Chapter 578: Disaster Comes from the Mouth
Those who knelt, including King Yong'an, got up at this time, and their hearts were like a spring breeze.
It turned out that everything was just a false alarm.
The workers, peasants, soldiers, eunuchs, and others present were all fascinated by what had just happened, like a fallen cloud. The queen covered the sky with one hand, which made them even more afraid of her.
The queen accepted the awe-inspiring gaze cast at her by everyone, and her face was arrogant. The emperor finally gave in to her, not only retracted the words of the queen of abolition, but also publicly apologized to her, and even if she stood up quietly, she did not pursue it.
Yanxiang glanced at the queen's martial appearance, and her heart was panicked. It's obviously the queen's fault, how did it become like this? She gritted her teeth secretly, distressed. She really regretted it, she knew that the painting would come in handy at this time, and she would definitely not return the painting to the brocade guard.
She desperately wanted to carry it with her and use it to testify against the queen.
But there are no ifs. The more she thought about it, the more angry she became, so she let the queen succeed and was bullied by the queen, she was really unwilling. Suddenly, she had a flash of inspiration and thought of one thing, it was possible that the queen killed Xu Guifei. Of course, it's just her guess, and there is no real evidence, if there is real evidence, I'm afraid it won't be her turn to say.
If this matter is confirmed, the queen's fault can be blamed, the emperor's dissatisfaction with the queen can be aroused, and the queen's ugly face can be revealed.
This matter, in front of so many people, if you don't say it at this time, when will it be?
So, Yanxiang shouted excitedly: "Your Majesty, the people's daughter knows who is the murderer of Xu Guifei!" ”
This headless and brainless unexpected scream caused everyone to panic. However, with the bizarre scene staged by the queen just now, the shouting of smoke incense is not too difficult to accept.
At this moment, the smoke suddenly came out of nowhere, and people had to associate it with the queen.
Regarding Xu Guifei's death, everyone has an idea in their hearts, suspecting that it was the queen's doing, whether it is the motive or the means, it is extremely consistent.
The emperor knew it well, but there was no evidence.
Everyone's eyes first converged on Yanxiang, and in an instant, they all shifted their eyes to the queen.
Hearing this, the smug look on the queen's face was replaced by panic, and her face was like ashes in an instant. Her body suddenly cooled a lot, and the cold sweat on her back broke out again. Her eyes were staring at the cigarette incense, and her eyes showed hatred for the cigarette incense.
If the gaze can kill, the smoke has died countless times.
Chu Aofei's heart sank, his face changed, and his whole body stiffened. He didn't dare to look at the emperor's gloomy face, and whispered to the disciples: "Smoke, shut up!" Hugh is babbling! ”
He felt that one head and two were big, and he was miserable. He regretted that he really shouldn't have brought the troublemaker of cigarette incense into the palace. blamed herself for her soft ears, and she couldn't resist the soft grinding and hard bubbles of the cigarette, knowing that she would get into trouble, but she still brought her here.
Now it's okay, it's a big disaster.
How could he not guess that the queen was the murderer of Xu Guifei? However, this matter is not trivial, and without evidence, it cannot be said nonsense. When the emperor just said that he wanted to abolish the queen, the queen was so crazy that she finally bit back.
If it is said in public that the queen is the murderer of Xu Guifei, and no evidence can be produced, I am afraid that the queen will be beaten up. When the time comes, the queen will not give up. It's just that the smoke and incense are fast for a while, which will bring ruin to their own people.
In the smoke incense said the sentence, 'The folk girl knows who is the murderer of Xu Guifei!' Before the incense could speak again, Chu Tiankuo sealed her mouth in time.
The tiger's tail can't be touched. After the incident, he had already seen the queen's methods, and once the trouble broke out, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Besides, his father was silent when he sued the prime minister before, and now, suing the queen will only make his father embarrassed.
The emperor listened to Yanxiang's headless words and stiffened. His eyebrows, eyes, nose, and mouth were all huddled together, gloomy. That face was like a wet handkerchief, and if it could be folded and twisted, it might wring out water, and I even worried that it was going to rain.
The anger in his chest was on the verge of rage. Isn't the cigarette still causing him enough trouble? He didn't need to ask him to know that the person who Yanxiang wanted to sue was the queen.
He will deal with it, this matter is very tricky, not to mention that there is no real evidence, even if the evidence is conclusive, the queen will not admit it. This will cause the Xia family to revolt and cause turmoil in the imperial court.
If he doesn't deal with it, it will make people feel cold and laugh at him for being incompetent. I'm even more sorry for Concubine Xu Gui's spirit in the sky, and I'm sorry for his emperor Chu Tiankuo.
It can be seen how much trouble the irresponsible sentence of cigarette incense has caused him. What happened just now, the cigarette has not yet learned its lesson.
Fortunately, his emperor Chu Tiankuo reacted cleverly and covered his mouth with the incense of cigarettes.
