Chapter 181: Who's Tougher Than Whom
As soon as Yuehua entered the palace, the concubines in the palace gave her extreme "enthusiasm".
And Chang Lingyan, Concubine Ling and others really turned a blind eye to her and didn't take her seriously.
Even when he went to greet the Empress Dowager, Chang Lingyan was dressed up like a colorful butterfly and swaggered in front of him, which was dazzling. Concubine Ling and the others also didn't say a word about her, showing rare indifference, and they didn't even sneer at Sang and scolding Huai.
Chang Lingyan wanted to interject several times, but he didn't find a suitable opportunity. As soon as he opened his mouth, Concubine Ling and the others gaged, talked about him left and right, and awkwardly hung her aside.
And in private, Concubine Ling and Yajieyu commented on her and belittled her to the point of uselessness.
Concubine Ling and others are pampered, and they have received education from noble girls since they were young, and they are extremely particular about dressing up.
In their eyes, Chang Lingyan's proud outfit was gaudy and frivolous, like a rich man who came out of the countryside, with a neck full of gold and silver, and his wrists were sunburned by the wind and sun into a black, red and rough color, and the coarse pores were permeated with the smell of dirt, and a thick layer of fat powder was smeared.
In Yajieyu's words, looking at Chang Lingyan is like a donkey dung egg with frost.
This is not to say that she is ugly, Chang Lingyan's appearance can be one of the best among the daughters of the Chang family, but she has just entered the palace, and she has not been nourished by the glory of the Forbidden City to nourish her warm and unassuming extravagance.
After the Empress Dowager and Concubine Ling and the others left, the Empress Dowager immediately sprinkled a bowl of herbal tea on Chang Lingyan's face. Heavy powdered rouge dripped down her delicate chin.
"Don't hang around in front of people until you don't know how to dress up yourself."
Chang Lingyan is not stupid, but he has been influenced by Lian since he was a child, and he likes to dress up like this. She believes that the women in the palace should be like this, so that they can show that their identity and status are different.
What's more, I participated in the palace banquet twice, didn't the ladies in the palace dress up like this?
Mama Xi tirelessly taught: "Red with green, stupid, red with blue, annoying, Ling Yan girl, this is a taboo for the color matching of clothes." ”
"This kind of colorful butterfly hairpin is too bells and whistles, not stable enough, unless you comb the cloud high bun, expose the forehead, with a simple flower, in order to highlight a little elegance."
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pointed out and criticized Chang Lingyan as useless. Chang Lingyan reluctantly picked up the red and willow green clothes, peeled off the heaviness of the fat powder little by little, and was reborn.
The days passed slowly in anxiety, and Yuehua knew almost nothing about the progress of the case.
Until the sixth day, Mo Gu sneaked into the Qingqiu Palace in the cold night, climbed through the window, and broke a pink and white apricot blossom that bloomed early in his hand.
The two really seemed to be cheating, stealing surging enthusiasm.
Yuehua asked anxiously about the fake message of Yizhi, and Mo Guhan was already in control. He said that the bed is not suitable for talking about the affairs of the court seriously, not to mention, the Spring Festival is worth a thousand gold, he has a lot of things to be busy, where will he waste time talking about these things that are unpleasant?
Mo Guhan was busy until the middle of the night, and Yuehua, who was also so busy that her muscles and bones were weak, forgot the original intention of trying to find out the news.
When I woke up again, the pillow was empty, Mo Guhan didn't know when I left, and the apricot blossom branches and leaves on the pillow fell.
She was a little weak-hearted, and she always felt that the palace people were starting to look at her with a little strangeness.
Huai En saw Yuehua looking her up and down with bad intentions, and praised her: "The emperor is busy every day, and he is so busy that Niangniang's grounding is leisurely, and she is more and more delicate by this spring day, and even the corners of her eyes and eyebrows are spring." ”
Yuehua always felt as if she had something to say, smiled and "spit", and laughed with her: "Then you are so beautiful every day, what are you nourished by?" ”
Wynne rubbed up to her, blinked, and asked quietly, "Does the emperor often come to see you secretly?" ”
Yuehua thought that someone in the palace was discussing, and couldn't help asking, "Who are you listening to talking nonsense?" ”
Huaien "giggled" and laughed: "The emperor is so infatuated with Niangniang, I don't believe he can survive?" ”
One sentence made Yuehua embarrassed: "The emperor is not the only queen I am, Concubine Ling and Concubine He always go there." ”
Huai En shook his head: "I'm afraid I don't know, a few days ago, there was a lot of trouble in the court over the loss of the golden seal, and how many people wanted to put Niangniang to death and did everything they could." The emperor is upset, where is the leisure and pleasure? ”
Yuehua was stunned, she saw Mo Guhan twice, but she was all nonchalant, where did she think that he was under so much pressure and silently protected herself.
The Queen Mother is unrelenting, and she is bound to make herself unrecoverable, right?
Wynne didn't know the twists and turns, but he was bent on complaining about Yuehua, firmly believing that she had been wronged by others.
