Towards dusk, two ministers were walking on the palace road.
Recalling what was discussed in the imperial study just now, they were all silent.
After a long time, there was no one in front of him before someone spoke.
"Did you say that the word that Master Xie seldom said at the time, was it intentional or unintentional?"
"Who knows that."
"But I thought that although no one mentioned it at the time, it wasn't just us who heard it, right?"
"Isn't that nonsense?"
"But why is no one mentioning it?"
"How do you know no one has mentioned it?"
The person who spoke first froze suddenly, as if thinking about it, and was shocked.
The other patted him on the shoulder.
As if relieved, he asked, "Since you heard it, why didn't you mention it?"
The man replied, "I feel in my heart that the Hou Mansion is too pitiful..."
The other sighed: "Oh, isn't this the end?"
The man still didn't understand: "I just don't understand Xie Shaoshi, what is it for?"
Another laughed: "Who do you think Master Xie is?"
The man said without hesitation: "The minister of the DPRK, the pillar of the society, has a good plan and foresight."
Another person said, "Then do you think he would cause trouble for himself by saying such a thing?"
The man was stunned.
A normal person would never do such a thing, let alone Xie Wei, who is extremely resourceful
After thinking deeply, I somehow felt a little cold.
The wind was cold, and both of them put their hands into the sleeves of the official uniforms, gradually approached the palace gate, and left the palace.
In the imperial study, a group of ministers from the cabinet were still gathered.
It was getting dark, and the lights were already on.
In the surrounding area, the bright beam shone on Shen Lang's gloomy face, but his eyes were fixed on the open letters on the case—the letters confiscated from Yongyi Hou's mansion!
Several ministers in the cabinet who can really speak to the DPRK stand below with their heads lowered.
The slightly swaying light made the shadows they stretched on the ground also sway.
The chief assistant of the cabinet, Yan Ting, was very old, his eyelids were drooping, and he was already a little sleepy. He watched Shen Lang staring at those letters for a long time, counting the time to release the keys to the palace gate. Seeing that no one else spoke, he had no choice but to With a sigh, he said first: "These letters all come from the connection between Yongyi Hou's mansion and King Pingnan's rebellion against the party, maybe it's just to hide people's eyes and ears, or it's possible that the Hou's mansion was blinded by the rebellion, what happened 20 years ago. Now, how can there be such a convincing statement?"
Duke Ding Xiao Yuan has been restless since he saw these letters when he was raiding the Hou's Mansion. He hadn't slept very well in the past few days and nights, so that his eyes were full of red bloodshots, and he looked very horrified. people.
Hearing Yan Ting's words, he couldn't hold back and took a step forward almost immediately.
At this time, there was obviously some anger in his voice: "What Yan Ge said is that it is a fact that Hou's mansion is connected with the anti-Party, and the change of King Pingnan's siege of the capital twenty years ago, my child was less than seven years old. A tragic death under the sword of the chaos party! The deceased has passed away, and Yan Mu did not know that King Pingnan and the rebellion of the Heavenly Sect were the culprits that killed my Xiao family. Punishment! These letters are just to make some excuses for the connection with King Pingnan against the Party, but in fact, they secretly colluded with the Party and intended to rebel!"
"enough!"
Surprisingly, Shen Lang's patience seemed to be extremely lacking today, and only after hearing the two say a few words, he slapped the table with force, his face was sinking like water, and his voice was a little gloomy.
"It's best if the correspondence is false, but what if what King Pingnan said against the Party is true?"
Xiao Yuan met Shen Lang's gaze, thinking that if the child really didn't die, and if he was really taken away by the head of the Heavenly Sect, he suddenly shuddered at this moment!
Almost all the court officials in the imperial study room had never heard of the secret of the palace twenty years ago, but they have their own speculations based on clues.
Now listening to Shen Lang's words, they are all silent and dare not speak.
The cold wind outside was blowing against the window, flapping at the window paper, whimpering loudly.
The shadows of the crowd were cast in pitch black on the wall.
At this moment, this place is not like a royal study room, but an abandoned ancient temple in the deep mountains. The wind is rushing, and it is like a mountain ghost crying at night. It makes people feel that there will be dead souls that have been sealed in the coffin, stepping on the ground from the tomb. Blood comes out to collect debts from the living!
Xie Wei stood quietly in the corner, the shadow covering half of his figure.
Everyone stopped talking.
