"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty......"

"Your Majesty, where did you come from, Your Majesty. ”

When the delicate palace maid got up just now, she saw Emperor Yongzhen not far away, and she was so frightened that she stiffened, and the rebellious words in the mouths of the people next to her made her tremble all over.

As soon as her knees weakened, she knelt on the ground with a "bang", and then the whole person fell to the ground and trembled.

Mei Xiang looked at her companion who was kneeling on the ground, her heart jumped and finally reacted that something was wrong, she turned around slowly, and when she saw Emperor Yongzhen under the eaves of the corridor not far behind her, the blood on her face instantly faded, and she hurriedly knelt on the ground.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."

"I didn't know that a mere lowly maid could dare to discuss the matter of the prince lightly. ”

"You told me when I should return to heaven, and when should I pass the throne to His Royal Highness King Xiang, whom you call it?!"

Mei Xiang almost fainted when she was attacked, and she was speechless for a while under the darkness in front of her.

Emperor Yongzhen's eyes were full of gloom: "Such a tongue-chewing person, pull her down, cut off her tongue, and beat her to death!"

"Your Majesty spare your life, Your Majesty spare your life!"

Mei Xiang exhaled urgently and wanted to beg for mercy.

Xiao Zhuozi was quick to step forward and kick her to the ground, took out a handkerchief and stuffed it into her mouth, and then let the guards beside Emperor Yongzhen drag Mei Xiang away.

The rest of the palace maids watched Mei Xiang struggle to be dragged away, and they were suddenly so frightened that their bodies went soft, and there was no blood on their faces.

Emperor Yongzhen looked up at the tree beside her and said, "What's your name?" ”

"Slave, slave, slave. ”

Raise your head and reply. ”

Xianghe raised his head tremblingly, but he kept his eyes down, and his face was white and terrifying.

"Why did Concubine Yun of this acacia tree let you take care of it?"

As soon as he came in, he recognized the acacia tree, which was covered with pods like fruit.

Although the acacia flowers have gone, this tree is exactly the same as the ones outside the Dragon Tower, and even taller and more lush.

Xianghe said in a low voice: "The slave maid doesn't know, but after being assigned to the Xia Palace, he has been taking care of this tree, and the mother has never said the reason, but every year the slave and maid put away the flowers and fruits." ”

"Every year?"

"Every year, the slave maid heard from the sister in the former Xia Palace that the mother has been taking care of this tree for more than ten years..."

Emperor Yongzhen's eyes showed a little doubt, and he said in a deep voice: "What about the palace people in this Xia Palace, why is there no one guarding the door?"

Xianghe hung his head: "They all went out..."

Out?

Although Xianghe didn't say what to do, he was not on duty, and he came in all the way in this palace empty, Emperor Yongzhen remembered what the tongue-chewing palace maid had said just now.

That palace maid dares to arrange the master like that, I'm afraid that other people are not much better, just think about it, you can know that those people who should be the subordinates of the Xia Palace, I'm afraid it's because Concubine Yun is not favored, and Xiao Jinyu is even less valued by him, so he dislikes that there is no future here and goes out to find another way.

"Where's Concubine Yun?"

"Back to Your Majesty, Niangniang is in the apse..."

Xianghe hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice, "His Royal Highness the Ninth is also here." ”

Emperor Yongzhen frowned when he heard this, but he didn't say much, just knocked on the sedan chair, and the people next to him hurriedly carried him in the direction of the apse.

There were only two little eunuchs in the hall, and when they saw Emperor Yongzhen coming, they hurriedly wanted to report it, but they were stopped by Emperor Yongzhen's eyes.

When Emperor Yongzhen was carried near the curtain door, he heard Xiao Jinyu's voice faintly coming from inside.

"Mother..."

"Mother..."

"Mother, can you take care of me..."

Through the curtain door, you can just see the situation inside.

Xiao Jinyu was punished to kneel on the ground, while Concubine Yun was sitting aside, and ignored her when she heard Xiao Jinyu screaming coquettishly.

"Mother, I know it's wrong, you see you also made me kneel for almost two hours, my knees are about to break, you just let me get up. ”

Xiao Jinyu begged for mercy pitifully, and seeing that Concubine Yun still ignored him, she couldn't help but sell miserably: "Mother, my back hurts, and the doctor said that my injuries are not healed......"

He moved, propped himself on the ground with one hand, as if his back could not be strengthened, and he made an uncomfortable appearance.

Seeing that Concubine Yun pursed her lips tightly and didn't speak, Xiao Jinyu staggered on the ground and remembered, but she didn't want to just get up halfway, so Concubine Yun spoke directly.

"You're on my knees!"

Xiao Jinyu pouted, and could only kneel back on the ground again.

Seeing that Concubine Yun refused to talk to him and ignored him, Xiao Jinyu couldn't help but mutter: "Mother, didn't I do anything hurtful, why are you still angry after you punished me for kneeling for so long?"

"What did you do, you don't know?"

"What's the matter, I'm just out of the city, and I'm back early this morning, and no one recognizes me when I go out, and my father won't know about it......"

"Shut up!"

Concubine Yun used to be soft and weak, but at this moment, listening to Xiao Jinyu's words, her eyes were red with anger, "What do you think in this palace can hide from your father, and how cautious do you think you are?"

"Don't you know what the situation is in Beijing now, you saved your father and the emperor and made several of your royal brothers jealous, they will be afraid that your father and emperor will be attentive to you, and they have been looking for trouble for our mother and son everywhere, but you are still coming to your father and emperor at this time, and going out of Beijing to the palace without permission, are you trying to kill yourself?"

Concubine Yun trembled with anger as she spoke.

She has been cautious all these years and does not dare to fight for anything, just because she wants Xiao Jinyu to grow up peacefully and peacefully, and to survive until she leaves the palace to build a mansion, and when the time comes, Emperor Yongzhen can give him a prince and a prince to ensure that he is rich and prosperous all his life.

She waited and waited, read and read, and finally waited for him to leave the palace, waiting for him to marry soon, but she didn't expect that he would make trouble at this time, and dare to go out of Beijing at such a time.

Concubine Yun's eyes were red, and her tears couldn't stop flowing.

"I told you a long time ago that you are not allowed to leave the mansion and not to leave the mansion, but you want to run out at this time, your father ordered someone to block the city gate, but you are good, you still dare to steal Guo Ge's old things and pretend to be the descendants of the Guo family, do you know that if you let others know about this, you were wronged to go out of the city for something else, and even have something to do with those rebels, if your father suspects you at that time?"

"If you have an accident yourself, it will be okay if I will follow you, but you will still affect the people of the Guo family, are you worthy of the old lady who has taken care of you all these years?"

Concubine Yun cried as she spoke.

Xiao Jinyu was immediately anxious when he saw this, he couldn't care about kneeling, so he hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed her shoulder, and said urgently: "Mother, don't cry... I just saw that my father was not in good health, and I couldn't sleep when I saw that you were worried, so I went. ”

"I didn't do anything, I just went to the palace to pick some lotus seeds and came back, my father is so wise, he won't blame me, if he really misunderstands me, it's a big deal that I do things alone, I will definitely not affect the Guo family." ”