In November of the 14th year of Hongjing's reign, Kyoto seemed very uneasy. The emperor suddenly fell into a coma while hunting. It was rumored that the emperor was poisoned and had no medicine. He was just hanging on for a breath. The queen was furious and issued an edict.
Investigating this matter means that someone poisoned the emperor with the intention of rebelling, and even ordered the eldest prince to go to the hunting paddock to welcome the emperor back for treatment.
People from Dali Temple and Shuntian Mansion were dispatched to arrest and interrogate the suspects. The palace was even more bloody. The maids who might be related to the emperor's poisoning were killed with beheading sticks. The blood on the blue bricks of the beheading platform was even worse.
If you continue to work hard, fresh blood will be poured on the blue bricks every day, making them look scarlet.
The emperor was poisoned and fell into a coma, and the news that the medicine had no effect spread quickly. Panic spread throughout Kyoto, and everyone was in danger. When there was no news about the emperor's coma, the queen took the opportunity to take control of the government.
Since there is no need to live without a king, Qi Jin, the eldest son and grandson, was elected to the throne.
The Second Prince's Party chose a virtuous man as the king and elected the Second Prince to ascend the throne. The two sides were in a stalemate. Those ministers and princes who maintained a neutral attitude kept silent and reported illness to rest at home.
On the fifth day after the soldiers surrounded Prince Xian's palace, the comatose emperor was brought back to the palace, but only Prince Xian Qi Qi was missing. The concubines asked to see the emperor, but the queen blocked them from the palace door with an order not to disturb them.
Concubine Rong Gui means that the queen occupies the emperor, has bad intentions, and is ordered by the queen to recite Buddha's name in the palace and pray for the emperor.
On November 22, a palace maid couldn't help but confess that the emperor was poisoned. It was Prince Xian who had poisoned him. The queen was extremely angry and pointed out that Prince Xian was ambitious and had evil intentions. She ordered an all-out search for Prince Xian and sent troops to Prince Xian's palace.
Capture Tian Minyan.
That evening, the sky turned dark, and large sheets of goose-feather snow began to fall from the sky. The cold wind was biting and biting, and it hurt people's faces like a knife scraping flesh.
The door of Prince Xian's mansion was hit with a banging sound, which spread into the hearts of everyone in the mansion, like thunder, making people tremble with fear.
"Princess, if you don't leave, it will be too late." Jixiang persuaded Tian Minyan from the side, jumping up and down anxiously.
Tian Minyan was sitting in front of the dressing table, holding an eyebrow pencil and gently drawing her eyebrows without saying a word.
Let's go, where are we going? This is her home. She is the mistress of Prince Xian's palace and the princess with a jade plate and a golden book. Why should she leave?
If she left at this time, wouldn't it mean that she had a guilty conscience and that she fled in fear of crime? Wouldn't it mean that Qi Shiqi had been convicted of this crime? This is simply ridiculous!
She knew that Qi Shiqi didn't come back because of him. She couldn't help him, and she would definitely not only hold him back. She was here to maintain his reputation, and she was here to uphold their home!
Tian Minyan dipped her fingertips into some gold powder and dabbed on her slightly raised eyebrows. Finally, she applied red rouge to her lips, licked them slightly, and then curled her lips as she looked at herself dressed up in Beijing.
She stood up, and the skirt of the eighteen-piece princess dress swung, and a phoenix spread its wings like a leaping phoenix. She looked at the crown lying aside, lightly opened her red lips and said: "Green branches, give me a chance."
Guan, I want to see how ugly those people’s faces are.”
"Princess..." Ji Xiang's face changed drastically after hearing this, and he exclaimed.
Tian Minyan glanced at her lightly, with a sharp look in her eyes. Jixiang's pupils shrank, and she heard her say: "Jixiang, if you want to go back to the uncle's house in Zhong County, that's fine. I'm not going anywhere."
After she finished speaking, she glanced at the girls in the room and said softly: "The same goes for you. Whoever wants to follow me or go wherever they want is up to you."
Girls, look at me and I look at you. Ningbi was the first to stand up and said crisply: "Wherever the princess goes, my servant will go. Princess, my wife, I will crown you." As she said this, she walked to the top.
In front of the crown, he held it up respectfully as if worshiping it, and stood on tiptoes to put it on her head.
"My slaves are going too."
"My slaves are going too."
"Slave..."
Tian Minyan smiled, swung her skirt, and strode out of the house, followed by several girls, Ningbi, Qingzhi, Hongye... Jixiang, on the other hand, reacted, gritted his teeth, and chased after her.
At the main entrance of Prince Xian's Mansion, the banging sound continued and became louder and louder, while the heavy iron door creaked and showed signs of collapse.
Butler Song's forehead was covered with sweat and he shouted: "I've been able to hold you back. If anyone lets anyone in, the prince will look after you later."
