[Red Mansion] Ronghua Road of Mrs. Hou's Mansion

"It's just a lowly court lady, but she talks nonsense in front of the father, who gave you the courage to do this?" The sixth princess was furious.

She had a premonition that the appearance of this court lady was planned early on, just waiting for her to get in.

The emperor looked down at the sixth princess for a moment, and said to Xin'er: "Go on, if you dare to make a false statement, you will be beaten to death immediately!"

The six princesses fell into an abyss with one heart.

Xin'er sneered, "Since I dare to stand up, I dare to admit it. That's right, I deliberately framed the sixth princess. I just wanted her to be insulted in front of everyone, because a villain like her deserves only such end."

Eunuch Zhang held the whisk in his hand and asked: "Why did you frame the sixth princess? As far as I know, you are just a low-level court lady in charge of sweeping. You have no chance to have any hatred with the sixth princess?"

Xin'er wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, and stared at the sixth princess like a ghost, "Yes, we really don't have any enmity, but that's because she has no chance, if she finds out my identity, she will definitely not let me go , that being the case, why don't I act first?"

Eunuch Zhang was also puzzled, "What do you mean by that?"

Xin'er laughed a few times, "Princess Six, do you know why I want to enter the palace?"

The sixth princess was terrified, but she still said sternly: "You intend to frame me, so what you say is naturally false. How do I know your purpose of entering the palace?"

Xin'er sighed, "Princess is really a noble person who forgets things. Don't you feel familiar when you see me? Don't you remember the maid named Fang Lan'er? When the princess was young, she served you personally. I am loyal to you. At that time, you had not become the adopted daughter of the queen, and you were bullied by many people. It was my sister who protected you all the time, but you actually killed her!"

After many years, the sixth princess has enjoyed countless glory and wealth, and she is used to being superior. When she first heard the name Fang Lan'er, she was stunned for a while.

She thought about it for a while, then she was suddenly horrified and stared at Xin'er dumbfounded.

Xin'er laughed mockingly, "Why, princess, do you remember? You may not know that Fang Lan'er is my elder sister. My family is poor. If I had no choice, I would not let my elder sister enter the palace as a maidservant. I heard that ordinary maids in the palace It's hard to live here, so I worry about my sister every day. Only when she sends us letters every month can I feel at ease. My sister said in the letter that the sixth princess she serves is a cute and kind little girl, and Zhang Meiren is also kind-hearted. She is fine in the palace.

But suddenly one day, someone told me that my sister stole from Zhang Meiren and was executed.I understand my sister's character, she will definitely not do such a sneaky thing.In order to find out the truth, I entered the palace.It turned out that my sister was not executed for stealing, but someone murdered to cover up the truth, and that person was the Sixth Princess!I have pity on my sister who was loyal to you, but you killed her cruelly in order to cover up your secret. Although you are a princess, you are really a wolf-hearted dog! "

The sixth princess stood up, threw herself in front of Xiner, and slapped her, "You're talking nonsense... You're talking nonsense! Tell me, who bought you to frame me? Do you know what crime it is to frame the royal princess?" ?”

The emperor said angrily: "It's so noisy, what's the matter? Hurry up and pull her over!"

Seeing the two nuns, they hurriedly pulled the sixth princess over.

The sixth princess walked to the emperor's feet, dragged the emperor's dragon robe, and said in a mournful voice, "Father, don't believe this court lady's one-sided words, someone must be trying to frame me."

The emperor stood still, his expression calm and prestige, "Then tell me, who is going to frame you, and why is it going to frame you?"

The sixth princess was dumbfounded for a moment, "I...I don't know, but Father, please believe me, I definitely did not kill people to silence my mouth, and I have no reason..."

Xiner fell to the ground after being beaten by the sixth princess, and slowly got up again, "Did the princess become angry from embarrassment before I finished speaking?"

"You live for me..."

As soon as the sixth princess said a few words, the emperor interrupted her impatiently, and ordered: "Pull her aside for me, and gag her."

Now it's finally quiet, and I can listen to Xin'er finish speaking.

Eunuch Zhang said: "Continue talking."

Xin'er smiled sadly, "Your Majesty, do you still remember Beauty Zhang?"

At this time, the eyes of the sixth princess burst out with a strong cold light. She wanted to stop Xin'er from continuing, but her mouth was blocked and she couldn't speak at all.

The emperor thought about it for a while, but couldn't seem to remember it.

