Chapter 257: Drama within a play--- bitter meat trick

The blue sky is like an ancient blue and white porcelain, delicate and flawless. Soft cloud feathers floated in the burnt blue sky, and a few birds spread their wings and glided past, leaving a faint ethereal cloud trail.

The white feathers flutter down in the warm summer breeze, and then float gracefully on the clear water like a boat folded from clouds. The ripples ripple with the gurgling water, and the feathers gradually drift into the distance with the gentle water waves.

The roses burned with a scorching fire, and the faint and short chirping of insects was fleeting.

The finely carved peacock golden crown flows with dazzling brilliance, and the pearl that falls from the mouth of the bird's head is faintly shining, and the imperial concubine raises her eyes and stares at Nan Zuisheng's greasy face: "It is worthy of being Miss Nanda, who was born in a century-old family, and has countless treasures and unique insights." This pair of jade moire satin flowers is indeed the real luxurious and dazzling existence of these four pairs of flowers. ”

Her beautiful eyes smeared with pearlescent eyeshadow flowed, and she glanced lightly at the golden tray, and her voice was soft: "Although these satin flowers are precious, they are just some vulgar things compared to Miss Nanda with golden branches and jade leaves. Since you like it, this palace will give it to you. ”

"His Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine's kindness, drunk and dare not refuse, thank Your Highness." The wisps of long black feather hair hung down on his waist, and Nan Zui Sheng smiled lightly, and his words were thoughtful.

As the eldest lady of the first family of the Xuan Kingdom β€”β€”β€” the Nan clan, Nan Zuisheng does not need to bow to the imperial concubine, which will damage her noble status as Miss Nan. In other words, according to the power of the father and mother clans, Nan Zuisheng's status in the Xuan Kingdom is no different from that of Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Golden Branches and Jade Leaves.

This is also the most fundamental reason why the imperial concubine is jealous of her.

is not only the eldest lady, but also the uncrowned princess, such a supreme and noble status is not something that a palace concubine can easily offend.

The glittering peacock golden crown flowed with gorgeous and dazzling light, and the imperial concubine raised her eyes to stare at the girl's fairy face, and her voice was low and charming: "Miss Nanda is polite, these gifts are just a gesture of gratitude from the palace, if you don't like it, the palace will choose some more for you another day, and I hope you don't dislike it." ”

"Your Royal Highness is serious, your gift ...... I love it. The soft white light gauze dress fluttered in the gilt golden beam, the corners of Nan Zuisheng's lips were slightly hooked, and he smiled and thanked him slowly.

"If you like it." When the imperial concubine heard this, her lips were flushed, and her beautiful face was impregnated with the lustrous and flawless glow of the pearl.

The beautiful eyes smeared with pearlescent eyeshadow flashed with a little golden light, and the imperial concubine raised her eyes to look at the Xia Wan who was serving her, and suddenly opened her lips and scolded lightly: "Xia Wan, what are you still doing in a daze, why don't you hurry up and take the gift from the palace to Miss Nanda." ”

"The slave obeys." The lilac palace skirt embroidered with petal magnolia flowers fluttered slightly in the warm breeze, and she had been frowning and lowering her head.

It was originally a bland scene, but the accident happened at this moment.

I can't tell if it's a coincidence or if it's done on purpose.

Holding his breath, the clerk standing in the pavilion respectfully fell to the edge of the white marble bench when he handed the golden tray of silk flowers in his hand to Xia Wan. Although Xia Wan quickly helped her to avoid the injury of the paperwork bumping on the white marble bench, the golden tray in her hand fell to the ground with a dull and powerful force.

"Clerk, are you alright?" The pretty and bright face showed deep concern and concern, and Xia Wan leaned over and asked worriedly.

"It's okay, thank you just now." The pale blue palace dress depicting the weeping willow bird was stained with broken leaf dust, and the clerk resisted the pain in his elbow and knee, and quickly got up and knelt on the ground.

The light blue silk skirt was scattered on the ground like a blooming flower, and the clerk knelt on the ground in panic and fear, and kowtowed to the imperial concubine sitting in front of him again and again: "Please atone for your sins, it's all bad for slaves and maids, and for a moment of negligence, I actually broke the gift that His Royal Highness gave to Miss Nanda, the slave is guilty, please atone for your Royal Highness, please atone for your sins!" ”

"You bitch, you can't do such a trivial thing well, and you actually broke the gift that the palace gave to Miss Nanda, it's really damned!" The pearl hanging under the peacock's golden crown flowed with a smooth and flawless glow, and the imperial concubine stared coldly at the paperwork kneeling on the ground, and her voice was also low and cold.

