After all, Huan Yehe is a person who cares about the overall situation. Although the meeting with Sheng Suihe that day ended on bad terms, in the afternoon of the next day, he sent someone to deliver the news to Sheng Suihe and explain the situation. The results of the incident in Zheng Guogong’s Mansion:
... Yesterday afternoon, Empress Dowager Meng was shocked to hear the bad news from Duke Zheng's palace. She was furious and issued an edict on the spot, ordering a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the sudden deaths of Duke Zheng's concubine Jiaoyu and his beloved daughter, Miss Meng Lijiang!
And just as Sheng Suihe said, after the Queen Mother's decree was passed, countless people in the former harem became busy. Finally, with the tireless hard work of these people, the "real murderer" was discovered and captured yesterday evening. He was Jiaoyu's confidant. Mother-in-law’s family!
This result surprised many people who didn't know what was going on, because this family was Jiaoyu's right-hand man, and they were indispensable for Jiaoyu's ability to suppress Mrs. Xiang for many years.
Ordinarily, this kind of follow-up to Jiaoyu is a confidant who is both prosperous and deprived of one another. There is no way or reason to betray the master. However, during the interrogation process, conclusive evidence provided by various people proved that this family took advantage of the opportunity to serve Jiao Yu to enrich their own pockets, and often instigated the relationship between Jiao Yu and his wife, Mrs. Xiang, which made Zheng Guogong miserable. Everyone in Chang'an knew about the discord between the wives and concubines.
In this way, the fifteenth lady Meng Lijiang accidentally discovered their true identity. She was shocked and angry and decided to expose it to Jiaoyu. However, because of her young age and poor behavior, when they noticed it, she jumped over the wall and killed the master first. .
He even tried to frame Madam Xiang afterwards!
After finding out the real culprit, what happened next was a matter of course. Empress Dowager Meng specially called Zheng Guogong to Xinshou Palace and scolded him severely: "The reason why the Ai family would tell you Ruyi as a sequel earlier, It’s because she has a soft temperament and doesn’t have any twists and turns! You don’t even think about the situation of the Ai family in their early years. Many people in the palace avoided the Ai family, but she has always been there since entering the palace. She is serving the Ai family. It is not clear why she is an Ai family?! Why have you and your wife become more and more separated in the past two years, and you have repeatedly said that she is targeting Jiao Yu? The two books are all about Jiao Yu who cannot understand people well and calls people around her The slave has been swayed! Look at how stupid you are! You have wronged your upright wife for the sake of a family of cheap slaves! You are simply an old fool!!!"
Ruyi is Mrs. Xiang's maiden name.
"My Majesty, I am guilty!" Regardless of what he thought in his heart, Zheng Guogong still knelt down in front of the Queen Mother and admitted his mistake. He also promised to apologize to Madam Xiang when he returned, to clear up the past suspicion and not call it a conspiracy of the "real murderer" Keep succeeding.
After such a performance of beating her chest and feet, Queen Mother Meng softened her expression and changed her tone of sympathy: "You worry about state affairs all day long and have no time to take care of the back house. It is also human nature! The reason why this happened is actually because she wanted it to happen. Her temperament is too soft and she doesn't have the momentum that a duke's wife should have. The Ai family will give her a good lesson in the future... But, in the final analysis, she is your wife, and she has not taken care of the back house. In the final analysis, she is your wife. It’s also because you didn’t mention her enough!”
After pondering for a while, he said, "Yousi doesn't know what to do with the Ai family, but no matter what they do, the Ai family will specifically punish you with three months' salary. Do you accept it?"
Duke Zheng knelt down to express his gratitude and kept saying that the Queen Mother was kind.
Then the incident just passed...
Of course, the King of Gaomi was not willing to accept it, but this time the Queen Mother and the Meng family acted resolutely. They unified their confessions in just one day after the incident. The King of Gaomi went to the palace to pay a special visit to the Queen Mother. There were still many doubts about the matter. At that time, the Queen Mother had something to say: "Although the Ai family often summons Mrs. Zheng Guo and the nieces and nephews of the Ai family to the palace to meet each other, they don't know much about this matter in the backyard of Zheng Guogong's palace. Why did King Gaomi Do you know everything well? Even if you and the Meng family are political enemies, the government belongs to the government, and the inner house belongs to the inner house. You are still a prince. You should have this kind of distinction between public and private, right? You are so concerned about the backyard of Zheng Guogong's mansion all day long. It is said that After we get out, will the female relatives of Zheng Guogong's mansion still be human beings?!"
"You are also a person who has a princess and a daughter who has not left the palace in the back house. If Zheng Guogong sends people to spy on your inner house all day long... what will you think and do?! Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you. You are so As a grown-up person, why should Aijia come to remind you?!"
Although Empress Dowager Meng's words made it clear that she would not allow King Gaomi to continue to pester her, in normal times, King Gaomi would never be so easily dismissed.
However, not long ago, the confidants sent by Princess Qingfang to Nanfeng County happened to find out something. They sent people to fly back to Chang'an at night and reported to Princess Qingfang. After discussing with Aunt Zhao, the princess specially disclosed it to the King of Gaomi alone. .
And the King of Gaomi knew that the three girls who came to Chang'an with Sheng Suihe, Sheng Weiqiao, Sheng Weiwu and Gongsun Yingjiang, all attended the birthday banquet of Zheng Guogong's mansion, and also left early with the four County Lord Jingshu. Such a mistake was not special. By coincidence, these four girls most likely encountered something unexpected at the table, and it might even have something to do with the deaths of Jiaoyu and Meng Lijiang.
