Chapter 10: Unfortunate
The glorious Fengyi Palace was peaceful and calm, and no one would know how hateful the queen inside was at this time.
"Jinrong! Is she telling the truth? The queen looked at the kneeling woman below and asked Jinrong beside her, her tone mixed with forbearance and rage.
Jin Rong looked at the woman kneeling on the ground, and gritted her teeth angrily, but said calmly: "Please believe in the slave and maid, the slave and maid's mother-in-law have long since stopped being slaves, and the only thing the slave can rely on is the queen mother, how can she do something sorry for the queen mother." She said sincerely, with an expression of panic and wrongful on her face, her body lowered slightly, to be honest, Jin Rong was also afraid, after all, although this is the case now, she knows better than anyone what the truth is. It's just that she still expects that the queen will not be overly pursued, or even desired.
At this time, the palace maid outside the house spread the word, saying that Han Gu and Yan Jiu had arrived outside the palace, and Jinrong suddenly panicked. She looked at the queen with murderous intent on her face, and then remembered the queen's words - I'd rather kill the wrong one than let it go!
The legs were suddenly soft, this Yan Jiu was grown up by her, she had long treated Yan Jiu as if she were her own child, was such a cute and delicate child going to die tonight? Thinking that she gave the man on the ground a vicious look, why did she never think that she would raise a white-eyed wolf by her side for so many years, if Yan Jiu was a little bit bad, she must pull this girl on her back together.
"Niangniang, I ......" It was Yan Si who knelt on the ground, she glanced at the brocade leisurely, saw the sudden look and retracted, she just wanted a great future, and didn't want to be just an ignorant peasant woman after leaving the palace. It's just why she targeted Yan Jiu this time, because she didn't like her, and because she was sure that Yan Jiu was the daughter of the Rou Concubine, she lived in the same room with Yan Jiu and saw her unique birthmark early, she didn't think anything at first, until one day she heard the palace maids chatting and said, at that time, Concubine Rou was called the reincarnation of the Fire Lotus Fairy because of the birthmark, and she suddenly woke up.
The queen looked at her and said, "The eldest aunt took her behind the screen." This is Yan Si's request, after all, Han Gu is the aunt who raised her personally, she doesn't want Han Gu to be disappointed in her, her mentality towards Han Gu is different from that of Jinrong, she cares more about what Han Gu thinks of her, because she treats Han Gu as a relative.
After a while, Han Gu led Yan Jiu and walked in slowly, the candlelight in the room flickered slightly, and the queen now saw that Yan Jiu's little face was really similar to that Rou Concubine, and couldn't help but be even more annoyed, and angrily looked back at the Jinrong who might betray him, his eyes were blazing and stinging.
"Han Gu!"
"Yan Jiu!"
"Attend the Queen's Mother." The two saluted respectfully.
The queen got up, took a few steps forward and stood in front of Yan Jiu, and said in a cold voice: "Yan Jiu? Let's get up and let Hongu take a good look. Her gold-rimmed finger guard was deeply clasped on Yan Jiu's small shoulder, Yan Jiu was in pain, but he still kept smiling, got up and looked up, and looked at the queen naturally, without the slightest fear, because those so-called fears had long been used up in the previous life, and people who died once, where is there still the word fear.
The queen looked at her carefully for a long time, and asked without a smile: "What month were you born?" ”
"In the first month of spring, the slave maid doesn't know the specific time."
"Oh? How did I hear that you were born on Chinese New Year's Eve? ”
"Maybe the queen misheard." Yan Jiu said crisply, and the queen glared at her coldly, as if jokingly: "Today, one of your playmates said that you have a unique birthmark, I am very curious, can you let me see it." She always maintained her demeanor, and the red jade beads and crested golden steps on her head swayed with the candlelight, and she still looked beautiful.
Yan Jiu smiled and said: "There is still a father-in-law here, Yan Jiu is afraid that he can't, or the queen will remove the father-in-law, right?" She said that the two small dimples on her little pink face were shallow and exposed, and there was a hint of agility in her cuteness.
The queen quickly withdrew the eunuchs around her, put a hand on Yan Jiu's left shoulder and gently pulled it away, only to see something black, she frowned, and asked, "Why are you injured here?" Is there anything you can't see? Yan Jiu immediately laughed and said: "It was Yan Jiu who accidentally fell into the brazier today and smashed this left shoulder into it, but the birthmark that Niangniang wanted to see was destroyed, but I told Niangniang what it looked like." ”
Han Gu looked at Yan Jiu nervously, thinking to himself that this kid didn't know anything, would he be pitted for a while?
