Chapter 36: Punishment for kneeling
As soon as she entered the house, Wanxiang sat down on the couch, rolled up her sleeves and stretched out her delicate hands that were as white as jade bamboo, and poured tea for Xiao Huaijin: "My subordinates have seen it, and the wound on the maid's body doesn't look like suicide from the direction." As for whether it is a princess or not, it is unknown. ”
"What about the others?"
"I also saw that in the courtyard of the princess, there are two 'birds' that chirp." Wanxiang asked casually: "I heard that someone is coming to the palace?" ”
"Here we are."
"It doesn't look hot enough to make these birds noisy."
"But it disturbs your purity? If you can't sleep peacefully, catch them all and make soup. ”
This tone is simply the same as Wanxiang, and after listening to Wanxiang, she couldn't help but laugh: "The purity of the subordinates can be disturbed by no one except the prince, and things like catching birds have to be done by subordinates, and the prince can't do it." ”
Wanxiang has always known that the door of the South Courtyard can't be closed by Ling Zhao, and she also knows in her heart that the two maids around her are not simple people.
sat there and drank tea with Xiao Huaijin, and Xiao Huaijin threw a book to her again. As a result, before the book turned the pages, Wanxiang yawned and fell asleep again, and she didn't know why she was so sleepy when she read the book.
Xiao Huaijin got up and hugged Wanxiang and put it on the bed before turning to leave, hearing the footsteps of Xiao Huaijin leaving, Wanxiang knew that she didn't have to read, so she opened her eyes and leaned to the window to watch Xiao Huaijin walk out of the yard.
Gently called Aunt Ruan to the side: "Auntie, quickly bring the things." ”
Aunt Ruan hurriedly took out the fabric from the side, and Wanxiang measured the chair Xiao Huaijin sat on, while thinking about where Xiao Huaijin's shoulders leaned when she sat on the chair.
She put her hand on Xiao Huaijin's belt several times, looking like she was eating other people's tofu, but in fact, she just counted the size of Xiao Huaijin's clothes.
Here Wanxiang and Aunt Ruan are learning how to make clothes, and Xiao Huaijin of the East Courtyard took out the box that Chang's father-in-law gave him in the morning.
Inside the box is a bottle, very similar to the medicine bottle commonly used by Juanxiang.
But the inner liner of the bottle of silk incense is engraved with the vermilion word 'Juan', which can not be seen on weekdays, and the shadow of the word can be seen in the strong light, and the word can also be seen when it is broken and taken out of pieces.
The bottle given by Chang Gonggong does not have such a mark.
Xiao Huaijin put down the bottle and smiled, as if he was laughing at himself. If Ling Zhao wants to send it out, it will be sent out, and this is the second warning after Chang Gonggong.
It seems that this time, I can't do it if I don't want to punish the incense. Xiao Huaijin smashed the bottle in his hand to the ground, and because of the incense pouring medicine before, Xiao Huaijin had the last bit of unbearable suffering for Ling Zhao in his heart, and he disappeared.
……
Here, Wanxiang was cutting Xiao Huaijin's new clothes with Aunt Ruan, and was hurriedly called by Liang Cuo.
As soon as he entered the courtyard gate, he saw Xiao Huaijin and Ling Zhao sitting on it, and was about to salute well, when he heard the person above his head say: "Kneel." ”
Wanxiang looked up at Xiao Huaijin, thinking that she had misheard, but she still knelt on the ground honestly.
After a long time, I heard Xiao Huaijin say: "The maid is fragrant, and the following are guilty of misconduct, and they will be punished for kneeling and introspection to set an example." ”
Wanxiang listened to Xiao Huaijin with a sullen head, raised her eyes and looked at Xiao Huaijin and stared at Ling Zhao again, it turned out that she was going to kneel: "Wanxiang will be punished." ”
A cool breeze blew through the yard, Ling Zhao deliberately coughed lightly, her idea of attracting Xiao Huaijin in this way was really stupid.
Xiao Huaijin's eyes were firmly fixed on Wanxiang, and his thoughts were no longer on Ling Zhao's body at all: "If the princess can't stand the wind, hurry back to the South Courtyard." ”
It's rare to have such a play, how could Ling Zhao not watch it? Hearing Xiao Huaijin's words, she smiled: "Thank you for your concern, the concubine is fine." ”
"Also, the princess is in a very happy mood at the moment, how can she be willing to go back to the courtyard? The princess is deeply loved by the Queen Mother, and the brilliance is so sheng, the small Pingnan Palace is almost unable to fit. ”
"Lord ......"
"What else does the princess want, she said it all, don't bother the Queen Mother's people to run again and again"
Ling Zhao's face was very ugly when asked by Xiao Huaijin, and then he still squeezed out a smile: "The concubine has no desires and no desires, and she doesn't want anything." ”
At this point, Xiao Huaijin smiled again: "You don't want anything, or do you want everything?" ”
“……”
"If the princess is idle, sit here, and the king will rest."
