At dawn, the eunuchs and maids who were cleaning the palace had already started working.
This was an ordinary day in August, but everyone knew that things were going to change inside and outside the palace.
"Amazing! Did you hear that? The queen is also grounded!" A little eunuch with mouse eyes came up to the two little palace maids and said in a half-fearful, half-showy manner, "I was on duty last night, but look.
Some great shows!”
"Don't talk nonsense. Isn't it Princess Fu who is grounded?" said an older palace maid. "Be careful if word of your truth spreads to Ronghua Palace, the Queen will skin you!"
"Can this be nonsense? How many heads do I have!" the little eunuch snorted, "You are at the back, how can you know what is going on in the front? Yesterday, all the palaces were searched. Ouch! It's like ransacking a house.
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"The more you talk, the more nonsense you get." The little palace maid was very delicate and spoke with a slight Jiangnan accent. "According to what you said, all the masters of the palaces didn't sleep last night!"
The little eunuch obviously liked her. Hearing what she said, he smiled and continued: "You are right. I have been up most of the night. If you don't believe me, just watch. I will see which palace is as usual.
There must be no movement at all."
"Then why was the Queen grounded?" The older maid couldn't help but be curious.
"This is too scary, I don't dare to say it." The little eunuch with mouse eyes pretended.
"You are such a person, you want to whet people's appetites without saying anything." The palace maid rolled her eyes angrily, "Xiao Ling, let's go and ignore him."
"It's not that I didn't tell you. It's just that this matter is too big and I don't have a solid foundation. It's not good for you to spread it randomly." The mouse-eyed little eunuch hurriedly explained.
But the two maids had already gone away.
But soon, more and more people in the palace knew what happened last night.
For a time, there was a rumbling wind and people were panicked.
The sun has already risen to three poles high, and Yao Tai is still standing in front of the palace gate.
The two attendants behind him looked at each other, neither of them dared to step forward and speak.
The Holy One left the court early yesterday, and stayed away from the court again today, saying that the dragon was not feeling well.
Yao Tai held a thick memorial in his hand. He originally planned to go to court today, but he still wanted to continue to accuse the fifth prince in the court.
Who would have expected, but would have received a huge rejection.
However, this is not the most important thing. It is just a complaint. If the complaint cannot be made today, there will still be tomorrow.
However, he wanted to enter the palace to see the queen, but was told not to do so.
The weather in August is weird. It's freezing cold in the morning and evening, and it's crazy hot in the middle of the day.
Yao Tai was wearing a dark purple official uniform, his back was as hot as a sunburn, but his heart felt like ice cubes.
He was still thinking about what the guard at the palace gate said to him just now. He once thought that he heard it wrong. Even after a long time, he still couldn't believe that it was true.
"Master Marquis, why don't we go back to the mansion?" The guard behind him finally couldn't help but stepped forward to persuade, "If you keep standing like this, your body will not be able to bear it."
Maybe it was because the sun was too hot, and Yao Tai's ears couldn't help but chirp, mingling with the cicadas on the tree. He became more and more irritable and wanted to stab someone a few times.
When the guard saw that he didn't speak, he repeated what he had just said.
Yao Tai was still indifferent.
Until the sixth prince came out of the palace and strode up to him.
"Master Marquis, let me take you back!" The sixth prince said and directly helped Yao Tai onto the horse and told the guards, "Hold the horse properly and don't go too fast."
When the horse started to walk, Yao Tai came back to his senses. He looked at the Sixth Prince walking alongside him and felt a little calmer.
"When you came out of the palace, did you see His Majesty?" Yao Tai asked.
"I went to pay my respects to my mother and concubine. Your Majesty doesn't see anyone now." The sixth prince said, "I don't dare to get into trouble."
"Then..." Yao Tai wanted to ask more, but saw that this was not the place to talk, so he had to stop talking.
Back at the mansion, Princess Maoling didn't expect her husband to come back so early. Seeing her son-in-law following her, she hurriedly ordered her servants: "Go and bring some tea and snacks. I don't have an appetite when I got up early. Let's make up for it now!"
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"Don't you know yet?" Yao Tai sat down a little dejectedly.
"The Queen is grounded," Yao Tai glanced at her and then lowered his head. "Your Majesty has left the court and will not see anyone."
After Yao Tai said that, he felt that what he said might not be completely accurate. The emperor just didn't see him, not necessarily others.
"How could this happen?" Princess Maoling couldn't help but panic when she heard this, but she felt even more strange, "Why did our family not hear any movement about such a big event?"
"Oh, people say good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles. On the other hand, if something good happens, I don't know how many people will rush to your door to curry favor. Who will come when they hear about such a thing?" Yao Tai sneered.
Others are not stupid. If they come to Yao's house to report the news at this time, not only will they be in trouble, but they may also be implicated.
"Why is the Queen banned?" Princess Maoling asked, "Our family is the one who suffers!"
"I heard that Ma Cairen sued the emperor, saying that the eighth prince was killed by the queen." Yao Tai really didn't expect that at this juncture, Ma Chunping would become the Cheng Yaojin who came out halfway.
"This... when did this happen?!" Princess Maoling's old toad stared, "It must have been ten years! Is Ma Chunping so crazy that she turned these sesame seeds into rotten millet?
I turned it over. But what evidence does she have? How can Your Majesty believe her?"
"The strange thing is here." When Yao Tai first heard about it, he didn't think it was ridiculous. "Ma Chunping brought two witnesses, one of whom was the tenth princess. She can actually talk..."
"That mute can talk?!" Princess Maoling was really shocked, "Who cured her?"
"She is not mute at all, she is just pretending!" Yao Tai gritted his teeth, "She said she witnessed with her own eyes how the Queen harmed the Eighth Prince."
"How old could she be at that time? How can we take the words of a child seriously? Their mother and daughter must have been taken advantage of." Princess Maoling said hurriedly, "As long as the Queen doesn't recognize her, what can be done?"
"It's okay for her alone." Yao Tai felt discouraged when he thought of the next words, "The other witness turned out to be the prince, and he kept saying that it was the queen who harmed the eighth prince."
"Ah?!" Princess Maoling was so frightened that she almost fell from her chair, "Prince?! How could he...how could he..."
At this time, she finally understood why Yao Tai was so downcast. If it were others, no matter how many people came forward to testify, it would not make people so desperate.
This person can be anyone, but at worst the fish will die and the net will fall apart.
But it happened to be the prince, the man they tried their best to protect and who they all relied on.
