No matter how arrogant Shangguan Yan'er was, she knew that Mama Qin's words would kill her, so she immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Empress Dowager Cui, "The slave is guilty, the slave is really guilty, the slave is anxious for a while, afraid that she will hurt Xueqiu......"

When Lingxi heard this, he only pressed his face to the ground and trembled vigorously.

The room was silent for an instant, and even the ashes of the incense bell could be heard.

Mrs. Cui was expressionless, looked at the weak Lingxi and asked, "Why don't you speak?" ”

Lingxi's face was pressed to the ground, not knowing who he was saying this to. Until Biyu shouted, "The palace maid with the cage clothes, the queen mother asked you." ”

Lingxi raised his face and kowtowed again, and said with a slight Mu Na, "Back to the Queen Mother's words, the Queen Mother didn't ask the slave maid, and the slave didn't dare to reply." Otherwise, Mama will punish the slave and maid when she goes back......"

After hearing this, Mama Qin was shocked in her heart, and then kowtowed to the ground and said, "Empress Dowager Qi, the slaves don't dare to let them cross the rules." ”

Empress Dowager Cui raised her eyebrows, and after taking a sip of tea, she said to Mama Qin slowly, "You are a capable person, and the palace maid who has been trained also understands the rules." ”

When Shangguan Yan'er heard this, his body was already shaking like chaff. Although neither Lingxi nor Mama Qin said that she didn't understand the rules, the fact was there, she was indeed deviant just now.

Li Chenfeng ate the dishes on the plate, and glanced at Mama Qin and Lingxi a few times with a little playfulness. As soon as these two people sang and drank, they invisibly pushed a person's life and death in front of the Empress Dowager Cui.

That grandmother is old, and she has naturally had such a way in the palace for decades. But the little palace maid looks like she is only about ten years old, but she can still get to the point when she is very afraid, is this a coincidence or a heart?

Empress Dowager Cui put down the tea in her hand, patted her chest and turned back to Biyu and said, "Go, open the window, there are many people in this room, and I am a little depressed." He pointed to Lingxi and said to Mama Qin, "Let her raise her head, no matter how much she cares about the rules, she can't let the mourning family look at the back of her head and speak." ”

Mama Qin touched Lingxi with her hand happily in her heart, and said, "Ling'er, the Queen Mother allows you to look up and reply." ”

Lingxi raised his face from the ground when he heard this, but he didn't dare to really look up at the Empress Dowager Cui, and only fixed his eyes on the Empress Dowager Cui's skirt with purple red as the base, hooked with gold thread, and embroidered with a large peony pattern.

"Your name is Ling'er? Keep your head up. ”

Lingxi raised his head slightly when he heard this, his eyes didn't dare to look directly at the Empress Dowager Cui, and his heart was pounding.

Empress Dowager Cui glanced at Lingxi twice, turned back to Biyu who came back from the window, and said, "This child, how can the mourning family look familiar?" ”

Jasper Yifu said softly, "Returning to the Queen Mother, this is sent by the Uncle's Mansion." She trained a wren......"

After Biyu mentioned it, Empress Dowager Cui immediately remembered who Lingxi was, her eyelids drooped down, and she said without any expression, "You are a clever ...... Let's talk about it, the beater has finished speaking, and you, the beaten person, should also distinguish a few words for yourself. ”

Lingxi slammed his head on the ground, and replied with a trembling voice, "Back to the Queen Mother, the slave doesn't know that this cat was raised by the Queen Mother." Please punish the mother! ”

After speaking, he slammed his head on the ground again, and didn't say a word about being beaten by Shangguan Yan'er.

"My face is red...... Li Chenfeng reached out and took the hot tea brought by Luyu, and asked Luyu, "If this king is not mistaken, the palace maid can't slap his face if he makes a mistake." ”

Green Jade was blessed, "If you go back to the prince, there is this rule." ”

Li Chenfeng had a smile on the corner of his mouth, his eyes passed over Lingxi's body, and he lowered his head to eat tea and stopped talking.

Green Jade retreated behind Li Chenfeng, and looked at the few people kneeling on the ground with his peripheral vision, only to see that although Lingxi's body was shaking, a pair of small hands pressed on the jujube red blanket were very stable, without the slightest fear.

"No, it's red. Poor man, come forward and let the mourning family see. Empress Dowager Cui glanced at Li Chenfeng with her eyes, and then beckoned to Lingxi.

Lingxi's palms were full of sweat, and after hearing the words of the Empress Dowager Cui, he kowtowed on the spot, knelt in front of the Empress Dowager Cui, and faced the beaten half of his face to the Empress Dowager Cui.

Empress Dowager Cui stretched out her well-maintained left hand, held up Lingxi's chin with a plain white handkerchief, looked at it carefully, and said lightly, "Thin skin and tender meat." ”

After finishing speaking, he put down Lingxi's chin, and handed the plain white handkerchief to a little palace maid waiting on the side, and said slowly, word by word, "The palace maid is also a human being, and the ancestors are merciful, and they have set this palace rule that is not allowed to be slapped in the face, and there is no reason to break it." ”

Empress Dowager Cui didn't let Lingxi retreat, Lingxi could only kneel at the feet of Empress Dowager Cui, and her eyes didn't dare to look at her at all.

Shangguan Yan'er was so frightened that her face turned blue, and she knelt on the ground and kowtowed vigorously, but she didn't dare to say another word begging for mercy.

"I remember that you have not been in the palace for a few days at a young age, and Concubine Dong Guifei is your cousin again...... You just go to a secluded place to train cats. Empress Dowager Cui closed her eyes, and her slender fingers tapped slightly on the table, "Don't come to the palace to shake it if it's okay......"

