Chapter 178
Chapter 178 – Assassinated
Chapter 178 Assassinated
The queen picked up the armor and put the heavy gold phoenix hairpin on her head into the tray. With a jingle, the tassels on the pearl hairpin hit the metal tray, shocking the surrounding ladies.
Madam and noble daughters all have seven orifices and exquisite hearts, and they can vaguely guess what the queen means right now. It is really a good way to exchange a few plates of vegetarian dishes for real money.
The piece of jewelry that the queen took out was quite precious, not to mention the exquisite workmanship and brilliance. This phoenix hairpin was made of pure gold and was very heavy. It was inlaid with a deep ruby with a rich color like There is a fresh life force flowing inside.
The rest of the people just felt astringent when they saw it. The queen made such a move, so they couldn’t simply muddle along, and they had to come up with some real treasures, which was really heart-wrenching.
Especially for the few ladies who wanted to show off at the vegetarian banquet, the gold and silver jewelry they wore were all rare treasures. Just taking out one piece is enough for ordinary people to chew on their heads for several years.
They looked at each other, and they both saw a bit of regret in each other’s eyes.
“Nowadays the people’s disaster is still unsolved, and my heart is very sad. This time, all the donations will be exchanged for food and sent to the victims of the disaster. It shows that I love the people like a child to comfort the hearts of the people.” The queen said. Naturally, he knew that asking these pampered ladies to hand over their gold and silver would be tantamount to gouging out their flesh. Naturally, these words should be said beautifully, the only reason for killing him is for the victims of the disaster, but it has nothing to do with himself.
“Empress Shengming—” everyone below echoed the words.
Although they said so, the ladies behind secretly took off their expensive hairpins or earrings and hid them in their sleeves.
The little **** walked up to the ladies one by one with trays in hand. Nodding and bowing, very respectful. With a smile on his face, he told everyone to call Madam first.
Some noble ladies dare not be dissatisfied with the queen, these rootless servants are not rubbing at will.
The little **** looks handsome, his clothes are neat, and even his nails are clean. Naturally, it was a bit of a thin face.
Although some wives had a bad face, they did not utter any bad words.
It’s all up to this point, and you have to give it if you don’t give it. The queen did not do this just to save face. It seems that the national treasury is really suffering a serious loss, and I have to go back to the mansion to talk to the master about this matter.
Someone took out the Hetian jade that had been worn for many years, someone untied the ruby agate bead chain on the neck, and someone untied the gold armband on the arm…all of them were reluctant to give up and smiled generously.
Soon, the tray was brought to the Jiang family.
Jiang Changyuan was still in a daze, not knowing what to do, she silently retreated behind Jiang Changning. Jiang Changning tapped her bracelet through the bottom of her sleeve, and she suddenly understood. She took off her wrist and put the bracelet given by her mother before putting it on the tray. The heavy bracelet looked very precious when pressed on the agate beads.
Jiang Changning also took off the bracelet and handed it over. Only Jiang Luo looked around anxiously, and casually pulled out a thin fringed silver hairpin and put it down.
The rest of the wives suppressed their anger and donated some valuables. Seeing Jiang Luo being so casual, they sneered, “Ms. Jiang is late at home after all, and her actions are so shabby.”
If it were any other time, Jiang Luo would definitely have an argument with her, but now Jiang Luo was worried that she would get into trouble, so she would not dare to show any limelight, so she forcibly endured her anger, and finally saw a group of people Everyone stared at her and picked up two gold earrings inlaid with pink pearls and threw them on the tray.
Although a pair of pendants are added, it still looks very thin. Some noble ladies were originally jealous of Jiang Luo’s appearance, and when they saw this, they sneered disdainfully, and covered their mouths with veils.
Jiang Luo lowered her head, the strong shame and humiliation almost made her unable to stand firm. She secretly turned her face to look at Jiang’s mother, but saw Jiang’s mother was looking at Jiang Changning with a gentle smile on her face.
Jiang Luo’s heart seemed to be soaked in poisonous juice, she bit her lips tightly until the tip of her tongue seemed to taste the smell of blood.
At first, she thought about leaving Gu Shi to save Jiang Shi’s life, but now that she saw it, she might as well die.
The little **** walked around with an empty plate and got a lot of harvest. The full amount of gold, silver, pearls and jade jewelry weighed heavily on his wrist, and he dropped it while holding it.
The queen was satisfied with the interest of this group of people, and raised her teacup to signal, “Thank you for your generosity and compassion for the common people today. I will speak a few words of kindness in front of your majesty. I believe that my courtiers can also do their best to help the people with your wives. It is indeed the great fortune of the court that the common people seek affairs.”
