193. 10
When King Xuan arrived at Dali Temple, it was dusk and there were lights everywhere in the palace.
This case involves a concubine of King Xuan. It is reasonable for him to come to listen. Lu Taigong ordered someone to move a chair.
King Xuan sat in the lower left head of Lu Taigong. He sat down. He glanced at the closest Xu Shangshu and the couple, and then looked at the "Xu" who was kneeling there with his head down. As a suspect, how well he treated her, she knelt on the cold and hard stone bricks. There was no charcoal fire here. She only wore a jacket she wore in the house, and her hands on the ground were so cold that they turned white.
King Xuan thought of the night when she secretly ran to the main courtyard to invite her favor.
He covered her feet in his arms, and loved her so much that he might not be filial to the emperor. She was better than not, and she didn't tell him a word of truth.
Deserve it!
King Xuan looked away and waited for him to see the Liu family and Chen Ying beside Zhao Yanping clearly, and she didn't have to ask anything. She was Zhao Xiangyun.
How could a folk woman who had been lost for nineteen years fall into the hands of Lu?
Why was she separated from her family? Where was she before she was taken away by Lu's family as a daughter?
King Xuan didn't know why he was thinking about this, but he couldn't control himself. He put the woman in his hand and hurt for nine years. She had become a piece of flesh on him. He couldn't cut it cleanly with one size fits.
Everyone was here, and Mr. Lu sat back to his original position and interrogated Xiangyun again: "Since you have admitted that you are not Xu Wanyi, who are you? Where are you from?"
Xiangyun was very cold. Before the prince came, she became even colder. When the prince came, she became even colder.
If others don’t ask her, her mind is full of two children. Only after someone asks, Xiangyun instinctively thinks and answers.
Who is she? She is Zhao Xiangyun.
But she committed the crime of deceiving the monarch, and she could not implicate her brother.
In the end, she could only be a ghost without a name, no surname, no memory.
The coldness in the body and heart turned into endless tears. Xiangyun's forehead was pressed against the floor tiles and choked and said, "The girl was separated from her family when she was young and had long forgotten where her home was. Since the girl was sent to the nunnery by Madam Jing, the nunnery's nunnery to torment me day and night, forcing me to forget my real name and treat myself completely as Xu Wanyi. The girl gradually forgot everything she had before."
Before Duke Lu could speak, King Xuan sneered and asked: "Torturing day and night? What kind of torture can make you forget your real name?"
This panic was too fake. She clearly remembered that she had been worried that she would lose her head after she had already been!
Xiangyun, the former pillow man, certainly heard the voice of King Xuan. The sneer made her tremble all over and couldn't speak.
King Xuan could not see her face, guessed that she was making up excuses, and immediately asked the nun who was kneeling behind: "Are you a witness in the nunnery? Tell me."
When he was in Dali Temple, Master Jingwen dared not hide it. He first emphasized that everything was done by the arch master and had nothing to do with her. Then he said the past one by one: "She said, "Train the little girl, you can't use a whip and a stick, as it will leave scars. It is most suitable to use a needle. It will not cause scars even if it hurts..."
With Master Jingwen's narration, Xiangyun seemed to have returned to the nunnery. She lay on the ground and gradually cried and remembered the child while crying. Xiangyun raised her head and looked at the direction of King Xuan with tears in her eyes: "Prince, the people's daughter really didn't mean to lie to you. The people's daughter forgot everything. The people's daughter is not afraid of death. She just can't let go of Brother Lian, Brother Chi, you, don't take their anger..."
Are all tenderness fake? Because her identity has changed, he doesn’t care about her at all?
Xiangyun didn't ask for life, she just wanted him to treat his two children well.
She cried into tears, but what King Xuan saw was her in the nunnery, a little girl who was pressed by the old nun, and she had no place to hide and cried without anyone to protect her. She survived today and would continue to endure tomorrow. After five or six years, she would not even sleep well, and even get drunk!
He would rather be angry than let the woman touch a finger, but was tortured by an old nun in a nunnery day and night!
The blue veins on the forehead and the back of the hand were already rising, and King Xuan stared at Master Jingwen sinisterly: "You have entered the capital, why didn't the lord come to expose it personally?"
Where is the archer? He wants to smash her into pieces with his own hands!
Master Jingwen was frightened by his murderous eyes, but she didn't know where the nunner was, and she had been taken away by an unknown person.
King Xuan closed his eyes.
The first person to see Chen Ying was from the Marquis of Yongping. Xie Ying had never seen Xiangyun in the palace. The wife of the Marquis of Yongping. Empress Xie had seen him in the palace. The King Huai party could find Master Jingwen. The lord must have been taken away by Empress Xie's men in advance. He hid somewhere to deal with Xiangyun and his favorite concubine in the future.
Next was Xiangyun's recognizing her family. King Xuan closed his eyes and could tell her voice from the crying of the three women.
Fortunately, Zhao Yanping was quite smart and knew to blame Xiangyun for the crime of deceiving the emperor and forced him to be fair.
"What does the prince think?"
King Xuan said coldly: "You can make a fair judgment, so don't worry about me."
After saying that, King Xuan left strode.
He went to see his father first and asked him to punish Zhao easily.
After receiving the promise of his father, King Xuan went to see Empress Xie.
Queen Xie was having dinner. When she learned that he was coming, she also ordered the palace maids to prepare another pair of bowls and chopsticks.
King Xuan had no appetite, and he did not come here for meals. He told Empress Xie about the case of Dali Temple.
Queen Xie sighed, "Zhao's life is also miserable. She was forced to commit the crime of deceiving the king. For the sake of her giving birth to two sons for you, I will go to the emperor to beg for her and leave her life."
