"You said you were Yan Zhaonan's son?"
Zongzheng Qingqi hurried back to the Qianqing palace and changed into a Dragon Robe at the service of the palace people. When he rushed to the front hall, the ministers who heard the news basically arrived.
The man who claimed to be Yan Chu made a simple bandage and changed his clean clothes. At this time, he knelt in the middle of the Jinluan hall. Only his pale face could see what torture he had experienced before.
On the court hall, the little emperor Zong Zhengqing Qi used to display the same mascot. In addition, he was still young. After the ceremony, the ministers couldn't help being curious and asked the man kneeling in the center.
At the beginning, the Yan family was slaughtered. Dali Temple dealt with the corpses, not many from the master to the servant.
The bodies of Yan Zhaonan's wife and three children are in the main hall. Is it difficult for the other party to be the illegitimate son Yan Zhaonan raised outside?
After a long time, Yan Chu was not old at that time, and because he grew up in Dingfeng pass, many ministers did not connect him with the eldest son of Yan Family for a while.
"Yes, you said you were Yan Zhaonan's son, but what evidence?"
You can't run out and say that you are Yan Zhaonan's son. He is. If the big clan can recognize a child casually, isn't it a mess.
"This jade pendant is a descendant of the Yan family. There will be one in each person's hand. I am the eldest son of the Yan family. At the beginning, our Yan family was destroyed for no reason. My mother replaced me with my mother's son, and I was hidden in the secret room by my mother."
At the age of four, Yan Chu left the capital to go to Dingfeng pass. His nursing mother's family were all in the capital. Therefore, instead of going with him, he chose to stay in the Yan Family's old house and be a housekeeper. The husband of the other party was the head of another villa on the outskirts of the city. That day, it was because Yan Xiao wanted to choose a servant boy for his son. The nanny begged Yan Xiao for a favor by nursing Yan Chu when she was a child. Therefore, Yan Xiao specially asked her to go back to other villa to bring her son and see him in the house. The killers didn't expect this episode. They just felt that all the people were right, He finished the task, which made Yan Chu escape.
All the masters and slaves who had stayed in the Yan family were slaughtered, and the other servants who survived the disaster did not escape. After the Yan family was falsely accused of treason and treason, all the servants were exiled and sold.
As officials and slaves, they can find their current position through the sales records at that time. As long as they find the dealer in his mouth, they can naturally distinguish the true and false of what he said.
I have chiseled dialect words and passed the most stringent "knife mountain" and "sea of fire". I will put aside the matter of identity for the time being.
"Governor Xiao, what do you think?"
What and how can I ask?
The other party sued the supreme emperor. Although the other party was dazed and incompetent, and now he has become a toothless tiger, he is still the supreme emperor after all. After thinking about it, they have to be nine thousand years old.
"You sued the current emperor, saying that he sent people to massacre hundreds of Yan Family and falsely accused the town general of treason and disobedience, but there is evidence."
Yan Chu looked at the man kneeling at the bottom. The jade pendant in his hand should have been at wanjilan. When he left Dingfeng pass, the elders of both sides agreed to officially conclude a marriage contract for them when he came back from the capital. This jade pendant symbolizing Yan's lineage was given to wanjilan as a Keepsake by his original body.
Now, the man who claimed to be "Yan Chu" to redress the Yan family also holds this jade pendant in his hand. It can be imagined who sent him.
"Yes." Under Zong Zhengqing Qi's complicated eyes, the man took out a stack of paper from his arms.
Yan Chu motioned to the little eunuch standing behind him to take the paper and handed it to him. After reading it one by one, he asked the little eunuch to hand the paper to the little emperor.
The courtiers were eager to know what was written on the paper.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please pass it around."
Zong zhengqingqi's face was pale and his speech was difficult. He sat powerlessly on the Dragon chair. When he looked at Yan Chu, his heart trembled and made a decision.
People say Xiao Chu is good and the royal guards are good. Although they are afraid of the ruthlessness of the royal guards, they are even more afraid of the disappearance of the royal guards. In the eyes of the people, his father is an incompetent and confused emperor.
Now, with the conclusive evidence, he still chooses to cover up for his father and Emperor. What will Xiao Chu think of him and what will the big merchant people who know the truth think of him in the future.
Didn't he want to take over the regime from Xiao Chu one day and convince him that if he can't even do such a thing, why should he make the other party feel that he can manage the country of Nuo DA and that he is qualified to become the emperor of the people of big business.
Anyway, the father's reputation has been enough, and there is no difference.
The little eunuch distributed the paper to the curious ministers. As he looked through it, the ministers flashed surprise on their faces, suddenly, and then sighed.
If this confession is not fake, the Yan family will die unjustly.
"I remember that Li Yushi was put into prison by the emperor as early as three months ago. This confession..."
