The queen glanced coldly at Concubine De, and Zhang Wanyi came out to salute at this time, "Father, Queen Mother, I don't know if I should say something or not."
"You tell me." Emperor Jing was very confused now. On one side was the queen and on the other was the concubine De. Seeing Zhang Wanyi coming out, his eyes lit up. Zhang Wanyi was the queen's niece and the concubine De's daughter-in-law. It would be best for her to mediate.
The queen kept sneering.
Although Zhang Wanyi is her niece is good, but because of his father, they fell apart long ago, okay
The queen has no children, only one daughter, and the two brothers and sisters fought a lot to stand in the team. She is a queen! Why should you listen to your brother? Besides, what good is Defei's charming son? What are the two empress dowagers, once her son takes over, how can she still have the status of her own empress dowager? The Queen and Prime Minister Zhang have long been separated on the issue of the crown prince.
However, the queen is also very good for her brother. After Zhang Wanyi married Yun Yi, she basically ignored the battle for the heir apparent.
Anyway, she doesn't have a son, so she won't end well if she helps anyone, maybe she will end up with a good place if she doesn't help anyone.
It's just that she can't get used to Concubine De's behavior, making her unhappy is already a queen's habit.
"Then the daughter-in-law is overstepping." Zhang Wanyi bowed gracefully, and said, "It's not wrong for my aunt to ask for severe punishment, and it's not wrong for my concubine to ask my father to think twice. The fault lies with Cousin Xia alone. If she hadn't kept hiding , How did you get to where you are today." As soon as Zhang Wanyi spoke, the queen knew that Zhang Wanyi was helping Concubine De to speak. Sure enough, she was a good daughter born to her good brother, and she wore a pair of pants with him. "But Cousin Xia is really pitiful. Even if there is something wrong, it is a helpless act. The courtier's daughter-in-law is just asking the father to show mercy. Save some face for the cousin. After all, the lamp is extinguished after death. As for legal principles, the courtier's daughter-in-law is alone. Women and Taoists can't tell any great truths. Everything depends on the father and emperor."
"En." Emperor Jing nodded, "You step aside. What you said is very reasonable, and legal principles are nothing more than human feelings."
A gleam of joy flashed across De Fei's eyes. She said that the daughter-in-law she chose could not be wrong. Even the queen had to think about her niece when she attacked herself. The queen snorted heavily in her heart. Forget it, she didn't bother to care about it anymore, and she couldn't tell that His Majesty's balance had tilted towards Concubine De.
Gu Yuqi couldn't help but sigh in her heart, she didn't blame herself for being eaten to death by Zhang Wanyi in her previous life, this woman can indeed speak, so there's no way she could be a leader in this kind of place, she just said it because she was the queen's niece , the status of the daughter-in-law of the concubine De, seems to be impartial and reasonable, but only from the perspective of human feelings, and will not fall into the tongue of meddling in politics. I admire you!
Emperor Jing looked at An Lehou who was prostrate and trembling again, "Get up." He said slowly, "Go in and take your daughter away. I will pretend that nothing happened today, and you will find me too." Just one reason to bury my daughter."
"Yes..." An Lehou couldn't tell what it was like in his heart. Anyway, there were mixed feelings. On the one hand, he was heartbroken when his daughter died, and on the other hand, he was a little lucky that the Hou Mansion escaped.
He stood up dejectedly, and when he passed Yun Ke, he couldn't help but raise his eyes and take a deep look at him.
Before the daughter got married, she had already said it well. If everything was followed the process they taught, there would definitely be no troubles, but now something went wrong. Did Yun Ke discover something, or did her daughter really like her? Concubine De said everything because she was afraid. An Lehou also had no way of knowing.
When An Lehou passed by him, Yun Ke suddenly held Yun Yi's hand, "Fifth Brother, why is your hand bleeding?" There were a few scratch marks on the back of his hand, which had bled before, but now the blood is congealed. I stopped, but those blood marks were deep and heavy.
Yun Yi panicked, quickly put her hands back into her sleeves, and said in a panic, "It's nothing."
"It's fine." Yun Ke said lightly, "I thought Fifth Brother was being scratched by someone."
Anlehou sadly brought his daughter's body back to Anlehou's mansion.
When Mrs. Anlehou saw her daughter's body, she didn't come up and fainted. She was rescued with great difficulty, and she cried loudly while hugging her daughter's cold body. An Lehou helplessly told Mrs. An Lehou what Concubine De had said.
"Ying'er, why are you so stupid!" Madam An Lehou cried while holding her daughter.
An Lehou managed to persuade his wife, "It's better to wash Ying'er properly and bury her."
"Ying'er has already married into Prince An's mansion, so why do you want us to bury her?" Mrs. An Lehou insisted, "I want Prince An to come and keep her filial piety in person!"
"Be quiet." An Lehou gritted his teeth and said, "Regardless of whether Yinger's death is related to Prince An, if she didn't pay her respects to Yinger, she wouldn't be considered married. His Majesty didn't punish us this time. What a shame."
