Empress Jinghua: The eunuch is nine thousand years old

Chapter 75

After another day of rest on the collapsed bed, Xia Zijin felt refreshed.She took the warm tonic that Xiaokui handed over, squeezed her nose and snorted and poured it down her throat, even the tip of her tongue was bitter.

"Princess, use some rock sugar to suppress the bitter taste." Xiaokui opened the sugar jar, scooped up a square rock sugar with a silver spoon, and put it to Xia Zijin's lips.

Xia Zijin opened her lips and sucked in the sugar, and the bitter taste in her mouth gradually dissipated, replaced by a hint of sweetness.

"Is everyone complete?" Xia Zijin wiped the water stains from the corner of her mouth with a square handkerchief, and said lightly, her eyes were obscure.

"Back to the princess, all the servants in the Mosheng Garden are waiting in the hall, just waiting for the princess to speak." Xiao Kui took a crow-blue brocade cloak embroidered with wood and flowers from the incense wood shelf, and lightly Unfold it lightly and put it on for Xia Zijin.

Xia Zijin nodded, stood up and stepped forward, the heavy skirt dragging on the ground, and the silky tassels hanging from the jade pendant around her waist swayed with each step.

There were dozens of people standing in the hall. Although the Mosheng Garden was not big, there were more than thirty palace people at a rough calculation. At this moment, they stood with their hands hanging down their shoulders, and they were all standing in a well-behaved manner. For Xia Zi There is also some doubts about the convening of such a big battle.

"The servant pays respects to the princess!"

"Servant pays respects to the princess!"

Xia Zijin entered the hall, and everyone bowed down to salute. They saw her face was cold, and she took the main seat with slow steps. everyone.

"Do you know why the princess summoned you today?" Xia Zijin said lightly, her expression still cold.

The palace people looked at me and I looked at you, and they all shook their heads blankly.

"This princess has just escaped from the unreasonable disaster of the demon star. It should be better to rest, but now there is something stuck in my heart, which makes me sleepless."

Xia Zijin fiddled with the lid of the tea bowl, using the lid to skim off the foam on the surface of the tea soup, and a pair of apricot eyes swept across the crowd one by one.

"I don't know why the princess is worried. If the servants can do something to relieve the princess' worries, they will definitely do their best!" Huier, the second-class maid standing in the front row, raised her head and said, she was very loyal to Xia Zijin.

Xia Zijin smiled softly, and looked at the palace servants who were working in the kitchen with vague eyes, evoking a sense of loneliness for no reason.

"The worry in my princess's heart... is that there are unfaithful spies and traitors in this Mo Sheng Garden!"

Xia Zijin suddenly became stern, and slammed the teacup in his hand on the ground with a bang. Splashes of water splashed, and the hot aroma of rock tea permeated the air.

The palace people were all taken aback, and then they looked at the people around them in surprise and doubt, and were very surprised at the "spies appearing" in Xia Zijin's words.

"This princess thinks that she treats you well. Your errands are easier than other palace people in the garden, but the rewards during festivals are two or three times that of other palace people. This princess has never been harsh on people, but I don't want to be like this." Preferential treatment, actually raised a white-eyed wolf." Xia Zijin said coldly, his eyes were cold.

Zhao Ma, who was in the crowd, lowered her head guiltily, clasped her hands together tightly in front of her body, and did not dare to raise her head to look at Xia Zijin.

"My princess was almost killed in Huangquan because the spies in the garden colluded with others and put the evidence of the demon star in the Mosheng garden. Such vicious people who want to avenge their kindness, how can this princess tolerate them."

As Xia Zijin said, she took in the expressions of the palace servants working in the kitchen one by one, and saw Zhao Mama who looked dodgy and bowed her head in silence, her brows slightly frowned.

Several palace maids standing in the front row put up their skirts and knelt down and kowtowed: "Princess Mingjian, the servants are under the care of the princess, and they can't find a good master like the princess even with the lantern. How can they have such nasty thoughts?" , Colluding with others to frame the princess!"

"Princess, the servants swear to the sky that they will be loyal to the princess!" Several third-class girls standing behind also knelt down and said sincerely.

"Who is loyal and who is traitor, this princess knows very well."

A far-reaching smile appeared on Xia Zijin's lips, and he slowly adjusted the folds of the skirt on his knees, and said lightly: "Don't think that no one knows about the betrayal of the princess, if you want others to know, you have to do nothing about it." , My princess has found something important to prove the identity of that person in the soil where the ancient thing was dug out, and now it is placed in the warehouse, as long as it is compared with the records by the Department of Punishment tomorrow, the truth will be revealed."

A layer of cold sweat had already oozed from Zhao Ma's forehead. She tried her best to recall the process of burying things, but she couldn't remember what evidence she left behind.

"If that person still has the slightest sense of shame, he should come early and surrender to this princess. Maybe this princess will give him a lighter sentence because of the love between master and servant. If the results come out tomorrow, he will not have this opportunity. "

Xia Zijin's eyes did not contain a hint of joking, they were as cold as winter plums, and she wanted to let everyone in the garden understand what it would be like to betray her.

