Chapter 233: Punished, Shared Roasted Whole Lamb
Upon hearing this, Chang Liangdi finally understood why the ceremony of enthroning the Crown Princess was postponed. She was fine yesterday, so how could she be exposed in just one night?
That's impossible. Xiao Jinyan must have made up this excuse to prevent her from becoming the Crown Princess.
She raised her head and looked at the emperor, and replied cautiously: "Your Majesty, I have never done such a jealous woman's behavior."
Afterwards, she looked at Xiao Jinyan and said with an aggrieved look on her face: "Your Highness, I know you don't like me. You think I took away Shen Liangdi's position as the Crown Princess."
As she spoke, she raised her handkerchief and choked up, "Your Highness likes Shen Liangdi, and I am willing to give up the position of Crown Princess to Shen Liangdi. I only ask Your Highness not to wrongly accuse me of the matter of appointing the Crown Princess."
Chang Liangdi spoke with tears in her eyes, which was very moving.
The emperor's eyes were gloomy: "Prince, is what Chang Liangdi said true?"
The Queen looked distressed. She looked at Xiao Jinyan and said, "I don't believe that Chang Liangdi could do such a thing. Did the Crown Prince make a mistake?"
Xiao Jinyan looked at Chang Liang Di, and was disgusted by her pretending to be innocent. "Chang Liang Di, you are a deep-minded person, jealous and calculating. You don't admit it at this time, and you want to frame me and Shen Liang Di?"
Xiao Jinyan raised his eyes and looked at the emperor and empress on the throne. "Father, mother, I have evidence."
As he spoke, he took out the confession from his arms and presented it with both hands.
Eunuch Li came over, took the confession from Xiao Jinyan's hand, turned around and presented it to the emperor with both hands.
The emperor picked up the confession, spread it out, and looked at it with his eyes lowered.
Xiao Jinyan added: "The witness is outside."
The emperor looked unhappy after reading it, and then handed the confession to the queen, "Queen, take a look."
The queen saw that the emperor looked unhappy and took it to look at it in confusion.
The emperor looked at Xiao Jinyan and ordered, "Bring in the witness."
Xiao Jinyan ordered his subordinates to bring in Doctor Zhao Yu.
Wei Chi held Doctor Zhao Yu in one hand and easily brought him in.
Doctor Zhao Yu knelt in the middle of the hall, trembling with fear.
When Chang Liangdi saw Doctor Zhao Yu, her persistence just now disappeared. Her legs went limp and she fell to the ground, knowing that she was finished this time.
Doctor Zhao Yu saluted with a trembling voice, "I, your humble servant, pay my respects to the Emperor and the Empress."
The emperor glanced at Chang Liangdi and knew what was going on. He looked gloomy and asked in a sharp voice, "Are the evidence in the confession true?"
Doctor Zhao Yu prostrated himself on the ground and said with a trembling voice, "Your Majesty, every word is true."
The Queen had also finished reading the confession and looked at Chang Liang Di in disbelief, "Lan Er, why did you do this?"
Chang Liang Di knew that the truth had been revealed, and she immediately burst into tears, "Your Majesty, I know I was wrong, and I had no choice. Your Highness has never stayed overnight in Xinlan Palace. I don't know what I did wrong to make Your Highness so upset. I was just possessed by a ghost and had such thoughts."
As he said this, he knelt on the ground, his shoulders shaking with tears.
Xiao Jinyan said coldly, "This is not your reason to frame Concubine Xu and Concubine Shen. If I hadn't discovered it in time yesterday and informed my father, the emperor, and my mother that Concubine Shen was pregnant, wouldn't they have been happy for nothing? Would Concubine Shen have been accused of faking pregnancy to win favor?"
The Queen has been looking forward to the Crown Prince letting her hold her grandson as soon as possible. If she had known yesterday that Concubine Shen Liang was pregnant, she would probably have been happier than if Concubine Chang Liang had become the Crown Princess.
