Palace Scheming: the Queen In the Cold Palace I

Chapter 19 How many times of harm are there (2)

"Quick, don't let that **** girl get away. It's really lawless. You dare to break into our Shang Palace Bureau and make trouble... Hiss, ouch, ouch..." Fugui was shocked by the sudden incident in front of him and slapped his palm heavily. Xiang Gongzhu, who was beside him, immediately jumped up in pain and groaned.

But Bi Tao dragged Yun Qing and ran around desperately, not knowing how far she ran. It wasn't until the sounds of pursuit behind her could no longer be heard that Bi Tao looked back and saw that no one was following her, then she dared to stop and take a big mouthful. The ground gasped.

Yun Qing was also out of breath from running. After she stopped, she looked at Bi Tao who was sweating profusely and burst into laughter.

"Little... miss, why are you still... smiling?" Bi Tao gasped and looked at Yun Qing in surprise, and was shocked that she actually had a smile on her face.

"No, I just think Bitao is so brave! The posture you held just now could have blocked ten with one. Haha, I can't help but think to myself, how wonderful it would be for Bitao to be a man, so that those snobbish minions with their claws wouldn't be exposed. You're bullying us." Yun Qing smiled slightly and gasped softly against the palace wall, but his voice was much calmer.

"Miss..." Bi Tao couldn't help but blush at Yun Qing's pleasure. She carefully pulled up Yun Qing's sleeves and saw the traces of the **** on her white arms. She couldn't help but feel distressed, " I'm sorry, it was Bitao who was useless and failed to protect the young lady..."

"Silly girl, I said you are very brave!" Yun Qing pulled down his sleeves and helped Bitao tidy up her clothes that were slightly messy while running, and comforted, "Don't be like this Bitao, in fact, it is me, the young lady, who should be saying sorry. It’s true that I always make you endure hardships with me, but don’t you ever complain at all?”

"Miss, how can I blame you?" Bitao couldn't help but become anxious when she saw Yunqing blaming herself. When she was about to explain, she was interrupted by an indifferent voice: "Why are you here?"

Yun Qing was startled, and turned around to see a handsome and elegant young man walking from the side door not far away.

I saw him dressed in white, with a crown of jade on his head, and his black hair was blowing in the wind. The pale face was as bloodless as ever, but it was so handsome that it made people feel as if they were banished to an immortal, and their hearts skipped a beat.

At this moment, his handsome eyes were slightly focused, as if he was surprised that Yun Qing and Bi Tao unexpectedly appeared under his eyes.

"Ah, why is it you again?" When Bi Tao saw the person in front of her, she couldn't help but frown, and quickly pulled Yun Qing away: "Miss, seeing him will definitely bring bad things to you. Either he is sinister, or he is causing Miss to be tortured." Others slander us, let’s go!”

"Bitao!" Yun Qing winked slightly to tell Bitao to stop talking, but did not answer Xuanyuan Yi's question just now. She just glanced at him lightly and left with Bitao.

She also did not expect that she and Bi Tao would accidentally run outside his palace, and by chance, they would meet him again.

 The strange thing is that his demeanor is still the same as cold as when I saw him several times, and there is no trace of his strangeness and horror that night.

This puzzled her very much. He was obviously as bright as the moon, how could he become as terrifying as a demon?

Xuanyuan Yi's eyes were deep and dark as he silently watched the two figures retreating away.

 Normally she would not leave Cuiwei Palace casually, not to mention listening to the conversation between the two just now, it seemed that she was being chased by someone and fled here in a hurry. However, who would openly want to arrest them in this palace?

 Suddenly, he looked away, as if he remembered something. With a flick of his sleeves, he turned around and returned to the palace. His handsome figure reflected a slender shadow in the sunlight.

His handsome eyebrows were slightly raised. He remembered that today was the day when they went to the Shang Palace Bureau to get their identity certificates. Could it be that...

　　When Yun Qing and Bi Tao hurried back to Cuiwei Palace, a very ominous premonition suddenly enveloped Yun Qing's heart.

The two of them saw from a distance that many people seemed to have gathered on the other side of the lake. When they reached the center of the lake with the boat, Yun Qing could clearly see several brand-new boats parked on the lake shore. Eunuch Fu, headed by him, stood gesticulating. People were ordered to search everywhere outside the palace, but Xiao Taohong was pinned down by several eunuchs and knelt down by the lake, seemingly arguing with them about something.

"Xiao Taohong!" Bi Tao was startled, she couldn't help but speed up the bamboo pole in her hand, and her voice also had a hint of panic.

Xiao Taohong also saw Yunqing and the others. She struggled to get up but was held down firmly. In desperation, she used all her strength to shout: "Miss, don't come over here. Go to Xiangning Palace to find Aunt Fangfei to help us." Queen Mother, please Queen Mother to uphold justice for us..."

