The Queen Mother also glanced at Concubine Rou more, she didn't expect her to have this ability, thinking that her son was pampered by her, it seemed that her son really had a vision; In her eyes, she originally saw that Concubine Rou was weak on the surface and shrewd secretly, and although she and Concubine Li did not fight on par, there were still not many times when she suffered losses.

The prince suddenly said: "Don't hit the palace maid Hongluan first." "He wants to listen to Concubine Rou's questions before making calculations, which is very suitable for him.

King Fu's brows furrowed slightly when he heard this, and anger flashed on King Kang's face; And the flower bloomed with her head down, and no one saw her face.

The female official is the queen mother, and she was ordered by the queen mother to search in order to find out the real collusion to stab the guests, and of course she will not hide it when she hears Concubine Rou's inquiry: "The pit wall is very smooth, and it should be dug with sharp weapons, such as shovels and other things; If it is an ordinary palace maid, if you want to dig that pit out, counting the rest and meal time, I am afraid it will take two or three or two days. ”

"How long?" King Kang frowned, if the female official was not the queen mother, he would have kicked it over: "Listen to what you said, although the pit is not shallow, it won't take so long." ”

"Back to the prince's words, the pit is not big, and it looks straight up and down to see that it has been dug by trained people; If ordinary people want to dig such a pit, two or three days is already extreme. The female officer replied unhurriedly: "And the soil in the courtyard is very solid, and the difference in strength between men and women is also very great—these are all taken into account, and the pit dug out will have to hide the words of the uterine slaves in the courtyard, and she is afraid that it will take nearly a month to complete." ”

The female officer did not exaggerate, digging out the soil to hide it so that no one could see it, and when there were people, no one could find out that there was a hole in the place, all of which took a lot of time; What's more, Hongluan still has to take the palace slaves on an errand, and it will naturally take a long time to avoid the palace slaves from doing this.

Concubine Rou ignored King Kang's words and continued to ask, "But did you find extra soil in that courtyard?" "If you dig out the soil and fill it in, it will definitely be much higher, and if you want to make it seamless, you have to deal with the extra soil.

"Back to my mother's words, inside and outside the courtyard, all the houses have been rummaged, and no excess soil has been found."

Concubine Rou looked at the Queen Mother and the Prince and bowed slightly: "The Queen Mother, His Royal Highness the Prince, the concubine has finished asking." ”

The prince first ordered: "Bring the palace maid Hongluan in." ”

Hongluan has already been beaten a few boards, and he gritted his teeth in pain before he could move into the main hall; When she came in, she knelt on the ground: "The slave and the maid are wronged, that thing is really not hidden by the slave and maid." ”

It wasn't that she didn't have tears, but she didn't let the tears flow.

The Queen Mother trembled when she heard her speak: "Raise your head." ”

Hongluan raised her head, and her small face was flushed with an abnormal flush, which was caused by the pain of being beaten, but her eyes were frank and open; His eyes were red and there were tears, but there were no tears on his face.

"It's a tough-hearted child." After the Queen Mother finished speaking, she didn't pay attention to Hongluan.

Hongluan lowered his head and quietly glanced at the flower blooming, and the two people's eyes collided and sparks flew in an instant, and then both of them avoided it as if nothing happened: the matter had come to this point, all he thought about was how to kill each other.

The prince looked at the guards: "Do the two of them have kung fu bodies?" ”

"Nope."

The prince asked the female officer, "Can you find anything used to dig a hole?" ”

"Nope."

The prince thought for a moment and said, "Look at the hands of the two of them." ”

Since someone went to inspect it, Hongluan had thick calluses on her hands, because she had been a palace slave for a short time; And Gu Anping's hands are very smooth, and there is nothing.

Even if the calluses on Hongluan's hands made her suspicious of digging a hole, she couldn't dig such a hole in a short time: even if she was trained, her strength would not make it impossible for her to do it.

The prince glanced at the flowers blooming: "How is that palace slave?" ”

Someone immediately brought Xing'er up, and she knew that Hongluan had been beaten when she saw the faint blood stains on Hongluan's body; glanced at the flowers blooming but couldn't see her face clearly, so naturally it was impossible to judge her current situation. At this time, Xing'er felt that death was within her reach, especially when she took another look at the bloodstained dress on Hongluan's body.

Hongluan was sweating in pain, knowing that it was Concubine Rou's words to save her from suffering from skin and flesh again, and when she saw Xing'er coming in and knew that the key was on her, she looked at her fiercely, wanting to remind her that helping the flowers bloom would only make her find a dead end.

