There was a mess on the high platform.
The secretary and young supervisor deliberately threatened the wife's family members with relatives, and the palace family members present were also quite frightened.
They didn't breathe a sigh of relief until they heard the loud laughter of Ye Lu's clan from the audience and learned that Li De had conferred the seventh princess as Princess Wen Zhao and left the Ye Lu clan.
Just after he had calmed down, a group of Jin Wuwei suddenly rushed up to the second floor and held down Concubine Rong, who was whispering with the palace maid.
Several servants stepped forward and asked all the officials and family members to evade.
The officials and family members were eager to leave the right and wrong place earlier, so they quickly got up and moved from the flying pavilion to another attic in a short while.
Only the concubines and concubines of the harem, the prince's family and the wife of the Li family were left on the balcony.
Concubine Rong was furious and scolded sharply.
The concubines and concubines looked at each other, the Crown Princess Zheng Biyu frowned and stood up.
Jin Wuwei bowed his hands to the crowd and said, "The sage has spoken, Her Royal Highness Concubine Rong has a vicious mind and conspiracy to poison Concubine Xie. The evidence is conclusive, and I will wait for us to arrest him."
The crowd was in an uproar.
At this time, there was a sound from the stairs, and Princess Wenzhao Li Yaoying climbed the high platform surrounded by her servants and walked to Concubine Rong step by step.
Everyone looked at her anxiously.
Yaoying looked down at Concubine Rong without saying a word.
Concubine Rong shouted and struggled: "You framed Ben Gong! Ben Gong did not poison Xie's family! Ben Gong wants to see the saint!"
The eunuch let out a clear shout: "The Holy High has conferred Concubine Xie as the queen, and you must honor the queen as Her Royal Highness."
Concubine Rong's face was pale.
Yaoying said lightly, "I know you won't plead guilty."
She glanced at Jin Wuwei.
The two of them clasped their fists in response, walked off the high platform, and soon pulled two middle-aged women onto the balcony.
The middle-aged woman knelt down in front of Concubine Rong twice, shaking like a sieve.
One of them cried and said: "The slave is a servant of the Li family. I met Concubine Rong more than ten years ago. Concubine Rong has a low status and often resents the Xie family in private. Fifteen years ago, the first empress disappeared, and Concubine Xie... No, empress His Royal Highness was depressed and became ill, and often used medicine. Concubine Rong pretended to take care of the queen, and used Brahman medicine for the queen without the knowledge of the eldest son. Afraid of being killed by Concubine Rong, I did not dare to speak up, and seeing that the Queen showed no signs of poisoning, I believed it to be true and did not report to Concubine Rong."
After she finished crying, another woman shivered and continued: "The slave is Concubine Rong's maid, and the Brahman medicine that Concubine Rong used to poison the queen was bought by the slave from the Hu people. That medicine does have The effect of calming the nerves, but this medicine is very damaging and cannot be used more... The queen took this medicine every day, and within a few months, she became in a trance and went crazy, and later even the King of Qin couldn't recognize it... The slave was uneasy and persuaded Concubine Rong to stop, but Concubine Rong always said that it would be better if the Xie family died, so that no one would ridicule her for being a slave..."
The concubines recognized the two women as Concubine Rong's maids, and frowned, looking at Concubine Rong with disgust and contempt.
Concubine Rong's face turned purple: "Nonsense! Blood spurting!"
Yaoying ignored her, looked at the concubines and concubines, her eyes were clear: "Concubine Rong poisoned my grandmother, and the evidence is there. As a son of man, how can you sit back and watch such villains poison my mother?"
Without waiting for the concubines and concubines in the room to tell herself, she called the female official in the palace who was in charge of the court affairs.
"How to punish according to the law?"
The female official's voice was loud: "Concubine Rong, as a maid and a concubine, poisoned the old master and mistress. She was sinister and vicious, and she lost her conscience. According to the law, she should first behead her hands, and then she would be thrown into the court to be punished."
