Empress Chen, who was dismissed from the palace without a sound, was even more anxious when she learned that Shui Qingqing had a secret letter she wrote to the Yang family and Bai Haoqing in her hands after receiving Rulan's message.

If those two secret letters are seen by the emperor, I don't know what the consequences will be?

What's more, because of the matter of Hou Fu Xitang, she didn't help Shui Qingqing speak.

and in Jingzhao Yin's mansion, the prince broke Shui Qingqing's wrist, and Emperor Jin Ming obviously snubbed her and the prince, punished the prince for introspection in the East Palace, and even removed her from the power of the palace.

If you let the emperor know again, it was Princess Wuning who she conspired with the Yang family to kill, and according to Emperor Jin Ming's pity and love for this mother and daughter, I am afraid that her position as queen will not be kept.

Thinking of this, Queen Chen's eyes turned red suddenly, her forehead became more and more painful, her long eyebrows frowned tightly, and her face was gloomy.

Seeing Queen Chen's anxious look, the red sleeves on the side thought of something, and couldn't help laughing: "Niangniang is not in a hurry, the slave maid thinks of a person, you can go to Xiaoxi to get back the secret letter."

Hearing this, Empress Chen said eagerly: "Who?"

Red sleeves said: "Niangniang forgot Sheng Yu?!" The slave maid had heard her talk about it before, and now she is serving with the county lord this maid named Xiaoxi, but her previous personal maid has been following her since she was a child, until she jumped into the lake, Xiaoxi followed the county lord who pretended to be her at that time into the Hou Mansion - in terms of it, Xiaoxi's main master should be Sheng Yu! ”

Empress Chen instantly understood what Red Sleeves meant, frowned and said, "What do you mean, do you want Sheng Yu to go to that to get back the secret letter?!"

Red Sleeves sneered: "This is very vigilant, and knows that she can sew such an important thing in her clothes and carry it with her at any time, but she is afraid that ordinary people will not be able to get close to her and be guarded by her." And Sheng Yu is her master, presumably she will let her guard down. ”

After that, Red Sleeves said coldly with a stern face: "If it weren't for the fact that it was a critical moment now, the emperor would have had a slight message for Niangniang and the prince, otherwise, it would be better to kill the eloquence directly."

Apricot eyes quenched as cold as ice, and Empress Chen said coldly: "Since this is the case, you hurry up and arrange it, so that she has to find a way to get things back no matter what—the sooner the better."

got the order, and Red Sleeves hurriedly went down to make arrangements.

Since Sheng Yu was taken into the palace by Empress Chen, she has never returned from the palace, and she has never married her two sisters.

is not for Queen Chen's house arrest of her, but because Mei Zijin and Shui Qingqing were unwilling to return to the capital at the border pass before, after Sheng Yu knew, she knew that although Mei Zijin had agreed to her father's request and was willing to let her enter the door, but now for Shui Qingqing, even the aunts of the Hou Mansion can be left behind, but I am afraid that she will not remember her.

Therefore, she had to put all her hopes on Queen Chen and Princess Leyi, and looked forward to Princess Leyi and Mei Zijin setting a wedding date, so that she could marry into the Hou Mansion with Princess Leyi......

After Red Sleeves found Sheng Yu, she coaxed her to go to Xiaoxi to get back Empress Chen's secret letter.

As soon as Sheng Yu heard that she was helping Empress Chen deal with Shui Qingqing, she was 100,000 willing in her heart, but she sneered with embarrassment: "Auntie, I have been in the palace for more than half a year, and I am getting older and older, and I am really more and more worried in my heart, I don't know if I can choose the palace maid to marry the fifth princess?!"

Red Sleeves didn't understand the meaning of her words, and hurriedly solemnly said: "Miss Sheng said there, this is a good thing for the mother and the girl, there is no need to choose, the girl will definitely become the first-class palace maid to marry the fifth princess." And on the princess's side, the mother will also personally help the girl and say, when you enter the house, let the princess carry you to be the aunt of the Hou Ye - you can put twelve hearts. ”

With the words of the red sleeves, Sheng Yu had no worries, and took a sip of it, and said with a smile: "Auntie, don't worry, I'll go to Xiaoxi now, and I will definitely find a way to get something back from her."

Red Sleeves took out a paper bag and gave it to her, and said with a smile: "I've thought it all for you." You master and servant haven't seen each other for so long, have a good cup of tea and a snack to catch up, and other things will be much easier to do—give them to me when you get them, and the mother is waiting to ask for them. ”

Sheng Yu instantly understood, happily took the paper bag with red sleeves, put it in his sleeve and put it away, and went straight to the cool breeze platform to find Xiaoxi.

