Hongli walked down the Nankang and walked quickly to Hongxiao with complicated eyes. He asked disappointedly, "Hongxiao, why did Daqing share the blessings and eat meat? Do you remember?"
Hong Xiao looked inexplicable and replied: "The slaves dare not forget that when Taizu was a young man, he took his brother into the mountains to hunt ginseng and relied on boiled meat in white water for a living. Later, he maintained this habit. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs. , Kunning Palace has two sacrifices every morning and evening, and a big sacrifice every other month, so that future generations will remember the hardships of their ancestors in starting a business, and it is not easy to establish a country in the Qing Dynasty—"
Hongli couldn't bear to cut off his words: "Since you all know, why add salt to the meat!"
When the other people in the hall heard this, they did not dare to whisper when the emperor was angry, but their eyes met, and they all winked at each other.
Hong Xiao was stunned for a moment: "Add salt? No minions!" Hong Li pointed to the meat on the plate and ordered, "Taste it yourself!"
Hong Xiao had to cut off a piece of meat and taste it, and the moment he bit the meat, his whole body stopped. Everyone was paying attention to his expression and behavior. Hongli's anger rose to the top. He raised his hand and overturned the tray in front of Hongxiao, scolding: "The ancestors can bear it, but you can't! Salt, this is contempt for the ancestors and disrespect to the gods, you are so bold!"
Hong Xiao's royal clothes were splashed with gravy, he fell to his knees with a plop, and panicked to distinguish: "Your Majesty, the servant doesn't know why this meat is salty, the servant really doesn't know! This is someone deliberately framed, it must be It's framed!"
Hongli asked in a deep voice, "The meat is all cooked in the same pot, who would frame you?"
Hong Xiao's malicious eyes roamed the hall, everyone avoided his gaze, only one person looked at him calmly, calmly admiring his embarrassment, Hong Xiao suddenly woke up and pointed at Wei Yingluo: "She, must be It's her! The knife she brought just now must have salt on it!"
Wei Yingluo stepped back cowardly, soft like a weak willow in the wind, and the queen was displeased: "Prince Yi, you have done something disrespectful to your ancestors, and you want to get rid of others by injustice! My palace servants in Changchun Palace are so good. Climbing?"
Hongli glanced at Wei Yingluo, and his eyes were full of displeasure. He said, "Is it wrong? Just check the knife and you'll know. Wu Shulai, check!" Xiang Hongli shook his head and said, "Report to Your Majesty, there is no grain of salt on the knife."
Hong Xiao was stunned for a moment, and saw that the cotton in the plate had found a life-saving straw, and immediately said, "What about the cotton paper, it must be on the cotton paper!"
Wu Shulai checked the tissue paper and shook his head again.
Everyone looked at Hong Xiao with sympathy or gloating in their eyes.
Hong Xiao said in a panic: "Your Majesty, the servants really didn't bring salt into the palace. This is disrespectful to the ancestors and forgets the ancestry. How could the servants do such a thing? The slut must frame the servants!"
The Queen's face was full of anger, and she raised her voice: "Prince Yi, pay attention to your identity and words!"
Hongli was completely disappointed with Hongxiao, closed his eyes and said, "I have heard for a long time that some ministers disliked the unpalatable meat, or carried salt and hid them in their sleeves, or bought eunuchs to do something. I thought it was a rumor, but I didn't expect it was someone else , turns out to be Aisin Gioro's own descendant! Hongxiao, it's not that I didn't give you a chance, but you have let me down again and again! Come on, Prince Yi disrespects our ancestors, tarnishes the flesh, and deprives the guards of the Qianqingmen A post, hand over to the sect's government to deal with!"
The guards filed in, holding down Hong Xiao and pulling him out of the hall. Hong Xiao kept struggling and shouting loudly: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! The slaves are wronged, and the slaves are really wronged! Your Majesty!"
Wei Yingluo bit her lower lip lightly, she was afraid that she would laugh out loud.
Hongli swept the crowd with cold eyes, and said with a strong suffocation: "Kunning Palace offers sacrifices every day and distributes meat, this is the blessing of the ancestors, and the protection of the gods! However, led by Prince Yi, the eight-banners who were brave and good at fighting, have become Relying on the merits of our ancestors, walking birds and teasing dogs everywhere, assholes who do not do their jobs properly! Not to mention fighting the enemy, even eating meat is considered hard work! I warn you, it is not easy for the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty to start a business, and I will never allow a great country to be ruined like this. In the hands of a group of prodigal sons who are greedy for fun and disrespect their ancestors! Check it out, and the guards outside will also check it out, I want to see clearly, who else dares to do this!"
