King Chen turned his head to look at the person who came, and said, "Fourth brother."
"Fifth brother." Yun Yanze walked from the dark place to the candlelight. He didn't look at the Zheng family who were locked in the cell. He nodded slightly to Liu Zhongbao and turned to King Chen, "Why did the fifth brother come here?"
"I should ask the fourth brother about this question." King Chen looked at Yun Yanze, who was dressed in white and out of place in this heavenly prison: "You are not recovering from Zhang Liugong, what are you doing here?"
Yun Yanze slowly turned his head and looked at the Zheng family in the prison: "Please rest assured, fifth brother, I am not here to intercede for my uncle and aunt. I just came to see them, don't think too much."
"I didn't think about anything." King Chen put his hands around his chest: "Now that people have seen it, it's time for you to go."
"His Royal Highness." Zheng Zhen said, "We have all been wronged, please find a way to save us."
"Cousin, the father and the emperor are dedicated to the people, and the ministers in the court will enforce the law with justice. They will definitely return your justice." Yun Yanze looked at the Zheng family: "If you have anything missing, tell me, and I will have someone bring it to you. ."
Mrs. Zheng smiled miserably. Of course, the prison lacked everything, but even if His Highness sent it, they couldn't keep it. What I want now is not something to eat or drink, but to get out of here.
"Auntie." Yun Yanze smiled apologetically at Madam Zheng: "Please forgive my incompetence, I can't return your innocence right away. Now... Now that my concubine has been relegated to a beauty, I live in the palace and can't take care of many things. But there is one thing you can rest assured, the little cousin is locked in another courtyard, and I will arrange for someone to take good care of him."
"I believe you are innocent." Across the prison bar, he smiled warmly like a jade: "You all cooperate well with the investigation of the six adults, there is no need to worry about the younger cousin. I am there for everything."
Madam Zheng grasped the railing's hand, tightening and loosening, loosening and tightening: "I can rest assured that His Highness is watching."
"Auntie just understands." Yun Yanze turned to look at Liu Zhongbao: "Eunuch Liu, can I send someone to bring some clothes to aunt and uncle?"
"Your Highness wants to send something to the Zheng family, you can prepare a list for the old slave, and the old slave will deliver it for you." Liu Zhongbao said with a smile: "His Royal Highness is kind, and the old slave understands that it's just that there are rules in the heavenly prison. , please don't embarrass the old slave, Your Highness."
"Thank you Eunuch Liu." Yun Yanze paused for a while, then turned to look at the Zheng family: "Then I won't disturb Fifth Brother and Eunuch Liu, and leave."
When Yun Yanze came, he left without leaving anything or asking anything. It seemed that he really just came to care about his uncle who was locked in the heavenly prison.
King Chen sneered, raised his hand to Hu Longwei who was standing next to him and said, "Don't be stunned, take Zheng Wangnan to the purification room."
"I said, I said." Big drops of tears rolled down Madam Zheng's cheeks. She choked up and said, "The master and the old lady don't know about these things. I did everything."
Mr. Zheng, who was lying on the ground, was stunned for a while, then looked at her in astonishment: "Madam, why are you doing this, that's a big crime!"
"It's all my fault." Madam Zheng covered her face and cried bitterly, "It's all my fault."
"Mother, how could it be?" Zheng Zhen always thought that her family was framed by the demon concubine, but she didn't expect all this to be true
"More than 20 years ago, the sinful woman and the noble concubine met in a teahouse in the capital. The noble concubine looked like a fairy, and the sinful woman was jealous. After the noble concubine entered the palace, the sinful woman visited the palace and saw that her sister was not as important as the noble concubine. The resentment towards the concubine was even more intense in her heart. Later, when His Majesty ascended the throne, the sinner learned that the concubine was going to accompany her to the south, so she had thoughts of harming others."
"The sinner knows that she has committed a monstrous death crime. I don't ask for forgiveness from the Empress and Her Royal Highness, but I ask not to implicate the innocent." Madam Zheng kowtowed to King Chen again and again: "The sinner is willing to bear the punishment of thousands of knives to atone for her sins. ."
"Because of jealousy, a young lady of the Hou Mansion sent countless killers to assassinate the noble concubine and prince of Shengjuan Zhenglong." After hearing Mrs. Zheng's words, King Chen laughed: "This story is well told, but it's a pity The king doesn't believe it."
"His Royal Highness!" Madam Zheng looked at King Chen in astonishment: "This matter is indeed the work of the sinner."
"Before this king came, I specially read the family tree of Mrs. Chen." King Chen shook his head and sighed: "My wife's family has two older brothers and one younger sister. I heard that you have two older brothers and even grandchildren. The little doll is white, tender and cute. Very endearing."
"If you have committed such a serious crime, if the Zheng family is willing to divorce you, they will naturally be able to save the whole family's lives. Just pity your brothers and sisters, who don't know anything, but will suffer from your involvement, convicted and imprisoned all over the world. , the descendants will also enter slave status." King Chen looked at Madam Zheng: "Madam, won't you regret it?"
Mrs. Zheng knelt on the ground, shrugged her shoulders and cried out. King Chen stood for a while, but didn't hear her say a word of regret. Turning his head to look at Mr. Zheng, who was kneeling on the ground, and Zheng Wangnan, who didn't dare to speak, he suddenly felt very tired and said, "Put Mrs. Zheng alone, if she dies suddenly, it is the Zheng family who wants her to take the blame for the whole family. killed her."
"If she lives well, she will act according to the law. Children under the age of nine and elderly people over eighty years old can be free from being implicated." King Chen turned around and walked out, leaving a sentence: "The arrogant child from the Zheng family is also locked in. , just locked up with... Madam Zheng."
