Chapter 58: The palace grandmother tests her virginity
"Your Majesty, this matter is the negligence of his subordinates, at that time, His Royal Highness Su Yiting was drunk, and his subordinates were worried that the wind would be cold in the autumn, and His Highness would catch a cold, so he left privately and went to find a cloak for His Highness to keep out the cold."
Qingchuan was not in a hurry and explained to His Majesty in front of him.
Although there was a big gap between what he said and the truth, he had just heard the words of His Royal Highness Su Yiting outside the palace, so he chose to continue to make up the story according to Su Yiting's statement.
"My subordinate is a close servant, but he left his post without permission, and I ask Your Majesty and His Highness to punish him!"
Qingchuan also opened his mouth to take the fault of this matter on himself, and Dong Guifei on the side saw this and once again found the right time to intercede.
"Your Majesty, the concubine thinks that what happened on the painting boat today is really too strange, and all this must have been deliberately designed by someone behind it!"
"The people behind it tried their best to get rid of the people around my son, and they wanted to take advantage of Yi Ting's drunkenness to plant the great crime of the filthy palace on Yi Ting's head!"
Dong Guifei not only blamed all the faults on Su Yiting, but she also portrayed Su Yiting as a victim.
"Your Majesty, Yi Ting grew up under your watch, you know this child's temperament, he is the most filial to you, his father, and he knows everything in his gestures on weekdays, how can such Yi Ting make peace with the palace concubine?"
Dong Guifei's words made His Majesty hesitate, and in this gap, Dong Guifei directly pointed the finger at Rui Guiren!
"Rui Guiren, because you are the woman recommended by Lin Haishan to enter the palace by the county order of Fu County, now, Lin County has entered the prison, and he will be beheaded every day, His Majesty does not want you to have anything to do with this matter, so he will confine you in the palace."
"According to common sense, you should never show up at today's begging festival palace banquet, who let you out of the palace?"
"If you don't explain it clearly, then don't blame this palace for using palace rules to deal with you!"
Dong Guifei was a threat to Rui Guiren, Rui Guiren already had a ghost in his heart, but now he was threatened by Dong Guifei, and he suddenly trembled.
"Your Majesty, look at the scared appearance of the Rui nobles, all this must have been planned by this ***! She is jealous that the concubine can get His Majesty's favor, so she wants to use this method to destroy the concubine's son Su Yiting!"
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you must be the master of the concubine, mother and son!"
Dong Guifei's pear blossoms brought rain, and she threw herself into His Majesty's arms on the side, crying that was so moving, His Majesty was about to loosen his mouth when he saw it, Concubine Jiang directly said quickly, and once again made a plan.
"Your Majesty, why don't we have an experienced midwife in the Xuan Palace!"
"Since Concubine Dong and His Royal Highness Su Yiting both said that they were innocent, the concubine thought that in order to prevent someone from gossiping about His Royal Highness Su Yiting in the future, it would be better to invite the grandmother in charge of delivering the baby in the palace today!"
"The grandmother in this palace knows the most about men and women, Rui Guiren and His Royal Highness Shu Yiting were caught by all of us, so if the two of them really haven't done those unscrupulous things, Your Majesty can also take them lightly!"
Concubine Jiang finally waited for the day when Dong Guifei's mother and son were deflated, how could she let go of Dong Guifei's mother and son so easily?
"Your Majesty, this is a great opportunity to completely restore the innocence of His Royal Highness Yi Ting, the concubine knows that His Majesty has high hopes for His Royal Highness Yi Ting, so I think Your Majesty, you don't want future generations to point fingers at His Royal Highness Yi Ting's life, right?"
Concubine Jiang's words directly woke up His Majesty.
"Okay, Concubine Jiang, you have found the grandmother in the palace, and you believe in Yi Ting, if the world misunderstands Yi Ting because of this matter, it will be the biggest loss for the royal family!"
Your Majesty has the final word.
"Yes, the concubine will let people do it!"
Concubine Jiang hurriedly went out of the imperial study to arrange this matter. And Su Yiting, who was kneeling on the ground, couldn't hold back at all at this moment.
Whether he has a skin-to-skin relationship with the Rui Guiren on the side, he knows it!
If the mother-in-law who delivered the baby in this palace could really be seen, then all the words he just said would be overturned!
Su Yiting
Although he knew that his father was very fond of him, even if the emperor favored him again, he would not condone his deception.
In desperation, Su Yiting could only ask for help with his eyes to the mother concubine on the side!
When Dong Guifei lay in His Majesty's arms and "cried", she saw Su Yiting's eyes asking for help, and with just one look, Dong Guifei knew that their mother and son were in danger again!
"Your Majesty, Rui Guiren is Your Majesty's concubine, Yi Ting is Your Majesty's prince, if you let a midwife with a sword verify their identity for them, where will the face of my royal family go?"
Concubine Dong Guifei racked her brains to try to convince His Majesty.
"Sister Guifei, although the status of this midwife's mother is not high, they are also the midwifery mothers in my palace, is it too much of an exaggeration for Sister Guifei to say that they will damage the face of the royal family?"
After Concubine Jiang finished instructing the palace people, she returned to the imperial study again, and when she heard Concubine Dong lobbying His Majesty, she smiled and opened her mouth to stop it.
"Sister Guifei, I am the same mother as Sister Guifei, we will do our best for our children, now, His Royal Highness Su Yiting is being wronged, just need to give birth to a little verification, His Royal Highness can be wronged, Sister Guifei obstructed this matter in every way, could it be that Sister Su Yiting doesn't want to watch His Royal Highness Su Yiting clear his name?"
