Princess Gaoyang knew that this was a thorn in Empress Chen's heart, as long as she held that thorn, she could poke at her most painful place. Therefore, after hearing Empress Chen's words, instead of giving up, she continued: "When Liuli just turned one year old, she was poisoned and killed. My sister-in-law should be clear in her heart that although this matter has something to do with Concubine Shu, she It's just being used by others, and the culprit is Ning Guifei."
Empress Chen closed her eyes, the chiseled armor was deeply clasped on the armchair, and she didn't speak.
Princess Gao Yang thought her words were effective, she couldn't help her eyes lit up, and continued to say fearlessly: "At that time, Concubine Ning was being favored, and Brother Huang was blinded, if I stand up to testify for my sister-in-law, Brother Huang will definitely... "
"Enough." Empress Chen could not help interrupting her, and then slowly opened her long and beautiful phoenix eyes, "Do you think I will help you after saying this? When Liuli was poisoned, you concealed the truth and didn't tell it. Now if you want to blackmail me with this, it will only make me hate you even more." After all, it is a woman who has led the army and fought in the war, and there is a majesty of "overriding everyone" in her bones, and that plain glance , leaving the eldest princess speechless, "Do you think you are the only one who can testify about what happened back then? Zhao Xuan, you think highly of yourself."
Back then when Zhao Liuli was poisoned and Concubine Shu was executed, although Empress Chen felt that something was wrong, she couldn't find out for a while. And she mentioned a few words to Emperor Chongzhen at that time, Emperor Chongzhen was doting on Concubine Ning at that time, only said that she was too suspicious, and reprimanded her a few times, being extremely partial to Concubine Ning. From then on, Empress Chen's heart for Emperor Chongzhen faded. She slowly began to think clearly that even if Concubine Ning was removed, there would still be Concubine Wan Gui and Concubine Xu. Her handle. In addition, Zhao Liuli's residual poison was not cleared at that time, and her body was very weak. Empress Chen devoted all her attention to Zhao Liuli, and searched for her famous doctors from all over the world. Back then.
Empress Chen is not happy about being brought up again by Princess Gaoyang, but even more disgusted with Zhao Xuan.
Back then, if she hadn't been able to lead the way and let Emperor Chongzhen know Concubine Ning, how could the series of events that followed have been involved
Besides, her husband is Zhao Zhang's man, and he fights against Zhao Jie every day, where does she have the confidence to let herself help her
Zhao Xuan's face was pale, knowing that Empress Chen was determined not to save the Li family this time, she still had a bit of pride in her heart, so she gritted her teeth and stood up, saying goodbye to Empress Chen, "If that's the case, then don't bother Mrs. .” Get up and walk out of Zhaoyang Hall.
Li Xiang followed her, feeling despair and uneasiness for the first time, and asked with red eyes: "Mother, what should we do now? Is daddy really going to be beheaded?"
Although Princess Gao Yang didn't like such a rough martial artist like Li Zhiliang, after all, after living together for so many years, she still had feelings, and she couldn't bear to watch him die. What's more, Li Zhiliang died and the Li family fell into decline. Although she was the eldest princess, she was no longer the little princess who was loved by the late emperor. If Zhao Jie becomes the throne in the future, I'm afraid her life will be even more difficult. This move is not only to plead for Li Zhiliang, but also to seek a guarantee for himself.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at the Xuanshi Hall, he saw Zhao Jie walking out of it in a crimson embroidered golden python uniform. He only lowered his eyes to look at Zhao Xuan and Li Xiang, and told the guards outside the hall to say: "The sage has an order, unless there is an order. It is an important matter in the DPRK, otherwise no one is allowed to enter and disturb."
The father-in-law shook his whisk and respectfully said: "I would like to obey the prince's order."
Zhao Jie glanced over the faces of the eldest princess and Li Xiang, and then left.
In just a few days, the story of Ruyang Palace spread to every corner of Shengjing City.
In order to protect himself, the fifth prince, Zhao Zhang, had to abandon the chess piece of King Ruyang, cut off all ties with the Li family, and did not take the risk to intercede with the emperor.
The Li family is completely over.
The day before King Ruyang's beheading, Wei Luo came back from outside in a carriage. As soon as the carriage stopped at the gate of Prince Jing's mansion, a person rushed out from the corner and stopped in front of the carriage without any explanation, staring at Xiu Jin'an with burning eyes. The patterned cloth curtain has a firm expression.
The coachman raised his whip, intending to scold her, but when he saw her face clearly, he stopped suddenly.
