In the early morning of the next day, a heroic woman in a dark green brocade dress hurriedly walked in the palace, she stopped outside a courtyard, the black plaque on the door was written "Qianmo Courtyard" three gilded characters, the woman held a sword, pushed the door in.

The woman stopped in front of a room in the courtyard, and knocked three times in front of the door in different rhythms, and a child's voice came into the room, saying, "Come in." ”

The woman pushed the door in, knelt down on one knee with her fists in her hands, and was full of apologies, "Your Majesty, your subordinates are late." ”

Huangfu Duzhe put down the teacup in his hand, got up and said, "It's okay, get up." ”

"Have you seen a thousand Ming immortals in the past five days?" Huangfu Duzhe asked.

Qianming Immortal has lived in seclusion in a small courtyard in a mountain cliff in Nanxuan for many years, he knows astronomy and geography, through the past and the present and the future, and can solve strange and strange things. Every year, hundreds of people from all over the world would travel long distances to see each other, just to get a little guidance, but he would only see people every five years, and only one person. This time, Emperor Fu Duzhe sent Qiu Yue to try his luck.

"It's rare for his subordinates to see the immortals this time, but he only left one sentence, May and May will be full, so the old man will return. So he went to retreat, but his subordinates were incompetent and could not find the answer. Qiu Yue blamed herself.

Huangfu Duzhe fell into deep thought, and vaguely guessed that the full moon on the fifth of May would be the time when he and the woman would change back to their true bodies. It's just that why did Qianming Immortal say that he was an old man, and he clearly didn't know the woman who behaved strangely, so how could he talk about the old man? That's it, the most important thing now is to change the real body.

"It's rare for a thousand Ming immortals to be willing to give a pointer, you don't have to blame yourself." Huangfu Duzhe picked up the teacup on the table, tapped his index finger on it twice, and then said, "In the future, you still need to send two maidservants to your courtyard, and the water in the pot must be full every day." ”

Qiu Yue glanced at the teacup in his hand, the cup actually contained tea, she remembered that she had cleaned the tea in the pot before she left, and asked puzzledly: "Your Majesty, the tea in your hand." ”

"Of course, it was taken from my own dormitory." Huangfu Duzhe guessed her doubts, she was a little thirsty when she was about to leave the Heart Nourishing Palace last night, but when she thought that Qiu Yue would definitely clean up the things in the room in the next few days, naturally there would be no tea left in the courtyard, so she had to quietly take away a teapot in the hall so that there was no need for water when she was thirsty.

Shu Xingying returned to the Heart Cultivation Hall listlessly from the court, sat on the stool next to the tea table weakly, poured the water in the teapot into the cup, she took a sip and found that she had replaced a new set of teapots, this set was a black porcelain carved dragon teapot Shu Xingying didn't like it, but liked the blue and white porcelain carved bamboo teapot that was replaced.

She called: "Father-in-law Jiang, come in and ask you something." ”

Jiang Qing, who was standing next to the bead curtain of the Heart Cultivation Palace, heard Shu Xingying's call, and immediately walked inward, and said respectfully: "What does the emperor command?" ”

Shu Xingying waved her hand and said, "I didn't tell you, it's the teapot before me, I like that set to change it back, the one I changed today is too ugly." ”

"Your Majesty, the old slave will go and let the slave change it back." Shu Xingying answered, and Jiang Qing immediately went to find the slave on duty today.

After a while, Jiang Qing brought a crying little eunuch, Shu Xingying was a little confused, and asked, "Grandpa Jiang, what's going on?" ”

Before Jiang Qing could reply, the crying little eunuch immediately cried loudly: "The emperor's slave is really wronged, I really didn't steal your teapot, the slave is really wronged!" ”

Jiang Qing kicked the little eunuch and slashed at him, the little eunuch closed his mouth in fear, but the tears still flowed.

