Chapter 7 Chapter 7 The Emperor has issued an edict: The Third Prince Xie Jing is arrogant and perverse...
That’s not the case!
Taoist Qingping was well-known for his talismans, feng shui, physiognomy, yin and yang, the five elements, etc. He was also very tactful and had good business sense. In his previous life, he was almost worshipped as the national teacher.
Xie Danling nudged her with her elbow and asked softly, "Have you heard of it?"
Right! Gu Zhizhuo said, "Master Qingping came to Taiqing Temple to register a year ago. It seems that around this time last year, the wife of the Marquis of Pingyang was suffering from a severe nightmare, so the Marquis of Pingyang went to Taiqing Temple to ask for a tranquilizing talisman for his mother. He ended up meeting Master Qingping, who immediately confirmed that the old marquis's tomb had been disturbed."
"The Marquis of Pingyang's son made a special trip back to the clan's land and heard that it was true. An unfilial descendant of the clan lost money gambling and secretly took out a few offerings from the coffin to pawn to pay off his debts. Afterwards, the Marquis of Pingyang's wife's nightmares were gone."
From then on, Qingping Zhenren became famous.
Xie Danling was startled and amused by what she heard. "Next time, when I leave the palace, we'll go and see if he can figure out who I am."
The restrictions on women in the Daqi Dynasty were far less severe than in the previous dynasties where they were not allowed to show their faces in public. If Xie Danling wanted to go out of the palace to play, she only needed Concubine Shu's consent.
Concubine Shu looked at them leaning against each other, muttering to each other, and said, "Go on."
"Yes, my lady."
Eunuch Zheng lowered his head and said, "After sending Miss Ji away, the Queen took the Third Prince to the front."
Concubine Shu smiled and said, "The Queen is very good at letting go."
Gu Zhizhuo's eyelashes trembled, and he understood.
What Xie Jing did was really not something that could be made public. Most of the court knew about it without having to wait until the palace banquet was over.
The Queen had promised to give her an explanation, but now that she could no longer use Ji Nanke to stand in her way, she had no choice but to make the final decision. The Queen must have taken the Third Prince to apologize.
"Doctor Chen." Gu Zhizhuo pointed to the small medicine jar. "Please present it to the Emperor, and repeat to him what you just said to my aunt."
"No need to make a special trip. Just have a chance encounter with the Emperor before the palace banquet begins."
Concubine Shu nodded and signaled Chen Baishu to do as she said.
Doctor Chen bowed and withdrew.
Xie Danling was always busy, and whenever she had some free time, she would think about changing Gu Zhizhuo's veil.
Just now she was arguing with her cousin and just picked one at random without choosing carefully. Now that they have made up, she wants to pick the best looking one!
With a wave of her hand, she had all her treasured veils brought over, and then spread them all out on the table. She pulled Gu Zhizhuo to choose between them, and finally hesitated between a veil decorated with pearls and one embroidered with a kingfisher, her little face wrinkled in distress.
"Oh, by the way, I just got a plum blossom hairpin..." She was about to ask someone to get a plum blossom hairpin to match the kingfisher veil, but a palace maid came in first and announced, "Your Majesty, Eunuch Li is here."
Li Deshun was the eunuch serving the emperor and a top figure in the imperial court.
"please."
So, Li Deshun came in cheerfully, waving his whisk. He was not old, probably in his forties, with a fair complexion and no beard, of medium build, and a round face. He looked very pleasing.
"ah."
Gu Zhizhuo exclaimed exaggeratedly and quickly picked up a veil from the pile of veils on the table and put it on.
She didn't turn her back, and Li Deshun could clearly see her red and swollen cheeks. He couldn't help but linger his gaze on her for a while and saw that her eyes were red, as if she had just cried.
Li Deshun could not be a fool as he had risen from a small eunuch to serve in front of the emperor. He immediately understood that the Concubine Shu deliberately let him see the injury on Miss Gu's face so that she could report back.
He greeted the crowd with greetings and said solemnly, "The Emperor has given his order."
Everyone knelt down in Chonghua Palace.
"The third prince's words and deeds were inappropriate, he was arrogant and perverse, and he was ordered to go to the Taimiao to reflect on his mistakes."
"The Emperor said that Miss Gu was wronged."
This sentence completely defines the matter.
Li Deshun sighed in his heart.
When the Empress brought the Third Prince to apologize, the Emperor initially angrily scolded her a few words, but when he was about to go to the front, he still brought the Third Prince along.
Li Deshun had served in the imperial court for many years and naturally understood that the emperor had high hopes for the third prince, his only legitimate son. In the emperor's heart, only the third prince was his "son" and the others were just "princes."
I thought this matter would be let go, but the emperor happened to meet Chen Baishu on his way back to the Imperial Hospital.
Chen Baishu said that he was going to see Miss Gu, so the emperor asked a few more questions and became furious.
Back then, the deposed Crown Prince colluded with the Imperial Hospital's director to poison the late Emperor's food, adding a little bit every day, day after day, until no medicine could cure him. When the late Emperor passed away, the Emperor was at his side.
What the emperor fears most is that someone in the inner palace gets too close to the imperial physician.
When the Third Prince came to confess his fault, he simply said that he had a quarrel with Miss Gu and, in a fit of rage, wanted to make her suffer. It was obvious that he was trying to evade the main point, but since the Emperor didn't pursue the matter, that was the "truth."
Unexpectedly, Doctor Chen not only told the emperor what kind of poison was in the medicine, but also described Miss Gu's injuries in detail after presenting the medicine to the emperor. He especially emphasized that "if this poison is accidentally consumed in food, it will cause intestinal perforation and stomach rupture."
