【Two Shisi】(2/2)
Qianlong could not close his eyes all night, his mood was turbulent and surging, and he was trapped in a state of depression that he didn't understand. Concubine Ling looked at him quietly, and understood his depression, but it was inconvenient to say it out loud. Seeing Qianlong staying asleep all night and walking around the room like a trapped beast, she had to look at Qianlong with guilty eyes: "Your Majesty, if you are angry, just say it, don't keep it in your arms!"
Qianlong then stood still, looked up and glared at Concubine Ling, and said hatefully: "Concubine Ling, I trust you so much. Among the many concubines, I treat you as my true confidant. Even if the queen is suspicious of you, I openly favoritism and secretly favoritism, and I protect you! But you join forces with the Fulun family to deceive me like this! You made me such a big joke, how can you deal with yourself among the many concubines in the future and how can you justify yourself?"
Concubine Ling knelt down and reported with tears in her eyes: "Your Majesty! You blame me for your mistake! I swear to you that the return of the Condor Princess is fake. I only know this until today! If I had known it for a long time, I would have had a hundred courages and would not dare to deceive the emperor!"
"You still want to be cunning? Ziwei and Jinsuo, weren't you recommended to the palace?" Qianlong said angrily.
Seeing Qianlong getting angry, Concubine Ling was frightened and shouted in pain: "Emperor, although Ziwei and Jinsuo were introduced to the palace, I am just like you. I don't know anything about the inside story. I just thought I was doing Xiaoyanzi a favor and let her sworn sisters come to the palace to be her companion. My motives are absolutely not malice!"
"Motivation! Motivation! Now each of you talks about motives with me! It seems that each of your motives is good, it is true, it is understandable! But... it puts me in such a dilemma..." His voice lowered, sad and confused, "These two girls are only eighteen or nineteen years old. No matter who is real, who is fake, or they are fake... They have deceived my feelings, my trust, and deceived me so much! They actually dare to deceive me so blatantly, and deceive me again and again!"
Concubine Ling lowered her head and dared not say a word.
"The most hateful thing is that the two of them, one seems innocent and the other seems to be Yujie and Bingqing, but their private lives are messy and they show mercy everywhere!" Then he gritted his teeth, "The queen is right, I can no longer do things based on my feelings! If I don't treat them, it will be hard to relieve my hatred! Let them taste the taste of being a princess in the clan's house!"
Concubine Ling knew Qianlong's contradictory feelings, embarrassing situation, the harm of being deceived, and the shock brought by the truth... in fact, she knew very well. What Qianlong felt most uncomfortable was that Ziwei's position in his heart suddenly changed from "Empress" to "Princess". He really couldn't adapt to it for a while! However, no one could explain this complicated mood except Qianlong himself. She lowered her head and said nothing, thinking about Ziwei and Xiaoyanzi who were in prison, and felt very sad.
Erkang and Yongqi came to see Qianlong early in the morning, and they both stayed up all night and looked haggard. As soon as they saw Qianlong, they both knelt down to Qianlong. Yongqi said straightforwardly and sincerely: "Emperor! Today, Erkang and I knelt here to ask for the two women we love deeply! Since our tour, I believe that Emperor Ama has seen it very clearly. Xiaoyanzi, Erkang and Ziwei, I have already agreed to life and death, and I can't help but feel in love! Please forgive their mistakes for the benefits of the two of them, and let them come out!"
Qianlong was shocked and looked at Yongqi and Ekang with sharp eyes, furious: "Life and death promise? I can't help myself? You two dare to come and say these eight words to me? You don't know how important the ethics of women in the palace are? In the past, the queen reminded me that you are in Shufangzhai and are filthy in the palace! It was because I was partial and did not listen! Now, you actually dared to come and tell me that you have already "life and death promised" long ago? Xiaoyanzi and Ziwei originally had only the crime of deceiving the king, but now, with the crime of "lewdness"! Can you forgive me?"
Erkang shouted out with sincerity: "Master! First of all, I must let you know that Ziwei and I, the fifth prince and Xiaoyanzi, we "really love and stop etiquette", and we absolutely did not do anything to "violate etiquette"! Both girls are clean and clean! No matter how they are, they cannot be said to be "lewd"!"
"Yujie Bingqing? He talks about love and private life, why are he talking about Yujie Bingqing?"