"Emperor Qiqi, this little minion is the one who changed the teapot today, the servant asked him where he put the teapot the day before yesterday, he was hesitant at first, and then said that he didn't see the teapot this morning, this little minion is clearly a weak heart and will lie if he attributes the teapot as his own." Jiang Qing said.

Shu Xingying noticed that the little eunuch had been kneeling and shaking her head, she had always loved and hated clearly, and she didn't like to wronged people, she walked up to the little eunuch and looked at him and said, "You raise your head and look into my eyes and tell me what is going on." ”

The little eunuch raised his head in cringe and looked at Shu Xingying, this was the first time he had looked directly at Shengyan in the ten years since he entered the palace, and he was a little nervous, but when he explained this matter, he was full of confidence.

The little eunuch raised his head in cringe and looked at Shu Xingying, this was the first time he had looked directly at Shengyan in the ten years since he entered the palace, and he was a little nervous, but when he explained this matter, he was full of confidence.

"The slave changed a new set of teapots on the sixth day according to the usual practice today, but when I brought the new teapot this morning, I didn't see the old teapot, as for why I didn't dare to say it at first, it was because the slave was timid and afraid of getting into unnecessary trouble that he lied."

Shu Xingying asked, "Then how did you tell the truth later?" ”

"The minion only knew that he was afraid at first, and he didn't think much about anything else but how to escape, and the minion was stupid and realized that he had someone to prove that the minion was empty-handed out of the Imperial Palace."

"Why didn't you make it clear to Gonggong Jiang at that time."

The little eunuch suddenly felt that the emperor was so approachable, and he no longer felt uncomfortable when he spoke, and said, "Because the slave didn't have a chance to explain, he was brought by General Manager Jiang." ”

Jiang Qing, who was standing on the side, rubbed the back of his hand awkwardly and weakly, for fear that the emperor would blame and punish him.

The little eunuch was afraid that Shu Xingying would not believe that he was innocent, and then explained: "At that time, the slave went out from the emperor's bedroom and met Shuangning and Shuangjing who were cleaning, the two of them can prove the innocence of the slave, and the slave has been in the palace since the beginning of the day, everyone can prove it, if the emperor still doesn't believe it, he can let people go to the slave's bedroom to find out." ”

Shu Xingying slowly got up and sat down on the stool, "My squatting legs are numb, you can get up too." ”

"Your Majesty." The little eunuch got up.

Shu Xingying's eyes rolled, and her mind flashed to think of someone who broke in in the middle of the night last night.

"I believe in you, but you have to be brave and responsible, and don't run away from it whether you do it or not, you know? Those who are clear are self-purifying. ”

The little eunuch replied with gratitude, and at the same time he secretly swore in his heart that he would swear allegiance to the emperor in the future.

"I'll settle accounts for you and Grandpa Jiang, you can go back to work."

The little eunuch saluted and withdrew.

At this time, only Shu Xingying and Jiang Qing were left in the Heart Cultivation Palace, Shu Xingying slapped her palms on the table carelessly, Jiang Qing only felt a chill down her spine, standing or kneeling, whether to speak or not to speak.

"Father-in-law Jiang, do you know what you did wrong?" Shu Xingying broke the silence.

Silence is better than sound, the person who is most afraid of asking for guilt is silent, as soon as Shu Xingying spoke, Jiang Qing immediately admitted his mistake, "The slave knows his mistake, and the slave should not wronged the innocent little slave without knowing the truth." ”

Shu Xingying gave a thumbs up, "Gonggong Jiang's consciousness is quite high, give you a thumbs up." ”

Jiang Qing was still a little afraid, after all, Shu Xingying had just said that she wanted to settle accounts with him, and asked tremblingly: "Your Majesty, it's gone?" ”

Shu Xingying asked rhetorically: "Then what do you want?" ”

Jiang Qing hurriedly denied, "It's nothing, it's nothing, the emperor is magnanimous." ”

"Don't be a sycophant, you take me to a strange courtyard, you don't need to call a bunch of people to follow." Shu Xingying explained.