When he heard the words "Zongren Mansion", Yongzhang's heart suddenly sank. For the prince, in addition to the death penalty, being imprisoned in the "Zongren Mansion" is the most severe punishment. Once he goes in, he will not know what will happen.
When will he be released? During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, the thirteenth elder brother Yunxiang was imprisoned for ten years before he was released by Yinzhen who succeeded him to the throne.
Unexpectedly, even after all the words he said, Huang Ama still refused to let her go. How could he... be so cruel and not even care about the affection between father and son.
Yongzhang hated Hongli for being ruthless, but he didn't know that for his crime, he should have been executed. Hongli changed him to a prison sentence because he cared about the love between father and son and did not want to harm his own heirs.
Before being led down by the guards, Yong Zhang gritted his teeth and said, "My dear, thank you Emperor Ama for the gift!"
Hongli saw the hatred in his heart and sighed deeply: "I hope you will repent in the clan's house and realize where you have made mistakes."
After the palace door was closed again, Hongli fell weakly into his chair, with unconcealable sadness and pain in his brows. He had always governed the country with benevolence and filial piety, but his biological son did something unkind and unfilial. It was really sad.
Very ironic.
Seeing him like this, Si Xi whispered: "Your Majesty, don't be sad. Although Third Brother did something he shouldn't have done, I think he also made a mistake. Given time, he will understand the Emperor's painstaking efforts."
Hongli stroked his forehead and said in a painful voice: "I always thought that although Yongzhang's qualifications were mediocre, he was commendable for his filial piety. I didn't expect that he actually had a lot of dissatisfaction and anger hidden in his heart. If I could have discovered it earlier, maybe I wouldn't have to leave.
We have reached this point today." He stroked his face hard and said sadly: "Maybe he is right, I am indeed sorry for him."
"Why should the emperor take the extreme words of the third elder brother to heart? In the future..." before Si Xi could continue, Hongli raised his hand and said: "Okay, don't mention this anymore, you go to Yongzhang's room."
Search carefully to see if there are any correspondence between him and Su or others, and bring back anything suspicious."
"Slave obeys the order!" After Si Xi left, Hongli closed his eyes and leaned on the back of his chair without saying a word. Since coming to Hangzhou, things have happened one after another. First, there was collusion between the Jiangnan officialdom and brothels, and corruption.
It was a violation of the law; after that, Xianyue was poisoned, and life and death were hanging by a thread. He was finally cured, and rumors spread about the remnants of the Yehenara clan, and now... it involves Yongzhang.
I don't know how much time passed, but Si Xi walked in softly, bowed and said: "To report to the emperor, I have checked everything in Brother Si's house and found nothing suspicious."
Hongli didn't open his eyes, but waved his hand and said: "I understand, step back." Although Si Xi was a little worried about Hongli's situation, she could only step back as she was told.
When Yongzhang was escorted out of the palace by the guards, although it was already night, many people still saw it and speculated for a while. It was not until Hongli issued an order to the harem the next day that the reason why Yongzhang was escorted away was known.
When Mrs. Hu and Xia Qing came to visit Xianyue, who had just recovered from a serious illness, Yongxun happened to be there. After saying a few words, Mrs. Hu mentioned the matter of Yongzhang, shook her head and said: "I didn't expect that Third Brother Xiaoxiao
His age is so deep
With his own thoughts, he took advantage of the chaos and assassinated her in the name of hunting tigers, hoping to cut off the empress’s life. Afterwards, she even wronged the empress and Prince He. Fortunately, God was wise and did not let his plot succeed. Otherwise, the harem would have been in chaos. "
Xia Qing wiped the water stains from the corners of her lips with her handkerchief, and said coldly: "Like mother, like son. Even if the Su family enters Xin Zhe's library, it's still not peaceful. How can her son be an economical lamp?"
"Hui Fei!" Madam Hu pursed her lips towards Yongxun who was sitting in the chair, signaling her to speak carefully. Yongxun was also Su's son, and he had become quite close to Yongzhang in the past two years.
After being reminded like this, Xia Qing realized that she had gone too far in her quick words. She quickly smiled and said, "That being said, the dragon gave birth to nine sons, and the sons are different. If one is not good, it may not necessarily be the case for the others."
It’s not good either.”
Yongxun didn't speak, just lowered his head. Xianyue stretched out her hand towards him with difficulty, "Come, come to me."
Yongxun hesitated for a moment, then stood up and walked to the couch, crying and choking with sobs: "Empress Huang, I'm sorry."
Xianyue said pitifully: "Silly boy, why are you crying? Have you forgotten what the Queen taught you? Wipe your tears quickly."
"Yes." Yongxun responded, and after wiping away the tears on his face, he said again: "I'm sorry, Queen Mother, I'm sorry."
Xianyue's eyes were gentle and she said: "Yongzhang is Yongzhang, and you are you. You have not sorry for me. Speaking of which, I still want to thank you."
Xia Qing asked curiously: "Why do you want to thank Fourth Brother?"
Xianyue took a breath and said: "Yesterday at dusk, I and the prince came to visit me and talked to me about what happened in the past few days. The reason why I was able to see through Yongzhang's conspiracy was thanks to Yongxun's reminder.
Even Tao An was woken up by Yongxun's scolding, tell me, do I want to thank him?"
"That's it." As she spoke, Xia Qing said with some confusion: "Aren't the fourth elder brother and the third elder brother quite close? Why..." She hesitated and didn't know how to properly ask the next words.
Xianyue understood what she meant and said, "It's my intention that Yongxuan is close to the third elder brother. Do you still remember the matter about Concubine Yimin?"
"Of course I remember that although Xiao Mencius and Xiao Yuanzi were responsible for everything, they still felt that the matter had something to do with the Wei family, but they only suffered from the lack of evidence."
"Besides Wei, there is another person who is closely related to the death of Imperial Concubine Yimin." Under the gazes of Madam Hu and Xia Qing, Xianyue slowly uttered two words, "Yongzhang!"
The two Hus exclaimed in disbelief: "Third Brother? How could he be related to this?"
At Xianyue's signal, Yongxuan explained in detail the rags he found and the wound on Yongzhang's arm, and then said: "Eniang is the best person to me in the world, and I don't want her to die.
I didn’t know why, so I listened to Huang’s mother-in-law’s advice and deliberately kissed my third brother.
Recently, I tried to get the truth about what happened back then. Unfortunately, the third brother was cautious and never mentioned what happened back then. I thought it would take a long time to avenge E Niang. Unexpectedly, this time the third brother wanted to take the opportunity to harm me again.
Huang Er Niang, in the end, he harmed himself."
"The Skynet is vast, and there are no omissions." Hu said with emotion: "The third elder brother has done many wrong things and deserves this retribution!"
Xia Qing said with some reluctance: "It's a pity that the emperor only imprisoned him in the clan's mansion and did not give him death. Such a punishment is really not commensurate with the crime he committed."
Mrs. Hu sighed and said: "There is nothing we can do about it. After all, he is the emperor's son. It is impossible for the emperor not to care about the family ties between father and son."