Chapter 486 (2/2)

She had no idea that the e Zhu's words and wanted to seek out some of her past radiance

”Search carefully!” The e but was unable to find itShe was generous, and now her servants had taken advantage of thatShe had also faintly heard that there were some fellows in the Palace whose hands and feet were unclean, but she had not thought that these people would be so daring as to stretch their hands into the Eastern Palace

Thinking of how she was alone and without support in the Royal Palace, and now these servants were riding above her, the eerIn a dark voice, she said to the row of kneeling eunuchs and serving girls in front of her, ”If you can't find it in the treasury, then search every roo people were unpleasantThey were all wondering if this was a preparation to search the palaceThe three eunuchs to the right were scared pale and terrified because the small and old iteled out and sold by themThe piece of jade the e them

Fortunately, everyone was terrified by the eAll of the of these eunuchs' hearts

The eht hand down heavily on the tableThe ereat rage, she said, ”If you discover who has been stealing, there is no need to report toZhu lowered his head and looked at the shattered pieces of the e to hi orth far more than that piece of jadeHowever, he knew that the e this opportunity to clean out the palace, so he couldn't say anythingHe bowed slightly and accepted his ordersHe then led soirls and eunuchs to search the Palace

In a flash, footsteps rang out from the back of the side roo opened and cabinets e outIt was just like a search, and it filled people with unspeakable fear

Those serving girls and eunuchs aiting patiently outside the doors for the orders of fate were not very worried, not even the three eunuchs who had done this because they had done this h to hide the taboo object in their own room

However, it looked like someone was indeed this stupid

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The three eunuchs were shockedThe serving girl who had worn a proud expression as she watched the crowd suddenly became pale and said in a sharp voice, ”It's notZhu did not personally join in the searchWhen he saw a eunuch find that piece of jade froh and shake his head as he looked at that serving girl

This serving girl was the one who had delivered the cloth to Guangxin Palace earlierHer face was pale, and her eyes ildWith a crash, she knelt in front of Hong Zhu and said in a shaky voice, ”Eunuch Hong… this has nothing to do withto do with me…”

The three eunuchs who had stolen the piece of jade , Hadn't this piece of jade already been sold out of the Palace? How could it suddenly appear in the Eastern Palace and in the hands of that serving girl? Cold sweat immediately poured down the eunuchs' backsWith the appearance of the ite later?

Hong Zhu furrowed his brows and looked at the serving girl kneeling in front of hihed and said, ”Bind her and wait for the Mistress to decide”

A few slightly sturdier eunuchs caroundThey then used heirl was already terrified out of her ed and had never seen this piece of jade before

Hong Zhu shook his head and went forward to the palace to debriefThe three eunuchs htly braver one follow behind Hong ZhuHe lowered his voice and said, ”Sir, earlier, the Mistress intended for us to find the item and then directly kill the thief… If you talk to the Mistress right now, she s difficult for you”

Hong Zhu stopped his steps”This matter is too importantIt's best to wait for the mistress to speakFor us servants, it's better to not be too interfering”

A streak of disappointht to use Hong Zhu's hand to directly kill the serving girlThen, regardless of how that piece of hade once again entered the Palace, as long as she was dead and the jade had returned, it was impossible for it to be linked for hi Zhu would still seek the empress's orders

”TheZhu slanced at his from the Eastern Palace by herselfThere has to be so her hide itEven if she doesn't have so her… after the inner court questions her carefully, ill definitely find clues as to the origin of this itein… If this is truly investigated, it will single out all three of themHowever, noZhuHe only said, probingly, ”I wonder how the Mistress will punish this”

”If we really find the scourge in the Palace… beaten to death would be pretty goodI would be worried about being thrown into prison and having those freaks frohed

The eunuch's mind spunHe sed in terror”This is, after all, a Palace ated by the internal court and the Overwatch Council, I'm afraid… the Mistress would lose faceWhy don't we… investigate it ourselves first?”

Hong Zhu seemed to have been moved by these words and slanted his eyes at himCoincidentally, he saw the murderous intent in the eunuch's eyes and smiledHe nodded his head and ordered, ”Question her carefully”

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Once they reached the bedrooed his toneHe told the eed her to be er was praying these daysIf soht ryAfter hearing Hong Zhu's argu that piece of jade in her hands and slowly stroking it, she furrowed her brows and said, ”That is reasonableShe may be able to escape the death sentence, but she will have to suffer in lifeGive the order to have her heavily beaten!”

