Tyrant Whitewashing Plan [Transmigration Book]

The little maid knew that the emperor's chariot was passing by, so she took a few steps towards the side, bowed her body and saluted Xiao Jining in a regular manner, without raising her head during the process, and the salute she performed was so regular that there was no mistake.

The Great Xiao's palace rules and regulations are relatively well established, so the palace people have corresponding punishment methods for whatever mistakes they make - but no matter what kind, there will be no such situation as punishment kneeling.

After all, the palace people in the palace are, in the final analysis, servants recruited into the palace to serve the royal family. Therefore, the punishment for small mistakes is to deduct monthly salary or increase the workload. Only serious mistakes will use physical punishment, such as slapping the mouth , punishments such as stick and blame.

Punishment like kneeling is corporal punishment.

But in the palace, no nanny or aunt would punish the maids in this way, because it was against the rules and would waste the labor of the maids.Only the concubines would punish the palace people in this way, and they have the power to punish them. Chen Qian Road is the avenue in the palace. It is a road that only the masters can walk in the center, and the rest of the palace people have to avoid it. Which female official dares to be so presumptuous What about asking the maid to kneel and occupy the palace way here?

However, in Xiao Jining's harem, Tan Qingxuan and Ruan Jiaren have always followed the palace rules, and the punishment for the palace people is the same; as for Qiao Xi, in the eyes of the palace people, her personality is notoriously magnanimous, and she will not do anything wrong. Such a thing; the only remaining candidate is Ding Shuxue.

Chen Qianlu was close to Ding Shuxue's palace, and with Ding Shuxue's personality, she was indeed someone who would do such a thing.

If the court lady was not punished to kneel because of Ding Shuxue, Xiao Jining would not ask even if it was against the rules, but if she was punished to kneel on the cold stone road in the cold winter months because of offending Ding Shuxue, Xiao Jining would have to ask a few questions up.

He raised his hand towards Mu Kui, told Mu Kui to stop the emperor's chariot, and asked why the little maid was kneeling here.

"What's your name?" Mu Kui walked up to the maid and asked, "Why are you kneeling here?"

"The maidservant is called...Xiao Ling, and she is a court lady from Shanggong Bureau." The court lady lowered her head deeply so that people could not see her face clearly, "The maidservant was punished to kneel because of bumping into Shu Jieyu."

Ordinary palace people make mistakes. When they are questioned by another master with a better temper, they often add some adjectives such as "the servant is not careful" and "the servant did not do it on purpose". How long, and then use these careful thoughts to win the sympathy of the master in order to strive for a "commutation of sentence".

The reason why Mu Kui knows the trick so well is because he also came here when he was begging for a living under the Empress Dowager Chun.

Now the palace lady answered cleanly without any embellishment, and only made a simple statement. Mu Kui secretly admired her a few words in his heart, but when he heard her name, Mu Kui couldn't help but say: "Yuan?"

For Mu Kui, the name "蓊蓊" is not too familiar, first he heard Ying Xiaozhu, then Lu Tu fainted, and later he was knocked down by Xiao Jining and injured in the snow, the little eunuch who went to her residence to deliver medicine Or he sent it.She kept her head down all the time, and her voice was muffled. Mu Kui didn't recognize her for a while, but when she heard her name, Mu Kui immediately frowned and asked in doubt, "Why is it you again?"

This can't be blamed on Mu Kuiduo's thinking, the main reason is that there are so many palace people in the palace, but this one named "Yeng Ling" met them the most times—whether she was in Ding Shuxue's palace, or returned to the palace maid's house, and then from the palace maid. Suo went to the Shang Gong Bureau, and he could meet him almost everywhere. Isn't this too much of a coincidence?

"What's wrong?" Xiao Jining asked Mu Kui when he heard that Mu Kui's tone was strange.

"Your majesty, this court lady, she, she..."

However, Mu Kui is not sure whether this was done on purpose by Ying Ling, or if it was really an accident and a coincidence. Although he needs to pay attention to everything about Xiao Jining, he can't accidentally hurt a good person because of his suspicion, so Mu Kui hesitated for a long time. , I don't know how to explain it to Xiao Jining.

