Chapter 323 Smashing the Stone Tablet
Behind her were a dozen armored guards and a dozen tall eunuchs.
As she walked, the strong sense of oppression made Doctor Hu retreat again and again, and he said in a shrill voice: "Royal Concubine, what do you want to do? This is in the palace, don't mess around!"
Jiang Xinyue ignored him and shouted: "Yuan Lei."
Doctor Hu and Lin Zhushi focused their attention on the twenty or so strong guards and eunuchs. They brought a few people with them just in case and all stood in front of Jiang Xinyue.
Until...
"Boom——"
"Ah!"
With a loud noise, everyone felt the road under their feet tremble twice, and then they heard the sound of something exploding and the screams of the eunuchs injured by the flying stones.
Doctor Hu turned around in horror and saw a "giant" weighing more than 200 kilograms, holding two hammers, smashing the stone tablet so hard that not a single word could be seen. He stopped panting and begged: "Madam, is it broken enough?"
The "giant" jumped down from above, and the two big hammers seemed to weigh at least 100 kilograms, but in his hands they were as light as children's toys.
Another look at the "stone tablet that can kill the Jiang family" had already broken into powder.
The giant named Yuan Lei was still waving his arms, swinging two big iron hammers majestically. No one dared to get close to him for fear of being smashed into pieces.
"You!"
"This!"
"How can this be, it really is unreasonable!"
"Jiang Xinyue, do you still have the law? This is to be dug out from the river in Yuzhou and presented to the emperor. How dare you destroy it privately? I will definitely report it to the emperor and let him punish you."
"Puchi!"
Jiang Xinyue covered her mouth and laughed, shaking her head while laughing: "Do you think I am a fool or the emperor? A disaster from the sky, Jiang replaced Shen Xing? A stone fell from the sky to alert the emperor? Then is the South Gate of Heaven built in Mongolia?" "
What does the Royal Concubine mean?"
"The stone you have engraved is called Balin Seal Stone, produced from the Yamatu Mountain in Balin Right Banner, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia. It is recorded in the "Records of Strange Stones in the World" in my father's study that this stone is not only highly transparent, but also fine in texture and moderately hard. It has seven basic pigments, including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and purple, and a variety of tones, including deep, shallow, thick, light, clear, turbid, bright, and dark. Master Lin, am I right?"
How could Master Lin know whether it was right or not? It
was Cheng Guogong who gave him this stone and told him to take it to Yuzhou and bury it deep in the dry soil in Henei. When the emperor came back from summer vacation, he would bring it back to the capital and make sure everyone knew about it.
On his way to the palace just now, he shouted "Urgent military affairs, stay out of the way" to arouse the curiosity of the people.
He left behind a few know-it-alls among the people, who kept spreading the news: "I heard that Yuzhou has been suffering from drought for several months, and the people are living in poverty. The local people dug out a stone tablet under the dry riverbed, saying that it was because the emperor favored the witch concubine that he was punished by heaven. If the emperor does not repent, the Shen family will be replaced by the Jiang family in the future!"
"More than a dozen corpses were found in the palace of Concubine De. You know Concubine De, right? Before she entered the palace, the legitimate daughter of Duke Cheng often set up a tent in the ruined temple outside the city to give out porridge, and from time to time she gave some old clothes to the beggar girl. Could she have killed that person? So many things happened after the Royal Concubine entered the palace. I think it is likely that she did it to frame Concubine De."
"No wonder the disaster came from the sky. It turned out that there was an evil spirit around Emperor Star. But why didn't we hear any news about the drought in Yuzhou? Did the court know?"
"I have inside information. The former governor of Yuzhou was a classmate of the Minister of Justice. They were both taught by the same teacher and had a comrade-in-arms relationship! The Minister of Justice is also the father of the Imperial Concubine. The governor of Yuzhou surrounded the drought-stricken city to prevent the people from escaping. He wanted to starve them to death. Maybe that was Minister Jiang's idea."
"Think about it! Minister Jiang is the father of the evil concubine. He certainly didn't want the stone tablet to be sent to the emperor. He was also afraid that the people who dug out the stone tablet would spread rumors everywhere. So he asked his former classmate, the governor of Yuzhou, to seal off the city and let all the people who knew about it die of thirst inside."
Some people spoke for Jiang Yankun and Jiang Xinyue, father and daughter, but they were quickly drowned out by the voices of rebuttal.
After all, Duke Cheng had deliberately arranged it, and there were a few know-it-alls in the society who were stirring up trouble. Most people liked to watch the excitement and followed suit, and the fake became true.
Because his mother's birthday was coming soon, Jiang Junze was walking around the shops on the street and heard the noise outside.
He was furious when he heard it. Those strangers who had never seen Ajie and had never spent half a day with her described Ajie as a cruel and ruthless concubine who was extremely evil and blamed Ajie for the deaths of more than a dozen people.
"This bunch of bastards!"
Jiang Junze rushed out to hit people: "A bunch of crazy dogs, my sister..."
"Jiang Erlang!"
Several young men who were traveling with him hurriedly dragged him back: "Don't be impulsive, this is obviously organized and disciplined, and someone deliberately arranged to discredit the reputation of the Royal Concubine. The more it is at this time, the more you can't mess up. You should hurry home, tell your parents, and discuss a countermeasure."
Those who were called by Jiang Junze to choose gifts for Ruan were all his recognized friends, and no one wanted to see him hurt people because of a momentary impulse.
Maybe those people knew that Jiang Erlang was going out today, and deliberately wanted to anger him and make him hit people on impulse.
The young men still thought too simply about human nature. Among the chatterboxes arranged by Duke Cheng, one of them was already terminally ill.
As long as Jiang Junze moved a finger on him, his family would carry his body to the gate of the Jiang Mansion tomorrow to mourn and ask Minister Jiang to hand over the murderer.
They would report to the authorities and have Jiang Junze have a criminal record, so that he would never have a chance to pass the imperial examination in his life, which would be equivalent to destroying Jiang Yankun's only promising son.
After the matter was accomplished, Duke Cheng would give the family of the terminally ill man a large sum of money as money to buy his life.
Seeing that Jiang Junze was persuaded by his companions, the man with dark eyes went even further and touched his chin with a smile: "You're right, I heard that the imperial concubine is a stunning beauty. If I were the emperor, I would lie in bed for half a year without getting up hahahaha... Who cares if she is a peerless beauty, she will cry and scream under my crotch..."
"Let me go, I want to beat that bastard to death."
"Erlang! It's not a pity for such a person to die, but it's not worth sacrificing your own future for such a person."
Jiang Junze didn't care whether it was worth it or not. No one could tolerate such a frame-up of his second sister.