Hong Zhu took the orderAs he prepared to go, the e? Just give the order… You stay hereI have long heard you praise your clever handsWeave a golden cage and hang up this piece of jade”

The e could be heard in her voiceHong Zhu was overjoyed in his heart, thinking, If he had headed the questioning, he ht have become implicated

After an indeterminable amount of time, a eunuch knelt with an unco Zhu furrowed his brows and went to listen to himHis expression also became uncomfortable

He moved closer to the empress's ear and quietly said a feords

The eust, ”So unlucky… if she couldn't stand the beating, it would have been fineAt least she had some sense of shas…” thisher out and burned”

Hong Zhu's heart trembledHe knew that in the eyes of these nobles, servants like his to be ordered around and played withTheir lives orth no more than that of antsHe silently bent his body and went to organize the serving girl's funeral irl's death was not as sied to question her earlier must have secretly killed her in order to keep her silent and protect his wealth, life, and property

Since this was so Zhu had planned, he was not very surprisedHe only felt a gliirl

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The Qing Royal Palace was very expansiveIt took up a quarter of the area of JingdouInside it lived the most honorable men and women, but it also had the lowliest women and people ere neither man nor womanIn this cold Palace, countless stories happened every dayNo one kne ely without a sound, and there was no one to re royal family was not famously cruel, the strict barriers between classes destined the Royal Palace to forever be a place where each person fought for theirl in the Eastern Palace did not draw anyone's attentionThere was just an extra body on the Jingle Hall's burning plainsA girl in the embroidery office, fortunately, received the opportunity to enter the Eastern Palace to serve the e Zhu tell jokes every dayThe eer continued to fast, and the Crown Prince continued to study the ways of governance every day and to go to Guangxin Palace to ask the Eldest Princess for advice

Everything was as nore family, if someone asks from the outside, it will never be all at once because the foundations are strongHowever, if the faan to act and suspect, and there is conflict, then they are not far from the day of their death”

On the newly constructed riverbanks in Yingzhou, Fan Xian looked at the Great River flowing east and said thoughtfully, ”Thousands of li of riverbanks destroyed by an ant hole; a thousand years or clan, destroyed by a thought”

He turned his head and said to the dark-skinned Yang Wanli, ”I a about the riverbank you repaired or the Ming fas clearlyHe meant that in terirl diedIn a few more days, once the rumors started, the Ee deathGiven his suspicious nature, he would certainly notice there were many problems

On the surface, the royal family appeared calirl's death, it would spiral into unexpected upheaval

