Chapter 194 The people from Tingliyuan are recruiting
Lihua's peach blossom eyes were slightly opened, and she was surprised to see inside. This big cat had such a high status in the palace, even Zhang Defa had to respect it.
But the few times she met him before, this big cat was very well-behaved, right?
Lihua's mouth went dry when she saw Zhang Defa's persuasion, while Wu Xue licked the cat slowly and slowly. This scene was very funny, as if the emperor was not in a hurry and the eunuch was.
She couldn't help it anymore and walked to the palace to watch the play.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she approached, Wu Xue stopped licking her fur and stood up to look at her.
Zhang Defa thought Wu Xue was going to hurt someone, so he stopped him nervously: "Wuxue, no, the trial hasn't been completed yet!"
He was afraid that Wu Xue would take revenge for Wu Meiren.
Lihua glanced at Zhang Defa and saw what this damn eunuch said. Could it be that he could do anything to her after the trial?
She silently made a note in her mind and looked down at Wu Xue, her eyes showing a bit of evil.
The next scene shocked Zhang Defa.
Wu Xue shrank her ears, quickly took two steps to the side, and stayed close to the door.
Aunt Qin took the opportunity to hand over Lihua’s confession.
Lihua has different ideas about Zhang Defa's arrival.
In this life, he has seen Wu Xue listen to three people. The first one is the emperor, and the remaining two are the queen mother and Anding Wang Yuchixu.
Xiao Junzi was honest. He didn't dare to speak out after he discovered something was wrong. When he was first tried, he was afraid that he would be blamed for betraying his master, so he refused to say anything.
On the other side, Zhichun learned that Xiao Junzi had made a move, and was surprised: "Xiao Junzi?"
Lihua then looked at Zhou Yuzhen and smiled faintly: "Cousin, Xiaochan said a lot of things to me, including the words about being a cow and a horse. Since you heard it, why didn't you tell the empress?"
Lihua asked: "Maoqiu, why are you following me? Do you want to be stroked?"
Zhichun was confused, but remembering Lihua's previous words to comfort her, she gritted her teeth and said she didn't know, so she would search if she wanted.
Lihua said guiltily: "If I hadn't walked too fast, Wu Meiren wouldn't have fallen down while chasing her without seeing the road clearly, so it was my concubine who hurt her."
Seeing that Linglong suddenly stopped talking, the Queen Mother said unhappily: "Keep talking!"
Didn't she tell anyone except Wu Meiren not to let anyone see it?
After entering the palace, he subconsciously looked around Lihua, but he didn't notice that Wu Xue was relieved.
The Queen Mother said "Oh", this is the harm.
Linglong, who was more advanced than her in the main hall, was talking at the moment.
She always thought it was Liu Sanzi.
It was at this time that Zhang Defa entered the palace.
Later, I felt that this happened to Wu Fang'er and it was completely normal.
The Queen Mother said softly, "Hmm", lowered her head and squinted her eyes to read.
Zhou Yuzhen suddenly panicked and said quickly: "I was far away at the time and didn't hear everything clearly. I only heard one or two sentences."
Wu Xue is very cold towards everyone else. The innate blood of the beast king makes Wu Xue not easily surrender to others.
The relief was that Wu Fang'er was not important to the emperor enough to come in person, but having Zhang Defa come to ask, after all, he was somewhat concerned, so it would be better to feel less sad.
Not seeing the emperor, he waved his hand with both disappointment and relief, asking Zhang Defa to step aside and stay out of the way.
Wu Xue's cat whiskers moved, satisfied that the white jade bed was still there, but still followed.
Zhou Yuzhen stood at the side of the hall. When he saw her coming in, he glanced at her and moved away immediately.
Wu Xue shook her hair subconsciously and looked at Lihua with a dissatisfied "ouch" sound.
Zhang Defa stood in front of the hall like an invisible man, below Aunt Qin, standing with Aunt Li.
The Queen Mother's brows suddenly furrowed.
After Wu Fang'er was declared a beauty, she punished Xiao Chan to do the most painful and tiring work.
She asked again: "Zhou Cairen saw you and Xiao Chan meeting each other this afternoon, and heard that Xiao Chan said that he would do things for you. Is this true?"
Linglong's heart was beating wildly, and she pinched her palms to comfort herself. She was not afraid, she had other preparations.
She raised her head and said calmly: "This is also the case."
Lihua walked directly out of the door, smiled lightly at him, and looked back at the palace attendant: "Eunuch, isn't the Queen Mother summoning you? Let's go."
The Queen Mother looked sharply at Zhou Yuzhen.
Lihua thought that her good cousin did not disappoint her.
She ordered: "Let someone identify the handwriting on the suicide note and see who else in the palace has similar handwriting to this. And quickly find out who the maid pretending to be from Zhuang Ning Palace is."
Linglong's eyes flashed, she was right in her bet, Zhou Cai and Wu Meiren were not getting along with each other.
When they walked outside the main hall, Wuxue was still following her. Lihua had no choice but to say that he would not interfere with her later, and then gave up.
Linglong was panicking and kept shaking her head: "... Impossible, it can't be Wu Meiren. Even if the master asked Wu Meiren to change her name many times, Wu Meiren is still gentle and polite, and she never gets offended. But there is a time..."
Wu Meiren seemed to be talking to Wu Xue, and Wu Xue shook her hair and followed her leisurely.
Wu Xue thought carefully for a while with its round head and understood.
Zhang Defa pinched himself and said "ouch" in pain, then realized that the man and the cat who had gone away were still there.
Linglong then said: "One time, the master chased Wu Meiren to change her name and sprained her foot. When he came back, he said that Wu Meiren had harmed her, but the slave had never seen it with her own eyes and did not dare to comment."
