"Has anyone been here while you were guarding your things?" She asked the maids in a deep voice, looking worried.
The maids knew that they had made a big mistake, and it was the time when they were trembling. After hearing Xie Ziyue's words, their expressions shrank a little:
"Your Majesty, the slaves have been guarding the edge. I didn't see anyone coming..."
This gift was the princess's favorite, and the maids did not dare to slack off at all. Who knew something would happen even so?
The eyes of the palace maids were filled with despair and tears. You can imagine what kind of punishment awaits them if this gift cannot be recovered.
"Empress!" At this moment, among the several maids who knelt down and kowtowed, one of the maids raised her head as if she suddenly remembered something:
"This slave remembers that someone has been here."
They were scared out of their wits just now and were in a daze. They didn't expect this at all.
After Xie Ziyue asked this question, the palace maid remembered.
Her eyes widened, her desire for life overriding everything else, and she eagerly defended:
"Empress, I remember that a little maid came here and almost bumped into me. I kindly helped you. The little maid stayed beside me and talked for a while before leaving."
The palace maid originally thought that the little maid had no evil intentions, that is, she almost fell down accidentally. She helped this person because she was worried that she would not be able to do her job if she encountered those gifts.
Thinking about it now, this little maid is very suspicious, and she is not wearing the clothes of a palace maid, so she should not be from the palace.
The palace maid secretly hated herself for being naive at that time, which led to the current situation.
But there is no medicine for regret in the world. Even if you regret in your heart, you can't help it. What happened has already happened.
"Oh?" Concubine De glanced at the palace maid in confusion: "Then she is no longer from the palace... Do you still remember what that little maid looks like?"
"I don't remember much." The palace maid's breathing was turbulent for a moment, and she buried her head lower.
Her voice was like a mosquito, but she only remembered that the little maid looked very ordinary.
She was busy watching the commotion at the table, and even chatting with the other party was very perfunctory, and she didn't look at her face carefully at all.
"It's useless," Concubine De said in a loud voice, and the people below didn't dare to express her anger.
"Since I don't have the clothes of a palace maid, I should be the one who follows these ladies and ladies." Rong Jieyu didn't expect that her casual suggestion could involve such a thing. She pressed the corner of her mouth with a handkerchief and suggested aloud:
"This is the princess's birthday gift. Even the princess's birthday gift needs to be taken... This kind of person should be found and found out who he is. There is no way he can just expose it so lightly."
Mrs. Right Prime Minister's nose was almost crooked with anger at stealing a birthday gift in broad daylight, but she didn't have the right to speak at the moment, so she just kept a sullen face.
Xie Ziyue glanced at her daughter and saw her expression of disbelief and pity. Knowing that she really liked this gift, she motioned to Taoxiang to take a look.
Tao Xiang understood and walked down the stairs and said loudly: "Sorry to bother you ladies and madams. Everyone knows that our princess's birthday gift has been lost. Please stand still and don't move around. I will search it one by one with my servants. "
Xin Zhangjing waved his hand, and several palace maids followed him down, searching the ladies and maids one by one.
The palace maid also followed Tao Xiang to look at these maids to see if she could find the little maid.
The noble ladies had never seen such a battle before, and many of them were panicked.
But at this time, they can only try their best to cooperate, otherwise the flame of suspicion will burn on them.
While they were searching, Gu Xuan rested her chin on her head out of boredom and said, "Mother, forget it if you can't find her."
I just kind of like it. It's hard to find something so small.
"Then we have to find her first," Xie Ziyue saw her eyes narrowing slightly and couldn't help but feel concerned: "Are you sleepy?"
Gu Xuan was just about to say "a little bit" when she heard an exclamation coming from below.
Looking down, I saw Miss Zuo's face full of panic, and Grandma Li standing in front of her, holding a purse in her hand.
She opened the purse in front of everyone and saw that it contained carved blood jade wrapped in several layers of cloth.
"Okay!" Others were still immersed in this scene and had no reaction. The right minister's wife took the lead:
"Isn't this the eldest lady of General Qi Wei? How come such a well-behaved lady doesn't want to imitate others, but instead instigates her maid to steal the princess's birthday gift? How audacious!"
"It's not me!" Miss Zuo's eyes were panicked. She looked around and saw that everyone's eyes were focused on her. She stared at the girl next to her in disbelief:
"Zhan Rong! Is it you! It must be you! It must be you who framed me!"
Her eyes were splitting, and she stepped forward and pushed Zhan Rong hard. Zhan Rong seemed not to have expected that she would be like this, and was pushed to the ground unprepared.
Even so, she didn't blame Miss Zuo at all. Instead, she whispered: "Miss Zuo, what are you talking about? Why did you have to identify me? I didn't do anything."
"It must be you!" With so many ladies and ladies here, and such a fatal thing being found out in front of everyone, Miss Zuo felt that she was completely ruined, and could no longer care about the image she had carefully concealed for so long, so she accused loudly. :
"It must be because of our previous festivals that you have always resented me! The Queen is very clear that I will never steal the eldest princess's things!"
At the end, she knelt down again facing Xie Ziyue, her eyes filled with tears.
Gu Xuan didn't like to get involved in this kind of thing, but this matter actually involved Zhan Rong. She looked in the direction of Zhan Rong, and saw Zhan Rong's face full of grievance and biting her lip, but her eyes looked at her with a little bit of amusement. Deep meaning.
They had spent a lot of time together before, and Gu Xuan knew Zhan Rong fairly well.
Zhan Rong is usually quiet, but she is not a soft persimmon that can be rounded or flattened by others.
She would never take the initiative to harm others. Seeing Miss Zuo's panic, she intuitively told her that this matter had something to do with Miss Zuo.
Maybe Zhan Rong was just fighting back?
She didn't know the truth of the matter, but she understood Zhan Rong's character.
"Queen Mother, she is definitely not Sister Zhan Rong." She leaned against Xie Ziyue and whispered.
"Well," Xie Ziyue hugged her and glanced at Xin Zhangjing.
Xin Zhangjing understood and stepped forward to kick Miss Zuo's maid.
The maid's knees suddenly weakened and she fell to her knees.
"Tell me, did you take something belonging to the princess?" Xin Zhangjing looked sinister and stood condescendingly in front of the maid.
The maid trembled all over: "It's not a slave, I don't have one."
Her eyes were wandering around, obviously something was on her mind.
"It seems that she is still unwilling to tell the truth." Xin Zhangjing saw everything and told Xiao Yunzi: "Take this person to the Shenxing Department. Only the severe punishments there can pry her mouth open."
