Sun Chengzong was in his fifties this year, and he had always been in an important position. Fang Congzhe, the chief minister of the cabinet who was in the same position as Dong Lin, was also polite to him.
He had never experienced being scolded by a concubine in front of the emperor.
Sun Chengzong didn't know how to answer Li Xuanshi's question. Zheng Haizhu had turned around from the table and faced the domineering Li Xuanshi.
"Li Niangniang, this is the Wenhua Palace, a place of solemnity and brilliance of articles! My assistant lecturer, Lu Xiangsheng, is an innocent scholar with a reputation for civil servants. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a prince. I am not a censor, nor an admonisher, nor a member of the Three Laws Division. How come I stand in the majestic Wenhua Palace and say such aggressive words to my Ming Dynasty Crown Prince without any basis and evidence, and even involve the little princess? . Where does Empress Li put the dignity of the country? Where does she put the dignity of the Sixth Princess?"
After saying these words, there was silence in the palace for a moment, and you could hear a pin drop.
Sun Chengzong and Wang An, who were originally slightly bowed, straightened up and looked at Zheng Haizhu in disbelief, who was wearing an official red robe.
I thought this Zheng had a mild temperament, but it turned out that he was more outspoken than the Ming Dynasty officials.
In the silence, the first person to react was still Li Xuanshi.
Her front was undulating, and her pink face, which was beautiful but had a mean look, was completely shrouded in a sinister aura.
"Zheng, you, you..."
She said the word "you" five or six times, but she couldn't think of the right words that were sharp and sensible, so she finally went to her husband, the Supreme Ninth Five, for help.
"Long live my Lord, are there any laws and regulations here? A man who runs the rivers and lakes docks is so disrespectful to the Ming Dynasty's wife!"
"Well, be careful when choosing a servant," Zhu Changluo raised his eyelids and made a comforting gesture to Li Xuanshi, "Master Zheng has a sixth-grade imperial order and a reward from the late emperor. He is not just a man running from the dock."
As the emperor said this, he walked to the table, glanced at the wooden blocks of the ship model and the papers on which drawings were written, and sat on the chair. The pleasant expression on his face suddenly faded, and he said to his two sons: "This morning, Xiaoliu and the servant who served her pretended to be chamberlains and followed you two out of Ciqing Palace and came to Wenhua Palace to listen to the lecture, right?"
As soon as his father finished speaking, Zhu Youjian suddenly realized something and replied before his brother: "Ah, so that's what happened!"
But he immediately stopped talking.
Zhu Changluo narrowed his eyes: "Tell the truth."
Zhu Youjian knelt down with a "boo": "Long live Qi, I and the eldest brother of the emperor did cover Xiaoliu out of Ciqing Palace, but the sixth sister did not come to Wenhua Palace, but to go to the Imperial Pharmacy. .”
"What are you going to do at the Royal Pharmacy?"
"Uh... Long live my lord, let the prince go to the imperial pharmacy to find the sixth sister first. She can explain more clearly."
Zhu Changluo frowned and turned to look at Wang An: "These children still know what is right and wrong behind their backs."
Wang An hurriedly said: "I will go and invite the princess now."
Zhu Changluo watched Wang An walk out of the palace, and waved to Zhu Youjian: "Get up, why are you kneeling so hard? Look at your master, his knees are weak at every turn, and his voice is louder than anyone else."
Hearing this, Zheng Haizhu came up to plead guilty. Zhu Changluo pretended to be impatient and said: "Okay, okay, I figured it out. Whenever a woman wears my official robe of the Ming Dynasty, a woman will bend three points horizontally, just like eating a firecracker." Besides, you still have the heart to protect the calf, right?"
Then he waved for Li Xuanshi to come over: "Xuanshi, come sit beside me and wait, calm down, don't listen to the wind or the rain. Of course, I also know that you are worried about these children for me."
When Zhu Changluo said the words "Hearing the wind, it's rain", he glanced at Ke Yinyue.
Although it was impossible for Ke Yinyue to look directly at the emperor, he was sure of the direction of the emperor's gaze.
Her determination to win when she stepped into the Wenhua Palace turned into confusion about how the situation would develop.
