Suddenly, the cry of a winter bird outside Chunping Palace startled the quiet people.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty..." Meng Wan knelt down and came to Fu Jingheng's dragon boots. She held the corner of the dragon robe with trembling hands, "Listen to Wan'er's explanation. I don't know why this blood letter is in my concubine."
Under the bed, it must be Qingliu who framed my concubine. It was the late empress who had evil intentions in order to pave the way for her return to the palace. She framed my concubine!"
Fu Jingheng stared at Meng Wan coldly. He no longer had any desire to speak to Meng Wan because he already knew the truth and there was no need to say another word.
"Your Majesty, please have a word with me, Your Majesty." Meng Wan shook her dragon robe in despair. If Your Majesty stops speaking to her, it proves that she has completely rejected her. Only if you are willing to speak, it proves that there is still a chance of improvement. Despair
Slowly rising from the bottom of her heart, she thought that she would never be able to raise eyebrows with this man at the pinnacle of power. She was here to replace Wen Jin as queen, couldn't she realize it? "Your Majesty, please ask Wan'er a question.
Your Majesty, please don’t ignore Wan’er.”
Fu Jingheng remained silent, his eyes fell warmly on the blood letter written by Wen Jin, and he felt mixed feelings in his heart. He owed too much to Zhonggong.
"Your Majesty, Concubine Meng has been making things difficult for the concubines in the harem over the past few months. During every morning meeting, she would punish her by kneeling for a long time because she couldn't bear to see that she had been favored by one or two emperors." Qing Ruo from the Jade Palace knelt down.
Revealing Meng Wan's behavior, "Every time I served her tea, she would let me hold the hot teacup but refused to take it. My hands were so scalded that they caused new and old injuries."
As he said that, he stretched out his hand, and it was indeed blisters, which was quite pitiful.
Fu Jingheng looked at Qing Ruo's hand and said nothing for the time being.
Zhou Yuan also knelt down and reported: "Your Majesty, because Concubine Meng hated the late empress and because she was a good friend of the late empress, she often sent her to Chunping Palace and pricked her arms and waist with embroidery needles.
The needle's eye was very small on the back, so it was painful but not fatal. She stabbed the concubine with the needle and said, "That bitch of yours, the late empress, died somewhere. No one will make the decision for you. She has the final say in the harem. Mr. Su Ri."
The Queen treats us all kindly, like family and friends, but Concubine Meng is here and she is not satisfied with what we do. We all miss the late Queen."
As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeves and exposed a section of his arm, but it was shocking to see that they were filled with needle holes.
Fu Jingheng's face became colder and colder, "Wu Xin, Liu Yingfu, the sages you took the lead in recommending to me are indeed virtuous. I understand, you think that such a scheming woman who will do whatever it takes to win the throne is a good match for me. She deceives the king.
, deceived the imperial court. The mother of the country was wrongly accused and expelled. But so what, I need people, I will not even send any of you, these participants who submitted the sixty impeachment decrees, you are still my beloved.
In the end, the only one who feels wronged is the Mother of the Country. Are you all satisfied?! Are you contented?! Do you regret it? Is it useful?"
As he spoke, he smashed his fist on the table, and the thick mahogany table immediately shattered into pieces, "I treat you sincerely, but you will trample under your feet. You will send this disaster to the sky."
Wu Xin and Liu Yingfu, whose clothes were soaked with sweat, said, "That's not true. We don't know Meng Wan's nature. Who would have thought that a weak woman would have such means and appetite? Who would have thought that her belly is full of poison!"
Wu Xin was furious, "Meng Wan, didn't you hear the secret of the gunpowder stone at the foot of the mountain? You are actually so vicious! Our recommendation was in vain! It's so abominable! Did your mother eat poisonous toads to give birth to you?"
"
Liu Yingfu avoided suspicion and did not touch Meng Wan. Instead, he grabbed Meng Ren by the collar and said, "How can you, a weakling, teach your daughter? Aren't you in charge of the etiquette department? You have to follow this etiquette and that etiquette all day long. How can your daughter lie and beat her up?"
The concubine in the back court, and committed the crime of deceiving the emperor!"
Meng Ren was really ashamed. He had always been loyal and honest. He was in charge of the Ministry of Rites, national etiquette, sacrifices, tributes, and diplomacy. He did his job properly. He often couldn't stand the careless soldiers in the Ministry of War and the Military Aircraft Department.
He was also able to point fingers at his style, but he didn't know that the stain on his door was his own daughter. He couldn't raise his head, so he removed Liu Yingfu's hand from his collar, pointed at Meng Wan and said: "An unfilial daughter should only be treated as a father."
I gave birth to you! After eight lifetimes of bloody misfortunes, you are a debt collector! Cut off any relationship!"
As he spoke, he cut off one of his fingers to express his determination.
Meng Wan saw that the officials who loved and supported her in the past no longer supported her, and her biological father had also broken off. She knelt down and shouted: "General Wu, Mr. Liu, Mr. Wang, please beg for me. I really do."
It’s unjust! Someone framed me, it’s true! You believe me!”
Wu and Liu waved their sleeves and hid far away, "The broom star is a scourge!"
"Dad! Daddy! Please beg for mercy for your daughter, Daddy! Does your hand hurt? Daddy..." Meng Wan knelt down to Meng Ren's feet again.
Meng Ren also turned his back to her, no longer recognizing each other, "I am not your father."
