Destroyed outside, gold and jade inside

Chapter 139 The food is not poisonous

"Do you want to drink, my lady? There are Tusu wine, yellow rattan wine, and green ant wine." The maid asked warmly.

There were men all around, and after the Holy Order ordered the banquet to start, the food didn't take a few mouthfuls, but they toasted each other across the food table.

Shen Xinniang slowly shook her head, "No need."

"Then lady, let's eat." The maid pushed the white jade plate in front of Shen Xiniang.

Shen Xinniang's dark eyes turned around her.

The maid bowed her head, as if she dared not look directly at her because she was avoiding her master.

Shen Xinniang's gaze rested on her for a moment, then she reached out to pick up the ivory chopsticks and picked up the cold dishes on the white jade plate.

The palace maid lowered her head, but raised her eyes a little.

When Shen Xinniang brought the chopsticks to her mouth, her fingers tightened subconsciously.

Shen Xinniang's chopsticks rested on her lips for a moment, but she put down the cold dish before she could eat it.

The maid lowered her head, and said a little embarrassedly: "But the food doesn't suit the lady's taste?"

Shen Xinniang kept staring at her, but asked an irrelevant question, "Is it your first day working in front of the palace?"

The palace maid was slightly taken aback, then slowly shook her head and said: "No, although the servant was transferred here for the Wanshou Festival banquet today, she used to work in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Is it because the lady thinks that the servant is not good at serving?"

Shen Xinniang was silent for a moment, "No, you are fine."

The maid let out a sigh of relief.

The men seemed to relax a bit more after drinking, and the voices of talking and laughing with each other overshadowed the voices here.

Shen Xinniang sat at the table, not very conspicuous in the Yanqing Palace.

"You are very good, so this dish is a reward for you." Shen Xinniang picked up the white jade plate in front of her and brought it to the maid.

The palace maid was slightly taken aback, and hurriedly kowtowed, "No way, madam! How can this be done?"

"Why not?" Shen Xiniang asked, looking at her with her head turned sideways.

"My lady... this, this is a banquet given by the emperor in the palace. The status of slaves and servants is low, so they are really unworthy." The maid kowtowed, took a deep breath, and said seriously.

"Since it's a banquet given to us by the Holy One, everything on the table is mine. If I want to reward others, the Holy One will not disagree." Shen Xinniang said slowly, "Give it to me, don't dare to give it to others." Resignation. Are you going to reject the master's reward?"

The maid opened her mouth, but no words came out.

The long and slender fingers she pressed on the thick carpet trembled slightly.

Shen Xinniang stubbornly held the plate in front of her, as if she wouldn't put it down if she didn't take it.

After a moment of stalemate, the maid straightened up and took the plate with both hands.

Shen Xinniang put the pair of exquisite ivory chopsticks on the plate.

The maid's hand shook slightly, and the ivory chopsticks were round and smooth, rolling to one side.The palace maid hurriedly raised her hand to grab the chopsticks, but her face became more and more ugly.

"Is it different in the palace than in the mansion? In the mansion, if the servants are rewarded by the master, they must be overwhelmed and overjoyed if they are rewarded by the master!" Dan Xin stared and said, "How come the maids in the palace are like Very reluctant?"

The maid hurriedly shook her head, "No, it's not..."

"Then you want to eat?" Dan Xin stared at her closely.

The palace maid picked up the chopsticks, the white and slightly yellow tip of the chopsticks trembled slightly, she took a deep breath, as if eating is something that requires a lot of courage.Picking up the cold dishes on the white jade plate, his knuckles turned pale.

With a shake of the chopsticks, the food he picked up fell into the plate.

Shen Xinniang no longer looked at her, her eyes fell on the food table, as if she was thinking about something quietly.

But Dan Xin, who was kneeling on the side, stared at her with piercing eyes, as if telling her not to fool around, she had to eat this dish, and she had to eat it even if she didn't.

The blood on the maid's face gradually faded, and the two hands holding the plate and chopsticks were shaking more and more.

She struggled to pick up the dish again and brought it to her mouth, when she wanted to repeat the old trick.

Dan Xin said at the right time, "If this lady-in-law's hand is unsteady, the servant girl can help her!"

The palace maid shook her hands, but she didn't dare to let the dish fall into the plate again, and slowly brought it to her mouth, she couldn't help closing her eyes, she didn't know what kind of struggle she was doing in her heart.

When Shen Xinniang also turned her face to look at her, she finally let go of her hands.

The white jade plate landed on the carpet with a clang.The cold dishes on the plate were also spilled on the carpet, and the ivory chopsticks she let go smashed on the white jade plate, making two crisp clangs.

People near the table looked sideways.

The palace maid kowtowed, "My lady, please forgive me, my lady, please forgive me..."

The sound of crying is so pitiful.

The people at the side didn't understand why, after a while, the entire Yanqing Palace fell silent, and everyone's curious eyes focused on one place.

Shen Xinniang's expression was flat, Dan Xin's expression was angry, but the palace maid kowtowed and begged for mercy.

"What happened?" The little emperor looked at Shen Xiniang worriedly and asked.

"My lady, please spare my life... My lady, please forgive my life..." The maid repeated only this sentence, as if Shen Xinniang had made things difficult for her unreasonably.

