Volume 1 Floating Life Chapter 20 Mandarin Lotus (2)
The emperor's always kind face immediately climbed into the dark clouds after listening to her words.
"Has Tan'er ever been down?"
Jing Tan felt that she didn't do anything wrong, and she was confident that the two jars of wine would not cause today's situation, so she stood upright.
"Although Tan'er has gone down, today's incident was not my doing, but last night-"
Before she could finish speaking, Yabai spoke: "The chief guard came to report that the third sister came here last night, if the father doesn't believe it, he can confirm it with Chen Niangniang." β
The emperor looked at Yabai suspiciously, and ordered, "Pass." β
The grandmother who came to Zhaorong Pavilion glanced at Jingtan, and then resigned: "The third princess did leave the table last night, and she came back after a while...."
'Smack-'
Before Jingtan could open her mouth to defend herself, a loud slap fell on her right cheek, she staggered to the ground, the Dongzhu on the white jade Chaoyang pearl hairpin was shocked behind her head, she covered her face and looked at the emperor in disbelief, this was the first time she had been slapped in more than ten years, and it was because of some trumped-up charges.
Lan Qing and Yabai pulled the hem of the emperor's clothes in a panic after she fell to the ground, and the two begged for mercy in their mouths: "My father is merciful, and the third sister is also unintentional......"
hit her, a little annoyance flashed in the emperor's eyes, but because he was angry, he said coldly: "What are you doing in that pond?" Do you know what you've ruined?! β
Chu Lin subconsciously helped her, and said to the emperor: "The emperor is not a person who listens to one-sided words, why don't you listen to the defense of the third princess." β
Ah Heng crawled to the emperor's feet and defended loudly: "Your Majesty, the assassin that the slave and the princess met yesterday disappeared in the Shadow Breaking Platform, it must be the assassin's hands and feet, the emperor should not wronged the princess, let the assassin get away with it, and hurt the relationship between father and daughter in vainββ"
"It's important to find out the truth, as for the mandarin lotus, the poor monk may have a way to save it."
Hearing this, the emperor nervously asked, "How long will it take to save my mandarin lotus?" β
"Three days."
He let out a long sigh before turning his attention from the lotus pond to Jing Tan, only to see a red palm print on her right face, and he was a little more annoyed for a while, but when he thought of the matter of the lotus pond, there was another burst of anger, and Jing Tan turned his face away from looking at him.
The emperor still said coldly: "Fang Cai is I too anxious, but no matter how much I spoil you, I can't lose the rules, the third princess trespassed on the forbidden land and was fined for one year, so that you can increase your memory!"
Chu Silence whispered to her, "The princess doesn't need to say much..."
Jing Tan was uneven, and said: "In the past, when Tan'er went to Meiyuan, she didn't see her father angry, but now what's the matter, she doesn't even allow her daughter to fight after she finishes speaking, what is the mandarin lotus worthy of her father?" β
The palace people gasped, and they all felt that the third princess of the dynasty was a little unruly, and it was estimated that the emperor would be angry. There are also some people who feel that Mei Guifei is favored, and it is very likely that the emperor will forgive the emperor for any big mistake, and if there is a gambling table, it is estimated that they will open a big plate.
"Presumptuous!" The Emperor was furious, and raised his hand to slap again, but the hand paused in the air.
Jing Tan's eyes widened, "What, my father hasn't fought enough, so I want to come here too?" β
Chu Lin stepped forward to block her behind her, and made a namaste to the emperor: "It's the poor monk who didn't teach the princess well, but the poor monk did." β
"This matter has nothing to do with the mage, but the mage has seen the joke."
The emperor looked at Jing Tan, and felt that her eyes looked more and more like Mei'er, but her eyes were less and less like, Mei'er has always been humble and submissive, but Jing Tan is reasonable, sometimes rude and fighting, but it is very similar to that person back then.......
In the end, he withdrew his hand, turned his back, and dropped a sentence: "The third princess is not fully accustomed to etiquette, she is confined to the Feng Pavilion, and when she learns the rules and etiquette, she will come out again." The group left.
Lan Qing walked over and took her hand and comforted: "It's just a momentary anger to think of my father, and the third sister is so self-cherishing." β
Jing Tan looked at her, and her suspicion was even worse, and then several attendants came up and made a 'please' gesture to her. She looked back at Hatsu Silence, and before she could say anything, she was taken away.
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In the Qifeng Pavilion, there was silence.
"Princess, let's have some food, it's been a day, and the princess still hasn't eaten a grain of rice......"
Ah Heng's voice broke the silence, after coming back yesterday, his own princess had a big temper, almost everything that could be smashed in the palace was smashed, the table was lifted, and she cried again, although she didn't make trouble today, she began to stop eating or drinking. In fact, he can understand that the emperor has always been partial to his own princess over the years, and now he has beaten the princess for the sake of a lotus pond, which seems to him to be a great grievance.
Looking at Jing Tan, who was lying on the couch and refused to get up, he said distressedly: "Don't worry, princess, the emperor just annoyed the princess for a while, and the ban will be lifted after two days." "It's good that we can still bring things in from outside.
Ah Heng recalled yesterday and couldn't help but feel a little sad.
Last night, Aunt Hongyu of Chenghuan Hall sent some of her princess's favorite meals over to talk about it.
"According to the princess's orders, I checked the entire Chenghuan Palace, and everyone had witnesses, and I don't know which ear reported that God told the concubine about the third princess being severely punished by the emperor, and when the concubine heard it, she couldn't get up in one breath, and she had a cough, and there was blood in the sputum box!"