 “Pah!” A loud slap fell on Xiao Taohong’s face. Bi Tao was frightened when she heard it, and Yunqing clenched her hand tightly when she saw it.

The little **** who slapped Xiao Taohong snorted angrily, and the sharp and harsh voice drifted into Yunqing's ears intermittently along with the lake breeze: "Damn girl, what are you talking about? You dare to steal Shang Gong Bureau's property privately. Don't worry! Let me tell you, the Queen Mother has handed over the entire harem to Concubine Hua. Don't think that you are so bold because you were once a member of Xiangning Palace! Hey, she doesn't care about sinful **** like you now. !”

"Xiao Taohong! Wuwu, miss, they actually bullied Xiao Taohong... They went too far." Xiao Taohong was so anxious that tears came down. When she saw Xiao Taohong being bullied, she could only watch helplessly, and she was filled with hatred. My lips were bitten.

"Eunuch Fu, I'm the only one you're looking for. Please don't embarrass Xiao Taohong. If you want to punish me, I'll beat Yun Qing here!" Yun Qing was also anxious, but he couldn't rush over to help Xiao Taohong. He only regretted that he shouldn't have done it just now. He ran away, causing the innocent Xiao Taohong to suffer because of herself.

"Hey, you think our family doesn't dare to do anything to you, right?" Fu Gui looked at Yun Qing with a dark smile, his narrow eyes filled with the pride of bullying the weak: "I tell you, our family will definitely arrest you today. Those who smuggled and stole items from the palace are guilty of petty theft in the palace. Concubine Hua has already stated that this matter must not be taken lightly, and the thief must be identified and severely punished. Hey, our family really didn't expect that you. The person who has been reduced from a queen to an abandoned queen dares to cause trouble again. She is really impatient. "

"You're talking nonsense. These things were not stolen by the lady at all, they were framed by you on purpose." Xiao Taohong stared at Fugui without fear, with a look of resentment on her face.

"Bah, Xiao Leng Gong, our family is still framed. You think too highly of yourselves." Yun Qing kicked Xiao Taohong in the heart. Yun Qing was shocked to see that Xiao Taohong's face immediately turned pale, and her eyebrows were pulled in pain. together.

"Xiao Taohong!" Yun Qing cried out in pain, but she heard a triumphant laughter coming from the other side, stimulating her and Bi Tao's eardrums like a magic sound.

"Miss...Miss, please slow down." As soon as the boat docked, Yun Qing couldn't wait for Bitao to stop and stumbled out, making Bitao scream again.

"Let go of Xiao Taohong." Yun Qing ignored the pain from accidentally twisting his ankle and rushed over to pull away the **** who was pressing Xiao Taohong hard. The anger in his eyes made several eunuchs tremble and subconsciously Let go.

"Go away, you bastards!" Bitao came down with a bamboo pole and started swinging it around, scaring the eunuchs who were laughing just now into panic. Even Fugui couldn't dodge and was hit hard by Bitao's swing. Bamboo pole.

“It’s the other way around, catch them quickly, don’t let them go crazy!” Fugui screamed and ran into the hall with his head in his hands in fright, pointing at Bitao and Yunqing and yelling.

Although the eunuchs were afraid of Bitao's bamboo pole, seeing that she was the only one there, they couldn't help but rush up to her, forcefully snatched Bitao's bamboo pole, and kicked her to the ground.

"Bitao!" Yun Qing looked at Xiao Taohong, but saw Bitao's hands being held behind her back by several eunuchs. She rushed over to help Bitao, but was blocked by several other people at the same time, unable to move forward at all.

"Fugui, what do you want? I said you just want to arrest me, why are you still embarrassing them?" Yun Qing was anxious, looking angrily at Fugui, who was busy arranging his clothes, and pointed Pinch the tip into the meat.

She knew that these people were bullying others. Without someone's support, they would never dare to be so provocative no matter how disabled she was.

 The previous deductions could be attributed to snobbery and greed for small profits, but today, the situation is by no means as simple as Yun Qing thought.

She noticed that Concubine Hua was mentioned by these people. From their tone, it seemed that as long as Concubine Hua was around, they could do whatever they wanted, regardless of what was right or wrong!

Yun Qing couldn't help but think, if they weren't too confused, it was because they were confident and did it on purpose.

 She just didn't understand. Would Concubine Hua really put people to death for her, a deposed queen? I have never thought about arguing with her, and I have never argued with her. How could she be so intolerant of me?

