The next day, Liu Yuyao got out of bed, and Xia Ran came to her room: "Niangniang, the slave maid has something important to report to you, but I hope that the maid will agree to the slave maid a condition first." ”

Liu Yuyao glanced at her in surprise: "You want to negotiate terms with this palace?" ”

Xia Ran said calmly: "The slave is loyal to the mother, and I don't want the mother to be hurt, but ...... If the mother can't agree to the conditions of the slave maid, it will be treated as if the slave maid never came! ”

Liu Yuyao looked at Xia Ran carefully, but she was also curious, and asked, "What are your conditions?" Let's hear it. ”

"The slave and maid can't say the conditions, the mother agreed first, and the slave and maid said."

"Bold!" Mama Yu couldn't bear it, "Zisu, have you eaten leopard gall recently!" ”

Liu Yuyao stretched out her hand to stop Mama Yu, glanced at Xia Ran with burning eyes, and said to Mama Yu: "You step back first, this palace wants to talk to Zisu alone." ”

Mama Yu was quite depressed, but she didn't dare to disobey Liu Yuyao's wishes, so she could only glare at Xia Ran and turn to leave.

Xia Ran silently praised Liu Yuyao in her heart, she deserves to be the queen and has a bearing! She pretended to look around left and right to make sure that there was no one around, so she lowered her voice and said to Liu Yuyao: "Niangniang, the slave maid has always slept to death on weekdays, and she never sleeps at night, but yesterday her throat was uncomfortable, she drank a few more glasses of water, and got up at night for the first time, but I didn't expect the slave maid to see a shocking secret!" ”

Liu Yuyao smiled slightly, waiting for Xia Ran to continue.

Xia Ran paused for two seconds, and then said: "The slave maid found that Qiaozhu was not in bed, so she looked around, and in the courtyard behind Kunning Palace, I saw that she was having a tryst with a man, and it was actually Prince Yun!" ”

Liu Yuyao's face sank, not to mention what the charge of the palace maid had a private meeting with others, she knew that it was impossible for Mo Feng and Tong Jia not to arrange eyeliner by her side, but she couldn't catch the clues, but she didn't expect it to be an inconspicuous Qiaozhu?

She looked sideways at Xia Ran and asked word by word, "Are you completely sure?" ”

Xia Ran knelt down: "If the slave is not sure, how dare she talk in front of the mother!" Qiaozhu has martial arts, yesterday the slave saw her jump up the tree with her own eyes, dexterous like a bird, if the mother doesn't believe it, you will know it if you try it! ”

The coldness in Liu Yuyao's eyes was even stronger, and she looked at Xia Ran deeply: "What conditions do you want me to agree?" ”

Xia Ran bowed his head: "The slave maid wants to ask Niangniang to spare Qiaozhu from death, for Niangniang, the nails that have been exposed are not to be feared, if you can get more news of King Yun from Qiaozhu, it is only good for Niangniang, I hope Niangniang will give her a way to live, drive her out of the palace, and don't hurt her life." ”

Liu Yuyao raised his chin and looked at Xia Ran coldly: "This palace never leaves a living mouth for those who betray it!" ”

"Everything has a first time, Niangniang spares Qiaozhu's life, and in the future, there will be a place for slaves and maids, and slaves and maids will be smeared with liver and brains, and they will not give up."

Xia Ran hit a rake, waiting for Liu Yuyao to buy her.

Liu Yuyao didn't laugh angrily: "Zisu, you found such a secret, this palace originally wanted to reward you, but this condition you proposed, this palace can't agree!" There are so many people who want to do things for this palace, and you are not one of them! Qiaozhu is not related to you, why should you upset this palace for an irrelevant person? If you withdraw this condition, there will be a lot of things for you to do in the future, and when the prince ascends the throne, you will definitely be allowed a good future, the crown princess and the princess are missing, and the position in the prince's mansion is vacant a lot. ”

Xia Ran glanced at Liu Yuyao without humility or arrogance, and insisted: "Qiaozhu and the slave maid are in the same house, and they have lived together for a year, when the slave and maid are sick, they are all taken care of by Qiaozhu's sister, and the slave and maid hesitated for a night whether this matter should be reported to the queen mother, and finally the slave and maid still came!" But if Qiaozhu loses his life because of this, the slave will never forgive herself. Can you trust a man who betrays even his sisters, Queen? ”

Liu Yuyao pursed her lips.

Xia Ran continued: "How sinister the palace is, the favor is as thin as paper, some insistence, if you lose the first time, you will be even more unscrupulous later!" The slave maid left Qiaozhu today for her future, and tomorrow she may also leave the queen mother to climb higher gold branches, even if it is disrespectful, if the mother is unwilling to spare Qiaozhu's life, don't expect the slave to do things for the mother again, to kill or chop, listen to the respect! ”

Liu Yuyao looked at Xia Ran fixedly, and was silent for a long time, Xia Ran was very patient, she knew that Liu Yuyao must not have heard these words before, but Liu Yuyao was able to find Mo Yi's status today, Xia Ran believed that she had the capacity to tolerate people and the talent to know people.

Reporting An Xiaoyu is just a reason, and the latter words are Xia Ran's carefully planned rhetoric to impress Liu Yuyao!

"The palace will send someone to determine whether King Yun has really entered the palace temporarily." Liu Yuyao did not disappoint Xia Ran, and finally said after a long time, "If what you say is true, this palace will lock up Qiaozhu first, as long as she is willing to say about King Yun, this palace will spare her from death!" Even if she refuses to say it, for your sake, Bengong won't want her life, but Bengong wants to force it and try to get something from her, don't you object to this? ”

"Thank you, Niang!" Xia Ran is overjoyed, Liu Yuyao does not regret being an atmospheric queen.

