The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 574

All the concubines didn't know what Wan Yu meant, but Ru Ge knew what she meant.

Since I took Wei Qian'er's identity and been favored so far, a mistake in identity and blood is the most taboo thing in the selection of concubines in the harem. If the emperor knows, how can I survive?

She was a little anxious, and her complexion turned pale: "The imperial concubine said so, is there no room for concubines?"

Wanyu looked calm and said: "Why do you need this palace to accommodate you? You are very capable. The emperor has kept Tong Guowei to talk about things in Qianqing Palace. After the matter is over, this palace will tell you everything you know. Your Majesty, go. At that time, how you will go in the future depends on whether the Emperor can tolerate you."

After speaking, Ru Ge's body softened and he slumped on the chair, with fine sweat dripping from his forehead.

In the afternoon, the emperor ordered Tong Guowei, who had knelt outside Qianqing Palace for half a day, to come in for an audience.

Because of his old age and foot disease, he knelt for a long time and had trouble walking. He almost stumbled and walked to the center of the hall. When he knelt down again, he saw the emperor raised his hand and said: "Excuse me, stand up and answer."

"Thank you, Majesty Long En!"

Tong Guowei said this with a heavy voice, but in fact he was trying to cover up the timidity and fear in his heart.

Although he didn't know what happened, but seeing the emperor's face was cloudy and cloudy, and he was sizing him up and down, he felt something was wrong.

The emperor was concentrating for a moment, and a stern look suddenly flashed across his face: "You are the brother of my biological mother, Cihe, and the queen mother. According to the folk saying, you are more or less my uncle. Therefore, I want to ask you today. How to teach the imperial concubine."

Tong Guowei was speechless for a while, and after thinking for a while, he said cautiously: "The imperial concubine has been gentle and docile since she was a child, and she is well-educated and reasonable. Make the emperor furious?" After he finished speaking, regardless of his illness, he hastily knelt down and worshiped: "I plead guilty to the emperor on behalf of the imperial concubine, and I hope the emperor will forgive me."

"Apology?" The emperor sneered, and suddenly broke out and threw the inkstone on the case at Tong Guowei: "She murdered the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang to death, how many lives do you have to plead for her? That is a serious crime against the nine clans! I want you It's not a pity that the Tong family has lost their lives!"

Tong Guowei was shocked when he heard the words, his mind seemed to be filled with lead, and he couldn't believe his ears for a moment.

My daughter used to be the one who would cry for several days even when dogs and birds died in the mansion, how could she become such a vicious and vicious woman as the emperor said?
Besides, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang has nothing to do with her, why did she come here?

"Your majesty! This matter must have been wronged by others, the imperial concubine and empress"

"I can hear every word of what she confessed, who can wrong her?" The emperor glanced sideways at Li Jian, Li Jian understood, and walked to Tong Guowei's side holding the blood-stained confession and handed it to him.

Tong Guowei widened his eyes after reading it, and exclaimed in a daze: "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"

The emperor's face was dark, and he said angrily: "Which thing in the book is not a felony for copying your family? Uncle, I treat the Tong family well, but what about you? Raising such a daughter is almost calculated I will cut off my sons and grandchildren!"

Only then did Tong Guowei realize that he was afraid, but the facts were in front of him, and no matter how he tried to defend, it would be useless.

He kowtowed continuously to beg the emperor for forgiveness. He bowed more than ten times, then suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty! This matter was done by a single person, and has nothing to do with the Tong family! I hope the emperor will learn from you! And This minister had already severed his father-daughter relationship with the imperial concubine ten years ago, but because the imperial concubine was in the harem, he could not give her three high-fives①! There are letters to prove it, what this minister said is true!"

The emperor looked at him with a frown, and became more and more angry: "I canonized your daughter as a concubine, a noble concubine, and an imperial concubine. When the reward was sent to Tong's mansion like water, I didn't see you return the gift and clear the relationship. Now that you are in trouble, you are so eager to abandon it." My daughter? You really disappointed me!"

Tong Guowei burst into tears, and said tremblingly: "Your Majesty! What I said is true! If the Emperor doesn't believe it, there will be an evil son, and I am willing to confront her face to face!"

The emperor waved his sleeves and said: "Liang Jiugong, go to the back hall and bring him here!"

After saying a word, Rong Yue was quickly escorted out from the inner prison and the apse.

When Tong Guowei saw her again, he looked at her for a long time but didn't dare to recognize her.The memory of Rong Yue in his heart still stays in the youth of Pingting girl, and now when he sees him again, he is a dying old man with graying hair on his temples, loose skin, blood stained on his face after being tortured.

He was shocked, trembling and asked: "This is this?"

"Why, don't you recognize your own daughter?" The emperor ordered the eunuch to let go of Rong Yue, she was weak and tortured, she collapsed to the ground without anyone's support.

Seeing Rong Yue like this, Tong Guowei knew that he had completely lost hope.

With such a face, she actually did such vicious things, not to mention the emperor, even his own father was afraid to look at her one more time.

She committed the capital crime of implicating the nine clans, but the Tong clan has seven sons and two daughters under his only connections.

Up to now, in order to take the overall situation into consideration, he had no choice but to abandon the car to protect the handsome man.

I was anxious to get rid of Rong Yue, so I said sharply: "What's the matter, you should explain it clearly to the emperor. Don't implicate Tong's whole family with the stupid things you committed yourself!"

Rong Yue's eyes were cloudy and full of despair, she took a deep look at Tong Guowei, and smiled sadly: "What does father want his daughter to recognize?"

"You received that unfeeling letter! You also said that you would never recognize me as a father, and you should tell the emperor about it, don't want it"

So it turned out that my father was really so ruthless.

For a moment, Rong Yue only felt that she was a joke, thinking that in the old mansion, there were only her biological mother and younger brother Longkodo.

As a daughter, she was not loved by her father since she was a child, and it was not until she was a young adult, and her appearance gradually became more lovely, that she received some sympathy from her father.

But he didn't think that the love was all for the purpose of entering the palace as a concubine and stabilizing Tong's position in the previous dynasty.

She has come to this day, and she is really tired.There is only infinite hatred left in my heart.

Hate family background, hate the emperor, hate everything in this world.

She propped herself up and half-kneeled, moved her knees and crawled until the emperor sat down and kowtowed solemnly, and said in a deep voice with all her strength: "The concubine was born by the Tong family for a day, and she will be the daughter of the Tong family for the rest of her life. The concubine has never been accepted. I have received the unfeeling letter that my father said."

Angry, Tong Guowei stepped forward and grabbed the corner of Rong Yue's clothes and shouted, "You damn girl! What are you talking about? You." He raised his hand to hit Rong Yue, but was pulled away by the imperial guards.

The emperor looked at his father and daughter coldly, feeling rather annoyed and helpless: "Emperor Niang told me before she died that no matter how many mistakes the Tong family made in the previous dynasty, as long as there is no harm to the country, I will not take it lightly." So today, in order to fulfill the last wish of Empress Empress, I will not implicate the rest of the Tong family for the time being with what the imperial concubine does." He pointed at Rong Yue with trembling fingers, and said sharply: "But she! It is an unforgivable crime!"

After the words fell, Liang Jiugong was ordered to announce the decree: "The imperial concubine Tong is mean, vicious, immoral, selfish and jealous. She murdered the emperor's heir. .”

After saying this, Rong Yue laughed sadly, stared at Tong Guowei with dark eyes, and seeing him seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, so she asked coldly, "Is father safe now?"

　Remark ①: Three high-fives in front of the hall is a ritual used by ancient families to sever ties with relatives.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)