Empress Dowager Guide

Chapter 107
"Empress Dowager, Liu Sizhi has been in the palace for many years, even if there is no credit, there is hard work. I believe that she is only temporarily blinded by the benefits in front of her eyes, so..."

"You want to plead for her?"

Zhong Zhangling nodded and said, "Thirty sticks, even if you are as strong as an imperial guard, you can't bear it, let alone Liu Sizhi, who has lived in the palace for a long time."

"I don't want you to beg for mercy!" Liu Sizhi gritted his teeth and said, "You don't want to cry like a cat or a rat and pretend to be merciful!"

Zhong Zhangling was so angry that his chest stopped, and he continued after a while, "You! You don't know what is good and what is bad, do you know how powerful these thirty big sticks are?! Even if you survived by luck, your legs are considered Useless! How can you survive in the palace? Do you want to be sent to the peace hospital?!"

When Liu Sizhi heard the name of the Anningyuan, he flinched all over, and said stubbornly, "Then I don't want you to intercede!"

Taking advantage of their bickering, Sheng Shaoqing asked the system where the Anning Yuan was. When Liu Sizhi heard about this place, his heart became frightened, and his expression twitched.

[This is the place where some women who made mistakes or have nowhere to live live, because most of these people have been tortured before entering the peace hospital, and many of them are disabled, so the environment is extremely bad, and some people will even die for many days. It was discovered, and when it was discovered, it was just carried and thrown to a mass grave. 】

"So inhuman."

Sheng Shaoqing thought about it for a while and decided to renovate this place. She can't do it right now, but at least let the palace not be so miserable as much as possible.

Zhong Zhangling bowed down and said, "I am willing to use my salary in the palace for these years to redeem Liu Sizhi's punishment."

"Atonement?"

Could this be, spending money to commute sentence? ? ?

The atonement, the atonement, turned out to be the origin.

"Also, this matter was all caused by the grievances between Weichen and Liu Sizhi. It really shouldn't disturb the Queen Mother's hearing. These are all the crimes of Weichen and Liu Sizhi. Therefore, I am no longer suitable for temporary In place of this royal position, please ask the Empress Dowager to choose another choice."

Liu Sizhi said in a choked voice, "Zhong Zhang Ling, you are still brilliant! Now you are really good at playing the trick of retreating into advance. After this incident, the Queen Mother will only trust you more, and I am just a bug."

Sheng Shaoqing: Few people are so clear about their self-positioning.

"you!"

Zhong Zhangling turned his head and said to Sheng Shaoqing, "Forgive me, the queen mother. Liu Sizhi is now in panic, so I made a mistake in my words. Please forgive me, the queen mother!"

"Zhong Zhangling, you really don't blame Liu Sizhi, and you still want to intercede for her?"

Zhong Zhangling firmly shook his head and said, "No matter how she treats me, I can't ignore her years of affection and stand by and watch her die. How is this different from adding trouble?!"

Sheng Shaoqing looked at Zhong Zhangling with a firm expression, and his inner thoughts did not fluctuate. He thought to himself, there really are such good people in this palace who don't care about past suspicions and repay evil with virtue?

"Do you know what she said?"

"She said she would dismiss you and investigate, and also said that she would kick you out of the palace."

If she believed what Liu Sizhi said today, Zhong Zhangling's years of struggle would have been in vain, and she would be unhappy again, dragging Zhong Zhangling out and chopping him up, and Zhong Zhangling would be considered a ghost hunter for revenge Suo Ming didn't know where to find it.

Zhong Zhangling said firmly, "I am grateful for the Queen Mother's trust, and I am willing to give this opportunity to defend myself, but I still can't bear the death of my colleagues for many years. I also ask the Queen Mother to punish her lightly and spare her life."

Aning, who got Cui Yun's order to go to the Shang Palace Bureau to check the account book, also brought back the account book at this moment. After Cui Yun briefly read it, he picked up the one in front of Zhong Zhangling and compared it carefully. In other words, there is a mark on the last page of every account book, and if you don’t observe carefully, you really can’t see it, and the book that Liu Sizhi presented not only has no mark, but the ink inside is still very wet, presumably it has just been made not long ago.”

At this moment, Liu Sizhi completely gave up his mind, and muttered to himself, "One move is careless! One move is careless!"

Turning to Zhong Zhangling, he said bitterly, "So you have been on guard against me for a long time!"

Zhong Zhangling had no choice but to argue, "Sizhi Liu, why do you bother to be so stubborn? I made the mark to prevent the assassination of someone with a heart. If you don't have the heart, how could you?"

Liu Sizhi stopped talking when he heard the words, and the tears in her eyes fell down her cheeks to her lips. The slightly bitter taste made her wake up a lot, she pursed her dry lips and said, "Zhong Guangzhen, it's your fault hands, I have nothing to say!"

