Chapter Twenty-Seven: Making One Out of Nothing
Early the next morning.
Liu Qingshu was still worried about the Lantern Festival Palace banquet yesterday, and the dense numbers on the account gave her a headache, and she closed her eyes from time to time to rest.
Zhang Zhaoyi saw that she was unhappy, and coaxed her to say: "Niangniang's grace is really incomparable to anyone, last night that Xin Jieyu was sent to bed, and she was sent out intact." ”
Liu Qingshu's first reaction was that Xin Wei was calculated by a villain, and it was impossible for the emperor to humiliate her like this.
Zhang Zhaoyi covered her mouth and smiled, and then flattered: "What if you look a little similar to Niangniang, only Niangniang can enter the emperor's eyes." ”
Liu Qingshu became more and more upset when she heard this.
What if you can't get into the eyes, what if you can sleep, what's the difference between her and Xin Wei, aren't they both stand-ins for the same person?
If she had to compare, she just wanted to compare with Xin Wei whose pipa playing was better.
"Okay, this palace wants to rest for a while, you can go back first today."
Zhang Zhaoyi saw that her eyebrows were tightly locked, and she expected that the fart was slapped on the horse's leg, and hurriedly said: "What the concubine said is not right, Concubine Liu's mother is beautiful and beautiful, and no one can be like the mother for half a point." ”
Liu Qingshu was a little helpless, and her tone was slightly soft.
"I really don't have the strength to do it today, so let's come back tomorrow."
Liu Qingshu asked someone to collect the large and small account books, and lay down on the couch in the warm pavilion for a while, and the maidservant brought the hand warmer and handed it to her.
Always feeling that something was wrong, Liu Qingshu suddenly opened her eyes and asked, "What about Chu Jieyu?" Why don't you see her today? ”
"Little Lord Chu doesn't seem to have gotten out of bed today," the maidservant said, "I came back very late last night." ”
There were too many things yesterday, so much so that Liu Qingshu didn't notice that the girl didn't appear at the palace banquet, and now she feels that something is wrong.
Usually early in the morning, the girl chatters endlessly, although it is a little noisy, but one day it is not noisy, and she is not used to it.
Liu Qingshu thought about it, but she still got up and walked towards Chu Ying's side hall with a hand warmer.
The doors and windows of the side hall were closed, Liu Qingshu pushed the door open, and saw Chu Ying sitting in a sandalwood round table in bed clothes, like a puppet, and in front of him was an immovable apricot blossom cake and white fungus porridge.
Seeing someone coming in, Chu Ying came back to her senses and greeted her unnaturally: "Sister Liu, why are you here, you ...... Have you had breakfast? ”
Liu Qingshu sat beside her, saw her sad face, her eyes were swollen like words, pinched her pale cheeks, and asked softly, "Who bullied you?" ”
Chu Ying suddenly couldn't hold back, and cried out, her head into her arms, and her body trembled from crying.
"Commander Zhang wronged me! I didn't cut my dance dress, I didn't! Why would I do such a thing......"
Dancing clothes?
Liu Qingshu chuckled in her heart, hugged her, soothed her back, and said, "What's the matter, you say it slowly." ”
"I, I have a stomachache, so I went to the toilet, I don't know where the toilet in the Qianyuan Hall is, and it took a long time to find it...... Then I didn't know the way when I came out, and when it was dark, a palace maid showed me the way, and gave me a basket, saying that I would help take it...... I walked to the apse of the Qianyuan Palace, Commander Zhang came, I said I was Chu Jieyu, he didn't believe it, said I was a thief, and he had to search for my basket......"
The trills in Chu Ying's cry became heavier and heavier: "There are scissors in that basket, and there are torn dance clothes...... They said that I sabotaged the Lantern Festival palace banquet and arrested me......"
Liu Qingshu seemed to be in the ice and snow, and her whole person was frozen and frozen, and her lips and teeth couldn't move.