"You're ......!"
Dong Guifei was very angry when she heard Concubine Jiang's sharp rebuttal.
Thinking about these things today, Concubine Dong always felt that something was wrong here, and now she looked at Concubine Jiang targeting their mother and son everywhere, and came to a conclusion in her heart - all these things were planned by Concubine Jiang in front of her to frame their mother and son!
Thinking of this, Dong Guifei felt anger and hatred in her heart, she pretended to be weak, and said on Her Majesty's chest.
"Your Majesty, Concubine Jiang's sister's words are really hurtful."
"Yi Ting is the remaining child of the concubine's pregnancy in October, how could the concubine not want her child to be wronged?"
"The reason why the concubine didn't want the midwife's mother to participate in this matter was just because she didn't want the scandal in the palace to spread like this!"
"Although the concubine's son Shu Yiting has been wronged, his grievances are worthless compared to the face of His Majesty and the royal family!"
"The concubines are all for the sake of the overall situation, so they will think about wronging Yi Ting, but I didn't expect this matter to come to Concubine Jiang's sister, it turned out to be the fault of the concubine, and the concubine is really wronged......
Concubine Dong Guifei put a big truth on the table, hoping to use these words to prevent His Majesty from continuing the investigation.
"Father, the son is willing to bear any burden for the royal family, this is what the son should do as a prince!" After seeing that the concubine understood what he meant, Su Yiting followed closely behind, pretending to be righteous and awe-inspiring, "Father, you can directly punish your sons!" The father does not need to care about the life or death of his son, as long as it is for the good of his father and the royal family, although the son has no regrets!"
The words of Su Yiting and Dong Guifei almost made Concubine Jiang on the side laugh.
Sure enough, when it comes to faceless and skinless things, it is Dong Guifei's mother and son who are the best at it!
"Your Highness, do you think that what happened on the painting boat today is only known to these few people here?"
"Today is the palace banquet of the Qiqiao Festival, the sister of the concubine is unwell halfway and retreats to rest, she doesn't know that all the people at the Qiqiao Festival banquet have witnessed this, and it is difficult for His Royal Highness Su Yiting to forget it?"
"Now, all the children of officials above the fifth rank in Kyoto have seen it, and this matter is already known to everyone, Your Majesty, if you really want to protect the face of the imperial family, the best way is to thoroughly investigate this matter, and then punish it severely!"
"So that people in the world know that the face of my royal family is inviolable! Your Majesty is majestic!"
"If this matter is really like what His Royal Highness Shu Yiting and Sister Guifei said, then it will really bring shame on the royal family!"
Concubine Jiang approved Dong Guifei's mother and son.
"Your Majesty, all the people at the palace banquet outside have not dispersed, this year's palace banquet has already been held, if even this matter is hastily concluded, Your Majesty, where is your face
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In the past, the begging festival was not carried out in a big way, at that time, the country was vast and the population was large, and His Majesty never worried about the population.
But over the years, years of war, the people have been displaced, the population has decreased sharply, and in addition, the catastrophes have continued, and the people of Li have finally died.
His Majesty saw the declining population, so he proposed to celebrate the Begging Festival as an important ceremony.
His Majesty's original intention was to hope that young men and women could get acquainted and have children.
"What Concubine Jiang said is very true, Lone will definitely not end this hastily, you will bring the midwife in the palace."
"Yes, the concubine obeys!"
Concubine Jiang persuaded His Majesty and was happy in her heart, so it didn't take long for her to bring Mama here.
"Your Majesty."
"Mama, can you really tell from a person's body whether he has done something unscrupulous?"
"Back to Your Majesty, both men and women will leave more or less traces on their bodies, as long as they don't have time to wash it carefully afterwards, the old body can find out the clues."
"Okay, in that case, you can start investigating, and Lone will give you the right."
After His Majesty asked clearly, he directly let the midwife deal with the matter.
"Yes, thank you, Your Majesty, the old man will go and prepare."
Mama acted very quickly, and after a while, they set up a tent with cloth in the center of the imperial study, and the Rui nobles were brought into it first.
As soon as she entered the tent, she knelt down directly in front of her grandmother.
"Mama, please......
Rui Guiren knew that he couldn't hide from being discovered by the midwife, so he knelt directly in front of the mother.
She knew that it would be absolutely impossible for His Majesty to spare her after learning the truth, and now the only person who could save her was the midwife in front of her.
"Rui Guiren ......"
When the midwife saw that Rui Guiren was like this, she already knew it in her heart, and she hurriedly pulled the person up.
"Noble, you let the old body cover it up for you, but there are three people in charge of the inspection today, do you know that if the old body tells a lie, my family will all die?"
She couldn't help the Rui Guiren in front of her, and she didn't want to do it.
It is a capital crime for the concubine to mess with the palace, and it is too late to hide from the midwife, how can she take the initiative to step forward.
"Nobleman, please lie down, old as a nobleman, you check your body."
「……」
When Rui Guiren heard Mama say this, her whole heart was like ashes, she climbed onto the stage numbly, and closed her eyes in despair......
A moment later, the midwife came out of the tent.
"Mama, how's it going? Are there any traces of happiness with men on the Rui nobles?"
His Majesty's face was solemn, and he asked the midwife, and Shu Yiting, who was kneeling on the side, directly mentioned his throat.
"Back to Your Majesty, the Ruigui people have indeed had a good time with people today......