When her voice fell, Jin Wuwei immediately drew his sword, and the cold light flashed by, and blood spurted out.
Immediately, screams erupted.
Concubine Rong's eyes were bulging, and she looked in disbelief and panic. After a while, she realized the pain. She screamed a few times, and was dragged down by Jin Wuwei.
A long bloodstain on the ground.
The concubines looked at the bloody right hand that fell on the carpet at the end of the bloodstain, his face was pale, his body was weak, and he collapsed on the seat.
The Seventh Princess actually had someone cut off Concubine Rong's hand!
Yaoying stood in front of the crowd and looked around. Concubine Rong's blood splattered all over her body.
She used to be most afraid of seeing blood, but now she can't show any cowardice or hesitation.
"The queen is ill and cannot handle the palace affairs. The palace is damp, and the queen will move to the Ligong Buddhist Temple to cultivate." Yaoying's eyes swept across the faces of the concubines and concubines, and finally fell on the face of Xue Guifei, "I have already reported to Ming Sheng. , Fengyin was temporarily in charge of Concubine Xue Gui, and after that, Concubine Xue Gui took more work in the six palaces."
Concubine Xue was surprised.
The other concubines were as shocked as she was, and then they reacted with jealousy and resentment on their faces: Queen Xie could not be the director, and moved out of the Taiji Palace, Feng Yin was handed over to Concubine Xue Gui, doesn't Concubine Xue equal to the deputy queen who holds real power
Concubine Xue Gui also reacted, and there was a surprise that could not be concealed under her trembling face.
Yaoying turned and left.
She has sent someone to send Xie Manyuan to Ligong Buddhist Temple, where the environment is quiet and far away from right and wrong.
The candidate for the deputy queen was also carefully selected by her.
Concubine Xue Gui is the daughter of Li De's subordinates. Before marrying Li De, she had been married twice, and had a son and a daughter. She was the only one in the harem who could not become the queen.
She is kind, fair, and smart. She knows that she can't be canonized as a queen, and she must use the name of Xie Manyuan's queen to deter other concubines. Naturally, she doesn't dare to neglect Xie Manyuan.
This is also what Li De wants to see. He has always been wary of concubines from aristocratic families, and Xue Guifei, who has nothing to rely on, manages the harem, and he is more at ease.
The banquet under the stage was still harmonious, with loud laughter and staggered jubilation.
Yaoying gathered her skirts and exited the hall from the pavilion behind the pillars. Suddenly, she felt a sharp knife-like line of sight on her body.
Just right in front of each other's eyes.
It was an alien man with braided hair and a shawl, wearing a round-collared robe of Huafan Ke, with a high nose and deep eyes, broad shoulders and a strong body, while drinking casually, he stared at her.
It's like sizing up prey.
Under the candlelight, his deep eyes seemed to glow with a touch of gold.
Yao Ying immediately retracted her gaze and stepped out of the hall, with a vague unease surging in her heart.
Xie Qing followed behind her and said, "That man is the son of Chief Yelu."
Yaoying closed her eyes, her palms were cold.
Chief Yelu is old, and his sons are in their prime.
She hurriedly walked down the long steps, a figure flashed across the slanting thorn, and a large rough hand reached out and clasped her hand tightly.
Yaoying raised her head.
Li Xuanzhen grabbed her hand and gritted her teeth: "Where is Mother Yun?"
Yuehua poured down and caught on Yaoying's raised beautiful face.
Li Xuanzhen glared at her, suddenly startled.
Yao Ying's face was calm, her eyes were as dark as a deep pool under the moonlight, and a few red blood beads were scattered on her cheeks.
The bloodstains are gorgeous, and the skin is even better than the snow.
Like flowers blooming in the thick fog, the graceful figure stretches out in the hazy.
Beautiful.
bright.
Also a little bit charming.
Li Xuanzhen's fingers trembled.
Yaoying said coldly, "Prince should go and ask the sage, it's not me who took Zhu Luyun away."
Li Xuanzhen looked down at her, her phoenix eyes slanted, her eyes gloomy: "Seventh sister is a good planner, trade with me first, and then with the sage."
