Chapter 76: A Blow of Defiance

"What did she go to the court for?" The aunt and nephew were a little stunned upon hearing this.

After the concubine left, the anger on Mrs. Ji's back quickly disappeared, and she said thoughtfully at this moment, "Concubine Xian is cunning and suspicious, she probably didn't simply ask for help... After all, Chunjia's son in front of him must also be in a state of distress. She It is not purely through sex or family background, but because of deep scheming and being able to seek advice from His Majesty."

"That's why I'm determined not to show that I'm in a crisis and my future is uncertain..."

"Could it be, what did you do to her just now?"

Empress Ji frowned and said: "But just now she was just messing around here. If we didn't intend to take her down on the spot today, we would have arranged for her to stay in the cold palace, so that I could wake up. "

The Empress Dowager said: "If we take her down today, at most we will clean up her and Mrs. Xie. How can this be possible?"

She sighed, "Don't forget, she is the daughter of the Yun family now, and the Yun family, who are always loyal to the emperor, are also our enemies! Since this lowly maidservant has a relationship with the Yun family, the eldest prince under her knee is still the grandson of Duke Yi , how can we not make good use of it, and let her spit out what she owed us in the past, even the principal and interest?"

"Auntie, Concubine Xian is always cunning. I just wanted to keep the matter of Xie Fenghuan as a second hand. As a result, she quickly made His Majesty clarify it for her. This trick is useless." Empress Ji hesitated for a while. , or said, "This time... I don't think you should delay?"

Empress Dowager Ji calmly said: "Can this be the same? Before, they prepared it; now, we prepared it. And..."

She glanced at Empress Ji with some inexplicable meaning, "Do you think we'll take down the Yun family today and send him to the Leng Palace? How long can we keep him in prison? When Chunjia comes down from the court and knows the news, I'm afraid we'll look for it." There is a reason to take people back.”

"This time and again, at most, it will make her suffer a little bit. What's the use in practice? It will also scare the snake, making her and Chunjia more vigilant."

"But although the accusation was made by witnesses and material evidence just now, it didn't do anything to her in the end."

"If you were her, what would you think after going out? It must be that we haven't made up our minds yet, or that we are afraid of falling out with Chunjia, so we don't dare to kill her... It's just that Beat the side drums, the kind to help the front court."

"In this way, she will contact Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Yun to consider countermeasures."

Empress Dowager Ji's eyes flickered with murderous intent, "As long as she does this, the proofs we prepared before can be held against her as a matter of course! Last year's summer banquet, this lowly maid entrapped Mu Zi, making us the dignified daughter of the Ji family Not to mention that once she was demoted to a low-ranking concubine, she herself stepped on Mu Zi to seal Jieyu... Although she helped persuade Chunjia to restore Mu Zi's concubine status, she only gave it to Jieyu. He was also given the title of 'Kang', making Mu Zi live in the palace and not allowed to go out, and concentrate on praying for the well-being of the two lowly maidservants of the Yuan family and the Qu family... When did my Ji family suffer such humiliation?!"

"You don't have to worry, Aijia won't make it easy for her!"

"...Yes." Empress Ji really wants to say, I don't want this lowly servant girl to feel better, the question is, can it be done?

She always felt a little uncertain in her heart, suspected that Yun Fenghuang had gone to the previous court, and was afraid that there would be some trouble again...

Just as he was thinking about it, he saw a member of the palace come in with a pale face and report: "The Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager, it's not good, there is a change in the future!!!"

"What did that lowly servant girl of the Yun family say?!" Not only did Empress Ji's complexion change slightly upon hearing the words, Empress Dowager Ji also straightened her back with a dignified expression, and asked.

As a result, the palace man said in a daze: "Is the concubine Xian going to court? I just ran back from the Taichu Palace. I haven't met anyone in our palace on the way, but I don't know... It's just that the court has already become a mess at this moment. Ye Guogong was even chased and beaten by Yi Guogong in public... this..."

Ji's aunt and nephew were at a loss when they heard this, and they repeatedly scolded her to speak clearly——

After all, they are the palace servants who are responsible for spreading the news. Although they were very shocked, they calmed down a little, and told them in detail how wonderful the meeting is today.

At first, it was Mrs. Ji who brought up Dengwen's drum again and urged Chunjia to tell the result.

Chunjia refused on the grounds that it was not yet the appointed time today, and said that the person who beat the Dengwen drum was just a woman who came from afar, her character is unknown, and if her words are true or not, she should send someone to her hometown to carefully examine her. Carefully search, confirm, and then make a plan.

Otherwise, if the emperor interrogates himself, it turns out to be just a woman's opinion, and the truth is completely different. Wouldn't this be a joke?

The more he refused, the more Ji insisted—in short, the two sides were fighting each other, and in the end, Ji quoted the teachings of the former emperors and forced Chunjia to intervene in person according to the rules, um, and at the same time. .

Chao Jingyou was directly summoned to the palace of the Great Dynasty, and the trial was held in front of all civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.