At that time, Shui Qingqing had already finished eating, and after Xiaoxi asked the palace people to remove the meal, he asked people to prepare hot water and prepare to serve Shui Qingqing to take a bath.

was busy, and a little palace maid came to report, saying that it was a palace maid named Sheng Yu who asked to see him.

Suddenly hearing Sheng Yu's name in the deep palace, Shui Qingqing and Xiao Xi were very surprised.

After coming back to his senses, Xiaoxi personally went to the door to welcome Sheng Yu in.

Sheng Yu followed Xiaoxi into the palace in palace maid clothes, and after seeing Shui Qingqing, her eyes flashed slightly, she stepped forward and saluted respectfully, and said with a humble smile: "The slave has seen the county master."

Shui Qingqing stepped forward to help her get up in person, and looked at her in surprise: "Why did Miss Sheng enter the palace?"

Sheng Yu said with a sad face: "Because of the previous incident, I am full of slander at home, so it is better to go to the palace on an errand to be quiet...... I'm hopeless in this life, so let's live like this! ”

Shui Qingqing knew what happened to Sheng Yu in Jiangnan before, so she seemed to believe her words, and her eyes couldn't help but become pitying.

When Xinci Xiaoxi heard her words, she was even more sad and sad, and said with red eyes: "Why should Miss feel sorry for herself, how hard the days in the palace are, how can the lord and the lady be willing?"

Sheng Yu half-narrowed his eyes to cover the cold glint in his eyes, turned around and took Xiaoxi's hand, so he said happily: "Don't talk about these things, it's rare that you also come to the palace, our lord...... We haven't seen each other for a long time, so I took advantage of the gap to talk to you. ”

After that, she turned back to Shui Qingqing and said, "County Lord, I want to talk to Xiaoxi, does the County Lord agree?"

She said so, and Shui Qingqing would disagree.

Glancing at Sheng Yu lightly, Shui Qingqing hooked her lips and smiled indifferently, and said to Xiaoxi: "Go quickly, you are also tired for several days, talk to Miss well, I will rest after taking a bath, just have other palace people here tonight, you don't have to come over again."

Before Xiaoxi could speak, Sheng Yu had already happily answered for her, and said with a smile: "So, thank you to the county lord."

Sheng Yu pulled Xiaoxi out of the door and went straight to the house where Xiaoxi was resting.

Xiaoxi made a pot of tea and brought it up, and after pouring it for Sheng Yu, Sheng Yu smiled and said, "Are there melon seeds?" It's most comfortable to chat with melon seeds. ”

Xiao Xi was afraid that she would snub her, so she nodded hurriedly and said, "Yes, there are pastries, I'll go get them for Miss."

While Xiaoxi went to get pastries and melon seeds, Sheng Yu quickly poured the medicine given to her by Red Sleeves into Xiaoxi's teacup.

Sure enough, Xiaoxi, who brought pastries and melon seeds, drank the tea in the cup under the persuasion of Sheng Yu, but after a while, he fainted on the table.

Seeing Xiaoxi fainting, Sheng Yu didn't hesitate for a moment, stepped forward and stripped Xiaoxi's clothes, looked for the clothes carefully, and sure enough, she found the sewn cloth bag.

Sheng Yu took the scissors on the side and was about to open the cloth bag to steal something, but at this moment, there was a sound of footsteps in the courtyard outside the house, which frightened Sheng Yu's whole body, and he couldn't care about slowly dismantling it, cut off the cloth bag with his clothes, and hid it on himself. put Xiaoxi on the couch and lay down on her, covered her with a quilt, and secretly left the house......

After leaving the cool breeze platform, Sheng Yu didn't dare to delay for a moment and went straight back to Chuxiu Palace with her things, but she didn't directly hand over the things to Red Sleeves, but went back to her room, found scissors, and wanted to cut open the cloth bag to see what was inside?

Sheng Yu is not stupid, she intuitively feels that there must be a secret on the secret letter that Red Sleeves asked her to help the queen retrieve, so she wants to see what the secret and handle are, so that the queen and Red Sleeves are not at ease.

In this way, after she sees it, won't she also have an extra bargaining chip?

Thinking of this, Sheng Yu became more and more excited, and the hand holding the cloth bag trembled slightly, eager to take a look, what was written on the secret letter?

However, at this moment, seeing that most of the cloth bag had been cut open, the door was kicked open with a bang, and a figure rushed in and snatched the cloth bag from her.

