Li Guangji didn't expect His Majesty to mention the Wu family, so he was stunned for a moment before saying, "Your Majesty, my wife is just a woman, I'm afraid it would be inappropriate for her to do these things."
"What's inappropriate?" Jin Yang waved his hand, obviously ignoring Li Guangji's remarks, "As a mother, you may know better about this kind of thing about children."
He glanced at everyone in the court and said, "This matter is settled, retreat."
Baiguan glanced at Li Guangji and His Majesty with a pity, and wanted to continue to watch the fun, but it was a pity that His Majesty's appearance seemed to deliberately protect Li Guangji's face. Even if they wanted to watch, they had no chance.
Li Guangji was in a cold sweat and walked out of the palace gate with a sullen face. He suddenly remembered how he laughed at Sima Hong at the beginning. Now he thinks about it, he just thinks it is ridiculous. What is the difference between what he looks like now and Sima Hong at the beginning
He couldn't understand how he did things so meticulously back then, and even the Wu family didn't notice it, so why would he make trouble at this time
And there's King Rui...
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong. The people who helped him do this back then had already left no one alive, so how could the dead speak
Who else would know what happened back then
Just when Li Guangji was puzzled, He Ming walked up to him; "Li Xiangye, Your Majesty, please go to the imperial study."
Li Guangji's heart trembled slightly, and he looked at He Ming with suspicion. When Sima Hong passed away, he deliberately prevented the news from being transmitted to the palace, causing the outside world to have a feeling that the Sima family was rejected by the emperor, and the emperor neglected the Sima family, so It was only nearly a day after Sima Hong passed away that he had the impression of having a reaction.
Only in this way can the people who were originally attached to the Sima family panic even more, and then turn to their Li family.
As soon as this incident broke out, the person who came out to complain was protected by the emperor. He didn't even see anyone. Now the emperor directly recruited him to the imperial study. Is this case going to be tried now
Although he had doubts in his heart, Li Guangji did not dare to show it in front of He Ming. No one knew that He Ming was the most useful eunuch in front of His Majesty, and even Bai Xian, who was originally by His Majesty's side, was trampled down by him.
When he arrived at the imperial study, he saw that in addition to His Majesty, Zhang Zhonghan, who was in charge of investigating the case, was also there.
"I see your Majesty." Li Guangji stepped forward and gave Jin Yang a big gift.
"Li Qing doesn't need to be polite." Jin Yang nodded at him, then motioned for him to sit down.
Li Guangji sat down next to Zhang Zhonghan, and after the two nodded to each other, they stopped talking.
The room was very quiet. Li Guangji only saw what His Majesty was writing on the memorial. He didn't seem to have any intention of opening his mouth. Although he was upset, he couldn't take the initiative to ask. After a while, the palace maid brought a fresh almost, but he had no appetite at all. On the other hand, Zhang Zhonghan, who was sitting beside him, picked up the tea cup and tasted it. He heard the sound of the other party scraping the tea foam with the tea lid, and his heart was even more restless.
After about two incense sticks, when the tea beside Li Guangji had turned cold, Jin Yang finally said, "The two adults will wait a little longer."
Wait
Who are you waiting for
Li Guangji felt that something was wrong in his heart, but he could not see from His Majesty's face that he was dissatisfied with him.
After waiting for a while, there were finally a few footsteps outside. He couldn't help but look out, and saw Bai Xian came in with his wife.
"The court lady, Mrs. Li Wu, has seen His Majesty." After Mrs. Wu walked into the house, she made a steady salute to Jin Yang, not even giving Li Guangji one out of the corner of her eye.
The relationship between their husband and wife has long been in name only. In the eyes of outsiders, they respect each other and love each other, but they are just made for others to see.
Li Guangji did not expect that His Majesty would bring the Wu family over so quickly, and unconsciously brought some emotions on his face.
"Mrs. Li, please take a seat." Jin Yang gave Li Wu a seat as usual, and Li Wu sat down on the other side, just enough to meet Li Guangji. Li Guangji frowned when he saw that Mrs. Li Wu was wearing a dark coat today, because the color was so heavy that it was almost like black Not alive.
