The nib of the pen left ink marks on the snow-white paper, and the girl was sitting at the desk and writing the pen in a graceful and beautiful figure. The queen watched for a while, frowned and said, "Yingluo, do you have something on your mind?"
Wei Yingluo was stunned for a moment, and Qingxi's words appeared in her mind: "I have found out the real cause of Yingning's death. I will wait for you in the imperial garden at the third watch tonight, see you soon!"
She shook her head and replied, "Niang Niang, no."
The queen walked up to Wei Yingluo, took the brush from her fingertips, and said softly, "I'm absent-minded, you can't practice calligraphy well, are you feeling unwell?"
Wei Yingluo's heart moved, she took two steps back, and saluted, "Niangniang, this servant has something to do, I want to ask you for leave!"
In the third watch, the moonlight is like a gauze and mist, and it is caged in the tip of the flower branches.
Qingxi walked through the stone path and saw a familiar figure, it was Wei Yingluo. Seeing Wei Yingluo arriving as promised, Qingxi felt relieved, and suddenly contempt: she is a little girl, and her feelings are above reason, it's too stupid. He stepped forward and said, "Wei Yingluo!"
The girl turned to look at him, her eyes were as cold as a knife, Qingxi's heart was inexplicably cold, and she heard her scream in panic, "Someone, there's a thief!"
A group of eunuchs rushed out from all around and rushed to hold Qingxi down. Qingxi said angrily, "You guys are so bold, I'm the guard of Qianqingmen! Wei Yingluo, are you crazy?"
Wei Yingluo turned a deaf ear, and said to the other eunuchs, "Don't be afraid of him, this man left his post without permission, and ran to the Imperial Garden in the middle of the night with a wicked heart. As long as you don't kill him, there is nothing wrong with you!"
Those little eunuchs were emboldened by these words, and they really hit Qingxi with a face full of flowers. Although Qingxi has martial arts, his fists are no match for four, so they can only keep yelling.
Not far away, the lights were shining brightly, and a group of men and horses rushed over. The leader was gorgeously dressed and arrogant. It was the mighty Prince Yi Hongxiao. The dog's eyes, who dares to do it!"
When Wei Yingluo saw Prince Yi, a sneer appeared on her lips.
All the eunuchs knelt together and said in unison, tremblingly, "The servant greets Prince Yi!" Wei Yingluo also saluted in a similar manner.
Hong Xiao gave Wei Yingluo a stern look, then pulled Qingxi over and asked, "What's going on!"
Qingxi was in severe pain and bleeding from the corner of his mouth. He pointed at Wei Yingluo and said angrily, "It's Wei Yingluo! She secretly dated me to the Imperial Garden and wanted to seduce me!"
Wei Yingluo looked at Qingxi contemptuously, and asked amusingly, "Have you never looked in the mirror when you are so old?"
Qingxi touched her swollen cheeks, and said with even more hatred, "Wei Yingluo, I didn't expect you to be such a vicious woman. I came tonight to persuade you not to pay your affections by mistake, but you were so embarrassed, tangled in your hands, and acted on your hands. Hurt! Your Highness, she has already reported to you that she was dating me, you must punish this shameless palace maid!"
It was at this time that Hong Xiao was waiting, and he waved his hand: "Don't take down the people yet!"
The two guards stepped forward to take someone, Wei Yingluo was ready, and was about to speak, when she heard a clear male voice: "It's midnight, what are you doing here?"
Wei Yingluo was stunned for a moment. She looked at the place where the voice came from, and Fu Heng walked over on the road that everyone was letting out of the way.
Fu Heng was looking at her, Wei Yingluo instinctively wanted to frown and look away, but she couldn't make him suspicious, she had to face the annoying concerned gaze and return a friendly smile.
She did laugh like that.
Hong Xiao couldn't say which of Wei Yingluo and Fucha Fu Heng he hated more. He raised his eyebrows and asked in a bad tone: "Fucha Fu Heng, today is not your duty, why are you here!"
