In the middle of the night, the moon rose in the sky, and the starry sky was like a pearl and scattered the broken gold on the jasper plate. More leaks and drops, slowly falling on the copper plate, like a spring water dingdong, endlessly.

At this moment, Zhou Cheng returned, followed by two small servants with trays. He bowed down and walked in, glanced at Jing Rong quietly, and said respectfully: "The prince, the princess, and the slave maid have all found gold, silver, and ornaments in the rooms of the three of them. ”

"Slaves are guilty." didn't wait for anyone to say anything, Xiao Linzi was busy kowtowing to the ground, "It was Concubine Hua who gave the slave money, and asked the slave to pass the word to the princess, saying that the princess was waiting for the princess in Fangfei Pavilion, and then refused to admit that he had said such a thing." The slave was also confused for a while, begging the prince and princess to be gracious and spare the slave's life. ”

"It's really a good deal for so much money for a few words. Whoever you change will be tempted. Mu Xuefu stood up and picked up the money in the tray. His eyes swept roughly, and he was suddenly attracted by the contents of another tray.

It was a puppet with silver needles all over it, Mu Xuefu quickly took it, and when she looked at it again, her name and birth date were written on it.

"Who did this come from?" Mu Xuefu held the puppet and asked softly. Her tone was soft, and there was not a hint of annoyance.

Zhou Cheng replied: "It was searched from Liu Er in the princess's courtyard." ”

"I believe in this disgusting technique, it's really brainless!" Mu Xuefu sneered and threw the puppet in front of Liu Er, "It seems that you are not just driven by money to slander me. Where did I offend you and make you hate me so much? ”

Thinking of her hateful gaze towards herself just now, Mu Xuefu guessed seven or eight points, "It won't be because of the cloud fall, right?" ”

"That's right! It's because of her! Liu Er looked at Mu Xuefu hatefully, and her eyes were full of devouring light. Slowly, little by little, it dimmed like a meteor piercing the night sky, leaving only a piece of tranquility after the splendor. The eyes are like stagnant water without waves, without a ripple. Tears flowed down the corners of her eyes, and she only listened to her tell her story.

"Yunshen is my sister, our sisters lost their parents when they were children, depended on each other, and then tossed and turned several times and entered the Chenwang Mansion. Originally, we were all serving by Concubine Ming's side, Concubine Ming was kind-hearted and very good to our sisters, and never beat and scolded us like other masters. I thought that our sisters would wait for Concubine Ming like this until they left the house and got married. Unexpectedly, the princess entered the mansion later, and slowly became favored, Yun Shen wanted to pick up the high branches, and begged the housekeeper to serve the princess several times, and finally she got her wish. ”

Speaking of this, her face showed a hideous and distorted hatred, which pressed towards Mu Xuefu and said indignantly: "She got her wish, but she also lost her life." You ordered someone to beat her to death, and when I got the news, I immediately ran to save her. But I was a step too late, and by the time I saw her, she was lifeless, and I didn't respond to any call I could ask her. I will always remember her lying in a pool of blood, and I will always remember her last terrible scream. It's you! You ordered her to be slain with a rod! You killed her! ”

Facing Liu Er's horizontal eyebrows and cold eyes, Mu Xuefu just faced it abruptly, she looked at her condescendingly, and said: "So later, when the East Courtyard lacked manpower, you also learned from the previous Yunshen, and asked the housekeeper deployed by the management personnel to transfer you to the East Courtyard." Just to have an opportunity to eradicate me and avenge your sister, right? ”

"That's right, I've been waiting for an opportunity, just so that you will never have a place to turn over! But I didn't expect that this time their plan was full of omissions and let you find loopholes to get out. However, I won't let you go! When it was too late, a flash broke through his eyes, and before anyone could react, Liu Er took out a dagger from his arms and rushed at Mu Xuefu, "You poisonous woman, I will kill you and avenge my sister!" ”

Jing Rong's eyes were quick, and as soon as he hugged Mu Xuefu, he raised his foot and kicked the dagger in her hand. Starchaser grabbed her shoulder with a backhand and buckled her to the ground.

Jing Rong was furious and stepped on her face directly, "That's your sister's own fault, and she can't blame others!" She betrayed her master, slandered her master, and beat her to death with a stick! Since you dared to assassinate the princess for her, then the king dug up her grave and destroyed her corpse! ”

was trampled underfoot, but Liu Er kept struggling. When he heard that Jing Rong was going to dig up the grave and destroy the corpse, he suddenly laughed, "Everyone is dead, and you don't let it go, no wonder the outside world says that King Chen and his wife are a pair in the sky and a pair in the ground. It's all the same vicious and ruthless, without a bit of humanity! ”

Jing Rong pressed hard under his feet and crushed it even harder. His gloomy gaze swept over the faces of everyone in the hall, and finally landed on Hua Mei'er, shouting, "Say, who colluded with you?" ”