Ah Heng frowned, and had to ask, "Can you call the imperial doctor to come and see?" β
Hongyu frowned and said: "The imperial doctor said that it was caused by the impatience of the heart, Niangniang went to the Cuiwen Palace yesterday, Chen Niangzi accompanied the emperor all night, and Niangniang failed to face the king." β
"Auntie, do you know why the emperor has such a big temper? The slave was puzzled, why did the mandarin lotus root be so valued by the emperor? Ah Heng looked at her, Hongyu was an old man in the palace, and he always felt that she knew something.
Sure enough, I saw her sigh, "It's not for the mentally deranged Chen Niangzi, once upon a time, the slave overheard the old court judgment of the Dian Xiang Yuan talking about this mandarin lotus, it turned out that Chen Niangzi beat the mother's womb with a strange disease, and on the full moon of each month, there are often angina attacks, and the mandarin root plus a certain strange fragrance in the Dian Xiang Yuan can cure this disease." β
"So that's the case, no wonder the emperor would give the incense house such rights."
After sending away the red jade, Ah Heng sent the meal to his princess, but her princess didn't move her chopsticks. Ah Heng didn't dare to tell her about the concubine, for fear that her temper would rise and rush to the Chuiwen Palace, which would make the situation even more serious.
Jing Tan said sullenly on the bed; "If my father wants to unjustly die, I will unjustly die!"
"The slave knows that the princess has been wronged, but the people outside don't know, the princess doesn't eat or drink like this, and the emperor is powerless even if he wants to help you." Ah Heng's bitter admonition.
"Wronged..."Jing Tan suddenly sat up like a carp, pulled Ah Heng and said: "I was so angry yesterday that I almost forgot, did Mr. say that he has a way to save the mandarin lotus?" β
Ah Heng was startled by her suddenly shining eyes, and said sullenly: "Yes." β
"I'm going to find my husband, I'm going to see who did it!"
As she spoke, she was about to get up, but before Ah Heng came to help her, she fell to the ground, and then she remembered that she hadn't eaten for a day.
Ah Heng helplessly went to help her up, and complained: "I said princess, if you want to go, you have to eat first......"
So Jingtan finally cheered up and went to eat.
"By the way, Ah Heng, have you blocked that dog hole in the front and back yards a few years ago?" Jing Tan asked him while stuffing a tofu skin bun into his mouth.
Ah Heng smiled humbly: "I originally thought I was going to block it, but I forgot about it later." β
Jing Tan smiled: "It's good that you forgot, otherwise now that there are people standing at the door, I don't know how to get out." β
But Qiaoying'er just walked in, listened to their conversation, and was shocked: "The princess's daughter's body, how can she drill that dog hole!" β
"Shh Jing Tan motioned for her to silence, "The eldest husband can bend and stretch, yesterday I smashed the entire door of Qifeng Pavilion without moving, it can be seen that this place is sealed, and I don't want to be wronged in vain..." β
"It doesn't matter if you are a slave, it's just that someone harms the princess, and the slave is unhappy for the princess." Ah Heng seemed to think of something, and said: "I heard that the emperor is investigating this matter thoroughly, I wonder if the emperor will believe what the slave said yesterday..."
Seeing that he wanted to speak and stopped, Jing Tan stared at him and said, "What do you know?" β
Ah Heng still told her what Hongyu said yesterday, but he just hid the matter of the concubine vomiting blood.
"The mother concubine likes her father so much, the father has given the mother enough glory, and she is also sincerely good to the mother concubine, but in the end, she still can't be worth a Chen noble?"
Seeing that she was sad, Ah Heng didn't know how to comfort her, just stood silently beside her.
In order to make it easier to walk, Jing changed into Ying'er's clothes, took advantage of the darkness, and got out of the dog hole in the backyard.
Jing Tan went straight to the Shadow Breaking Platform, and since that day, he was afraid that something would go wrong and he would be implicated, so no one dared to come here.
There was an extra canopy boat on the shore of the lotus pond, and there seemed to be a person sitting in it, and Jing Tan approached cautiously.
As if sensing that someone was coming, the people on the boat lifted the curtains.
Jing Tan looked at the man in the moonlight, and breathed a sigh of relief, still dressed in white.
"Why is the gentleman here?"
He looked at her suspiciously, clasped his palms together and said, "Isn't the princess grounded?" β
Jing Tan consciously got on the boat and pouted: "If I stay in Qifeng Pavilion any longer, I don't know who was wrongfully killed." β
Chu Lonely smiled and said, "Then the princess escaped tonight to check the mandarin lotus?" β
She agreed, and looked around, the ship barely fit two people, and when she lifted the curtain, she saw that there were bright candles burning on the rosewood tables on the ship, covered with a veil, and if the curtain was closed, there would be no bright moon to compete with it. There is only one volume of scriptures on the table, and the open position is "King Miaose Seeks the Law and Reveals".
Just as she could see what was written on the scroll, a chuckle came from the other side. When I raised my eyes, I saw Chu Shi looking at her with a smile.
Jing Tan opened his mouth and asked, "What are you laughing at, sir?" β
"It seems that every time the poor monk meets the princess in private, the princess can surprise the poor monk."
As he spoke, he raised his hand, and at last it fell on her head, which seemed to stay only for a short moment, and when she was stunned, he placed a few thatches in front of her, and said with a smile: "The princess came out of the hole." β
Jing Tan was stunned, smiled awkwardly, thinking that Fang had just drilled the dog hole and rubbed the thatch, she must be dirty now, no wonder Fang Cai looked at her with a little weird eyes. So he said, "I can't hide anything from Mr. β
He withdrew his hand and looked at her, only to see that there was a conspicuous palm print on her right face, frowned, and asked, "The princess praises you, but there is one thing that the poor monk is puzzled about." β
"Sir, please."
"Why don't you tell your father that you're just going to bury wine?"