The emperor didn't want to embarrass Yanxiang, but seeing her talk like this, it was an insult to the royal reputation, and he couldn't bear it.
Most people are looking forward to the cigarette to say something, but when they see the cigarette being covered in their mouth, they can't help but feel a little disappointed. They looked at the Empress, then at the incense, and finally at the Emperor.
Normally, the emperor would say, 'Let her go, let her speak.' Then, he will ask Yanxiang, you say, who is the murderer of Xu Guifei? That's what makes sense.
However, the emperor's reaction was beyond everyone's expectations. Including Xiangye's group of courtiers, it was also unexpected.
The emperor's heart was on fire, and he roared coldly, "Who brought her in?" ”
Duan Zisheng hurriedly knelt down and replied in a panic: "Your Majesty, stop your anger!" It was the grass people who brought her in, and she caused trouble for the emperor, and the grass people should be damned! ”
I heard Duan Zisheng call himself a grass people. Yan Xiang reacted before he realized that his position as the secretary of Dali Temple had not yet been restored. She was immediately extremely discouraged, she had tried hard before, but it was in vain, and it made the queen even more arrogant. She wanted to help Duan Zisheng get justice, but she didn't want to cause him to suffer.
Yanxiang desperately wanted to break free from the shackles of the senior brother, and wanted to break the hand of the senior brother covering her mouth, but she couldn't break it. She wanted to speak, wanted to defend Duan Zisheng, but she couldn't.
Her eyes were wide open, and she looked at her senior brother with a mournful look.
Chu Aofei also knelt down after Duan Zisheng: "Your Majesty, it is the grass people who are not strict and are willing to be punished on behalf of the disciples!" ”
The emperor glanced at Duan Zisheng and Chu Aofei lightly, and sighed: "You guys get up first." I can't blame you for this. As he spoke, his tone changed, and he shouted, "Someone! Grab the cigarettes! ”
Smoke Xiang panicked, what is the emperor going to do? Could it be that he can't repair the queen, and he can't repair her if he wants to? She couldn't help but feel a wave of hatred in her heart, hating this injustice is the way of the world. She hates it so much, even the emperor is a master who bullies the weak and fears the hard.
How did she know that there are no absolutes, and the road of life is tortuous.
Yanxiang was frightened by the emperor's attitude, where did he dare to say anything more? I only felt angry, hateful and annoyed in my heart, full of grievances. She didn't say anything wrong, why was she treated like this? She began to hate this palace and the people in this palace. There's no freedom of speech here, she can't even tell the truth.
So, she swallowed the fact that Xu Guifei might be the queen and swallowed it in her stomach. Even if she did, what was the use? The emperor didn't care, he didn't want to know at all, he didn't want to know.
She gritted her teeth secretly, she should be silent like others. This lesson made her deeply understand the word 'woe comes from the mouth'.
Several guards listened and leaned forward.
Before the emperor could open his mouth to arrest people, Chu Tiankuo jumped out to protect his shortcomings: "Father, stop your anger!" It's Erchen's fault! Yanxiang has been by Erchen's side since she was a child, and Erchen loves her like a treasure, and spoils her lawlessly, no big or small, unscrupulous and unscrupulous. If the father wants to punish him, he will punish his sons. ”
At this time, Chu Tiankuo had already let go of the hand covering the cigarette mouthpiece. He knew that the cigarette was a little willful, but he still had the eyesight to judge the situation. In this case, she will be a little more restrained.
Hearing this, the emperor's face darkened, his eyes stared at the incense of smoke sharply, and he scolded Chu Tiankuo: "Emperor, you are only with her to become like this!" ”
That sounds so harsh. Yanxiang's face was blue, but he didn't dare to argue anymore. She didn't love it, as if everything was her fault and her fault.
Hey? The idea of cigarettes turned sharply, and it was. She had to admit that the emperor was extremely reasonable. It's her who is not good, and the senior brother is just tired by her.
In the first year of Xingde, Hong Gaode proclaimed himself emperor, established the Great Western Kingdom, and set the capital of Fengcheng. In the early days of the establishment of the regime, the surrounding countries were eyeing the Great Western Kingdom and provoked wars for no reason. Before the expedition, Xu Guifei, the mother of Xigong, was 8 months pregnant. The emperor proposed an edict, if the prince was born, he would be named Hong Chengye, and the prince would be established, and if he was born a princess, he would be crowned Princess Changyu.
After Emperor Hong left the palace, Queen Xia made a plan to let Xu Guifei slip the fetus, who knows, the sky did not fulfill her wish, and the fetus in Xu Guifei's womb was born, and it actually survived.
"Your Majesty has already doted on Concubine Xu, and now, she has given birth to a prince again, and I see that our master and queen throne will not be able to be kept."
"Isn't it? Listening to the palace maid in the West Palace, the prince was born white and fat, very cute, his face resembled His Majesty, there was a righteousness between his eyebrows, and he must be a good emperor when he grows up. ”
This is the little palace maid in the queen's palace whispering in private.
