The signal for a secret guard to deliver a message rang outside the palace. Yun Shang and Qian Liu raised their heads at the same time. Yun Shang pondered for a moment, then turned to look at Luo Qingyan and said: "The harem is not allowed to participate in politics. Since the matter has been
Mingming, I still have a request, I wonder if your majesty can grant it."
Luo Qingyan raised his eyes and looked at Yun Shang, with a slight smile on his lips: "That's what you say."
Yun Shang's eyes turned to the woman who looked the same as her in the palace, she slowly raised her lips and smiled, raising her finger to point at the woman: "The peace of the harem is the responsibility of this concubine. Please leave her to your majesty."
Concubine handles it."
The woman in the palace seemed to be a little panicked, and her face was a little distorted: "Your Majesty called a deer a horse. In order to prevent me from telling the truth, you actually treated me like this. All the officials are watching!"
Luo Qingyan sneered, "You really don't shed tears until you see the coffin."
Yun Shang understood that she was deliberately stalling for time. She frowned slightly and said, "Since she still doesn't realize that she has lost and wants everyone to be a witness, I am willing to make it happen."
you."
Yun Shang stood up, glanced at the ministers in the palace, and spoke calmly: "It's not difficult to identify whether I am real or fake. You just need to ask some questions that others don't know, and we each write down the answers.
, distinguish between true and false. In order to prove that I and Your Majesty did not cheat, let the wise king think about this issue and wait for it with pen and ink."
Liu Wen'an quickly asked the palace servants to bring pens, inks, paper and inkstones. Yun Shang glanced at Liu Yinfeng, who pondered for a moment before speaking: "How do you address your Majesty when the Queen is in a very good mood?"
Yun Shang raised her eyes and glanced at Luo Qingyan. A cunning look flashed in her eyes. She smiled and wrote the answer without hesitation. Luo Qingyan also started writing very quickly.
There was cold sweat oozing out from the forehead of the woman in the hall. Yun Shang smiled and urged: "This is a simple question. Could it be that you don't even know this?"
Seeing this situation, everyone had an answer in their mind. The woman pondered for a long time before writing down the answer. Yun Shang ordered Liu Wen'an to take the paper back and show the three people's answers in front of everyone.
What the woman wrote was Qingyan.
Yun Shang and Luo Qingyan's answer was the emperor's uncle.
When the woman saw this, she was stunned for a long time, with a look of disbelief on her face: "How is it possible? He was obviously speaking lightly, how could he be the emperor's uncle?"
Yun Shang laughed when he heard this: "What's so difficult to understand? When I was in the Ning Kingdom, His Majesty was the sworn brother of my father. According to his seniority, I had to call him uncle, although later
We are married, but I still haven't changed this habit. When I am in a good mood, I will still call His Majesty the Emperor's uncle. So, are you convinced? Qianliu, please take her to the side hall."
Qianliu quickly agreed, and together with another palace man, escorted the woman away from the small door of the side hall. Yun Shang bowed and exited the main hall.
As soon as they entered the side hall, Yun Shang hurriedly said: "They want to divert the tiger away from the mountain and take the opportunity to rescue Cao Wenxi. They will mobilize all the secret guards in the palace who can be dispatched. They must not let Cao Wenxi be rescued.
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Qianliu quickly responded and retreated. Yun Shang walked up to the woman and asked the guards to hold her down. He reached out and groped around her face for a while, then Fang raised his hand and suddenly tore off the mask on her face.
Come down.
Under the mask, as Yun Shang expected, it was the face of Concubine Wan.
"Your disguise skills are far inferior to those of Cao Wenxi." Yun Shang sneered, "I don't understand, although you are not favored in this harem, after all,
If you have a child, it will definitely not be any worse in the future. At least you don’t have to worry about how to take care of yourself. Why would you take such a desperate risk and do something like this?"
With some tears in her eyes, Concubine Wan lowered her eyes and lowered her voice: "I also hope to live peacefully, but they are unwilling to give me this opportunity."
"If you don't want to, who can force you?" Yun Shang sneered, his eyes full of distrust.
Concubine Wan lowered her eyelids and raised the corners of her mouth, but she said with a bitter taste: "Master Cao Wenxi and I came from the same sect, and my qualifications are slightly inferior. Whether it is disguise or other things, I am not as good as her. I am in their hands
A very important chess piece, they are not willing to let me go so easily. Ever since I gave birth to An An, they have taken a closer look at me."
Concubine Wan sighed softly: "Before, they intended to use drugs to control An An, but even if I found out, I discussed with my brother to sneak banned drugs into the palace from outside the palace, and disguise An An as if she had taken drugs.
.After Cao Wenxi’s accident a few days ago, I have been very cautious, but I don’t want to let them take An An away again. I want to save my child, and I have no other choice but to obey them."