After walking out of the prison, King Chen let out a long sigh and looked up at the sun hanging in the sky: "Please, please do it yourself, please."
"Old slave retire." Liu Zhongbao bid farewell to King Chen and returned directly to Taiyang Palace, telling Emperor Longfeng what had just happened.
"This child has a character that is unwilling to suffer losses since he was a child." After listening to Emperor Longfeng, he laughed out loud: "He was like this when he was a child. He heard the guards guarding the hidden residence saying bad things about me. He is a seven or eight-year-old Xiaodouding. He also dared to rush up to fight someone, and he came back with a bruised nose and a swollen face, and told me triumphantly that he grabbed a lot of the other's hair."
"Old slave still remember that the forehead of the little Highness was swollen and the trousers were broken." Liu Zhongbao smiled: "When eating at night, His Highness ate half of your meal."
Back then, when I was imprisoned in the hidden residence, my life was extremely hard, and even the rice was rationed. His Highness has a big appetite and has a lively and active personality. The imperial concubine was in the backyard and planted some sweet potatoes. At night, she was so hungry that she could not stand it.
Recalling the past, Emperor Longfeng smiled. Even he did not expect that the girl who was sent to the palace by his biological father would accompany him through so many years of ups and downs.
His mother and concubine were born lowly, and every woman in the palace was not his own choice. Only Meidai, he saw her being sent to the palace by her father, crying so much that she was so pitiful. If he was driven away, he might have nowhere to go, so he nodded and let her stay.
"It's almost New Year's Eve." Emperor Longfeng looked at the blooming red plums outside the window: "Go pick a few that bloom well, and I'll take them to Mingyue Palace."
"Old slave, let's go." Liu Zhongbao trotted under the plum tree and stirred up the plum blossoms.
On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Jiuzhu was lying on the fence adjacent to her own house and her uncle's house, waiting for the sixth brother to come back.
Wait, wait, there was finally movement in the yard. She saw Ming Cunfu who walked into the yard with a smile and knew that the marriage was over.
"Sixth brother, sixth brother." Jiuzhu waved at him from the wall: "Congratulations sixth brother for getting what you want."
"Sixth Young Master, you are back." Spring Equinox gave Ming Cunfu a helpless smile: "Miss is not going anywhere today, and has been waiting here for an hour."
"Thank you for your concern." Ming Cunfu took out a purse from his arms and stuffed it into Jiuzhu across the wall: "You can use this money to buy rouge."
"Thank you sixth brother." Jiuzhu accepted it happily, and it was the best choice to wait here for sixth brother to come back.
The happy money given to her by the sixth brother, the New Year's money given by the elders, and the New Year's gift from the province of the palace to the county owner, all these added, she has money to bring into the palace to support His Royal Highness.
After getting the money, Jiuzhu stepped down from the fence decisively, turned around and left in a good mood.
Ming Cunfu looked at his sister's ruthless back and suspected that she had been waiting here for so long just to make him pay for it.
No, how could he think of his innocent and lovely sister so much!
He is not a good and competent brother.
"Twelve taels!" Jiuzhu opened the purse Ming Cunfu gave her and laughed happily: "Sixth brother is so generous today!"
She put the silver in the box and went back and forth to count the contents.
"Miss." The Spring Equinox fed her a piece of fruit and reminded her in a low voice, "On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month in previous years, the managers of various villages and shops would come to the house to hand over the money."
Smart juniors, when the elders count the money, they must learn to serve tea and water. When the elders are happy, won't the money be in their hands
"Thank you, Sister Spring Equinox, I'll go talk to my mother right now." Jiuzhu swallowed the fruit in a hurry, and ran to the main courtyard with her skirt in hand.
"Ah." The Spring Equinox glanced at the small box that had not been closed, and helped Jiuzhu put it away.
The relationship between ordinary parents and children is the happiness that the old man, his wife and the young lady have waited for for 16 years.
"Jiuzhu." Shen shi counted the money and saw her daughter, who was poking her head at the door, and beckoned to her: "Come, come in."
"Mother." Jiuzhu looked at the Tongguan copper coins in the cloth bag and exclaimed sincerely, "A lot of money."
"This is Zhuangzi's harvest last year." Shen shi grabbed the broken silver and stuffed it into Jiuzhu, with a very gentle smile: "Take it, sit next to it and play, don't disturb me to settle accounts."
"Thank you, mother." Jiu Zhu put the broken silver in her purse, sat obediently next to her, and watched Mr. Shen fiddle with the abacus.
"If you're bored, just go play by yourself." Shen looked up at her daughter: "Don't bore yourself."
"It's not boring." Jiuzhu shook her head seriously: "When my daughter entered the city when she was a child, when she saw the proprietress who sold buns settle accounts, her daughter sat next to her and waited for her. She gave her five coins."
Speaking of this, Jiuzhu smiled: "Mother is much more generous than the proprietress, and gave me a handful of silver."
Shen shi's hand holding the abacus stopped, she stood up, walked to Jiuzhu, and hugged her into her arms.
Jiuzhu, her child.
She must make her the happiest little girl in the capital.
"Mother." Jiuzhu hugged Shen shi with her backhand, like a puppy, rubbing against her body: "Father said he would rest today, why aren't you at home?"
"He." Shen shi touched her daughter's head: "He's going to settle accounts."
Jiuzhu was puzzled: "Do you still need your father to go out for some annual accounts?"
"Of course." Shen shi smiled: "It's almost New Year's Eve, and it's getting cold, so I have to get back the debts I owe."