Yaoying smiled slightly: "eldest brother, Hu tribes like Ye Lubu will not be loyal to Wei Chao, even if they marry Wei Chao, they may rebel at any time, I will replace Zhu Luyun with relatives. Take the opportunity to ask the sage for some reward."
She broke away Li Xuanzhen's hand.
"The transaction between you and me was made by me on my own initiative. Now that the marriage has been given, you got what you wanted. I didn't break the contract, did I?"
Yaoying knew that Donggong did not dare to reveal the transaction between them.
Therefore, she might as well use this transaction to the extreme.
Li Xuanzhen released her fingers.
Yaoying walked past him.
Li Xuanzhen's voice came from behind: "Seventh sister, I won't let you see Li Zhongqian until you and Chief Yelu get married."
Yaoying stopped and turned her back to her eldest brother.
"Li Xuanzhen, I already knew it would be like this."
At the time of the transaction, Wei Ming hinted that she was only allowed to send someone to confirm that Li Zhongqian was still alive, and she was not allowed to meet with Li Zhongqian.
The last time she and brother-in-law met was when he was sending him off for an expedition, brother-in-law took away the new saddle she had bought for him, and swung the golden hammer at her, radiating heroism.
That's fine, but seeing each other is just adding to the sadness.
Yaoying smiled and walked away step by step without looking back to pray to Li Xuanzhen.
With the sound of footsteps behind her, Li Xuanzhen's tall figure chased after her, grabbed her hand again, and pulled her over.
He looked at Yaoying, his eyes were darker than the night: "Qimei, do you regret it?"
Yaoying's eyes signaled Xie Qing who was about to draw the knife, so that he didn't have to go forward, raised his head and looked at Li Xuanzhen: "His Royal Highness, I don't regret it."
She paused for a while and said softly: "I only regret that when I saw you in Chibi, I thought you were a good person who helped the weak, Brother Changsheng."
Li Xuanzhen seemed to be stung by something, and her expression suddenly became hideous.
"I said, don't call me that!"
Yaoying chuckled, and opened Li Xuanzhen's cold fingers bit by bit: "Don't worry, Your Highness, I won't mention this name again. Six years ago, the Yang Changsheng I knew died."
She flicked her sleeves and turned to leave.
Li Xuanzhen stayed where he was, pinching his fingers deeply into his palm.
Zhongshu Province prepared the canonical edict overnight, and the officials of the DPRK and China negotiated with the Ye Lu clan. They argued for a few days about how many cavalry the Ye Lu clan would send and when they would marry. The Ye Lu clan quickly compromised, saying that as long as the seventh princess got married, They can give in.
In a few days, the marriage will be officially promulgated.
All the dowry prepared for Princess Fukang before became Yaoying's dowry. Because Yaoying is now a direct princess, and the court wants to win over Ye Lu's department, Li De ordered the make-up to be thicker, and Zheng Biyu and Concubine Xue are in charge of cooking.
Yaoying didn't ask about the dowry, but asked Zheng Biyu to help her find some Hu maids who could speak nonsense.
"The language on the grassland is difficult, and there are various tribal languages under the Turkic language. Find more Hu maids who speak Hu and tell them that if you are willing to follow me to the Yelu tribe, they will be good children from now on."
The maids in the palace and in the aristocratic family are all female slaves, with a humble status, and they will never be able to get rid of their humble status in their entire lives.
Zheng Biyu said: "Since they are female slaves, they can only obey orders, why should they leave their country?"
Yaoying didn't explain much.
The maid Chunru and the others heard that she planned to bring the maids to kiss, and begged to bring them with them: "Why didn't the princess bring us, but those lowly maids?"
Yaoying sighed.
Because she didn't know what would happen to her after marrying Ye Lu's tribe.
Even though she is the princess of Dawei, when the Yelu tribe was annexed by other tribes, she was just a trophy of other tribes.
