Empress difficult

Princess Cheng said that she dug up the set of jewelry under a tree in the palace, it was freshly unearthed, and brought mud with it, and sent it to Mengyan.Meng Yan thought that this girl is not stupid, and she knew to show her to His Majesty first, so it can be seen that her usual style is all intentional, and she should be severely punished.

It's just that the jewelry was lost as soon as it was said, and it was returned as soon as it was said, the timing was so clever... the abandoned well of Qiuxin Palace was in the middle.

Meng Yan only felt that there was some disobedience.She couldn't tell how it should develop, but it shouldn't be at the current pace.

Meng Yan turned her eyes to look down, there seemed to be a look of shock and anger on Princess Xian's face, and it disappeared in the blink of an eye.Meng Yan was even more puzzled, wondering what she meant by that just now, it was normal to be surprised, but why was there anger?

Chao Qian'er flicked her handkerchief, put her jade hand on Meng Yan's shoulder, and said with a long sigh of relief: "It's a good thing I found it! What was lost in her palace was found in her own palace, but it has nothing to do with others." !"

Tao'er knelt at the back, shivering and shaking for a long time, and when she relaxed now, she fell down and cried.

Princess Xian still had her usual paralyzed face, but raised her chin, rather arrogantly: "I found the thing, it has nothing to do with my Yijing Palace, and His Majesty still punishes me to kneel?"

Chao Qian'er said with a smile: "Your Majesty also wanted to justify the name of Princess Xian, since I found it—"

"Continue to kneel!"

When Meng Yan uttered a word, Chao Qian'er's words stuck in her throat, her eyes widened slightly, full of disbelief.Facing Shang Mengyan's interested gaze, she hurriedly withdrew her expression, lowered her head and made a docile gesture: "Qian'er knows his mistake, it's because Qian'er is too curious and speaks so fast. Qian'er will stop talking nonsense."

Sure enough, she is a woman who is good at observing words and expressions, and her mind is also quick.Such a person, who knows what color and shape she is inside?

Looking at Princess Xian again, she pursed her lips and looked directly at Mengyan as if she was being humiliated.

Meng Yan said: "Kneel down and think carefully about why I punished you! When do you think it through!"

Chao Qian'er kept her eyebrows lowered and her eyes pleasing to the eye, she was completely different from the cute and naive look before, her gaze never shifted, and she completely regarded the kneeling Princess Xian as air.

The performance is too deliberate, but it is not normal.

Meng Yan wondered deeply, and on the way to Hanmo Pavilion, he pulled Chu Yun and asked, "What is the relationship between Chao Qian'er and Princess Xian?"

Chu Yun blinked: "Miss Chao? Miss Chao is polite to everyone, except for the late Emperor and Your Majesty, I don't think she is particularly familiar with anyone. Princess Xian is the complete opposite. She is always cold and close to the palace. The maidservants don’t even have a good face, let alone other people in the palace.”

That is to say, the two people have no intersection at all?That's not right...

Chu Yun asked back: "Why does Your Majesty ask such a question? Let me tell you, there is no guarantee that these two people are really close in private!"

Meng Yan raised her eyebrows: "Oh? How should I say it?"

Chu Yun started to talk seriously: "Your Majesty, you see, Miss Chao has a special status. The people in the palace treat her like a disaster, and no one wants to talk to her. She must be lonely. As for Princess Xian, her life is also unsatisfactory. There is no one in the palace who talks about it. What is there a word called, sympathy for each other! Maybe they feel sorry for each other, and they are afraid of being watched, so they secretly communicate."

Makes sense!You have to pay attention when you look back!

Meng Yan directly set up a punishment hall in Hanmo Pavilion, and ordered Yushitai and Dali Temple to jointly investigate the property stolen from the homes of the second prince and Yin Zhengqing.The result was really astonishing. The property that should have been collected into the national treasury was actually reduced by nearly half.

Xie Meng knelt on the ground, not as majestic as before, his shoulders slumped, and his whole body showed the misery after being hit, it really seemed to be the end of the road.

Meng Yan recalled the conversation she had with Xie You'an, she firmly believed that her father would not take money and break the law to do such things.But the fact is that under his auspices, the loss of treasury property, even if it is not bribery, will also be charged with ineffectiveness.

I had promised that Xie You'an would handle it impartially, but at this moment he was a little shaken and couldn't be cruel.

Leading from a set of jewellery, Xie Meng was dismissed for investigation, and Xie Youan stayed at his post to reflect on it. The Xie family, which had been in power for a while, collapsed with a "bang".

However, the will of the Holy Majesty has ambiguous meanings. It is only to take Xie Meng into supervision and control, and there has been no conclusion on how to punish him.There was an uproar in the court, and the ministers asked for orders and asked the saints to make a decision, but they were all blocked by Mengyan under the pretext of "the lost property has not been found".

This is the truth, so many things were lost, even if Xie Meng took them away, who would they give them to?There must be a lot of people involved behind this, it is impossible for those veterans not to understand.It's just that Xie Meng is usually domineering, and they want to take this opportunity to get rid of him first.

After arguing for three days, I finally found two vases from a small miscellaneous fish in Hubu.From here, a few people can be picked out every now and then, and the higher the official position, the more they get involved in Yushitai.

Often when one person is found out, someone who is related to it can be confessed, and the court is chaotic for a while, and everyone is in danger.Meng Yan never expected that from a small set of jewelry, the situation would develop to such an extent.

Totally out of control.

It was almost premeditated.

If there was no set of lost jewelry, there would not be so many things that happened later, Meng Yan pondered that he still had to start from the very beginning.

She called Tao'er over again, and the little girl knelt tremblingly, not daring to lift her head.

Meng Yan asked directly: "Have you never worn that set of jewelry?"

