Eunuch Guo went out, and soon, Dai Jiang and he entered the Donglin Hall together, where a group of guards led Wei Hongzheng and the soldiers from Hengyuanhou's Mansion who participated in the kidnapping of Shao Yun'an. Wei Hongzheng had his limbs broken by Wang Shijing, but before the beating, Jiang Kangning had someone cover Wei Hongzheng's head. Wei Hongzheng didn't know who beat him so badly, but it was absolutely inseparable from Jiang Kangning's . As soon as Wei Hongzheng was pushed into the palace, the Hengyuan Houfu got the news. Right now, no one cares about what Hengyuan Marquis Wei Chunlin is doing. When Wei Hongzheng saw Emperor Yongming sitting on the throne, he was so frightened that he almost lost control of himself. He lay down on the ground and shouted: "Your Majesty! The grass people are wronged, the grass people are wronged!"
Emperor Yongming glanced at Dai Jiang, and Dai Jiang stepped forward and lifted Wei Hongzheng's head, blocking his mouth. Emperor Yongming said with a dark face, "I heard that you said some outrageous things, and I won't ask you. Dai Jiang, let me interrogate you."
Dai Jiang looked embarrassed, and Emperor Yongming was angry: "Why, you still want me to interrogate myself?!"
Dai Jiang hurriedly knelt down and said: "The emperor calm down. It was Shao Yun'an who asked the emperor to interrogate himself. Wei Hongzheng's words cannot be heard by others. Please forgive me!"
Old Weng's expression was startled, and Wei Hongzheng's bloodless face turned pale with fright, and he wanted to defend himself. Seeing his appearance, Emperor Yongming narrowed his eyes.
"You all go down, Guo Xun and the old master stay behind."
"yes!"
"Your Majesty, spare your life! Your Majesty, spare your life!" The others who were not gagged hurriedly begged for mercy, but they were all trembling with fright. One could tell at a glance that the words Shao Yunan said must be very unsavory.
Dai Jiang and his subordinates all went down. Not long after, Dai Jiang was grateful to Shao Yun'an and Jiang Kangning for their suggestions. If he really interrogated himself at this moment, he might never see the sun of the next day again.
The door of Donglin Hall was closed, and Emperor Yongming said, "Guo Xun."
"yes."
Eunuch Guo bowed and retreated to the compartment. After a while, he came out with a dagger in his hand. All the people who were tied up shouted their grievances. Guo Xun walked up to one person and raised his face.
Dai Jiang led his subordinates to guard the gate of Donglin Hall, and there were screams from inside from time to time. Dai Jiang stood with his back straight, not at all curious about who the person who made the move was. About a quarter of an hour later, Dai Jiang suddenly shook and turned his lower body, because there was a loud noise in the hall. Dai Jiang immediately shouted: "Your Majesty!"
"Come on!"
"The minister is here!"
Dai Jiang immediately rushed into the East Lin Hall with his men. Ignoring the blood all over the ground, Dai Jiang was terrified when he saw Emperor Yongming's appearance: "Your Majesty!"
"The emperor spares my life, my majesty spares my life, my majesty spares my life..." The three people who were not tortured kowtowed desperately, and their heads were smashed.
Emperor Yongming's face was pale with anger, his lips trembled, and he was speechless. Elder Weng's expression was also extremely ugly, and he sat on the chair with one hand covering his chest. Guo Xun, who had blood on his hands, shouted in fright, "Send it to the imperial physician! Send it to the imperial physician!"
Dai Jiang turned his head and shouted: "Call the imperial doctor! Quickly pass the imperial doctor!" The veins on his neck popped out.
"Come, come." Emperor Yongming held his desk and gritted his teeth.
"Your Majesty!" Dai Jiang didn't care too much, and rushed forward to support Emperor Yongming who was so angry that he was about to vomit blood.
Emperor Yongming pointed to the people below, including Wei Hongzheng who was not tortured and was still gagged but had a dead face, panting and said: "Drag these people down, pull out their tongues! Give me everything!" Ling Chi is executed, Ling Chi! Ling Chi!"
"yes!"
Dai Jiang supported Emperor Yongming, and shouted: "Come on, drag them all down and pull out their tongues!"