The rest of the people kept cursing from the bottom of their hearts, but on their faces they were overjoyed to receive the favor, “Thank you, empress!”
Before the flattery of a group of people fell to the ground, the servants who followed Emperor Jin’an came over in a panic. All the way he ran, his clothes were completely soaked with sweat, and he didn’t know whether it was the heat or the fright. As soon as he came in, he knelt down on the ground with a “plop”, and began to cry to the queen: “Your Majesty, it’s not good! Something happened to your Majesty!”
Seeing the hesitant expressions of the people below, they began to speculate, and even pricked up their ears. The queen hurriedly asked someone to stop the eunuch, and said in a low voice, “What are you panicking about! What happened to Your Majesty?!”
The **** was startled by the queen’s cold and stern eyes and suddenly regained consciousness a little bit, at least he calmed down a bit: “Go back to the empress, your majesty was assassinated and injured, and is now unconscious!”
Assassinated? ? ? Everyone was in an uproar, and these pampered ladies and ladies all turned pale with fright. It must be a powerful character who can stab the emperor. Only a little **** Liushen Wuzhu was sent to report, maybe the assassin is still hiding in this palace.
Hiding in the palace, maybe at some point he would stab him unexpectedly. The imperial palace, which was originally peaceful and peaceful, now feels perilous no matter how you look at it.
Everyone looked at the queen anxiously, hoping that she would show mercy and let him leave the palace this morning.
Taking some silver is a small matter, and I don’t intend to die.
This happened so suddenly, it was less than two hours before the emperor left the banquet, why was he suddenly assassinated?
The queen’s footsteps flustered for a moment, subconsciously supported the maid next to her, turned around and was about to go to Emperor Jin’an’s bedroom, just as she was about to leave, she thought of the people looking at each other below, and waved her hand wearily, “Today, all the ladies will donate books The palace is even relieved that this fasting banquet is almost done, I have something to do and I will go ahead, ladies and gentlemen, please do your own thing.” After finishing speaking, he followed the servant who reported the news and walked away quickly and quickly. urgent.
Jiang Luo felt uneasy, and since seeing the **** who came to report the letter, she lowered her head and pretended to be a quail. The rest of the people all looked up there suspiciously because of the Queen’s reaction, only Mother Jiang kept looking at Jiang Luo who was not reacting quite right, and the suspicion in her heart was getting bigger and bigger.
Jiang Changning knew it was Qin Huaisu’s handwriting, but he didn’t react much. Only Jiang Changyuan hadn’t experienced such an exciting thing, and his lips were so frightened that his lips turned pale.
The master left, and the rest of the people had no intention of staying any longer, and the vegetarian banquet ended hastily. I just want to go back to the mansion to be a little more fragrant, close the door and be more low-key, I dare not go to this palace again.
The carriage drove farther and farther away from the palace gate, and the dark weather was as heavy as Mother Jiang’s mood.
When we arrived at Jiang’s mansion, the rest of the people dispersed. After a day of exhaustion, Jiang Changning took Jiang Changyuan to the backyard, but Jiang Luo was left behind by Jiang’s mother.
“Luoer stop.”
Jiang’s mother’s voice was so deep that Jiang Luo, who was already guilty, was so frightened that she turned around pretending to be calm: “What’s wrong, mother?”
“Let me ask you, Luoer, did you do anything wrong in the palace this time? Or did you cause any trouble?”
Jiang Luo’s tailbone went numb, and secretly scolded the old woman for being so sharp. Fortunately, she didn’t know what happened today, so she pretended to be puzzled, “What’s the meaning of this mother? I was very cautious today for fear that something would embarrass the Jiang family, and I never relaxed for a moment. Why did mother ask such a question?” ?”
After finishing speaking, Jiang Luo’s eyes turned red with grievance, “But what prejudice does mother have against me, thinking that my daughter has to do something wrong?”
Seeing her like this, Mother Jiang had a headache. She was just suspicious in her heart and there was no evidence. She squeezed her temples and waved at Jiang Luo, “Forget it, you can go.”
Jiang Luo pursed her lips, wiped away tears that didn’t exist, twisted her waist and walked away.
Seeing that she really left just like that, Mother Jiang felt that there was something wrong in her heart. If she had been keeping her own place as Jiang Luo said, then she must be unreasonably suspected to use this to act unreasonably. How could it be so easy Let things go.
Mother Jiang couldn’t let go of this matter, but at night she sent someone to call Jiang Changbai over.
Jiang’s mother would not look for him if there was nothing wrong. If she did, something important must have happened.
“Mother, do you have something important to explain?” Jiang Changbai sat down on the red round stool and asked without knowing why.
