Chapter 229 Reversal

In fact, the monarchs and ministers did not really believe the words of the heads of the Luo family and the Meng family.

After all, the Gu family is not out of their minds. Even if it is true that Gu Zhen murdered the king of Chu in order to make the prince with Gu's blood into the East Palace, the left and right Chu kings are already stupid, and his biological mother is also from a humble background. It doesn't necessarily mean going to war. But in the imperial capital, sending dead soldiers to attack the ancestral houses of two important ministers, killing people and setting fire to them... This is what will push the whole family down the road to ruin!

The ministers are more interested in the conclusive evidence of the two families that the queen murdered the king of Chu.

Just not sure what the emperor was thinking, several important ministers carefully chose to keep silent.

At such a time, it is natural to ask for the ins and outs in order to gain a position or to show up in a stunned way.

The Patriarch of the Luo family said: "I only learned about this recently! The main reason is that the Empress has always had a respectful reputation, who would think of her like that? When the Second Empress was still in front of Concubine Jing, she also occasionally felt cold. But because of the example of His Highness the King of Chu, Concubine Jing is in a hurry..."

Hearing this, Chunjia looked at Yan Yin beside him, and seeing Yan Yin nodding his head calmly, he knew that there was indeed such a thing.

He has a lot of work to do every day, and when he has a little spare time, the harem and concubines will divide it up in sevens and eights, and those who can be distributed to the children are really only those who can enjoy the glory of their respective mothers, stepmothers and concubines.

Concubine Jing has not been favored many times in the past two years, how can she take care of the second emperor?

Besides, she is not the biological mother of the second emperor, and she doesn't expect this cheap daughter to bring her any benefits when she grows up. Every time Chunjia passes by, she certainly won't say that she is like the noble concubine Defei, who specially brings the topic to the child body, or arrange for the child to come out to win Chunjia's favor.

So Chunjia's impression of her daughter-in-law this time is still more vivid when he personally intervened in the schoolwork in the side hall of the Taichu Palace before the emperor's heirs formally enrolled.

But I also remember that this daughter is not as smart and beautiful as Zhaoqing, she is a relatively silent and even a bit dull child.

He even prefers concubines who are smart and quick-witted, and of course his sons and heirs also like cunning and clever ones.

Take Zhaoqing for example.

The second princess was pale in comparison, so Chunjia didn't pay much attention.

Of course, he didn't feel much distress when he heard that the second emperor's daughter had contracted a cold, even to the point of alarming Concubine Jing. He just confirmed that the Luo family and his daughter did not just talk about it.

The Patriarch of the Luo family described in detail Concubine Jing's importance and love for the Second Emperor, and finally said: "At that time, for the sake of the Second Emperor, Concubine Jing sent the palace people to inquire about ways to reduce fever, and then someone heard about a folk prescription from the Central Palace. After giving it to the second emperor's daughter, the second emperor's daughter fell into a coma instead! The concubine Jing was in a hurry, and the imperial doctor later saw it, saying that this folk remedy seemed reasonable, but in fact it would make the second emperor's evil wind enter her body, making it even worse ... Concubine Jing was in a hurry to treat the second princess at that time, so she didn't think much about it. After hearing about it a few days ago, she felt that something was wrong, but she found out that when His Royal Highness the King of Chu contracted a cold in the palace, the empress Among the antipyretic methods used by the empress, there is the folk prescription that caused the second imperial daughter to almost die!"

This alone does not prove that the queen murdered the king of Chu, at most there is a little suspicion.

After all, didn't Concubine Jing also use it for the second emperor's daughter in the first place?

After all, entering the palace to be a concubine is not applying for a pediatric imperial physician. It is understandable for a concubine who does not know whether the folk prescriptions are reliable or not, and rushes to the doctor for emergencies.

But the Patriarch of the Meng family also followed up, saying that his daughter, Concubine Wan, did not know about Concubine Jing. Concubine Wan realized that the Queen might have murdered the King of Chu because... the Queen immediately started to kill the King of Chu after the accident. A series of undercover operations!

Including but not limited to forcing the imperial concubine, stalking the queen mother, and most importantly!

