The rain has stopped for three days, and Princess Yu has been gone for three days.
But that doesn't mean things are smooth sailing.
"Yingluo!" The queen's face was extremely cold, "Kneel down!"
With a plop, Wei Yingluo knelt in front of her.
There were only the two of them left in the room, and the rest were driven out by the queen for various reasons. The queen sat in the chair and looked down at her for a long time before slowly saying, "What did you do on the day of the accident at Shoukang Palace?"
Wei Yingluo had already prepared the answer: "The slave heard that Concubine Yu was the murderer of her sister, and asked her a few words in person. The concubine swore and swore that she was not the murderer, otherwise she would be struck by lightning. Killed by a thunderbolt..."
"Enough!" The Queen slapped the table and said sternly, "You are still not telling the truth when you are in front of this palace?"
A strange color flashed in Wei Yingluo's eyes.
"From now on, you will pick up your tail and be a human being, and if you commit a crime to me again, you will not only pluck your head, but you will also be buried with the entire Wei family." - Concubine Yu's threat appeared in her ears again. side.
What happened after that
She returned to Changchun Palace and took the silver needle that Er Qing handed over.
The silver needle sank to the bottom of the water again and again, and Mingyu's sneer was in his ear: "It is said that she is the best embroidery girl in the embroidery workshop, and she is not much better than me."
These words were like daigo empowerment, which made Wei Yingluo's eyes light up.
She returned to the embroidery workshop overnight and found Mammy Zhang who always took good care of her.
"Mother." She looked at each other with black and white eyes, and said very calmly, "I heard that Shoukang Palace has been preparing for the birthday banquet for a long time, and the part of the ceiling and window screens... should be provided by the embroidery workshop, right?"
Mammy Zhang treated her like her own son and nephew, and without asking the reason, she handed her the window screen that was going to be sent to Shoukang Palace. Out of a very thin soft wire, carefully sewn into the window screen.
If Mammy Zhang opened her mouth to stop her, she would stop, but from the beginning to the end, Mama Zhang didn't say a word - she acquiesced to Wei Yingluo's revenge, and it could even be said that she became her accomplice.
Wei Yingluo didn't say a word either. She handed the sewn window screen to Mammy Zhang.
"Mummy, thank you, and... I will never implicate you. I will always bury this matter in my heart, and no one will ask anyone to tell me. If it is unfortunately exposed in the end, I will bear all the responsibilities!"
Wei Yingluo slowly raised her head and looked at the queen in front of her.
Although she felt guilty, in order not to implicate Mama Zhang, she could only bite the bullet and say, "Niangniang, I really don't know anything about this matter. It's really that Concubine Yu has done a lot of evil and was finally punished..."
"Enough!" The queen raised her hand and stopped her next lie.
Seeing her body swaying and falling into the chair like she was lost, Wei Yingluo was extremely worried and crawled over and said, "Miss, you are pregnant now, please pay attention to your body, don't get angry because of me..."
The queen rubbed her temples, closed her eyes in the chair for a moment, and then slowly opened her eyes. There was a look of fatigue in her eyes and voice, and said lightly: "Wei Yingluo, this palace knows that you harbor resentment and are waiting for an opportunity to take revenge, so I have been trying to solve you all the time, but I didn't expect you to be so stubborn! Do you think you have a few heads, or relying on the love of this palace, you will be fearless and able to commit murder?"
Wei Yingluo was stunned: "Niangniang..."
"Okay, this palace doesn't want to listen to your sophistry anymore." The queen waved her hand, "Although Changchun Palace is big, it can no longer accommodate a daring servant like you. From today, you will go to Xinzheku to think about yourself. Let's go!"
"Niangniang, are you going to drive me away?" Wei Yingluo was shocked, but she was not afraid of Xin Zheku's hard work, or she was already prepared to be punished before plotting against Concubine Yu, she just wanted to leave. Not now, she hurriedly climbed to the front of the queen, hugged her knees and said, "Niangniang, you are pregnant now, and the palace is watching, please let the servant stay until you give birth safely! As long as you give birth to the little brother , the servant leaves immediately, and will never leave the eyes of the goddess!"
"No." The queen shook her head and said decisively, "You pack up and go now!"
Wei Yingluo begged again and again, but the queen closed her eyes and ears, unable to hear or see. Seeing that she had made up her mind, Wei Yingluo had to take a breath and choked: "What Niangniang said is that Yingluo really likes to cause trouble, and she doesn't dare to expect to stay. But the slave has received the favor of Niangniang, and she will never forget it in this life. , Niangniang needs Yingluo, and I am willing to serve my niangniang’s heart and mind, and retribution for life and death!”
After kowtowing three times to the queen, Wei Yingluo walked out of Changchun Palace with three turns.
She didn't have many things, and in a place like Xinzheku, valuables could not be brought in, and if they were brought in, they would not belong to her. She's a good little maid.
