The little lady in the palace

Chapter 160
Regardless of Aqi's explanation, this matter was still reported to the main courtyard.

He Jing and Xie Cheng, who were about to call their younger brothers to come over for dinner, saw You Zexu dragging Ah Qi, and when Ah Qi left reluctantly, they felt that something was wrong, so they greeted each other and stopped. say.

After entering the hall of the main courtyard, You Zexu explained the matter succinctly, and everyone in the room was dumbfounded.

"Where did you say he went?!?!" It's rare for Yuyin to express her surprise on her face like this. You Zexu didn't repeat it, but nodded to say "You heard me right", Yuyin took a breath and looked at Ah Qi, "You go to Bada Hutong?!?!"

Ah Qi wanted to run, but he couldn't run because his cousin was behind him, so he could only quickly declare: "Mother, I didn't do anything! I, I didn't even look at the bad things! I just went around change!"

"Where are you going? Can't you go to Bada Hutong?!" Yu Yin slapped the table, and suddenly thought of what Meng Junhuai told her a long time ago for no reason.

He said that he was also curious about these things when he first left the palace to build the mansion. He once went to the brothel with his brothers to watch--thinking about it, they are called the upper beam or the lower beam crooked?When the father was fourteen or five years old, he went to the curious brothel, but his son went there before he was ten years old? !

Interrupted by the teasing, Yuyin couldn't help laughing, and immediately sullenly said: "Speak clearly! You didn't do or watch bad things, so what did you do?"

As she spoke, she looked at You Zexu, and You Zexu gave a bow, and first gave an overview of what she knew.

He said that in order to keep the capital safe, guards in plain clothes would patrol the streets and alleys from time to time, especially in busy streets.As a result, Jin Yiwei, who was in charge of the routine patrol around Bada Hutong the day before yesterday, came back and reported that there was nothing wrong, and then told him the shocking news: "We saw the Second Young Master of our Highness's residence in Bada Hutong."

You Zexu was taken aback at the time, thinking that Ah Qi was only nine years old?He was worried that they might have read it wrong, so he asked them not to tell the prince, but to ask Ah Qi in private.

——As a result, when he asked this question just now, didn't Ah Qi recruit him?
Ah Qi regrets hearing this!Angrily pushed him: "I knew I wouldn't admit it!"

"How dare you deny it!" Yu Yin glared at him, "Come here!"

"Mother, I really didn't do anything!" Aqi looked anxious and wronged, seeing Yuyin still had a straight face, and walked two steps forward with his head down.

Yuyin was also unambiguous, and gave Nanny Rui a wink to fetch the ruler, and when she received it, she slapped it into Aqi's palm: "Say, what are you doing!"

"Hey mother concubine—!"

After a few clicks, Ah Qi said everything.Yuyin was quite satisfied with this, she didn't intend to beat him up, she just wanted to scare him into making him explain things clearly.

Aqi murmured in detail with his head sullen, which road he took and where he turned, as if he didn't dare to hide it from her.But Yuyin listened to it from the beginning to the end, and the more she listened, the more she felt dumbfounded.

——To put it bluntly, Ah Qi really didn’t do anything when he arrived in Bada Hutong. He hesitated at the entrance of the famous brothel, but finally didn’t dare to go in. In the end, he just walked around to the back of the building and ran into a brothel maid of about the same age to inquire about it. Anecdotes and chats were made for a while, and then the two of them sat on the steps and ate snacks together.

That snack was still brought by him.

When Yu Yin heard this detail, she couldn't tell whether it was more embarrassing to "go to a brothel at a young age" or "to go to a brothel without doing anything and to have some snacks" was more embarrassing.

In the end, she had no choice but to tap his forehead with a ruler with a straight face: "You are not allowed to go again, you know?"

Ah Qi suppressed tears: "I won't go any more!"

"You will be fined not to leave the house for the next two months, so study hard!" Yu Yin said again.

Ah Qi is very honest: "Study hard."

At the end Yuyin said again: "I have to tell your father about this, you know what you are doing, you should admit your mistake!"

