"It's all good, hehe, it's just not allowed to wash, this body stinks."

"Where? Fragrant. ”

Wen Jin's words made the county lord of Yujie laugh.

"Niangniang, this time you got your mind, right?"

"Well, I never dreamed that I could still be a mother in this life." Lord Yujie smiled very contentedly.

"Congratulations to Niangniang, congratulations to Niangniang."

"Huh." Lord Yujie smiled sweetly, but he was a little unsatisfied.

"Huh? Niangniang, what else are you not satisfied with? Wen Jin saw it.

"Your father, hmph, I still want another child to be with Xia Solstice, but he didn't agree to anything, for fear that I would be old and hurt my body."

Mrs. Xiao came over and comforted: "Niangniang should raise this baby first, and then she can talk about the rest of the matter." ”

"That's right." Lord Yujie smiled.

Wen Jin and Mrs. Xiao smiled at each other, and stood up tacitly: "Niangniang, you rest, let's go." ”

Mama Fang had already put on a posture to send off the guests, and the county lord of Yujie had no choice but to nod: "Okay." ”

Mrs. Xiao and Wen Jin saluted goodbye, and when they went out with their front feet, Mama Fang hurriedly asked Lord Yujie to lie down and covered her with a thin quilt: "Niangniang will sleep for a while." ”

Walking out of the residence of the lord of Yujie, through the outer room, along the carved corridor, before he left the courtyard, he heard the sound of footsteps, and then, a boy wearing a sleeveless coat of sky blue poplin ran over.

"Liang Kui!" Wen Jin shouted.

Xiao Liangkui blinked his black eyes, thought for a while and exclaimed, "Wen Jin, sister!" ”

"Come, sister, hug!"

"Don't hug it, my mother said, Liangkui, it's too heavy, tired!"

"Sister is energetic, not tired, come here!"

"Hey!" Liang Kui happily ran over, raised his hands at Wen Jin, and took off his shoes.

"What is this?"

"There's dirt, it's dirty."

Mrs. Xiao looked at it and smiled: "Whose child is this?" Strange cute. ”

"This is my nephew." Webster, who was sending off the guest, replied on the side.

"Madam, the county lord of Yujie heard that if you hold a boy more, you can give birth to a boy, this Liangkui is the most precious mother."

"Oh? This kid is good-looking and well-behaved, very cute, come, I will hug it too. ”

Mrs. Xiao took Liang Kui from Wen Jin's arms, and pouted on his little face, Liang Kui's neck shrank, and he laughed "giggle", which made Mrs. Xiao like it even more.

Walking out of the yard, Mrs. Xiao reluctantly handed Liang Kui to the mother-in-law who followed behind, and said goodbye to Wei Shi with a smile: "Mrs. Qian, I'll go back, you have time, go to my place to sit, oh, take this good baby, meet you, it's weird." ”

"Well, I'll go when I'm free, and Mrs. Xiao will go slowly." When Wei spoke, he exchanged glances with Wen Jin, Mrs. Xiao also wanted to have a child, but unfortunately, she was a few years older than the county lord of Yujie, and it would be difficult to realize this wish.

The next day, the Qian Mansion solemnly sent an invitation to the Xiao Mansion and asked Xiao Yi and his wife to go to eat the full moon wine, and Mrs. Xiao prepared a few expensive gifts.

Xiao Qiyun saw it, and only then did she understand that during the visit, ordinary people would bring some chickens and eggs to supplement the mother's body, and the full moon wine was officially given as a gift, and she was disappointed again, and returned to Zhilan Courtyard with her two younger sisters, and she didn't even want to say more. Xiao Juanyun and Xiao Ayayun didn't know how to comfort their sister, the three of them looked very pitiful at this time, without their mother, their father didn't love them, even their stepmothers ignored them, and the nurses arranged by their mothers were unreliable one by one.

The next day, Ah Lai and Wen Jin thought of this at the same time, and sent Su's mother back, Xiao Juanyun was very happy at first, but she got bored again within two days, Su's mother changed a lot, and always persuaded the three sisters to get along with Wen Jin: "The eldest lady is actually a kind-hearted person, you treat her well, she hates to return it in three or five points, you see how well Mrs. gets along with her, you also have to be like her, show a little true affection, the eldest sister is like a mother, and she will inevitably take care of you in the future." ”

It's a pity that the three sisters can't listen to it at all,

The scorching heat passed in the blink of an eye, Baihuaju was finally repaired, Wen Jin picked a good day and moved over, one step closer to the second courtyard, and got along with Mrs. Xiao a little better.

