Chapter 326
Empress Fang's voice was urgent and sharp, and she could hardly wait to cover Xu Xiyue's mouth with her hands. The palace was full of people. Usually, eunuchs would have stepped forward to serve the queen in this situation, but this time, after Empress Fang shouted twice in a row, no one in the hall moved.
Lu Heng didn't make a statement, and Jin Yiwei naturally wouldn't listen to the queen's orders. Zhang Zuo, the eunuch in front of the royal family, hung his head and didn't speak. Which eunuch inside or outside dared to move.
Empress Fang's expression changed subtly, she clenched her hands and looked at the emperor: "Your Majesty..."
The emperor didn't speak for a while, but now he finally opened his mouth and said indifferently, "This woman framed her concubine and concubine, deceived the king and betrayed her master, drag her down and stick to death."
Only then did the eunuch move, and Zhang Zuo agreed, signaling his servants to drag the maid away quickly. Xu Xiyue realized what fate she was about to face, her knees slumped to the ground, she was about to open her mouth, but the eunuch tightly covered her mouth. She whimpered and tried desperately to say something, but the eunuch didn't give her a chance at all and threw her out like a sack.
Xu Xiyue's whimper quickly disappeared outside, and the Yikun Palace returned to silence again. Empress Fang clenched her armour, took a deep breath, and looked at the emperor dignifiedly and earnestly: "Your Majesty, my concubine did not know that this maid would dare to deceive the superior and the inferior, and frame Concubine Duan and Sister Ning Concubine. The traitor was impatient and anxious for a while, which made people look at Concubine Duan and Concubine Ning. But Concubine Duan and Concubine Ning were only ordered to be interrogated by the concubine, and they did not intend to harm Concubine Duan and Concubine Ning. ."
People inside and outside the palace could see that Empress Fang was throwing the blame. She first dumped the concubine Zhulian to Xu Xiyue, and then cast the blame to the eunuch using lynching. Anyway, the empress would not make mistakes, and the mistakes must be misled by her subordinates.
Everyone bowed their heads silently, even breathing deliberately lightly. The emperor leaned on the bed, and after being silent for a while, he said, "I committed a disturbance, framing the palace concubine, and now I dare to deceive the queen. It seems that the harem will not be cleaned up. Lu Heng."
Lu Heng cupped his hands: "The minister is here."
"Thoroughly investigate the harem and remove all rebellion against the party."
Lu Heng's brows remained unchanged, and he calmly responded. Zhang Zuohou was a little frightened on the side, Jin Yiwei and the East and West factories were fighting incessantly, but there was always a default limit, that is, the affairs of the harem belonged to the East and West factories, and Jin Yiwei never intervened. Now, even the emperor has asked Lu Heng to investigate matters in the harem.
Because of Lu Heng as a commander in this dynasty, Jin Yiwei has always been stronger than the East and West factories, and the eunuch has to laugh when he sees Jin Yiwei. Now the emperor's order is tantamount to tearing the last face of the East and West factories to shreds. The eunuchs can't even guard the land of the old line. above the factory.
The emperor's voice was hoarse, but it fell into everyone's ears, but it was like a thousand minutes. Empress Fang's heart is still pounding, and the emperor has not investigated Duan Fei and Ning Concubine. It's a pity that this is a great opportunity for her to rectify the harem, but now Lu Heng and the couple have intervened.
If the emperor gave it to the eunuch, and Empress Fang could still move a bit, and gave it to Jin Yiwei, then she would be completely speechless.
The matter of the palace should be handled by her, the queen. The emperor bypassed her and gave it directly to the foreign ministers. Isn't this slapping the face of the queen? Queen Fang was dissatisfied, but she never dared to question her again.
It is said that Lu Heng has never failed to investigate the case. If he offends Lu Heng, and he later grabs the Queen to investigate, then it will be Queen Fang's turn to fall asleep. Moreover, his wife is also a bit evil.
Queen Fang didn't believe that someone could really read their inner thoughts just by looking at their faces. However, Wang Yanqing's words were still in her ears, and Queen Fang was a little worried and didn't dare to try again.
Empress Fang was angrily, unwilling to face Lu Heng and Wang Yanqing again, and said, "It's getting dark, and the concubine dare not disturb the emperor's recuperation, so the concubine will retire first."
The emperor nodded lightly in agreement, and suddenly said: "Today the palace is messy, how is the princess?"
Empress Fang was startled, and quickly raised her head to look at the emperor: "Go back to the emperor, the eldest princess is asleep in Kunning Palace. The eldest princess is young, and her biological mother is involved in these matters. The concubine is afraid of shocking the child, so she has been beside her. Mammy take care of it."
"The queen has a heart," the emperor said. "She may not be able to sleep soundly in another place, so bring her here."
Empress Fang frowned. The emperor did not pursue Concubine Duan, but wanted to return the eldest princess. What does the emperor mean? Empress Fang was very reluctant. She was the first wife and first-mother. She had taken the daughter of the concubine by her side. If she carried her out again, what would everyone in the harem think of her? Empress Fang was unwilling, but when it touched the emperor's face, she didn't dare to rush in, so she bit her lip bitterly: "Yes."
After Empress Fang left, Zhang Zuo went to Kunning Palace to pick up the eldest princess. After the people left, the emperor said to Lu Heng: "There is always a jiāo generation for these rubbish things. To the outside world, you can say that Yang Jinying and other 16 people were executed by Jin Yiwei. Knowing this, the king and the second concubine Cao took the blame and committed suicide."
Lu Heng responded calmly. This is the role of Jinyiwei, to do things for those in power that cannot be announced to the world, and to take the blame for the emperor and queen when necessary. After all, people are already dead, do you want to tell the world and later people that the queen brutally murdered the palace concubine because of jealousy?
Sometimes, the truth is so ugly that even those in power do not want to admit it.
Lu Heng took the order, went down to clean up the traces, took care of the aftermath for Queen Fang, and forged relevant documents and materials to completely rewrite the incident from history. Wang Yanqing and Lu Heng left, and when they walked out of the door, the emperor suddenly asked, "Can you see who is lying?"