"It must be Yinger who was exposed by Prince An!" Madam An Lehou suddenly grabbed her husband and shook him.
"So what if it was Yinger who was exposed by Prince An? He is not wrong!" An Lehou said dejectedly, "Even if you want to find his mistakes, you can't find any faults."
Mrs. An Lehou burst into tears again when she heard the words, and grabbed her daughter's hand tightly. She cried and cried, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, "Master Hou, what is this under your daughter's nails?" She rubbed it hurriedly. His own eyes, wiped away the tears in his eyes with a silk handkerchief, and then raised Xia Ying's hand to watch carefully.
An Lehou also came over and brought a lamp. Under the light, Xia Ying's nails painted with Dan Kou were bright red. There was something embedded in the nails, and the tips of the nails were still stained with blood.
An Lehou took a golden hairpin from Mrs. An Lehou's head, picked something from Xia Ying's nails and looked carefully under the lamp, "This..."
"This looks like fresh flesh!" Mrs. An Lehou's eyes widened in horror. "How can there be such disgusting things in our Yinger's fingernails! Yinger loves to be clean!"
"This..." An Lehou's hand holding the golden hairpin and lamp suddenly trembled.
He suddenly remembered that when he was in the palace, Yun Ke grabbed the back of Yun Yi's hand, and there were several deep and heavy finger marks on the back of his hand, the marks were new, even though An Lehou was very confused at that time, You can still see it clearly, because the scars are too obvious.
"Our Yinger didn't commit suicide by taking poison!" The golden hairpin and the lamp in An Lehou's hands fell to the ground at the same time, the lamp rolled twice on the ground, and the flame went out. He retreated a few steps dejectedly, sat down on the chair, and grabbed his wife's hand, "Ying'er didn't commit suicide by poisoning herself!" How could a person who was willing to commit suicide by poisoning himself catch Yunyi? What about flesh? An Lehou is also a person who has been in the officialdom for so many years. He is not stupid. As long as he thinks about it, he can come up with a general idea. Don't force it, the daughter scratched the back of Yun Yi's hand.
"Master Hou. What are you talking about!" Mrs. An Lehou also became agitated, and held her husband's hand instead, "Who is it! Who killed Ying'er!"
"It's Yun Yi...it's King Jing!" An Lehou stomped his feet in hatred, "It's your good sister!"
Mrs. An Lehou trembled when she heard the words, her legs went limp, and she fell to the ground, her eyes lost their luster, "Why did she do this? For so many years, we have stood firmly behind her and supported her. Supporting her, supporting His Royal Highness King Jing. Why? Why did she poison Yinger to death? Yinger is her aunt and niece!"
After finishing speaking, Mrs. An Lehou supported her husband's knees and stood up again, and walked out as if she had lost her soul.
"Where are you going?" An Lehou hugged his wife from behind angrily, and asked with a stomp.
"I want to enter the palace. I'm going to ask her why? Why did she do such a murderous thing!" Madam An Lehou said in a dazed state.
"You are confused!" An Lehou shook his wife, "Ying'er is dead. Even if you go to find her, Ying'er can't be brought back to life."
"Why is she so cruel!" Mrs. An Lehou cried and fell into her husband's arms.
"Sigh, she also acted helplessly." An Lehou sighed, "Probably to keep the Hou Mansion."
"But Ying'er is gone. If she died at her hands, wouldn't she have nightmares at night?" Mrs. An Lehou cried heartbrokenly, "It's a good thing we have supported her all these years, even if she made an idea to let you We took out the jade pendant to force His Majesty to agree to the marriage between Yinger and Prince An, and we all did so. But what was left behind in the end!"
An Lehou's heart was full of regret and annoyance, if they hadn't been obsessed with ghosts at that time, if they hadn't listened to Concubine De, they would not have come to this point today.
Now the jade pendant is gone, the position of princess is lost, and the daughter is gone, everything is given by Concubine Baide!
After Xia Ying's matter happened, Xie En's matter was over. Gu Yuqi went up to meet with His Majesty and Queen, but Emperor Jing didn't have much thought, just a few perfunctory words, but the Queen took Gu Yuqi's hand and talked for a while , the queen was also full of curiosity about Gu Yuqi, as soon as she saw Gu Yuqi's appearance, she understood why Concubine De didn't like her.
Concubine De didn't like it, she liked it, she generously gave Gu Yuqi a lot of things, and then left with His Majesty.
On the way out of the palace, Yun Ke kept holding Gu Yuqi's hand.
When she reached a secluded place, Gu Yuqi asked slowly, "Did you deliberately show An Lehou the scar of Yun Yi?"
Yun Ke raised his eyebrows slightly noncommittal, but said nothing.
Gu Yuqi sighed softly in her heart, this person is too gloomy... Although she knew it all along, but seeing it with her own eyes, she still couldn't help the frost all over her body.
Fortunately, in this life, I didn't offend him much.