"What's wrong with her?" Xiao Jining became even more strange when he heard Mu Kui's words, and subconsciously asked, "What's her name?"

Mu Kui said, "Yuan."

"Oh——" Xiao Jining replied when he heard the words, he turned his head to look at the maid, only to see that her head was still lowered, Xiao Jining couldn't see anything except her black hair.

But Xiao Jining remembered this person, so he said: "I remember you."

As soon as Xiao Jining uttered these four words, the court lady who had never raised her head suddenly raised her head, her eyes looked at Xiao Jining with some indescribable strange emotions, so when Xiao Jining met her gaze, she was stunned for a moment. .

But after he came back to his senses, Xiao Jining said: "I remember, you used to be a maid in Mrs. Shu's palace, and later you returned to the palace maid's office."

You are another woman who had an "ambiguous experience" with Jing Yuan in the original book, my rival in love - this is the real reason why Xiao Ji Ning can't forget this court lady named "Ying Ling".

Thinking of the number of times this court lady had met him, Xiao Jining had no choice but to rejoice that he "demoted" Jing Yuan's position, otherwise Jing Yuan, as a general of hussars, would often follow him by his side, how many times would he meet this woman? Second-rate.

"Yes." The little maid pursed her lips, and the corners of her mouth moved, as if she was smiling, but it didn't look like it.

Xiao Jining immediately began to inquire about the situation of his rival: "Then where are you now? Have you left the maid's office?"

The little palace maid didn't lower her head any more, she just lowered her eyelashes and replied to him: "It's already gone, the servant is in the Shanggong Bureau."

The Shanggong Bureau is in charge of Zhang Baizang and builds a place for hundreds of servants. To put it bluntly, it is in charge of the construction of the clothes workshop in the palace and the entry and exit of money. The fact that Feng Ling can come out of the palace maid's house and enter such a place is enough to prove her " Work" is still good.

only……

"Shang Gong Ju is not in Linlang Palace." Xiao Jining said vigilantly, "Why did you come here?"

Ling Ling raised her eyes to look at Xiao Jining, her voice was soft, but her eyes were shining, and she said to him: "This servant is here to measure the clothes for Empress Shujieyu."

Xiao Jining also thought that she was holding a stack of paper books and pens in her hand, which should be the books recording the concubine's stature. Hearing this, he immediately understood: "Then it's no wonder Madam Shu wants to punish you."

Feng Ling used to be a member of Ding Shuxue's palace, and during Ding Shuxue's time, Ding Shuxue tormented her a lot. Later, he asked Tan Qingxuan to send her back to the palace maid's house to learn the rules because he "didn't learn the rules well". In fact, he saved her from suffering.

In this way, Ding Shuxue must have formed a relationship with her.

And now that Feng Ling has entered the Shanggong Bureau, she has been promoted in terms of the rank of female officials. When she sees her old master again, Ding Shuxue will definitely not let her go.

She said that she was punished by Ding Shuxue to kneel here because of the collision. In fact, she should have done nothing wrong, but Ding Shuxue deliberately found fault, right?

Strictly speaking, Feng Ling should be regarded as his rival in love.But Xiao Jining thought: She has never met Jing Yuandao before, and it has nothing to do with him. He doesn't have to care about it. Since Feng Ling didn't make a mistake, she shouldn't kneel here.

It was deep winter, and the floor tiles were bone-chillingly cold. After kneeling for a long time, he still didn't know what would happen, so Xiao Jining said: "Forget it, get up."

After thinking for a while, he also said: "There is no need to kneel here even if it is freezing cold. Let other people from Shanggong Bureau do the things here in the future."

Just stay in the Shanggong Bureau, and Jing Yuan will not go to the Shanggong Bureau if he is fine.

However, Mu Kui hesitated to speak: "The emperor..."

