Chapter 32: The Sin of Deception
The source of the sound is a ball.
A spiky ball.
A prickly, green ball the size of a baby's skull.
Zhi Wei reflexively twisted her neck, looked at the small thorn ball that seemed to have exploded in horror, and it took a long time to recall, it seems that Lianzhu sent a batch of "strange flowers and plants" a few days ago, there should be such a strange thing in it, right?
But where does this ball look like a flower!
I don't know if it was the jade spirit or someone else who brought it in as an ornament, but she saw it, but she didn't recognize it, and thought it was a weird-looking, but lifelike jade carving!
She didn't dare to be distracted for too long, and quickly retracted her gaze, leaned over to test the temperature of the water for the emperor, but unexpectedly met the emperor's slightly considerate eyes.
Zhi Wei hurriedly lowered her head, wanting to concentrate on her work.
But the ball seemed to be endless, and it kept shouting in its throat, saying that it was very uncomfortable because the humidity was too heavy here, and that the Oriental people were shameless.
Zhiwei was in a trance by it, and secretly decided: "I have to find an excuse to get it out in a while, and I can't put any flowers and plants in the bathroom in the future, otherwise it will ......."
"Go out and let Wang Dexi come in. No, I can do it myself. β
Zhi Wei and Yu Ling were stunned for a moment, and exchanged glances with each other, and the latter timidly asked if they had done something wrong.
The emperor's tone was a little strange: "It's nothing, I just want to be quiet." Let's get out. β
Yu Ling didn't know what to think, and suddenly his face turned red, and he pulled Zhi Wei to retreat quietly.
Zhi Wei was still confused, and after going out, she quietly asked Yuling: "Your Majesty just said that you want the prince to come in and serve, and then said no, should we go and call him over?" β
Yu Ling blushed and waved her hand, and said a few words to her in her ear, which made Zhiwei blush, so she had to wait outside for the summons.
Zhi Wei glanced at the just right light outside, the heat on her face slowly faded, but she couldn't help but pout in her heart.
"It's still daylight, and it's King An's death day, Your Majesty still has such thoughts? It seems that what I thought about before, I am afraid that it is all fake, and the scripture is also for the courtiers to see, right? Tsk~ The emperor's family really has no family affection......"
Huo Yanzhi didn't stay inside for too long before he came out, and he rarely wore his own underwear, which surprised Yu Ling, who had served him closely.
Zhi Wei didn't realize that there was him, but she was relieved.
If there were a few more accidents like this today, it would be a good thing for her.
After waiting for the emperor to change his clothes, he immediately sent the emperor to a separate quiet room in the east side of the hall, which is said to be specially used for the emperor to copy scriptures and meditate. In other words, this room is only used for two days a year, one day for the first emperor and one day for the former king.
Someone in the quiet room has already burned Buddha incense, and smelling it makes people feel ethereal.
Huo Yanzhi saw the white smoke on the incense burner, frowned, wanted to say something, but still didn't say anything, waved his hand and let people go down, and no one was left to serve.
After coming out, Yuling said: "Your Majesty has been pampered since childhood, but this matter has never been pretended to others, once upon a time there was a palace person who squeezed in to grind ink on his own initiative, which made His Majesty dislike, and sent people away." β
Zhiwei went back to the bathroom, trying to take the opportunity to take the prickly noisy ball away, but she didn't find it after entering. She was a little strange, and after looking left and right, she still found no trace of it, and thought that someone else had taken it.
She shook her head inexplicably, and when she saw that a small window was not closed, she walked over to close it.
As a result, out of the corner of her eye, she found the thorn ball under the window!
Moreover, it seemed to be dying, lying on the ground and moaning quietly, completely devoid of the spirit that had just shouted.
"Woo woo, my life is so miserable...... I was originally the prince of the Golden Tiger clan, but I was abused by people like this, a human being who was killed by God...... I want to go home, there's so much moisture here, I'm going to suffocate......"
Zhiwei: ......
She listened intently for a while, and made sure that there was no one else around at this moment, and then whispered, "Your Royal Highness, who threw you here?" β
His Royal Highness seemed to be too addicted after switching from thunderous to self-pity mode, and she asked twice in a row before she reacted.
As if recognized, it came to life again: "Hmph! Despicable human beings! Why am I answering your question? β
Zhi Wei was silent and closed the window.
A certain prince was silent for a while, and shouted again at the top of his voice: "Hey! Mankind! Pick up Prince Ben! β
Nobody bothered it.
A certain prince could only choke back tears and say, "Can you please pick me up?" β
A pair of gentle hands held the half-broken cloisonnΓ© porcelain basin under it and lifted it high, and a pair of thick eyebrows that were not delicate and heroic raised slightly, and the round eyes on the eyebrows were suddenly elongated by a smile.
"You don't seem to have answered my question yet!"
After getting the answer to her guess from the mouth of the Golden Tiger Prince, Zhi Wei's heart became even more weird.
It's so decent, why did Your Majesty suddenly secretly throw away a small bonsai that was used as an ornament?
However, before throwing it, he also kicked her and Yuling out......
Even if it doesn't like this thing, he can let people withdraw, so why bother?
Wait, just now when the ball prince let out her first scream, her eyes were attracted to it, but when she turned her head, she looked at the emperor......
No, was the emperor looking at her or this ball at that time?
Zhi Wei carefully transplanted the Ball Prince into another potted plant, and wanted to water it, but the latter was not sensitive, and she walked away in a daze.