A minister who had been neutral in the past stood up. He couldn't help looking in the direction of Xiao Chu. He saw the old God of the other party sitting on the only two master chairs above the chaotang hall, tasting the hot tea on the tea table, as if everything that happened in the chaotang hall had nothing to do with him.
But Li Jinzhong is under the custody of Yan Chu. How did the man get this confession? Look at the traces of pen and ink and the old and new degree of paper. This confession should have been written recently. Did Li Jinzhong write this thing before he was sent to prison because he knew he would be killed by the emperor?
But how did he know that the Yan family still had descendants, find each other and give him this confession?
I can't think of all this.
"Long before his majesty suffered a stroke, Li Jinzhong had been handed over to the first-class bodyguard Zhang Xuan. Thirteen days ago, Li Jinzhong was infected with wind cold in the prison and had died violently."
It was the first time that the courtiers heard about this. Before, because of the stroke of emperor Cheng Qing and the succession of the new emperor, the court was busy inside and outside. Who would care about a criminal official who was put into prison.
But Li Jinzhong died suddenly. Isn't all this dead without proof?
"Your Majesty, there are still doubts in this matter. We can't make a hasty judgment. It's better to let someone find out the identity of the man who claims to be the son of Yan Zhaonan." The loyal royalist party stood up.
Since ancient times, it's natural for Laozi to beat his son, but if his son turns against Laozi, it's treacherous.
This statement applies not only to the common people, but also to the royal family.
In particular, the sensitive identities of the emperor and the supreme emperor will be magnified by the people if there is any disturbance. At best, they will help the Yan Family redress the rebellion. At worst, they will praise the new emperor for his great righteousness and destroy his relatives. At worst, they will be disobedient and unfilial, and break the code of ethics.
At that time, a record will be written in the history books. How will future generations comment on the new emperor? It is still unknown.
Now that the new emperor is young and not in power, there is no need to ruin his reputation and foundation for an old case, making it more difficult to take power at that time.
Therefore, in the view of the minister, it's better to whitewash Taiping, push everything on him while Li Jinzhong is dead, and then reward the son of the Yan Family with a title without real power to show the kindness of the royal family, or just make a mistake in the end.
In a word, the emperor can be wrong, but this mistake must not be recognized by the new emperor during his reign.
The conspiracy arguments began to doubt whether Xiao Chu had caused this, because it was only good for him. The emperor was accused of murdering Zhongliang, and the new emperor was accused of disobedience and unfilial. Only he, the governor of the East Hall, was innocent.
The royal family lost its prestige. Wouldn't it be easy for him to reap another wave of power.
Before today, Zong Zhengqing Qi probably thought so, but after today's experience and his mother's warning to him, he could see more clearly.
As an emperor, he was just a puppet. If Xiao Chu really couldn't accommodate him, he could lower him in hundreds of ways and ascend the throne with a more obedient and sensible clan. There was no need to create waves and involve another old story.
"I have other evidence."
The man obviously came prepared. After hearing the courtiers' questions about the confession he handed over, he slowly opened his mouth.
"Yan Zheng, my father and I grew up together. In fact, the so-called letters of my father's collaboration and treason found by Emperor Cheng Qing were all imitated by him according to my father's handwriting. In the world, only he had that ability. As my father's personal servant, he should have died in the disaster of extermination, just because the letters that emperor Cheng Qing asked him to write after buying him let him Seeing the clue, he pretended to die and left early. God has eyes, but he let me find him. "
The man's eyes crossed the courtiers and the little emperor on the Dragon chair. The wound just wrapped had already bled. The whole person was weak and haggard, but his back was still straight, which did not fall into the heroic name of the Yan family.
"And the Dragon Robe that appeared in our Yan Family at the beginning. For example, the cloth used for the Dragon Robe is special tribute, and the consumption of each foot and inch is recorded by the internal affairs office. Our Yan family has an additional Dragon Robe out of thin air, either there is a problem in the cloth workshop of tribute satin, or there is a problem in the internal affairs office. As long as we check the records and records of the internal affairs office 23 years ago According to the records of the satin workshop, we can sort out the loss of the Dragon Robe and the origin of the extra Dragon Robe. "
The man cited evidence after evidence, which was obviously prepared.
It's just that his injury is really too serious to support.
"Come, doctor Xuan Liu."
Zong Zhengqing Qi bypassed Xiao Chu and ordered that the other party should not die in the Jinluan hall. If he wants to overturn the case for the Yan family, he, the son of the Yan family, must live.
Just taking advantage of this effort, he sent someone to find out his origin and bring all the human and material evidence in his mouth into the palace.
Yan Chu's injury is not clear. When these things are found out, his body can recover 30% or 40%. Zong Zhengqing Qi also wants to take this time to think about what he should do.