Shen Lang finally thought of him, turned his eyes, looked at him and said, "What do you think of Mr. Xie?"
Xie Wei only raised his eyes and bowed slightly at this time, but said: "Twenty years ago, King Pingnan's rebellion against the party, the minister is not very clear, but I don't know what is wrong with this letter. I think if the prince is still alive In the world, it is God's pity, it is only right to congratulate the grandfather of the country on the news of his beloved son."
When he said this, Xiao Yuan's face almost became the color of pig liver.
The other people in the imperial study also had different expressions.
But after thinking about it, I was relieved: Xie Wei was from Jinling. He lived in the south of the Yangtze River since he was a child. He didn't arrive in the capital until he was 20 years old. .
After Xie Wei finished speaking, he looked at other people's faces, and he didn't know if he felt that he didn't know it was inconvenient to talk about it, so he changed the subject and said, "But I think that the most urgent thing is not to investigate these letters. Today, I saw that the Fusi of Beizhen had put up a document saying that in the villages and towns around the capital, there were as many as 30 messengers of the Heavenly Religion, and I don’t know what to do?”
Shen Lang said immediately after hearing this: Good catch! "
He stood up, walked a few steps in the imperial study with his hands behind his back, and said, "I will put them in the heavenly prison, and the punishment department will take turns with Jin Yiwei. We must find out something from their mouths! Yongyi Hou's mansion is against chaos. It's no coincidence that the chaotic party is outside the capital!"
Xie Wei said: "Yes."
Shen Lang still has to ask in detail.
But at this time, a eunuch came outside, and he whispered a few words in the ear of Wang Xinyi, the eunuch in charge of the Sili Supervisor. really?"
The eunuch said softly: "The imperial hospital is sure to be saved, and the Queen Mother asked to report it, take it seriously."
Shen Lang frowned and asked, "What's the matter?"
Wang Xinyi's eyes widened and he held a whisk in his hand. When he came up, he bowed to Shen Lang and said loudly, "Congratulations to the sage, congratulations to the sage!"
Shen Lang was startled.
The eyes of the ministers in the imperial study fell on Wang Xinyi.
Wang Xinyi continued: "Pixiang Temple, Wen Jieyu, is pregnant. The pulse just diagnosed by the Taiyuan Hospital, the Queen has sent someone to announce the good news to you!"
The expression on Shen Lang's face changed. There was an unbelievable ecstasy. He couldn't help but grab Wang Xinyi and asked, "Really, seriously?!"
Wang Xinyi said, "Seriously, won't you believe it if you go to see it?"
At this moment, where does Shen Lang remember any major national events
With a wave of his hand, he walked directly to the outside of the imperial study: "Place and drive the Phixiang Hall!"
He actually left all the ministers behind, and went straight to the Phixiang Hall with a mighty group of eunuchs and palace maids.
The ministers left in the imperial study suddenly looked at each other, but they all had different expressions when they recalled the news they had just heard.
Xie Wei's brows furrowed unconsciously.
Shadows fell on his face, and no one saw this subtle expression.
In the Cining Palace, the Empress Dowager Xiao finally threw the hand stove heavily on the case, showing no joy in knowing that the concubine was pregnant and the child was saved.
Xiao Shu was standing below, her face was not very good.
Empress Dowager Xiao gritted her teeth and said, "It's just that we couldn't kill three birds with one stone, but we couldn't even do the most important thing!"
Xiao Shu didn't dare to contradict, and she was somewhat in awe of this aunt. Recalling the scene in the plum garden, she felt a little chill in her heart, and the faces of the Jiang sisters crossed her mind. .
She bowed her head.
He didn't panic too much, he just said quietly: "I thought Jiang Xuening was the one who was not easy to get along with, but I didn't expect that it was her sister who was really troublesome."
The Empress Dowager Xiao was a little embarrassed and angry: "You said earlier that the embroidered handkerchief that Jie'er hid is most likely Jiang Xuehui's?"
Xiao Shu said lightly, "80% of the time."
Empress Dowager Xiao said coldly, "It's all a disaster!"
The news of Wen Jieyu's pregnancy seemed to have grown wings, and flew all over the harem in one afternoon. Although everyone did not dare to discuss it openly, everyone looked at each other with strange expressions on their faces.
There is no prince yet.
No one dared to imagine what kind of shock Wen Jieyu would cause in the entire harem if she succeeded in being a boy in one fell swoop.