This is absolutely blatant, reminding the emperor again and again that the third prince colluded with the imperial physician and secretly poisoned him!
At that moment, the emperor scolded the third prince so harshly that he dared not even listen to or think about a single word he said.
At this moment, the third prince was still kneeling in front of Shuntian Gate.
Alas, the Third Prince will definitely miss out on the chance to become the Crown Prince this time. Who could have thought that something so stable would turn out differently? After this miss, it's unclear who will be the next to rule the Eastern Palace. Not to mention the First and Second Princes, even the Fourth Prince has grown up, and it's even harder to say if Young Master Chen will return to the capital alive.
Li Deshun's heart trembled a little, and he was glad that he was not blinded and treated the princes equally.
He said with a smile on his face: "Miss Gu, the emperor has a reward."
He clapped his hands lightly a few times, and six eunuchs carrying trays walked in in two lines.
The rewards were extremely generous, including emerald red pomegranate potted plants, mutton-fat white jade brush washers, and gilded incense balls inlaid with gems... Each item was precious, especially the gilded hairpin with a butterfly playing with double flowers and hanging beads. The oriental pearl on it was as big as a pigeon egg, with a round color and extremely dazzling.
Li Deshun listed the rewards one by one.
"Your Majesty, I thank you."
Gu Zhizhuo bowed deeply once more, and Li Deshun helped her up with both hands, saying, "Miss Gu, Imperial Physician Liu has been imprisoned in the Eastern Depot. The Emperor will not let you suffer any injustice."
Gu Zhizhuo bowed and thanked him. Li Deshun smiled like Maitreya Buddha and comforted her with a few words before taking his leave. Before leaving, he specifically told Gu Zhizhuo that she didn't need to go to the palace banquet and could have a good rest in Chonghua Palace.
As soon as Li Deshun left, Xie Danling beckoned with her fingers and asked the palace maids to bring all the rewards and put them together with her pile of veils. She looked at them one by one and raised her hand to pick up the pearl hairpin.
“This one looks the best!”
Xie Danling compared it with Gu Zhizhuo's hair and put it on her personally. "Okay, let me take a look."
Xie Danling gestured for her to lean back.
Two butterflies landed on Gu Zhizhuo's bun, and the pearls in her hair swayed gently with her movements. The pearls' glittering light fell on her cheeks, making her look soft and beautiful.
"I said this is beautiful!"
No need to worry about it now! Xie Danling personally put on the pearl-studded veil for her and smiled contentedly.
Gu Zhizhuo took a cherry and stuffed it into her mouth.
Sweet! Xie Danling squinted her eyes in pleasure.
Gu Zhizhuo was granted special permission not to attend the palace banquet, and Concubine Shu simply avoided attending by claiming she had to take care of her "injured" niece. She leaned on the chaise longue with a smile on her face, watching the two maids bickering, making up, and then fighting and running around the palace.
When the palace servants arrived to announce the end of the banquet, Concubine Shu waved her hand, pulled Gu Zhizhuo to sit in front of her, and said, "Just now, the censors jointly impeached the Empress, and the Emperor issued an edict to reprimand the Empress and close Fengluan Palace for half a month. Just know this. The Emperor punished the Third Prince and the Empress in succession just to appease the Gu family. He won't allow you to cancel the engagement anytime soon."
"You don't have to worry, especially since you can't be blamed for this mistake. And your stepmother is always saying one thing and thinking another, so be careful..."
Gu Zhizhuo responded solemnly one by one.
The Gu family still has value for another day, and the marriage contract is a means to maintain the morale of the army. How could the emperor easily reject such a simple and convenient method?
Being tied to Xie Jing was really annoying. Gu Zhizhuo secretly thought about how to ruin the relationship and leave Chonghua Palace.
The carriages of each mansion were waiting outside the palace gate. Gu Zhizhuo found his own carriage first. After waiting for a while, Madam Gu came out with the support of Ji. As soon as she saw Gu Zhizhuo, Ji burst into tears without saying a word.
"Zhuo Jie'er." Ji's eyes were red, and her delicate face was filled with sadness. "Does your face still hurt? You're hurt like this, it's like you've cut my flesh. Come here quickly and let me take a look."
Gu Zhizhuo greeted them and called out, "Grandma, Mother."
Ji was extremely beautiful. She was not tall and thin without showing any bones. Her eyes and eyebrows exuded a charming aura that made her seem to want to speak but could not.
Dad has been guarding the northern border for many years and rarely returns to the capital once a year.
After her mother passed away, she and her brother were still young and had no one to take care of them. The late emperor and her grandfather were comrades in the battlefield when they were young and had a life-and-death friendship. Later, the emperor and his subject got along well with each other, so he arranged a marriage for her father and married Ji as his second wife.
After Ji came into the family, she treated the siblings very well, caring for them and showing them great consideration. Gu Zhizhuo had been suffering from illnesses since childhood, and it was Ji who took care of him day and night, even becoming exhausted and giving birth to his younger brother, Gu Yan, prematurely.
later.
The entire Gu family was convicted, but the emperor showed mercy and did not deprive them of their titles. Instead, he ordered Gu Yan, who was not yet six years old at the time, to inherit the title and inherit the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.
Ji, Gu Yan's biological mother, was also acquitted.
In the end, only Ji and Gu Yan were not implicated in the Gu family. Even Ji Nan Ke could continue to stay in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion and enjoy wealth.
As for others, her uncle was beheaded, her aunt, cousins, and even her infant cousin Ang'er were not spared and all died of illness in the charity cemetery.
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