Chapter 38: The Death of the Moon Nobleman
In the next few days, Yang Daju and his wife walked around Kyoto under the title of Xie Fu, and their arrogant appearance disgusted everyone, and even ruined everyone's only remaining good impression of Xie Fu.
"Miss, you don't stop them, but you don't know that the people in Kyoto have been hating them very much lately."
Zi Yurao knew that Yang Daju and his wife were Ruan Li's adoptive father and adoptive mother, but she still couldn't help but speak out.
"Ziyu, these days they are under the banner of being powerful outside."
Hearing Ziyu's words, Ruan Li was not in a hurry, and continued to comb her makeup.
"Miss Hui, it's Xie Fu."
Although Yang Daju and his wife have been messing around outside these days, they all claim that their daughter is the eldest lady of Xie Fu. Even if everyone knew that they were from the countryside and knew that they were Ah Ruan's adoptive parents, they would put this account on Xie Fu's head.
After all, they are playing the banner of Xie Fu, on the contrary, under the backdrop of Yang Daju and his wife, it seems that Ruan Li is very knowledgeable and reasonable, unlike what rural people do.
Hearing Ziyu's answer, Ruan Li stopped talking and let Ziyu realize herself.
"Ignore them for now, and let Shen Sichen send them back in a few days." She looked at herself in the mirror with satisfaction, "Let's go, let's get ready, go to the palace." ”
No matter what she says today, she will also enter the palace to see the queen mother.
Since Shen Sichen was busy checking the list of people who participated in the Qitian feast in the palace, Ruan Li could only go by herself.
took Ziyu to the palace, and with her own special anti-beauty cream, she arrived at the gate of the queen's palace.
"It's Ah Ruan here, come, come, come on, let me take a good look at you."
This time she was taken directly to the queen's bedchamber, and the queen walked down from the chair with a kind face, and took her hand cordially.
"Me too, I haven't been visiting you for so many days, it's my problem. No, today, Ah Ruan brought some of his own special anti-aging cream, and I want to bring it to you. ”
As she spoke, she quietly withdrew her hand and turned to take the anti-beauty cream from Ziyu's hand.
"Ah Ruan has a heart."
The queen didn't notice anything wrong, and reached out to pick up the cream.
Who knows, at this moment, Concubine Shu walked in with a group of maids.
"Don't touch this poison Queen Mother, who knows when some people will harbor evil intentions."
"What do you mean by this?"
Ruan Li glanced at the maids she had brought in, and the maids surrounded her as if they were going to fight in a group.
"What do I mean by that? As the owner of the beauty salon, don't you know? "The speed of the concubine's speech was not in a hurry, "Early this morning, the maid of the noble man came to report that the noble lady of the moon died on the couch yesterday after taking the beauty products you gave to the concubines of the palace before, one corpse and two lives, and was only found this morning. ”
"Concubine Shu, don't talk nonsense."
The queen glanced at Concubine Shu, and she didn't know what the purpose was, as if she wanted to speak out to defend Ruan Li.
"Queen Mother, you are the master of the harem, you must not lose your ability to understand things because of your friendship with Ruan Jiuge."
"Concubine Shugui, you have to pay attention to evidence in everything, you have to have a piece of evidence before you testify against me."
Seeing this scene, Ruan Li did not have stage fright at all, and faced Concubine Shu directly.
"You don't want to give up if you don't get to the Yellow River." Concubine Shu clapped her palms, "Come on, bring me the human and physical evidence." ”
She looked towards the door, her face unclear what the expression was, and there was no wave in her heart.
I saw that the maid of the Yue Guiren walked in with her head down, and the maid next to her was still holding a tray in her hand, and inside the tray was the bottle of the beauty workshop.
"See the queen's mother, participate in the lady concubine, and ask the two mothers to be the master of my family."
As soon as the maid walked in, she knelt down and cried heartily.
"Today, the queen mother and the palace are here, you tell me in detail about the details of the matter, the queen mother and I will definitely be the master of your family,"
"Here's the thing, a few days ago, when this beauty cream was delivered, my little master was afraid of endangering the safety of the fetus in the womb, so it was useless. Who knows, yesterday, my mother-in-law suddenly wanted to use that beauty cream, saying that she met Ah Ruan, a descendant of the Ruan family, at the moment when the slave maid left, two days ago.
At that time, my little master praised this Ah Ruan girl as a rare wonderful person, but who knows, when I went to wake up my little master this morning, I found that my little master had already died twice, and she still had an unused beauty cream by her side. ”
"A Ruan, a descendant of the Ruan family, now that the human and material evidence is there, what other reasons do you have to justify?"
Concubine Shu was furious, and turned around to embarrass Ruan Li.
"Shugui Concubine Niangniang, this beauty cream was purchased by the emperor from me, whether it is my fault or not, I should also ask the emperor, not to mention that my fiancé is an official of the imperial court, so I am afraid it is not good to convict me without authorization."
She originally thought that the silver taels collected from Concubine Shu were a little too much, but now it seems that it is not much, not much at all, but less!
"Don't worry, before coming here, the palace had already sent someone to invite the emperor, after all, Yue Guiren is the emperor's favorite concubine in recent years, and she is also pregnant with a dragon heir."
