The story of the rich and the young being tricked into farming

Chen Mengchu seemed to be choked by the mung bean cake, his face flushed and he began to cough, but Cheng Xiaofeng looked calm, and asked Ye Xiaozhou, "Master, are you sure?"

"I'm sure," said the big maid who dressed him in the morning. He had already licked off the lip balm on his lips, and now there was only pale powder left on his lips, "you don't need to see his face, and I know him as soon as I hear his voice."

Cheng Xiaofeng pondered for a moment, and the calm look on his face suddenly disappeared, and a look of surprise appeared on his face: "If this King Ning is the Ah Min you mentioned, then he is the son of your stepmother... ...But he is King Ning."

When Ye Xiaozhou confronted Jing Min just now, his mind was in chaos, but he didn't think about it carefully. Now he heard what Cheng Xiaofeng said, and he realized what it meant——

It turned out that Jiang Fuliu was not an ordinary abandoned woman, and Jing Min was not a bastard born by her and some wild man, but his father Ye Hongfang first took Jiang Fuliu as his concubine and then helped her upright. Have you been accused of insulting the late emperor?

"This is a serious crime of beheading and exterminating the whole family, isn't it?" Ye Xiaozhou shuddered, "Then my father... was not imprisoned for the crime of selling illegal salt and making ironware, but because the emperor wanted to kill him. To preserve the dignity of the royal family, is not it?"

Whether it is true or not, Cheng Xiaofeng dare not answer easily, but what Ye Xiaozhou said is indeed the most likely.

"But my father... If it wasn't for his help at that time, Jiang Fuliu and Jing Min might not be able to live today with such dangerous identities, so naturally there would be no King Ning or the Ye family today. Is Mrs. Jiang here?" Ye Xiaozhou was puzzled, "Now he wants my father's life, so isn't it revenge?"

Cheng Xiaofeng replied in a deep voice: "Young master, have you ever heard the story of Princess Linhai, the fourth daughter of Emperor Hui of Jin?"

Ye Xiaozhou vaguely remembered hearing Ye Hongfang tell this story. The princess was exiled among the people and fell into the hands of human traffickers. She was later bought by a wealthy family named Qian as a maid. He is a good servant, so he suffers from humiliation.

In the end, Sima Rui proclaimed himself emperor, the princess escaped from the Qian family, and wept at Sima Rui, Sima Rui was furious, and then the Qian family was wiped out.

Ye Xiaozhou only thought it was funny when he heard it, but he didn't expect this kind of thing to be reversed, and it was fulfilled in the Ye family.

"Even if the Qian family had never humiliated Princess Linhai, their ending was the same. The princess became a servant of a commoner's family... It is impossible for the emperor to tolerate the dignity of the royal family being trampled by commoners." Cheng Xiaofeng said.

Ye Xiaozhou couldn't hold back his crying with great difficulty, but there was still a bit of crying in his voice: "Then what should I do? I can't just watch my father die for no reason, can I?"

Cheng Xiaofeng glanced at him, thinking that it's no wonder he was deceived into such a temperament, but he still comforted him and said: "Don't worry, since King Ning knew the cause and effect of all these things, he dared to ask the emperor to point you out. As a princess, he must have a way to protect the Ye family."

"But he has no reason to protect the Ye family." Ye Xiaozhou's eyes were red and his voice trembled slightly. "He hates me and my father. He wishes we were all dead."

"If he wants to put you to death, he won't make such a detour," Cheng Xiaofeng said firmly, "He only needs to use a method to let the emperor know about it, and he can easily take off the Ye family, besides, he is the original The only prince in the court, even without the emperor's hand, it is not difficult to get rid of Master Ye and you."

Ye Xiaozhou felt that what he said was very reasonable, but he still couldn't let go of his heart: "But he begged the emperor to marry him and me, and the emperor will definitely investigate my background and family background. The matter of Jiang Fuliu cannot be hidden. Live... So, the emperor actually already knew about it?"

Cheng Xiaofeng was noncommittal: "Now the young master can only beg King Ning, unless..."

"Unless what?"

Cheng Xiaofeng: "Unless that Concubine Jiang is really dead, from now on, there will be no such person."

Ye Xiaozhou immediately vetoed it: "Now my father is trapped in prison, and even if he is free, he must be reluctant to do anything to Jiang Fuliu, let alone Jing Min, he is Jiang Fuliu's own son ..."

"Master, you are wrong," Cheng Xiaofeng interrupted him, "If Prince Ning really had his own mother in his heart, he would not have asked for this marriage."

"Once the emperor finds out about this matter, Jiang Fuliu must be the first to die, and the Ye family just buried her. Do you think, young master, that the royal family will accept a concubine who faked her death and then married someone else's wife? "

Chen Mengchu finally sorted out the ins and outs of the situation, and she interjected: "So no matter whether this Concubine Jiang is really dead or just a fake death, the emperor will make her a corpse, because the face of the royal family cannot be desecrated."

"But...isn't Concubine Jiang the biological mother of Prince Ning? How can he do anything to his own mother?"

There was a little fear in Ye Xiaozhou's tone, and his voice trembled slightly: "He's just a lunatic..."

