Chapter 17: Punishing the Wicked
In front of Poyang Mansion, I saw the pouring sun, and lifting weights was like lightening smoke and frost.
Grounded for three months without thinking about it, it was finally foreshadowing.
Murong Ningshuang pretended to be natural, but said extremely unnaturally: "Mother, look at what my brother said, I am the daughter of the prince's mansion, how can I know a robber?" ”
"How do you know that he is a robber?" Murong Zifeng asked rhetorically:
Everyone's eyes were focused on Murong Ningshuang, and suddenly Murong Ningshuang looked embarrassed, a dense layer of fine sweat appeared on his forehead, and his face was flushed but he couldn't speak.
"Zeng Scar, do you still want to suffer from flesh and skin again?" Murong Zifeng clenched his fists as he spoke.
Zeng Scar knelt on the ground like a sifting chaff, pointed at Murong Ningshuang, and poured beans like a bamboo tube: "I said that I said, it was this eldest lady who found someone to bring a message, telling the villain that the second miss was going to the Temple of Mercy and Grace to offer incense that day, and let the little one rob the second miss and * her, and after the incident, he would release the wind, saying that the second miss misbehaved." Immediately paid fifty taels of silver, and then paid another fifty taels after the good thing was done, who knew that the second lady would rather jump off the cliff that day, but also swore to die, the little one was afraid of getting into a lawsuit, so he didn't dare to take the fifty taels of silver again, and he didn't let out the wind as the eldest lady said, but the small subordinates dispersed after dividing the money, and I don't know who quietly passed on the truth. ”
"You dare to swear it's all the truth?" The prince asked angrily.
"The villain is honest, he doesn't dare to tell half a lie, and the second lady is innocent, please ask the prince to be merciful and spare the little one's life!" Zeng Scar cried and begged the prince for mercy.
Murong Zifeng couldn't help but go up and punched and kicked, and the prince, who was blushing, said, "Feng'er let me come!" ”
The prince kicked Zeng Scar far away, only to hear a snap, as if some bone was broken.
"Come on, go and inform the yamen, and put this beast and that fake Taoist priest, two villains who are doing evil, on death row." After the prince finished speaking, he turned around and slapped Murong Ningshuang on the face.
There was a crisp sound of "pop", and Murong Ningshuang received a loud slap on the face.
In an instant, the eldest lady Murong Ningshuang's frightened face was pale with fright, and five clear finger prints were imprinted, which looked like a big palm on her face. Murong Ningshuang sat down on the ground and didn't even seem to be able to cry.
The princess was also so frightened that the beads of sweat fell straight down, for fear that the princess would beat her baby daughter again, and at this time she couldn't care about the identity of the princess, in front of everyone, she knelt down for the princess, hugged the prince's leg and cried and begged: "The princess is gracious, Shuang'er is still young and ignorant, blame the concubine for not disciplining her, it's all the concubine's fault, spare her and punish the concubine!" ”
"You know it's your fault! Look at your mother and daughter, what has become of you now, are you worthy of being a princess? Does she look like a daughter? The daughter's family will not know everything, and there should be everything that should not be, making the entire palace smoky, and now there is still a face to plead? Don't beg, you're your own! I can see it through, at this age, what's the use of still taking fame and fortune so seriously? From now on, this king will no longer have to be afraid of you, and he will suppress your father who is the left governor of the Inspectorate. The prince stared at the princess angrily, so disappointed in her that the more he spoke, the more excited he became, and his forehead was covered with green veins. Then he shouted to his subordinates: "Whoever comes, and this vicious mother and daughter, all of them will be arrested and put in the prison of the yamen." ”
"Lord Wang, you can't be so ruthless! Please don't send our mother and son to prison, we will change in the future, and we must treat our sister well, Shuang'er, right? We promise that in the future, we will have a good relationship with your sister and sister, right? The princess hurriedly gave Murong Ningshuang a look.
Murong Ningshuang comprehended, and hurriedly knelt down on the prince's knees and begged for mercy: "Yes, father, please be merciful, my mother and I will definitely be close to my aunt and sister Yan'er in the future, please don't send us to prison!" ”
"Father, don't give your mother and Shuang'er a chance to mend their ways!" Murong Zifeng said with a solemn face.
"Feng'er, what do you think should be done?"
"One is my mother who gave birth to me, and the other is my sister who is related to my flesh and blood, where can I bear to let them go to prison. But Murong Ningyan is also my relative, and I don't allow anyone to bully her. After Murong Zifeng said this, he turned to the princess and Murong Ningshuang and said, "Mother, Shuang'er, confess yourself!" What else is there to hide from my father? ”
"Son, what are you talking about, where is there anything else that my mother is hiding from your father?"
"Think about it, is there really none?"
Murong Zifeng really wanted his mother and sister to take the initiative to tell the story of oleander, which would at least prove that they had the heart of repentance and repentance.
The princess said firmly: "It's really gone! ”
"Mother, the child is really ashamed of you, it's time like this, are you still obsessed? Have you forgotten about steaming cakes? Murong Zifeng said with tears in his eyes, at this time, he was not sad for Yan'er, but for his mother and sister, if he wanted to be forgiven, he had to confess his crimes first, correct his attitude, and know where he did wrong, didn't he?
