Chapter 476: Two Heirs

The next morning, news of Xie Xiaoyu's suicide quickly spread throughout the temple!

Old Master Gu listened, first sighed, and then sneered: "Self-death? Do you think that self-destruction can remove the noble concubine? It's naive!"

However, soon he received another message.

Before Xie Xiaoyu committed suicide, someone bribed the jailer to visit him in prison.

Although the man was disguised, he couldn't hide his identity as a servant.

Then, Yanfu Palace drowned a young servant last night. This little servant did not serve in Chongchang Palace, but he was very familiar with Gu Zhen's dowry.

The news had already reached Xuanqing Palace, so the imperial concubine was kneeling in front of Yanfu Palace with all the heirs besides the Nine Emperor Daughters, asking Queen Gu Zhen to give an explanation.

What she did can’t be regarded as nonsense, after all: "No matter how serious the crime of the concubine’s elder brother is, as an official of the court, he should be dealt with by the national law. If the empress does not like the concubine’s concubine, why should he punish the concubine? The concubine's elder brother has come to a dead end? Could it be that the Gu family is higher than the law of the country?!"

He cried again, "According to the laws of the country, the concubine's elder brother could not escape death. Didn't the empress not even teach the concubine to see him for the last time?! The empress could not tolerate the concubine's elder brother being tried and convicted in an upright manner. Still don’t dare to let my concubine’s elder brother end it upright?!”

In Chongchang Palace, Gu Zhen was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood!

If the imperial concubine hadn't come to make trouble, she wouldn't even have known that a servant in her palace had drowned.

After all, as a queen, living alone in Yanfu Palace, there are many servants up and down.

How could Gu Zhen remember the rough envoys besides his close attendants?

As for the fact that the little servant is familiar with Gu Zhen's dowry... that's simply too normal!

Even if Gu Zhen is always overwhelmed by Yun Fenghuang, is it not a matter of course that she is the lord of the Sixth Palace, and her close servants are flattered by rough envoys?

Therefore, the queen's master and servant have never paid attention to this little servant. Just now, after questioning the queen, she realized that this little servant has never been very eye-catching. Therefore, I often get close to and courteous to the palace people who serve in the Chongchang Palace... All in all, among the many low-level palace people who are motivated, they are not outstanding at all.

The job he was in charge of was sweeping a remote yard, because there was no one living in that yard now, and few people usually went there, even if it wasn't cleaned up for a few days, the general manager wouldn't be able to notice it for a while.

On the contrary, this morning in a well commonly used by the palace people, I found him planted upside down, which caused a little uproar, so I quickly reported it to Gu Zhen!

But Gu Zhen didn't know the ins and outs at all. Hearing the words, she thought that the subordinates had suffered some kind of grievance. After all, as an old man who entered the palace when Chunjia got married, she had seen a lot of similar things. Will take care of it personally.

But at this moment, he just let the steward figure it out.

At first I thought it was just a small accident and it didn't matter, but who knew, Yun Fenghuang came to seek justice after him, the empress didn't know why, this is the imperial concubine screaming "catch the thief" again? !

She wanted to go out and argue with the imperial concubine, but both sides refused to ask her to show up, and tried hard to persuade her: "Your Majesty, calm down! Your Majesty, please calm down! Your Majesty, please don't fall into the scheme of Concubine Min! That Xie Xiaoyu committed a heinous crime, everyone in the court knows Concubine Min Gui has always been deep in the city, and she came here to make trouble just one night later, she must have a certain degree of certainty. The empress went out to meet her rashly, she fell into a trap instead!"

The most important thing is that in terms of eloquence, even ten Gu Zhen can't beat Yun Fenghuang!

Going here now is not only useless, but it doesn't make the queen angry for nothing. If Gu Zhen said something inappropriate in anger, Yun Fenghuang would catch her and make a big fuss, wouldn't it be troublesome?

All in all, the waiters coaxed and persuaded Gu Zhen to hold back, and finally saw the queen trembling with anger from Yun Fenghuang outside the palace who was getting more and more impassioned, and was discussing whether to call her sick? Who knew that Yun Fenghuang was the first to "pass out"!

This time was different from the past few times. In the past, Yun Fenghuang fainted alone, and the waiters were in a hurry.

