Chapter 076: Denial of it
Yun Yao's voice slowly floated in the prison, undisturbed, as if she made a plan in front of Lu Yingquan every time.
And this time, it is the beginning of her betrayal of the old master, and she must be like a real strategist, planning for Mrs. Yao's future.
After listening to Yun Yao's words, Mrs. Yao felt that it made a lot of sense, so she couldn't help but nod and said, "Okay, anyway, the whistleblower letter is in my hands, and it makes no difference if you take a step earlier or a step later." Since you've said so, I'll listen to you once. When His Highness comes back, it will be Lu Yingquan's death!"
The essence in Yun Yao's eyes flashed, fleeting, and it was too fast to catch it. When she saw that Mrs. Yao agreed with her words, she said with a smile: "In this case, the slave maid will wait for Mrs. to finish and rescue the slave maid." ”
"Rest assured, this day won't be too long. Mrs. Yao swore solemnly, and then asked Mei Xiang to put away the dry whistleblower letter, fold it, put it in an envelope, and then put away the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, leaving no trace.
Soon, Yun Yao was left alone in the prison, and she watched Mrs. Yao leave, with an inexplicable look on her face, as if she was smiling.
When the surroundings were completely quiet, she shoved the ink she had just hidden into the corner of the wall and covered it with straw so that no one could find out.
She knew that by the time someone found the ink, she didn't know how long it would be. By that time, the situation in the entire Yiwang Palace had changed a few degrees, and Mrs. Yao's fate had long since disappeared.
Yiwang Palace seemed to be quiet, and Lu Yingquan's fiery questioning action had no end or end, and after arresting an An Lan, there was no follow-up, which made the rest of the palace feel a lot more at ease.
In the lock spring platform, Empress Dowager Jiang was lying on the soft couch, wrapped in a blanket, covering herself warmly, listening to Wushuang tell the things outside.
In fact, in this palace, if Empress Dowager Jiang wants to know something, as long as she has the heart to inquire, there is nothing she doesn't know.
When she heard that Lu Yingquan only arrested An Lan for interrogation, and did not implicate any concubines in the harem, she couldn't help but be a little surprised:
"Anlan is a breakthrough, she didn't ask anything?"
"Empress Dowager, Lu Liangren, she asked, but ...... An Lan's confession was related to Mrs. Jiang, so Lu Liangren did not continue. Wushuang glanced up at the Queen Mother and seemed to say with some hesitation.
After all, the Queen Mother's teaching to Mrs. Jiang has always been not to fight or grab, to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and wait for the final water to come to fruition. But I didn't expect that Mrs. Jiang actually went against the queen mother's will and took it personally, and it moved to Lu Yingquan's head at the beginning.
"Something to do with Yi'er?" the Queen Mother couldn't help but sneer, "She actually took the words of the mourning family as a deaf ear!"
"Mrs. Jiang is probably in a hurry, Lu Liangren is too good, and there are people like Yun Yao around who give advice, coupled with the favor of His Royal Highness, the momentum is unstoppable for a while. Wushuang guessed, "However, this Lu Liangren is a smart person, she knows how to measure, and she didn't attack Mrs. Jiang." ”
Wushuang is the confidant of the Empress Dowager Jiang, and the Empress Dowager generally listens to her words. Seeing Wushuang say this, she also felt in her heart that Lu Yingquan was a person who was suitable for advance and retreat.
"Okay, you secretly check this matter, if it is really related to Yi'er, this matter must be suppressed, and the left and right are just to compensate Lu Yingquan. As she spoke, the Queen Mother waved her hand at Wushuang and let her go down.
Wushuang secretly investigated, but also paid attention to the movements of Linglong Pavilion until two days later, Shen Che returned to the palace.
At this moment, two days have passed since Yun Yao wrote that whistleblower letter.
Mrs. Yao walked around her palace, her whole heart was uneasy, she took the whistleblower letter in her hand and read it many times.
"Mei Xiang, Your Highness has returned, according to Yun Yao, now is a good time to expose Lu Yingquan. Mrs. Yao said to Mei Xiang beside her, "Do you say I want to go now?"
"Madam, Your Highness has just returned to the palace, and she is already very tired, and I am afraid that she has already gone straight to Linglong Pavilion at this time, if it passes now, it will anger Your Highness, I am afraid it will be bad for Madame." Mei Xiang said, "The slave maid thinks that His Royal Highness is also going to ask the Queen Mother for peace tomorrow, so Madame might as well go directly to Suochuntai tomorrow and expose this matter in front of His Royal Highness and the Queen Mother." ”
"That's right, with His Royal Highness here, I can't say that I disturbed the Queen Mother's recuperation. Let's just let Lu Yingquan have one more day. Mrs. Yao nodded, stuffed the whistleblower letter back into the envelope, and then placed it in a brocade box in the drawer of the dresser, carefully kept.
In the blink of an eye, it was the third day.
Mrs. Yao got up early in the morning, asked Mei Xiang to finish dressing her, and deliberately wore her favorite palace dress, combing the most popular Feixian bun, lining her whole body with a graceful posture.
Mei Xiang sent a little palace maid to guard outside Suochuntai, and once Shen Che went to Suochuntai, she came back to say goodbye.
At this time, in the Linglong Pavilion, Lu Yingquan was also grooming, she knew what might happen today, so she had to deal with it calmly, at least in makeup and aura, she couldn't lose to Mrs. Yao.
Shen Che arrived at Suochuntai and said a few words to the Queen Mother, and someone outside came in to tell him, saying that Mrs. Yao asked to see her.
