Chapter 333: Tea-stained clothes
The main seat in the middle was reserved for Chu Hongzhen and the queen, but they would not be able to come over until later.
In the past, on the left was Su Guifei, and on the right side was originally Zhao Guifei.
However, Zhao Guifei and Su Guifei do not agree, the harem is actually known to everyone, although Su Guifei also invited her early in the morning, but Zhao Guifei directly said that Shufang Palace was busy with affairs, and rejected Su Guifei, and she would not appear today.
Su Guifei still had the same gentle and smiling face (qg), sitting in her position and whispering softly to the concubines
"Thank you sisters for coming today (ri) to check the list of female dependents for Hongyi's birthday banquet, for which the palace has prepared all kinds of refreshments for everyone, as well as Gu Zhu purple bamboo shoot tea, and I hope you sisters will not dislike it, and enjoy it as much as possible."
As soon as Su Guifei's words came out, there was an uproar in (diàn).
Gu Zhu's purple bamboo shoot tea is a rare tribute tea, I heard that after paying tribute to Chu Hongzhen every year, he will only share a cake with the queen, and the other concubines have nowhere to enjoy it.
What Su Guifei had on hand seemed to be a reward that Chu Hongzhen had specially added when she watched her drink on her birthday.
With such precious tea, Su Guifei actually took it out to match them with refreshments, and told everyone to 'don't dislike it', which was really a gesture.
Cheng Xiaoxiao spit a little in her heart, the evil capitalism is really a drought and a waterlogging.
Just the praise of everyone, as well as the envious eyes that frequently cast at Su Guifei, Cheng Xiaoxiao knew that this Su Guifei had succeeded in pretending to be 13 this time.
Changing the law to Zhu Rong's horse!
Do you want to say that you are more favored and can get Chu Hongzhenxi (ài) more than Zhu Rong?
It's a pity, Zhu Rong doesn't care at all.
Looking at the cold face (qg), and even began to taste the refreshments, Cheng Xiaoxiao showed an unknown smile.
Could it be that this is the legendary heart that has no fluctuations, and even wants to eat yellow stewed chicken?
Cheng Xiaoxiao snickered here, and did not forget to observe the (QG) situation on Su Guifei and Xu Liangyuan's side at all times.
Refreshments were also served, tea was changed, and the list was naturally distributed to the concubines.
Everything is going on steadily, and nothing seems out of the ordinary.
Cheng Xiaoxiao watched back and forth between Xu Liangyuan and Su Guifei again, and then she was relieved and distracted a little bit on Zhu Rong (shēn) on the side of (shēn).
can't keep staring at them, her eyes just now were too obvious, and she was almost discovered by Su Guifei.
At this time, she could feel that Su Guifei's eyes were frequently looking at this side, so frightened that she quickly lowered her head and didn't dare to look around.
When Cheng Xiaoxiao was distracted, a palace maid walked into the hall quickly, walked straight to Xu Liangyuan's side, and whispered something in her ear.
Xu Liangyuan's face changed significantly, she nodded slightly at the palace maid, and the palace maid quickly retreated to her (shēn) side to stand still.
When Xiaoxiao looked up, she only saw Xu Liangyuan giving Su Guifei a very strange look, Su Guifei just glanced at Xu Liangyuan without a trace, and didn't say anything.
It looks flawless! But she always felt that something was wrong.
Is she too suspicious?
Or what the hell are these two doing?
The careless Cheng Xiaoxiao did not notice that the palace maids after Xu Liangyuan (shēn) had changed from one person to two, and her attention was entirely focused on Su Guifei (shēn), who was just drinking tea with her eyes down.
Xu Liangyuan also withdrew his eyes and picked up the teacup in his hand, lowered his head and blew the floating tea leaves in the teacup.
One or two drank tea, couldn't it be that these two people just drank a cup in the air?
I don't see any clues to this.
It can't really be as boring as she thought, Su Guifei and Xu Liangyuan exchanged tea ceremonies for a few seconds in the air, and they still communicated with their eyes.
