Chapter 20 Beat or Pay

Yuan Bao looked at the emperor's face worriedly, and when he saw him looking at himself with pity, he asked.

"I smell like a fox?"

Ahh

The trio who fell out of favor was too fast! Yuanbao secretly hated, afraid that the emperor would give her a knife, and she was busy pretending to be stupid.

"What fox smells? The concubine doesn't know! ”

As if he had already understood her reaction, the Emperor snorted, "I still have masochistic tendencies? Like to have people whip at night? ”

Seeing that his smile became more and more terrifying, Yuan Bao whimpered.

Finished.

The Emperor specified that he had heard some rumors.

Yuanbao's eyes purred, "Your Majesty, Yushu Linfeng is wise and martial, who?" Who would dare to talk nonsense and ruin the reputation of our Majesty? His heart can be punished! ”

Seeing that this woman was beaten to death and didn't admit it, it seemed that she was going to pretend to be stupid to the end.

Emperor Qiongye secretly despised her, and originally thought of punishing her severely, but when she remembered it, this woman had just praised him for being 'Yushu Linfeng Wise and Martial Arts'......

The emperor's dark face was rarely relaxed.

Well, people lack a little bit of heart, but they have some vision.

Let her go for a while.

But one yard is one yard, and she has caused more than this.

"I wonder where the queen went last night?"

Yuan Bao was looking at his face in fear, and when he saw that he suddenly turned a corner, he asked about last night, and Yuan Bao's heart was raised again.

"Yesterday, last night, the concubine slept early."

"Really? What about the maid of the rain lotus palace, she also went to bed early? ”

The pestle was on the side to minimize his sense of existence, and when he was mentioned by the emperor, he was instantly scared into a cold sweat.

Last night, she and Niangniang had a lot of fun in Zhangyi Palace.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty......"

She was so frightened that she didn't dare to lie like Yuanbao, let alone tell the truth, and she was so scared that she couldn't hold back a complete sentence for a long time.

When the ingots on one side saw it, their hearts were going to be bad.

"Your Majesty, Yuhe follows me all day long, and was naturally in my palace last night."

She hurriedly helped to cover up, but Yuhe's evasive and uneasy eyes at the moment made Emperor Qiongye more certain of one thing.

"Be lenient in confession, and strict in resisting."

He said coldly, turned to look at Yuanbao, his face was serious, "Jin Yuanbao, the two eunuchs and the palace maid who were stripped of their clothes in Zhangyi Palace, can you imagine seeing them?" ”

He asked sharply, Yuanbao's brain buzzed, and he began to shout for help in his heart, how could she forget those two people!

This time, the brain was forced to spin several times at top speed, and finally decided to break the can.

"What did Your Majesty say? Hehe, the concubine doesn't understand. ”

She looked like a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, and was ready to deny the emperor to the end.

I thought that just this matter, the female eunuchs of the two palaces wouldn't bring him to face each other, right?

It's true.

The emperor already knew that the gold ingots did not shed tears without seeing the coffin, and in order to prevent her from continuing to quibble, he waved his hand, and two people immediately stepped forward from behind.

Yuan Bao didn't know why at first, but after taking a closer look at the man and woman standing in front of her, and seeing the appearance of the two clearly, Yuan Bao panicked.

"Mother, do you remember the slave?"

The little eunuch who was closer to her lowered his eyebrows and bowed his waist, and the words he asked made Yuan Bao sweat even more.

Isn't this the unlucky guy she took away halfway that day?

Looking at the little palace maid next door, Yuhe was also dumbfounded, and she also had a share in the lack of virtue of taking people in the middle of the way.

"Mother's ......"

The maid of the Yuhe Palace cried with a sad face and was ready to ask for help, but when she turned her head and saw her mother's eyes and mouth deflated, she cried so much that her liver and intestines were broken.

This one......

Help?

Yuhe had an epiphany, and fell to his knees very simply, and was about to do the same, when he heard Niangniang crying and shouting aggrieved.

