The world is heavy and late

Chapter 23 Death
Xia Qing and the others were taken to Ganlu Hall, while the imperial physician in Zhongcui Palace was still treating them.

Xu Zhong and the others were still one step too late. When Hu Sizheng received the news, he and Supervisor Gui sent people to surround Cui Jieyu's palace and Concubine Wang Shu's palace.

But when we arrived, it was still too late for the Ganlu Temple, and the little guard who usually delivered the food boxes and picked up the meals had already committed suicide.

It seems that this series of events shows that Cui Jieyu ordered the servants around her to bribe the maid of the catering department to poison Concubine Shu's meals, but would they dare to settle the case like this? The name of the maid of honor, the boss, can't easily convict Cui Shi.

Hu Qiong surrounded the two palaces without hesitation, and sent someone to the Secretary of Food to lead them.

Xia Qing had almost thought about it along the way, if the secretary of food was okay, then Concubine Shu had a problem, and Cui Jieyu also thought there was a problem, otherwise why did she keep letting that servant deliver the food boxes.

Everything was designed by the two masters themselves. After Xia Qing figured it out, she wanted to laugh a little. She finally knew why she could never figure it out. Who would have thought that these masters wanted to use a few lives to turn the harem upside down? Woolen cloth.

After she thought it over, she was not interested in refuting, because it was only at this moment that she was sure that she must die. No one would want to cut off a complete circuit from her. Even if these evidences could not kill her, she would quietly He died silently under their noses.

After Xia Qing was brought into the Palace of Manna, he knelt down. Hu Sizheng sat in the middle, Eunuch Wang, the head servant of the Zhongcui Palace, sat on the left, and Eunuch Cui, who was in the Palace of Manna, sat on the left. Naturally, the Cui family would not surrender. The identity interrogated the maid with them.

Xu Zhong was sitting on the right. Xia Qing looked up and saw Xu Zhong next to him. His nose was a little sore. He would never see him again. Such a good boy.

After she came in, Xu Zhong squeezed the armrest of the chair tightly with his hands, and looked at her carefully, and saw that she was dressed differently from that at dinner, and after focusing on the jade ring on her waist, he understood everything. All of a sudden, the fire rose from his heart, and the blazing flame burned Xu Zhong's rationality, and he almost couldn't help standing up.

Anger at herself for not having figured out the case these days, anger at the person who involved her, anger at her for not taking her own life seriously, and jealousy at the little maid she wanted to protect.

He had known for a long time that he was good friends with the little palace lady who brought food to Concubine Shu, but he didn't expect that she was the one who went to deliver food to Concubine Shu today. He just found that jade ring from Zhong Cui's palace attendant. Now she Hanging it on his body in a grand manner, of course he knew it wasn't hers, because she didn't like dealing with others at all, let alone accepting things from others, so whose could it be?He swept the silk flowers on her head that had never appeared before, so he didn't understand.

There is no evidence, even if she is the little maid delivering food, she can protect her, but she can't wait to get the stolen goods.

She is really loyal. For the sake of the little maid, she brought everything to herself. She can only think of that little maid. Why, why can't she think about him? Every time he talks to her, she asks her to protect him. Fortunately, her name was all for nothing, and she never heard it in her heart. She only thought that she didn't want that little maid to die, but she didn't care how she would feel if she died, or what would happen to him if she died.

Xu Zhong never expected her to know his affection, and he also knew that he was not worthy, but his desire to protect her was obvious, and she ignored her, and she never even regarded him as a friend, he suddenly felt that he was Every exhortation to her was extremely ridiculous, as if he was mocking him for not being able to protect her, and mocking her for not taking himself seriously at all.

Xu Zhong stared at Xia Qing, his eyes slowly turned red, he felt his heart, stomach and even lungs ached together, she didn't care about him, what a cruel fact, Xu Zhong was really jealous at the moment Wu Xiaoyuan, she would rather die for Wu Xiaoyuan than live for herself.Xu Zhong thought of the blush and heartbeat every time he wanted to meet her, the joy in his heart after each meeting, and the tossing and turning every night, Xu Zhong also felt extremely ironic. Now being beaten back to reality all of a sudden, it seems that I don't even have the ability to react.

Xu Zhong took two deep breaths, he tilted his head and gave instructions to his little servant, the little servant gave Xu Zhong a surprised look, then immediately lowered his head and went back, and brought back something after a while, the little servant sent a After seeing the wink, Xu Zhong calmly covered his hands with his sleeves, then took them and put them in the sleeves under the watchful eyes of everyone.

At this moment, not only Xu Zhong was watching Xia Qing, but also the prince next to him. The prince's eyes flickered when he saw the silk flowers and jade ring on Xia Qing's head, and he was hearing the imperial physician report the results of the meal.

When he heard that there was no problem in the backup meal, the prince was furious, smashed the teacup in his hand and said:

"It seems that this lowly slave who didn't know how to live or die has harmed our mother. Come here,..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard Xu Zhonghan beside him smashing his teacup and saying:
"Eunuch Wang, it's not your turn to speak here. It's a gift to let you hear the trial. Is there no one in the Sixth Division? It's your turn to give orders here."

The prince suddenly screamed:
"Xu Zhong, the miscellaneous family called you little Mr. Xu for Xu Ji's sake, so don't touch your face."

Xu Zhong snorted directly and said: "Come here, please send the prince back to Zhongcui Palace to our house, and let him go back to bark."

Immediately, two servants came in outside, seeing this situation, Eunuch Cui couldn't sit still anymore.

He stood up quickly but before he could speak, he heard the sound of a teacup falling to the ground again, and the hall fell silent.

