Mountains and rivers pray for peace

Chapter 149 The Heart of Compassion
Huang Dongying looked at her critically after hearing this.In his heart, he secretly blamed Huo Qiyue for daring to teach him, the chief official of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, how to behave in an official manner. At the same time, he had to admit that the best plan now was to report the matter to Queen Zhou.

In the past, the death of a palace maid would not be worth the trouble, but now it is a troubled time in the palace, with female officials being promoted and concubines being pregnant. If something like this happens suddenly, it will be an ominous sign if word spreads.If the master asks for punishment, he will never get anything right.

Thinking of this, he stretched out his hand to summon the little eunuchs behind who were in charge of carrying the luggage, and said in a low voice: "Leave three of you, find a way to fish them out, and then find a stretcher to carry the body into the morgue." , wait until the Zajia family reports to the queen, and then we will take charge of the district affairs."

After finishing the order, he said with a smile to Huo Qi and the other five: "Ladies and gentlemen, you are really shocked today. It's just that a palace maid died. It's nothing unusual. Please move on to the Yupeng Hall."

These words were originally used by Huang Dongying to comfort him, but when he heard Huo Qi's ears, a cold air suddenly felt from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.In this palace city, human lives are weighed on the scales at will, and it is nothing rare for a maid to die, so how many catties and taels are they worth?
After all, Li Jiayin and Nie Ying didn't see the corpse in the well with their own eyes. They had recovered from their fear at this moment, and nodded slightly when they heard the words, wishing they could walk away immediately.

Wang Rong had a sarcastic look on her face, her lips curled up slightly, but she didn't say anything more.

Luo Rou was scared to death, with cold sweat dripping from her head. It wasn't until Huo Qi wiped her sweat with a handkerchief that she came back to her senses.But when I walked again, my legs felt like they were filled with lead. Although there was a flat blue brick road under my feet, every step I took seemed to be in a swamp.

Huo Qi's thoughts were mixed, and he didn't know how long he had walked. He only remembered that he followed the crowd through a high and wide corridor and arrived at the entrance of Yupeng Hall unknowingly.

When she looked up, what caught her eye was the plaque inscribed by Chun Mo, which was inscribed with three simple words: "Yupeng Hall".The Yupeng Hall is not very spacious, but it has obviously been repaired, which can be seen from the shiny red paint on the palace walls and the cellophane paper on the window lattice.Taken as a whole, it does appear to be somewhat refined and luxurious.

These ladies from aristocratic families have seen a lot of wealth and wealth, but they have never shown any expressions of surprise.

Huo Qi didn't pay much attention to the place where he lived. He couldn't say whether he liked or disliked the decoration of the Jade Peng Palace. However, he saw that the four corners of the palace walls were planted with lush green bamboos, and the bamboo shadows were swaying in vain. The rustling sound is actually a bit cute.

Huang Dongying smiled at the right time and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Yupeng Palace. There are not too many and not too many, exactly five rooms. As for who lives in which room, the Empress has already counted them all before, and there are hangings in front of the rooms. The door number, just push the door and go in. Today, please pack your bags and rest for a while, tomorrow Yang Shangyi will come to teach you the rules of the palace, and Le Sile will come to teach you the art of piano the next day, and please cheer up."

As soon as he heard the words "Lesile", Huo Qi's heart sank silently.The relationship between her and Le Xuan is not as serious as that of the enemy, but there are indeed festivals, even if it is only Lexuan's unilateral festival to her.

Now she ran into Lexuan's hands again. Although Lexuan didn't dare to blatantly embarrass her, it was inevitable that she would be tortured.

After hearing this, several other people's eyes also lingered ambiguously on Huo Qi.What happened in the plectrum pool that day was unclear to everyone at first, but later it spread.Everyone knew that Lexuan had a dispute with the other two examiners and felt that Huo Qi was not good at playing the piano and was not worthy of being shortlisted.

Is it possible to say that Huo Qiqin is not skilled?

The only explanation is that this Le Si Le deliberately suppressed her. As for who gave the instruction, there is a lot behind it.

Li Jiayin was indifferent to the matter. He bowed to Huang Dongying and then turned around and walked into the palace.Wang Rong looked tired and followed him into the house.Nie Ying glanced at Huo Qi mockingly, raised a bright smile, and hurried into the hall following behind.

On the contrary, Luo Rou patted Huo Qi knowingly: "No one knows what will happen until the moment it happens. Don't worry about it, let's go in and take a look at the house first."

Huo Qi smiled. Luo Rou was scared to death just now, but now she comforted her. She was really heartless.Just as he was about to go in with Luo Rou, he was stopped by Huang Dongying on the side: "Miss Huo, please stay."

Huo Qi steadied his body, signaled Luo Rou to take a step forward with his eyes, then turned his head and said, "What can you advise, father-in-law?"

"Young girl's words have offended this servant. But what happened in the Royal Garden just now, I'm afraid I have to ask the girl to go to Kunning Palace with the Za family to ask for instructions from the queen. After all, the girl witnessed the death of the palace maid with her own eyes, and she is also eloquent. , unlike the slave who is clumsy and tongue-tied, and can’t even get to the point in ten sentences.”

Huo Qi smiled on his face, but there was overwhelming ridicule in his heart.

According to her, Huang Dongying was not clumsy or clumsy at all. Instead, he was eloquent and used to use people as rafts.

This little palace maid died in an unknown way. For Huang Dongying, the eunuch in charge, it would be easier to handle the matter if the palace maid slipped and fell into a well, or had a conflict with other palace maids and eunuchs and lost her life.

I'm just afraid that if the palace maid violates a taboo, she might offend some master in the palace.

He is currently riding a tiger, and it is impossible not to report what he knows. After all, this matter has been discovered by a group of women like them, and it can no longer be treated as if it never happened.If he conceals and fails to report any problems that may arise later, he is also to blame.But if you retaliate without permission, you will inevitably worry that you will stand out and offend the master who harmed the palace maid, which will only cause trouble.

After some calculations, he selected a girl to report to the queen, which would help him get out of the matter.

Unfortunately, she happened to be the unlucky one chosen by Huang Dongying.

Huo Qi was not a person who didn't know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, so he immediately wanted to reject Huang Dongying's proposal.But the face of the eleven or twelve-year-old little palace maid, swollen by the well water, suddenly came to mind again, making Huo Qi's chest feel tight.

She took a cursory glance and saw that there was a purple pinch mark on the neck of the little palace maid. She was probably strangled to death and then abandoned in the well.As for the dead well, which had no living water to begin with, a lot of herrings were deliberately thrown into it for the shady business of turning corpses into fish food.

That little palace maid looks a few years younger than she is now, if she is not dead, how young and fresh is her life?But in the blink of an eye, he died in this deep palace.

In the current situation, she didn't even need to guess. With Huang Dongying's cold temper, if it came to his mouth, most of the matter would just be covered up by random excuses.She can certainly refuse to go, but if she looks on coldly today, and in the future it hurts herself, what face does she have to ask others to save her?

Involuntarily, she heard her own voice: "Then I will go with my father-in-law."

　In fact, in my heart, although Huo Qi is very cruel to her enemies and those who harmed her, her family environment since she was a child has determined that she is a kind person after all, so she is not a crazy female lead who sees people killing people and sees Buddhas killing Buddhas . (つД`)ノPeople think she is nosy (ToT)/~~~
　　
　
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