Prince Jian's voice came from the main room, and then the door was closed, isolating everything inside.
Xu Qinghuan looked at her mother. Mrs. Anyihou sighed and shook her head.
Prince Jian took Xie Yun to the main room to talk, while Qing Huan and her mother sat in the side room to listen to the news.
Now it seems that Xie Yun is probably talking about Rong Xiao.
After coming out of Cining Palace, Xu Qinghuan asked people to inquire about Rong Xiao.
The Great Zhou Dynasty often selected female officials among the people to enter the palace, and the women who were rewarded were given internal positions and exempted from the corvee service in their families.
Since Emperor Gaozong, the female officials in the palace have been divided into two categories. One category is for women who enter the palace at the age of thirteen or fourteen. They usually serve for four to five years before returning home. The other category is for older women. There are no such women.
After marrying a husband, they generally will not remarry, and many will wait until they are old before returning home.
There was such an old aunt in Rong Xiao's family who served Empress Gaozong. She was highly appreciated by Empress Gaozong. After Empress Gaozong died, she was allowed to return home. This aunt Gao never remarried because she had
With such a relationship, Rong Xiao was chosen to enter the palace and was kept by the Queen Mother's side.
When Rong Xiao was given to Prince Jian by the Empress Dowager, she had one year before she could leave the palace. Rong Xiao's family had already arranged for her to leave the palace. People began to come to her family to propose marriage, and the Empress Dowager also carried away all the rewards given to Rong Xiao.
Everyone in the Gao family was looking forward to this dignity, but they didn't expect that disaster would eventually come.
Rong Xiao was carried to Prince Jian's Mansion, and the chamberlain went to Gao's house to take back all the rewards from the Queen Mother. Of course Cining Palace was not short of these things, and they wanted to give Rong Xiao that honor.
The Gao family has long been in decline, and sending Rong Xiao into the palace was their last resort. Now that they saw Rong Xiao offending the Queen Mother, they were immediately filled with fear, and the family immediately decided not to recognize any female relatives like Rong Xiao anymore. The Gao family
Originally settled in Suzhou, so he also moved to Jiangxi.
From then on, the Gao family really pretended that they did not have this daughter. The Gao family never asked about Rong Xiao's illness.
The Gao family abandoned their own flesh and blood, and Xie Yun'ai also felt that Rong Xiao was of no use, so he tried every means to get rid of Rong Xiao. Now that he was exposed, he pretended to be so infatuated, and he must have already thought of a countermeasure.
Xu Qinghuan thought of this and looked towards the main room. It seemed that Xie Yun saw that Zhang Yucong had been arrested, and it was time to make a case against Changzhou and the Zhang family.
As long as a man is righteous, even if he makes some small mistakes, he deserves to be forgiven. This is how Xie Yun is prepared to escape.
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King Jian looked at Xie Yun, "So you and Rong Xiao have an affair outside the palace."
"No," Xie Yun shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I'm already married, how could I be like this... I just said it a few times. If it weren't for a coincidence, and I felt guilty, nothing like that would have happened. I'm sorry to Yanniang.
, I’m even more sorry to the prince.”
King Jian continued, "How did you interact with Rong Xiao after she entered the palace?"
"Your Majesty, do you still remember the Changzhou magistrate corruption case? A Changzhou magistrate was killed with evidence in hand and wanted to inform the magistrate. The deceased magistrate had saved a family, and the youngest son of that family entered the palace and became a chamberlain," he said
Here Xie Yun raised his head and said, "Something happens every day in Dazhou. The prince may not have paid attention to it, but that official is very prestigious in Changzhou, and many of us have received favors from him.
What's more, Changzhou looks prosperous on the surface, but in fact corrupt officials are rampant and the people are living in dire straits. Although we have no officials or positions, we cannot just succumb to those corrupt officials and cruel officials, so we secretly collected evidence of the prefect's corruption crimes.
The prefect was confident because he relied on the support of the Zhang family. The servant wanted to get some information from Cining Palace, but he was discovered by Rong Xiao. Rong Xiao asked and found out the whole story. It happened that the aunt was ill at that time, and the Queen Mother ordered Rong Xiao to come out.
