Empress Jinghua: The eunuch is nine thousand years old

Chapter 16 Disappointment
Xia Zijin's face was a little red, and she looked up at the crescent moon on the black curtain, and muttered to herself: "God, why did you let me live again? Let me see the faces of these people again." Be clear, or let me know how insignificant I am?"

She licked the corners of her lips mockingly, tilted her head and poured herself another glass of wine. The sound of the wine pouring into the glass was particularly loud on this moonlit night.

Suddenly, a pair of hands grasped Rouyi where she was pouring wine, only for a moment, then gently let go.

"Princess, although pear blossom stuffing is good, you will get drunk if you drink too much."

Xia Zijin squinted her eyes, looked for the voice and looked at the owner of the hand, only to see that face, which was more delicate and beautiful than a woman's, frowned at this moment, showing a worried look on her face.

"It is you."

Xia Zijin shook his head, which was starting to feel heavy, and giggled, grabbing his arm.

"Shengqing, come, let's have a drink with this princess, if the beauty of the day is not accompanied by wine, wouldn't it be disappointing?"

Xia Shengqing's pulled arm froze slightly, but soon recovered, shaking her head, she took the flagon in her other hand, and put it away.

"Princess... I know your son is feeling uncomfortable right now." He took off his cloak and put it on for Xia Zijin. on the pillar.

"Why doesn't it matter if the princess is not feeling well? Who cares? Except for Xiao Kui, that silly girl, I'm afraid there is no one else."

The night wind blew the corners of their clothes, and the fragrance of Xia Zijin's body stained his cloak, lingered on the tip of his nose, and lingered for a long time.

"Princess, I know that my status is humble, but if the princess needs it, I will definitely do my best. During the years in the palace, the emperor has rewarded me a lot. I am alone, and I don't need those gold and jade things. Now this urgent moment , the princess will accept it."

Saying that, Xia Shengqing took out a stack of thick bank notes from her bosom, and when she looked carefully, they were all in denominations of 1 taels, and there were as many as dozens of them.

Xia Zijin was a little dumbfounded. She wasn't sad that her savings were confiscated, but she was sad because she knew that Ming Shengdi was ruthless and heavy on power, but she still had a little luck.

"If it's not enough, I'll think about it tomorrow, and I'll send it to the princess when I get it all together." Xia Shengqing thought the amount was too small, and added another sentence.

Xia Zijin shook his head with a smile, folded the banknotes he handed over and stuffed them back into his arms, and said softly: "You have worked so hard to save these money, how can this princess want it? Or, money is a thing outside of the body, if it is gone today, it will be there again in the future, if it is so easy to come and go like silver, this princess doesn't have to think about it."

"After all, it's just disappointing people's hearts."

She looked up at the moonlight, even if it is as holy as the moon, there are times when it is covered by dark clouds, so what right does she, a speck of dust on the vast earth, have to complain about.

"Princess, don't be disappointed, you still have Xiaokui, and... me. I will always be with the princess until the day when the sea is over, or the day when the princess no longer needs me."

Xia Shengqing thought for a long time before speaking.He has seen the cunning Xia Zijin, the merciful Xia Zijin, and her graceful appearance like a fairy in a picture scroll, but he has never seen Xia Zijin like this tonight. Although her face is slightly drunk, she is as fragile as Xia Zijin Jin.

Through the moonlight, Xia Zijin saw the serious light in his eyes that was brighter than the fireflies in autumn night.She smiled suddenly, tilted her head and moved closer to him, breathing lightly on his face like a jade crown.

"really?"

The clear fragrance was so close at hand, Xia Shengqing froze her body, as if her soul had been sucked away by the pair of clear and clear eyes in front of her, unwilling to leave for a long time.

"More real than real gold."

Xia Zijin chuckled, looking at Xia Shengqing's serious look, she actually thought it was a bit cute.

She tilted her head and fell on his shoulder, feeling that the bones on Xia Shengqing's shoulder were painful, so she turned her head and adjusted a position.

"Princess……"

"Hush, don't move, this princess is so drunk, I'll lend you a shoulder to lean on for a while."

Sure enough, Xia Shengqing stopped moving, maintaining a straight posture and letting Xia Zijin lean on her.

She opened her eyes and blinked at the moonlight. The night wind blew the leaves, and the insects and frogs blew into their ears. Xia Zijin suddenly felt that Xia Shengqing seemed to be around. Inexplicable peace of mind, Lin Runyu never gave her such a feeling.

"Shengqing, when the flood is over, this princess will marry you. Do you agree?" Xia Zijin's eyes looked far away, and the rolling mountains in the darkness in the distance revealed a small and beautiful scene under the cover of the palace wall. One corner, just like her thoughts, also drifted far away.

Xia Shengqing turned her head in surprise and was stunned for a while, thinking that her ears had heard wrong, and after a while she said sadly: "The princess is a golden branch and a jade leaf, and she is really wronged to be worthy of a slave like me. There are so many good adults in the court, and there are many young and promising Gentleman, if the princess has a good eye..."

