Chapter 112 What do they think Yanhua Palace is?
Chapter 112 What do they think Yanhua Palace is?
Chapter 112 What do they think Yanhua Palace is?
The servants of the Prince's Palace reported back one after another, describing in detail the entire process of the palace wall from the moment it collapsed to the moment it completely collapsed. The two guards who witnessed it also entered the house and described the moment the palace wall collapsed in vivid detail.
The more Quan Qingyun listened, the angrier he became. Everyone said that the wall of the mansion collapsed on its own, so how could the wall of the mansion collapse on its own?
The concubine Meixiang was thrown to the ground and felt very wronged. She didn't dare to get up and could only sit there with her legs hugged. Quan Qingyun walked around the room and accidentally tripped when he came to her. He was so angry that he kicked Meixiang under the table.
Mei Xiang was almost kicked to the point of vomiting blood. When she heard her prince pointing at her and saying bad things, she felt that she would not be able to escape this. Losing favor is a small matter, but losing one's life is a big matter. She didn't want to die, so she had to find a way to survive tonight. So she rolled her eyes and quickly remembered something - "Why are there so many palaces collapsing in the capital recently?"
"What did you say?" Quan Qingyun stopped and stared at her, "Say it again."
Mei Xiang immediately said, "What I'm saying is, why are there so many palaces collapsing in the capital recently? Didn't Prince Su's palace collapse twice a while ago?"
Quan Qingyun also remembered that, yes, the Su Wang Mansion also collapsed twice. But it was not the palace wall that collapsed by itself, but was smashed by the witch of the Ye family, which was different from his Ren Wang Mansion tonight.
But are they really different? He thought about it again and felt that there seemed to be a certain connection.
"Someone come!" He walked to the door and shouted, and immediately someone appeared from the darkness. Quan Qingyun asked him, "Any news from the First-Rank General's Mansion? How is the Second Young Master?"
The man replied, "My Lord, the First Rank General's Mansion is still the same as it was a few days ago, nothing has changed. The Second Young Master is still locked up with General Ye Er and his wife. Although he was seriously injured, the mansion did not hire a doctor to treat him. Only the two slaves guarding the gate occasionally gave him some medicine powder. As for food and drink, they only gave him water every two days to ensure that he would not die."
Quan Qingyun clenched his fists in anger, "Fei Zhou is weak, how can he bear this? Don't you have any solution?"
The man shook his head. "I have tried to investigate, and the two Ji slaves are very powerful. I am powerless. Even if I have the ability to rescue them, Master, they are Ji slaves. Even if I rescue them, I am afraid they will not end well, and it is easy for me to get involved as well."
Quan Qingyun took a deep breath. He certainly understood this truth. Going against Ji Nu was going against the Emperor. If the Emperor traced back to him and found out that it was him who did it, then it would be more than just a matter of collapsing a wall.
"Has Fourth Miss Ye returned home?" He gave up asking about Ye Feizhou and turned to ask about Ye Wenyan.
The secret guard replied, "No. Since the incident on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Miss Ye Si has never returned to the General's Mansion. But I have heard something through various channels. It is said that someone saw the prefect accompanying His Royal Highness Prince Chen's carriage to the direction of the palace that night, but His Royal Highness Prince Chen did not enter the palace. He just stayed at the palace gate for a while and then returned."
Quan Qingyun remembered what his fourth brother said in the court, and invited Miss Ye to have a cup of tea on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month.
He went back to his room to change his clothes and told his servants to prepare the car to go to Prince Chen's Palace.
Meixiang breathed a sigh of relief in the house. Fortunately, she was able to change the subject and she was saved.
His Highness Prince Ni hurried out of the palace in the middle of the night and headed straight towards Prince Chen's palace.
He understood what the secret guard said just now. Prince Chen went to the palace, but he didn't enter the palace. So why did he go to the palace? Could it be to send someone off? He invited Miss Ye Si to drink tea, and after drinking, the person disappeared. Could it be that the person sent to the palace was Ye Wenyan?
It is said that when Ye Wenyan returned to the capital, whether it was the commotion at the city gate or the commotion all the way from Lin'an City to the Imperial Palace, many people saw it. If anyone went to investigate, they would definitely find clues.
But for some reason, everyone who saw Ye Wenyan that night had collective amnesia, whether it was the city gate guards, the palace guards, or the people who slept late, none of them had the slightest memory of seeing the Fourth Miss Ye. As a result, Quan Qingyun's secret guards could not find out, and the maids secretly sent by Old Madam Ye could not find out either. The most they could find out was that His Royal Highness Prince Chen went to the palace, then stayed at the palace gate for a while, and then went back home.
Quan Qingyun felt that there was something wrong with this matter, and the problem was with his fourth brother. So he came, and the Chenwang Mansion once again opened its doors to welcome guests after a lapse of ten years.
But to be honest, Prince Chen’s Mansion was not willing to welcome him, because the door of the mansion was kicked open by the Third Prince without any mercy.
His Royal Highness Prince Chen is away all year round, and only a small number of servants are left to take care of and clean the mansion. Even if the master comes back now, the staff will not be fully staffed immediately, and there is not even a guard at the door.
As soon as Quan Qingren entered the mansion, he shouted, "Tell your master to come out and see me!"