The Queen Mother came to visit, and Rong Xiao and I met at the palace. I didn’t expect that Rong Xiao would still remember me and take the initiative to ask me about this matter. I originally thought that Rong Xiao would inform the Queen Mother, but it didn’t happen.
Xiao is a woman who knows justice, and she actually started to help us...so much so that she was later discovered by the Queen Mother, who gave her to the prince out of anger."
Xie Yun's face became extremely ugly when he said this, "I missed her. I knew she was sad and just wanted to make up for it, so I secretly went to Beijing to see her several times and asked people to go to her parents' home to intercede, but in the end, nothing happened."
As a result, we started having an affair over and over again."
Xie Yun's voice became hard here. "After what happened, I wanted to confess to the prince, but I knew that after saying this, the Xie family could not tolerate me. I am a descendant of a side branch. If the clan blames me, I will be expelled."
Come out of the Xie family."
King Jian said, "If you want, just forget it."
"Of course not," Xie Yun said, "It's just that I need to go back and make some arrangements. Rong Xiao said that she had a way to stabilize the prince first and let me go back to Changzhou to make preparations."
After Xie Yun said this, he looked at Princess Jian, "Not long after, my aunt took Rong Xiao back to Changzhou and found out that Rong Xiao was pregnant."
Princess Jian couldn't help but said, "No wonder I told you to report this matter to the prince, but Rong Xiaohui didn't care about her, because she is pregnant with your flesh and blood."
"Yes," Xie Yun said, "We all know that when the prince comes to Changzhou, everything will come to light. It is meaningless to say anything now. I am not afraid that I will be punished. I am more worried about Rong Xiao. At most, I will be kicked out.
If I leave Xie's house, Rong Xiao will lose her life because of it. I told Rong Xiao that I will go to the prince to beg him, no matter what the cost, as long as I can keep her and the child safe. Although I am sorry for Yan Niang, I will never do what I have done.
I have to take responsibility, and Rong Xiao is willing to believe me... Later, Rong Xiao had a miscarriage. Rong Xiao thought that I had killed the child, and was extremely disappointed in me. When everyone was unprepared, she hung herself in the forest.
My aunt and the prince will know what happens next."
Princess Jian looked disappointed, "Rong Xiao is crazy. Naturally, no one knows about you. You kept silent about it, which can be considered as a relief. I didn't even see that you are such a person. If I still believe your words, I will
Brother Yuan is locked up at home."
Xie Yun shook his head, "I didn't. I just had something to do, so I left Rong Xiao in the palace temporarily. After this thing is done, I will come and explain everything, just like this time... If I keep silent
, how could the prince and aunt know about it? As for my suspicion of Brother Yuan, it is not unfounded. What I said is the truth. The prince can have someone investigate."
King Jian frowned and looked at Xie Yun, "You keep saying that you want to stay in Changzhou and work, then tell me what you have been doing these years."
Mentioning this matter, Xie Yun seemed to be energetic. "The Zhang family..." He licked his lips, "Drive the Zhang family out of Changzhou completely. Only in this way can we fundamentally solve the crisis in Changzhou. As long as we can do this,
I will die without regrets."
The room was quiet for a moment.
King Jian looked at Anyi Hou. He did not expect that Xie Yun had been secretly against the Zhang family.
"ridiculous."
A voice sounded at an inappropriate time.
Xu Qingan looked at Xie Yun with a look of disgust, "Sir, I hate people like this the most. On the surface, they are just for the family and the country, but behind the scenes they treat a woman like this with cruelty. Do you think you can just say that you care about the country and the people, and just do those nasty things?"
Isn't anyone pursuing the case? It's not easy. I tell you, I have seen people like you a lot. When you want money, you call me a "benefactor". If you turn around, it's not you. Don't talk to me about important national affairs.
, let’s settle the matter at hand first and then talk about it.”
Xu Qing'an rolled up his sleeves, stepped forward and held Xie Yun's shoulders before anyone could say anything, and punched him, "Shameless bastard, let me make you say things that I can't understand again..." At this point Xu Qing'an said
I felt something was wrong again, so I immediately changed my mind, "I asked you to find those shameless excuses, and I'll give you a good beating first. I'm really going to piss you off."
