The world is heavy and late

Chapter 4 Punishment
When they gathered in front of the hall at Chenshi, they saw two people kneeling on the ground with pale faces, they looked familiar to them, they were all newcomers to the palace, beside them stood the three female envoys with drooping faces. And a female official in a yellow palace shirt, with a serious expression.

Xia Qing quickly stood in his place, and lightly swept over the female officer in the yellow palace gown.

In fact, palace shirts of this color are not suitable for palace maids to wear, only the word Si Lv Si can be vaguely seen, but the official position below can no longer be seen.

Xia Qing didn't dare to look up again, because the current atmosphere was really weird, Xia Qing felt like he was holding his breath.

The people who came from behind quickly stood up, but this time, envoy Xu did not speak easily, but swept her eyes like knives across the crowd and said,

"Yesterday I said that you are a bit of a slave, but now it seems that you are big-hearted. Then you should take a closer look at what you should do and what you should not do. Come here, and you will be assigned to the Yeting Bureau with a staff of twenty."

After finishing speaking, he waved his sleeves and left straight away. The female officer of the Silu Department and the grand lady hurriedly bowed and saluted to send them off.

The two servants at the door waited to bow to send off the envoy Xu, and then came in with the court staff and began to execute in front of everyone.

Before the execution, the two court ladies cried and begged for mercy, but no one present dared to distract her.

When the first rod goes down, you can hear a "bang", it is the sound of the court rod hitting the flesh, followed by the wailing of two people, the expressions of all the little maids present changed, even the two big palace ladies did not The only exceptions were the executioner's servant and the female officer of the Department of Justice, whose faces remained unchanged.

Amidst the wailing at the beginning and the weak moaning afterwards, the execution finally ended, and the two servants dragged the two maids out of the gate of Qinghe Hall.

The female officer of the Silu Division turned and went out without saying a word. After the two court ladies hurriedly bowed and saluted them, they turned their heads and took a look at them before leaving together.

After the grand lady left, someone finally couldn't hold back and fell to the ground and began to cry bitterly. Even Xia Qing turned pale and breathed a little faster.

Xia Qing finally understood what it meant to kill without nodding his head. The twenty sticks were being sent to the Ye Ting Bureau, and he probably wouldn't survive. No matter how prepared Xia Qing was, he was shocked by this tragic scene.

Wu Xiaoyuan held Xia Qing's hand with a pale face, and looked at Xia Qing with tears all over her face.
"Sister Xia, sister Xia..." He yelled a few times, choked up and couldn't speak, but his face was pale and frightened, Xia Qing looked at the 11-year-old girl in front of him, feeling a little sad for no reason, just stretched out his hand to pat Clapping Wu Xiaoyuan's hand, she didn't say anything to comfort her, because she didn't know what to say, and she really didn't have the ability to say anything.

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After two days, in the atmosphere of everyone's anxiety, someone finally found out from the grand lady what the two maids had committed.

It is said that after Miss Xu's spot check that day, someone guessed that he would be assigned to the Sixth Division in a few days.

These days, everyone has also vaguely heard that Gong Zhengsi's female officials are rarely selected by Gong Zhengsi's maids, but among the six divisions, Gong Zhengsi is the first.

Gong Zhengsi's female secretary just passed away because of the empress, and the confidant was transferred to take care of the prince, so the position was vacant. The female officials and internal servants all listened to the orders of Xu Ji, the head of the palace's internal servants. Well, which maid in the palace doesn't take orders from Xu Ji, so naturally, among the six divisions, Gong Zhengsi is the first.

Perhaps it is precisely because of the affairs of Prime Minister Gong Zhengsi's harem that few of Gong Zhengsi's female officials are selected from among Gong Zhengsi's maids, and most of them are selected by the other five divisions at the same level or downgraded.

Many people immediately don't want to go to Gong Zhengsi to be a maid of honor when they hear it. Most of the maids of Gong Zhengsi are responsible for daily cleaning, gardening flowers and plants, or raising some precious pets.