"The lady just rewarded you with food, but you refused to eat, deliberately knocked over the food, and the lady didn't even reprimand you." Dan Xin sneered, "Why are you begging for mercy?"

The maid just kept crying and didn't speak.

Shen Xinniang, however, picked up the plate, picked up the ivory chopsticks that rolled aside, picked up vegetables from the cold dishes on the food table, put them on the white jade plate, and brought the white jade plate and ivory chopsticks to the court lady under the watchful eyes of everyone. , "Let's eat."

Everyone's eyes became full of meaning.

The maid kowtowed repeatedly, her forehead hitting the thick carpet, making a dull sound.

"Why don't you eat?" Shen Xinniang asked gently.

"I don't dare, I don't dare..." The maid shook her head again and again.

Uncle Yu suddenly got up and walked slowly, his eyes fell on the food table in front of Shen Xiniang, "Madam Shen thinks the food in the palace is not good? Do you want someone to try it?"

"Uncle Guo thinks too much." Shen Xinniang met his gaze, and said unhurriedly, "It's just that this maid served well, I just rewarded her with a royal banquet. How can there be anything bad in the palace? "

Yu Tai was blocked, and soon chuckled and said: "Your Majesty, the Holy Majesty is here, and Lady Shen is the reward, it depends on whether this court lady is lucky enough to bear it."

"Your Majesty doesn't allow this concubine to handle the matter by herself?" Shen Xinniang asked slowly.The clear voice echoed in the hall, and the hall was unusually quiet, and everyone could hear it clearly.

"How could it be? Lady Shen can handle it on her own! I promise!" The little emperor immediately said with a lot of face.

Yu Tai pursed his lips and looked at the court lady, "Since it's a reward from the master, why don't you accept it?"

The maid raised her head hesitantly, her face was devoid of even half a trace of blood, and she took the plate and ivory chopsticks with trembling hands.

At this time, Dan Xin was not the only one looking at her, almost everyone in the hall had their eyes on her, as if there was a sharp knife on her back.

The maid's eyes were full of struggles, she hoped that this was a nightmare, and she would wake up from the nightmare before the food was delivered to her mouth.

But the silence in the hall continued, and the gazes of everyone continued.

When she brought the chopsticks to her mouth, the nightmare did not wake up, and everything was still going on.

As if she was about to be driven crazy, she threw the plate and chopsticks on the ground, turned around and ran out of the hall.

Everyone's eyes widened, and they all looked at the food table in front of them.Some people's faces have changed, and some people even started to hold their throats and vomit.

"Take it down—" Fang Yan scolded.

Before the maid could rush out of the Yanqing Hall, she was captured and pressed her hands on the hall with her hands cut behind her back.

The little emperor's face also turned serious, "Why don't you use the imperial banquet? Why don't you just ask for it?"

The voice of someone in the hall clasping their throats and gagging again and again made the originally solemn Yanqing Hall look very awkward and strange.

Even if he was in a good mood, there was no smile on his face at this time.

Qin Qingshan was the first to stand up on behalf of the merchants and said: "The Holy Majesty invited me and other merchants to a banquet. It was originally intended to be flattering. We are also very happy. We don't want to rejuvenate the country, but we also want to do a little bit for the court. But I never thought about it." However, this banquet will be a Hongmen banquet full of murderous intentions?"

The merchants stood up one after another, with an imposing manner.

The atmosphere in Yanqing Hall was immediately tense and stagnant, like a taut string that would break immediately if the force was not appropriate.

"It's true." Fang Yan also left his position, walked down the steps slowly, and stopped in front of the maid with clean boots.

"The food is not poisonous..." the maid tremblingly said.But the sound of vomiting in the hall didn't stop, she sniffed her nose, "It's Mrs. Shen's ivory chopsticks, which are soaked in poison, and they are highly poisonous."

There was a sound of breathing in the hall.At any rate, the sound of vomiting stopped. Although the hall smell was not very pleasant, it didn't sound so disgusting at all.

"You are so brave!" Uncle Yu stepped forward and said, "Who ordered you to murder Mrs. Shen?"

As Uncle Yu Guo said, he kicked the court lady who was kneeling on the ground.

He has practiced martial arts all the year round, his kick is quick and quick, if he kicks down, the palace lady may not die, and she is not far away from death.

King Qi turned over and raised his legs, hooking his feet around the bend of Uncle Yu's legs.

The court lady was barely able to avoid Uncle Yu's kick, but the force of the wind brought by Uncle Yu's feet still shook the maid to one side, rolled over twice, and then crawled to her knees again.

Uncle Yu made another move, "Bold servant girl, no one can save you today!"

King Qi refused to give an inch, his legs were fierce, and he tried to block Uncle Yu with every move.

"What is King Qi doing?" Yu Tai asked.

King Qi sneered, "This is not a trivial matter. Uncle Guo is very clear that the invitation of merchants to enter the palace today is for the sake of the court! It is for the development of Daliang. This court lady is actually using poison to harm people. What she intends is not personal grievances." However, it is Daliang's court leader who corrupted her! His Majesty's great ambitions! How can she just kill her like this?"

(End of this chapter)