"The emperor spares my life! The emperor spares my life! It was Wei Hongzheng who said it! It was Wei Hongzheng who said it all!"
Emperor Yongming: "Pull out your tongue! Don't allow them to go out and talk nonsense!"
Dai Jiang asked a little father-in-law who came in to support the emperor, and he rushed down and pulled out the saber from his waist to do it himself. He is the deputy commander of the imperial guards and can wear a sword in front of the imperial guard.
Dai Jiang personally cut off the tongues of those people, and did not let Wei Hongzheng go. When they were dragged down for execution, Emperor Yongming issued another decree: "Where is Xiao Baichuan, commander of the imperial guards!"
"The minister is here!"
Xiao Baichuan, the commander of the imperial guards who was always on standby, walked in in light armor, holding an epee hanging on his waist, and knelt down on one knee: "I am waiting for your orders!"
"I ordered you to lead five hundred imperial guards to surround the Hengyuan Hou Mansion. Without my order, you are not allowed to release a single bird! Wait for my fate."
"The minister obeys the order!"
Whether it is Dai Jiang or Xiao Baichuan, they are all confidantes of Emperor Yongming, and they will carry out Emperor Yongming's decisions without any second thoughts. This time, Old Man Weng did not persuade Emperor Yongming to be patient for now, nor did he remind him that it was not time to disturb the aristocratic family. After Emperor Yongming issued a series of instructions, Elder Weng just said: "Your Majesty, the body of the dragon is the most important thing. Let me accompany you to the Imperial Garden for a walk. At this time, the magnolias in the Imperial Garden should be blooming."
Emperor Yongming's face was ashen, his fists were still tightly clenched, but he nodded. Let Guo Xun go down to wash his hands and change his clothes, and told the imperial physician to wait in the East Lin Hall when Emperor Yongming came down. Old Weng stepped back behind him when Emperor Yongming came down, and walked out of the East Lin Hall with him, followed closely by Dai Jiang.
In Jingyou Palace, the Queen who had taken a short nap woke up with unbearable abdominal pain, and now he can only rely on incense or decoction to help sleep. There was no trace of blood on his face, as soon as he made any movement, Eunuch Zhuo who had been waiting at the side immediately opened the curtain and ordered the little eunuch to come in to serve him.
Eunuch Zhuo helped the queen up, with a worried expression on his face, he asked, "What would you like to eat? Then Shao Yun'an sent someone to bring some honey grapefruit tea to the palace, and specially made eight bottles for you. It's made with honey, would you like some?"
The queen looked surprised: "When did it happen?"
"It was less than an hour ago. The things were sent to the Emperor's Mansion. The old Emperor sent them in person, and the emperor asked Chief Wei to deliver them. They said they could be eaten with snacks, dry food, and soaked in water. Good for your body."
In fact, the queen has no appetite at all. Since the abdominal pain has become more and more difficult, he can barely eat two mouthfuls of Guyuan ointment every day, and he can't eat anything else. But he didn't want Emperor Yongming to worry, since it was made specially for him, he said: "Then make some water for me to drink."
"Yes, the slave will go now."
He took the pillow for the queen to lean on, asked the little eunuch to wipe her face and hands, and Eunuch Zhuo went outside to make honey grapefruit tea for the queen. When Eunuch Zhuo came in with grapefruit tea, he saw the Queen with her eyes closed and her face in pain, with one hand still on her abdomen. Eunuch Zhuo swallowed the sadness in his heart, and forced a smile: "Thousands."
The queen slowly opened her eyes, but she was so powerless. He hadn't eaten for days and was weak. Eunuch Zhuo gave the tea bowl to a young eunuch, and then supported the queen to lean on him, took the tea bowl from the young eunuch, and fed it to the queen.
When the sweet and sour grapefruit tea entered her throat, the empress only felt that it tasted good. When the water entered her stomach, the empress thought that she had an illusion, and the abdominal pain seemed to be relieved.
"Chitose, is the taste okay?"
The Empress Chewed the pomelo peel and pomelo flesh a few times, swallowed it and said, "It tastes really good, it doesn't have the original bitterness at all. It can be sweeter."