"Tell me?"
"It's a plum blossom on it, and it's still red."
As soon as Han Gu heard this, the heart suddenly let go, but instead saw that the door was closed, and the queen returned to sit on her soft couch and said coldly: "Do you think I will believe it?" You must know who you are, right? ”
Yan Jiu asked with an ignorant face: "Yan Jiu doesn't know how to ask Niang Niang to make it clear." ”
"Aren't you the baby girl born to Concubine Rou's fox, otherwise how would you have accepted the sachet that Concubine Rou embroidered for her daughter?" The queen said, she didn't bother to raise her eyes, now that she knew, she could simply kill it.
Yan Jiu said loudly: "The slave has never received anything from Concubine Rou, and if you don't believe it, you can come to check." ”
At this time, Yan Si behind the screen smiled leisurely, thinking that after all, he was still a child, and he was put on her so easily.
Seeing that she didn't give up, the queen smiled and said, "Then I'll give you an explanation!" ”
The eldest aunt with a fierce face checked Yan Jiu's body and did not find the sachet embroidered with Jingxiu's picture of the river that Yan Si said, and looked at the queen, who motioned her to go to the Buddha feeding place to check. The result was still no, hearing everyone's report, the queen glanced at it, and the person behind the screen snorted, as if he felt that he had been deceived. At this time, Jinrong suddenly knelt on the ground, crying and said: "The slave maid has served Niangniang for many years, but I can't imagine that I have been so wronged today, if Niangniang must think that Yan Jiu is the child of the Rou Concubine, Jinrong I can only die." ”
"Aunt Jin, what are you talking about? Didn't Concubine Rou Niangniang be born a fox? Yan Jiu asked in surprise, looked at the queen and said aloud: "Could it be that she was born as a princess at that time, really?" I don't believe it, I don't believe that the queen mother will deceive the world. The reason why she said this was nothing more than that the queen who reported to the emperor that Concubine Rou gave birth to a fox was the queen, not someone else.
The queen looked at Yan Jiu incredulously, thinking that this little girl obviously had something to say, and she couldn't imagine that she was so witty at such a young age.
Yan Jiu seemed to be a little scared and grabbed Han Gu, and said timidly: "I'm not a fox, why do Niang Niang say that I am Concubine Rou's child?" Han Gu touched her hair and sighed helplessly.
"Come on, bring the jujube soup." The queen thought to herself that there was no need to find any evidence, this child could not be kept.
Yan Jiu looked at the jujube soup, all kinds of things from his previous life came forward, and when he saw that Jin Rong was about to rush forward and grab the jujube soup and drink it all, that person could be regarded as ......
"Queen Mother, you ......" The prince coincidentally walked into the apse with a basket of food, because the people outside the house were retreated by the queen, he came in directly without notification. When he pushed the door and saw such a scene, the person kneeling on the ground, and the bowl of red date soup that he was familiar with.
He glanced at the queen coldly, walked straight to Yan Jiu's side, and asked in an extremely kind voice: "Okay, why did you come to my mother to play chess with me today, go!" ”
He didn't need anyone's consent to move, so he pulled Yan Jiu and walked out, and when he walked outside, he asked in a cold voice: "I also remembered that Concubine Rou gave birth to a fox, what?" If the queen mother wants to rehabilitate Concubine Rou, then I will tell my father now. ”
The queen was angry when she heard it, but her relationship with the prince had already broken a lot, and she couldn't add another knife to the relationship because of a palace maid no matter what, so she could only watch the prince walk away, and at this time, Ling An hurriedly returned and handed a sachet to the queen and said softly: "His Royal Highness the prince recently discovered that there was an affair between a maid and a guard, please ask the queen to investigate, this is evidence." ”
The queen looked at the sachet embroidered with Jingxiu's picture of the river, and saw the words Yan Si embroidered in red letters on it, so she threw the sachet to Yan Si angrily, and said coldly: "Send it to Aunt Zhang and let her arrange it at will." ”
And these things are also coincidental, Yan Jiu originally had good intentions, and after Yan Si gave her the sachet, she immediately handed the sachet to Ling An when Ling An came to convey that the prince invited her to play chess at night, and specially embroidered Yan Si's name on it, and this fornication was also thought out by the prince on the road when Yan Jiu took him, or rather, Yan Jiu can't trust anyone in this life, so she won't send the nameless sachet. And now that he already knew who did it, how could he let her go, so he reminded Ling An that the sachet could be given to the guard. The prince and the servant had already heard the sachet the moment they stayed outside the queen's house, and the two of them were also smart people, so they knew a little.