"No." The private soldiers in the mansion roared in unison, pushing the giant wood against the iron door with a firmer hand.
"The princess is here!"
Someone shouted, and Butler Song looked back, only to see Tian Minyan dressed in a princess's dress, wearing a purple gold crown, with a majestic look on her face, and being surrounded by a group of maids and women walking over.
He hurriedly ran over, bowed respectfully, and said hurriedly: "Princess, why are you here? Don't worry, we are taking care of you. It's okay. Princess, you can go and rest yourself. If they dare to act wild,
, I have risked my life to let them come and walk around without food."
Tian Minyan saw that his head and body were covered with snowflakes, and his eyes and eyebrows were covered with frost and snow. She couldn't help but smile and said gratefully: "Steward Song, thank you for your hard work. Your Majesty and I will remember this."
Butler Song felt sour in his heart and choked up and said: "The princess has broken the old slave. This is the duty of the old slave. To say that our prince poisoned and murdered the emperor is simply a slander and a lie." He said with his sleeves.
Wiped the corners of his eyes.
Tian Minyan smiled and didn't say much. Just keep some words and feelings in her heart. Whoever is loyal and who is traitorous will be weighed in her heart.
"Steward Song, open the door." Tian Minyan ordered calmly, her clear voice becoming clearer in the cold wind: "I am here, let me see who dares to act wild!"
"princess!"
Butler Song's eyes widened and he was about to persuade him, but Tian Minyan said, "Does Butler Song also think that the prince is plotting to murder the emperor?"
Seeing him shaking his head, he smiled and said: "No, what are we afraid of? Those who are clean will clean themselves up. We have a clear conscience if we have never done anything." The Queen really dares to kill her without interrogating her? She is not afraid of the future.
The eldest prince has ascended the throne with an unjust reputation and is not afraid of bearing the yoke of this unreasonable tyrant for the rest of his life?
Butler Song saw that she had a calm look on her face. At such a young age, she had a graceful and elegant demeanor. Her calm, calm and fearless demeanor deeply shocked him.
"Open the door." Butler Song ordered loudly. Everyone stopped, hesitated for a moment, and then opened the door, but they were lined up in several rows blocking the door.
The leader of the army, Li Tie, stood in front and shouted: "Who is your leader? Come forward. Our princess has something to say." After saying this, he stepped aside.
Tian Min walked out with a graceful face, stood on the steps in front of the mansion, glanced coldly at the dark heads below, and said sternly: "You soldiers who eat the country's royal food are not defending the country at the front, but you are here to bump into me.
Are you planning to rebel against the prince's palace? Offending the royal family will be punishable by death!"
"What kind of royal family? She is just a stinky girl from the countryside, and now she is still the wife of the guilty minister Qi Qi. Tian Minyan, why don't you take off your clothes, remove the hairpin, and plead guilty?"
A rather familiar voice rang out from among the soldiers. Then, the soldiers moved out of the way, and a man wearing a dragon-like uniform and a golden crown came out.
When Tian Minyan looked at it, the corner of her lips curled up slightly. It seemed that the queen and the others hated her so much that Qi Jin came in person. Did he want to see her crying and begging for mercy?
Yes, the person who came was none other than the eldest prince Qi Jin. He had been imprisoned in the Zongren Mansion for nearly a year. His figure had become thinner, his eyes were bulging like walnuts, and his face was more snarky than before.
, and the look that looked at Tian Minyan was filled with resentment and disgust, flying towards her like a knife tempered with poison.
She wears an eighteen-piece dress that represents the ceremonial system of a princess. She wears a purple gold crown with a thumb-sized south bead inlaid in the middle. There are also small thumb-sized south beads inlaid around the crown. The entire gold crown is inlaid with
The light is dazzling under the light, and a pair of embroidered shoes exposed under the skirt are also decorated with pearls, which are graceful, luxurious and extraordinary.
She was wearing heavy make-up, her eyebrows were naturally raised to reveal the gold powder, her red lips were slightly pursed, and the corners of her mouth were slanted as she looked down at herself with a half-smile.
Unparalleled elegance, majesty and grace.
Qi Jin was furious. Why did a country girl stand in this position? Why did she want to look up to her? And why did she sneer at him?
She should be like other women, panicking, kneeling on the ground and crying and begging for mercy, but her eyes were like looking at a clown.
Qi Jin was very angry. He took a step forward and shouted: "Tian Minyan, Qi Qi intends to poison our emperor. There are both witnesses and physical evidence. Please tell me where Qi Qi's people are. I will leave your body intact."