Sheng Yu's whole body trembled, the scissors in her hand fell on the table, and she looked in a panic, but it was the red sleeves who snatched the cloth bag in her hand.

Red Sleeves clenched the things in his hand, and obviously felt that there was something in the cloth bag, and his heart was suddenly relieved, but the expression on his face when he looked at Sheng Yu became cold.

She looked at Sheng Yu coldly, who looked flustered, and said coldly: "Didn't you tell you that you would hand over the things to me when you got them?" What, is Miss Sheng curious about what's inside? ”

Sheng Yu blushed and smiled embarrassedly: "Auntie misunderstood, I'm afraid that I got it wrong, I want to check it first......"

The red sleeves didn't poke her either, and said coldly: "As long as you get it from that, you won't be wrong." Miss Sheng is a smart person, just do her duty, and don't care about other things that the girl shouldn't know, so don't worry about it - Niangniang doesn't like nosy people, let alone people who want to find out Niangniang's secrets! ”

Sheng Yu's heart jumped in shock, and he hurriedly knelt down in front of the red sleeves and begged: "Auntie spare my life, I am loyal to my mother, I beg my aunt not to tell my mother about it......"

"Huh?!"

Without waiting for Sheng Yu to finish speaking, he picked up the cloth bag and looked at the red sleeves, but his eyes saw the silk cloth exposed by the half-twisted bag, but he couldn't help but be surprised.

The next moment, Red Sleeves turned his back to Sheng Yu and took out the contents of the cloth bag.

But it's a piece of silk cloth with a pattern printed on it.

It was not a secret letter written by Empress Chen to the Yang family.

The red sleeves frowned tightly, and asked Sheng Yu in a cold voice: "Is this cloth bag really taken from Xiaoxi?"

Sheng Yu knelt in front of her and replied cautiously, "Yes, I found it on her underwear after she drank the medicine given by her aunt...... I was afraid that someone would find out, so I didn't have time to dismantle it, so I cut it off with my clothes......"

Seeing that her description didn't look like a lie, Red Sleeves felt strange in her heart, and couldn't help but look at the silk cloth in her hand again.

At this glance, the red sleeves sank - the pattern on the silk cloth was actually the shape and pattern of the blue bricks of Chen Guogong's mansion!

The next moment, she suddenly thought of something, but her whole body trembled, her pupils widened in horror, and the hand holding the silk cloth trembled violently. His feet were soft, and his red sleeves fell heavily on the chair, his face pale as a ghost!

Sheng Yu noticed her abnormality, couldn't help but get up from the ground, and said with concern: "Auntie, what's wrong with you?"

After that, he couldn't help but look curiously at the silk cloth in Red Sleeves' hand.

The red sleeves who came back to their senses stuffed the silk cloth into their arms, stared back at Sheng Yu, gritted their teeth to suppress the chill in their hearts, and said coldly: "It's just a rag, not the secret letter that the mother wants, you smashed the errand!"

Sheng Yu was taken aback, and said in a trembling voice: "But it is clear that this cloth bag is sewn on Xiaoxi's clothes, and the things inside must be very important......

Red Sleeves threw the cloth bag in front of her, and said coldly: "Niangniang wants a secret letter, not a rag, you can see for yourself, there is a secret letter in this cloth bag - you still have to find a way to find the secret letter, otherwise Niangniang will not be able to make a difference."

Sheng Yu panicked, took the empty cloth bag, and said with a sad face: "I have aroused Xiaoxi's suspicions, and when she wakes up and finds that the cloth bag is lost, she will definitely think that I took it - in this way, I still have a chance to get Niangniang's things......"

Red Sleeves was also very flustered in her heart, and the silk cloth hidden in her arms was like the red-hot green brick twenty years ago, burning her chest painfully.

Picking up the cold tea on the table and pouring it down, Red Sleeves panted and tried to calm himself down, and said coldly and intimidating to Sheng Yu for a moment: "You are right, you must have attracted their attention, and it is absolutely impossible to get the secret letter again...... And Niangniang, if you let Niangniang know that you messed up your errand, and you alarmed them, I'm afraid that ......"

"Ah, aunt save me...... Auntie, don't tell my mother that I messed up for the time being...... Let me find a way to remedy ......"

Sheng Yu has been in the harem for more than half a year, and he has seen too many unfavorable minions being quietly disposed of, so he is also afraid that he will be killed by Queen Chen, so he was so frightened that he burst into tears, holding his red-sleeved legs and crying bitterly.