"Woo woo woo Your Majesty spares your life~ The concubine should not have hidden the sleepwalking disease at night from the emperor, and now it is the fault of the concubine that he is disturbing His Majesty's rest! The concubine knows her mistake! Woowoooooooooo

“?!”

Sleepwalking?

Kneeling on the ground and just about to start crying, the Yuhe palace maid froze again.

Her mother, it's a lot of flowers.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Bao suddenly cried at this time, and I felt sorry for the pear blossoms and rain, and the emperor looked at it with a tense face, and there was a moment of unbearable feeling, but as soon as the sleepwalking disease in her mouth came out, the emperor couldn't cry or laugh at night.

"What's the matter, the queen sleepwalks at night, and has the habit of running outside to pick up people's clothes?"

Well, it's a bit outrageous.

Yuan Bao thinks so, but at this time, his life is in danger, how can he care about this?

"Your Majesty, you know, you didn't have this symptom when you sleepwalked in the past......"

She paused for a while, glanced at the palace maid and eunuch, and then said very sadly: "But look at this situation, I'm afraid that sleepwalking is serious again." ”

She said it carefully, but the emperor's eyebrows were getting higher and higher, "Not only sleepwalking to pick up people's clothes, but also sawing my big bed?" ”

burst

It's miserable.

Thinking of the funny scene of His Majesty the Emperor holding the beauty on his side last night, the Yuhe palace maid who was kneeling on the ground couldn't hold back after all, and secretly poked and laughed, but she didn't want to succeed in attracting the 'firepower' on Niangniang's side.

Emperor Qiongye squinted his eyes and glared at him, "You also have sleepwalking?" ”

I almost forgot, last night Zhang Yi Palace chickens and dogs jumped, but there was also a share of this palace maid.

didn't think that she couldn't escape this catastrophe after all, and the maid of the Yuhe Palace regarded death as home, and only knelt down and begged for mercy, "Your Majesty spares your life!" ”

This kneeling completely exposed the lie that ingots had so hard to tell.

Yuan Bao slapped his head with his big hand, and cried in a low voice, as if he was looking up to the sky and wailing, 'My life is over!' ’

The emperor turned his head to look at Yuanbao with a smile, unmoved, cry, after crying, it's time to do my big thing.

He remembered the purpose of his coming here today, and suddenly smiled suspiciously.

"Ten boards, or fifty thousand taels, queen, you choose."

Yes, you will either be beaten or you will pay.

Yuan Bao secretly scolded the emperor for being treacherous and silently ignored the latter option.

Asking for money is not.

Annoying...... Nor can it be given!

"Woo woo woo why do you have to hit the board again~~~"

Last time, her ass still felt a faint pain in the top ten boards!

Yuan Bao came from it sadly, sniffing and looking at the emperor pitifully, "Is the big board okay?" ”

Punishment with bargaining?

Emperor Qiongye's face darkened, "It seems that the queen thinks that the board is missing, twenty boards?" ”

"That's not going to work!"

"The twenty big board butts can bloom!"

Emperor Qiongye couldn't help but sneer, "Then the penalty is 50,000 taels? ”

Yuan Bao was very painful, and after learning from the pain, he decided to spend money to eliminate the disaster for the sake of his life.

"Then, fifty thousand taels?"

In a desperate situation, she still chose the second option, which she deliberately ignored at first.

The emperor was very satisfied, and when he thought that his treasury was about to receive another fifty thousand taels, his eyebrows soared.

Yuan Bao looked at him with a sinister smile that seemed to be gloating but was actually a successful conspiracy, and suddenly regretted his decision, feeling that the emperor was tricking himself again?

But she had no proof.

After the completion of the work, the emperor was in a very happy mood, ordered people to follow the ingots back to the palace to get the silver, and by the way, he coldly glanced at the rain lotus on the ground, and his dark eyes flashed slyly without a trace of temperature, and said loudly:

"Take the rain lotus palace maid down and hit the twenty boards!"

Yuhe's face was like ashes.

