Empress Jinghua: The eunuch is nine thousand years old

Chapter 99
She thought that as long as there was evidence and evidence, as long as she could find out the whole thing, then she could save Xia Shengqing.

She thought that Ming Shengdi might be different in this life again.

But she was wrong, she was very wrong.

On the way back to Moshengyuan by the guards, she kept thinking about what kind of conspiracy the imperial examination questions leaked this time. It was a trap set by the eldest son Xia Bin to make Xia Shengqing take the blame, or...Ming Sheng The emperor wants Xia Shengqing to take the blame for the eldest son of the emperor?

Xia Zijin was taken aback by her own thought, her thoughts turned quickly, her fingertips trembled slightly.Just now in the royal study, she was about to say the name of the emperor's eldest son, but Ming Shengdi interrupted her at a critical moment and stopped her from speaking.

Looking at it from another direction, does this mean that Ming Shengdi knew who was behind the leak of the test questions?That's why when she explained whether the Holy Emperor "did not dare to listen", she became angry and grounded her in the Mosheng Garden.

Xia Zijin felt her teeth trembling slightly. The horror of this incident was beyond her imagination. The rain all the way stained her skirt, and the pattering rain came from the head. Although there were guards holding oil-paper umbrellas, that day The coolness can still penetrate into the bones, making people feel chills all over.

"Princess……!"

She was unsteadily helped into the main hall of Mosheng Garden by the guards, but Xiao Huanzi and Xiao Kui both came up to welcome her, who was on the verge of falling.

"The emperor has ordered that Princess Mingzhu will be closed in the Mosheng Garden to contemplate her mistakes from now on, and she is not allowed to take half a step. If there is any Princess Xie who escapes, it will be executed immediately!"

The chief guard shouted loudly, together with more than a dozen guards, they surrounded all the exits of the Mosheng Garden, and even a bird could not fly out.

"Princess...what should I do now..." Xiaokui helped her to sit down, and seeing her lost soul, she looked like she was about to cry.

"If I knew earlier, the maidservant would stop you from pretending to be a court lady! Huier Binger, hurry up and boil hot water for the princess to bathe in! Laner, tell the small kitchen to make ginger soup!"

After Xiaokui directed the maids to rush, she and Xiao Huanzi helped Xia Zijin to the back room.She was wearing a palace attire made of a princess, but inside she was wearing a green maid's gown. The areas wet by the rain were darker and shallower, but the inner garment was firmly stuck to her body. It's hard.

Xia Zijin let Xiaokui take off the clothes on her body in a daze. The wet silk cloth left her body, arousing waves of coldness again, rustling into her bones.

"Shengqing... I can't save you..."

Xia Zijin kept repeating this sentence in his mouth, tears dripped like broken threads under his almond eyes, and his cheeks were abnormally red, Xiaokui reached out to touch it, but was startled by the hot temperature, and quickly moved Xia Zijin Stuffed it into the bathing pool, the movements of the hands didn't stop for a moment.

"Quick, hurry up and call the imperial physician, the princess has a high fever due to cold!"

"Quick! Bring the ginger soup and wait!"

"Princess! Wake up!"

Xia Zijin was in a daze and could only hear the voices of Xiaokui and the palace people's calls filling his ears, but then drifting away, like a gust of mountain wind blowing over a mountain, pouring dew into his ears, heavy and oppressive. It was suffocating.

"Shengqing..."

Xia Zijin murmured the name, with fine beads of sweat on his forehead, which slid down from both sides of his cheeks little by little, and merged into a puddle with the pool water.

Xiao Huanzi was waiting outside, watching the movement in the bath, he could only be anxious, even though he was an eunuch, there was a difference between men and women, eunuchs were not allowed to enter when the princess was bathing.

"What can I do..." Xiaokui finished bathing the unconscious Xia Zijin, picked out a velvet warm robe to put on for her, helped her onto the bed, and pressed two thick quilts.

"The imperial doctor is already on the way, sister Xiaokui. The princess suddenly developed a high fever, and she didn't prepare any medicine in advance. It's really worrying." Huier muttered while applying a hot towel to Xia Zijin's forehead. His arms and neck were also scalding hot, and after rubbing with water over and over again, the temperature still couldn't drop.

"Wearing a wet suit and knelt for an hour or two, thinking about Director Xia all the time, in the end, the emperor still didn't listen to it. After all the hard work, only one foot was grounded. Can you not be sick?"

Xiaokui sighed deeply, looking at Xia Zijin who seemed to be suffering from a nightmare, she shook her head and murmured: "I beg all the gods and Buddhas to bless Mr. Xia, otherwise, how can the princess bear it when she wakes up..."

The crackling rain outside the window kept falling, flooding the shallow ground, cleaning the filth in the palace, but how to clean the filth deeply hidden in people's hearts.

There was a sound of footsteps, clack, clack.

That was the sound of high-quality suet glue touching the ground. The black gold boots were moving on the dusty ground of the dungeon. A red sapphire was dazzling in the golden peacock eyes embroidered on the side of the boots. Layers of light shone through the corridors of the dungeon.

