Chapter 061: Preserved
Everyone didn't speak, but just watched Nie Xinrou's master and servant sing and harmonize, and they only sighed in their hearts.
How could a person who can mix in the court of southern Xinjiang be so easy to fool? This matter was clear from the beginning, and all the evidence pointed to the third princess Nie Xinrou, even if Baolian later took the initiative to stand up for Nie Xinrou, but everyone knew very well in their hearts that this was just a way to abandon the car and protect the handsome, in order to protect Nie Xinrou.
The corners of Qingchen's mouth were slightly hooked, looking at Nie Xinrou, her eyes were moving, as if she wanted to see through Nie Xinrou's eyes, into her heart, and see through all her secrets.
For a moment, Nie Xinrou only felt that her little caution had nothing to hide in front of Mu Qingchen.
She also knew that pushing Baolian out to confess her guilt would not change the empress's suspicion of her, let alone the attitude of the ministers towards her, but at least in this way, she could save her life temporarily. Only by saving her life can she have the possibility of making a comeback.
"The Third Highness is really kind, with such a big poisonous snake by his side, he even regarded her as a confidant, and he didn't notice her ambition at all, if it weren't for His Majesty's wisdom today, I'm afraid that His Royal Highness would have been blinded by this poisonous snake. Qingchen didn't pay attention to what Nie Xinrou was thinking, and just said this, the expression on his face seemed to be smiling.
Nie Xinyao turned her head to look at Qingchen, a trace of doubt flashed in her eyes, and she didn't understand what Qingchen wanted to do.
It stands to reason that today's plan was formulated by Qingchen after learning about Nie Xinrou's plan, although she was told during the period, and the two of them deliberated together, but she had to admit that Qingchen's plan was perfect from the beginning, taking all the circumstances into account, and it was a last resort.
And the purpose of formulating this plan is to make Nie Xinsoft to follow. Because among the few remaining princesses, the one who can be qualified to compete with her for the throne is Nie Xinrou, who has the support of the national teacher behind her. Once Nie Xinrou loses power, not only will her status in the empress's heart decline, but it will also make the national teacher give up this chess piece that is no longer useful.
In this way, Nie Xinrou has completely become a waste chess piece, and it has no effect at all, so she doesn't have to worry.
But now, Qingchen suddenly opened his mouth and helped Nie Xinrou speak, if Baolian succeeded, then Nie Xinrou would be fine, in this way, it would be tantamount to letting the tiger return to the mountain.
Qingchen seemed to know Nie Xinyao's thoughts well, shook his head at her slightly, signaling her not to be impulsive, Nie Xinyao's mind settled down a little, and waited to see the development of the situation.
"Miss Mu is right, I didn't expect that the people around me who I have always trusted would betray me. Nie Xinrou nodded and muttered, because the dining room was very quiet, so even if her voice was small, it could be heard clearly.
"Your Majesty, it seems that we have all misunderstood the Third Highness, and the matter of today's assassin has nothing to do with the Third Highness, it is this escort named Baolian who is secretly making trouble, so that the Third Imperial Daughter almost suffered an injustice. Hearing Nie Xinrou's words, Commander Yun opened his mouth and said, "Your Majesty, in the opinion of Wei Chen, this matter cannot be erased here, and an example must be made, otherwise there will be a Baolian today, and there will be countless Baolian in the future who will take advantage of the kindness and generosity of their masters to do such a rebellious thing." ”
Commander Yun's words were ostensibly interceding for Nie Xinrou and feeling deeply unfair that Nie Xinrou was deceived by his subordinates, but in fact he was reminding the empress that Nie Xinrou was fooling the empress like a fool, thinking that by putting all the blame on Baolian, all the sins could be erased.
Sure enough, thinking of this, the empress's face became even more gloomy, and she said: "Baolian, you said that all this was your idea, what evidence do you have? Also, how did you arrange it, what was your original plan, and quickly recruit it from the truth." I don't believe that a small escort has such great ability, can find so many killers, and has strong martial arts, and wants my life. ”
The Empress opened her mouth, and Pauline did not dare not speak, so she pondered for a moment, organized the language in her mind, and then told the cause and effect of the plan in fifteen and ten, exactly the same, and even when the assassin came in ambush, and why he ambushed him, he also said it in great detail.
From inquiring about the deployment of the Six Princesses' forces on the mountain, to how to arrange for the assassins to enter the Lonely City Mountain in batches to ambush, where, how, and when...... Pauline said it in a way that people can't help but think that without in-depth thinking in advance, they would never be able to make up such a set of rhetoric temporarily.
It is precisely because of this that the empress has already believed in Baolian's words, but she still doesn't believe that this matter was planned by Baolian, and Nie Xinrou didn't know about it, because she felt that Baolian's small entourage didn't have such great ability at all, and if it wasn't for Nie Xinrou's approval and consent, Baolian wouldn't have been able to do many things.
However, only Qingchen, Nie Xinyao, and Commander Yun knew that Baolian was lying.
Because Nie Xinrou's pre-arranged action location was in the main hall, not the dining room, and the action time was also when she was chanting in the main hall in the afternoon, not when she was eating in the dining room.
But now, all the evidence points to Nie Xinrou, even if they refute it, they can't come up with any evidence to prove their innocence, but will be considered by the empress to be suspected of indiscriminate climbing, so, for the sake of today, the only way to do this is to admit all these mistakes, but the person who admits it is not Nie Xinrou, but Baolian.
