[Red Chamber] I am Lin Daiyu and her uncle

Kunning Palace.

The spacious palace was silent, and a few suppressed sobs sounded from time to time, which seemed so abrupt in the silent atmosphere.

The camera zooms in, the queen is sitting on the phoenix chair, and the beautiful woman dressed in costumes is kneeling at the queen's feet. The catkins held the queen's gorgeous skirt and shook it gently, the jewels on her head swayed slightly due to her weeping from time to time, and there was a clear and sweet sound when the ornaments collided. Seen from a distance, the back was very charming, and the cry was also melodious. Beautiful.

Don't look at the face, only hear the voice, I feel pity.

The queen closed her eyes slightly, frowned, her mouth was tightly pursed, her face was pale, and there was a trace of exhaustion between her brows.Xu Shi was annoyed by the sobbing sound of the beautiful woman, her eyebrows frowned even tighter, and finally she opened her eyes impatiently, and scolded: "Okay! Don't cry. I'm upset because of the noise."

Hearing this, the beautiful woman raised her head suddenly, revealing her gorgeous face. Although the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes showed that she was getting older, her increasingly full and thick red lips gave her a bit of charm.

"No..." The beautiful woman looked up at the pear blossom with rain on her crying face, and looked at the queen sitting on the phoenix chair with tears in her eyes, shaking her head desperately, "If the empress does not agree to save Fu'er, I will not be able to kneel down forever!"

The queen laughed angrily at these words, "Save? What do you want me to save! That dirty seed has been kicked to the iron plate this time. You don't even ask, what kind of person is Lu Wenzheng? Now his descendants After being wronged, how can those civil servants be willing to give up!"

Despite the queen's harsh tone, Mrs. Pei still looked at the queen innocently with her watery eyes, "So what? Your majesty has always valued your empress. Usually, things more serious than this happen in our family. Your Majesty is not the same... "

Before she finished speaking, the queen gave her a gouged look, which frightened Mrs. Pei to silence immediately.

The queen rubbed her brows wearily, and said irritably: "I'm afraid it won't be so easy this time. Although Lu Yaobi has been immortal for many years, there are many courtiers in the court who are his students, who are favored by him for being promoted. Now the descendants of the teacher are suffering They won't sit idly by."

Mrs. Pei wiped the tears off her face lightly, sobbing and said: "I understand the truth. It is the law of the country to kill and pay for life. No matter how reluctant I am, the master and I cannot violate the law. But if only the concubine and the master bear the pain of bereavement That's all, but the old man is old, and Fu'er has been treated by him as an eyeball since he was born. When he was a child, he would kill the caretakers. If Fu'er is gone, he will die! For the sake of his old man, you should plead with His Majesty. Regardless of success or not, if you don’t even beg, Fu’er will surely die!”

Hearing Mrs. Pei mention her father, the queen's face turned pale and red, and finally she just watched Mrs. Pei's performance quietly with a dark face.

Mrs. Pei just pretended not to see the empress' ugly face, seeing that the empress did not refute her immediately, she quickly said the rest of the words while the iron was hot.

Wiping away tears, he continued: "We don't have to let Fu'er be completely irresponsible. It's fine to go into exile. As long as we don't take his life, we will be grateful to Dade. Ying'er is also grown up now, and he can succeed his brother as the prince. We In the future, Quan will assume that there is no son Fu'er, and no matter whether he lives or dies, let him stay in the bitter cold place for the rest of his life to atone for the Lu family. Auntie, do you think this is good?"

The queen looked at Mrs. Pei whose eyes were full of hope, and thought that it was her own blood after all, so she finally relented and compromised.

"Okay, I'll try."

When Mrs. Pei saw that the queen had agreed, she was overjoyed immediately, and hurriedly said many flattering words to the queen.