Xiao Jining originally thought that this matter should be settled, but he couldn't help but look at Mu Kui, but Mu Kui told him: "Your Majesty, the matter of tailoring clothes for the new season should have ended early this morning."

In other words, she should have finished the matter of tailoring the clothes that Yingying said this morning, so how could she be here all afternoon?

Xiao Jining looked at Feng Ling again after hearing the words, and Ling Ling immediately explained in a low voice: "Yes, but Shu Jieyu said that she wanted to make another fox velvet cloak, so she called her servant over."

After saying all this, it was actually enough, but Yan Ling's eyelashes trembled, and when she looked at Xiao Jining, she added another sentence: "The other thing is... when the slave girl came to Linlang Palace in the morning, she accidentally left behind. A hairpin."

"That hairpin is very important to this servant, so I want to find it, so I will stay here and meet Shujieyu again... Then, I was punished to kneel."

Great Xiao Palace Rules: Maids of the palace are not allowed to run around in the palace without authorization.

If Feng Ling said that, was he really suspected of colliding with Shu Jieyu?

After hearing this, Mu Kui was speechless and helpless, thinking: How can someone be so stupid?

If you say that, you may have made a mistake. Originally, the emperor didn't intend to punish you, but you insisted on telling everything honestly.

After Xiao Jining heard it, he also found it a little funny, but he did laugh, and slightly hooked the corner of his lips and asked Li Ling, "Why is the hairpin so important?"

"It's the one that the emperor helped the servants to pick up last time." Feng Ling lowered her head when she said this, but immediately raised her eyes after she finished speaking, looking straight at Xiao Jining, waiting for Xiao Jining's reaction .

"Last time?" But Xiao Jining only had doubts on his face, as if he didn't remember such a thing at all.

Seeing this, Mu Kui approached Xiao Jining and reminded him in a low voice: "Your Majesty, do you still remember that when you were in a hurry to leave the palace a few days ago, you accidentally bumped into a maid on the road? That maid is her."

Only then did Xiao Jining remember: "So that person is also you."

The little maid's eyes were still looking at him, but Xiao Jining couldn't explain why, he always felt that the light that seemed to be shining in Lian's eyes just now disappeared, and she lowered her eyelashes again, and her voice also lowered :"……yes."

But since she was already allowed to get up just now, Xiao Jining would not make her continue to kneel as a punishment, but only allowed her to continue searching for her hairpin on Chen Qian Road: "Okay, then you can continue to look for it."

After saying this, Xiao Jining left the place in the emperor's chariot, and did not continue to talk to Feng Ling.

Behind him, Feng Ling stood there for a long time, as if in a daze, but if someone approached her, they would find her ear wings moving lightly, identifying movements that were difficult for ordinary people to hear.

After all the hidden guards around Xiao Jining had left this place, including the man she saw at the Lixing Palace that day by the hot spring pool of the Hall of Picking Stars, Feng Ling turned around and walked straight to the south gate of Chen Qian Road.

Beside the stone lamp on the right side of the south gate, there is a silver-blue hairpin.

Feng Ling walked over and picked it up without any hesitation, as if she had known for a long time that the "accidentally missed hairpin" she had just said to Xiao Jining was here.

Yet it is.

Just now Xiao Jining passed by here, he didn't see this hairpin, and he didn't really remember her.

Objectively speaking, this is actually a good thing, but Yu Ling couldn't explain how she felt in her heart, because in her heart, she felt that this was not a good thing for her.

She slowly put down the measuring book that had been pressing on her chest, and used it to place the hairpin she picked up.

A gust of cold winter wind blew past, blowing the thin silver butterfly wings on the hairpin, and also lifted a few pages of paper feet in the measuring book. A few pages later was a half-drawn map.

If this map is shown to some older people who are familiar with the palace, they will know that this is the topographic map of the entire Great Xiao Palace.

On the other hand, Ying Ling lowered her eyes and gently wiped off the almost non-existent dust on the hairpin, stared at it for a moment, then inserted it back into her hair, and continued to walk towards the direction with her back to Xiao Jining.