She can't protect her maids, so why take them on the road of no return with her
Hu maids were kidnapped and sold as slaves by Hu merchants. Many of them missed their hometown and wanted to return to their homeland. However, their status was so low that they could not get out of their nationality. If she insisted on taking a few maids to the Yelu Department, she might as well choose a few Hu maids.
Take what you need.
Chun Ru several people cried with heart-wrenching hearts.
Yaoying is not soft-hearted.
Two days later, Zheng Biyu sent someone to deliver the selected Hu maids to the palace. All of them were handsome and swift. Among them, the youngest two were named Tali and the other Ayi.
Yaoying inquired one by one, confirming that they all wanted to get rid of their status as slave slaves and returned to their hometown and asked to marry her far away, and ordered Changshi to clean up the house for them to live in.
Before the wedding, Chief Yelu personally led his troops on an expedition and threatened to offer the head of Ashina to the Great Wei.
The Wei Dynasty successfully formed an alliance with the Hu tribes.
With the help of the iron cavalry of the various Hu tribes, the Wei army was so powerful that it recovered Huizhou and Shanzhou successively within two months, and 20,000 enemies were raped, and a large number of Han people who were captured as slaves were rescued. Several Hu tribes entrenched in Liangzhou fled.
Half a month later, Chief Yelu killed the leader of the He clan, sent the head of the He clan back to Chang'an, and asked the Wei Dynasty to fulfill his promise.
The Ministry of Rites set a wedding date.
Zheng Biyu told Yaoying: Although the Yelu Chief is still fighting, the wedding will still be held as scheduled. The Yelu Chief’s son will take her to the Yelu Department’s station, and wait for the Yelu Chief to return to the tooth tent, and then follow the Yelu Department’s customs. Complete the wedding.
Yaoying nodded calmly.
She sorted out all the books and books and handed them over to the housekeeper.
Part of the money accumulated over the years was used to manage the ministers in the court and the middle, so that night, the minister who sympathized with the Xie family forced Li De to agree to adopt Li Zhongqian to the Xie family.
The remaining Yaoying have been stored in different places for emergency use.
As for the property, house and bookstore, they are also taken care of by loyal servants.
When Li Zhongqian comes back, everything in the Xie family is in order and won't bother him too much.
As the wedding date is getting closer and closer, Yaoying goes to the Li Palace.
She was afraid that Xie Manyuan would be sad. She hadn't come to see Xie Manyuan recently, and Xie Manyuan could no longer recognize her.
Many ginkgo trees have been planted in the Li Palace. It is early autumn, and the golden leaves have fallen down and sprinkled all over the courtyard.
The palace maid and the chambermaid accompanied Xie Manyuan to pick up ginkgo leaves under the tree.
Xie Manyuan smiled and said happily: "Erlang, Qiniang, pick up more, and my mother will teach you how to make ginkgo soup."
The palace maid smiled and agreed.
Yaoying stood in the depths of the Qu Gallery, looked at it for a long time, and turned to leave the Buddhist temple.
Back at the palace, Chang Shi had just returned from Dongdu, wiped the corners of his eyes, and said, "Erlang's injury has healed a lot, but he still can't get up."
The people of Southern Chu were good at using poison. Li Zhongqian was poisoned too deeply. After he woke up, his consciousness was dizzy and he couldn't even sit up.
Wei Ming placed him in Dongdu, and Yaoying sent Xie's family to Dongdu to guard him. When she got married, Wei Ming released him, and the family would send Li Zhongqian back to Jingnan.
Yaoying asked Chang Shi, "Does brother recognize anyone?"
Chang Shi's eyes were red: "Erlang wakes up when he sleeps. Sometimes he sleeps for two or three days. I guarded him for a few days, but he didn't recognize me."
Yaoying sat for a while and said, "Wait for my brother to feel better, don't tell him about my far-off marriage, he is injured now and can't even get out of bed, tell him, how can he recover when he is irritable? ?"
Chang Shi nodded in response, "Princess... How about waiting for Erlang?"
