Quickly wear: There are always those who are not afraid of death and want to torture me

Outside the upper study room, several rows of people were kneeling in unison. The young ladies who were used to showing off their power in the capital were now kneeling on the ground with their heads lowered, waiting nervously and fearfully for the interrogation of the emperor and the noble concubine.

Mo Qin knelt behind the crowd, together with a group of eunuchs and maids.Thanks to his positional advantage, he was able to secretly look at these two noble people.

Emperor Cui Yuanjue is only 35 years old but has been in power for 13 years.

It is said that when he was young, he was the one with the most outstanding appearance among the princes of the previous dynasty.

But now, even though he has reached middle age, his appearance has not deteriorated at all, but has become more mature and solemn.A broad and straight face with sharp edges and corners, like a knife, with neat and distinct facial features, sword-shaped eyebrows, starry eyes, and a nose like a jade green onion. There is an invisible aura belonging to a superior person between the eyebrows, showing a state of calm and self-power.From a distance, he looks calm and majestic, exuding the majesty of a superior person from the inside out, but up close, he looks like a handsome man with a profound temperament, which makes people feel a little awe and reassurance.

Mo Qin clicked his tongue in his heart: "No wonder these princes are all beautiful boys. It turns out they inherited their father's genes. By the way, the emperor of Li Kingdom is really good-looking. Even if he gets old in the future, he will be a handsome old man. Bar."

After hearing this, the system's heart rang with alarm bells, and it immediately warned: "Hey, I'm telling you, don't try to get his idea. You are already attracted by the prince, but don't provoke the emperor again! "

Mo Qin was speechless at the system's unfounded worries: "To be honest, I just sighed. I'm not a gay, and I'm speechless when I'm always attracted by men. Besides, didn't someone swear to me a few days ago? As a eunuch, I will never get involved with the protagonist and supporting actors? Now you say so, huh?"

The system was speechless.

It is neither sentimental nor reasonable in this matter.Who would have thought that the majestic prince would actually fall in love with a eunuch.

It can only be said that the beauty value of the identity found for Mo Qin is too high. At the same time, it is attributed to the fact that Mo Qin has a gay temperament, which is why Cui Yuzhen coveted him.

As for Mo Qin being a straight man, haha.The system thought with disdain - who would believe it?

With a creaking sound of the door opening, several palace servants opened the door to the apse and stood by respectfully.

Several outstanding-looking palace servants surrounded a woman dressed in a dark red gorgeous and dignified imperial concubine's uniform, and walked out with hasty steps.The person who came was none other than the imperial concubine Chao Shi.

Concubine Chao is over thirty this year, but she still looks like a girl in her twenties, with a tender and beautiful face and a pair of clear and moving almond-shaped eyes.The facial features fit together like pearls and emeralds, strikingly beautiful and touching.Every step and every movement reveals the dignity of the body, and the graceful figure is vaguely discernible under the slightly solemn imperial concubine's clothes.The long eyebrows on the temples embellish the fresh appearance with a bit of feminine heroism and fierceness.It makes people feel a solemn respect that can only be seen from a distance.

Mo Qin knelt in the middle of the crowd, secretly raising his eyes to look at this royal concubine who was said to be able to dominate the harem with one hand.I finally understood why many palace people showed envy and fear when they mentioned her.

Concubine Chao Guifei has already given birth to two sons, but she can still maintain her appearance and figure so perfectly that it seems like time has stopped on her.

Everyone wants to achieve such a brilliant art of beauty.It’s no wonder that no matter how many newcomers enter the harem, she always outshines others in beauty, stands out and is favored by the emperor.

It's just that the reputation of this imperial concubine is not as good as her appearance.

Relying on the support of her mother's family, the imperial concubine was very arrogant in the harem, acted in a domineering manner, and the pomp and pageantry of her outings even surpassed that of the queen.

There are secret rumors in the palace that the imperial concubine will harm the favored concubines from time to time. Even the incident involving Concubine Shu five years ago was indispensable for her...