After he said this, he looked up and saw a man standing in the middle of the yard. He was wearing a moon-white robe, standing with his hands behind his back facing the moonlight, looking towards him indifferently.
"Third brother, what's the matter that brought you here so late at night?" Quan Qinghua spoke, neither lightly nor heavily, neither coldly nor enthusiastically.
Quan Qingyun frowned when he looked at this fourth brother, with a look of disgust on his face, "Humph! I want to see Fourth Miss Ye."
"If you want to see Fourth Miss Ye, you should go to the First Rank General's Mansion. Why did you come to my place?"
"Don't put on airs!" Quan Qingyun was angry. "This king, this king, what are you calling me? Didn't you say you would treat Miss Ye Si to tea? Where was she after we finished drinking?"
Quan Qinghua looked at him for a while and replied, "How could she tell me where she went? I just drank a cup of tea with her, that's all."
"That's all? Humph! If that's all, then why did you rush to the palace and leave in a hurry the night you returned to Beijing? Fourth Brother, don't think I don't know what you are thinking. Her father is your teacher, so you helped her to make up this lie. But a lie is a lie after all, and it will be exposed one day. When that happens, how can you escape responsibility?"
Quan Qinghua was puzzled. "Why should I try to avoid it? Third brother, how much does a cup of tea matter? As for why I went to the palace and came back immediately, well, it was just because I was homesick and missed my deceased father. But you can't enter the palace late at night, so I just stood at the palace gate for a while and then went back home. That's what Third brother wants to know."
He still stood there motionless, as if he was fixed in place. Instead, he raised his hand, pointed at the gate of the mansion and made a gesture of invitation: "It's late at night, please go back, third brother! As for the mansion door that you kicked, I will ask someone to make a new one tomorrow, and I will not ask third brother for compensation. After all, if a door breaks after being kicked, then it can't stop anything. Unlike the newly built Renwang Palace of third brother, I heard that a lot of money was spent on repairing the wall of the mansion last year. It must be very strong and durable, and it can't be knocked down even by lightning." Hearing him mention the wall of his mansion, Quan Qingyun's anger surged up again, but was finally suppressed by him.
He looked around. The Chen Palace, which was given to him by the late emperor when he was crowned king, had been abandoned for so many years. Even if someone lived there now, it would still look lifeless. Why would he be angry with a man who had been sent to another country as a hostage since he was a child?
So he smiled and said, "You haven't been back to Beijing for many years, and even the mansion doesn't have much of a human touch. Fourth Brother, do you plan to go back again after coming back this time?"
Quan Qingmu's expression did not change, and he said coldly: "Don't worry about it, Third Brother. If you should go back, then go back. If you shouldn't go back, then don't go back. Whether I go or stay is never my decision."
"Yes." Quan Qingyun nodded, "It's good that you understand this principle. Anyway, I just came to see you tonight and ask about the matter of Miss Ye Si. Now that people have seen it, I won't keep you any longer. Old Fourth, you should go to bed early. This mansion door should be rebuilt with two doors. No one has pushed it for too many years, and the wood is rotten."
Before leaving, His Majesty Niou tugged at the half-broken door again. This time, it was completely broken. With a clang, half of the door collapsed to the ground, and with His Majesty Niou's laughter, it completed its mission of more than ten years.
Quan Qinghua watched all this silently until the carriage of Prince Ren's Palace had gone far away, then she heard the attendants around her complaining: "The Third Prince is really bullying us. We are all princes, so how can he be more noble than us? Why is he torturing us like this?"
Quan Qinghua smiled faintly, "It's human nature. Father has so many children, and I'm the only one without any roots or foundation in Lin'an City. If they don't bully me, who else can they bully?"
"If it hadn't been for..."
"Don't mention the past. How old are you? What do you know?" He glared at the follower and stopped talking.
The next morning, Shi Liyuan cooked a bowl of fish soup. Ye Wenyan felt a little uncomfortable eating such meat so early in the morning, so he skimmed off the floating oil on top, and the fish soup immediately became much clearer.
Not long after they finished eating, when the palace servants were clearing the table, Lian Shi came in and said, "The Empress Dowager sent someone to say that she wanted to see the Fourth Young Lady."
Shi Liyuan listened impatiently, "Since when did the royal family start to think that anyone can talk to this deity?"
Lian Shi thought for a moment and answered, "It seems that since the generation of the late emperor, he has not treated himself as an outsider. When the Sixth Prince was born, the late emperor actually went to the foot of Yanhua Mountain to ask for his favor, hoping that the emperor would give him a chance to meet him, after all, he is the legitimate son. Later, when the late emperor was seriously ill, he also sent people to ask the emperor to save his life and let him live a few more years."
Shi Liyuan snorted coldly, "Then go and tell them what an outsider is, and also tell them that not everyone who wants to see the Yanhua Palace can see them. What do they think the Yanhua Palace is?"
Lian Shi obeyed the order: "I will go and scold him right away!"
Ye Wenyan stopped him: "Wait a moment." Then he said to Shi Liyuan, "After all, she is the current queen mother. Although she only manages half of the harem, she wants to see a servant like me, so she should give her face. Why don't I go and take a look?"
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