female concubine

After the Cold Food Festival.

"Your Majesty, the Imperial City Secretary's secret performance." It was not Xiao Xianfu who entered the palace to present the secret performance, but the investigation department who acted as the marriage officer of the cowards.

"Where to put it." The emperor lay on the couch with his eyes closed and rested, pointing his finger.

"Yes." The marriage officer gently placed the secret report on the emperor's desk where government affairs were handled.

At the beginning of the ninth year of Jianping, two months after the cold food festival, the Dengwen drum in front of the quelou was played by a woman, and the emperor, who had no time to take care of it, ordered Dali Temple to accept it.

In the courtroom of Dali Temple, the Minister of Dali Temple was sitting in a state of distress, "Who is in the hall? What is the so-called matter? Who is suing?"

"Ms. Liu, a civilian woman, was the concubine of last year's top scholar in the new department. She said that she sued Liang Wenfu for leaking the exam questions."

The words of the woman caused all the judges in the court to be shocked, Dali Qing immediately knocked on the ruler, "Bold woman, slandering the court officials, do you know how big a crime this is?"

"The correspondence between the women and men is evidence. If Mr. Xiang doesn't believe the women, he can tell at a glance."

The yamen servant presented the letter paper in the woman's hand, in addition to the letter paper, there were also stamped calligraphy and ink meanings.

"The women still want to sue, whoever leaks the question will be the crown prince!"

"Presumptuous!" As the crown prince was involved, the minister of Dali Temple immediately stood up, "Come here, take down this prisoner who slandered the crown prince!"

Then Dali Temple Minister hurried into Da Nei with letters and stickers.

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Not long after the Dengwen Drum was played, news spread to the Imperial Academy that a woman in a light blue trousers was beating the Dengwen Drum. Liang Wenfu was so frightened that he turned pale and hurried back from the Imperial Academy. At home, he searched the mansion but did not see Mrs. Liu, and saw traces of rummaging through boxes and cabinets in the study, so he got on a fast horse and rushed to the old city in shock.

"My lord, that woman stole the evidence specially left by the lower official, and she sounded the Dengwen drum early this morning!"

King Zhao frowned, and pulled Liang Wenfu past him, "This king said earlier, that woman didn't really submit to you, she must be the King of Chu, and the King of Chu couldn't wait for the prince to fall!"

"If the Dongchuang incident happens, then the next official..." Liang Wenfu looked at King Zhao in horror.

"Why are you panicking? Since you've already sued, let's get to the bottom of it!" Zhao Wang let go of Liang Wenfu and raised his hands, "Master told me to be patient, but I think the prince is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He has already become suspicious of you. You may have many dreams at night." King Zhao narrowed his eyes, "As I said before, this king will try to save you, don't worry!"

Liang Wenfu of the Zhao Dynasty smiled slightly, "Besides, leaking the question is a fact, isn't it?"

Liang Wenfu closed the sleeves of the scarlet official uniform he had just put on, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I got it!"

After Liang Wenfu left, King Zhao waved his hand, and the attendant walked out from behind the screen, "My lord, what should I do if Tong Pingzhang is in a hurry and jumps over the wall? The privy secretary ordered him..."

Zhao Wang lowered his head and said with a sinister smile: "Master is old and has no successors. How long can he last? Besides, I am now His Majesty's son."

"Let those merchants in Tokyo City publish the mansion newspaper, and let the crown prince reveal the title of the new subjects, and form cliques for personal gain!"

"Do they dare to print this kind of mansion newspaper?"

King Zhao put his hands behind his back, "Printing newspapers and orders, which one is more important?"

The attendant raised his eyes slightly, nodded and said, "I understand."

In less than half a day, the rumors that the crown prince leaked the questions of the provincial examination of the Gongyuan last year to the scholars of the new department spread throughout the entire Tokyo city, and the city was full of ups and downs for a while.

Early in the morning, in the side hall of Wende Hall, the minister of Dali Temple bowed his head and knelt down.