"Your Majesty manages a lot of things every day, and there are countless concubines in the harem, all of whom are noble, how can you remember a humble beauty named Zhang?" Xiner said, "Then Your Majesty should always remember that the Sixth Princess was not born to the Empress Dowager?"

Eunuch Zhang reminded at the right time: "Your Majesty, the sixth princess' biological mother is Zhang Meiren. It's just that when the princess was seven years old, Zhang Meiren fell into the water and died. The empress took pity on her and adopted her."

The emperor finally remembered, "Could it be that there is something hidden in this matter?"

Everyone looked at Xin'er curiously.

Xin'er sneered, "It was the sixth princess who killed Zhang Meiren, and my sister saw it, so she killed my sister to silence her."

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was shocked, even the queen showed a look of surprise.

It turned out that the sixth princess killed her own mother with her own hands, isn't she too vicious at such a young age?

Eunuch Zhang pointed at Xin'er with his whisk, "It's a bunch of nonsense, how can you say such things casually?"

Xin'er's face was pale, but what she said was decisive, "everything I said is true, and there is absolutely no falsehood! In order to be adopted by high-ranking concubines, for the sake of glory and wealth, the sixth princess pushed her own mother into the river with her own hands. The weather is so It's cold, Zhang Meiren is afraid of water, what is she going to do by the river? The sixth princess must have deliberately lured Zhang Meiren to the river, and then pushed her down, but my sister saw it, and she found a crime and executed her My sister! I have a pity that my sister lost her life when she was so young. She has been protecting the sixth princess until she dies, and she doesn't know who will harm her until she dies."

After a moment of silence, the emperor asked, "Do you have evidence?"

Xin'er smiled wryly, "If there is evidence, would I still wait until now? I want to avenge my sister, so I can only do this. Although the sixth princess is not dead, but she and a strange man are secretly involved, and now she is ruined. She is not Do you want to be noble, when I let her taste the humiliation of the lowly people, let her experience the feeling of falling from the clouds to hell."

The sixth princess couldn't bear it any longer, and bit the hand of the nanny hard, pushed the nanny away, and shouted: "You nonsense, nonsense! How could I harm my biological mother?"

Xin'er sneered and said: "Some people are so selfish and cruel. For their own good life, even their close relatives can be killed. Look, without Zhang Meiren, you have become the queen's adopted daughter, don't you live a good life?" ?”

The queen looked at the sixth princess with disappointed eyes, "Youqing, is that really the case?"

Everything the sixth princess has now is given by the queen, and she must not lose the support of the queen.

She cried and shook her head, "Queen, I don't have one. How could I kill my biological mother? She loves me so much."

The queen looked very embarrassed, and she couldn't bear it, "Your Majesty, Youqing was only seven years old at the time, how could you be so cruel?"

Xin'er smiled and sneered, "Does your royal family do too many cruel things? A seven-year-old child can see everything clearly and know that interests are the most important thing. The so-called family affection is not worth mentioning at all."

The emperor's eyes were gloomy, and he said: "Check! Zhang Ming, find out all the people who served in Zhang Meiren's Palace back then, and interrogate them carefully."

"Yes." Zhang Ming said.

Even if the sixth princess wanted to stop it, she couldn't stop it.She felt that if Eunuch Zhang came back, she would be completely finished.

Waiting for another moment in the cold wind, the emperor didn't seem to feel cold at all, sitting in the cold palace.

Shaoqing, Eunuch Zhang is back, followed by five or six palace people.

The emperor looked over, "Are these the ones who served by Zhang Meiren back then?"

Eunuch Zhang said: "After the death of Zhang Meiren, all the servants in the palace were assigned to other places. Those who died died, and those who left the palace left the palace. Now that's all that's left."

The emperor pondered for a moment, "Who is serving by Zhang Meiren's side?"

Eunuch Zhang flipped through the booklet beforehand, and said, "Return to Your Majesty, it's Nanny Feng. Once Beauty Zhang dies, she will go to guard the Leng Palace."

No one wants to go to such an unlucky and cold place like Lenggong without any oil or water.But Zhang Meiren was not favored, so Nanny Feng was assigned to the cold palace.

Eunuch Zhang waved his hand, and a woman stepped forward.

Even though he is less than 30 years old, he looks like he is in his 40s. It is indeed difficult to live in the cold palace as an errand.

Eunuch Zhang said: "Your Majesty, you must tell the truth, otherwise it will be a crime of deceiving the emperor!"