The Queen Mother and Shen Che glanced at each other, and at the same time saw a look of interest in each other's eyes.
"This is really a coincidence, Mrs. Yao has never come to Suochuntai these days, and she will come as soon as you come. The Queen Mother sneered, "I don't know what moths are coming out of." ”
"The queen mother might as well see her and know what she wants to do. You must know that the matter of the Temple of Light a few days ago has nothing to do with her. ”
When the Queen Mother heard this, she nodded, and asked Mrs. Yao to come in.
Mrs. Yao entered the hall and greeted Shen Che and the Queen Mother, before taking a deep breath and saying slowly:
"His Royal Highness, the Queen Mother, and the concubines are here today to have something important to report. ”
"Oh, what's the matter?" asked the Queen Mother.
"The concubine wants to expose Lu Liangren, whose identity is Ning Gong Xizuo, and there are already witnesses and physical evidence. Mrs. Yao said, "This matter was learned by the concubine from the sin maid Yun Yao a few days ago. ”
When Shen Che heard that Lu Yingquan's identity was Ning Gong Xizuo, his pupils suddenly constricted, and a monstrous anger surged in his eyes. Then I heard that it was from Yun Yao's mouth, and my heart tightened, and I couldn't help but worry that Yun Yao was forced to betray Lu Yingquan in desperation.
For Shen Che, all his cognition of Yun Yao came from Gu Qingming and Lu Yingquan's narration, and it was not absolute trust, because he felt that people's hearts would change. In the Hall of Light that day, Lu Yingquan gave up Yun Yao, maybe Yun Yao might betray Lu Yingquan.
"Nonsense. Shen Che said coldly, "Since you learned about this matter a few days ago, why did you come to tell you now? Don't you know that Ning Gong's meticulous work is very important, what are your intentions for such a delay?"
As soon as Shen Che opened his mouth, he put the charge on Mrs. Yao's head, wanting Mrs. Yao to mess with herself, so as to resolve Lu Yingquan's crisis.
"Back to His Royal Highness, the concubine was too panicked, plus His Royal Highness was not in the palace a few days ago, the Queen Mother was sick, Lu Yingquan was rampant in the palace, and the concubine was worried that no one was in charge of this matter, so she delayed it until today, and waited for His Highness to come back and then tell him. ”
Mrs. Yao's high-sounding reasons made Shen Che not know how to refute, after all, Lu Yingquan did have the token he gave in his hand, and he also had his permission to do whatever he wanted.
The Queen Mother probably saw Shen Che's thoughts, but she already knew Lu Yingquan's identity, so she was noncommittal to Mrs. Yao's words and didn't believe it much. However, she also wanted to see how Lu Yingquan got out of this meticulous identity.
Thinking of this, the Queen Mother said: "Che'er, since Mrs. Yao is so sure that she has come to expose this matter, which means that she does have some evidence in her hands, why not take a look at what her so-called evidence is, and then make a conclusion?"
"What the queen mother said is that everything is up to the queen mother. Shen Che nodded and said, but he had already made up his mind to pay attention, if things were really unfavorable to Lu Yingquan, he might really want to be a faint monarch.
"Go and invite Lu Liangren, the mourning family wants to hear what she has to say. The Queen Mother said to Wushuang beside her.
Wushuang received the order, and when he was about to go out, the attendant outside happened to come in and tell him, saying that Lu Liang was asking to see him outside.
When the words fell, the atmosphere in the hall changed suddenly, and a trace of smugness flashed on Mrs. Yao's face, feeling that Lu Yingquan was throwing himself into the net.
Soon, Lu Yingquan came in with a silk and saluted the Queen Mother and Shen Che with a dignified manner, as if he didn't know what had happened in this hall before.
"Lu Liangren, you came just in time, the mourning family is about to send someone to invite you. The Queen Mother said, "Mrs. Yao just exposed it in front of the mourning family, saying that you are a fine work of the Ning Palace, and you have Yun Yao as proof, do you have anything to say?"
After listening to the Queen Mother's words, Lu Yingquan was surprised for a while, and then denied it: "Queen Mother, this matter is pure fiction, I don't know how Mrs. Yao is talking nonsense here?"
"Lu Yingquan, whether I'm talking nonsense or not, you know it in your own heart. This matter was personally admitted by your personal palace maid Yun Yao. Mrs. Yao didn't know whether Lu Yingquan was a fine work or not, but she knew that Lu Yingquan would not admit it so easily, so she moved Yun Yao out.
Lu Yingquan calculated the time in her mind, there was still half an hour before Yun Yao wrote the letter, maybe the ink had not faded yet, so she had to delay the time.
Thinking of this, Lu Yingquan said: "Speaking of Yun Yao, if the concubine has found out a lot of things recently, and Mrs. Yao just mentioned it, then does Mrs. Yao want to hear what the concubine has found?"
"Well, I'd like to know what you've found. No matter what you find, it doesn't change the fact that you're meticulous. Mrs. Yao thought that she had won, and the matter of the Hall of Light really had nothing to do with her, so she was not afraid of what Lu Yingquan would find.
"Empress Dowager Qi, An Lan has already admitted that on the day the Guangming Hall caught fire, she falsely passed on the Empress Dowager's decree and called Yun Yao out of Linglong Pavilion. And the person who instructed her to do this was Mrs. Yao. Lu Yingquan smiled at Mrs. Yao, then turned her head and said to the Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother originally thought that Lu Yingquan would confess Jiang Yi in front of Shen Che, but she didn't expect things to be so reversed, Lu Yingquan confessed not Jiang Yi, but Yao Meng.