Since Yu'er severely punished An Lu, no one dared to slack off in the Dieqi Palace, and all the rituals were delivered on time and in quantity. On this day, Qiushui went to the imperial dining room to pass dinner to Xin'er, and went a little late, and when she arrived at the imperial dining room, the little palace maid had already packed the meal for her, so she didn't care, and left with the lunch box. When I returned to the Dieqi Palace and put the meals on the table one by one, I found that there was still a small piece of white jade lying in the lunch box, crescent-shaped, small and cute.

Xin'er also saw it and asked her, "What is this?" ”

Qiushui took out the white jade and looked at it carefully, and replied: "Back to the little master, this is not a slave's thing, I think it is the sister of the imperial dining room who accidentally left it here." As he spoke, he handed the jade pendant to Xin'er.

Xin'er took it and looked at it twice and saw that it was not a valuable thing, so she didn't pay attention to it, and said, "Then you go to the imperial dining room tomorrow and ask and return it to others!" ”

"Yes! The slave knows! Qiushui replied on his knees.

When Qiushui went to the imperial dining room the next day, he remembered yesterday's white jade, and just took it out of his arms and wanted to ask who it was, when he saw a little palace maid next to him suddenly kneeling down, crying and crying: "Sister, you will return the jade pendant to the slave maid, and the slave maid will be a cow and a horse in the next life to repay your great kindness!" ”

Qiushui didn't know why, and asked in a daze, "What are you talking about?" ”

Who knew that the little palace maid didn't answer, only knew how to cry, and kowtowed while crying, and said, "Sister, spare me!" ”

All of a sudden, everyone in the imperial dining room circled the two of them, pointing and pointing to each other. Although Qiushui didn't understand what was going on, when he saw this scene, he knew that someone must have framed her, so she was anxious and afraid, so she hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the little palace maid who was kneeling on the ground and asked her to get up. As she was pulling, she suddenly heard a familiar voice, Qiushui looked back and saw that it was Xian'an beside Li Xiyue, and suddenly sighed in her heart, when Qiushui and Yu'er met Xian'an who was crying in the imperial garden, she was sorry for her, and this time it seems that she will not let go of herself easily!

I saw Xian An Yingying smile and said coquettishly: "Isn't this the big celebrity next to Yugui Concubine?" How can you pull and pull with a little palace maid in the imperial dining room! ”

Qiushui hurriedly let go of the person in his hand and said with a smile: "Sister said that she was laughing, this little palace maid cried when she saw me, and I was also asking her what was the matter!" ”

The little palace maid listened to the conversation between the two, stepped forward and knelt in front of Xian'an and said, "Sister, you have to be the master for me!" ”

Seeing her kneeling in front of her, Xian An hurriedly replied: "I'm just a slave, how can I have the ability to make decisions for you, if you really have any grievances, find someone who can really be the master for you!" ”

The little palace maid heard her say this and kowtowed again: "The slave and maid are soft-spoken, even if it is not easy to see the master, where is there anyone who can really be the master for me!" He began to weep again.

Seeing that she was really pitiful, Xian'an couldn't bear to speak: "Okay, you can go back to the Moon Palace with me, and tell our mother about your grievances, and her bodhisattva heart will definitely not stand idly by!" As he spoke, he glanced at Qiushui meaningfully, and then took the little palace maid away.

Seeing this, everyone also dispersed, leaving Qiushui alone stunned in place, and only after half a sound came back to his senses, and hurriedly ran towards the Splendid Palace.

Yu'er was eating in the palace when she saw the panting autumn water, she was taken aback, put down the dishes and chopsticks and asked, "What's wrong?" Has anyone wronged you again? ”

Qiushui felt aggrieved when he saw his master, knelt down and choked up to tell her what happened.

After listening to her, Yu'er secretly said that it was not good, pondered for a while, and asked Qiushui to present the jade pendant to herself. After taking the jade pendant handed by Jinxin, Yu'er couldn't see the reason for it when she turned it over and over, but it was a piece of white jade with very ordinary color carving. When he looked up and saw Qiushui still kneeling on the ground, he hurriedly asked her to get up, and comforted her gently: "Don't worry, I won't let you be wronged in vain, they will definitely come to ask for someone in a while, I will go with you, you just have to tell the truth!" ”

"Yes! Slaves obey! Qiushui replied gratefully.