Nanny Feng bowed her head, looking very frightened.

"Let me ask you, where were you when Zhang Meiren fell into the water?"

"Servant...servant..."

Eunuch Zhang reprimanded lightly, "Don't hesitate, just say what you have."

Nanny Feng secretly glanced in the direction of the sixth princess, "Your servant...the servant is looking for the sixth princess separately with Zhang Meiren."

Eunuch Zhang's expression froze, and he asked again, "Looking for the sixth princess?"

Mother Feng said in a low voice: "Yes. I remember that Lan'er was serving the sixth princess at the beginning. One day Lan'er accompanied the sixth princess to the Royal Garden to play, but suddenly she couldn't find the sixth princess. She hurried back to the palace to tell Zhang Beauty, Zhang Meiren was anxious, so she went to look for it herself. We searched for a long time but couldn't find it. Zhang Meiren said that she heard the cry of the sixth princess on the rockery by the river, so she hurried to look for it. Fell into the river. It was cold at that time, and Zhang Meiren didn't know how to swim, so she was out of breath when she was rescued."

Eunuch Zhang asked: "Have you found the sixth princess?"

Mother Feng said: "Lan'er was worried about the safety of the sixth princess, so she went to the rockery to look for it, but she couldn't find it. Later, the sixth princess went back to the palace by herself. At that time, the sixth princess was so frightened that she was trembling when she saw that Beauty Zhang was dead. , Weeping so hard that she couldn't make a sound. However, Lan'er told the slave girl that she found a piece of clothing in the rockery, which seemed to belong to the sixth princess.

However, on the second day, Laner was found out that she had stolen Zhang Meiren's jade bracelet and was executed.Later, because Zhang Meiren was gone, all the people in the palace were sent to work elsewhere.The slaves have been guarding the cold palace for so many years, only heard that the sixth princess was adopted by the empress, and never saw her again. "

After hearing Nanny Feng's words, everyone started guessing.

According to Xiner's accusation and Fengmao's words, others have to suspect that the sixth princess hid on purpose so that Fang Laner could not find her, and then she cried out to ask Zhang Meiren to look for her, and she hid in the rockery. Zhang Meiren pushed it down, and she witnessed Zhang Meiren's death the whole time.And Fang Lan'er went to look for her in the rockery, and found her clothing that had been cut by stones, thinking that Fang Lan'er knew that she had killed Zhang Meiren, so she hurriedly framed Fang Lan'er for theft, and killed her.

In fact, there are many high-ranking concubines in the palace who have no children. If any concubine adopts her, she will have a good life, but she never thought that she would be so lucky that she was adopted by the queen, and has since become the highest-ranking concubine in the palace. Princess, everyone is here to curry favor with her.

If Zhang Meiren hadn't died, she would never have been adopted, and she is still living a life of being bullied.

Thinking of this, they all looked at the sixth princess with strange eyes.

The sixth princess was flustered. She couldn't lie to herself. Zhang Meiren was indeed pushed into the river and drowned. She still remembered Zhang Meiren's inconceivable and desperate eyes when she pushed Zhang Meiren down.She even remembered that Zhang Meiren was dying after being rescued, and was still looking for her, trying to see her one last time.She knew that Zhang Meiren didn't want to expose her, but just wanted to know if she was safe and sound.Finally, her eyes fell on her, and she closed her eyes with a smile.

But the mother who loved her so much was killed by her own hands.When Zhang Meiren just died, she had nightmares every night, dreaming that Zhang Meiren questioned her sharply.But she never regretted it, and if she did it all over again, she would choose to do it again.No, probably sooner.

The emperor's voice echoed in her ears, and she finally recovered from the past.

"What do you have to say?"

The sixth princess was at a loss, she couldn't keep her composure, "I...I didn't, I really..." She suddenly burst into tears.

Xin'er exhausted all her strength and loudly said: "The matter has come to this, don't you admit it? What is the truth? Even if there is no evidence, I believe everyone can figure it out. What's the point of your sophistry? You want to be rich, you You can go and snatch it, but why kill my sister? It doesn’t matter if you don’t admit it, anyway, I have avenged my sister now, and let you taste the pain of being accused by thousands of people. I am willing to die to prove my determination, to prove my It's all true!"

As she spoke, she slammed her head against the pillar with all her strength, and fell to the ground bleeding profusely in an instant.

Everyone gasped, watching this scene in disbelief.

Eunuch Kang stepped forward to check her breath, his fingers trembling, "Your Majesty, she is already dead."

