King Huai was drunk, and everyone present could see that he was drunk.
"Second brother, fifth brother, come here." King Huai held up the glass, and the drink slipped down the back of his hand: "Brother, I'll give you a toast."
After drinking the glass of wine, King Huai sighed and said, "Not long ago, we were five brothers, and now there are only three of us. The fourth man, who has a narrow mind and a sinister means, deserves to end up like that."
"Third brother..." King Huai seemed bitter but angry: "It is normal to choose to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages."
"Anyway, I'm very happy that you can sit here today." King Huai poured himself wine and kept pouring it into his mouth: "Big brother owes you a big favor."
"My brother, what kind of favor do you owe." King Chen couldn't stand King Huai's numbness after being drunk: "Big brother is serious."
Hearing this, King Huai was even more moved, with tears in his eyes: "Fifth brother, I'm sorry for you, eldest brother. You treated me like this. I used to send someone to your palace to do eyeliner. It's eldest brother's fault."
Princess Huai casually took a chopstick and stuffed it into his mouth, but don't say it anymore, if you say it again, everyone will be offended by you.
"Fifth brother." She put down her chopsticks: "In the past, your eldest brother was really confused and did some excessive things. But since he moved into the palace, he has never given up on you."
"Congratulations to fifth brother for being crowned prince." Princess Huai poured herself a glass of wine. Seeing that King Huai wanted to speak, she reached out and pressed his head on the table. King Huai struggled twice and got drunk.
"My lord and I are willing to assist the fifth brother and protect Dacheng's future peace." Princess Huai looked solemn, holding the wine glass above her head.
Today Yun Duqing is willing to break the rumors for her prince, and tomorrow he will not treat his brother harshly when he ascends the throne.
This glass of wine, she revered willingly, and surrendered willingly.
"Fifth brother, the second brother is of mediocre talent and can't speak." An Wang followed and stood up: "But like my eldest brother and sister-in-law, I would like to assist the fifth brother and be your right-hand man."
"Brothers are of the same mind, and their profits will cut gold." Princess An followed and stood up: "Let's have a drink together."
There are no touching words or rhetoric, but Jiuzhu has an intuition. These simple words of theirs are sincere.
Until the three brothers were all drunk and were arranged to rest in the inner room, the excitement dissipated, and neither King Jing nor Princess Jing appeared.
Dali Temple.
The file in the hand of a colleague fell to the ground, and Ming Jiyuan bent down to help him pick it up.
"Thank you, Lord Ming." The colleague smiled: "The case on this file has something to do with your family."
"what relationship?"
"The prisoner slandered the imperial family and relatives, and it was sent by King Chen himself." Because the Ming family was involved, the case was not handed over to Ming Jiyuan, and his colleagues couldn't elaborate, but smiled: "This prisoner is young. , she is courageous and has a bad heart. Today, the Dragon Guard handed over new evidence, she even did things like revenge when she was a child."
"She fell into the water when she was a child, and the girl next door rescued her from the water, but she was exhausted and sank into the water. The prisoner even sneaked back home by himself, so that the kind girl next door didn't salvage her until a few days later. Her family always thought she stumbled into the water, and they still don't know that she drowned to save the white-eyed wolf."
The evidence handed by the Dragon Guard
Is this the case that the emperor ordered a thorough investigation
"Thank you for letting me know." After hearing what his colleagues said, Ming Jiyuan vaguely guessed the identity of the prisoner. After the assignment, he changed his official robe and went to the Dali Temple prison.
Ming Zhenyu was detained in the corner cell, and when she saw someone standing in front of her cell door, she raised her head to look at the person who came, and after seeing his appearance, she quickly buried her head in her arms.
There was silence inside and outside the prison.
"It turned out to be you." Ming Jiyuan's tone was indescribable indifference. No wonder his mother had mentioned Lingzhou Ming's family several times in the past few days, and she did not hide her disgust. It turned out that everything was because of her.
