Chapter 644: Palace maid
However, what Princess Zhenzhen did, I'm afraid no one knows except her and the little patriarch of Wusun.
Qiao Ran lowered her head and ate the palace maid's new dish again, but Xu Hexiu was already full of sadness at this time, seeing that she was eating one bite at a time, he couldn't help but bump her elbow against her, and said, "Do you still have the heart to eat?" ”
The girl who was holding a piece of meat with a bamboo skewer looked at him and blinked, and after a moment of silence, she said, "It's not delicious when it's cold." ”
Xu Hexiu: "......"
It's so reasonable, it's just speechless.
Xu Hexiu, who silently picked up a bamboo skewer and forked a piece of meat, paused, and said, "You said that Your Majesty's layout should not be yellow because of such things!" ”
After all, looking at Princess Zhenzhen's face, what she did was obviously not a good thing.
"If it's really what we think, Yu Gong will inevitably have a certain impact on His Majesty's layout." Hearing this, the girl said lightly, "Yu Private, it should be a good thing for those of us who offended the real princess!" ”
Xu Hexiu: "......"
What is the ...... That's true.
"Now it's time to see what Princess Zhenzhen has done, and there is no way to remedy the rift between Da Chu and these Wusun people." As the girl spoke, she took a bamboo skewer and stuffed a piece of meat into her mouth, and then said lightly, "I hope I can still be saved!" ”
If His Majesty's layout is beneficial to the people of the world, then their private petty profits can indeed be put aside for the time being. But if it's really because of the real princess, then it's troublesome.
"It's already happening, and it's useless to talk about it at this point." The girl took a bite of the meat and continued, "Let's take a look first!" ”
"Don't worry about it, eat your flesh well!" Zhen Shiyuan, who was watching the song and dance in front of him, turned back in due time.
Eat more and talk less, and even make sense, and don't look at these things now, are they able to handle them?
Xu Hexiu swallowed the meat silently and said nothing, no matter what, this barbecue meat is still delicious.
He Xu Hexiu has always been very focused on one thing seriously, for example, eating is really eating, eating until his stomach lasts, and he can continue to eat after running three times in a row.
After returning from Gongfang for the third time, the girl who had been eating meat slowly on the side was watching him quietly at this time.
"What's wrong?" Xu Hexiu's heart tightened, and he instinctively looked at his robe, and breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that there was nothing wrong.
The girl said, "Is it really okay if you eat like this?" ”
Xu Hexiu choked, was silent, and said, "It's okay." ”
The girl only hummed at this and ignored him again, and then watched the juggling that was being performed in the hall with Zhen Shiyuan intently.
The moment the flames rose into the air, there was a cheer in the whole hall, Qiao Ran also clapped his hands seriously, and after the juggling performance was over, he pushed Zhen Shiyuan, who was looking at the front seriously, and asked, "My lord, the ...... who just performed juggling and setting off fireworks."
"What kind of juggling fireworks, people call it swallowing clouds and spitting fog!" Zhen Shiyuan glanced at her angrily and corrected.
Qiao Ran was silent and said, "Then swallow the clouds and spit out the fog!" This cloud-swallowing fireworks looks so beautiful and beautiful, presumably they are masters in manufacturing and controlling the dosage! ”
"Nature is the handiwork of prosperity and harmony." Zhen Shiyuan said lightly, "In addition to the old craftsmen who are prosperous and prosperous in the fireworks show in front of the emperor can handle it so accurately, I can't think of any other old craftsman who can handle it more accurately." ”
The girl let out an "oh" and nodded, "I said, if this juggler can make such beautiful fireworks by himself, wouldn't it be better to perform any juggling and sell fireworks directly." ”
Zhen Shiyuan's chest was blocked by these words: "The people of your old Qiao family are really good materials for everyone to do business." ”
Qiao Ran smiled, disappreciated, and continued to watch the dancing girls in the hall dance.
After a dance, when she was clapping her hands seriously with the officials in the hall, a palace maid suddenly walked around the crowd and walked to her side, bowed and got up and said, "Lord Qiao, the Grand Governor has something to say to you." ”
The palace maid's voice was not loud, but it was not low, and as soon as the words fell, Zhen Shiyuan and Xu Hexiu looked here.
"You're really busy." Zhen Shiyuan sighed with emotion, glanced at the original seat of Zhou Shilin in the hall, and saw that there was indeed no one on the seat, so he said, "Go, go!" ”
A palace banquet, only she has people coming to look for her from time to time, it is really popular, but he and Xu Hexiu are not interested.