Xia Ran was about to get up to say goodbye, but Liu Yuyao suddenly stopped her from behind: "Zisu, you said you understand medical skills?" How is the medical technique? ”

Xia Ran was in ecstasy, quickly calmed down and turned around, and said to Liu Yuyao modestly: "The slave maid is a little bit familiar with the fur, and I dare not compare with the imperial doctor in the palace, it is not a problem to treat a headache and brain fever or something, and the slave and maid can also cure the illness of the livestock." ”

Liu Yuyao stood up quietly: "This is very good, there is just a patient here in this palace who is inconvenient to ask for treatment, and this palace wants you to try it." ”

Xia Ran was so excited that her hands and feet trembled a little, she forcibly suppressed the joy in her heart, and looked at Liu Yuyao in surprise, as if wondering why the queen of the dignified palace had patients who were inconvenient to ask the imperial doctor to see.

Liu Yuyao didn't speak, just handed her a hood: "Put this cover." ”

Xia Ran obediently put on the hood, only to hear the sound of squeaking, and after a while, Liu Yuyao said, "You can take off the hood." ”

Xia Ran took off his hood and was shocked to find that a trapdoor had been opened on the bed, and inside was a ramp that went straight down, it turned out that Chu Qiqin was hiding in the secret room under Liu Yuyao's bed, who would have thought that in the heavily guarded palace, Liu Yuyao would be able to dig such a secret passage under the bed.

The two of them walked down the secret passage, and the mechanism on the bed was closed, and the secret passage was exactly one person high, dug into a spherical shape, Xia Ran looked at a stone ball at the entrance of the secret passage that was almost exactly the same size as the entrance, and squinted his eyes quietly, if this rolled down, the people in the secret passage would be dead and undiscussed.

Xia Ran followed behind Liu Yuyao, walked straight to the depths of the secret passage, walked about a hundred meters, and saw two eunuchs holding long swords, Liu Yuyao quietly glanced at them.

"Suffer death!" When Xia Ran passed by the two eunuchs, the two swords stabbed at her together, one slashing through her chest and the other from behind, piercing her clothes with four holes in front of and back.

Xia Ran screamed, and after a second, she fell to the ground.

"Set her up and take her over." When Liu Yuyao saw Xia Ran's reaction, he was completely relieved, and beckoned two henchmen to take Xia Ran to see Chu Qiqin.

Xia Ran's palms were full of cold sweat, if she had just been a thief and thought that the matter was exposed, or if she reflexively leaked her martial arts, the consequences would be unimaginable, and she bet that the two eunuchs were just testing that they would not really attack her.

Fortunately, she was right.

The secret passage turned slightly to the right, Xia Ran's eyes lit up, Chu Qiqin! She pretended to gasp and looked at Liu Yuyao in horror: "This ...... Isn't this the crown princess...... Mother, you ......."

Chu Qiqin sat at the end of the secret passage, her hair was scattered, her face was haggard, her hands and feet were handcuffed with iron chains, obviously locked for many days, and the skin where the chains rubbed against her skin was broken and red and swollen.

"It's the crown princess, so you should know that if this matter gets out, this palace will never spare your life!" Liu Yuyao said to Xia Ran, "The crown princess has been eating less and less recently, and if she eats a little more, she will vomit, you can go and see if you can cure it!" ”

Xia Ran responded with "trembling", and hurriedly ran towards Chu Qiqin, Chu Qiqin saw Xia Ran and struggled hard: "Don't touch me!" ”

"The crown princess, her life is her own, if you lose it, you won't have a chance to do it again, it is fate that the slave and maid can see the princess today, the slave and the maid have no malice, and the princess's sick slave and maid may not be cured, just try." Xia Ran said as she took Chu Qiqin's pulse, blocked Liu Yuyao's sight with her body, and said in a voice that only she and Chu Qiqin could hear, "Continue to be angry, don't show your flaws, I'm Xia Ran." ”

Chu Qiqin trembled, her body subconsciously tightened, and continued: "Since it may not be cured, don't get in the way of my eyes here!" ”

Liu Yuyao frowned and took a few steps forward: "Qiqin, don't be so willful, this palace has no intention of wanting your life, just let you live here temporarily, and this palace doesn't want you to have an accident!" ”

Chu Qiqin glanced at Liu Yuyao and smiled sarcastically: "Queen Mother, you locked me in this dark tunnel, what is the difference between me and the living dead?" If you can't be hungry or frozen, is it a gift......

Liu Yuyao said coldly: "If this palace falls into the hands of others, I will feel that it is good to be able to save a small life, and I will have no worries about food and clothing, which is a blessing!" ”

Xia Ran glanced at Liu Yuyao and said, "Niangniang! The princess has been trapped for a long time, and the muscles and veins on her body are blocked, and the slave wants the princess to lie down and massage her to open up the tendons, I don't know if the mother allows it? ”

"Yes!" Liu Yuyao took a step back, leaving room for Chu Qiqin to lie flat.

Xia Ran symbolically massaged Chu Qiqin and whispered: "From now on, if you want to vomit, you have to swallow the rice, if you don't see well, I won't be able to come in tomorrow!" In three days, I will deliver you out. ”

Chu Qiqin's eyes shone brightly, and she looked at Xia Ran gratefully: "I know!" ”