[Qing Chuan] Yongzheng's embarrassing empress

The emperor felt that Tong Guowei was domineering. This is true, but he also wronged Tong Guowei a bit.

As a royal relative, Tong Jia's family has produced two queens, which is unmatched by other royal relatives.The emperor's biological mother passed away early, and he treated his mother's relatives kindly as a kind of psychological compensation.

Because of the emperor's connivance, the ministers of the court followed suit, and everyone respected the uncle.In such an environment, no matter how honest a person is, he has to develop a bit of arrogance.

But compared with other royal relatives, Tong Guowei is not the most domineering one.He is courageous and resourceful, and has a sense of propriety in doing things. Today, his attitude is arrogant, mainly because he loves his grandson and is too excited.

The emperor was silent for a while before he said slowly: "There are still many things that are unclear, and we can't make a conclusion yet. Please be safe and don't be impatient, uncle."

He asked the fifth princess: "Maliciously mutilating the forehead, causing him to be in a trance, do you recognize it?"

The fifth princess smiled wryly with downcast eyes, and remained silent for a long time.

The fourth elder brother and Shuwan were nervous. The fifth princess must not admit to this crime. If she did, the fourth elder brother and his family would really become accomplices.

Even if Kang Bao's arrow was unintentional at the time, it was supposed to be intentional.

The fifth princess's silence made the fourth elder brother and Shuwan feel more and more depressed. After a while, the fifth princess said sadly.

"Huang Ama, I recognize..."

The fourth elder brother turned to look at her, with a somewhat resentful look on his face.

The fifth princess spoke in a hoarse voice, as if someone had strangled her neck.

"Huang Ama, I admit that I killed my son-in-law, made him mad, and killed him maliciously. It's just that all of this has nothing to do with fourth brother, and it has nothing to do with Kang Bao. Kang Bao is still a child , and learned the rules well, how could he harm others? I am the one who harmed others, and it is my fault, so I am willing to be punished."

Tong Guowei sneered, "Your Majesty, it's not that I forced the princess, she admitted it herself!"

The emperor felt more and more unhappy, and Shuwan was also relieved.

The fifth princess used retreat as an advance well. She made humble concessions. The more aggressive Tong Guowei was, the more the emperor turned towards the fifth princess.

Sure enough, the emperor frowned, "Okay, the imperial physician has already gone for diagnosis and treatment. Whether it is true madness or fake madness, the imperial physician will have his own conclusion when he returns."

Tong Guowei was not too old to understand the emperor's face. He saw that the emperor was displeased, and knew that he was too persecuted by relying on his elder status.

He quickly bowed his head to admit his mistake, and dared not say anything else.

The emperor asked them to sit down and ordered them to serve tea.

He asked the fourth elder brother: "How much do you know about your sister's family?"

The fourth elder brother said vaguely: "My son vaguely knows that my sister is not happy, and occasionally visits my sister's house, and Fujin often invites my sister out to drink tea and play cards. As for the other things, my son really doesn't know, I also asked my sister , she always refuses to say."

The fifth princess's expression was numb, "My brother and I have separate families. My brother and sister-in-law don't need to know about the affairs in my house, just like I don't care about the affairs of my brother's backyard."

Seeing the attitude of the fifth princess, the emperor felt even more strange.After a while, the imperial physician came back, and the emperor hurriedly summoned him.

This imperial doctor is the emperor's royal doctor. He usually only sees the emperor and the empress dowager. He has a strict mouth and the emperor trusts him the most.

When others asked him how the emperor was in good health, he would always answer that the emperor was in good health.Even if the queen mother asked him, he would answer like this, and he would never let others know the physical condition of the emperor.

The emperor asked: "How is the forehead?"

The imperial doctor was a little embarrassed, "If you go back to the emperor, the ability of the humble minister is limited, and it is difficult to define madness. At present, the forehead is a little frightened."

Tong Guowei said: "Your Majesty, you watched Shun Anyan grow up. He was bold since he was a child, and he was never frightened!"

He stared at the fifth princess and said with hatred: "Someone must be persecuting him day and night, which made him frightened."

The imperial doctor said again: "There are many kinds of madness. Some people will have hallucinations. It may be the panic caused by hallucinations, not necessarily artificial."

Tong Guowei: "This..."

The emperor asked: "Apart from fear, is there anything else?"

The imperial doctor carefully considered his words, "There are some small scars on the forehead, which seem to have just healed not long ago, and there are all limbs and torso..."

Tong Guowei felt that he had found the evidence again, "Your Majesty! Who in our family would beat him? After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, my grandson has been living in the princess mansion, and the princess said he was sick, so he is not allowed to come to see us! Your majesty, Now that the matter is clear, do you still want to protect the fifth princess?"

