My bad words were heard by all the civil and military officials in the court

On the second day of moving into the Minister of Justice's Mansion, Ye Shengxin and Emperor Jingming received news from the palace through Zhang Liang.

The Eighteenth Prince was found to be pretending to be sick by the Empress Dowager's imperial physician. So the Empress Dowager asked the nanny beside her to take the Eighteenth Prince to the Cining Palace on the grounds that he had deceived the Emperor and did not serve his grandmother. Calculating the time, it turned out that he had been kneeling for exactly one hour as punishment.

“Cough cough… cough cough… cough…”

Ye Xingxin was drinking porridge when he heard the news. After catching his breath, he angrily said, "Didn't the Queen Mother have a stroke? How can she still be a demon with that crooked mouth and slanted eyes?"

"Calculate the time. It's about eight o'clock in the morning. The sun has just risen. Why did this happen in the palace? What time did they get up? How can they still have so much energy despite lack of sleep?"

Emperor Jingming didn't understand Ye Shengxin's time calculation, but after calculating the time, he realized that the masters and servants in the palace had started working before dawn, so they really had the energy.

Zhang Liang's eyelids twitched. "Although the Queen Mother had a stroke, the imperial physician's acupuncture and moxibustion for a few days has shown that it does not affect her speech. It's just that she can't hold back her saliva when she speaks, so she needs to cover her mouth with a handkerchief."

Ye Xingxin stuffed a large mouthful of porridge into his mouth, wondering: "The Queen Mother is in a high position and has great power. Why would she want to torment Luo Shan when he is fine? Especially since Luo Shan is still ill, isn't she afraid of being known as unkind?"

Speaking of this, Zhang Liang looked at Hao Duanzhuang, who had given him some instructions. Hao Duanzhuang put down the hot pancake and explained:

"When I explained the Queen Mother to you earlier, I mentioned the source of the Queen Mother's bad smell. It was because she once went to the Crown Prince's East Palace in the middle of the night to steal me. Unfortunately, her plan was ruined, and she was discovered by her son and grandson, and she lost face."

There was only one pancake left, so Ye Shengxin quickly took it and ate it while agreeing, "That's it, then what? What does it have to do with what happened today?"

Emperor Jingming put down his chopsticks and wondered, "The one who ruined the Queen Mother's plan was the Eighteenth Prince?"

Hao Duanzhuang gave him a smart look and nodded.

Hearing this title several times, the zombie ancestor shook his head left and right: "Eighteenth Prince, who is it?"

Zhang Liang patted his hands and said, "Ancestor, just drink yours and be quiet." Then he stuffed the teacup of chicken blood into his hands. The zombie ancestor grinned and drank it in one gulp.

Hao Duanzhuang: "The specific reason is that the Eighteenth Prince had some grievances with the big and small donkeys. The Eighteenth Prince was so angry that he went to the East Palace on the same night as the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother was earlier than him and later than him. He came with firecrackers, blew up the donkeys to get revenge, and then ran away, which exposed the Queen Mother."

"That day, the Queen Mother had no words to express her suffering. All the grievances and tortures she had suffered were caused by the Eighteenth Prince. Now that the Emperor was ill in bed, the Queen Mother had suffered even more. In addition, she knew that the two large warehouses had been robbed. She was almost angry to death.

"It just so happened that the Eighteenth Prince returned to the palace. He recalled the past and felt that this was an opportunity to vent his anger."

"It is a coincidence that Luo Shan is now suffering on behalf of the Eighteenth Prince."

Emperor Jingming was stunned. He didn't expect the reason to be like this.

Ye Xingxin frowned: "Do we need to pick up Luo Shan and send the real one back?"

Emperor Jingming shook his head. "Once Xuanyuan Huhan returns, we will be exposed. Then the imperial guards will come to hunt us down in the capital."

"Four people who can change their faces at will. Even if the court officials don't know the reason at first, the Zhou Kingdom has a national master who can summon ghosts. Given time, we will definitely be found by the powerful national master. What will happen to Duanzhuang then? We..."

The unfinished words made Ye Shengxin silent.

It also made Zhang Liang silent.

He really wanted to tell His Majesty that the Imperial Master was a friendly party, but he couldn't say it, and in the end he could only sigh.

Under the sky, Prime Minister Shangguan said: "Your Majesty is wise."

The other ministers nodded, His Majesty was right to worry.

"Then what should we do? We can't let Luoshan suffer in vain." Ye Shengxin was depressed.

Emperor Jingming asked Hao Duanzhuang to take out the golden abacus they had found in the Queen Mother's secret room. He stroked the beads with names engraved on them with his fingertips and said in a cold voice:

"If the secret above can be cracked, it is still unknown whether the Queen Mother will still be the Queen Mother."

Speaking of this, Ye Xingxin was confused again. She asked Zhang Liang, "Didn't we hand over the account book of the embezzlement of military funds by the Queen Mother? Why hasn't the palace taken any action yet? Is the old emperor so useless?"

Zhang Liang:......

Ministers:...

Wait, His Majesty actually got such an important thing from the Queen Mother, how come they didn’t know about it.

Oh, now I remember, they went back home to wash up that night and missed this big show.

However, the next day, when he learned that the Empress Dowager's warehouse had been robbed, he was so shocked that his eyes almost popped out of his head.

Your Majesty is very brave and much more daring than before he lost his memory, and he also has enough excuses to apply in "filial piety".

In this case, it is not a bad thing that Your Majesty has lost his memory. At least it has eliminated several difficult and tough bones to chew when he was in power.

After thinking all this over in their minds, the ministers looked up at the sky, wanting to know how His Majesty would decipher the newly created characters.

Zhang Liang explained with a frown in his mind: "If this happens to an official, his family will be confiscated and his clan will be exterminated, but if it happens to the empress dowager..." Zhang Liang glanced at Emperor Jingming. The look of wanting to say something but hesitating made a gleam of light flash in Emperor Jingming's eyes.

He said, "Don't worry, Master Zhang. After we have dug up someone else's grave, we are brothers in life and death. No matter what the future holds, your current words and deeds will not affect our future relationship."

When this matter was mentioned again, Zhang Liang's forehead was even more black. He coughed and continued, "But if it happened to the Queen Mother, it would be a scandal that the royal family could not make public. This matter could at most make the Emperor alienate the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother would behave herself and compensate the military pay. More importantly, the word "filial piety" would weigh on her, and she couldn't do that."

"Let's not talk about this matter. The Queen Mother herself may not know that the things in her secret room have been stolen because of the stroke."

After Zhang Liang finished explaining, the three people and the ghost had almost finished the food on the table. The little maid came in to clean up the food and served them tea.

The emperor also had his own frustrations, and Ye Xingxin understood. She fiddled with the abacus beads that might have accused the empress dowager of a greater crime, and asked, "How do you think we can trace the text here?"

Emperor Jingming held the lid of the teapot with his fingers, and the edge of the tea floated over the foam on the surface of the tea. He said calmly, "We have never robbed the imperial tomb. What do you think? How about we go and take a look at the imperial tomb?"

The ministers and Zhang Liang were shocked and pale. Zhang Liang said anxiously, "Big Duck, you can't do that. This is a matter of heaven and earth being struck by lightning. Even the nine clans can't cover it up."

Emperor Jingming laughed, "Master Zhang has misunderstood. The imperial mausoleum I was talking about is the imperial mausoleum of the previous dynasty."

The ministers breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, their Majesty knew the importance of the matter and did not really do anything that would dig his own grave and leave him infamy for eternity.

As for the imperial tombs of the previous dynasty, Your Majesty may dig them if you wish.