famous eldest daughter

Chapter 878
The moment Xiao Yu finished speaking, the emperor's eyes lit up, "What did you just say?"

Xiao Yu suddenly had a face full of "ah?" and looked at the emperor, "my son said, could it be that Weiyuanhou's mansion, where wives and concubines fight each other, and Mrs. Weiyuanhou let Jiu Yiniang, Weiyuanhou's favorite concubine in her house, plot against her?" Otherwise, since Mrs. Weiyuanhou has been helping Weiyuanhou manage the business of the house from beginning to end, it can be seen that she is also a shrewd person. How could she do such a thing? I heard that Mrs. Weiyuanhou thought I want Yingxiu to marry an old man who has killed four or five previous wives!"

Although a Golden Bu Yao directly involved the late Concubine Hui in this case, the appearance of this Bu Yao was indeed a bit unexpected.

The emperor has always been suspicious, and the breadth of his suspicions is simply unimaginable.

If he was suspicious as to why Mrs. Weiyuan Hou gave Concubine Mei's Bu Yao to Concubine Li, then he and Gu Yuqing were not self-defeating.

"Perhaps that Jiu Yiniang held a grudge in her heart and bribed the people in front of Mrs. Weiyuanhou to secretly exchange the gold ornaments that Mrs. Weiyuanhou originally intended to give to Concubine Li! Tsk tsk, this is really God's will, she just wanted to Concubine Concubine Li and Concubine Gan fought together, but she didn't expect that she saved my concubine mother! I'm afraid she didn't expect the serious consequences of the Weiyuan Marquis's private possession of Concubine Mei's old things! After all, she is still a stupid woman! "

Xiao Yu analyzed them one by one. The emperor felt that what he said was reasonable and couldn't help but nod.

As he spoke, the chamberlain who was sent by the emperor to search and rescue people in the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion opened the door and came back. He walked up to the emperor in a few steps, saluted, and reported back: "Your Majesty, Weiyuan Marquis Mansion has not been kidnapped. of young children.”

Xiao Yu sneered, "Maybe it's at his farm!"

The head chamberlain shook his head, with a complicated and unpredictable expression on his face, and a gloomy look in his eyes. It was not common for him to look like this, especially in front of the emperor.

The emperor couldn't help but frowned, "What?"

The head chamberlain took a breath and said: "The servants searched the house and couldn't find anyone, just like the Fourth Highness. Thinking that this person might be out of the house or in the farm, he gathered all the servants of the Weiyuan Hou Mansion and came forward. The court ordered them to tell the truth."

Mrs. Weiyuan Hou wanted to kidnap two children, but she would not do it herself. Even though this kind of thing was not something everyone in the house knew, she would not deliberately hide it.

A green scene is not worthy of Mrs. Weiyuan Hou walking on thin ice, otherwise, she would not dare to kidnap.

"At first, those people refused to say anything. The slaves ordered people to pour cold water on them one after another. In the end, some people couldn't stand it anymore. They said that the young couple had been sold by Madam Weiyuan Hou. Loaded the cargo ship and went to sea!”

"Going to sea?" The emperor was immediately surprised, "Even if it is sold, how can it be loaded into a cargo ship and taken to sea?"

Near Kyoto, the closest to the sea is Tianjin Wei.

Suddenly, with a flash of lightning in his mind, the emperor remembered that Madam Weiyuan Hou seemed to have mentioned before that there was something wrong with the business of Weiyuan Hou Mansion, and Weiyuan Hou was handling it at Tianjin Guard.

...Is there such a coincidence?
Once suspicion is born, it will grow quickly and vigorously in the emperor's heart like a vine.

The head chamberlain glanced at the emperor's expression and said, "This slave also finds it strange that there is no shortage of human traffickers in Beijing. Even if the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion is always cautious in doing things, they will not sell people overseas. Because the matter is important, the slave will not If you dare to make the decision without authorization, you will bring back the boy who can't stand the cold water, so that your majesty can ask him personally."

"Let him in quickly!" The emperor ordered immediately.

The head chamberlain received the order and turned to lead the people. In the blink of an eye, the door to the imperial study room creaked again. Behind the chamberlain, a thin and pale young man came in.

With his head lowered, the emperor could not clearly see his facial features, but he was startled by his frighteningly white complexion.

When he arrived in front of the emperor, under the guidance of the chief chamberlain, the young man knelt down and said, "I'm here to bow to your majesty!"

Although his face was extremely pale, his voice did not tremble. Compared with the shopkeepers just now, his voice was calm.

"Why did you say that Mrs. Weiyuan Hou sold those two children overseas?" Staring at the boy in front of him, the emperor's deep eyes were filled with light like a swamp.

The young servant's eyelashes trembled, and he said: "A few days ago, Madam ordered her to bring four or five people with her former personal nurse, and tied up a pair of four or five-year-old young ladies from a private house in Jingnan back to the mansion. He is locked up in the woodshed, and everyone in the house knows this."

"But later, for some unknown reason, the Marquis and his wife had a big quarrel. The day after the quarrel, the pair of young ladies disappeared. Once when the Marquis was drunk, the servant vaguely heard the Marquis mention that the pair of young ladies, It seems that it was taken away by a big ship."

His voice was undisturbed.

The emperor was shocked by the content of his words, and equally shocked by his calmness, "You raised your head?"

When the boy heard this, his shoulders slumped, he took a deep breath, and slowly raised his head.

Her delicate face has delicate facial features, especially her eyes, which are truly breathtaking.

There seemed to be a thick fog on the sea surrounding his eyes. Even though his eyes were as sharp as the emperor's, he couldn't push through the thick fog to see what kind of emotions were hidden in his eyes.

"You are just a boy, how did you know so carefully? Do you know what the crime of framing the head of the family is?" Looking at the boy's expression, the emperor said coolly.

The threatening tone was full of intensity.

But the boy replied calmly: "Yes, it's a death penalty!"

A pair of eyes, according to the emperor's request, looked at the emperor for a moment, but the emperor couldn't see any of his expressions.

"Because I read a book when I was young, I can write well, and I am proficient in accounting matters, so I was promoted by the Marquis to be the accountant of Weiyuan Marquis Mansion. When the Marquis goes out to do business, I often have to take the slave with me. However, The servant has been working in the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion for a short period of time, and has not gained the Marquis’s absolute trust, so I have never been involved in the Marquis’s business affairs.”

Mr. Accountant has many opportunities to interact with the master, so it is not surprising to hear the drunken remarks made by Marquis Weiyuan.

After suppressing this layer of doubt, the emperor sneered and said: "It seems that Marquis Weiyuan has no trust in you, but he does it knowingly!"

The tone was quite sarcastic. After all, in such a big house, there were many servants and maids, and those weak women could not say anything, but he couldn't bear a few basins of cold water.

The boy could hear the implication of the emperor's words, but he smiled calmly, "My body has been weak since I was a child, and I can't stand a little cold. If I put a few basins of cold water in it, it would be just a cold for others, but for me, it would be death. Servant They go out to work just to make ends meet. There are old and young at home, and the life of the servant is not important, but without the servant, they will starve to death!"

Xiao Yu sneered and continued: "You said you couldn't die, but now everyone knows that you betrayed Marquis Weiyuan. Do you think Marquis Weiyuan can let you go? He can betray those young brothers. , maybe even you will be sold by then! Your whole family will still starve to death!"

(End of this chapter)