Poor Lady Chapter 47: Fraud (1)

The Royal Study Room.

"Have you read this secret decree?" The emperor stared at Luo Shimin below with sharp eyes.

Luo Shimin hurriedly knelt down and said, "I beg your Majesty to forgive me. I must first confirm the authenticity of the secret letter before I dare present it to the Emperor."

The emperor looked at him for a long while, then lowered his head to look at the secret decree, and his eyes finally stopped on the "eight" character: "You just said that this secret decree was stolen from the Qi family daughter?"

"Exactly."

"How could Qi Shuo give such an important thing to his daughter for safekeeping?" the emperor guessed.

"The emperor means that there is fraud in it?" Cold sweat broke out on Luo Shimin's forehead.

The emperor fell silent. He carefully read the secret letter and found no suspicious traces at all. Even if the handwriting can be imitated, the imperial seal cannot be faked. Not to mention that the yellow silk used for writing was produced from imperial silk spinning, and this kind of silk was all discarded six years ago and replaced with new silk.

Although he didn't want to believe it, the emperor confirmed that the secret decree was true. His gaze became sharp instantly, and the character "eight" on the secret decree made him feel chills. He took precautions against everything, but he never expected that his own brother, born of his own mother, was the one he needed to guard against the most.

"Who has read this secret decree besides you?" the emperor asked coldly.

"The secret decree is of great importance, and I have not shown it to a third person."

"Very well, you'd better keep your mouth shut, if any rumor leaks out, I won't take it lightly!"

"I obey."

The emperor tightly twisted the corner of the secret decree, and suddenly said in a deep voice: "I heard that Luo Yanyisu, the daughter of the minister of punishment, has a suspicion with the daughter of the Qi family?"

"Back to the emperor, I have heard about it." Luo Shimin replied cautiously, "I heard that Ms. Luo has made things difficult for the daughters of the Qi family many times. This is no secret among noble girls."

"Well, tell her that as the daughter of a minister, if she can't even deal with a little girl, she won't be qualified to enjoy the imperial order in the future." The emperor said indifferently.

"Yes, I will definitely tell you." The emperor obviously wanted to use Luo Yanyi's hand to shake the mountain and shake the tiger. Although the Qi family is now down and out, a small warning is necessary in order to prevent them from secretly developing evil intentions. With the emperor's tacit consent, Luo Yanyi no longer had to worry about many things. The daughter of the Qi family may be doomed this time.

There was a sneer on the corner of Luo Shimin's mouth.

Outside the capital city, a carriage was slowly moving forward, and a handsome man was sitting in the carriage, about seventeen or eighteen years old, dressed luxuriously, with a dignified demeanor.

He frowned, lost his mind, and the middle-aged man who was sitting in the same car with him comforted him when he saw this, "Don't worry, King Jing. This time the four princes are coming to Beijing together. We can act according to circumstances.”

Jing Wang sighed: "You and I are very clear about the emperor's thoughts. I wonder if there is still life to come back from this trip to Beijing?"

"Crisis is also a turning point, until the end, you can't talk about victory or defeat lightly." The middle-aged man stroked his beard and smiled.

"This king should also learn from Mr. Wei Ding's calm and unhurried demeanor."

"Haha, my lord praises you."

At this moment, the carriage stopped suddenly.

Mr. Wei Ding asked: "What happened?"

The guard replied: "There is a young man blocking the way ahead."

Wei Ding looked at King Jing, who nodded to him and let him deal with it.

Wei Ding said: "Go and ask who is that young man and why did he stop in the road?"

"Yes."

The guard took the order and left, but came back after a while to report: "The young man refused to answer, but asked his subordinates to deliver this letter to the prince."

Wei Ding took the letter and handed it to King Jing.

King Jing took the letter casually, and when he got half of it, his face changed drastically, and he said sharply: "Go and bring that young man here."

Wei Ding also saw the yellow silk exposed by the letter, and his eyes sank.

The young man brought him to the carriage and knelt down on the ground.

"What do you want to do?" King Jing asked.

"The untouchable Yuanxi is homeless, I beg King Jing to take him in."

"This king has a noble status, how can he take in people of unknown origin?"

"As long as King Jing is willing to take him in, the untouchables will no longer be people of unknown origin." The young man replied calmly, "Although the untouchables have no great talents, they are better than being loyal and never betraying."

King Jing was silent for a moment, slowly took out the yellow silk from the envelope, looked at it carefully for a while, and was about to put it away, but found a word written on the inside of the envelope - "Fan".

The eyes of King Jing and Wei Ding flashed at the same time.

"The king has no shortage of loyal servants, but the king is about to enter the capital, and the horses in the mansion may not be taken care of by anyone. Would you like to be the king's stable boy?"

"The untouchables are willing." The young man was overjoyed.

A few days later, Qi Surong received the news that Yuan Xi had entered King Jing's mansion. She was happy for Yuan Xi, but she didn't know that danger was approaching her.

"Miss, Mrs. Su's daughter, please come to the house to tell me." Ping'er reported.

"The daughter of Mr. Su's family?" Qi Surong asked, "What is it?"

"Miss Su is going to attend a tea party in the afternoon, and I would like to ask Miss to dress her up."

Qi Surong thought for a while, and said: "Go and help me to refuse, just say that I am unwell."

Ping'er went out to answer, and when she came back, her face was filled with embarrassment: "The man said that Miss Su accidentally hurt her face a few days ago, so she didn't dare to see anyone, but this tea party was invited by the prime minister's daughter, so it's not easy to refuse. In order not to be disgraceful, I can only ask the young lady to help me find a way to cover up the scars on her face."