The emperor sat on the throne and looked down at the books with traces of paintings. He found that the poems and prose marked in the book were exactly the same as the answers to the questions on the imperial examination scriptures. The emperor immediately tore the book in half and shouted: : "Who did it?"

"The woman said it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and there was also a letter from Liang Hanlin having an affair with the Crown Prince."

The emperor looked at the letter next to him. He knew the prince's handwriting. Liang Wenfu often drafted edicts on Zhou Shinan's behalf, so he naturally knew his handwriting. Wide on the forehead, "Let the prince..."

"Your Majesty, the Imperial City Secretary has business to ask to see you."

"See what see..."

Seeing that the emperor was angry, Zhao Ci hurriedly approached, "It was reported in the capital's residence that His Highness the Crown Prince leaked a question about the scholars in the Spring Palace last year. The rumors have spread throughout the city."

"Your Majesty, Liang Hanlin can be summoned for questioning. If it is not the crown prince's fault, but a woman's false accusation, I request a thorough investigation. If it is the crown prince's fault, I request that the three divisions interrogate!"

After about a quarter of an hour, Liang Wenfu followed the servant Xiao Huangmen and rushed into Wende Hall.

Before the emperor could ask a question, he knelt down with a plop, "The guilty minister, Liang Wenfu, kowtow to Your Majesty."

"Sinner?" The emperor stared at him.

Liang Wenfu kowtowed and said: "I know that the crime of deceiving the emperor is unforgivable, so I dare not extravagantly ask Your Majesty for mercy."

The Minister of Dali Temple turned around and looked at Liang Hanlin who was kneeling on the ground, and said palely: "The crime of deceiving the emperor, so what the woman said is true?"

"I was forced to do nothing, I..."

"Enough!" the emperor roared, "Let's leave these words to the court."

"Come here, order the three envoys to go to Dali Temple to deal with the case immediately. If the evidence is convincing, no matter who it is, it will not be tolerated according to the law!"

"Let the Secretary of the Imperial City detain all the chief examiners of Chunwei last year and send them to Dali Temple, and take the prince... along with him!"

"Yes."

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In the East Palace, the servant ran into the prince's bedroom in a panic with a copy of the residence report.

"His Royal Highness, Your Highness!"

The Xunxiu person was still sleeping in the room, opened his eyes and rubbed, and saw that the princess had already got up and was sitting on the dressing table, and did not call the palace servants to come in.

"Who is calling outside?" The prince got up from the couch, picked up the middle sheet next to the bed, put it on, walked to the screen of the outer room and shouted: "Come in!"

It was three o'clock in the morning before the palace people heard the order from the room, so they pushed the door in with the copper basin for washing, and the servant who called just now was with him.

"Your Highness, please take a look at today's residence report."

The prince stretched out his hands sleepily, "What's the matter, you're yelling."

"Your Highness, you can see for yourself."

After the palace servants dressed him, he raised his hand to signal them to stop, and grabbed the residence newspaper in the servant's hand, "If there is nothing worth shouting about, I will reward you..."

The person who stopped talking immediately widened his eyes, held his breath and flipped through the mansion newspaper in a panic, flipping through several pages again and again, almost all of them were about the same thing.

"How could this be?" The prince stuffed the mansion report back into the hand of the servant, pulled the jade belt from the palace man's hand, and walked out quickly.

"Your Highness, your hat!" The servant hugged the hat in the palace man's hand and followed closely.

As soon as the prince stepped out of the courtyard of the main hall, he bumped into the imperial medical envoy who came to ask for pulse.

"Hall..." Before Sun Hongda had time to pay his respects, the prince ignored him and left, so he could only shake his head lightly and straighten his bow.

"Your Majesty, Sun Hongda, the Imperial Medical Officer, came here to ask for the pulse of Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess."

Then a palace servant came out, bowed his head to Sun Hongda and bowed his hands, "Doctor Sun, all blessings."

"Gong Zhang, where is Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess?"

"His Highness is dressing up in the pavilion, and sent a villain to say to Doctor Sun, please enter the hall and wait."

Sun Hongda nodded, "OK."

