Story of Yanxi Palace

Chapter 32: Needle

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"Lord Fucha, you are here, come here, please, this way, this way, the emperor has been waiting for you for a long time!"

Fucha Fu Heng stepped into the study of the Hall of Mental Cultivation with a puzzled look on his face.

"What's wrong with Li Yu?" He glanced at the door behind him and asked curiously, "I don't see him being so enthusiastic on weekdays..."

The eunuchs, like the bricks and tiles of the Forbidden City, belong to the emperor.

Especially a big eunuch like Li Yu, he knew that all his honor and favor came from the emperor, so he only pleases the emperor, and he does not need and is particularly taboo to please foreign ministers.

Suddenly, uncharacteristically, being so enthusiastic about him made Fucha Fu Heng feel uncomfortable all over.

"When you come, he won't have to be beaten by me." Hongli still buried his head in the memorial, and said without raising his head, "I asked him to find someone, but he couldn't find it for a few months, what a useless slave ."

Fucha Fu Heng was even more curious.

"Your Majesty, who are you looking for?" Fucha Fu Heng asked. The majesty in front of him is actually interested in things other than memorials. Is it a person, a man or a woman, inside or outside the palace

"Forget it, don't mention her." Hong Li suddenly threw the memorial in his hand, "Look at this."

Fucha Fu Heng raised his hand to take the memorial, looked down and frowned immediately: "This is... Zhong Yongtan's memorial for impeaching the infantry commander E Shan for accepting 10,000 taels of silver..."

"It's not just Eshan." Hongli put his hands in front of his lips, "He also sued Zhang Tingyu! Didn't you notice anything?"

"Zhong Yongtan is a disciple of Lord Ertai." Fucha Fu Heng was so smart, he immediately noticed the deep meaning of the memorial and said with a smile, "So the memorial for this impeachment is that Ertai declared war on Zhang Tingyu, they still want to Lend your knife!"

Hongli sneered again and again.

"These two are important officials of the late emperor, so I tolerated them many times, but what did they do?" Hongli said solemnly, "Last year, Liu Tongxun impeached Zhang Tingyu, calling the two surnames Tongcheng Zhang and Yao, accounting for half of them. Jinshen, I thought he was exaggerating, but now it seems that this statement is very pertinent! As for Ertai, his second son, Eshi's original wife, died shortly after the death of his second son, and he quickly married the daughter of a scholar Gao Bin, and climbed up relatives with Concubine Gao Guifei. , what do you think he wants to do!"

His voice was getting louder and louder, like a thunderous sound, stretching for thousands of miles, showing that he was really angry.

The emperor was furious and blood splattered thousands of miles.

"The emperor is impatient, the servants know." Fucha Fu Heng hurriedly reassured him, "But now the Han people are mostly dependent on Zhang Tingyu, and the Manchus are leaning on Ertai, not to mention the high-ranking officials in the court, and even the local governors are standing in line! Ertai and Zhang Tingyu must wait for the opportunity."

"I've waited long enough!" Hongli suddenly stood up, with a big movement, he accidentally overturned the tea bowl on the table, and a bowl of Biluochun immediately poured over him, but he didn't realize it, only coldly to Fu Cha Fu Heng said, "Catch the thief first and capture the king, I want to convene Prince Yi, the prince, the great scholars Ertai, Zhang Tingyu, Xu Ben, and Shang Shune to kiss together for a public trial, and first pick E Shan's head! Fu Heng, this You do it!"

One is the king and the other is the minister.

Although he had the heart to persuade him, but since Jun has made a decision, Fucha Fu Heng, a courtier, can only bow his hands and say, "Yes!"

After venting his sullenness for a while, Hongli's chest rose and fell for a moment. After the heat in his heart died out, he gradually felt a chill. He looked down at his uniform wet with tea, he frowned and shouted: "Li Yu! "

"The servant is here." Li Yu pushed in the door and saw that Hongli's clothes were soaked wet. He was shocked, and immediately waved to the outside. Several little eunuchs trotted over and trotted away. After a while, they held hands When the tray came back, there was a bright yellow uniform in the tray.

Li Yu personally carried the clothes for Hongli to put on.

Hongli opened his hands, enjoying his service as he should, but suddenly frowned, raised his hands to cover his neck.

The hand that was covering his neck was slowly put down, but he saw a drop of blood in the palm of his hand.

Li Yu's face was visibly pale, and his legs softened and he almost knelt on the ground: "Emperor, Emperor..."

Fucha Fu Heng was also startled. He stepped forward and stopped in front of Hongli. He looked around vigilantly, as if he wanted to find the one who dared to assassinate from the tables, chairs, benches, cracks in the walls, and other places where people could hide. The Emperor's Assassin.

"There are no assassins." Hongli's voice came from behind him, "It's this..."

Fucha Fu Heng turned around and saw that Hongli had ripped off the uniform he had just put on before, with a slender silver needle twisting between his fingers that always smelled of pen and ink, he stared at Youdai in front of him. The tip of the needle of the blood beads, the voice is getting colder, "The office is really bold."

