Donggong Zhangjiao

Seeing that her daughter lost her sense of proportion and became a little irritable, Empress Li said in a deep voice at this moment.

"The crown prince's words are a little too much. I didn't do anything wrong, so I'm not afraid to check it out. I'm afraid that after Concubine Rui was pregnant, she was more sensitive, so she felt that Mrs. Yang accidentally fell down and startled her womb. , someone deliberately facilitated it."

Seeing this, Rui Concubine's personal maid, who came out to pass on the message, immediately kowtowed to Emperor Chengjing.

"Your Majesty, Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager Rui never felt that this matter was done by the Empress Empress. She was just worried that someone would tamper with the Empress Empress's tea tasting banquet. If this is not the case, both the dragon fetus and the Empress Empress will suffer. !"

At this point, the maid continued with tears in her eyes, choked with sobs.

"Your Majesty, our empress always said that she came from a humble background and has never been loved by the empress. Because of her status, she may make the empress displeased even more. But the child is innocent, even if she deserves to die to apologize, The emperor's heir in the belly can't tolerate people's insidious schemes!"

Such words were a disguised reminder to Emperor Cheng Jing.

The relationship between Empress Li and Concubine Rui has indeed been bad, especially the last time Emperor Chengjing wanted to promote Concubine Rui, there was a lot of trouble for a long time, and the front and rear palaces were not happy.

At this moment, Concubine Rui had something to do with Empress Li again, and there were doubts raised by Fang Yun, as well as Pei Yao's doubts about the third princess.

All kinds of factors were mixed together, and Emperor Chengjing also became suspicious.

After many years of husband and wife, Emperor Chengjing often asked Empress Li to advise him, so he knew that Empress Li was a very scheming woman.

After taking a deep look at Empress Li and the three princesses, mother and daughter, Emperor Chengjing opened his mouth.

"Come here, let me check all the people and things that appeared at the tea banquet just now, and don't miss a single one!"

The chief eunuch standing behind him responded and immediately led the people there.

At this time, Fang Yun observed that the complexion of the third princess became more and more unnatural.

Moreover, the maid who was following her seemed to have received some orders, so she quietly stepped back a few steps at this moment, and after leaving the sight of everyone, she turned around and quickly headed towards the hidden place of the palace.

Seeing this, Fang Yun immediately tugged on Pei Yao's sleeve lightly, and signaled him with his eyes.

Pei Yao looked in the direction Fang Yun meant, his eyes dimmed, and he turned sideways to give orders.

"Hong Zheng, follow that maid and see what she's doing."

Hong Zheng responded silently and left quietly.

At this moment, everyone's minds were on the delivery room and the case investigation, but they didn't care about others.

But now it's the scorching heat, it's too hot to wait outside the delivery room, and it's not a problem, so the queen suggested that everyone go to the west side hall to wait.

The main hall in the middle is investigating the case, so it's inconvenient to go in.

Emperor Chengjing is not young anymore, he has been raised by gold and jade for so many years, but he really can't bear the scorching heat, so he agreed.

At this moment, the First Prince and the Second Prince, as well as several other concubines of Emperor Cheng Jing who came to the villa, headed by Concubine Chen, have also arrived, and the room is full of people.

Before Fang Yun and Pei Yao entered the side hall, they saw Concubine Yang and He Liangdi still kneeling outside in the sun, they couldn't help but frowned.

But the results of this matter have not been found out yet, and Ruipin has not given birth safely. The two of them really shocked Ruipin's pregnancy, so it is difficult to intercede for them.

The main reason is that the relationship between the few people is not good yet, and Fang Yun is willing to make Emperor Chengjing suffer for them.

However, this virtuous and virtuous image can still be established in front of Pei Yao, so after Fang Yun secretly asked Pei Yao's opinion, he asked Qing Rong to quietly deliver tea to the two kneeling outside.

Sending a cup every once in a while can relieve the heat.

However, after sitting for a short time, they suddenly heard the sound of struggling from the entrance of the hall, and everyone saw Hong Zheng bringing in two young eunuchs, escorting a court lady and a tall, thin, white-faced old eunuch.

When the third princess saw these two people, her complexion changed drastically, she immediately stood up and shouted angrily.

"Bold slave, how dare you treat my personal maid like this, let her go!"

"Yu'er!"

Empress Li immediately gave a low cry, grabbed the hand of the third princess, and forced her to sit back in her original position.

At this time, she had already guessed what her daughter was doing, and she was even more afraid that after the third princess became impatient, she would show her flaws everywhere and finally get out of control.

And Hong Zheng at the bottom didn't pay attention to the trouble of the third princess, just saluted to the top calmly, and then reported to Pei Yao.

"His Royal Highness, according to your instructions, the servant secretly followed this court lady who was moving around strangely, and found something unusual."

"Hurry up." Pei Yao nodded.

After Hong Zheng got the permission, he saluted Emperor Chengjing again and told what happened just now.

"The servant followed the maid to the back of the main hall, and saw the maid meeting the eunuch in a sneaky manner. The maid took something out of her body and handed it to the eunuch, and told the eunuch to leave quickly and dispose of these things carefully. The slaves waited for the opportunity and captured the two of them on the spot."

Speaking of this, Hong Zheng paused, and took out a palm-sized purse, a small slingshot, and a marble that was about the size of a peanut from his sleeve.

"Your Majesty, please take a look at this item. This marble is what the maid gave to the eunuch. The servant found another marble that is exactly the same as a slingshot and a pouch on this person."

At this time, Concubine Chen Gui who had never spoken at the side suddenly spoke out.

"I heard that there is an eunuch who is very good at slingshot next to the third princess. He shoots birds for the princess to amuse her. The princess likes it very much. It must be this person. However, what happened to the concubine Rui has nothing to do with these two people?" What about the connection?"

"What's the connection? Huh!" Emperor Chengjing snorted coldly, and slammed the sandalwood beads in his hand on the table, "Just now Ruibi said that Yang Shi who saw the sword dance stepped on something before slipping, it must be This dog slave is acting on the sidelines, how courageous it is!"

It has to be said that Concubine Chen Guifei did not open her mouth, but this opening of her mouth guided the development of the matter excellently.

At this moment, Empress Li's complexion changed accordingly, and she was thinking about the countermeasures quickly in her mind. After all, the third princess was so young, her face was already pale with fright, she bit her lips tightly, and did not dare to vent her anger.

But Pei Yao had suffered a disadvantage earlier, how could he let the mother and daughter do evil things at this moment, he immediately said in a deep voice.

"How could two slaves have the courage to murder the emperor's heir, third sister, don't you have anything to explain?"

"Yu'er has always been gentle and kind, how could he do such vicious things, brother, don't spit blood!" The eldest prince couldn't sit still, and stood up to defend his own sister.

Upon hearing this, the third princess immediately burst into tears, and knelt down in front of Emperor Chengjing with a plop, her face pale and frightened.

"Father and Emperor Mingjian, my daughter doesn't know what's going on. How could my daughter order people to do this? Rui's concubine has always had no grievances with her daughter, and my daughter has no reason to harm her!"

After she cried out these two sentences, Empress Li stood up immediately, pointed at the maids and eunuchs below, and shouted angrily.

"You two are so brave. How dare you do such an unacceptable thing behind the princess's back. If the princess is charged with crimes, you have enough heads to kill. Seeing that you are sensible, I will assign you to take care of the princess. , the princess treats you like relatives, even your family members outside the palace are treated kindly, this is how you repay the princess' kindness?!"