The owner of that pair of boots just walked slowly, and stopped in the last cell of the sky prison.

"Boss Xia, please stay safe."

The voice came out lazily, looking from the bottom to the top, the fat and strong body on the pair of black gold boots is whoever it is, Xia Bin, the eldest son of the emperor.

Xia Shengqing was leaning against the gray wall, and the clothes on his body were so dirty that the patterns could not be seen clearly. He smiled, tied up his somewhat messy hair, raised his eyes and said: "Your Highness, the eldest son, really misses the servant." , this is more revealing, what are you doing to visit the servant again?"

The eldest son of the emperor put his hands behind his back, hooked the corners of his mouth and moved the cheeks, and took a step towards the railing, seeing Xia Shengqing's downcast appearance more clearly.

"Director Xia, my prince gave you two days to think about it. Tomorrow is the time for Dali Temple Minister to declare his crime. Have you thought about it? Do you want to live or die?"

Xia Shengqing stared straight ahead, without any disturbance.Even though he was in the dungeon and down to this point, he didn't see the slightest fear in his eyes.

"What does His Highness the eldest son mean? If it means doing things for you..." Xia Shengqing seemed to sneer, and said lightly, "What do you think?"

"It seems that Director Xia doesn't intend to obey the prince anymore?" Xia Bin looked at Xia Shengqing with a sharp expression, and the original politeness was gone, "Don't you understand that those who obey me prosper and those who oppose me perish?"

Xia Shengqing changed her posture and sat, grabbed a handful of straws at her feet, and looked at them seriously, as if she was talking to herself, or she seemed to be telling the eldest son of the emperor: "Why is it useful in this prison?" Lots of dead grass instead of green fresh grass?"

The eldest son of the emperor didn't know why, so he looked at Xia Shengqing with deep eyes, snorted out of his nose, and said coldly: "What exactly is Director Xia trying to say?"

"What I want to say is that no matter whether the grass is dead or fresh, it depends on the environment it is in. No matter how fresh the grass is in this dark and humid sky prison, within a few days, it will be the same as these withered yellow straws. Returning to death... So, the eldest son of the emperor, what do you think, the servant who has become a withered grass is of any use to you?"

The eldest son of the emperor understood that it was Xia Shengqing who was arguing with him, so he raised his head slightly angrily and said, "Director Xia is a celebrity around the emperor, so how can he claim to be useless? There are many benefits to doing things for the prince, and you are so stubborn?"

He stared at Xia Shengqing coldly with narrow eyes, as if the last bit of patience was about to run out.

"If the slave is really useful, why would he be sent to this prison? All of this is thanks to you, His Royal Highness the eldest son."

The not-so-salty voice drifted over the railing and into the ears of the eldest son of the emperor. His left eye jumped and he let out a snort. After all, he couldn't hide it from Xia Shengqing. He wanted to pretend to stay out of it and rescue him. You can buy people's hearts, don't want him to make a wrong calculation.

Forget it, he is the prince, so is it possible that he still wants to talk about kindness and friendship with an eunuch?
"Now that you know everything, the prince will get straight to the point. This prince can send you in and pick you up. There is no doubt about it. It's just that if you want to survive, you have to come up with something of equivalent value." Isn't it a good deal to exchange your loyalty for your life?"

Xia Shengqing just sat there quietly, as if no matter what the eldest son said, it had no effect on him.He sighed pretentiously, fell back into a pile of withered grass, and jumped out of his mouth word by word.

"The slave is only loyal to the emperor, if there is any betrayal, he is willing to die."

The eyes of the eldest son of the emperor became fierce in an instant, and a burst of laughter came from his throat, as if he was mocking Xia Shengqing's ignorance.

After a long while, the eldest son of the emperor shook his wide sleeves, squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "Then you just wait to die."

After all, the eldest son of the emperor strode away without looking at Xia Shengqing again. In his eyes, Xia Shengqing had already become a dead move.

"Heh... stupid."

Xia Shengqing said in a low voice, glanced at a corner of the wall, revealed an unknown smile, and finally calmed down.He sat there quietly again, like an old monk in meditation, closing his eyes and passing through his body with luck, but he could feel the subtle changes in the surrounding airflow.

On the beam three meters away on the left is Kunsha's hidden guard, and in the corner of the wall he was staring at just now, there is another hidden guard of a different force.

If he guessed correctly, the hidden guard in the corner should be sent by that one.In this way, the two conversations with the eldest son of the emperor must be able to reach that person's ears through the secret guard.

Xia Shengqing raised the corners of his mouth and smiled. What happened next became more and more interesting. The leak of the test questions seemed to be a huge net. Now that it was time to close the net, he seemed to be looking forward to the turmoil in the Golden Temple tomorrow.

But at this time, the door outside the sky prison rustled again. It seemed that someone had said something to the jailer outside, and it was hard to hear clearly. After a while, the sound outside stopped and turned to the corridor of the sky prison. came.

(End of this chapter)