Seeing that the effect was achieved, the red sleeves sighed heavily as embarrassed, and said: "Hey, I really like you little girl, and I don't want you to be punished - in this case, I will hide it from you in front of your mother tonight, just when you didn't get it back." You must remember to keep your mouth shut, whether it is Xiaoxi to question you, or the mother to ask you, you have to say that you didn't get anything back. ”

Listening to the words of the red sleeves, Sheng Yu breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, but she felt a little strange, she always felt that the red sleeves were covering up, and she didn't want people to know the piece of silk cloth that she put away, especially Queen Chen......

Red Sleeves really didn't dare to let Queen Chen see this piece of silk cloth, because she had been hiding it from Queen Chen about being burned back then.

After the fire that year, all the subordinates of the Chen Guogong Mansion who knew about it were secretly executed by Empress Chen.

Only she, because she is Queen Chen's confidant, and is an old man who has been serving her since childhood, was retained.

But if Empress Chen knew about it, she would have left evidence of the imprint of the fire on her body, and with Empress Chen's ruthless methods, she would definitely peel off her skin and then extinguish it......

Thinking of this, Red Sleeves was soaked in cold sweat, and was blown by the cold wind, shivering excitedly.

At that time, Red Sleeves had already left Sheng Yu's house and went to Empress Chen's bedroom, and halfway through, she turned back to her room.

As soon as she entered the door, she closed the doors and windows tightly, took out the silk cloth from her arms, quickly took off her clothes, stood sideways in front of the bronze mirror, and looked at the scar on her back waist from the mirror, and then compared it with the silk cloth molding.

The more she looked, the more chilling she became.

Although the imprint on her back is not exactly the same as that on the silk cloth, Red Sleeves knows that the secret of this imprint on her body has been discovered by Shui Qingqing.

The two places are not exactly the same, because after the fire, the Lanxin Courtyard was rebuilt, and in order to rebuild it before Empress Chen's marriage in a hurry, it was too late to burn new green bricks, and the remaining green bricks from the house were used.

The blue bricks in the other rooms of Chen Guogong's Mansion are not engraved with orchids, so the stencil on the silk cloth is less than the imprint on her waist, and there is one less orchid mark, which is exclusive to the blue bricks before the fire in the Orchid Courtyard......

Red Sleeves came to her senses, the last time Shui Qingqing got married, when she came here, she quietly appeared in her room when she was taking a bath, and he must have come to confirm the imprint on her body.

And before Chen Guogong's mansion entered the thief, the thief only went to Lanxin Courtyard, but he didn't lose anything, presumably for the silk cloth in her hand......

Therefore, the secrets about her twenty years ago, and even the fact that Empress Chen framed Princess Wuning twenty years ago, were discovered by Shui Qingqing......

Thinking of this, Red Sleeves' whole body was soaked in ice, and he couldn't stop trembling, and his heart was even more scared and entangled-

It stands to reason that she should tell Empress Chen about these things immediately, but if the imprint on her body becomes evidence to prove the conspiracy twenty years ago, will she still have a way to live?

Thinking about this, Red Sleeves didn't hesitate anymore, and after putting on his clothes, he gritted his teeth and lit a fire to burn the silk cloth......

Soon after Sheng Yu left, the closed door of Xiaoxi's room opened again, and a person slowly walked in.

But it was Shui Qingqing who was supposed to take a bath in the main hall.

Shui Qingqing's face was as cold as frost, and she went to the couch to look at Xiaoxi first, and saw that she was just asleep, and her heart was lowered.

The next moment, her eyes fell coldly on the hole in Xiaoxi's clothes next to the couch, and finally moved to the empty teacup on the table.

stepped forward to pick up the teacup and sniffed it, and there was still a peculiar smell in the elegant tea aroma.

Shui Qingqing sighed and sat down beside Xiaoxi, looked at her tired little face, and said regretfully: "It's okay, it's good to sleep well and rest......

This night, Xiaoxi slept all night, Shui Qingqing was afraid that someone would come in again, so she guarded her by her couch for a night, and opened her eyes to think about what was going on all night......

Early the next morning, Xiaoxi, who had slept all night, opened her eyes and sat up energetically, and the next moment she was startled when she saw Shui Qingqing lying next to her couch.

"Little ...... Miss, why are you here? ”

Without waiting for Shui Qingqing to reply, Xiaoxi looked at her and was still wearing yesterday's clothes, and said in disbelief: "Miss, didn't you go back to your room to sleep last night - you've been here with me all the time?!"

Shui Qingqing smiled and said, "I slept for three days in a row, and my bones were sore, and I could still sleep there...... I came to look for you here, but I didn't expect you to sleep like a little pig, and I didn't bother to leave, so I rested here for a while......"

