Mrs. Shen set up a small Buddha hall in the Ye family in Xinghua Lane for everyone in the three rooms of the Ye family to worship from time to time.

The small Buddha hall is located in the far corner of the Ye family, surrounded by green bamboo. The furnishings in the Buddhist hall are simple, only a few tables and chairs, the center is dedicated to a low-eyed white jade bodhisattva, and at the bottom are two small futons, and there is nothing else.

This small Buddha hall also has a purpose, that is, it is used to confiner the children of the Ye family who have made mistakes.

Ye Qiong hasn't entered this small Buddha hall since she was five years old, and now she is locked in again, but she misses it a little.

When Mrs. Shen came back from the palace yesterday, she heard about Ye Qiong's hair being cut off in order to protect her father's bridge.

Mrs. Shen immediately called Ye Qiong to kneel down in front of her and said, "Qiong'er, the body is skinny, and the parents who receive it cannot be easily damaged, do you know what is wrong?" ”

Ye Qiong's face was calm, and she kowtowed to Mrs. Shen and said, "Granddaughter knows her mistake. ”

Ye Jin on the side still wanted to speak for Ye Qiong, but was directly interrupted by Mrs. Shen: "Your sister is not sensible, are you still not sensible?" Broken hair, too shocking, your sister is going to get married! Ordinary people may still think that she values filial piety, but the wealthy will only think that she is deviant! You are also at fault, as the eldest brother did not fulfill the responsibility of teaching, I will punish you for a month, can you take it? ”

Ye Jin opened his mouth and found that he was speechless.

Although Xie felt that Mrs. Shen was too serious, she also thought that Ye Qiong's move was inappropriate, so she hesitated and finally did not speak.

"I will punish you to kneel in the small Buddha hall for three days, and then be grounded in Qionghuayuan for a month, are you willing to be punished?" Mrs. Shen asked.

Ye Qiong replied: "The granddaughter is punished." ”

After speaking, Ye Qiong knelt in the small Buddha hall accompanied by Feng's mother.

Mother Feng was a little unbearable, and opened her mouth to persuade: "The old lady also feels sorry for the second girl...... The second girl just spoke softly and coquettishly, didn't she avoid this punishment? ”

Ye Qiong looked stubborn: "It's my fault, I admit punishment, but I don't regret it." If that were the case, I would still choose that way. ”

Mother Feng was even more anxious, but she didn't persuade her again, just looked at Ye Qiong's eyes full of regret.

Ye Qiong lifted the skirt and knelt down on the futon, closed her eyes and folded her hands, and her lips moved and silently recited the Buddhist scriptures.

The incense ashes in the incense burner were clearly extinguished, and when Ye Qiong finished reciting the Buddhist scriptures, the three incense sticks on the offering table had burned to the bottom.

After all, Mother Feng was still in charge of the inner courtyard, and she had already left, leaving only Su Kite by Ye Qiong's side.

Ye Qiong got up and reinserted the three sticks of incense and bowed three times, only to find Lu Shaodan leaning against the root of the wall when she turned around.

He had water vapor on his body, and there were some water marks on his hair and shirt, Ye Qiong walked out of the Buddhist hall and took a look, only to realize that it had been raining outside for a long time.

"What are you going to do?" Ye Qiong's tone unconsciously raised, "You still have to be careful, if you come and go like the wind like this, it will not be good for you and me." ”

Lu Shaodan walked towards Ye Qiong, stopped under the porch outside the Buddhist hall, took out an oiled paper bag from his bosom and handed it to her, and said, "I heard what your brother said about you, guess you shouldn't eat well, so I brought you something to eat." ”

"Isn't my brother grounded?" Ye Qiong held the oil paper bag and smiled.

Lu Shaodan touched his nose a little embarrassed, Ye Qiong smiled even more cheerfully when he saw him like this, and shook the oil paper bag in his hand and said, "Say you leaked your mouth?" Let's use this as a hush money. ”

Ye Qiong said and peeled off the oil paper bag, because the oil paper bag had been kicked in Lu Shaodan's arms, it was still a little warm, and after opening it, it was a roast chicken that was roasted with golden oil.

"The signature dish of Hongbin Building." Lu Shaodan smiled, "I'm interesting enough to you, right?" ”

Ye Qiong tore off a chicken leg and handed it to Lu Shaodan, and then tore a chicken wing herself, and said happily: "I'm interesting enough to you, right?" ”

Lu Shaodan smiled and touched the chicken leg in his hand and the chicken wing in Ye Qiong's hand, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

After dividing the roast chicken, Ye Qiong asked Su Kite to quietly make apricot pear tea to relieve the oiliness, and the two sat under the mottled porch with bamboo shadows, holding the teacup and drinking it slowly.

