The Virtuous Concubine of the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 25 Second Elder Brother (1)

Jiaorong walked up to the wooden board, raised her eyes and glanced around, and replied softly, "There are no slaves' embroidery here."

"That's right. Empress Dowager, Jiao Rong is the maid with the strongest embroidery skills in Yanxi Palace. No one in Yanxi Palace can embroider this phoenix except for her." He took the embroidery hoop embroidered with a phoenix in Bai Lan's hand. , raised his head proudly.

Upon hearing this, Bai Lan raised her head subconsciously and wanted to refute, but it was only a look that stopped Bai Lan's words at the corner of her mouth.The situation is critical now. Jiaorong has caused incidents again and again at the family banquet in the palace. The masters above must feel very impatient. Under such circumstances, Jiaorong is easy to be dealt with. At this time, stand up and help her Talking is tantamount to asking for death.

"This phoenix is ​​the most honorable divine bird. You embroidered this as a gift to Yougui, do you think she has the ability to be a queen, or do you want to maliciously attack the deceased Queen Renxiao?" The queen mother's eyes were like a pair of sharp knives, and she ruthlessly turned to Jiaoyou. Cut off the velvet, and asked every word.

Yougui glanced at the phoenix embroidery, then looked at the empress dowager's uneasy face, and didn't know how to speak to ease the atmosphere.

Jiao Rong's complexion remained unchanged, but she still stubbornly said: "This is not the embroidery of a servant, and a servant does not know how to embroider phoenixes."

He glanced at Jiaorong contemptuously, her delicate voice was a perfect match with her delicate face, "Whether Jiaorong can embroider phoenixes or not, you will know if you send it to the Department of Punishment for interrogation, maybe you can do it casually." After a trial, she can embroider it."

Although Feng Ying showed arrogance in his words, his tone was tough in the end, and Jiao Rong always had a cold face, which made it uncomfortable for anyone to see. The Queen Mother frowned, and said, "Come here."

But at this moment, the emperor, who had been quietly drinking for a long time beside him, suddenly opened his mouth and said, "Wait a minute, mother-in-law."

The eyes of all the people in the audience immediately met the emperor, and the emperor put down his wine glass unhurriedly, looked at the queen mother, and said softly: "Emperor mother, I have always promoted benevolent government in the palace, and there is no definite right now. Evidence, sending the court lady to a place like the Punishment Department rashly, isn't it a little too hasty?"

The queen mother looked at the emperor inexplicably, subconsciously feeling that something was wrong.In the past, even if the emperor was kind and lenient to the palace people, the emperor would never care about the people the queen mother and the empress dowager wanted to deal with.But right now, the emperor looked at her with a sincere expression, as if he wanted to deliberately protect this court lady.

The Empress Dowager turned her head to take another look at Jiao Rong, only to realize that this little girl was born with an overly marked, even more seductive appearance, which was incomparable to the complete servant girl in the palace standing beside her.As a result, the queen mother frowned, looked back at the emperor, and said nothing more.

But the following man was in a hurry. In order to make the emperor pay attention to this matter, he said bluntly: "Your Majesty, the phoenix is ​​the king of birds, it represents the master of the six palaces, and it is a pattern that only queens should use. This move, It is simply disrespectful to Empress Renxiao! I hope the emperor will learn from you!"

Everyone in the Forbidden City knows that this empress of benevolence and filial piety, Hesheli Peiwen, is the emperor's first wife, and also the first love in childhood and the love of his heart.Last summer, Empress Renxiao passed away due to dystocia after giving birth to her second elder brother Yinreng. The emperor has been depressed for a long time because of this.And the second elder brother Yinreng was the orphan of Empress Renxiao, and the emperor refused to hand it over to anyone to raise him, and directly raised him in the Qianqing Palace to raise him personally.

At this moment when he mentioned Empress Renxiao, all the concubines breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the emperor nervously, for fear that the emperor would be furious.The emperor's complexion was indeed different from just now, there was a cold light in his eyes, but the cold light was not shown to Jiaorong, but looked straight at Bing, with a gloomy face.

"Do you think it's disrespectful for you, a lowly servant girl, to casually talk about Empress Renxiao at a family banquet in the palace?" The emperor's complexion was like a winter icehouse, extremely cold without any warmth.

Seeing that the spearhead was pointed at him suddenly, the eyes widened in dismay, and the voice was so delicate that the emperor frowned: "Your majesty, there are no servants!"

The emperor was too lazy to argue with her, leaned back, and said in a low voice: "You know the crime of deceiving the emperor, what should you do?"

Poor obviously didn't understand what the emperor meant, and subconsciously replied: "The crime of deceiving the emperor should be executed, and if it is serious... even the three clans."

Hearing this, the emperor chuckled, raised his eyelids silently, and looked at the night outside the palace gate in the distance, "You just said that this girl named Jiaorong is the maidservant with the strongest embroidery skills in Yanxi Palace, right?"

Frown frowned strangely, she didn't quite understand why the emperor brought up this matter at this time, but she responded: "Yes, although Jiaorong is the new maid of Yanxi Palace, her embroidery skills are First-class, and she has been serving the young master, and she has learned a lot after a long time."

The emperor snorted coldly, glanced around at the group of maidservants of the Yanxi Palace behind Yougui, and asked, "You people, do you know how good Jiaorong's embroidery skills are? Answer all truthfully, otherwise, it would be a shame to deceive the emperor." felony."

Hearing the sound, the maids and eunuchs below all started to look at each other in blank dismay. They had never been interrogated by the emperor himself, and none of them knew what to do at this moment.At this moment, Yizhu, who is usually the most timid and fearful, stood up resolutely, and she, who had low self-esteem, rarely raised her head openly, with a very resolute expression.

"Your Majesty, this servant is willing to pledge her life. Sister Jiaorong's embroidery skills are very unfamiliar. She hasn't even learned the most basic stitches thoroughly. It takes several days to embroider a flower, let alone such a complicated phoenix." Yes." Yizhu's voice was very gentle, but at the moment it sounded powerful, "Besides, this servant once saw Sister Jiaorong embroider a gift for the young master, and her original work was a branch of red plum."

Frowning raised his brows, he argued loudly: "Your Majesty, Yizhu and Jiaorong are the best friends on weekdays, she must be towards Jiaorong, you can't listen to her one-sided words!"

At this moment, Bai Lan couldn't stand anymore, she took a step forward, cast a hard look at Li Yi, and said in a cold voice: "Your Majesty, this is not Yi Zhu's one-sided words, and the servants dare to vouch for it. It is absolutely impossible to embroider a phoenix."

"Bai Lan!" Bai Lan looked at Bai Lan in shock, her pretty face looked crazy, "You are the eldest maid of Yanxi Palace, Jiao Rong did something wrong, how can you help her hide it!"

The several masters above also understood the situation at this moment, and they picked up the teacups one after another and started to drink tea without concern for themselves.The emperor gently put down the teacup, and asked very calmly: "If you don't believe me, is there anyone here who is willing to testify to Jiao Rong?"

The audience was silent for a while, the emperor raised his eyebrows and said "OK", "Then I will guarantee her."

After saying that, the emperor said with a little distaste: "This court lady is very stupid in both brain and hands. Even if you give her another ten years, she will not be able to embroider a phoenix."

(End of this chapter)