He could see Ling Zhao's thoughts at a glance, and he turned around and went back to the house without saying a word.
If Ling Zhao doesn't leave, Xiao Huaijin doesn't plan to come out, and Xiao Huaijin can't get up if he doesn't come out to speak. Juanxiang climbed into the night sky against the star, which Ling Zhao had been kneeling down and falling.
Wanxiang knelt on the ground silently, and Ling Zhao looked at each other, listening to the summer cicada that had been dormant for more than ten years desperately screaming throughout the summer night.
Finally, Ling Zhao couldn't help his disgust for Wanxiang: "Wanxiang, you are a cheap maid, at most, you are the prince's concubine." How do despicable dung beetles turn into cicadas? ”
"Dung beetles are dung beetles, how do they turn into cicadas? What can make cicadas jealous should be the chrysalis that can turn into butterflies. If his subordinates wanted to, they would have planned for themselves early. There is no need to wait for the princess to see her subordinates kneel, pointing at the tip of her nose and scolding. ”
Ling Zhao, who was sitting on it, sneered and walked to Juanxiang's side: "Scolding you? What moon did you pester the prince to watch with you on my wedding night? And let these gossips spread into the community, making me the laughing stock of the imperial city?
I am the most beloved little daughter in Southern Xinjiang, you poured medicine on me and made me sick for a long time, and the prince asked you to kneel and it was a light punishment. ”
"The subordinates still reminded the princess that this is the Pingnan Palace, and it is up to the prince to decide whether the punishment is light. If the princess really wants to ask the empress dowager to comment, then go and ask for it.
Why does the Queen Mother love the princess so much, she doesn't need to be enlightened. If she really loves, the princess will not be a princess at this time. ”
"You...... Okay, then we'll see. ”
"Then let's see, my subordinates dare to take any trick." Ling Zhao moved out of the Empress Dowager, and Wanxiang no longer saved face for her because of Xiao Huaijin: "It's just the same, the princess shouldn't be clever and hurt the prince." If you accidentally injure the prince, I will make your life worse than death. ”
"I am the prince's wife, so naturally everything is dominated by the prince, but you are insidious and vicious, and staying by the prince's side makes people have to guard against it."
"Who is insidious and vicious, presumably the maid who died in the South Courtyard this morning should know best."
"What about clear? Have you been cured of my sins? ”
Wanxiang looked at Ling Zhao's eyes without humility or arrogance: "Does the princess understand a sentence in the Central Plains, which is called 'eliminate evil'?" ”
"You threaten me?"
"The subordinates don't dare." Wanxiang replied word by word, so that Ling Zhao could only walk out of the courtyard with negative anger.
Seeing that the people outside were gone, Liang Cuo hurriedly ran out of the house and pulled up the incense on the ground: "This person is gone, can you stand it on your knees?" ”
After standing up, Wanxiang looked at the house, Xiao Huaijin was either resting or not seeing herself. Thinking of this, Wanxiang replied: "Okay." ”
Through a window, Xiao Huaijin stood inside and watched Wanxiang get up from the ground by Liang Cuo. Hearing Liang Wrong outside, he was holding on to Juanxiang: "Let's go into the house." ”
"No, it's not early, so let the prince rest early." After saying that, Wanxiang pushed Liang Cuo's hand away, and limped away from Xiao Huaijin's sight by himself.
Qi'er and Aunt Ruan had long heard that Wanxiang had been punished for kneeling, and they knelt in the east courtyard for several hours.
The two of them stood on tiptoe and looked outside the courtyard gate, and finally saw the figure of Wanxiang, Aunt Ruan hurriedly ran forward to support Wanxiang: "The girl has been kneeling for a long time, her knees can't stand it, right?" ”
Qi'er also followed by his side and muttered: "The prince is really, he will kneel for a while and forget it......"
Wanxiang smiled, she knew in her heart that there were a pair of eyes staring at the top of her head, and Xiao Huaijin had no choice but to ask herself to kneel down and show others.
was helped to lie on the bed by Qi'er, holding the soup cooked by Aunt Ruan and drinking it little by little, thinking about the two maids beside Ling Zhao.
He didn't fall asleep until late at night, Aunt Ruan was talking beside him, and when she heard movement outside, Wanxiang asked, "Who could it be so late?" ”
"Who else can there be but the prince at this late hour? As long as the girl is punished, the prince will come over that night. ”
"My aunt went back to the prince for me, and said that I was asleep."
"If you really don't want to see the king, then the king will go back." At this time, Xiao Huaijin was already standing in front of the window, and just wanted to go in, he heard Wanxiang say that he didn't want to see him.
Wanxiang could just see his shadow, fiddling with a spoon in his hand, and said inconsistently: "Go back, the prince." ”