Chapter 205 Listen to the protagonist's voice and eat melons 3
Chapter 205 Listen to the protagonist's voice and eat melons 3
After hearing this, how could the queen not understand? She just didn't need to focus on these intrigues in recent years, which didn't mean she was stupid.
So he looked at Bai Yu seriously: "Xiao Jiu, you speak."
"Mother, these servants have never been as dedicated as you think. When you come to see me during the day, they pretend to serve me wholeheartedly, but once you leave, they ignore me.
If they weren't worried that my death would harm them, they wouldn't even want me to take medicine. My daughter caught a cold these past two days, and they said it was an old illness and that two doses of medicine would be enough, and there was no need to call a doctor."
Although they were only a few short sentences, the Queen and the Imperial Concubine could tell that this child had been tortured by these cunning slaves since he was young.
At this moment, Bai Shiran's inner voice suddenly rang out.
[I was also saying that Xiaojiu knew that she was in poor health since she was a child, so she didn't want to see her family worry about her, so she had been enduring. If I hadn't gone there in advance this time, if I had waited for two more days, there would be no Xiaojiu in this world. These slaves had long been recruited by the old hag of the Queen Mother, and she didn't want Xiaojiu to survive at all.]
When the Queen and the Imperial Concubine heard this, their hearts sank. Xiaojiu was such a filial child. They almost lost her.
Before they could speak, a powerful voice rang out.
"What happened to Xiaojiu? Who wants to harm my Xiaojiu?"
It was the emperor, and behind him were the empress and the imperial concubine's five sons. Of course, they also heard Bai Shiran's thoughts, but because the emperor was angry at this time, no one dared to speak.
As soon as they entered the room, they saw Xiaojiu curled up in a small ball, and their eyes were filled with pity.
Bai Yu knew that her brothers were all good-looking, but now that she saw them, she realized that they were really good-looking, in different styles.
But if they could stop looking at her like that, she would think they were more beautiful.
Just as the Queen was about to answer the Emperor's words, Bai Shiran's inner voice came out again.
[Of course it was your good mother and Concubine Chun who wanted to kill Xiao Jiu. You didn't notice anything about what happened when my mother gave birth. No wonder my mother and Concubine Noble called you a pig's hoof in private. If you don't take care of it, half of your court officials will soon become the Queen Mother's subordinates.]
The emperor's pupils shrank instantly. He must have recognized who the owner of the voice was, but he didn't hear Xiao Ba talking. So he realized that this was Xiao Ba's voice.
He glanced at everyone in the room and confirmed that they could all hear it.
Only Xiao Ba herself didn't know that they could all hear her thoughts.
Although Xiao Ba said that the person who wanted to harm Xiao Jiu was the Queen Mother, he still had to have evidence to act, so he directly ordered the secret guards to investigate quickly.
The secret guards came back very quickly, which was no wonder. The Queen Mother and her men did not use any high-level methods to do their work. Maybe they believed in their hearts that Bai Yu, a sickly person, could not be exposed, so they did not do things cleanly.
Soon, the evidence was conclusive and the emperor rewarded these servants with eighty lashes each and threw them out of the palace.
These days, eighty lashes of the cane would take away half the life of even an adult man.
The empress dowager was also sent out of the palace and went to Mount Putuo by the emperor in the name of praying for the country.
Concubine Chun was confined to her house for half a year and fined half a year's monthly salary. After all, she was the prince's biological mother. Since the empress dowager had taken all the responsibility, the emperor could not punish her too severely.
Bai Yu was later left in the Queen's palace to recuperate. She originally wanted to return to her own palace, but the Queen and others refused to agree.
Although Bai Yu's body has recovered a lot after being repaired by the improved rejuvenation pill, it is true that her body is still thin, so she can only stay in the Queen's Fengyi Palace to recuperate.
During this period, the girl serving her was a maid who was newly selected by the Queen. Her name was Qinghe. Qinghe was a very lively girl.
Now, Bai Yu knows all the excitement in the palace through Qing He.
For example, the gossip that came out of the previous dynasty yesterday was that the son of the Minister of Revenue was not his, and that he had been cuckolded for more than 20 years without knowing it.
As soon as Bai Yu heard it, she knew that this gossip must have come from her eighth sister. Ever since they separated that day, her eighth sister was often taken to the imperial study by her father, who said it was to have snacks. But the truth was that after court, her father used her eighth sister's thoughts to test the officials in the court.
Poor Bai Yu's eighth sister, she still doesn't know about it and is completely focused on the different snacks every day.
After nearly half a year of rest, Bai Yu grew rapidly as if she had taken fertilizer, and soon reached 1.6 meters. The queen no longer kept her resting in the palace.
Only then did Bai Yu act like a normal person, accompanying his eighth sister to the study every day.
The ministers had long been accustomed to this, and now that a Ninth Princess had been added, they did not mind at all. They were even praying that the Ninth Princess's reasoning would allow the Eighth Princess to restrain her inner thoughts.
That’s right, now these ministers can also hear her eighth sister’s thoughts, but they just can’t express them out loud. Bai Yu has figured it out, but only her silly eighth sister doesn’t know it.
At this time, a maid named Xiuzhu brought up today's snacks. Bai Yu looked at these plates of exquisite snacks and thought that her eighth sister was the one who knew how to eat them.
Bai Shiran picked up a piece of soft dessert and handed it to Bai Yu, who took it and started eating happily.
[Sister Xiuzhu is such a nice person. She makes delicious snacks and is also very pretty. How could she fall in love with my cold-faced third brother? ]
At this time, Bai Yu and the ministers standing below all had a common idea: it was normal for the third brother (the third prince), a handsome and elegant man, to attract so many young girls.
At this time, the voice that the ministers had the misfortune to hear came to mind:
[Huh? There are new faces today. What are their names? I don’t know if they can provide some new gossip. I’m almost tired of hearing about these people’s gossip over and over again.]
Ministers: Isn't it? Since it's all rotten, Princess, please let us go.
The emperor at the top said: "Ahem, there has been a severe drought in the northwest and floods in the south recently. Dachen has just finished the border campaign and the treasury is empty. I asked you all to come here to come up with a plan to deal with it."
In recent months, the border war has just ended and the country should have been in a time of recuperation, but natural disasters have come one after another, so the emperor was so anxious that he couldn't sleep for many days.
As soon as the emperor started talking about this, the ministers below immediately started to complain. Everyone knew that the treasury was empty and now was the best time to ask for money, so of course they all acted more miserable than each other.
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