It's just that Mrs. Li Wu is his first wife, and has managed the Li family very well over the years. Although he no longer likes to go to her yard, he will not express dissatisfaction because of her dress. This is not the way of a gentleman, and it is also Not the way of the husband.
The husband and wife looked at each other silently, and the atmosphere became awkward again. Zhang Zhonghan glanced at Li Wushi and Li Guangji, lowered his head and continued drinking tea.
Probably because he was worried that a woman from Li Wu's family would be embarrassed in the imperial study, Jin Yang asked someone to invite the queen.
When Li Wu heard the emperor go to invite the queen, his brows moved slightly, but he still sat upright.
But Li Huaigu arrived first than Gu Rujiu. After he entered the imperial study, he first looked at his expressionless mother. Seeing that she didn't seem to respond much to his arrival, his heart sank.
In this imperial examination, he won the first-ranking third-ranking flower. Although it is not as good as Yang Guogong's son who won the first title, he is also quite famous among the literati. Now that this kind of thing happens, he feels as if the whole sky is falling. .
Outsiders all persuaded him that this was just a slanderous attack by the people, or that the villains had ulterior motives and deliberately smeared the reputation of the Li family, but there was a faint voice in his heart telling him that all this was true.
When he was a child, he didn't think that although his mother was a little strict with him, he felt that it was for his own good, and he never blamed his mother. Until later, his sister accidentally fell off the horse and died, and his mother didn't like to see him again. Sometimes when he went to say goodbye, his mother always said that the illness was gone. In recent years, he saw his mother only a handful of times.
In the past, he thought it was because his mother was too sad, and he didn't want to think about it. But thinking about it carefully, there is something wrong with the mother's behavior everywhere. As a mother, if one child dies unexpectedly, it will only be better for the other child and be more careful, because she will pin her feelings for the two children on one child, how can she avoid the remaining child?
Feeling very sad, Li Huaigu still gave Li Guangji and Li Wu a junior salute.
Li Guangji wanted to say something, but in this situation, what he said was in vain, and it might not be worth the loss, so he simply kept silent. The only thing he was worried about at the moment was Li Wu.
He and Li Wu's husband and wife for so many years know that she is not a person who is obedient and mindless. When this incident broke out, Li Wu's does not believe it is okay, if you believe...
"Your Majesty, the Empress has arrived."
When Li Huaigu heard the eunuch's announcement, he couldn't help but look back, and saw Gu Rujiu standing against the light outside the door, wearing a light silk palace dress on her like a fairy robe, which reminded him suddenly of that a few years ago. At that time, Gu Rujiu was only a 12- or 13-year-old girl. She didn't have this majesty, but she was extraordinarily charming and cute.
When she walked into the inner hall, he lowered his head and bowed respectfully. Nine times out of ten, there are too many unsatisfactory things in his life, and it is not bad for this one.
He wasn't too sad, he was just... a little uncomfortable.
He Ming placed a chair next to the imperial case, Gu Rujiu sat down on the chair, then glanced at everyone in the room, turned to look at Jin Yang: "Your Majesty, what is the important thing for you to announce your concubine suddenly? "
Jin Yang smiled and said to her; "Today's case involves a female family, so I asked you to take a look."
Gu Rujiu smiled knowingly, and her eyes swept across Li Huaigu for a moment. She hadn't seen Li Huaigu for nearly two years. This noble young man who has attracted countless boudoir girls looked a little haggard, but the arrogance between his brows was not compromised.
Noticing that Jiu Jiu's eyes stayed on Li Huaigu for a while, Jin Yang glanced at Li Huaigu and said, "Li Xiang, someone sued you for acting as his heir, you can plead guilty."
"Your Majesty, the dog is born of a minister and a wife, and how could it be a concubine? It's just nonsense." Li Guangji got up and said, "This is nonsense, please look into it, Your Majesty."
Jin Yang nodded, indicating that he had written it down, and then turned to look at Mrs. Li Wu: "Mrs. Li, what do you think of this matter?"
Li Wushi got up and blessed the emperor and the queen, and then said unhurriedly: "Twenty years ago, the minister's wife married into the Li family for more than three years and finally became pregnant. With one fall, the child of the courtier was born in less than a month."
