As soon as the words fell, another guard came in from outside the door, holding a plate of silver needles and spoon-like things and throwing them in front of Xiuyu. www.biquge.info She looked at it like a small spoon digging fruit in the summer of His Majesty the Emperor, but it was much rougher, and there was an ominous dark red on the gray-black iron tool.

Xiuyu shuddered, and her body was so weak that she couldn't help but fall to the ground.

"Dig. The Empress Dowager Wei Ruoshan coldly threw out a word, as if a thousand-pound hammer smashed on Xiuyu's already panicked heart.

Digging, digging what--gouging the punishment of gouging out the eyes?!

"The prince spares his life! The queen mother spares his life! The prince spares his life!

The guard lit the candle and scalded the round spoon over and over again, just waiting for the queen mother to give an order and took Xiuyu's eyeballs. Although Xiuyu is only a palace maid, she has grown up with Lian Li since she was a child, and she has lived better than ordinary official ladies, how have she ever seen such a battle.

As soon as she saw the red-hot iron spoon, she suddenly collapsed, and before she was sentenced, she burst into tears, terrified, and couldn't help but kowtow and shout in panic:

"The slave Xiuyu didn't do the things of the queen mother and the prince! I beg the queen mother to spare my life, I beg the prince to spare my life! The slave and the maid are guilty! The slave and the maid are guilty!"

King Jing said coldly: "What is the crime?"

"Slave maid...... Slave maid, don't report it if you know!Slave maid damn it!" Xiuyu cried and kowtowed, "Slave maid only met by chance, I don't know that Sister Yuanxiang has committed a big crime!"

What is this talking about?

King Jing and the Queen Mother glanced at each other, and already had a speculation in their hearts, so they said in a deep voice: "Since you are guilty, tell me everything you know, maybe I can spare your life!"

Xiuyu panicked, and finally was able to breathe for a moment, she looked at the ten fingers beside Yuan Xiang who were already swollen and did not look at it, hesitated for a moment, gritted her teeth and raised her head: "Your Majesty found that the inkstone in the imperial study was missing, and the slave and maid were suspicious...... The slave and maid did not suspect that it was stolen by the sister, but this matter was very important, the slave and maid did not dare to talk nonsense without empirical evidence, and hoped that His Royal Highness King Jing would be gracious, sister, she must be in trouble for a while, and there must be unspeakable hardship!"

She kept saying that she didn't dare to talk nonsense, but every word pointed the finger at Yuanxiang who was being tortured on the side.

Yuan Xiang on the side was suffering from the pain of the ten-finger noose, and her face was already drenched in sweat, and her face was as white as iron, hearing Xiuyu's words, a blazing spark appeared from the pair of beautiful eyes like autumn waves, if it wasn't for the wet towel in her mouth, she was afraid that she would immediately stand up and argue angrily.

In just a moment, the anger in Yuanxiang's eyes disappeared without a trace, and all that was left was the forbearance of the pain and the coldness of unknown meaning, and Xiuyu couldn't help but turn her face to the side with a weak heart.

"Sentence dropped. King Jing spoke, Yuanxiang's bloodstained hands were rudely pulled up by the guards, and the torture instruments were removed in a few strokes, and the wet towel that seemed to be about to strangle her breathing was also dismantled, and Yuanxiang, who had been granted amnesty, looked dazed and staggered, and almost fell to the ground.

"Can you plead guilty?" the Queen Mother frowned slightly, ashamed of the petty theft in the palace, and sneered coldly, "Li'er has always favored the people around her, and it is not enough to let you cheap maids eat inside and outside for so many years?!"

"Slave maid ......" Yuan Xiang raised her white face like a moon, her eyes were like autumn and sorrowful, looking at the two people sitting with trembling and pity, her lips that had already bitten blood were gently closed, and her voice was too weak, mournful, so miserable.

The Empress Dowager Wei Ruoshui didn't care about her response, and when she invited Hou San'er in, she would take the two into custody for stealing.

