Li Cheng and the five princes were tasting poems and drinking wine at the front table. They talked and laughed at Yan Yan at the table, and everyone pushed glasses to change glasses.
But at this moment, suddenly a girl came in hurriedly, knelt down in front of Da Si Wang Ye, and said tremblingly: "My lord, something happened in the Maple Leaf Garden, my concubine, please go and have a look."
This banquet was hosted by a prince of the Dasi, this person is the emperor's mother and brother, and he has a good relationship.
The prince was stunned for a moment, then frowned, and said in a deep voice, "What's the matter?"
Didn't you see that he was entertaining distinguished guests? When did the princess become so unruly
The servant was about to cry, and said tremblingly: "I heard that it was Mrs. Li's wife who came over, and then met the third princess, and the two had some disputes..." As she spoke, she raised her head in Li Chengze's direction took a look.
Hearing that it was the third princess again, the prince's face darkened.
This niece is really troublesome, the more trouble she has, the more she wants to get involved, completely disregarding the occasion.
Li Chengze also heard this, frowned, stood up, and said, "My wife is here?"
The maid nodded muffled.
Seeing what Li Chengze had said, the prince of Da Si hurriedly cupped his hands with the fifth prince and said, "Why don't the fifth prince go and have a look together?"
It is impossible for the fifth prince not to be unfamiliar with Gu Qingci. The sixth girl of the Gu family, not to mention that they came along the way, would see him every day. He only said that when he was in the capital, he heard about it from time to time, and even formed a group with Princess Kangtai. His father and emperor praised her for joining a Cuju team, and it was only later that she found out that she was married to Li Chengze.
The Fifth Prince rubbed his nose. Li Cheng is a man who dotes on his wife to the limit. It was Li Cheng who ate Gu Qingci to death.
Miss Gu Liu, who is beautiful and lively, will pretend to salute when she sees their prince.
The fifth prince coughed, then nodded calmly, thinking that he couldn't let Gu Qingci be bullied by people here.
Besides, although Li Chengze looked gentle on the surface, he was not a really good-tempered person.
"Let's go and have a look."
After the words fell, a group of people followed the maid to the inner courtyard.
After a while, I came to the Maple Leaf Garden and saw the octagonal pavilion. At this time, all the gauze curtains of the pavilion were tied up.
There were quite a few people standing inside, and Li Cheng saw Gu Qingci at a glance.
The people inside also heard the movement, looked back, Gu Qingci saw Li Chengze, but her expression was not as good as before.
Li Cheng found out that something was wrong with Gu Qingci, and there seemed to be anger and fear on her face.
"What happened?" Li Cheng walked straight to Gu Qingci.
"Sir." Gu Qingci's voice trembled a little.
Li Cheng felt even more strange, squeezed her hand, and asked: "Tell me what's wrong, don't be afraid."
However, Gu Qingci didn't speak, but the third princess spoke first.
With a smile on her face, she said: "Mr. Li, we met again. This is your wife? Your Madam killed a maid beside me for no reason today. Although she is a maid, it is still a life, Mr. Li." , I have to give this princess an explanation."
A maid died
The people who followed the prince just now looked at each other, and the way they looked at Gu Qingci changed in an instant.
It is too vicious to beat people to death in public!
This woman from Daye is so arrogant, she doesn't take Da Siguo seriously in the mansion of King Da Si!
"No! She's talking nonsense! I didn't kill anyone!" Gu Qingci screamed and retorted. She was shaking with anger, and then looked at Li Chengze, afraid and wronged, afraid that he would not believe her, "Sir, I …”
"Guanguan, don't talk yet." Li Cheng suddenly interrupted Gu Qingci's words.
Gu Qingci was frightened by his cold tone, so she kept silent, but her complexion turned pale, she thought Li Cheng didn't believe her.
The third princess who was sitting across from her smiled in her heart. Sure enough, the man hates his wife causing trouble and embarrassing himself. It seems that the relationship between this couple is also very ordinary.
However, before he was complacent for two minutes, he saw Li Cheng asked Gu Qingci to stand behind him, looked at him coldly, and said, "Princess be careful, you can't say such things casually."
The three princesses were dumbfounded.
After a while, his face turned dark: "Mr. Li, everyone has seen this matter, this princess can still lie and wrong her!"
Li Chengze's eyes were dark, and there seemed to be a deep light inside. His face was cold, and he said sarcastically, "Oh? Princess, who saw it?"
The third princess raised her lips and said, "All the four maids around me have seen it, and I'm here too!"
The third princess was a little confused, she didn't expect Li Cheng to play cards so unreasonably.
She originally imagined that Gu Qingci killed someone, and everyone would interrogate her. If Gu Qingci explained, it would be more likely to happen to her.
Who would have thought that when Li Chengze came, he wouldn't let Gu Qingci talk, and when he came again, he would directly deny the matter, instead labeling her as a casual slanderer.
Li Cheng laughed lightly, glanced at the four maids one by one, and then said lightly: "That's really interesting, don't all these maids belong to the princess?" The two maidservants, the two maidservants serving Gu Qingci, said, "Tell me, both of you."