Yuanbao, who had just walked a few steps, heard that the little palace maid of Yuhe was about to be beaten by the board, and suddenly his little face was shocked, "Your Majesty!" Didn't you say that you should be fined 50,000 taels! Why do you have to be boarded? ”

Emperor Qiongye looked back lightly, and said seriously: "The fine of 50,000 taels is you, is she...... Where did the fifty thousand taels come from? ”

"You are you, the palace maid is the palace maid, you take money to eliminate disasters, the palace maid should be punished and punished, isn't it natural?"

Ahh

The ingots girl was speechless for a while.

It seems to be such a reason, but Yuhe is innocent, and she can't be punished in vain!

The ingots girl was entangled for a long time, and finally bit her silver teeth, that's it, Yuhe is a little palace maid, where did she get the money to eliminate the disaster for herself?

I helped out this money, and there was nothing wrong with it.

"I'll pay her 50,000 taels of fine for her!"

Bite~

Right in the middle.

The corners of Emperor Qiongye's eyes quietly hooked, and a trace of triumphant smile slowly emerged: "Really? This is what you said yourself, don't look back and say that I deliberately oppressed. ”

Yuan Bao's eyes were horizontal, "Seriously!" ”

She caused the trouble, and she took it upon herself to bear it, and it was unkind to harm the innocent.

"Good. The queen is reasonable and very relieved. ”

The emperor was very appreciative and glanced at the ingots with a painful face, and then the dragon robe was lifted and went.

The ingot, which had just been fined 100,000 taels, had not yet eased up, and Mu was stunned to look at the emperor who was walking lightly in front, and suddenly felt extremely strange in his heart.

"Why did he suddenly look refreshed?"

Yuhe on the side wiped his sweat, couldn't bear to turn his head, and said nonsense: "Maybe, Your Majesty looks at the mother." ”

"Really?"

"Uh, yes."

What about 100,000 taels of silver, even if it is a wild boar in the mountains that is dirty and black, it is designated as a clear eyebrow at this time, right?

A few people left slowly one after the other, not far behind them, the quiet and elegant concubine courtyard stood quietly in the middle of nowhere, an old slave at the gate of the courtyard mixed with the concubine Niangniang waited for a long time in the path where the emperor and queen left, the two of them were hidden in the shadow of the old tree, and the light of the sky was bright and dark, which seemed cold and lonely.

"Master, Your Majesty is far away, let's go in."

The old slave beside him said in a deep voice, his eyes followed the master's line of sight, and the figures of the emperor and queen had disappeared around the corner.

The concubine's incomparably loving gaze stayed there for a long time, and her old eyes gradually rose to mist.

"It's been many years, this child has not only become an emperor, but now he is also married, look at the two of them so lively, I am very relieved."

The old slave looked at the master's moist eyes, remembering the experience of the master's cautious but still suppressed by the queen mother for many years, and couldn't help but feel a stump, and almost cried.

"Your Majesty is different now, he is a big husband who stands up to the sky, and he is the son of heaven above ten thousand people, and it is worth it after all for so many years of enduring humiliation."

So far, the concubine has been in this courtyard for several years, and she has never taken the initiative to approach the Qianyang Palace over the years, and the palace is afraid that she has forgotten all about His Majesty's biological mother.

"Niangniang, it's been so many years, the one in Kunning Palace must be satisfied now."

At the mention of that, the concubine's eyes flashed, vaguely showing a little unwillingness, "What if you are not satisfied, now that I have been low-key to this point, can she still kill me?" Your Majesty treats her filial piety now, and calls her a mother, and she will sit firmly on the throne of the queen mother, what else can she be dissatisfied with? ”

blame herself for her humble status at the beginning, she couldn't protect her children, and she couldn't compete with her, otherwise a good prince was sent to Kunning Palace for foster care in vain, how could she be willing?

"Not being able to listen to him shout a word of motherhood is the biggest regret of my life."

She was very sad and withdrew her gaze, but the depression in her heart could not be eliminated for a long time.