"The Queen Mother! The slave and maid have already told the mother everything they know, it was Yuanxiang's mistake! The slave and maid are not guilty, Niangniang!" Xiuyu said in fear, "If you don't believe in the slave and maid, there must be stolen goods hidden in Yuanxiang's room, please go and search to find out the truth!"

Hou San'er on the side sighed secretly in his heart, so he had to stand up and reprimand: "If you don't report it, it's for the sake of sin! Come on, pull it down!"

"Slave maid...... If you don't admit it, the slave and maid will not admit punishment! Niangniang!" Yuan Xiang trembled and held her bloody hands, gritted her teeth and turned her head to look at the sisters beside her, raised her voice and said in a dignified voice, "Just based on Xiuyu's words, the slave and maid will suffer such a great wrong! The emperor is above, if Yuan Xiang has done the slightest thing wrong, and has half a lie, it will be called a thunderstorm and a good death!"

After she said that, she knelt on the ground, slammed her back to the cold ground, and then straightened her back, and when everyone couldn't react, she kowtowed hard to the ground!

It's just three times, Yuan Xiang's forehead has already knocked out a blood flower, she still wants to continue to knock, Hou San'er hurriedly shouted to the guards on the side to stop her, otherwise with Yuan Xiang's soft and strong temperament on the outside, I am afraid that today will be bloodstained in front of the palace!

Her resolute declaration of innocence really shocked everyone, and the atmosphere in the hall was silent for a moment, and King Jing said: "This female martyr is for chastity." If there is another hidden secret, I hope that the Queen Mother will think twice. ”

After Wei Ruoshan made such a fuss, his head wind was about to attack again, so he had to let Shi Lan knead it gently, listened to King Jing's plea, closed his eyes and said angrily: "It was originally for the sake of investigating the matter of spices, and the crime of theft can be big or small. ”

"Go down, aren't you grateful?" Hou San'er hurriedly thanked the two of them for their great kindness, and asked them to leave this place quickly. As long as the Queen Mother and His Royal Highness King Jing don't care about this matter anymore, everything can be cleared and mixed up.

Unbeknownst to them, the two of them were motionless, an extremely bitter smile bloomed on Xiuyu's face, and she looked up at the pile of gray-white incense ash next to the Empress Dowager Wei Ruo's sailor, and said tremblingly: "Incense ash...... This incense ash, the slave knows who did it!"

Yuan Xiang stared at Xiuyu with burning eyes, and she really didn't know when this girl who had grown up together since childhood became so vicious.

The atmosphere became more solemn, no need for Xiu Yuming to say, everyone knew that she was referring to Yuan Xiang.

"Is there any evidence?" King Jing said in a deep voice, but his voice was a little more probing, obviously the artistic conception had doubts about Xiuyu's words.

"Although the palace maids who are in charge of spices on a daily basis are different, they always need to pass through the hands of Sister Yuanxiang when they are sent to His Majesty's room. What's more, slaves and maids...... More than once, I had seen Yuanxiang sneakily add things to the incense burner, and she also told the slave maid that it was just some medicinal herbs to calm the nerves......"

"You are talking nonsense!" Yuan Xiang replied angrily, Chu Chu said pitifully, "I am a close attendant of His Majesty and you, and I am always with Your Majesty, if you say that you saw my hands and feet, then don't you know and do not report it, and commit the same crime?!

"You! sharp teeth and sharp mouth!" Xiuyu didn't know that Yuan Xiang would deal with it like this, in her imagination, Yuan Xiang should be crying pear blossom with rain and desperately begging for mercy, how do you know that she can easily refute her guilt after a few words, and she couldn't help but be annoyed and angry, "Do you think that just by virtue of your little look, you can charm everyone to believe in you and coax you?!

The two of them quarreled with each other, just when the Queen Mother Wei Ruoshui was upset and wanted to drag them down directly and behead them, she only heard a report from outside the door that Wang Tieqiao and the imperial doctor had arrived.

As soon as he entered the hall, he saluted respectfully, and then quickly glanced around the hall, took everyone into his eyes, and said in a loud voice:

"Queen Mother, His Royal Highness King Jing, Your Majesty has something to say. ”