Chapter 219: Deep
Everyone was a little confused, and they didn't understand what Li Qingyi meant by Linglong deliberately guiding the jade comb.
Li Qingyi slowed down and said to Linglong, "You know that Yucomb only wants to live with Yu Gongzi, as long as it can be realized, she doesn't want to pursue the past anymore and doesn't want to cause any more trouble. However, the long-term waiting and torture have made Jade Comb unable to bear any accidents. So you let your brother harm Yu Gongzi, and let Yucomb think that this matter was done by a good nobleman, right?"
Linglong still didn't speak, but her look at this time already showed that Li Qingyi's guess was right.
Mu Guifei sneered: "It's good to borrow a knife to kill someone. There are really hidden dragons and crouching tigers around good nobles, and there is no shortage of people with good thoughts. In this way, lest in the future, after the good nobles gain power in the palace, they will let these two clever girls harm others."
Such schadenfreude couldn't help but make everyone look sideways, the emperor looked indifferent and did not answer, and was silent for a while before he opened his mouth to ask Linglong: "Why do you want to kill good nobles?"
Linglong hung her head and didn't say a word.
The emperor was furious: "Linglong, you really have to die, you and your brother are unforgivable. But if you don't tell the truth, I have a way to make your life worse than death!"
The emperor is a Ming monarch, but no one is perfect, he has an unbreakable knot in his heart for Ruying, and when he sees a woman with a similar appearance, it is understandable to want to receive it by his side, and he did not force it, it all depends on the meaning of the Pan family itself.
After that, the Pan family sent their daughter Pan Yuerong to the palace for the draft, and Pan Yuerong was selected as a matter of course.
The emperor has been to Pan Yuerong a few times, although he thinks that her temperament is far from Ruying, but since she has become a palace concubine, she is a royal person.
Pan Yuerong's death was so unbearable, although the emperor was not sad, he hated the slave and was vicious.
Linglong faced the emperor's anger, her face became more and more pale, of course she had heard of Dongchang's punishment, and she had also heard of the feeling that life was worse than death. She glanced at one place subconsciously, but still didn't make a sound.
The emperor's eyebrows were upside down, pointing at Linglong and was about to speak, but he heard a plop next to him.
Everyone followed the prestige, but it turned out to be Mu Lan's maidservant Pei'er's face was sad, and as the emperor's words fell, she suddenly fell into a slump and knelt on the ground with weak legs.
Mu Lan was shocked: "Pei'er, what are you doing?"
If it is said that Yucomb's elaborate murder of the good nobles is unexpected, then Linglong's murder with a knife is even more terrifying.
However, none of this is as unacceptable as Pei'er's actions at this time.
Why are the three girls of the Mu family related to this matter?
Pei'er was slender and delicate, and at this time she knelt on the ground with tears in her eyes, like a delicate flower that had been destroyed by wind and rain.
She sobbed and said, "What the girl thinks in her heart, the slave and maid dare not say. But the girl asked the slave and maid to secretly give gold and silver to Linglong, and helped her find her brother, and instigated her to kill the good nobleman, so that the slave and maid almost collapsed, and it was difficult to rest day and night. After all, a good nobleman is pregnant with the emperor's child, so it's one corpse and two lives! The girl could have done such a sin indifferently, but the slave and maid seemed to hear the cry of the baby all the time, as if she had fallen into hell......
Pei'er's remorse and fear are so real.
She trembled, and the words she uttered were like thunder, and the crowd was at a loss.
She grabbed the corner of Mu Lan's skirt and cried breathlessly, "Girl, slave...... The slave and maid are so scared that one day they will be discovered, and the slave and maid would rather die than endure this anymore."
Mu Lan's face was full of horror, and the proud and indifferent look when facing the noble girl in Beijing had been defeated, because these words were enough to ruin the rest of her life.
"Pei'er, what nonsense are you talking about......
She instantly realized that something was wrong, and she had already stood up to stop Pei'er from speaking again.
However, Pei'er seemed to have exhausted the courage she had left, craned her neck, looked up at Mu Lan, and cried, "Today's incident was exposed, and it is also providence! plotted to murder the palace concubine and the dragon heir, and the slave and maid knew that the crime was unforgivable! May death be an atonement for your sins!"
With that, she violently pushed Mu Lan away and slammed into the vermilion lacquer pillar opposite!
"Bang"
With a bang, Pei'er's body leaned back violently after touching the pillar, which shows her great strength and her desperate thoughts!
Crimson blood oozed from Pei'er's forehead, snaking down her cheeks to the base of her ears, forming several strange arcs. There was a faint smile of relief on her face.
And Mu Lan on this side was pushed by Pei'er violently, and actually crashed into the arms of the emperor who was looking sideways.
The emperor subconsciously helped Mu Lan not to fall.
Although Mu Lan was very familiar with the emperor, he had never had close contact with a man, and at this time, he was hugged by the emperor in front of so many people, and his face was red and white for a while, and his scalp was numb.
She hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty, but something rolled down her sleeve.
Huang Dequan Huang Gonggong bent down to pick up the thing, and after seeing what it was, he was stunned.
