Empress Jinghua: The eunuch is nine thousand years old

Chapter 93
After all, Xiao Xiazi didn't quite believe that Xia Shengqing would leak the imperial examination questions, and was waiting for Ming Shengdi to announce Princess Mingzhu. Now, Princess Mingzhu is the only one who can save Xia Shengqing.

It can be seen from Ming Shengdi's attitude that he does not intend to listen to Princess Mingzhu's intercession at all, and he is not even willing to see her.

"Your Majesty, it's raining heavily outside. Look... this princess has golden branches and jade leaves, and a noble body, how can she keep kneeling on the cold ground..." Xiao Xiazi said in a low voice, looking at the cloudy face of Ming Shengdi, but also Can't help but make a sound.

Ming Shengdi stopped writing the notes and looked out of the window. The crackling rain seemed to have no intention of stopping at all. It was suppressed by the dark rain clouds. It was not yet noon, and the sky was dark. It looked darker than at dusk.

Ming Shengdi sighed and said: "Let her go back, I won't see her."

Xiao Xiazi groaned, but didn't want to say much, so he put down his ink handle and bowed out of the room.

With a creak, the doors of the imperial study rooms opened.

Xia Zijin had a flash of joy, rubbed his knees and got up to speak, but saw Xiao Xiazi sighed faintly while holding his whisk.

"Why... Father still refuses to see this princess..." She said sadly, looking inside through the narrow crack of the door, Ming Shengdi leaned over the table without even raising his head.

Xiao Xiazi was also a little embarrassed, smiled a few times, and said in a low voice: "Princess, you should go back, don't waste your time here. The emperor is determined not to see the princess, just because he knows that the princess must come to give Xia The manager begged for mercy. In three days, the Minister of Dali Temple will close the case, princess, if you want to save Manager Xia, you should quickly think of a way!"

Xia Zijin lowered her eyelids, her eyelashes were thick and long, she understood Ming Shengdi's decision, that she didn't give Xia Shengqing the slightest chance to defend herself, it's really chilling that the people around him who have served him for so many years are like this.

"My princess understands, thank you, Eunuch."

She only has three days, and once the three days arrive, whether Xia Shengqing is alive or dead is up to her.

But to her, that person is a dazzling existence like a star, a rising sun from the other side, a bright light in the fog, and the comfort that is as warm as wine in the long cold night.

Xia Shengqing, how could I be willing to let you die?
Xia Zijin nodded back to Xiao Xiazi, took a deep look at the unmoved Ming Shengdi inside the door, smiled mockingly, and walked away with her skirt lifted.

"The servant sends the princess off respectfully."

Xiao Xiazi bowed to her back, and finally heaved a long sigh.

"I hope the princess gets her wish, and I hope that Manager Xia will be safe..."

Inside the dungeon, the smell of sourness rises everywhere, and those rotten and smelly things are hidden deep in the joints, just like the most filthy place in this country, containing evil hearts and sins.

Xia Shengqing was leaning against the dusty wall, her black hat had been removed long ago, and her black hair was casually scattered on her shoulders. Even though she was in this desolate place, she did not change her integrity, just sat quietly like that, as if meditating.

"Boss Xia, is the prison still comfortable?"

A person walked away slowly with shuffling steps, tapping lightly on the railing with nothing, and there was a muffled sound.

Xia Shengqing stared straight ahead with clear eyes, but ignored it.

"Heh, do you think you can reverse the fact that your life is not long by pretending not to hear? If you hadn't revealed the imperial examination questions to the Li family, you wouldn't have ended up in prison today."

The voice laughed strangely, with a sense of complacency, on his feet there must be a pair of pure black tall boots, with auspicious cloud pattern embroidered on the side, outlined with silver thread and filled with gold thread, it is really valuable.

Xia Shengqing let out a chuckle, closed her eyes nonchalantly and leaned back, resting her head with her hands and finding a comfortable position to lean on.

"Why do you think it was the slave's work? How do you admit to doing things that the slave has never done? Are you right, the eldest son of the emperor?" Xia Shengqing said lightly, even in the prison, no one was seen. A little flustered.

The man raised his brows and took off his wide hat, he was indeed the eldest son of the emperor, Xia Bin.

The eldest son of the emperor gave a low laugh, and moved two steps forward, his fat body swayed a few times with the movement of his steps: "It doesn't matter if you admit it or not, as long as the father believes it, you will Done. You have been by Father's side for so many years, don't you understand this truth?"

The king, the minister, and the minister have to die, from ancient times to the present, eternally unchanged.

The most unbearable thing for an emperor is not that his courtiers bend the law for personal gain, or that they form cliques, but that the people he trusts most secretly use power for personal gain.

And Xia Shengqing happened to be the person that Emperor Ming trusted.

The eldest son of the emperor gloated a few times, then lowered his voice mysteriously, and with bewilderment and temptation, it came into Xia Shengqing's ears: "If Manager Xia agrees to do things for this prince in the future, he will be my prince's eyeliner." , maybe this prince can consider Zhengming for Director Xia?"

Xia Shengqing opened her eyes and turned her head, with a smile on her lips, as if she was very rare for such a rhetoric.

"The eldest son of the emperor has such extraordinary abilities, can he turn the world around?"