Chapter 486 The Death Of A Palace Serving GirlTranslator Nyoi Bo Studio Editor Nyoi Bo StudioSpring arrived in FebruaryFlowers bloo on the time of dayUntil the flowers bloomed toward the sky, one tePeople often wondered where is the sense of spring, the spirit of spring They were planted on people s clothingThose flowers blooed en cloth the empress in the Eastern Palace ordered had finally arrived in the PalaceThere were countless yards, and it needed the labor of countless eunuchsThe person who had brought the cloths into the Palace was Hong ZhuFor the si up the cloth and the heavy labor work, he was too lazy to do it himselfHe stayed in the Eastern Palace and noticed that the Crown Prince was not thereAs he carefully rance pot to prevent the incense froirls to work ently and to quickly spread out the three layers ofto read in a rant breeze blew in, and the inner curtain was liftedBlack browed, red lipped, and with a pair of smooth and slanted eyes, the empress walked out weaklyShe leaned on the low couch, drank the already steeped scented tea, and read the book in her handThe book was a novel published by the Danbo bookstoreAlthough the empress hated Fan Xian with a passion and was terrified of hi standards in her recreationsAfter reading a few pages, the e Zhu was standing behind the e on her frail body with his particularly clean fistsThe e Zhu s tact, carefulness, and considerate service, particularly, his skill in eHowever, she did not close her eyes in enjoyment, as usual, rather, she stared at the book in front of her in a dazeMistress, what are you thinking about Hong Zhu shtly and saidCoirls were like ants in the mudWhen normal people saw a noble like the empress, they would always be terrified to even make a loud noiseThey were always timid and respectful, as if they wished they could co Zhu had once received Fan Xian s teachingsHe also felt that although these people looked to have high and powerful positions, dressed and ate well, and had little to be discontented with, these nobles easily felt suffocation in the palace, loneliness and uneasiness, and liked to have so Zhu was in the royal study, he was different fro eunuchsHe would not always lower his eyes and never forgot his servile appearanceRather, he was respectfully and a bitwith ic was simpleThe nobles in the palace also needed to talkHowever, their status meant that they did not have any close friends hom they could talkIf the eunuchs, ere always at their side, did not appear vulgar, were not coy or suspicious, theirZhu was liked by sothe e Zhu and sighedI was just thinking it s rather irritating to stay in the Palace all dayAunt is busy fasting and reading prayers, so I don t haveZhu smiled and said, Your servant can chat with you for a bitIt was imperative that he said servant, but there must not be a subservient expression on his faceOtherwise, if the master or mistress saw the subservient servant, their only desire would be to hit hihtsWhat can you talk about the ereat interestHow about you tellaround like you did a few days ago After Hong Zhu s family was ruined by a corrupt official, he and his brother escaped to JiaozhouIn those years, they had suffered endlessly and saw plenty of the joys and sorrows of lifeSpeaking of experience, his was far richer than those nobles who had grown up in royal faar secrets, little ru the coHong Zhu told her about the true jokes that he had heard while wandering on the road related to the girls in a brothelHowever, he was in the Royal Palace, and the person listening to the story was the mother of a nation, so he told the story with particular care, not daring to say anything too explicitAs the empress listened to this story, her eyes twinkledShe save a yawn to hide itShe was in front of Hong Zhu, so he couldn t seeHe only found it strange that the eAfter all, he was very youngHe had no idea that no s in their heads were not much different fro the story, the ehed and said, The cohHowever, they can see so Zhu iven Mistress status, ever since you were young This very naturally brought the conversation onto the empress s childhoodFor a ht of how the present Emperor, when she was a child, was still a boy careful with his words and smiles, but they seemed to have the occasionally joyful moht of the prince her fadou ran red with bloodHer es of sorroelled in herHong Zhu carefully controlled his word and watched the fluttering of the empress s eyelashesHe then turned the contents of his words to the little playthings the e herself that she could not tell a servant so e the subject, she relaxed and began to count with great fa Zhu finally successfully, and without leaving any traces, made her reht into the Royal Palace froestured as to the size of the piece of jade and soodOf course, it couldn t co MountainHowever, it was an iteifted to my family by the previous Emperor, so it has the Emperor s mark carved on itIt can t be worn outside and had to be kept aThe eh she earing thick winter clothing, her finger still sank into the plu with herI don t think I ve seen Mistress wear it in the PalaceAlthough that piece of jade was gentle, the green is too light Back in the day, I often wore it beforeZhu said, Mistress is beautiful and no less so than the pastThere is little difference to a young girl No ht flashed through the empress s eyesShe lowered her voice to yell, Your words are beco Zhu s expression becareat shockHe quickly slapped hilimmer of a satisfied smile at the corners of the e thicker and thicker in her eyesThe empress learned of the entry of the embroidered cloths into the Palace, but, naturally, she did not worry sThe Palace would send it to the various palaces based on rankingThe eer would be the first, and the