Wei Luo stepped down from the carriage and walked towards the mansion without even looking at the other party.
The other party quickly walked around Wei Luo, "Wei Luo, stop!"
Wei Luo stopped and saw the other person's face clearly, it was Li Xiang with a face of perseverance. Although she didn't know why Li Xiang was here, Wei Luo had never been interested in her, so Quan pretended not to see her and walked straight in front of her. Unexpectedly, Li Xiang knelt on the ground without any warning, and looked up at her: "Wei Luo, I know that Cousin Prince Jing listens to you the most. In the past, I was wrong in those matters, and I shouldn't be against you. My father He will be executed tomorrow, this case has been interrogated by cousin Prince Jing, if you speak in front of him, he will definitely listen..."
It turned out to be pleading with her. Wei Luo just thought it was funny, how could Li Xiang have the face to beg her? At the beginning, she swore that she and Zhao Jie conspired to frame King Ruyang, and slapped her involuntarily, but now that she was desperate, she begged herself with a pitiful look. Wei Luo couldn't help thinking, does she look so weak and deceitable
Wei Luo wasn't in a hurry to enter the mansion anymore, so he glanced at her leisurely, bent his watery almond eyes, and dealt with her: "Then tell me, why should I speak for King Ruyang?"
Li Xiang lowered his eyes, and when he raised them again, his eyes were shining with complex and indistinguishable lights. Wei Luo hadn't had time to discern what the light meant, but she had already said, "Back when I came back from hunting in Changxun Mountain, my brother was holding a hairpin in his hand. I didn't know until later that the hairpin belonged to you. My brother read it before sleeping. Your name, he didn't intend to marry Wei Zheng, he likes you. Wei Changhong's injury was not shot by my brother, but by me. He just took the blame for me. My brother will never be able to take the imperial examination again. I've been a commoner all my life... Even if I can't save my father, but my brother is innocent, I hope Cousin Prince Jing can deal with him lightly... "
Wei Luo froze slightly, looked at Li Xiang again, and said after a while, "You said Chang Hong was shot by you?"
Li Xiang lowered her head and admitted frankly: "It's me." She thought Wei Luo's heart would soften if she said that, so she murmured, "Wei Zheng committed suicide, my brother has always liked you, and I was the one who had a problem with you." , please let my brother go..."
Before she could finish speaking, Wei Luo bent down, pinched her chin, lifted her face viciously, and asked mercilessly, "What right do you have to ask me? Why did you tell me this? Who is Li Song thinking about, and what does it have to do with me?" Wei Luo twirled her lower lip lightly, maybe it's because she hasn't had a good time these few days, her lips are chapped, and she is no longer the charming and charming one before. The appearance of a girl. Wei Luo smiled lightly, her lips curled up in a beautiful arc, her eyes were bright and bright, and her voice was soft and soft, sweet and touching: "Li Xiang, are you too self-righteous? Even if Chang Hong's injury is not Li Songshe Yes, it has something to do with your Li family. What's more, this case was personally supervised by the sage, do you think it can be changed if it is changed?"
Wei Luo thought for a while, straightened her waist, and gave her a casual look, "Even if I can change it, I won't help you."
She stepped into Prince Jing's mansion, and when she passed by the servant guarding the gate, she exhorted: "If Miss Li likes to kneel, let her kneel all the time, and don't need to enter the mansion to pass the news."
The servant glanced at Li Xiang sympathetically, then turned his head and said: "Yes, Wangfei."
Wei Luo is a hard-hearted person, she never changes the decisions she made, and never regrets those she hates.
She didn't tell Zhao Jie about this little episode until the next day when King Ruyang's prison car passed through South Street and beheaded at Nanchang Gate.
Zhao Zhang was displeased by Emperor Chongzhen because he was implicated by King Ruyang. Emperor Chongzhen called him to the Imperial Study Room for interrogation, and then tightened his feet for three months, during which time he was not allowed to step out of Qi Palace. Even the government affairs entrusted to him a while ago were all taken back and handed over to Zhao Jie for handling.
There was a rumor in the court that Emperor Chongzhen was about to establish a crown prince.
The case was executed by Zhao Jie. After noon, Wei Luo didn't see Zhao Jie coming back after a long time, so she called Yang Hao to her and asked, "Why hasn't the lord come back?"
Yang Hao was left behind by Zhao Jie to protect Wei Luo, and he lowered his head and replied, "My lord, Xu is that after the beheading, I will go back to the palace to report to His Majesty."
Wei Luo made sense after thinking about it, so she didn't continue to ask.
