Chapter 91: There’s something wrong with tutelage ah!
After leaving the Marquis’ gate, Wu Xiuping called out to He Minhong, “Uncle, do we really have to go into the palace?”
“Naturally, we are going to enter the palace.” He Minhong turned back with a serious face, “These years because the women are working outside, causing a lot of trouble, right now the empress dowager desperately wants to keep Shi En to stay in the Ministry of Rites to take charge of the Flower Moon Society, taking advantage of today’s Zhao Su’s chance to cause trouble, we can be good on a book, give the emperor a reminder of how can we not go?!”
“Then can Ping’er not go?”
Earlier in the Marquis’ residence, when Wu Xiuping heard the Zhao family’s subordinate report that the one who took away Zhao Su and the eight of them was the Emperor, he was immediately scared out of his wits!
He never thought that that scary looking person would be the emperor, he was the one who had been kicked by the emperor himself! If he went into the palace, would the emperor still help him?
The key was that he didn’t dare to tell He Minhong!
“Stop nagging! Hurry up and get on the carriage!”
He Minhong scolded sternly, and then went on first.
Wu Xiuping had no choice but to get on.
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After Zhao Su rolled to run, the emperor also changed his clothes and began to read the folders.
Not a moment later the eunuch came in to inform: “Emperor, He Minhong He Lord seeks an audience.”
“Pass.”
He Minhong stepped into the palace door, first toward the imperial case behind a deep salute: “Your Majesty, I want to sue the imperial guard Zhao Su gangs up, street murder, beating official children!”
The emperor raised his head, looked at him for a moment and said, “I remember that she often outside the trouble, which thing are you talking about?”
“It is the matter of Zhao Su leading the guards to beat the grandson of the minister, Wu Xiuping, to serious injuries at Dongxing Building in the morning today!”
The Emperor said, “When the incident at Dong Xing Lou happened today, Zhao Su and those guards were not on duty, if they have overstepped their bounds, Mr. Shangshu can go and seek out their home to discuss the matter.”
“Your Majesty, I just came out of Marquis Qingyun’s residence.”
“How was it? What did Marquis Qingyun say?”
“Marquis Qingyun not only didn’t admit that it was Zhao Su’s fault, he didn’t even offer a hint of apology! If it wasn’t for this, I wouldn’t have come to the palace to complain about this! Your Majesty, although Zhao Su and the few of them are not on duty today, they are after all the guards of the Qianqing Palace, I still ask Your Majesty to make a decision for my nephew!”
The Emperor pondered for a moment, “Where is He Aiqing’s nephew?”
“He is waiting outside the palace gates.”
“Summon him to meet.”
The pig-faced Wu Xiuping quickly summoned into the palace.
The emperor raised his eyes to look at him, only to see that the actual has been bruised and swollen, probably in order to keep the original state, was torn to the east a piece of west a piece of clothing has not been changed down.
Although Wu Xiuping has a grandfather who is a minister, but he has not seen the emperor, into the palace this way has been afraid of the feet trembling, and then heard here two knees a soft, kneeled down!
“Little, little kowtow to the emperor!”
He Minhong had not seen the Wu Xiuping who was so completely abashed, and looked at him in surprise.
The emperor raised an eyebrow, “So he is Lord He’s nephew.”
He Minhong said, “Has the emperor not seen him before?”
“There has been a meeting.”
The emperor took a sip of tea, “What’s going on in Dongxing Building?”
Wu Xiuping was still immersed in fear and only shivered, not daring to raise his head.
Si Xi scolded, “The emperor asked you, why don’t you answer quickly?”
Wu Xiuping shivered and kowtowed, “Back to the Emperor, today, today, my little one and my cousin wanted to go to Dong Xing Lou to book a private room, and we just happened to have a full room, and then we found Zhao Su and the guards upstairs.
“We went up to greet, do not want, do not want to Zhao Su on us sneering, small moment of anger is not enough to pull out the sword, but it is only to scare them, I did not expect Zhao Su even directly lifted the table, cups and plates of soup soup pounced on the small all over the body of …… and then they beat the small into this. ”
He Minhong heard this has been unable to resist: “Emperor! This Zhao Su playing small in the capital is famous muddy, now is more and more unruly, she even dared to lead the imperial guards outside the trouble! A woman, what kind of behavior is this?”
The emperor was listening, his fingertips gently tapping on the desktop. “Why are you standing there and letting people beat you for nothing?”
Wu Xiuping paused, “My youngest later, later returned the favor.”
“Since you fought back, that’s fighting each other. Fighting with each other, then both sides have to show up and smooth out the ins and outs.”
“Your Majesty, the Marquis of Qingyun and the World Son seek an audience.”
Just as the words fell here, Si Xi came in and reported.
The emperor said, “Pass in.” After saying this, he looked downwards, “You want to sue Zhao Su, and it just so happens that Marquis Qing Yun is here as well, so you can talk about it face to face.”
He Minhong said, “Your Majesty, Marquis Qingyun is protective of his shortcomings, I can’t say the result.”
“Then what does Aiqing He intend to do?”
“Your Majesty, the matter of the beating, the perpetrator must have a statement.”
The emperor nodded slightly, “Indeed, in a fight like this, one side alone can’t fight. It’s always wrong for those eight people to strike, so just now I’ve already arrested them all back and have already imposed a punishment.”
Wu Xiuping immediately glanced at He Minhong, the meaning of the emperor’s words, sounded as if he had already imposed the punishment and the matter could be finalized?
The imperial guards were the emperor’s men, and if the emperor had punished them, could they ask for anything else?
Moreover, if you think deeply about the emperor’s words, “one side alone can’t fight”, how does it sound like there is also the meaning of letting the He family also dispose of some Wu Xiuping?
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He Zong in the house heard that He Minhong left the marquis, and went to the palace to report the news, after sitting for a while, also took the sedan chair to the palace.
Under the palace door just well met Qing Yun Hou father and son, each other know is to come to the palace for what, due to the state of affairs is not quite clear, others did not say much.
Qianqing Palace, He Minhong heard the emperor’s words also have a moment of silence.
Then he said: “emperor, today this incident exposed many problems, in addition to the event itself is right or wrong, there is the most important point is that Zhao Su does not know martial arts, why she was able to instigate to move so many imperial guards, fight for her?”
The Marquis of Qingyun who came into the palace just heard this, and entered the palace with an arrow step, first greeted the emperor, and then turned his head towards He Minhong: “What does Lord He mean by this? You said that Wu Xiuping was beaten because Sister Su instigated the guards, what evidence do you have? Is it possible to listen to Wu Xiuping’s words and decide that it was Sister Su’er who was at fault?”
Here he turned to the Emperor, “Your Majesty, may I ask where the guards are? I would like to ask them to come out and confront them face to face!”
The emperor raised his chin with Si Xi, “Go summon them.”
Si Xi bowed and retreated.
Zhao Su had already run three laps with Pei Zhan and the others outside the Noon Gate, she was an exercise junkie, people ran over in one lap, she had only gotten most of the way there and rested twice. Pei Zhan and the others then slowed down their speed, at least it was to make her lag behind not so ugly.
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