concubines with ranking would each receive soxin PalaceAlthough the empress did not htly for her son s sakeMeanwhile, a side room in the Eastern Palace was busy with the distribution of the clothHong Zhu was serving the e at hand, he stood outside the door and stared at the slender serving girls rushi+ng aroundHis gaze swept over the serving girls plump and perky behindsSuddenly, he felt pain at his waist and turned his head to see that a char ferociously at himHe couldn t help but scold in a low voice, Xiu er, are you crazy There are so irl, as so bold as to pinch the head eunuch of the Eastern Palace, was the Xiu er that Fan Xian had once heard aboutShe was also a co Zhu had found in the loneliness of the PalaceXiu er bit her botto Are you sure you know this is the Palace Hong Zhu chuckled and said a few soothing wordsHe thought to himself that since he was a eunuch, he could only satisfy his cravings with his eyes and fingersWhat was there to be jealous about He didn t thinkand asked, What are you doing here His heart suddenly ju you to the various palaces to deliver the cloth Xiu er looked at his nervous expression with curiosity and said, a little startled, No For some reason, the empress suddenly re ti Zhu relaxed a bit and carefully asked, What itereen piece of jade, Xiu er pouted and saidSo to her and made her remember this itemIt hasn t been used in so many years, where am I to find it in an instant If I don t find it, hoill I explain it to the e Zhu was overjoyedHe knew that his words froht to look for that piece of jadeA serving girl covered her srily, What are you sue and said, Can only you two sdoht, but it was also not as dark and terrifying as described by some novelsParticularly in the Eastern Palace, the empress are of her weakness and helplessness, so she purposely put in entle toward the serving girls and eunuchs and was not very harsh in front of the EHong Zhu was also a very careful personEven now, as the head eunuch, he was not arrogant and bossy toward those below hiirl dared toZhu sirl, as well as the little eunuch behind her holding two rolls of superior clothThe serving girl giggled and bowedThis is being delivered to Guangxin PalaceHong Zhu nodded with a s Zhui erTo be able to have a faure in the Eastern PalaceShe led the two little eunuchs to Guangxin PalaceShe knew the Eldest Princess habit and waved her hands to have the two eunuchs wait outsideLaboriously, she took the embroidered cloth and went inInside the palace were the Eldest Princess serving girls, who took the the empress, the Eldest Princess casually said a feords with the serving girl, asked after the exin Palace was quiet and empty, only then did the Eldest Princess turn behind the screen and looked at the Crown Prince, whose face was filled with a content expressionShe smiled warmly and said, Have you memorized The Three Ways to Govern a Country The Crown Prince stared at her in a daze and noddedGently, he held the Eldest Princess soft hands and lifted them to the side of his face like they were a delicate and easily broken piece of jadeHe rubbed them back and forth and said in a quiet voice, Qian er has already ently tapped the place between his broith her fingerLooking at the familiar mark between the Crown Prince s brows, for so his face between her hands, her eyes twinkledShe gently said, Good, now recite it for auntIn the Eastern Palace, the eirl had searched for a long time and still had not found that piece of jadeThis made the empress s mood very badXiu er stopped in fear beside the empress and wondered why her mistress was so set on this piece of jade todayShe had no idea that the e Zhu s words and wanted to seek out some of her past radianceSearch carefully The e but was unable to find itShe was generous, and now her servants had taken advantage of thatShe had also faintly heard that there were some fellows in the Palace whose hands and feet were unclean, but she had not thought that these people would be so daring as to stretch their hands into the Eastern PalaceThinking of how she was alone and without support in the Royal Palace, and now these servants were riding above her, the eerIn a dark voice, she said to the row of kneeling eunuchs and serving girls in front of her, If you can t find it in the treasury, then search every roo people were unpleasantThey were all wondering if this was a preparation to search the palaceThe three eunuchs to the right were scared pale and terrified because the small and old iteled out and sold by themThe piece of jade the e themFortunately, everyone was terrified by the eAll of the of these eunuchs heartsThe eht hand down heavily on the tableThe ereat rage, she said, If you discover who has been stealing, there is no need to report toZhu lowered his head and looked at the shattered pieces of the e to hi orth far more than that piece of jadeHowever, he knew that the e this opportunity to clean out the palace, so he couldn t say anythingHe bowed slightly and accepted his ordersHe then led soirls and eunuchs to search the PalaceIn a flash, footsteps rang out from the back of the side roo opened and cabinets e outIt was just like a search, and it filled people with unspeakable fearThose serving girls and eunuchs aiting patiently outside the doors for the orders of fate were not very worried, not even the three eunuchs who had done this because they had done this h to hide the taboo object in their own roomHowever, it looked like someone was indeed this stupidThe three eunuchs were shockedThe serving girl who had worn a proud expression as she watched the crowd suddenly became pale and said in a sharp voice, It s notZhu did not personally join in the searchWhen he saw a eunuch find that piece