Donggong Zhangjiao

"Go quickly and send a message to the government. Tell your father that Xu Lingyi has committed a capital crime and his life cannot be saved. Let the Xu family make a decision quickly. At this moment, the overall situation should be the most important thing. It is time to give up the little one to protect the big one."

The queen ordered in a deep voice, Tian Mo nodded and left immediately.

And here Minsi said, "Your Majesty, do you want me to do it quietly now and silence you first?"

"No."

The queen shook her head and stood up.

"It is a serious crime for a concubine to commit suicide, and if it causes Xu Lingyi to commit suicide out of fear of crime, it is one thing whether the emperor believes it or not. Concubine Zhao is very angry, so she will definitely not believe it. She will definitely think that I am killing people and silencing them. She is very lucky at this time. The emperor is protecting me and trying to convince the emperor to come and investigate this palace will be even worse."

At this point the Queen paused and then gave instructions.

"Where does Xu Lingyi's hatred for Concubine Zhao come from? Presumably the two maids beside her did not confess. They must have listened to what I said earlier. Remember that there is no evidence and cannot accuse without reason. But Xu Lingyi may have already She is dizzy. What you need to do is to secretly remind her not to bite Concubine Zhao again. All accusations without evidence will only be regarded by the emperor as slandering Concubine Zhao and will only make her situation worse. She There is the entire Xu family behind it."

Last night in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Xu Lingyi almost shouted.

Originally, the queen wanted to arrange this last night, but the people in front of the imperial court were interrogating and guarding tightly and could not intervene at all, so she could only think of ways to deal with possible situations while looking for opportunities.

Now Pei Yao let her decide how to punish Xu Lingyi. Although it was a beating, it was also an opportunity for the queen.

If you don't let Xu Lingyi talk nonsense, you can avoid unnecessary complications.

Min Si got the order and set off immediately.

Next, An Dingran still had the morning invitation for the concubines. Except for Fang Yun, who didn't come, everyone else was there.

But because of what happened yesterday, today the concubines, no matter which camp they belong to, are very silent and low-key.

No one wants to cause trouble.

So it ended very quickly.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Pei Yao went to court. After accepting the worship of hundreds of officials, he had to lead some of them to worship the ancestors of the royal family. The queen also had to take the concubines there to gather with Pei Yao.

It is a custom to kneel down at the Ancestral Temple during the Chinese New Year every year.

And it was during this meeting that Pei Yao spoke first while the palace people were preparing things for worshiping their ancestors.

"How does the queen plan to deal with Xu's matter."

"Back to the emperor, Mrs. Xu deliberately murdered the emperor's heir. According to palace regulations, it is a capital crime. However, considering that she has been serving the emperor in the palace for several years, I thought that I could keep her whole body, white silk, poisonous wine, and dagger. According to the rules, let her choose one, but I think it is the first month now, and the death in the palace will inevitably bring bad luck, so why not let her wait until the first month before executing her?"

The queen lowered her eyes and whispered.

Pei Yao glanced at her and then said calmly, "What the queen said is true, but the matter of sending Xu family on their way will be done today. From the first to the sixth day of the lunar month, we have to kneel to the ancestors of heaven and earth. With the protection of the ancestors, I don't think so. No, if you keep her here, I'm worried that Concubine Zhao's anger will not go away, which will affect the pregnancy."

Hearing this, the queen's eyes flashed and she nodded immediately.

"Then I, my concubine, will do as the emperor says. Everything must still put the emperor's heir in Concubine Zhao's belly first."

"Not only the imperial heir in Concubine Zhao's womb, every child in this palace is my own flesh and blood, and I value them all." Pei Yao said in a deep voice, paused, and then asked again, "The fifth prince's illness has been intermittent. , good times and bad times, you should take more care of it and don’t think too much.”

"Yes, I obey." The queen lowered her eyes.

Yuzhang Palace.

Fang Yun woke up not too early.

It’s not that she doesn’t care about the child, but that Dr. Zeng considered that she was in the early stages of pregnancy and had just experienced something like that, so it was inevitable that she would not be able to sleep peacefully and have a good rest, so she added some soothing aids to the anti-fetal medicine she took last night. components of sleep. When I woke up, I did feel much better, but as soon as I opened my eyes, the first person I asked was the fourth prince.

"How is Ji'er? Did he feel uncomfortable last night? I slept too deeply. Why didn't you wake me up?"

Just as Ruoyu helped Fang Yun stand up, Qingrong came in from the outside. Seeing that Fang Yun had woken up, he took three steps and two steps at a time and ran over.

"My Majesty, are you okay? My servant and Yan Wei came here early in the morning and were really frightened. My slave should have stayed in the palace to serve my mother yesterday." Qingrong felt distressed and blamed herself.

Originally, Fang Yun thought that she and Yan Wei were both married and would go back to reunite with their families on New Year's Eve, so he asked them to leave the palace and go home at noon yesterday. He never thought that something like this would happen that night.

"I'm fine, where is Ji'er?" Fang Yun shook his head and asked the fourth prince again.

I didn't even change my clothes, so I walked outside to see the child.

"Don't worry, Madam. The fourth prince has woken up. Yanwei is serving the meal over there right now. Madam is pregnant, so you must take care of your own health. It's cold outside. If you go out like this, you'll catch a cold. You should change your clothes first." Just take off your clothes and go."

Qingrong said, directing Ruoyu and Suxin to bring clothes.

Fang Yun quickly put on his clothes and went to the fourth prince's courtyard before washing up.

The fourth prince was drinking porridge at the moment. He hurt his throat. Not only was his voice hoarse, but it also hurt when eating. He could only eat something soft.

After meeting Fang Yun, the fourth prince wanted to speak, but Fang Yun stopped him.

"Your throat is not healed yet, so stop talking." Fang Yun sat down next to him, "But you still feel uncomfortable?"

The fourth prince nodded, and then pointed at Fang Yun's belly with an apology on his face.

Fang Yun curled his lips and touched his head, "Concubine is fine. You will be a brother from now on. This kind of thing must not happen again, you know? The last time I fell into the water, I scared my concubine. , I’m really going to scare my mother and concubine to death this time.”

The fourth prince nodded and made a gesture of swearing an oath.

Seeing this, Fang Yucai sighed and said nothing more.

There were other things to do at this time, and the fourth prince was having his meal again. It would not be too late to talk about the rest of the instructions later.

After watching the fourth prince drink half a bowl of porridge, Fang Yun went back to his room.

Qing Rong helped her wash up, "Don't worry too much, Madam. Dr. Zeng came to see you early in the morning and said that our fourth prince's injuries are not serious."

"Whether it's serious or not, seeing the child injured makes a mother's heart feel like a knife."

Fang Yun wiped his face and put down the brocade handkerchief, his eyes filled with ice.

"This time, even if Mrs. Xu is evil-hearted, the person who aroused her hatred towards me is the queen. If the queen had not used me as a shield, Mrs. Xu might not have treated Ji'er like this."

"Yes, this Mr. Xu is really confused and vicious. He hated the wrong person and harmed the wrong person. It would be a shame to die!" Qingrong gritted her teeth.

Fang Yun said coldly, "She deserves to die, but the queen can't escape her involvement. Even if she didn't have any hand in this matter, she was the trigger. The emperor must know that the one who did things for the queen back then, The palace maid who faked her death and left the palace, asked Yuan He to bring her back to me."

Hearing this, Qingrong nodded immediately.

"It's not difficult. Yuan Heben has been keeping an eye on people, just because he's afraid that the queen might come in handy."

I’ll update it first today. I’ll find time to catch up during the day. I have some other work to do. Please forgive me. I’m sorry.