Chapter 004 I understand~~I understand everything
"Your Highness! What are you doing? What did I do wrong, Your Highness?"
The breeze twisted Jiangxue's arms, making her unable to move.
The heart-wrenching cries echoed in the hall, disturbing Qin Zhaoyue's interest in eating.
It was a hot summer day and I returned home suddenly, so the kitchen was not too complicated. There were only twelve neatly arranged celadon lotus-petal plates on the table.
Four appetizers: crystal shrimp jelly, agate cherry cheese, amber fermented shad, and cold-soaked locust leaf noodles.
They are all small dishes, mainly appetizers.
Especially the agate cherry cheese, which is made of wine-soaked cherries with pitted cherries and stuffed with custard and rose sauce, and the bottom of the agate bowl is topped with crushed lychee smoothie.
This one bite is refreshing and leaves a lingering fragrance on your lips and teeth.
The main course consists of three delicacies: white jade mutton-fat cake, silk-wrapped pumpkin soup, and a five-ingredient plate consisting of ham, deer shank, rabbit breast, goose feet, and chicken marrow.
The Golden Pumpkin Cup with Threaded Silk is a pumpkin cup with hollow carvings of lotus patterns, filled with chilled crab meat and bird's nest soup, with the crab paste solidified into gold foil floating on the soup surface.
Qin Zhaoyue almost cried after taking a bite of that taste.
Is this something she deserves to eat since she eats in the cafeteria and eats fast food all year round?
In addition to the main dishes, there are also two iced drinks and three stacks of sweet ice.
An ordinary, hasty lunch at the princess's residence was really ordinary!
Qin Zhaoyue was starving, so Kuku ate a lot of food, filling his stomach like a cow chewing a peony.
After eating all five kinds of dishes, I finally took a sip of the Snow-Pao Spleen-Reducing Drink, feeling very satisfied.
Because the princess had been ignoring her, Jiangxue gradually stopped wailing, but now she started to cry out again.
"Your Highness, I risked my life to drug Master Pei, and then accidentally led him to the side hall.
But when I turned around, I found that His Highness had abandoned me and returned to the palace. I don’t know what I did wrong to anger His Highness...”
These words were spoken with tears in his eyes and in a very sad and miserable manner.
Oh, it was just this thing that actually fooled the original body into believing in slander and really planning to defile himself and tie the Prime Minister's Mansion to a boat.
He didn't even consider his own strength and whether his small broken boat could accommodate the prime minister of the dynasty.
This shows that the empress really did not value the original owner, otherwise she would not allow him to act so absurdly and not even have a decent companion, chief secretary, or clerk around him.
Oh, I have invited him before, but the original owner got angry and ran away.
Well, you reap what you sow.
Qin Zhaoyue, who had just had a simple meal, suddenly felt less resentful, but he still had to take care of the final step.
She has watched many costume dramas, but she considers herself not good at the push and pull of boudoir life, and she always believes in repaying grievances with honesty.
It wasn't her style to keep an unfaithful maid by her side and slowly plot things.
"Does Jiangxue have any other relatives?"
"Your Highness, her mother is in charge of the kitchen and purchasing, her father is in charge of the carriages, and she has a brother who works in the pawnshop under the Princess's residence."
"Oh, they're all lucrative jobs."
As the princess's personal maid and first-class servant, she naturally had a respectable status and her household arrangements were very clear.
"Get everyone here."
"Your Highness! What did this servant do wrong, Your Highness?"
Qin Zhaoyue didn't even look at her. "That's enough. The fact that you can still ask this question shows that you haven't realized the problem yet."
Too lazy to listen to her howling any longer, he asked the servants to cover her mouth.
Drinking an ice drink calmly, with Taoyao fanning me by my side, I don’t feel the summer heat.
He lay on the couch in a daze for a while until the arrestee was brought into the court.
"Jiangxue, what did you do to make His Highness angry?"
"Your Highness, please don't argue with Jiangxue. Tell me what she did wrong. I will punish her when I get back."
"If you do something wrong, admit it!"
This family sounds very sensible.
Qin Zhaoyue waved his hand and took the handkerchief from Jiangxue's mouth. "This is your chance to speak. Think carefully and say it. If you say it wrong..."
She pointed at the three people beside Jiangxue and said, "Kill one at random."
His tone was calm, but he spoke terrifying words.
Just as Jiangxue was about to speak to defend herself, she was stunned and her pupils trembled.