Cheng Xiaoxiao looked at it suspiciously several times, and wondered if she could see any heresy.
Her attention was completely attracted by the fleeting interaction between Xu Liangyuan and Su Guifei, and naturally missed Su Guifei picking up the teacup Xu Liangyuan immediately raised the cup when a little palace maid with a tray walked towards Zhu Rong.
Before she could withdraw her gaze, she was forced back by an unfamiliar exclamation from the side of (shēn).
"Slaves deserve to die, slaves deserve to die."
Cheng Xiaoxiao followed the voice and looked over, only to find that Zhu Rong had stood up at some point, and there was a palace maid kneeling with a tray at her feet.
The palace maid was already completely white, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing to Zhu Rong, the tray in her hand was even harder, and her knuckles were slightly white.
Then look at the table behind Zhu Rong (shēn), where there is an overturned teacup, the lid of which is swaying from side to side, as if telling the shape of the (qg) just now.
Something happened?!
Almost without asking, you can know that this palace maid must have knocked over the teacup just now.
That Zhu Rong......
Cheng Xiaoxiao hurriedly took a few steps closer to Zhu Rong and asked in a low voice
"Master, are you alright?"
Zhu Rong patted Cheng Xiaoxiao's hand soothingly, signaling her to be calm, and he took out a handkerchief and began to wipe her dress.
Cheng Xiaoxiao had been staring at Zhu Rong's face and hands just now, for fear that the palace maid would burn Zhu Rong, so naturally she didn't notice that Zhu Rong (shēn) was already wet.
Zhu Rongjin (ri) was wearing a crescent moon white palace dress, and now he was splashed with a tea stain (shēn) that was so obvious that it was difficult to hide.
Cheng Xiaoxiao also anxiously took out a handkerchief from her arms to wipe it for Zhu Rong, and for a while, no one had the time to blame the little palace maid who was still kneeling on the ground.
"It's okay, I can do it myself."
Zhu Rong's expression was indifferent, and he didn't seem to have much reaction, and comforted Cheng Xiaoxiao in turn.
How could Cheng Xiaoxiao really listen to Zhu Rong's words, she didn't say much, and the top priority was to wipe the remaining tea leaves and tea on Zhu Rong's skirt with a half-bow (shēn).
However, winter clothes are worn a lot, and most of them are thick fabrics, which are very easy to absorb the tea that is spilled, but after this time, the original crescent white dress has turned into the green and yellow of tea soup.
The little palace maid also knelt on the ground and kowtowed vigorously, kowtowing and begging for mercy with a crying voice, hoping that Lord Zhurong would be able to forgive her a lot and not punish her.
Cheng Xiaoxiao was already guilty, thinking that she didn't take care of Zhu Rong.
It would be impossible to wipe off the tea stains, and the little palace maid kept yelling (shēn), and she was really upset by the noise.
"Shut up! You did something wrong and should have come to help the master clean his clothes first, but now he will only kneel on the ground and beg for mercy, and say something stupid that makes people pity you, and our master obviously didn't say anything. ”
Cheng Xiaoxiao smiled in (ri), even if it was a change of appearance, she could still see the feeling of a smile in her eyebrows.
But she was really angry at the moment, and the big eyes that were always smiling were now only a rare anger.
She stared at the little palace maid who was still crying on the ground with a cold face, and she was so frightened that the little palace maid was directly silenced.
The little palace maid reacted for a while, and wanted to quibble about something, but was interrupted by a voice from above Zhu Rong in (diàn).
"What's so noisy?"
Su Guifei's voice was finally late, and her non-angry and authoritative tone directly made the little palace maid who was still kneeling on the ground tremble unconsciously.
"Qi Yu Niangniang, it's the slave's fault."
Although the little palace maid (shēn) was still a little shaky, she spoke quite neatly, and she gave a general explanation in a few words
"The slave maid saw that Yun Jieyu's tea was a little cold, so she wanted to change a cup of tea for Yun Jieyu, but she didn't expect to knock over the teacup by mistake, the slave and maid should die, and I hope that Niang Niang will forgive her sins."
