Chapter Ninety-Three: The Palace Maiden Drowns
Concubine Zhang Shufei, who was sitting next to the girl in brocade, was shocked when she heard this, and then covered her face with her sleeves and whispered to her.
I saw the girl in brocade nodding frequently, and then whispered to the maid beside her.
After a while, the maid walked away quickly.
The girl in brocade was sitting precariously, looking at Li Ji's handsome and elegant face even if she was tired, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but smile a little, and even her always cold eyes contained a little tenderness, and the whole person seemed to be more warm and jade because of the softness of this moment.
At this time, the bells and drums are ringing in unison, the ceremony has begun, and everyone's eyes are focused on the main hall.
After a while, the brocade-clothed girl took the opportunity to get up and walked straight to the steps, and Li Ji was also taken away by the maid.
Li Ji arched his hand and asked, "Sister, where is this going?"
The personal maid bent over and saluted: "My father-in-law will know when he arrives!"
Walked out of the main hall and walked down the stone steps, turned around to a backyard, and the personal maid said "Gong Qi face, please", leading Li Ji into the courtyard.
There are simple and elegant stone walls in the courtyard, and the tall and straight bamboo forest is verdant and verdant, she took Li Ji to the stone table and chair under the bamboo forest, and said, "Father-in-law, please wait a moment, the slave will pour tea for you." ”
At this time, the girl in brocade walked out of the backyard, raised her eyebrows, and said angrily: "Stinky boy, I thought you slipped away, but I didn't expect you to hide here." ”
Li Ji looked at the girl in brocade in astonishment, and at this time she was looking at each other, and her face was clearly visible.
I saw that she was dressed in a gold silk robe, slim and elegant, with willow eyebrows, eyes like autumn water, cheeks flushed with a slight peach, and her black hair bun was decorated with decorative hairpins.
Li Ji hurriedly stabilized his heartbeat and said to the girl in brocade: "Crazy girl, you dare to ask me, who can stand it if you lock me up for two days and don't let me out?"
The servant girl who served on the side with her hands lowered her hand scolded angrily: "Bold, dare to be rude to Princess Wukang!"
Li Ji had already suspected that the identity of the girl in brocade was extraordinary, but when he heard what the maidservant said, he was still shocked: "I didn't expect the crazy girl to be a princess!"
Princess Wukang looked at Li Ji with a smile and said, "It's okay, those who don't know are not guilty, this princess is not such a small-bellied person who is easy to hold grudges!"
What she said seemed to mean something, and Li Ji suddenly understood that Princess Wukang was obviously angry about what happened in Yangxian Zhuling Village, so he grinned and said: "The princess is an adult and has a lot, where will she hold a grudge!"
"To be serious, how did you know that the concubine's sweet soup was poisonous?"
"I saw it with my own eyes, heard it with my own ears, and I can't be wrong!"
Li Ji told everything she had seen and heard, only to hear her face turn blue and white.
"How unreasonable!"
Princess Wukang roared angrily, so angry that she smashed the stone table with one palm, stirring up a large cloud of dust to fly.
Li Ji was secretly frightened when he saw this, and he didn't expect that Princess Wukang, who was weak in appearance, was superior in martial arts, but after thinking about it carefully, the Xiao clan of Nanqi was the best in the world on horseback, and the kung fu of riding and archery was naturally very good.
At this time, there was a slight crisp sound in the depths of the backyard, which naturally did not escape Li Ji's sensitive and abnormal ears.
He glanced into the depths of the backyard, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a colorful figure flashing by, so he pointed and shouted: "Princess, it is the poison of the palace maid!"
Princess Wukang followed Li Ji's point, only to see a palace maid quickly escape into the rockery and stone forest in the imperial garden, and disappeared after a while.
"Chase!"
Princess Wukang hurriedly chased forward with the guards and a group of maids.
Li Ji did not move, but frowned deeply, looked around, originally made an appointment with Yu Nizi to meet here, but there was no trace of her at this time, so he sat on the stone chair and thought hard without saying a word: "It's almost noon, sister, she can't meet as agreed, is there something wrong?"
"Let's go! The princess is urging, why are you still stunned?"
Li Ji looked up and saw that it was Tian Anqi, the golden sword guard: "Why are you again?
Tian Anqi hugged his fists and said: "Tian's responsibility, please ask Gonggong Li to move!"
Li Ji frowned, seeing that he couldn't resist Tian Anqi, he had no choice but to rush away with him in the direction of the rockery stone forest.
Adjacent to the imperial garden of "piercing needle building", the pavilions and pavilions are quiet and elegant, the rockery made of Taihu Lake stones is steep and steep, the clear lake water is like a piece of clear jasper, the breeze blows with cool water vapor, sweeping away the hot summer, which makes people feel refreshed and happy.
Princess Wukang, who walked in front, had no intention of appreciating the beautiful scenery in front of her, and wiped the fine sweat on her forehead with a silk handkerchief.
Raising his eyes and looking around, he muttered for a moment and walked along the cobblestone path.
Bypassing the rockery, the whereabouts of the palace maid were long gone, and the personal guards searched everywhere.
At this time, I suddenly saw a girl standing not far in front of me, combing a butterfly seal, wearing a few beeswax bead flowers, a hairpin with a tired silk inlaid gem flower butterfly hairpin, a long face, white skin, a pair of red phoenix eyes slightly raised, looking quite arrogant, wearing a new peach makeup gown, silver red line skirt, the whole person is like a gorgeous peach blossom.
