"Miss Gu, Your Majesty let you in."
"Thank you, sister."
Gu Jiu took a deep breath and walked into the bedroom.
The light in the bedroom was dim, and the maids were all hiding in the dark, unable to see clearly.
A servant standing in front of the bed raised his head to look at her when he heard footsteps.
Gu Jiu also looked at the other party, his face was pale and beardless, and he was in his thirties. To be able to enter the queen's bedroom at this time must be someone the queen trusts.
After going through the list of Weiyang Palace in his mind, Gu Jiu guessed the other party's identity. This person must be the most powerful person in Weiyang Palace, Fang Shaojian.
The empress was lying on the bed, her breath was like gossamer, her eyes were closed, as if she had died.
Gu Jiu stepped forward and bowed to pay respects, "Your servant pays respects to the Empress Empress, may your empress live in good health."
The Empress suddenly opened her eyes, her gaze was like a torch, and she looked straight at Gu Jiu.
Gu Jiu lowered her head slightly, avoiding the empress' eyes.
"coming!"
Gu Jiu bowed and said, "Please teach me, Madam."
The empress raised her hand, and Fang Shaojian immediately stretched out the back of his hand. The Empress placed her hand on the back of Fang Shaojian's.
The empress pointed at Gu Jiu, "Are you still used to living in the palace?"
Gu Jiu was already ready to fight.
As a result, the Empress Empress is so amiable, which made Gu Jiu a little uncomfortable.
She didn't dare to relax her vigilance, her whole body tensed up, and she said cautiously: "I learn the rules from my mother every day, and I have benefited a lot these days."
The empress smiled, her skinny cheeks were full of wrinkles.
A generation of queens, whose face is gone, is about to come to an end. However, her eyes are like the stars in the dark night, no one can ignore them.
In her eyes, there is a light of wisdom.
Her life must leave a strong mark in history.
Gu Jiu admires the Empress Empress from the bottom of her heart, this woman is too strong.
But she had to fight against the empress.
However, in the mind of the empress, Gu Jiu is not qualified to be her opponent at all.
"Come here, I want to take a good look at you."
Gu Jiu's heart skipped a beat, and she stepped forward slowly, one step away from the edge of the bed.
The empress grabbed her hand violently, "Master Zhao chose you, you must have something special. I heard that you can memorize books very quickly?"
Gu Jiu lowered his eyebrows and said pleasingly: "Returning to your mother, the servant girl is only good at reciting books."
"So you have a good memory?"
Gu Jiu whispered: "It's not that good, but I'm willing to work hard."
The empress laughed, and the other young supervisor said, "Look how humble the children are today."
Fang Shaojian smiled and said: "What your mother said is true. Miss Gu has a good appearance and a clean family background. As a girl, she is willing to study hard. No wonder Young Master Zhao will always think about it."
The empress nodded, staring at Gu Jiu with a slight smile in her eyes, "You have such a good memory, why did you forget what happened half a year ago so quickly?"
Gu Jiu's heart skipped a beat, and he said calmly: "Please tell me clearly. The servant girl doesn't know what the lady is talking about."
The empress laughed, "Little girls nowadays are so good at pretending to be stupid. It's not like when I was young, I would answer whatever the adults asked me, and I never knew how to pretend to be stupid. Even Your Majesty said that Bengong The biggest advantage is honesty."
"The little girl of today is certainly not as good as your mother back then." Fang Shaojian looked at Gu Jiu with a half-smile.
"Miss Gu, you dare to fool people in front of your mother, are you really not afraid of death?"
A word of death, dragged on for a long time by Fang Shaojian, is extremely deterrent.
Gu Jiu lowered her head, and hurriedly said: "I really don't know what the empress is referring to? Please tell me clearly, I will definitely know everything without saying anything."
"Oh? It's rare that you are willing to tell the truth in front of this palace." The Queen Empress smiled, and finally let go of Gu Jiu's hand.
Gu Jiu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Fang Shaojian stood up, "Miss Gu, my mother asked you last time when you were in the northwest, did you ever meet the son Zhao. How do you think about answering this question?"
