Chapter 79 Pushed into the Water
Xu Nianya knelt until midnight and fainted.
Before the morning meeting the next day, she was awakened by the diligent little palace maid.
"My lady, wake up. It's almost time for the morning meeting. Concubine Song hates being late the most and will punish you severely."
Xu Nianya took a deep breath and asked, "When did His Majesty leave?"
"When it's almost dawn."
Xu Nianya breathed a sigh of relief.
It doesn’t matter. As long as His Majesty didn’t abandon her last night, she would have completed her time serving him in bed.
Even if she actually passed out from kneeling, who would know as long as she didn't let others see it?
Xu Nianya gritted her teeth and got up to put on makeup, applying thick powder to cover her pale face.
In order to prevent others from noticing the clue on her knee, Xu Nianya forced herself to walk from Jinxiu Palace to Roufu Palace without saying a word.
When she entered the hall, she heard people talking quietly inside.
"Xu Baolin was overturned right after she put up the sign. I thought she could get the Holy Heart, but there's been no movement this morning."
"Yes, in the past, Concubine Song and Noble Lady Shen, which one of them didn't get promoted the next morning after serving the emperor in bed?"
Xu Nianya felt humiliated for a moment, but she endured it and touched her face.
The makeup she put on just now was peach blossom makeup, with a lot of rouge, and her whole face looked rosy.
Xu Nianya walked in with a faint smile on her face, "I'm almost late, please don't mind me, sisters."
This shy and timid voice caused everyone in the hall to turn and look at her.
Only Jiang Yingli held the teacup tightly in her hand, without moving her hairpin at all.
Xu Nianya saw Jiang Yingli at first sight. She was too familiar with Jiang Yingli's expressionless face.
This is the state she is in every time she suffers a heavy blow, her emotions are detached, neither sad nor happy.
As long as it continues for a period of time, you will definitely feel depressed, your body will deteriorate and you will become a sickly person.
However, after a few years of good life, she has become much stronger than before. She only took one morning off and went out again today. In the past, she would have cried for days.
Xu Nianya concealed the harshness in her eyes, walked to her seat with her head held high, and before sitting down, she deliberately staggered.
All the concubines knew that Xu Nian Ya had been in the emperor's bedchamber yesterday. Seeing her like this, they looked at her with an unspeakable ambiguity in their eyes.
After Xu Nianya sat down, she covered her face with her sleeves and said embarrassedly, "I didn't know before that serving in the bedroom is such a hard job."
These words did not sound interesting to the concubines who did not sleep with the emperor. Song Wanyan and Shen Meiren looked at each other and sensed suspicion in each other's eyes.
This guy...did he really sleep with me?
How could Your Majesty allow such a fool to get close to you?
The first person to answer was Su Qingrong.
She clenched her handkerchief the moment she heard Xu Nianya's meaningful words, but she didn't want others to notice anything unusual, so she snorted coldly and said in a casual tone:
"It's only been one night and you're already complaining about being tired. If you didn't know, you'd think you'd been called up several times in a row."
Xu Nianya had long heard that Su Qingrong was a troublemaker and not easy to mess with, so she didn't respond for a while.
However, her goal had been achieved.
Xu Nianya glanced sideways at Jiang Yingli and saw that her hands holding the teacup were turning white from the exertion.
If there weren't so many people around, it would have been difficult for her to display her power. Otherwise, if she had said a few more words to her, she would have collapsed.
Zheng Baolin sat silently opposite Xu Nianya, observing her every expression in detail.
Xu Nianya's subtle expressions and movements told her that she was too jealous of her cousin Jiang Yingli. She was obviously not as good as her in any way, but she wanted to surpass her all the time.
Zheng Baolin stared at Xu Nianya, his eyes becoming increasingly cold.
It turns out that my thoughts were so easy to understand in the past.
It's so ugly that it's visible at a glance.
Xu Nian Ya in front of her made her feel like she was looking in a mirror.
She couldn't look at her any longer, or she would strangle her to death.
Zheng Baolin lowered his eyes, hiding the disgust in his eyes.
After the morning meeting, Xu Nianya, who was almost unable to hold on, just wanted to return to Jinxiu Palace as soon as possible.
Zheng Baolin in the crowd followed her unconsciously.
Zheng Baolin was originally lost in thought, but he discovered that Xu Nianya's walking posture was very strange, with most of her body leaning on the palace maid.
Zheng Baolin remembered the day when Jiang Yingli took her out of Qixiang Palace. Who would do that unless she was too weak to walk?
Zheng Baolin became suspicious and changed from following Xu Nianya unconsciously to following her intentionally.
Xu Nian Ya's knees hurt so much that she broke out in a cold sweat and she was completely unaware of the movement behind her. Moreover, although the path she was walking on was a small one, it was occupied by people, so she didn't find it strange to see someone walking behind her.
When they reached the back of a rockery, Xu Nianya couldn't hold on any longer and slowly sat down while leaning against the rockery.
The maidservant following her said, "My lady, this won't work. I'd better bring you some medicine. Apply it on the wound and it will feel better."
Xu Nianya nodded, "Go quickly."
Zheng Baolin saw that the only palace maid who followed Xu Nianya had also walked away. Xu Nianya was still sitting with her back against the rockery and facing her. A dark thought suddenly emerged in her mind.
As if possessed by some mysterious force, Zheng Baolin approached Xu Nianya little by little with light steps, and slowly stretched out his hand towards her back.
The next second, the lotus pond with a faint green color splashed water, and Xu Nianya's scream suddenly rang out.
Zheng Baolin's heart was pounding. She used the rockery to cover herself tightly, and even held the hem of her skirt in her hands to prevent it from being blown away by the wind and seen by Xu Nianya in the water.
The noise in the water became quieter and quieter. The moment Xu Nianya completely stopped moving, Zheng Baolin was shaking like a sieve.
With the right time, place and people, she could kill her own ugly shadow so easily.
After looking around and finding no one noticed, Zheng Baolin suppressed his pounding heart, passed through the stone cave in the rockery, and hurried away from another place.
After a while, a string of bubbles emerged from the calm lotus pond.
Xu Nianya suddenly emerged from the water, splashing water everywhere. Her clothes and hair were all wet and stuck to each other, dripping with water.
She soaked in the water, and it seemed as if she couldn't even feel the pain in her knees. Her whole body was cold to the bone.
Who is it? Who is it that wants to harm her as soon as she enters the palace!
If she hadn't been able to swim, she would have died right here. Her path to glory would have been ruined before it even began.
That person is so vicious!
If she hadn't faked her death, I'm afraid that the moment she found out she was not dead, she would have been so mad that she would have drowned herself in the pool again.
Xu Nianya climbed up the shore dripping wet, her whole body trembling. She opened her tightly clenched palms, and found a small purse inside.
She subconsciously pulled it off by reaching back with her hand the moment she entered the water.
Fortunately, she did not let go when she was on the verge of life and death, otherwise she would not be able to fish anything out of such a big pond.
Xu Nianya looked at the exquisitely embroidered purse, and resentment crept into her eyes.
Well, since she didn’t die, she deserves to die!
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