Jiangshan is hired [rebirth]

Chapter 45

In terms of superficial skills, Yu Wang is far behind Zhuang Wang, otherwise he would not have been suppressed by Zhuang Wang for so many years. He is obviously the one who has more advantages in terms of seniority and background, but he still can't take it. next opponent.

At this moment, facing King Zhuang and the many eyes attracted by King Zhuang's question, King Yu's eyes dodged, and even his mouth was trembling.

He hasn't had a good rest in the past few days, and whenever he has free time, he will drink in the mansion. Today, he has to take care of his appearance because of his face, but his face still looks haggard, and it matches his current expression He didn't have the energy that a prince should have, and the prince's costume that should have made him look radiant, but in this situation made him look contemptible, like a clown on a stage.

If it can't be seen that he has something to hide, everyone present will have a pair of eyes in vain.

"King Yu, the fifth brother asked you something!"

Needle dropping could be heard in the hall, but Zhong Yu's words echoed a bit.Everyone knows that His Majesty usually only calls these princes according to their titles when talking to others, and when talking to these princes, he usually calls them "third" and "fifth" according to their birth order, and if he is in a better mood, he will call them "old three" and "fifth". Ajin", "Alu".

Right now, His Majesty is addressing the third prince directly as "King Yu", and the nature and businesslike attitude in it are obvious.

"My son, my son thinks what the fifth brother said is reasonable, but...it's just that the imperial palace is so big, and judging from the box, this Longevity Buddha is only three feet long. There are too many places to hide, and it may not be possible to find Tianhe. find out……"

King Yu was suddenly called by King Zhuang, and he was flustered, and when asked by His Majesty, he lost his composure even more, stammered a word, and his guilt was palpable.

"How do you know if you don't look for it? I see that Yun Hanlin is so sure, it doesn't look like he is lying." Halfway through speaking, King Zhuang suddenly remembered something, and said "ah".

"By the way, shouldn't the little eunuch just now have a good trial, why didn't he fall sooner or later, but he fell here at Yun Hanlin, and he just fell out of a witch puppet?"

Everyone looked at His Majesty following Zhuang Wang's words.Zhong Yu raised his right hand and waved it slightly, Eunuch Zhang understood, and stepped out of the palace door to give a few words to the palace man on duty, and after a while, the wailing of the little eunuch from before could be heard outside.

Eunuch Zhang turned around and was about to go back to the emperor, when he saw the frowning of the emperor, his footsteps suddenly stopped again, he turned and shouted outside: "Pull it down, don't let this little bastard disturb your majesty here!"

After finishing speaking, he bowed to Zhong Yu and asked for instructions: "Your Majesty, do you still want to send someone to find the bronze longevity Buddha?"

"Go, send more people to look for it." Zhong Yu said in a deep voice, "I want to see who is doing the tricks!"

His Majesty ordered more people to be sent, not only the maids and eunuchs, but also the guards who patrolled the palace also joined the search ranks.Because the Jinxiang Palace also needs to be searched, Huo Lan's team of guards was not sent out, but Huo Lan would rather be sent to look elsewhere. During the search, Zhong Yu looked at her twice, and each time let She felt a chill at the back.

"Your Majesty, the little eunuch has recruited, saying yes... saying yes..."

The guard who came in to report back was one of the two who followed Huo Lan on the Lantern Festival half a year ago. Huo Lan rarely saw them in the guard's office for half a year. Those two and six other people were responsible for personally protecting the emperor's safety. , usually do not mix with other people.

This person is obviously the emperor's confidant, and he has won the trust of the emperor. Even so, he still hesitated for a long time before telling the result.

"He said His Royal Highness King Yu ordered him to do so."

"He's talking nonsense!" This time, before His Majesty could ask, King Yu himself called out, "I don't recognize him at all! Someone must have taught him to say that on purpose, trying to frame me and frame me! Please learn from me, Father. !Father!"