When the little palace maid spoke, Cheng Xiaoxiao kept looking at Zhu Rong, and saw Zhu Rong nodding at her, so she believed the little palace maid's words.
It's best that this palace maid is telling the truth, otherwise she will definitely tear the little palace maid apart.
Originally, it was okay to say that she had done something wrong, but she knew that according to Zhu Rong's (xg) son, she would not care much about this palace maid.
But when he came up, he sold miserably, begging for forgiveness in all kinds of ways, saying that he had done something wrong, and he didn't even have a remedy.
Cheng Xiaoxiao felt that this palace maid was disgusting.
You say that she was scared stupid and didn't think of a remedy, but she knelt there, her eyes rolled wildly, her mouth was very neat, and her speech was even more coherent, as if she had already thought of a rhetoric.
It's even stranger to think about this palace maid like this.
Cheng Xiaoxiao helped Zhu Rong wipe the tea stains, and thought indignantly.
Over there, Concubine Su's voice sounded slowly
"Is Yun Jieyu injured?"
"The concubine is fine, but her dress is a little dirty."
Signaling Cheng Xiaoxiao to stop, Zhu Rong saluted to Concubine Su and replied coldly.
"Dirty clothes? That's no small feat. ”
Su Guifei's voice suddenly became a little more meaningful.
Zhu Rong didn't answer, Cheng Xiaoxiao was still thinking about the meaning of Concubine Su's words, and the little palace maid who was kneeling on the ground shouted even more sadly
"Mother, spare your life! The slave didn't mean it! The slave and maid don't dare, and the slave and maid must pay attention next time. ”
Cheng Xiaoxiao was frightened by the howl of the little palace maid with a loud voice, she was really curious about how this Su Guifei would react, so she quickly turned her gaze to look at Su Guifei.
"Next time?"
Su Guifei's lips opened slightly, and the corners of her eyes revealed a hint of coldness that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
"You shouldn't ask for forgiveness from this palace, you should go to ask Yun Jieyu."
Su Guifei quietly took a sip of the tea in her hand again, and waited until the tea in her mouth was swallowed by her before she continued
"If Yun Jieyu has a good heart and is willing to forgive you, then you go down to receive a punishment and the matter is over. If Yun Jieyu refuses to forgive you......"
Su Guifei didn't say anything, but silently tasted the tribute tea in her hand again.
Is this putting the initiative on Zhu Rong (shēn)?
Zhu Rong didn't shirk either, she saluted Su Guifei again, and then turned (shēn) Zi coldly waved her hand at the little palace maid
"Go down and get your punishment."
The little palace maid who was crying bitterly still looked at Zhu Rong with her mouth slightly open, and when she heard this, she quickly kowtowed again, and thanked Dade for taking her tray and going down.
No one saw that Su Guifei's lips blocked by the teacup hooked up a sarcastic smile, and Xu Liangyuan, who was diagonally opposite Zhu Rong, also had a trace of vicious light flashing in his eyes.
Our Rongrong is really kind-hearted, and let her go so easily.
Cheng Xiaoxiao looked at the little palace maid who had retreated in a hurry with some unwillingness, and always felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't say why.
Maybe it's really because she's too nervous today, so it's awkward to look at everything, and everyone feels weird.
Cheng Xiaoxiao forced herself to return her attention to Su Guifei and Xu Liangyuan (shēn) in (diàn), trying to continue to observe their every move.
In fact, Cheng Xiaoxiao didn't need to be deliberate, because Concubine Su Guifei, who was sitting up, opened her mouth again
"The matter of the palace maid (qg) is solved, do you want to dispose of your clothes?"
Concubine Su's words woke up Zhu Rong and Cheng Xiaoxiao, Cheng Xiaoxiao remembered that Zhu Rong told her that Chu Hongzhen and the queen would also come over today, could it be that Zhu Rong and the others would wear this tea stained clothes to greet the holy driver?