Doesn't it mean that what she said is true?

The queen took a step back in shock, looked at the sixth princess in disbelief, and said, "So, did I really misunderstand you? At the beginning, I saw that you were young and had no biological mother. When I thought that I had no daughter, I felt pity. I didn't expect to adopt you, you are so ruthless at such a young age. You can even murder your own mother, what else can you not do?"

The sixth princess burst into tears, knelt on the ground and grabbed the queen's skirt, looked up at the queen, "Mother, I didn't do it on purpose, and I didn't want to do it, but I really have no choice. Mother, you raised me After all these years, do you have the heart to abandon me?"

The queen looked down at her indifferently, as if looking at a lowly ant.

The sixth princess stopped crying. How many years has she not seen this look?The queen must have abandoned her.

The female officer pulled the queen's skirt out of the hands of the sixth princess, "Princess, you have committed a serious crime of killing your mother. Do you still expect your empress to intercede for you? To achieve your goal, you use whatever means you can to take advantage of your empress' compassion and use your empress's mercy." Your benevolent heart, your own intentions are not righteous, why should you ask the empress to forgive you?"

The sixth princess suddenly fell to the ground, tears falling down one by one.But after crying for a while, he burst out laughing again. In this palace, he looked extraordinarily miserable.

Everyone looked at her with contempt. A person who could kill his biological mother was no longer worthy of anyone's sympathy.

At this moment, the queen doesn't want to see her anymore, because she is no longer useful.

The queen pretended to be sad and said: "Your Majesty, my concubine is not feeling well, so I'm going back to the palace first."

"Go ahead," said the emperor.

The sixth princess suddenly felt that she was ridiculous.When she was useless, the queen abandoned her without hesitation. When she lost power, all those who flattered her despised her together.As for Jiang Chaoan, he never looked at her more from the beginning to the end.

It turned out that all the honored pets were fake, and the queen's love for her was all taken advantage of. Only Zhang Meiren really loved her.Everything she had painstakingly calculated was in vain, only to find out in the end that it was all in vain.

The emperor said: "Such a heart like a snake and a scorpion is really unworthy of being a human being. Zhang Ming—"

Just as he was about to give the order to deal with the sixth princess, the sixth princess suddenly said sharply: "Royal father, it is because of you that I feel like a snake and a scorpion! Ever since I was a child, have you taken a look at me? If the queen hadn't adopted me, would you have known me?" Do you remember me as a daughter? Do you know what life I have lived since I was a child, and how much bullying I have suffered? My status in the palace is not as good as that of the concubine's maids. Anyone can trample on me wantonly.

Yes, I hate my mother, I hate her for being humble, I hate her for being cowardly, I hate that she doesn't know how to fight for favor, she just hides in the corner, I hate that she doesn't fight or let me fight, I hate all the people who have bullied me, but I I hate you the most!You are the aloof emperor, you respond to every call, you hold great power, and countless women in the palace want to curry favor with you and rely on you.But why don't you give a little to our mother and daughter?You got lucky with your mother on a whim, and now you have me. Even though my mother came from a humble background, but I am your daughter, you just let me fend for myself. Who is cruel?You say that I have a heart like a snake and a scorpion, but do you know that if I hadn't been more cruel, I would not have survived long ago. "

The emperor froze and turned to look at the sixth princess.

No one would have imagined that the sixth princess dared to speak disrespectfully to the emperor. Even if it was the truth, no one dared to say it. Could it be that the sixth princess knew that she could not get rid of the crime, so she simply vented her unhappiness and wanted to die?

About the Sixth Princess, Gu Xing sooner or later found out everything, and Sister Feng knew it all, but there was no disturbance in her heart.

poor person must have something mean.The sixth princess is indeed pitiful, but this cannot be the reason for her to kill her close relatives, let alone the reason for her murder of Wang Xihe.Even if she becomes the queen's favored adopted daughter, she can't take away other people's things or their husbands at will.

The sixth princess looked at the emperor ironically and stubbornly, with a bleak smile on her lips.

"Is the emperor going to kill me?"

Eunuch Zhang secretly observed the emperor's face, thinking that he was about to lose his temper, and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, look..."

The emperor let out a heavy breath, turned around and said, "Princess Liu killed her biological mother, an unforgivable crime. But I think she is a royal princess, and she is still young, so she cannot bear to die. From today onwards, her status as a princess will be abolished and she will be reduced to a commoner." Thinking that she and Sun Shaozu are husband and wife, I will give you a marriage for them, let’s get married as soon as possible." He said as he walked, "Today's banquet is over."

