Volume Two, Hard Work, Chapter 74, Hard Work
The rain had stopped for three days, and Concubine Yu had also been gone for three days.
But it doesn't mean things are calm.
"Yingluo!" The queen's face was extremely cold, "Kneel down!"
With a plop, Wei Yingluo knelt in front of her.
There were only two of them left in the room, and the rest were driven out by the queen for various reasons. The queen sat in a chair and looked down at her condescendingly for a long time before slowly saying: "What did you do on the day when the accident occurred in Shoukang Palace?"
Wei Yingluo had already prepared the answer: "I heard that Concubine Yu was the murderer of her sister, so I asked her a few words in person. The Concubine cursed and sweared that she was not the murderer, otherwise she would be struck by lightning. As soon as she finished speaking, she was struck to death by a thunder..."
"Enough!" the queen slapped the table and said sternly, "When you arrive in front of me, don't you tell the truth?"
A strange color flashed in Wei Yingluo's eyes.
"From now on, you will be a human being with me and then offend me. Not only will you take your head, but you will also have to be buried with the entire Wei clan." - Concubine Yu's threat appeared in her ears again.
What happened afterwards?
She returned to Changchun Palace and took the silver needle handed over by Er Qing.
The silver needle sank into the bottom of the water again and again, Ming Yu's mockery was heard: "I also said that it is the best embroidery girl in the embroidery workshop, and she is not much better than me."
These words were like enlightenment, which made Wei Yingluo's eyes lit up.
She returned to the embroidery workshop overnight and found Madam Zhang who had always taken good care of herself.
"Madam." She looked at the other party with black and white eyes and said calmly, "I heard that Shoukang Palace has prepared for the birthday banquet for a long time. The ceiling window screen part of the window screen... should be provided by the embroidery workshop, right?"
Madam Zhang treated her as her nephew, and without asking the reason, she handed her window screen that was about to be sent to Shoukang Palace. Wei Yingluo did not hide it from her. In front of her, she took out a handful of extremely fine and soft iron wire from the sachet she carried with her and carefully stitched it into the window screen.
If Madam Zhang spoke to stop her, she would stop, but from beginning to end, Madam Zhang did not say a word - she acknowledged Wei Yingluo's revenge, and could even be said to have become her accomplice.
Wei Yingluo didn't say a word, handed the sewn window screen to Madam Zhang. She knelt down without saying a word and kowtowed to the other party three times.
"Mum, thank you, and... I will never implicate you. I will always be buried in my heart. No one will ask. If unfortunately exposed in the end, I will take all the responsibilities with all my strength!"
Wei Yingluo slowly looked up and looked at the queen in front of her.
Although she felt guilty, in order not to implicate Madam Zhang, she could only bite the bullet and say: "Empress, I really know nothing about this. It's because of the fact that Concubine Yu did many evil deeds and ended up being retribution..."
"Enough!" The queen raised her hand and stopped the lie she was going to tell next.
Seeing her body shaking and falling into the chair like a loss of energy, Wei Yingluo was extremely worried and crawled over and said, "Empress, you are pregnant now, please be careful of your health and don't get angry because of me..."
The queen rubbed her temples, closed her eyes in the chair for a while before slowly opening her eyes. She slowly opened her eyes and voice, and she said lightly: "Wei Yingluo, I know that you are resentful and are waiting for an opportunity to retaliate, so I have been trying every means to relieve you. I didn't expect you to be so stubborn! I thought I had a few heads, but because I always loved me, I would be fearless and show off my ability to commit crimes?"
Wei Yingluo was stunned: "Empress..."
"Okay, I don't want to listen to your quibbling anymore." The queen waved her hand, "Although Changchun Palace is big, it can no longer tolerate a brave slave like you. From today on, you can go to Xinzheku to think about your life!"
"Empress, are you going to drive me away?" Wei Yingluo was shocked. She was not afraid of Xinzheku's hard work, or before she plotted against Concubine Yu, she was ready to be punished. But it was not now. She hurriedly climbed to the queen and hugged her knees and said, "Empress, you are pregnant now, and the palace is eyeing you. Please let the slave stay until you give birth safely! As long as you give birth to a little prince, the slave leaves immediately and will never leave the eyes of the queen!"
"No." The queen shook her head and turned the railway firmly, "You pack up now!"
Wei Yingluo begged repeatedly, 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 suck her nose and choked up and said, "What the Empress said is that Yingluo does love to cause trouble and dare not hope to stay again. But a servant has received the favor of the Empress and will never forget it in this life. If one day, the Empress needs Yingluo, and is willing to repay the Empress's life and death!"
After kowtowing to the queen three times, Wei Yingluo turned around and left Changchun Palace.
She didn't have many things, and she couldn't bring valuables in places like Xinzheku, so she quickly didn't belong to her. She simply kept all the silk hairpins given by the queen and gave them to a few little palace maids who had a good time with her.
