Aunt Cui sighed heavily again, looked at Li Ruxuan's thin back, and helped Qingguo to leave.

Li Ruxuan raised her head and watched the door of the firewood room open and close, and the light of the lantern gradually disappeared, and finally disappeared.

In this way, it can be regarded as a happy ending.

Li Ruxuan smiled bitterly and sat down on the ground.

A line of clear tears crossed her face, Xiangqiao opened her eyes in the dark night, quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, pulled the clothes on her body, and curled up again.

The morning sun still rises on time, and the sunlight of the white flowers shines on the plane trees next to the Chunhui Palace, leaving a mottled trace on the ground.

As summer progresses, I feel hotter than usual when I wake up early, and even the birds that like to chirp at the door on weekdays are lazily hiding on the branches of the trees and leisurely combing their feathers.

Bi Chun, the palace maid of the Huanyi Bureau, held a pile of clothes, turned around in front of the door of the Chunhui Palace, and finally stomped her feet ruthlessly, picked up the copper ring on the door, and gently touched the vermilion lacquer gate twice.

"Who!" Someone inside the door asked.

Bi Chun chuckled in his heart, and immediately panicked, not knowing how to respond. Su Rili heard that the palace maids of this Chunhui Hall are very powerful, and they have never given the Huanyi Bureau a good look. Besides, this errand was not hers, but she was young and timid, so others pushed this bad errand to her.

"Who, why don't you speak?" The voice inside the door sounded again, and it sounded quite kind.

Gritting his teeth, Bi Chun tightened his throat and whispered back: "The slave is the ...... of the Huanyi Bureau."

Before he finished speaking, the closed vermilion lacquered wooden door squeaked open, and a palace maid walked out from behind the door, saying as she walked, "Why did you come so early today?" ”

Looking at Pan Xia's full smile, a stone in Bi Chun's heart fell to the ground, thinking that the rumors were really not to be believed, and this Chunhui Hall was nothing more than that, so his heart was much more relaxed, and said with a smile: "It should have been sent yesterday, but some things were delayed." ”

Listening to the voice is not like Ru Xuan on weekdays, Pan Xia fixed his eyes and saw that it was a little palace maid who had never seen it before, and the smile on his face was put away, and he said lightly: "Is it." ”

Bi Chun saw that Pan Xia looked displeased, thinking that he had just said something wrong, and said curtly: "The slave didn't want to delay......

Pan Xia didn't want to talk to her more, but seeing that it wasn't Ru Xuan who came today, she was a little puzzled, so she asked casually: "Why don't you see Ru Xuan?" What else was she up to? ”

"Ru Xuan, she ......" Bi Chun was timid quickly, and Pan Xia was not kind in tone, so frightened that she hurriedly told everything she knew.

In fact, what Bi Chun knows is also heard from the mouths of others, but there are different opinions, none of them are particularly detailed, some say that Ru Xuan stole the things given by the emperor, I am afraid that her life will not be long, and some say that Ru Xuan is good for which mother, and she is jealous of others, so she wants to plant it...... In short, there is everything to say.

Bi Chun said chaos, but Pan Xia heard it clearly, no matter what the reason, Ru Xuan is now in danger and precarious.

Now, I have to ask for a beauty.

Pan Xia sent Bichun back, and before leaving, she stuffed a silver coin for her, asking her not to mention it to others, and Bichun left with great gratitude.

It was Pan Xia, holding his clothes with a sad face, and returned to the back of the vermilion lacquered wooden door.

The sun is getting higher and higher, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, Li Ruxuan, who has been kneeling under the sun for most of the day, her body is a little shaky, and Qiaohui can't support it anymore, and her whole body is arched, like a ripe shrimp.

"Why, still don't recruit?" Shaking the fan in his hand, Cui Zhangshi glanced at them contemptuously, and said sharply: "I don't have time to spend it with you, come on!" ”

"Auntie, you command." Qingguo replied, and several stout-looking middle-aged palace maids also stood solemnly, just waiting for Cui Zhang's speech.

"Palm!" Cui Zhangshi lightly spit out two words.

Qingguo understood, and glanced at a few middle-aged palace maids, and several people stood on both sides of Li Ruxuan in an orderly manner, firmly clasped Li Ruxuan's arms, and faced the most fierce one, slowly rolled up his sleeves, and said, "I'm sorry, girl." ”

As soon as the words fell, a slap fell on Li Ruxuan's left cheek.

The sudden attack made Li Ruxuan's whole person a little foggy, and then a burst of hot pain came, making her clench her teeth tightly.

"Smack!"

"Smack!"

……

The sound continued, and everyone around him was terrified, especially Qiaohui, who hung her head and wept, fell to the ground because of fear, and did not dare to look or listen.

At this time, Li Ruxuan's face was already red and swollen, and the corners of her mouth even oozed traces of blood due to clenching her teeth...... And the whole person was even more like he had been drained of his strength, and he collapsed on the body of the palace maid next to him.

"Stop." Cui Zhangshi said, and the punishment also stopped.

The middle-aged palace maid let go of her hand, and Li Ruxuan fell to the ground like a puddle of mud, unable to get up again, so she could barely support the ground with her head to avoid inhaling the soil on the ground when she breathed.

It's really pitiful, the sin I suffered in my previous life, I was reborn once, and I didn't expect to suffer again. Li Ruxuan remembered the scene when she was beaten and scolded by her uncle and aunt when she was hungry and stealing food when she was a child, and she couldn't help but feel a little funny.

Cui Zhangshi accepted the fan, slowly walked in front of Li Ruxuan, squatted down, picked up Li Ruxuan's scattered hair, and asked, "Are you recruiting or not recruiting now?" As he spoke, he looked at Qiaohui who was trembling next to him, as if intentionally or unintentionally.

"I'll recruit, I'll recruit ......," Li Ruxuan replied with difficulty, her words a little slurred by the slap she had just received too much.

A smile appeared on Cui Zhangshi's face, and he said to Qingguo and the others, "Help her up." ”

It was still the same wave of people who had just been executed, and at this time Li Ruxuan was put back up to ensure that she could speak normally, while Qingguo sat behind the table and recorded Li Ruxuan's words one by one.

"Incense powder, it's true that I stole ......," Li Ruxuan said with difficulty.

When the words landed, a smile appeared on Cui Zhangshi's face, and as bright as her smile, there was also a red dress standing in the crowd watching the excitement.

"Now that you've confessed it, draw a charge." Aunt Cui said that Li Ruxuan had admitted that she would press the handprint over there and hand it over to Xing Si for disposal at that time.

Qingguo took the cinnabar, Li Ruxuan raised her index finger, looked at the densely written paper in front of her, and didn't know how to write her "crime" on it, only knowing that her short life was about to end in a hurry, so she pressed it tremblingly.

Seeing this, Cui Zhangshi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at Hongshang with slanted eyes, and saw her face full of joy, but he was silent again.

"Wait!" With a loud shout, everyone stopped moving their hands.