Zhong Yu propped his head and ignored him, even closing his eyes.

Seeing this, King Zhuang stepped forward and said to King Yu in a gentle voice: "Third brother, even if you have always complained about the father, why should it be like this between father and son? Today is the birthday of the father. If you want to make trouble, you can choose a different day." Isn't it? You have to admit your mistake to the royal father, the royal father loves you so much, and won't bear to be too harsh on you."

"Stop pretending to be a good person!" Zhong Yu's indifference made Yu Wang completely anxious, and he tugged at Zhuang Wang's collar and said angrily, "You clearly know that I didn't put the painted pottery Shou Buddha in, and my father hates it the most in his life. Witchcraft, how could I use this thing to hurt my father's heart?"

Zhuang Wang was still able to maintain his smile when he was being held up by the collar, and he said unhurriedly: "What do you mean by this third brother? How would I know what you put in Yun Hanlin's gift box? You panicked like that just now, Everyone has seen it, do you dare to say that you didn't tamper with Yun Hanlin's gift box?"

"I..." King Yu swallowed his saliva, his face flushed red, and it took him a long time to say, "Anyway, I didn't put witchcraft puppets in it!"

After saying this, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, let go of King Zhuang, and knelt down to Zhong Yu's feet: "I am indeed infatuated with ghosts for a while, but—"

Before he finished speaking, another guard suddenly came in from outside: "Your Majesty, the bronze longevity Buddha has been found!"

"I found it!"

"Yun Hanlin didn't lie..."

"King Yu also pleaded guilty, why did he do such a thing?"

"Do you think this matter is related to Huo—"

"Shh! How dare you say this at this time, don't you mind?!"

……

The crowd was discussing, Zhong Yu opened his eyes, his face was darker than before.

"What about the stuff?" he asked.

The guard who reported back beckoned to the outside, and the other two guards walked in with a wet maid.

The palace lady was holding a bronze longevity Buddha in her arms. She didn't know whether it was cold or frightened. As soon as the guard holding her let go, she fell limply on the ground and shivered.

"What's going on here?" Zhong Yu asked.

"My subordinates smelled a smell of smoke when they passed the Jade Ping Palace. When they went in, they saw the palace lady burning paper money inside, and beside it was the Longevity Buddha that Yun Hanlin mentioned."

As soon as this remark came out, there was an uproar. The palace expressly prohibited the maids and eunuchs from burning paper to pay homage to the dead in private. What's more, today is His Majesty's birthday. Burning paper money on such a festive day is not a curse!

"You servant is so courageous!" Eunuch Zhang next to the emperor was more angry than the emperor himself who had passed his birthday, and said anxiously, "Do you know what day it is today? Ten thousand boards are cheap, you little bitch!"

The palace maid didn't answer, she hugged Shou Buddha tightly, strands of wet hair sticking to her face, she looked extremely embarrassed.

"You talk about Yuping Palace first?" Zhong Yu's reaction was calm compared to Eunuch Zhang's impatience. Into the cold palace, shouldn't the Jade Ping Palace be empty now?"

The word "Xi Concubine" was like a thunderbolt that hit the two people in the field. The maid suddenly raised her head and looked at King Yu viciously, while King Yu's face was dull.He was still kneeling, but now he couldn't even kneel, and fell to the ground.

"Are you the maid of Yuping Palace? What's your name?" Zhong Yu glanced at King Yu and continued to ask the maid.

"Your Majesty, the name of this servant is Xiao Ru, not the maid of the Jade Ping Palace." The maid named Xiao Ru replied on the ground.

"Since you are not a maid of the Jade Ping Palace, what are you going to do in the Jade Ping Palace?"

"The servants are serving in the cold palace. They were often bullied in the past. Two years ago, they deserved to die. Thanks to the rescue of the concubine Xi, they survived until now..."

