Chapter 73: Empress Dowager Attacks
Yun Fenghuang was slightly at a loss for words when she heard the words, if she knew, why would she come to test her?
But it would seem too insensitive to directly say something that I don’t know—so I turned my mind and said vaguely: “Mr. Watch Your Majesty turn the tide and turn the tide!"
Chunjia looked at her with a smile, as if waiting for her to explain in detail.
However, Yun Fenghuang couldn't guess for a while, so he changed the subject decisively, and said: "Your Majesty, the Ji family has been quiet for many years, and it is definitely not the only two things that happened to the Wang Ling and the Chao family's coming. I am afraid there is still a backhand."
"At this time, I have to win over Luo Shi and his ilk."
"Why don't you issue an edict today to promote Luo Hanyi and Ouyang Fulu back to the concubine position?"
"It's just that when Ji Muzi was promoted to Jieyu, the reason was to pray for the blessings of the two empress dowagers. If there is no reliable reason to promote the Luo family and Ouyang family at this time, it will inevitably be asked by Ji to let them The two of them are also closed to the palace, praying all day long."
"You have to find a suitable excuse."
Chunjia pondered: "Does Aifei have any ideas?"
Yun Fenghuang had no idea and would not say this: "Since the Liang family entered the Yanlan Palace, they said that the Luo family's destiny is beneficial to the descendants of the Liang family. For the emperor's heir, he will be gracious. As for the Ouyang family, just How about rewarding the veterans? This will not only make the elder of the Ouyang family appreciate God's grace, but also embarrass the Ji family."
After all, Ouyang Yanran was managed by the Ji family.
As a result, when he came back to court, not only was he immediately summoned and reused, but because of him, he promoted his granddaughter in the palace... For the Ouyang family, it was as proud as it was, but for the Ji family, it was a humiliation .
If this was normal, Chunjia was not the kind of sharp-edged emperor, maybe she wouldn't be so irritating to the Ji family.
But the Ji family even disturbed the royal tombs of the lineage of the Fuyang king from whom he was born, so why is he being polite?
He's just used to forbearance, but it's not that he has no temper!
At this moment, after a little thought, he agreed, and ordered to reward the second concubine with something as a show of favor.
Of course, because he said so in front of Yun Fenghuang, it was necessary to give Xuanqing Palace a share.
Yun Fenghuang thanked him with a smile, afraid that he would continue to test himself, so he acted coquettishly and foolishly, and soon the emperor had no time to think about it.
Putting this day aside, when she was dressing up the next morning, the Qing people told her: "Your Majesty, tomorrow will be the day when you order your wife to enter the palace for an audience. The Thirteenth Young Madam sent someone to say that she is still I'm very sick, but I dare not enter the palace to disturb you here. Therefore, I want to ask Mrs. Gu to take Miss Sun with me."
During this period of time, Yun Fenghuang had so many things on his mind that he almost forgot that his sister-in-law was like a "daughter-like" niece. Hearing this, he sighed: "My sister-in-law was fine before when they were brothers and sisters, why is this so?" The first time you have to toss like this? Let the imperial doctor who asked for our pulse take a look later."
The Qing people smiled and said: "The young lady has been watched by a doctor all the time, saying that there is no serious problem. Maybe the young lady came to the imperial capital because she was not convinced by the climate. It will be fine after a while. Now is the time, how many One thing is worse than one thing less. After all, this is not the first time for the young lady, so there must be nothing serious."
This is the difference between a sister-in-law and a sister with close blood relatives. If Xie Fenghuan was still there, Yun Fenghuang might insist on letting the imperial physician go to see her, as a precautionary measure. But since she is sister-in-law... Now that she and her family really need to be cautious in words and deeds to avoid being found by Mrs. Ji, Yun Fenghuang pondered for a while, and agreed.
Just ordered: "Find out some nourishing things, and when my aunt and the others come tomorrow, ask them to bring some back to my sister-in-law to nourish her body."
She still cares about her natal sister-in-law, but when she greeted her today, the Empress Dowager Ji raised her eyebrows: "Mr. Yun, are you guilty!?"