But Xing'er was already in a state of confusion, and when she heard the prince's inquiry, she trembled and replied, "Yes, the slave maid, the slave maid saw it." With that, she fell to the ground and collapsed again, unable to straighten up.

Because she knew that even if she did what the flower told her to do, she would not be left untouched.

Hua Bloom's eyes flashed with joy, and she hurriedly kowtowed: "Queen Mother, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Mingjian, if they collude with the assassins, the hole may be dug by the assassins." ”

Concubine Rou stared at the flowers and really wanted to give her a slap in the face: what she said at the beginning was just conjecture and hear, but she couldn't match a few speculations about this hateful slut based on reason; Because she knew very well what the royal people would think.

King Kang looked at Hongluan and drank coldly: "You still haven't recruited from the truth, do you still want to suffer from skin and flesh again?" He was anxious about Concubine Rou's words, because if today's matter had nothing to do with Hongluan, it had nothing to do with Concubine Rou - it was nothing, but the next thing to ask the sinner was that the flowers were blooming, and it would implicate his mother.

King Fu's brows moved slightly, but King Kang didn't speak, he looked at Hongluan on the ground: "If you are really falsely accused, then telling the truth is your only way to live." ”

Hongluan didn't expect Xing'er to stand on the side of the flower bloom at this time, she and Gu Anping exchanged glances and said, "The slave has something to say, and I also ask the Queen Mother and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to let Xing'er avoid it." ”

The Queen Mother and the Prince glanced at each other, and the Prince spoke: "You can say it yourself." "Of course, it is impossible for the little palace maid to be left and right to be high in the royal family.

Hearing this, Hongluan said miserably: "Then, the slave has nothing to say except for being wronged. ”

The queen mother and the crown prince both flashed anger on their faces, and after a while, the prince waved his hand: "Take her down." The prince was referring to Xing'er.

Hua Bloom kowtowed at this time: "His Royal Highness the Prince, the cheap maid dares to be so disrespectful, drag it out and beat it - she won't say anything until she says it." ”

The Queen Mother looked at Hua Bloom, and her eyes flashed with great displeasure.

King Fu spoke at this time: "How does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince do things, and does he still need your little female history to give guidance?" "Feminine, but not cold; He watched the flowers bloom, and his eyes seemed to change a little.

King Kang was a little surprised and looked back at King Fu, but he had always believed in his second emperor brother, so it was strange that he didn't speak.

However, Concubine Rou's eyes on King Fu and Hua Bloom turned around, but she really couldn't guess what King Fu meant by saying this at this moment: everyone in the palace knew that Hua Bloom was Concubine Li, even if King Fu reprimanded her a few words, even if he killed her, he couldn't change anything.

Chapter 14: There is a grudge

Hua Bloom was reprimanded by King Fu and lowered her head again: "The slave doesn't dare, the slave just sees that her little palace maid dares to threaten ......"

"But someone asked you?" King Fu interrupted her: "If no one asks you, you should keep your duty." His tone was still not heavy, even mild.

The flower bloomed, her body was shocked, and she finally kowtowed to the ground and did not dare to speak again.

Xing'er was a man with brains, and she opened her mouth to confirm that Hongluan had hidden something: that thing would be thrown on the ground of the main hall now; However, the Queen Mother and the crown prince did not immediately ask Hongluan, nor did they let Hongluan be dragged out to fight, nor did they send Hongluan to the sixth game or prison, so she knew that she might have misunderstood something just now.

Especially when Hua Bloom opened her mouth twice, she was reprimanded twice, and the Queen Mother and the Prince ignored her, so that Xing'er knew what things had changed in the palace when she left.

She now regrets it very much, if she had just opened her mouth to say the flower blooming plan, then she would be able to save her life and befriend Hongluan; Now, what is she going to do?

When Xing'er was dragged up by the palace maid, she inadvertently saw Concubine Rou, but she was so frightened that she almost fainted: Concubine Rou looked at her with extremely cold eyes - what she just said actually made Concubine so dissatisfied?

After she was frightened, her brain slowed down, and she thought about everything she knew, what made the concubine hate her so much, if she didn't want to understand it clearly, even if she could save her life today, how many days would she be able to save her life if she offended the concubine? And I'm afraid that it won't be so easy to ask for death.

Apricot was dragged down with a stomach full of confusion and fear.

Hongluan saw Xing'er being dragged down before she kowtowed and pleaded: "The Queen Mother forgives her sins, Her Royal Highness the Prince forgives her sins, and the slave maid never dares to have any disrespect, just because if Xing'er is in the palace, the slave and maid will have no way to clean themselves." ”

The prince didn't speak, and looked at Hongluan lightly; This time, the Queen Mother spoke: "Well, let's talk about it now." "The royal man is angry, but it's not that you can calm it down with two words of admitting your mistake and asking for sin.