Yuehua only felt worried, and asked worriedly: "They are worried about long nights and dreams, so they urge the emperor to close the case as soon as possible, so as to convict me." I was grounded in Qingqiu Palace, but I escaped cleanly, and it was difficult for the emperor. Now that the deadline is approaching, I am afraid that they will be fulfilled. ”
Huai En covered his mouth and smiled: "Look at the mother's distress, I came here today to give the mother good news." ”
Yuehua's subordinates paused, put down the embroidery frame in his hand, and saw that Huai'en's eyebrows were flying, there must be some good news.
"Hurry up, what's the sale?"
Wynne stretched out his hand to her, tilted his head and said playfully, "Reward!" ”
Yuehua pursed her lips and smiled: "Would it be good to let the emperor go to you at night to personally present the reward?" ”
Wynne pursed his lips: "Even if the mother is willing, Lan Ting is not rare." If you embroider a fan and reward it to the servant, it will be used soon, and the servant will hold it in his hand all day long, and it will be public. ”
Yuehua smiled helplessly: "Say it quickly, I'll ask others if it's late." ”
Wynne grabbed her arm, and he couldn't wait: "Your golden seal has been found." ”
Yuehua was stunned for a moment, could it be that Bu Shen stole the gold seal?
Seeing her surprised, Wynne asked proudly, "Don't you think it's a surprise?" The emperor and Shao Xiang have always been discerning and resolute. No matter how stealthy the man was, he could not escape their discernment. ”
Yuehua nodded wryly and smiled far-fetchedly: "Yes." ”
"Isn't Niangniang curious who stole the golden seal? You know this person, too. ”
"Who is it?"
Huai En sighed again: "The prospective Bao Niangniang didn't guess that the golden seal was searched out of the Cabinet Li Ji Mansion. ”
"Leege?" Yuehua couldn't help but blurt out.
Huaien nodded: "It's the eldest brother of the Li family, if it's really a nest of snakes and rats, it's just a matter of pretending to be Niangniang's name, and after the incident, he deliberately blamed all the faults on Niangniang, it's a pity to die." ”
Yuehua was stunned for a moment, and then she came to her senses and secretly said "wonderful"!
At the beginning, although Mo Guhan and Shao Ziqing had long been suspicious of Li Ji, there was no conclusive evidence after all, so they had to resist the pressure of the outside world and try their best to delay, just to be able to find evidence that Li Ji had forged Yizhi.
Shao Ziqing is so full of splendor, such a lawsuit can't help him, and he found evidence of the crime in just a few days.
However, with the evidence, it must involve the Queen Mother, once it is exposed, the Queen Mother will not be able to get over her face, and the mother and son may have to turn against each other.
If you want to whitewash the peace and understand this matter, it is even more difficult to take care of the face of the Queen Mother. After all, this matter has attracted the attention of hundreds of officials in the DPRK, and there must be a watertight statement to block the mouth of Youyou.
It is difficult for Mo Guhan to take into account Yuehua on the one hand, and on the other hand, he has to be thoughtful about the Queen Mother, and he actually came up with such a clever plan to directly blame Li Ji for the crime of stealing the seal, so Li Ji can bear all the forgery of Yizhi. The evidence of the crime is conclusive, and it is impossible to admit it if you want to.
This is called "fighting evil with evil", all the games are framed and framed, it depends on who is more ruthless than whom, who is more clever, and who is better than others!
In this way, Yuehua's charges were cleared, the Queen Mother was considered, and the seal was recovered by taking the opportunity, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone. The Queen Mother is at a loss, she should not continue to be aggressive, and she will be punished.
"In this way, this stealing the golden seal and forging the decree are all done by him Li Ji?"
Lan Huaien nodded: "If people don't know, unless they don't do it, then Li Ji originally felt that he was doing this, but he didn't know it, and the ghost didn't know it, and the Li family took all the sins for him."
Who would have thought that in the past few days, Beijing has been strictly investigated. He was afraid of revealing the traces of the seal, so he secretly hid the seal on the beam in Fuzhong. There happened to be a swallow's nest next to it, and the swallow returned in spring, and somehow it fluttered, and the golden seal fell directly from the beam, and was discovered by the people who cleaned the room, and secretly ran to the criminal department to report the case and receive the reward. ”
"Then Li Ji has confessed all now?"
"That's natural, when you enter the criminal department, the whip is dipped in salt water and whipped all the time, where can those literati with fine skin and tender meat withstand it? Naturally, they were obediently recruited. ”
Yuehua was stunned for a long time, and then sighed lightly: "Why bother? ”
The truth was revealed, but Yuehua's grounding was not lifted, Li Ji and the Li family falsely passed on the edict and framed the queen, which was a heinous crime, and naturally could not be forgiven.
And Chang Zhili's original sin that could save his life after being dotted down, now the wall is down and everyone is pushing it, and many evil deeds and charges have been turned out, and then, the embarrassed and angry Queen Mother and her party aimed the knife at him, and naturally it is difficult to escape the blame.
And Yuehua, as the mother of a country, carelessly kept the seal, so she caused such a disaster, so she naturally had to be severely punished before she could punish the big one. Therefore, she was still confined to the Qingqiu Palace, isolated from the outdoor disturbances.
However, Mo Guhan didn't need to sneak back and forth like that, he sneaked into the East Warm Pavilion quietly at night, and then swaggered out of the Warm Pavilion in the morning, and in the surprised eyes of the palace people, there was a smug smile on the corner of his mouth.
Later, the palace people were naturally not surprised.