Chapter 781
Just now Eunuch Chang came upstairs and saw a maid guarding the door of one of the rooms.
He recognized that it was the maid next to the Princess Jiaoyang. The maid was sneaky and very disturbed, as if she was helping others.
Eunuch Chang immediately ordered someone to quietly take down the maid, then put it on the door, and overheard the conversation between the King of Jingjun and the Princess of Jiaoyang. He happened to hear the sentence of the Princess of Jiaoyang--
"I'm so disappointed, please comfort me, okay?"
With that coquettish tone, coupled with these words, a fool can know what the two of them are doing in the house.
After being surprised, Eunuch Chang immediately ordered people to go downstairs and inform the emperor of the matter.
The emperor didn't think much about it, thinking that the two were meeting privately upstairs.
Although it is against the law of etiquette to give and receive privately, if the two are really interested in each other, it would be okay to give them a marriage.
Anyway, the emperor didn't have a good impression of these two people, so it was just right for them to get together, and it would also save others from harming others.
So he asked Eunuch Chang to pass the word, and directly called down the King of Jing County and the Princess of Jiaoyang.
King Jing and Princess Jiaoyang didn't look good when they came downstairs.
Especially the King of Jing County, his entire face was pale.
People who didn't know thought he was seriously ill.
At this time, the song just ended, and the dancers bowed and stepped back.
The emperor waved his hand, indicating that the musicians did not need to play any more music.
The chatter and laughter at the banquet also dropped.
King Jing and Princess Jiaoyang walked to the center of the hall and greeted the emperor.
Eunuch Chang walked quickly to the emperor, and relayed to the emperor word for word the content of the conversation he overheard on the second floor.
The emperor didn't react at first, but when he heard Eunuch Chang finished the last sentence, his face instantly sank, and his whole body seemed to be covered with a layer of frost, which was frighteningly cold.
His reaction was so great that Xiao Xixi couldn't help but stop eating and looked at him in surprise.
"Did something happen?"
Luo Qinghan didn't answer, staring coldly at Prince Jing and Princess Jiaoyang.
If their eyes could turn into knives, the two would have been splattered with blood on the spot.
When Princess Hua'an saw her daughter and King Jing came down from the second floor at the same time, she immediately had a bad premonition.
She stood up and said in a reproachful tone.
"Yuran, what's the matter with your child? Didn't you say you went upstairs to change clothes? Why did you come back at this time?"
Saying that, she is about to pull the Princess Jiaoyang back to her seat.
Luo Qing said coldly: "Auntie don't have to be impatient, I have a few words to ask Princess Jiaoyang."
The emperor has spoken, and no matter how uneasy Princess Hua'an is, she can only shut up and sit back angrily.
She can only pray silently in her heart now, hoping that her hunch was wrong, and that her daughter didn't make any trouble.
Luo Qinghan looked at the Princess Jiaoyang expressionlessly and asked coldly.
"Why are you upstairs with Prince Jing?"
His voice was as cold as ice, and the heart of Princess Jiaoyang felt agitated.
Even though she was used to publicity on weekdays, she couldn't help but feel scared at this time.
she said with a trembling voice.
"The minister and daughter have something to say and want to talk to King Jing alone, so I asked him to meet upstairs."
Luo Qinghan asked, "What do you want to tell him?"
The Princess Jiaoyang was trembling and couldn't answer.
She only dared to force a few words in private, and dared not say it in front of so many people. After all, she was just guessing, and there was no real evidence.
And her appearance of wanting to say and not daring to say it becomes a sign of guilty conscience in the eyes of others.
Everyone has long heard that Princess Jiaoyang is interested in Prince Jing, but now it seems that these two people have long since given each other privately.
No matchmaking, really shameless!
The people who came to the banquet today were all the royal clansmen. According to their seniority, most of the people present were the elders of King Jing and Princess Jiaoyang.
They looked at the two of them and shook their heads.
Princess Hua'an was furious.
She tried to stand up to speak for her daughter several times, but the emperor blocked her back with cold eyes.
The emperor did not let go, and no one dared to interrupt.
In the end, Princess Hua'an could only look at the Empress Dowager, her eyes full of help.
The Empress Dowager is really distressed for her daughter, she sighed and said.
"Your Majesty, today is the first day of the new year. It's not too late to talk about anything else later. Don't let this kind of thing spoil a good omen for a year."
If it were other trivial matters, the emperor would be willing to give this face to the empress dowager.
But it shouldn't be absolutely wrong. The Princess Jiaoyang and the King of Jing County should not throw dirty water on the imperial concubine.
Thinking of the words that the Princess Jiaoyang said that the imperial concubine had an affair with the King of Jing County, every word seemed to be poisoned and full of malice.
If those words were allowed to spread, no matter if they were true or false, it would be an indelible stigma for the imperial concubine.
Luo Qinghan will never let people have the opportunity to hurt the imperial concubine.
He didn't even look at the Empress Dowager, and ordered coldly.
"The King of Jing County and the Lord of Jiaoyang County gave and received privately, without matchmaking, filthy the palace and disturbed the ancestral etiquette.
Deprived of the title of Jiaoyang County Lord, demoted to County Lord, he was fined for three months behind closed doors.
The King of Jingjun was demoted to the king of the county, and he hit the top 20 boards! "
When this statement came out, everyone present was shocked.
The King of Jing County has just been downgraded from prince to county king. How long has it been since this time?
The speed of this demotion is too fast!
Not to mention having to suffer twenty big boards.
The King of Jingxian County is also a prince after all. He grew up pampered, and it is impossible for him to leave the door within a year and a half after these 20 big boards.
The point is to be beaten in front of so many clan members, what a shame!
Princess Hua'an couldn't sit still anymore, got up in a hurry, and begged eagerly.
"Your Majesty, for the sake of Yu Ran's youth and ignorance, please spare her this time."
Xia Yuran was so frightened that she slumped on the ground, her face as white as paper.
She heard her mother's words, like waking up from a dream, she knelt down quickly, crying and begging for mercy.
"It's the minister's daughter who is wrong. The minister's daughter shouldn't be fooling around. I beg Your Majesty's mercy, and I beg Your Majesty's mercy!"
Luo Yanzhi also knelt down, enduring the humiliation and begging the emperor for mercy.
However, no matter how they interceded, the emperor did not intend to raise his hand.
Two vigorous eunuchs came in, dragged Luo Yanzhi out, and beat the boards one after another.
The emperor did not let Luo Yanzhi's mouth be blocked, and let his shouts echo in the hall.
Everyone present was silent.
The atmosphere was extremely depressing.
The Empress Dowager was annoyed when she saw that the emperor didn't even give her own face, but she didn't want to quarrel with the emperor in front of so many people, so she left early on the grounds of lack of energy to keep her eyes out of sight.
The others actually wanted to leave, but the emperor was still sitting there.
The emperor does not move, who dares to leave?
So everyone can only bite the bullet and continue to sit.
Outside the hall, Luo Yanzhi's shouting continued, one after another, especially miserable.
Xia Yuran was trembling all over, and she was too scared.
She knew that the reason why the emperor made such a fuss was not because of her personal exchange with Luo Yanzhi, but because of what she said to Luo Yanzhi.
The words she said involved the imperial concubine.
The emperor is standing up for power.
He wanted Xia Yuran to understand what to say and what not to say.
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In the text, it is set that Wang Jue is divided into three grades, the prince is the highest, followed by the county king, and finally the county king, and then there is no more.
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