Guo Gonggong didn't rush back, and the eight-hundred-mile urgent secret report arrived first, and it was directly sealed and sent to Emperor Yongchang's desk.

The emperor saw that the envelope was painted with three bright reds, and he couldn't wait to open the fire paint seal: "What did you judge there?" It turned out to be 100,000 urgent. He muttered, opened the letterhead inside, and only glanced at it hurriedly, and his face changed drastically: "Chuan Hui Captain Guard." ”

The chief of the guard Hui is the head of the hidden guard of the inner palace, and his subordinates are all eunuchs, he is also in his sixties, and he is the guard when the queen mother closes the door to treat drugs.

Hui guard's hair is all white, the affairs in the palace, most of the time there are Guo Gonggong to deal with, he only when Guo Gonggong goes out, will be the director, heard the emperor's summons, knew that there must be something big in the palace, all the way to the pace is particularly hurried, he followed a few eunuchs who were waiting, and they also went down one by one as light as a cat, and they all looked like they had practiced twice.

The chief of the guard Hui entered the upper study, gave the emperor a big salute, and knelt motionless.

"Get up, Lao Hui, and show you something." When Emperor Yongchang was young, he called him Lao Hui, and it has not changed until now, and the chief of the guard Hui was very moved, feeling that the emperor was a nostalgic person, and it was worth him to break his bones.

The chief of the guard Hui took the secret fold in the emperor's hand, and after only a few glances, he was drenched in cold sweat, he glanced at the emperor in disbelief, rubbed his eyes, and then lowered his head and looked at it carefully.

"What is the arrangement?"

"Monitor it first, wait for Guo Anan's follow-up excerpts, this time, we must cut the grass and eradicate the roots."

"Yes!"

Emperor Yongchang sat in front of the desk and pondered for a long time, although he had experienced the brutal struggle for the dragon throne, but he had always believed that those were all men's things, and the women in the palace, although they could not be spared, but no matter what, it would not be so intense, but the excerpt just now completely subverted his understanding, it turned out that a prince from childhood to adulthood did not know how many turbulent waves he had to go through, and these tribulations came from women and struggles between them.

Thinking of when he was a child, the queen mother repeatedly told herself not to eat any food given by others, not to drink a sip of water in other people's hands, and even not allowed to play with other people's toys.

"Pass Lord Shen over."

Shen Mingzhao was in the main hall in front of the courtyard where the upper study was located, and he was reading the recitals with several cabinet scholars.

The national recitals must first be shown to the cabinet ministers, and they select the more important ones before giving the emperor the final decision, except for the secret folds. When the Jurong Dynasty was in Gaozong, there was a dangerous incident in which the emperor was set aside, and later, the emperor invented a kind of secret fold, he selected a group of officials, and sent some important events in the country directly to the emperor's desk in this way, and the cabinet, even if he wanted to do something, he was bound to have some scruples.

The secret fold can only be seen by the emperor, and when Shen Mingzhao came in, he didn't know anything about the contents of the stack of papers on Emperor Yongchang's desk. Seeing that the emperor's face was not in danger, Shen Mingzhao was even more cautious, and he knelt down solemnly: "Long live my emperor." ”

"Long live, I almost died at the age of five."

Shen Mingzhao was taken aback.

"Look at it." Emperor Yongchang handed over the fold in his hand.

Rao is Shen Mingzhao has always been calm, and he couldn't help but change his face: "This, this, how can it be?" ”

Emperor Yongchang has calmed down: "From this point of view, the Liu family's crimes are not so big, and their hearts are not so wild, Liu Guangzhong's proposal to go to *** reclamation is also acceptable." ”

Shen Mingzhao didn't speak, he was still pondering, Emperor Yongchang was not in a hurry, he leaned back on the chair with his eyes half-closed, the afterglow of the setting sun shone obliquely from the window, and on his body, there was a golden light, and on the civilian clothes he was wearing, the blue waves were rolling angrily, and the brilliant five-clawed golden dragon seemed to be ready to take off at any time. Shen Mingzhao raised his head, just seeing this scene, he quickly knelt down and kowtowed deeply: "My emperor's destiny is returned, how can that little ghost trick hurt it?" You didn't see the Queen Mother back then, how difficult it was, and in the end, she didn't turn the danger into disaster and Chengxiang? This providence also. ”

Emperor Yongchang let out a sigh of relief, the shock he received just now was too great, and Shen Mingzhao's words finally calmed his heart.