Xu is autumn is deep, Lu Shaodan's expression was a little gloomy, he looked sideways at the bamboo leaves, and said slowly about the old things: "Ye Qiong, sometimes I envy you." With the love of your parents and the company of your brothers and sisters, you are happier than many people. ”

Ye Qiong's hand holding the teacup paused slightly.

With a warm smile on his face, Lu Shaodan continued: "I still remember when I first came to Xinghua Lane, I was six years old and you were three years old. My aunt saw that we had just come to the capital and were unfamiliar with the place, and I had a high fever again, so she invited us to stay at Ye's house temporarily. It was a snowy day, and you followed your aunt to see me, and the little one shrank behind my aunt, and when she heard that I was sick, she hid the snow from the yard and put it on my head. At that time, I thought, there are such smart and stupid girls in this world. ”

Ye Qiong's face flushed.

Three-year-old things, where does she remember.

It's hard for him to remember.

"I don't remember my father much anymore, I just remember that he was a good-natured man, and I can't remember his face anymore." Lu Shaodan said, his eyes were slightly red, "Family affection is precious, Ye Qiong, the Ye family and you are very good." I hope you can always be like this, make me envious. ”

Ye Qiong sighed, this was also her wish.

She said, "I will do what you want." ”

In the Daliang Palace, when the son was flipping through a stack of papers.

Mr. Zou sat in front of the emperor, like a needle felt.

After a long time, the emperor put down the stack of papers and asked Mr. Zou, "I know everything." It seems that someone wants to use the Ye family's case to disrupt the court, so as to take the opportunity to fish in troubled waters. ”

Mr. Zou didn't dare to talk about the government, but just lowered his head and pretended to be a quail.

The emperor ignored Zou Lao and asked the chief eunuch who was standing aside: "Gao Xuan, what do you think?" ”

Gao Xuan's face showed a decent smile: "The old slave can't understand it, I just think that the Ye family is really bold, this letter was directly passed through the Queen Mother and handed over to Your Majesty, and I am not afraid that Your Majesty will really believe the content of the letter." ”

When the emperor heard this, he laughed, and his face showed admiration: "Where are they bold." If I had really been bold, I should have handed it in when I got the letter, but I was afraid that it would disturb the court and arouse my suspicions. I guess that if it weren't for the murder case, the Ye family would have hidden this letter forever. ”

The emperor said, his expression became even more uncertain: "The Ye family is peaceful, and they just want to be able to be an official in peace, but some people are not willing to settle down." Old Zou, you said that the Ye family said that the letter was intercepted from He Chenglin's daughter? ”

Zou Lao said: "Your Majesty, the little daughter of the Ye family really said so. ”

When the emperor heard this, his face was not angry, and he asked Cui Li on the other side: "What about the news of Jinyiwei?" ”

Cui Li replied: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister also thinks that the He family is the most suspicious. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Mrs. Shen set up a chrysanthemum banquet in the third room of the Ye family, and He Shangshu's daughter was also invited to the banquet. Someone confirmed that He Shangshu's daughter had borrowed a collection of poems by Ye Qishu and Ye Zhujin from the little daughter of the Ye family, and she had also disappeared from the banquet for a while. In addition, although the Ye family occasionally had contacts with other families in Beijing, those families did not have so many suspicious things. ”

The emperor fell into deep thought, and Cui Li said another possibility: "Of course, there is another possibility that the Ye family itself is a thief and wants to plant the letter on the head of the Ye family's big house and the third room. Weichen received the news that Ye Zuhui, the fourth son of Emperor Ye, had many conflicts with the Ye family, and he even invited himself to leave the clan recently, and he was also very suspicious. ”

The emperor snorted and didn't care about Ye Zuhui: "He is a small person, how can he have such great energy." Even if it is him, there must be people behind the scenes, staring at him. ”

Trilly said yes.

The emperor returned the stack of papers to Mr. Zou and said, "Please also ask Mr. Zou to write a new fake letter according to the handwriting of Ye Zhujin and Ye Qishu to replace this letter of rebellion, and then issue a handwriting appraisal for this new letter." What is the content of the forged letter...... Remove the part about King Sheng in this letter of rebellion, and only say that Ye Zhujin and Ye Qishu communicate with each other, and it is good to do witchcraft for the construction of a bridge on the outskirts of Beijing. ”

Mr. Zou responded cautiously.

