Chapter 71: The Truth Revealed & Trouble
After a few more days, the entire Xiangqi Palace's mansion seemed to be gradually covered with a gray veil, lifeless.
On the fourth day of the fifth month, the Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, and the banquet in the palace is in full swing, but the Xiangqi Palaces are surrounded, and they are still the soldiers led by the prince.
Li Xiang watched the door of the Xiangqi Mansion being closed from the outside, and returned to Baiyan Hall with the people in the backyard.
It's been three days, and the lifelessness is not enough to describe the Xiangqi Palace, Li Xiang looked at everyone's pale faces, and didn't know how to comfort them for a while, but the Shangguan family's life was hanging by a thread, and the two side concubines and Wang Fu were almost done, and it was time to close the coffin.
"How is the Shangguan clan now?" Li Xiang glanced at the position where Shangguan was sitting but was now empty, and turned his head to ask Fucha Wenyin.
"Lady Snow is out of danger now, but she still has to take care of it, but the maid next to her is no longer done."
Li Xiang heard Wang Fu and Wu Shiyu come over last night and talk about it, and he had a bottom in his heart, the maid was talking about jade, and the last time Shangguan's life hung by a thread, this maid was eager to eat her flesh raw, but this time she didn't escape......
"This matter was handled by the two side concubines, and there was also Steward Wang watching from the side, and the sisters are also witnesses, I have found it until now, I don't know if you have any other thoughts about this result?"
This matter was not investigated by Li Xiang, and it had nothing to do with her, but she faintly felt that she was a concubine again.
The offender is the maid of a lady who has just entered the door, that lady is a female official in the palace, to be precise, it should be said that it is the female official of Liushang, named Zhang Qiang, and the offender is called Zhang Lian, which is the maid she brought to dowry, and it is also a sister she made when she entered the palace a few years ago.
Wang Fu asked them many times, and in the end, the maid only said revenge, as for what revenge, it sounded a bit unbelievable at first glance. According to Zhang Lian, two years earlier, when the Shangguan family was still a side concubine, she once entered the palace with Murong Jin to meet the concubine, at that time she had not yet gone to the cold palace to do things, and ran errands in Liushang, but it happened that she went to pick up a box of beads from the new favorite concubine that day, and was ordered to take it to the Si Yisi to make jewelry, but she bumped into the Shangguan family standing on the side of the road in the imperial garden, and happened to be witnessed by the favorite concubine, and was punished to kneel all night on the spot, and then she couldn't find the beads, and was sent to the cold palace by the favorite concubine to deliver food to people, and suffered a lot. It wasn't until the little sisters who entered the palace together that they got the Tao and ordered her to marry into the Xiangqi Palace.
Who knows, she frequently heard in the Xiangqi Mansion how the Shangguan family is doing now, and she is jealous, so she has a harmful mind, the more she thinks about it, the more she thinks about it, the more she is unhappy, and she doesn't care about doing things, and she often quarrels with the maids and women in their yard, but she is a dowry, and those few who are bullied have to endure it temporarily. In fact, if there was no such thing, she would bully people again, and someone would report to Xianxian Academy, but it's a pity.
Zhang Qiang's face was too white, and she began to fidget as soon as she heard Li Xiang mention it.
But hearing Li Xiang ask, everyone was indeed a witness, and Zhang Qiang could only follow everyone and say "no objection".
"How to deal with it in the future is also up to the side concubines to decide." Li Xiang slowly breathed a sigh of relief, and raised his eyes to look at the few people kneeling in the courtyard.
Fucha Wenyin glanced at Wu Shiyu, the two of them sat facing each other, but it didn't have any effect, but after a while, Fucha Wenyin said: "That maid is considered to have a disaster, why don't you order someone to take it well, if there is anyone else in the family, it will also be well settled, and give more money?" ”
"It's up to you, don't look at me." Li Xiang didn't have any opinions, but Fucha Wenyin and Wu Shiyu's cautious attitude and face were worrying.
"As for Mrs. Xue, she is naturally a good student, and she is close to her for tonics and everything."
"Although Mrs. Qiang has nothing to do with this matter, but Zhang Lian is a person from her Rose Courtyard after all, and her majesty is not strict, if such a thing happens, why don't you be punished for a year first?"
This stall leaving Beijing, punishing people is really not an ordinary offense, Fucha Wenyin can't be sure for a while, she is punished harshly at this time, and His Royal Highness and the princess have taken people to the fiefdom, won't it be embarrassing to meet in the future? If she didn't bring it, it seemed that she had punished talents......
"Mrs. Qiang's majesty is not strict, so Mrs. Xue's life hangs by a thread, and a one-year penalty is not enough." Li Xiang seemed to be a little embarrassed when he remembered it at this time, so he took the initiative to pick up the conversation and take over the work, "Fined for three years, grounded for three months, whether you go to the fiefdom or not, you people in the Rose Courtyard have to pray for Mrs. Xue." ”
"This palace has a new Jade Guanyin, I will send it to you later, when will Mrs. Xue get better, and when will Mrs. Qiang be able to sleep."
Zhang Qiang turned white and knelt down to thank him.
"As for Zhang Lian, the death penalty is inescapable, at this stall, we can't send it out even if we send it to the official, and what happened to Mrs. Xue last time I murdered Mrs. Xue will be dealt with this time, this is not so many people to watch the punishment. This matter bothered the king's steward. ”
"Don't dare, don't dare, it's a matter of duty." Wang Fu bent down.
"Mrs. Yue is the most wronged, she has been wronged for no reason, and Mrs. Qiang will buy clothes for Mrs. Yue if she is punished."
Xiao Mingyue, who had a few more clothes for some reason, was a little confused, and the clothes were just clothes, although she had more ......
"The two side concubines and Steward Wang have made meritorious contributions to solving the case, and they will each be awarded a monthly salary for two years." In addition to handing out money, Li Xiang really doesn't know what else to reward, although he is not short of money, especially the noble girls from the family, the female officials in the palace may be really poor, and the noble girls are impossible.
"At this point, there is no need to discuss this matter again." Li Xiang took a sip of tea and paused, "Today's Xiangqi Mansion, everyone has heard something more or less, outsiders say theirs, we can't control it, but who His Royal Highness is, we have to know it in our hearts." ”
"Leaving Beijing is imminent, everyone hurry up and pack up your things, the cages don't have to be too much, after the rectification, they are all sent to Xiyuan in three times, those things are important, those things are not in a hurry for a while, you have to have a number, each hospital can only be so many cages before the first two times, it is really not possible to go to Xiyuan and then buy it, people are the same, this is the day before yesterday someone went to tell you, before the end of today's unitary time, send the list of people to Wenyin Yuan, the list of things sent to the Poetry Academy, tomorrow after the Shen Shi can not be changed, but all written down?"
Seven days is too tight, the huge Xiangqi Mansion, how can it be so easy to pick it up, but Li Xiang ordered someone to place it again when he asked people to re-register and make the register a few days ago, and this time it saved a lot of time and effort, but if you save it again, the things are still those things, and they still have to be re-placed.
"Time is tight, but the emperor's order cannot be violated, let's all hurry." Li Xiang felt a headache when he thought about it, "There is one more thing, this time I leave Beijing, I need one or more of you to stay, if anyone is reluctant to have their parents, they can come to Xianxian Courtyard at any time." ”
"Alright, let's go back and get busy." Li Xiang let out a sigh and went to Xianxian Courtyard, and Fucha Wenyin and Wu Shiyu followed closely.