Yun Fenghuang sat on the seat without moving, with an innocent face: "Empress Dowager, I don't know who I am."
"Who taught the Yun family the rules before entering the palace?" Seeing her attitude, the Empress Dowager Ji immediately asked her left and right, "The elder scolded her, but he didn't move like a mountain, and taught the rules to the three-foot white silk!"
"Empress Dowager, please calm down." Yun Fenghuang laughed lightly, finally got up and left his seat, blessed her, and said in a soft voice, "I was hired by the Empress Dowager to enter the palace, how could she be such an unruly person? It's just that the Empress Dowager came to ask questions suddenly, and there was no evidence, and I was at a loss, not knowing why, so I was a step too late, and I didn't get up in time!"
The implication is that if you can't stick to the rules of the palace, then first ask your aunt and mother-in-law if there is something wrong with her eyesight? Furthermore, Ben Gong was only a little slow in responding, and your questioning is not necessarily in line with the rules!
The Empress Dowager Ji heard what she meant, and her tone was cold: "Mr. Yun, you are used to sophistry. If you don't have any evidence, how can you waste your words and teach you a lesson?!"
"Did you know about the sounding of the Dengwen Drum this time?!"
"Return to the Empress Dowager's words." Yun Fenghuang said, "I have heard about it."
Empress Dowager Ji snorted and said, "Then what does Chao Shi have to do to beat Dengwen Drum, do you also know?"
Yun Fenghuang said softly: "Your Majesty, I don't know much about this concubine. After all, this happened in the previous dynasty. I live in the palace, and everyone knows the news. Speaking, those who have nothing to do with the concubine, the concubine has been busy these two days, but I have no time to inquire."
"It's so unclear!" Empress Dowager Ji sneered and said, "The Ai family knows that you won't cry when you see the coffin!"
Just order people, "Go and bring it up!"
After a while, the palace servants brought in three trembling men dressed as Li Shu.
Seeing them, Yun Fenghuang's face remained normal, but the fingers in his sleeves tightened subconsciously.
The three of them were first led to salute under Dan Chi, the Empress Dowager didn't call out, but asked them: "Do you recognize the concubine Xian?"
"Return to the queen mother's words." Hearing the words, the three raised their heads, squinted at Yun Fenghuang quickly, and immediately kowtowed, "I recognize it. This is the young lady who came out of the fourth house of the head of the villa, and the rank is seventeen. "
One of the women said: "In the words of the Empress Dowager, the servant girl has served in the Qi family's ancestral house in the north for twenty years. It can be said that I watched her grow up. Although her brows and eyes have grown a lot, they are still the same as before."
Empress Dowager Ji asked quietly: "Concubine Xian, what about you? Do you know them too?"
Yun Fenghuang's expression was very relaxed: "Empress Dowager, although the Xie family is vastly different from the Ji family, it can still be regarded as a family that has called slaves and servants for generations. As a concubine, I am the only concubine daughter of my parents. They were surrounded by a large group of people. At that time, I was young and ignorant, and I didn't care much about the people around me. I don't have any impression of these two men. I vaguely remember meeting this woman."
Before Empress Dowager Ji could speak to the woman, she smiled and said, "About five or six years ago, your errands went wrong, and Qi's mistress punished you, and I heard that you were driven to the Zhuangzi later. , As a result, your daughter's marriage has been delayed... Is it you? But five or six years ago, I was only about ten years old, and I was taken by the elders to visit the Qi family when I was four or five years old. From now on, it’s not like you watched him grow up, right?”
The woman panicked when she heard the words, and she was very afraid of being suspicious: "The queen mother is asked to be the master of the servant girl. Although the servant girl was punished at the beginning, she was willing and did not have the slightest thought of resenting the master's family... The maidservant Although the daughter's marriage..."
"Shut up!" Empress Dowager Ji frowned slightly, very dissatisfied with the woman's lack of composure, stopped her with a sullen face, and said, "People are not sages and sages, there are too many servants in this palace who have been beaten by their masters." If we go, don’t we all have resentment towards the masters?! Can the rules still be passed?! Can the masters live a good life?! Don’t mention those old sesame seeds and rotten millet!”
