Chapter 46 Jin Ling 46
"Your Majesty, General Wan and Guard Gao are requesting an audience outside the palace."
At this moment, Eunuch Bao trotted up to Li Yi and whispered.
Li Yi glanced at Jin Ling, who was still kneeling and staring at her blankly, and glared at her unhappily: "Why don't you help the imperial concubine up?"
The Empress Dowager hurriedly helped Jin Ling sit down and handed her the pregnancy-maintaining medicine she had brought with a smile. She wiped the sweat from her forehead with a look of concern. She finally realized that Jin Ling had insisted on stopping the Emperor because she was solely concerned for him. Naturally, she forgot her previous unhappiness and turned her attention to her concern for Jin Ling's pregnancy.
"You kid, you're pregnant and you don't know how to take care of yourself. Look at how pale your face has become."
Jin Ling held the medicine bowl and drank it all obediently, revealing a little face distorted by the bitterness, which made the Queen Mother laugh and cry. She quickly pinched a piece of candied fruit and handed it to her.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were chatting affectionately, but Wan Jianfeng and Gao Xianyang who came in were not so relaxed.
In fact, this matter had nothing to do with Gao Xianyang. It was just that he and General Wan had worked together along the way, and he had long been impressed by the other's character and ability, and regarded the other as a close friend.
Seeing the other party's family suffer such a disaster, he was unwilling to stand by and watch, but...
But now neither of them knows what happened.
Wan Jianfeng felt bitter.
After he met Xiao Shun, he only knew that his wife practiced the art of witchcraft, but after hearing what the imperial concubine said, it seemed that it also involved the emperor, and he didn't know where to start.
Li Yi sat at the top, but was in no hurry to discuss the matter. Instead, he began to ask about the disaster relief.
Even though Wan Jianfeng was extremely anxious, he still reported the matter in detail. No matter what questions Li Yi had, he could give answers quickly and with evidence. Gao Xianyang on the side also nodded repeatedly and added to his answers from time to time.
The conversation lasted for half an hour. The empress dowager could no longer hold on and returned to the Cining Palace. Jin Ling was also leaning against the table, shaky.
Concubine Xian and Sun Jiabi, who had been kneeling on the ground, had lost consciousness below their knees and were now relying on a single breath to hold on.
Li Yi looked at the two of them as if he had just remembered something:
"General Wan is indeed my most trusted minister."
"Your Majesty, thank you for your praise. Serving our country with loyalty is our duty."
"Well said, it's a pity that the General's heart couldn't influence his wife and daughter." Li Yi raised his hand and pointed at the two people on the ground. "They both practiced the art of warding off evil and secretly carried secret medicine. I don't know who used them to inject the poisonous secret medicine into my body. If it weren't for the Imperial Concubine's intercession, I'm afraid the General wouldn't have seen them for the last time."
When Wan Jianfeng first heard this, he felt like he was struck by lightning. The seven-foot-tall man's knees suddenly gave way, and he knelt down in the hall with a thud.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty deserves death!"
Li Yi walked down the hall and helped him up. "What does this have to do with General Wan? It's just an ignorant woman who was deceived by jealousy. How could General Wan know about this?"
Wan Jianfeng was secretly surprised at the emperor's strength when he saw that he couldn't kneel down. Then, his fear grew even greater at his words. "Your Majesty, although I didn't do this, it was done by the women in my household. Ultimately, it's all due to my poor guidance. Please, Your Majesty, spare their lives for their ignorance."
As he said this, he was about to kneel down and kowtow to the emperor.
Li Yi sighed, "I do have my suspicions, but even their creditors have pleaded for them, and they ultimately didn't cause any serious harm. Since General Wan is also pleading, I can show some leniency."
Before Wan Jianfeng could kneel down to express his gratitude, Li Yi changed the subject: "While the death penalty may be avoided, the punishment for which he is guilty cannot be evaded. Sun Jiabi will be demoted to a commoner and exiled three thousand miles away. Wan Baoxian will be stripped of his title and become a nun at the Guanyin Temple outside the capital as a commoner, dedicating his life to the practice of Buddhist ceremonies to atone for his sins."
"After their death, they can only be buried as sinners and cannot be worshipped by future generations."
The last sentence was obviously more lethal to the ancients, and even Wan Jianfeng couldn't help but want to speak again.
Li Yi helped Jin Ling up and gave them a final warning: "Given their original crimes, even the execution of their entire family would not be too much. I believe that God is merciful and I cannot bear to see General Wan suffer the pain of losing his wife and children in his old age. I also hope that General Wan will not continue to force us, the two of us who suffered so much."
The self-mockery in his tone left Wan Jianfeng speechless. Yes, he had nearly endured the pain of losing his wife and daughter, but hadn't His Majesty also been in the same boat? Furthermore, his wife and daughter had murdered the most noble family in the world; he was fortunate to have survived.
Thinking of this, Wan Jianfeng kowtowed three times towards the place where the two had left: "Your Majesty, I, Wan Jianfeng, thank you for your grace!"
Li Yi held Jin Ling in his arms all the way without saying a word. Behind him, Eunuch Bao and Xiao Xiao tacitly stepped back and stood guard outside the door.
"I spared their lives. Our savior Guanyin will be happy?" Li Yi saw that she was well-behaved along the way and never said anything to beg for mercy for the two of them. He felt better, but he still couldn't help feeling depressed when he spoke.
Jin Ling pulled him to sit on the bed, and put herself in Li Yi's arms, her voice so soft that it was almost inaudible: "Unhappy..."
"What?"
"I'm not happy." Jin Ling nuzzled his neck like a little animal, her voice as ethereal as a cloud. "They're so abominable! They almost killed our child, and...they even drugged you. I hate them so much I wish I could kill them both myself."
Jin Ling felt the man's arms tightening, her face expressionless, but her tone growing increasingly sorrowful. "I don't like being a Bodhisattva. It's too hard. I'd rather be a vicious woman, occupying my husband. I'm not afraid of going to hell after death. I'm only afraid that you don't care about me."
Li Yi stared at the flickering candlelight before him, his mind drifting back to the past as the woman in his arms spoke. He remembered the past, when the two of them always shared their hearts under the full moon.
Li Yi suddenly stood up and opened the window. Sure enough, it was also a full moon today.
"Today is a full moon."
Li Yi suddenly said something out of the blue.
Jin Ling followed him, looking up, and replied without thinking: "Then today should be a good day."
"Yes, it's a good day." Li Yi smiled and touched her wrist: "Are you still there?"
Jin Ling took it out from her undergarment. It was a slightly faded red rope.
There is a love knot tied on it, and a red bean as bright red as a heart.
"Would you like to wear it?" Li Yi asked again with some trembling when he saw her holding it carefully in her palm.
Jin Ling still didn't say anything, but just put the rope in his hand and raised her wrist in front of him.
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