As soon as the emperor left, Concubine Lu Xian and several concubines also left.They are smart people and should know what to say and what not to say.

As for the others, Eunuch Zhang must know how to deal with them.

At this time, Sun Shaozu was still unconscious, not knowing that he had been given a marriage.

But marrying a deposed princess is of no use to the Sun family, I'm afraid it will become a shame to the Sun family.

Sister Feng's original intention was to hope that the sixth princess could marry Sun Shaozu, so that she could teach the sixth princess a lesson and avoid the tragedy of Yingchun. For the sixth princess, it was also a good thing to do good deeds.

On the way back, Gu Xingchi gave up riding and shared a carriage with Sister Feng.

He hugged Sister Feng in his arms, and said as if asking for credit: "Today's business went so smoothly, shouldn't you thank me?"

Sister Feng's bright eyes were kind, and she said with a smile, "How do you want me to thank you?"

Gu Xingchi leaned over, she could feel his warm breath, and felt a little itchy, she couldn't help but chuckled, "Okay, don't make trouble, I still have something to say."

Gu Xingchi narrowed his peach blossom eyes, and said in a hoarse voice, "What?"

"Do you think the sixth princess and Sun Shaozu can get married smoothly?"

"Do you hope they can get married smoothly?" Gu Xingchi asked with a smile.

Sister Feng looked at the steaming tea smoke in the teacup, "It depends on the sixth princess's own choice. But with Jiang Chao Anzhuyu in front, can she take a fancy to this rubble of Sun Shaozu?"

As for Gu Xingchi's life experience - she managed to save her life, if she wanted to spend the rest of her life in peace, she should keep that secret in her stomach.

However, it is not ruled out that someone is worried about her and wants to kill her.

As soon as she finished speaking, she felt a pain in the side of her neck, and she glared at Gu Xingchi, "What's wrong?"

But he saw that his eyes suddenly turned into resentment, "You actually praised other men in front of me, do you still have the heart to pay attention to others with my pearls and jade by your side?"

Sister Feng couldn't help laughing, "How can you boast so much, you are too thick-skinned."

Gu Xingchi smiled lowly: "Whether it's thick or not, don't you know if you bite it?"

Sister Feng shot him away at once.

The fact that the sixth princess was demoted to a commoner was naturally to be announced to the world, and not only that, but also the fact that she and Sun Shaozu were granted a marriage also spread.Everyone secretly speculated what happened on the day of the emperor's birthday banquet, but they had no way of knowing.

The most anxious thing is Jia Amnesty, Sun Shaozu married the sixth princess, wouldn't the 5000 taels of silver still have to be paid back?

Jia Zheng said: "I didn't agree with this marriage at the beginning, but now that Sun Shaozu married the princess, it's God's will."

Jia Amnesty was unhappy, Jia Zheng said lightly, 5000 taels of silver, would he help to pay it back?

"Didn't you hear that the sixth princess was deposed as a commoner? She is no longer a princess."

"Even if it's not a princess, it's a marriage bestowed by His Majesty. This marriage is a certainty," Jia Zheng reminded.

Unable to sell his daughter, Jia She was displeased, and was thinking about how to sell her daughter for a good price so as to repay the 5000 taels of silver owed to the Sun family.

The imperial decree of marriage soon arrived at the Sun family. The Sun family was not happy to marry a princess who was demoted to a commoner, but they were afraid that the emperor would be unhappy, so they pretended to be happy, and gave the edict to the father-in-law as a reward, and gave it away with a smile on his face. People are out.

It seems that the emperor is in a hurry to send the sixth princess out, the wedding date is very close, and soon it will be the day when the sixth princess gets married.

Of course, the sixth princess is now a commoner, there is no wedding ceremony for the princess, and there is no red makeup. After packing up a few ordinary clothes, she was kicked out of the palace by those eunuchs who made trouble.

Because the sixth princess was deposed too suddenly, and the marriage with Sun Shaozu came out of nowhere, so many people went to watch the excitement, and all the streets in the capital were empty for a while.

At ten o'clock in the evening, a wedding sedan chair was smoothly carried into Sun's house.After the excitement, Sun Shaozu came to the new house.

The wedding candle was burning, illuminating the whole new house very brightly. He saw the woman sitting on the bed clearly, and he felt mixed emotions in his heart.