, and when she took the silver ticket, those fierce guards disappeared.
"One thousand taels!" She watched the silver ticket in her hand bloom, and she didn't care about Li Yiyan's words at all, and the guests in the hall didn't care either, after all, it was almost a well-known thing that there were officials in this drunken red mansion.
But who would have thought that on the second day, after the huge convoy of chariots and horses and honor guards left, the officers and soldiers of the government set out and almost trampled the drunken red mansion.
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In the carriage, Ning Yunxiao pinched the book and asked while reading, "What reason did you ask the officials to arrest the old bustard of the brothel and let the brothel close?" β
She knew that her identity could not be exposed, and Li Yiyan naturally knew it.
Of course Li Yiyan knows, but if he doesn't show it, he can't identify himself!
"I identified myself with the officials, and then said that my queen's maid had been arrested and put in a brothel." He said, his face unchanged.
Qingzhu on the side shook his hand, and the whole person was stupid, in the words of the queen's mother, he was also shot while lying down?
"Your Majesty, how can this make the slave marry in the future!" She said.
Ning Yunxiao looked up at Li Yiyan in surprise, then looked at Qingzhu, and laughed, since the monsoon left, Qingzhu showed a relaxed expression for the first time.
"You don't have to get married." Li Yiyan said, "I will give you a marriage!" β
Qingzhu immediately shook his head, "Then it's still not necessary......"
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After a while, it was more than a month later, Li Yiyan and Ning Yunxiao finally arrived in the capital and returned to the palace.
For such a long time, no one has dealt with the government, and the ministers almost killed the two of them at the same time as they entered the palace, wearing official gauze hats and official uniforms, and the palace was almost full.
Li Yiyan was the same, he didn't have time to look at the baby, so he hurried to the Qinzheng Palace, and entered the Qinzheng Hall under the sharp announcement of the eunuch.
"The emperor has arrivedβ" shouted the eunuch.
"Long live the emperor, long live, long live." The eternal way of kneeling, the ministers knelt down with a hula la.
"Zhong Aiqing is flat." Li Yiyan sat down on the dragon chair and said, "I haven't been in the court for a long time, what is the matter with Aiqing?" β
Immediately, some officials said in unison, "Your Majesty, the ministers have something to do." β
"Quasi-play." Li Yiyan said.
"Since ancient times, harem women are not allowed to interfere in court politics, the queen mother, as the head of the harem, holds the phoenix seal, and should lead by example, but the queen mother has interfered in the affairs of the court and politics many times, which is an ancestral lesson." The officials who spoke were naturally headed by the Imperial Doctor, and he seemed to regard it as his responsibility to let Ning Yunxiao abide by the palace rules!
Li Yiyan was naturally on Ning Yunxiao's side, "When I am not in the palace, the Aiqing can handle political affairs and supervise the country, but if you are in the Blue Moon Country like the queen, you are threatened by Bai Chenlin, poisoned, and your lives are worried, what should you do?!" Now it is my queen who is in danger and strives for the greatest interests for me, and you are pursuing it, is this tantamount to a change of direction to show the incompetence of Zhong Aiqing? β
Who wants to admit that they are incompetent! Especially in an official position! So there was no answer to this.
And the two adults, Zhang and Li, didn't want to find Ning Yunxiao in the first place, so naturally they wouldn't speak.
"Didn't anyone answer?" Li Yiyan glanced at everyone, "I didn't expect that my officials didn't even have the courage to admit the facts, and no one said what I said." β
The last sentence was said by a relaxed person, but the listener pressed a big stone in the bottom of his heart.
"The queen has not brought losses now, you all have to be punished, if the queen is wrong, is she a sinner in the world, and should be punished with the most cruel crime in the world?" Li Yiyan shouted, "Even if you are like this, you are also worthy of the top hat and official uniform of a fourth-grade official?" β
"Your Majesty, the ministers have no such intention......" The voices of the ministers echoed in the main hall.
"Absolutely not?" Li Yiyan stood up suddenly, brushed his sleeves and said, "You don't think you have this intention, it's my deaf and dazzling, I heard it wrong, I saw it wrong?" β
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In the dormitory, I haven't seen the baby for more than two months, and Ning Yunxiao is holding the baby and pinching his little face.
Because of going to the Flying Dragon Country, the baby's name has not been raised, and the banquet has not been placed.
Qingzhu picked up the flower cloth on the side, wanted to make clothes for the baby, and asked with a piece, "Niangniang, how about this piece?" β
Ning Yunxiao looked back before nodding, and then heard the exclamations outside.
"Mother, mother, mother, it's not good!" Sui Qing stood outside and shouted, his identity was different, and he didn't dare to venture in.
Ning Yunxiao was surprised.
"Something to come in and say!" She said.
Sui Qing immediately walked in.
"Qi Yu Niangniang, something happened to the Qinzheng Palace." He saluted and said, "Before going to the court, the ministers asked the emperor for instructions, and the meaning in and out of the words was to ask the emperor to dispose of the queen mother, because the queen mother had assigned the three states to Bai Chenlin without authorization when she was in the Blue Moon Country. β
"So that's it." Ning Yunxiao was not surprised, she expected that the ministers would play when she made that decision, and although Li Yiyan thought about her, she would be embarrassed, so she already had a countermeasure and thought of a way early.
"Serve the palace to change clothes and wear a phoenix crown." She stood up and said.
"Niangniang, this is going to the Qinzheng Palace?" Sui Qing was stunned.
"That's right, so you go back, and the palace will let this matter end smoothly." Ning Yunxiao said, without any hesitation or hesitation.