Now I am worried that if I continue to force myself, will it indirectly cause trouble to these four girls
Of course, he didn't care about the life or death of these four girls. What he was afraid of was that if Sheng Sleeping Crane was really his bloodline, then the County Lord Jingshu, who had been summoned by the princess, would just return the three girls of the Sheng family. , but it’s not easy to offend.
Under such considerations, King Gaomi did not pursue her, but in order to prevent Empress Dowager Meng from becoming suspicious, he still tortured Empress Dowager Meng and agreed to some conditions in other aspects in exchange before resigning and leaving.
He calmed down, and the turmoil in Zheng Guogong's mansion ended just like that.
Although Huan Yehe said that neither Empress Dowager Meng nor Meng Bijun were ungrateful people, Meng Bijun was severely slapped on the face. In order to cover up the scars, he jumped off the rockery several times. Although he did not break any muscles or bones, It will take some time to get back to normal.
In the following days, Meng Bijun's first priority must be to recuperate well in order to keep her position as successor, and then have enough ability to reward Sheng Weiqiao and others.
Secondly, the affairs in the Duke of Zheng's palace had just calmed down. In order to avoid others from thinking about it and creating rumors, even if Empress Dowager Meng was willing to help Meng Bijun pay the reward in advance, she would have to suppress it in a short time.
So even though there was a moment of turmoil in the former harem over the deaths of Aunt Jiaoyu and Meng Lijiang, the palace was still quiet.
Sheng Suihe deliberately informed Sheng Weiqiao of the result so that she could rest in peace.
Perhaps Sheng Weiqiao had a fever this time and was frightened and stimulated. He was also worried that he would be implicated after saving Meng Bijun, so he confirmed that not only would he and the Sheng family not have any trouble because of this incident, but they would even get a After receiving a generous reward, I ate an extra bowl of porridge that night and seemed to feel more energetic.
Even so, she is just a spoiled girl after all, and her recovery ability cannot be compared to Sheng Suihe.
By daytime on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, she was still a little sleepy.
Under such circumstances, Sheng Suihe naturally did not intend to let her participate in the lantern festival at night, but advised her to go to bed early.
However, Sheng Weiqiao considered that he had promised Sheng Weiwu before, so although he had not recovered yet, he insisted on going now that he had regained the strength to walk.
Sheng Suihe retreated and asked for the next best thing, saying: "How about I let Ying Jiang take the eighth sister for a tour, and you and I stay in the house? Anyway, dear girl, you didn't go out just to look at the lights, but just to accompany the eighth sister. younger sister."
"Although Ying Jiang has some martial arts skills, she is only a sixteen-year-old girl." But Sheng Weiqiao refused and frowned, "She is still very beautiful. She is the only one who takes her eighth sister out without a man like you to accompany her. Don’t talk about watching the lights then. If you provoke a group of dandies and libertines, you won’t even have time to drive them away! Wouldn’t it spoil the eighth sister’s interest?”
Sheng Suihe had no choice but to say: "Then you and Ying Jiang stay, and I take the eighth sister out?"
"Then you must have taken her out for a leisurely stroll and then came back. How can you have fun like this?" Sheng Weiqiao said displeased, "I tell you, when we were in Nanfeng County, our parents were afraid that the lanterns would meet people. Duo, something went wrong. We girls are never allowed to go out to enjoy the lanterns at night. This time we came to Chang'an, we just had such freedom. If we miss it, I'm afraid we won't have such an opportunity when we go back in a few days."
"Especially the eighth sister has always loved playing. Ever since she came to Chang'an, she has been detained in her room. She has never been taken out to play seriously!"
"We are rushing to the annual Lantern Festival right now. If we can't satisfy her wish, what will we brothers and sisters do?"
Seeing that Sheng Suihe couldn't convince her, he could only go to Sheng Weiwu, hoping that the little cousin would take the initiative not to see the lamp, so as to prevent Sheng Weiqiao from dragging his sick body around.
Who knew that Sheng Weiwu had promised well, but the little girl didn't know whether it was because of her distrust of Sheng Suihe or because she was really naive and ignorant. When she arrived in front of Sheng Weiqiao, she said: "Third sister, the eldest brother said that you are so stupid right now." I haven't recovered from my illness yet, so I must not go out? Although I really want to see the lanterns, after all, the third sister's health is more important. Let's not go out tonight. Let's ask the servants to go out and buy some lanterns and come back to enjoy them. ?”
Next, it goes without saying that Sheng Weiqiao gave Sheng Sleeping He who was holding his forehead with his hands a hard look, took Sheng Weiwu into his arms, and said with a sneer: "Do you listen to your elder brother's nonsense?! Your third sister, I have been cured long ago. , didn’t you see that I was asking someone to open the suitcase, do you want to choose clothes for going out at night? This is simply because your eldest brother is deliberately unwilling to accompany us to go out, let alone help us pay the bill, and deliberately makes excuses not to go to the lantern festival. They won’t let us go!”
"Okay, so that's it!!" Sheng Weiwu suddenly jumped three feet high, "Brother, you are a liar!!! Fortunately, the third sister is smart and saw through your trick!"
Sheng Suihe couldn't help but mutter silently, "Good girl is looking at me. I must maintain a good image in my mind and never show any ferocious expressions." Then he resisted the urge to slap Sheng Weiwu to death, smiled bitterly, and accepted his fate. He said: "In that case, let's just set off early and get a good seat in the restaurant on Tianjie Street, lest when it gets dark later, people all over the city will go out to look at the lights and they won't be able to squeeze in?"
… You naughty kid!
I promised you so well in your wing just now, but now that I have seen my good girl, I sold you out!
Still want to take a good look at the lights
When we get to the place, I will find someone to put some intoxicating drugs in your food, so that you will fall asleep after taking a look at the excitement, and then go home as a matter of course!
Let’s see how you feel remorseful tomorrow! ! !