Chapter 20: The whole body is hollowed out?
After everyone knelt down and paid their respects, Xiao Jingfan raised his eyes and his cold gaze fell on Xiao Yinzi.
Xiao Yinzi, who had been able to speak toughly in front of Chu Liuzheng just now, was so scared that he trembled and wished he could bury his head in the ground.
Without Xiao Jingfan asking, Zhou Yuande carefully repeated Xiao Yinzi's confession.
Xiao Jingfan frowned.
How could that palace maid who didn't follow the rules and posed for him be so mischievous?
He almost ruined his magical system. It's unforgivable!
"Drag them out and beat them to death along with that slave girl."
Wuhu! The tyrant is wise!
This word sounds pleasant to the ear.
Xiao Jingfan's expression eased slightly.
[Let me see how the Tyrant fights against Consort Chun tonight, and see if that secret play map is any good.]
“Cough cough cough!”
Xiao Jingfan suddenly started coughing violently, as if he had tuberculosis.
"Your Majesty!" Zhou Yuande was busy patting his back and serving tea.
Chu Liuzheng withdrew his gaze from the gossip he had just turned over and looked at the tyrant.
【What's going on? 】
[So the battle was so intense that my body was completely drained?]
Xiao Jingfan: "..."
I really want to pull out this woman's tongue!
Wait, what he heard was the woman's inner voice. Will tongue pulling be useful?
When he found out that tongue-pulling was useless, he became angry and tried to cover up his mistake, but failed. So he simply drove everyone out of the Yangxin Palace.
The palace door slammed shut behind him. Looking at the golden light emerging in the sky, Chu Liuzheng yawned in an ungraceful manner.
Now that her enemy was eliminated, she could go back to sleep peacefully.
"My two eunuchs, please be busy now. I'm going back now."
Chu Liuzheng bowed to Zhou Yuande and Wang Jinzhong, then strolled towards Nong Yun Garden. His relaxed and leisurely look could be seen from his back.
The two fathers-in-law who hold great power but have hard lives look at each other and suddenly feel a little envious. What's going on?
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"The girl is finally back."
Xiao Xiazi stood up from the stone steps at the entrance of Nongyun Garden and ran over quickly, looking at Chu Liuzheng with concern. "The girl is missing. Miss Qiaoru and I were very worried. Fortunately, the girl is safe and sound."
There was still dew on his clothes, obviously he had been guarding here all night.
Chu Liuzheng learned from Zhou Yuande that it was Xiao Xiazi who first discovered her disappearance.
"Thank you so much for this." Chu Liuzheng said, "If you hadn't discovered I was missing, I don't know how long I would have been trapped in Zhaoxue Hall."
She briefly recounted what happened last night, and Xiao Xiazi was so moved that she chanted Buddha's name and sighed, "Fortunately, the young lady has some respect in front of His Majesty. If it were someone else, His Majesty would never send someone to look for her personally."
Why does even Xiao Xiazi think this way?
Chu Liuzheng sighed and said helplessly, "Don't say such things again. We are just servants of His Majesty, how can we have the dignity to talk about shamelessness? If someone with ulterior motives hears these words, won't it bring disaster upon us?"
After what happened to Cuiyun, Chu Liuzheng finally understood that some people's jealousy comes for no apparent reason. She needs to be more careful with her words and actions in the palace in the future.
"I made a slip of the tongue." Xiao Xiazi slapped her own lips. "Thank you for your advice, young lady. I won't say it again in the future."
"Just remember, there are many people in the palace and they all talk a lot. One sentence can convey eight hundred meanings. Let's not suffer that loss." Chu Liuzheng smiled and led him inside.
"I have a box of lotus cake in my room. Take it back and share it with Qiaoru. Tell her that I'm fine here and ask her to take good care of her injuries and not worry about me. Also take this box of Bihen ointment with her and tell her to remember to use it. I'll visit her when I have time."
The lotus cake was a special gift from the imperial kitchen. How could the palace servants who usually worked as errand boys in the pharmacy have ever tasted such a delicious dessert?