As the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, it was easy for him to want to know the whole story, so he felt that the Ming family in Lingzhou was disgusting, young and old.
"People are human because they have shame in their hearts." Ming Jiyuan was so disgusted that he turned around and left.
Ming Zhenyu rushed to the door: "Brother, I was wrong, I was really wrong, you let them let me go."
"Shut up." Ming Jiyuan stopped and looked at her coldly: "I, Ming Jiyuan, have only one younger sister, her name is Ming Jiuzhu."
"When you faked Jiuzhu to our Ming's house, you should understand that everything you have in Ming's house is because of Jiuzhu." Ming Jiyuan looked at her: "After many years, not only did you not feel guilty for what happened back then , but intensified, and even wanted to threaten the Ming family with Jiuzhu's past, under your skin, you are not pretending to be a human heart, but a wolf-hearted and dog-like lung."
Ming Zhenyu wanted to defend herself, she wanted to complain and pretend to be pitiful.
"In the dead of night, have you ever thought about the girl next door who drowned trying to save you?"
Ming Zhenyu was shocked, how could anyone know about that incident
"Ming Zhenyu, those who do evil will eventually pay the price."
Mingji moved away, and his steps when he left were hurried and fast, as if staying here for an extra breath made him feel unbearable.
"Is this news true?" Xu Fei looked at the little eunuch who passed the news to him, and put the letter in her hand on the table with a smile: "I didn't expect that the Ming family would be so daring to hide Ming Jiuzhu's past history, Let her marry into the royal family. If this matter spreads, I wonder if the royal family will endure it or the Ming family will be unlucky?"
"Miss, what do you mean?"
"There are rumors about my son in Gongliguang, which is inevitably a bit monotonous. Why don't we let everyone discuss and discuss the past of the future prince. What have you experienced?" Concubine Xu laughed: "It must be very lively."
"I'm afraid it won't be lively." Queen Su strode into the house, swept away her phoenix sleeves, and the bottles and jars on the Duobao shelf fell to the ground and were torn apart.
"Queen Mother." Jiu Zhu followed into the room, saw the broken pieces of porcelain on the floor, and said, "How can you smash these porcelain?"
Concubine Xu looked at Queen Su mockingly, as if mocking her for being humiliated by her daughter-in-law.
"You are delicate and precious, what if you get scratched by the porcelain pieces?" Jiu Zhu supported Queen Su and carefully avoided the pile of broken porcelain pieces: "What do you want to smash, I will help you."
The smile on Concubine Xu's face instantly collapsed. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were ill, and they came to her to be wild. She picked up the letter on the table, ready to stuff it into her sleeve.
However, the two palace maids brought by the queen joined forces to snatch it away.
"Queen, as a concubine, your concubine should respect you, but isn't your move too much?!" Concubine Xu looked at the letter presented to Empress Su, with more panic than anger.
"Excessive?" Empress Su raised her beautiful eyes lightly: "This palace has more extremes, do you want to see it?"
Concubine Xu wanted to rush over to grab the letter, but Jiuzhu opened her arms to stop her in front of Queen Su: "Concubine Xu, as a concubine, you dare to assassinate the queen?"
Concubine Xu stopped abruptly, and she looked at Jiuzhu angrily: "Princess Chen, what do you mean?"
"What does the mother mean, what I mean." Jiuzhu wrote "I am the queen's puppy leg" all over her face, which made Concubine Xu angry enough.
"It's still a caring daughter-in-law." Empress Su said with a smile: "My son who is incompetent is still drunk with his two older brothers."
She opened the envelope and shook the letter out.
"Queen!" Concubine Xu's face was pale, and she sat down on the chair weakly.
"Jiuzhu, smash it." Queen Su glanced at the contents of the letter: "Smash whatever you want, let's listen to the sound and relieve your anger."