Before he finished speaking, a slender finger like jade lay across his lips, blocking the words behind him.

"Why do you get up like a mother-in-law like Xiaokui, this princess told you, don't belittle yourself, you forgot?"

"I..." Xia Shengqing sighed lowly. It's not that he didn't want to, but he didn't dare. He was afraid that his current status wouldn't be able to give Xia Zijin anything. She is a princess and he is a slave. Such an in-law will only make her Was criticized.

"Hey, don't go back on your word. The marriage has been given, and you still want to deny it."

The ripples in Xia Shengqing's heart fluctuated, and finally she hummed inaudibly, both joyfully and cautiously.

Xia Zijin leaned on his shoulder, his eyelids gradually closed, and his breathing became more and more even.The sweetness of the pear blossom stuffing in the air seemed to spread and seep into Xia Shengqing's skin. He raised his hand and lightly touched Xia Zijin's cheek, smiling.

The morning of late autumn was extremely cold. On the Golden Luan Hall of the Dalai Dynasty, Ming Shengdi became a little limp after hearing the message from Jiangnan Front Station to the main hall.

"plague……"

The envoy who summoned the messenger knelt down and said in a low voice, thinking of the corpses of thousands of people who died of the plague in the wilderness of the south of the Yangtze River, piled up like a hill, he couldn't help but shudder.

"Your Majesty! It's true! Two days after the governor and the governors set off for Beijing, the plague began to spread in the south of the Yangtze River. Many people escaped the flood, but they couldn't escape the deadlier plague! Now the south of the Yangtze River is in depression. , the earth is weeping, the people are wailing, and the people are in dire straits!"

Standing in the ranks of the ministers, the Jiangnan governor and the governors of the states were all in a flash, and some of them even burst into tears.

"Your Majesty! I beg your Majesty to be the master for our Jiangnan people!"

The governor knelt down on the floor with a plop, his arms trembling with pale temples, he couldn't help but also burst into tears. It was a place he had managed for decades. Jiangnan, where the mountains and rivers are tuned, has now become a hell on earth.

The governors of all the governors were in tears, and they knelt down and worshiped together with the governor. The sorrowful meaning was moving.

"I heard that the water control envoy's plan was written by the emperor's Princess Mingzhu. This plan is indeed the chief culprit for killing tens of thousands of people in the south of the Yangtze River!"

The governor said angrily that Lin Runyu had been using Xia Zijin as a shield ever since he messed up things. He was even more convinced of Lin Runyu's evasive words, thinking that it was Xia Zijin who sensationalized and wrote the murderous case, which harmed the people in the south of the Yangtze River.

"This..." Ming Shengdi rubbed his chin, frowned, and said, "I already punished Zijin yesterday, confiscating all her property and transferring it to the disaster relief bank."

The governor shook his head angrily, and said in an impassioned voice: "Could it be that in the eyes of the emperor, our people in the south of the Yangtze River are only worth some money! Princess Mingzhu killed tens of thousands of people and angered the sky! The sky has sent a plague as a warning , does the emperor still want to sit idly by!"

Ming Shengdi smelled the deep meaning in Dudu's words and was very shocked.

"did you mean……"

The governor and the governors of each state looked at each other, bowed deeply, and shouted in unison: "I beg the emperor to grant Princess Mingzhu to die, so as to appease the wrath of the heavens and the anger of the common people!"

As soon as this remark came out, the court was in an uproar, and all the ministers were astonished, and they all whispered to each other.What a great event it is to give the princess to death, but now there are tens of thousands of deaths and injuries in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is also a tragedy that shocked the Dalai Dynasty.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty can't do it!" Standing among the ministers, Liu Xiangqing and An Qi Anli, father and son, all stepped forward and knelt down. Liu Xiangqing yelled, and the whole person knelt down to the ground, very frightened.

"Princess Mingzhu has golden branches and jade leaves, but she is only seventeen years old, how can she ruin her life with a single word!"

The governor pointed at Liu Xiangqing angrily, and asked: "Could it be that the lives of the people in the south of the Yangtze River can be easily ruined?"

"Whether there is a problem with the princess' plan is still unknown, and the conclusion of the governor is too early!" An Qi shot back.

The Liu family, father and son were all talking for Xia Zijin, and the Jiangnan faction insisted on killing Xia Zijin. Ming Shengdi was caught in the middle, and it was a headache. In all fairness, he didn't want to kill Xia Zijin, after all, it was him. No matter how many people there are in the south of the Yangtze River, they are just mere beings. If there are tens of thousands less, there will still be new students next year.

At this time, the prince before the group of ministers stepped forward and cupped his hands: "Father! The ministers know that the father loves the emperor's sister, but now the emperor has committed a big crime that angered the gods. If the emperor does not sacrifice himself, he will be calmed down." God's wrath, how many people will suffer and suffer!"

(End of this chapter)