Hongluan didn't admit her mistake again, she opened her mouth and said bluntly: "Although Xing'er has not been with the slave and maid for many days, she has not left the slave and maid for the past few days, and the slave and maid can't hide anything from her; The flower girl Shi also said just now, it was Xing'er who went to find her last night and saw the slave hiding things on her body. ”

"Since last night, the slaves and maids have not been on errands with anyone, and all the palace slaves are in the courtyard, including the slaves and maids; If this murder weapon is really a slave maid, the slave and maid can only dig a pit and bury it last night, how can they hide it from Xing'er and the slaves of the Manyuan Palace? ”

Hearing this, the prince nodded slightly: "Reasonable." Looking at Hua Bloom with an expressionless face: "You heard the news from the palace slave last night, it seems that you and the palace slave have misunderstood the palace maid Hongluan." ”

Hua Bloom was stunned, she didn't know what was going on in the pit in Hongluan's yard, and she didn't know when Hongluan hid the dagger in the pit: originally she heard the female official say that the dagger was found in the pit in the courtyard, and she was very happy; Although she also vaguely thought that something was wrong, the important thing was that the dagger was found, and Hongluan couldn't get rid of the charge.

Hongluan's crime can't be shirked, so of course Concubine Rou is difficult to explain; But she didn't expect things to take such a turn for the worse, and it was difficult for her to justify herself.

"Back to the prince's words, the slave maid doesn't know, the slave just listened to what Xing'er said;" Of course, Hua Bloom refused to let go of Hongluan: "According to the slave's guess, maybe the assassin had already dug the hole, and the palace maid Hongluan just threw the dagger into the hole and buried it." ”

Hongluan followed closely: "Why do you bury the short dagger?" ”

"Then who knows?" Hua Bloom looked at Hongluan, her eyes faint like a ghost fire on a cold night: "No, only you and the assassins know." ”

Hongluan kowtowed upwards again: "If the slave and maid really collude with the assassins, then of course the dagger has bad intentions, how can it be buried and buried so deeply?" And it seems that she guessed in advance that Xing'er would see the short dagger, and dug a hole early to prepare it, and after being seen by Xing'er so coincidentally last night, she just buried the short dagger? ”

Hua Bloom thought of Hongluan's sentence that there was a murder weapon hidden in her courtyard, and knew that if she let Hongluan go today, Hongluan and Concubine Rou would not let her go; So he immediately retorted: "Maybe you have already thought about burying the short dagger, but it was just seen by Xing'er just before it was buried." ”

Hongluan glanced at the Queen Mother, the Crown Prince and the others, and found that they didn't mean to speak, so he immediately replied, "It's really too coincidental." The slave and the maid asked the lady that the slave and maid had worked so hard to get the short dagger in her hand to do that great rebellion, why did no one find out about it and bury it? ”

"The assassin didn't miss once, it was God who had an eye on me and I would be able to do it for generations to come—in the case of a missed attempt, the assassin asked his accomplices to bury the murder weapon before the assassination, didn't he calculate that someone would find the murder weapon in the slave's hand? Lady Shi, do you think this is a storyteller talking about the ancients? ”

It's really unreasonable in everything, and it doesn't make sense in any way.

Hua Bloom glanced at the Queen Mother and the Prince, and then looked at Concubine Rou's heart, which became a little anxious: How did things become the way they are now?

"Who knows what you think, and who knows if the Assassins found out what Apricot saw?"

Hongluan retorted lightly: "The assassin found out that Xing'er knew what to do, is she still alive?" Or does the female Shi think that Apricot is also colluding with the guests? ”

Hua Bloom was asked and had nothing to say, so she said, "If it's not you, how can it be in your yard?" Such a big palace, he hid in your courtyard without hiding anywhere? There are so many palace maids and eunuchs, and none of them steals their clothes, just the two of you? ”

King Fu's lazy voice sounded: "The history of the flower girl, this king is not mistaken, it seems that you started to say yes, you just listened to the palace slave named Xing'er Gongnu, and saw that the palace maid Hongluan hid something like a ring ruler, right?" ”

Not only did he speak lazily, but he also stretched his waist lazily on the chair, looking at the little jade piece in his hand, looking like he was not thinking much of the palace.

"Yes, lord." Flowers bloom with care; But when she said this, everyone in the hall heard it, and it was impossible for her to deny it.

"Since it's hearsay, how can you be sure that the palace maid Hongluan is colluding with the assassins?" King Fu lazily changed his sitting posture so that he could see the flowers blooming: "You, you won't have a grudge against the palace maid Hongluan, right?" ”