Ma'am, she only wants to be promoted

The Queen Mother smiled when she heard the words, "Indeed, if it weren't for her good luck, it is unknown whether the child in this belly can be kept."

Concubine Ming's heart moved slightly when she heard the Queen Mother's words, "What did the Queen Mother find out?"

The queen mother did not answer, but asked: "There is a little maid next to you who bumped into someone in Shou'an Palace yesterday. Where is she now?"

Concubine Ming didn't know about this, so she looked at Cong Ying, the eldest court lady beside her.

Congying didn't know about this either, seeing Concubine Ming looking at her, she blessed the Concubine Ming and the Empress Dowager, and said, "Your maidservant, go and ask."

The queen mother let out a "hmm", picked up the teacup and took a sip of the tea in the cup.

After Cong Ying came out of the main hall, she found a few maids who went to Shouan Palace together yesterday, and after inquiring about it, she found out that the little maid who bumped into someone in Shouan Palace yesterday was a girl named Mian'er.

Cong Ying looked Mian'er up and down, and said, "You and I go to see the concubine and empress dowager together."

Since the Empress Dowager came to inquire about this matter in person, Mian'er must have not just bumped into someone. As for what happened to Mian'er, she just needs to bring him in front of the Queen Mother, and she will naturally know.

Based on the relationship between their concubines and the empress dowager, she believed that the empress dowager would not wrongly wrong their concubines.

Mian'er knew it was going to be bad since she heard Cong Ying ask about the incident of hitting someone yesterday, and now she heard that Cong Ying was going to take her to see the Queen Mother, she was even more flustered.

Congying took two steps, seeing that Mian'er hadn't followed, she turned her head and frowned and urged, "What are you doing there, why don't you hurry up and follow me in."

"Oh." Mian'er answered absent-mindedly, and followed her up.

After Cong Ying brought her in, she pointed at Mian'er and said to the Queen Mother, "Your Majesty, the little maid who bumped into someone in Shou'an Palace yesterday is her. The little maid from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the empress dowager sent all the servants around her to serve the third prince, and the servant saw that she was quite clever, so she transferred her to run errands beside the empress dowager."

Before transferring him to the concubine's side to serve her, she also investigated and observed Mian'er, and transferred him to the concubine only after she found no problems, but now she was a little uncertain.

The queen mother just held the teacup and gently fiddled with the tea leaves in the cup with the lid, but didn't speak for a while.

The hall was silent.

Mian'er, who was kneeling on the ground, was constantly sweating in this extremely depressing atmosphere.

Finally, she couldn't help but raised her head and glanced secretly in the direction of the empress dowager.

The queen mother put the tea cup in her hand on the table beside her, and the tea cup fell on the table with a very slight crash sound.

In the silence of the room, this voice was extremely clear, as if hitting Mian'er's heart, Mian'er's heart suddenly jumped, and her body couldn't help trembling.

The queen mother finally gave Mian'er who was kneeling on the ground a look. She looked at Mian'er and said without any emotion, "Your name is Mian'er, right?"

"Yes..., slave girl Mian'er." Mian'er replied tremblingly.

"Do you know why the Ai family wanted to see you?" the Queen Mother said.

Mian'er held her back and said, "Your maidservant... I don't know your maidservant."

The Empress Dowager shook her head, and said softly, both dissatisfied and helpless: "You're lying, Aijia doesn't look like you don't know!"

After finishing speaking, the queen mother called Laifu.

Lai Fu understood, walked up to Mian'er, and said: "Since the empress dowager asked you to come, it means that the empress dowager already knows everything that should be known. If you are not honest, then..."

Having said this, Lai Fu paused on purpose before continuing to say in a dark tone: "I'll have someone pull off all the nails on your hands and feet, and then have someone pull off your fingers and toes. Chop off one by one, then dig out your eyes and feed you to eat, and finally cut off your tongue, send you to the inner court prison, and let them continue to torture you."

Every time Laifu said a word, Mian'er trembled a little bit more. After Laifu finished speaking, Mian'er was already trembling badly, and her face was as white as paper, without blood.

"Speak or not?"

Laifu finally asked another sharp question.

Mian'er seemed to have collapsed, and cried: "My servant said, my servant said, everything was done by the Huarui girl in Ming Jieyu Palace, and this servant just sprinkled some incense powder on the opportunity of hitting someone. I beg the Empress Dowager to spare my life, I beg the Empress Dowager to spare my servant, I really know that I was wrong."

When Mian'er mentioned Ming Jieyu, Concubine Ming's expression turned ugly.

Concubine Ming lowered her eyes to hide the stern look in her eyes, and quietly waited for the Queen Mother to continue speaking.

The Empress Dowager didn't care about the crying Mian'er, but directly said to Laifu: "Go to Yongchun Palace and bring that maid named Huarui here."

"Yes, Empress Dowager." Lai Fu replied and went to Yongchun Palace in person.

It has been more than a year since Ming Jieyu was grounded. Since Ming Jieyu was grounded, Yongchun Palace has been deserted. Now the people in Yongchun Palace are very surprised to see Laifu come to their door.

The palace man guarding the gate said with a bit of flattery in his tone: "Eunuch Laifu, why do you have time to come here today, but what is the empress dowager's order?"

"Come and find someone." After finishing speaking, Lai Fu ignored the palace guards and led them directly into Yongchun Palace.

Ming Jieyu was startled when she saw Laifu, then quickly calmed down, forced a smile on her face, and asked, "Eunuch Laifu, who are you?"

"Ming Jieyu." Lai Fu bowed to Ming Jieyu, then smiled and said: "The Empress Dowager wants to meet the Huarui girl who is serving by your side."

"Hua Rui is a little palace maid, why did the empress dowager think of meeting her?"

Although Ming Jieyu tried her best to control her, her expression was still slightly unnatural.

Laifu didn't speak, just looked at Ming Jieyu and smiled.

Ming Jieyu didn't find out any news, and she couldn't stop Laifu from taking Huarui to see the Queen Mother.

In the end, she could only watch helplessly as the stamens were taken away by Laifu.

But what made her feel a little more at ease was the performance of Huarui before she left.

Before the stamen was taken away, he gave her a special look, telling her to rest assured that she would not confess herself.

After Hua Rui was brought to Fu'an Palace, she didn't panic in the slightest, she calmly bowed to the Empress Dowager and the Concubine, and then quietly knelt beside Mian'er.

The queen mother didn't speak, she just kept kneeling.

The queen mother saw that the tricks used on Mian'er did not work on Hua Rui, so she had no choice but to say: "Do you know why the Ai family asked you?"

Huarui shook her head, "I don't know."

"The little maid next to you has already been recruited, do you think it's interesting for you to resist?" The Queen Mother asked coldly.