At this moment, the two girls are no longer as scared as they were when they were wronged, and they already understood that the son is here to support grandma!
So they all became alert and cried, "What murder? The slaves don't even know what happened. It was the third princess who sent a maid to invite our grandma and said that she wanted to talk to our grandma. Grandma was sleeping at noon. There was nothing I could do about it. I was able to get up to do my makeup and then came here in a carriage. I just came here, why did you suddenly say murder with red lips and white teeth, young master, fifth prince, you must seek justice for my grandma!"
This servant girl is very smart, as soon as she understood what Li Chengze meant, she made up a paragraph and "explained" how Gu Qingci came back to the palace. It was the third princess who asked them to come.
The servant girl sneered in her heart, they only realized now that this was originally a game set up by the three princesses, just waiting for their master to jump down, if this is the case, then there is no problem in pushing this on her!
The third princess was going crazy with anger, "You're talking nonsense, she is clearly..." She wanted to say that Gu Qingci came here because of Li Chengze because of jealousy, but she could only swallow the words!
Because there's no way to explain it. It was indeed she who sent someone to lure him here, and to say anything else is to admit it in disguise.
At this time, a Daye official beside the fifth prince also spoke up and said, "The third princess is a bit too crazy. It is extremely vicious to deceive someone and then wrong him!"
"Well, let's find out first, whoever said it must be the princess' fault." There was also an argument from the boss.
But Li Chengze didn't bother to care about it. He had to listen to other people's gossip when he was framed, so he said coldly: "The third princess slandered and framed others. She played a good game of turning black and white. I will be taught by you, so I will leave first." Already!"
After finishing speaking, he took Gu Qingci and strode away, and the two maids also hurriedly followed.
The fifth prince wanted to support Gu Qingci from the very beginning of the matter, after all, they belonged to Daye, so there was no reason for them to be bullied by outsiders.
It's just that Li Chengze was so powerful that he could solve it in a few words, and put the crime back on the third princess.
He clicked tut twice in his heart, but his face was expressionless, he looked at the prince, and said: "This prince has learned the way of hospitality in Da Siguo, hehe, take your leave."
After speaking, he flicked his sleeves and left with a group of people.
Da Si Wang Ye's face turned from black to red and then from red to black again, and the servants around him were silent, no one dared to speak out.
"Third Princess! Tell me, what's going on here!" Da Si Wangye almost gritted his teeth, and squeezed out each word from his mouth, showing that he was burning with anger.
"Huang, Uncle Huang." The third princess flinched, unable to speak.
The prince suddenly lost the patience to listen to her explanation, he waved his hand to call for the guards, and said coldly: "Send the third princess back to the palace, and then report to the emperor all the things just now!"
"Yes!" The guard joined hands together, and immediately invited the third princess out.
The third princess's face turned pale, and she knew that something bad happened to her in a daze, and she also knew that she was afraid, so she hurriedly shouted, "Uncle Huang!"
The prince would not pay attention to her, he waved to the guards impatiently.
The guard understood and hurriedly drove the third princess away.
There was no need for the third princess to say anything at all, and the court ladies were detained for questioning, and everything was asked.
"It's very good, our third princess is very good!" Da Si Wang Ye laughed back angrily.
Get a dying maid to provoke Mrs. Li, in an attempt to place the charge of murder on someone, do you really think she is a rat? Let you control her, let her live and let her die
"Ignorant idiot!" Really angered and offended Daye, it's useless to ask the third princess to pay for her life!
The only plan for now is to rush to the Fifth Prince to make an apology and plead guilty.
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On the other side, in the carriage, Li Cheng was also inquiring about what happened just now.
Gu Qingci calmed down from the astonishment of "killing someone", and told people bit by bit.
Her voice was hoarse, and she said slowly: "She made people pretend to be Yuanbao, come to tell me that you are being stalked, so I went over, and as soon as I went, I saw the third princess. Sarcastic at me, I was so angry that I slapped her, I didn't expect that the maid suddenly spit out a big mouthful of blood, then fell down with her eyes open, breathed again, and died, woo woo... I didn't kill Mrs. I just slapped her and didn't kill anyone, it wasn't me..."
This incident frightened Gu Qingci quite a lot. A young girl who hadn't experienced anything before, watched a person vomit blood and died in front of her face. In my heart, how could I not be afraid.
"I know, I know, it's all right, it's all the trick of the third princess, it has nothing to do with the officials, don't worry." Li Cheng comforted the girl who was crying on top of her by running down her back.
After crying for a long time, he finally calmed down, and Li Cheng wiped his tears with a handkerchief.
Coaxed: "Don't cry, cry so much that my husband's heart hurts."
Gu Qingci blushed for a moment, but still leaned on him, hugging the man's waist and not letting go.
Then Li Chengze's voice was heard from above: "Don't worry, I will definitely ask them to come and apologize to you."
"En." Gu Qingci hated the third princess to death, and almost caused her to stumble, if the husband hadn't come over in time.