Zhu Kongshan sued the eighth prince with his own life, which surprised and touched the courtiers present. They all knelt down one after another. No matter which party they belonged to, they all stood on the side of justice in this atmosphere of death and shouted loudly in unison.
Calling: "Your Majesty, please punish the Eighth Prince for his sins! Please Your Majesty, please punish the Eighth Prince for his sins!"
At the other end, Xuan Tianming and others also knelt down and said the same lines to the courtiers. Emperor Tianwu's hand holding the fold kept trembling, and he felt a sense of being forced and helpless.
Although he still has many doubts about this case, he also knows: Lao Ba deserves it!
So what if he was unjustly accused this time? The first two times allowed him to escape serious crimes. Facing these courtiers, facing the people of the world, and facing his other sons, he must show an attitude today!
"Eighth Prince Xuan Tianmo..." Finally, Tianwu spoke: "Cruelty to the common people, brutality, cruelty, and inhumanity. Immediately thrown into death row, the imperial guards in the palace re-handed over the ninth prince to take charge, and the eighth prince... went to the punishment department
Choose a day...to ask and kill!"
One sentence determined the final outcome of the Eighth Prince. But someone reluctantly asked again: "What about Mr. Yuan Gui?"
Tianwu waved his hand: "Demoted to Cainv, moved out of Cunshan Palace, and lived in... Jingsi Palace."
Another one was sent to the Jingsi Palace. Although she was not executed or sent to the cold palace, she was demoted to the title of maid, which is no different from a palace maid. After all, she was just a harem concubine. After losing her son, she could not change the world again.
There is no doubt about this punishment.
Only Xuan Tianming and Xuan Tianhua knew in their hearts that Tianwu was not confused. He knew that Yuan Guiren was framed in this matter, so he left a glimmer of hope for the woman. Xuan Tianming sighed in his heart and only said that his father
The emperor is indeed old. If it had been twenty years ago, Yuan Guiren would have definitely died. But now, Tianwu is full of debts to the concubines in the harem that he knows he cannot make up for, so his actions are no longer as straightforward as before.
After the court broke up, Xuan Tianming led a large group of imperial guards to surround Prince Sheng's Mansion and arrested Xuan Tianmo.
The death row is in the palace, just underground in the back mountain. It is a place so cold that even in the dog days of summer, one has to wear a cotton-padded jacket. Now in the twelfth lunar month, the water inside is even more frozen, and it is so cold that it invades the heart and lungs.
Xuan Tianmo was sitting on the death row. The coldness on the ground made him feel numb from the waist down. He couldn't recover. He didn't understand why he was thrown into the death row in a daze? It is said that he was asked to be executed? How is it possible?
!How could he end up in this situation?
Not to mention that the Eighth Prince couldn't figure out why things turned out like this, Yuan Guiren, who was kicked out of Cunshan Palace, also couldn't figure out why the boat suddenly capsized. Until she heard that Zhu Kongshan had sued the Eighth Prince.
After being charged several times and being killed in front of Emperor Tianwu, she suddenly realized that she and her son had been smart all their lives, but they ended up falling into the hands of that girl.
She was so cruel that she gritted her teeth! She originally wanted to help her son, but she didn't expect that she would send a wolf cub to her son, and cause them to end up where they are now.
Jingsi Palace, what an irony! That Concubine Li was demoted to a noble person and rushed to the Jingsi Palace. Now she has been demoted even more thoroughly. She has directly become a female prostitute and has entered the Jingsi Palace. This is the Feng Shui Wheel.
Fall?
The maid Yuexiu moved into the side hall of Jingsi Palace with the current Liu Cainv. She lost her noble status and even her title was taken back. Now she can only be called by her mother's surname. "Cainu, what the hell is this!
"She was so filled with hatred that she almost bit her silver teeth into pieces. "I don't believe it! I never believe that Mo'er and I are over like this!" Liu Cainu's eyes were filled with fire, "This matter can never be let go just like this. As long as Mo'er
As long as my son doesn't die, I will definitely find a way to save him!"
Yuexiu doesn't want to live such a miserable life. There is still a Jingsi Palace to live in. Once the Eighth Prince asks about it, she is afraid that her master will not be able to retain the female position sooner or later. Although she does not expect that her master will be able to sit there one day.
When I reach the position of Queen Mother, I never want to become a prostitute just like that. If the master is not good, how good can the slave be?
Yuexiu frowned and thought for a long time, and then said: "It seems that the emperor's imperial edict did not say that the master is not allowed to leave the Jingsi Palace. Come to think of it, it is still different from when Concubine Li was locked up here."
This sentence reminded Liu Cainu, yes, compared to the original Concubine Li, she now has absolute freedom of movement. The emperor only said that she would be demoted and moved to the palace, but he did not say that she was not allowed to move around in the palace.
Can she still get out of the Jingsi Palace... She suddenly laughed, "It turns out that the road between me and Mo'er is not blocked. As long as this door is open, I will have a chance to turn things around. Yuexiu
, help me change my clothes and comb my hair, and let’s go to the queen’s place and walk around.”
The emperor himself demoted the nobleman to the rank of maiden. The news soon spread throughout the harem and reached the ears of the queen.
For the Queen, just reducing Yuan Guiren to Cainu will not relieve the hatred in her heart. If she wants to rely on her, it is best to throw that person into the death row together with the Eighth Prince, and set a date to be executed together, or else simply give him a gift.