Wu Shulai took the order and left, and after a lot of chaos, Wu Shulai hurried back. Sitting on the kang, Hongli asked gloomily, "Have you caught someone?" Wei Yingluo stood beside the queen, happily waiting for Wu Shulai's answer.
Wu Shulai said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the guards in front of the imperial court and the guards at Qianqingmen have all been interrogated, and no one has done anything privately."
Wei Yingluo was startled and looked at Wu Shulai in disbelief. The queen looked at her as if she had noticed.
Hongli's expression slowed down a little, and he waved his hand: "At last, there is still a sense of reason, let's continue to eat meat!"
The festival continues without any disturbances. After the ceremony was over, everyone dispersed and each performed their duties.
Wei Yingluo followed Feng Jia back to Changchun Palace unsteadily. As soon as she entered the main hall, the queen lowered her face and instructed everyone, "You all go out, bring the doors and windows, and Yingluo will stay."
Since Wei Yingluo entered the Changchun Palace, she has always been favored by the queen. This time, the queen spoke so sternly that everyone felt uneasy. Mingyu glanced at Wei Yingluo proudly, while Er Qing was full of worry, and the two left with everyone.
The main hall was empty, and Wei Yingluo stood opposite the queen. This was the first time she had seen the Queen angry. In his impression, Her Royal Highness stood tall in the clouds and was graceful and luxurious, but when she was angry, she had an aura similar to that of Her Majesty.
That is the majesty that belongs only to the superior.
The queen said coldly, "Kneel down." Wei Yingluo knelt down as she said, and said nothing.
The queen looked down at her condescendingly and asked, "Wei Yingluo, do you know what's wrong?"
Wei Yingluo's expression was calm, and she said, "The servants are all owned by the empress. There is nothing wrong with what the empress said. Yingluo is wrong, please punish the empress."
The queen laughed angrily: "So it's the palace that says you are wrong and you are wrong? Wei Yingluo, Wei Yingluo, you are so arrogant and arrogant, you are the maid of Changchun Palace, and the closest person to this palace, you Playing tricks to frame Prince Yi, once exposed, can Ben Gong escape the charge of poor discipline?"
Wei Yingluo raised her head suddenly. Although she vaguely guessed that the queen might have discovered this, she was still surprised when she was told.
The queen said displeased: "Speak!"
Wei Yingluo took a deep breath and bowed her head: "This is what the slave did alone. If there is a day, I will be a slave. Even if I sacrifice my life, I don't dare to implicate my mother."
There was silence in the hall for a moment, Wei Yingluo's forehead was pressed against the smooth and cold floor, she heard the queen sigh softly, she seemed helpless: "You, you, what do you want this palace to say, whether to eat bear liver or not? Fengdan, why can't I see you getting fat?"
Wei Yingluo was stunned for a moment, then she was pulled by her shoulders, and the queen said, "Little girl's family, your mind is so heavy, you live and die all day long, how old are you?" There were two points of pity in the language.
Wei Yingluo was pulled up by the queen and asked cautiously, "Aren't you mad at me?"
The queen lightly tapped Wei Yingluo's forehead: "Prince Yi framed you before, and also hit Changchun Palace in the face, this palace is naturally unhappy and wants him to be taught a lesson, but he is the emperor's cousin after all, the emperor If you don't nod your head, I can't blame you, you are so courageous that even the Iron Hat King dares to do it?"
Wei Yingluo touched the spot on her forehead and asked tentatively, "Niangniang, you blame the servant for this?"
The queen looked suspicious: "Have you made other mistakes? Finished it in one breath, lest this palace be frightened again."
Fu Heng's face lingered in front of her eyes, Wei Yingluo kept thinking why he wasn't caught. Wei Yingluo shook her head and asked again, "How did the maiden know that I did this?"
The queen looked at Wei Yingluo suspiciously for a while, and then said: "Fu Heng sent me a letter before, saying that you were daring and asked Ben Gong to discipline him well. Don't blame him, he is afraid that you will cause trouble again."
Wei Yingluo's face turned pale! He knew, he knew everything, and when he gave him salt and pepper, he knew everything! Wei Yingluo pinched her nails into her palm and asked, "Did the Fucha guard say anything else?"