Fortunately, after Li Xuanshi sat down, although he did not dare to behave any more, he still glared at Zheng Haizhu fiercely, as if he did not think of her, the guest nanny who had caused the trouble.
Ke Yinyue went to take a peek at Zhu Youxiao again, and saw Zhu Youxiao looking at her with complex eyes, which were said to be questioning, but not serious enough, more like questioning.
Ke Yinyue tried her best to comfort herself, what's the point of panic? Is there any other person in this palace who can compare to the relationship between my brother and me?
Not long after, Wang An returned with urgent steps, followed by the sixth princess Zhu Huiyan and her palace maid Qiu Wan.
After Zhu Huiyan entered the palace, she seemed to be frightened by the battle. Her voice trembled when she shouted "Long Live and Lady Li".
Zhu Changluo hadn't seen this daughter for quite some time.
Huiyan's mother, Wen, lived up to her surname and was gentle and elegant. When she was alive, she was actually quite liked by Zhu Changluo. Zhu Changluo, who was disgusted by his father, Emperor Wanli, and had always lived in fear, always felt that when he entered Wen's house, he was temporarily blocked from the dire straits.
After Wen's death, Huiyan was raised by Dong Li. Zhu Changluo sometimes wanted to see this cute girl who looked very much like her mother, but he was afraid that Xili would suspect him of using this as an excuse to favor Dong Li, so he often gave up.
At this moment, seeing the supple and sincere expression between Huiyan's eyebrows and eyes, which were more and more like the Wen family, Zhu Changluo's heart softened and he asked harmoniously: "Xiao Liu told dad, why are you going to the Imperial Pharmacy? Daddy is doing it in front of these Hanlin bachelors. I promise, no matter what happens, dad will not punish you."
Zhu Huiyan's small figure trembled.
From the corner of her eye, she could see two figures, one pink and one red, on the left and right of her father and Empress Li.
The guest nun is wearing a pink gauze palace skirt, and Master Zheng is wearing a red official robe.
And very close to her, the fifth brother must also be looking at her, probably praying that his sister should be brave and not be afraid.
The fifth brother's biological mother, Liu Shi, and his own biological mother, Wen Shi, died of illness rather than illness, but rather died of being tortured or starved, without medicine or weak.
Same as big brother's mother.
As time goes by, there are always some clues of the conspiracy and evil deeds of the past. Although the children have no evidence, Huiyan is willing to believe what the fifth brother said that the eldest brother's wet nurse Keshi and Xili Xuanshi are the two evil women in Ciqing Palace.
Zhu Huiyan bit her lip and told herself to be brave. Outsiders like Master Zheng are willing to help without hesitation, so how can I act like a coward at a critical moment?
Zhu Huiyan then turned to the emperor's father, who had a somewhat unfamiliar face, and said, "Dad, Huiyan heard a discussion from the guest nuns a few days ago. The Imperial Pharmacy gave dad a medicine called Afurong, which made his body unbearable. What a coincidence. That day, Fifth Brother mentioned that when his Master Zheng was fighting the barbarians at sea, he saw that the barbarians also ate afurong, which looked like grass fruits and was indeed poison. Huiyan was worried about her father, so she thought , secretly go to the Imperial Pharmacy to see if you can find Cao Guoer, and ask Fifth Brother to bring it to Master Zheng to see if it is afurong."
After Zhu Huiyan said the last sentence, the atmosphere in the palace fell into the same silence as when Zheng Haizhu forced Li Xuan to serve.
But this silence is far more strange and complicated than before.
"Aphrodisiac", which is almost synonymous with the word "aphrodisiac" in the palace, came out of the mouth of the ten-year-old little princess, which was like a thunder.
Zhu Changluo sat motionless, but people near him, from Li Xuanshi to Wang An, could feel his breath getting heavier and heavier.
Finally, Zhu Changluo picked up the wooden turtle boat on the table and smashed it hard on the blue brick floor of Wenhua Hall.
Several "bang bangs" and the sound of splinters of wood woke up Ke Yinyue.
She knelt on the ground without any hesitation, and cried out in a trembling voice: "Long live my Lord, long live my Lord, this slave has been wronged! When did this slave say anything about aphrodisiac? This must be someone using the hands of Princess Ningde to slander and frame this slave." !”
(End of chapter)