"How presumptuous, who do you think you are? You dare to call Eunuch Fu by his last name?" A young **** following Fugui shouted at Yun Qing in a high-pitched voice, but Fugui smiled with an evil look on his face and said: " Tsk, you are very courageous, and you are quite a bit like a queen. Haha, it’s just a pity that you are not destined to be a queen!”

He looked Yun Qing up and down. Although he was frightened by Yun Qing's fire-breathing eyes, he pretended to cough and said loudly: "Our family has no grudge against you, so naturally we will not come to arrest you for no reason. . It’s just that when you came to Shang Gong Bureau to cause trouble today, you accidentally left this -"

As he spoke, he paused deliberately, stretched out his hand to shake out an embroidered handkerchief in his sleeve, and continued: "It's this handkerchief that made our family discover that it was actually embroidered with the fine gold thread that my Shang Gong Bureau had lost in the past two days. The embroidered handkerchief is done. Hey, if you are smart, please tell us clearly so that we can get someone to report it to Concubine Hua! Otherwise, we will take all of you away and leave no one behind."

“My embroidered handkerchief!” Bitao immediately recognized it. It was the embroidered handkerchief that the lady had embroidered for herself just yesterday. There was a green peach blossom on it.

It occurred to her then that she accidentally lost the embroidered handkerchief when she was running away with the young lady.

Yun Qing was suddenly enlightened at the sight, knowing that it was the veil that had attracted these people, and his beautiful eyebrows could not help but tighten.

Just now, she had a moment of doubt as to whether someone was deliberately setting her up, but at this moment, she was no longer sure.

If someone deliberately framed me, there was no need to wait until today. The frame-up should have come to the door the next day. But it was only today that they discovered Bitao's loss of her veil. It was obvious that no one was trying to frame them.

 At least, these two parties are definitely not on the same side.

"Despicable, we didn't steal! You must have framed us on purpose! It was you villains who complained first!" Xiao Taohong cursed these people hatefully and said angrily: "Let me tell you, don't think that no one will care about the evil things you do. The Queen Mother sent me to serve the young lady, and the young lady will naturally turn around one day. Do you know why the extremely favored Concubine Hua has not been crowned the queen these days? And do you know why the Queen Mother has not been able to practice cultivation for a long time? Do you have to do Qingqiu during this period? If Eunuch Fu has any memory, he should know that the Queen Mother only leaves the palace during the summer and summer seasons. Have you ever seen the Queen Mother also need Qingqingqing during the Spring Equinox? "

Yun Qing's eyes were surprised. He didn't expect Xiao Taohong to say such a thing. He couldn't help but think slightly and understood what Xiao Taohong meant.

 In fact, she knew that during the period when Xiao Taohong and she moved here, Xiao Taohong never saw the Queen Mother or Aunt Fangfei again. The three of them sometimes chatted, and Xiao Taohong would occasionally lament that she didn't know if the Queen Mother had really forgotten them and never paid any attention to them.

 But now what Xiao Taohong says seems to be true and false, making it hard to tell how much she knows!

Sure enough, Fugui's expression changed when he heard this, and his attitude was no longer as arrogant as before. But he is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He will never give up a great opportunity to make meritorious deeds just because of Xiao Taohong's few words. His face darkened and he said sternly: "We guarantee with our wealth and life that we will never come here to frame you for no reason." You guys, you want to deny it even though the evidence is solid. Our family will give you a chance. As long as you tell the specific person who stole it, our family will never embarrass innocent people. Otherwise, you are hiding the stolen things and not repaying them. If you are guilty, our family can take you all away."

"We didn't steal, what did you ask us to do?" Bi Tao retorted loudly, struggling to escape from those people's clutches, but couldn't.

"Well, if you don't have to drink wine as a penalty for the toast, our family will help you. Xiao Jizi, take them all away to our family!" With a cold snort in his nose, Fugui raised his sleeves and asked someone to hold Bitao and others to go. Walk.

"Wait a minute, please be merciful, father-in-law. What Bitao said is indeed true. They didn't know about these things...I brought them." Yun Qing suddenly called Fugui, with a clear light in his eyes that shocked Fugui who turned around. , the smile froze on his face before he had time to put it away.

"Miss!"

"Miss..." Bi Tao and Xiao Taohong were shocked. They looked in disbelief at the fact that the lady actually admitted to taking the things. For a moment, the tears they had been holding back could no longer be controlled and fell down.

"No, miss, it was Xiao Taohong who took it. Miss, please don't take the blame for Xiao Taohong." Without thinking, Xiao Taohong took all the blame on herself and begged Eunuch Fu loudly, don't arrest Miss, just arrest her if you want. Catch her alone.