"Ah..." Ah Qi burst into tears, and begged her by tugging on her sleeve, "I've studied hard, so...don't tell my father."

Of course this is not possible.

Yu Yin sternly refused to agree to him at all, and when Meng Junhuai returned to the mansion two days later, someone said that "the princess punished the second son not to leave the mansion for two months to study hard".

He was very busy in Jinyiwei a few days ago, but now he feels better after hearing about these trivial housework.After entering the main courtyard, he spoke in an interesting tone: "I heard that you punished Ah Qi? Why did he make you angry?"

"Father!" Ming Jing jumped up and down on the couch, reaching out for him to hug.

He walked over to embrace her, and she immediately hugged her neck.

"Father, I miss you!" Ming Jing kicked her legs excitedly while being hugged by him. Meng Junhuai patted her and looked at Yu Yin. Go to Bada Hutong, do you think it should be fined?"

"Ah?!" Meng Junhuai was obviously also surprised, and then laughed out loud while being dazed: "Hahahahaha, say it again?! Where is he going?!"

"Eight, Da, Hu, Tong!" Yu Yin repeated every word, and then laughed, "I didn't do anything, I just walked around... and sat on the street with the maids in other people's brothels. I ate a snack on the steps, nothing else. But I don’t think it’s okay to let him run around all the time. What if he really does something in the future? I’ll punish him not to go out, let him calm down and build a memory. "

"Well, the punishment is right." Meng Junhuai first seriously agreed with her idea, and after being serious, he still wanted to laugh, "Hahahahaha, I was nine years old and went to Bada Hutong..."

"You're still laughing!" Yu Yin stared.

He stopped immediately: "Stop laughing."

Then he cleared his throat and called Yang Enlu again, and added a punishment to show that he was really serious: "Go and tell Ah Qi to make him copy scriptures every day before the Shangyuan Festival, and don't always think about those places of fireworks."

Yang Enlu agreed and went, and a moment later, Ah Qi cried outside the main courtyard: "Father! Father, I will never go again!!! I will not go if I am killed! I will not go if I am killed!" Already!!!"

——It doesn't matter if he yelled in grief and indignation, but is this disrespectful or filial?So one volume of Sutra per day became two volumes.

Ah Qi's passing this year... feels like a beggar begging on the street under the freezing weather, what a miserable word.

It seems that in the blink of an eye, the end of the year has just turned.Except for the few days from New Year's Eve to the third day of junior high school, Meng Junhuai didn't have much time to go back home, and was busy at Jinyiwei from morning to night every day.

It's been cold outside, but he's furious and has a toothache.

It can't be said that there is no progress in the trial of Qian Wu, it's just that he is most concerned about how to cure the emperor's eldest son's illness, and Qian Wu has been biting him to death.

Qian Wu seemed to have grasped the importance of this matter, and felt that if he could change his life, he would change his life; if he couldn't, he would take this matter to the coffin, wait for the eldest son of the emperor to die together, and make him regret it lifelong.

As far as Meng Junhuai is concerned... he really wanted to give up Qian Wu to change the life of the eldest son of the emperor, but the situation did not allow him to do so.

There must be an imperial decree to put money in five.But he handed in the paperwork twice, but there was no reply yet.

On the [-]st day of the first lunar month, Meng Junhuai, who rarely escaped from the execution room to drink tea in peace, suddenly saw someone from the palace.

Meng Junhuai glanced at it, saw that the eunuch didn't have a booklet in his hand, he only said that the emperor brother wanted to ask him about the progress, so he said: "Don't worry, father-in-law, please go back and answer first, I will report to the palace later."

"Your Highness." The eunuch bowed, "The servant is not someone close to the emperor, but the eldest son of the emperor, His Highness wants to see you, so I asked the servant to invite you back to the residence."

Meng Junhuai was startled: "Go back home?"

The eunuch replied, "Yes, Your Highness is already in your residence."

To be honest, even if the emperor summoned him now, he wouldn't be in such a hurry.The brothers are all in good health, and most of them are on business, he explained clearly that he is currently busy, and it is not a big deal to go to the palace to report later.But his nephew...