Now there are many heirs of the emperor!

What is the nature of King Qin and Zhaoqing? That is the master who dared to speak rudely to Chunjia, and even punched and kicked him, how could he give up now!

Immediately, he rushed forward and hugged Yun Fenghuang and cried a few times. Seeing that the mother and concubine had her eyes closed and was unconscious, the two brothers and sisters didn't care about the cries of the other brothers and sisters, and rushed to the gate of the palace, clamoring to give to their mother. The concubine took revenge!

"Big Brother, Big Sister, we are young, and the queen mother is the aunt, so what if we go in?" At the critical moment, it was King Jin who held back the eldest brother and sister, and reminded, "We should tell Father the Emperor!"

So after a long while, the court meeting was held, and the old master Gu stood up. Before he had finished speaking, a palace official came in and reported that it was Concubine Min who could not kneel in front of Yanfu Palace because of "grievance" Excessive" and "delicate and weak" fainted on the spot, and the emperor's heirs were extremely sad and indignant, and now they came to Taichu Palace together, asking Chunjia to make decisions for their mother and concubine!

Chunjia's expression was very ugly, and she said, "What about the palace affairs, where is the empress?"

Old Master Gu didn't hear right, and quickly explained: "The Empress has been ill for a long time..."

"It is true that the empress has been ill for many days, but she can walk around in the past two days." But he is a foreign minister, how can anyone who is in front of the emperor know anything about the harem?

Immediately, a waiter bowed out of the line and told slowly, "Just now when the imperial concubine was kneeling in front of the Yanfu Palace, the empress was having a meal inside, she just listened to the persuasion from the left and right, so she didn't show up."

Chunjia said with a sullen face, "The children are here, does she know?"

The waiter hesitated for a while before saying: "I should know... because His Highness King Qin and Princess Zhaoqing said so openly in front of Yanfu Palace."

Then unless all the people in Yanfu Palace are deaf, how could they not be able to hear?

Hearing it, why didn't he tell the queen?

Chun Jia took a deep look at Old Master Gu, and said softly: "There are many doubts about Xie Xiaoyu, let the Imperial City Secretary and Dali Temple investigate thoroughly. As for the court meeting, if there is no major event, let's just let it go today."

He got up directly, pretending to go to see many emperor heirs.

"Your Majesty!" Old Master Gu's heart sank. He knew that the emperor would definitely favor Yun Fenghuang, but he never thought that his favoritism would be so obvious.

Originally, the noble concubine fainted, and the heirs of the emperor came to see the emperor to express their grievances. If the emperor directly blamed the empress, it would seem that he was too ruthless towards the Gu family.

But Chunjia said directly, this is a matter of the harem, does the queen not care about it?

This immediately put Gu Zhen at a disadvantage.

After all, the meaning of what the Son of Heaven said is that you, Gu Zhen, as a queen, whether it is the fainting of the imperial concubine or the agitation of the emperor's heirs, are your queen's responsibility!

However, the queen avoided it...

It's fine if she's really weak, but the problem is, she can go to the ground to eat, so she doesn't have the ability to go out and say a few words, and take charge of the overall situation? Or, summoned the concubine mother and son to admonish him? !

In short, if it is reasonable now, Gu Zhen himself is incompetent and irresponsible, and it is not the emperor's partiality.

Even Chunjia retreated early to appease the emperor's heirs at this moment, and still helped the queen deal with the aftermath!

"Your Majesty, the imperial concubine's concern is chaotic, but it's a misunderstanding!" The old master Gu said in a deep voice, "Dare to ask the minister and the empress, what reason do you have to kill Master Xie? If the minister and the empress only want to murder Xie The master, but why bother to bring the matter to the temple?!"

"Naturally, it is because there is no proof." Cui Wan stood up next to him, with a gloomy face, and said coldly, "Yesterday, the incident happened suddenly, and many evidences seemed to be seamless, but it was difficult to investigate and verify immediately. As a result, there is no one today. The truth How, but how will we know in the future? In this way, the son-in-law will be charged with killing his wife and son for the rest of his life, and even implicate the imperial concubine, concubine Sui'an, and Gu's wish has been fulfilled, isn't it?"

"You're spitting blood!!!" Old Master Gu shouted, "If you think you have any doubts, why didn't you raise them yesterday? In the final analysis, it's just irrational words!"