The queen looked coldly at Mrs. Pei's eloquent tongue, filled with emotion.Thinking about the princes of the Pei family for generations, they are also considered a famous family, how could they raise such a sweet-tongued daughter who is used to flattering and flattering?It would be fine if the family education was like this, but her niece is as dull and useless as a piece of wood. When she married into Prince Yu's mansion, she didn't say that she wanted to please Xiang'er. no deposit.

The son dotes on his concubine and kills his wife, so I don't give in too much.

Let the noble and decent wife master not want, but dote on a humble concubine, each one is covered with lard, and I can't tell whether the smell is good or bad.

Ho... Sure enough, men are all scumbags!

Before the queen went to find Xia Xu, she specially cooked a bowl of sesame glutinous rice balls as a stepping stone.Back then, the Empress and Xia Xu also had a honeymoon period at the beginning of their wedding, but later... well, things are things and people are not things.

Although she had promised Mrs. Pei that she would intercede with Xia Xu, the queen still had no idea.After all, Lu Yaobi's prestige is too high, and his partner Gongsun Liang is still in the court. Although Xia Xu has always treated Ruiping County's palace generously, this time the incident is too big.Therefore, in order to make multiple preparations, the Queen specially ordered King Yu to plead with Xia Xu first, to find out, and then she used different rhetoric according to Xia Xu's attitude.

In this way, after preparing everything, the queen specially dressed up and went to Fengtian Temple with a bowl of steaming sesame glutinous rice balls.

Outside the study of Fengtian Temple.

When the queen saw Jiang Qingfu, the eunuch next to Xia Xu, guarding the door, she knew that King Yu was already inside.

"The servant sees the Empress Empress, Empress Empress Wan...!"

Jiang Qingfu was about to kneel down to salute the queen, but was stopped by the queen raising her hand in time.

"Eunuch Jiang doesn't need to be too polite."

Jiang Qingfu was a smart man, he didn't hold back, he bowed his back, smiled and thanked the queen.

Although the queen likes to put on airs very much, she doesn't show off to everyone, like Xia Xu, and Jiang Qingfu who is close to him, she is very polite.

"Your father-in-law has worked hard to serve His Majesty. When you see me in the future, you don't have to bow down again."

Jiang Qingfu had a humble smile on his face for decades. Hearing the words, he was not moved at all, and his back was bent even deeper. Blessings, where do you use the words 'hard work and meritorious service'? The servant is really terrified when the empress honors the slave like this."

The queen looked at Jiang Qingfu opposite, although she was still smiling, she sighed in her heart that this guy is an old fox.

But having said that, a companion is like a tiger, who can serve in front of the imperial court for so many years, who is not as tactful as Qiqiao Linglong?

The queen smiled, and politely said, "Eunuch is modest." Then she pretended not to know: "Just now I cooked your majesty's favorite sesame glutinous rice balls, please go in and let me know, or the glutinous rice balls will not taste good if they get cold gone."

Jiang Qingfu looked back at the study room, and apologized: "Oh! It's not a coincidence. His Royal Highness Yu Wang is inside to report to His Majesty on official business. His Majesty ordered no one to disturb you. You should wait a little longer, Your Majesty."

The queen nodded, "Naturally. The glutinous rice balls can be eaten at any time, but the important affairs of the court must not be delayed."

Jiang Qingfu was a thoughtful and decent person, and when he saw this, he praised the queen for "understanding the righteousness".

After a while, King Yu slowly withdrew from the study.

Seeing him coming out, the queen looked at him with concern, thinking that King Yu would signal her to be calm, but King Yu frowned and shook his head slightly at her.

The flame of hope raised by the queen was a little weaker, and she was a little disappointed, but she still cheered up to deal with it.

Inside the study.

The queen was startled when she entered the door: she saw stacks of memorials that were half a person's height piled up on the spacious imperial case. The opened memorial blocked Xia Xu's figure.

Seeing that the number of memorials on the imperial case was several times higher than usual, the queen swallowed and forced herself to calm down.