It was only after seeing Xiao Chu nodding gently that the waiter on one side helped "Yan Chu" down.
In the past, the little emperor should be angry again at this time, but because of the confused things done by the supreme emperor, he patronized and felt guilty, and didn't care about it.
There are still more than ten years to grind after that. Zong Zhengqing Qi thinks she has to get used to this situation.
*****
In the dead of night, Wan Jilan went to bed and rested under the service of the palace maid. Before he lay down for long, he felt a gaze.
"Who?"
She opened her eyes warily, and her originally tight limbs relaxed after seeing the visitor.
"Here you are."
After the arrangement, she expected that the other party would come to her, but she never thought that the other party would dare to talk about Yining Palace at night.
"I told you not to get involved in these things."
In the dark room, Yan Chu's body became thinner. Wan Jilan's heart tightened and couldn't help worrying.
"I just do what I should do. I don't need your permission."
Wan Jilan knows him better than anyone. No matter how a person changes, his nature will not change. How can he allow the world to know that the eldest son of the Yan family has become a eunuch.
Therefore, his identity will become their secret and be sealed forever. Wan Jilan can't persuade him, because for Yan Chu, the disclosure of his identity will bring him more pain and harm.
The man who replaced Yan Chu this time was her dark guard. The so-called dark guard was a person who lived in the shadow and could not have his own name or preferences, just like the shadow.
She asked the other party to pretend to be Yan Chu. As long as the Yan family is peaceful, she will give him a name and set him free. This is a temptation that no dark guard can resist. In addition, it is not difficult for dark guards to accept the harsh training from childhood and bear the tempering of "knife mountain" and "sea of fire".
At that time, "Yan Chu" will naturally disappear, and others will treat him as vindicating his relatives. His wish has been fulfilled, and he has taken the initiative to stay away from the disputes of the imperial court. Such a treatment is the best way she can think of.
What Yan Chu asked for was justice for his relatives. Emperor Cheng Qing would lose his life. Those who had participated in these things would also pay their due price, but others were innocent. Wan Jilan didn't want Yan Chu to be lost in hatred. The collapse of the imperial dynasty would only hurt the people. Once Yan Chu woke up from hatred and saw the desolate rivers and mountains, he was the first to regret, It will only be him.
This is the men of the Yan family. They can't change their justice from their bones.
Wan Jilan knew that he was not qualified to persuade him, because his relatives who died in the massacre were also innocent. Why should his innocent family die, while the Zongzheng royal family and the blood relatives of Cheng Qingdi could live well.
This is a situation without solution. Wan Jilan just wants to stop everything in the most appropriate position.
"Did you do all this because you loved me?"
Yan Chu stepped forward, and the dim yellow candle lit all day by wanjilan's bed just hit the light on his side face.
Handsome and unmarried, for a moment, Wan Jilan seemed to return to the past, the most carefree age.
"If I say this is not enough, when one day, Zong Zhengqing Qi and I stand on the opposite side, who will you choose?" Yan Chu approached step by step. He squatted down and gently stroked Wan Jilan's face.
In his last life, the original body was completely crazy. There was no reason for wanjilan. She was the only obsession he lived, but in the end, she chose her son.
Wan Jilan blinked and her eyes were moist. Before she became a mother, she could make a decision without hesitation, but some feelings can only be realized after you become a mother.
That's a piece of meat that really fell from you. There's nothing more important than him.
"Your choice is him after all." Yan Chu sighed lightly.
Even if she was hurt in the previous life, she could do it again. What she wanted was still only chosen by her.
"Sorry."
Wan Jilan grabbed Yan Chu's hand trying to leave her cheek: "but Yan Chu, I can die with you."
Her love for him has long changed from the initial obsession to a habit. In the balance between her son and her lover, Wan Jilan can only choose her son, but this does not mean that her feelings for him are false.
The original body won all the men in the world, but lost to a child. Maybe what was missed at the beginning is missed after all.
Yan Chu got away from Wan Jilan, held his hand tightly, stood up slowly, just took a deep look at her, and then left the bedroom.
"Yan Chu!"
Wan Jilan hurried out of bed to catch up, and couldn't care to walk barefoot on the stone brick ground.
"Empress Dowager?"
The palace maid on the night watch outside the house woke up when she heard the movement in the house and hurriedly trotted in with the palace lantern.
"Ai's home is all right. I just had a dream."
The man had long disappeared at the other end of the window. Wan Jilan wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes. Only she and two palace maids with sad faces were left in the empty bedroom. What had just happened was really like a dream.
She could only smell the faint, lingering smell of medicine and feel the traces of the other party's past.
At the service of the palace people, Wan Jilan wiped her feet again, then lay in bed and closed her eyes.
Sleep, sleep, maybe wake up. All she has experienced over the years is just a dream. They are still children and still live at the most carefree age.