Gu Jiu made a bewildered expression, "I don't understand. The last time my mother asked about this, my daughter had already said that she had never issued an edict to the young master in the northwest. At that time, my daughter was lying in the room all day to recuperate. , hadn’t even been out of the second sect. And at that time, the courtiers had never even heard of Young Master Zhao.”
Fang Shaojian snorted coldly, "Miss Gu, your mother has given you a chance, but you don't want to cherish it. You keep saying that you have never been out of the house, but some people know that you have been out for a few days, and went to Tianmen Temple with your brother to burn incense and pray for your dead mother. Has Miss Gu really forgotten about this?"
Gu Jiu showed a panicked look, which made Fang Shaojian very upset, thinking that he had caught Gu Jiu's painful foot.
While coping, Gu Jiu was thinking, it really was the Xie family who leaked the news.
She said helplessly and aggrievedly: "Returning to your mother, at that time, the minister and daughter had just left the ghost gate, and she was terrified. It was the anniversary of her deceased mother's death, so she went to Tianmen Temple to burn incense and pray for her deceased mother. No one knows, so how can they know Gongzi Zhao."
"Your Majesty didn't say that you knew Young Master Chao. Your Majesty just asked if you had seen Young Master Zhao at the Northwest Tianmen Temple?"
Fang Shaojian stared at Gu Jiu fiercely.
Gu Jiu shook his head, "The servant girl stayed in Tianmen Temple for several days. Due to her weak body, she either burned incense in the main hall to pray for blessings, or rested in the wing room. And she was always served by the servant girl. I never met any young masters in those days, but I saw a few lady."
Fang Shaojian snorted coldly, "It seems that Miss Gu didn't shed tears when she saw the coffin, so she brought people in."
people
who
Gu Jiu was flustered. Could it be that Xie Xian is here
Can't!
Hearing the sound of footsteps, Gu Jiu suddenly looked towards the door, and then was startled by the person who came.
The person who came was not Xie Xian as she had guessed, but Nanny Ping who was next to his wife Xie.
How could it be Nanny Ping
She is here? Could it be Xie...
No, not right.
There must be something wrong here.
"The servant girl kowtowed to the empress."
Nanny Ping walked in without even looking at Gu Jiu, and knelt on the ground to greet the empress.
The queen looked at Nanny Ping and asked, "Do you know Gu Jiu?"
Nanny Ping glanced at Gu Jiu and nodded, "Return to your mother, I know you."
"It's good to know each other. Tell me, what happened when Gu Jiu went to Tianmen Temple in the northwest?"
"The servant obeys."
Nanny Ping lowered her head, smiled maliciously at Gu Jiu, and then began to say: "At that time, my wife wanted to betroth the second girl to Xie Xian, the fourth young master of the Xie family. Master Gu has been hesitating about this marriage. The wife wanted to take advantage of Gu Jiu's opportunity at Tianmen Temple to let Xie Xian cook raw rice.
From the very beginning, everything went smoothly. At night, after taking the medicine, someone appeared and rescued Gu Jiu at the critical moment. However, Xie Xian was beaten and seriously injured, life-threatening. It was said that Xie Xian had been raised for half a year before he fully recovered from his injuries. "
After listening to the Queen, she looked at Gu Jiu with a half-smile, and asked Nanny Ping, "Who saved Gu Jiu?"
Nanny Ping said: "According to Xie Xian, he is a tall and tall bodyguard. The bodyguard wears a standard waist knife, so he is definitely not an ordinary bodyguard."
The empress looked at Gu Jiu, and asked sharply, "Tell me, who is the guard who saved you at that time?"
Gu Jiu's expression was agitated, "I would like to report to Madam Ping that Nanny Ping is talking nonsense. Although my daughter was not born to my wife, she has been cared for by my wife all the time, which is why I am so lucky to grow up to this age.
My wife is kind, she will never be as mad as Nanny Ping said, let Xie Xian go to Tianmen Temple to harm me, tarnish my reputation, and tarnish the Gu family's face.