Qi Surong was quite hesitant, she knew that noble girls value appearance very much, if she attends a party with an injury, it would be small to be ridiculed by others, but it would be great to offend the powerful. The daughter of the Su family has a relatively introverted personality and has never had any conflicts with her, so it's okay to do a little favor this time.

Thinking of this, she asked Ping'er to accept the Su family's invitation.

After mentioning it to Qi's mother, Qi Surong took Ping'er to Su's house in a carriage. The Su family's status in the court was not high, they acted quite neutrally, rarely made enemies, and had no particularly prominent political opinions.

Qi Surong was led by a servant to a room.

The servant bowed and said, "Madam, please wait for a while, and the villain will report to Miss."

Qi Surong nodded.

After a while, the servant returned and apologized: "I'm sorry, Miss is entertaining guests, and there is still some delay."

"It doesn't matter." Qi Surong sat at the table, with no expression of impatience on his face.

The servant said again: "Miss asked someone to buy a batch of fabric not long ago, and it was still in the warehouse. Miss asked the villain to fetch it. Please help me choose it and make a set of skirts."

"Okay, thank you."

The servant was about to leave, when suddenly he seemed to think of something, and said to Qi Surong: "Maybe there are a lot of things, can you ask the girl's maid to come over and help? All the maids in the mansion have gone to entertain the female guests, and they can't be called for a while. people."

"Well, Ping'er, you can go with this little brother." Qi Surong nodded in agreement without thinking about it.

After the two left, Qi Surong stayed in the room alone, surrounded by silence, not even a girl serving tea, it seemed that they all went to the front hall to greet the guests. I don't know who came to the Su residence, they left in a hurry before, and didn't have time to inquire about the news.

After a while, the door creaked, Qi Surong thought it was Ping'er who came back, and didn't care, but he didn't want a pair of arms to hug her from behind suddenly, his body shape and arm strength obviously belonged to a man.

Qi Surong's complexion changed drastically, he struggled to break free, turned around and looked, and it was Cao Xiang who once threatened to marry her as his concubine.

"You, why did you appear here?" She asked.

"Of course I was invited." Cao Xiang smiled evilly as he approached him, "When I saw you that day, I thought about it like crazy. Since you don't want to be my concubine, then be with me* Once, to relieve the pain of lovesickness."

"Shameless!" Qi Surong turned around and fled towards the door. Unexpectedly, Cao Xiang pulled him back before his hand touched the doorknob. With a strong shake, Qi Surong staggered and fell towards the back room.

She knew that she was being framed, but it was useless, so she could only find a way to escape from here first. Even if she dies, she doesn't want to be tarnished by this villain.

"Don't you call yourself chaste?" Cao Xiang said disdainfully, "Today I want to see how chaste you are?"

He grabbed Qi Surong's arm and dragged him to the bed. Qi Su tolerated the nausea, quickly grabbed a handful of chili powder from the kit, and threw it at Cao Xiang's eyes.

"Ah!" Cao Xiang covered his eyes and threw himself on the bed.

Qi Surong took the opportunity to get away, and ran out of the room without daring to stay.

Just as he ran out of the room, he heard a muffled bang behind him. She glanced back hastily, and saw that Cao Xiang seemed to have hit the bedpost in the confusion.

"What happened?" A surprised voice suddenly reached Qi Surong's ears. Her heart is not good, although she knows that there must be someone outside the door waiting for her to enter the urn, but now there is no way to avoid it.

Standing at the same spot, she looked around and saw Miss Su walking with four or five women.

She knew all these women, they were either ladies from famous families or young ladies from great families. They all had expressions of astonishment and doubt on their faces, whether they were true or false, it was hard to tell.

At this time, Cao Xiang's voice came from the room: "My eyes, my eyes... come quickly! My eyes can't see!"

Miss Su hurriedly called a servant to check in the room, then looked at Qi Surong, and asked, "Miss Qi, what happened just now?"

Qi Surong looked at them indifferently, and said coldly: "A man broke into the room just now, intending to do something wrong to me."

"You're talking nonsense!" Cao Xiang came out with the help of his servants, covered his red eyes, and said angrily, "I do miss you quite a bit, and there may be inappropriate words, but there is absolutely no wrongdoing. "

Qi Surong looked at him coldly: "There is absolutely no wrongdoing? If you are really a polite person, why would you rush into the room?"

"Didn't you invite me in?" Cao Xiang said angrily, "Why are you accusing me now? Last year, you used a **** poem to make me lose face among scholars. Since then, I have no hope of official career. Now we meet, But you still slander me so much, what is your intention? Do you still want to use this to show your innocence?"

Qi Surong was about to argue, when someone suddenly interrupted: "Young Master Cao, are your eyes okay?"

"I can't see in my eyes, please call a doctor for me immediately." Cao Xiang started crying again.

The man looked at Qi Surong, and said in a regretful tone: "Miss Qi, no matter what fault Mr. Cao has, you shouldn't do such a heavy hand."

"That's right, he is still a son of an official family. You are an ordinary girl, murdering a son of an official family is already a serious crime." Another woman also said.

"In any case, should we leave this matter to the government?" Someone suggested, "If Mr. Cao loses his eyesight because of this, Ms. Qi may not be able to escape the blame. This matter can no longer be resolved in private, right and wrong, It is up to the government to decide."