The murderousness in his words can be heard by a person.

Fucha Fu Heng couldn't bear it, and persuaded: "This is a temporary carelessness of the office, not intentional murder..."

Before he could finish speaking, Li Yu had already climbed to Hongli's feet, kowtowing like garlic: "Your Majesty forgives your sins, Your Majesty forgives your sins! These gang of servants in the office have gone so far as to make such an unbelievable mistake, which shows how sloppy their work is. , the most hateful thing is that he actually injured the dragon's body, it is really an unforgivable sin, please decree that your majesty, let the servants investigate this matter thoroughly, and everyone involved will be severely punished!"

boom!

The gate of the embroidery workshop was suddenly pushed open.

A large group of people poured into the door, headed by Wu Shulai, all with murderous expressions on their faces.

"Who is it?" Wu Shulai looked around, his eyes were cold, like a butcher picking lambs to be slaughtered.

The visitors were not good, and the maids in the embroidery workshop stopped their work and looked at Wu Shulai anxiously. Whenever Wu Shulai's eyes stayed on a person's face for a little longer, that person seemed to be strangled. His neck was swollen, his face was blue, and he could hardly breathe.

"...It's her." Mammy Zhang helplessly stretched out a finger.

Everyone looked at that finger...

It is an exquisitely pale face with a greenish tinge.

"Take it!" Wu Shulai raised his hand and waved, and the two eunuchs behind him immediately rushed up.

"No, no, let me go!" Knowing that if she was caught by them, she would probably die, so Linglong struggled immediately, her body twisted like a snake, knocking over an unknown number of embroidered tables along the way, crying "What did I do wrong, why arrest me! Director Wu, you can't do this, you have to give a reason!"

"Reason?" Wu Shulai laughed angrily, "I asked you to make uniforms for the emperor, but you were careless and a silver needle leaked from your neckline! Do you know what this is called, if you make trouble, it will become a big crime of treason, we all Gotta get out of my head!"

"Silver needle? What silver needle, I don't know! Wait..." Linglong's eyes were confused, but she suddenly figured out something, and suddenly turned her head to stare at the crowd behind her.

Among the uneasy crowd, only one person remained calm.

As if such a situation was expected to happen, he smiled and watched the development of the situation with gusto.

"It's you!" Linglong was frightened and angry, "It's you, Wei Yingluo!"

At that moment, she felt like a poor bug, falling into a carefully crafted spider web, the more she struggled, the harder it was to break free.

"Mr. Wu, I didn't make that dress, it was made by Wei Yingluo!" The matter had developed to this point, how could Linglong dare to hide it any longer, and immediately shouted to Wu Shulai, "She was negligent, no, it was her He deliberately left a needle on his clothes just to frame me!"

Wu Shulai frowned and looked at Wei Yingluo.

Compared with the little palace maids who were shaking like quails next to her, she did appear to be a little too calm.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Mammy Zhang, who was standing beside him, suddenly scolded, "You brought the uniform to me personally, and you said that you did it, how could it be made by Yingluo, don't do it for the sake of Get off your guilt, and slap people at will!"

"Mother Zhang, you..." Linglong's eyes were split.

She finally reacted, she was caught in a conspiracy.

Others are fine, but who is Mama Zhang

In her eyes, embroiderers are as recognizable as everyone's handwriting.

She would not fail to see that the dragon on the uniform was actually embroidered by Wei Yingluo, but she took the clothes without saying a word, and then presented them as exquisitely embroidered.

"You are in the same group!" Linglong screamed hysterically at Wei Yingluo, and even nearly broke free from the eunuch's hand and threw herself on Wei Yingluo.

How could the eunuch let her do such a thing in front of Wu Shulai's eyes, he immediately increased the strength in his hands, pressed her to the ground, half of her face was on the ground, half of her face was facing the crowd, Linglong used a bloodshot eye Staring at Wei Yingluo.

"Look, she's starting again." Wei Yingluo looked down at her from a height, her voice was very calm, and she seemed to be ready to say this, "I used to get off my guilt and clambered on me, and now I'm clinging on Mammy Zhang, When she arrives at the imperial front, she may even have to go after you, Director Wu, saying that you did not even check the imperial uniform and should be punished with the same guilt!"

Linglong heard it, her eyes darkened, and she almost lost her anger.

Even if she still had a way to live, now that Wei Yingluo said this, she had no way to live.

Wu Shulaiguo stared at her with suspicion and suspicion, and said coldly: "Such a sinister and vicious thing, I really can't keep her, take it away!"

Linglong kept reaching out and grabbing everything she could, pillars, chair legs, and even human legs, and her best maid hurriedly kicked her away and ducked back. away from her.

"Help! Help me!" Linglong burst into tears, her voice was like a cuckoo's blood, "I was wronged!"

Behind her, Wei Yingluo smiled and watched her leave, then slowly squeezed the veil in her hand.

It was a handkerchief with a stain left on the corner.

The stain was reddish-brown in color, like air-dried blood.

That's... an auspicious birthday present.