Chapter 20 Chapter Sixteen
Di Gong took a closer look, the arm was white and thin, and there was a white jade bracelet on the wrist. ——It turned out that a room was set up inside the water gate, which was called a water prison.
Duke Di asked softly, "Who is being imprisoned here?"
The other arm also stretched out, and a woman's face was vaguely seen in the darkness, with water submerged up to her chest.Although the woman was tear-stained, she was dignified.Di Gong looked again, it turned out to be Wang Momo.
"Shut up, Mother Wang, I'm Doctor Liang." Duke Di instructed softly, lest she make a loud noise and disturb the guards.
"Why does Doctor Liang come here day and night?" Nanny Wang stopped her tears and asked softly.
"I'm working for the third princess' entrustment. Why did the mother eat people and plot to get into this water prison?"
"It's strange to say, but after eating two packs of pills from you, I fell into a coma and became unconscious. The imperial doctor came to check my pulse, and said that it was useless. He sent someone to carry me out of the inner palace, and wanted to transport me to transform people. Seeing that I was still warm, the maids secretly hid me, but the eunuchs found me again, so they forcibly lifted me and fell into this water prison."
Di Gong said: "Someone must have poisoned the medicine and put you to death secretly.
That gangster is currently plotting to harm the third princess.Mammy, do you know who is the villain who framed you and the third princess? "
Wang Momo shook her head in confusion, and said: "In the inner palace, people's hearts are blocked like a mountain of overlapping, and no one knows who's details. Eunuch Lei and Director Wen only care about superficial matters. I really don't know who is trying to harm Third Princess, I never thought that they would regard me as a thorn in their eyes and a thorn in their flesh. I think I am really the only one in this deep palace who is the arm of the Third Princess, and yet I am in such a calamity again that I cannot escape." I couldn't help it. Tears fell like rain.
Di Gong said again: "When I came into the palace yesterday, Madam Wang, I only felt that Eunuch Lei and Director Wen were deeply jealous and deliberately leaked words to me, telling me to be wise and protect myself, and not to act rashly. I don't know who told the third princess about my coming to Qingchuan Town."
"It's Mr. Hulu. Mr. Hulu used to be the master of the Imperial Palace in the capital. He devoted himself to teaching the princes and princesses to read scriptures, and won the respect of the princes and princesses. Among all the students, Mr. Hulu admired the three princesses the most, and he often praised them in front of the emperor. She. Three years ago, the emperor gave this place to the third princess to live in. Mr. Calabash also bid farewell to the capital. Describe the friendship between master and apprentice. Mr. Lei and Mr. Wen have always respected Mr. Gourd, and he is an old acquaintance of the capital, so I never obstructed him. Mr. Gourd is a person who knows interesting things. He rarely enters the palace, and he is afraid of gossip. Today Princess Fansan was very anxious about the theft of the jade bead string. Yesterday he shot a ringing arrow at the pillar of the pavilion in the inner palace, with a letter attached to the arrow, asking her to entrust this matter to you. After the princess got the letter, she discussed it with me, so I Then your daughter came to the inn and quietly carried you into the palace. ——The third princess and Mr. Calabash had agreed that they would like to see each other, but they could shoot arrows at the gazebo on the palace wall in advance, and attach a book to pass on the message. Only my daughter and I know about this mechanism."
Mr. Di sighed: "So that's the case. I have found out that the thief who stole the jade beads was hired by a group of gangsters, and that gang was ordered by a devil in the palace. The thief was a young man. That night he Climbing up the palace wall from here, after stealing the jade beads outside the gazebo, he repented, hid the beads privately, and refused to hand them over, so he was tortured to death by those gangsters. Once he dies, the beads are useless The first case, no one knows where it is hidden. I am trying to find the jade bead string now, guessing where the young man may hide. But there is one thing I still don’t understand. If you want to harm the three princesses, why do you have to steal the jade bead string? If you don’t believe that the theft of this string of beads will cause a sudden estrangement between the Holy Majesty and the three princesses, on the contrary, you will underestimate the family relationship between father and daughter.”
Wang Momo thought for a while, and said: "The emperor made it clear when he gave the jade bead string to the third princess. This bead must not be given as a private gift. Private gift means choosing a son-in-law by oneself. The third princess is already around twenty years old. The emperor will give it to the third princess. The matter of choosing a son-in-law has also exhausted my mind, firstly I don't want to disobey the wishes of the third princess, and secondly I want to choose a son of a high-ranking official, who is both civil and military, outstanding in romance, and can add glory to the royal family."
"Everyone in the civil and military courts of the Manchu Dynasty is eager to try, and they want their nephew to be the son-in-law. Everyone knows that whoever is chosen as the son-in-law will be the most powerful person in the current dynasty. There are intrigues, slander and strife Needless to say. Let's say that the three princesses are disdainful of any of the civil and military children of the court, but they only have their eyes on the Yiwei Zhonglang General Kang Wenxiu in the forbidden army. General Kang is also very interesting, but he dare not tell the truth. The palace knows this. There is no shortage of people. The theft of the jade bead string, Lei Gonggong and Wen Zongguan must have suspected that the third princess gave it to General Kang privately. If such a publicity is made out, the capital has many eyes and ears, and it will definitely be reported. Tomorrow the three princesses will have no face when they see the emperor. That's right, if you can't get the jade bead string, the emperor will think that your daughter is useless and has insulted the family style. Not only will the third princess fall out of favor, but General Kang's life will be in danger. Therefore, the third princess is determined to recover the jade bead string and rescue General Kang. Preserve your reputation of innocence."
Di Gong nodded repeatedly, and said: "Don't worry, Wang Momo, I will try my best to find the jade beads back. I will go to the palace tomorrow before lunch to meet the three princesses. I will explain the details and get you out of prison."
Wang Momo looked gratefully at Di Gong, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "I heard from the third princess that the magistrate of Di Renjie, who is well-known all over the world, is under his feet. It's all over, and the third princess will be saved if I think about it. It's nothing for the old woman to suffer a little here, as long as the third princess can be saved, she will be locked up in this water prison for a lifetime." After saying that, he smiled with tears in his eyes.
Di Gongbao resigned, wading through the water and following the way he came from for a long time before he saw Ziqian's small sampan.