Tao'er stammered, "No, no."

"Then what are you afraid of?"

Tao'er began to kowtow: "Your Majesty is wise, the servant has never worn it." Halfway through speaking, she hesitated to raise her eyes to look at Meng Yan.

Meng Yan thought for a while, and said to Chu Yun: "You tell me to go on, and Tao'er will stay here with me from now on—tell me now, no one will dare to embarrass you."

Tao'er was so frightened that she cried, "This servant wears a set...it's similar."

There is such an inside story!No wonder Princess Cheng insisted that she had seen it before, not because she was dazzled.

Tao'er said: "Earlier when Princess Cheng went to Yijing Palace, the servant accidentally touched her step and was punished by Princess Cheng. Princess Cheng also insulted Princess Xian, but Princess Xian was so angry that she found someone to make the same reward. Wear it for your slaves."

The way Princess Xian scolds people is really special...

Meng Yan asked: "And then?"

"Princess Xian saw that there was a lot of trouble, so she took the set of jewelry back for fear of causing trouble, and told the servants not to talk nonsense in front of His Majesty."

It's that simple?

Meng Yan pondered for a while, and seeing Tao'er was still kneeling on the ground like shaking a sieve, she asked her to get up and talk: "How are you Princess Xian?"

Tao'er's knees softened and she knelt back: "Your Majesty, don't let Tao'er go back to Yijing Palace! Tao'er has told the truth, and Princess Xian will definitely punish her if she goes back!"

Mengyan: "..."

Chu Yun came in from the outside: "Princess Xian! You are still sick!"

Last time in Qixiang Palace, Mengyan punished her to reflect, but she knelt down stiffly, refusing to admit her mistakes.The tougher she is, the angrier Meng Yan gets, and she doesn't let go, just let her kneel like that.

Meng Yan couldn't sleep well at night, lying on the bed tossing and turning anxiously.In the middle of the night, I heard Tao'er crying and calling for someone, and when I got up to see, Princess Xian fell to the ground with no blood on her face, her whole body was pale and terrifying.

Meng Yan blamed herself, but she didn't regret much.I did nothing wrong, I blame her for being too stubborn.

Chu Yun asked: "I asked the imperial doctor to see it the other day, and when I came back, it said that it will take a while to take care of it!"

"Can you get up?"

"How can it be! You have to be fed to drink medicine, it's all soup and medicine that hangs your life."

Meng Yan paused: "Look what is missing in Yijing Palace, ask someone to send it to her——Taoer can stay in Qixiang Palace, you can arrange something for her, and take two clever ones to go to Yijing Palace. Jing Palace is waiting on you."

Chu Yun asked again: "Your Majesty won't go and have a look?"

Meng Yan was depressed: "What are you looking at! Wait until she knows where she is wrong!"

Chu Yun was about to lead Tao'er down, then leaned over and whispered, "I've been paying attention recently, I really saw that Miss Chao went to Yijing Palace!"

Meng Yan's eyelids twitched: "When?"

"They all went in a fair manner during the day, and sometimes even invited other people in the palace to go with them."

Chao Qianer, what are you thinking...

Tao'er said timidly from the side: "Miss Chao has been to Yijing Palace. She said that she saw His Majesty punishing Princess Xian, but she didn't say anything. She felt guilty and gave Princess Xian some supplements."

Meng Yan grasped the key: "What did you give?"

Tao'er thought for a while: "They are all commonly used medicines, and they are not rare, but Miss Chao said that she has processed all the medicinal materials, which are good for the body."

Meng Yan asked Chu Yun to give orders: "Go to Yijing Palace to see if all the medicinal materials have been used and how much. Bring me the rest."

Chu Yun didn't understand: "Are these things weird?"

Meng Yan shook his head: "Not necessarily, let me take a look at it first."

Chao Qian'er must have something to do with Princess Xian. Thinking carefully about what Chao Qian'er said, everything he said was to help Princess Xian.

In this palace, forming cliques is normal, everyone needs to have relatives, there is no need to hide.What the hell is going on with these two people?

It suddenly occurred to Meng Yan that when she asked Princess Xian to kneel as a punishment, Chao Qian'er followed her and said a few insignificant words.Immediately afterwards, Princess Cheng's jewelry was found...

Thinking about Princess Xian's expression at that time, it was the surprise that she didn't expect the jewelry to appear at all, and her dissatisfaction with the jewelry's appearance at this time.

Thinking about it this way, things seem to make sense.

Meng Yan couldn't hide her shock, and quickly said to Chu Yun, "Hurry up and call me Princess Cheng."

Chu Yun was taken aback by her nervous expression, and was about to go out in response.

Meng Yan stopped her again and told her: "If she is stubborn and disobedient, she will be tied up directly—and besides, don't let anyone know."

Although Chu Yun didn't understand what she was thinking, he also knew that this matter was unusual, so he hurried out.

Tao'er raised her eyelids to take a look, then lowered her head again.Meng Yan saw that she was silent like a cicada, and asked her to go out first and wait.

Princess Cheng used Mengyan to scare her that time, she didn't tell others, but she was honest in front of Mengyan.Chu Yun went to invite her, she tidied up quickly and followed.

Seeing that she was obedient, Meng Yan didn't feel embarrassed, and asked directly: "Have you had any contact with Princess Xian?"

Princess Cheng's complexion changed, and she was reluctant to speak.

Meng Yan raised her voice: "I'm asking you something!"

Princess Cheng turned her eyes to look elsewhere, and said in a low voice, "There are some, but most of them are quarrels."

It is estimated that most of them are looking for things to bully people.

Meng Yan asked again: "What about Chao Qian'er? Do you have any relationship with her?"

"Miss Chao? This is available."