"Your Majesty, the word "love" cannot be controlled by "reason". If you talk about reasoning everywhere, teaching the law everywhere, rules everywhere, and ethics everywhere... Then, the whole story of "My Fair Princess" will be gone! There is no misunderstanding of Xiaoyanzi, no Ziwei, and no pain and helplessness of me and the fifth prince!"
Erkang's words, every word, pierced Qianlong's heart. Qianlong was so angry that he slapped the table and shouted: "Rareless! What you mean is that these mistakes are all my fault!"
Erkang kowtowed and said desperately: "Your Majesty, you have been young, and you have been 'can't help but'! Your 'can't help but' caused two innocent girls to be locked in prison, calling the sky and calling the earth unsatisfied! Their biggest mistake is not to lie. Who did not grow up by lying in our lives? Their biggest mistake is to try every means to recognize their father! The emperor, it is not great to mistake the princess, but to kill the princess by mistake is a lifelong regret!"
Qianlong raised his sleeves, became angry, pointed at Erkang, and said hatefully: "Ekang! You are so brave, you dare to blatantly accuse me! Today, if you hadn't been selected by Seya, I would have done you a lot!"
Erkang kowtowed and said firmly: "I cannot marry Princess Seya!"
Qianlong glared at Erkang in disbelief: "Do you dare to 'resist the order'?"
Yongqi hurriedly interjected and shouted sincerely: "Empress! Erkang has a special liking for love! You are also a 'sentient being'. Why don't you understand this relationship, appreciate this relationship, and not sympathize with this relationship?"
Qianlong was so angry that his face turned pale when he was like Erkang and Yongqi, he shouted: "Bold! Are you two satisfied with me after I take your head off? Get out! Xiaoyanzi and Ziwei are my business. I will give them as much as I want them. No one is allowed to plead! If you two don't restrain themselves, I will punish them together and will never forgive me! Get out!"
Yongqi and Erkang looked at each other, knowing that they had reached the last moment and were at a loss.
That night, Ziwei, Xiaoyanzi and Jinsuo were taken by the jailer into a large room with a tragic wind. They were almost thrown into the room. When the three of them looked around, they saw that there were all iron chains and torture instruments everywhere in the room. Only then did they realize that they had reached "hell". Under the illumination of the torch, they saw an official sitting in front of a large table, with officers and soldiers standing around, full of murderous intent. On the table, there were three "offering letters" and pens.
The official knocked hard on the table with a gavel and shouted: "Ha! Three bold witches, where are you from? Are you pretending to be princesses to assassinate the emperor? Come on the real trick!"
Jinsuo felt his voice familiar, so he looked up and shouted, "It's Lord Liang from the 'Taichang Temple'!"
Ziwei also looked up and shouted in surprise: "Little Swallow! We meet old friends!"
When Xiaoyanzi saw it, she was extremely surprised: "Is this Lord Liang still alive? Has he actually transferred to the clan mansion?"
Ziwei looked at Xiaoyanzi and Jinsuo: "Everyone knows it. We are not lucky, but the enemy is narrow!"
"What is the 'road slaughter' or 'road slaughter'! This bastard should have been slaughtered long ago!" Xiaoyanzi said hatefully.
The official was none other than Lord Liang, who was the wedding made a big fuss by Xiaoyanzi. When he saw the three of them talking, he was furious and slapped the table hard: "Bold! What are you saying? Come and write!" Several prisoners pulled the three of them to see the lawsuit.
Xiaoyanzi didn't look at it and laughed at Lord Liang: "Mr. Liang! You stole the daughter of someone else's daughter-in-law and lost the bride. Is this case still gone or not? Have you compensated the bride?" Lord Liang was shocked. He looked at Xiaoyanzi carefully and thought about it. He looked at Ziwei and Jinsuo again. He suddenly realized it, jumped up and shouted: "It turns out that it's you three! There is no need to be tried. These are three female thieves! He stole my family, made a big wedding, and robbed my bride. My account and I haven't settled yet. They actually scrambled to the palace to deceive the emperor! He beat me! He beat me heavily!"
At the order of Lord Liang, the jailers' whip thrust at the three of them. The whip quickly cracked the clothes, leaving blood marks on the three of them's faces. The little swallow screamed, jumped up, and rushed to Master Liang.
"I'll kill you, the dog official!"