The queen hated the iron and said: "No, fortunately, Fu Heng discovered it. If it was someone else, he would have sued the imperial front a long time ago, but it is useless to sue. The evidence must have been disposed of long ago."
Wei Yingluo calmed down, nodded and said, "Yes, please rest assured, I will never leave behind."
"I'm not worried about this—" The Queen frowned, paused, and then said: "Forget it, Yingluo, you will never be happy when you are dealing with people, and you will never be happy. Many thanks to Fu Heng, so you must thank him for sending him ginseng soup for this palace."
thank? The package of salt and pepper was sent out, and he reported this to the empress, even if he and Fucha Fu Heng had torn apart his face. Wei Yingluo was really curious. Now that Fu Heng saw her attitude, she said softly to the queen, "Yes."
After the meat is divided on the big festival day, the guards who are not on duty all return to the guards to rest.
Fu Heng was sitting on a bamboo chair reading a book, Hai Lancha came over from behind to take a look, and laughed out loud: "I said you are really getting better and better, and you can read the book upside down?"
Fu Heng regained his senses and saw that the book in his hand was upside-down, so he threw the book on the table irritably.
Hai Lancha patted him on the shoulder and asked, "I'm in a bad mood? Then I'll tell you good news. A beautiful lady in the palace is here to bring you soup. Alas, how come I don't have any pain..."
Fu Heng was stunned for a moment, then looked back, Wei Yingluo was standing at the door with a food box.
Hailancha walked out with a smile, closing the door and saying, "Talk to the two of you, have a good chat."
Wei Yingluo walked over to the table, put a bowl of steaming ginseng soup on the table, and smiled sweetly: "Master, my mother ordered me to bring you soup."
Fu Heng didn't speak, his expression was calm and insightful.
One drop, two drops, three drops of water fell from the eaves, and the two stood face to face, silent. Wei Yingluo's expression changed from innocence to indifference: "Don't worry, I won't poison the soup that the Empress asked me to bring."
Fu Heng looked at the white porcelain bowl holding the soup and asked, "You framed Prince Yi."
Wei Yingluo replied nonchalantly, "Didn't you all tell your mother about me?"
Fu Heng stabbed in his heart, barely maintaining the surface calm, and asked, "How did you do it? There is nothing on that dagger and cotton paper."
Yingluo smiled, spread her hands and replied, "Actually, it's very simple, I soaked the salt water with cotton paper, dried it in the sun, and the surface crystallized, and then took it out to wipe the knife. During the process of slicing the square meat into pieces, the salt crystals on the knife's edge became clear. It all penetrated into the meat, and I went to check the knife and found nothing, but the tissue paper was easy to find, so I stole and replaced the clean tissue paper while everyone was not paying attention, and naturally I couldn’t find it.”
Fu Heng stood up suddenly, looked at Wei Yingluo, and said, "You—"
Wei Yingluo looked at him without dodging or evading, and her momentum was not weak at all: "What about me? You want to accuse me, you shouldn't clean up Prince Yi! Because he is the king of iron hats in the Qing Dynasty, he is a descendant of the clan, the grandson of the emperor, so he If you ask me to kneel, I will kneel, if you call me a bitch, I have to accept it all, right! Ha, what I, Wei Yingluo, want to do, whoever I want to harm, don’t even try to run away!”
Fu Heng said unbearably, "Yingluo, he is a prince after all!"
Wei Yingluo sneered: "The world is changing, the mountains and mountains in the past are stacked up, and the mountains will be flat in the future, where can there be a fixed principle! Don't you see, yesterday he was high above, but today he is like a dog, kneeling on the ground begging for mercy! I kowtowed desperately and said I didn't I don't dare... Hahaha, it really made me laugh."
Fu Heng closed his eyes, opened them slowly, and asked almost masochistically, "What about me? You're designing again and again because of Aman, isn't it?"
Wei Yingluo looked at him coldly: "Yes, but haven't you escaped the disaster? On the surface, the young master is really a gentleman, but where in the world is there a gentleman who destroys his innocence!"
Fu Heng couldn't bear it anymore. He suddenly grabbed Wei Yingluo's wrist and asked eagerly, "If I told you that I didn't do it, would you believe it?"
Wei Yingluo sneered: "Do you think I will believe it?"
Fu Heng let go of Wei Yingluo's hand, and then took a step back. He suddenly pulled out the dagger from his waist and put it in Wei Yingluo's hand. With a murder weapon shoved into Wei Yingluo's hand, she frowned, "What are you doing?"
