Chapter 17: Bloodstained White

Ling Bobu, Hengtang Eye, thousands of mountains and rivers, the moon and the dark are looking forward to it;

Red crisp hands, purple eyes drunk, a hundred turns, and a thousand times, the Xuannu is in tears.

Bai Qiu scratched the walnuts with a pair of small paws, chirping and muttering, Zi Ning listened, and there was an irrepressible panic.

"Hengtang eyes, Hengtang eyes ......" The silver comb that fell off the dresser flashed with an old glow, Zi Ning's fingers trembled slightly, and he thought: "His name is Hengtang, why am I so sad to listen to these two poems?"

Huan Ling saw that she was dressed up, and said with a smile: "Although it is spring, it is still cold this day, so Ning'er should wear an extra cloak." "Dress her up with a dark cloak with patches, this is Zining's only cloak, and she wears it from spring to winter all year round.

Seeing Zi Ning's expression in a trance, as if he had something on his mind, Huan Ling said: "You don't have to worry about the dining room, the steward said, a monthly money is not a lot of yours." There are happy events in the palace these days, and the inner and outer dining rooms are busy with all fours, maybe let us go to the inner palace to help. ”

"What's the happy event?" Zi Ning asked casually, tightening the straps of her cloak.

Huan Ling slapped his face, blinked a pair of watery eyes, and said with a smile: "Isn't it a great joy! Our emperor is going to marry his daughter and marry Kunlun's Absolute Emperor Shenjun." As he spoke, he showed a happy and fascinated expression, and the Kunlun Wonderland was full of fairy and spiritual beauty, and he was very envious when he thought about it.

Zi Ning was stunned for a moment, turned her head and asked, "The emperor marries his daughter, is Gong Tong going to marry?" Princess Tong has just passed the age of Jilu, and she is still a childish little girl, why is she going to get married?

She hadn't heard of the name of Kunlun Emperor Shenjun, and she expected that it should be the son of an immortal clan, Princess Tong was the pearl of Emperor Dove, and the person she wanted to marry must be chosen by thousands of people in the immortal realm.

"It's not Princess Tong. Huan Ling shook his head and said, "It's the emperor's eldest lady Fang Luoxi, who said that she admired Kunlun's absolute emperor, and the emperor found a lot of matchmakers, so he married Kunlun." Do the math, Miss Luo Xi will be seventeen years old this spring, let's marry the Kunlun Immortal Clan, it is really a great joy, the people of the Thirty-six Cave Mansion have come to congratulate it, I heard that even the Penglai Immortal Clan has been invited. ”

Zi Ning's head is as big as a bucket, this amount of information is too large, and I can't understand it for a while, what Miss Fang Luoxi, what Thirty-six Cave Mansion, there are no such memories in my mind at all. I thought to myself, "Does Emperor Fa Gu have another daughter? Why is he not a princess, but he is called Miss Fang Luoxi?"

asked Huan Ling with a puzzled expression, and the latter smiled: "No wonder you don't know, Miss Luoxi's matter, the emperor originally didn't allow it to be publicized." She has been cultivating in the Houshan Spirit Cave all these years, and rarely returns to the palace, and the people in the palace have almost forgotten that the emperor also has an eldest daughter, who was born to Fang Yan back then. ”

"What?" Zi Ning exclaimed in surprise, it was really like a bombshell, and it shook her brain, "Fang Luoxi is Fang Yan's daughter, this is too strange." "Fang Yan is the first steward of the Inner Palace, why does she have a daughter with Emperor Hair Dove?

It turned out that Fang Yan was the favorite concubine of Emperor Dove, and before the emperor and Empress Hua Yao got married, Fang Yan had given birth to Fang Luoxi, because of the concubine, so she had not been rewarded with the title of princess. Emperor Fa Jiu expressed his heart to Empress Hua Yao, and sent all the favored concubines in the palace to be sold, because Fang Yan had a daughter, so he was reduced to be the female steward in the palace.

Hearing what Huan Ling said, Zi Ning's surprise continued unabated, and she asked, "In this way, didn't the emperor fail this eldest lady? She has always been very fond of Fang Yan, knowing that she had such a bleak past, but she felt some sympathy in her heart.

Huan Ling nodded, "Hmm", "Miss Luo Xi is a concubine, the emperor married her into the Kunlun Immortal Clan, and he also wants to compensate her." Kunlun is the head of the twelve immortal clans in the Immortal Dao Realm, and what a blessing it is to be able to marry the Kunlun Absolute Emperor! The Absolute Emperor was crowned the Zen Divine Monarch two years ago, and he is the first immortal in the four seas and eight wildernesses, and many people can't envy it. ”

Zi Ning frowned and asked, "The Fa Gu Kingdom is a Dao clan, and the eldest lady is a concubine, can she also marry into the First Immortal Clan?"