Several jailers, with extraordinary skills, quickly grabbed Xiaoyanzi, pressed her head down the ground, and pressed her tightly.
Ziwei shouted: "Little Swallow! A hero will not suffer any loss in front of him!"
Lord Liang was so proud that he walked around the three of them: "That's the same! Now, hurry up and write! After drawing the bill, we are all good at dealing with each other. I don't have time to spend time with you in the middle of the night!"
The jailers took the three of them to look at the paper offering. Xiaoyanzi asked Ziwei: "What is written on it?"
Ziwei looked at the confession and recited: "The little girl Xia Ziwei, Xiaoyanzi, and Jinsuo colluded with the Grand Secretary of Fulun and Empress Ling, and sneaked into the palace, pretended to be the princess, and was about to assassinate the emperor when the emperor was unprepared..." After reading this, Ziwei stopped reciting and laughed out loud: "Hahahaha! It's so ridiculous. I've never seen such a funny thing. I'm so nonsense... Hahahaha..."
"Do you want to make a note?" Lord Liang shouted angrily.
Xiaoyanzi spat at Lord Liang and cursed: "Draw your ghost head! Draw your soul! Draw your ancestors for eight generations, your whole family is not human! They are all monsters with dog face, pig body, snake tail..."
The little swallow scolded him incredibly, and Lord Liang was so angry that he was filled with smoke from his orifices.
"Call me! Beat until they are stamped!"
The whip whipped at the three of them again. Jin Suo was so painful that he shouted: "Do you want to betray him? Even if we beat us to death, we can't draw that person! Who is the lady? Who is Xiaoyanzi? Do you really don't care?"
Lord Liang came over, stepped on the back of the golden lock with his foot, and stepped hard.
"Ah..." Jin Suo shouted in pain.
"I want to see who are you? Can you sprinkle beans and become soldiers? Do you have three heads and six arms?"
"We have nothing! There is only this kind of righteousness! No matter how you fight, we don't make a fool of ourselves, we don't make a fool of ourselves! We don't make a fool of ourselves even if we die..." Ziwei shouted with righteousness.
"Catch their hands and draw a symbol for me!" Lord Liang ordered the prison guards.
The jailer went to pull the hands of the three of them. Ziwei suddenly said, "Forget it! Forget it! I'll cover it!"
The prison guard helped Ziwei up, Ziwei held the pen, drew a big fork on the entire piece, and wrote the two big words "Bully" behind it.
Lord Liang came over and slapped Ziwei with a slap. The force was so strong that she couldn't stand and fell to the ground. Lord Liang kicked her with his feet. Seeing this, Jinsuo shouted wildly: "Oh my God... Is there any other way to the king?"
Xiaoyanzi rubbed her hands at Lord Liang and gritted her teeth and shouted: "My surname is Liang, remember it for me, I will settle the score with you! Be careful, I will stab it a hundred holes in you..."
Lord Liang smiled gloomyly: "Okay! I'm waiting for you. If you don't want to attack today, there will be tomorrow! If you don't want to attack tomorrow, there will be the day after tomorrow! Let's slowly grind it! Let's see who will admit defeat in the end!" He waved his hand and said to the prison guard: "Take it down first! Let's try again tomorrow!"
The jailer dragged three people all over the body and left the torture room and threw them into the cell.
The three girls quickly went to see each other's injuries and were busy rubbing and blowing each other.
The little swallow learned from the pain and cried.
"I don't understand, how could the Emperor Ama lock us up in this place? Does he really want the two of us? When he was on a tour in a squad, he was so happy all the way and was very kind to us! When he went on a tour, he also gave us all kinds of dishes, and promised us that "nothing is not up or down". Where is the considerate and gentle Emperor Ama now?"
Ziwei thought and said with some understanding: "He was thinking about us, he didn't know that our situation was so miserable! This was not his original intention. The confession clearly wanted to catch us, the Fu family and Concubine Ling! If you think about it, you will know what happened! Let's be braver and wait until the emperor figured it out, maybe they will come to save us!"
"Can he do it? You still believe him!" Jinsuo asked without confidence.
Ziwei looked at the void and pondered deeply.
"I don't believe in him, I believe in the most love in the world!" She turned around and hugged the two of them, "Let us lean together, warm each other and comfort each other!"
Chapter completed!