King Xuan said expressionlessly: "I don't have to worry about my mother's queen, my son has already begged my father. When I come to see my mother, I hope my mother will find someone for my son's queen."
Queen Xie said in confusion: "Who are you looking for?"
King Xuan looked at her and said, "Dingci, the nunnery's lord, was tortured by Zhao. It is difficult for the son minister to vent his anger if he didn't kill her. The son minister would send someone to find her, but the son minister had limited staff. I beg my mother to send some people to help her. Regardless of life and death, as long as the mother could help her son minister find Dingci, the son minister would be grateful."
Empress Xie frowned and hesitated: "The censor wanted to sue Xu Shangshu but couldn't find Dingci, I..."
King Xuan did not say a word, but looked at her heavily.
Queen Xie said helplessly: "Forget it, since you insist, I will send someone to find you."
King Xuan bowed: "Thank you, my mother, my son, for your return."
Queen Xie looked at his back and her face darkened.
She really didn't expect that King Huai and Concubine Hui also discovered the similarity between Chen Ying and Zhao, and found the nunnery in Xuzhou Prefecture. Now things have started. With King Xuan's talent, he guessed that Master Dingci was in her hands. Queen Xie just didn't expect that King Xuan would be willing to pick up the layer of gauze in front of her for the sake of Zhao.
King Xuan came to ask her for someone, but she gave her a gift and could still get a "grateful" one. If she didn't give her, King Xuan had no choice but to deal with her niece.
Xiangyun spent the night in the cell with her mother Liu, her brother Zhao Yanping, and her sister Chen Ying.
The brother comforted her and said that her sin would not be beheaded, so that she would not have to be afraid.
Xiangyun nodded with a smile. In fact, she was still afraid, even more afraid than before. She just couldn't bear to leave her two children, and now she had to add three relatives. If she really survived, even if she could never see two children again, she could find out about them and have family to accompany her, and she would be content in the second half of her life.
It was dawn the next day, and Xiangyun discovered that her mother was holding her hand and sleeping all night.
The light was dim, Xiangyun saw the wrinkles on the corner of her mother's eyes. She was also a mother, so she knew that she had been suffering over the years. Her mother could not find her, so she must have felt miserable, and her brother...
Xiangyun turned her head and looked to the other side of the cell.
Zhao Yanping had woken up long ago and kept looking at his sister. When he found that his sister was looking over, he smiled.
Xiangyun also smiled.
Actually, it’s quite strange. The brother in my memory is a boy. The brother in front of me is almost thirty years old and tall and majestic. But the same blood and blood brought the distance between the two closer. No matter how cold he is, Xiangyun looks kind.
Shortly after the family of four had breakfast, Lu Taigong personally brought someone to announce the imperial edict. All the Lu party were executed. Xu Shangshu dismissed from office for three generations and was not allowed to be an official. Xiangyun deprived him of his concubine and was still the concubine of King Xuan. Her punishment was so light. Zhao Yanping, Liu family and Chen Ying were not charged at all and were released immediately.
Looking at Lu Taigong's smiling face, Xiangyun suddenly felt a dreamlike unreality.
Not only did she survive, she could also continue to stay in the palace and continue to accompany her two children?
Grand Duke Lu smiled and reminded her: "It is said that the prince went to the emperor to plead with mercy."
No matter how pitiful it is, it is a crime of deceiving the king. If it weren't for King Xuan's plea, the emperor might not have spared a little woman easily.
Prince?
Thinking of the cold words that the prince said before she left the palace, she refused to see her face. In the end, he gave her a chance to have a child. Xiangyun's eyes became sore and she leaned against her mother's shoulder and started crying. She had lied to the prince for so long, and the prince still protected her. How could she be so good?
Liu was quite pleased. Although his daughter suffered a lot when she was in the nunnery, she really loved her daughter by looking at her style.
Because he knew that King Xuan would treat his daughter well, when the family walked out of Dali Temple, they found that the prince Xuan's mansion had sent a maid and eunuch to pick her up. Liu was reluctant to leave, but he said goodbye to his daughter with confidence.
Xiangyun burst into tears again, and her heart seemed to be divided into two halves, half wanted to go back to the palace to reunite with the children, and half wanted to stay with her mother and be her mother's children.
With the permission of the father, the brothers Xuan’s mansion, Xiao Lian and Xiao Chi both ran to the palace to wait for their mother early.
Before the carriage stopped, Xiangyun heard her youngest son’s call for her mother. She finally forgot the rules and poked out the window and looked out.
"Mom!" Xiao Chi ran towards the carriage crying, tears falling one after another.
Xiangyun covered her mouth, and Magnolia next to her kept helping her to wipe her tears, her eyes were also red.
King Xuan was still in the palace, Xiangyun held Xiao Lian with one hand and Xiao Chi with the other. The mother and the three of them returned to Lanyun Hall crying and happily.
"Will mom still leave? I don't want mom to leave!" Xiao Chi hugged her mother's neck and didn't want to let go for a moment.
Xiangyun tried hard to laugh: "I won't leave, I won't leave, my mother won't go anywhere."
Xiao Chi was still crying, and the eight-year-old Xiao Lian became sensible and looked at his mother with heartache.
Xiangyun couldn't see enough of her children. It was not until she suddenly sneezes that she was worried that she would catch a cold, so she hurriedly asked the children to sit farther away.
But whoever child will dislike his mother, and the two brothers will not move away.
During this day, except when Xiangyun was bathing and changing clothes, the two brothers kept by her side.
Chapter completed!