Chapter 132: People and stolen goods
Seeing that her daughter had lost her sense of proportion and was a little frizzy, Queen Li said in a deep voice at this time.
"The prince's words are a bit too much, the palace has not done anything wrong, naturally I am not afraid of a check, but I am afraid that Concubine Rui is extremely sensitive after pregnancy, so I feel that Fang Cai Yang accidentally fell and shocked her fetus, someone deliberately contributed to it."
Seeing this, Concubine Rui's personal palace maid, who came out to pass the word, immediately kowtowed to Emperor Chengjing.
"The emperor and the queen have never felt that this matter was done by the queen, but she is worried that someone will do something at the queen's tea banquet, so, if you don't find out, the dragon fetus and the queen will suffer!"
At this point, the palace maid burst into tears, choked and continued.
"Your Majesty, our mother always said that she was from a humble background and has not been loved by the queen, for the sake of her position, I am afraid that the queen will be more and more displeased, but after all, the child is innocent, even if she deserves to die and apologize, the heir of the emperor in the womb cannot tolerate anyone to be insidious!"
Such words can be regarded as a disguised reminder of Emperor Chengjing.
The relationship between Empress Li and Rui Concubine has indeed been bad, especially the last time Emperor Chengjing wanted to promote Rui Concubine, it was a long time, and the harem was not happy.
At this moment, Rui Concubine had an incident with Queen Li again, and there were also the doubts raised by Fang Yu, as well as Pei Yao's doubts about the third princess.
All kinds of factors were mixed together, and Emperor Chengjing was also suspicious in his heart.
has been married for many years, and Emperor Chengjing has asked Empress Li to give him advice, so he knows that Empress Li is a very scheming woman.
After taking a deep look at Empress Li and the mother and daughter of the third princess, Emperor Chengjing opened his mouth.
"Come on, give me a good check on all the people and things that have appeared at this tea banquet, and no one is allowed to be missed!"
The chief eunuch who was standing behind him answered, and immediately took the people with him.
At this time, Fang Yu observed that the third princess's complexion became more and more unnatural.
And the palace maid who followed her seemed to have received some orders, and this time she quietly took a few steps back, and after leaving everyone's line of sight, she turned around and quickly walked towards the hidden place of the palace.
Seeing this, Fang Yu immediately gently tugged at Pei Yao's sleeve and gestured to him with his eyes.
Pei Yao looked in the direction Fang Yu was pointing, his eyes were slightly dark, and he turned sideways and commanded behind him.
"Hong Zheng, follow that palace maid and see what she is doing."
Hong Zheng responded silently and quietly left.
At this moment, everyone's minds are on the delivery room and the investigation of the case, but they don't care about it.
However, it was now in the scorching heat, and it was too hot to wait outside the delivery room, so the queen proposed that everyone go to the west side hall to sit and wait.
The middle hall is investigating the case, isn't it, it's inconvenient to enter.
Emperor Chengjing is not young, and after raising Jin Zun and Yu for so many years, he really can't bear the scorching heat, so he agreed.
At this moment, the eldest prince and the second prince, as well as several concubines of Emperor Chengjing led by Chen Guifei who came to the villa together, also arrived, and the room was full of people.
Before Fang Yu and Pei Yao entered the side hall, they saw that Concubine Yang and He Liangdi were still kneeling under the sun outside, and they couldn't help frowning.
But the results of this matter have not been found out, and Rui Concubine has not given birth safely, and the two of them have indeed shocked Rui Concubine's fetus, and it is not easy to intercede for them.
The main reason is that the relationship between several people is not good yet, and Fang Yu is willing to touch Emperor Jing's mold for them.
However, this virtuous and virtuous image can still be established in front of Pei Yao, so after Fang Yu secretly asked Pei Yao's opinion, he asked Qingrong to quietly bring tea to the two kneeling outside.
Sending a cup every once in a while can also relieve some of the heat.
However, after sitting for a long time, they suddenly heard a sound of struggle at the door of the palace, and everyone saw Hong Zheng coming in with two little eunuchs, escorting a palace maid and a thin and tall white-faced old eunuch.
As soon as the third princess saw these two people, her face immediately changed greatly, and she stood up suddenly and shouted angrily.
"Bold minion, you dare to treat my personal palace maid like this, don't let her go quickly!"
"Yu'er!"
Empress Li immediately let out a low snort, took the third princess's hand, and forced her to sit back in her place.
At this time, she had already guessed what her daughter had done, and she was even more afraid that after the third princess was impatient, she would show flaws everywhere and finally be out of control.
And Hong Zheng at the bottom didn't pay attention to the trouble of the third princess, but just saluted calmly, and then reported to Pei Yao.
"His Royal Highness the Prince, the servant followed your instructions and secretly followed this strange palace maid, and sure enough, he found something abnormal."
"Say it quickly." Pei Yao nodded.
After Hong Zheng got permission, he saluted Emperor Chengjing again and told Fang Cai about it.
"The slave followed the palace maid to the back of the main hall, and saw the palace maid and the eunuch sneakily meeting, the palace maid took out something from the body and handed it to the eunuch, and said that the eunuch should leave quickly, and carefully dispose of these things and so on, the slave waited for the opportunity to move, and captured the two on the spot in one fell swoop."
Speaking of this, Hong Zheng paused, and took out a palm-sized purse, a small slingshot, and a marble larger than a peanut from his sleeve.
"Your Majesty, please look at this thing, this marble is what this palace maid gave to the eunuch, and the slave found a slingshot and a marble that is exactly the same as a purse on this person."
At this time, Chen Guifei, who was sitting next to her and had never opened her mouth, suddenly spoke up.
"I heard in this palace that there is a eunuch who is very good at slingshots by the third princess's side, and he has no false hair, and he amuses the princess by hitting birds, which is very popular with the princess, so it must be this person, but what does it have to do with these two people when Rui Concubine has an accident?"
What's the connection? Hum! Emperor Chengjing sneered coldly and slammed the sandalwood bead string in his hand on the table, "Just now Rui Concubine said that the Yang family who saw the sword dance stepped on something before slipping, it must have been done by this dog slave on the side, what a big boldness!" ”
I have to say that Chen Guifei didn't open her mouth, and this mouth guided the development of things very well.
At this moment, Queen Li's face changed, and she quickly thought about countermeasures in her mind, the third princess was so young that she was already frightened and turned white, biting her lip tightly, and she didn't dare to come out.
But Pei Yao suffered a loss in front of him, how could he let go of this evil mother and daughter at this moment, and immediately said in a deep voice.
"Where would two minions have such the audacity to murder the emperor's heir, third sister, don't you have anything to explain?"
"Yu'er has always been gentle and pure, how could she do such a vicious thing, Brother Huang, don't spew blood!" The eldest prince couldn't sit still, so he also stood up and defended his own sister.
As soon as she heard this, the third princess immediately burst into tears, and knelt down in front of Emperor Chengjing, with a white face and a look of panic.
"Father Mingjian, my daughter doesn't know what's going on, how can my daughter order someone to do this, Rui's mother and concubine have always had no grievances with her daughter, and her daughter has no reason to hurt her!"
After she finished crying these two sentences, Empress Li stood up after her, pointed at the palace maids and eunuchs under her head and shouted angrily.
"You two are so bold, you dare to do such a thing behind the princess's back, if the princess is charged with a crime, how many of you have enough to kill, this palace sees that you are sensible, and assigns you to take care of the princess, and the princess treats you like relatives, and even your family outside the palace is treated kindly, how do you repay the princess's kindness?!"