Five days later, Guo An'an appeared in front of Emperor Yongchang covered in dust: "Long live, all the prisoners have been brought." ”

"Okay, interrogate overnight."

In fact, Guo Gonggong has already given the interrogation results to Emperor Yongchang, and this retrial is just for a few ministers to check again, after all, the matter is too big, and Emperor Yongchang is still afraid of Liu Guangzhong's tricks.

The Criminal Department, Dali Temple, plus several cabinet ministers, the hall of Dali Temple is very solemn, the trial is halfway, Emperor Yongchang came to observe, and even the Queen Mother also sent a personal female official to come, although the matter is secret, but the solemn atmosphere seems to spread throughout the capital, and the people in the palace feel an uneasy atmosphere.

That night, the queen tossed and turned, although the emperor often came to Kunning Palace according to the custom, but the queen knew that her general trend had already gone, and her father and brother were very angry about it, when the emperor was still the prince, they did not eat and hang down, and even the position of the marshal of Northern Xinjiang was lost.

What's the use of being angry? Seeing that the palace is about to enter the newcomer, her stomach still has no movement, a queen who has no son and is disliked, needless to say, the future days can be imagined.

More uneasy than the queen, are the emperor's other concubines, it has been almost half a year, rumors say that the emperor will be a beauty pageant to enrich the palace, but there has been no movement, outside rumors, that the emperor fell in love with Xiao Yi's daughter who just got back, and later, became the granddaughter of King Miao, this time Lord Shen went to Miao Jiang, is to ask for relatives.

Tonight, the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings, but it is not like the joy of the beauty pageant entering the palace, but full of Xiao Ran's murderous atmosphere, what will be related to the inner palace?

Among the people brought back by Guo's father-in-law, in addition to what Liu Guangzhong handed over this time, there were Yang He, Xiao Yuchen's nurse Mu Pozi, Wen Jin's nurse Granny Zhang, and even Xiao Ayayun's nurse Rong's mother, Xiao Juanyun's nurse Su's mother, and Xiao Qiyun's nurse Qin's mother.

Xiao Yat was also called to audit, and he was very strange that something could have something to do with him.

At the beginning of the interrogation, it turned out to be the killing of Xiao Yi's former wife, and the ministers of the three halls of interrogation all looked at each other a little, not understanding what kind of medicine was sold in the emperor's gourd, and the family affairs of the Xiao family, are they worthy of interrogation by five ministers of first and second grades? However, several ministers soon discovered that this was a prologue, with the rat pulling the wooden shovel and the big head in the back.

The first person to interrogate was Mother Su, who was already frightened and trembling: "I went back to Mrs., Zhao Yulan's room, and I heard her talking to Mother Rong, called Mother Rong's third sister, when she said what kind of grass, it sounded like kudzu vine grass, and I didn't know if it was right or not." ”

Mother Rong knelt calmly, and when she heard this, she only turned her head and glared at Mother Su fiercely, then lowered her head and did not speak.

The second one who came up was Mother Qin, she and Mother Rong fought a lot over who was in charge of Zhilan Courtyard, the two met and glared at each other hatefully, Mother Qin said: "Mother Rong is outside, and has dealings with several men, Mrs. seems to know, it is easy for her to enter and exit the house." ”

Several street thugs were brought up, and Qin's mother looked at it and pointed to one of them: "I've seen him, and he killed my son!" ”

"She's liared!" Yung's mother retorted.

Dali Siqing asked someone to bring up an old eunuch, who seemed to be very old, and he walked tremblingly, he looked at the gangsters and looked at them, and finally decided on one: "That's it, it's a six-fingered." ”

"Check!" The people who were waiting on the side were not servants, they were all internal guards, and someone came up to check, and the gangster really had six fingers on his right hand.