After midnight, except for the night watchmen, the entire imperial palace was still yawning and performing duties in each palace, and most of the rest of the people had fallen asleep peacefully.

The Mosheng Garden was also very quiet, the candles in the main house had already been extinguished, and even Xiao Huanzi, who was watching the night, leaned against the door panel, closed his eyes and fell asleep, and began to chatter.

In the darkness, a hunched figure emerged from the slightly swaying bushes. I saw Zhao's mother bent her waist, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked at the pitch-black main house, looked left and right for a while, and carefully lifted her bag. With the burden on his shoulders, he was about to walk out of the garden lightly.

The resident bird on the tree was cooing non-stop. Zhao's mother walked quickly on the aisle, turning her head every three steps, paying attention every two steps, her spirit was tense, her old eyes looked around vigilantly, and she looked around a little. When there was a little movement, he squatted down and hid in the bushes next to him, and continued to walk forward when there was nothing else.

Along the way, Mama Zhao quickened her pace after stepping out of the Mosheng Garden. There was only one thought in her mind of escaping from the palace. It was stolen from Xiaokui's room. With this token, she can escape from the palace.

Seeing the vermilion North Palace Gate in front of her eyes, Mama Zhao picked up the burden, exhaled and raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead, half of her heart dropped from carrying it.

"Mom Zhao, it's so late, where are you going?"

Just as Zhao Ma was about to take out the token from her bosom and go up to the palace gate, a faint question came from behind her.

Mother Zhao's heart skipped a beat, and her heart immediately rose to her throat. She stiffened her body and slowly turned her head, only to see Xiao Kui holding the lamp and looking at her with a smile.

And beside Xiaokui was Xia Zijin with a frosty face.

She turned pale with fright, and was about to run away, but Xiao Huanzi had already led the palace servants from the garden to surround her from behind.

"See... see the princess..." Zhao Ma knelt down tremblingly, her legs trembling, she was extremely scared.

"Mom Zhao, you haven't answered yet. Where are you going so late, huh?" Xia Zijin looked over with a hint of coldness.

Zhao Ma was about to quibble, but because she was too scared, she took out the token from her bosom just now and hid it in her sleeve before it could be put back, and it fell to the ground with a ding dong. Jin" word.

Zhao Ma yelled that it was not good, she put her hands down and said tremblingly: "This servant has something important to go out of the palace, so I had to take Miss Kui's token to use it in desperation, this servant will never dare again!"

Xiaokui snorted, stepped forward, picked up the token from the ground, wiped off the floating dust, stuffed it into her arms, and stood beside Xia Zijin with a lamp.If Xia Zijin hadn't asked her to leave the token in the room on purpose, saying that the traitor would definitely try to steal the token and leave the palace overnight, how could she be so careless?Hehe, I really didn't expect that Mama Zhao, who usually looks kind and kind, would be Mo Shengyuan's spy.

"Is there something important to go out of the palace?" Xia Zijin smiled, and turned her eyes to Zhao Mama's heavy burden on her shoulders, "Do you need to carry luggage when you go out of the palace? I'm afraid you have done something wrong and are about to abscond!"

"Princess Mingjian, there is absolutely no such thing!" Zhao Mama looked evasive, faltering and saying, "I just have an urgent matter at home, and I have to deal with it for a few days, so I have to be kicked out of the palace overnight. I haven't reported it to the princess. The slave is guilty. .”

Xia Zijin approached Zhao's mother step by step, lowered her eyes, and said lightly: "You are guilty, but not because you have not reported to the princess that you are leaving the palace, but because you almost sent the princess to the underworld!"

Zhao Ma's body trembled suddenly, her complexion suddenly turned pale, her teeth trembled and she said: "Servant... I don't know what the princess is talking about..."

"You don't know?" Xia Zijin raised her eyebrows and gave Xiaokui a wink, and Xiaokui immediately took something from the hand of the palace man behind her and threw it in front of Zhao Mama.

After hearing a bang, a fist-thick wooden stick rolled down to Mama Zhao's feet.

"This thing was found in your room. That day, you beat Xiao Huanzi unconscious with this wooden stick, and then took something from his hand and buried it in the Mosheng Garden, didn't you?" He raised his chin and said loudly.

Zhao Ma shook her head desperately, her old face was dripping with sweat, at this moment she couldn't say anything other than strongly denying it.

Xia Zijin laughed mockingly, and said lightly: "It doesn't matter if you don't admit it. Naturally, this princess has many ways to make you confess. It's just that this princess can't figure it out. Why do you want to treat you in Mosheng Garden? Betrayed the princess."

After all, there was a cry of a baby in the air, and the palace maid Huier was standing in the crowd holding Zhao Ma's adopted daughter Minger. Minger probably felt the oppressive atmosphere around her, twisting her small body, I cried out loudly.

"Ming'er..." Zhao's mother looked at the little baby, and burst into tears in an instant, she left Ming'er and ran away by herself. made her uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)