The emperor rewarded Mu Guifei with countless things, and Huang Gonggong served close to the emperor, and any thing that the emperor touched had to pass through his hands first. This well-carved Dushan jade was taken out of the treasury at the beginning of the year and given to the emperor to see, and he personally sent it to Mu Guifei's palace.
After that, Mu Guifei picked a lot of things and sent them to the Mu family and rewarded them to the juniors of the Mu family.
The exchange of these items is recorded and can be found at a glance.
And because of Concubine Mu's precious status, Huang Dequan remembers her things very clearly. With just one glance, he could see the origin of this jade.
Huang Dequan remembered very well that the emperor's piece of Dushan jade was originally a large piece with bright colors and was very rare.
After Mu Guifei got it in her hand, she ordered someone to divide it into two and carved two jade pendants, one for the hibiscus ornament and the other for the peony ornament.
And the piece that Mu Lan got was Furong Pei.
According to what Fang Cai Pei'er said, Mu Lan tried her best to secretly plot the life of the emperor's favorite concubine, and carried with her what the emperor gifted......
It couldn't be more obvious.
Huang Dequan held this hibiscus pendant, and suddenly felt that this jade pendant was extremely hot, but Mu Lan didn't reach out to take it, he could only hold it in his hand, and he didn't dare to move.
Mu Guifei's eyes fell on Furong Pei, her steps stumbled slightly, she covered her mouth with her hands, her face was pale, and she looked deeply at her niece, "Lan'er, you ......."
Although everyone present didn't quite understand it for a while, they all knew that it was a great thing, and they wanted to find a crack in the ground and pretend that they didn't hear anything.
The county lord of Yuanheng secretly pinched Li Qingyi's sleeve, and the ease of Fang Cai disappeared.
Li Qingyi felt her gaze, but she just stood silently in the middle of everyone, her expression calm and no longer spoke.
After a moment of dead silence, Qin Zeng steadily walked in front of everyone and said, "Linglong and his eldest brother plotted to kill the prince of Yufu and induce Yushu to kill the good nobles, the evidence is conclusive, immediately take them down and take strict care of them, and wait for the emperor's fate."
As soon as everyone heard this, they looked at the emperor as if they had been amnestied, and the emperor also recovered from the shock and nodded at everyone.
In an instant, the three law divisions and others retreated with the prisoners and witnesses.
The gaze of the eldest princess of Deqing swept over Mu Guifei's face, giving the county lord of Yuanheng a look. The county lord of Yuanheng didn't look at Li Qingyi, but glared at Qin Zeng fiercely.
Qin Zeng faced her complaint and quietly made a gesture of please.
The county lord of Yuanheng had no choice but to leave behind the eldest princess of Deqing.
At this time, only Mu Guifei and the emperor were left in the hall, Mu Lan, Qin Zeng and Li Qingyi, and Huang Gonggong, who was holding a hibiscus pendant with low eyebrows.
Mu Lan looked at Pei'er, who was lying next to the pillar with a bloody wound on her forehead, and only felt a buzzing in her head.
She snatched the hibiscus pendant from Huang Gonggong's hand, but she didn't know what to do with the jade pendant.
She wanted to throw this object on the ground, telling everyone that she didn't know how this thing could be brought on her body, and she didn't have that kind of mind for the emperor, however, this was a holy object given by the emperor, and it couldn't be thrown away easily.
If you can't throw it away, you can only hold it tightly in your hand and cover it with your sleeve to avoid everyone's sight.
But her actions, in the eyes of others, confirmed her to the emperor even more
Love.
Almost instantly, everyone's eyes fell on her.
"Lan'er, is it because you know that the good nobleman is similar to Ruying, so you ......?"
Ruying's matter is a secret that is not a secret in the palace.
Some old people in the palace know that a powerful person like Mu Guifei can naturally know about it, but it is easy for someone to say it.
At this time, she spit out the word "Ruying" in her mouth, as if she had unintentionally slipped out of her mouth, and swallowed the second half of the sentence back into her stomach.
But the meaning of her words was clear.
Ruying is an irreparable pain in the emperor's heart, and any woman similar to her may become the emperor's favorite.
Jealousy can make a woman do anything desperately, and if Mu Lan admires the emperor, she can completely do things to kill the good nobles and the flesh and blood in her womb.
At this time, everyone finally understood what Pei'er meant by the sentence "What the girl thinks in her heart, the slave doesn't dare to say" means.
It's just a jade pendant, and it's not necessarily how rare it is for the Mu family, but it can be carried by Mu Lan all the time, doesn't it show her heart for the emperor?
It's no wonder that even Mu Guifei was shocked by this scene and exclaimed.
After Mu Lan was stunned for a moment, she subconsciously wanted to justify, but she didn't know what was going on, and how to explain it to others?
Mu Lan burst into tears and shook her head desperately: "No, Guifei Niang...... I ......."
She wanted to say that she had no intention of ...... the emperor But how did she say this?
Such a confession that no one would believe would only add to her embarrassment.
"Niangniang, I really don't know why this Pei'er said that...... I haven't done it...... It must be Pei'er who is talking nonsense, maybe she was bought...... Mother, you have to believe me......
Mu Guifei's expression was complicated, "Our Mu family has strict rules, and the people we have contact with on weekdays are limited, Pei'er grew up with you since she was a child, and she once risked her life for you, her loyalty can be seen, who can buy her?"