Fu Heng looked away from Wei Yingluo, smiled at Hong Xiao, and said, "Your Majesty is quite elegant tonight, he is watching the moon in the imperial garden, and he called me to talk about a game, but I didn't expect that it would not take long for me to clear up, and then I listened to it. The noise here is annoying, so I came to check it out."
Hong Xiao's expression changed slightly: "The emperor is also here? Here is a palace maid who made a private appointment with a guard. I took it on the spot and was preparing to hand it over to the Department of Penalties. I won't disturb the emperor Yaxing. Take it away!"
Fu Heng stood in front of Wei Yingluo intentionally or unintentionally, still smiling like a spring breeze on his face, and said, "The emperor is in the pavilion in front of him, Prince Yi, since the holy car is disturbed, please ask the emperor to judge!"
A crowd of people knelt down in front of the elegant pavilion. Hongli sat on the brocade mat covered by the stone bench and dropped a black mark on the chessboard. Then he turned his face and slowly asked, "Tell me, what's the trouble?" His eyes passed over Wei Yingluo and frowned.
There is a saying that goes well: the wicked first sue.
Wei Yingluo calmly watched Hong Xiao speak first: "Your Majesty, this palace maid is daring and seduces the palace guard Qi Jiaqingxi in private. Qi Jiaqingxi repeatedly refuses, but the palace maid asked him to come to the imperial garden for a private meeting at three o'clock tonight! When it comes to the report, I can't tolerate such lowly people who are lewd in the palace. The noise just now was to arrest this woman, but unexpectedly disturbing the emperor's Yaxing, it is a crime that deserves death."
Hongli looked at Wei Yingluo and asked, "Can you plead guilty?"
When Fu Heng heard that Hongli opened his mouth to Wei Yingluo to ask for his guilt, his heart skipped a beat, and his hands clenched into fists in his sleeves.
Wei Yingluo's heart was also cold. She took a deep breath, raised her head slightly, and replied, "What Your Highness said, this servant knows nothing and doesn't know how to confess."
Qingxi covered his swollen cheeks and asked, "If you didn't want to meet me, why did you come to the imperial garden in the middle of the night!"
Wei Yingluo picked up the flower basket beside her with an innocent face: "The weather is getting hotter, and the master doesn't like the smell of mosquito repellent. I came here to pick up the incense at night, and I'll bump into you, a disciple, fortunately, the empress is sympathetic. A few little eunuchs were specially dispatched to come to the Imperial Garden with me, if it was a tryst, why would I bring so many people?"
Qingxi argued: "You brought so many people to get revenge on me for rejecting you! You asked me to come to the Imperial Garden and let them beat me like a thief. This is deliberately venting their anger!" He took out a piece of rice paper and held it high: "Your Majesty, the slaves have evidence. This is a letter sent by Wei Yingluo, please take a look at it."
Seeing this farce, Hongli said with sullen interest: "Bring it up." Li Yu unfolded the paper and presented it to Hongli.
On the snow-white rice paper was written a line of words: Tonight at the third watch, the east gate of Qiongyuan in the Imperial Garden, see you or not, with Yingluo characters. Hongli was furious after reading it, and suddenly threw the rice paper on Wei Yingluo's face: "What else do you have to say!"
The rice paper fluttered from Wei Yingluo's face and landed on her knees. The words on it were crooked, and it was indeed her handwriting.
Wei Yingluo's expression was unusually calm. She picked up the rice paper and said, "This handwriting does seem to be written by a slave, but the slave also has evidence to prove that it was not written by a slave." After speaking, she took out a stack of paper from her arms and continued. : "Reporting to the emperor, thanks to the love of the empress, she personally taught Yingluo to write. Yingluo is stupid, but she dare not live up to her hard work. In the past month, Yingluo has tried various methods to practice calligraphy. Sort them all in sequence. This afternoon, the servant found that the twenty-eighth page was missing! Therefore, someone must have stolen Yingluo's calligraphy..."