The Sixth Princess has always acted without restraint, and she didn't dare to bet whether this was true or not.
The three people who had just been actively admonishing Jiangxue fell silent, and the entire hall was filled with silence.
"After all, we are master and servant. I'll give you a piece of advice. Don't mention Zheng Huiyin.
I didn't enter this game just to lure out a fool like this."
Taoyao and Yingnuo looked at each other and suddenly realized, is this the case?
This is bullshit. Taking in everyone's reactions, Qin Zhaoyue secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
This move was to forcibly restore the original owner's reputation, and was also the final step to eliminate the impact of the "incident of the prime minister's legitimate son being overpowered by drugs".
When Jiangxue heard this, cold sweat broke out on her back and her body trembled uncontrollably.
I see, it turns out the Sixth Princess has known it all along!
"Your Highness..." In panic, she met Qin Zhaoyue's gaze and found that his eyes were calm.
She had served His Highness for many years, but this was a look she had never seen before. His extreme calmness actually frightened her to the extreme.
"I...I was bewitched. The owner of a medicine store gave me fifty taels to...to spread slanderous rumors. He even gave me the medicine."
"Your Highness! I was wrong. I was possessed by a ghost for a moment. Please give me another chance!"
"Fresh breeze."
"I'm here."
"Follow the clues."
"yes!"
A family of four was taken away. Regardless of whether the person behind the scenes could be found, at least the original owner's stupid behavior was covered up.
Qin Zhaoyue let out a long breath and smiled with relief. He was done!
Just when she was about to stroll around her back garden, the steward of the front yard came to announce that someone from the palace had arrived.
Soon, an old eunuch walked into the hall.
Wow! Qin Zhaoyue knew it was no small matter at a glance. This person was Su Quan, the chief eunuch in front of the emperor, and an old minister who served the queen mother when she was in the palace.
"Your Highness," Su Quan bowed, "His Majesty has a verbal order to summon you to the palace."
Qin Zhaoyue jumped up from the couch and walked over in two steps. "Eunuch Su, why do I have to ask you to come here in person just to announce an oral order?"
Uh... Su Quan was a little dumbfounded. He had never been so polite before.
Before he could reply, he saw the Sixth Princess winking at the person beside him.
Tao Yao was stunned on the spot, blinking at her Royal Highness the Princess.
"Why are you blinking? Do you have an eye disease? Hurry and give me the silver."
Taoyao felt aggrieved. The princess's mansion usually didn't have those things prepared, so she could only take out things from her own purse and offer them with both hands.
Looking at the purse stuffed into his hand, Su Quan was stunned.
I must have come to the Sixth Princess's residence to announce the imperial decree dozens of times. When have I ever received any reward money?
"Your Highness, this is not possible!" Su Quan admitted. He was a little scared and refused without thinking.
"Hey," Qin Zhaoyue waved his hand, "Eunuch Su, we've known each other for many years. You actually watched me grow up."
"Your Highness is of noble status, and I am merely an old servant who has served Your Majesty for a longer time."
"I know, I know." Qin Zhaoyue pushed away his rejecting hand and gave him a look that could only mean something.
The old eunuch trembled and didn't understand.
It’s not that he was afraid of the Sixth Princess. According to her identity and status, there were three princesses and two princes above her.
It's just that the others were all polite to him, but the one in front of him...
If she is unhappy, she won't care about his status as the chief eunuch in front of the emperor, and she might even raise a knife or whip him.
"Well... Eunuch Su, His Majesty summoned me to the palace..."
So he was just asking about this. "Your Majesty's thoughts are beyond the reach of this old servant."
"I understand. How is the Queen Mother feeling? Is it sunny or rainy?"
It’s hard to describe the look in Su Quan’s eyes. Doesn’t he have any idea whether he’s in a good or bad mood?
He thought he had a good memory, but the last time His Majesty summoned the Sixth Princess to the palace to praise her... he really couldn't remember it.
"Your Highness, please think about what you have done today."
Key point: Today. Qin Zhaoyue understood immediately.
My goodness, it hasn’t been long since then and the news has already reached the palace. I don’t know whether it was someone from the Duke’s Mansion who filed a complaint or it was discovered by the Empress’s spies.
Alas... Qin Zhaoyue sighed, forget it, this hurdle will have to be passed sooner or later, the sooner it is passed, the sooner you can feel at ease.
She reached out, silently took the purse back, and handed it back to Taoyao.
Su Quan, with an empty left hand:?
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