Chapter 416

But the old servant was ordered to go, but the next day he came back with a heavy look and reported, “Master, something happened on the side of Jane Yiyu!”

Jian Li Miao was surprised, “What do you mean?”

“Our people went one step too late, someone had already struck at them first.” The old servant whispered, “That Aunt Shen and the child are gone, and Jian Yiyu’s current whereabouts are unknown!”

After a pause, “The people who normally contacted him there have all searched, and no trace was found – the last clue was that he disappeared in the nearby mountains, and the old slave thought that the possibility of destroying the body and destroying the trail could not be ruled out!”

Jian Li Miao sank his face, pondered for a moment, and said, “Who did it, are there any clues?”

“When our people went there, the people there had already died out.” The old servant said, “so did not see the person who did it, for fear of being thought to be the murderer, so our people quickly withdrew – now I’m afraid we can only wait for the results of the court. After all, you know, we are not very close to Jane Yiyu side, before the imperial capital side and sent you a letter, said that there are already some people in the Jane family between the second house, the third house of the contradiction to make a story, at this juncture may not be this pot to hit us on the head!”

“I will first repair a letter with Her Highness, the Grand Princess of Jin.” Jian Li Miao walked around the room with his hands in the air and said, “You send someone to send it to the Imperial Capital immediately – and inform Auntie of these things in the meantime!”

In fact, at this time, Old Lady Duanmu had already noticed something.

So when he entered the palace to greet the Dowager Empress Dowager, he intentionally showed a worried look.

The Empress Dowager looked out and was surprised, “You have always been happy and angry, today you are so sad, but is there something wrong?”

“There’s actually nothing going on, but lately, I’ve been dreaming about Yishui from time to time, as well as my subject’s bitter sister.” Old Lady Duanmu said, “I guess it’s also because I’m getting old and will be going to see them soon, that’s why I’m having such signs!”

“The third house of the Jian family only has an heir, why are you so pessimistic?” The dowager empress smiled, since she wanted to persuade, “When A Xu father and son come back from mourning, it is inevitable that you will be received in the State Duke’s Mansion to fulfill your filial piety – in the end, although A Xu’s current father is only your nephew, it is you who has raised him, and now is it not appropriate for him to raise you?”

Old Lady Duanmu seemed to have taken this in and spread her face, “What Your Highness said is true, but it was my wife who was confused!”

Next the two of them made small talk, and Old Lady Duanmu saw that it was getting late, so she excused herself.

After she left, the Empress Dowager stroked the tea bowl in her hand for a moment, in the end, she called Yuguo to her heel, “What news can be sent to Liaozhou recently?”

Jade Fruit was surprised, “No!”

“Really no?” The Empress Dowager raised her eyebrows, her face not looking too good, “Don’t think that I’m old and confused, and that I’m thinking of fooling around! If it wasn’t for A Xu’s trouble, why would Old Lady Duanmu show her sadness in front of me today? She is the descendant of the famous family, this immovable skill is practiced since childhood, that is, when the mourning family’s royal son ascended to the throne, Chengyang Wangfu was destroyed, she still behaves calmly, without losing the style of the princess – you still dare to say that there is no?”

Yugo’s forehead was sweating as she listened, and she forced a smile and said: ”Back to the Empress Dowager, there really isn’t much news coming from Liaozhou! However, there have been some bad rumors in the imperial capital lately, but His Majesty has already disposed of them, and there is absolutely nothing bad about His Excellency! The reason why I hid it from you is because I was afraid that you would get angry if you heard it, this is a filial favor from His Majesty, that’s why the slave girls didn’t say anything!”

“Is it the emperor’s meaning?” The Empress Dowager frowned, thought for a while, and murmured, “You and tell me, I will not tell the Emperor is!”

“When it comes down to it, it’s all because of that incident with Concubine Mao.” Yu Guo described the ins and outs of what she knew – she, like most of the people in the dark, thought that the reason why someone would impeach Jian Xu Bai was purely because the crown prince had broken his leg, and these people gauged that the empress might have a gap in her favor against Yan Guo Gong, and wanted to see if they could curry favor with the empress in this way.

So he said, “But His Majesty ignored it, only because it involves the second house of the Jian family, and His Majesty was afraid that Her Highness the Grand Princess of Jin would be worried, so he purposely took the folders with Her Highness the Grand Princess to go through them.”

The Empress Dowager listened quietly for a moment before saying, “What about the impeachment?”

“His Majesty is thinking that Third Duke Jian’s current situation is already not very good, if he still has to dispose of the people who speak for him, I’m afraid that even more people will fall down the well.” Yu Guo was biased in favor of Jian Xu Bai, but as a female officer in the palace, she couldn’t afford to offend Emperor Duan Hua even more, the emperor’s side sent someone to give her instructions, she naturally could only comply.

This would carefully explain to the Dowager Empress, “In the end, Third Duke Jian is also the flesh and blood of Her Highness the Grand Princess of Jin, your direct grandson. This hand heart hand back are all meat …”

“It’s no wonder that Duanmu specially came over to greet me this day!” The Empress Dowager was silent for a long time and sighed, “Do you know what the Emperor did to create a gap with A Xu? But what did A Xu do that he shouldn’t have?”

Yu Guo has not yet answered, but the Empress Dowager has already shaken her head, “I brought out the child, what for people I know best! Although A Xu has always been favored, he has his own way of doing things – not to mention that he is now in a good time, why should he be centrifuged from the Emperor?”