"No, it's not like that. It's Bitao's fault. It was Bitao who went to Shang Gong Bureau to get something because she was confused for a moment. It's all Bitao's fault. Please, Eunuch Fu, don't arrest the wrong person. If you want to, just arrest Bitao." Bitao Liu With tears in her eyes, she desperately tried to admit that it was her fault, and just begged them not to take the young lady away...

For a moment, the three people confessed to each other, and Yun Qing was so anxious that he shouted loudly, and his eyes could not help but turn red: "Bitao, Xiaotaohong! You are not allowed to argue anymore! I am responsible for one person's work, and I will never hurt others. Eunuch Fu, please Please distinguish between right and wrong and let them go. Everything was done by me, Yun Qing, and they didn’t know anything about it. Please don’t arrest innocent people indiscriminately.”

"Miss, don't..." Bitao burst into tears, regretting that she was not a man and could not protect the lady.

She could only desperately beg Eunuch Fu not to kidnap the young lady and admit that it was all her fault and that everything was her fault alone.

"Okay! There's no need to argue!" Fugui was finally annoyed by the three people arguing over each other. He didn't expect that someone would be competing for his confession, so he had to shout loudly, and his sinister eyes looked back and forth at Yun Qing and the other three. Scan.

 Then, his small eyes narrowed and settled on Bi Tao.

"Ahem!" He coughed lightly first, and then said in a high-pitched voice that seemed to be singing, "Well, Xiao Taohong once worked as an errand in the Queen Mother's Palace. The Queen Mother has always had very strict palace rules. I don't think she has ever stolen anything. Bad habits. Although Yun Qing was deposed later, she was still the daughter of the prime minister. I believe that the theft must not have happened to her. But you, Bi Tao, were born as a maid, and your behavior was rude and brutal. We thought about it. You must have stolen these things. So, come on, take Bitao back."

With that said, he no longer ignored the calls of Yunqing and Xiao Taohong, and ordered people to take Bitao on board.

"No, father-in-law, you can't take Bitao away! Bitao! You can't take her away..." Yun Qing felt his brain pounding. He never thought that the person Fugui wanted to take away was not him, but his sister who shared the same love with him. of Bitao.

This frightened her even more than taking her away. She rushed forward to save Bitao regardless of the consequences, but was stopped by other eunuchs. She could only watch helplessly as Bitao was carried away by those people.

"Bitao..." Tears blurred his eyes, and he clenched into a ball with heartache. Yun Qing bit his lip hard, and all the pain turned into silent crying.

Bitao, her Bitao, the Bitao she regards as her sister...

　　From a young age, she has always been willing to do anything for herself. No matter what she does, she tries her best to plan for herself... However, she has never enjoyed a day of happiness with herself, but has suffered a lot because of herself again and again...

"Miss, you don't have to worry about Bitao, Bitao is not afraid! Miss, you have to take care... Xiao Taohong, please take good care of Miss, and you must help me take good care of Miss..." Bitao burst into tears, looking at the sad look of Miss, She was really reluctant to let go.

Although she didn’t know what kind of fate she would encounter, as long as she could prevent the young lady from suffering, she would be relieved.

"No, you don't take Bitao away... You take me away, it's me who took the things, it's me! Not Bitao!" Yun Qing was so heartbroken that she couldn't breathe. Listening to the sound of Bitao fading away, she pushed hard against those things. The **** who was standing in front of him lost all his sense and just slapped those who were blocking him from saving Bitao...

"Miss, don't be like this, miss..." Xiao Taohong cried and watched Bitao being taken away. She turned around and saw the young lady so sad. She could only step forward and hug the young lady, fearing that she would also hurt herself when she pushed and beat the eunuchs. .

"Xiao Taohong, remember to take good care of the young lady for me! Pull the young lady back quickly, don't let her get hurt..." Bi Tao stood on the boat and looked at the young lady's sad look, anxious and afraid, for fear that the young lady would be hurt by those people.

The tears blurred her vision so much that she couldn't see anything in the distance, but all the past events were still vivid in her mind. She saw the time when she was young, when the young lady fought desperately with the eldest lady for the first time because of her.

 At that time, she didn’t understand how the young lady who had always tolerated everything dared to offend the eldest lady for her own sake, but since then she has become stronger. Because she swore in her heart that no matter who wanted to hurt the young lady in the future, she would protect the young lady from harm even if she risked her life.

 But now, she can only watch the young lady being sad for herself...Miss, she is really reluctant to leave the young lady, and really wants to never be separated from the young lady for the rest of her life.

 But Miss, Bitao doesn’t want Miss to be harmed in any way. Please don’t hurt yourself for Bitao, don’t let Bitao worry...

"Bitao! Bitao..." When Bitao's boat reached the middle of the lake, the eunuchs who were blocking Yunqing let go of their hands, jumped on the boat one after another, and rowed towards the lake.

 (End of this chapter)