When the two shopkeepers first heard the reward of silver, they were surprised to be happy. When they heard what happened next, they were immediately scared and sweating. They kowtowed tremblingly, “The people dare not!”
The emperor waved his hand, and they were led by the eunuch, and they stepped out as if stepping on a floating cloud.
The two of them went out, and the little servant brought Qipin and Cui Jing in.
When Zhiqipin arrived side by side with Lifei, he knelt down and saluted. After greeting him, the emperor leaned forward slightly and looked at Qipin, “Is Concubine Hui instructed Tao Ye to go to the Marquis of Weiyuan to propose marriage?”
A pair of eyes, with a urging threat.
The atmosphere in the imperial study room was solemn that Qipin, who had always been timid and cowardly, was uneasy. When the emperor asked this, he couldn’t help but tremble, “Yes…yes…I don’t know.”
“Don’t know?” Concubine Li suddenly became angry and turned to look at Concubine Qipin, “You said you don’t know? Didn’t you say in front of me that Cui Jing asked you to pass me a message and tell me that Tao Ye’s proposal to marry Yingxiu was a conspiracy of Concubine Hui? Do you think you don’t know?”
Concubine Li’s voice was sharp and mean.
Qipin was so scared that she trembled and hurriedly said, “Yes, yes, it was Concubine Hui who instructed Tao Ye to ask him to propose marriage to the Marquis of Weiyuan.”
As he spoke, tears fell down, trembling and sobbing, and his whole body shrank into a ball.
The emperor knew that she was always timid, but unexpectedly she was so scared that she couldn’t help but feel suspicious, “Raise your head and look at me!”
When Qipin heard this, her body suddenly froze. After hesitating for half a cup of tea, she slowly looked up, but her eyes did not dare to directly face the emperor’s gloomy eyes, and only avoided the flashing.
“You say it again, it was Concubine Hui who instructed Tao Ye!” The emperor said word by word with Concubine Qi’s eyes, and the momentum brought by the voice made people feel panicked.
Qipin could not resist this momentum, and immediately trembled and sat on the ground. She turned her head to glance at Li Fei, bit her lip hard, and raised her breath, saying, “It was Cui Jingru who said to me, I am just passing the message.”
After saying one sentence, as if she had tried all her strength, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief and sat there with a pale face.
The emperor frowned and turned his eyes to look at Cui Jing, “How did you know?”
Cui Jing, who was named and knelt in the diagonal behind Qipin, shivering and lowered his head, “I accidentally heard it.”
“You are from Concubine Hui’s palace, and you are uneasy to serve Concubine Hui, and you overheard the secret matter of Concubine Hui. You don’t say that you are covering your eyes for her, why did you tell Concubine Qipin and tell Concubine Li to tell Concubine Li? Do you know that this behavior of betrayaling the master is to be punished by a stick!”
Compared to speaking to Concubine Qipin just now, the emperor faced Cui Jing XiangWhen the sound was cold and hard.
Cui Jing’s lower head turned slightly, looked in the direction of Concubine Li, then turned back, saying, “Yes…yes…”
I don’t know if it was trembling too hard or what, but when I was talking, a velvet flower on my head was actually shook to the ground. Cui Jing’s shoulders froze and immediately reached out to pick up the velvet flower that fell to the ground.
But the moment her finger touched the velvet flower, Xiao Yu frowned, “Huh? What’s going on with your arm?”