Seeing Xianyue, Yonghuang's eyes turned red and he choked with sobs: "Eniang, my son..."
Xianyue caressed his cheek gently and said warmly: "Eniang knows that you have been wronged. Don't worry. Eniang will go to see your emperor Ama right now and ask him to exempt you from the punishment."
Yonghuang said guiltily: "It's all because of my son and ministers, who made E Niang worried."
Xianyue smiled and said: "Eniang knows that you have tried your best. Let Eniang handle the rest."
Yonghuang responded, and then said: "Mother, you don't need to go to the Yangxin Hall anymore. Emperor Ama just came here and is inside."
Xianyue nodded, held Ah Luo's hand and walked in. Sure enough, she saw Hongli standing in front of the heavy coffin with his back to her. She knelt and said, "I have seen the emperor, may you be blessed!"
Hongli looked slightly pitiful and said in a deep voice: "No courtesy."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." With these words, Xianyue straightened up, lit three sticks of incense and inserted them into the incense burner. Then she walked up to Hongli and said softly: "I heard about last night's minister, Yong Huang.
They did not do it intentionally, and they hope that the emperor will forgive them."
Hongli looked at her and said, "Is the imperial concubine here to offer incense to the queen, or is she here to intercede for Yonghuang and the others?"
"It's both. After all, Yonghuang and the others are still young, and after a few nights of hard work, they are not very sleepy. This is not intended to be disrespectful to the Queen. The weather is cold now, and it is easy to get sick while kneeling like this. I hope the emperor will be lenient.
, spare them once.”
Hongli was silent for a moment and said, "Do they know they were wrong?"
Xianyue said cautiously: "When I came here just now, I asked Yonghuang, and he already knew that he was wrong. The other brothers must also be the same."
Hongli didn't say anything, he just walked out until he reached Yong Huang and others, then he stopped, and then asked the same question as before, "Do you know you are wrong?"
Yong Huang and others said anxiously: "I know my mistake, please ask the emperor to give me another chance."
"Okay." Hongli nodded slowly and said, "Then I ask you, where did you go wrong?"
Yongxun said anxiously: "My mistake was that I should not have fallen asleep while observing the filial piety of the emperor's mother. I promise, I will never do this again in the future."
Hongli glanced at him and said to Yonghuang: "What about you, is it the same for you?"
Yonghuang seemed to have something wrong when he heard what he said, but he couldn't figure out what the problem was for a while. In addition, Hongli was waiting for his answer, so he quickly said: "Yes, my son and my fourth brother are both aware of their mistakes."
, I hope..."
Before he could finish speaking, Hongli's calm expression suddenly darkened, and he said coldly: "You have no idea where you really went wrong. You are just saying these words to ask me to forgive you."
"Your fault is not that you fell asleep while observing filial piety, but that you were indifferent and indifferent to your aunt's death. In your hearts, you don't want to come to Kunning Palace to observe filial piety. Am I wrong?"
Faced with his harsh words, Yong Zhang said quickly: "No, Huang Ama, that's not the case. The emperor's mother passed away, and I and the others are very sad. Really, I didn't lie to you!"
Hong Li said in a cold voice: "If that were the case, you wouldn't have knelt down for a while and then complained that you were sleepy and tired, and you wouldn't have shed a single tear." At this point, he said heartily: "Continue to give them all to me.
Kneel down until you truly realize your mistake!"
Xianyue originally thought that Hongli would forgive Yonghuang and the others, but she didn't expect that things would turn out like this in the blink of an eye. She said eagerly: "Your Majesty, Yonghuang and the others are still young after all, and they don't understand many things, so why should you..."
Hongli interrupted him and said: "Can Yongxun and Yongqi be said to be young? Can Yonghuang and Yongzhang be said to be ignorant? Especially Yonghuang. When I was as old as him, I had already faced Nala.
The conspiracies and machinations of the family and Hongshi went through life and death in Fuzhou several times."
"The emperor is gifted by heaven, how can Yonghuang be compared with the emperor!" As soon as Xianyue finished speaking, Hongli said coldly: "I am not asking him to improve now, I just ask him to know the mistakes he has made.
, and repented, but at this moment..." He shook his head in disappointment and said: "I can't see anything!"
"Your Majesty..." Xianyue was about to persuade again, but Hongli said coldly: "Whoever dares to persuade again, just kneel with them! Imperial Concubine, please go back."
Xianyue knew that her wisest decision at this moment should be to follow Hongli's words and return to Yanxi Palace immediately. Over the years, she had relied on guessing Hongli's thoughts to get to where she is today. But Yonghuang...
Although he was not his own child, he has become as close as mother and son over the years. After Changle left, Yonghuang changed his ways to honor himself and please himself. How could she abandon Yonghuang and ignore him?
Thinking of this, she risked being blamed by Hongli and spoke again: "If you are wrong, then the person who is most wrong is my concubine. It is my concubine who did not teach Yong Huang well. It is my concubine who should be blamed most by the emperor."
people."
Xianyue's repeated pleas made Hongli feel more and more unhappy, and said in a cold voice: "Do you think I won't punish you?"
No one noticed that Concubine Yu was at the gate of Kunning Palace at this moment. She had been here for a while, but she had never entered.
Dongmei whispered: "Master, why don't we go in?"
Concubine Yu curled her lips slightly and said coolly: "Why do you want to go in?"
Dongmei was startled and said: "Aren't you here to ask the emperor to forgive the fifth elder brother? The imperial concubine has already spoken. If you join us in admonishing me, you should be able to persuade the emperor."
Concubine Yu sneered and said: "Since the imperial concubine likes to irritate the emperor so much and let her go, why should we go through this muddy water? As for Yongqi, when the emperor is angry, I will naturally find another way to beg him.
"Hearing this, Dongmei couldn't understand Concubine Yu's plan. She lowered her eyes and smiled and said nothing.
In addition, in the courtyard, Xianyue knelt down and said sadly: "I don't think of anything, I just hope that the emperor will treat Yonghuang and the others lightly."
Hongli stared at her for a long time and said word by word: "I said that if anyone dares to persuade me again, I will kneel with them. The imperial concubine must have heard this."
"Concubine..." Xianyue had just said two words when she heard Yonghuang, who had been silent, say: "It is the children and ministers who are at fault. E Niang only loves her son passionately and has never done anything wrong.
Why does Emperor Ama have to embarrass my mother? In these years, have you not often given her embarrassment?"
Hongli's originally unhappy face became even more ugly because of his words, "What did you say?"
Yonghuang slowly stood up and said: "Is your minister wrong? Over the years, you have made things difficult for the emperor again and again, including herself, Aluo, and Changle. You only think about it.
Have you ever thought about E Niang from her perspective, even just once?" If it were just him, no matter how difficult it was, he would endure it, but seeing Huang Ama treating E Niang like this,
He just couldn't bear it.
Hongli's face changed several times and he said coldly: "Are you teaching me how to do things?"