After all, Yangzhizhai where Jiang Xuening and the others are located is not a harem, so they know some superficial news. I heard that Wen Jieyu immediately rose to Zhaoyi, and the saint bestowed a large number of rewards and sent them into the Phixiang Hall like flowing water. The next person was even called by the sage to teach them a lesson, asking them to serve Wen Jieyu's child wholeheartedly from now on.
No, it's time to call Wen Zhaoyi.
Knowing that Wen Zhaoyi's child had no accident, Yao Xi breathed a sigh of relief, and almost fell to the ground as if she had collapsed.
Everyone reassured her that it was all right.
Yao Xicai burst into tears again as if venting.
Jiang Xuehui frowned and watched coldly.
When returning to the room at night, Jiang Xuehui and Jiang Xuening walked in the same direction.
The palace lanterns swayed gently on the corridor in the cold wind.
Jiang Xuening carefully recalled the keenness of this sister in the plum garden in the daytime, and had to admire that this was the lady of the noble family taught by Meng Shi. Her mind was really sharp, and she said, "My sister will get her wish this time."
Jiang Xuehui also found that her younger sister seemed to have become much smarter than before a few months ago, and it was expected that she saw through some things, but she did not feel any guilty conscience, only said: "Even if I have After all, it can be considered a life-saving plan. If you know what you want but stand by and watch it, then it is a sin. Now, it can be regarded as the best of both worlds.”
She didn't deny her selfishness at all.
Jiang Xuening said, "Wen Zhaoyi will definitely remember you. If the sage knows about this, I'm afraid he will also reward you, but you will be considered an offense."
Jiang Xuehui was quite open to it: "Whatever you ask for, you must give something away. In the world, how can everyone be used to themselves? If you offend, you will offend."
Jiang Xuening smiled.
Her room was a little forward, and she had already walked there, so she stopped, looked at Jiang Xuehui and said, "I wish you good luck then", and without saying a word, pushed open the door of her own room and walked in.
As Jiang Xuening said, at noon the next day, a group of eunuchs hurriedly came to Yangzhizhai with various gifts, some from Wen Zhaoyi, and others from Emperor Shen Lang, who praised Jiang Xuehui for being smart and kind. .
The reward is so rich that it makes people's eyes red.
However, there is another sentence in the imperial decree, which rebukes Yao Xi, who was there yesterday and who is also a companion to Yang Zhizhai, for being timid and disrespectful and almost so tired that Wen Zhaoyi's imperial heir has an accident in his womb. She ordered her to pack up and leave the palace immediately, but she was actually expelled from the list of companions!
Yesterday, when Yao Xi, who thought she had escaped, knelt on the ground to receive the decree, she was stunned.
As soon as the eunuch who passed the decree left, she stood up and walked two steps, her head was dizzy.
Everyone didn't know how to comfort them.
After all, everyone knows how difficult it is to be selected as a companion in the palace. But now he has been scolded by the sage and expelled from the palace and spread to the high gate of Beijing. It can be regarded as shameful, and his reputation will be ruined in the future. How can he marry? !
Yao Xi was in a trance, her footsteps vain.
Everyone only saw that she walked to the door and wanted to lift her foot over the threshold, but she swayed and fell down!
"Yao girl, Yao girl!"
For a while, everyone panicked and rushed to help people.
Jiang Xuening was too lazy to do this superficial effort, and just watched with cold eyes: When Yao Xi and You Yue planned to destroy Zhang Zhe's reputation in order to achieve the purpose of retiring from relatives and harm others, did he ever think that there would be today's situation? end
Cause and effect are related, and it deserves it.
Her eyes turned away from everyone, but she looked at another person in Liushui Pavilion who didn't rush to help people—
Xiao Shu.
Xiao Shu and Jiang Xuening looked at each other for a moment, but they glanced at Jiang Xueyui who was standing beside the crowd and said with a slight smile, "Axi's luck is really bad."
Jiang Xuening sneered in his heart, but only echoed on his face: "Yeah, it's very bad."
How can this thing be so simple on the face of it
When it came to the sachet incident, Xiao Shu intended to get rid of Yao Xi. When she was enjoying the plum, Concubine Qin took the initiative to pull Yao Xi away, but Yao Xi looked wrong soon after an accident happened, obviously she wanted to refute Qin Guifei, but she didn't dare to do so; Jiang Xuehui then reminded Wen Zhaoyi when she returned to the palace to find out that she had pregnant.