Tian Minyan sneered and said: "My prince is loyal to the emperor. The so-called poisoning of the emperor is nothing but a slander. Who knows whether the personal and physical evidence mentioned by the eldest prince are true or false." She looked at him coldly and hummed: "
As for the eldest prince, although I don’t know anything about the government, I also know that the emperor ordered the eldest prince to be imprisoned in the clan’s mansion and cannot come out for the rest of his life. Is the eldest prince here defying the emperor’s order or disobeying the emperor? I would like to ask
Ask, what is the eldest prince’s intention? Do you want to take advantage of the emperor’s coma to rebel?”
At the end of the sentence, he yelled out in a stern voice, a voice full of majesty and murder, which seemed particularly cold in the cold wind.
Qi Jin's face changed several times, and the glare in his eyes became more and more fierce, and he said: "I heard that my father was seriously ill, and I missed my father so much that I couldn't do it. When my father wakes up, I will apologize to my father."
.Ignorant shrew, you don’t need any more clever words, go back with this prince to stand trial as soon as possible. Come, search the palace of Prince Xian, dig three feet into the ground, and search out the guilty minister Qi Qi."
"promise."
"Who dares!" Tian Minyan waved her broad sleeves and shouted coldly.
"My prince is a prince personally ennobled by the late emperor. He enjoys the princely system and the prince's salary. Without the emperor's imperial edict, who dares to search the prince's mansion?" Tian Minyan shouted coldly and sternly: "Please don't lead troops to break into the prince's mansion.
There are nine levels of criminals, do you want to harm your family, wife and children?"
"Qi Qi is the criminal who plotted to murder the emperor..."
"Whether it's the guilty minister or the eldest prince, you can make a generalization. Did Dali Temple convict my prince? Did my prince convict him?" Tian Minyan interrupted Qi Jin with a shout before he could finish.
"The witnesses and material evidence are all there. If you don't admit it when it's not your turn, come and take the prisoner woman away." Qi Jin was so angry that his chest heaved up and down.
"Let's see who dares to come forward and offend!" Tian Minyan snorted coldly, then glared at Qi Jin and sneered: "It would be too arbitrary for the eldest prince to say that a palace maid who ran out of nowhere said that my prince poisoned the emperor.
I can also say that the eldest prince poisoned him with the intention of killing his father and seizing the throne without permission, and the few girls behind me are witnesses."
Ningbi and the others took a step forward, half blocking Tian Minyan.
Qi Jin's face changed, his breathing became rapid, he clenched his fists, but quickly calmed down, and coldly snorted: "No matter how eloquent you are, you can't even think of absolving Qi Qi. If you have anything to say, leave it to Dali."
Go talk to the temple and take him away." He winked impatiently at an officer and soldier next to him who looked like a leader.
When the officer and soldier saw him, he immediately waved his hand and several soldiers came forward.
Tian Minyan's heart sank. The Queen and the others really didn't care, but they didn't take a step back. The maids around her immediately stepped forward to block her. Even Butler Song rushed forward, and the relatives in the mansion behind her
The soldiers also rushed forward with an arrow.
The two sides were confronting each other and were about to start a fight. Tian Minyan glared at Qi Jin and shouted coldly: "Qi Jin, how dare you!"
"Why don't I dare?" Qi Jin sneered, stared at Tian Minyan with gloomy eyes, and said loudly: "Catch the wife of the guilty minister for my prince. If you dare not obey, I will kill you."
After saying this, the soldiers on Qi and Jin's side immediately moved, and they all rushed forward, and the weapons of the two sides clashed together with a clang.
"Qi Jin! You are so brave!"
At this moment, a sharp shout came through the air, and then, a man riding a black horse galloped over from the end of the street, holding a long sword in one hand, his tough and handsome face showing off.
It's killing.
When Tian Minyan saw him, her tense mind relaxed, and tears burst into her eyes without any warning, falling down like broken beads.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty is back." Butler Song shouted.
Qi Jin reacted from his daze and shouted sternly: "Hurry, catch this woman." He pushed the general soldier.
The man was obviously stupid. As soon as he moved his feet, a long sword came through the air and fell to his feet with a clang.
"Empress Qiu of Qi and Jin colluded with the enemy and plotted evil against our emperor. She must be punished for her crimes. Come here, capture Qi and Jin for me and hand them over to our emperor! The rest of the people, except for those who lead the troops, if they lay down their weapons and surrender, let's forget the past.
.”
Thousands of cavalry appeared from behind Qi Shiqi. Qi Jin's face turned pale and he collapsed on the ground.
Qi Shiqi had arrived in front of the house, jumped off his horse and came to Tian Minyan.
Tian Minyan looked at him through tearful eyes, the corners of her lips raised slightly: "You're back!"
It's not a question, but an affirmation. It's a belief that he will return and that he will not forget his promise.
"Well, I'm back!" Qi Shiqi wiped away the tears on her cheeks, and regardless of the presence of everyone, he held her jade-like face and kissed her...