She had just finished taking care of her youngest son from the apse.The imperial doctor diagnosed that he had choked on some water and was too frightened, and that he would be fine if he took more rest.

While Chao was relieved, she was also filled with anger - who on earth had the guts to harm her child!

He ordered people to take care of Cui Que and rushed over in a hurry, vowing to make the murderer pay the price!

She stood next to the emperor, holding her head high, and the jeweled ornaments on her head swayed with this movement, so much that Mo Qin, who lowered his head, was dazzled.

"Cui Qiu, stand up for me!" the woman shouted angrily, her tone so harsh that everyone present suspected that the fifth prince was dead today.

Cui Qiu pretended to be helpless and glanced at Cui Yuzhen who was standing in front. He received a reassuring nod from his brother, then stood up tremblingly and walked to the imperial driver.

"My son, I have met my father and the noble concubine."

Cui Yuanjue waved his hand: "Get up." There was no emotion or anger in his voice.

Turning to look at the concubine: "Concubine, what do you mean by calling Lao Wu out?"

Concubine Chao stared hatefully at the young man standing with his head bowed, and said: "Of course it is to seek justice for Lin'er. Cui Qiu, you are so brave. You bit the third prince before, and now you dare to push your brother into the water. ! Knowing that Lin'er doesn't know the nature of water, you are so vicious and want to kill him! He is your brother! There is no distinction between superiority and inferiority, and the order of elder and younger is unclear. It is simply disrespectful!"

Cui Yuanjue raised his hand to interrupt her words and looked at his son who had just picked him up: "Lao Wu, tell me what happened at that time. How did your third brother fall into the lake? Does it have anything to do with you? "

Cui Qiu's face was so pale that he looked inhuman. He said tremblingly: "I...I..." Before he could say anything, he was so frightened that he could not hold back another word.

Concubine Chao looked at him with a vicious and contemptuous look, "Your Majesty, you see, Cui Qiu himself is so afraid of guilt that he dare not speak. Keeping such an unfaithful and unfilial waste in the palace is a disgrace to the royal family."

After saying that, he knelt down facing Cui Yuanjue and said with great indignation: "Please, Your Majesty, expel Cui Qiu from the palace and let him guard the imperial mausoleum as a warning to others!"

It didn't sound like a serious punishment, but everyone present believed that if Cui Qiu really left the palace, he might not be able to reach the imperial mausoleum alive in this life.

Everyone was as silent as a cicada, not saying a word.

Cui Yuanjue glanced at Concubine Chao indifferently and said nothing. Instead, he turned to Cui Yuzhen and said, "Prince, you are here today. Please tell me what happened."

The second prince Cui Ling, who was standing opposite the prince, frowned.He is the eldest son of Imperial Concubine Chao and the brother of Cui Que.In this matter, he naturally stood by his own brother.

Cui Yuzhen said leisurely: "Erchen was not present when the incident happened, but was admiring chrysanthemums in the imperial garden. But not long after, the eunuch next to the fifth brother ran over and shouted for help, so Erchen had to let Wei Ming go over and take a look first. Wei Ming, Tell me what happened at that time."

Wei Ming was the prince's close bodyguard. After receiving the order, he immediately stepped forward, knelt down and said calmly: "When I rushed to the lake, I saw that the third highness and the fifth highness had fallen into the water and were struggling. So the two highnesses were killed. Rescued."

Cui Yuanjue nodded after hearing this and asked, "Have you seen the whole process?"

Wei Ming shook his head gently, the emperor waved his hand and he returned to the prince's side.

Cui Yuanjue asked everyone present: "Can any of you tell me what happened on the shore of the lake at that time? Why did the third prince and the fifth prince fall into the water at the same time?"

When Cui Ling saw this, he planned to side with his third brother and give Cui Qiu a fatal blow.

