A happy event in a fertile field: the black-bellied husband is as beautiful as a flower

Chapter 557 Disposable Chess Pieces

The entire capital was covered by the heavy snow last night.

After dawn, it was sunny again, and the thin sunlight fell on the snow, reflecting a particularly dazzling white.

The many buildings and palaces in the palace all turned gray overnight.

Glazed tiles, red wall eaves, carved dragons and phoenixes, covered with frost and snow.The corners of the eaves rise up to the blue sky, like the tiptoes of a girl standing on tiptoe in the snow.

In some places that are not completely covered by snow, there are mottled and bright colors faintly, which are more cool and luxurious than the plum blossoms blooming in the corner.

Xie Chuying entered the palace today. She was wearing a thick fox fur cloak, revealing a beautiful face, and walked on the dazzling snow-white steps.

She came to the queen mother's palace, and the queen mother was recuperating in the bedroom.

There are multiple heaters in the bedroom, the outside is cold and desolate, but the inside is warm like spring.

Xie Chuying came here yesterday morning, but like the other wives who came to visit, she didn't get to see the Empress Dowager.

Now when she saw the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager described her as old and haggard, with a strong sickness all over her body, she immediately burst into tears, and called: "The Empress Dowager..."

The queen mother has been in an extremely bad mood since she woke up, and Meng Yan came last night, so angry that she couldn't sleep much at night.

All the nuns around her were burned to death in the Buddhist hall. As long as she thought about this, the scene of them struggling in the fire would subconsciously appear in her mind.

So, how could the queen mother's spirit be good.

When she saw Xie Chuying crying, she no longer felt sorry for her as usual.I just felt that Xie Chuying was crying so that she was extremely irritable.

The queen mother said coldly, "If you want to cry, get out and cry, Ai's family is not dead yet!"

Her voice was still rough and harsh, and it was difficult to say a word.

Xie Chuying was so frightened that she trembled, she quickly wiped away her tears, and said, "Chuying just saw that the Queen Mother was injured so badly, she was sad for a while, so she couldn't help it..."

The queen mother closed her eyes, obviously in a terrible mood.

She didn't speak for a long time, so Xie Chuying knelt in the bedroom for a long time, not daring to get up.

It was only later that the Queen Mother opened her eyes impatiently, squinted at her, and said, "Isn't it snowing outside? Kneeling in mourning?"

Xie Chuying bit her lip and said with tears in her eyes, "Queen Mother, Chuying knew she was wrong. I implore the Queen Mother to save Chuying!"

The queen mother was silent, she said again: "Chuying heard that the empress summoned the palace servants yesterday and found the murderer who killed the palace lady..."

The Queen Mother interrupted her, her voice was half angry and half cold, and said: "I have been with Aijia for so long, Aijia really has not educated you! Do something, procrastinate and full of loopholes, and in the end Aijia will come to you Clean up this mess!"

Xie Chuying shook her head, her face panicked and said: "Please trust the Queen Mother, Chuying will never..."

The Empress Dowager said: "You go back, the Ai family doesn't want to hear about it anymore. The Ai family will take care of this matter for you. If you don't have a call in the future, don't come into the palace again. The Ai family doesn't want to see you for the time being."

Xie Chuying's complexion was pale, and she collapsed to the ground.

what does this mean?It means that she has fallen out of favor with the Queen Mother, and also lost the privilege of being able to freely enter and exit the palace.

In the end, the mother sent Xie Chuying out. Seeing that Xie Chuying was crying really sad, she persuaded: "Miss Xie, don't be too sad, the queen mother is in a bad mood, even the emperor and the empress are here. Wait. The Empress Dowager is getting better after a few days, maybe she will be fine."

After Xie Chuying left, the queen mother called the new eunuch and told him to go to the inner court department.

This eunuch was also an errand in the Empress Dowager's palace before, and he was a half-baked face.The Queen Mother has no acquaintances around, so she can only make do with them.

The eunuch took the order and immediately took the two young eunuchs to the Inner Court Division.

Speaking of which, the murderer was tortured last night after he was taken to the Internal Court Division.

When the torture was over, he was thrown into a cold cell, dying.

When people from the Empress Dowager's palace came over, the Inner Court Secretary did not dare to offend the palace people who neglected the Empress Dowager, so he nodded and bowed to welcome a few eunuchs in, and said, "How dare you trouble your father-in-law to come here in person, if you have any orders, just send someone to deliver a message." .”

For a while, there was hot tea and the service of the charcoal stove.

Hearing the voices outside the cell door, the murderer became unconscious for a moment, as if he had returned to the night of the Laba Festival, and it was also so cold that his bones were stiff.

That night, he didn't intend to kill the court lady, but was ordered to scare her, but he never expected that he would be smashed halfway.

He can only run.

But before he could recover, he was being watched.

The man stood in the dark and said to him: "Just now that maid saw your face."

He shuddered.

The man said again: "I know that you are only following orders, but if you do not do it cleanly, you will cause trouble to your master. Once the maid exposes you, even a slave of you will have no way out."

As he spoke, a hand stretched out and handed him a wet brocade bag, and said: "Now that maid is on her way back to change clothes, you still have a chance to save it. It's up to you to choose."

He immediately understood the speaker's intention.

If he wanted to be alone, that maid had to die.

But when he looked back, he knew all this and this person in the dark!

But this person seemed to see through his thoughts, and said: "You still have time to go to her now, if you leave this kit with the maid, no one will suspect you, and I will just pretend that I have never seen you before. But if you are entangled with me here, I'm afraid that the court lady will sue the imperial court."

After weighing the pros and cons, he took the kit and held it in his hand, and immediately went back to chase the court lady.

When he blocked the maid, the maid flinched and looked very vigilant.After all, she was held in the water by a eunuch and almost drowned.

He stared closely at the court lady, handed her the kit in his hand, and asked tentatively: "I just picked it up by the lake, is it yours?"

The maid reached out to take it, identified it, and said: "It's not mine." Then she remembered something, and said, "But I might know who this bag belongs to. I'll get it later and ask."

He was suspicious, didn't it mean that she had seen his face?Why are you just vigilant when you see him, but not afraid to run away?

Could it be that person lied to him?
The palace maid took the kit and turned around and left. However, just after taking two steps, she stopped suddenly, and when she looked back at the eunuch, she asked, "No, how do you know that I have also been to the lake?"

He just looked at her without answering.

The maid's eyes moved down slowly, and when they landed on the corner of his clothes that were also wet, her expression changed immediately, she staggered back two steps, turned and ran.

He finally realized that the palace lady had recognized him.

But the arrow has left the string, and there is no retreat.He had to run after him.

In the end, he is just a chess piece that is discarded after being used.And he didn't even know who the person who used him was.

He didn't want to die here, but after entering the Inner Court Department, he didn't dare to talk nonsense. Once he said a single word to the eunuchs in the Inner Court Department, he might only die faster.

Now that the other eunuchs finally came over, he took it for granted that the emperor sent someone to inquire about the result.

In the prison, he said in a voice like a mosquito: "I recruit...everything I know..."

The eunuch in the Empress Dowager's Palace stood outside the prison door with his fly whisk in hand, looking at him with an unpredictable expression.

(End of this chapter)