The twelve sects of the immortal clan have always regarded themselves as having a higher status than the Dao clan and the Wu clan, and they are most concerned about the bloodline and inheritance of their descendants.

But I heard Huan Ling shake her head and said: "Miss Luo Xi married the Absolute Emperor, just to be a fairy concubine, I heard that the candidate for the Absolute Emperor's immortal queen has not yet been decided." However, our eldest lady is more beautiful than Princess Tong, and she has cultivated to the level of a goddess at a young age, and she must be favored when she goes to Kunlun. And the emperor is a talent, and he will be very good to the eldest lady. ”

Huanling's aunt served in the cultivation spirit cave in the mountain behind the palace, and she often went to the spirit cave to wander around and chat with a group of small palace ladies about these things, so she knew a lot about Hua Luoxi.

Zi Ning didn't care, and thought: "No matter what his name is, he will definitely not be as powerful as Yue Hengtang." She was not interested in the Absolute Emperor, so she said: "Huanling, let's go, don't let the dining room steward wait." When he got up and turned his head, he saw Bai Qiu holding the folding fan with two small paws, sticking out his tongue to lick the fan and the jade pendant.

Zi Ning went crazy and shouted, "White Ball, I told you, don't eat a fan-"

Baiqiu glared at her and retorted, "I don't eat it, I'll lick it." Seeing that it was a thief, a pair of black eyes rolled, and couldn't help but cover his mouth and laugh.

There was a rush of footsteps in the courtyard outside the house, and I only heard someone say: "This room is Zining, the girl in the dining room......"

The two were a little surprised and looked at each other. Zi Ning asked in surprise: "Who is here?" Huan Ling frowned and shook his head, but when he looked up, he saw that someone opened the door curtain, several old palace ladies wearing dark embroidered robes looked hurried, and the female housekeeper in the dining room followed closely, her face was a little ugly, and she kept glancing at the two of them.

Seeing so many people, Bai Qiu shook his little body with a "whoosh", and got into the wide hood of Zining's cloak like lightning, and his paws were still holding a fan.

When Zi Ning saw this mighty posture, she secretly screamed in her heart, and suddenly remembered that she ran back from the rain yesterday and threw Princess Tong's cloak and embroidered shoes into the grove next to the palace gate.

Huan Ling stared at a pair of eyes, her face was at a loss, and she heard a pockmarked old woman say: "These two are the girls in the dining room? ”

They were ordered to search for the haunting of Princess Tong's Cailan Palace, and found that someone had stolen the princess's clothes and shoes, pretending to be a female ghost, and the evidence was found on the side of the palace wall. A pair of embroidered soles had worn out holes, and there were blood stains on the shoes.

When I took a picture of the person who left a blood stain with the fairy mirror, I vaguely saw that it was a young girl, wearing a wide white shirt, with a willow waist and limbs, and her figure disappeared in the large courtyard of the outer palace gate, but she couldn't see what her appearance looked like.

Steward Fang Yan immediately decided that the female ghost had no time to escape, and must still be hiding in the courtyard of the outer palace gate, as long as the woman with injuries on the soles of her feet was found, she was a thief pretending to be a female ghost.

Hearing the old woman say that she wanted to look at her feet, Zi Ning "chuckled" in her heart, and thought secretly: "I'm really afraid of something, yesterday's incident came out, and these people came to me to settle accounts." Involuntarily took a few steps back, and sat down on the bed in a panic. The thought of the blood-stained white undershirt under the mat and the folding fan being held by the white ball, panicked and turned red.

Huan Ling didn't know what was going on, and asked in a daze: "Teach my mother-in-law, why do you take off your shoes and look at your feet?"

Another old woman twisted her fat body, raised her eyes and swept around the room, walked up to Huanling, and scolded dissatisfiedly: "Take off your shoes if you want to take them off, so much nonsense." I couldn't help but say, and ordered someone to push Huan Ling down on the couch, took off her shoes and socks twice, looked at her eyes carefully, turned around and said loudly: "This is not." ”

The pock-faced old woman snorted coldly, her eyes turned from Huan Ling's body to Zi Ning, and motioned to the fat old woman, "There is also a little girl, don't rub it off, quickly take off her shoes." Zi Ning supported the bed with her arms back, not daring to show panic, and forced her composure to say: "I've been injured these days, presumably ...... There are scars on the body. ”

The white ball was still hiding in her cloak and hat, and she didn't dare to move rashly, lest anyone find out. I thought: "It's useless to resist now, I'm afraid I won't be able to run away this time." I had to let the palace people take off her shoes.

There were several worn red scars on the soles of his feet, and a thin layer of scabs was formed. The fat old woman looked at it and shouted: "I have searched for most of the outer palace gates, but I can find the main owner." These are all new wounds, they must have been stolen yesterday. With smugness in his eyes, he lifted the soles of Zi Ning's feet and showed the pock-faced old woman, "Go out and tell the chief of the inner court, this girl has scars on the soles of her feet, and we have caught the female thief who is pretending to be a ghost!"