"Empress Dowager, I only want to die! Please allow the Empress Dowager!"

Rather than being thrown into the dark peace courtyard after being tortured, it would be better to seek a quick fix!
Hospice, hospice, disabled, how can there be peace? !

"You have a backbone! Then"

Zhong Zhangling heard the words and said anxiously, "The queen mother can't!"

"Liu Sizhi's skillful hands are known to everyone in the palace. Compared with hairpin-making skills, no one can match them. I am willing to donate my previous salary to redeem her punishment. I also ask the Queen Mother to let her take the crime and make meritorious service, and let her stay." Let's die!"

"Weichen believes that Liu Sizhi framed Weichen because of a wrong idea for a while!"

Zhong Zhangling turned to Liu Sizhi in a low voice, "Quickly explain to the Queen Mother that you are just being confused for a while, and I promise you will never do it again!"

"Speak quickly!"

Zhong Zhangling's tone became more and more anxious, but Liu Sizhi's expression became more calm, "No, I have planned it for a long time. I used Zhong Zhangling to be busy with the preparations for the spring plowing ceremony recently, secretly changed the account books, and bought Mingyu to make money. The perjury is just to frame Zhong Zhangling, thinking that even if the Queen Mother does not believe it, she will have doubts about Zhong Zhangling, and Zhong Zhangling will not be eligible for the imperial position."

Liu Sizhi finished speaking in one breath, and said with a wry smile, "Zhong Zhangling, you are right, the queen mother is so wise, and how could she be deceived by such trivial tricks of mine, so I pleaded guilty now, and I only ask the queen mother to give me a favor. A joy."

Zhong Zhangling wanted to plead for mercy, but Liu Sizhi said to her, "Zhong Guangzhen, do you know how much I hate you?"

Liu Sizhi wiped away the tears from his cheeks with his hands, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "You have a better background than me. Once you enter the Shang Palace Bureau, you will be an eighth-rank official clothes, and I am just a little female history. For people like me, if you throw out the Shang Palace Bureau, you can get a lot of them if you catch them in this palace."

"But I don't think I'm inferior to others. On the contrary, I try my best to learn the art of hairpin making from my master, and I'm careful in the Shang Palace. , Only in this way, I can sit in this position and lead the first division."

"But what about you? Since the beginning of Dianyi, you have been promoted to Zhang Ling within a year, and everyone has praised you. Wang Shanggong and Li Shanggong also looked at you differently, and Wang Shanggong even took you hand in hand. , if something happened to Wang Shanggong, the position of Shanggong would definitely not be my turn."

"But why? Putting this thing that doesn't belong to me in front of my eyes to tempt me, do you understand the pain?!"

"Wang Shanggong was convicted, and Mrs. Xu was willing to help me with good words. This pie in the sky almost knocked me out, but... why did you turn out to be me again!"

"It's you! You have a good background, and you have won the favor of your boss. Why should it be your turn to be so good, and I can only follow behind others forever?!"

"I don't agree!"

Having said so much in one breath, Liu Sizhi's years of grievances poured out, and he felt a lot more comfortable in his heart, and even his will to die was much stronger.

"The matter has come to this point, you don't need to plead for me. I was deceived by lard and thought of harming you. All of this is my own fault."

Zhong Zhangling sighed, "Could it be that you are the only one suffering in this world? Don't others suffer?"

"Since Liu Sizhi has said all of this, I have nothing to say. I respectfully ask the Empress Dowager to order me."

"I'll ask you again, are you still willing to atone for her now?"

Zhong Zhangling nodded with a complicated expression, "My minister has said what he said, and he never regrets it."

"Good!" Sheng Shaoqing exclaimed, "Liu Sizhi can be spared thirty sticks, then punish her to recite scriptures every day to repent of her sins, remove all her positions, and start from the female history again."

"Queen!" Liu Sizhi exclaimed, "If you do this, you will kill me!"

It's so embarrassing for her to start over from female history, she might as well be dead.

Zhong Zhangling knew that Liu Sizhi was trying to get into a dead end again, so he quickly dragged her to thank her, and ran out of the Palace of Eternal Light.

"Why are you dragging me! I'm going to beg the queen mother! It would be better to give me a knife!"

"You are so stupid as a pig! Calling you a pig is an insult to a pig! How can anyone rush to death!" Zhong Zhang said indiscriminately, "Don't you know that you can keep the green hills, don't be afraid No firewood?!"

Liu Sizhi calmed down after being so aroused, and only then did he realize that he had saved his life. Afterwards, he broke out in a cold sweat, and said with dissatisfaction, "Now that we have ended up like this, You might as well die!"