He stood up unhurriedly and said: "Back to my father, my sons and ministers were also present at the time. I clearly saw that the fifth brother pushed the third brother down, and then he seemed to have slipped and fell down. "

"One month ago, Cui Qiu bit the third brother's right hand. At that time, the imperial doctor said that the injury was serious and that the third brother would not be able to lift the sword within half a month. After hearing this, the mother-in-law was sad and angry for a while, and punished the fifth brother. It must have been At that time, the fifth brother had a grudge against his mother-in-law and the third brother, so he took the opportunity to take revenge today."

What he said was pure nonsense, confusing right and wrong, but he was sure that the prince was neutral but did not see the whole process. The other princes and princesses were afraid of the power of the imperial concubine and did not dare to tell the truth.

The remaining people are even easier to deal with. Most of them are members of the party. How could anyone come out to uphold justice for a powerless fifth prince?

Cui Ling thought smugly.

On the side, Imperial Concubine Chao was helped up by the palace servants and shouted impassionedly: "Your Majesty, you heard it too. I saw that Lin'er's wound was bloody and bloody, and my beloved son was eager to give the fifth prince a small punishment. I didn’t expect this son to be so vicious, always looking for opportunities to take my son’s life! Tiger poison doesn’t even eat its own children, how can a person like this who dares to murder his own brother be allowed to stay in the palace!” As he spoke, he concealed his emotions as if he was too excited. Weeping in front of him, he performed a tearful accusation vividly.

Cui Qiu couldn't help but shiver. He didn't know whether it was because of guilt or fear.

Cui Yuanjue's brows furrowed deeply and he looked around at everyone.

Cui Qiu was trembling with fear, Cui Ling was elated, crying towards the imperial concubine, and the prince was calm and calm.

The rest of the people either lowered their heads or looked like it had nothing to do with them.

Finally, he sighed and said to Cui Qiu: "Cui Qiu, I give you one last chance to tell yourself what happened here just now. Otherwise, I can only deal with you according to the crime of murdering my brother. "

Hearing this, Concubine Chao and Cui Ling's eyes showed a trace of vicious pleasure.Cui Qiu, who was surrounded by everyone's eyes, was so scared that he almost fainted.

Mo Qin lamented that his son's acting skills were so good that he could compete with Concubine Chao for the "Best Performance Award", but he was not worried at all.

He knew that everything was under the control of the prince.

Sure enough, just when Cui Yuanjue was helplessly about to pronounce the sentence, a short and thin figure stood up and said loudly: "Father, I have something to say!"

The young man's voice was clear and resonant, echoing in the upper study room.

Everyone looked around in surprise, only to see that this person was Cui Heli, the seventh prince.His mother-in-law is the Moon Concubine in the palace. Her mother's family has little power and she has always been cautious and avoids fighting with others.Standing up suddenly now, I don’t know what to say.

Cui Yuanjue looked at his youngest son and said in a gentle tone: "Just tell me."

The young boy knelt down and kowtowed politely, straightened his back, and said loudly: "I have been in the study room all the time, and I also saw the whole process on the lake shore. The prince brother was not present, and the second emperor brother protected his compatriot brother, but No one is willing to tell the truth. I feel deeply unfair, so I want to tell my father the truth."

"It was not the fifth brother who pushed the third brother, but the third brother and the fourth brother who led a group of people to bully the fifth brother. They not only whipped him but also pushed him into the water, trying to drown him."

"The third brother is the one who fell into the mouth of the second emperor brother!"

"If the father and the concubine don't believe it, you can take a look at the whip marks on the fifth brother's body. The third brother was so cruel that he didn't care about the blood relationship between the brothers and beat him to death! Those marks are bound to be very obvious, even if the imperial doctor comes to examine them It can also be verified that the whip came from Third Brother!"

"After suffering such a severe whip injury, and being surrounded by the Third Brother's people, how can the Fifth Brother take the initiative to push the Third Brother into the water?! Please father, please be wise and give the Fifth Brother justice!"

The young man's clear voice resounded in everyone's ears, sonorous, powerful and impactful.

