"Yes, so I plan to give it to Hongzhan and Jiarou to play with. They will definitely like it." With that said, Yinzhen glanced behind Lingruo and said, "Hey, why didn't I see you today?
Are you bringing the food box?"
Ling Ruo chuckled and said, "Your Majesty is very thoughtful. He always waits for me to bring you meals. Unfortunately, I came to the Emperor's place to have a meal on purpose today and didn't bring anything with me."
"I just asked casually. You always bring something when you come here. I'm used to it, and the things you make are more to my liking than those made in the imperial kitchen."
Hearing what he said, Ling Ruodao said, "How about I, my concubine, make some side dishes that the emperor likes to eat?"
Before Ling Ruo could get up, he was pulled by Yinzhen, "Don't go to such trouble. Besides, I don't want to see you working too hard. Just sit down." With that said, Yinzhen ordered Sixi to go down and pass the meal. He turned around and saw Ling Ruo.
He seemed hesitant to speak, so he shook her hand and said, "What's the matter? Do you have something to tell me?"
Ling Ruo hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, to be honest with the emperor, Hongli came down to court today to see my concubine and said that Mingyu had a miscarriage and the child could not be saved."
Yinzhen suddenly tightened his eyebrows. He had always had great expectations for Hongli's first child, "How could a good child have a miscarriage?"
"I heard that when Nala Xianyue was praying in front of the Buddha, Nala Xianyue helped Mingyu get up without bumping into the corner of the table. Hongli believed that Nala Xianyue did this intentionally and had deposed her as a blessing jin and imprisoned her in the mansion."
Yinzhen was silent for a while and said: "If it's useless, then it's useless. But tell Hongli not to be too sad. There will be a child sooner or later. This time, we can only say that they have no fate with this child, and ask Mingyu to take care of himself."
, don’t think nonsense.”
"I know this, so I just sent Yang Hai to the palace to ask about Mingyu's situation. It should be fine. However, Yang Hai encountered something on his way back to the palace. I don't know whether I should tell the emperor.
.”
Yinzhen said nonchalantly: "There shouldn't be the words 'should or should' between you and me. If you have anything to do, just say it."
Ling Ruo took out the papers that Yang Hai gave her from her sleeve and said: "Yang Hai went to a restaurant to sit for a while on the way. There were many candidates taking the exam. From time to time, people were selling the test questions for the provincial examination to those candidates. Yang Hai saw
Seeing that something was not quite right, I asked them to buy some separately and ask your Majesty to take a look." He paused slightly and said with a hint of worry: "I am worried that the questions of the provincial examination may have been leaked."
Yinzhen's expression had already become serious. He took the test questions in Ling Ruo's hand and looked at them carefully. After reading them all, he showed a smile and said, "I can tell you that these so-called test questions are all fake. They are not mine at all.
The questions asked are all lies."
"That's good." Ling Ruo stroked her chest and breathed a long sigh of relief: "I was really worried just now, but Yang Hai said that there was another test question worth one thousand taels that he didn't buy. I think that one must also be fake.
.”
"Is there another copy?" Yinzhen pondered for a moment and said to Sixi: "Tomorrow I will allocate a thousand taels from the inner treasury to you. You go out of the palace and buy the test questions."
"I obey." After agreeing, Sixi said with some embarrassment: "But I don't know where to buy it. What should I do?"
"Eunuch Xi, don't worry. As long as you go to the largest restaurant in the capital and sit there for a long time, there will naturally be many people selling you test questions." Hearing Ling Ruo's words, Si Xi felt relieved and nodded repeatedly: "That slave will be there tomorrow.
Go early in the morning."
Although Ling Ruo originally meant to let Hongli investigate the matter alone, facing Yingge and even his second elder brother, Hongli's strength was still a bit weak, so after much consideration, she decided to use this method to solve the test questions
Tell Yinzhen anything that may be leaked.
It would be best if the test questions bought tomorrow are not those written by Yinzhen; if it is, it is such a big matter, Yinzhen will definitely pursue it. Although Hongli may be suspected, it is better than leaving it alone.
Attack Ying Ge.
Because of this incident, Yinzhen's meal was not stable. Although he had absolute confidence in preventing the leakage of the test questions this time, he was not afraid of ten thousand, but afraid of the worst. If it was really leaked, it would be worse than
Any time it comes is serious, because the test questions are drawn up by the emperor, and they are all sealed with fire and cannot be opened until the autumn day. If it is still leaked under this situation, then I really don’t know what method can be used to prevent it.
Ensure the security of test questions.
At this moment, outside the palace, Hong Zhou also followed Hong Li's instructions and came to the Duke's Mansion. As soon as he saw Ying Ge, he pointed at Ying Ge's nose unceremoniously and said: "Let me ask you, are you?
Didn’t you mean to take advantage of me?”
Yingge didn't expect him to say such a thing as soon as he came in. He laughed dryly and said: "What's going on, Mr. Baylor? How could I take advantage of you? Who did you listen to?"
Hong Zhou sneered and said: "You don't have to tell lies with your eyes open anymore. Do you think you are doing it very secretly? To tell you the truth, Hong Li already knows everything, including the fact that you used me and Xianyue to steal the secret decree.
"
His words caught Yingge off guard. He was stunned for a long time and couldn't come back to his senses. They planned what happened last night very carefully and there should be no loopholes. How could Hongli know about it? Look at Hongzhou's words.
It doesn’t look like it’s fake. What’s wrong with this?!
"What's wrong? I have nothing to say? Huh, old guy, you actually dare to plot against me. Do you really think that I don't dare to touch you?" Hong Zhou has been acting very angry since he came in. Although Hong Zhou
Li said that as long as he brought the words to him, it didn't matter whether Yingge believed it or not, but he still wanted to try his best to make Yingge believe it.
Yingge came back to his senses and said quickly: "Master Beile, please calm down. I really don't understand what you said. How did I use you?"
Hong Zhou had already thought of his words on the way, and now when he asked about it, he said: "After I got the test questions you gave me, I didn't know whether it was true or not, so I wanted to try the fourth child, but I didn't say a few words.
Then someone came to report that the fourth child, Fu Jin, had been harmed by Xianyue and had a miscarriage. At that time, the fourth child went crazy and wanted to kill Xianyue.
, I finally stopped him, but he still deposed Xianyue's position as Fujin and imprisoned her. I thought it was just an accident, but I didn't know that not long after the next court, Hongli asked me to go to his house.
Inside, as soon as I entered, I was scolded by him, saying that I had teamed up with Xianyue to harm her intentionally."
Yingge naturally knew what had happened before, but what he said next made him confused. "Where do you start with this?"
Hong Zhou snorted coldly and said: "Although he was temporarily flustered because of Mingyu's incident yesterday and put the secret edict in the study, there was always someone watching the study, so he knew that someone stole the secret edict from the study last night.
, and sent it back overnight, pretending that it had never been taken away. Although the fire seal on the secret edict was intact, he expected that someone must have found a way to peek at the test questions inside. He thought it was me who did this,
Almost causing a scene
In the end, I had to put it aside because there was no substantial evidence. Hongli thought I was harming him, but I knew very well in my heart that I didn’t do anything. The only person who would do that was you, old guy.
It's so cruel. Thanks to me trusting you so much, you actually pushed me to die and even talked about helping me to rise to the top. I think you just want me and the fourth brother to kill each other, and then make the second brother the final winner, right?