Chapter 93 Transfer of Responsibility
With a feeling of anxiety, Baili Cheng came to the dungeon of the palace and saw Thyme imprisoned inside.
"Big brother, big brother, save me! I don't want to be locked up here! Big brother, get me out!"
When Thyme saw Baili City, she immediately pounced and cried with tears streaming down her face.
"Xiang'er, how are you? Are you well? Are you cold? Are you hungry? Big brother brought you a quilt and food!"
Baili Cheng hugged Thyme and asked with a distressed face.
"Big brother, help me out! It's cloudy and cold, there are cockroaches and rats everywhere, and I don't even have a decent quilt, I really can't stand it! You go and intercede with the prince and let him let me out, okay? I promise that I will never annoy him again in the future! Big brother, you can help me!"
Thyme cried tear-stained, so pitiful. This trip to prison, she can be regarded as having endured all the hardships!
How did she live a pampered life in the palace? Now that she was imprisoned in a dungeon, she realized what was the difference between heaven and hell!
Baili Cheng first wrapped the brand-new quilt on Thyme's shivering body, then opened the lid of the food box, brought her the hot meal, and said in a low voice: "Sister, you eat something first, and the rest will be talked about later!"
Although Thyme was anxious, she still obeyed Baili Cheng's words and picked up her rice. White rice, which I didn't even look at before, is now very sweet. The braised pork, which is usually fatty, feels like a top delicacy at this time.
Baili Cheng looked at her hands that were a little red and swollen from the cold and said, "Look at your hands are frostbitten!"
With that, he got up and walked to the door of the prison and said to the guards who brought him over, "This guard brother, please go and buy some chilblain cream for the princess." ”
After saying that, he took out a silver ingot from his sleeve and stuffed it to the guard.
The guard hurriedly shirked and said, "Baili Gongzi, this, this can't be done!"
Baili Cheng said: "Although she is imprisoned in the dungeon, she is also the princess of Qi who is personally appointed by the emperor, and at this time, His Royal Highness the King of Qi will put her in the dungeon in a moment's anger, maybe she will be released when the anger is gone! If she suffers any grievances in prison, you can't explain it, right? Just trouble the eldest brother to go out and buy me some chilblain cream, and I'll apply it for the princess!"
As he spoke, he shoved the silver to the guards.
When the guards heard this, they were afraid of the Baili family, and secondly, they also felt that what Baili City said made sense.
Although Thyme is imprisoned in the dungeon, her identity is still there, if she is released in the future and says bad things about these guards, then their lives will not be guaranteed!
Now it's just a matter of buying chilblain cream, and I believe there won't be any major problems. So he nodded in agreement, took the silver into his bosom and left.
After the guards left, Baili Cheng hurriedly walked to Baili Xiang and squatted down and whispered: "Sister, to make a long story short, what's going on, tell me quickly, I have a good idea to save you out!"
When Thyme heard this, tears of grievance immediately fell, and she sobbed and told Baili City what had happened.
"I didn't expect this Min Qingrou's scheming to be so deep!"
After listening to Thyme's narration, Baili City's heart couldn't help but be shaken. This Rou Concubine Niangniang, who is said to be very weak, is so thoughtful and reacts so sensitively! It is really not to be underestimated that she can think of a way to defeat the enemy in a short time!
It seems that he underestimated the enemy!
There is also an important reason why their plan failed this time. That was Wei Chenfeng.
Wei Chenfeng is the guard of King Qi, and he is also the confidant of King Qi, he underestimates Wei Chenfeng's position in the eyes of King Qi too much!
originally wanted to use the betrayal of the closest person to achieve the goal of making King Qi angry and completely destroying Min Qingrou, but he didn't expect the development of things to be too unexpected!
can't blame his sister for being careless, it was he who underestimated the strength of King Qi and Min Qingrou. Although on the surface these two people are inconspicuous characters, they are not at the mercy of others on the inside!
