A palace maid who was sweeping the floor looked around and hurriedly leaned into another palace maid's ear and said, "Did you notice the palace maid that His Highness carried back to the palace last night?"
The palace maid was silent for a few seconds and then said: "I heard from the palace that she seems to be from His Highness the Seventh. It is said that His Highness attaches great importance to this palace lady. I heard that on His Highness's birthday, she even played the guqin at the birthday banquet.
His Highness is holding her in his hands and protecting her. But why does she appear in the palace of our Crown Prince?"
The palace maid just smiled disdainfully, and her voice was very low and cold: "I heard from people in Yuyang Palace that she is a shameless vixen who not only seduced His Seventh Prince, but also our prince.
Your Highness, she is worthy of it, a palace maid wants to climb a high branch and become a phoenix."
Another palace maid hurriedly interrupted her, "In the palace, don't say this nonsense, or you may get killed."
"I'm not talking nonsense. You saw what happened last night. His Highness the Crown Prince looked anxious when he brought her to the palace. He also announced that the imperial doctor would come and he stayed up all night to take care of her. Although she still looks human-like.
Yes, but if she hadn't used some enchantment, how could our Highness care so much about a palace maid? Besides, she is a palace maid from Yuyang Palace. I also heard that she often stays with our Crown Prince recently.
"The palace maid then swept the floor with a look of disdain.
"You are right. Although our Highness is very gentle, His Highness has never treated any woman as differently as he did to the maid last night. If you say so, then she does have a true relationship with our Prince.
Unusual."
The palace maid sweeping the floor wanted to say something else, but she heard a cold voice, "What are you talking about!"
The palace maid was so frightened that she couldn't even hold the broom in her hand. Her legs suddenly softened and she fell to the ground. She looked at the queen and her entourage standing behind them in horror.
They saw the queen being supported by her father-in-law, looking at them with a stern face. The anger on her face frightened them so much that they turned pale, big beads of sweat broke out instantly, and they did not dare to raise their heads.
"My slave, come to see the Queen." The two of them knelt down and shouted tremblingly at the same time, their heads lowered and their whole bodies almost touching the ground.
"Bold slave, you don't do your job well in the palace. You gossip behind your back and talk about the master. Is His Highness the Crown Prince someone you can talk about? You don't care about the Queen." The father-in-law next to him screamed and cursed.
, out of the corner of his eye he glanced at the angry empress.
This Eunuch Chuan is a popular person in front of the Queen. Although everyone is talking behind the scenes, they are very dissatisfied with Eunuch Chuan's behavior of trying his best to please the Queen and using it to gain power, but because he is favored now, in the
He could only be polite and cautious in front of the queen, for fear that if he talked nonsense in front of the queen, their lives would only depend on his thoughts.
Now that he had caught the opportunity, they were even more nervous and did not dare to take a breath.
"My slave deserves death, please forgive me, the Queen." The two of them were still kneeling on the smooth glazed brick floor. At this time, their hair was disheveled, their eyes were red and swollen, their slender bodies were shaking violently, and their faces were blue and miserable.
The two palace maids tried their best to hold back the trembling in their throats, but a small sound still flowed out. They kept watching the queen's expression from the corner of their eyes, when they noticed the slight frown on her eyebrows.
Sometimes, I wanted to strangle my voice even more, but it made her tremble even more.
"You will only gossip when the master is away. What's the use of keeping you?" the queen shouted sharply, and the eunuchs around her had already started to drag them back.
"Please forgive me, Queen. I will never dare to do this again. Please forgive me, Queen." The two of them shouted loudly and tremblingly. They were dragged by the eunuch behind them. Their faces were frightened, and tears had already flowed down their entire cheeks.
She saw the father-in-law next to the queen said something in her ear. She looked at the two maids in front of her and shouted with a sullen face: "Wait a minute."
The person behind him let go, and the two of them knelt on the ground in response, kowtowing continuously, with traces of blood already soaking on their foreheads. Their voices were trembling so much that they could not hear the content clearly, "Please forgive me, Queen Mother. Please forgive me, Queen Mother."
"I would like to ask you, has the Crown Prince been away from Moyang Palace often recently?" The Queen sat on the sandalwood chair brought by a eunuch, put her hands on her legs very slowly, and looked at the two kneeling in front of her.
A palace maid spoke out every word in a deep voice.
"Back to the Queen, in recent days, Your Highness the Prince..." One of the maids put her hands on the ground, not daring to raise her head, and said fearfully.
"The Queen has asked you something. Why are you hesitating? Why don't you speak quickly?" Eunuch Chuan, who was standing aside, started shouting again, and his shrill voice was particularly harsh.
The palace maid kneeling on the ground said in a trembling voice: "I heard from people in the palace that His Royal Highness often stayed with a palace maid in Yuyang Palace. Last night, he took the palace maid back to the palace and asked the imperial doctor to come for treatment.
It was not sent back to Yuyang Palace until the morning."
"Send? He is going to see off a palace maid. How unbecoming is it for a noble prince to see off a palace maid? Doesn't he look like a prince at all?" The queen suddenly grabbed the handkerchief in her hand and said angrily.