When the guards and maidservants saw the peach blossom girl, they hurriedly bowed and saluted, "The slave has seen the princess of Wu County. ”
When Princess Wukang saw her at first sight, her eyebrows frowned slightly, her eyes fell on the colorful kite in her hand, and she said lightly: "It turns out that my sister is flying a kite here, and she didn't watch the begging ceremony in the main hall." ”
turned around and wanted to leave, but heard a shrill voice sneering and laughing: "What sisters and sisters, my mother only has one daughter, and she has never added any sisters to me." My family is a century-old famous family, not those cats and dogs who want to climb relatives. ”
Princess Wukang was too lazy to fight with her, her feet did not stop, and her arms tightened, Princess Wuxian stepped forward to grab her, and said coquettishly: "Stop! I haven't finished speaking, why are you in such a hurry?"
Li Ji saw that the two were pulling, and it was inconvenient to intervene, so he stood quite embarrassed and looked at the excitement, and said secretly: "The relationship between the two sisters seems to be not good, as soon as they meet, they will be tense, the princesses are all the same, rude and willful, comparable to the scoundrels in the market, whoever marries the princess can't eat and walk around!"
"I, Wu Kang, am not the maid and old mother in your palace, why should I stand here obediently and listen to you?"
"Let me ask you, what is the purpose of your coming back this time?" Princess Wuxian asked in a loud voice like a prisoner, her eyes staring at the white face in front of her with jealousy and hatred, a pair of water-cut eyes, clear and smart, the breeze caressed, although the hair covered the face, it was difficult to hide the appearance of the city.
"It's really interesting to ask what you said, the palace is my home, and I miss my father, so I naturally came back. Princess Wukang ignored her aggressive momentum, replied nonchalantly, and shook her arm, but she was clenched so tightly that she couldn't shake it off for a while.
"Do you think I don't know what you're up to?" Princess Wu County smiled contemptuously, her hand weighted a little, and in an instant, her sharp and long nails pinched into her delicate skin through the light fabric.
Princess Wukang felt a sharp pain, her heart was furious, she withdrew her hand vigorously, and suddenly there was a cracking sound, her arm was cold, and she looked down, the golden silk robe on her body could not withstand the pull of the two, and half of the sleeves were torn off, revealing her arms as white as jade.
Princess Wuxian held half of her sleeve, her eyes flashed with joy like the success of the conspiracy, and she said sadly, "With me here, you don't want to be satisfied." ”
Princess Wukang's jade-like pupils flashed with anger, and she looked at her like a madman: "Sister, this is not Yuan's Mansion. If you want to go crazy, you have to look at the place, you have to be seen, you lose face and don't worry, be careful to cause your hundred-year-old famous family to be disgraced because of you. ”
When Princess Wuxian heard this, her pretty face suddenly turned the color of pig liver, her chest rose and fell sharply, and she pointed at her: "You...... You ......"
Princess Wukang was calm, there was still a gentle smile on the corner of her mouth, and she touched her snow-white arm that was exposed outside, and faintly felt that everything that happened today seemed to be strange, but now was not the time to investigate, she had to quickly find a way to find the poisonous palace maid, otherwise if there was any turmoil, she might not be able to withstand it.
"Cheap hooves, you and your mother are shameless cheap hooves!" the annoyed princess of Wu County scolded without hesitation.
Princess Wukang was furious, raised her hand and slapped her fiercely, her eyes were like cold winter ice and snow: "Dare to say it again, I will tear your mouth apart!"
Li Ji was dumbfounded, the two princesses could still do it when they quarreled and messed around!
Princess Wuxian saw that she had always been gentle and polite, and she was always endured when she was oppressed, thinking that she was a good one, but she didn't expect that if she didn't say a word, she would fight, and at this time she saw her glaring at herself viciously like an angry beast, and she was stunned for a while, and only came back to her senses after a while, covered her red and swollen cheeks, and scolded angrily: ", you dare to beat me?"
With that, he wanted to rush forward and tear her up.
At this moment, the guards hurriedly came to report: "Oh no!"
Princess Wuxian and Princess Wukang were on fire at this time, and they both said angrily: "What's the matter of panicking?"
"Someone drowned in the lake in the Imperial Garden!"
"What? Deaths in the palace are no joke. Princess Wukang had a vague premonition in her heart, and with a wave of her jade hand, she called out to everyone, "Let's go, let's take a look!"
Princess Wuxian was obviously a little surprised, and she also followed behind with the support of her entourage.
I saw that several guards had scooped up the drowning man, and it was the girl of the colorful palace.
Li Ji held his breath and quietly walked over to take a look, only to see the palace maid lying down in the flowers in a flower garden, her face was blue, it didn't look like she had drowned, it seemed that she had been poisoned.
Princess Wukang lightly touched the nostrils of the girl of the colorful palace and said, "She still has residual warmth, but she stopped breathing, obviously she has just lost her breath." ”
Li Ji stomped his feet and said, "It was fine just now, but in a blink of an eye, I was out of breath, how could it be so strange?"
"Which palace eunuch are you, and you dare to speak unscrupulously in front of this princess, which is against etiquette!"
Princess Wuxian looked the young eunuch in front of her up and down, only to feel that his eyebrows were clear, and his gestures revealed a bit of innate arrogance, which was completely different from the other eunuchs in the palace, and she couldn't help but be suspicious.
Princess Wukang was stunned when she heard this, and then covered up: "He is a new little eunuch, and he has not learned the rules yet, so he is not polite to those who bully the palace and are unreasonable." ”
As he spoke, he glanced at Li Ji and motioned for him to shut up.
When Princess Wu County heard this, she was so angry that her delicate face turned red.
When Princess Wukang saw this, the corners of her mouth showed a look of pride, and then she asked, "Sister, do you know this palace maid?"
The princess of Wuxian had gathered at this time with the support of her entourage, and when she saw the palace maid in colorful clothes lying on the ground, she couldn't help but be shocked and said, "How is ......it possible?" It's the maidservant girl in my palace who is in early summer......"