The truth of the matter was clearly that Xie Xian's behavior was reckless, and he didn't have the slightest reverence for the Buddha in his heart, and he deliberately wanted to embarrass the great monk of Tianmen Temple. In the middle of the night, he took the young servants to Tianmen Temple to steal the Buddhist treasure, but was discovered by the great monk of Tianmen Temple.
Because he said he was a relative of the Gu family, the great monk of Tianmen Temple looked at our Gu family's face, and it happened that my brother and I were in Tianmen Temple at that time, and the great monk of Tianmen Temple handed over Xie Xian to our brothers and sisters for disposal.
My elder brother was annoyed that Xie Xian was embarrassing, so he dealt with him severely, and threw him directly to the second master of the Xie family. As for Xie Xian's servant, it will be handed over to the government for legal action.
There are records in the Jinzhou governor's yamen about this matter, and everything the courtiers said is true, and they dare not lie.
It's this Nanny Ping, I don't know if she has lost her mind or wants to take revenge on our Gu family, but she even made up such a blasphemous lie that his wife encouraged Xie Xian to tarnish my reputation. Please ask your mother to learn from this matter. "
Nanny Ping looked at Gu Jiu in disbelief, she was almost startled by Gu Jiu's words.
As soon as Gu Jiu finished speaking, she shouted: "This servant is not lying. Madam, what this servant said is true, Xie Xian and the second master of the Xie family can testify to this matter."
Gu Jiu pointed at Nanny Ping's nose and yelled at her: "Nurse Ping, shut up! How could the Gu family be sorry for you, making you crazy to make up such vicious lies to slander my wife, me, and even slander you?" Thank you.
Are you still human if you do such unconscionable things that are worse than pigs and dogs
Could it be that what you said is more trustworthy than the Yamen file
absurd!
If you do such a thing, where do you put the dignity of the court
Betray the master, slander the government, be unkind, unjust, disloyal and unfilial, you deserve to die! "
Nanny Ping was reprimanded by Gu Jiu and panicked, "No! What the servant said is true. Empress, you must trust the servant!"
Gu Jiu snorted coldly, "Your Majesty is unparalleled in wisdom, how could she be deceived by an unkind person like you, give up."
Nanny Ping is still defending.
The queen didn't want to listen, she closed her eyes slightly, Fang Shaojian waved her hand, and immediately someone came in and blocked Nanny Ping's mouth, and dragged her away.
Gu Jiu watched as Nanny Ping was dragged away.
She watched with her own eyes that the light in Nanny Ping's eyes gradually faded, she watched her tears streaming down her face, she saw her eyes full of hatred, panic, struggle, and begging for mercy.
Nanny Ping is dead!
Gu Jiu was indifferent.
The Queen laughed out loud.
The laughter spread into Gu Jiu's ears, making Gu Jiu tremble all over, feeling very bad.
The empress stared at Gu Jiu, "According to what you said, no guards saved you."
Gu Jiu bowed and said, "Exactly! Everything is made up by Nanny Ping."
The empress sneered, "I really underestimated you before. It's not a small skill to turn right and wrong, and to say that the dead are alive. It's no wonder that Gong Zizhao has taken a fancy to you."
Gu Jiu looked terrified.
The Empress smiled again and said: "I would like to thank you. Now I can finally confirm that the son Zhao lived in Tianmen Temple when he was in the northwest. As long as you send someone to Tianmen Temple to check, maybe you can find the son Zhao." Traces of living there."
Gu Jiu faced the empress with a blank face.
However, at this moment, her heart was beating so fast that it was about to jump out of her throat.
Is she self-defeating
no no no!
She couldn't just watch Nanny Ping slander the Gu family, slander her reputation, and involve Liu Zhao and remain indifferent.
Fighting back against Nanny Ping, this is what she has to do.
Apparently, the Empress had calculated this point and deliberately provoked a fight between her and Nurse Ping.