Shangguan Yan'er choked up, and was pulled out by the two little eunuchs instructed by Ziyu in the back. Ziyu walked to Lingxi's side, blessed Empress Dowager Cui, and picked up the cage clothes containing the cat in Lingxi's hand and retreated.

Shangguan Yan'er was dragged out of the Changle Hall by the little eunuch and thrown out of the arch. Ziyu threw the cage coat in her hand into Shangguan Yan'er's arms and said, "The Queen Mother has not been severely punished for seeing King Rui's face, so hurry up and take the cat to find a secluded place." ”

"Sister Ziyu......" Shangguan Yan'er lost her original arrogance and cried to Ziyu, "I, where can I go?" ”

Empress Dowager Cui only said that she would ask Shangguan Yan'er to find a secluded place to train cats, but she did not specify where to go. Ziyu couldn't say this kind of thing, so she could only say, "You better go quickly." ”

Shangguan Yan'er sobbed and tried to let the cat out. But who knew that as soon as the blue cage was released, a white cat with a large piece of black fur on its belly swept away like joy!

Shangguan Yan'er was shocked, "This, this is not a snowball!" ”

Ziyu had seen Snowball and knew that Snowball was a pure white kitten without any miscellaneous hair on her body, and immediately knew that the cat had made a mistake.

"Sister Ziyu, this, this is not a snowball. That ball of chrysanthemum is not a snowball, I want to see the Queen Mother, this is not a snowball......"

Ziyu's eyes stood up, she shook off Shangguan Yan'er's hand that was holding her sleeve, and pointed a finger on Shangguan Yan'er's forehead, "Is it that you can't even recognize the cat you raise, what use do you have?!" ”

Seeing that Shangguan Yan'er was about to cry out again, Ziyu said fiercely, "Whether this cat is a snowball or not, the Empress Dowager will not see you." You can't be wrong to slap that palace maid, if it weren't for King Rui's soft words in advance, you would have been sent to the violent room by now, and you are still not satisfied with picking up a small life, if you don't know whether to live or die here, no wonder others! ”

Shangguan Yan'er was so frightened by Ziyu's words that she could only rub her eyes and leave.

Ziyu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she saw her leave. She had long been unaccustomed to Shangguan Yan'er's arrogance, but she had no choice but to be sent to Yongshou Palace by Concubine Dong, so she had to look down on her. Now that she was sent out by the Queen Mother, although Ziyu did not gloat in her heart, she really felt that she was a lot cleaner now.

In the Changle Palace, Empress Dowager Cui continued, "Lu'er is not effective in taking care of Qiu Ju, and she will be fined three months' profits. This one named Ling'er was beaten and pitiful, and after a while, Biyu took a bottle of good plaster and wiped it on her...... That's it," after speaking, he turned around and asked Li Chenfeng, who was smiling, "What does Feng'er think of this treatment?" ”

Li Chenfeng smiled and said to Empress Dowager Cui, "The imperial grandmother is merciful. ”

Empress Dowager Cui was in a good mood, and said to everyone kneeling on the ground, "Let's all go down~"

Hearing this, Lingxi hurriedly retreated to Mama Qin's side. Under the leadership of Mama Qin, he Lu'er and a few people kowtowed to Empress Dowager Cui again, and then walked backwards to the outside of the hall.

"That's right......" Empress Dowager Cui suddenly remembered something, and said to Lingxi, who had already walked to the door of the hall, "That wren, I haven't seen the mourning family for a long time, but I thought about it." Ming'er brought it over to the mourning family to take a look, and the mourning family remembered that the voice was particularly loud. ”

Lingxi hurriedly knelt down and said, "Slave obeys!" ”

When Mama Qin led Lu'er, Lingxi and the others retreated, and Biyu took Luyu and a few little palace maids to replace the tea with new ones. Mama An instructed several little palace maids to remove the dishes on the table one by one and replace them with a few delicate dim sum.

Empress Dowager Cui took a piece of lotus seed honey cake and handed it to Li Chenfeng, saying, "Feng'er, try this lotus seed honey cake and see if you like it." ”

Li Chenfeng put down the tea in his hand, respectfully took the lotus seed honey cake and took a small bite. The sugar cake melts in your mouth, and the fragrance of lotus seeds, mixed with the sweet but not greasy taste of honey, immediately spreads in the mouth. Li Chenfeng tasted it carefully, swallowed it and said, "This honey is plum blossom honey, it must have been brewed by the imperial grandmother in winter." ”

Empress Dowager Cui smiled and nodded, "This was sent in by Uncle Cui a few days ago. It is said that there is not much brewed in total. gave the mourning family a jar, your father a jar, and Cui Guifei a jar. ”

After hearing this, Li Chenfeng put down the lotus seed honey cake, and sneered in his heart, but the smile on his face did not decrease, and said, "That is really precious, if it weren't for the emperor's grandmother, Feng'er wouldn't have been able to eat it." ”

Empress Dowager Cui smiled, "It's so precious, grandmother has already asked people to prepare it, and I'll let you take it back in a while." ”

Li Changfeng immediately said coquettishly, "It's still the emperor's grandmother who loves Feng'er, and she loves to eat this sweet when she knows Feng'er." ”

Empress Dowager Cui pretended to be angry, and tapped Li Chenfeng's forehead with her finger across the small table, "You are so old and you don't look like a boy, and you are blamed for the mourning family for raising you as a princess since childhood." ”

Li Chenfeng stood up and said to Empress Dowager Cui, "Grandson is not a princess, grandson is a man who stands up to the sky!" ”

"Yes, yes, the mourning family is a man!" Empress Dowager Cui pulled Li Chenfeng to sit down again, and said with a smile, "Man, I have eaten and drunk this, I have to say what grace you have come to ask for." ”