Sure enough, as Yu'er expected, it didn't take long for the father-in-law of Yingyue Palace to pass on him, saying that the concubine had something to ask. Yu'er smiled lightly and replied, "This palace knows, you go back first, and we'll be there later!" ”

In the main hall of Yingyue Palace, Li Xiyue was sitting on the throne, with Xian'an standing beside her, and kneeling down was the little palace maid who was crying in the imperial dining room. As soon as she entered the main hall, Qiushui knelt down to say goodbye, and Li Xiyue kept kneeling without calling her. Seeing this, Yu'er opened her mouth and asked, "My sister suddenly came to my palace to ask for someone, but this little hoof annoyed my sister?" ”

Li Xiyue smiled when she heard Yu'er speak, and replied, "My sister is also here, sit down." As he spoke, he ordered someone to serve tea.

Waiting for the tea to be presented, Li Xiyue took a sip and said with a look of embarrassment: "This palace knows that this is a person in your palace, if it really annoys this palace, forget it, but this time she actually did evil under the banner of her sister, if you don't punish it well, I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince the public, and then everyone in the palace will say that it will be bad for the people of your splendid palace to bully people!" ”

"The slave really doesn't know what the mother said, please let the mother know!" Qiushui, who was kneeling on the ground, heard Li Xiyue say this, kowtowed and asked.

Li Xiyue didn't care, straightened the bead chain around her neck, glanced at the little palace maid who had been kneeling on the ground and said, "If you have any grievances, tell yourself to the Yugui concubine, she will naturally not favor the people in her palace!" ”

When the little palace maid heard this, she kowtowed and said: "The slave's name is Caijin, she is the palace maid of the imperial dining room, a few days ago, the slave's mother was seriously ill, and she asked someone to bring a piece of jade pendant into the palace to leave a thought for the slave and maid, and the slave and maid missed her mother and couldn't go home to visit, so she took this jade pendant with her as a mother, and took it out to taste the pain of lovesickness when she was fine." Who knew that a few days ago, Sister Qiushui saw it, so she asked the slave to give her this jade pendant....." Qiushui couldn't help but interrupt when she heard this: "You are talking nonsense, don't say it's such an ordinary white jade, it's a mountain of gold and silver, and I won't take other people's things!" The expression was indignant, she couldn't bear to be framed like this! Li Xiyue saw Qiushui's words interrupted, her eyes swept like a sharp blade, Qiushui lowered her head in fear, and Li Xiyue said, "You go on!" ”

The little palace maid continued: "The slave begged hard, if it was an ordinary jade pendant, it would be given, but this is the only thing that the mother left to the slave, and the slave is really reluctant." "When I said this, I shed tears again, which is really pitiful!

"And then?" Li Xiyue asked with a disgusted frown when she saw her crying.

"Sister Qiushui saw that the slave maid was unwilling, so she threatened the slave maid and said.... Say...."When the little palace maid said this, she secretly glanced at Yu'er, and she wanted to speak as if she was extremely afraid.

"It's okay for you to say it!" Yu'er said when she saw her so generous

"Sister Qiushui said that her master is a jade concubine, and now she is the most favored person in the palace, not to mention a little palace maid, even if the head of the internal affairs office offends her, there is no good fruit to eat! The slave maid knew about the head of the internal affairs department a few days ago, and she was so afraid that she gave her the jade pendant. Who knew that Sister Qiushui had won the jade pendant and was still showing off in front of the slave maid, and the slave and maid couldn't bear the heartache when she saw it, and she wanted to die, so she stepped forward and wanted her to return the jade pendant to the slave! ”

Qiushui listened to her before kowtowing and replied: "Niangniang~ The slave maid didn't know this little palace maid before, let alone talked to her, this jade pendant was found in the meal box when the slave maid passed the meal for Xi Ronghua yesterday, I wanted to ask who it was today, who knew that she suddenly got into trouble, the slave maid was really wronged, and asked the maid to see it!" ”

"Are you saying that she put the jade pendant in your lunch box and planted it on you?" Li Xiyue sat on the top and asked condescendingly.

"Hui Niangniang, exactly!" Qiushui also straightened her back, and replied neither humbly nor arrogantly, now she understands their intentions, not only wants to frame herself but also wants her master to be guilty of harboring and conniving, her life and death are small, but she must not ruin her master's reputation!

Li Xiyue saw that she suddenly straightened her waist, and suddenly stood up with a straight face, and scolded: "What a sharp mouth, reversing black and white is still so straightforward!" ”

Qiushui was not timid, and looked at her coldly and said: "The slave maid is just reporting according to the truth, and I hope that the mother will be clear!" ”

For a while, the atmosphere in the hall was tense, and Yu'er stood up with Jinxin's hand when she saw this, and walked to Caijin's side and paced back and forth.

Caijin knelt with her head down, she didn't dare to look sideways, she could only feel that Concubine Yu was walking back and forth beside her, and her heart was becoming more and more nervous.