Mother Jiang waved away the crowd, and explained to Jiang Changbai, “It’s nothing important, I just brought your younger sisters to the palace for a banquet, and I always feel that something is going to happen. You should pay more attention to the movement in the palace these days. .”
Jiang Changbai looked solemn, his mother would never say anything without grounds, and her heart tightened, “My son knows.”
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Jiang’s mother’s words became a prophecy, and before the situation calmed down for a few days, Jiang Changbai hurried back from the palace with a dark face, and started looking for Jiang Luo after entering the door.
After so many days, there has been no rumors. Jiang Luo thought that the matter was over, and she no longer frightened herself. She spent her leisure time lying on the rocking chair inside the house and eating chilled grapes. He came in in a panic and said that the eldest son was looking for her.
“Why is brother looking for me?” Jiang Luo walked slowly to the main hall, she broke out in a thin layer of sweat within two steps in the hot weather, and couldn’t help complaining irritably that Jiang Changbai called her this time for no reason.
When she entered the room and saw that the mother of Jiang, Jiang Changning, and the others were all there, she was shocked and knew that something had happened.
Jiang Changbai stood with his back to the main entrance, and when he heard someone coming, he turned around and said, “Jiang Luo! Kneel down!”
Jiang Luo was not willing to kneel, she kept her head still, and opened her mouth to argue, “Why did my brother punish me for no reason?!”
“No reason?” Jiang Changbai laughed angrily, and he raised his hand and tapped Jiang Luo from a distance, “Okay, let me ask you, did you seduce the emperor?”
Jiang Luo’s heart beat wildly, “Of course I didn’t, how could my brother say that!”
Jiang Changbai didn’t save her any face, “You didn’t, you didn’t, why did His Majesty wake up and ask me if there are other younger sisters in my family who still have a deep interest in you?”
Jiang Changbai broke into a cold sweat thinking about being summoned by Emperor Jin’an in the palace today.
The emperor has been resting for the past few days due to physical discomfort, but he still has to go to court on time to deal with official duties. Not long after he learned that the emperor woke up, he was called into the bedroom to face the saint.
Emperor Jin’an half-lyed on the empty bed, the bright yellow brocade quilt made his face look like earth and he was very tired, but the emperor tried his best to ask, “I wonder how many younger sisters there are in Aiqing’s family?”
“Returning to Your Majesty, there are three younger sisters in Weichen’s family.” Jiang Changbai naturally told the truth, but he was muttering in his heart and didn’t understand why the emperor suddenly asked about his family affairs.
By the way, he heard Emperor Jin’an cough again, and the bloodless face with a half-smile expression looked a bit pervasive, and he smiled incomprehensibly, “So that’s it. Ai Qing is steady and calm.” , but she is not at all like your second younger sister, Bingxue, who is cute and innocent.”
Jiang Changbai has been kneeling since entering the door. Emperor Jin’an did not dare to take the initiative to mention it, and his knees became numb after kneeling for two days. He replied to Emperor Jin’an’s question sentence by sentence, and he was pardoned until the other party understood him. leave.
Thinking about Jiang Changbai’s face turning cold, Jiang Luo must have offended the emperor somewhere, otherwise he wouldn’t have shown great interest in Jiang Luo while punishing himself to kneel there, he blamed Jiang Luo impatiently. “Tell me, how did you offend His Majesty!”
The more Jiang Luo saw Jiang Changbai asking so angrily, the more she knew that Jiang Changbai didn’t know what happened, and there was no evidence to point out what she had done. Instead, her heart calmed down, and she gritted her teeth and refused to admit it, “I don’t understand brother What are you talking about, I have not offended His Majesty, let alone seduced him.”
What kind of seduction did Jiang Luo think of the old body lying on top of her, and she almost felt sick. Could it be that she was blind and wanted to seduce this old man.
“You still don’t admit it!” Jiang Changbai was very disappointed with Jiang Luo’s attitude. He had faced the malice behind the emperor’s smile when he mentioned Jiang Luo, so how could he believe Jiang Luo’s words.
“Come here! Put her in the ancestral hall for me to reflect! When will you know what you did wrong and then release her!”
On such a hot day, imprisoning her in the candle-lit ancestral hall is no less than a punishment. Jiang Luo struggled, “Jiang Changbai! You can’t do this to me! I didn’t do anything wrong! Mother! Mother save me!”
Mother Jiang had already heard Jiang Changbai’s reasons before Jiang Luo came, and thought that what she had been worrying about all along would come true, so she would not let her go, and let Jiang Luo be dragged away by the five-year-old and three-year-old nuns.
(end of this chapter)