These words of hers were somewhat wrong, but Jin Yang and Gu Rujiu did not interrupt her, but Li Guangji's face became more and more difficult to look.
"When a court lady's baby was born, although the month was short, the fetal hair was very thick, and there was a small hole the size of the tip of a pin on the auricle. Point, he is a lucky person." Li Wu said this, with a bit of a smile on his face, "At that time, he was a small ball, and it was very warm and soft in my hands." Here, Mr. Li Wu also gestured the length of the child with his hands.
Li Huaigu felt extremely embarrassed at the moment, because he knew that there was no so-called pinhole in his ear, and he was not the child his mother said.
He suddenly turned his head to look at Li Guangji, if his mother wasn't Li Wu's, who would she be
Li Wu's smile suddenly disappeared: "Then one day, my child became less like crying. The master said that he was ill, and I couldn't take care of him during the confinement period. The master was worried that the child would be sick and give me anger. I insisted on moving the child out of my room."
When Li Wushi said this, her eyes turned red: "Later, I had a daughter named Chu Rou. She was spoiled by me since she was a child, and she was inevitably a bit coquettish and self-willed, but fortunately she was protected by Huaigu, so there was no trouble. What a big deal."
"Miss Wu!" Li Guangji interrupted Li Wu's words, "What are these trivial matters brought up by Your Majesty and the Empress?"
Li Wu turned to look at Li Guangji with a strange expression, "If I didn't say it, how would I know how stupid I was back then?"
If you are not stupid, how can you insist on marrying this so-called jade-faced son? If she wasn't stupid, how could she bear him to bring back the child outside to pet her as her son? He tried his best to make her think this was her child, and she pretended not to know, just because she loved this man.
There is a price to be paid when a person is stupid. She pretended to be deaf and dumb for half her life. As a result, her daughter was gone, and her husband was not a long-term person. She made herself a joke.
If she knew that today would come, why did she use all her means to marry into the Li family
At that time, there seemed to be a woman in the capital who also seemed to like Li Guangji, and Li Guangji also had a little affection for this woman, so she planned to alienate the two. In the end, the woman married away, and she became the real Mrs. Li.
I heard that the woman seems to be friends with the Queen Mother, so the Queen Mother has been lukewarm to her all these years.
When people make mistakes, there will be retribution. Her retribution has already arrived, and when will the retribution of the Li family come? If the Li family hadn't used her daughter as a tool, how could her daughter have been calculated and lost her life? And her child who died shortly after birth. She didn't even know where he was buried. How could she be qualified to call herself a mother
Gu Rujiu had already understood the meaning of Li Wushi's words. Although the other party did not explicitly say that Li Huaigu was not his biological son, the meaning was very clear.
She remembered the gossip that the queen mother had told herself, for example, Li Guangji was known as the Jade-faced Prince in Beijing, and for example, Li Wu had secretly promised Li Guangji and tried her best to marry into the Li family Yunyun.
It could be seen that Mrs. Li Wu regretted so much, so she talked about so many pasts. Rather than saying that she was laughing at herself, it was better to say that she resented Li Guangji.
"Your Majesty, the Empress," Li Wu's eyes slowly swept over everyone in the room, and finally fell on Li Huaigu. After a while, he retracted his gaze and said, "Li Huaigu is indeed not the daughter of the courtier's wife."
"The minister's wife has evidence of the Li family's relationship with King Rui and Gao Luoguo," Li Wushi suddenly took out a stack of things from his bosom, "Please, Your Majesty and the Queen's Empress do a thorough investigation."
The whole hall was silent, even Zhang Zhonghan, who was used to acting, also changed his face.
"Miss Wu, you're crazy!" Li Guangji never thought that Mrs Li Wu would find so many things secretly, and even took them out in front of the emperor.
She wanted to destroy the entire Li family.
Li Wushi looked at Li Guangji's panicked appearance, but laughed in a good mood, she stroked the step by the side of her temples, as if her expression became charming: "Women who marry into your Li family are not crazy. You will drive me crazy."
In the eyes of the Li family, women are tools, not a person at all.
But have they ever thought that they don't want to be tools at all