Chapter 54: Grounded
The ice cube was stuck on the swollen cheek, Jiang Mingzhi couldn't help but gasp, this Mrs. Su was really ruthless.
"It hurts?" Pei Zheng frowned unconsciously, but the movements of his hands became more and more gentle.
"If I say it hurts, will my adults feel sorry?"
These words made Pei Zheng pause, but he didn't make a sound.
"Benxiang will avenge you."
After a long time, Pei Zheng spoke again and put the ice cube on the other half of his face.
Mrs. Su had already been sent to the official by the behead, and Pei Zheng also handed the excerpt to Emperor Qing for the first time, and Emperor Qing was furious and immediately ordered a thorough investigation of Su Yuandao, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.
As officials, there are a few people who are really clean on their sleeves, but in half a day, Su Yuandao was summoned by Emperor Qing with trembling.
"The minister has seen Your Majesty."
As soon as Su Yuandao came in, he grabbed the ground with his head, and secretly prayed in his heart that he could survive this time.
"Do you know why I invited you here?"
Emperor Qing opened his mouth lightly, but Su Yuandao, who was shocked, was in a cold sweat.
After thinking about it for a while, Su Yuandao slowly spoke, "Is it because of the incident of the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion being forcibly broken into the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion?" ”
Su Yuandao is now pretending to be confused, and he doesn't dare to speak casually.
I thought I could get through the trick, but as soon as the words fell, there was a sound of heavy objects falling overhead, which scared him and made him tremble and dare not look up.
"Your Majesty is angry!"
Su Yuandao kept repeating these words, praying that his constant pleading could calm Emperor Qing's anger.
"Good deeds you did yourself!" Emperor Qing threw all the incriminating evidence found in Su Yuandao in front of him, Su Yuandao looked at it tremblingly, and immediately closed his eyes, he was finished!
"Immediately dismiss Su Yuandao and exile his family!"
Emperor Qing was angry, and when the words fell, he didn't want to see Su Yuandao again for a moment, and soon someone dragged Su Yuandao down.
"Your Majesty thinks twice, Your Majesty!"
It wasn't until the hall was quiet that Emperor Qing rubbed his eyebrows twice, and the depression around him became stronger.
The accident of the Ministry of Industry Shangshu spread in only half a day, and no one knew what was going on, but everyone was in danger.
When the news reached Xiao Yuan's ears, he understood that the opportunity had come, and deliberately let his people go to prison to create an opportunity to contact Su Yuandao, if he wanted to live, there was only one way to go!
"Pei Zheng, even if you set aside the radish and bring out the mud this time, my father will definitely not allow you!"
Xiao Yuan opened his mouth with a gloomy face.
Sure enough, Pei Yuan's people said a few ambiguous words, and Su Yuandao let them talk to Zuo Xiang like grasping a life-saving straw.
That night, Pei Zheng also came to the prison as promised, and Su Yuandao knelt down as soon as he saw him.
"My lord, I don't want to die!" It was rare to hear such a straightforward sentence from Su Yuandao's mouth.
Pei Zheng raised his eyes, but Su Yuandao's body stiffened, and he trembled all over, only then did he remember that the person in front of him was Zuo Xiang! How can he have a half-begging posture at the moment.
Then Su Yuandao kowtowed, "Please save me!" ”
"What if you don't want to?" Pei Zheng stood there in a light tone.
"My lord, that thing ......"
Before the words fell, Pei Zheng's gaze struck, but the second half of Su Yuandao's sentence was swallowed alive.
"My life may not be anything in the eyes of adults, but I want to live."
"Aren't you afraid that your true appearance will kill you?" Pei Zheng's words contained murderous intent, but Su Yuandao always straightened his back.
As everyone knows, Pei Zheng came here today just to extinguish his mouth, but I don't know who in the palace has such a long hand and can help Su Yuandao deliver the news to Zuo Xiang's mansion.
"Who helped you?" Pei Zheng asked seemingly casually, and Su Yuandao actually didn't understand why these people helped him.
Just as he was hesitating, Pei Zheng looked at him, and he pulled out a figure from the darkness.
And Su Yuandao closed his eyes forever in his eyes full of surprise.
"Clean up this place, he's doing it." What Pei Zheng was referring to was the man in black on the ground.
Leaving here quickly, Pei Zheng had already guessed who was behind the scenes, but this matter needed to be ordered by Emperor Qing.
The next day, the news of Su Yuandao's assassination in prison made Emperor Qing angry.
"How unreasonable! I don't know when such a thing can happen in the palace, whether I will wake up tomorrow morning, and I will have to worry about the head of the people! ”
Anyone can hear Emperor Qing's anger, and no one dares to touch his head.
"Prime Minister Zuo, I order you to investigate this matter thoroughly and give me an explanation as soon as possible!"
Pei Zheng retreated in response, his face raised a touch of arc, things were going well, after all, the original clue was left by him, and he soon searched for letters in Su Yuandao's home, and the person who corresponded with him was the prince Xiao Yuan.
After Pei Zheng informed Emperor Qing of the results of this investigation, he was even more aware of the monstrous anger.
"Okay, what a prince, you dare to do this kind of thing under my nose, Zuo Xiang, you go back first, and I will deal with this matter!"
Pei Zheng retreated.
When Xiao Yuan was summoned by Emperor Qing, he hadn't noticed anything yet, and he didn't blame him for being too slow to react, but Pei Zheng was too fast and left no room.
"Father's ......"
Before Xiao Yuan finished his salute, he was hit on the top of his head.
"It's all your doing!" Emperor Qing's angry voice came, making Xiao Yuan more and more confused, and after picking up the things on the ground, his face suddenly changed.
"Father, son, ......"
Emperor Qing couldn't listen to any explanation at the moment, "The evidence of this matter is conclusive, I ordered you to come today, I just want to ask you if you know what is wrong?" ”
"A courtier should not have a close personal relationship with a courtier."
Emperor Qing's biggest displeasure is to form a party for personal gain, and now that he has found out about it in his anger, Xiao Yuan can only suffer this dumb loss for the time being.
"For the sake of knowing your mistakes, I will punish you for thinking about it behind closed doors for seven days, can you admit it?"
"The son will be punished."
Xiao Yuan leaned over and saluted, and the anger on Emperor Qing's face dissipated a little, "That's it, you go down." ”
Retreating from the imperial study, Xiao Yuan showed displeasure in his eyes, he knew that Pei Zheng must have noticed this, so he quickly pushed everything on his head, and he really underestimated Pei Zheng!
The hall was quiet, but Emperor Qing frowned, although Su Yuandao's matter was simple and clear, he always felt that Xiao Yuan's reaction was wrong.
Before he could think about it, he heard Wang Xi's voice.
"Queen Mother, Your Majesty has ordered, and no one will see you today."
But the people outside the house didn't seem to want to leave, so Wang Xi still came in and reported.
"Well, let her in." Don't think about it, Emperor Qing also knew that the queen was here for Xiao Yuan's business.
"Your Majesty, the concubine doesn't know what Yuan'er has done wrong, so she asked you to grounded him in the palace."
Emperor Qing frowned almost imperceptibly, "If you want to know what's going on, go ask your good son!" ”
The queen didn't expect Emperor Qing to implicate her anger, and after being stunned, she raised her hand and wiped her tears, "Your Majesty is really so ruthless, Yuan'er is a child born from the concubine's pregnancy in October, you don't feel distressed, the concubine hurts!" ”