The two palace maids on the ground were so frightened that they trembled even more. They kept nodding their heads, and cold sweat slid down their faces. There were already traces of water on the bluestone in front of them.
"What's the name of the palace maid?" A cold light flashed in the queen's eyes, and a cold voice came out.
"Xia..." The palace maid thought for a while, then suddenly raised her head, her eyes full of fear, "Yes, I remember her name seems to be Xia Yanyan, yes, her name is Xia Yanyan."
When she met the queen's cold gaze, she lowered her head in fear and hurriedly, her hands trembling even more.
"Xia Yanyan." The queen, who was sitting on a wooden chair, stroking the jade fingers on her hand, murmured.
The surroundings instantly became quiet, and the two palace maids kneeling on the ground did not dare to make a sound. They could only kneel tremblingly. The sweat on their foreheads kept flowing and flowed into their eyes, and they did not dare to reach out to wipe it.
"You two, get up." The queen's voice sounded again. She stared at them and said coldly, "None of you should reveal what happened today to the prince. Also, if the prince goes to find that person named Xia Yanyan again in the future,
Maid, you two must report to me at any time. I will keep your heads for the time being and go get twenty sticks for punishment. If I hear your gossip behind your back again in the future, then your heads will be saved.
The palace is about to be decided. Xiaochuanzi, return to Tianyi Palace!"
"Cha." Eunuch Chuan glanced at the palace maid kneeling on the ground, snorted coldly, and then helped the queen walk away with a smile.
The Queen and her entourage had already walked away, and the two maids were still kowtowing on the ground. They did not stop until the Queen left. Their bodies became limp and they sat slumped on the ground, their clothes soaked with cold sweat.
As soon as she arrived at the Imperial Garden, Zhaoyue met the queen who looked unhappy. She greeted her with a busy smile, "Zhaoyue has met the queen."
"Get up." The voice was lazy.
"Zhaoyue, Queen Mother, you are not very happy. Look, you are coming out of Moyang Palace in this direction. Didn't you see the prince's brother? Zhaoyue looked at the queen with a smile, so she said to herself, then restrained herself.
She lost her smile and said with a grimace, "Zhaoyue knows where the prince's brother is?"
When Zhao Yue thought about how almost everyone had been surrounding her since Xia Yanyan entered the palace, her heart was filled with hatred. Now that her brother Feng was no longer paying attention to her, she hated Yan Yan even more.
She didn't believe it. She couldn't fight a palace maid, and she was a palace maid of unknown origin.
"What's wrong? I was fine just now, why do I feel so emotional all of a sudden?"
"Zhaoyue is angry. Not only brother Feng is surrounding that Yanyan, but now, even brother Prince is also surrounding her. They are ignoring Zhaoyue."
"It's your brother Feng who hangs around her, that's why you're unhappy. So what kind of person is Xia Yanyan? Why have I never heard of this palace maid? Now it sounds like she's alive in this palace.
Quite active.”
"Brother Feng brought her back from the military camp. I don't know her origins. Anyway, as soon as she entered the palace, everyone gathered around her." Zhao Yue looked unhappy, "Especially recently, she and
The prince's brother passed away recently, and the prince's brother is also very concerned about her. He even sent her back to Yuyang Palace in person today, and he never showed such concern to Zhao Yue."
She deliberately told the queen. In this palace, the queen's strict discipline of the prince is well known. If the queen is allowed to target that statement, then she can use the queen's hand to eradicate Xia Yanyan. Of course, the queen is not
Fool, otherwise she wouldn't have become the queen easily. However, if she knew that Xia Yanyan would be the one to influence the prince, then the queen would not sit idly by and ignore it. As long as she was around to stir up trouble, Xia Yanyan would
It's hard to say what will happen to him. She knows the queen's methods. If anyone affects the prince's future, she can make that person disappear without anyone noticing in the palace.
"Why, does the prince often walk with that maid?" the queen asked in a deep voice, holding back the anger in her heart.
Zhaoyue nodded.
"Xiaochuanzi, go back to Tianyi Palace first." The queen's face was solemn. Behind her, Eunuch Chuan hurriedly supported the queen and walked in the direction of Tianyi Palace.
Zhaoyue looked at the Queen's leaving figure with a smile, with a hint of jealousy on her face. In her heart, she was the one who could stand beside Brother Feng, and she, Xia Yanyan, was nothing.
Along the way, the queen became more and more angry as she thought about it, and the prince became more and more dissatisfied. Now he was hanging out with a palace maid.
"Xiao Chuanzi, go check on this Xia Yanyan for me and see where she comes from."
"Your Majesty, I have a plan. I wonder if your Majesty wants to hear it."
"Come and listen to me."
Eunuch Chuan whispered in the Queen's ear, and the Queen's face changed from displeasure to a smile, and finally she burst into laughter, "Xiao Chuanzi, you can always relieve me of my worries."
"It is my honor to share my mistress' worries." He showed an enigmatic smile.