After seeing the king, he still wanted to drink again. Eunuch Zhuo was so happy that he immediately let the king go and brew again. This citron tea is sour and sweet, which is already appetizing, but the queen drank three bowls in a row, and she was a little hungry. While Zhuojin was busy preparing the meal, he asked the emperor to report to the emperor quickly. At the same time, he secretly wiped his tears, clasped his hands together and murmured: "My lord, you must keep Qiantose safe. If this grapefruit tea can make your queen No more abdominal pain, this old slave will repay Shao Yun'an as a cow and a horse in his next life. In this life, Shao Yun'an's family will be the old slave's family, and the old slave will not let anyone bully them. Lord God, you must bless the millennium and bless this pomelo Tea works!"
"Eunuch Zhuo, Qiantui wants to drink another bowl, saying that after drinking it, his stomach pain will not be so bad."
"Okay! I'm going to soak. Is the meal here?"
"almost there."
"Hurry them up!"
In the imperial garden, Emperor Yongming, who had been strolling for a long time, was still furious. Elder Weng walked quietly with him for a while, and said, "Your Majesty, the dragon's body is the most important thing. This time, the old minister will do his best to help His Majesty eradicate Hengyuan Hou." government."
Emperor Yongming stopped and looked at the dry lotus pond that had not yet recovered its vitality. Weng Laodao: "What Wei Hongzheng said, it is not too much for your majesty to punish the nine clans of Hou Hengyuan. It's just that the old minister thinks that your majesty's dragon body is the most important thing. Don't suppress your anger and hurt your body. The country of Yan is inseparable from your majesty, the queen. Chitose can't do without His Majesty."
Emperor Yongming took a deep breath and let it out slowly. After a while, he spoke with a suppressed hoarse voice: "If they said these words to me, I can still leave their whole corpses. But they To say that about my queen, I can't let you off lightly!"
Old Man Weng: "What Wei Hongzheng said is probably what many people think, especially those aristocratic families who cannot put their daughters into the palace. Qiantui is a stumbling block to them. They despise Qiantui so much, one is that his body has always been It is against peace, and the second is because Chitose has never had anything to do. First, Chitose still needs to take care of it slowly; secondly, the emperor should choose a woman from the people, give birth to a child and hand it over to Chitose to be raised as a legitimate son."
Emperor Yongming pursed his lips tightly.
Elder Weng asked, "But Chitose is not willing?"
Emperor Yongming: "How could he not be willing. He persuaded me more than once to draft a talent show. It's because I don't want to. Qi You lost his body and lost his child for me. I can't bear him!"
Weng Lao sighed and stopped persuading. Sometimes there was silence between the two monarchs and ministers, and Old Weng opened his mouth.
"emperor!"
Emperor Yongming and Elder Weng turned around, seeing that it was the eunuch of Jingyou Palace, Emperor Yongming's expression changed suddenly. The eunuch ran up to Emperor Yongming, knelt down and kowtowed, and said, "Your Majesty, Qiantui woke up and has an appetite after drinking honey grapefruit tea. Eunuch Zhuo ordered his servants to come and report to the Emperor."
"Your queen has an appetite?" Emperor Yongming was overjoyed, "Go to Jingyou Palace immediately!"
Elder Weng was also shocked and did not avoid suspicion. He followed Emperor Yongming to Jingyou Palace.
At the same time, the Hengyuanhou's mansion, which was surrounded by five hundred imperial guards, was in chaos. Wei Hongzheng was escorted back from Yongxiu County by Dai Jiang and went straight to the palace, and the Marquis of Hengyuan Wei Chunlin who got the news felt that something was wrong. He hurriedly summoned his eldest son Wei Hongru and several other sons back to the mansion, and ordered people to quickly find Wei Hongwen, who had been missing for a long time. Before he could find out exactly what Wei Hongzheng had done, news spread from the palace that the emperor was enraged in the east hall, Longyan cut off Wei Hongzheng's tongue, and directly ordered Wei Hongzheng and the captured Houfu soldiers to be arrested. They were all put to death late. Wei Chunlin's eyes darkened and he almost fainted. But things were far from giving him a chance to breathe and prepare. As soon as he sent his servants to the execution ground, Xiao Baichuan surrounded the entire Hengyuanhou Mansion with his imperial guards, ordering to pass on the emperor's will, only entering and not leaving the Hengyuanhou's mansion, and those who disobeyed the order would be shot to death.