He ordered people to put the food box on the round table beside him, and then drove the rest of the people out.

"His Majesty."

Xia Xu raised his head from the mountains of memorials when he heard the sound, and seeing the queen standing not far away smiling and looking at him, he couldn't help rubbing the center of his brows wearily, "Oh, it's the queen, what's the matter? Go out, I still have a lot of memorials to deal with, and I will go to Kunning Palace to see you after finishing."

Seeing Xia Xu's haggard face and flushed eyes, the queen couldn't help feeling very distressed, and hurriedly took out the glutinous rice balls in the food box. Seeing that they were still steaming, she breathed a sigh of relief, and then said to Xia Xu who was sitting on the throne with a smile: " Your Majesty, this concubine personally made your favorite sesame glutinous rice balls, and you have been doing business for a long time, it's time to take a rest."

"Oh? Really? My concubine is really caring." Xia Xu also smiled, got up and left her seat to sit down at the round table.

Looking at the steaming hot glutinous rice balls in the hot bowl, Xia Xu picked up the bowl and put a spoonful into his mouth.

"Hmm...sweet and soft, full of strength, still the same taste as before."

Xia Xu's praise made the queen smile, so she was going to take advantage of Xia Xu's relaxation to draw out Xie Fu's matter.

The queen hurriedly sat down beside Xia Xu, and watched with a smile as Xia Xu finished eating the glutinous rice balls she made spoon by spoon. When the last one was finished, the queen personally served Xia Xu to rinse her mouth. Just let her work.

After all the work was done, the queen looked at Xia Xu who was drinking tea by herself, but hesitated to speak.After Jin Cheng passed away, the relationship between the two was much closer than before due to the common pain of losing their daughter. Although it was not as close as when they were young, they had regained a lot of their former friendship, so the queen cherished this relationship very much. Time to get along.But if she pleads for Fu'er's affairs, Xia Xu will probably be upset. Although she can save Fu'er's life, the relationship between her and Xia Xu's hard-won easing may return to the coldness it was before. state.

But let's not save him, my father takes Fu'er so seriously again, if Fu'er's dead anger is really used to let his elder brother take over the family, the power of his faction will be reduced, and the help he gets from his mother's family will also be reduced. reduce.Although his father is a little out of touch with things, but given his age and qualifications, other nobles will give him a little bit of a face, and it may not be necessary to replace him with a junior like brother.Besides, her father is her own father after all, no matter how much she thinks about her daughter, her brother may not be. If he is really allowed to be the family, the Ruiping County Prince's Mansion may not be able to completely stand by her side.

In the effort of a cup of tea, the queen has already experienced a battle between heaven and man in her heart. After weighing the pros and cons, the queen decided to save Xie Fu's life.

In the end, Your Majesty is a person who pays attention to etiquette. Although she is not as favored as Concubine Xian, she is still the empress of a country and a regular wife!The Prince's Mansion of Ruiping County is even more aristocratic for generations, not comparable to that nouveau riche of the Shen family.Besides, hasn't Your Majesty given so many favors to the Prince's Mansion of Ruiping County before?Not too bad this time.

After the queen cleared her mind, she became more determined to save her nephew. After Xia Xu put down the teacup in her hand, she knelt down at Xia Xu's feet with a plop.

Xia Xu was taken aback by this sudden kneeling.

"Queen, what are you doing?" Xia Xu frowned slightly, slightly displeased.

Regardless of Xia Xu's stern tone, the queen continued to lie on the ground with her forehead pressed tightly to the ground, and shouted: "I have something to ask your majesty. If your majesty doesn't agree, I won't get up."

According to the usual practice, when Xia Xu heard the queen say this, she should have sighed helplessly before saying, "You and I are married, why is this so?" Then he helped the queen up from the ground, and quietly listened to the queen's twisting of black and white. Cleaning up her natal family, and finally sighed again, telling the queen to "don't make an example".As for the queen, she also vowed to pat her chest to ensure that her mother's family will be safe and secure in the future, and she will not teach others to find out what is wrong and be poured into black water.