"The emperor has arrived."
As soon as Concubine Shu's words fell, the emperor waited over with a group of attendants and Shen Sichen.
"Your Majesty, you have to be the master of the concubines, the Yue nobles have already died because of that beauty cream, maybe one day one of us will become the target."
Seeing the emperor walk in, Concubine Shu immediately changed her pitiful appearance, and her voice was delicate.
"What happened?"
The emperor looked at the scene in front of him and asked with a frown.
Concubine Shu didn't wait for others to answer, so she rushed forward to explain to Xuanyuan Chen and the others.
After hearing the whole story, Shen Sichen and Xuanyuan Chen's faces changed.
"Concubine Shugui, please be cautious, Ah Ruan is my fiancée, I believe that her character will definitely not be done by Ah Ruan."
As soon as Concubine Shu finished speaking, Shen Sichen stood up, but there was no trace of awe for Concubine Shu on his face.
"If you say no, it's not, you are naturally towards your fiancée, but Yue Guiren is also a harem concubine, and she is still pregnant with the imperial heir, so you have to give an explanation."
Concubine Shu glanced at the little general who was protecting her shortcomings, and then glanced at the queen mother behind her, and pretended to be calm and said.
"Ah Ruan, what do you say about this matter?"
The emperor didn't care what Concubine Shu said1, and asked Ruan Li directly.
She nodded and turned to Concubine Shu, "Concubine Shu, you keep saying that I killed the Yue Guiren, but when you come, my beauty cream is available to every concubine in the harem, why is there nothing wrong with everyone else; Second, I'm not a harem concubine, I don't have to compete for favor, and I don't need a mother to be expensive with a child, why do you say I would do something like this to ruin the rest of my life. ”
"Who doesn't know, the bottle of beauty cream you prepared for the Yue Guiren is alone, besides, how do I know why you poisoned the Yue Guiren, shouldn't you ask yourself?"
"I did prepare it separately for the Yue Guiren, it was precisely because I considered that the Yue Guiren still had an imperial heir in her womb, so I prepared it for her alone, but I didn't expect it to be misinterpreted by the lady concubine."
"That's it, Concubine Shu, there is no reason for Ah Ruan to poison Yue Guiren, you can't convict Ah Ruan just based on the palace maid's words and the so-called physical evidence."
The queen mother, who had been silently beside her, spoke, but although she was excusing Ruan Li from responsibility in her words, she was actually explaining that all the evidence pointed to Ah Ruan, making it difficult for Xuanyuan Chen to ignore it.
Looking at Concubine Shu, who kept looking at the queen mother with her spare eyes, Ruan Li thought of what the noble man said that day.
Wait, did the moon nobles of that day already know that they won't live long? Her words that day seemed to make up her mind to die calmly, and she had a beautiful hope that she wanted to continue to live.
Therefore, Yue Guiren's death was designed a long time ago, and he was waiting for her to send it to the door.
She looked at the palace maid of the Yue nobleman kneeling on the ground, she knew that most of this palace maid also knew something.
"Your Majesty, I don't think all what this palace maid said may be credible, after all, only she can testify to the affairs of the Yue Guiren, and she can say whatever she wants."
Shen Sichen's eyes swept over the palace maid who was kneeling on the ground, and suggested to Xuanyuan Chen, "Your Majesty, you also allow Si Chen to bring this palace maid back, I have a way to tell her everything." ”
"Your Majesty, since this matter is all directed at me, I guess I can't get out of it for the time being." Seeing Shen Sichen speaking for himself, Ruan Li took a step forward and said, "I ask myself to investigate this matter, and ask the emperor to give me three days, and the courtiers will definitely give it to the emperor, to the spirit of the moon nobles in the sky, and to give a perfect explanation to the ladies of the palace." ”
"What three days, you still asked yourself to investigate, who knows if you will do anything."
Hearing Ruan Li's words, Concubine Shu was obviously a little flustered and stepped forward to stop her.
"Shugui Concubine Niangniang, Ah Ruan asked for an investigation that was a secret investigation, but if he didn't ask for an investigation, this matter involved the royal heirs, and it would definitely be reviewed by Dali Temple, and then it would be announced to the world, if it was really found out that there was any inside story, then it would endanger the royal face.
During the period of self-investigation, I will definitely accompany Ah Ruan, and when the time comes, as long as we find out anything, we will report it truthfully, and we will also bring all the evidence to Your Majesty. ”
Shen Sichen glanced at Ruan Li next to him, paused, and continued: "If this matter is really related to Ah Ruan, I, as a fiancé, will definitely bear all the responsibility." ”
"Okay, Shen Aiqing, then this matter will be handed over to you and Ah Ruan, Ah Ruan, in the past three days, you must come up with evidence that can clear your name."
Xuanyuan Chen's words were obviously biased towards Ruan Li.
This is her child, he must do his best to protect her, he failed her at the beginning, failed to protect her, but he must protect her daughter for her.
Ruan Li nodded, and there was a different feeling in her eyes when she looked at Xuanyuan Chen.
It's nice to have someone to protect you.