When Li Zhongqian wakes up and finds that Yaoying has not been to see him, he will definitely be suspicious.
Yaoying sat by the window and closed the ledger: "How long can I hide it? Tell my brother that he is my only hope and that he will be fine."
Chang Shi cried and nodded.
Soon it was time to get married.
Yaoying was dressed in bare clothes and was dressed up by the palace maids. Under the watchful eyes of Li De and the civil and military officials, Xie Qing helped him board a luxurious carriage decorated with gold foil and jade bi.
Xie Qing insisted on following Yaoying to the Yelu Department.
"My ambition is not to make achievements, I just want to follow the princess, protect the princess, and follow the princess to the ends of the earth."
Yaoying persuaded him to stay.
Xie Qing showed an indignant expression for the first time: "Princess looks down on my ambitions? If a scholar dies for a confidant, can I, Xie Qing, not be a loyal person?"
Yaoying was helpless, knowing that even if he was sent away, he would still sneak out of Yumenguan, so she nodded to let him stay.
The wedding date set by Qin Tian happened to be a bright and sunny autumn day.
The carriage set out from the front of the palace gate and slowly drove out of the long street.
Xie Qing, who was riding beside the carriage, suddenly knocked on the window: "Princess, look."
Yaoying couldn't raise her head because of her head full of pearl greens and Bu Yao. She was sitting in a daze, when she heard the sound, she lifted the gauze curtain and looked out.
She was stunned.
The long street is full of people, men and women, young and old, with yellow hair hanging down, there are rich young people in bright clothes, and there are poor people in ragged clothes.
They stood by the long street, extending from the palace to the outside of the palace gate. There was a large area of darkness, and at first glance, they could not see their heads at all.
There are officials in the DPRK and China who came from a poor family and received the favor of Yaoying, as well as sesame officials.
There was a playful boy who chased Yaoying on horseback.
There are common people whom Yaoying rescued time and time again.
Victims who asked for porridge and rice from the Xie family's porridge shed during the famine.
There is a woman who escaped the fate of being a slave because of Yaoying's help.
They didn't cheer, didn't sing and dance to the roaring cheers of drums, and stood there quietly, watching the carriage go away, with solemn expressions and tears in their eyes.
Yaoying burst into tears and waved at everyone.
More than one person has asked her: Why do you want to rescue irrelevant people
There are heroes in this world.
There are many ungrateful and vicious people.
Most of them are ordinary people, who have their own selfishness, are cowardly and timid, and are selfish, but they are also grateful to ordinary people who know the news and help each other.
Yaoying is also an ordinary person, a person who survives in troubled times. She once fled with refugees, was rescued by refugees she had never known before, and was treated with sincerity, and she also wanted to treat others with her own sincerity.
So, when you can, why do you want to die
The people standing in front of her in front of her eyes were her answer.
There were Jinwu guards along the road, and the people could not see the scene in the carriage, but some people still caught Yaoying's gently waving hand with sharp eyes.
An old woman cried out, "Princess Seven, take good care of you!"
Weak girls, marrying far away in a foreign land, must be cherished!
This cry came out, like cold water splashing into the oil pan, and a huge sound was blasted vigorously.
"Seventh princess, cherish it!"
A man shouted.
A man knelt down in front of the carriage.
Everyone looked at the carriage and said over and over again: "Seventh Princess, cherish it!"
They couldn't think of any other blessings, they just wanted the Seventh Princess to be safe.
Qin Fei, Dudu Pei and others wore armor and escorted the carriage out of the city gate.
The clamor, crying, shouting, and shouting merged into a torrent, which swept in. It just subsided for a few minutes, and after a while, another huge wave was set off.
Dudu Pei looked back at the carriage.
Yaoying never showed her face, she just stretched out a slender hand and waved it gently.
Dudu Pei's heart throbbed, and he suddenly remembered the poem that Prime Minister Zheng had recited when he led his ministers to bid farewell to the Seventh Princess in front of the palace gate:
The princess of Dawei went out to be with her, and she could be worth one million soldiers.