"Empress mother, the account can't be calculated like this." Jiuzhu raised a long white glaze bottle and put it down carefully: "You are the master of the harem, which means that the things in the harem are all yours, right? If you smash these things, it's better to move them away. , Such a good thing cannot be wasted."
Empress Su looked at her daughter-in-law in shock. Who was she and Jiuzhu from the business background
"Move it." Queen Su nodded, it's really a pity to smash these fine china.
"You deceive people too much!" Concubine Xu roared when she saw these palace maids and eunuchs began to move things, "I am the righteous concubine who has entered the royal family tree and gave birth to the eldest son for His Majesty. How dare you insult me like this?"
"As a concubine of the harem, you colluded with forces outside the palace to inquire about the secret case of Dali Temple. What do you want?" Empress Su did not listen to her clamor: "Xu Shi, have you considered this for the First Prince?"
Concubine Xu looked at the letter in Queen Su's hand and suddenly reacted: "Is this a trap you deliberately laid?"
It's no wonder that Dali Temple needs to keep the information secret, so simple to find out, and in just half a day, it will be passed to her.
"There are rumors about the eldest prince outside. As the empress, Ben Gong naturally wants to clarify for the eldest prince." Empress Su shook the letter in her hand: "These are just coincidences."
Coincidentally
How can there be so many coincidences in the world
As soon as she got the letter on her forefoot, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law brought people in, and there was no time to communicate.
"I said it was a coincidence. As for whether you believe it or not, it's up to you." Queen Su looked at Concubine Xu who no longer pretended to be sick: "It's more pleasing to the eye if you don't pretend to be sick."
"The Empress, instead of caring about whether I am pleasing to the eye, might as well think about your daughter-in-law, who has been in contact with her before, and whether she is innocent." Seeing that her deeds were broken, Concubine Xu simply broke the jar and looked at Jiuzhu. His eyes were full of maliciousness: "I don't believe that you look at this daughter-in-law every day, and you won't be suspicious!"
The mother-in-law has always been very picky when looking at her daughter-in-law, let alone such a daughter-in-law with an unknown past.
Empress Su smiled, and she stretched out her hand towards Jiuzhu, who happily supported her arm.
"Don't worry about it, this palace is on good terms with Jiuzhu." Empress Su raised her chin: "Jiuzhu, tell Concubine Xu, when did we meet?"
"Concubine Xu, I met my mother nine years ago." Jiuzhu blinked her big eyes and said to her seriously: "So even if your plan to spread rumors is successful, the father and mother will not be dissatisfied with me. , are you a little disappointed?"
Concubine Xu's face changed, she looked at Empress Su suddenly: "When did you start to doubt me?"
"When?" Empress Su recalled carefully: "Probably the day you sat on the chariot to greet him?"
Concubine Xu turned her head to look at Jiuzhu, that day was the chariot that Ming Jiuzhu asked her to sit on!
"Of course it may be the day Wei Shi was downgraded from Zhaoyi to Jieyu, or the day you rejected Doctor Liu's request for a pulse, but these are not important." Empress Su saw that Concubine Xu looked at him with hatred. Pointing at his daughter-in-law, he pointed at the carved chair under Concubine Xu: "Move the chair away too."
With her Su Meidai around, Mrs. Xu dared to stare at her Jiuzhu with such eyes, she was simply eating the guts of an ambitious leopard!
The two maids "invited" Concubine Xu to the ground and removed the carved chair.
The originally quiet and elegant Zhaoxiang Palace has become an empty shelf.
"Concubine Xu wants to open up, don't feel bad for these things." Jiuzhu comforted Concubine Xu: "Anyway, you can't live here in the future, it has nothing to do with you, right?"
Concubine Xu's eyes darkened, and she fell to the ground.
"Concubine Xu's ability to pretend to be sick is not bad." Queen Su nodded approvingly: "As expected of a professional who has been pretending to be sick for more than ten years."
"Mmmm." Jiuzhu nodded.
Doctor Liu, who came with her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, hesitated.
This time, I'm afraid it's not pretending.