"Your Highness forgives your sins." The delicate pale blue figure swayed with a gilded halo that flickered and flickered, and the clerk trembled and knelt on the ground, and his forehead was terrifyingly bruised because of the previous kowtow.

The red gold treasure bracelet fell heavily on the edge of the white marble stone bench, and the imperial concubine stared at the document kneeling on the ground with a frosty face, and the pearl between the hanging eyebrows swayed slightly: "Hmph, do you know how much these satin flowers are worth?" Even if you sell it, you can't recover the loss of this palace at the moment! You are such a careless and reckless slave, it is useless to keep it. ”

Speaking of this, she raised her delicate and rich beautiful eyes, and commanded in a cold voice: "Summer evening, you take her to the consular office in the palace and tell the female officer in charge of the consular office that from now on the clerk will no longer be a second-class maid." ”

"Your Royal Highness, please forgive the slave and maid for their unintentional mistakes, the slave and maid will never dare anymore, please forgive your Highness for the sins of the slave and maid!" When the clerk heard this, she instantly broke into a cold sweat, and she raised her eyes in a panic to look at the beautiful imperial concubine, and pleaded bitterly in a miserable voice.

"Clerical ......" Xia Wan couldn't bear it when she saw the situation, she stared at the clerk who was kneeling on the ground and begging with worry, and couldn't help but turn her eyes for help to the imperial concubine in gorgeous clothes.

The finely carved peacock gold crown shines brightly, and the dazzling and brilliant floating light and broken shadows flow on the rich and beautiful face of the imperial concubine, and the indescribable grace and luxury: "You don't need to look at the palace, the palace has made up its mind." In the summer evening, you brought the clerk back to the consular office in the palace and told them that from now on, the clerk will be the most humble and lowly third-class maid in the palace, and anyone can teach her at will. ”

The gorgeous skirt embroidered with peacock gold patterns swayed to the ground, she lowered her eyes and stared at the face of the clerk, and her voice was low and cold: "It's just one point, don't ask for her life, let alone hurt this flower-like face, otherwise this palace will take their lives!" ”

Xia Wan frowned slightly when she heard this, she glanced at the imperial concubine with a swaggering face, and then retracted her gaze to look at the panicked documents, and for a while she only felt in a dilemma, so that she didn't know what to do.

Before the words fell, the clerk suddenly sat down on the white marble masonry, her originally gentle and beautiful face was pale at the moment, she bit her pale red lip, shook her head and knelt on the ground again and kept kowtowing and begging: "No, Your Highness, the slave knows the mistake, the slave knows the mistake!" The slave begs you not to rebuke the slave and the maid back to the consular office in the palace, the slave and the maid don't want to live that kind of life is worse than death, the slave begs you! ”

"Ask for this palace? Ask this palace to make these satin flowers that you broke intact?! The gorgeous peacock dark silk skirt dragged like golden flowing water, and the imperial concubine's red lips opened slightly, and she reprimanded loudly.

The gentle and beautiful face turned pale in a flash, and the clerk straightened up tremblingly, and said slowly with a gloomy gaze: "Slave maid...... The slave is guilty. It was all the carelessness of the slave maid, which broke the silk flowers given to Miss Nanda by Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine. ”

"Since you know that you are guilty, there is no need for this palace to say more. What are you still doing in the summer evening? Do you want Hongu to do it himself?! The pearl that fell from the mouth of the bird's head flowed, and the imperial concubine raised her eyes and looked at the sluggish summer evening with a displeased expression, and scolded sharply.

The low and cold voice flowed to his ears, instantly waking up the sluggish summer evening. She bit her lip and approached the paperwork kneeling on the ground step by step, just when she stretched out her hand to pull up the paperwork and escort it back to the consular office in the palace, she could no longer suppress the unbearable and sadness in her heart, and suddenly turned around and knelt down heavily in front of the imperial concubine who was sitting on the white marble bench.

