Chapter 46

Mrs. Linglong knelt one step forward, and cried bitterly: "Queen Dowager Mingjian, in fact, Zi'an is also innocent. She was just used by her biological mother. Please forgive her for the sake of her youth and ignorance. If there is any guilt, let the concubine bear it."

The Empress Dowager looked at Mrs. Linglong, and began to feel a little uncertain.

She has been in the deep palace for many years and has seen all kinds of battles among concubines, but she is lucky, no one can shake her position, because the late emperor respected her so much that even the concubines did not dare to compete with her, so she still Watching the fight with a cold eye.

She felt that the relationship between Mrs. Linglong and Mrs. Yuan was not that simple. Naturally, because she didn't like Mrs. Yuan, she had some faith in Mrs. Linglong's condolences.

She thought for a while, and said to Eunuch Sun: "You go and call the queen, she is the queen mother of King Liang, and the Ai family has to ask her how to deal with this matter."

The Empress Dowager had never thought of holding the Xiangfu accountable at all before. This matter is already shameful enough. In order to curb the rumors from the outside world, it is best to do nothing.

Therefore, the original plan was to punish Xia Zi'an and let it go, but now that Xia Zi'an has cured King Liang, it's too late for her to be trusted, so how could he deal with it?

Concubine Mei exchanged a look with Prime Minister Xia after hearing the Queen Mother's order.

Prime Minister Xia also glanced at Mrs. Linglong, who wiped away her tears with a handkerchief, and pretended to mourn again.

The queen was already upset, but when she heard the news from Eunuch Sun that Prime Minister Xia had come to the empress dowager to plead guilty, she turned cold and said angrily on the spot: "This palace is not going to pursue this matter anymore, he just handed over his head to the empress dowager." Come up, what do you mean? Do you really want Ben Gong to cut off his head?"

Eunuch Sun lowered his voice and said: "Empress, please calm down, let's go first. Concubine Mei and the prime minister both said that the remorse of the marriage was instigated by Yuan."

Hearing this sentence, Zian's lips parted into a sneer, as expected, he entered the palace to get rid of it, but, can you get rid of it?

When the queen heard Eunuch Sun's words, she raised her head, looked at Zi'an and said, "Zi'an, come here."

Zian handed the moxibustion to the court judge, and walked over according to the words, "What is the queen's order?"

The queen looked at her and said seriously: "The matter of your remorse will eventually be resolved. I will not condemn you, and King Liang will forgive you, but you should tell me the whole story."

The queen knew a lot about this matter, and she had heard from Xia Zian, but she needed to know everything, the whole story, so that she could deal with Concubine Mei and Prime Minister Xia.

No matter what, she couldn't let Prime Minister Xia and Concubine Mei get Xia Zian involved in this matter again, at least not now.

"Your Majesty, why are you bringing this up now? My daughter is only thinking about..."

The queen interrupted her, "I know that you only want to cure Liang Wang now, but if someone doesn't let you worry, you have to deal with it."

Zian raised his head subconsciously and glanced at Murong Jie. Murong Jie raised his legs and sat on the chair next to the bed with a leisurely expression, talking to King Liang.

Everything seems to have nothing to do with him, but I don't know why Zian feels that it has something to do with him.

Seeing Zi'an looking over, he also glanced sideways at Zi'an, his expression was extremely innocent, but there was still a hint of naughtiness on that handsome face with capital letters.

Zian lowered her head and restrained her sharp edge. If it was arranged by the regent, then this scene must not be easy. It's very good. I thought they would wait until she returned to the mansion before attacking. Since they can't wait, let's tear it up in the palace. .

When Zi An was about to reply to the queen, Murong Jie suddenly said lightly, "By the way, when the king just entered the palace, he heard the rumors from the people outside that Xia Zi'an was sent to prison because of regretting his marriage to the king of Liang." Violent room, I wonder if the prime minister came because of this incident?"

The queen's expression changed, "What? Who is talking nonsense?"

"It's unknown, the empress can order someone to investigate thoroughly!" Murong Jie said righteously.

Zi'an almost laughed out loud, he was so innocent, he was the one who spread the word, no wonder he came into the palace, thought she was being questioned in the palace, maybe she just came to clear it up?

The queen's face was gloomy, "Zian, you go with Bengong, there is no need to talk about the day before and after regretting the marriage, Bengong knows it well."

Zi'an replied: "Yes!" It's better not to say anything, otherwise, no matter how wronged and full of heart she said, it would be hard for the queen to find out her selfishness.

Nanny Yang had already prepared her shoulders immediately, when Zian went out, she felt a little dizzy when she saw the bright sun.

She must urgently take care of her body, otherwise, after returning home, she would have no way to deal with the pack of wolves.

After the queen went out, King Liang sent away the judges and servants, looked at Murong Jie and said, "Uncle Emperor, did you pass it on?"

Murong Jie raised his chin, "What do you think?"

"It's you!" Liang Wang sighed softly, "This Prime Minister Xia threatened his daughter so much, I was really blind at that time."

"You are not blind, he has always looked like a gentleman, who knew he was full of bad water?"

Liang Wang smiled, "Since you came to power, you have been pushing him away. I thought you were jealous at the time, but now that I think about it, you are too prescient."

Murong Jie remained silent, but his eyes were extremely cold. How could he be jealous of talented people when he is in power? Recruiting talented people is not bad, he has all been assessed in private and secretly, and he has known Prime Minister Xia's character from the very beginning.

Otherwise, he wouldn't mention it again and again, but everyone thought that he was afraid of Prime Minister Xia's position.

When they came outside Shou'an Palace, the queen told Zi'an, "You wait here, you will only come in when the Palace invites you."

Zi An lowered his hands and stood aside, "Yes!"

Eunuch Sun came out to greet him and shouted: "The empress is here."

The queen strode in, looking a bit menacing. When Prime Minister Xia and Linglong saw it, they couldn't help but tremble in their hearts. Sure enough, the queen was in a rage, no wonder she refused to meet her just now.

Concubine Mei stepped forward, "Is the empress here?"

The queen didn't even agree, and went straight to pay her respects to the queen mother, "See mother."

The empress dowager said: "It's good that the empress is here, you still have to deal with this matter yourself."

The queen walked up to the empress dowager and sat down beside the empress dowager. She raised a sarcastic face and looked at Prime Minister Xia, "Master Xiang has come to the Shouan Palace? Didn't you just say that you want to see me outside the Hall of Longevity? When I go out, no one is there." Now, it turns out that I came to Shouan Palace, Xiangye is really a dragon who sees the head and sees the tail."

Prime Minister Xia was already ready to face the Queen's anger, he prostrated himself on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, forgive me, I was indeed waiting for Your Majesty outside the Palace of Longevity just now. However, Your Majesty is busy with affairs, so I came here to greet the Empress Dowager first."

Eunuch Sun served the tea himself, the queen took it, took a sip slowly, then looked at Prime Minister Xia and said, "It's been a while since you've been begging to see me in the Hall of Eternal Life, why are you still kneeling on the ground?"

Concubine Mei saw that the queen's tone was not good, and knew that she must be harboring resentment, so she stepped forward to smooth things over, "Your Majesty, the Prime Minister and the others know they are guilty, so they kneel here to plead guilty to the Empress Dowager and the Empress."