A piece of white silk or a bottle of poison is enough to give her death. Only when Yuan Gui is dead can she no longer be threatened by that person, and her life can be more stable, without having to worry about it all the time like now.
of.
Fangyi persuaded her: "My dear, one step at a time, everyone has been reduced to the status of a daughter-in-law. From now on, I can find any excuse to torment her to death. In this harem, it is too easy to kill someone."
"Yes!" the queen sighed, "In this harem, it is too easy to kill someone. But I have never bothered to use this method, and no one has ever been able to threaten my position.
Therefore, this kind of thing has almost been forgotten by me."
While the two were talking, someone from the palace came to report: "Your Majesty, Liu Cainu is outside asking to see you."
"Liu Cainv?" The queen was stunned and didn't react for a moment, "Who is Liu Cainv?" How many years has it been since someone with Cainv's status came to Jingci Palace?
The palace man replied: "It's the Yuan Guiren in the past, who was just demoted to Cainv today."
"It's her!" There was a moment of anger on the queen's face, which she had never seen in so many years. But it was only for a moment, and her expression soon returned. She nodded,
"Let that Liu Cainv come in."
The palace man went out to invite someone, and Fangyi whispered: "Why do you want to see her? She is just a picker now. Even if she holds the handle in her hand, Yi Nu maid sees that she will not dare to say it easily until the boat is broken.
.And how can we really make her live to the point of ruin? I have thought about this matter, and I will do it if I don’t dirty my hands.”
The queen frowned and did not directly answer the question, but simply said: "I just want to find out how much that woman knows and what kind of evidence she holds. If it is just hearsay, we don't have to worry like this.
"
While they were talking, Liu Cainv walked in with Yuexiu. After being demoted to Cainv, she had to kneel down and bow to the queen when she saw her again. She was very unhappy, but as long as she was still in the palace, this rule was indispensable.
But when he saw the two of them bowing down, he said, "Queen, Jin An."
The queen sat at the top, looked at the people kneeling below, and couldn't help but ask: "Do you think that with my ability, I can get the eighth prince out of death row? Or do you think that I can?
Help you restore your status as a nobleman? Or perhaps as a concubine?"
Liu Cainv raised her head, with a faint smile on her face, and said: "No, I never thought that the Queen could be so capable. If you really were, you wouldn't be like that when you returned to the position of concubine.
Concubine Li."
"Then what are you here for?" The queen was furious, "Is it possible that you are here to show off that you did not die this time? I tell you, whether you live or die, it was your own fault! You fell into the hands of your niece.
This matter has nothing to do with me!"
"Why is the Queen so excited?" Liu Cainu was still kneeling on the ground, raising her head and talking to the Queen. She said, "I came here today, but I didn't mean to ask the Queen to do anything. I was just thinking,
Such a big change has happened, and I can't just feel aggrieved." When she said this, her eyes gleamed, and she said coldly: "Ms. Cheng, if I'm not happy, you can't be happy either! I came here today just to make you happy.
Look at my fate and let you think about it. One day when everything is revealed, what will happen to you. Don't think that if you are a queen today, you will always be a queen. Let me tell you, I have already arranged your affairs outside.
Okay, man, once something happens to me and the Eighth Prince, just watch. Soon, the Queen's true identity will be spread throughout every corner of Dashun. By then, I think you still have something to say.
Who has the face to sit in this position, and what face does the mother have for the world? Let’s see if the emperor can still tolerate someone who has been hiding for so many years by his side. I just want to see, by then, whether you are dead or alive,
Are you the same as me, or not as good as me?"
Liu Cainv's words made the Queen's heart tremble, but they could not cause a substantial blow to her. She even lost her smile and said: "What's so curious about this? It's not like I haven't thought about what will happen sooner or later."
Pass. Furthermore, Mr. Yuan Gui, oh no, it should be Liu Cainv. Do you think the emperor is confused? I tell you, the emperor was shrewd in the past and is still shrewd now. Nothing can be hidden from him. I can't hide my affairs from him.
What happened to you two can't be concealed. The mines in Yuzhou and the war in the southern border. Do you think that the fate you met this time was just because of Zhu Kongshan? Just wait and see. It's not that you won't report it. The time has not yet come.
When the time comes, everything will be paid off. This is true for you, and so is this palace."
Liu Cainv stared at the queen, feeling that the face of the palace empress was surrounded by a layer of death. She suddenly realized that the queen herself had no hope of living. What words could she say that could really stimulate her?
?
The queen waved her hand and said, "Go back! It's useless to threaten me with that thing again. The emperor has already known it, and the reason why he has kept me until now is just as a bait for you. You
You are the picker and I am the bait, you see, no one is any better than the other!"
Liu Cainv walked out of the main hall of Jingci Palace amidst the laughter of the queen. The queen's words set off waves in her heart. If what the queen said is true, then what has she been doing all this time? The threat she thought she had was nothing more than jumping off the rails.
It's just a clown's play. The emperor has long known that she can't threaten anything. But if she can't threaten, what should she and Mo'er do?
Thinking even more, she suddenly bumped into someone. Liu Cainv was stunned and looked up, only to see a stunning beauty dressed in red standing in front of her, showing a heaven-defying smile and saying to herself: "Liu Cainv