Chapter 152: Quiet Words
Originally, I thought that this little guy suddenly appeared at the door to tell the news about the runaway maid Bingxin. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Unexpectedly, the person who claimed to be coming to meet Gao Xun outside now turned out to be the girl named Jade Pot, who was also suspected by Cheng Jinzhi before.
At this time, it was almost an hour before the time limit mentioned by Cheng Cheng Jinzhi.
This jade pot chose to come at this time, and it was difficult not to make Cheng Jinzhi think that she was actually unable to withstand her threat after going through a hard struggle, so she was forced to come and confess her guilt.
But if she is here to confess her crimes, then Bingxin, who is now considered to be afraid of crime and absconding, is it very likely that she is innocent?
Or is it that in fact, the eyeliner sent by the prince to the Jin Palace, in fact, is not only one person?
Just thinking about it for a while, I saw that the jade pot was already panicked, and walked into the hall with low eyebrows.
She is a maid who came to the palace a year later than Bingxin, the two are of the same age, and their appearance is also delicate and dexterous, but compared to Bingxin, there is more timid fear between the eyebrows of the jade pot, and it seems that she should usually be a timid girl.
She respectfully saluted the three people in the hall, and after her eyes touched Cheng Jinzhi, her eyebrows trembled, and she knelt down without saying a word, almost crying out.
"The slave and maid deserve to die, please forgive Princess Yan, and please forgive His Royal Highness King Jin. ”
Cheng Jinzhi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt like he was being treated as a hideous demon and monster, and just wanted to speak, but heard Gao Heng come over expressionlessly, and whispered in her ear: "I'm really curious, what did you do to make this girl so afraid of you." ”
"I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do, she's too timid. ”
Cheng Jinzhi lowered his voice angrily and replied, then looked at the jade pot kneeling on the ground, and deliberately softened his tone.
"I remember... Your name is Jade Pot, right?"
"Yes, the slave is the jade pot. ”
The jade pot replied in a trembling voice, and lowered his head.
"Jade pot, you said you should be damned as soon as you came in just now, what happened?"
Cheng Jinzhi walked to her side unhurriedly and bent down slightly.
"Slave maid, slave maid should not hide from His Royal Highness and the princess. ”
"Concealment?" Cheng Jinzhi spit out two words with a puzzled face, looked at the two double screws on her head and asked, "What you said about concealment is about rumors?"
"Yes. ”
The jade pot pursed her lips, calmed down a little nervous, and then continued after a moment of silence: "The slave is timid by nature, and she has always been unable to hide things in her heart, and she can't bear to betray her friends. But now that rumors are spreading outside, His Royal Highness and the princess have been wronged, and the slave and maid only feel guilty in their hearts, so they still decided to come and inform them of the matter. ”
Hearing what Yuju said, Cheng Jinzhi knew that she was not here to confess her guilt, but to testify against someone or expose something. Tell me, what the hell are you hiding?"
"That's right. The jade pot slowly raised his head and thought for a while before he said, "The day before yesterday, oh, that was the day when Princess Yan came to the palace to visit His Royal Highness King Jin. The slave maid was out shopping for ingredients for the winter dining room, but because there were other people in the house who went with her, she quickly bought all the goods and came back early. The slave and the maid lived in the same room as Bingxin, who was also a maid in the palace, and when the slave and maid returned to the room, Bingxin happened to be not in the room, and the slave and maid saw that her bed was a little messy, so she wanted to help her tidy up, but she never thought that under her pillow, she found a letter that had not yet been sent. ”
At this time, Cheng Jinzhi suddenly interjected with a wicked smile: "So... You just peeked at the letter, right?"
"Slave... The slave and maid also opened it out of curiosity to see, and the slave and maid did not mean to peek. ”
Yuju nervously defended, and leaned down in fear, seeing that Cheng Jinzhi pouted helplessly, he could only comfort him with kind words: "Okay, okay, everyone has this curiosity, and I have also peeked at other people's letters, don't care, go on." ”
Hearing Cheng Jinzhi say this, the jade pot relaxed his tense spirit a little and raised his head a little higher.
"Maybe Bingxin didn't expect the slave to come back so soon, so she didn't hide this letter. The slave opened the letter and looked at it, but found that... It was found to be a whistleblower letter. ”
"What's on the letter, what's on it, and where is that letter at the moment?"
Hearing this, Gao Xun also leaned forward with great interest and asked repeatedly, only Gao Heng sat quietly on the side, looking at the jade pot kneeling in front of him, with a deep mist floating in his eyes.
"Please forgive your highness, the slave has always had a bad memory, and besides, she only looked at it cursoly, and she couldn't remember all the words clearly. But there is one thing that the slave can be sure of, the general meaning of this letter is to say that between His Royal Highness the King of Jin and Princess Yan, there is... Yes... There are unsightly things. ”
At the end of the day, the jade pot's tone trembled violently twice, and he buried his head deep in fear, for fear that he would be blamed by the three masters in front of him.
"Jade Pot, you don't have to be so afraid, you are willing to come and tell us everything you have seen now, at the risk of being punished by me, and you are loyal to me, I will not blame you. ”
Gao Xun said to the jade pot in a good voice, and then said with regret, "Alas, it would be better if we had that letter, then we would have substantial evidence in our hands." ”
"It doesn't matter. Cheng Jinzhi waved his hand disappreciatively, "Anyway, we have a witness named Yuju, and when the time comes, we can testify against Bingxin for us, so that she is powerless to refute." ”
"Witness, slave maid, slave maid dare. ”
The jade pot blinked a few times tremblingly, and a hint of fear flowed from the corners of his eyes.
"Jade Pot, that maid named Bingxin, how does your relationship with you usually be?"
And just as Cheng Jinzhi was about to speak, Gao Heng, who had been sitting silently on the side, suddenly asked, with a slight indifferent chill in his tone.
The jade pot tightened his cheeks, the cold color between his eyebrows was fleeting, and he hurriedly lowered his head and replied: "His Royal Highness King Huiyan, the two of us are usually like sisters and have a close relationship. I just didn't expect ......"
"Really?"
Gao Heng spit out two words meaningfully, and his sharp gaze locked on the jade pot inch by inch, and the meaning was like ice.
"It is a serious crime to slander the emperor's relatives and spread rumors. You know that if you tell the truth, your good sister Bingxin will inevitably escape and become the target of everyone. But even so, you are still willing to kill your relatives and come to tell your master the truth, and you are really loyal to your master. ”
As he spoke, he gently put the teacup in his hand back on the table, and the fog under his eyes gradually dissipated, turning into a deep pool of stagnant water.
"It is indeed an honor for His Royal Highness King Jin to have a subordinate like you who thinks about his master wholeheartedly. ”