And when the princess heard Murong Zifeng mention steamed cakes, she completely collapsed, how did he know about the steamed cakes?
"So, what else is there to hide from me? It seems that you are idle, and so many things are born every day, hurry up and say, what is going on with steamed cakes? The prince was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, this ugly thing happened one after another, and he was not afraid of another one.
"Lord Wang, the concubine knows that she is wrong, I really don't know that oleander is poisonous, not to mention that they are okay with smoke?"
"I'll tell you!" Murong Zifeng knew that the princess couldn't speak, so he told the princess how to make steamed cakes that day, and the nurse testified that she saw the princess and her daughter in the kitchen that day.
"You don't know that oleanders are poisonous, so why did you put them in? Why do you still get up so early and go down to the kitchen to make breakfast yourself, you yourself said, since the day you married into the palace, when did you get up early and make breakfast yourself? Still quibbling and unrepentant? The prince's words were convincing, which made the princess embarrassed.
"Mother, as for why you asked why Yan'er was safe and sound? It's not that oleander is not poisonous, on the contrary, oleander is extremely toxic. Murong Zifeng turned his head to look at the prince again and said, "Father, Feng'er has already done experiments for this, and once fed the steamed cakes left over from Yan'er's breakfast and the steamed cakes with oleanders we made ourselves to two mice, but the two mice died quickly, and the death was exactly the same, whoever wants to believe it will let him taste it." ”
"In that case, why are they...?" The princess is worthy of being a battle-hardened person, but she is no longer afraid at this time, and she has a clear posture of dying and dying.
Murong Zifeng replied: "Fortunately, Ning Yan is sensitive to smell, and she felt that there was a stuffy smell in the steamed cake, she didn't eat it if she didn't like it, but Liu Wu ate several pieces, and then it didn't take long for the poison to attack, fortunately, Yan'er was brave and calm, the rescue was timely, and the method was effective, so I quickly let the catkins induce vomiting, so I picked up a human life, mother, you have to thank Yan'er for saving the catkins, it really caused a lot of life, I'm afraid it can't get rid of it!" ”
"This palace is worthy of the emperor's harem, this king has only two wives and two daughters, and it is ridiculous that he has fought to such an extent!" The prince sighed to the sky, then turned to the princess and said, "Chen, why are you so vicious? So cruel? Why does it have to be intolerant of the Li mother and daughter? Do you think you have bullied the Li family for so many years, I really don't know? Your sin begins with the loss of my unmet son. First of all, my son died, and Li couldn't have children from now on, in the past ten years, Li has never fought with you for anything, your mother and daughter often bully them, I turn a blind eye, aren't you enough? My good daughter was taught by you to be a copy of you, do you really think that this is loving her? Have you ever wondered about her future? Now that Yan'er has grown up, you transfer your hatred for her mother to her, killing her again and again. This pile, one by one, which one is not a capital crime of killing the head? Go ahead! What do you have to tell you about the future? ”
The prince's aggressive reprimand made the audience silent, and the princess sat on the ground, hugged her head and cried, her brain was racing: it turned out that the prince had always known everything. I saw that the princess suddenly knelt down in front of Li and Murong Ningyan with tears on her face.
"Sister, Yan'er, my Chen family has made mistakes again and again, and I am also to blame for today's fate, I am not worthy of being the princess of the palace, nor is I worthy of being a person in the world. Today, I can only ask for your forgiveness by apologizing for your sins with death, I hope you will read it in Shuang'er is still young, read it in the prince's affection, don't blame her, the idea is all my fault, I hope you will treat her well in the future, I will bless you under the nine springs! After saying that, he knocked his head three times, and then slammed into the wall behind the crowd, so fast that no one present expected it.
Fortunately, Murong Zifeng's eyes were quick, and he stepped forward to stop the princess with an arrow, and then the Li family, Murong Ningyan, and the prince also rushed to dissuade him.
"Princess, let's write off the past, I believe you won't be like that again in the future, why do you do stupid things?" The Li family has always been forgiving and forgiving, not to mention that just now the Chen family really wanted to apologize with death, which shows that she has sincere repentance.
"Father, just take back what you just said, the mother and sister have the heart to change, not to mention that it's not good to hear this thing out, isn't it?" Murong Ningyan saw her mother speak, and she also pleaded for the princess's mother and daughter.
"Yes, Lord Wang, what Yan'er said is right, the princess has already known that she is wrong, so don't pursue it again, after all, we are a family, who is not happy to make a mistake, and the family will be affectionate and affectionate in the future, how good it is to be harmonious." Li has been fasting and reciting Buddha for a long time, meditating and chanting, and cultivating a bodhisattva heart, and it is always easy to forgive others.
Seeing that the victim's aunt and Yan'er were interceding for their mother and sister, Murong Zifeng finally secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and did not wait for the yamen to come, and directly led his subordinates to send the two brutes into the yamen, and explained the truth.
Has the prince forgiven the princess? Has the princess really reformed herself?