Mu Xuefu said: "If you name the person who instructed you behind your back, this princess may spare your life for the sake of your affection and righteousness to your sister." You don't want your family to get together underground so early, do you? ”

Liu Er's expression lit up, as if an infinite light appeared in front of her eyes. But the light disappeared quickly, as if it were only a flash of light, and then the road ahead was dark again. She smiled lowly, sat up slowly with her palms on the ground, she looked at Mu Xuefu coldly, her face condensed, and said, "I am not the only one in this palace who wants you to die, I'm afraid I can't count them on ten fingers." Although I failed this time, it doesn't matter, some people hate you more than me. One by one, there will always be someone to fulfill my wish for me. ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she picked up the dagger on the ground and stabbed it into her heart. The knife fell in her hand, her heart gushed out like a spring, she slowly fell, her eyes looked in the direction behind Jing Rong, and her anger was like a gossamer, "Help me take revenge." ”

This scene was too abrupt, and for a moment the hall seemed to be frozen, so quiet, as if a needle could be heard crisply. It wasn't until the maidservant who knelt on Liu'er's body touched the blood that Liu'er sprayed on her face that she screamed in fright. This scream, everyone reacted to what happened. One after another, the exclamations resounded, all of them panicked and pale as paper, and some people fainted in fright.

Jing Rong immediately held Mu Xuefu in his arms, didn't let her see this bloody scene, and ordered coldly: "Throw this cheap maid out to feed the dog!" Then I dug up her sister's grave for this king, and fed it to the dogs! ”

He seldom spoke so harshly, and rarely said such vulgar words, let alone dug up graves. But he did it all this night, which shows that this time he was angry.

Of course, he won't let go of the other two.

"Drag these two dog minions down to this king and feed the dogs!"

"The prince spares his life, the prince spares his life, the slave knows that it is wrong, and the slave and maid don't dare anymore. Princess, you help the slave and maid to plead with the prince, you just said, if the slave and maid confess, you will spare the slave and maid's life, you save the slave and maid. The maid was so frightened that she didn't wait to pull her down, she kneeled to Mu Xuefu, grabbed her legs, and prayed continuously.

The other one, kowtowing like pounding garlic, his voice was already trembling and he couldn't speak, "The slave knows that he is wrong, Lord Wang, you watch the slave follow you for many years, spare the slave's life." He begged Mu Xuefu again, "Princess Niangniang, you accumulate virtue and do good, let the slave go this time." ”

Mu Xuefu looked at them expressionlessly, "I am willing to let you go this time, but I dare not disobey the prince's order." ”

Jing Rong was clearly angry with her, so that she would not disappoint him for the sake of others.

The hysterical cry for help is the deepest fear and despair in the heart, which makes everyone who hears it frightened. But Jing Rong didn't hear it, just held Mu Xuefu's hand tightly. looked at all the people in the hall coldly, and everyone in the cold didn't dare to breathe.

"It's all clear to this king, if there is another subordinate in the Chenwang Mansion in the future who betrays the lord to seek glory, this king will crush his bones and scatter ashes!"

Then he turned his gaze to Hua Mei'er, "What do you have to say now!" ”

One sentence shifted everyone's attention to Hua Meier, but she was calm and sat firmly in the chair. was called by Jing Rong and didn't speak, but his eyebrows were lowered, his eyes always stayed on his hands, and there was a gentle and soft smile on his lips.

She has always been as delicate as fire, how can she ever be gentle as water? Such a look made Mu Xuefu puzzled for a moment.

Mu Xuefu had long thought that Hua Meier was involved in this matter, and it was not strange that the previous subordinates confessed to her. Her sudden eyes brushed over Hua Mei'er's body carelessly, and her brows furrowed.

Hua Meier's hand has been smoothing her stomach, this action is very familiar, as if she has seen it somewhere. Mu Xuefu thought for a while, and suddenly remembered that Mu Yurong always did this action when she was pregnant. A terrifying thought burned in her heart, the expression on her face froze instantly, and her eyes stared at Hua Mei'er's stomach.

Is she pregnant?

If so, whose child does this child belong to?

Scenery?

Is she so unscrupulous because of the child who has Jingrong, and she can even face it calmly when she is recognized?

But as far as she knows, even if Jing Rong was angry with her during the time, she never set foot in the backyard, how could she have children.

Could it be that she guessed wrong?

For a moment, Mu Xuefu's heart continued to spin like a wind wheel, her fingers kept stirring the handkerchief, and the gentle silk slid through her fingertips, causing her skin to tremble.

Jing Rong noticed the change in her expression, stroked her shoulder, and whispered in her ear, "What's wrong?" ”

Mu Xuefu shook her head, looked at Hua Mei'er and said, "Hua Clan, they have all testified against you just now, do you have any justification now?" ”

Hua Mei'er raised her head, smiled sadly, and said, "There is nothing to distinguish about the concubine, this matter is indeed the concubine's coercion and temptation." ”