With a simple blue cloth bag, Wei Yingluo sighed and walked out the door with the bag in her arms. Before she took a few steps, she heard hurried footsteps from far to near.
"Come on!" Er Qing rushed in and said, "The emperor is here, ready to arrest you, the queen asks you to go out through the back door and report to Xinzheku immediately!"
Wei Yingluo was stunned, and then her eyes became hot.
She didn't dare to look down on anyone, but she still didn't expect things to be revealed so quickly.
But in the end, she underestimated someone... She underestimated the queen's love for her.
The queen was afraid that she would cause trouble to the Changchun Palace, so she expelled her from the palace. She clearly expected that the emperor would come to arrest people, and then punished her to the Xinzheku first. Although the hard labor was hard, it could avoid the emperor. Xingshi asked for guilt.
"Niangniang..." Wei Yingluo murmured, looking in the direction of Changchun Palace.
"Oh, what are you waiting for, hurry up!" Er Qing urged in her ear.
Wei Yingluo gritted her teeth and did not dare to disappoint the queen's good intentions. She could only keep the other party's good intentions in her heart, and then hugged the burden in her arms and hurriedly walked through the back door to leave.
Walking into Yongxiang from Changchun Palace is like going from spring to winter.
It was summer, but a biting cold wind passed through the alley, and the two towering gray walls were like gray fences in a prison, locking the sinners in this desolate place.
Wei Yingluo was greeted by a gray-clothed maid, surnamed Liu, she looked up and down Wei Yingluo, her voice was as cold and desolate as this Yongxiang: "You used to be the queen's maid, wherever you go, others will go first. Three points of respect, but when you enter the Xinzhe Library, you forget your previous identity. Here, you are just a sinner engaged in lowly drudgery."
"Yes." Qianglong didn't press his head against the snake, and Wei Yingluo replied obediently.
"Xinzheku has its own division of labor, and is mainly responsible for the drudgery in the inner circle. If others don't want to do it, you all have to do it! Get up when the cock croaks and clean the palace road. When it is ugly, weed the three halls. From Pingdan to Kuiye, undertake the heavy chores of each palace. As for you—" Madam Liu led her into a room and pointed to the gong buckets piled high like mountains in the corner, "Let's be responsible for cleaning these gong buckets first."
Wei Yingluo stared at the buckets in amazement.
When she was in Changchun Palace, she was accompanied by orchids every day. Even if there was dirty work, the queen was reluctant to let her do it. The filthy, faintly yellow Gongtan, smelling the intoxicating odor, Wei Yingluo couldn't help but gag.
Seeing her unsightly face, Madam Liu raised her lips and said with a sneer, "Wash up quickly, if you don't finish it in the evening, you'll have to eat dinner here."
Wei Yingluo endured the urge to vomit and said solemnly, "...Yes."
So, the hand who used to sew the phoenix robe for the queen raised a bucket, and the fingers that used to be flowered were stained with the stench of filth. Although she tried her best, the evening came too fast, and Wei Yingluo still couldn't finish the work at hand. Looking at a yellowed steamed bun handed over by Madam Liu, Wei Yingluo had no appetite at all despite a busy day.
After washing her hands a dozen times, she wrapped the steamed buns with a handkerchief, and then staggered back to the palace maid's place. Xin Zheku did not resist, and the living conditions were worse than the palace maid's place when she first entered the palace. A large shop, everyone sleeps on the ground.
When she came to put her luggage in the morning, there was no one in the room, so they all went out to work. Now they come back one after another, and one of them is actually an acquaintance of Wei Yingluo.
"Yo, isn't this Wei Yingluo?" A sarcastic voice sounded, with a meanness unique to a woman, "The big red man beside the Empress, the most respectable person in the Forbidden City, how can he come to a place like us in a blink of an eye? what?"
Wei Yingluo paused and turned to look.
With a pointed chin and peach blossom eyes, and her face from her feet, it was Jinxiu, the original embroidery girl who was sentenced to the Xinzhe Library for slandering her for having an affair with the guards.
Wei Yingluo was too lazy to bother with her, or perhaps she was too tired now, so she glanced at the other party coldly, and went to lie down beside her own bed, her fingers that were cramping and trembling from being overworked stretched into her arms, Take out the steamed bun wrapped in a handkerchief.
"I have to eat something," she said to herself, "otherwise it will be hard tomorrow."
The sound of rushing water rang in her ears, she glanced over, and saw a gong bucket placed not far from her head, a palace maid stood up with a skirt, the skirt ticked a few times, dripping into the gong bucket .
A hot stench floated over, Wei Yingluo turned over and put the steamed bun to her mouth several times, but she couldn't bite it, so she had to wrap the steamed bun in a handkerchief again, and then tightly covered her mouth with the quilt nose.
But even so, it was still unable to isolate the stench of the bucket, as well as the foot odor and body odor.
"That won't work." After tossing and turning for a long time, Wei Yingluo couldn't sleep, so she opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling, muttering, "I have to think of a way..."