Xiao Xiazi was smiling broadly as he held the box. Before leaving, he suddenly remembered something. He rummaged through his pockets and pulled out a pearl flower, which he handed to Chu Liuzheng. "I found it in the girl's room. It was only after seeing this pearl flower that I concluded that the girl hadn't left on her own, but had disappeared."
The pearl flower was something Chu Liuzheng brought in from outside the palace. It was made by her mother in this world. She wore it almost every day since entering the palace and never took it off.
"I thought I had lost it." Chu Liuzheng took it with surprise, "Thank you very much."
"It's just a small matter, how can it be worth a thank you?" Xiao Xiazi scratched her head shyly, "Girl, have a good rest. I'm going back to the pharmacy first."
After seeing Xiao Xiazi off, Chu Liuzheng closed the door, took out the ointment from the cabinet, applied it on his wrists and backs of his hands, and then carefully wrapped them with gauze.
The room was silent, but outside the door came the sounds of fetching water and talking.
It should be someone else who got up.
After staying up all night, he was still feeling sleepy just now, but now that he was lying on the bed, Chu Liuzheng was no longer sleepy.
She opened the system and searched, and found what she was looking for in the latest gossip.
Xiao Yinzi, who was in charge of the Imperial Household Department's storehouse, kidnapped a palace maid serving tea to the emperor out of personal vengeance and was subsequently beaten to death by Emperor Shunguang's order.
Cuiyun, a maid in the laundry department, instigated Xiao Yinzi to violate palace rules. She was dragged out by the executioner and beaten to death in public.
All dead.
It would be better to die.
Chu Liuzheng looked at it three times to confirm, then turned over and got up to find the purse embroidered with a fat koi that Cuiyun gave her.
She really liked this purse, but it was a pity that it brought bad luck.
He lit a corner of the purse on the candle and threw it into the brazier beside the bed.
The flames licked and rolled, and the moon-white pouch became charred little by little under the flames, and finally turned into ashes.
Chu Liuzheng poured a cup of cold tea into the brazier, then lay back on the bed and opened the system to search.
There is a hidden danger in this calculation.
The guard that Cuiyun bribed was named Yan Kang according to gossip and was a small flag officer of the Yulin Guard.
The Yulin Guard was one of the emperor's personal guards, responsible for daily guarding inside the imperial palace.
Although Yan Kang finally did not go to Zhaoxuetang to attack her as planned because of fear, she could not let her guard down.
He can collect Cuiyun's money, but what if Baiyun or Hongyun comes in the future?
She may not always be as lucky as this time.
She needs to get more information about this person, preferably matching the name with the person. When there is a chance to get rid of him, she will never show mercy.
[Yan Kang, Yan Kang, Yulin Guards...]
[Yes, there is a small flag in the Yulin Left Guard named Yan Kang, who is addicted to gambling. During his days off, he often goes to the Jubao Casino in the south of the city and is a regular customer.]
[So you're a gambler. I wish you all the best, and a lifetime of bad luck!]
[But how could a gambler be selected into the Imperial Guard? Could it be that Yan Kang's family has some kind of background?]
[Looking, looking, oh! It turns out that Yan Kang's aunt was the concubine of Qu Tao, a deputy minister of the Ministry of War. She was quite favored by Qu Tao, and it was because of this relationship that Yan Kang was able to enter the Yulin Guard.]
[Huh? This Qu Tao actually embezzled grain, deliberately purchasing damp, moldy, cheap rice and mixing it with regular rice, passing it off as inferior quality to pass it off as good.]
[Oh my god! He even took the money to buy food for the soldiers. How shameless!]
Chu Liuzheng was filled with righteous indignation and continued to scroll down.
"Let me see how much he's embezzled... Holy crap!! A staggering 78,432 taels! That's enough for Qu Tao to chop off his head 10,000 times, right?"
[He couldn't have embezzled so much money by himself, so he definitely had accomplices.]
[Complicity, complicity... Here! Hmm? It's him!]
Chu Liuzheng stared at the name in disbelief. How could it be this person?
(End of this chapter)
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