After Gao married the prince, the sick and weak concubine lost her horse

Chapter 224 Chapter 224

A loud bang.

A hole was smashed out of the ice under Shen Qingci's feet in an instant.

The girls watching subconsciously held their breath, seeing that Shen Qingci, who had already taken half a step, became unstable and was about to fall.

The corner of Gao Xiyue's mouth couldn't help but raise a smile.

However, the next moment, everyone was startled.

Shen Qingci's body was indeed unstable, but he didn't fall into the lake.

The step she took was actually just exploring the ice layer, she didn't really step on it.

The so-called step forward was just a feint.

The moment the stone fell, she had already absorbed the strength of her feet and leaned back.

He made a gesture and slipped, falling directly to the edge of the lake.

At the same time, Ting Lan exclaimed nervously: "Ah Xi!"

That voice resounded almost throughout the garden.

There was a sound of stones falling into the water on the front foot, and another exclamation from the back foot. The end where the guests gathered was not far from here.

At this moment, everyone subconsciously looked over.

There are vague figures coming through the plum trees.

Before the girls who were watching the excitement could recover their senses, Ting Lan had already walked quickly towards Shen Qingci who had fallen to the ground.

"Axi, how are you?"

Wang Baoying looked nervous, she squatted down, supported Shen Qingci's arm with one hand, and asked with concern: "Is there any injury?"

Shen Qingci's face was wrinkled into a ball.

As soon as Wang Baoying touched her, she gasped.

"It hurts...it hurts...it hurts..."

"My feet hurt."

Shen Qingci's voice trembled a little, "I seem to have sprained my ankle."

As soon as this remark came out, Gao Xiyue, who had already had a dark face, became even more angry when the plan failed and everyone's attention was drawn to her.

"It's just asking you to pick up a veil, and you can sprain your feet. Look at your promise!"

Gao Xiyue stood on a high place, looking down at Shen Qingci: "My handkerchief is the best brocade. The best embroiderer in Qingzhou uses double-sided embroidery sewn with gold thread. One sheet can be worth a thousand gold. I can’t even afford to pay for your cheap life!”

After the stone broke through the ice, the handkerchief had already fallen into the lake, and soon sank after getting wet.

As soon as these words came out, the girls watching the fun looked at Shen Qingci with a bit of anger.

With Ting Lan's support, Shen Qingci barely stood firm.

Her eyes turned red, and she immediately lowered her eyes and said, "Then... what is Miss Gao planning?"

Gao Xiyue raised her eyebrows, "Since you lost my handkerchief, I want you to go down and pick it up, isn't it too much?"

It was only on the ice before, but now it has sunk into the lake, and asking Shen Qing to resign to fish it is undoubtedly telling her to die.

Gao Xiyue's voice was not loud, but because it attracted the attention of the audience, everyone around them held their breath, making it particularly harsh.

Before Shen Qingci could speak, she changed the subject: "But, since you belong to Mr. Zhang, even if you are too unruly and do something wrong, I can look at Mr. Zhang and be tolerant."

"But the premise is that you have to apologize to me."

When she said the last four words, Gao Xiyue almost wrote ridicule on her face.

This apology is not just as simple as bowing your head.

But just as the words fell, a cold and deep male voice sounded not far away.

"Girl's words are wrong."

Among the tens of thousands of red plums, Sheng Tingye came slowly.

He was dressed in lake blue cloud brocade and covered with a fox cloak, and his whole body was graceful and luxurious, which made all the officials around him take turns as a foil.

Such a good color is more scorching than red plum.

As soon as he opened his mouth, he attracted everyone's attention.

Hearing the sound, Gao Xiyue turned her head to look, and with just one glance, she felt a little timid for no reason.

Sheng Tingye only glanced at her indifferently, the cold and picturesque eyebrows and eyes clearly showed no emotional ups and downs, but made her feel cold all over.

"No matter who they are, if they do something wrong, they should be punished."

Everyone present is a human being.

Even if he had vaguely heard rumors about Zhang Jincheng doting on the girls around him, thinking that he would be biased towards his own people, he would not be too biased under the watchful eyes of everyone.

But never expected that he would not be selfish at all.

As soon as the words came out, not only Gao Xiyue, but also Zhao Yujiao, who came over after hearing the news, felt a little pleased, but she didn't want this matter to be involved in herself, Zhao Yujiao not only didn't stand up to help Gao Xiyue, she even threw her body To avoid the crowd.

Zhao Zhenlin, who was walking beside Sheng Tingye, said with a smile: "Young Master Zhang is right, no matter who you are, if you do something wrong, you will be punished, so this girl..."

Zhao Zhenlin cast a questioning look at Sheng Tingye.

I wanted to see how Sheng Tingye would deal with it.

The corners of Sheng Tingye's mouth raised slightly, revealing a faint smile.

That smile makes people feel like spring breeze.

The fragrant flowers in the garden lost their color in an instant.

