Chapter 16: The City is Full of Lights and Red Wedding Dresses (4)
"If you don't burn it, I'll burn it! Anyway, you're also an accomplice, so you know how to tell my father tomorrow, right? ”
"Your Highness, isn't this a crime of deceit? And is this fair to Miss Coriander? ”
"I'm fair!" The firelight illuminated the red wedding dress, Wei Tianyue looked at Canglan and smiled softly, this smile was a little funny and helpless, and finally said without a word: "I can't help myself." ”
"This is the reason why His Highness harmed the innocent? The slave maid also became an accomplice somehow? ”
The flames rushed up from the smallest part, and Wei Tianyue threw the clothes in his hand to the ground.
"Don't worry! As long as you don't say anything about tonight, I will protect you. The eldest prince said calmly and solemnly to Qian Qian, and he couldn't see the slightest joke.
Canglan was silent, she watched the fire on the ground slowly devour the red clothes, but it was all for her own selfish interests and ambitions, and women were just flags and playthings in your eyes.
Wei Tianyue didn't answer when he saw the vicissitudes of the river, so he smiled, "If you don't believe it, we'll see in the future, you will definitely believe me." ”
"The slave maid is just a palace maid, why bother to make the slave and maid believe you?"
"I think you're familiar! I kind of want to know what you mean. ”
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And that night, His Royal Highness handed over Cui Hongyao to Qianqian before she got married, and this medicine may make Qianqian unable to get pregnant for half a year, thinking that there will be many days in the future, Qianqian drank the medicine.
Unexpectedly, on the night of the candles in the cave room, the eldest prince was not in the room, Qian Qian woke up and saw a strange man next to her, screamed in fright, and was quickly covered by this man Qian Qian's mouth.
"I hope Niangniang is quiet, I am also here on the order of the eldest prince"
Seeing that her mood was gradually stabilizing, Shang Xuan let go of his hand and put on his clothes.
Obviously it was ...... yesterday night What's going on? Why does she have a headache when she thinks about it, but she can't think of anything, the person around her is obviously His Royal Highness, how can she change someone?!
Shang Xuan walked to the door without opening the door, and said to the maids guarding the door, "You can go down." ”
"Yes!"
Only then did Qian Qian realize that this man's voice was almost exactly the same as Wei Tianyue's.
Qian Qian's whole person was about to collapse, tears kept flowing down, her whole body trembled, she looked down at her clothes, the wedding dress was still neatly worn on her body, so she breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly thought of something, instantly nervous, she grabbed Shang Xuan's hand.
"Your Highness, what is he going to do? Does he dislike me and want to slander me for cheating on others? Help me! Don't forget that you're in my room, and if I'm going to die, you're going to come along, you can help me! ”
"Your Highness doesn't want to spend candles in the cave room, just to give an explanation to the emperor, don't worry, all your status is there, between us, nothing has happened."
Shang Xuan couldn't help but feel sorry when he looked at this crying pear blossom with rain and moving Qianqian, His Royal Highness actually doubted her identity, thinking that the Bai family now has no power or power except for a military power that is controlled by the emperor.
"It's... Is that so? Qian Qian wiped the tears from her face, this highness was more difficult to deal with than she thought.
But she doesn't want to be used by the three princes all the time, if the eldest prince is canonized as the new emperor in the future, the three princes who are completely defeated at that time will definitely recruit her identity, and she will die without a place to be buried! No! She must do everything she can to gain the trust of the Great Prince!
"Hmm!" Shang Xuan nodded.
"Lie down!" Shang Xuan walked to the side of the bed and comforted him, Qian Qian was like a thin piece of paper without a soul at this time.
She had palpitations, her body was still trembling, and she lay down with a cower.
Shang Xuan pulled the quilt up and covered her and left, as the youngest lieutenant in the dynasty, Shang Xuan originally wanted to refuse this matter.
But he has been loyal to the eldest prince for many years, he believes in the words of the eldest prince, as for the identity of the coriander that the eldest prince said, and he had close contact with the third prince some time ago, I am afraid that it is a meticulous work.
This is also the conjecture of the eldest prince, only once he felt that the eldest prince had misjudged.
When he opened the door, he turned back to Qian Qian and said, "Please rest well!" ”
"Are you coming back?"
"No!"
When Canglan and a few other girls reported to the emperor that last night's candle night in the cave room was successful, the emperor nodded with satisfaction.
The autumn sun is light and the autumn is crisp, and the canglan is preparing to return to Fanglan Pavilion along the path of the palace, a palace specially arranged by the eldest prince for Xiao Guifei.
Although the weather was not hot, Canglan walked in a hurry, his cheeks were slightly flushed, and he had not returned to Xiao Guifei's Fanglan Pavilion, Xiao Guifei came out halfway, with a hint of coldness in her smile.
Canglan saw another maid with a strange face beside Xiao Guifei. Canglan walked in and knelt on the ground, "Back to Niangniang, the maid has already told the emperor." ”
"Smack!" With a crisp and loud sound, Canglan was slapped hard by the female slave maid beside Xiao Guifei.
Canglan has been holding back, "The slave doesn't know what it is..."
"Smack!" Another sound, caught off guard, this vicissitudes of hair bun scattered, the stinging pain came from the face, and the cheeks were not hot. "Do you know what's wrong with you?"
Xiao Guifei walked in front of Canglan with lazy steps, and Canglan lowered her head, "Slave maid doesn't know!" ”
"Mother, don't believe this goblin's nonsense!"
