CHAPTER XLIV
Wen Jing took care of everything and came to Guanlan Garden with the confessions of Qin Pozi and Jin Chuan.
Jiang Xufeng read the confession and snorted coldly: "The hand of the third emperor brother is stretched out!" ”
Wen Jing felt that this kind of means that could be used in the backyard should be Princess Ning's idea, but husband and wife are one, King Ning and Princess Ning are the same.
"Those little girls are all from the Inner Servant Province, but the concubines feel that Ning Wangfu does not have such means."
Jiang Xufeng sneered and mocked: "Concubine Rong has always been nosy. ”
Wen Jing smiled, leaned closer and sat directly on Jiang Xufeng's lap: "The concubine heard that the second son of Han is about to return to the court, and the concubine doesn't want to suffer such a dumb loss." ”
Jiang Xufeng understood: "This is nature. ”
In the case of private salt, Jiang Xufeng originally wanted to let King Ning and his party pick up a layer of skin, but now it seems that one layer is not enough. If Jiang Xufeng knew Princess Ning's original plan, he would still feel that he had taken it lightly.
Jiang Xufeng held Wen Jing's hand and squeezed it gently: "Thanks to the crown princess, Gu really feels that he can't do without the crown princess now." ”
Wen Jingjiao laughed, pulled out her hand and patted it lightly on Jiang Xufeng's hand: "Your Highness has a flamboyant tongue, the concubine doesn't believe it." ”
Jiang Xufeng wanted to catch Wen Jing's hand, but Wen Jing dodged him. Wen Jing stood up and tidied up the hem of her skirt: "Your Highness is busy first, the concubine got a little plum wine, go back and prepare some side dishes, and invite His Highness to drink together in the evening." ”
Jiang Xufeng watched Wen Jing's skirt flutter away, shook his head and smiled.
Dong Qing, who was following the great eunuch Zhu Zhan, scolded Song Liangdi in her heart, but she had to do something with the money. He first glanced at his master, hesitated, and said cautiously: "Your Highness, Song Liangdi ......"
Jiang Xufeng glanced at him.
Zhu Zhan hurriedly gave him the back of his head: "Ignorant things, how can you talk too much here, disturb Your Highness's purity, and don't get out." ”
Holly confessed again and again, and crawled out.
Zhu Zhan hurriedly said a few good words to his apprentice, this stupid thing, if you don't punish him once, his mind is not clear.
The landscape of the Imperial Garden is still lush, unlike the yellowing of the leaves in the Prince's Mansion.
"My younger brother and sister came early, but I slacked off."
Wen Jing was still admiring the peonies in Fengyi Palace, and when she turned her head, she saw Princess Ning's smiling face.
Wen Jing was a little inexplicable, and replied without being salty: "Greeting the queen mother, this is what I should do." ”
With that, he stepped into the inner sanctum.
Princess Ning's face stiffened, and she glanced at Wen Jing's back coldly.
The tea served by the palace maid of Fengyi Palace today is a black tea that is not common here for the queen, the fragrance is long and long, and Wen Jing does not put it under his nose and sniffs it gently.
"Brother and sister like black tea?" Princess Ning only lightly picked up the teacup and took a sip, and then put it back as if she didn't like it.
Wen Jing sat face to face with her, and when she saw her movements, a smile appeared on her face: "I thought that Princess Ning also liked black tea, otherwise how could she never forget this." ”
Princess Ning was stunned, when did she ...... The fragment in her mind flashed suddenly, and Princess Ning's face sank unconcealably.
Wen Jing chuckled, she was a person who held grudges. Princess Ning found fault at her first tea banquet, and she could always remember it.
The queen who sat at the top also brought a slight smile on her lips, and she was happy when she saw that Concubine Rong was deflated.
Princess Ning was silent for a long time, and after a quarter of an hour, it was time to retire. seemed to calm down: "I heard that my brother and sister's mansion sent out a concubine, I shouldn't have asked more about such a trivial matter." Thinking that she must have made a mistake, the prince's mansion couldn't tolerate her, but the concubine was given to His Royal Highness by the mother concubine. ”
"I'm going to have a lot of trouble, so that my mother can rest assured."