When Yun Shang heard this, her eyes were somewhat thoughtful. When she first learned that Concubine Wan gave her child forbidden drugs, she was a little surprised. The Nineteenth Prince was so young that there was no possibility of him competing for the throne. She
Why are you so cruel to your own children? But I didn't expect that such a thing would happen.
"After all, you choose your own path. If you had chosen to tell the truth frankly when I discovered that you and Qi Ruihai had secretly brought forbidden drugs into the palace, you would never end up like this today." Yun Shang said coldly.
typical.
Concubine Wan bit her lip, with a somewhat sad smile: "Maybe, but it's a pity that fate will not give me a chance to choose again."
Concubine Wan knelt straight and bowed to Chief Yun Shang: "I know that my sins are serious, so I don't ask the Queen for mercy. I only ask the Queen for the sake of An'an being young and at least having royal blood.
Save him."
There was some sympathy in Yun Shang's eyes, and she sighed softly after a while and said: "If I can save him, I will do my best, but now, I don't know anything. I don't know whether the Cao family is still alive."
How many people don't know what Cao Wenxi wants, what they will do next, or where the Nineteenth Prince is being imprisoned by them."
A teardrop fell from Concubine Wan's eyes and fell on the jade-inlaid ground. Her body trembled violently: "I said, I am willing to tell the Queen everything I know."
Yun Shang's eyes flashed, and she waved her hand, causing everyone in the side hall to retreat, "Go ahead."
In the main hall, the imperial guards had invited those people who Han Mingqing had written down to the hall. Most of them were old, and their hair and beards were pale, but they were still in good spirits and their steps were steady. When they walked into the hall, they knelt down.
He came down and said: "The common people kowtow to express their greetings to Your Majesty."
Luo Qingyan quickly helped the five or six people up, and then said: "I shouldn't disturb the elders, but this matter is related to the country of Xia, so I have to invite everyone to the palace.
Please forgive me. Today's incident was all caused by the jade seal. Some people suspected that the jade seal in my hand was a fake one, and they had recently used the jade seal of unknown origin in their hands to do evil. Therefore, they asked a few adults to identify it. Who is it?
The jade seal in your hand is real."
The old men looked at each other and then responded: "No."
The old man in civilian clothes on the side said: "Who knows if these people are invited by His Majesty and the Supreme Emperor? To ensure fairness, I suggest that these adults only need to tell you what the characteristics of the real jade seal are, and then invite Your Majesty.
Please take out the jade seals in your hands and see if they match one by one, and then you will know. To ensure fairness, please ask a few adults to write down the identification methods first, and then you can identify them one by one after your majesty takes the jade seals.
Can."
When Xia Huanyu heard this, he rolled his eyes, but his expression turned even colder. He had just said those words to Cao Wenxi in the private cell yesterday, and the old man made such a request.
Cao Wenxi was imprisoned, but she was not completely isolated from the outside world. Cao Wenxi was afraid that those words had passed into the ears of the old man, and the old man was afraid that he had also done some tricks.
Liu Wen'an ordered people to bring pens, inks, paper and inkstones and presented them to several elders. The elders and Han Mingqing pondered for a while before writing.
Luo Qingyan ordered people to collect everything, and then asked Liu Wen'an to invite Yu Xi out.
The jade seal was placed in a box made of rosewood, with a yellow cloth padded inside. Liu Wen'an took out the jade seal, and Fang ordered people to collect the papers in the hands of the elders one by one.
Luo Qingyan selected a few people to come forward and check with several elders, while Liu Wen'an sang and drank on the side.
"When Emperor Yuan founded the country, he chose the jade used for carving jade seals and chose a special piece of jade. The special thing about jade is that it itself has the prototype of a dragon, and a little black foreign matter has been invaded on the top of the dragon's head.
It was originally a flaw, but Emperor Yuan said that the place where the black foreign object was located was the dragon's eye, so he chose this piece of jade to carve the jade seal." Liu Wen'an's voice sounded in the hall.
Everyone's eyes then fell on the dragon above the jade seal.
"It has two eyes, black eyes, and they are indeed inlaid in jade." Someone exclaimed.
Seeing this, Liu Wen'an continued to read: "The jade used for carving the jade seal is Dushan jade, which is soft jade. It is white in color, has a fine and moist texture, and has no cotton strands. Except for the two spots of longan, there are no other impurities. Carving jade
The craftsman is Tian Guang, whose carving skills are unique."
Someone who was good at appreciating jade came forward to look at the jade seal carefully. They all nodded and said, "It is indeed a one-to-one correspondence. I have seen the jade carved by Master Tian. It is indeed a work of art. The dragon looks completely natural, and the back
The patterns on it are Tian Guang’s unique technique.”
"When Tian Guang was carving jade, he hid a mystery in the jade seal in order to easily distinguish the authenticity from the fake. At first glance, the jade seal is nothing special, but if you look at it against the light, you will see a flying dragon embedded in the jade seal.
"Liu Wen'an raised his voice a little higher and gathered the paper in his hand. (To be continued)