The lilac palace skirt embroidered with petal magnolia flowers was scattered on the white marble masonry in the pavilion, and Xia Wan made up her mind to kneel heavily in front of the imperial concubine, and tears slipped from the corners of her eyes like beads with broken threads: "Your Royal Highness!" The slave begs you to forgive the clerk this time, don't relegate her to the consular office in the palace and let others bully her, the slave begs you. ”

"Presumptuous!" Seeing the situation, the imperial concubine couldn't hide her anger and slapped the white marble table in front of her, and then suddenly stood up and glared angrily at the summer evening who was kneeling and pleading.

The pearl that was originally stagnant and motionless was swaying wildly at this moment, and the smooth and flawless glow flowed between the delicate and rich eyebrows of the imperial concubine: "What kind of thing are you, you dare to disobey the orders of the palace!" The clerk was reprimanded to the consular office by the palace because of carelessness and slackness and recklessness, which is obvious to everyone present, and you β€”β€”β€” dare to disobey the orders of the palace, summer evening, the palace is impatient to see that you are alive! ”

"Please atone for your sins with Your Royal Highness, the slave is guilty, but please don't be angry with your body." The gilded golden beam sprinkled on the lilac magnolia palace skirt, and the summer evening tremblingly knelt and kowtowed, and persuaded softly.

The gorgeous skirt with peacock gold patterns dragged on the white marble masonry, the imperial concubine lowered her slender eyelashes, and snorted coldly: "Ignorant and cheap!" ”

"The slave and maid are guilty, please punish Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine." Xia Wan and the clerk knelt on the ground together, and the scorching warm sun shone on their delicate figures, like a fire falling from the sky, as if they could burn them all in an instant.

The edges of the nails painted with magnificent bright red flashed with a cold and sharp light, and after the imperial concubine hooked her lips and smiled contemptuously, she lowered her eyes and casually played with her bewitching and gorgeous nails: "Since you can't bear to see the document being punished by the palace, then you can simply accompany her to the consular office in the palace." Xia Wan was demoted to a third-class waitress and took back the honor of being in charge of the gold medal, and the same is true for the clerk. ”

Speaking of this, she slowly raised her long and beautiful eyebrows, and her voice gradually changed with charm and softness: "What, are you satisfied this timeβ€”β€”β€” summer evening?" ”

"Slave, slave and maid, ......" Xia Wan and Wen Wen's faces instantly lost color when they heard this, and after they glanced at each other with pale faces, they all knelt down and kowtowed to the ground in fear.

The flowers stacked with luxurious silk are so poignant that they are scattered on the white marble masonry, and the pair of moire silk flowers inlaid with the finest imperial green jadeite have all been shattered, and the blue-green jade crystals flow with a faint light and broken shadow, impregnated in the warm sun and radiant glow, revealing a fragmented beauty.

The soft white light veil decorated on the jade wrist fluttered in the wind behind Nan Zuisheng, she slightly lowered her thick eyelashes and stared at the broken jade crystals on the white marble masonry, and lowered her eyebrows thoughtfully, like the long eyelashes of a phoenix's tail butterfly wings.

The pearl hanging between the eyebrows flowed with dazzling brilliance, and the imperial concubine quietly looked at Nan Zuisheng's expression at this moment, and it was inevitable that her heart would beat a drum.

Because she really couldn't guess what the girl in front of her was thinking, the clerk and Xia Wan still knelt on the ground with rain and kowtowed, begging miserably against the scorching warm sun. But Nan Zuisheng is a slim and light face standing in the pavilion, the slightly cool wind blows through the soft ink feather long hair, and the girl set off is more and more fairy and jade, beautiful and dusty.

Such a dazzling, beautiful and fragrant child, she has not seen it in the palace for a long time. Thinking about this, the imperial concubine inevitably lowered her eyebrows and lowered her head in amazement, and a looming sense of crisis slowly surged out from the bottom of her heart.

No, she would never allow Nan Zuisheng to take away the emperor's attention and favor, so β€”β€”β€” she had to persevere.

Insist on floating and sinking in this deceitful and treacherous deep palace. Just to maintain the nobility and dignity of Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine, and pamper thousands of people.

Although the peacock golden crown is cold and heavy, it can hide the humility hidden in her bones. Then decorate yourself with a gorgeous dress that symbolizes the status of Her Royal Highness, until the whole body is wrapped in a gorgeous dress, like an ugly caterpillar wrapping itself in a chrysalis waiting to hatch before transforming into a butterfly.

