Chapter 129: Capital Offense
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"Don't talk about those things, now as long as our master and servant are well. I'm going back, so you can rest well. β
Wen Miao sighed, left the small room, and inadvertently dropped the silk handkerchief. When Ling Shuang found the handkerchief, she had already walked away.
Looking at the handkerchief embroidered with plum blossoms on a white background, there was still a faint fragrance on it, Ling Shuang carefully folded it, and a voice in his heart told him not to return it.
"Misty ......"
He couldn't help but put the handkerchief on the tip of his nose, and couldn't help but call out the name that he had thought about day and night.
I don't know when it began, snowflakes fell above the capital. A few days before Chinese New Year's Eve, Cheng Jingjing was very busy. In previous years, it was Zhuang Hanxue who arranged the New Year's affairs, but this year because the person was pregnant and it was inconvenient to act, so Prince An handed over everything to her.
Although it is a tiring thing on the surface, it is actually Prince An who puts the side concubine in the position of the main concubine. Originally, these things were out of her control, but now it seems that her status as a side concubine is on par with that of the main concubine.
"Princess, these are the New Year's gifts you arranged to send to the palace, and the slaves and maids have divided them one by one. β
Inside the house, Huapan and Yuexi were busy counting all the New Year's goods, Cheng Jingjing looked at the booklets in her hand and checked them one by one, and then said: "Thank you for your hard work, after these things are done in two or three days, this princess will give you a big annual leave." β
"The slave thanked the princess. The sisters immediately thanked with joy.
Just as they were busy sorting out their things, a maid's voice sounded outside the house: "Two sisters, is Princess Cheng here?"
"Who?" Huabian walked out, saw a maid from Prince An's side standing there, and asked politely, "But the prince has something to do with our princess?"
"It's not the prince," the maid whispered, "someone asked the slave to send a message to the princess, saying that San'er was waiting for the princess in the backyard." β
When he entered the palace, he didn't know what happened to Xiao Jinyuan, so he walked into the house suspiciously, and repeated what he heard to Cheng Jingjing.
"What, why did she get here?"
Who knew that Cheng Jingjing closed the booklet in her hand with a "snap" and hurriedly walked towards the door.
"Is San'er the one who told you to speak?" she asked the maid who was waiting at the door.
"Yes," said the maid honestly, "the noble lady is waiting for you in the backyard of the palace, and she says you will know how to get there." β
"Painting, Yuexi, you continue to count the New Year's goods, this princess is going out to meet an acquaintance. β
After a few scribbled explanations, Cheng Jingjing rushed to the familiar backyard door alone. It was from there that she and Xiao Jinyuan sneaked out of the palace, but now the door has long been overgrown with creepers, and no one has walked past it.
I don't know how San'er came to find her at such a time, could it be that something happened in the palace? Cheng Jingjing became nervous for no reason, and at this time a name appeared in her mind - Xue Qingshan.
When Cheng Jingjing came to the small back door that she had not seen for a long time, she saw two people standing in the snow waiting for her.
Qin Fang stood behind Xiao Jinyuan with an umbrella, both of them with veils on their faces, as if they didn't want to be discovered.
"Jingjing!"
When Xiao Jinyuan saw Cheng Jingjing appear, she didn't care about the snow falling on her head, and rushed towards her.
"What's wrong?" Cheng Jingjing grabbed her hand and asked worriedly: "Why did you suddenly leave the palace, isn't it time to leave the palace to visit relatives?"
"Jingjing, I have something to tell you. β
Xiao Jinyuan's eyes were slightly red, and she held back the sourness in her heart and said to her: "Let's go to the pavilion over there first, and we won't be able to finish talking about this matter for a while." β
"Good. β
Cheng Jingjing followed her to the pavilion and sat down, but Xiao Jinyuan stopped talking. She knew she needed time, so she sat next to her and waited silently.
"I'm pregnant. β
After a long time, Xiao Jinyuan said with a bitter expression.
"Isn't this a good thing?" Cheng Jingjing said in surprise: "I thought something happened to you, pregnancy is a happy event, are you afraid that the queen will attack you?"
"It's not ......" Xiao Jinyuan smiled bitterly: "This child is not from the emperor, but from Qingshan." β
"What?!" Cheng Jingjing was dumbfounded, looking at her and not knowing how to speak.
It is a capital crime for a harem concubine to have an affair with someone, and this is not child's play. What's more, Xiao Jinyuan is the emperor's favorite concubine, how can it be as simple as cutting off her head to make such a fuss?
"You...... Are you sure this child is Imperial Doctor Xue?" Cheng Jingjing only felt that her hands and feet were cold after speaking, and she felt that she was about to be in trouble, no wonder San'er would sneak out of the palace and run to find her.
"Yes," Xiao Jinyuan said with a pale face: "Actually, you don't know, I have been snubbed by the emperor some time ago, and then Qingshan has been secretly coming to me, so we will ...... I have never had a relationship with the emperor, and Qingshan is the person I really love, but now the matter between us has been discovered by the queen. β
"Why did the emperor snub you?" Cheng Jingjing didn't enter the palace for a long time, and she didn't know that so many things had happened.
Xiao Jinyuan said lightly: "Because I did something disrespectful to the emperor, it has been a long time, and it is okay not to mention those old things...... It's just that now the queen has found the correspondence between me and Qingshan, it doesn't matter if I'm dead, but the child in my womb is innocent. Jingjing, what should I do?!"
"Wait, the queen found out about your letters?" Cheng Jingjing asked with a headache: "You know that the matter between you is a capital crime, why do you still leave the clues?"
"Actually, we have only seen each other for a long time, and I can't stand the thought of him, so I leave the letter in the cabinet and look through it night and night......"
Seeing Xiao Jinyuan in pain, Cheng Jingjing didn't know how to comfort her. As the emperor's concubine, what she did was not abiding by women's morals. But humanely, there's nothing wrong with her liking someone with whom she's in love. What's more, she was originally a gift to the emperor, and she had no feelings for the emperor.
"Why am I the emperor's concubine, why can't I fly away with Qingshan, why can't I be with him...... Woowoo woo ......"
"Alas, don't cry," Cheng Jingjing said to Xiao Jinyuan, who was hiding her face and crying: "Now it seems that if the queen exposes you, you two will definitely die." But I ask you, are there any signatures on those letters?"
"Not really. β
"Then what is Xue Qingshan's plan, does he plan to let you bear all the charges alone?"
"No," Xiao Jinyuan said sadly: "Qingshan plans to take me away and fly high, but how is that possible, the emperor will definitely chase us to the ends of the earth and arrest us." That fool only reads prescriptions and looks for herbs all day long, and his brain is as naΓ―ve as a little girl. β
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