Xu Zhong took a look at Hu Sizheng, and continued to nod to the two servants. He would not let Concubine Wang Shu's people interrogate him, so he said, "Shut up and drag him out."

The prince over there continued to howl, but several servants immediately surrounded him and dragged him out.

Eunuch Cui looked at this scene in astonishment, and then looked at Hu Sizheng just now. Hu Sizheng was also shocked. She knew little Eunuch Xu, but she had never seen him like this before, but she thought that he might still belong to her in the future. The boss didn't speak.

There was a dispute above, and Xia Qing, who was kneeling, felt a little relieved because of the feeling that the dust had settled. After all, the outcome was set, and he was powerless to change it, so he stopped being so depressed in the past few days.

She raised her head and sighed with fate, then thought in her heart that the sound of the teacup hitting the ground was really loud, and when she saw Xu Zhong, she thought again, he is really good-looking, courageous and majestic.

After Hu Sizheng waited for someone to drag Eunuch Wang out, he said to Xia Qing:
"Go ahead."

Xia Qing...

Xia Qing said:
"The servant's name is Xia Qing."

Eunuch Cui was speechless for a while, and wanted to reprimand him, but Xu Zhong swallowed his words after sweeping his eyes. Hu Sizheng said without raising his eyebrows, "Continue talking."

Xia Qing sighed and said:
"It's the lady in charge of the food department."

This time Hu Sizheng frowned, Xu Zhong took the newly served tea and blew on it, sighing inwardly, thinking how nice it would be if she could always be so obedient and lively.Hu Sizheng had never seen such a bold servant before and said: "Hmph, if you don't tell the truth again, you have good fruit to eat."

Xia Qing put away his desire to be funny, and thought that he had indeed made a decision, and it was not good to waste other people's time like this, so he said:

"The servant doesn't know why Concubine Shu was poisoned, and the servant has never overstepped in any way."

When Xia Qing was about to say more, a servant suddenly ran in and whispered something in Xu Zhong's ear. Xu Zhong glanced at Xia Qing, then raised his teacup towards Hu Sizheng, and the servant bowed to him. Hu Sizheng said: "There is a maid from the catering department outside the door, and she said that she is the one who delivers the meals every day."

Xia Qing felt bad when he heard this, and when he was about to speak, Wu Xiaoyuan walked away and knelt down and said, "My lords, this servant knows the inside story of Concubine Shu's poisoning."

She walked up to Xia Qing, turned her head and whispered to Xia Qing: "Sister, in fact, everything can be said the other way around, right?"

Before Xia Qing could open her mouth, she said, "This servant has contact with the servant of Zhongcui Palace."

As she said that, she turned sideways and took the silk flower from Xia Qing's head, and said softly to Xia Qing: "Sister, you said, we have to live alone, this is my fault, please don't waste me painstaking efforts."

After speaking, he took off the jade ring on Xia Qing's waist, and took out the jade hairpin from his sleeve.

Xia Qing looked at Wu Xiaoyuan who was still crying in front of her just now, now she was kneeling in front of her with red eyes and began to protect her, she seemed to be meeting Wu Xiaoyuan for the first time, her throat seemed blocked and she couldn't speak anything. Tears welled up in her eyes.

Wu Xiaoyuan continued: "The silk flower was given to my servant by him, the jade ring was given by Yao Qiang, the secretary of the kitchen, the jade hairpin was given by Shen Hui, the secretary of the kitchen, and this packet of medicinal powder was hidden by the servant in the cage of the servant by Shen Hui, Concubine Shu No one except Yao Qiang and Shen Hui knew about the poisoning. The servants neglected their duties and secretly handed over to the servants, so death is not a pity."

Wu Xiaoyuan finished speaking resolutely and in a tearful tone, feeling terrified in her heart, but thinking of Sister Xia behind her, she must be picked out and she must be innocent.

Sister Xia protected her so much, she couldn't let sister Xia take the blame.

When she knew the truth of the matter, she knew that she would definitely die if she went. The family is such a giant, how could the two little maids resist it, but even a mayfly would want to shake the tree, wouldn't she? So what about being a mayfly?

As soon as Wu Xiaoyuan finished speaking, she began to vomit blood profusely. Xia Qing looked at the blood in front of her eyes, and ran up to catch Wu Xiaoyuan's body that was about to fall. She tremblingly looked at the blood on Wu Xiaoyuan's chest. She didn't know Where can touch.

Xu Zhong looked at it and quickly called: "Prince doctor." Xia Qing also cried out sadly when he heard it: "Prince doctor, come quickly."

Wu Xiaoyuan stretched out his hand and tugged at Xia Qing's sleeve. Xia Qing quickly bent down and put his ear to her mouth, only to hear her intermittently say: "It's them, it's them." Said: "I know, I know, let the imperial doctor take a look."

Wu Xiaoyuan said again: "There is something in Jinghu Rockery."

Xia Qing couldn't help crying, she nodded and said, "My sister knows, my sister knows."

Wu Xiaoyuan closed her eyes and spit out a big mouthful of blood. Xia Qing's sleeves and chest were all sticky, but she still said softly, "Sister, live well and protect her."

Xia Qing felt the hand on the sleeve loosen, looked at Wu Xiaoyuan's closed eyes, and couldn't help crying anymore, she was only 11 years old, still a child, but now she was protecting her.

She hugged Wu Xiaoyuan, thinking of the scenes since she met Wu Xiaoyuan, Xia Qing felt what it was like to lose her life.

I will never talk to this person again in the future, no one will share the things I like in the future, I will only have her alone in the things I used to do together, and the happy moments with this person will never appear again. The scary thing is that you will slowly forget her voice and smile.

(End of this chapter)