"Your Majesty, forgive me! The matter of the eighth prince before may have a lot to do with the empress!" The head of the Meng family squinted at the ashen-faced Mrs. Gu, holding up the jade wat, and said in a deep voice, "I have a niece, a little She has good looks, but because of her young age, she is quite out of touch. She often associates with noble girls from various families in the imperial capital, so she is not well-known... for this reason, she has attracted the attention of some prodigal sons. Although the family discipline is strict, this niece and Those prodigal sons have never been in contact with each other and have nothing to do with them, but there are also several young people who try their best to please the niece of the courtier."

"In the autumn of the year when His Royal Highness King Chu's accident happened, a son of my family asked me to help convey the letter to my niece. The family background of our family, the people below me would not do such scandalous things! So I immediately sent the things to Come to the old lady!"

"After a thorough investigation, the old lady found that the niece of the minister and the younger brother had indeed never met face to face. It was just the other party's wishful thinking. They originally planned to find the other party's elders to argue about it."

"It's just that the loving mother, the Empress Dowager, heard that the phoenix body was against harmony, and worried that this move would annoy the Empress Dowager, so she gave up!"

"As for that letter, when the niece of the minister was summoned to confront her, the old lady had already opened and read it. Except for some rude words about admiration, it was..."

The head of the Meng clan curled his lips slightly, sneered, and said loudly, "Just to tell my niece, that Xingningbo's mansion has recently been instructed by an expert, and it will flourish in the near future. The Luo family, Yin family, Yun family, Ouyang family and other high-ranking nobles will sooner or later be compared by the Yuan family!"

This is only to say that the Yuan family has the intention of becoming the second Ji family!

There was an uproar in the temple!

In fact, it is not a pure secret that the Yuan family has this plan. After all, the emperor, Yi Guogong and other important officials knew about the eighth prince's life experience before.

The so-called eighth prince, who was actually of the Yuan family's blood, had been dealt with earlier, and now he was waiting for a suitable opportunity to announce the "died" of the eighth prince.

It's just that most of the courtiers still don't know the inside story, thinking that the eighth prince is not of royal blood but just affected by the struggle in the palace, which is not the truth.

And since the Eighth Prince is still Chunjia's heir, the Empress Dowager Yuan sent him to the Empress to raise him, and it was not recorded in the Empress's name. On the premise that the Empress has a healthy son under the Empress's name, no one doubted that Yuan's heart was so big.

The main thing is that the upper and lower levels of Xingningbo's mansion neither have much power nor show much ability. In the eyes of ordinary people, how can they be qualified to learn from Ji's family?

The Ji family started as a first-class famous family back then, assisting His Majesty Emperor Shenzong to conquer the throne all the way, and then helped the community and cleaned up the universe. Thanks a lot.

It happened again that Emperor Shenzong missed the old days. He was not the kind of emperor who would hide everything. In addition, Shenzong's heirs were weak, so he was not a long-lived man. When he passed away, his sons and concubines were all young, and he was worried that the two brothers would not be able to support the great dynasty. It needs a trustworthy and trustworthy minister, and this is the opportunity for the Ji family to gain power.

Just Xingningbo Mansion...

Do they dare to think too?

Duke Yi and Ouyang Yanran looked at each other, frowning.

They are all people who know the inside story, but they are also people who agree to hide Yuan's ambitions from the world.

To do this is to save some face for Empress Dowager Yuan, so as to protect the mother-child relationship between her and Chunjia; After all, at times like this, some people will feel that the Holy Son of Heaven should influence the world with his virtues. If some people resist, some betray, and some dig holes, it only shows that you, the Son of Heaven, are not good enough.

Especially Yuan's relationship with Chunjia is so close.

Come to think of it, the Ji family, a foreign family in the Chunjia legal system, is already cold.

Not only is it cold, but the process of settling accounts after autumn is already underway.

If the Yuan family is also at this time... what will the outside world, above the history, and later generations, think of Chunjia?

I'm afraid the emperor ordered Rick's family?

Or, feel that Chunjia has a bad heart, crossing the river and tearing down the bridge?

Anyway, it won't be a good word.

Apart from confusing the bloodlines and plotting the East Palace position, the left and right Yuans did not do anything to harm the people of the world. They can just dispose of them in private.

Now that the Patriarch of the Meng family yelled like this, the two important ministers were very displeased.

As far as the Eighth Prince is concerned, Chunjia should be the one who was hurt the most.

It was because the emperor had a deep mind, coupled with his lack of affection for Concubine Yuan Xian and the Eighth Prince, he held back and acted as if nothing had happened until now.