This matter, how could it be impossible for Chu Ying to do it, she was so stupid that she cut her dance clothes, put the evidence in the basket, and swaggered through the apse waiting to be caught?
The funny thing is that outsiders don't look at whether this matter is reasonable, only look at the evidence.
Chu Ying cried over and over again.
"I didn't do it, I really didn't do it!"
went out to go to the toilet, and was convicted of a crime, although he was released inexplicably, and he was not allowed to mention the matter again, but Chu Ying thought about it all night, and the more she thought about it, the more frightened she became.
He didn't do anything, but he was almost punished.
Liu Qingshu took a deep breath and said comfortingly: "I believe you didn't do it, I believe in you." ”
Chu Ying, who has a brain, would never do such a thing.
What's more, Liu Qingshu also had a similar experience, she was still pressed for the crime of pushing Concubine Hui off the drunken stage, and the crime of murdering the emperor's heir was extremely heinous, and she almost died without a place to be buried.
Is that the man doing it again?
Commander Zhang must give this matter to the emperor, and Chu Ying can retreat with her whole body, could it be that the eldest princess raised her noble hand and fished people out?
Chu Ying cried in her arms for a while, and only then did her mood stabilize a little, raised her head, and looked at Liu Qingshu with tears streaming down her face.
"Once upon a time, my aunt said that if I got married and someone was bullied in my mother-in-law's family, no matter what the price was, she would take me home, I miss my aunt so much, ......"
Liu Qingshu was sour by what she said, pinched her sleeves and wiped her tears and snot, and said softly: "One day I can let you leave the palace and return to A-Niang, can you believe me?" It may be a little long, but let's take our time. ”
Chu Ying looked at her with blurred tears and nodded vigorously.
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Before lunch, Cao Zhaoyi always went to sit on a small pavilion in the Imperial Garden, and when she looked down from the pavilion, she caught a glimpse of a figure.
"Xin Jieyu?" Cao Zhaoyi wanted to laugh when she saw her, "It's really funny that I was still hard with me during the day, and I was returned by the emperor at night." ”
The maidservant chimed in: "This is the end of going against Zhaoyi Niangniang, and the palace has been laughing at her for the past few days." ”
"Let's go, let's see."
Cao Zhaoyi stretched out her green and white jade hand, and the maid immediately bowed down to help her, and Cao Zhaoyi twisted her waist and walked down the bluestone steps with her support.
Across a clump of human-tall grass and trees, Cao Zhaoyi heard the conversation between Xin Wei and the maidservant.
Xin Wei sighed: "I finally understood the emperor's likes and dislikes, but I lost this great opportunity, I really can't stand the queen's good intentions." ”
"The queen didn't give Cao Zhaoyi such a good opportunity, but gave it to you, the little master?" Huaixi was puzzled, "Isn't Cao Zhaoyi the queen's cousin, shouldn't she help her own family?" ”
Hearing this, Cao Zhaoyi froze her steps, stopped the maidservant behind her, and put an index finger to her lips to remind her not to make a sound.
On the other side of the grass and trees, Xin Wei said with a smile: "Fool, if Cao Zhaoyi gets the Sacred Heart, the Cao family can't guarantee that they won't give up the queen, what good is this for the queen?" ”
Cao Zhaoyi took a step back in a daze.
I see! I see!
No wonder although the queen's cousin gave her the position of Zhaoyi, she never arranged for her to see the emperor. Isn't Concubine Liu the white-eyed wolf that the queen single-handedly supported? The queen has the ability to make Concubine Liu favored, and she has the ability to let Xin Jieyu perform at the palace banquet, why can't she let her cousin meet the emperor in private?
It turned out that just because the queen never thought of supporting her, and even when she was a stepping stone, she wished that she didn't exist.
Huaixi suddenly realized: "That means that Cao Zhaoyi will not have a chance." ”
"Yes," Xin Wei said, "as long as the queen is on the throne for a day, Cao Zhaoyi will never come out." ”