Yu'er saw that the hair on her forehead was already trembling a little, and the tip of her nose was oozing beads of sweat, and she knew that it was almost there, so she asked, "You said that Qiushui saw the jade pendant you were wearing in the imperial dining room and asked you for it?" ”

"Hui Niangniang, yes!" Caijin replied in a trembling voice.

"Did you say that in the Imperial Dining Room?" Yu'er was still walking back and forth, as if unintentionally.

"Hui Niangniang, yes!"

"Does anyone see that?"

"Back to Niangniang, no one saw it!"

"Oh? Qiushui went to the imperial dining room to pass food to Xironghua, and it was the most lively time in the imperial dining room, and no one saw it? ”

Caijin heard Yu'er say this, her body that was originally trembling slightly trembled even more, she looked up at Li Xiyue, who saw this and said: "Yugui Concubine asked you!" Don't answer yet! ”

Caijin hurriedly lowered her head again, and said: "Back to Niangniang, the slave maid is too sad and has a bad memory, Sister Qiushui called the slave and maid outside to ask for it, so no one saw it." ”

"Call outside!" Yu'er repeated it and then asked: "You said that this jade pendant is extremely important to you, and you often take it out to see things and think about people, so the people in the imperial dining room should know that you have such a jade pendant, right?" ”

"Back... Hui Niangniang..."Caijin spoke a little intermittently, "Slave... The slave and maid did not mention this to others, so others did not know that the slave and maid had such a thing. ”

"Don't you know the best sisters around you?" Yu'er asked and chuckled.

"The slave was afraid of provoking them to be sad with the slave and maid, so she didn't tell them about it!"

"That's strange, your mother is seriously ill and sad day by day, and the people around you who are with you day and night can't see a clue."

Speaking of this, Cai Jin was speechless, and stammered reluctantly: "They... They are busy with things on weekdays, and they don't have the heart to care about the affairs of slaves and maids! ”

"Oh, the people around you don't know that you have such a jade pendant, but Qiushui saw it as soon as he went to the imperial dining room, it was really a coincidence!" Yu'er asked with a smile. Caijin Zhiwu really didn't know how to answer, kowtowed to Li Xiyue and said: "Niangniang, what the slave and maid said is the truth, you have to be the master of the slave!" ”

Without waiting for Li Xiyue to speak, Yu'er shouted: "Bold slave, dare to quibble at this point!" ”

Caijin was already shaking like chaff, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing and saying: "The slave didn't lie, what the slave said is the truth!" ”

"You said that this jade pendant was brought into the palace by your mother, and it was naturally a person from the palace, so you will know if there is such a thing when you call him over and ask." Yu'er then attacked.

"He... He... He's not from the palace! Caijin panicked and said nonsense.

"It's nonsense, it's not a person from the palace, how did you bring it to you?"

"Slave... Slave maid...."Caijin really couldn't say anything about this, and he tilted his body dejectedly, and he couldn't stop crying.

Seeing this, Li Xiyue clenched her hands angrily, and did not speak with a cold face.

Yu'er smiled faintly at her and said: "Sister, as far as my sister knows, when Qiushui first saw this jade pendant, she was in front of Xironghua in Dieqi Palace. ”

At this moment, Caijin suddenly spoke, her voice was calm, as if she was finally relieved, and said, "No need, it is indeed a slave who framed Sister Qiushui!" ”

"I have no grievances with you, why are you like this?" Qiushui knelt beside her and asked with a glare.

Without waiting for Caijin to speak, Li Xiyue suddenly said sharply: "The bold slave dares to be presumptuous in front of this palace, come here~ Drag her to the Shen Penal Division!" As she spoke, someone from Yingyue Palace came up to drag her, and she didn't struggle to let the two big-shouldered and round-waisted grandmothers drag her out. Li Xiyue hurriedly put on a kind face again, and said to Qiushui: "Qiushui girl has been wronged, hurry up!" When Qiushui heard this, he stood up straight, and didn't even say thank you. Li Xiyue held back her anger and said with a smile: "This palace is also instigated by the villain, don't blame this palace!" ”

Yu'er on the side hurriedly replied with a smile: "Sister is serious, sister is just talking about things, not to mention how dare she blame the master as a subordinate!" Then he turned his head to Qiushui and said, "Don't hurry up and thank you!" Only then did Qiushui bend his knees and say: "Slave and maid Xie Yue, your concubine!" ”

Li Xiyue nodded and replied, "Okay, you're tired of tossing for half a day, go back and rest!" ”

"Yes! Then my sister took her back first! ”