She turned her eyes to Qingxi and Hongxiao, and said word by word, "Framed and framed!"
Qingxi avoided Wei Yingluo's gaze unnaturally, and Hong Xiao sneered: "You lost it when you said it was lost? I also said that you hid it yourself!"
Wei Yingluo Shi Shiran asked: "I dare to ask Prince Yi, what kind of paper is the paper I write on?"
Hong Xiao answered impatiently: "Of course it's rice paper for practicing calligraphy!"
Wei Yingluo said respectfully, "Your Majesty, Yingluo's salary is limited, and I don't dare to waste rice paper, so I use paper instead - oh, it's white cotton paper."
With a slight smile in his eyes, Fu Heng took the secret letter in Wei Yingluo's hand and the paper she took out, and then showed it to Hongli to check: "Your Majesty, this letter provided by Qingxi, the paper is white and dense, and the texture is fine. It is from the highest-grade Sheng Xuan from Jing County, Anhui, but these papers from Miss Wei are just the most common white cotton paper in the palace."
Hong Xiao's face sank, and he had to argue: "You are a woman with a deep scheming. You can't say that you deliberately avoided suspicion, and specifically found Zhang Shangsheng Xuan!"
Wei Yingluo sighed softly, and seemed helpless: "It's not Yingluo's thick face, the empress said that Yingluo has practiced these hundred and fifty characters, and she is improving every day. It is drawn from the middle, and the twenty-eighth is exactly the character from one month ago, as long as it is compared with the font of the two days, the true and false will be known."
The iron evidence is like a mountain, and it is difficult to argue.
Beads of sweat appeared on Qingxi's forehead, and he trembled involuntarily.
Hong Xiao suddenly kicked Qingxi and cursed: "You bastard, how dare you deceive me! Your Majesty, the servant didn't expect Qingxi to lie, it must be him—"
"It must be Qi Jiaqingxi who failed to seduce me and deliberately framed and framed it. Is that what Prince Yi meant?" Wei Yingluo said to Qingxi with a smile: "Qi Jia's guard, did you hear it clearly? No matter how ignorant you are, no one will save you." The last sentence is very meaningful.
Qingxi's face was pale, and Hongxiao wanted to give up the car to protect his handsomeness. How could he not understand? He kowtowed again and again with a ruthless heart: "Your Majesty, it was Prince Yi who threatened the servant to frame the girl Yingluo! The servant did not know why he did this, but he ordered everything, and the servant swears to God!"
Hong Xiao kicked Qingxi's chest and was furious: "Dog slave! How dare you throw dirty water on me!"
Wei Yingluo pretended to be surprised and said, "Is Prince Yi instructing you? The servant lives in the inner palace and has never lived with the prince. I don't know why the prince framed the servant? In fact, His Royal Highness King Qin wanted to frame slaves and maids to—"
"Enough." Hongli said suddenly, with anger in his voice.
The wrath of the Son of Heaven was as powerful as thunder, and everyone was silent.
Hongli said: "Qing Xipan falsely accused the palace maid of Changchun Palace, not worthy of the post of guard in the Qing Palace, and was punished with one hundred sticks, dismissed and investigated! Shut him up and pull me down! This is the end of the matter."
Before Qingxi could say a word, he was gagged and dragged away by the guards, and Hong Xiao secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
So far, the four words slammed on Wei Yingluo, and the words seemed to weigh thousands of pounds. She was unwilling to speak. Fu Heng stretched out his hand and pulled her hard, and shook his head gently at her.
"This is the end", the emperor Jinkouyu said, who can go against it
Hongli saw Wei Yingluo and Fu Heng's small movements, and was even more unhappy, and said coldly: "Wei Yingluo, you are too embarrassed to call this kind of rubbish writing calligraphy? You even said with a sullen face that you are making progress every day! I feel uncomfortable for the queen. , you go back and practice one hundred cards, if you can't finish the practice, you are not allowed to rest!"
Wei Yingluo gritted her teeth, bowed her head and replied, "...Yes."