The girl glanced at the palace maid, got up with a smile, did not forget to grab a handful of pine nuts and put them in her purse, and then followed the palace maid to the outside of the hall.
The moment she stepped out of the main hall, the chill on her face made the girl shiver, looking at the empty space outside the hall except for the guards of the forbidden army, the girl suddenly stopped, glanced at the guards of the forbidden army holding the blades on both sides, and she suddenly raised her voice: "Didn't you say that the Grand Governor has something to say to me?" What about the Grand Overseer? ”
The palace maid was stunned for a moment, and said, "The Great Governor is not here, please come with me." ”
The girl suddenly raised her eyebrows and said, "I'm a girl in the prime of life, and I'm a half-old man, although the age difference is a bit big, but I'm not so familiar in the end." Go and speak to the Grand Protector and tell him that I will wait for him here, and that he may come here and speak with me. ”
The palace maid's expression was slightly stiff, and she subconsciously glanced at the forbidden guards on both sides, although the forbidden guards did not move, as if she had not seen the two of them here, but in the end she was not really blind and deaf, if she had not seen it, she was afraid that something would happen if she was entangled with this person like this, so the palace maid thought about it, stepped forward and took the girl's hand, and whispered: "Lord Qiao, what the Great Governor wants to say to you is related to the Cui family disciple named Pingzhuang." ”
Pingzhuang? The girl's expression was slightly stunned, and the defensive look on her face receded slightly.
Seeing her gradually receding defensive look, the palace maid breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said, "Master Qiao, come with me...... Yikes! ”
An exclamation sounded, and the guards of the Forbidden Army, who pretended to be deaf and dumb, on both sides, looked here in unison.
It's not that they can't really see or hear, and this Master Qiao of Dali Temple has such a loud voice that it's hard not to hear it. What's more, a female official who is invited to a palace banquet is always not very good-looking if the same palace maid pulls and pulls here.
This exclamation came from the palace maid, and they saw that the palace maid who had just taken the initiative to hold the Lord Qiao had been pulled by the Lord Qiao backhand at this time, she twisted her eyebrows, ignored the palace maid's "What's wrong with Lord Qiao", turned her head and shook the waist card that she hung on her waist, and said to the forbidden army guard: "I bother you to do me a favor and help me restrain this suspicious palace maid!" ”
What the? The palace maid was startled, but before she could react, the guards of the forbidden army on both sides, who had been frozen in the cold wind for a long time and wanted to move their muscles and bones, had already rushed up.
Almost instantly, the palace maid was restrained, and the captain who was the leader of several forbidden army guards looked at Qiao Ran and asked, "Lord Qiao, the person has been restrained, I don't know what I will do next?" ”
"Naturally, I will take her into custody for the time being, and when I report to our Lord Zhen, I will take her back to Dali Temple." The girl doesn't want to say anything.
As soon as these words came out, the guards of the forbidden army did not react, but the palace maid's face changed suddenly, and she exclaimed, and hurriedly said: "My lord, I am just helping the chief governor to pass on a word, why did the lord suddenly turn his face?" ”
The girl snorted lightly and asked the forbidden guards who had moved their hands and feet: "How many can you hear which palace maid in the palace calls herself 'me'?" ”
The people of Dachu are civilized, although the slavery has not been abolished, but the treatment of most of the slaves and maids is indeed different from that of the previous dynasty, and some masters who do not pay much attention to the treatment of their subordinates will not even ask the servants and maids to call themselves "slaves", such as red beans often blurt out the word "I" when they say it.
But this does not include the palace maids in the palace, even if His Majesty can be regarded as an out-and-out benevolent monarch among the monarchs of the past dynasties, how can a monarch who has all the opportunities to manage the thousands of palace maids in this palace?
As far as she could see, there was no palace maid who was so bold as the word "I" in front of her that she said it casually.
"I ...... I just entered the palace," a trace of panic flashed in the palace maid's eyes, and she hurriedly defended, "The slave maid has not been trained by her aunt yet......"