"This palace has said before, you have endless glory and wealth with this palace, you want to betray this palace, but it's a pity that you are too stupid, Lian'er, you come to explain it to her!"
Xiao Guifei condescendingly looked at the embarrassed Canglan who was kneeling on the ground, without the slightest pity in her heart.
"On the night of the candles in the Niangniang cave room, you seduce Your Highness, Niangniang, this is what the maid saw with her own eyes, I watched her talk and laugh with His Royal Highness, it is because of her that you ended up alone in the cave room!"
"Then dare to ask how you see me and the eldest prince talking and laughing?" Canglan looked up, his eyes full of contempt.
"Anyway, I just saw it!" This maid is just looking at the identity of this concubine Xiao Guifei, and wants to rub some sweetness here with her and replace the position of Canglan, the personal maid.
Canglan saw that she couldn't tell clearly, it is estimated that this girl is only half-understood, last night before the eldest prince came out, there was indeed a maid outside the courtyard, but she was dismissed by the eldest prince afterwards, and Wei Tianyue had no maid when she was rude in front of her.
Even if the maid they looked for later, it was only after she was pulled away by Wei Tianyue, and at that time, the eldest prince had already put on the eunuch uniform sent by the man in red, so this maid should have been dismissed before the eldest prince went out.
"Then I want to ask you what is the crime of eavesdropping on His Highness's words?"
When Na Lian'er heard this, her face changed greatly: "Then what is your crime in seducing Your Highness?" I'm afraid a thousand times is not enough! ”
A new maid dared to be arrogant in front of her, she had been in this palace for eight years, and as soon as Lian'er thought of this, she decided to get rid of this slave girl.
"Then drag it out and cut it off!" This Xiao Guifei just came and wanted to make a prestige.
"Niangniang, the slave believes that you are a person who understands, you also know what happened last night, the slave and the maid are also ordered by His Royal Highness, and dare not disobey, if you rashly kill the slave and maid, I am afraid that Your Highness will pursue it, and the slave and maid can tell Niang Niang what His Royal Highness did with the slave and maid last night, Wang Niangniang thinks twice."
Canglan wanted to fight for it once, although she was nervous, her words were clear and orderly.
What happened last night was really ridiculous, but such a ridiculous thing happened to me, this Canglan analysis sentence is reasonable, but I also have to give many palace maids a dismount "Canglan obeys the order, pull Lian'er down and cut her ears and tongue!" ”
"Huh? Empress! Lian'er's face turned pale instantly, she hadn't reacted yet, she didn't expect that she had served the palace ladies in the palace for so many years, and now she ended up cutting off her ears and tongue.
"Hongu hates eavesdropping beasts the most! I can't see the slaves and maids who eat inside and outside! "Thinking about what happened last night, she and Shang Xuan knew that among all the maids, only Canglan and this newly arrived Lian'er knew.
The fewer people who know about this matter, the better, so that the theory of the two maids will naturally be clear, Canglan came all the way from Baifu, and this Lian'er may tell others about it, so it is naturally better.
"Please spare your life! Empress! Slaves, slaves, and maids, just for the good of the mother! ”
She knelt on the ground and grabbed the corner of Xiao Guifei's skirt and kowtowed repeatedly, the corner of her forehead was purple and red by the cold floor, and the blood flowed, and Xiao Guifei kicked her away.
"Please, your lordship, spare me a lot!" Seeing that Concubine Xiao was indifferent, she turned around and moved to Canglan.
"Concubine Xiao again, how dare a slave be called an adult." Canglan turned his head to the side.
"If you pull it again, you'll chop off ten fingers!"
Canglan remembered the desperate eyes of this Lian'er being locked up in prison, but she knew that she was so why bother in the first place?! Although she ended up half crippled, it was better to spare her life than anything else, which was also the greatest mercy to her.
The two soldiers tied Lian'er to the shelf, and heard the woman's screams echoing in the prison, and the cry was so loud that Canglan didn't want to stay any longer.
Although she has affection, she is only in this deep palace, compassion is useless, human life is the same as grass and livestock, maybe one wrong step is the abyss.
As soon as she went back, she was questioned by Concubine Xiao, who slowly walked under the willow tree in the courtyard in front of the house, the sun fell on her face through the branches, but there was no trace of kindness.
"Back to Concubine Xiao, the slave maid was also ordered by His Royal Highness last night, His Royal Highness found someone to replace him last night, and asked the slave to burn his wedding clothes when he went out, saying that this matter must not be leaked!"
"Since you have said that you can't leak it, if you really dare to do something rebellious, don't blame me for being merciless!"
"Please rest assured!"
"Okay, it's good to know!"
In the middle of the night, Canglan decided to secretly go to the emperor's library to look through the files of the Bai family's fire to see if there were any clues, and he didn't find the case files about the Bai Mansion for a long time, but on the way back, he met a eunuch and five palace maids.
Canglan originally wanted to wait for them to finish walking before slipping away, but she didn't expect that after all the palace maids walked in front of her, she had just slipped out of the corner of the covering wall, and there was actually a eunuch behind her.
"I said why is there one missing, so you came here!" Suddenly, a eunuch grabbed her ear.
"It hurts!"
"Dare to sneak out knowing that it hurts? Why don't you catch up?! This reproach in his throat made Canglan a little uncomfortable.
Canglan didn't know what so many palace maids were doing, the two eunuchs went one after the other, and Canglan regretted that he didn't use light skills on the way back, and he simply learned Yunqi's martial arts in vain.