Gao Xiyue was in a trance for a moment.

Before she came back to her senses, Sheng Tingye said, "But the question is, is it her fault?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone present was startled.

Sheng Tingye swept over with a faint look.

The next moment, a scream was heard not far away.

Ting Lan, who just disappeared after exclaiming in surprise, suddenly turned a maid over.

Involuntarily pushed it to Sheng Tingye.

"My lord, just now this servant saw her sneaking behind the plum tree, took advantage of Axi's unpreparedness, and threw a stone towards the lake."

The servant girl's face was pale with fright, she was about to kneel down and kowtow immediately, and denied it.

But before her knees were completely bent, Ting Lan grabbed her wrist.

Show her palm in front of others.

"Then what is this?"

She found the stone in the garden, and it was covered with a thick layer of wet mud on the cold and damp ground.

She hastily picked up the stone and smashed it down. Before she could wipe her hands clean, Ting Lan grabbed her out.

"Slave, this is..."

Ting Lan didn't give her a chance to quibble at all, she said sharply: "If you still don't admit it, you just removed the stone, and the traces on the ground are still there, do you want me to arrest you to see?"

The maid froze instantly.

The people present were not fools, so they couldn't tell that this servant girl deliberately took advantage of Shen Qingci to pick up the handkerchief and smashed the ice surface, in order to harm Shen Qingci.

Sheng Tingye's cold and unwavering eyes only glanced at her, and then fell on Zhao Zhenlin who looked surprised.

"Master Zhao, what do you think?"

Zhao Zhenlin immediately darkened his face, and stared at Wang Qici who rushed over after hearing the news, "Your Wang family can raise such a scumbag!"

While reprimanding Wang Qici, he gave Wang Qici a wink calmly.

Gao Xiyue, who was still high-spirited just now, lost her arrogance the moment she saw the maid.

In addition to the vague disputes that had just been heard on their side, it was clear at a glance who Zhang Jincheng's maid was targeting.

Zhao Zhenlin only wanted to let Wang Qici take the blame for his lax family management, and he didn't want to direct the disaster to Gao Xiyue.

After all, her father, Gao Zheng, was an official in Qingzhou with him, and he had already involved too many interests, so he had to defend it.

Gao Xiyue can't be humiliated in public, and Gao Zheng can't step down.

Wang Qici was not a fool either, he realized in a blink of an eye that although he didn't want to be the scapegoat, he understood that Zhang Jincheng was only in Qingzhou for a while, and Zhao Zhenlin and Gao Zheng were the kings of Qingzhou.

Wang Qici could only bite the bullet and agree, then apologized with shame on his face, and wanted to reprimand the maid.

But unexpectedly, at this time, Shen Qingci, who was supported by Wang Baoying and who had been ignored by everyone at the moment, let out a delicate voice: "Huh? Is this girl from the Wang family?"

When everyone's eyes turned to her, she looked at Gao Xiyue with a confused face: "I clearly saw her following Miss Gao before, and the clothes of the maids under her are all the same."

hiss……

Everyone took a deep breath.

She dared to say that.

Gao Xiyue, who was already a little flustered, blurted out without even thinking about it: "What nonsense are you talking about! Can you tell that it's someone by my side just by the clothes?"

Just as he finished speaking, Shen Qingci raised his eyebrows slightly.

"What is Miss Gao so nervous about? Is it her personal maid? Miss Gao can't remember, but someone in the house will remember it? It's not difficult to find out."

Hearing this, Gao Xiyue knew that she was on the right track.

In the beginning, Zhao Zhenlin wanted to shirk to the weak Wang Qici to protect her. Even if everyone knew it well, they would not take the risk of offending Zhao Zhenlin and Gao Zheng at this time. .

If no one said anything, the matter would have been covered up in such a foolish way.

But who would have expected that Shen Qingci would "not give face" and directly pointed out in public that the maid was by Gao Xiyue's side.

As she said, this is something that can't help but be investigated.

Now that this layer of window paper has been pierced, if Gao Xiyue is smart at this time, she will respond generously and say that Zhao Zhenlin has admitted the wrong person.

After all, there are so many maids in the mansion, no matter who is the owner of the back house, who can remember them all.

Only Zhao Zhenlin and Wang Qici admitted their mistake.

As for the maid who made the mistake, as long as Gao Xiyue firmly insists that it was the maid who disliked Shen Qingci, she, the master, would not be implicated.

But she guilty of denying the simplest facts.

What does this mean?
Being a thief has a guilty conscience and wants to cover it up.

It was too late to realize my mistake and try to make up for it.

What's more, Shen Qingci never gave Gao Xiyue this chance.

She turned her head to look at Sheng Tingye, with grievance in her eyes, under the surprised eyes of everyone, Shen Qingci knelt down.

"My lord, it's all the servant's fault."

"When Miss Gao walked towards the servant girl, the servant girl shouldn't have stepped back half a step, causing Miss Gao to accidentally drop the veil."

