Chapter 493 (1/2)
Chapter 493
Chapter 493: The Three Nights In The Palace
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The night was already late, and the royal study was silentThe Qing Emperor was busy with state affairs, so he showed less favor to the harehts like this one when he didn't rest in the rear of the palace and instead just slept in the royal study, so the eunuchs had long prepared everything he needed
A light breeze burrowed in froh it clearly could not reach the lantern light through the glass, for some reason, it still made the room a bit dimmer
”YesI heard that she had stolen a piece of watered jade the eAfter she was questioned, she confessed, and then found a moment to commit suicide”
Eunuch Yao very sile word more
”Watered jade?” The E of soA moment later, he s the eifted it to her faeAt that time, father had just taken the throne…the palace was in a messThis itereat deal when she was young and alore it”
He furrowed his forehead and pulled out from this rare warm memoryFaintly, he said, ”I remember there were clouds carved on it”
Eunuch Yao remained silentHe didn't knohat the Eh the eirl to death over such a s” A cold smile rose the corners of the Eenerous mistress in the Palace? A virtuous, moral, and kind mother of a nation? She had always played the role very well, so how could she have wrecked all her hard work on this little irl had committed suicide out of shame, but the Emperor directly said she had been beaten to deathEach person in the palace was cleverer than the lastEveryone knehat truths these words hid
”Secretly check what happened” The Eain and recovered his cally eternal cal a few old eunuchs in secretly investigating soThe Emperor did not seem to care too much about this matter and didn't ask for any inforht, Eunuch Yao politely reported, ”There is no probleirl's death”
The Emperor nodded and said, ”I kno”
”Only, the afternoon of the sairl, she had delivered a roll of cloth to Guangxin PalaceA day earlier, the foreign cloth the eulations, it was delivered to the various places the next day, and there was nothing strange” Eunuch Yao added
The Elanced at hiain”I kno”
”At the tixin Palace” Eunuch Yao's head could not be lowered any further
The Eently on the table and seeainInstead, he sighed and ordered, ”Have Hong Zhu co Zhu knelt in front of the Emperor's low couchThe color of his face was like dirt and his thighs trembledEven the cotton robes at the front of his body had layers of ripples on it
He wasn't pretendingHe was truly terrified…he had thought that Sir Fan junior had buried this clue very deepFurther to do with him and should allow him to leave thisin front of the Emperor
The Ehtforwardly asked, ”A serving girl in the Eastern Palace died?”
”Yes” Hong Zhu did not hesitate at allIn order to deled to suppress his lungs and tried to make his answer sound as crisp as possibleHowever, the flow of air was too strong and made his voice breakIt sounded very raspy
The sound of his reply echoed in the royal studyIt was eye-piercing and unpleasant to hearThe Emperor unconsciously furrowed his brows and said, ”Be a bit quieter…tellZhu honestly related to him why the empress rean, how they found that serving girl, who carried out the questioning, and how the serving girl co carefully but also seeaze re girl ran into the colu Zhu did not hesitate at allInside his heart, he loudly cried his good fortuneIf, at the time, the empress had not kept hiht noould certainly not be so natural
The royal study once again fell silentAfter a long ti Zhu with a not-quite-there s Zhu sed and a complicated expression of terror mixed with self-blaround, he said in a sorrowful voice, ”I have betrayed your royal favorI didn't report the serving girl's suicide promptly, I deserve death”
The Eo to the Eastern Palace to serve the empress, not to be a spyFor such a s Zhu nodded his head furiously, but he was thinking about soo, he had been chased by the Ereat favor, out of the study and into the Eastern PalaceIn the eyes of the outsiders, it was because Fan Xian had said bad things about hi this opportunity to have hioldthis year, he had been a very good spy
He comforted his timidity in his heart and forcefully raised his spiritsEven the Eed to, so what if he was a little bit shaky?
The E but he suddenly furrowed his brows and stopped his ed the subject and said, ”How has the empress treated you this year in the Eastern Palace?”
”Mistress is very generous to the servants, and everyone sub Zhu's were very artistic
The Emperor smiled and irl for the sake of a piece of jade, this…counts as being generous?”
After Hong Zhu left, Eunuch Yao stood quietly beside the Emperor and waited for his orderThe E Zhu didn't lieLooks like that there really isn't any probleirl, only…” he smiled and said, ”this process is a bit too smooth”
Eunuch Yao was shocked but understood the Ean, all kinds of strange deaths had happened a number of times in the Royal PalaceNo matter how shameful the plot or blood, they could all be covered with an open and public excuseHowever, often, when the reasons were too sufficient and the process too natural, then the death orth being suspicious about
”There are sos that I don't believe, and you shouldn't remember,” the Emperor cal come”
In this moment of fear, Eunuch Yao did not hear the E Eunuch Hong just left”
The Ehtly unhappyEunuch Yao i up the front of his robes, he ran toward the door and almost fell as he crossed the threshold
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Ever since the day Fan Xian's 300 poems caused an uproar at the feast, which was also the day that an assassin entered the Royal Palace, in the past 10 years, Eunuch Hong, who had been in the Palace since the conception of Qing Kingdom and the head eunuch at the time, became more and more silent and subduedHe only wanted to lay in the sun outside Hanguang Palace every day
However, no one in the Palace dared to underestily felt that the old eunuch was not to be tested because of his silenceEven the currently popular Hong Zhu only had his current position because of his connection to hier and Emperor maintained a certain etiquette with this old eunuch