Fu Heng looked into her eyes, the dark eyes were suppressing the hot magma, he held the handle of the knife by her hand, and pointed the blade to his chest: "This matter has nothing to do with me, if you don't believe it, you can stay here. kill me!"
Wei Yingluo held the dagger and smiled sarcastically: "If I kill you here, I can't escape. I don't want to die with you."
Fu Heng said irritably, "I would rather die with you than be hated by you."
Wei Yingluo was stunned for a moment, her expression a little unnatural.
Fu Heng sighed, threw the knife on the table, and said softly, "I'm sorry, I just didn't think it through, I really want to die, and I can't be at the guards, it will really make you unable to get rid of it, but Yingluo, there is no way. I didn't hurt your sister, I didn't hurt Aman! If I tell a lie, I'll be cut with thousands of swords, cut into pieces by five horses, not to die, and after my death, I will bear the infamy and be cast aside by thousands of people!"
This oath was too poisonous and cruel, Wei Yingluo was shocked, Fu Heng looked at her, and said seriously and frankly: "Wei Yingluo, let me say it again, Fucha Fu Heng has never done anything that hurts the world, never! I have never hurt anyone. Your sister, I don't even want to... hurt you."
Wei Yingluo finally asked, "This is the first time I asked you, if you know Aman, why do you pretend you don't?"
Fu Heng's eyes lit up, and he quickly replied, "Aman's incident caused a lot of trouble in the city. Until she left the palace, the rumors didn't stop for a long time. I've heard about this, but I've never seen Aman, so naturally I said no. know."
Wei Yingluo pursed her lips, took out a jade pendant and showed it to Fu Heng, and asked in disbelief, "Why is your jade pendant in her hands?"
Fu Heng also looked puzzled, and said, "This jade pendant was indeed left by me, but I don't know why Aman stayed by his side."
Wei Yingluo looked at him firmly: "Everything you say is from the heart, and there is no falsehood?"
Fu Heng shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I don't have to lie to you. If I am really a murderer, you can tell the queen, do you still have a chance to seek revenge from me?"
There are still doubts, but it does make sense.
Wei Yingluo hesitated again and again, and nodded lightly: "Okay, I believe you for the time being, but if one day I find out that you lied, even if I turn into a demon, I will ask you to pay for my life!" After speaking, she glared fiercely. Glancing at Fu Heng, he turned to leave.
Fu Heng got angry at the stare, grabbed Wei Yingluo's wrist again, and said angrily, "In the past, when you wanted to seek revenge on me, you would greet people with a sly and a smile, but now that I find I'm useless, I immediately abandon it. Lu, disdain! Wei Yingluo, will you change your face?"
The hand that clasped the wrist was like iron pliers, with a heart-pounding heat. Wei Yingluo stood still, bowing her head and saying nothing.
Fu Heng's heart was full of bitterness, and he said weakly: "Actually, from the first time you made a move, I doubted you, but after seeing you being so gentle to Xueqiu, I deceived myself again. Wei Yingluo, you never lied to me, it was me. Lie to yourself! Every word you say to me, every smile you show, I will repeatedly recall in my mind, even if I know you have been lying to me, I don’t want to believe it.”
Wei Yingluo looked at his hand for a while, then raised her face suddenly, with a bright smile: "Young master, it seems that your behavior is not very decent? There is a saying that men and women do not kiss, you..."
Fu Heng was startled and looked at his hand. He found that he was still holding Wei Yingluo's wrist. He wanted to let go immediately, but when he saw that the wrist was like snow, he was a little reluctant to let go.
Suddenly there was a strange laugh outside the door, and Hai Lancha jumped in from the door and shouted, "Wow, you are my concubine, you are my friend, you are caught by me!" Fu Heng immediately let go, and Yingluo also He quickly stood up and hurried out the door: "Changchun Palace has a lot of things to do, so I say goodbye." After that, he walked away with the food box in his hand.
Seeing that he had broken his brother's good deeds, Hai Lancha hurriedly said, "Hey! I'm just joking, Miss Yingluo, don't go!"
Wei Yingluo had already disappeared, Hai Lancha looked at Fu Heng apologetically, and said with a smile, "Hey, I'm sorry, I didn't expect your little girl to be so funny, the girl is gone and her brother, come, brother come and feed You drink soup! Ah, open your mouth!"
Fu Heng was kicked on Hailancha in disgust, and Hailancha cried out.