Dong Gong Mei

Chapter 217 The Queen Mother's Gift

The wind and snow turned suddenly.

The Zhai clothes Zhao Xiwei wore had wide sleeves, and the cold wind penetrated into her body like a poisonous snake, biting and entangled on her delicate and smooth skin. discomfort.

The sky was dim and gloomy, and a crow screamed and flew up to the palace.

Zhao Xiwei looked at the box in front of him, the crimson paint on it was as shocking as flowing blood.

I don't know if she is too sensitive, she even smelled the fishy, ​​sweet and warm breath in a trance.

Cold wind, flying snow, dark sky, crows, all of these make people feel like they are in a gloomy hell.

Zhao Xiwei shivered involuntarily.

This is a gift from the Queen Mother.

If she accepts it, who knows what's inside?
Although I feel that the queen mother is not the best time to attack me now, but who can guarantee that the queen mother must be a person who plays cards according to common sense?
What if it is contained in it, and it is really a hidden weapon that is poison, what should she do?
But if she doesn't accept it, she won't get any good results if she is charged with disobedience and unfilial piety - it is not impossible for the Queen Mother to reward her with a glass of poisoned wine.

Eunuch Chang's shrill voice sounded like a ghost: "Crown Princess, this is a good gift from the Queen Mother. Let me remind you, you have to take this treasure home, and you must take a bath and burn incense to enshrine it carefully. Take it lightly, otherwise this baby will lose its aura, don't you think?"

Zhao Xiwei woke up in an instant, and said: "What Eunuch Chang said is very true. The concubine intends to accept the reward from the Queen Mother, but today she is not in a good condition, and she has never brought the maid with her. If the concubine directly touches the treasure regardless of decency, it will not It's disrespectful to the Queen Mother."

With an idea, she took advantage of the loophole in Eunuch Chang's words.

Since such a precious gift needs to be "bathed and incensed to be carefully enshrined", then how can she pick up the box when her monthly letter comes?

——After all, the queen mother is not an ordinary elder, she represents the dignity of the royal family.

"This..." Eunuch Chang was choked by her, his gaze fell on Xueliu who was next to him, and he said with a sinister smile, "Since the Crown Princess is inconvenient, isn't there a ready-made maid here?"

After finishing speaking, she looked at the Queen Mother again: "This servant feels that it is the same to let this court lady help the Crown Princess to receive the reward."

"Quite." The queen mother caressed the nail cover on her fingertips, and said a word casually.

Xue Liu kowtowed again and again: "The queen mother spares her life, but the slaves dare not."

"Presumptuous!" Eunuch Chang sternly yelled, "This is an order from the Empress Dowager, how can you, a lowly maidservant, refuse it!"

Xueliu trembled for a moment: "Servant..."

The queen mother paused her fingers, the blade-like nails were shining brightly, she looked at the ruby ​​inlaid on it, and said "Huh?" from her nose

Xueliu only felt her eyes were stabbed by the ray of light, and hurriedly knocked her head vigorously: "Your servant takes orders!"

Holding the blood-colored box in her hand, she felt her whole body shivering.

But whether it's a hidden weapon or poison, she can't let go. Letting go is a death penalty.

The Queen Mother may not be able to kill the Crown Princess easily, but for her a little servant girl, she can kill her without even raising her eyelids.

The Empress Dowager's smiling voice sounded above her head: "Open the box, and let the Crown Princess take a good look at the gift from Ai's family."

Xueliu breathed a sigh of relief.

At least from the Queen Mother's tone, she didn't intend to kill her.

As soon as she pressed her finger on the box, the crow hovering over the palace suddenly screamed again: "Quack!"

Xue Liu's wrist trembled, and the box opened in response.

"what!!!!"

Xue Liu screamed, and she knocked the box over like a soldering iron.

A burst of blood gushed out.

Xueliu looked at the blood dripping from her hands, and at the box that fell on the ground, and suddenly said "Ah—" and then scrambled and shrunk to the corner of the wall.

She couldn't utter a complete sentence, she could only struggle and scream: "Ah! Ah!!"

Huang Siniang looked at the ground in surprise, and then her body went limp: "Ah!"

Even Concubine Xian let out a soft "ah" and covered her mouth with a handkerchief.

Fine snow covered the palace path thinly, and when the box was knocked over on the ground, a bright red bloodstain spilled from it.

The blood has not yet solidified, drop by drop, bright red and ferocious, especially shocking on the white snow.

Zhao Xiwei followed the bloodstains and landed on the side of the box.

It is black and white, black and white, and seems to be still circulating.

It's two eyeballs.

"Quack—" the crow screamed again, and then rushed straight into the sky.

Zhao Xiwei's fingernails were firmly embedded in the flesh, and she pinched her palm tightly until the skin was pierced, but she didn't feel any pain.

She looked at those two eyeballs with a pale face, only feeling that the bones of her whole body were trembling.

But she knew she couldn't fall down.

Even if she insisted, she had to hold on, and she couldn't show any panicked look in front of the queen mother.

Because this is her last dignity.

The Empress Dowager finally laughed softly, as pleasant as that voice could be.

Standing there, Zhao Xiwei seemed to have only a body left, and the little spirit left supported her, allowing her to maintain her basic hearing and vision.

She saw the empress dowager's face, which was like a human skin mask, slowly enlarged in front of her: "The gift of mourning the family, the princess must remember it for a lifetime, and never forget it in this life."

She heard the Empress Dowager's voice, like a blunt knife, stabbing slowly into her heart: "Chang Ying, do you still remember? When Ai's family was the Empress, there was such a beautiful woman who died beside the Emperor."

"My maidservant remembers that it was Lin Meiren who, relying on the late emperor's love, felt that she had flown into the sky. Once she ran into you in the imperial garden, and you slapped her mouth. She still dared to cry and said that she was going to tell the late emperor. Angry, I simply gouged out her eyes."

"Yes, Aijia had her eyes gouged out." The queen mother smiled softly.

When mentioning such a bloody past, her tone was as comfortable as mentioning a glass of fine wine, "From now on, no one in the entire harem dares to fight against Aijia."

Concubine Xian supported the Empress Dowager's hand, trembling.

The queen mother glanced at Concubine Xian, and asked leisurely: "Concubine Xian, do you think Aijia has gone too far?"

Concubine Xian was frightened for a while, she quickly lowered her eyes, and said obediently: "What is the empress dowager talking about, that beauty knows no bounds, you just asked her for a pair of eyes, which is already a great kindness."

"Well... the Ai family thinks so too." The Queen Mother nodded with satisfaction, looked at Zhao Xiwei, and said word by word: "The princess is still too soft-hearted. , it’s better to dig it out.”

Zhao Xiwei bit her lips tightly, and firmly locked the overwhelming fishy smell in her throat in her throat.

(End of this chapter)