The old eunuch said: "It was he who brought in the news to Gonggong Jiang, saying that Yang Ying has a twin brother, knowing that there is a kind of facial fat that works very well, but it is poisonous, and it will make people slowly become seriously ill, I thought of Princess Zhilan saying that the Queen Mother was poisoned, but I didn't have time to warn the Queen Mother, I was beaten with a stick, and I didn't remember anything after waking up, people called me a crazy father-in-law, and sent me to the cold palace to sweep the floor, this is more than ten years, I was seriously ill before last year, but I remembered these things, and I told Guo's father-in-law. ”

"Who is Grandpa Jiang?"

"Gonggong Jiang is dead, he used to be in charge of the treasury, the queen mother was poisoned, and the emperor was angry and killed him."

The old eunuch went down and brought up an old palace maid: "Father-in-law Jiang is Concubine Qiao's person, and his younger brother committed a crime, and it was Concubine Qiao's brother who helped save him." ”

The people in the room were surprised, could it be that it was the queen mother who was harmed by Concubine Qiao?

Every time someone came up, Rong's mother would glare at her fiercely a few times, and then a tattered little boy came up, Rong's mother looked at it a few times, but suddenly cried: "Jiang Jiang? Are you Jiang Jiang? ”

The little boy looked blankly at the crying woman and asked suspiciously, "Who are you?" How do you know my name is Jiang Jiang? Only my grandparents called me that. ”

"Where's your grandparents?"

"Dead, just during the Chinese New Year, one night it was very dark, I slept and fell under the bed, usually grandma found out, will carry me back to the bed, this time no, I woke up from freezing, get up, the house is fishy, dawn, it turned out that grandma and grandpa died, woo, a room full of blood, I was scared, crying, the nurse coaxed me to eat cakes, but it was unpalatable, I secretly threw it to rhubarb, rhubarb screamed a few times and died, the nurse ran away, Grandpa Chen saw it, stole me out and hid me in a yard where no one was, Told me not to talk, and brought me food every day, and then he never came again, and I was hungry, so I ran out, and there was no one at home, nothing, and I was hungry. ”

Rong's mother thought that on the night Zhao Yulan died, she rewarded herself with a table of dishes, she had accumulated food for a few days, so she didn't eat, and the next day she was so bad that she all fell down, that is, their master did it and wanted to clean them up?

She was still suspicious, and Gonggong Guo spoke: "On the night of Zhao Yulan's death, Gonggong Jing violated the palace rules and was arrested by me, for some reason, he actually hanged himself, I don't understand, but now it's clear, that day, he went to Xiao Mansion, or dressed up in disguise, Mother Rong, you must have seen a tall and white-skinned Dao Gu in Xiao Mansion, right?" ”

Rong's mother was like a dead face, holding her son and shaking, and after a while, she said pleadingly: "If I recruit all of them, can I save my son's life?" ”

No one paid attention to her, and Rong's mother knew that this was an extravagant hope, but she still persisted, plucking up the courage to look at Guo's father-in-law. ”

"Send it to the nursery, and as for the future, see how he creates." Someone spoke above, and Rong's mother breathed a sigh of relief, her son is so old, someone will soon adopt him, or give it to someone as an apprentice, and he will not ask for food along the street.

"Let's talk about it." Guo Gonggong said impatiently.

Mother Rong watched her son being taken down, gritted her teeth, and said: "Zhao Yulan and I are cousins, her cousin, back then, by chance, my grandmother found that a kind of facial fat was very white, but poisonous, she did not make a noise, but dedicated it to her relative Mrs. Qiao." ”

Everyone in the lobby took a sharp breath of cold air.

"Grandmother's maiden family used to be a bell doctor, that is, the so-called Fang Langzhong, Mrs. Qiao asked her to reconfigure the face fat, which can not only make people infertile, but also fatal, my grandmother has been pinching this recipe, and she wants to coerce Mrs. Qiao to make proper arrangements for our family, brothers have become officials, and sisters have also married into Gaomen, Qiao's family has always wanted poison at the beginning, and then suddenly had an antidote, in fact, our family has done the most antidote, not a few boxes of poison." "Tell me, how did Xiao Guogong's ex-wife die?" Rong's mother gritted her teeth, "Yulan sent a message that Xiao Yi's ex-wife came to Beijing, she has children and daughters, and she has a deep relationship with Xiao Yi and his wife, if she goes to Xiao Mansion, how can she have Yulan's status?" My grandmother asked Mrs. Qiao to help us clean up the troubles, and Mrs. Qiao did all those things. ”

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