Chapter 172: Loyal to Whom
Since he couldn't open the box for a while, Xiao Yuan simply threw away his hand and let Xian Xian put the box into the cage.
"Your Highness, aren't we looking for a wishful knot?"
Idly shook the box in his hand and said, "Remember, Your Highness is very precious to this box, and no one is allowed to see it." If that wishful knot is also a very precious thing for His Highness, then it must be in this small box. ”
Empress Dowager Xu also knew that Xiao Yuan valued this box very much, so she didn't burn it.
"Don't look for it, put it away."
Xiao Yuan waved his hand lazily.
She couldn't remember how to open the box. If you have a chance, you still have to ask that Wei Chang waiter.
I thought that none of the people who served Sun Aman were left, but I didn't expect that there was still a fish that slipped through the net.
Xiao Yuan was so chin that he fell into thought, why did this fish give her this box?
Su Su and the others soon returned.
"Your Highness, this Nanzhu is restless."
This is the first time that Su Su has evaluated a palace maid in front of Xiao Yuanhao.
"How restless?"
The maid couldn't speak, but she felt as if she had to ask about everything, and she had to inquire about everything. There were so many things piled up in the small storeroom, and she had to ask carefully who sent each of them. ”
Xiao Yuan didn't care: "It's just that I just want to compete for favor, and I don't care about her for now." These days, you just keep an eye on Qianqian. ”
Su Su's eyebrows moved: "Your Highness, is there something wrong with Qianqian?" ”
Xiao Yuan smiled mischievously and replied to her in Su Su's words: "I can't say it either, I just feel that she doesn't seem to care about anything, but she knows everything." The errand that showed up hid back, and the dirty work was all pushed. It's like being retired with me. ”
Lazier than idle.
But idleness and laziness have been granted by Xiao Yuanhao.
In the West Wing Palace, in addition to finishing his own work, he also has to be responsible for asking gossip everywhere and coming back to tell Xiao Yuan good.
But Qianqian always only sat and embroidered, and refused to touch even a broom and rag.
It's not that the west side hall can't afford to raise idlers, but it can't raise an idler whose heart is not here.
She obviously never walked out of the West Side Palace, why did she know what other palace maids were talking about the princesses?
The palace maids of Wanfu Palace are extremely strict-mouthed, and they can't find out the news from their mouths, and this bit of leisure has been verified countless times.
If Qianqian really heard such gossip, either Qianqian was very familiar with these palace maids, or Qianqian had been paying attention to the fifth princess Xiao Yuanwan.
The former proves that Qianqian and Xiao Yuan lied, and she is not the kind of person who ignores things outside the window and only cares about embroidering bandages.
If it's the latter, it's even more interesting. A servant who has been with her for a year has another master in her heart, this kind of servant, Xiao Yuan doesn't dare to ask for anything.
Su Su has been paying attention to Qianqian since then, and after a few days, she really saw that she was a little tired.
On this day, as soon as Qianqian entered the house, she was called by Xiao Yuanhao.
"Where did you just go?"
"Back to Your Highness, the servant just went out for a walk."
There is not much work in the west side hall, and it is common for the little palace maid to sneak out to play. In the past, there were no female officials in the west side hall, and the tortoiseshell couldn't control it, so they turned a blind eye.
Xiao Yuan never said anything when he knew, so Qianqian replied confidently.
"Oh, Qianqian, you seem to have a good relationship with the people in the main hall."
Qianqian was stunned: "Your Highness, what does this mean?" The maid is a person who came from the main hall, and she is familiar with the palace maids and sisters in the main hall, and it is also common sense. ”
Dare to be hard-mouthed.
Xiao Yuan put down the pen with a good "snap", and the ink splashed a piece of paper dottedly, startling Qianqian.
"In common sense?"