Baili City pondered, King Qi seemed to have made up his mind to sentence his sister for his crimes, and now if he wants to save his sister, he can only find a scapegoat to come out and shirk all the sins!
Even if you can't shirk it all, you have to shift the main cause, otherwise, this time my sister will really be finished!
Thinking of this, he asked in a low voice: "Xiang'er, in the palace, is there anyone who treats Concubine Rou wrongly?" I tested His Royal Highness King Qi just now, and I can see that he is determined not to forgive you easily this time, you must find a way out for yourself, otherwise, I am afraid it will be difficult to turn over in the future!"
"Big brother, does the prince really refuse to forgive me? No, I don't believe it! I have been married to him for many years, how can he be so ruthless?"
When Thyme heard this, she immediately burst into tears.
"Xiang'er, this time it's the eldest brother who is not thoughtful, and he shouldn't involve Wei Chenfeng! It seems that this Wei Chenfeng is very important to His Royal Highness King Qi, you remember! In the future, you must not easily move His Royal Highness King Qi's people, because I guess ......"
Speaking of this, Baili Cheng lowered his voice very low, approached Baili Xiang and said, "King Qi may have the heart to compete for the crown!"
"What?" Thyme was startled, and almost threw the rice bowl in her hand to the ground.
She hurriedly put the dishes and chopsticks on the ground, grabbed Baili Cheng's sleeve and said, "Big brother, you're not joking, are you? How is this possible? The prince is the most indifferent by nature, how can he go to ......?"
No wonder Thyme was so shocked, at the beginning of the paddock draft, she fell in love with the chic and indifferent of the third prince Situ Yue, and decided to follow him to live an ordinary princely life, and never thought that King Qi would participate in the battle for the crown prince!
"If my hunch is correct, he may have been secretly plotting! Although there is no obvious indication that he has this mind, he has to guard against it! Sister, you know who Daddy's mind is! If King Qi really takes that road, your position will be difficult! Are you sure you still want to be this Princess of Qi?"
Baili City is not worry-free.
"Big brother, I am already the princess of Qi, it is impossible to change it again! I must go down with the king of Qi!"
Thyme bit her lip and looked up in reply.
Baili Cheng shook his head, "Xiang'er, you want to go with him, but he may not have the heart to take you away! I can see that his mind is not on you! It is better to take this opportunity to leave the Qi Palace, lest you will be implicated in the future!"
"What if you guess wrong? What if the prince doesn't have that mind? Big brother! I don't want to leave the prince! You help me!"
Thyme is stubborn.
Baili Cheng sighed, "Okay, everything is still unclear now, if you want to stay, stay first! But you must be careful, don't do it again! Now you have to find someone to take the blame for you, think about it, who is more suitable?"
Thyme lowered her head and thought for a while, and said, "The other thoughtful concubines in the house have been cooked, and now there is no one else except Concubine Yunfang, who has always disliked Concubine Rou!"
"That's her! You tell me her background, and I'll arrange it!" Baili Cheng nodded.
Thyme nodded silently and told Baili City everything related to Yun Rong's background and temperament.
When Baili Cheng heard this, he immediately came up with a set of ways to deal with it, and told Baili what to do.
"Okay! You can be wronged for a few more days, and soon the eldest brother will be able to get you out!"
After the two finished talking, the guard also happened to buy medicine and came back. Baili Cheng applied thyme cream to frostbite cream and comforted him a few more words before he got up and left the dungeon.
Thyme sat on the hard stone couch wrapped in a quilt, her heart uneasy.
Does the prince really want to compete for the crown prince? Will the eldest brother be mistaken? At the beginning in the paddock, Situ Yue was such a clear person, she liked him at a glance, and she couldn't take her eyes off him anymore!
But after getting married, she also discovered his transformation to some extent, and also discovered many of his hidden secrets, but she didn't want to tell it. She just wants to be with him for a long time, as long as he is willing to come to the Agarwood Palace, she doesn't mind that he has someone else in his heart!
