In Qingren Palace, Huaiqing sat in front of the window, with unconcealable sadness hidden in his eyebrows.
"Your Highness, let's have something to eat." Huaiqing's personal maid held the tray, and the aroma of food wafted out, whetting one's appetite.
Huaiqing had no intention of eating at all. He shook his head and said, "Let it go."
When the palace maid heard this, she immediately became anxious and said in a tearful tone: "You have not eaten for a whole day and a night. If this continues, your body will not be able to bear it."
"Even if you are trying to save His Highness the Crown Prince, you should eat some."
Hearing this, Huaiqing finally felt a little moved and said, "Let it go, I will eat it later."
The personal maid heard this, sighed, and finally put down the tray and left.
After the palace maid left, the sorrow in Huaiqing's eyes immediately dissipated.
At the same time, he took out a silver needle from his sleeve and put it into the dishes. When he saw that the silver needle was intact, he breathed a sigh of relief and started eating.
This palace maid has been with her for nearly five years and can be said to be loyal.
But...in this special period, it's better to be careful.
The safest way is to trust no one.
She suspected that there was Liu Jing's spy in Qingren Palace.
Yes, like Li Changkong, she had already guessed that Liu Jing was most likely responsible for this incident.
After all, he is the biggest beneficiary. If Liu Yu is deposed, no one else will be able to take the crown prince position.
She even felt that not only she was thinking this, but even her father was thinking this too.
Because the image Liu Yu showed on weekdays and what he did this time were completely different!
If you want to say that he is interested in the position of Grand Marshal of the Army, Huaiqing will believe it.
But if it was said that he was interested in the throne and even cast a witchcraft villain to curse his father, Huaiqing would not believe it.
My father definitely didn't believe it, but the facts were before his eyes. As the emperor of Daqian, he had to do some things.
As long as evidence is found to prove that this matter was not what Liu Yu said, then all the problems today will not be a problem.
But the key is, where does this evidence come from?
Huaiqing felt that it would be impossible to find it on his own.
In addition, when Liu Yu came to see her and go to Zhaohuayuan with his mother a few days ago, he once said that Li Changkong had already anticipated the cooperation between Qin Jieyu and Liu Jing, so he took advantage of it.
Since Li Changkong had already anticipated Qin Jieyu's incident, did he also know something about the witchcraft disaster?
Huaiqing didn't know, but she thought there was no harm in asking.
In addition, she also needed help from Li Changkong and others in the current situation.
However, how to deliver the news outside the palace has become a problem!
The intensity of martial law in the palace this time is far greater than before.
All the connections and channels through which she could convey news inside and outside the palace were out of order.
That's why she hasn't done anything since this day and night.
But just as she was racking her brains, a burst of birdsong suddenly came from behind her.
Huaiqing was a little surprised and looked at the young snow lark in the birdcage.
This kind of bird understands human nature and knows that it likes peace, so it is very quiet on weekdays and seldom calls.
Today it started chirping suddenly. Could it be that something happened?
While she was thinking hard, the snow lark chick in the cage became even more excited, kept chirping, and even flapped its wings, jumping up and down in the birdcage made of golden nanmu, as if struggling to get out.
"Why is this happening?" Huaiqing frowned upon seeing this.
Just when I was about to get up and open the birdcage, I found that the young snow lark had calmed down.
He was cleaning his feathers with his beak as if nothing had happened.
Huaiqing frowned even more. The next moment, as if he had expected something, he turned around and found a larger snow lark parked in front of the window.
His whole body was snow-white, his eyes were sharp, and he even raised his bird's claws in a humane manner.
Only then did Huaiqing notice that there was a small bamboo tube hanging on his right paw, and there seemed to be something hidden in the bamboo tube.
Upon seeing this, Huaiqing immediately put the Snow Skylark into the house and closed the window firmly.
After doing this, he took off the bamboo tube on Snow Skylark's right paw and poured out the contents.
Surprisingly, it was discovered that it was a letter!
After opening it, I saw the three characters Li Changkong at the signature, and I felt relieved.
She guessed right, it was really Li Changkong who was using Snow Skylark to convey the message to her.
After a while, Huaiqing read the letter and felt an indescribable joy in his heart.
She quickly burned the letter, then sharpened the ink, picked up the pen, wrote the reply, and put it into the bamboo tube.
Then he reopened the window, stuck his head out, looked around, and when he saw no one was around, he let the snow lark with the reply fly out.
"Wei Xiang, Zhen Jian." After Huaiqing pondered for a moment, he already had a plan in mind.
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In the evening, a handsome palace maid came to Qingren Palace during her shift change.
She is a palace maid on duty in the cold palace, but she is not a lifelong palace maid. She does not have to stay in the cold palace all her life. She can occasionally change guard in other palaces.
It's just that whether it can be changed or not, the female official in the palace has to pass on his name, and it is decided by the minor masters in the palace.
If the mistresses also think that you, the palace maid, are smart and know how to serve others, and don't object, then the change of guard will be considered a success.
But a week later, he still had to return to the cold palace.
The change of guard request cannot be reinitiated until the next week.
If you can change it seven times, you can escape from the cold palace and become a lifelong palace maid in other palaces.
But if you change less than seven times, prepare to stay in the cold palace for the rest of your life.
Most of these maids made mistakes or offended someone, so they were demoted to the cold palace as maids on duty.
Such a role can be said to be at the bottom of the harem.
Even the little eunuch who has just entered the palace can bully him.
But Huaiqing fell in love with these people!
Because I am at the lowest level, I need more opportunities to climb up, and I dare to do things that ordinary people dare not do!
In addition, it is precisely because of his low status that he has no access to useful information, so... the probability of being bribed is very low!
And these two conditions, in Huaiqing's view, are exactly what makes them unique!
After the palace maid came to Qingren Palace to change her guard, according to the rules, she had to meet her master Huaiqing first.
There were three other maids who came with him, but only one of them came from the cold palace.
Seeing this, Huaiqing looked at the faces of the four people carefully, then pointed to the delicate-faced palace maid and said, "You are the only one who is pretty. If you stay, the others can leave."
As soon as these words came out, the eyes of the other three palace maids showed a little bit of unwillingness.
But in the end, he had no choice but to turn around and leave.
After seeing the three people leaving, Huaiqing asked, "How was it?"
Hearing this, the delicate palace maid shook her head and said: "I can't find them in the East Palace, they are not in the East Palace!"
"Not in the East Palace?"