The eldest son of the emperor didn't hear the sarcasm in his words, he only thought that he was praising himself for his good skills, so he couldn't help showing off, raised his eyebrows and turned his hands behind his back.

"Director Xia, don't think that this prince is not a prince, so he underestimates this prince. If the father has not decided to take power, all the princes will be equal. Although the second brother has the help of the concubine De, it is nothing more than relying on his own prince. But my prince is different, I am the eldest son of the royal family, and I have a lot of contacts in the court, and I will be able to accomplish a lot in time. If Director Xia is willing to be my prince, this prince will not only be able to solve the immediate problem for you , it can guarantee that you will enjoy endless prosperity and wealth in the future."

The eldest son of the emperor said so, his fat body made him look a little simple and honest, but his face had a sternness that didn't belong to his temperament, and his slender eyes contained a bit of complacency, as if he was bound to win Xia Shengqing.

Xia Shengqing stared at him for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said, "How can the eldest son of the emperor guarantee to save the servant?"

Because, it was the prince who sent you in.

The eldest son of the emperor pursed his lips in a gloomy manner, but he would not utter the words. Instead, he raised his eyes to glance at Xia Shengqing, and said quietly: "Is it possible that Director Xia still questions my prince's abilities? Since my prince To put forward such a suggestion is to know it well. Whether Manager Xia is smart enough to know how to decide his own life and death is the key, doesn't Manager Xia think?"

Xia Shengqing laughed again. He didn't know whether the eldest son of the Xiaohuang was too ambitious, or the eldest son of the Xiaohuang was too confident.He sat up straight, leaned forward, looked at the fat body, shook his head and said: "Even if the servant becomes the informant of the eldest son of the emperor, he will die. The emperor hates people who betray him the most. Does the eldest son want to The slave is dead without a whole body?"

"Boss Xia is a smart man. He should understand the principle that a good bird chooses a tree to live in, and a good minister chooses a master to do things. Now that the father is old, if you are willing to work for the prince, when the prince is better than the prince, you will be the one." As a first-class meritorious official, this prince has always treated those who have meritorious service with great kindness, but at that time you were in the position of being under one person and above ten thousand people, and it is not enough sincerity to give Director Xia such a position?"

The eldest son of the emperor had a hoarse voice, and every sentence was bewitched by power and money.He didn't believe that there was a person who would not be moved by these things. For men, what they yearn for is nothing more than money, power and women. Xia Shengqing has become a eunuch, so he must be more inclined to money and power.

"One person is less than ten thousand people..." Xia Shengqing recited these words silently, and suddenly laughed, opened her eyes and fixed on the eldest son of the emperor, with a hint of teasing on her lips.

"The eldest son of the emperor, you should be careful to speak out. The world is still the emperor's. Could it be that you can't wait to replace it? It's really frightening. It's a waste of the emperor to treat you so generously. I'm afraid that in your heart, you wish the prince and the emperor With all your lives in the Underworld, you can sit back and relax and take over the world, right?"

"you……!"

Xia Shengqing said it so bluntly, which inevitably made the eldest son a little ashamed. He snorted coldly, lowered his head and looked at Xia Shengqing.

"Boss Xia, my prince advises you not to be quick to talk. You know that you have few days to live. If you know how to protect yourself, you should join me as soon as possible. It is up to you whether you live or die." Weigh it!"

Xia Shengqing still had that indifferent expression, as if the theory of life and death had nothing to do with him, he let out a long sigh, then closed his eyes and ignored it.

"I don't know what's good!" The eldest son of the emperor stood in front of the railing for a while, feeling bored, snorted coldly and walked away.

The sound of heavy footsteps disappeared at the end of the long bar of the sky prison. Xia Shengqing opened her eyes and finally smiled mockingly.

"Princess, the Li Mansion is in front of you."

In an unremarkable carriage, Xiao Huanzi lowered his voice, and said to Xia Zijin beside him, the two of them were hiding in the alley next to Li Baizu's house under the cover of night, and a seal had been pasted in front of the mansion. Because it was related to the fraud in the imperial examination, Li Baizu's whole house was imprisoned, and this huge Li's house was also sealed.

"Be careful and take off the seal. Let's go in quietly, and stick it on with beeswax when we come out later." Xia Zijin changed into a man's attire, which made her look a little more heroic. It was inconvenient to wear it after sneaking into Li's mansion in the dark. Floor-length skirt.

Xiao Huanzi nodded, and Xia Zijin and Xia Zijin sneaked into Li's mansion quietly according to the plan in advance. The night was silent, and there were occasional calls of painted birds, piercing the air and stretching deeply.

Not a single lamp was lit in Li's residence, and the surroundings were pitch-black. Xiao Huanzi took out two torches from his waist, pulled off the caps and blew on them lightly, and the scarlet torches would light up in the pitch black.

"Let's go to the study." Xia Zijin said in a deep voice, her eyes scanning the rows of window cases vigilantly.

Fortunately, everyone left in a hurry before the Li Mansion was closed, and most of the doors were open, but the furnishings inside the house could be seen clearly, and one could quickly find the study room after row by row, otherwise one would push the door open one by one to look for it. , I don’t know how much effort it will take.

(End of this chapter)