The emperor looked at the imperial physician, and then at the fifth princess.With the evidence in front of him, the emperor couldn't help but doubt the fifth princess.

The fifth princess's shoulders trembled, and she suddenly burst into tears.

"Doctor, tell me, what kind of scars are those!"

The imperial physician couldn't help but say, "There are... whip marks, burns, and injuries from sharp objects. It looks like... like in the boudoir... Uh, that kind of thing."

The fifth princess cried: "The elders, brothers and sisters-in-law are all here. I'm going to save my face today, so I must explain clearly! Where did the injury on the forehead come from? He got it from going to Fireworks and Willow Lane!

Years ago, he asked me to take his maidservant to the Princess Mansion, and asked me to raise one of them to be his concubine.I refused, we had only been married for a few days, and he had an aunt, where would I put my face?

My son-in-law got angry with me because of this incident. Later, he secretly took someone into the princess mansion, and I only found out by sending someone to inquire.The aunt he wants is not a decent maid, but from Huazhiliuxiang, so I don't even want it!

Later, I found out...I found out...he and that woman..."

The fifth princess covered her face and burst into tears, "I can't even say it! That woman was so vicious, her forehead was covered in scars, and the woman even gave him the tiger-wolf medicine. How dare you let him out of the house?

I tied him up at home, and he thought I was going to kill him.He finally recovered that day, and spoke softly and tenderly to me. My heart softened, thinking that my in-laws hadn't seen him for a long time, so I let him go home. Who would have thought that he was lying to me! "

The fifth princess cried so hard that she lost her breath, Shuwan hurriedly supported her shoulders and softly comforted her.

The emperor's face was so dark that he couldn't look at it, Tong Guowei clutched his heart, and was so stimulated by this 'truth' that his heart ached.

"No, this is wrong!" Tong Guowei asked, "You said there was a woman in Fireworks and Willow Lane, where is that woman?"

The fifth princess sobbed and said: "At first I was angry with my son-in-law, and I hardly saw him a few times in the first month. When something happened to my son-in-law, it was too late for me to go to that woman, and she had already messed with my son-in-law." Run away. I sent someone to investigate quietly, and found some clues, the woman has gone to the south of the Yangtze River. If you don't believe it, go and investigate."

The fifth princess has already made arrangements, do you have any friends in Fireworks and Willow Lane?some.Is there a woman who escaped?There are also.

Randomly check in the princess mansion, everyone knows that the concubines will take concubines a year ago, but they will not greet the princess in the next year.

The body of the forehead son-in-law was also taken away by the princess, and the money was used to bribe the servants as a hush money, which was just enough, and the fifth princess didn't need to pay a penny from the private room.

Shuwan sniffed and wiped away tears with the fifth princess.

"Sister is too stubborn, why didn't she say it after suffering such a big grievance?"

The fifth princess cried: "I just want to maintain the face of the royal family and Tong Jia's family. If this kind of thing spreads, who will have a bright face? The elders are getting older. I can't share my worries, and I still use such dirty things to pollute them. ears, isn't this my unfilial piety?

I don't ask much, I just want to maintain my dignity, why do you force me to speak out? "

Shuwan hugged the fifth princess and shed tears along with her.The fifth princess bit her lip and suppressed crying, the emperor felt more and more distressed when she saw it.

Tong Guowei's face was flushed with embarrassment. Tong Guowei knew the virtues of his grandson.It's quite neat to do business abroad, but when it comes to matters of the boudoir, she is indeed a bit indulgent.

In my own yard, there is a pretty girl.The fifth princess said that he went to Huajie and Liuxiang, and he believed it.

But to say that the fifth princess is completely innocent?Tong Guowei didn't believe it.

Not to mention a noble princess, even a girl from an ordinary family will feel resentful when she meets such a husband.

Tong Guowei guessed that it should be because the grandson didn't know how to restrain himself after marriage and angered the fifth princess. The fifth princess deliberately set him up for his character.

But these are just his guesses, not sure.In addition, the fifth princess kept saying that it was for the sake of the royal family and Tong Jia's face, but if he still insisted on it, it would appear that he was unkind and ungrateful.

Tong Guowei's heart became more and more blocked, but he still endured his doubts and lowered his posture to apologize to the fifth princess.

"I misunderstood the princess, I will apologize to the princess."

The fifth princess got up to avoid the ceremony, "You are an elder, you don't have to apologize to me, I can't bear it."

After speaking, his feet were soft and he fell to the ground.

It fell hard with a plop, Shuwan rushed to help her up, and the emperor hurriedly asked the imperial physician to diagnose and treat her.

The fourth elder brother carried the fifth princess on his back, accompanied by Shuwan and the imperial physician to the side hall.