Xiaoru's story has a very ordinary beginning. The servants in the cold palace have no master to rely on, and their status in the whole palace is very low, anyone can step on it.Xiaoru offended a maid in the palace of the favorite concubine without knowing what happened. The maid took advantage of the darkness to call several people to the cold palace to humiliate Xiaoru. If Concubine Xi hadn't stopped her, she would have will die.

In order to save Xiao Ru, Concubine Xi got troubled by the favorite concubine afterward. Since then, Concubine Xi wanted to repay Concubine Xi, but Concubine Xi died not long after.

"Others say that Empress Xi committed suicide by hanging herself. Only I know that she didn't commit suicide at all. Some people have a guilty conscience. It's not enough to make empress fall out of favor and be thrown into limbo. They have to kill her to silence her!"

Xiaoru was so excited when she mentioned Xipin's death that she didn't even care about calling herself a "servant".

A case of stealing birthday presents has not yet been clarified, and another case involving the death of a concubine has been involved. Those who are quicker have changed their faces, and those who are slower are still confused.

"What are you talking nonsense, slave? The guards arrested you because of the Longevity Buddha in your hand, but you are talking about all this. Even if someone killed Concubine Xi, and you stole Yun Hanlin's congratulatory gift from the father What's the relationship?" Zhuang Wang stepped forward to question with a puzzled expression.

"Because the person who murdered Empress Xi is in this hall!" Xiao Ru said sharply.

Surprised expression appeared on Zhuang Wang's face, he turned to look at Yun Shujian: "Could it be you?"

"Your Highness, don't make fun of me now..." Yun Shujian knelt down, her legs were numb after so long, and forced a wry smile at King Zhuang.

Since Zhong Yu asked that sentence at the beginning, he has not spoken anymore. Zhuang Wang consciously acted as the person who interrogated Xiao Ru for his father. Who is it?"

As he spoke, he glanced at Shoufo, who was tightly held by Xiaoru, and suddenly realized: "Could it be the third brother?"

Once again, everyone's eyes focused on King Zhuang. This time, King Zhuang didn't even have the strength to pretend. Ever since he heard the word "Concubine Xi", his eyes were dull and his face was ashen.

"It's him!" Xiaoru stared straight at King Zhuang and said angrily, "I'm a lowly court lady, I thought I would never be able to avenge Concubine Xi in this life, but fortunately God has eyes, let me see King Yu today. A package was secretly slipped to a young eunuch. I saw them sneaking around, so I followed them out of curiosity, and saw the little eunuch throw the package into Mingjing Lake in the imperial garden."

"So you jumped into the lake to fish it out? No wonder your clothes and hair are all wet." Zhuang Wang seemed to understand at last, his brows furrowed as soon as he relaxed, "That's not right, Xi My concubine is a concubine, my third elder brother is a prince, these are irreconcilable relationships, what did he want to do to kill Concubine Xi? Did you make a mistake?"

"Because he has an affair with Empress Xi!" Xiao Ru said loudly.

If it was said that the burning of the paper just surprised everyone present, the sentence that Xiao Ru threw down now made everyone present gasp.

A prince who has an affair with his father's concubine!What a shocking scandal this is!

"Ridiculous!" Eunuch Zhang shouted loudly, "Come on, someone, drag this nonsense lowly servant girl down and slap her mouth!"

Xiaoru probably knew that he would die after telling this secret, so he didn't wait for anyone to ask any more questions at the moment, and spoke quickly: "That day in the Parallel Palace, His Royal Highness Yu Wang had a tryst with Empress Xi, but was broken by Du Shangshu. , His Royal Highness King Yu killed Du Shangshu in order to silence him, and when he returned, he was afraid that one day Empress Xi would tell the story, so he planned to frame Empress Xi, and even sent people to Lenggong eh... eh!"

The eunuchs and guards who had been guarding Xiaoru earlier dragged her up from the ground and dragged her out. Seeing that Xiaoru was still yelling, they covered her mouth with their hands.

