Empress Jinghua: The eunuch is nine thousand years old

Chapter 204

"Watching the punishment?" Xia Zijin thought about it for a while, and then remembered what Xiaokui was talking about.

After Qin Guiren was sentenced for the incident, the sentence of car splitting prescribed by Ming Shengdi was supposed to be executed five days later, but Qin Guiren was very afraid of death, and lied to him that he was pregnant before leaving. pregnant.

Everyone knows that her "adulterant" Xiao Huaizi is an eunuch, and it is absolutely impossible for her to conceive, and Ming Shengdi is over sixty, if a little prince is really born, that is another matter up.

As a result, the car cracking punishment was eased again, and Ming Shengdi ordered people to fish Guiren Qin out of the sky prison and put him back in Zhaohui Palace. In his heart, he still couldn't pass the test of Guiren Qin giving him a green hat, and he was extremely unhappy. He was willing to see Qin Guiren, but entrusted the empress with full authority to examine the condition of the fetus in her womb.

How did you know that Qin Guiren was lying, that the pulse condition of the happy pulse was all faked by medicine, and wanted to take advantage of the middle of the night, when the guards of the imperial guards were loose, they rolled up and slipped out of the palace to escape for their lives.

I never thought that I would be caught right after I left the North Palace Gate, so the matter was revealed. In his rage, Ming Shengdi directly changed the car cracking punishment to cannon fire, and forced the concubines in the harem to observe the criminal law. The weight of killing chickens and monkeys is not heavy enough, so a second nobleman from Qin came out of the harem.

Xia Zijin sighed in her heart, that Qin Guiren is also a strange woman, knowing that she is guilty of aggravating the crime, but she will have troubles later on, the fire is really more shocking than the cracking of the car, the pain is deep in the bone, but she can't survive I can't die, watching my flesh and blood being scorched bit by bit by the hot cannon column, passing out in pain and then waking up in pain, and finally dying, suffering from all kinds of pain, it is not as clean as coming over with a cracked car neatly.

"Forget it, it's better to watch less cruel things like executions. We're not concubines, and the emperor won't force us to watch them."

Xiaokui shrank her neck and nodded, agreeing quite a bit, said a few sins in her mouth, and filled the copper basin that had just been brought into the room with hot water for Xia Zijin to wash.

The two masters and servants on this side were not very interested in Qin Guiren's execution, but on the other side, the execution ground near noon was indeed full of people.

Qin Guiren's frail body was tied to a bronze pillar with a height of three people. When she was imprisoned in the sky prison for the second time, she was beaten all over her body. It was heard that Shui Yanran visited the sky prison late at night and gave Qin Guiren a good whip , in order to vent the anger she once felt on Qin Guiren.

The rookie concubine who was once favored for a while came to such an end. Naturally, everyone sighed. Most of the concubines in the past were contemptuous and condescending, and there were very few sympathizers. Jie deserves to die.

At this time, the execution was going on, the inside of the big bronze pillar was filled with boiling oil, and the fire underneath was still heating up, only to hear the shrill and tragic screams from the execution ground one after another, accompanied by the flesh being crushed. There was a burning sound, and those in front could even smell the unpleasant smell of minced meat.

"It's really a bit pungent." The queen stood at the front and covered her face with a veil and frowned, her eyes wandered on Qin Guiren's distorted face due to the extreme pain, but there was an inexplicable sense of pleasure in her heart.

The rest of the concubines are also like this. At the beginning, Qin Guiren was so arrogant in front of them, but now he is reduced to the laughing stock of the whole palace, and he has no dignity in death.

It just so happened that it was raining coldly, and the slanting wind blew past the skirts of the concubines.

Everyone hid in the tent one after another, looking at the Qin nobleman who was more and more like a bloody mass on the cannon pillar from a distance, feeling a bit embarrassed.

Outside the crowd, a tall figure stood alone in the rain. He tightly held the paper umbrella in his hand, fixed his eyes on the person on the pedestal, and his thin face seemed even more ferocious.

"His Royal Highness. Shall we go there?" the guard on the side said cautiously.

The prince snorted coldly, retracted his eagle-like eyes from the cannon post, took a breath and shook his head.

"Right now, we will naturally avoid it if we can. The nobleman Qin was recommended by the prince to enter the palace. Now that something like this happens, it will inevitably affect the prince. If the emperor is too concerned, it will not be worth the loss. gone."

The raindrops fell on the oiled paper umbrella, and the thick tung oil brushed the umbrella surface was not half soaked, and the sound of pattering rain mixed with Qin Guiren's heart-piercing screams was a bit chilly.

"Let's go. If the chess piece is gone or destroyed, you can find another one, but if the chess piece becomes disobedient. It's really going to give the prince a headache."

Xia Tian squinted his eyes, stared at the palace with high walls, flicked his sleeves for a while and said in a deep voice, "Follow the prince!"