The emperor's strange situation a few days ago resurfaced in her heart, and she inexplicably began to abuse the pot of golden pine, it seems that it was after she "plotted" to use the golden pine to "spy on intelligence", right?
For the first time, Zhiwei felt that her brain was so useful, but this guess was too bizarre!
But another voice said coldly: "If this bizarre thing can happen once, why can't it happen a second time?" Could it be that you think of yourself as something unprecedented? β
Zhi Wei was even more dizzy, and in a daze, she somehow walked to the front of the West Side Hall and stood under the magnolia tree.
The smile next door greeted her happily: "Oh, Miss Zhiwei, I haven't seen you for a long time, I'm really three autumns a day!" By the way, have you recently been promoted to a knighthood, why are you so busy? β
Zhiwei was a little sad, and she was added to the rank of knight, she might be killed by the emperor.
If it was the kind of possibility she guessed, the emperor also discovered her, a "kindred fellow" who knew about it, and most of them would not spare her life.
Although the people also like to pray to God and worship Buddha, and they also relish the stories of those fox demons and ghosts in the market, but they are all legends and stories. No one can easily accept that this kind of strange thing happens around them, even if he is as noble as the emperor, he may be questioned whether it is a "ghost".
Zhiwei has thought of many ways to die, dying of exhaustion, dying of illness, dying of a black pot, and being killed by others, but she just didn't expect this kind of god to unfold.
She smiled and said, "I may not be able to come to see you in the future, you have to be behaved, don't always shake a head of dust to Xiaozhu and them, they won't catch insects and water you when they're angry." β
Smiled and was shocked: "Where are you going?" Can't you go without leaving? Is that the man going to transfer you away? β
Zhi Wei, who was originally depressed, was stunned.
"Men? Which man? β
smiled: "Oh, didn't I tell you?" As if I forgot, a man named the emperor walked over a while ago and asked me this and that, isn't it weird. But don't worry, I didn't recruit you, he didn't know that you secretly pierced the window paper, and he won't deduct your money......"
Zhiwei almost wanted to faint on the spot, and it would be best if she never woke up again.
But her nerves, which were called reason, were still tense until the sunset, when the emperor came out of the quiet room with a calm face.
When the meal was served, Zhiwei stiffened and almost didn't throw the soup on her hands.
Fortunately, others didn't notice it, only Yuxue caught a glimpse, and secretly remembered it in her heart, preparing to reprimand this girl who didn't belong to her mind later.
If something happens to the brothers in the family, worry is worrying, but you can't spoil such a big thing as serving the master!
"If you don't cheer up again, how can it be good to provoke Your Majesty's anger? I don't know why Mr. Zhao has to mention this girl as a first-class person, it's really hard to figure it out......"
Zhi Wei breathed a sigh of relief, but turned her head to see Yuxue glaring at her, and smiled bitterly in her heart.
It's really bad to be a first-class palace maid on this day, but fortunately, it's not her who is on duty tonight, but Yuling.
When the copper kettle in the corner of the house dripped and went to about three o'clock, Zhiwei went in with a cup of fragrant tea and gave it to the emperor who read the official documents.
However, Huo Yanzhi didn't give her a chance to sneak away this time.
At the moment when the tea cup was about to fall on the case, a deliberately cold male voice suddenly sounded: "Who are you Song Zhige?" β
Bang Bang β
Zhi Wei slipped her hand and directly gave the emperor a "warmth".
Huo Yanzhi: ......
Zhiwei: ......
The two looked at each other for at least three seconds, and the one who should have been guilty of the crime reacted and knelt down, trembling and shivering, his hands and feet were cold, and the other stood up with a warm breath, glared at the top of the little palace maid's head, and then said sullenly: "What are you still stupid about?" Just want to be punished by me? Get up and change my clothes! β
Zhiwei didn't know how she managed to complete the difficult task of changing clothes alone, if she still needed to try to get herself distracted in the morning, she was already a walking corpse at night.
Shyness, embarrassment, and red-facedness, these emotions were squeezed aside by the cold summons of death, and there was no chance to emerge again.
After changing her clothes, the first thing she did was to kneel down and come to a standard kowtow to excuse herself.
Huo Yanzhi raised his chin in satisfaction: "Oh? What sin are you? β
Zhi Wei trembled and said: "Slave maid, slave maid has committed the crime of deceiving the king......
Coincidentally, at this time, Zhao Jiufu came in to prepare to report the matter, there was no one in front of the bookcase, but there was a faint figure on the screen in the middle.
He was so startled that his little eyes were much bigger, and he continued to eavesdrop.
Then, I heard his majesty sigh: "It sounds very serious, how to punish it?" β
A female voice said in a low voice: "Just by Your Majesty's disposal, the slave and maid have no complaints." β
And then there was no sound.
Zhao Jiufu was about to retreat quietly, but Yuling rushed in again and shouted in a panic.
"Oh no! Someone from Cining Palace came and said that the Queen Mother had just fainted! β
When Huo Yanzhi heard this, he didn't care about teasing this little palace person, so he immediately strode out of the meteor, saw Zhao Jiufu and Yuling, and motioned for the former to follow.
Zhao Jiufu shook his round body and quickly followed, but he recognized it very sharply, and it seemed that His Majesty was not wearing this shirt half an hour ago.
So, what happened in the middle of the plot of "the crime of bullying the king"?