Ziyan smiled brightly: "The colder the day, the more you go out to exercise, and you can achieve the purpose of exercise. What surprised me was my father-in-law. It's rare, rare to go out for business in such a cold day!"
Eunuch Lu heaved a sigh: "There is no way, who told us to be servants! The emperor ordered me to do something, can this old servant not go?"
Zi Yan's eyes brightened: "The emperor asked you to go? What's the matter?"
Eunuch Lu whispered in Ziyan's ear: "Just now the emperor took Xue Cairen to the prison, and he was very angry when he heard that Master Chu had severely punished the emperor's uncle. No, tell this old slave to call Master Chu into the prison." Gong Lai, I think he is going to be pouted by the emperor!"
Zi Yan said loudly: "Eunuch is going to invite Mr. Chu?"
Eunuch Lu: "Exactly!"
Zi Yan pointed in the direction of Fengfei Palace: "I just saw Master Chu went to Fengfei Palace, I think he went to see Empress Chu!"
"Really? That's just right, you don't need to go outside in the snow." Eunuch Lu smiled, "Thank you, Concubine Ziyan, for letting me know!"
Zi Yan sighed: "Speaking of this Master Chu, it is really pitiful. My daughter married into the palace and did not enjoy many blessings. She was killed by Rong Changan and became demented. Even her own son died in the well. Li. As a grandfather, Mr. Chu must be in great pain. In recent days, I have seen him lose weight and haggard a lot. Now that he has encountered the matter of the emperor's uncle again, I don't know if he can survive it!"
After finishing speaking, he sighed again and again, "Okay, Eunuch Lu, you still have to go on business, so I won't delay you."
Eunuch Lu smiled and said, "The old slave has gone to Fengfei Palace!"
Watching Eunuch Lu leave, a sly smile appeared on Ziyan's face.
Arriving at the gate of Fengfei Palace, before entering, Eunuch Lu heard the sound of miserable weeping coming from the palace, over the glazed tile roof, it was so miserable, it made people feel very heavy.
Eunuch Lu pointed to a guard and asked, "What's wrong?"
The guard said: "I don't know! Master Chu kept crying after he entered."
Eunuch Lu was surprised and said, "Could it be that Empress Chu died?"
The guard shook his head: "No, if Empress Chu died, I would have gone to inform the emperor a long time ago."
Puzzled, Eunuch Lu walked into the palace, only to see a bunch of maidservants standing in the room trying to persuade Chu Lin.
"Lord Chu, don't cry, the queen is still fine now, it's unlucky for you to cry!"
"If people outside heard it, they would think that Empress Chu is gone."
"Is there anything that can't be said properly? Why do you cry as soon as you come here!"
Chu Lin just didn't speak, just whimpered. Someone saw Eunuch Lu and shouted:
"Eunuch Lu, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is here!"
"Quick, quick, get out of the way!"
When Chu Lin heard this, his eyeballs rolled around, and he felt a little bit happy in his heart. He let go of his throat and cried louder to Chu Fei'er.
Eunuch Lu walked in. Chu Fei'er was lying on the bed, motionless, only Chu Lin was crying on the side of the bed, and two maidservants wanted to help him up, but he refused to get up no matter what.
Eunuch Lu was at a loss. Hearing Chu Lin's cry, he felt a little desolate. He raised his hand to wipe the corner of his eyes, approached Chu Lin, and put his hand on Chu Lin's arm:
"Lord Chu, why did you come here? Why are you crying to Empress Chu? It's unlucky!"
Chu Lin wiped his eyes, looked back at Eunuch Lu, and pretended to be very surprised: "Chu Lin didn't know that Eunuch Lu came, so he was far away to welcome him, and he hoped that Eunuch would forgive him!"
Lu Gonggong said: "Don't say that you don't forgive your sins, what's wrong with you? What's the matter that makes you so sad?"
Chu Lin's lips moved, he hesitated to speak, shook his head, and sighed a few times: "Oh, it's fine if you don't say anything!"
Eunuch Lu helped him up and sat on the chair: "Master Chu, if you have any unhappiness in your heart, you can tell me. If it's not a very sad thing, why are you crying like this?"
Chu Lin wiped his eyes and Ning's nose again, but he didn't say what happened. Under Lu Gonggong's repeated pleading, he just swallowed his saliva and said in a hoarse voice:
"Eunuch Lu, I'm very unhappy!"
As he spoke, he waved to the maidservants beside him, telling them all to go out. Eunuch Lu also felt that he was so mysterious, and he also said to the two little eunuchs beside him:
"Master Chu and I have something to say, you go out."
The two eunuchs also left Chu Fei'er's room.
"Now there are only you and me here, Master Chu should tell me the truth, right?"
Chu Lin took a sip of water to moisten his throat. He cried for too long just now, and his throat was dry and rustling.
"I feel sorry for my Chu family, which will fall from now on."
Eunuch Lu became even more curious: "What do you mean by that?"
Chu Lin said: "At the beginning, the emperor asked me to collude with the people from the Yushitai to conspire against the emperor's uncle. I thought it was a thankless thing. But for the sake of the emperor and my Dajing country, I had to agree. "
Eunuch Lu frowned twice: "You said that it's a thankless thing to copy the emperor's uncle, what exactly do you mean?"
These words were discussed by Ziyan and him in advance, and he had prepared a draft in advance, so when Eunuch Lu asked, he would speak freely.
"It's really thankless! Father-in-law, think about it, who am I tortured? It's the emperor's uncle, who is a close relative of the emperor! Ordinary ministers avoid it, but I am stupid. When the emperor asked, I immediately agreed! If I don't try my best to torture, the emperor will blame me for protecting the emperor's uncle."
"Because this is not an ordinary case, it is treason, one of the most heinous crimes, and it is treasonous! If I don't try my best to investigate and torture, the emperor may regard me as an accomplice of the emperor's uncle! However, I will try my best Torture, the emperor may say that I tortured my uncle and tortured my uncle too much! Father-in-law, do you think it is difficult for me?"
When Eunuch Lu heard this, he found it really difficult to handle: "Only Mr. Chu dares to accept this case. I think neither the Minister of Officials nor the Minister of Punishment would dare to accept it."
"That's not right!" Hearing Eunuch Lu's words, Master Chu seemed to grasp a straw in the vast ocean, "For the sake of the country, for the emperor, I had no choice but to provoke this beam. But that day at the banquet in Cuiwei Palace , That Xuecai man insisted that I had tortured to extract a confession, cruelly and humiliated the emperor uncle, my heart was so cold."
"The emperor has been very fond of Cairen Xue recently. If I listen to Cairen, my official position in Chu Lin will come to an end. If it is not good, I will be decapitated. When I think of my daughter Fei'er lying on the bed in a daze , like a piece of wood, I can't speak, I don't blink, and there is still air coming out of my nose; when I think of the grandson who died at the bottom of the well, my heart is broken. If we say that the Chu family It's full of loyalty, Eunuch Lu won't deny it, right?"
Eunuch Lu nodded sympathetically: "Master Chu's family is loyal to the king's affairs. We can see it, and the emperor can see it too."
Chu Lin said: "It is obvious to all that I am a loyal minister and a righteous man, but in the eyes of those treacherous people, I, Chu Lin, am a person who uses public affairs for personal gain. When I think about these injustices, I will go to prison immediately, and I will have no relatives to visit Fei'er. I don't like it in my heart. A man doesn't flick his tears easily, but it's just not the time to be sad. Father-in-law, in my situation, aren't you sad? Can you not shed tears?"