Cui Ling didn't expect that this little brother who had always been indifferent to the world would actually stand up and challenge him.Before he could attack, another person stood up---

"Xi'er can testify that what the seventh brother said is right." The little princess wearing a lotus-colored palace dress knelt in front of the emperor, with a pair of bright eyes shining with perseverance, making it impossible to doubt what such a kind and lovely little girl said. would be a lie.

Cui Yuexi, the sixth princess, is the daughter of Concubine Rou.He is usually as cautious as ever and has almost no sense of presence.At this moment, he stood up firmly to defend the "justice" in his heart.

Cui Yuanjue looked at his children and winked at the eunuch Li Shi beside him.

Eunuch Li immediately understood and stepped forward to roll up Cui Qiu's sleeves. Sure enough, he saw bruises and bruises on his fair skin, some of which were bleeding.

Now the situation was completely reversed, and the evidence was complete in front of everyone. As long as the imperial doctor came to examine the whip marks, there would be no denying it.

After Cui Yuanjue took one look, he had a plan in mind and ordered Li Shi to take the fifth prince to the imperial doctor for treatment.After they left, he slammed his palm on the table.

His eyes looked around among the crowd, and finally fell on Concubine Chao and her son.

Cui Ling wanted to argue, but unexpectedly met her father's indifferent and probing eyes. That look was extremely cold, sinister and full of murderous intent.It looked like he was cold from head to toe.

Only then did he realize that the most important thing in this matter was not that Cui Que bullied his brother, but that if it was true as Cui Heli said, then he and the imperial concubine Chao were forming cliques inside and outside the palace for personal gain.

Therefore, even though a prince was almost killed, so many children of aristocratic families present remained silent, and even the gentleman in the study allowed Cui Que to cover up his evil deeds.

This is the real touch of the emperor's reverse scale!

After thinking about it, he broke out in cold sweat, knelt down with a plop, and said in fear: "Father, I am guilty! I had been staying in the room to study, and did not see what happened by the lake. I just thought it was my third brother who was pushed down. I am guilty of negligence!"

It's too late to end the relationship now.

Cui Yuanjue ignored him. Instead, he called the Jin Yiwei and asked them to detain the gentleman who was in charge of teaching in the upper study that day for interrogation.They must tell the truth about the third prince's usual behavior in the study room.

Everyone present was shaking nervously.Many of them followed him to humiliate the fifth prince in order to please Cui Que, but Cui Yuannan was the most fearful one among them.

He does not have the power of his mother's family like Cui Que, so he usually follows Cui Que to do everything he wants.If the matter is really found out, Concubine Chao will definitely push him out to protect her son.By then he and his mother and concubine will be finished.

In this respect, Cui Yuannan is not stupid.He accurately predicted what would happen next.It's a pity that he only has some awareness in this aspect, but he doesn't know how to break the situation.

Cui Yuanjue ignored Concubine Chao's attempt to complain, and walked away without even visiting her third son.

The final result of this matter was that after investigation, Cui Que bullied the children of weak officials in the study room, and even the death of the son of He Shangshu's family a year ago was related to him.

But Concubine Chao gave tangible evidence that the fourth prince, Cui Yuannan, had been instigating the third prince to do this for a long time.So the emperor ordered Cui Yuannan to be sent to Nanjing to guard the imperial mausoleum. His mother, the concubine, had no way of teaching her son to remove the concubine and demote her to a talented person.

After Cui Que recovered from his illness, he thought about it for half a year and spent 1 taels to compensate the officials and relatives he had insulted or even killed.

The remaining people who bully others with Cui Que will be kicked out of the study room and will never enter the official position.

The imperial concubine was unable to discipline her well, and her power to cooperate with the Sixth Palace was abolished.He was punished by spending a month in isolation.

As an elder brother, Cui Ling blatantly favored his younger brother, slandered the fifth prince, and ordered him to personally apologize to the fifth prince and spend half a year in isolation.

One more thing was missed. As the eldest brother of the princes, the prince failed to set a good example to his younger brothers. If he failed to detect his brothers' evil deeds in time and stop them and teach them, he would be fined a month of silver.