The emperor said to Tong Guowei: "This matter is disgraceful. I will send someone to make an unannounced visit. If there is a result, I will give an explanation to my uncle. But you and I both know that the fifth princess has been kind and quiet since she was a child, gentle and general. Her words are not wrong. .”

Tong Guowei took a deep breath, "What the emperor said is very true, I will kill that evil person when I go back, and I will never let the fifth princess be wronged again."

The emperor smiled coldly, "Over there, I will send an imperial doctor to treat you. Uncle, don't worry. You can go back! Take this matter to heart. I don't want any bad words about the fifth princess to spread in the capital. .”

Tong Guowei sighed, saluted and left.He knew in his heart that the emperor was on the side of the fifth princess this time, and he would not allow the forehead to overturn the case. The secret investigation was just a formality.

The imperial doctor checked the fifth princess's pulse and said that she had been too worried these days and was stimulated today, so she fainted.

The emperor ordered someone to go to the Yonghe Palace to clean up the house for the fifth princess and let the fifth princess live in the palace for a while.

Concubine De knew that her daughter was coming back to live, she was both happy and worried.

Out-married daughters seldom spend the night in the palace, and the Fifth Princess' residence has already been assigned to other young princesses. Now that the emperor is gracious to let the Fifth Princess live in Yonghe Palace, there must be other reasons.

She waited and waited until it was almost dark before the emperor and the fifth princess came to Yonghe Palace.

The emperor comforted the fifth princess in every possible way, and the fifth princess cried again.It was only then that Concubine De realized that her daughter had suffered such a great grievance outside.

Concubine De complained in her heart that the emperor was inaccurate in judging people, but she dared not open her mouth to complain, for fear that the emperor would become angry from embarrassment.She could only hold back her silence and shed tears while hugging her daughter.

The emperor felt even more guilty when he saw how their mother and daughter tolerated their grievances like this.

He sighed: "In a few days, you and the forehead will make up! I'm looking for a better forehead for you!"

The fifth princess thought for a while, then shook her head.

"The royal family has never had the old practice of princess reconciling and leaving. Huang Ama should not set this precedent for me, lest those poor and rotten scholars in the court say that Huang Ama does not respect etiquette."

Concubine De cried: "My son, do you want to spend your whole life with such a person?"

The fifth princess sighed: "Maybe this is my life!"

The emperor was disturbed, on the one hand, he was worried about his daughter, and on the other hand, he was hindered by etiquette.

He got up and left the Yonghe Palace, "You mother and daughter, talk about yourselves! This matter is not urgent, I will think about it again."

After speaking, the emperor left the Yonghe Palace with his hands behind his back.

That night, Concubine De didn't care about the rules in the palace, she dragged her daughter to sleep on her bed.

It was already late at night, Concubine De held the fifth princess's hand tightly and asked in a low voice: "Tell the truth to Er Niang, is it true that the women outside made Er Concubine crazy?"

The fifth princess said lightly: "Of course not, I made him crazy."

She also smiled, "To be precise, he is not crazy yet. It's just that people around him tell him that you are crazy, and he will believe it one day."

These words made Concubine De's back run cold, and her heart trembled.

"You...you have changed a lot since you were in the palace."

The fifth princess said coldly, "Maybe this is the real me."

Concubine De persuaded: "Good boy, Er Niang knows that you have been wronged. Tomorrow, I will ask your Huang Ama to let him choose another husband for you! If you continue like this, you will distort your heart, and the future will be even worse. Go narrower."

Fifth Princess: "No! I will not remarry!"

"Do you want to spend your whole life with such a scumbag?"

The fifth princess said coldly: "Yes! Not only do I want to keep the forehead, I also want to monopolize Tong Jia's contacts, have a child, and inherit their family business!

To put it nicely, I am a princess, but to put it bluntly, I am just a noble old lady!I don't want to plan for some man, I just want to plan for myself! "

Concubine De was so frightened that she broke out in sweat, "You! How could you have such a temper!"

The fifth princess smiled, "I know Erniang wants a gentle and considerate daughter, but I can't do it. You can love my sister-in-law as much as you want. She looks strong, but she is far less cruel than me. Treat her like your own daughter." alright."

Concubine De was angry and hated, she couldn't help but beat the fifth princess a few times.

"What are you talking about? You have changed your temper and you don't even want Erniang anymore?"

Concubine De turned over and bit her sleeve and whimpered, while Princess Wu patted her shoulder tenderly.

After a while, Concubine De still turned around, "Forget it, I can't control you, I can only help you. Have you put your tail away when you do this? Tell me, if there is anything missing, I will call Your fourth brother will help you clean up."

The fifth princess smiled and hugged Concubine De, "This is my good mother!"