Caiyan glanced at Ling Ruo gratefully, and then said hurriedly: "Today, my servant found that Eunuch Deng who was beside Mr. Wen came out of the warehouse suspiciously, so she followed him to the imperial kitchen and found the stew pot that Mr. Qian used.
There are interlayers on the wall, and the red ginseng that is rarely removed from the warehouse is used in these interlayers. By the way,
The nobleman Qian used a stew pot with a picture of oriole and willow. The slave originally wanted to write a letter to tell the empress about this, but nobleman Wen found it and intercepted the letter for her. She asked the slave to tell the empress's name.
, and even smeared honey on the slave girl’s body to attract ants to crawl on her body, but the slave girl couldn’t bear it and could only speak out and ask for your forgiveness.”
Seeing Caiyan like that, Ling Ruo couldn't bear to be harsher. No one else could bear such a disgusting and terrifying punishment, "I don't blame you for this."
Guarjia listened to Caiyan's words one by one, and said strangely: "After you said it, did Mr. Wen let you go? This is not like her."
"No, Mr. Wen didn't let me go. Later, Concubine Hui came and she ordered someone to let the slave go." Caiyan's words shocked Ling Ruo and asked hurriedly: "Why did Concubine Hui come? And, you
When leaving, did Concubine Hui leave with you?"
Caiyan shook her head and said, "No, when I left, Concubine Hui still stayed with Mr. Wen. That's all I know."
Ling Ruo turned around and saw Yang Hai leading two young eunuchs to carry water and said one by one: "Okay, you go down first to cleanse yourself and wash yourself a few more times." After sending Caiyan down, Ling Ruo raised her feet to go out.
As he left, Guarjia grabbed him and said, "Where are you going?"
Ling Ruo said with a serious look: "I'm going to Yanxi Palace. I don't think Concubine Hui was saved by chance this time. It's possible that she..." Her mind was so confused that she didn't know what she was talking about. She took a few deep breaths and said: "
In short, I feel very bad now that she is with Wen Ruqing, and I am worried that she will be in danger."
Guarjia stopped her and said, "I know what you are thinking, but Concubine Hui will be fine. No matter how courageous Wen Ruqing is, she would not dare to do anything to her blatantly. Don't mess up.
The top priority now is to expose Wen Ruqing's evil deeds. If she destroys the evidence, everything will be in vain. It will be even harder to punish Wen Ruqing next time."
Under her persuasion, Ling Ruo gradually calmed down. What Guarjia said was indeed the most reasonable. Wen Ruqing must expose her evil deeds before Wen Ruqing has time to react. She must not do what she did last time.
, give her a chance to breathe.
With this in mind, she called over to Xiao Zhengzi and said, "Go to the imperial kitchen quickly and find an excuse to break Lord Qian's stew pot. Remember, An Lu, the manager of the imperial dining room, must not see the red ginseng scattered in the stew pot."
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"Slave, I obey." Little Zhengzi also knew that the matter was tense, so he quickly agreed and ran out, all the way to the imperial dining room. At this time, because lunch had just been prepared, it was relatively empty, and several eunuchs gathered together to chat.
, and a few others were playing dice there, with copper coins and scattered silver piled in front of each of them. As for An Lu, he was sitting on a wide chair and slowly sipping tea.
After seeing the situation clearly, little Zheng Zi calmly walked in. A young eunuch saw him and hurriedly pushed his companions who were playing dice, then came over and said, "Eunuch Zheng, why are you here?"
Little Zhengzi pretended not to notice the scenes of those people hurriedly stuffing copper and silver into their arms, and smiled and said: "Master suddenly wants to eat bird's nests, why don't I just come over here? Who calls us slaves? Master has
We must obey your orders."
The young eunuch greeted him and said, "That's it, but Eunuch Zheng, you are serving as an errand next to Concubine Xi, and I don't know how many people are envious of you."
Xiao Zhengzi smiled and glanced at the cabinet with the stew pot. He was extremely anxious, but he didn't dare to show too much anxiety. He calmed down his thoughts and walked to An Lu who was still sipping tea, bent down slightly and said:
"Little Zhengzi, please pay your respects to Mr. An."
An Lu opened his eyes and quickly put down the small purple sand teapot in his hand and said: "Hey, what are you doing, little Zhengzi? If you don't kill our family, get up." In any case, little Zhengzi's knowledge made him very happy.
Satisfied, "Since Concubine Xi ordered me to
I told you to come here, so hurry up and get busy. No one is using the stove at this time. You can choose whichever one is suitable for you. If you feel that the fire is not enough, tell our family and we will let those who are free to hatch eggs.
Let me help you, little bastard."
"Thank you, Mr. An." After finishing the superficial work, Xiao Zhengzi stopped talking nonsense with An Lu and came to the cabinet. As expected, he found a stew pot with a pattern of orioles and willows inside. When no one was paying attention, he
Pretending to bump into it accidentally, the stew pot fell to the ground.
The sound of breaking things alerted An Lu and a group of young eunuchs. They hurriedly came over to take a look. When they found out that it was the one Liu used on daily basis, their faces couldn't help but look a little ugly. If Haitang comes to make ginseng soup later, they should
How to explain it?
Little Zhengzi pretended to be panicked and said: "Oh, Mr. An, I don't know what happened but I dropped it. Maybe the stew pot was placed too far and it fell down without paying attention."
"No, I clearly remember that this stew pot was placed very far inside." A little eunuch next to him scratched his head and muttered with some uncertainty.
An Lu didn't pay attention to his words, but kept shaking his head and said: "Little Zhengzi, it's not our family's fault. It's not good for you to smash anyone's things, but you want to smash noble Qian's. How do you want our family to explain to noble Qian?"
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Little Zheng Ziwei responded and kicked the fragments inadvertently, kicking out the red ginseng hidden under the broken porcelain fragments. Then he said in surprise: "Hey, what is this?"
An Lu glanced at it casually and said, "Isn't it just red ginseng? What's so strange about it." As soon as he finished speaking, he felt something was wrong. Why would red ginseng appear when this empty stew pot was smashed?
The more he thought about it, the more wrong he became. He hurriedly knelt down and examined the red fragments carefully. His face became more and more solemn, and later on, sweat began to drip from his forehead.
Little Zhengzi pretended not to know: "Mr. An, do you see what's going on?"
An Lu nodded complicatedly, stood up and said to the eunuchs gathered around him: "You guys should step aside first. We have something to say to Eunuch Zheng."
After the eunuchs retreated, An Lu took little Zheng Zi's hand and said, "Eunuch Zheng..."
Upon hearing this title, Xiao Zhengzi hurriedly declined and said, "You should call me Xiao Zhengzi. I can't bear to be called Eunuch Zheng."
An Lu wiped the tears from his forehead and said: "Okay, little Zhengzi, you must help our family this time. Otherwise, if such a big thing happened in the imperial kitchen, our family will be dead if they are investigated."