Gu Jiu gritted her teeth secretly, what should she do now
The Empress looked at Gu Jiu with a half-smile, "Look at you trying so hard to deny the existence of that guard, if I still can't guess the truth, I will be the queen for so many years in vain."
Gu Jiu's face turned pale, but she still had to hold on, "My servant is telling the truth, Jinzhou governor's yamen really has a case file."
"I believe there is a case file. Why don't you listen to the truth of Bengong's guess?"
Gu Jiu was uneasy.
Fang Shaojian smiled, "Your Majesty is resting, let me talk about it. The Gu Xie family married, and the Xie family sent Xie Xian to the Tianmen Temple to cook raw rice in order to facilitate the marriage.
It so happened that Young Master Zhao secretly left Beijing and lived in the backyard of Tianmen Temple. In the middle of the night, they heard cries for help and sent guards to rescue them.
Because of this opportunity, Miss Gu met Gong Zizhao.
On the other side, in order to silence the public, and also for the sake of Miss Gu's reputation, Mr. Gu deliberately made this matter into Xie Xian's going to Tianmen Temple to steal the Buddhist treasure, and he was beaten after the incident. In the end, the case was closed by the boy.
Miss Gu, do you feel familiar with the story our family told? "
Gu Jiu was startled and terrified, the people in the palace were all human beings, no one was easy to fool.
However, Gu Jiu could still maintain his composure.
"The story Fang Shaojian told is well-founded, and it sounds like it's true. But it's not what my daughter experienced. Please learn from me."
Fang Shaojian chuckled, "At this point, Miss Gu still refuses to tell the truth, as expected she will not shed tears when she sees the coffin.
The son had no purpose to go out of Beijing, so he should be demoted to a commoner and be imprisoned. Miss Gu who is so smart can definitely imagine how miserable Young Master Zhao will end up at that time.
Our family advises Ms. Gu, before it is too late, draw a clear line with Young Master Zhao.
For the sake of your hard work, the empress will definitely save you, divorce you and the young master, and tell you about another marriage, such as the government of Zhen Guo. how? "
Gu Jiu looked aggrieved, and tears suddenly fell down.
Fang Shaojian frowned, what's going on, he was fine just now, why did he suddenly start crying.
The little girl is just annoying and cries at every turn.
But this at least shows that Gu Jiu was frightened, which is a good sign.
Fang Shaojian pressed on step by step, "Miss Gu, it's time to talk. The patience of the empress is limited, you don't want to toast or eat fine wine."
Gu Jiu was crying to delay time, while thinking of countermeasures.
Sure enough, as Liu Zhao said, without definite evidence, the empress did not dare to act rashly, saying that Liu Zhao had no purpose to leave Beijing.
They are pressing every step of the way, which is a race against time.
He wanted to get Liu Zhao's crimes committed before the empress passed away, so that Liu Zhao would never stand up again.
It was also because of time that they didn't have time to go to the Northwest to investigate and collect evidence, so they could only coerce and lure them, trying to force a confession from Gu Jiu.
Obviously, they believed that Liu Zhao had secretly gone to the northwest. It is also believed that Gu Jiu and Liu Zhao knew each other when they were in the northwest.
It has to be said that the empress guessed very accurately.
However, it is impossible for Gu Jiu to tell the truth.
Gu Jiu cried and said, "I'm telling the truth. I really don't know Mr. Zhao. I, I... Fang Shaojian, no matter how hard you force me, I will still say this. I can't make up things that didn't happen."
Gu Jiu cried so sadly.
Fang Shaojian snorted coldly, "It seems that the empress is too kind to you, so that you don't know what is good or bad. Come, I will..."
"I said, I said..."
Gu Jiu cried and interrupted Fang Shaojian's words.
She is very afraid of pain, so don't use torture on her.
Fang Shaojian smiled triumphantly, "Tell me. Where are you in the northwest and when did you meet Young Master Chao? Tell me exactly how you met."
Gu Jiu sobbed twice before saying, "I'm in the northwest, and I haven't seen Gongzi Zhao."
"What did you say?"
Fang Shaojian was furious, "Gu Jiu, are you kidding me?"