Sun Hongda followed the palace servants into the main hall of the East Palace, and the palace servants asked him to sit down again and offered him hot tea, "Please wait a moment for the medical envoy, Your Highness will be here soon."

"Don't worry, I'll just wait here."

After about a quarter of an hour, the palace man who entered came out again, "Doctor Sun, Your Highness calls you to the cabinet to ask for pulse."

Sun Hongda hurriedly stood up, "This..."

"His Royal Highness said that he is not feeling well, so please ask Dr. Sun to go there in person."

"I don't dare." Sun Hongda carried the medicine box on his back, and followed the palace people into the bedroom where the concubines of the Eastern Palace rested.

In the room of the dormitory, only the princess was sitting on the seat, and she didn't look like she was in any discomfort, so Sun Hongda stepped forward, clasped his hands in front of his chest, bowed his head forward, touched his hands with his forehead, and bent over Said: "Chen, see Your Royal Highness the Crown Princess."

The Crown Princess gently raised her hand towards him, "Physician Sun doesn't need to be so courteous."

Sun Hongda put down the medicine box and took out the hand pillow, "Your Highness, I have offended you."

Before Sun Hongda put down the hand pillow, the Crown Princess withdrew her hand from the small square table and looked at him with deep meaning.

Sun Hongda raised his hand in a daze, and asked for no reason: "This is Your Highness?"

"Before checking the pulse, Dr. Sun needs to promise me one condition. If I agree, I will let you take the pulse."

"This..." Sun Hongda knew that the Crown Princess has always been kind-hearted, and she is not the kind of person who likes to make things difficult for medical officials. "Your Highness is the Crown Prince and Concubine, and I dare not disobey."

"I don't want your obedience as a monarch and minister, I want you to guarantee it with your life!"

Sun Hongda's hand in front of him suddenly trembled, and he raised his head with puzzled eyes, "Your Highness?"

"If the imperial doctor can't do it..."

Sun Hongda immediately knelt down on the ground, "Your Highness is kind, and it is the blessing of the people. I promise Your Highness, and I swear by my life."

The Crown Princess stood up and helped Sun Hongda up, "Emperor Sun, like Doctor Yang, is a benevolent doctor, I can trust you."

After the princess sat down, she slowly stretched out her hand, and Sun Hongda leaned forward, took a breath of calm and calmed down to feel the pulse, and within a moment of touching the pulse, he raised his head in surprise.

"Did Your Highness know about it early in the morning?"

The princess touched her lower abdomen, raised her brows and shook her head gently, "It's just a hunch, but I'm not sure yet."

"Since when is your highness?"

"Probably after the Cold Food Festival, two months ago."

Sun Hongda nodded, "Yes." So Jiang retracted his hands and bowed back a few steps, cupped his hands and said, "Congratulations..."

"Don't say congratulations first." The Crown Princess interrupted his congratulations, "The current situation of the Eastern Palace, as an imperial medical envoy, Imperial Physician Sun, shouldn't be ignorant of it?"

"I know."

"I'm just an ordinary woman, a mother who loves her son dearly. Doctor Sun, do you understand?"

"I understand."

"The world is fighting, the youngest son He Gu, I will do my best to protect this child, no matter what will happen to the East Palace in the future, so," the princess looked at Sun Hongda, "I don't want this child to be known by anyone other than you and me .”

Deep in this palace full of suspicion and facing a suspicious king, it is not easy to hide the birth of the child. Sun Hongda suddenly thought of something, so he said to the princess: "On behalf of the kings and ladies Feeling the pulse, after walking in front of the imperial court for so many years, I feel that only His Highness, you and Princess Chu are the most kind-hearted among the big family members, if Your Highness really wants to save this child, maybe you can ask Princess Chu."

Except for the servants and imperial guards, the imperial physician is the closest to the royal family. Listening to Sun Hongda's words, she is a princess, and she knows her brother well. She suddenly felt that she was gambling By the way, he smiled, then darkened his eyes again, and said helplessly: "If I can get out of the East Palace, I will look for her, otherwise, this kind of disaster can no longer be brought to them."