In the evening, it suddenly began to rain outside, and the rainwater continued to wet the ground in a short while, and it tended to fall more and more. Wei Luo stood in front of the window, resting her chin on the osmanthus petals that had been knocked down by the rain in the courtyard. After a while, a servant girl came in and said to her, "Ma'am, there is someone outside the house begging to see you, I hope you can go out for a while."
Wei Luo turned her head, "Who wants to see me?"
The servant girl shook her head, "I don't know, it's a strange face."
Wei Luo didn't change his face: "You ask who he is and why he saw me, if you don't explain clearly, I won't see you."
The maid stepped back.
Wei Luo went to a corner of the cabinet and took out the embroidery shed in the needlework basket. It was the shoe upper she embroidered for Zhao Jie. It's just that her embroidery work was not very good, and she didn't finish it after several months of embroidery. It may take a month or two to complete a pair of shoes. Wei Luo asked the golden thread to light the lamp, and embroidered by the candlelight for half an hour, and just raised her head to rest her eyes, the maid came again, with a distressed tone for some reason: "Madam, that person was drenched in the rain." It's been a long time, no matter how loud you can't go away..."
Wei Luo put down the embroidery shed, probably already guessed who it was, asked Jin Lu to bring an umbrella, got up and said, "Let's go and have a look."
Outside the gate of Prince Jing's mansion, there really was a tall black horse parked, with a person sitting on the horse's back. Li Song was wearing a coir raincoat, and his handsome face under the bamboo hat was inevitably wet by the rain. Those dark and deep eyes were like a deep pool, too deep to see the bottom. Seeing Wei Luo coming out, Li Song's eyes trembled slightly, but he still didn't step forward and stood quietly on the spot.
Wei Zheng has already been buried. On the day of condolences, the British Duke and Wei Kun both went. Wei Kun was very sad and said that Wei Zheng was too stupid. The one who was the most emotional was Du Shi who came from Zhongyi Bo's Mansion. Du Shi held Wei Zheng's coffin and cried for a long time, and after returning, he became delirious and a little crazy.
Wei Luo knew all about this.
Wei Luo stopped under the eaves of the door, raised her eyes and looked at Li Song opposite, without any surprise in her eyes: "What are you doing standing in front of my house? It's too late to learn how to beg for mercy now."
This little girl has such a poisonous mouth no matter when and where, and has always been like this, which makes people hate her teeth, but also cares about her heart.
Li Song looked at her, "Li Xiang came to see you yesterday?"
Wei Luo curled the corner of her mouth, noncommittal.
Li Song asked: "What did she tell you?"
"That's a lot to say, what do you want to know?" Wei Luo handed the orchid-patterned oil-paper umbrella to Jin Lu, just as a drop of rain fell from the edge of the umbrella, dripped on the corner of her eye, and slid down her cheek . Her eyes were clearer than rain, "She thought she told me that Chang Hong's injury had nothing to do with you, so I wouldn't hate you anymore. But, Li Song, even if you helped Li Xiang take the blame, I don't sympathize with you, because that It's your fault."
Li Song rode closer, stared at her little face without saying a word, then bent his lips: "Who cares about your sympathy?"
Before Wei Luo came back to his senses, he took off the things on his waist and threw them at Wei Luo. Wei Luo took a step back subconsciously, and the thing hit the floor in front of her. When she got closer, she saw that it was a red web, and a jade pendant was tied to the other end of the web. Now the jade pendant fell to the ground and split in two. Wei Luo lowered her eyes and looked at it. It was a round jade pendant. The cross section was a bit like a lotus root. She didn't know what he meant by this.
Li Song didn't seem to mind if the jade pendant was broken, he turned his horse and headed towards the gate of Shengjing City.
He told Princess Gao Yang that he was going to go outside for a walk, leave Shengjing City, and maybe never come back again.
That jade pendant was passed down to the eldest daughter-in-law by the Li family. When Wei Zheng married into Ruyang Palace, he never thought of giving it to Wei Zheng. Now it doesn't matter if it broke in front of Wei Luo, anyway, he won't hand it over to others.
Not far away, I saw a carriage parked beside the road, the curtain was lifted, and a person was sitting inside.
Zhao Jie leaned against the wall of the car, not knowing how much he saw the scene just now.
Li Song tightened his reins and stopped, looking at Zhao Jie.
Zhao Jie's phoenix eyes were unfathomable, he took the umbrella from Zhu Geng, got out of the carriage, and said lightly, "His martial arts are abolished."