The emperor said again: "In short, the letter of rebellion can no longer appear, and it will also be used to return the Ye family's innocence." As for other investigations or something, hand it over to Dali Temple to handle. Gao Xuan, prepare the purpose. ”

Gao Xuan responded and skillfully laid out the blank holy decree. The emperor stepped forward, wrote the holy decree and handed it to Cui Li with enthusiasm, and said: "You go and announce the decree, let Jinyiwei keep an eye on the criminal department and hand over all the files, prisoners and witness evidence of the soul calling case to Dali Temple, Zou Lao also handed over to Dali Temple after writing the fake letter and appraisal book, and ordered Dali Temple to find out the results for me." As for He Chenglin......"

The emperor sneered: "Let's chill him first, and see what he will do!" ”

Cui Li took the holy decree, and Gao Xuan called a little eunuch and led Mr. Zou to other temples to let him write a letter with peace of mind.

Before the emperor sat down on the table, he began to review the other memorials, and as soon as he opened a copy, he threw it out in anger.

Gao Xuan was shocked in his heart, picked up the fold for the emperor, inadvertently glanced at it, and found that it was the fold of the third prince, so he was startled, and quietly gestured to the little eunuch at the entrance of the hall with his sideways kung fu.

"Idiot!" The emperor's face turned red with anger, "I want to stabilize the situation, they are good, and I want to punish the Ye family for the crime of treason!" is so anxious to clear up the relationship and seek self-preservation, I don't even know that I have fallen into someone else's trap! Hit this back and let him rewrite it! ”

"Your Majesty, if you go back, you will be beaten in the face of the third prince." Gao Xuan looked at the emperor's face and persuaded, "The old slave remembers that the side concubine in the Three Princes' Mansion is to be called Uncle Ye Shilang. Now that Ye Shilang has an accident, the third prince is afraid that he will be affected by himself, which is also human nature. ”

The emperor's face was a little worse, and he scolded: "In the end, it is still selfish! Born in a heavenly family, but so disregarding family affection and blood, it is even more hateful! ”

As he was talking, there was a eunuch outside the palace gate to report: "The queen mother has arrived-His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived-".

When the emperor heard the report, he instantly restrained his anger and said to the empress who was slowly walking under the support of the prince: "The autumn dew is heavy, why is the queen here?" ”

As the emperor was talking, the queen coughed a few more times, but still took the prince to salute solemnly, and then smiled softly: "The concubine came over in a hurry when she heard that Your Majesty was angry about the performance of the third prince." ”

Gao Xuan sighed in his heart.

The queen's body is getting worse and worse.

The emperor glared at Gao Xuan, but the empress persuaded him again, and every time she said something, she had to stop for a while and cough a few times: "Your Majesty, the Ye family's affairs and concubines have already heard about it." Although the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, but the matter involves King Sheng and the three princes, it is the emperor's family matter, and the concubines will inevitably have to admonish a few words. Now that the palace does not know about the letter handed over by the Ye family, the third prince's move is excusable, and I ask Your Majesty not to be harsh. ”

The Emperor sighed and nodded.

The prince said: "Erchen thinks that the result of Dali Temple should prevail, although the Ye family handed over the letter, but still did not clear the suspicion of participating in the rebellion of King Sheng. ”

Hearing this, the emperor became a test and asked, "If the results of Dali Temple also prove that the Ye family is innocent, how do you think the Ye family should be treated?" ”

Without hesitation, the prince replied: "It is excusable to conceal letters, but if the rumors of 'soul calling' are allowed to spread and are not reported, they should be sentenced to the crime of incompetence and punished by demotion or dismissal." ”

The Emperor asked again, "What about then?" ”

The prince looked confused.

The emperor sighed: "Judging from this matter, the Ye family can be used, after the punishment, you should give them more attention, and give them some opportunities in a timely manner, so that they can thank you for your kindness and use it for you, this is the way for the king to employ people." ”

Under the loving gaze of the Empress and the Emperor, the ten-year-old Prince nodded firmly.

The emperor stroked the top of the prince's plush head, feeling a little helpless.

The crown prince is his only concubine, smart but young.

In contrast, his elder brothers have all grown up, each with their own thoughts.

The third son can give up the Ye family's in-laws so happily today, and he can't guarantee that tomorrow he will make a matter of brotherhood after a hundred years.

The royal family affection is already cold, how can he put his mind at ease?