Hongli frowned and said, "The Queen didn't know anything about the Gao family from the beginning to the end, so how can she instigate it?"
Gao Bin sneered at his words, "You are very kind to her, and you protect her everywhere. You only pity my Ruyu. I have accompanied you from the dormitory to the palace, and have treated each other sincerely for many years, but what I have gained in exchange is your ruthlessness and cruelty. If
If I don't kill you, how can I be worthy of the spirit of Ru Yu Zai Tian!"
Hongli said with a cold face: "You only know that I killed your daughter, but do you know how many people your daughter has killed? Even Shuiyue next to the Queen Mother was killed by her; if she is punished according to crime, she is not qualified at all.
She was posthumously named Imperial Concubine, and out of concern for your face, I gave her this unworthy honor."
"So, I still want to thank you?" Before Hongli could say anything, Gao Bin had already vigorously waved his sleeves and said with a ferocious expression: "Don't say that Ruyu won't harm others. Even if he does, so what? Over the years
, I traveled to many places to control floods, and saved countless people. Are these achievements not worth the few lives? "
"Absurd!" Hongli said angrily: "If I go by what you say, if anyone commits a crime, it can be offset by the good deeds he has done before. Then what is the use of the law?!"
Gao Bin said sternly: "I don't care about others. Anyway, I have saved so many people. No matter what kind of crime Ruyu committed, you should not kill her!"
Before Gao Bin finished speaking, the palace door opened again. Ling Ruo held Shui Xiu's hand and walked in. She said with a solemn expression: "Gao Bin, you only remember your own merits, but you forget your own faults!"
Facing the Queen Mother who had gone through three dynasties, Gao Bin had a hint of fear in his eyes, but he quickly said with a pinched neck: "What's my fault?"
"In the twelfth year of Yongzheng's reign, you failed to control the floods and flooded countless fertile fields, killing and injuring many people. In the sixth year of Qianlong's reign, you failed to control the floods again, causing the court to lose millions. In the thirteenth year of Qianlong's reign, Gao Bin
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Thousands of people have died by your hands. If the emperor had not cherished your talent and understood that natural disasters and floods are beyond human control, you would have died long ago. The Aijia asked you, how should this account be settled?
!”
Gao Bin was speechless by her question. After a while, he said uncomfortably: "In the matter of water conservancy, there is no guarantee that there will be no mistakes. It is nothing unusual to make mistakes occasionally."
"It's nothing unusual to say." Ling Ruo sneered: "You saved people, which is a great achievement; killing people is a matter of course. Gao Bin, you calculated this account very well!"
Gao Bin gritted his teeth and said, "No matter what, he should not miss his old feelings and kill Ruyu with such despicable means."
"At that time, the Gao family wanted to compete with the queen who was the queen at that time, and instigated the late queen to murder the queen with smallpox. However, something changed. Concubine Xian was fine. Shuiyue, who was sent to serve the late queen by the Ai family, was infected with smallpox and died.
Die!" Ling Ruo stared at Gao Bin coldly, Han
He said: "Although Shuiyue is a servant, she has served the Ai family for many years. The Ai family has long regarded her as a relative, but she died in her hands. How to settle this debt? Yong Lian is the emperor's direct descendant.
But she cruelly harmed her eldest son, how will the debt be settled?!"
Gao Bin said in a stiff tone: "The person is dead, so of course you can say whatever you want. If you want to incriminate someone, why bother! If Ruyu really did these things, why didn't you deal with it openly instead of doing it secretly?
Kill her!"
Shuixiu got angry and scolded: "Do you think the Queen Mother and the Emperor don't want to do it? But if you deal with Concubine Huixian, will you give up? I don't know if you will write a letter to plead for mercy, or directly threaten to resign!"
Ling Ruo looked at Gao Bin indifferently, suddenly shook his head and said: "You keep saying that the emperor killed Gao, but according to the Ai family, you are the real murderer of Gao!"
Faced with Ling Ruo's sudden accusation, Gao Bin said angrily: "Nonsense, she is my only daughter. It's too late for me to love her and love her, so how can I harm her!"
Ling Ruo stared at his angry eyes and said coldly: "As Shui Yue said, you love your daughter very much and are absolutely unwilling to see her being wronged in the palace. Even if you just demote her status, it is beyond your control.
Bear it, when the time comes, I will definitely write a petition. If the emperor refuses to agree, I'm afraid he will have to
Threatening to resign; as long as the emperor still needs you to control the floods, he will have to accept your threats to restore Gao's position, or even grant her a higher status. In other words, no matter what Gao did wrong, as long as you have this
As long as her father is here, the emperor cannot punish her. Is the Ai family wrong?"
Gao Bin gritted his teeth and said nothing, Ling Ruo continued: "Poisoning the prince's son, using smallpox to harm the concubine, all of them are unforgivable things, but just because of you, the emperor cannot punish her, even say harsh words.
You have to think about it again and again; some things can be spared once or twice, but they cannot be spared forever, causing no peace in the harem!"
After Ling Ruo finished speaking for a long time, Gao Bin didn't speak. Hongli remembered something and endured the increasingly intense pain in his body and said: "Gao Bin, I ask you, who told you this?"
Fang Jian once said that Gao Bin already knew about this matter when he came to question him, so someone should have told Gao Bin about it deliberately, but he still couldn't figure out who that person was and where he came from.
Got it!
Gao Bin looked at Hongli blankly for a long time, and then suddenly showed a strange smile, "Do you really want to know? Unfortunately, I don't plan to tell you; and, looking at you now, drug addiction must have started to attack, right?"
I got this medicine from a person who specializes in poppy cultivation. He told me that he brewed this medicine using a secret method.
, I don’t know how much better it is than the opium ointment, but again, once you become addicted, it is difficult to quit. If you do it forcefully, you will either die or go crazy!" After saying that, he looked at Hongli again and said, "I see you are weak.
You look so weak that you haven't taken this medicine for a while, right? Unfortunately, there is only one way to get rid of this medicine, which is to die!"
Ling Ruo's face was ashen and he said: "It's impossible, there must be a way to quit, tell me quickly!"
Gao Bin sneered and said: "Indeed, no, even if the Queen Mother asked me a thousand times or ten thousand times, she would still give the same answer. However, for the sake of the little bit of love between monarch and minister in the past, I can tell you the residence of the person who made the medicine.
Although I can’t quit, at least I don’t have to worry about taking medication in the future.”
"Tell me who that person is and where he lives..." Halfway through Xiao Wu's words, Ling Ruo's sharp voice sounded in his ears: "Don't ask!"
Although Xiaowu didn't know what Ling Ruo meant, he kept silent and didn't ask any more questions. The hall was silent. Ling Ruo closed his eyes and didn't know what he was thinking. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes looked like spread out fish tails under the bright candlelight.
Very obvious.
After a long time, Ling Ruo opened her eyes, stared at the ferocious Gao Bin and said coldly: "Master Gao has such deep thoughts, even the Ai family almost fell into your trap!"