And then...then, the daughters of Chao and Qi, who had placed great hopes on the Ji family, had bargained with them countless times in private, and were repeatedly confirmed to have deep feuds with Yun Fenghuang, were brought to the back of the palace, and they saluted after a while. When it was time to cry about the persecution of Concubine Xian and Mrs. Xie on her and her husband, he turned his face mercilessly on the spot and changed it to crying about the persecution of her natal husband's family and many big families in the Northland by Mrs. Ji.

The content includes but is not limited to murdering her husband Qi Jiulu several times: "Although the poor husband was engaged to the daughter of the Xie family under the auspices of the family in the early years, it was when he was still young and not sensible. After the two families broke up the engagement, Although the relationship is a bit weaker, but after all, there is a reason for the incident and we are both in the hometown, and the marriage between the previous two generations is still there, so what kind of grievances can there be, to the point of being murdered?"

"As for the relationship between the poor husband and the virtuous concubine, it was originally innocent, and there was nothing to do with it three years ago!"

"When the news of the virtuous concubine's entry into the palace spread to the Northland, the women's natal husband's family even sent congratulatory gifts to the Xie family. And the poor husband married the women last year, and now he has a daughter under his knees, and there are several people in the back house. Concubines are all good-looking, just like peaches and plums. If there is no such unexpected disaster, I think they will have both children in the blink of an eye!"

"Xie's disciples still call me 'Brother' when they see my humble husband, but why would they need to kill my humble husband for the sake of the virtuous concubine?!"

"This is all Ji's doing!!!"

When Chao's first excused Yun Fenghuang and Xie's, people from Ji's faction already felt that something was wrong.

It's just that it's hard to scold under the eyes of everyone, and I can't bear it any longer after hearing this: "How dare you do this, cheap maid!!! What does this have to do with the Ji family?!"

Similarly, Chao Jingyou was much stronger than the three Empress Dowager Ji brought into Mianfu Palace to confront Yun Fenghuang.

...After all, her opponent since she was a child is Yun Fenghuang, who has made countless noble people feel ashamed since she first entered the palace.

Although she basically never won in Yun Fenghuang's hands, the number of times she was treated aggressively was really so much that she became numb.

She refuted it without fear: "The Ji family intended to murder the virtuous concubine, and used the Xie family to stir up disputes in the North, so he murdered the humble husband, forced the concubine and the concubine's family to make the same statement, and came to the imperial capital to knock on the news Drum, false accusation above! The concubine and his family didn't intend to do such an act of distorting black and white, but the Ji family was fierce, and the concubine's Chao family and her husband's Qi family were not high-ranking families, so they were powerless to resist, so they could only pretend to submit !"

"I was lucky enough to see Tianyan today, so I naturally want to tell the truth. Please be aware of the details and save the common people like women from fire and water. Dare I ask this lord, if you were in the position of the women's family, what would you do?" Do?!"

The official who scolded said angrily: "That's not what you said the day you knocked on Dengwengu..."

Before she finished speaking, she felt something was wrong, but Chao Jingyou sneered and sarcastically said: "After the Dengwen drum was beaten that day, the women were brought into the palace to question carefully, and then they were told not to reveal any details. Japanese women are cautious in their words and deeds, even the nurses who watched the women grow up never told a single word. Presumably, the palace people who serve in the palace are more cautious than the women."

"But I don't know how this lord learned that what the women said that day is different from what they say today?"

Without giving the official a chance to defend himself, Chunjia ordered the soldiers to take him out and question him on the charge of "peeping into the palace".

The hearts of everyone in Ji's faction were sinking, not just for the officials who had just been dragged out, not just for Chao Jingyou's sudden defection, but also for - they never thought that Chao Jingyou would defect!

I don't even understand when Chunjia left this hand?

You must know that if you thoroughly investigate Yun Fenghuang's footsteps, everyone knows that she and Chao Shi Jingyou have been fighting since childhood, and both of them have a deep love for Qi Jiulu. And the repulsion and alienation in order to make Yun Fenghuang happy.

Ever since being pressured by her family to marry her, her attitude has changed drastically, as if she was regarded as a life and death enemy!

From Chao Jingyou's standpoint, no matter how you think she hates Yun Fenghuang deeply, she should love and hate Qi Jiulu.

Under such circumstances, the Ji family extended an olive branch, promising to eradicate Yun Fenghuang and the Xie family, so that Chao Jingyou, who had been oppressed by Yun Fenghuang, would have a chance to turn around, and it would also help him increase his momentum and be recognized by the family. The weight also made Qi Jiulu dare not treat her slowly... Shouldn't it be a matter of course to reap the gratitude and hard work of this woman? !

In the end, what did Chao Jingyou sell the Ji family without blinking an eye?

At this moment, the members of the Ji family headed by Lord Ye felt the same kind of panic that Yun Fenghuang had in front of Chunjia earlier: When did he do it? Why did he do this? How much does he know? What else would he do? He... He, he, he, he has seen it for a long time, but he just couldn't hold back?

Did he know what happened next, and just waited to expose it on the spot? ? ?

Is our arrangement still useful? ? ?

Even Ye Guogong, a veteran minister who has experienced four dynasties, has a moment of intense mood swings at this moment.

"Duke Ye." Ji was speechless for a while, but Chunjia on the throne would not let go of the opportunity to add insult to injury, and asked by name, "What Chao said, do you want to defend yourself?"