Even if they don't talk about it, the Empress Xia knows that if she doesn't try to get rid of the prince, I'm afraid that life won't be better in the future.
She immediately summoned her elder brother Xiangye and Chu Xiang, the head of the imperial guard, to discuss countermeasures. They plotted to burn down the West Palace, which was carried out by General Chu.
At the critical moment, General Chu gave up the idea of harming the prince and exchanged his own son for the prince's exit from the palace.
Xu Guifei cried and cried, turned her heart sideways, picked up the hairpin, and used the tip of the hairpin to tattoo the word "heaven" on the prince's left shoulder. The stab is in the child's body, the pain is in the mother's heart, and after the stabbing is finished, Xu Guifei's painful liver and intestines are broken. She trembled and hung a jade pendant on the crown prince, which was given by the emperor himself, and there is only one in the world today.
Concubine Xu Guifei kowtowed to Chu Xiang, and said with tears in her eyes, "General Chu, please accept my three bows, your great kindness and great virtue, this palace will repay it in the next life." ”
"Niangniang, you can't help it, please get up ...... quickly" As he spoke, he heard footsteps outside, General Chu picked up the prince and hurriedly fled through the side door.
Xu Guifei fainted.
The person who came was the imperial doctor Feng Nanyang. Legend has it that this person was originally a man in the rivers and lakes, and his nickname was the fortune teller. He can pinch and calculate, not only has excellent medical skills, but also has extraordinary martial arts. He took away General Chu's son, performed light skills, shuttled freely in the palace, easily got rid of the pursuit of the palace guards, and left the city safely.
After Xia, he ordered people to burn down the West Palace, and Xu Guifei and a cadre were buried in the fire. During the inventory of the body, it was found that the body of a baby was missing. Plus General Chu Xiang's whereabouts are unknown. Empress Xia and Xiangye concluded that the prince was most likely taken away by Chu Xiang. So, Empress Xia secretly sent people to hunt down and kill General Chu Xiang.
In the fourth year of Xingde, the emperor returned triumphantly.
Xia Hou was shrewd and capable, and kept this matter a secret. Emperor Hong didn't believe that Xu Guifei really died in an accident. He often dreamed of the crown prince, and he has been sending people to investigate the matter secretly, but he has not been able to find out the truth, Chu Xiang disappeared, and Feng Nanyang also disappeared.
In the fifth year of Xingde, the queen gave birth to a son, and Emperor Hong named him Hong Cheng'an. The queen thought to herself, the emperor obviously did not have high hopes for this son. Empress Xia thought to herself, even if the emperor delayed issuing an edict and appointing a new crown prince, Emperor Rihong would die, and the throne would be her son's sooner or later. However, she still had some concerns, twenty-four years ago, she sent someone to hunt down and kill Chu Xiang, Chu Xiang was seriously injured and died, but the prince did not know who rescued him.
For more than 20 years, there has been no news of the prince. If the crown prince is still alive, then he will be the biggest threat to Hong Chengan's succession to the throne. Besides, once this matter is revealed, she and Xiangye will definitely be in trouble.
Emperor Hong Gaode reigned for 24 years, he worked hard, knew people well, the country was strong, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. Emperor Hong grew old and missed his lost prince more and more, and finally fell ill.
Knowing that Emperor Hong was ill, Feng Nanyang sneaked into the palace to see the emperor.
"Bold Feng Nanyang, you are guilty, you have been hiding for more than 20 years, and I have been sending people to look for you and General Chu for more than 20 years. Do you know about Concubine Xu? Emperor Hong cried with joy when he saw him.
"Your Majesty, the minister is guilty. When the queen wanted to burn down the West Palace, the minister arrived after learning about it, and the minister came one step late, and the prince had been taken away by General Chu. In a panic, Zhongchen rescued General Chu's son and handed him over to a foreign master to raise. For the past 24 years, I have been secretly searching for the whereabouts of the prince, but I have never found it. The ministers have the great trust of the emperor. Feng Nanyang was full of guilt.
"What a queen. Over the years, I have seen her keep to herself and teach the emperor carefully, but I never thought that she would be so vicious. I'm going to send her to the cold! Emperor Hong gritted his teeth angrily and slapped the imperial case.
"Your Majesty, you can't do it. There is no evidence, if the emperor does this, it will definitely cause turmoil in the court and panic among the people. Feng Nanyang persuaded.
"I can not pursue the queen's guilt first, but the prince can't be left behind, and I must find him back." The emperor was resolute, calmed down for a while and sat on the dragon chair.
"Your Majesty, look for the prince openly, and the prince will inevitably be framed. It's better to visit secretly. Feng Nanyang suggested.
Emperor Hong painted a portrait of a twenty-four-year-old man according to his own appearance, handed it over to Feng Nanyang, appointed Feng Nanyang as the minister of the Qin Mission, and gave Shang Fang a sword.
"Emperor, where are you?" Emperor Hong sighed.