Feng Gouqing, after abandoning, walk alone in the world

Chapter 33
"It's gone!" Gu Ling's shock was no small matter. Regardless of Mu Ting still sitting in front of him, he stood up suddenly.

She pushed away the maidservant in front of her, rushed to the closet where the imperial gifts were usually placed, and searched for it herself.

Mu Ting watched with cold eyes, without saying a word, he reached out to pick up the Bitan Piaoxue that was placed by the table, and took a sip slowly.

He has a lot of patience, the reason for this, even if the palace is turned upside down, he still needs to find out the truth.

"Where is it?" Gu Ling was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead, and his chest heaved sharply. She searched desperately in the closet, but she threw all the clothes and jewelry that she cherished on the floor without hesitation.

"Your Majesty, the servants have checked it several times, and the white jade Buddha statue is really not here." Several maids sobbed softly, terrified in their hearts.

For theft in the palace, the maidservants are the first to be found, who can slap their mouths at the slightest and be killed with the stick at the worst.

Thinking of the thousands of terrifying punishments in Yeting Palace, several maidservants couldn't help shivering in unison, looking at each other and looking at you, all flustered.

"Concubine Ling, how is it?" Mu Ting asked calmly amidst the panic in the room.

Gu Ling's shoulders stiffened. She knew Mu Ting's habits well. This was a sign of his anger. He always only called her "Qingqing", and only when he was angry would he call her "Concubine Ling".

Gu Ling's face turned as pale as paper. She really couldn't figure out who was going to harm her, and besides a few trusted court ladies, there was no one else who had access to the place where she usually kept the Jade Buddha.

But it is absolutely impossible for these trusted palace ladies to betray themselves.

Gu Ling bit her lips tightly, raised her head hastily, walked lightly in front of Mu Ting, knelt down delicately and helplessly, and said in a crying voice, "Your Majesty, my concubine has been wronged!"

"Oh?" Mu Ting sneered, "You mean I was wrong?"

Gu Ling was taken aback. In a panic, she uttered such rebellious words. She quickly knelt down and cried softly, "Your Majesty... please forgive me, my concubine is really... really yes……"

Suddenly, out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at the trembling court ladies next to her, and she suddenly suffocated her breath!
In her palace, there was an inner ghost! !

"Tell me, why are you harming me!" Gu Ling stretched out her slender hand, and pointed her green fingers straight at the court ladies.

"Your Majesty, I have been wronged by this servant!" Several court ladies immediately knelt down on the ground, shaking like chaff.

Gu Ling was angry and impatient, full of anger but it was inconvenient to yell in front of Mu Ting, so he could only cry in a soft voice, "You guys eat all kinds of things, I don't treat you poorly, why did you steal this?" palace stuff."

"You are wronged, empress, the slaves are really wronged!" Several court ladies immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately.

Gu Ling knelt in front of the imperial court in grief, and kept wiping her tears with her little hand holding a brocade handkerchief. Her delicate face was full of tears, and her mournful appearance was simply touching.

"Your Majesty, my concubine is innocent."

As soon as Mu Ting raised his hand, Zhao Quan, who was following beside him, stepped forward and said with a smile, "Your Majesty, I don't blame the Emperor for being furious. This white jade Buddha statue was rewarded by the Emperor himself, but recently it was discovered that it appeared outside the palace. At the auction, it was sold for a sky-high price."

Zhao Quan slapped haha, "Mother, the things in the palace are being dumped among the people and even auctioned off, but it's slapping the face of the royal family and the emperor."

Gu Ling's face turned pale: "Your Majesty, this matter was definitely not done by my concubine."

Gu Ling took a few steps on his knees, pulled Mu Ting's clothes with tears like rain, and begged, "The concubine knows that the palace is not strictly governed, and such a big event happened, the concubine must investigate clearly, so that this matter can be resolved." A clear explanation!"

Seeing her appearance with pear blossoms and rain, Mu Ting's heart also softened. After pondering for a long time, he finally couldn't bear it, so he stretched out his hand to pull her up.

"Tell me, who has unclean hands and feet." Gu Ling stood up, with tears still on his face, but stood coldly in front of the court ladies, "As long as I tell the truth, I will give you a lighter punishment."

The maids in the palace also couldn't say it, the white jade Buddha statue that had been locked in the closet had disappeared, which was really strange.

But one thing is certain, that is, there must be an inner ghost in the palace.

"If you don't say it, don't blame me for being rude." Gu Ling's face darkened, and he really resented the people in his palace for not being up to date. He immediately ordered someone to call the maids in charge, and put the torture tools in front of the palace ladies. .

Seeing the whip in front of them, the palace maids all turned pale with fright, kowtowed and kowtowed on the ground.

One of the smarter maids said in a trembling voice in order not to be punished, "Your Majesty, servant...the servant vaguely saw someone sneaking into the palace that night."

Gu Ling choked for breath, and asked softly, "Who is it!!"

The maid was frightened by her, and suddenly trembled and couldn't speak.

Seeing her maid so useless, Gu Ling was also anxious and angry, but in the face of the inconvenience of the Holy Majesty, she could only slow down and say, "Say it, as long as you tell the truth, I will keep you safe, even if you say something wrong, it doesn't matter. If you find out the real culprit, I will reward you a lot."