Xiaochan was not a talkative person, and she only worked quietly on weekdays. Linglong had no way of knowing that Xiaochan was illiterate.
The Queen Mother frowned when she heard that Wu Fang'er forced Lihua to change her name because they sounded similar.
She bowed down and made a sincere request: "The Queen Mother, not only do I need to search the palace where I live, but I also need to search the houses in the west side hall of my concubine, including the residence of the servants. I am not afraid of the shadows, and I have never done those things.
I am not afraid, so I beg you to search carefully and clear my concubine's name."
Aunt Li agreed and exited the hall.
Lihua suddenly realized: "Oh, it turns out that my cousin didn't hear other words clearly, but she just heard the words "Be a cow and a horse for me."
However, Wu Xue stepped out of the main hall and quietly went to an inconspicuous corner to stay, guarding the pear blossoms without hindering them.
The Queen Mother was in a mess. When she saw Zhang Defa coming, her first reaction was to look behind him.
Zhang Defa was petrified on the spot, and he madly suspected that he was hallucinating.
She turned her head and kowtowed: "Empress Dowager, I dare not hide it. I have already told the old woman in charge of the punishment department the details of my meeting with Xiao Chan. There should be records, and I ask you to take a look."
The reason for the disappointment was that the Queen Mother did not see the emperor and she did not say anything about it on weekdays, but she still thought about it in her heart.
Talking about this moment, the Queen Mother looked at her: "Wu Meiren, is there anything the palace maid said?"
The Queen Mother was stunned: "How do you say that?"
Being followed by a cat is really ostentatious. What does it look like when the Queen Mother sees it? What will the monster think when she turns around and sees it?
He stepped forward and bowed shyly.
Lihua ignored his gaze and simply admitted: "Returning to the Queen Mother, it is indeed true. It is true that Wu Meiren chased me to change my name, and it is true that I caused her to sprain her foot."
When Linglong came in just now, she was immediately asked about what was written in the suicide note. No one mentioned that Xiaochan was illiterate.
Being delayed by Wu Xue, she was late.
Xiao Junzi once felt strange and accidentally looked out of the window and saw many strange bottles and jars inside.
But she really just fought back. The monster is so smart, can he also see that she was wronged?
Lihua wanted to laugh a little and continued: "I haven't moved the bed, so you don't have to follow me."
One person and one cat walked into the main hall, one behind the other.
Others could not see her counterattack, and she was worried that the emperor could.
Lihua knew clearly in her heart that she was asking Linglong what she thought of her killing Wu Fang'er.
When Lihua in the main hall first heard about Xiao Junzi's move, she wasn't the least bit surprised.
How could it be Xiao Junzi, not Liu Sanzi?
This chief eunuch should have been called here by the chief emperor.
Now Lihua admitted personally that Xiaochan wanted to repay her, but then she discovered that Zhou Yuzhen had not seen the whole picture and was hiding something.
Then she learned about the name change from Linglong, so Lihua and Wu Meiren were not without fault.
Fortunately she didn't say anything nonsense just now, otherwise she would have been exposed.
The situation is now a bit confusing. I thought that Xiaochan was uneducated and what he said in the letter was false.
Xiao Junzi once discovered that Lihua and Zhichun were burying something in the courtyard, and the two of them were secretly doing something in a house to the west of Tingli courtyard, and no one else was allowed in.
And the maid who invited Lihua to Jinghong Hall, was someone seeing her?
But soon Zhou Cairen arrived and provided new clues. She once saw Xiaochan kneeling and said that she would repay Lihua by doing things like cows and horses for Lihua.
But what if you would rather kill by mistake than let go?
Pear Blossom's thoughts were racing.
Zhang Defa thought that it was over, Wu Xue not only failed to guard the side hall, but was abducted by the suspect, what should he do?
The Queen Mother put down her confession, thought for a while and said: "The most important thing now is to find out. Xiaochan is illiterate. Where did the suicide note come from?"
Lihua was thoughtful, bowed forward, and silently knelt to the other side.
He remembered his errand, patted his head, and hurriedly followed.
Everyone and the cat looked at the palace man.
He looked like he was staying out of the situation, observing everyone's reaction.
When Lihua entered the main hall, she clearly felt the atmosphere was solemn, and the Queen Mother's majestic and scrutinizing gaze fell directly on her, which made people feel even more stressed.
Only then did the palace man wake up, and hurriedly trotted forward to guide Lihua, glancing at Wu Xue in fear from time to time.
Wu Xue automatically followed Lihua, and when she reached Lihua, she stopped and looked back.
Linglong was shocked, her face suddenly turned white, and no one noticed her because she lowered her head.
As long as the palace maid follows her instructions and cleans up the clothes of Zhuang Ning Palace, things will turn around.
She seemed to suddenly notice that Pear Blossom had come in, and quickly shut up, looking hesitant.
As soon as Linglong finished comforting herself, a palace official in charge of the punishment department hurriedly walked in outside: "Reporting to the Queen Mother, there is a new discovery, and the young handsome man from Tingliyuan has been recruited."
But this matter is intriguing.
A dark light flashed across Linglong's eyes. Just in time, she not only buried things, but also placed things elsewhere just in case.
The Queen Mother looked at Pear Blossom in surprise, and she agreed to let people carefully search everything related to Pear Blossom.
Reminded by Lihua's words, Tingliyuan searched everyone from the master to the slaves, so Jinghong Palace could not only search Xiaochan's residence and the side hall where the incident occurred, but also carefully searched every corner.
There are 3,000 words in this chapter, but it’s only a few words if you try hard enough.