Shen Qingci knelt down, but before she knelt down, she let out an uncontrollable cry of pain when her foot hurt, she tilted her body, and fell directly to the ground.

Wang Baoying on the side was about to lean over to help, but someone took a step faster, stretched out his hand, firmly supported Shen Qingci's shoulder, and half embraced her in his arms.

For a moment, all the girls looked at Shen Qingci with fire in their eyes.

Shen Qingci didn't care about it at all, just grabbed Sheng Tingye's arm, and continued to be aggrieved: "Miss Gao is right, it's a servant who doesn't live up to her expectations, who can still wrestle with a handkerchief, making the young master lose face along with it."

There was a sound of sucking air from all around.

Unexpectedly, Gao Xiyue, who was returned by Shen Qingci in the original words in public, was so blushing that she could wring out water, she clenched the hem of her skirt, and hurriedly said: "I... I didn't say that, Mr. Zhang Don't listen to her nonsense!"

The atmosphere is a bit cold.

Coincidentally at this time, Gao Zheng, a Qingzhou official who had been delayed earlier, rushed over.

Sheng Tingye only glanced at him lightly.

Gao Zheng, who hadn't realized what happened, suddenly felt a chill down his back.

Shen Qingci said at the right time: "My lord, Miss Gao was only joking with the servants, she didn't intend to make things difficult for the servants."

But when she said this, she had a grievance on her face, it was not what she said at all.

Gao Xiyue's teeth itch.

She had only heard Zhao Yujiao say that this woman was difficult to deal with before, but she didn't expect to be careless for a while and underestimate her.

Before everything was checked, she had already fulfilled her vicious crime with a few words.

Gao Xiyue was furious, but she didn't dare to act presumptuously in front of Zhang Jincheng.

She opened her mouth to defend herself.

Sheng Tingye had already looked at Gao Zheng coldly. Instead of raising Xiyue, he just glanced at the maid who threw the stone indifferently: "The maid in Mr. Gao's house really opened Zhang's eyes."

Gao Zheng was confused, but seeing that everyone was looking at his daughter, with those eyes and his own understanding of Gao Xiyue, he had guessed something in his heart, so he immediately took a step forward and hurriedly apologized.

"It's a little girl who is spoiled, please forgive me, my lord."

Gao Zheng pulled his face and said a lot.

Sheng Tingye only responded politely, but immediately turned to look at Shen Qingci: "Can you still go?"

Shen Qingci frowned, pretending to be brave: "Your servant feels much better, you can... go."

With that said, she moved her wrist and was about to struggle to stand up from Sheng Tingye's support.

But in the next moment, Sheng Tingye raised his hand and hugged him directly by the waist.

This time it was not just a gasp, everyone looked at Shen Qingci with surprise.

Unexpectedly, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Zhang Jiasanlang would hug a servant girl in his arms.

However, Sheng Tingye, who was in the vortex of the storm, looked calm and calm. He glanced at Zhao Zhenlin and Wang Qici.

"Sorry, my girl hurt her foot, I'll send her back first."

Zhao Zhenlin, Wang Qici and others couldn't help it, and everyone immediately gave way.

Shen Qingci was still leaning against Sheng Tingye's arms with that little birdy look of being dependent and aggrieved.

Let him carry her away.

However, when passing by Gao Xiyue's side, Shen Qingci suddenly thought of something, and she said nervously: "By the way, son, the veil hasn't been picked up yet."

Just like this, with this expression, mentioning that veil at this moment.

Gao Xiyue's complexion was as pale as paper.

However, Shen Qingci continued with a regretful and nervous expression: "Miss Gao said that the handkerchief is worth thousands of gold, more precious than the lives of slaves, so it must not be lost."

Sheng Tingye glanced lightly at Gao Xiyue next to him.

Those who were present just now, those who were not present, more or less heard this sentence.

Gao Xiyue couldn't deny it.

Seeing that her legs were trembling and her standing was a little unstable, Sheng Tingye said coldly: "What kind of veil is more important than the life of my girl from the Zhang family?"

Although he didn't even look at Gao Xiyue and said the words to Shen Qingci, those words undoubtedly slapped Gao Xiyue in the face in public.

She staggered, her body was on the verge of falling, and she was no longer as arrogant as before.

Under the gazes of other people who might be shocked or nervous, Sheng Tingye left the big garden with Shen Qingci in his arms, and returned all the way to the courtyard where they stayed.

After entering the door, Sheng Tingye chuckled and looked at Shen Qingci who was at ease in his arms: "Satisfied?"

There was a smile on Shen Qingci's face, and there was no trace of the grievance just now.

Sheng Tingye hasn't put her down yet.

She had to lean against his arms.

Shen Qingci raised his finger and poked his heart, smiling brightly.

"Satisfied, very satisfied."

As she spoke, she narrowed her eyes.

"I have helped you so much, how can you thank me?"

　It's a fat chapter.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)