Marriage Princess: The Alluring Concubine of the Evil Emperor

Chapter 204 is the handwriting of Concubine Shang Gui

Zhang Taifu smiled slightly, "Your Majesty, let the old ministers compare one by one."

He spread out the two copies of text and pointed, "Your Majesty, please see that this is a Chinese script. This Buddhist scripture was copied by the princess. There is no doubt that it came from the princess's hand. The last stroke, the princess is habitual. At the tip of the tail, draw a stroke, but the stroke is very clever, if you don't look carefully, you can't see it, the emperor sees these words, do they have strokes?"

The emperor leaned over to take a look. Indeed, the closing brush of the characters was slightly hooked. Because the force was very light, there were only vague traces, but it could still be seen if you looked closely.

Zhang Taifu pushed the brocade silk up, pointed to the characters on it, and said: "Look here again, Your Majesty, there are two characters in this brocade. Its focus is heavy, and it can be contained as soon as it is contained."

The emperor looked at it, and it was true.

Taifu also pointed out other characters, and compared them one by one from the beginning to the end, there are indeed differences.

Concubine Shang Gui didn't believe it, and said coldly: "Teacher, the handwriting of these two copies is exactly the same, but you said no, do you know that what you said may mislead the emperor and ruin the princess's life's happiness."

The Taifu smiled slightly, "Your concubine, I am not talking nonsense. These are all well-founded. A person's writing habits will not change. Even if they deliberately imitate, there will always be traces."

Concubine Shang Gui said: "Since the Taifu said so, well, I will write a copy, and let other people write a few copies, and see if the Taifu can find out which one was written by me."

Zhang Taifu smiled and said: "My lady, please write!"

Concubine Shang immediately went to the wing room next to the imperial study, and asked Mr. Qi to go there with her. She also found a few maidservants in the palace, and then ordered someone to go to her palace to fetch the Buddhist scriptures copied earlier, and compare them later.

After the time for a stick of incense passed, Concubine Shang took out a stack of rice paper with the Heart Sutra written on it, and the palace servants also went back to the palace to get her original ones.

She put it on the table and said to Zhang Taifu: "Zhang Taifu, this was originally written by Bengong, and one of these was written just now. Let's see if you can find out which one is written by Bengong?"

Zhang Taifu said: "Your concubine, please wait a moment, and the old minister will compare slowly."

The emperor sat next to him, looking at at least seven or eight copies of the Heart Sutra. At first glance, the handwriting was very similar.

Zhang Taifu took the single photos, compared them slowly, and finally pushed out one, "This one should be copied by the empress."

Lord Qi said indifferently: "Master Zhang, do you want to choose again? This obviously doesn't look like it."

Zhang Taifu shook his head with a smile, "Lord Qi, you don't need it, just this one."

Master Qi sneered, "Teacher Zhang is so sure? This one looks too different from the one that your concubine originally copied. Is it possible?"

The emperor also said: "Yes, if the Tai Tuo doesn't identify it carefully, this should not be the case."

Zhang Taifu shook his head, "Your Majesty, there is no need, the old minister can be sure that this copy was written by your concubine."

The emperor couldn't help being a little disappointed, "Oh, really?"

However, he still looked up at Concubine Shang Gui, "Did you write this copy?"

Concubine Shang Gui nodded, "Return to the emperor, this is written by my concubine."

The emperor looked at her in surprise, "You wrote it?"

Concubine Shang Gui was silent for a moment, and said: "Teacher, you are really powerful, but, this Palace has deliberately written a big difference from the original handwriting, how did you see it?"

Zhang Taifu said with a smile: "Your Majesty, just now the old minister has said that no matter how much a person's handwriting is imitated, there are traces that can be seen, especially if your concubine imitates so deliberately, there will be more traces."

"However, they all look similar," said the emperor.

"The rest of these copies should all be written by Lord Qi. I have read Lord Qi's manuscript and can recognize it. This is Lord Qi's handwriting. Although it looks similar to your concubine's handwriting, there is still a difference. Mr. Qi writes forcefully, closes the pen neatly, tries to imitate the beauty of women's handwriting, and the traces are revealed, and the first sentence shows the traces, "Guanzi Bodhisattva", the word "Bodhisattva", whenever the word "Bodhisattva" is horizontal, the strokes are drawn very hard It is neat, and look at the copy that your concubine originally copied, the horizontal lines are closed, and the tip of the tail is thinner, which is a woman's usual habit of writing."

Zhang Taifu frowned suddenly after speaking, the emperor saw this and asked: "What's the matter?"

Zhang Taifu took out the brocade silk, compared it with the Buddhist scriptures copied by Shang Guifei, tapped it twice, and said: "This brocade silk seems to be written by your concubine."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was shocked.

The emperor quickly raised his head and stared at Concubine Shang, his eyes were filled with anger.

Concubine Shang Gui's face turned pale, "You are talking nonsense, where did I write this?"

Zhang Taifu didn't speak, just bowed his head to appraise, after appraising for a long time, raised his head and said firmly: "Your Majesty, I can conclude that the words on this brocade silk are indeed from the hands of your concubine."

Lord Qi said angrily: "It's full of nonsense, this is clearly the handwriting of Princess Xiaoru."

"No, the old minister can take the head of the item as a guarantee. This is indeed written by your concubine." Zhang Taifu said.

The emperor stared at Concubine Shang Gui, "I will give you a chance, if you tell the truth, I will punish you lightly."

Concubine Shang Gui yelled at being wronged, and said: "Your Majesty, he lied, this was not written by my concubine."

Zhang Taifu shook his head, "Your concubine, let alone these words, just this brocade should be from the silkworm brocade in Shuzhou. This silkworm brocade is only produced four pieces a year, and all of them are sent to the palace. They are tributes. might have."

"This, this, who knows if there will be silkworm brocades as dowry?" Concubine Shang Gui was a little flustered.

The emperor immediately shouted angrily, "Axi!"

"Here!" Eunuch Xi hurried forward.

"Check it out, which palaces are all the silkworm brocades distributed this year?" the emperor ordered.

Eunuch Xi replied: "Back to the emperor, I paid tribute to four horses in total this year, one from the ancestor's palace, one from the queen's palace, one from the imperial concubine's palace, and the remaining one was given to Ningfu Palace. .”

The emperor's face was full of anger, and he said sharply: "What else can you say?"

Concubine Shang Gui knelt on the ground with a thud, and said in panic, "Your Majesty, this concubine didn't mean to deceive, this... this was written by this concubine, but Yili did give a share to this concubine at first, but I don't know why later. It’s gone, the concubine has no choice but to rewrite it.”

The emperor was furious, "Now that things have happened, you still want to bite Yi'er? All the confessions point to the fact that Yi'er never gave you any brocade."

"No," Concubine Shang cried, "Your Majesty, the concubine did not wrong her, she really gave it to the concubine."

Hearing this, Qinghe knelt down with a face full of grievances, "Concubine Shangmu, Yi'er doesn't know why you always hate me so much. When I was in Suhe Palace in the past, I asked myself if I had never contradicted you..."

"Shut up!" Shang Guifei saw her pitiful look, and remembered her face in the cold palace that day, and suddenly became furious, "Why are you pretending to be pitiful? You were arrogant that day, saying that everything was designed by you , saying that Xiaoru ordered someone to poison her on the way to Beimo, which disfigured her..."

"Enough!" The emperor was furious, "It seems that punishing you to the cold palace obviously didn't make you reflect on your mistakes, and it got worse after you came out. I see, if you don't punish you well this time, you will still be punished in the future." Gotta make waves."

(End of this chapter)