Cui Wan smiled coldly, and was about to reply, but who knew that another palace official came in at this time, wiping off cold sweat, and reported: "The third prince brought the sixth prince, the tenth prince, and the twelve princes to the Taichu Palace. To complain for the Empress... Now that the two groups of His Highness have met, they are about to fight!"

"His Royal Highness Princess Zhaoqing does not allow the palace guards to intervene, please show me your Majesty!"

No way, everyone knows that Chunjia's most beloved child is Zhaoqing.

Her Royal Highness is another domineering master.

She said that outsiders are not allowed to intervene, the palace guards really dare not do anything, this must let Chunjia do it.

Otherwise, even if it was for the good of the emperor's heirs, Zhao Qing would inevitably be punished afterwards.

After all, for Chunjia and Concubine Gui, the grievances of a mere lowly person can be compared with their golden branches and jade leaves?

Now Mrs. Gu can't keep Chunjia to reason: what if the emperor is pestered by him a bit late, and the phoenix son and grandson get into a fight, what if there is an accident?

Chunjia left in a hurry with a sullen face, and only asked later: "Is it true that the princes of the Central Palace are here?"

"Replying to His Majesty, it means he has come." The palace man said in a low voice, "And as soon as he came, he quarreled with His Royal Highness Princess Zhaoqing... If it wasn't for the third prince and His Royal Highness Prince Jin who persuaded and stopped each other, the tenth prince and Zhaoqing Her Royal Highness is about to start."

The emperor frowned when he heard the words, a little displeased: "How did the empress teach Xiao Shi? It's okay to be overbearing with the brothers, but why are you so rude to the elder sister! It is the eldest son of King Qin who grew up with Zhaoqing. Big, is also a spoiled and arrogant son-in-law, why doesn't he tolerate and defend Zhaoqing in every way? This child seems to be spoiled by the empress, and he doesn't know brotherhood at all!"

The palace people didn't dare to make a sound, but they were all speechless...

Because King Qin never gave way to Zhaoqing in the beginning, and even the brother and sister secretly fought for favor.

The reason why she is so tolerant towards Zhaoqing now is not because Princess Zhaoqing's disability has a certain relationship with King Qin. After that, King Qin was reminded of him and felt guilty.

For the other sisters, such as the second princess and the third princess, when did the King of Qin show a good face?

It's just that the people Chunjia gets along with the most are King Qin and Zhaoqing, so these two children are naturally more tolerant. Qin Wang and Zhaoqing were not giving in to each other when they were young, and in his eyes, they were somewhat innocent and mischievous.

But the tenth prince is different, the emperor doesn't have any feelings for the child's biological and adoptive mother.

At first, because of her status as the legitimate son, Chunjia secretly paid attention to it.

Ever since he stopped being entangled with his concubines, Yun Fenghuang gave him eye drops from time to time, implying that the tenth prince was domineering, that he disrespected the third prince and the King of Chu, and that he didn't love the twelve princes, and that even being close to his biological mother, he was fine. Yun Fenghuang calmly guided this child into a wolf-hearted dog, completely ignoring the hard work of the queen's upbringing... How did Chunjia have a good impression of this child?

"Go to two people and pull them away first, don't do anything, don't quarrel." Chunjia hurriedly left the court just now, but now she is not in a hurry to see her children, but plans to approve two memorials first, He only confessed, "Someone will tell them about the rules in Taichu Palace. If after half an hour, they have calmed down and become sensible, then bring them here for an audience."

His own flesh and blood are pets, and they are so old, it's time to establish rules.

When I was young, I often ran to myself and cried and yelled, which can also be said to be a kind of family happiness.

They are all children who have been in school for three or two years, but they still only cry, make trouble and hang themselves. They don't feel ashamed, and Chunjia feels disappointed: How is this reaction different from ordinary children?

What he wants is an heir who can take over his thousands of miles of rivers and mountains!

Watching the palace people go out to pass on the message, the emperor picked up the vermilion pen, opened a memorial, sighed, and comforted himself in his heart: the children are still young, maybe they will suddenly become enlightened in a year or two?

All in all, with a dozen sons, it's not like there isn't even one up-to-date, right? ? ?