Until...... The time has come for her to break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly.

The ethereal and distant thoughts gradually returned, and the imperial concubine raised her jade arm elegantly, and gently straightened the jewel hairpin held in the peacock's golden crown, and quietly glanced at the sad and pleading paperwork.

The pale blue palace skirt depicting weeping willows and birds was scattered on the ground like blooming flowers, and after receiving the imperial concubine's meaningful eye signal, the clerk instantly lowered his eyes in his heart.

There was a sad and desperate look between her gentle and beautiful eyebrows, and she quickly walked to Nan Zuisheng's body, letting the broken leaves and dust on the white marble masonry stain the silk palace skirt: "Miss Nanda, please save the slave maid, the slave maid didn't have the intention to break the silk flowers given to you by His Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine, the slave and maid really know that they are wrong." Slave beg you to intercede with Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine, slave beg you! ”

Before the words fell, the clerk bowed his head in a dull and powerful manner on the cold and hard white marble masonry, and the already terrifying bruise on his forehead became more and more aggravated by her uninterrupted kowtowing and pleading.

There was a hazy shadow of cherry blossoms flowing on the soft white gauze skirt, and Nan Zuisheng slowly raised his eyes when he saw the situation, still elegant and smiling: "Paperwork, this matter is that you are too careless." These satin flowers were specially selected and given to me by Her Royal Highness the Imperial Concubine, and it is a pity that they were knocked over and broken on the ground by you like this. ”

The fragmented jade spar flowed with a little bit of clear light and broken shadows, Nan Zuisheng hung down the long eyelashes that were gorgeous like phoenix tail butterfly wings, and his voice was clear and soft: "No wonder Your Highness is so angry, I have just appreciated this superb imperial green jade inlaid with silk stamens, but it was shattered all over the ground in a blink of an eye, but unfortunately, it is a pity." ”

"Miss Nanda, the slave knows that her sin is unforgivable, but the slave begs you to help the slave and maid! The slave really doesn't want to be relegated to the palace consulate to be tortured, please save the slave! The light blue palace skirt was stained with broken leaves and dust and scattered on the ground, and the pear blossom with the rain begged Nan Zuisheng bitterly, and his face was very sad.

She looked at Nan Zuisheng with a light expression with teary eyes, and said softly in a choked voice: "If Miss Nan is unwilling to help the slave maid, the slave and maid have nothing to say, after all, it is the slave and the maid who are at fault first, and they are not qualified to ask you." ”

Before the words fell, the clerk turned around on his knees, and after kowtowing twice to the imperial concubine who was sitting on the white marble bench, he said loudly with red eyes: "Your Royal Highness, slave maid, slave maid, slave maid will apologize with death!" ”

Immediately, she stood up as if she were dead, and quickly rushed to the pavilion pillar carved by the white marble pile, and hit her head.

At the critical moment, a waitress who had been serving by the side of the imperial concubine quickly grabbed the clerk's arm, and squeezed the numb tendons on the clerk's arm quite skillfully between movements, and when the clerk was sore, numb and unbearable, the maid hurriedly grabbed the clerk's waist and forcibly dragged her back to the pavilion.

It turns out that although the bitter meat trick is indiscriminate, it is better than it is useful.

When the imperial concubine, who had been quietly looking at Nan Zuisheng, found that there was a flash of pity and sympathy in the girl's clear and beautiful eyes, she knew that the bitter plan she had ordered to the clerk before had succeeded.

Now that the fish has bitten the hook, she doesn't need to worry about the rest of the situation. The peacock golden crown swayed the hanging pearl slightly, and the imperial concubine hooked her lips and smiled.

The crystal cherry blossom hairpin in the long hair of the ink feather was hanging with the petals of the flawless pink crystal petal tassel, Nan Zuisheng raised his eyes to look at the beautiful imperial concubine, and stared at the beautiful woman in the gorgeous costume who was immersed in the majesty: "Your Royal Highness, since the document is an unintentional mistake, it is better to forgive her this time." As for the summer evening...... I am also worried about the safety of the documents, after all, I heard that there are many ruthless female officials in the consular office in this palace, if the documents and Xia Wan are really relegated to the consular office, I am afraid that there will only be a few days left to hang in one breath. ”