But why? God wants to play such a joke on her? The father is bent on supporting her aunt's son to ascend to the throne, and if the prince is also involved, what will she do?
This night in prison, thyme is really bitter!
Yuan Qiao hurriedly returned to Poria Xuan, entered the house and reported to Min Qingrou: "Master, as you expected, things have really changed!"
"Oh, let's hear it!" Min Qingrou, who was leaning on the chaise longue, immediately sat up straight and listened to the fateful report.
"Master, Concubine Yun suddenly ran to the Pujia Palace to surrender to the prince, saying that everything was done by her at the instigation of the princess, and asked the princess to release the innocent princess, and she was willing to accept the punishment!"
"Hmph, that's true!" Min Qingrou sneered unconsciously.
After a night of precipitation, Min Qingrou thought about it and felt that it was impossible for this matter to end like this. The people of the Baili family will not sit idly by and watch Thyme be easily deposed by Situ Yue, and will definitely find a way to rescue her from the predicament.
But now the evidence is conclusive, if Thyme wants to get out, there is only one way, and that is to find a scapegoat. And this scapegoat, the best candidate is, of course, the side concubine Yunrong, who has always looked at Min Qingrou unpleasantly.
Yun Rong is the daughter of Qing Yunshang of Honglu Temple, and her family background is not as good as that of the Baili family, as long as the Baili family puts a little pressure, she will definitely be able to replace Baili as a scapegoat.
However, if Thyme was allowed to get out so easily, wouldn't what she had done before be in vain?
A Qi Wangfu has already consumed too much of her time! She still has a big revenge to avenge her, but she can't continue to play with them!
"By chance, come here!"
Min Qingrou beckoned to Yuan Qiao, whispered something to her, and then said with cold eyes: "Remember?"
Yuan Qiao nodded immediately, "Don't worry, master, the slave knows how to do it! Concubine Yun is overwhelmed, this time she will have no return!"
After saying that, he blessed his body and withdrew.
In the Pujia Palace, Yun Rong knelt in front of Situ Yue and cried bitterly.
"Lord, it's all the concubine's fault! It was the concubine who instigated the princess to attack Concubine Rou! It was also the concubine who poisoned Concubine Rou with poison that made her skin fester! That Fang Si Pa was also stolen out by the concubine and given to the princess! It was all made by the concubine! Because the concubine was not used to seeing Concubine Rou's foxy appearance! She came from a humble background, so how could she get the favor of the prince? The concubine was unwilling! The concubine had already seen her unpleasantly! That's why she deliberately instigated the princess to get rid of this scourge! The concubine knows that she is wrong, but the concubine is all because she wants to get the favor of the prince! I beg the prince to spare Yun'er for the sake of Yun'er's many years of service!"
"Did you really do it?"
Situ Yue didn't believe Yun Rong's words, but overnight, there were many more physical evidence, proving that Thyme was also instigated by others, and he was not really ruthless.
Although Situ Yue felt that this matter was not so simple, in the face of evidence, he had to overturn his previous judgment.
"Yes! It was indeed done by the concubine! It has nothing to do with the princess! The princess originally didn't want to embarrass Concubine Rou, but she couldn't stand my repeated persuasion, so she attacked her! Since the princess was imprisoned in the dungeon, the concubine couldn't sleep and eat, and finally couldn't stand the condemnation of her conscience, so she decided to come out and clarify, please ask the prince to understand!"
Yun Rong was full of tears, but her expression was extremely firm. It seems that he has made up his mind to take all the blame away!
"Concubine Yun, you must know that even if you resist all the guilt, this king cannot judge the princess not guilty because of one side of the word, this king will carefully find out about this matter! Wei Chenfeng, immediately take someone to lock the cloud pavilion inside and outside to make it clear, and no omissions are allowed!"
"Yes!"
Situ Yue gave an order, and Wei Chenfeng immediately took people to Suoyun Pavilion.