Shui Qingqing was obviously afraid that Sheng Yu would not get the secret letter that the queen wanted, and would hurt Xiaoxi again, so she stayed here all night. But on the surface, she said it lightly, and she didn't want to add a burden to Xiaoxi.

Xiaoxi didn't have any doubts, but her heart hurt Shui Qingqing sat on the edge of the couch for a night too hard.

However, Xiaoxi also wondered in her heart, why did she sleep so hard last night when she usually slept lightly, and she didn't know anything when the young lady came to her room for so long?

Then she remembered that Sheng Yu came to her yesterday to catch up on the past, but when Sheng Yu left, she had no memory at all.

Xiaoxi, who was wondering and tangled, got up to get dressed, instantly found that her clothes had been cut through a big hole, and this big hole was the place where she sewed a cloth bag and silk cloth before.

With a pale face, Xiaoxi said to Shui Qingqing, who looked calm, in a panic: "Miss, my cloth bag has been cut off...... It must be the queen's people, they are afraid of being discovered, and they have come to snatch the evidence of the young lady......"

Although she can't bear it, there are some things that Xiaoxi has to know, so that she will not be deceived and hurt later.

Shui Qingqing said lightly: "Do you know who cut off your cloth bag?"

Xiaoxi looked ignorant and looked at Shui Qingqing in a daze.

Shui Qingqing sighed silently, but the next moment she moved her eyes to the teacup in front of the table.

Xiao Xi followed her eyes to see the tea and pastries and melon seeds she prepared for Sheng Yu last night, and her heart was suddenly shocked, and she said with a white face: "Miss is ...... Is it the cloth bag that the young lady took from me? ”

With the question of this sentence, Xiaoxi's heart was already clear, except for Sheng Yu who came to look for her yesterday, no one accepted her, so there would be no second person except her.

The more I thought about it, the paler Xiaoxi's face became!

Although she had less and less contact with Sheng Yu after following Shui Qingqing, in her heart, she still respected Sheng Yu as a master, and even felt a little guilty about her.

Therefore, when she heard that Sheng Yu was reduced to the palace as a palace maid yesterday, she was still sad for her in her heart, and she was also happy that she came to her to catch up with her.

But unexpectedly, Sheng Yu came with a purpose......

Looking at Xiaoxi's pitiful appearance with tears in her eyes, Shui Qingqing took her hand and sighed: "She has long been Queen Chen's person." I helped Empress Chen threaten Imperial Doctor Sheng to give me dementia medicine before. And last night, she must have done something for Queen Chen, and after drugging you, she took away your cloth bag. ”

It turned out that when Sheng Fang was forced by Empress Chen to give Shui Qingqing dementia medicine, Sheng Fang confessed to Shui Qingqing that he was unable to agree to Empress Chen because his daughter was coerced by Empress Chen.

At that time, Shui Qingqing knew that Sheng Yu was already in the hands of Queen Chen, so yesterday Sheng Yu came to find Xiaoxi, and looking at her dodging the embarrassed eyes, Shui Qingqing had guessed that she was here with a purpose.

It's just that she couldn't guess her purpose for a while, so she didn't stop her, but wanted to see what she was going to do for the queen, so as to guess the queen's thoughts.

It wasn't until she saw her cut off Xiaoxi's cloth bag that Shui Qingqing realized that Queen Chen knew that she had a secret letter on her body and sent Sheng Yu to steal the secret letter......

She always knew that there were Queen Chen's eyeliner everywhere in the palace, and the cool breeze platform where she lived was even more disdainful, so she was not surprised that Sheng Yu came so quickly.

This let her know that Empress Chen was in a hurry!

Knowing that it was the cloth bag that Empress Chen sent Sheng Yu to take, Xiao Xi was so anxious that her face turned white, she couldn't wait to slap herself, and cried guiltily: "Miss, it's all my fault, I lured the wolf into the room and lost the only evidence of Miss, I'm really damned ......"

Shui Qingqing smiled and took out two secret letters from her arms and comforted: "Silly girl, you forgot, you gave me the secret letter last night, and now you are here with me, why are you in a hurry?"

It turned out that last night Xiaoxi took out the secret letter and was about to show it to Emperor Jin Ming, but was disrupted by the appearance of the Queen Mother.

After the Queen Mother left, Xiaoxi gave the secret letter to Shui Qingqing.

Because, Shui Qingqing said to Xiaoxi that he would go to Emperor Jin Ming with a secret letter today.

Shui Qingqing's eyes flashed with perseverance, and she got up and said to Xiao Xi, who was stunned: "Don't be stupid, help me freshen up, and accompany me to see the emperor."