For a while, "I" and a "slave", the girl snorted lightly and said with a smile: "Okay, don't talk about this, the Great Governor really wants to find me, why don't you come to me yourself, and you have to pass the word?" It was only a few steps from his seat to my seat, and a military general who had crawled out of the barracks was too lazy to take even a few steps? ”
The palace maid's face turned pale, and in the face of the girl's smiling appearance, she subconsciously looked panicked, and blurted out: "If the slave maid is a liar, how can she know that Cui disciple named Pingzhuang?" ”
It was ironclad evidence to prove her identity, but the girl on the opposite side suddenly laughed with a "poof", and then asked the forbidden guards to suppress the palace maid and let her run away, and said: "Didn't the master who let you lie to me tell you?" I have a good memory, although you are not conspicuous when you are born, and you can hardly find it in the palace maid, but I still remember it. Aren't you one of the two palace maids I passed by when I was talking to Zhou Shilin before the banquet? ”
The palace maid's face turned pale, but the forbidden army guards who suppressed the palace maid on the side changed their faces suddenly at this time, and said "not good", but this "bad" was too late, the palace maid's eyes were quickly covered with a layer of death, and the blackened poisonous blood slowly flowed from the corner of the palace maid's mouth.
The commander of the forbidden army squatted down, opened the mouth of the palace maid with his hand, glanced at the mouth of the palace maid, and after looking at it for a while, he shook his head, turned his head to Qiao Ran and said, "Lord Qiao, this woman's teeth are hidden in poison, and she is not an ordinary person. ”
Nature is not an ordinary person. If you are so far away and can clearly hear the words "Pingzhuang is a child of the Cui family" in her conversation with Zhou Shilin, how can she be an ordinary person? An ordinary palace maid or even a maid will not hide poison in her teeth for no reason.
originally wanted to bring this palace maid who was inexplicably ready to trick her out back to Dali Temple for interrogation, but now because of her death, this clue is naturally broken.
Qiao Ran sighed "It's a pity", thanked several forbidden army guards, and was about to ask them to drag the palace maid down when Zhou Shilin's voice came from a distance.
"Master Qiao, what's the matter with you? said that he had something to say to me, Lao Tzu and the others were about to freeze, and you still didn't come? ”
Qiao Ran: "......"
A group of forbidden army guards: "......"
The Dare Governor is still convinced!
Qiao Ran didn't explain, flashed and pointed to the palace maid who committed suicide behind her, and said, "Great Governor, you and I almost fell into the way of people." ”
Zhou Shilin was stunned for a moment, and after listening to the commander of the forbidden army who couldn't stand it, he suddenly became angry: "It turns out that someone wants to calculate Lao Tzu, this is too much!" Lord Qiao, check carefully, find out which key Lao Tzu is! ”
"I can't find it, I killed myself." As she spoke, the girl who had checked the palace maid's body but found nothing, stood up and said, "Moreover, it is more likely that this matter will come to me." ”
The evidence is that Zhou Shilin jumped into the trap and stayed for a while and no one went to collect the net, so the other party obviously seemed to be more prepared to lead her into the trap.
It's a pity that she didn't jump down, but although she didn't jump down, the bait she was going to use to kill her must have been prepared long ago, and she was waiting for someone to find out at this time.
The commander of the forbidden army who realized it hurriedly responded and was about to send people to search all over the imperial city, but the girl suddenly stopped him, and then said thoughtfully: "Since the other party is preparing to lead me into a trap under the pretext of the Great Governor looking for me, then in order not to make me suspicious, this place must not be very far, and ordinary people do not often set foot in ......" The girl said, suddenly stretched out her hand and pointed to a palace on the right, and said, "What is that place?" ”
As soon as these words came out, the face of the commander of the forbidden army immediately changed greatly, and he exclaimed, "Your Highness", and hurried to that palace.
Qiao Ran and Zhou Shilin naturally followed behind the guards of the forbidden army, but on the way, Zhou Shilin couldn't help it, and secretly asked her: "There is more than one hall that can be seen from this place, why do you only point to him?" ”
Qiao Ran glanced at him and said in a low voice, "Great Governor, have you seen the fireworks piles that can be seen everywhere on the ground?" ”
This is the fireworks that will be set off at the end of the feast.
"There are decorations everywhere, but not in that place."
It turned out that it was because of this that Zhou Shilin was stunned.
"Actually, it's not all, I entered the imperial city when I returned from Shanxi Road to thank the emperor, so I actually know the masters of the palaces in this imperial city." Qiao Ran said, "Although I haven't seen a specific defense map of the imperial city, at least I remember where the masters in the imperial city lived, not to mention His Royal Highness, the only son of His Majesty." ”
Zhou Shilin couldn't help but stare at her when he heard it: So she already knew? Fang just pretended to be unaware in front of those forbidden troops.
"Moreover, His Royal Highness did not attend the palace banquet today because of his health," of course, the fact that no fireworks pile was placed in that place is also due to the reason why His Highness wants to recuperate.
"If the other party really wants to harm me, what better excuse is there than for His Highness's body to have an accident because of me?" Qiao Ran said.
After all, that is the only heir of His Majesty now!