With Concubine Linggui's promise in front of the emperor, although the maid was afraid, she also knew that if she kept silent, she and these maids would be beaten to death on the spot.

She went all out and pointed at Xiuxue who was standing beside Gu Ling, "The person I saw that night seemed to be sister Xiuxue."

Gu Ling suddenly turned around, and saw that the person being accused turned out to be Xiuxue, and her pretty face changed with anger: "Xiuxue, the Palace of Losing Money has treated you well, yet you actually took revenge on this Palace!"

Xiuxue already had ghosts in her heart, she panicked when she heard the words, threw herself down in front of Gu Ling and cried, "Your Majesty, you're not a slave."

"The stolen goods are all there, how dare you argue!" Gu Ling reprimanded.

"Why do you want to kill me?" Xiuxue was anxious, and immediately shouted at the maid, "I have never had any grudges against you."

The palace maid cried and said, "Sister Xiuxue, the slaves are not talking in vain, if I don't tell you clearly what happened in the palace, I'm afraid the slaves will not survive today."

Although Gu Ling was annoyed, he was also a little suspicious, "Xiu Xue, tell me honestly, where exactly were you, what did you do, and who were you with at that time? As long as there are witnesses, you can tell and you can prove your innocence. .”

"I...I..." Xiuxue was in a panic at this moment. She had stolen the white jade Buddha statue to sell. At that time, who could prove it.

Seeing Xiuxue's appearance, Gu Ling also understood a little bit in his heart. He only hated the maid he had trained for not being up to date, and what was even more annoyed was that Xiuxue was a dowry maid brought by her. Slap yourself in the face.

Gu Ling turned around and knelt down in front of Mu Ting, tears rolling down his face in mourning, "Your Majesty, I blame my concubine for not being able to teach me well, but for letting such dirty things happen in the palace!"

She wiped her tears, her eyes were already swollen from crying, "My concubine is deeply favored by the emperor, and I also deeply feel the grace of heaven. I don't want to share the worries of the emperor. Qingqing only wishes to be by the emperor's side in this life, even if it's just Looking from afar, the courtiers and concubines are already satisfied. All kinds of objects bestowed by the emperor are regarded as treasures by the courtiers and concubines, and they are precious and precious collections. How could such a disaster happen in the palace, and they stole the white jade behind their backs? Buddha statues, sell them outside the palace for money!"

She raised her head, and said sobbingly, "The concubine is to blame for death, but before the emperor punishes the concubine, let the concubine deal with this lowly maid with dirty hands and feet!"

With that said, Gu Ling stood up and ordered coldly to the maid in charge, "Hit me, I will beat this lowly maidservant to death today!!"

The burly lady in charge made a promise, stepped forward with a whip in her hand, and raised high the brine-soaked cowhide whip, about to hit Xiuxue.

Looking at the shiny black whip, Xiuxue was so frightened that she fell to the ground limply, and shouted with all her strength, "Your Majesty, please forgive me, the matter of stealing the Jade Buddha was instigated by the Empress Dowager. !"

Xiuxue's words were like a huge boulder falling out of thin air on the calm water surface, and the ripples caused caused huge waves.

Not only the maids in the palace were stunned, but even Gu Ling froze on the spot, clutching the brocade handkerchief in his hand in astonishment.

Mu Ting's face was livid, and there was a hint of wind and thunder rolling in his eyes. He slapped the small pineapple table beside him heavily, causing the tea to splash everywhere.

"Quickly pass on the queen, order her to come here immediately!!"

The little eunuch who was waiting outside the palace did not dare to neglect in the slightest, knowing that there was bound to be a disturbance in the palace, he hurried to Fengqi Palace without touching the ground.

When the eunuch rushed to Fengqi Palace in a frenzy, Su Mianyue was playing Pai Gow with her maids in the courtyard.

"I won again, how about it?" Satisfied, Su Mianyue took the pile of money on the table into her arms.

"Miss, your skill is really high." Bi Wu said with a sad face, almost half of her monthly case was won by Su Mianyue.

Chunhua Qiuyue also looked bitter, and they also lost a lot.

Just as Su Mianyue was happily busy collecting the money, there was a buzzer from outside the palace, and then a little eunuch with a flustered expression hurried in.

"I have seen the empress, the emperor sent you to go to Weiyang Palace as soon as possible."

Mu Ting is looking for her now?What's the matter?

Su Mianyue's mind turned, she couldn't figure out what Mu Ting was going to do, but the emperor ordered her to go again, so she had to lift her long skirt and sit on the phoenix sedan chair, "Go to Weiyang Palace!"

If it's gone, it's safe, although Su Mianyue doesn't know when it happened, but from the words of the little eunuch beside the sedan chair, she vaguely has a clue in her heart, presumably it has something to do with her previous incident.

What are you afraid of? At worst, she just refuses to admit it.

The palace people didn't stop all the way, for fear of making mistakes, the phoenix sedan chair soon stopped outside the palace.

Su Mianyue adjusted the queen's clothes with red embroidered phoenix, supported the phoenix crown, and then held the maid's hand, and walked slowly towards Weiyang Palace.

As soon as she walked into the palace, Su Mianyue saw Mu Ting's handsome face as dark as the bottom of a pot, and then looked at the crowd of people kneeling in the palace, big and small, she understood a little bit, but she pretended to be nonchalant, He bowed to Mu Ting, "The concubine has seen the emperor."

(End of this chapter)