Zhong Zhangling could see that she had figured it out, and let go of Liu Sizhi's sleeve, which he was holding tightly, and heaved a sigh of relief, "If you want to die, just go back to the yard and find a white silk to wipe your neck. , why do you need to ask the Queen Mother to grant you death?"

Liu Sizhi faltered and said, "Can it be the same?"

"What's the difference? If I drag you later, I'll really annoy the Queen Mother, and I'll let you commit suicide according to your wishes. I'll see what you will do!"

"Even if you don't care about yourself, you should always think about your mother."

"Mother." Liu Sizhi said tears were about to drip down again, "Do you know my mother?"

Zhong Zhangling sighed, took out a handkerchief from his pocket and handed it to Liu Sizhi, "Since you regard me as an opponent, how can I be indifferent to my opponent? I know everything about your family."

"Because of this, didn't you think about your mother before you did these things?"

Liu Sizhi took the handkerchief and wiped away his tears, then murmured, "I made all the preparations and never thought I would lose."

Bell Commander:
Seeing Zhong Zhangling's expression worried, Liu Sizhi quickly added, "I just want to drive you out of the palace, but I don't want your life!"

"Wang Shanggong's crimes are so heinous, the end result is that all property is confiscated and driven out of the palace; Mrs. Li, the culprit, has only been imprisoned in Yeting Prison for a few days, and now she can be her Mrs. Li in Yilan Courtyard, so... I thought Even if you are convicted, you still have some background, and the Empress Dowager will not really punish you, the worst thing is to drive you out of the palace."

"You!" Zhong Zhangling, who was restrained by Liu Si, only spit out such a word for a long time, and then smiled wryly after a long time, "My background? My background is nothing more than a dog from the Yang family in Cangzhou. How could you think this Is it a backer I can rely on?"

"But you. If it wasn't for them, how could you." Liu Sizhi swallowed his saliva, and suddenly remembered a rumor from the Shang Palace Bureau. Facing Zhong Zhangling, who had just saved him and was the protagonist of the rumor, he couldn't help but Some flinched.

"Are you going to say that if it wasn't for them, how could I have been promoted so quickly in just a few years?"

"But have you ever thought about it, if it wasn't for them, why would I need to enter the palace?!"

"Liu Sizhi, what you want is nothing more than a thousand shackles to me. You think that what I said made you retreat in order to advance, but that is indeed what I think in my heart."

"Whether you believe it or not, these are my words from the bottom of my heart, and I will only say this to you once."

"I have exchanged your life with my salary since I entered the palace, and it can be regarded as redeeming the friendship between you and me for many years. From then on, what you want has nothing to do with me, and I will not spend any more time on you. You .Do it yourself."

After Zhong Zhangling finished speaking, he left gracefully, leaving Liu Sizhi alone in a daze.

After a long time, Liu Sizhi looked at the handkerchief in his hand, and shouted to Zhong Zhangling who was going away, "Hey! Your handkerchief!"

"I'll return it to you after I wash it." Zhong Zhangling's back disappeared around the corner, and Liu Sizhi's voice gradually dissipated in the wind.

"I will for sure"

"Empress Dowager. In the past, you said that Zhong Zhangling had a great chance of winning, but I still didn't believe it. I secretly bet that Liu Sizhi would win, but I didn't expect Liu Sizhi to come out like this." Cui Yun said very annoyed.

"Hey, if I hadn't procrastinated for so long, if the candidate for the palace had been decided early, they wouldn't have had a dispute because of it." Sheng Shaoqing also said very annoyed.

"No, no, it's my fault that I didn't remind the Queen Mother in time."

"No, no, I'm too late."

Sheng Shaoqing and Cui Yun pushed for a long time, but they were both amused in the end. The two looked at each other and smiled, and the tense atmosphere in the hall was relieved.

Cui Yun suddenly thought, "Then who is the best choice for the Shang Palace now?"

"There are many capable people in Shanggong Bureau, so are Zhong Zhangling and Liu Sizhi the only ones who are worthy of great positions?"

Cui Yun wondered, "In my opinion, those who are more capable than these two are not qualified enough, and those who are more qualified than these two are not as capable. Otherwise, why did Li Shanggong acquiesce in the beginning? elected."

"Otherwise, it's just empty like this?"

It's better to lack than to abuse!
Cui Yun thought for a while and nodded, "It seems that there is only one choice now."

If an incompetent person occupies the imperial position, chaos will arise sooner or later; if an inexperienced person occupies it, it may be difficult to convince the public, so it is better to just leave it vacant.

"Then, why don't you set up a few more Commanders to assist Li Shanggong in commanding the Shang Palace Bureau together with Zhong Commander."

(End of this chapter)