Chapter 39 You deliberately hurt me!
Chapter 39 You deliberately hurt me!
"Crown Prince, Crown Princess, and the two concubines are here!"
Xia Zheng was still taking a nap when the noise came from outside. She was so frightened that she jumped out of bed.
Without taking the time to tidy up his clothes, he hurriedly put on his coat and went out.
Before she even left the house, several maids rushed in and began searching everywhere. She turned around with a puzzled look on her face, and when she saw Gu Yizi and Tao Yurong coming in, she bowed blankly and asked, "Prince, Princess, what are you doing?"
"What? How dare you ask! Don't you know what you have done? A maidservant is trying to find someone to gain your favor." Wei Qingqing's voice and footsteps came into the room together, with her hands on her belly and a look of gloating on her face.
Xue Wuyang stood side by side with her. Although she didn't say anything, there was also disdain and ridicule in her eyes.
The two of them were already upset when Gu Yizi sent them to accompany Tao Yurong, and before they even set off they heard this news. No one wanted to miss the opportunity to see Gu Yizi and watch Xia Zheng's fun, so they rushed over.
Xia Zheng was even more bewildered, looking at Tao Yurong helplessly. "A firm favorite? I didn't do anything, I don't know."
"Still pretending! You won't cry until you see the coffin."
Wei Qingqing turned to go out, and saw two maids coming in with Donglin, who was wrapped in a coat hastily, and throwing him to the ground. As he fell, the coat slipped off, revealing a large area of skin and a crimson undershirt.
Without the time to care, Donglin stretched out his hand and rushed towards Xia Zheng, crying, "Auntie! Auntie, you have to save me! It was you who asked me to deliver cakes to the prince, you can't just ignore me!"
"I asked you to deliver the cakes, but why did you..."
"Prince! Did you hear that? It was Aunt Xia! It was really Aunt Xia who asked me to do it!" Dong Lin didn't let Xia Zheng finish her words and hurriedly shouted towards Gu Yizi.
On the way here, she figured it out. She just had to hold on to Xia Zheng. After all, she made the things and the medicine was hers. Without anyone to testify, she had no way to defend herself. She was just following orders. As long as Tao Yurong was willing to protect her, she would have a chance to survive.
As for Xia Zheng, it was her fault for being stupid, she deserved to die.
"My Lord, Princess, no suspicious drugs were found in the kitchen or the courtyard." The maid outside came to report.
"It's in the secret compartment of the cabinet in the inner room! I saw my aunt take it out from there!" Donglin deliberately didn't say it before, just waiting for everyone to come and find the secret compartment, then the matter would be set in stone.
"What are you talking about? What secret compartment? What did I take?" Xia Zheng looked at Dong Lin in confusion.
The old woman didn't care what Xia Zheng said. She immediately walked to the cabinet, opened it, took out everything inside and checked it one by one, inside and out, carefully knocking on every wooden board and listening carefully.
After a while, the consul's maid came out from the inner room and said, "My Lord, Princess, there is no secret compartment in the cabinet."
"How is it possible! It's the one in the inner room! It's in the middle, it opens with a pull, look again! There's no way it's not there." Dong Lin was so anxious that she wanted to get up and look for it herself, but the two maids immediately pressed her to the ground, each holding one of her shoulders.
"Are you sure you have read it carefully?" Tao Yurong asked the old woman.
"We've looked carefully, even removed the boards. We don't see any hidden compartments, and we haven't found anything suspicious elsewhere. Furthermore, everything in the courtyard has the stamp of the Internal Affairs Office, so there wouldn't be any hidden compartments."
Everything in the inner affairs office was recorded in a book, including the style, material, and size. Any change could be discovered immediately. This old woman was from the inner affairs office, so she didn't even need to look through the cabinet. As soon as she opened it, she would know that there had been no changes at all.
This girl is really willing to make up anything to get away with it.
"Impossible! How could there not be one? I was clearly in there... Frost! Yes! Frost saw it too. Frost can testify, Crown Princess!"
Tao Yurong first glanced at Gu Yizi, and seeing that his expression remained unchanged, she winked outside.
Shuangjiang was immediately brought in. Seeing the scene, she turned pale with fear. She knelt on the ground, trembling all over, and said tremblingly, "This servant...this servant pays homage to the Crown Prince, the Crown Prince's wife, and the two concubines."
"Shuangjiang, have you ever seen the secret compartment in Xia Zheng's inner room where she stores things?" Tao Yurong asked.
Shuangjiang immediately shook her head even more fiercely, "I have never seen any secret compartments, let alone touched the cabinets in the inner room."
"You're lying! You clearly told me that you saw a secret compartment in Xia Zheng's cabinet, and a small medicine bottle inside. It contained aphrodisiacs. You said it all!"
Donglin struggled and threw herself at Shuangjiang, who shrank back in fear. "Sister Donglin, what are you talking about? I... I don't understand. The cabinets in the inner room are all filled with my aunt's personal belongings. How can we, as servants, touch them? How can you wrongly accuse me?"
After hearing this, Dong Lin was stunned for a moment.
After running rampant in the courtyard for a while, she had forgotten all the rules of being a slave, so when Shuangjiang mentioned it, she hadn't thought about it at all.
"It's you! You deliberately hurt me! The secret compartment and the medicine were all put there by you, right?"
"I didn't, I didn't." Shuangjiang was so scared that he held his head with his hands, and his pupils were shaking.
Shuangjiang became more and more ferocious, and her resistance became much stronger, but she was still no match for the two strong women. She could only roar: "She lied! She lied! She told me that. She also told me that Xia Zheng was favored because of that medicine. She said that I am no worse than Xia Zheng. If Xia Zheng can do it, why can't I? I..."
"Pfft~"
Wei Qingqing interrupted Dong Lin with a sneer, sizing her up and saying disdainfully, "You're saying you're no worse than Xia Zheng? And you believe it? What? Have you never looked in a mirror since you were born?"
Even though Wei Qingqing had always looked down on Xia Zheng's humble background, she still recognized her appearance and figure, and no one in the mansion could compare to her.
"Even if it is as you said, there is a secret compartment and the medicine, and the little maid who was almost scared to death by you said those words to coax you, but you didn't have the intention to do so, how could you take it? How dare you use it? Didn't you say before that it was Xia Zheng who instructed you? Why is it different now? Did you let it slip?" Xue Wuyang also added a sentence. When the two of them were not quarreling, they cooperated very well.
"I...I..." Donglin was so anxious after learning that the secret compartment was gone that she lost her mind. Only when Xue Wuyang reminded her did she realize that she had already said everything. Then she met Gu Yizi's eyes, which were calm but full of fear, and was completely terrified. Instinctively, she kowtowed to Tao Yurong and begged, "Princess, please save me. I was confused for a moment. I will serve Concubine Xia wholeheartedly in the future until she gives birth..."
"Pah!" Caiwei rushed forward and slapped Donglin hard across the face. "The Crown Prince's Consort, out of consideration for the fact that you and Concubine Xia entered the palace together, asked you to take care of Concubine Xia so she could rest assured and nurture her baby. How dare you do such a despicable thing? You're not only trying to pick on Concubine Xia, but now you have the nerve to ask the Crown Prince's Concubine to keep you!"
"Why is Caiwei so anxious? Are you afraid that she will say something?" Wei Qingqing deliberately looked at Tao Yurong, and everyone else's gaze also began to shift.
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