When kneeling on the ground of Jiangyunxuan, the maid did not dare to look around. She lowered her head and felt the cold gaze above her, and tremblingly held up the jade pendant in her hand.
She quickly took it over as soon as she saw it. The jade pendant was still stained with blood, staining the palm of her hand red.
"This, this is what Mr. Xiaobai spit out just now. It... has the Queen Mother's name engraved on it..."
Yu Xiheng raised his eyes, his eyes were desolate and cold, like a night in the wilderness. If you look in, you can't get out.
The boy next to him very wisely took the jade pendant, wiped it clean, and then handed it to Yu Xiheng.
The jade pendant itself was red, so Yu Xiheng held it up to the sunlight, and the shadow cast by the sunlight fell on his pupils, making them appear scarlet.
The maid didn't hear the voice for a long time. She raised her eyes cautiously, but she only had time to see a vague outline, and she immediately lowered her eyelids in panic.
It's so cold, like the layer of cold frost that condensed outside the house when I woke up on the morning of this Lantern Festival this year. Just by looking at it, I felt the chill seep into my limbs.
The boy asked her, "Is there anything else besides this?"
The maid was brought back to her senses and hurriedly replied: "There are also many small beads. I think they are all valuable."
A little maid standing outside suddenly knelt down with a plop and stammered out a sentence, "Slave, slave, I saw Master Xiaobai standing under the window of Madam's room an hour ago. She listened for a while and then left. Yes, the slave was still calling it from behind, but it didn’t look back.”
No one would think that a tiger could sneak into the palace and attack the Queen Mother, but they were different. They lived with Mr. Xiaobai day and night, so they naturally understood its human nature. If it hadn't retained the wild nature of an animal, the servants would have thought it was a tiger. Inside the body is a human core.
If he knew that his wife had been injured for no reason, it would not be unthinkable to go to the palace to avenge his wife.
"Sir, is it Master Xiaobai..." the boy asked.
Everyone breathed softly, waiting for the person above them to speak.
"The tiger in Shangshu's Mansion——" the voice was straight and emotionless, "it was released into the forest three months ago."
However, when you look up into his eyes, you can see the sinister and cold pupils there.
Deep down, it's bone-chillingly cold.
The servants all understood what he meant and remained silent.
Something happened in Cining Palace. Huang Eunuch and his people rushed to Shangshu Mansion non-stop. As soon as he entered the door, he couldn't help but hold the hand tightly to the young boy who came to receive him.
"Hurry, take me to find you adults!"
The boy was startled by his hurried expression and did not dare to delay, so he hurriedly led him to the back.
After meeting the person, Eunuch Huang didn't even have time to wipe the sweat from his forehead. He took a few steps in and shouted, "Sir, something happened in Cining Palace."
The man sat beside the bed, holding the person on the bed tightly with his well-jointed hands. Looking up, there was a face that had been weathered for a long time, as vast as a distant mountain.
The pale lips were pursed tightly, cold and distant when not smiling.
Yu Xiheng moved her eyes to look at him, her thin lips curled up, but the smile did not reach her eyes, half mocking and half angry.
"Why, are you here to investigate?"
Eunuch Huang's face suddenly turned pale with fright. He almost knelt down and hurriedly explained, "Hey, sir, what did you say? Don't you know who the emperor is in his heart?"
Yu Xiheng tugged at his lips, his pupils splashed with ink were dark and dark.
"The emperor asked our family to come here. The emperor asked you to send Bai Hu out of the city first. He has already found a place for you to be fostered outside the city."
After Eunuch Huang finished speaking bravely, he heard no sound and started sweating again.
When the prince who had sent Mrs. Lin and Miss Juan Juan home just now went back to find the emperor, Eunuch Huang saw with his own eyes that he was sullen and wiping tears after leaving the hall.
Even the prince is not as good as him, let alone he is just a eunuch.
Eunuch Huang wiped the sweat from his forehead, feeling flustered by the lengthy silence.
"My lord?" he shouted bravely.
Yu Xiheng's expression was calm, as if he was discussing the weather with others casually. If he hadn't heard what he said, Eunuch Huang would have breathed a sigh of relief.
"Do I still want him to teach me?"
It's over, I'm still angry with the emperor.
Others would have been beheaded long ago, but this one, even if he spoke in front of the emperor, the emperor still had to coax him.
Eunuch Huang felt that it was really difficult for him. A chief eunuch had to shoulder the task of repairing the relationship between the emperor and his ministers for the emperor.
Without thinking, he knelt down and stretched out his hand to pull Yu Xiheng's clothes. His tone was sincere and anxious, "My lord, the emperor was entangled by the censor at that time, and the eunuch on duty at the door was also quietly replaced. Your Majesty has become the Queen Mother, and your Majesty has not received any news. Now His Majesty is so angry that he is sick. Just after meeting with the imperial doctor, something happened again in Cining Palace..."
He paused and then said, "The Queen Mother, the Queen Mother's body has been eaten half off."
Yu Xiheng raised his eyebrows. He was smiling, but it was a smile that was cold to the core.
He asked: "Dead?"
Eunuch Huang's face turned pale with fright, and he shook his head desperately. The man over fifty years old almost cried out of fright, "No!"
My lord, please stop saying these rebellious words! This slave’s little heart can’t bear it!
As soon as he finished praying in his heart, he heard the mocking and cold voice again.
"It's not a big deal if you don't die."
Eunuch Huang: I'm sorry, but I'm scared to death.
"The imperial doctor was taking expensive medicine and was breathing heavily. The Queen Mother was still conscious. When she opened her eyes, she said that a white tiger had bitten her. You also know that the emperor always has to balance the situation. People from the Zhao family have already entered the palace. , said angrily that you ordered Bai Hu to do it, and now the emperor is prevaricating it. As long as you hide the white tiger well and the emperor is in the palace to tell the truth, nothing will happen."
Eunuch Huang didn't know if Master Shangshu had heard these sincere words, because after he finished speaking, Yu Xiheng's face was expressionless.
"Eunuch Huang, just go back if you have nothing else to do."
Well, it looks like I didn't listen.
Eunuch Huang was about to cry but had no tears. He realized that it was not easy to be a middleman, but he still had more than one task.
After standing up, his eyes glanced inside from time to time.
Yu Xiheng looked up at him, his eyes gloomy and cold, "Do you have anything else?"
Eunuch Huang forced a smile and looked at his old face, "Well, when His Royal Highness went back, he said that Miss Juan Juan was in a coma. The Emperor was worried, so he asked the servant to see how Miss Juan was doing..."
Let him do whatever is difficult for him to do.
Eunuch Huang could already predict the expression on Master Shangshu's face.
Sure enough, the man looked at him coldly, his eyes filled with anger, and he uttered two words:
"go out."
"Okay, let's leave now..."
The moment he turned around and went out, Eunuch Huang wished he could die on the spot.
It’s really hard to please both sides. How can he explain to the emperor when he goes back?