"Qing Ruo and Zhou Yuan, please help me. We are all in the harem. Please help me intercede. You framed me just now, right!" Meng Wan walked to Qing Ruo and Zhou Yuan on her knees,
"Good sisters."
Qing, everyone on Tuesday also turned away angrily, "It's so hypocritical."
"Your Majesty, I am only seventeen years old. I am still a child." Meng Wan knelt down to Fu Jingheng's feet again and said with a trembling voice: "I am still ignorant and ignorant of human affairs. I have no idea about some of my actions.
What consequences will it have on the late Empress? I gave her amulet to you in my name because I respect and care about you. I... I intercepted the blood letter and asked for great merit because I felt that this matter was very important.
It makes sense. I was just confused and wanted to contribute to the country. I didn’t want to hurt anyone! I didn’t know that what I did would cause the Queen to be expelled from the country! Oh, it was my Aunt Chen who forced me to do so.
, I am innocent! Your Majesty...what bad thoughts can a seventeen-year-old have?"
As she said this, she pointed at the body of her old grandmother and started crying.
Fu Jingheng laughed, and the laughter made Wu Xin, Liu Yingfu, Meng Ren and others present so ashamed that they wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in. The emperor stood up, pinched Meng Wan's chin with his hands, and gave her the skin touch for the second time.
Dear, he said word by word: "When you lose the support, recognition, and even respect of the officials, what are you? When you are recognized, the phoenix seal is honor, when you are not recognized, the phoenix seal is humiliation. If you want to manage the harem, let
You take care of it. Go on, help me manage the harem, and convince others with your virtue, virtuous empress."
After saying this, Fu Jingheng left Chunping Palace and entered the Imperial Study Room. He looked lonely behind him. At the age of twenty-seven, he seemed to have aged ten years in an instant.
Wu Xin, Liu Yingfu, Wang Mang, Lao Mo, Qingliu and others also followed and left. At that time, the officials involved in the sixty rounds of impeachment of the queen all came to the door of the imperial study after hearing the news, and knelt down from the imperial study to the imperial palace.
Outside the study room, last time I asked the emperor to remove the empress, but this time I came to kowtow to Recuo and petition the emperor to reinstate the empress status and the empress to return to the throne of phoenix.
Fu remained silent.
It was extremely cold in Chunping Palace.
Queen Mother Xia asked everyone to support her and prepare to leave.
Meng Wan knelt and kowtowed to the Queen Mother, "Empress Dowager, Queen Mother, please give Wan'er a chance. Wan'er will not dare to make mistakes next time. Wan'er will rub your legs, serve you tea, and copy Buddhist scriptures with blood.
OK?"
Xia Ranshuang paused, took the phoenix seal from Meng Wan's sleeve, and said: "Ah, you are a 'great hero', how can the Ai family bear this great gift from you? Besides, the Ai family don't dare to call you
You are rubbing your legs and serving tea. What if the Ai family takes a nap and you push the Ai family off the cliff while you are pouring the tea? The queen has already been expelled from the country. What if the Ai family is expelled again?
Now that we have gone abroad, our whole family will be ruined by you. Please save it, Queen Xian."
Xia Ranshuang thought it was ridiculous, and she and her concubines left with a smile. The Queen Mother said: "You can't help the mud on the wall, and you want to be the queen even if you have bad hooves. I don't look down on you."
The bells of sorrow rang in Meng Wan's heart, and she sat slumped in the hall, spinning around and not knowing where she was. It wasn't until Qing Ruo's servant grabbed Meng Wan by her hair and pressed it into the servant's toilet that she choked, and then Meng Wan said sharply:
"I am the acting queen, how dare you make things difficult for me like this!"
"Oh, why don't you go complain to your Majesty and see if your Majesty will sympathize with you?" The servant said, pouring down the bucket of wine, covering Meng Wan from head to toe.
"Ah!" Meng Wan screamed like a mad woman.
Until Queen Mother Lou gently wiped away the dirt on her face with a handkerchief, Queen Mother Lou said, "My child, it was Su Wenjin who made your body stink. You must take revenge on her regardless of the consequences!"
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imperial study room
Fu Jingheng was in trance with Wen Jin's blood letter for a long time. She wrote him two letters in total.
One is a blood letter about this important secret, and the other is a farewell letter she wrote before leaving Winter Garden.
In the blood letter, she said, "My husband personally expresses my love for me, and I can see the words as if they were my face. I am my concubine..."
In her farewell letter, she said, [Brother Heng, words are as clear as face. When you read this letter from home, I have already left Dongyuan and left with brother Azhou.]
From husband to brother Heng.
I must have finally been disappointed enough.
All the officials had been kneeling in front of him for two hours, and the emperor and his ministers seemed to find it difficult to speak.
Wu Xin was very responsible and corrected his mistakes. He said: "I personally took people to find the empress to admit my mistakes and apologize to her."
"Yeah. She comes and goes at a moment's notice. You stupid fool. Your confession is worthless." Fu pressed the bloody book under his hand, and his eyes were red.
Liu Yingfu said, "I will also go and mobilize the most capable men in the military aircraft department to find the empress. I will kowtow to the empress and admit my mistake."
Fu Jingheng raised his eyes and looked at Liu Yingfu, "What can you find? From beginning to end, you can't find anything except looking at Su Wenjin and suing her. You can't do anything, bragging about being the first."