After beating around the bush for so long, she was waiting for her here, what did the prince's mansion mean that she couldn't accommodate her? She still needs to get permission from Concubine Rong to deal with a concubine? She didn't ask Concubine Rong and Princess Ning about the installation of eyeliner in the Prince's Mansion, but asked her head?
Wen Jing took a sip of the teacup unhurriedly, and then raised his eyes to look directly at Princess Ning: "It's not a big deal, it's just that I'm eating inside and out, and I'm restless." ”
"Alas, the Zou family, as a woman in the back house, actually spread the news of the prince's mansion to the outside world." Wen Jing looked at the queen again, "The queen mother knows, I can't hold sand in my eyes, so I sent her to the Taoist temple in the suburbs of Beijing to cultivate." Probably Princess Ning is more tolerant than me, but I still have to sharpen my temperament. ”
Wen Jing's words didn't give Princess Ning any face, which was sarcastic and ugly. Princess Ning and Concubine Liu in the palace had a lot of trouble, and it had long become a topic of conversation among the people in the capital after tea and dinner, and even Concubine Rong Guifei had said Princess Ning more than once in private.
Princess Ning couldn't restrain herself from wanting to get angry, so in the hindrance of the queen, her chest rose and fell a few times, and she asked in a cold voice: "That Zou is sensible and obedient in front of the concubine, and his temperament is also docile and lovely. Before the younger siblings entered the mansion, they were also keeping to themselves, why did the younger siblings make such a big mistake not long after they entered the mansion? ”
Wen Jing was not angry at all, and still had the same smile: "I don't know about this, probably because of my nature." ”
Princess Ning finally hurriedly saluted and threw off her sleeves.
The queen looked at Wen Jing with a scrutinizing gaze for a moment: "What has the prince been busy with recently, the last time he came to see the palace, he was in a hurry, and the palace hasn't seen him for several days." ”
Wen Jing slandered in her heart, the queen asked the wrong person, she never inquired about Jiang Xufeng's whereabouts, and she hadn't seen anyone for several days.
"Second Prince Han is about to return to Beijing, and he wants to come to His Highness to be busy with political affairs."
"Well," the queen bowed, "as the crown princess, you should also care more about the prince's body, he is the prince, and the long-term plan is the best policy." ”
The queen's admonition Wen Jing is in the left ear and out of the right ear, and she doesn't have the leisure to relay the queen's words of concern to Jiang Xufeng, all of which are left on the surface, and the actual concern is not at all, saying that Jiang Xufeng is blocked.
On 18 July, the officials who investigated the case in Jiangnan returned to Beijing.
In April, the smuggling salt case shocked the government and the public, but I didn't expect that the case would be investigated so quickly, and the eyes of the capital were focused on Han Ergongzi for a while.
Han Qing, the second son of Han, first entered the palace to report to Emperor Kangde, and then returned to the mansion and saw no one.
On the morning of the second day, Han Qing stood on top of the main hall and caught Emperor Kande and King Ning off guard. He will tell everything he found in Jiangnan aloud in the main hall in detail.
Both human and material evidence point to King Ning, but the key link is missing, the ledger.
Yesterday's debriefing, Emperor Kande already knew everything, but just now he knew that the anger when selling illicit salt had been worn away by King Ning and Concubine Rong in the past three months. Concubine Rong's pillow had an effect, and he had the intention of favoring King Ning, so he pressed down Han Qing's fold, but he didn't expect Han Qing to directly expose it in the main hall.
Kande's face turned red and he gasped.
Jiang Xufeng glanced at it lightly, tsk, I was really afraid that his father didn't come up in one breath and fainted on the main hall.
King Ning was pushed by Lord Zhou, and he didn't care about being angry, so he immediately knelt on top of the hall and wept. didn't say anything else, just kept shouting 'wronged'.
Lord Song didn't move, and Jiang Xufeng's faction naturally had other people take the lead. There was a lot of noise in the court, King Ning and his faction were busy exonerating him, and Jiang Xufeng and his faction wanted to press him to death.
On the contrary, the second son of Han who was mentioned above at the beginning was squeezed to the back, he raised his head slightly, and met Jiang Xufeng's eyes, and both of them had a smile in their eyes.