Meng Junhuai sighed when he thought of Meng Shijin.His illness was really worrisome. He didn't say that he was afraid that he would die in the next moment, but he was also afraid that he would be anxious and furious waiting for others.

Meng Junhuai immediately left Jinyiwei and rode his horse back to the residence.After quickly walking through a few doors, he went to the study and saw that Yu Yin was drinking tea with Meng Shiying.

"Shi Jin." He breathed a sigh of relief when he opened his mouth. Seeing that both of them were smiling, he guessed that there was no urgent matter?

He also sat down.The eldest son of the emperor took a sip of his tea, remained silent for a while with a smile on his face, took two notebooks from his sleeve and put them on the desk: "Uncle Six."

Meng Junhuai glanced down and saw that it was the two books he had handed in to the palace, he couldn't help being stunned: "What's wrong?"

"Uncle Six, forgive me, I saw this thing in the side hall of the Qianqing Palace...so I withheld it and didn't give it to my father."

"What are you doing!" Meng Junhuai suddenly became angry, "This is something that can save your life! Then Qian Wu's life is not as important as yours! Let it go!"

Meng Junhuai thought about it carefully, and felt that even if he let go of the money, it would be fine.All the forces related to Qian Wu have been wiped out, and his so-called Wanguan family wealth has also been included in the national treasury in the subsequent investigation. He is alone, and he will not cause any trouble if he goes out alive.

"Sixth Uncle, you are kind-hearted, unlike Fourth Uncle and the others." The eldest son of the emperor laughed, his voice slightly hoarse, "But if you really want to benefit me, kill him."

"When you..."

"This man must die, and the sooner the better." Meng Shijin stopped looking at him, and his eyes fell on the cup of tea, his expression calmer than that of a cup of tea, "Fourth Uncle will collude with them when he arrives in the south. Don’t you know what it means? Their power has already influenced too many people. The fourth uncle will believe that they can accomplish something, but there is a part in his heart that questions the authority of the father. How many of them are like this? Besides... No matter how much Father and Emperor keep silent about Fourth Uncle, there will always be someone who will know about it—how many people will be shaken if the royal family and nobles collude with him?"

Meng Junhuai felt like a stick in his throat.It's not that he hasn't thought about these words, but he always wants to try one more day, and maybe there will be a way to get the best of both worlds.

"Now only by killing them can everyone be alerted." The eldest son of the emperor sighed weakly, but the light in his eyes became stronger. "No one's life is more important than this."

"Time!"

"If Sixth Uncle can't do anything, I'll go by myself." Meng Shijin cut off his words in a flat tone, and Meng Junhuai took a deep breath: "Give Sixth Uncle three more days..."

Before he finished speaking, a dagger was pushed in front of him: "Before I go back to the palace for dinner, I want to see his head on his neck."

This time even Yu Yin's heartstrings were raised, she stared blankly at the eldest son of the emperor and then at Meng Junhuai, only to feel that although the two faces in front of her were calm and the other implied anger, they both concealed a lot of pain.

She took two breaths slowly, and then sighed softly: "Shi Jin, we also have children, it's very difficult for us to cut off your life like this."

"Sixth Aunt!" The eldest son of the emperor became anxious, Yu Yin's gaze changed, and his painting style also changed: "But I think the eldest son of the emperor is right about this matter."

"Yu Yin!" This time it was Meng Junhuai who was in a hurry.He frowned at her and shook his head and said, "I just need three more days."

"If you just continue to interrogate like this, it doesn't make sense for three days more or less." Yuyin said as she gripped the dagger, and she shuddered at the cold touch.

"If you're not determined, tell your subordinates to do it." She avoided Meng Junhuai's gaze and Meng Shiying's gaze as she spoke, and called someone to come in on her own, "Yang Enlu."

Yang Enlu walked into the study in response, Yuyin handed him the dagger, and ordered lightly: "The one who takes the money five will be the head."

Yang Enlu obviously froze, and immediately knelt down in fright.It took him a while to raise his head, and he looked at Meng Junhuai tremblingly without knowing it: "Master...?"

(End of this chapter)