Xiao Ru hadn't fully revealed the secret yet, kicking her legs and struggling desperately.

"Wait!" Zhong Yu, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke, "You said that Du Shangshu was killed by King Yu, do you have evidence?"

The hand covering Xiaoru's mouth was moved away, Xiaoru gasped for a few times, and then said: "No, but this is what Empress Xibi told me personally, although I have no evidence that he killed Du Shangshu, but I There is evidence that he and Empress Xibin secretly communicated the song! Empress Xibin told me that King Yu has three moles on his back and a birthmark on the inner thigh!"

The mole on the back is still reluctant to find a reason to round it out. The birthmark on the inner thigh, such a secret location, how could it be known unless there is a special relationship? !

"I didn't! I didn't kill Du Wenyao, it really wasn't me! You are wronged, father! You are wronged!" King Yu was paralyzed for a long time, and at this moment he just woke up like a dream, and begged Zhong Yu's calf.

He only said that he didn't kill Du Wenyao, which means he had an affair with Xi Bin by default.

The birthday celebrations originally prepared for the emperor in the palace were gone, and the ministers and royal family present said that His Majesty’s [-]th birthday would be rather boring, but they did not expect to hear such a scene where a son cuckolded Lao Tzu, how wonderful it was Where are few troupes that can compare.

Everyone's faces were full of colors, King Yu's party was cold, and the rest of the people either had nothing to do with themselves or hoped that something would happen to King Yu, but because another sufferer was still at the scene, they didn't dare to speak out .

"You bastard!" Zhong Yu kicked King Yu away with one kick, and then took King Yu down and put him in a prison awaiting trial.

King Yu's voice of "wronged" gradually faded away, and everyone in the hall lowered their eyebrows and lowered their eyes, watching their noses, noses and hearts, for fear of touching His Majesty's bad luck at this joint.

Of course, there were also a few brave ones who secretly peeked at the emperor's face, such as Huo Lan, such as King Zhuang.

Sitting on the seat directly above the main hall, Zhong Yu's chest heaved violently, and it seemed that he was very angry.Thinking about it, anyone who was cuckolded by his son would probably be pissed to death, not to mention that this matter was exposed on the spot, and everyone knew about it.

All the ministers stood silently, no one dared to make a sound, and it took a long time before the person above said: "The family is unlucky, let everyone see a joke. Regarding the case of Du Wenyao, since there is new testimony, I will order someone to re-examine it. , if it is really what Zhong Jin did, I will not tolerate it!"

In the field, the lowered Zhuang Wang Zhonglu gradually raised the corners of his mouth. He made full preparations for the punishment of King Yu this time.Without the stumbling block of King Yu, wouldn't he be able to get the crown prince at his fingertips?

Before he was proud of himself for half a moment, the next sentence of the person in the seat made his smile froze on his face.

"...Besides, since it's all a family scandal, I'll simply mention another matter today. Regarding the identity of Huo Lan's bodyguard, you have speculated a lot in private recently, and I'm telling you now that it is indeed as you think. He was born by Zhong Yun with a folk woman outside.

As for Zhong Yun, he did something wrong back then. It was because I, my father, didn't teach him well. I have always felt ashamed all these years.However, the man has passed away, and I thought that there was no hope of making up for it in this life, but I didn't want to let me accidentally find Ayun's orphan who was living abroad.Although Huo Lan grew up in the folks, he has learned poetry, etiquette, and martial arts skills for all to see. Besides, the queen mother liked him very much at first sight when she was alive. I think this is God's will——I have made up my mind to let Huo Lan Recognize your ancestors and return to your ancestors! "

The author has something to say: It’s the Chinese New Year, and I have to go to the hospital for a nucleic acid test tomorrow. I may not be able to update in time. Let’s take a day off this week and update normally on Saturdays and Sundays.

I wish you all a happy new year~