Following this palace maid named Chunliu to the Tourmaline Palace, Jian Xiaozhu looked at the magnificent palace gate in front of her, and felt that if she took a step forward, she would have stepped into the abyss. This made her stop in front of the door, afraid to take a step forward.

Seeing Jian Xiaozhu's hesitation, Chunliu said, "What's the matter, don't you go in yet?" ”

"I ......"

Chunliu frowned a little impatiently: "Let's go quickly, don't let the Empress Dowager wait too long." ”

So Jian Xiaozhu lowered his head and entered the tourmaline palace with Chunliu.

Despite the charcoal fire burning in the tourmaline palace, the interior is as warm as spring. But when Jian Xiaozhu walked in, she still felt a chill crawling over her back. I saw the Empress Dowager sitting by the charcoal fire, looking her up and down. Jian Xiaozhu hurriedly knelt down and saluted: "Slave maid see the Empress Dowager." ”

The Empress Dowager didn't let Jian Xiaozhu get up, but asked her with a smile: "I heard that the mourning family just ran to Sujin Palace to find the queen's personal maid Ruyi, but is there such a thing?" ”

Looking at the Empress Dowager with a kind face, Jian Xiaozhu shuddered, but she didn't expect that the Empress Dowager would know about her every move. This made Jian Xiaozhu only feel afraid for a while and nodded: "Yes." ”

When the Empress Dowager heard Jian Xiaozhu's words, she smiled at her and said, "Get up, come and sit beside the mourning family, and tell the mourning family that you are going to find the queen's personal palace maid at this juncture, what is it for." ”

Jian Xiaozhu was stunned, not knowing how to answer, so she lowered her head and said: "The Empress Dowager, the status of the slave is humble, and I dare not sit next to you." ”

"What would you not dare?" The Empress Dowager said to Jian Xiaozhu with a smile: "You even dare to disobey the marriage of the mourning family, why are you afraid now?" ”

The Empress Dowager's smile was kind, but Jian Xiaozhu was so frightened that she hurriedly kowtowed: "The slave knows that it is wrong." ”

"Young people, since they have a heart, the mourning family will not force it. So, you get up, the mourning family doesn't blame you. ”

But Jian Xiaozhu still lowered his head and didn't dare to get up. So the Empress Dowager said to Chunliu: "Chunliu, go and help her up." ”

Chunliu walked to Jian Xiaozhu's side, pulled her up, and brought her to the side of the Empress Dowager. It's just that Jian Xiaozhu didn't dare to sit down, but stood stiffly in front of the Empress Dowager, bowing her head and saying nothing.

The Empress Dowager took a sip of tea and said meaningfully to Jian Xiaozhu: "The mourning family heard that it was you who entered the palace to heal the concubine, so she stayed by her side as a palace maid." ”

Jian Xiaozhu nodded: "Yes." ”

"Since you have a life-saving grace for the concubine, then she must be very close to you on weekdays."

Jian Xiaozhu continued to nod: "Yes." ”

The Empress Dowager smiled: "So, why did you run to Sujin Palace to find the palace maid beside the queen when the concubine had a miscarriage and needed someone to take care of her?" What's more, it is now rumored in the palace that it was the queen who caused the concubine to have a miscarriage. ”

A drop of sweat slipped from Jian Xiaozhu's forehead, but in the face of such a scheming palace fighting champion as the Empress Dowager, Jian Xiaozhu didn't dare to lie, but said truthfully: "Slave maid...... The slave maid thought that the queen mother might not have harmed the concubine mother, so she wanted to confirm some things with the queen mother's personal palace maid. ”

"Oh?" The Empress Dowager looked at Jian Xiaozhu: "Tell the mourning family, why do you think so?" ”

Jian Xiaozhu trembled and said incoherently, "Yes...... The slave maid gave the box to the concubine in the queen's mother...... When the queen mother first asked Ruyi to open the box, the slave maid smelled a very quiet floral fragrance, not the smell of fragrant incense. Slave...... The slave knows some medical skills, so she can distinguish the smell of fragrant incense. ”

"If what you say is true, then what's the matter with the fragrance in the box?"

Jian Xiaozhu shook his head: "The slave doesn't know." The slave could only be sure that when she first opened the box, it was indeed not the smell of fragrant incense. ”

"So, this matter has nothing to do with the queen?"

Jian Xiaozhu paused, and then nodded: "The slave maid thinks so. ”

The Empress Dowager looked at Jian Xiaozhu with deep meaning, suddenly laughed, and stepped forward to hold her hand: "Good boy, really good boy." I didn't expect you, as the concubine's personal palace maid, to be willing to tell the truth and help the queen clear her suspicions. ”

Looking at the Empress Dowager's kind face, Jian Xiaozhu relaxed a little, and said timidly: "The slave just thinks that innocent people should not be wronged. ”

"So, are you willing to explain this matter to the emperor?"

Although it would be troublesome to get involved in such a thing, Jian Xiaozhu still decided to help innocent people clear their suspicions, as she said.

So she nodded to the Queen Mother.

Jian Xiaozhu was uncomfortably roasting the fire in the Empress Dowager's palace for a long time, only to see Murong You, who was called by the Empress Dowager, enter the Tourmaline Palace.

Seeing Jian Xiaozhu in the Tourmaline Palace, a look of surprise flashed in Murong You's eyes, and then he asked the Empress Dowager: "Imperial Grandmother, what did you call me for?" ”

The Empress Dowager pointed at Jian Xiaozhu and said to Murong You: "This palace maid told the mourning family that the culprit of the concubine's slippery fetus is not the queen. The mourning family called you here to let you hear her explain what happened. ”

Hearing the Empress Dowager's words, Murong You looked at Jian Xiaozhu with a gloomy expression: "Say, what's going on?" ”

Jian Xiaozhu was startled and stammered a little: "I'm ...... Slave ......"

Seeing this, the Empress Dowager smiled gently at Jian Xiaozhu: "Child, don't be afraid, speak slowly." ”

So Jian Xiaozhu smoothed out, and then said what he had said to the Empress Dowager to Murong You again. It's just that after listening to Jian Xiaozhu's words, the coldness in Murong You's eyes is even worse: "If what you said is true, then what's going on with the Youli Fragrance in the box?" ”

Jian Xiaozhu didn't directly say that maybe it was the pearl, after all, such words were too targeted. So she said, "The slave and maid don't know either." But the slave maid can be sure that when the queen mother first sent the box, there was no smell of fragrant fragrance in it. ”

Murong You snorted coldly: "You, the palace maid, haven't even diagnosed the signs of the concubine's slippery tire yesterday, how can I believe that what you smell is not Youli incense?" ”

But the Empress Dowager said: "The mourning family thinks that this palace maid is not lying, so the mourning family has sent someone to the Condensing Frost Palace to search for evidence." ”

Murong You looked at the Empress Dowager suspiciously: "Imperial Grandmother, what do you mean by this?" ”

But the Empress Dowager said: "Your Majesty, don't worry. Soon, the truth will come out. ”

It was at this time that a guard entered the house and kowtowed to the Empress Dowager: "Empress Dowager, the minister found a bottle with Youli incense from the palace maid Pearl of the Frost Palace. ”

Hearing the guard's words, Jian Xiaozhu breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the truth has been revealed, and the traitors in the Frost Palace can also be successfully eradicated. It's just that I don't know why, Jian Xiaozhu always feels that her eyelids are constantly beating.