A well-planned bureau!
Someone knew about her pregnancy earlier than Wen Zhaoyi, and they wanted to get rid of Wen Zhaoyi's child, but also wanted to get rid of Yao Xi, but they couldn't take him along, which might have made the planners of this round somewhat confused. It's embarrassing.
Of course, the child in Wen Zhaoyi's belly is fine, and this is probably the one that makes the person behind it the most!
It's just that there are too many involved in this matter.
Jiang Xuening really does not want to get involved in it.
It is enough for Jiang Xuehui to interfere in this life. She Quan Dang doesn't know anything, she just keeps herself safe and guards against others harming herself.
The palace was really lively for a while.
I heard that Shen Lang was happy to have a feast for the ministers.
This is probably the only good news Jiang Xuening heard in all kinds of dangers: because Jiang Xuehui was brought into the palace, Wen Zhaoyi's fate was unexpectedly changed, and Wen Zhaoyi's child was saved, and the emperor's mood did not change. The things of the previous dynasty were somewhat more merciful than the previous life.
I just don't know if the people from the previous dynasty can seize this opportunity...
After all, the harem is full of dangers, and it is still unknown how long Wen Zhaoyi's child will be kept alive!
One is that the eldest princess of Leyang, Shen Zhiyi, is still on the ground, the other is that something like Yao Xi happened in Yangzhizhai, and the third is that there is an accident in the Marquis of Yongyi. Zhongbian temporarily dismissed the companions of Yangzhizhai, and asked him to go home first, and then enter the palace after Her Royal Highness's confinement was lifted.
But Jiang Xuehui was left alone.
It was said that Empress Wen Zhaoyi had explained and asked Jiang Xuehui to go to the Phixiang Palace to stay for a few days and talk to relieve her boredom.
Obviously this is because the Meiyuan incident caught Wen Zhaoyi's eyes,
People are not envious.
After being killed, they all packed their bags and left the palace.
Others were somewhat uneasy, but Jiang Xuening breathed a sigh of relief. Everyone else went back to the mansion after leaving the palace. What she remembered was that when Yongyi Hou's mansion was in danger, I was afraid that it was also the time to use money. After thinking about it, she ordered the driver to go to Jinyiwei yamen first.
Today is Zhou Yinzhi's duty.
As soon as she saw her coming, she knew what her purpose was. She personally screened the idle people and others, and took her to You Fangyin's cell in the name of a prison visit.
You Fangyin was reading in front of the sky light that came in through the window.
Jiang Xuening thought that it was the same as in the past, he should be looking at the account book, but he didn't expect to go over and look at the book "Journey to the Middle of Shu", and the name seemed to introduce the customs and customs of Shu.
She was a little surprised: "Why does it suddenly look like this?"
You Fangyin didn't know many words, so it was very difficult to read, but she was very focused. Jiang Xuening came to her side to realize it, and she was shocked.
But the next moment, he was smiling.
Jiang Xuening had never seen such a bright smile on her face, and she was still a little stunned for a while.
You Fangyin bit her lip and said, "The second lady said last time that Fangyin thought about it carefully and found a way. If it goes well, she will be able to leave the uncle's residence within two months."
Jiang Xuening was stunned: "Really?"
You Fangyin opened her eyes and nodded vigorously.
Jiang Xuening still couldn't react, and subconsciously said: "What method?"
At this moment, You Fangyin seemed to be a little uneasy, and her cheeks were suddenly flushed, and she said something in a voice as thin as a gnat: "That's it..."
Jiang Xuening didn't hear clearly: "What?"
You Fangyin finally plucked up the courage, and her voice became louder: "I'm getting married."
"… "
Jiang Xuening felt that she was struck by lightning, her eyelids jumped, and she had an ominous premonition.
She couldn't say a word.
But You Fangyin was afraid of her misunderstanding, so he quickly waved his hand to explain: "Don't worry, I'm looking for the son of Ren from Shu, not a real marriage, but a fake marriage. Ke Heli. At that time, Fangyin will be free and can leave the uncle's residence and work for you with peace of mind!"
Make a contract, fake marriage!
Jiang Xuening was stunned and couldn't believe what she heard: This shocking method, even the You Fangyin she knew in her previous life would not dare to think of it! Too brave, too...