However, the happier you are, the more disappointed you will be today.
So, the prince is right. It is better to have nothing than to be happy for nothing.
The emperor was also very disappointed with Chang Liangdi, because she was the empress's niece, the younger sister of Master Chang, and the legitimate daughter of General Chang, so he handed the matter over to the empress to handle.
"Your Majesty, please handle it. I have something else to deal with, so I'll go ahead."
The emperor patted the empress on the shoulder and left gracefully.
The queen looked at the emperor's elegant back with a cold face, and couldn't help cursing, "You dog emperor, you only know how to push the difficult and offending things to me, and push them to me. You say that you will give me full authority to deal with it, but bah! Dog emperor, I don't believe you!"
Xiao Jinyan: “…” Even though he had heard his mother scold his father as a dog emperor many times, he was still a little surprised.
The first time he heard his mother call his father "Dog Emperor", he was stunned. He couldn't imagine that such vulgar words were what his mother was thinking.
It's not easy to be the empress. Even though Chang Liangdi did something wrong, she is still her niece and she cannot punish her too severely. Otherwise, her brothers and father will be unhappy, which is not good for her or the royal family.
The punishment cannot be too light, otherwise it will be difficult to convince the public.
When the queen thought of this, she couldn't help but curse, "You dog emperor!"
Finally, the empress punished Chang Liangdi, demoted her to Liangyuan, confined her to house arrest for a month, ordered her to copy the Diamond Sutra to calm her mind, and had her monthly salary deducted for three months.
For Chang Liangdi, this punishment was already very severe.
Chang Liangdi was unwilling to lose her position as Crown Princess, but when she looked up and saw the disappointment in the Queen's eyes, she pursed her lips and said nothing.
Xiyun Pavilion
Yesterday, Xiao Jinyan instructed Liu Xi to ask the kitchen to send a sheep to the Hehuan Palace.
The canteen worked quickly and delivered it in the morning.
Liu Xi smiled kindly and asked, "Shen Liang Di, this sheep is particularly fat. I picked it myself. Are you satisfied with it?"
As soon as Shen Chuwei saw the animal in the young eunuch's hand, she knew it was caught and killed on the spot and looked very fresh.
Xiao Jinyan did not lie to her.
"Eunuch Liu has excellent taste. I am very satisfied. I will give you some to taste after it is baked."
"Shen Liangdi, you are too polite. That bastard has to go back and report." Liu Xi said this, but he was actually quite greedy. Last year, he almost drooled when he smelled the roasted lamb.
After Liu Xi left, Shen Chuwei turned his head and looked at Chun Xi, "Marinate it first, then roast it all. We'll have roasted whole lamb for lunch."
"Okay." Chunxi also ordered a whole roasted lamb. Seeing such a big lamb, he was a little excited.
Chunxi has already learned 90% of the skills of seasoning and pickling.
With the help of the little rabbit, the sheep was cleaned again and then put into a large wooden basin for pickling.
Shen Chuwei sat on a rattan chair nearby, watching Chunxi busying herself, and picked up a novel to pass the time.
I lent this novel to Concubine Xu some time ago, and she just returned it yesterday.
Shen Chuwei read a few chapters and suddenly realized where Xu Cefei learned the thigh-slapping action from. It turned out that she learned it from reading this novel.
There are several scenes in the film where the characters slap their thighs to express their excitement.
Not only that, Concubine Xu was originally very interested in Xiao Jinyan and often said that she wanted to sleep with him.
After reading several novels, Concubine Xu rarely mentioned Xiao Jinyan.
Did she lead Concubine Xu astray?
It was Chunxi’s second time to roast a whole lamb, and he built a fire with the help of the little rabbit.
After flipping and roasting for an hour, the aroma spreads all over the place.
Shen Chuwei lost interest in reading as he smelled the fragrance. He looked at the roasted lamb on the rack and his mouth was watering.