And then...there is no more, the matter was exposed lightly and without pain, the victim's family members received a few words of verbal comfort, and even Xie's family members would not apologize to them, so they calmed down.

The queen thought it was the same routine this time, and waited for Xia Xu to help her up personally, but after waiting for a long time, the queen's legs were almost numb from kneeling, Xia Xu didn't move, and the study was deadly silent. It wasn't that the queen was sure that Xia Xu would not leave without saying hello, she would have thought that she was the only one left in the study.

The queen hadn't recovered from a serious illness, and before waiting for a while, her knees were exhausted, her legs were shaking, and her forehead covered in makeup was mixed with dense sweat, which was a little messy.

Just when she couldn't support herself and was about to fall to the ground, she finally heard a light voice from above, "You are here to plead for Xie Fu's matter."

Not a question, but an affirmation.

The queen heard Xia Xu's unusual tone, her heart tightened for a moment, and she looked up at Xia Xu who was sitting above her, only to see that the originally gentle eyes were so indifferent at this moment, and the pope's heart trembled.

But at this time, she didn't care much anymore, so the queen could only kneel there, telling Xia Xu the speeches she had prepared one by one. Thinking of Xia Xu's unusual attitude this time, the queen also specially supplemented it with a tearful cry. For the queen who has always paid attention to the external noble and decent image, it can be counted as a capital!You know, she didn't even shed tears when she pleaded before, but this time it was really tearful.

Although the queen was crying, it didn't affect her fluent articulateness at all. After she finished all her rhetoric, the surroundings returned to silence again. said, "Get up."

Although he didn't lift her up personally, but...at least he got her up, didn't he?This proves that there is a turning point.

The queen supported the round table beside her and stood up with difficulty.

He was about to pull Xia Xu to say a few more words, but Xia Xu was not in front of him. Looking around the room, he realized that Xia Xu had actually sat back at the imperial table.

Sitting there, Xia Xu waved to the queen who was not far away. His face was expressionless, showing no emotion or anger. Although his eyes were not as cold as before, they were dark and dark, which did not make people panic.

The queen obediently walked towards the royal case.

After the queen walked to the side of the imperial case, she accidentally kicked something. If she hadn't supported the edge of the table in time, she would have almost tripped over. To see what doesn't trip her up, you might as well see another mountain of memorials on the carpet.

The empress's stunned eyes moved from Xia Xu's body to the memorial on the ground, and jumped up and down several times like this, and suddenly agreed, her face turned pale in an instant.

She didn't expect the courtiers to bite her so hard this time!

So... it's tricky...

Xia Xu didn't speak, and only made a gesture of 'please' to the queen, signaling her to read the memorial on the royal case.

The queen stretched out her hand, hesitated a few times, and then picked up the memorial closest to her.

She thought she was impeaching Xie Fu for manslaughter, but she never imagined that she was impeaching the royal residence of Ruiping County for encroaching on tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land.

"This..." The queen looked up at Xia Xu with doubts in her eyes.

Isn't this the previous crime?How come here.

Xia Xu told her to stay calm and take a few more books to read.

The queen didn't know what kind of medicine Xia Xu bought in the gourd, she looked at Xia Xu suspiciously, and picked up another one, this time to impeach her brother and Xie Fu for forcibly occupying the women.

Picked up another book, buying officials and selling officials...

Another book, torturing and killing monks and slaves...

Indulging domestic slaves to fight in groups in the streets, causing injuries to innocent people...

Privately buy a mansion without an official according to the law...

More to build a garden pond...

……

The empress didn't dare to read any more. It was undeniable that each of these cases was a crime committed by the Xie family.

Xia Xu threw another memorial in front of the queen, pointed at it, and said, "Read this book again."