But the courtiers who know the matter also have a tacit understanding, even this prince, this matter, cannot be mentioned in front of the emperor in the future!

To mention it is to stimulate the emperor.

Just dig out old accounts and hit the emperor in the face!

As an dignified son of heaven, his blood was mixed up, and the bones of his own princess have not been found so far. Instead, he has raised the blood of an ambitious courtier's family as a serious heir in the palace for many years, and even let the queen of the palace raise her personally. of!

Not all of Chunjia's biological children are qualified to be taken care of by the queen herself?

A child who has taken advantage of the magpie's nest has taken advantage of it?

Even if Chunjia has a good temper and is kind and forbearing, how could she not hold grudges?

Ouyang Yanran was thinking about whether to intervene in person, when the head of the Meng family continued: "At that time, our family only thought that the Yuan family's children deliberately boasted in order to seduce young girls, and didn't take it to heart. But... go At the age of 10, the disciples of the Yuan family no longer tried to court our daughter, but instead turned to a woman from the Gu family, and it is rumored that the girl from the Gu family has an ordinary appearance..."

"Marry a wife and marry virtue." The old master Gu couldn't bear it anymore, and said in a cold voice, "My family has always valued virtue in raising girls, but they are not like the Meng family. They all pay attention to beauty, even Zhenniang and the Li family in the world can't match it!"

Seeing that Chunjia didn't understand, Yan Yin hurriedly whispered in his ear: "Your Majesty, Mrs. Gu's Zhenniang and Mrs. Li are the heads of the line selected by the Imperial Fireworks Land at the beginning of this year. They are rumored to be both talented and beautiful."

The status of the fireworks girl and the noble girl of the Meng family is very different.

Old Master Gu was obviously out of temper when he said this, and he had no regard for decency.

The head of the Meng family didn't have time to worry about it, he just sneered and said: "My family has no plans to get married with the Yuan family, so if the Yuan family's son doesn't come to bother my daughter and go to please girls from other families, my family is too late to be happy! As for why he did this, our family had no time to delve into it! It's just..."

Wasn't Yuan's murder of the empress dowager "revealed" not long ago?

At that time, there was a lot of discussion between the government and the public, and when the head of the Meng family said that he went back to the mansion to pay his respects to the old lady, even the old lady who lived in seclusion heard about it, so she couldn't help but care for the queen mother.

Then the head of the Meng family briefly explained the situation. The old lady was shocked when she heard that the Queen Mother Yuan was murdered by the Yuan family. The rhetoric is convincing, the old man thinks that he is bragging, when our girls are the kind of shallow-sighted, it may not be without reason, maybe it is His Majesty who cares about the Empress Dowager, and wants to give Yuan Shi some kind of reward... but they Have you lost your mind and gone crazy? You actually murdered the loving mother, the Empress Dowager!"

These words reminded the Patriarch of the Meng family that he asked for the letter from the old lady, studied it carefully, and checked the actions of Uncle Xingning's residence in the past two years, and found an astonishing thing: "... Your Majesty , not long after His Royal Highness King Chu's accident happened, the Gu family had quite a number of manpower to keep a close eye on the whole Xingningbo Mansion! Even when Concubine Yuan Xian stayed in Wannian County to give birth, Gu's people followed like a shadow! Thinking about it, maybe that libertine of the Yuan family may not have intended to deceive in the letter, I am afraid that the entire Yuan family, or at least a considerable part of the people, is deluded by others, thinking that wealth and wealth are just around the corner!"

"This matter should be related to the murder of the loving mother, the Empress Dowager!"

"The empress dowager is the daughter of the Yuan family, and is closely related to the Yuan family. If there is no corresponding reason, how could the Yuan family dare to kill the empress dowager?!"

"I'm afraid it's all provoked by outsiders!"

"This outsider, without a doubt, is Mrs. Gu!"

"Your Majesty, the minister's family accidentally learned the truth, dare to ask Mrs. Gu, how can they tolerate the minister's family to continue to live? Fortunately, the minister's family has a lot of children, and the servants are willing to use their lives. Today, the minister has only My life came to see Your Majesty!!! I beg Your Majesty to see clearly and avenge the minister and his family! It is also a justice for Xingning Bo's family!!!"

After saying that, the head of the Meng family knelt down on the ground in tears, kowtowing again and again, in great sorrow.