"Aijia only asks you, is what you said before true or false?!"
The woman heard the intention of defending, she breathed a sigh of relief, wiped her cold sweat and nodded vigorously: "It's true, true! Empress Dowager, what the maid said is absolutely not false!"
Empress Ji on the side of the queen mother coughed dryly: "Since it is true, then tell it and let everyone listen to what is going on."
In fact, without the woman saying it, Yun Fenghuang can guess the general plot: it is nothing more than that the two men are from the Xie family, they are the sons of the Xie family, and this woman is an old servant served by the Qi family.
The reason why the three of them appeared in the imperial capital thousands of miles away was because they were all involved in one thing: Qi Jiulu was ambush and his life was in danger.
The version of the sons of the two Xie families is: their family has served Xie for generations. Because of their quick work and loyalty, some things that are not easy to spread will be assigned to them.
"In the past few years, the villain's father and brother, and the dissidents who have been secretly eradicated by the Xie family are not one or two. Among them, the Chao family in the North... the Chen family... the Zhou family..."
First, he listed many dirty jobs he had done for the Xie family in the past, proving his ability and the trust he received. At the end, his tone was filled with panic, "But the villains never thought that the master... the master would even set up the Northern Army... Dingbei All the captains in the army... Although Captain Qi had a marriage contract with my young lady, that is all in the past. Little people have never dared to talk too much, but thinking that this move is to kill officials, it is tantamount to Rebellion, I am really uncertain!"
"That's why I was so bold that I persuaded the people who came from the master's house a few times, and wanted to ask the master to dispel such thoughts."
"Unexpectedly, the master's family was furious when they heard the words. Not only did the father who came forward to persuade him be whipped twenty times as a punishment, but he also strictly ordered the villains not to make mistakes, and Xiaowei Qi must be killed!"
"The master's expression was agitated at the time, and he said something in a fit of anger. The villains didn't quite understand it. They only knew what the master meant. Captain Qi has a great relationship with my young lady. If he doesn't die, my young lady's future is in danger!"
"As for why this is so, the villains dare not ask again..."
"Afterwards, under the urging of the master's family, the villains set up an ambush outside Yanzhou City, trying to shoot and kill Qi Xiaowei... but Qi Xiaowei rode and shot. Exquisite, after being hit by the arrow, he still broke out of the siege... The villains had to go back and apologize .”
"Originally, the master's order was not fulfilled, and it was natural to be beaten and punished, but he didn't want to, and the master wanted to silence him."
"The poor little man has a family of more than twenty people who have worked hard for the Xie family for many years, but only the two brothers of the little man escaped by chance!"
Speaking of this, the man who spoke broke down in tears, "The villain owed a lot of blood to Mrs. Xie's hands, so let's pay it off. Why should the villain's mother and wife be kind to others all their lives, and have never done anything wrong, but they have to die tragically under the knife of the master's family?" !?"
"How unfair Xie's treatment of the villain's family is!"
"Even if suing the master as a servant is an act of breaking the norms, risking the lives of the villain and the two brothers - we must seek justice for the whole family!!!"
While talking, the two brothers looked up at Yun Fenghuang regardless of the rules, their eyes were split open, and their hatred was overwhelming!
Empress Dowager Ji quietly chimed in: "Mr. Yun, are you now convicted?"
"The empress dowager just said that people are not sages and sages can do nothing." Yun Fenghuang didn't answer this question, but raised an eyebrow at the two men at the bottom, and said, "It's good for you, you keep saying that your mother and wife have never done anything wrong." Anything wrong, is it questioning the empress dowager face to face, or is it deliberately trying to make things difficult for the empress dowager?"
The two brothers froze when they heard the words, and they were a little at a loss.
The original aggressiveness subsided as quickly as the tide ebbed—the Empress Dowager Ji’s face darkened, and she almost scolded “idiots” on the spot, but fortunately, the empress helped to remedy it, and said in a manly voice: “Concubine Xian, such trivial matters , It’s not too late to discuss later. But you answered your mother’s question first, after all, this is a big deal!”