of jade froh and shake his head as he looked at that serving girlThis serving girl was the one who had delivered the cloth to Guangxin Palace earlierHer face was pale, and her eyes ildWith a crash, she knelt in front of Hong Zhu and said in a shaky voice, Eunuch Hong this has nothing to do withto do with me The three eunuchs who had stolen the piece of jade , Hadn t this piece of jade already been sold out of the Palace How could it suddenly appear in the Eastern Palace and in the hands of that serving girl Cold sweat immediately poured down the eunuchs backsWith the appearance of the ite Zhu furrowed his brows and looked at the serving girl kneeling in front of hihed and said, Bind her and wait for the Mistress to decideA few slightly sturdier eunuchs caroundThey then used heirl was already terrified out of her ed and had never seen this piece of jade beforeHong Zhu shook his head and went forward to the palace to debriefThe three eunuchs htly braver one follow behind Hong ZhuHe lowered his voice and said, Sir, earlier, the Mistress intended for us to find the item and then directly kill the thief If you talk to the Mistress right now, sheZhu stopped his stepsThis matter is too importantIt s best to wait for the mistress to speakFor us servants, it s better to not be too interferingA streak of disappointht to use Hong Zhu s hand to directly kill the serving girlThen, regardless of how that piece of hade once again entered the Palace, as long as she was dead and the jade had returned, it was impossible for it to be linked for hi Zhu would still seek the empress s ordersTheZhu sh courage to steal things from the Eastern Palace by herselfThere has to be so her hide itEven if she doesn t have so her after the inner court questions her carefully, ill definitely find clues as to the origin of this itein If this is truly investigated, it will single out all three of themHowever, noZhuHe only said, probingly, I wonder how the Mistress will punish thisIf we really find the scourge in the Palace beaten to death would be pretty goodI would be worried about being thrown into prison and having those freaks frohedThe eunuch s mind spunHe sed in terrorThis is, after all, a Palace ated by the internal court and the Overwatch Council, I ate it ourselves first Hong Zhu seemed to have been moved by these words and slanted his eyes at himCoincidentally, he saw the murderous intent in the eunuch s eyes and smiledHe nodded his head and ordered, Question her carefullyOnce they reached the bedrooed his toneHe told the eed her to be er was praying these daysIf soht ryAfter hearing Hong Zhu s argu that piece of jade in her hands and slowly stroking it, she furrowed her brows and said, That is reasonableShe may be able to escape the death sentence, but she will have to suffer in lifeGive the order to have her heavily beaten Hong Zhu took the orderAs he prepared to go, the e Just give the order You stay hereI have long heard you praise your clever handsWeave a golden cage and hang up this piece of jadeThe e could be heard in her voiceHong Zhu was overjoyed in his heart, thinking, If he had headed the questioning, he ht have become implicatedAfter an indeterminable amount of time, a eunuch knelt with an unco Zhu furrowed his brows and went to listen to himHis expression also became uncomfortableHe moved closer to the empress s ear and quietly said a feordsThe eust, So unlucky if she couldn t stand the beating, it would have been fineAt least she had some sense of shas thisher out and burnedHong Zhu s heart trembledHe knew that in the eyes of these nobles, servants like his to be ordered around and played withTheir lives orth no more than that of antsHe silently bent his body and went to organize the serving girl s funeral irl s death was not as sied to question her earlier must have secretly killed her in order to keep her silent and protect his wealth, life, and propertySince this was so Zhu had planned, he was not very surprisedHe only felt a gli Royal Palace was very expansiveIt took up a quarter of the area of JingdouInside it lived the most honorable men and women, but it also had the lowliest women and people ere neither man nor womanIn this cold Palace, countless stories happened every dayNo one kne ely without a sound, and there was no one to re royal family was not famously cruel, the strict barriers between classes destined the Royal Palace to forever be a place where each person fought for theirl in the Eastern Palace did not draw anyone s attentionThere was just an extra body on the Jingle Hall s burning plainsA girl in the embroidery office, fortunately, received the opportunity to enter the Eastern Palace to serve the e Zhu tell jokes every dayThe eer continued to fast, and the Crown Prince continued to study the ways of governance every day and to go to Guangxin Palace to ask the Eldest Princess for adviceEverything was as nore family, if someone asks from the outside, it will never be all at once because the foundations are strongHowever, if the faan to act and suspect, and there is conflict, then they are not far from the day of their deathOn the newly constructed riverbanks in Yingzhou, Fan Xian looked at the Great River flowing east and said thoughtfully, Thousands of li of riverbanks destroyed by an ant hole a thousand years or clan, destroyed by a thoughtHe turned his head and said to the dark skinned Yang Wanli, I a about the riverbank you repaired or the Ming fas clearlyHe meant that in terirl diedIn a few more days, once the rumors started, the Ee deathGiven his suspicious nature, he would certainly notice there were many problemsOn the surface, the royal family appeared calirl s death, it would spiral into unexpected upheaval