They ran around for a morning, carefully searched one palace after another, making people panic, and finally their efforts paid off, and they caught the female thief at the gate of the outer palace.

"What kind of female thief, what kind of ghost?" Huan Ling was startled, and said urgently: "Ning'er is not a female thief......" Before she finished speaking, she was pushed by the fat old woman and staggered, and snorted coldly: "Yesterday, Princess Tong's Cailan Palace was haunted, and she was a thief who stole clothes. She has a scar under her foot, and she is the thief who stuns the princess!"

Zi Ning's eyes were full of panic, and she thought, "If you are captured by them, will you be executed?"

Someone went out to make a report, and immediately came in two guards with cold expressions, and the chief of the inner court who took the lead glared at her fiercely, and then ordered someone to rummage through the house for physical evidence, "You have to investigate carefully, and don't let go of any clues." ”

As she was talking, the fat old woman shouted: "I searched it, this is the underwear worn by the man, and it is still stained with blood!" A white satin robe was turned out from under the mat, and everyone looked up, and sure enough, it was bloodstained, and the white background was condensed into patches of red, like bright plum blossoms blooming in the snow.

Zi Ning trembled, couldn't help but have mixed feelings, gritted her teeth and thought: "I can't escape in the end, today has really become my death date." ”

The pock-faced old woman glanced at the white satin undershirt with contempt, beaming proudly, stepped forward and grabbed Zi Ning's hair, revealing a hideous expression, "This little slut, you are really pretending to be a ghost to scare the princess!

Zi Ning is a little maid at the gate of the outer palace, it is impossible to sneak into the inner palace to steal things, there must be accomplices inside and outside. This white satin undershirt is iron-like physical evidence, no matter how long she grows two mouths, she doesn't want to clear her name.

"It's not me!" Zi Ning's head was flustered, and she exclaimed repeatedly.

The poisonous whip soaked in dove wine when she was tortured that day was whipped on her body one by one, and she still feels great pain to this day. She struggled desperately, thinking that if she was to be tortured, she might as well be killed now, without having to suffer all those bits and pieces.

Lin Niang, who was sleeping on the bed, heard the screams, opened her eyes in a daze, turned her head with great effort, and saw a fierce old woman grabbing Zining's hair, pressing her to the ground and forcing her to kneel. Lin Niang didn't know what was going on, so she broke out in a cold sweat, trembling to support half of her body, and said weakly: "Ning'er, this is ...... What's wrong?"

Zi Ning saw Lin Niang wake up, staring at a pair of frightened eyes, she couldn't help but feel a pain in her heart, scratched her hands together, shook off the pock-faced old woman, turned around and pounced on Lin Niang, and cried: "A-Niang, Ning'er is fine, you just took medicine, lie down quickly, don't catch the cool breeze." Hold Lin Niang down, let her lie down again, and cover the quilt tightly.

The numb-faced old woman was scratched by her with blood marks on her hands, and scolded hatefully: "This little hoof who is looking for death, quickly hold her down for me and beat her hard!" Immediately, two palace people pressed Zi Ning's shoulders violently, and slapped them down.

Zi Ning knelt on her knees, half of her body was lying on the bed, her nose was sore, she hugged Lin Niang's arm tightly and did not let go, the grief and indignation in her heart seemed to be blocked, she clenched her teeth tightly to prevent herself from crying.

She's already died once, nothing to be afraid of. But it is a great sin to frighten the princess, and it is necessary to involve the family. She didn't want to implicate Lin Niang, she just hoped that Empress Hua Yao would receive the news, and for the sake of the love of the slave and maid, she would save her life!

The palace people twisted and pinched her, and Zi Ning knelt on Lin Niang's side, unable to pull it up. One by one, fists slapped on her head, and she gritted her teeth to hold back, tears rolling in her eyes.

The housekeeper in the dining room on the side couldn't bear it, pulled the corners of her mouth, and said, "This girl is stubborn, she is definitely not a thief." Zi Ning, tell Jiaoyin quickly, where did these blood-stained clothes come from? Your family is only you and your mother, how can you have men's clothes? You said it clearly, Jiaoyin will not slander you. ”

Zining's eyes were dazzled with tears, and she shook her head sadly, this blood-stained undershirt was found in her house, could she say that she didn't know, who would believe it?

Suddenly, Huan Ling knelt on the ground with a "bang", and said in a trembling voice: "Ask for forgiveness from the steward, then...... That garment was the ...... I gave to Ning'er."

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Q version of the small fan:

Zi Ning: The Kunlun Absolute Emperor claims to be the number one immortal in the Immortal Dao Realm, I don't think so, Yue Hengtang must be more powerful than him.

Yue Hengtang: Well, that's right.

Zining: Do you know the Kunlun Emperor?

Yue Hengtang: I know, I am the Emperor of Kunlun.

Zining: ......

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