Giving up Baolian, her right-hand man, to protect herself, Nie Xinrou is not impossible, not to mention, she used her practical actions to tell everyone that she did make this choice.
Because of Baolian's commitment and Nie Xinrou's refusal to admit to death, coupled with Baolian's statement being perfect and impeccable, everyone had no way to impose the crime of assassinating the empress and killing her mother and killing the monarch on Nie Xinrou's body, the empress was helpless, and finally had to make a final decision:
"Someone came, Baolian was rebellious, intended to plot wrong, the evidence was conclusive, he was taken into custody, brought back to the capital, and sentenced to death. The three princesses Nie is soft-hearted, the royal majesty is not strict, and the people around her are ambitious and do not notice, which almost caused a catastrophe, so she was ordered to think about it behind closed doors for three months, and she was not allowed to leave the house without an edict. ”
When the words fell, Nie Xinrou's heart sank, and then she was immediately relieved, silent, just watching Commander Yun take Baolian down and disappear at the door of the dining room until she was gone.
"Mother Emperor, you and the Sixth Emperor Sister have been injured, and Miss Huai Jin also said that it is not appropriate to move, it seems that today's festival will not be completed. It is better to order to go down, set up camp here, rest here for a day, and return to the palace tomorrow. What does the mother emperor think?" Nie Xinyu saw that the dust had settled, so he asked.
"I'll take care of the rest. It's just a wound on me and Yao'er......" the empress said with some embarrassment.
"Your Majesty doesn't have to worry too much, Your Majesty's injuries are not serious, and the poison has been controlled, as long as you don't move today, you will be fine, although the injuries of His Royal Highness Sixth are in his eyes, but because he is dealt with in a timely manner, there is no big problem. Huai Jin didn't wait for Nie Xinyu to answer, so he said first, "A lot of antidote medicinal materials, the people's daughter has been placed in the emperor's mansion, if Your Majesty allows you, please allow the people's daughter to quickly go back to the capital to get the antidote and then come to detoxify Your Majesty." ”
"But Miss Huaijin is a weak woman, and it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no ......mistakes along the way," Nie Xinyu said worriedly.
"That's right, this guard under the Minnu also has some skills, why don't you let him escort Miss Huaijin back to the capital, I don't know what Your Majesty wants?" Qingchen thought for a while and asked.
"That's fine, and please Miss Huaijin go and come back quickly. The Empress nodded in agreement.
Seeing this, Qingchen gave Tomorrow a look, and asked Tomorrow to accompany Huai Jin back to the Great Queen's Mansion, and tomorrow should be down, and immediately no longer delayed, and Huai Jin and Huai Jin went away with one person and one horse.
"Mother Emperor, Third Emperor Sister ......" Nie Xinyao saw Huai Jin and them leaving, so she spoke again, reminding Empress Nie Xinrou that she was still here.
"Yun Aiqing, pull this rebel girl down to me, I don't want to see her. You have personally taken people to guard it, and you must not make any mistakes. The empress listened to Nie Xinyao's words and commanded again, but her eyes were full of disgust when she looked at Nie Xinrou.
Nie Xinrou was silent and let Commander Yun take him away, and the rest of the Three Emperors' Mansion, including Xiao Yi, also followed Commander Yun without the slightest resistance. But when Nie Xinrou passed by Qingchen's side, a resentful light burst out in her eyes, as if she wanted to bite Qingchen to pieces and cramp her skin.
This hatred was naturally seen by Qingchen, but she remained silent, in her eyes, Nie Xinrou's little bit was not enough to see. After all, when she played with power and galloped across the field, Nie Xinrou was just a child, even if she would play some tricks in the deep palace, but these conspiracies and tricks could not be put on the stage after all.
"Miss Mu, now that the forbidden army has suffered heavy casualties, the girl has always been taking care of it outside, and now I ask the girl to help me in the aftermath. Nie Xinyu saw that there was nothing going on in this house, so he opened his mouth to Qingchen and invited Qingchen to help.
Qingchen didn't say anything polite to Nie Xinyu, turned around and saluted the empress and Nie Xinyao, and went out behind Nie Xinyu, and when he left, he also ordered Ye Yu to stay in the house to protect the safety of the empress and Nie Xinyao.
Nie Xinyu walked outside with Qingchen, and the two cooperated to do a good job of the aftermath, counted the number of casualties of the forbidden army, and after making some statistics, they walked towards the remote place in the backyard of Cijing Nunnery.
Qingchen was silent, she just walked quietly beside Nie Xinyu, because she knew that Nie Xinyu had something to say to herself, after all, she was in the dining room, and the person who could see through all this, in addition to her and Nie Xinyao, there was also a Nie Xinyu.
"I have to say, Miss Mu is really good, and she calculated everything just right. As soon as Nie Xinyu spoke, he praised Qingchen.
"Your Highness has praised it falsely, if it weren't for the good cooperation between the Sixth Highness and the Cloud Commander, things wouldn't have gone so smoothly. Qingchen shook his head and said.
"I didn't expect that everything you said when you came to my house before the ascension ceremony was true. Nie Xinyu sighed, "The Third Emperor Sister will really do this, but I still doubt the girl's intentions, but it is my villain's heart." ”
"What will the Third Highness do, didn't His Highness already know? As far as I know, the people of the Third Highness entered the Grand Empress Mansion before me, but I don't know what she and Her Highness said?" Qingchen said with an inexplicable expression.
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(Tianjin)