But there are also people who want to go, because some people don't want to be a female official at all, but aim at the emperor's harem. There is another place for the maids of Gong Zhengsi. Thinking of being so close to the emperor, he would have a chance to fly on a branch.

Yesterday, the two little palace maids intended to go to Gong Zhengsi. I heard that they were wandering outside the gate of Zhongcui Palace in the second half of the day. Whether it's the assignment or Zhong Cuigong's side taking the initiative to ask people to go there, there are two parts of affection.

But just happened to be bumped by Concubine Shu, who was going out, and sent someone to call the two little maids to ask about it, and then asked someone to call the female official of the Silu Department.

Si Lusi Hu Sizheng did not know what happened when he heard Concubine Shu calling for someone. When he arrived at Zhongcui Palace, he saw Concubine Shu sitting in the hall, so he went up to salute.

After Hu Sizheng bowed and saluted, Aunt Wang next to Concubine Shu immediately stepped forward to help Hu Sizheng.

"Please hurry up, my lord. The empress invited you here because I have something to ask my lord."

Hu Sizheng's eyebrows twitched, his heart was full of thoughts, but he said:
"Don't dare, it's the job of a lower official to share worries for the empress."

Concubine Shu slowly put down the teacup in her hand, and the teacup made a soft sound when it was placed on the table.

Hu Sizheng felt his heart beating faster. This Concubine Shu is the daughter of the Wang family. cannot.

It sounded like a knock on Hu Sizheng's heart.

Then Concubine Shu said with a smile,

"Hurry up and show Hu Sizheng the tea. Hu Sizheng, please sit down."

After Hu Sizheng sat down, Concubine Shu turned her head slightly, and someone brought up the two maids. At this time, the two maids were already tearing up, their expressions were terrified, and their eyes were full of fear. They didn't know what happened. .

Hu Sizheng took a look at them and knew where they were coming from, so he narrowed his eyes slightly just in time to hear them.

"When I returned to the palace, I happened to meet these two people wandering outside the palace, so I asked someone to bring them up for questioning, but they couldn't answer clearly, so I asked someone to invite Hu Sizheng to ask about the situation."

As soon as Hu Sizheng heard it, she knew that she had guessed right. He became angry and stared at the two men fiercely. Does Concubine Shu know what's going on? When she came, Hu Sizheng's mouth was bitter, and his face was still slightly feverish, but he had to close his eyes and replied with a serious face:

"Returning to the empress, the dress of this court lady must have been newly purchased from the Qinghe Hall. I am afraid that she did not learn the etiquette and offended the empress. The next official will take her back and question her."

Concubine Shu said after listening:
"So that's how it is. I'm afraid that these slaves will have evil intentions and do something harmful to others in the palace. What I didn't expect is that I didn't learn the rules well. Hu Sizheng has to teach them well. It's okay to run into me. , for fear of offending His Majesty."

After hearing this, Hu Sizheng became more and more angry, but he could only suppress his temper and lead the two of them to bow and leave.

After walking out of the front hall of Zhongcui Palace, Hu Zhengsi looked at Zhongcui Palace, but he also knew that this time he let others see Liu Si's joke, and he couldn't even teach a court lady well.

So when Hu Sizheng returned to the Department of Legal Affairs, he called the envoy Xu and the other female officials and maids of the Sili Division who were in charge of educating the maids this time, and scolded them for an hour.

After hearing the reason, everyone was quiet and no one spoke. Some of them thought about doing this but didn't dare or didn't implement it in the end. They were afraid for a while, and their eyes turned red again.

Wu Xiaoyuan was close to Xia Qing's side, still full of panic.

Xia Qing looked at Wu Xiaoyuan who seemed to be two years older in just two days. Always have a little affection for her.

Xia Qing thought for a while, reached out to hold Wu Xiaoyuan in her arms, and gently comforted her.

(End of this chapter)