A simple blue cloth bag, Wei Yingluo sighed and walked out of the door with the bag in her arms. Before she could walk a few steps, she heard the rushing footsteps from far to near.
"Go away!" Er Qing rushed in and said, "The emperor is here and is ready to arrest you. The queen asked 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 underestimate anyone, but she still didn't expect that things would be exposed so soon.
But in the end she underestimated someone... She underestimated the queen's love for her.
The queen was not afraid that she would cause trouble for Changchun Palace, so she expelled her from the palace. It was obvious that she had already expected that the emperor would come to arrest people, so she was punished to Xinzheku first. Although the hard labor was hard, she could avoid the emperor's initiation of a military conviction.
"Empress..." Wei Yingluo looked in the direction of Changchun Palace and murmured.
"Oh, what are you waiting for? Let's go quickly!" Erqing urged in her ear.
Wei Yingluo gritted her teeth and did not dare to let the queen down. She could only remember the other party's good deeds in her heart, then hurriedly walked through the back door and left.
Walking from Changchun Palace to Yongxiang is like walking from spring to winter.
It was clearly summer, but a biting cool breeze passed through the alley. The two towering gray walls, like gray fences in the prison, locked the sinner firmly in this bleak place.
Wei Yingluo was greeted by a gray-clad nanny, surnamed Liu. She looked at Wei Yingluo up and down, her voice as cold and desolate as in the Yongxiang: "You used to be the great palace maid next to the queen. Wherever you go, others respect you three points first, but when you enter Xinzheku, you forget your former identity. Here, you are just a sinner who is engaged in lowly labour."
"Yes." The strong dragon did not suppress the local snake, and Wei Yingluo responded obediently.
"Xinzheku each has its own division of labor, mainly responsible for the hard work of the big internal work. You have to do what others don't want to do! The chicken crows and gets up and cleans the palace roads. When it is ugly, weeds the three palaces. On the evening of the morning, we will undertake the heavy and chores of each palace. As for you-" Madam Liu led her into a room and pointed to the Gongguan, which was piled up like a mountain in the corner of the wall, "Let's be responsible for cleaning these Gongguans first."
Wei Yingluo looked at the bowels in shock.
When she was in Changchun Palace, she was with orchids every day. Even if she had dirty work, the queen was reluctant to let her do it. Now she was sent to Xinzheku. Although she was already prepared in her heart, looking at the pile of filthy and yellowed bowels, and smelling the intoxicating smell, Wei Yingluo couldn't help but feel nauseated.
Seeing her look ugly, Mama Liu raised her lips and sneered, "Wash quickly. If you haven't finished it in the evening, you have to eat here for dinner."
Wei Yingluo endured the desire to vomit and said in a deep voice: "...yes."
So, the hand that had sewed a phoenix robe for the queen lifted a bow. The fingers that used to make flowers were stained with the stench of filth. Although he had tried his best, the evening came too quickly. Wei Yingluo still couldn't finish the work at hand. Looking at a yellowed steamed bun handed by Madam Liu, Wei Yingluo had been busy all day, but she had no appetite at all.
After washing her hands for more than ten times, she wrapped the steamed buns with a handkerchief, then staggered back to the palace maid's office. Xinzheku was not in a position to resist, and her living conditions were worse than those of the palace maid's office when she first entered the palace. Looking around, she was a big bunk bed, and everyone was sleeping on the ground.
When she came to put her luggage in the morning, there was no one in the room and she went out to work. Now she is back one after another. One of them is Wei Yingluo's acquaintance.
"Oh, isn't this Wei Yingluo?" A sarcastic voice sounded, with the woman's unique meanness. "How come the big celebrity around the Queen and the most decent figure in the Forbidden City fell into a place like ours in a blink of an eye?"
Wei Yingluo paused and turned to look.
The pointed chin and the peach blossom eyes were peach-like, and the romantic woman rushed up from her feet. She was punished to enter the original embroidery workshop of Xinzheku for slandering her and having an affair with the guards.
Wei Yingluo was too lazy to care about her, or she was too tired now, so she glanced at the other person coldly, walked to her bed and lay down. Her fingers, which were cramped and trembling due to overwork, reached into her arms and took out the steamed bun wrapped in a handkerchief.
"I have to eat something." She said to herself in her heart, "or it will be difficult tomorrow."
The sound of water sounded in her ears. She glanced over and saw a Gongbu placed not far from her head. A palace maid stood up with her skirt, and ticked under the skirt, dripping into the Gongbu.
A hot stench floated over. Wei Yingluo turned over and handed the steamed bun to her mouth several times, but she couldn't bite it. She had to wrap the steamed bun again in a handkerchief and then tightly covered her mouth and nose with a quilt.
But even so, it is still impossible to isolate the stench of the Gongguan, as well as the athlete's foot and body odor of unknown people.
Chapter completed!