At the same time, Han Xiuping pushed Jing Min into the Jinghua Hall.

"The younger brother pays homage to the emperor."

"You don't need to be too polite, I've been waiting for you for a long time." Jing Ling was still wearing the bright yellow dragon robe that stretched the floor when he went to the wedding banquet in the palace today. He sat behind the chessboard, "Ah Min, let's play the next game with me."

As soon as Jing Min raised his hand, Han Xiuping hung his body and stepped back. Jing Min pushed the wooden wheel himself and stopped opposite Jing Ling. The pure black chess piece was placed in his hand. Jing Min showed some doubts on his face. .

Before he could ask, Jing Ling spoke first: "Usually, I let you hold the white first. I have never been able to beat you. Today, I will let you let me."

"The emperor please first." Jing Min said as he was kind.

Jing Ling picked up a white jade chess piece and landed on the Tianyuan position first, Jing Min remained calm and slowly dropped a black jade chess piece. The beginning of the game was so ambitious, he knew that the emperor only wanted to win this game.

Soon, black and white changed, and the black pieces forced the white pieces back step by step, and the game of chess had already reached the point of dire straits.

"Ah Min, today is your big day. I shouldn't have called you into the palace," Jing Ling said suddenly, "but you are so smart, so you should have guessed it. I didn't call you into the palace today just for Play this side of chess."

Jing Min let go of the sunspot in his hand, and said silently, "Please tell me, Your Majesty."

Jing Ling said with a half smile but not a smile: "I sent people to thoroughly investigate Ye Xiaozhou's background and family background. Guess what? The people I sent actually found out the details of his stepmother. She should have died in a rebellion ten years ago. The person in the hands of the army is still alive and well, and has become the mistress of the Ye Mansion."

The chess game on the table suddenly changed again, Heizi seemed to panic suddenly and stopped being aggressive, and a wrong move gave Baizi the upper hand.

Jing Min's expression was a little stiff: "Why can't I understand what the emperor said?"

"Ah Min, you don't have to pretend to be confused anymore, the Jiang family of the Ye family..." Jing Ling paused, and suddenly looked at the fear on Jing Min's face playfully, "Actually, she is Ah Min's biological mother, right?"

"Your Majesty misunderstood." Jing Min lowered his eyes, "My brother's biological mother died in a disaster ten years ago."

Jing Ling raised her eyebrows slightly: "Really? If that's the case, then I don't need to ask Ah Min's meaning anymore. Since Jiang is not Ah Min's biological mother, she is just a village woman who looks like Concubine Shu. So I gave her a piece of white silk to prevent her from tarnishing the name of Concubine Shu."

At the same time, Heiziqi missed a move, and he was already discouraged. The general situation was gone, and there was no room for maneuver.

"Your Majesty's doing this is very good." Jing Min almost squeezed out these words from between his lips.

Jing Ling saw it all, and then hooked the corners of her mouth happily: "As for Princess Ning's biological father, Ye Hongfang, according to Ah Min, how should I deal with it?"

Heizi in Jingmin's hand was still holding on, and he said carefully, "Although Ye Hongfang is the father-in-law of my younger brother, he is unforgivably guilty of selling private salt and making ironware, but he is Xiaozhou's son after all. Father... for this situation, I still want to plead for Xiao Zhou—severe punishment is inevitable, but can I implore Your Majesty to spare his life?"

When Jing Ling was the last one down, he smiled and said, "Ah Min, you lost."

"Your Majesty's chess skills are superb, and my younger brother is convinced of the defeat."

"You have always spoken orally, but you have never accepted it in your heart," Jing Ling said indifferently, "Forget it, for your sake of pleading for him, I can spare his death, and instead ransack his home and exile."

Jing Min cupped his hands and lowered his eyes: "My brother thanked His Majesty on behalf of the princess."

Jing Ling nodded slightly, as a reply: "It's getting late, Ah Min should go back to rest earlier."

Han Xiuping, who was waiting outside, walked in with ease, first saluted Jing Ling, and then pushed Jing Min out of the Jinghua Hall.

When walking halfway, Han Xiuping said in a low voice: "This is the first time in so many years that this subordinate sees the prince playing chess and losing to the sage."

"He wants to win too much, and he doesn't want me to lose too easily." A sneer appeared on Jing Min's lips, his voice was calm and cold, "It doesn't count if you lose this round to Ye Hongfang." Too bad."

Han Xiuping understood what Jing Min meant.

Jing Ling is too suspicious. He is afraid that King Ning is too ambitious, and he is also afraid that he has no ambitions. The former will put his throne in jeopardy, while the latter...he only suspects that Jing Min is pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, a horse that will kill at any time. The wolf that bit him.

So for so many years, Jing Min only showed his ambition in the chess game with the emperor. He has never lost.

But Fangcai Jingling was pressing every step of the way, and Jingmin retreated steadily. The panic and fear he deliberately revealed was exactly what the emperor wanted to see.

What is more pleasing than winning a game of chess is that the person who threatens you is still under your control.

"But my brother's chess is really bad." Jing Min smiled mockingly, "The first word fell on Tianyuan, trying to control the overall situation, but there are omissions everywhere, wanting to lose to him shamelessly It's really difficult."