“Could it be that Third Prince Jane’s recent situation has evoked His Majesty’s pity?” Yu Guo pursed her lips and speculated, “Two days ago, didn’t Prince Hengshan use the fact that it had been a year since his step-wife’s death as the reason for submitting a request for Lu Guanqun, the second son of the Royal Household, who was born to Princess Cui, to be crowned as the son of the king? Originally, Prince Hengshan had no intention of installing this second son, but His Majesty asked His Highness the King of Liang to tell him that the second son is a first cousin of His Majesty and His Highness the King of Liang. The Prince of Hengshan heard the message, and that’s why he established the Second Prince!”

“In that case, if His Majesty has compassion on his aunt-cousin, how could he not care for the other one?”

“Of course Jane three duchess fell to today’s situation, in the end is his grandfather and father do not compete, not to blame the third house! But that impeachment form book also said, although the third house is not directly involved in the second house of the expostulation and cold shoulder. But at this time they did not come forward to defend the second house, itself also inevitably call people to think that the third house is in favor of – slave girl thought, his majesty may be hoping that His Excellency and Jane three duchess brotherly friendship, so as to share the worries for the Jin Guo Grand Princess right?”

When the Empress Dowager heard this, she snorted, leaned back, and lazily said, “There are no outsiders in the hall, so who are you fooling by telling so many lies?”

Seeing Jade Fruit’s embarrassed face, Empress Dowager sighed, ”A Xu has been following the Emperor since he was a child, but Yiyu is very distant from the Emperor! Although the Emperor is kind and generous, he is not a good person who doesn’t know right from wrong, so how could he have a gap with A Xu just because A Xu and Yiyu are not on good terms with each other? To put it bluntly, not to mention that A Xu is not directly dealing with Yiyu, he is really what Yiyu, then the emperor at most on the scene to reprimand him a few sentences, back to the head, no less than to help him in front of the State of Jin and I beg for forgiveness!”

Jade fruit heard, silent for a while, looked outside the hall no one, this only whispered, “slave girl thinking … is not … Mrs. Yan and Su Wangfei aunt and sister-in-law have always been good, even after Su Wangfei with Su Wang on the clan, the annual festival to and fro also have not broken.”

–Although Emperor Xianjia succeeded the two kings of Su Xiang and sent them to a place far away from the imperial capital to become vassals. However, Emperor Duanhua’s suspicion of these two younger brothers never disappeared.

Otherwise, last year’s smallpox incident at Cuihua Mountain, King Liang proposed to plant evidence on the two kings of Su Xiang without any evidence, and Emperor Duanhua wouldn’t have nodded his head.

If the Grand Princess of Jin hadn’t gotten the news in time and rushed to stop it, it’s hard to say what would have happened to the two kings of Su Xiang.

However, even if Emperor Duanhua was mindful of his aunt’s face and dispelled his calculations to take advantage of the opportunity to settle his two younger brothers, it didn’t mean that his grudge against these two brothers was eliminated.

And because Song Yixiao was on good terms with Nie Maizuo’s aunt and sister-in-law, the Duke of Yan’s House, which had always had dealings with the Sukwang Mansion, caused the Duanhua Emperor’s displeasure, but it was reasonable to say so.

Such speculation by Jade Fruit was actually the opinion of many people in the court.

“Not necessarily!” But the Dowager Empress pondered for a moment and still shook her head, “In that case, the Emperor should have come to discuss this matter with the Mourning Family and asked the Mourning Family to imply to A Xu that he would reduce his dealings with King Su. Not directly in the courtroom to reveal gaps to A Xu, call that start small man staring at A Xu! After all, Jin is still in existence, and A Xu is the elder brother of Princess Su, so what’s wrong with his wife taking care of her sister-in-law? There is no reason for A Xu to betray the Emperor for the sake of King Su! How could the Emperor not understand such simple reasoning!”

“That …” Yu Guo hung her head and said, “The slave girl is stupid and can’t guess!”

The Empress Dowager turned her head, looked deeply at her, and said, “I don’t know, so, send out a message to say that I’m not very well, and I want A Xu to come back to see I’m not well!”

–The two masters and servants actually saw some clues, but, for the sake of the royal family’s honor, both unspokenly stopped talking.

“Although the Emperor is becoming more and more like his father, he is still far worse than his father!” The Empress Dowager felt helpless in her heart, and she could sympathize with Emperor Duanhua’s failure to consult with his own elders on this matter: for one thing, he couldn’t say it, and for another, he was afraid that he would be angry with his own people.

The problem was that Emperor Duanhua’s method of dealing with it alone was also incorrect, but anyone who understood the emperor’s temperament knew how much tolerance he had for Jian Xu Bai! What’s more, Jian Xu Bai’s two backers, the Dowager Empress and the Grand Princess of Jin were still around.

In this case, Emperor Duanhua suddenly didn’t give face to this cousin, and found a reason to put Nuan Tai Fei’s mother and son under house arrest – the emperor thought that the matter of Mao Fei had just happened, so everyone wouldn’t be suspicious? Really naive!

Far away in Liaozhou Jian Xubai, can easily analyze the cause; at the moment the Empress Dowager is also immediately see the problem, not to mention those in the court of the eunuchs in the sea for decades of the old man?

Only such as Gu Shao’s stream are all deep, see through not say break – others because they do not understand the Duanhua Emperor, naturally to think of the matter of Princess Maohu, which until now have not been unpleasant words spread out just!

“Fortunately, the Emperor has not moved the Nuan Tai Fei mother and son for the time being, otherwise this mother and son have a long and short in this eye of the bone, how can we say it clearly?” Empress Dowager sighed darkly, put down the tea bowl, “Please ask the emperor to come over!”

She had wanted to pretend to be confused, but now that Emperor Duanhua was doing this, she could no longer ignore it!