He took a few personal attendants all the way to the South Hall, today is the day of the execution of nobleman Qin, many palace people are going to watch the execution, so the area around the South Hall is also deserted.

Bypassing a lush forest, Xia Qin and the others stepped into a remote house. From afar, they could see the door of the house was ajar. Xia Shengqing was squatting on the ground in only a long gown, and a copper basin in front of him was burning with flames. Zhengwang.

"Why did His Highness the Crown Prince set foot in this poor house of the servant, and why did he not tell the servant in advance so that the servant could prepare for it, and did not prepare to entertain His Highness the Crown Prince, but the servant was rude."

Xia Shengqing raised her face and said, but she didn't get up to salute Xia Tian. The baggy gown was hanging down by her feet, stained with ashes from the copper basin.

Xia Tianqin watched his hand move non-stop, it was actually burning yellow-brown paper money, before he could ask, Xia Shengqing's voice slowly entered his ears.

"This servant is burning some road money for noble Qin. I hope that when she dies wronged, she won't even have the boat fare to cross the Nahe Bridge."

The inside of the brazier was crackling, and the orange-red flames were reflected in Xia Shengqing's pupils, hiding a faint light.

"Hmph, since you know she has been wronged, why don't you save her? You clearly know that the crown prince needs her to win over the emperor's thoughts for the crown prince, but this time she has been hurt for no reason. In the future, in this harem If you lose your eyeliner inside, it will inevitably make Xia Bin's mother and son proud again."

Xia Qin said coldly, that's why he came to Xia Shengqing today. Qin Guiren's chess piece was damaged, and Xia Shengqing seemed to want to get out of his control. is more tricky in the future.

"You were on the court at the time, didn't you think of helping her? Or did you clearly want to spoil the prince's affairs on purpose!"

Xia Tian bit the last two words a little harder, and looked down at Xia Shengqing with his hands behind his back, with a hint of warning, "Xia Shengqing, my prince tells you that although you and I are allies, if you hinder me Regarding the matter of the prince, the prince will still not be merciful, you don’t understand the truth about being loyal to others, right?”

There was a turmoil hidden in the small room, Xia Shengqing raised his head to look at Xia Tian's diligent and solemn face, but suddenly he raised his lips and smiled, stood up slowly and patted the ashes on his hands.

"His Royal Highness may have misunderstood the servant. The servant is just a little eunuch in front of the emperor. Not to mention whether the nobleman of Qin was wronged, just because of the crime of offending the emperor, she is such a small person like the servant. How can you dare to intercede for someone who is about to be frightened in your ears?"

"Furthermore, this matter itself is a conspiracy. If His Royal Highness wants to blame him, he can only blame Concubine Yue's cruelty and insidiousness. It has nothing to do with the slaves. It is definitely not a hindrance or not."

His tone was indifferent, and his face was also indifferent. He straightened his back and stroked his clothes, and looked at Xia Qin calmly.

"Really." Xia Tian squinted his eyes and looked at him coldly, as if he wanted to see the reason through his faint expression. The two held this position for a long time, but neither of them moved away first.

"It's best not to let the prince know that this matter is related to you, otherwise."

Otherwise, as soon as he finds out that Xia Shengqing is suspicious of him, no matter whether he is still useful to him or not, his life will never be kept!
"His Royal Highness, just rest assured. A servant is not that capable of framing Qin Guiren. Concubine Yue is a sophisticated concubine. It is lucky that this servant is not included in the calculation. How can I protect others?"

After all, Xia Shengqing seemed to be doing it on purpose, slowly took out a yellow-brown letter from her arms, and handed it to Xia Qin.

"what is this?"

"His Royal Highness will know after reading it."

Xia Qin dubiously opened the envelope, shook the letter paper to read the first word, and the content on the letter paper made Xia Qin frown deeply, and finally clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.

"This Concubine Yue is really not a fuel-efficient lamp."

Before, he thought that with Qin Guiren's current status in the harem, he didn't have to be afraid of concubines Yue and De. The letter to him was exactly the same as the letter between Qin Guiren's "adulter" and his affair, except that the word "A Huai" at the signature place became Xia Shengqing's signature on this letter.

"His Royal Highness, you have also seen that this slave is just asking for self-protection. Naturally, others can't help you. It is so dangerous to work for His Royal Highness. Today, you will be planted to have an affair with the nobleman Qin, and tomorrow you will be forced to do so." What kind of crime, let alone the future. The slave is not a covetous person, but you have to be careful everywhere in this palace, does your Highness the Crown Prince say?"

He sighed with a smile, took the letter back from Xia Qin's hand, threw it lightly with his left hand, and the letter fell into the brazier at his feet and was instantly swallowed up by the flames.

"Better so."

Xia Qin looked at him deeply, although Xia Shengqing's answer could not find a single fault, but those eyes made him inexplicably afraid, as if there was something hidden behind him that he could not control.

(End of this chapter)