The queen picked up the memorial tremblingly.

This time, she was suing her brother for selling the exam questions and leading the fraud case.

The queen knelt down again with a plop, lying on the ground crying and begging Xia Xu to forgive her and show mercy.

This time the shouting was obviously more attentive than before.

Xia Xu got down from the seat, helped the queen up, and helped her to sit down on the stool beside the round table. Looking at the crying queen, she sighed slightly.

Seeing that Xia Xu's expression had loosened, the queen grabbed Xia Xu's sleeve like a life-saving straw, and begged again.

Xia Xu let her catch her, but asked: "Everything on the memorial, you have begged me for it, and I have suppressed it every time. But you must know that public anger is hard to offend. Now the courtiers Find out the crimes committed by your family again, add up all the crimes, it is more than enough to ransack your family and exterminate your family."

When the queen heard the words 'scratch the family and exterminate the family', her body suddenly softened. If Xia Xu hadn't supported her, she wouldn't even be able to sit still.

She wants to argue that she is wronged, but she has pleaded for every crime before. If it is really wronged, just let Xia Xu find out, why bother to intercede?Doesn't this tell everyone that the Prince's Mansion of Ruiping County has indeed committed such crimes?

Another one is that most of Xia Xu just suppressed and did not pardon, so all the charges are still valid, but they are temporarily ignored.

After figuring this out, the queen feared that she had fallen into Xia Xu's trap a long time ago. He had planned it long ago, and just waited for this moment to completely wipe out the Xie family!

Xia Xu ignored the panic on the queen's face, and threw out the bait to the queen, "There is no way, it depends on your willingness to part with it."

The queen smiled wryly, she was already a fish on the chopping board, it all depended on how Xia Xu slaughtered it, how could she have the right to say no? (But...you still have the right to choose.)

"Either, you can be your queen in the middle palace safely, and the Xie family should ransack the house and exterminate the family; or, use your own life to pay for the lives of the entire Xie family and protect the wealth of the entire Xie family."

The queen slowly opened her eyes, looked at Xia Xu who was still gentle and elegant in front of her, and squinted for a while, as if she was meeting Xia Xu for the first time.

I can't believe it... Such an elegant and kind person can say such words to his first wife with a normal face.

Xia Xu let her look at it, Shi Shiran stood there, the expression on his face did not move at all, so calm, as if he was saying that the weather is good today, or asking if he had eaten?what did you eat?

After a long time, the queen twitched the corners of her mouth, laughed at herself, stood up, knelt down, and knelt down three times and kowtowed nine times to Xia Xu.

"Thank you Lord Ron!"

Every word and every sentence, the voice is sonorous and powerful, but the tone is indescribably sad.

After the ceremony, before Xia Xu called her to get up, she got up on her own, then adjusted her clothes a little, straightened her back and walked towards the door.

Jiang Qingfu at the door looked at the departing queen, and sighed slightly: Alas... If I knew today, why bother?

Kunning Palace.

Xin'er, who was waiting for the good news in the palace, finally waited for the queen to come back, and was about to say something to win the favor, but saw that the queen's face was a little paler than that of a dead person, and she suddenly had a bad premonition in her heart.

Because the queen usually had a lot of prestige, Xin'er didn't dare to ask rashly, she just watched the queen and lay down on the bed without saying a word.

After drinking the medicine in the evening, the queen lay flat, staring blankly at the bed curtain above the bed, and ordered weakly: "Don't drink it, pour it out."

When Xin'er heard this, she became anxious, "Your Majesty, you are sick, how can you do it without taking medicine? If you don't take medicine, you will not get better. It's not a problem to procrastinate like this. Miss is still young and needs your care. , only when the empress recovers, can I make better plans for the young lady."

As soon as the queen heard her mention her granddaughter, tears flowed uncontrollably.

Until now, she doesn't know whether her choice is right or not...