This time, Wei Chunlin really fainted. He never thought that the emperor would suddenly launch an attack on the Hengyuan Houfu, he didn't even know what happened! Wei Hongru personally went to ask Xiao Baichuan what happened. Wei Hongru's reputation in court has always been good, and he is humble and low-key, worthy of the word "Confucianism". Xiao Baichuan didn't hide it from him, he only said that Wei Hongzheng seemed to have said something insulting to the emperor, and the emperor was furious. As for what he said, he didn't know, only the emperor teacher was present at the time. However, he reminded Wei Hongru that Wei Hong was kidnapping and wounding people in Yongxiu County.
After Wei Hongru came back, he told the truth to his father who was finally woken up by the whole family. When he heard that Wei Hongzheng had caused the trouble, Wei Chunlin cursed angrily on the spot. No matter how stupid Wei Chunlin was, he understood that this time the matter was serious. This is Hengyuan Hou's mansion, not an ordinary courtier's mansion. The emperor must have been really angry when he suddenly issued such a decree.
No one in the Hengyuanhou Mansion was allowed to go out. Wei Chunlin's six gods grabbed the hand of the eldest son Wei Hongru and said anxiously: "Hongru, you have to find a way, you have to find a way to save the Hengyuan Hou Mansion!"
"Hongru, help your father think of a way, this, what should I do! Hongzheng is a thing that has more success than failure! I knew that he would cause such a big disaster. He should have been strangled when he was born. It's over!" Wei Chunlin's mother, Mrs. Wei, cried anxiously, and then pointed at his daughter-in-law and scolded, "It's you who is so incompetent! You have been speculating all day long that the master favors the concubine and despises the concubine, and disturbed a good family. Points! If you hadn't supported Hongzheng, he would have had such courage?!"
Mrs. Wei cried: "Mother, why is this about the daughter-in-law? The daughter-in-law said a few words to Hongzheng, but she didn't tell him to go to Yongxiu County to kidnap someone."
"You're still quibbling! Come and send Madam back to the house. If this matter can pass, you can go back to your mother's house; if it can't pass, you can die together with us in the Hou family."
"mother!"
Immediately, a maidservant came up and took Mrs. Wei away. Mrs. Wei's only son was so frightened that he cried. The old lady didn't like him now, so someone took him away.
How can Wei Chunlin care about his wife now? All his hopes are placed on Wei Hongru who is still calm at this time. On weekdays, Wei Chunlin ignored his two eldest sons. If Wei Hongwen hadn't really been able to do business, he would have handed over the power of business to his other sons long ago. But now, he suddenly discovered that if something happened to the Hou's mansion, the only ones he could count on were his two eldest sons.
Wei Hongru said: "Wei Hongzheng provoked this matter. The most urgent thing right now is to find out what he did and what he said that made the Emperor so angry. Father doesn't know about Wei Hongzheng going to Yongxiu County, right?"
Wei Chunlin immediately shook his head: "My father doesn't know. If my father knew, he would definitely stop him!" At this point, he became angry again, "He's dead and clean! But he caused such a disaster for us!"
Wei Hongru was very chilled when he heard this. Previously, his father loved Wei Hongzheng so much, but when Wei Hongzheng caused trouble, his father was so indifferent to his death. No matter what Wei Hongzheng did, it was his own flesh and blood, not to mention Wei Hongzheng's death was so miserable.
Wei Hongru didn't show his face, and said: "The emperor issued an order that the whole Hou's mansion is not allowed to go out, and now they can't send people out to find out the news. The emperor only ordered to surround the Hou's mansion, but he didn't order anyone to enter the mansion to search the house. This matter should still happen." There is room for change, when the emperor's anger subsides, he will definitely question me from the whole Houfu, and I just need to report the truth."
Mrs. Wei said at the side: "Hongru is right. We really didn't know that Hongzheng went to Yongxiu County. But the people around Hongzheng need to be interrogated strictly. Hongzheng went to Yongxiu County privately, and they didn't report it. They should be killed!"
Hearing this, Wei Chunlin immediately found an outlet to vent his anger. He immediately sat up energetically and shouted, "Come on!"