Xiao Yuan sneered: "It's also common sense that you are good friends with Mama Jiang?" Mama Jiang is the palace maid sister you are familiar with? Then the age of this palace maid sister is also too old. ”
Qianqian's shoulders relaxed, as if relieved: "It turns out that His Highness knows everything." ”
She looked back at Xiao Yuanhao fearlessly: "Your Highness, the Queen Mother cares about Your Highness, and she ordered her maid to report to Her Highness every day with Mama Jiang. ”
Xiao Yuanhao stared at the eyes of this little palace maid for a long time, and saw that fine beads of sweat gradually oozed from the corners of the little palace maid's forehead, and his eyes were also a little shaken, and he no longer cared as much as Fang Cai.
"Qianqian, do you think that if you are my grandmother's person, I dare not do anything to you?"
Qianqian bit her lip and was silent.
"You are a wise man, and you should know that if I threw you out today, my grandmother would not be upset. But if I say that you have offended me and caused trouble to my grandmother, who do you think my grandmother would listen to? Is it for you, a slut, to reprimand me, or will I punish you immediately and severely? ”
"Don't expect your grandmother to spare you for your sake. I don't follow it. When the time comes, maybe I will run to my father to complain, and you should know better than me what will happen to you. ”
Xianxian still wants to scare Qianqian: "Your Highness, I heard that the violent room has been short of manpower recently." ”
The palace chamber is a place where erring court maids and nobles are imprisoned. If they were lucky enough not to die, they would have to do laundry and laundry every day as coolies. A lot of people don't make it up for long.
Qianqian's face turned pale, her legs were weak, and she knelt on the ground: "Your Highness, it was the Queen Mother who ordered her servant to do this!" ”
"I know, you don't have to repeat it to me."
Qianqian was desperate: "Your Highness, the Queen Mother ordered the maid to do this, and the maid had to do it!" ”
Xiao Yuan couldn't bear it, and Empress Dowager Xu was really doing something undercover.
She knew that Empress Dowager Xu had good intentions, and if Empress Dowager Xu had hidden bad intentions, she would have died a thousand and eight hundred times.
But Xiao Yuan is not a real child, she doesn't like to be watched and watched, even if this person is the Empress Dowager Xu, who is closest to her.
"Qianqian, I only want to ask you one thing, do you remember what is the first rule of the West Side Palace?"
"Absolute loyalty to Your Highness......"
"Get up. I won't punish you, but I can't ask for you either. ”
Xiao Yuan took the pen again, staring at the paper full of ink spots and worried, she was originally going to draw Luoxiawu and send it to the Empress Dowager Xu, so she drew an eaves, and this paper could not be used.
Thinking of the red plum that day, Xiao Yuan had an idea again, she dipped it in ink, smeared it on the paper, and a few old plums jumped on the paper.
In the distance, only one eaves of the small building in Luoxiawu was exposed, and the rest were hidden in the plum forest.
Xiao Yuan is very proud, this painting looks quite meaningful. Her Chinese paintings are naturally not as good as the painters in the palace, but in the eyes of the Empress Dowager Xu, they are thousands of times better than the painters.
When I looked up, Qianqian was still kneeling.
"Didn't it get you up? Don't worry, I won't tell my grandmother about today's events, and when the Chinese New Year comes, I tell my grandmother that you miss your family so much, how about letting you out? ”
Qianqian's face was full of tears: "Your Highness, the maid doesn't know where her home is." The maidservant has been a slave in this palace since childhood. His Royal Highness drove the servant out of the palace to ask the servant to die. ”
"Phew!" He took a few sips, "Qianqian, don't be so poisonous in your mouth, under the root of the year, your mouth is full of 'dead' and 'alive', isn't this looking for bad luck for Your Highness?" ”
Qianqian ignored it, she stood up and looked at Xiao Yuanhao calmly: "Your Highness, the maid has gone." ”
Xiao Yuanhao nodded, Qianqian leaned over to salute, suddenly took a deep breath, and slammed into the pillar in the hall!