Chapter 162 Autumn Water Pavilion
Empress Dowager Xiao also paused with the wine glass.
"What? Can the female thief be entered in this forbidden garden? No?" Concubine Su was surprised and looked a little disbelief.
Others also looked at Ying Dongjun.
At this time, Nianyu walked in quickly from outside. Empress Dowager Xiao glanced at her, Nianyu blinked quietly, and then stood behind Empress Dowager Xiao.
Empress Xiao smiled slightly, knowing that the matter was done, she lowered her head and took a sip of wine.
Ying Dongjun: "I couldn't believe it at first, but she snatched the jade cicada given to me by His Majesty."
As he said that, Ying Dongjun stood up, bowed to Empress Dowager Xiao, and said in annoyance: "Empress Dowager, I have lost Your Majesty's reward, and I would like to forgive you."
Everyone looked at each other and thought, no wonder the princess was so well-behaved today, and saluted the Queen Mother repeatedly. It turned out that she had lost the gift from the emperor, for fear that the Queen Mother and His Majesty would blame him.
Empress Dowager Xiao glanced at Ying Dongjun and said with a slight tone with a slight reproach: "Why are you so careless? That jade cicada is the beloved thing of His Majesty Taizong at the time, very precious."
Others who didn't know the truth felt regretful when they heard that the jade cicada was left by His Majesty Taizong.
Empress Xiao asked again: "Where did you lose it? The Ai family ordered people to help you find it."
Ying Dongjun: "In the forest behind the horse farm, the female thief had a green turtle in her hand. At first, she ordered the green turtle to attack me. I almost got blinded by the hateful bird!"
"That's too vicious!" Su Taifei exclaimed.
There are all female relatives present, and no one cares about their appearance. Thinking of the eldest princess's face as beautiful as a fairy, it would be a pity if it was destroyed by an eagle.
The owner of this eagle is really vicious.
Ying Dongjun sighed, "Who said it was not? Fortunately, I met the Li family's Langjun. Although the female thief could manipulate the green priest, she could not master martial arts. Seeing that she could not compete with me and Li Langjun, she committed suicide by taking it away! Before she died, she threw the jade cicada to the green priest and let the green priest take it away. Now she sent someone to find it, I am afraid it will not be found."
"Ah! Could this female thief have accomplices?" Concubine Su covered her lips and said in surprise, "Otherwise, why would she steal the jade cicada before she died? That must be to send the jade cicada to her accomplices!"
Seeing Ying Dongjun remove everyone's attention from the fact that she lost the reward, a voice inserted into her and interrupted, "Does this female thief have accomplices to catch people before she knows, but Princess, what should you blame for losing the jade cicada of His Majesty Taizong that His Majesty has given you?"
Everyone looked at the person who was talking, it was Xiao Huiniang.
Xiao Huiniang looked at Ying Dongjun with a little malicious intention.
She only learned not long ago that her husband had met Ying Dongjun and gave the reward of the late emperor to Ying Dongjun. She knew her husband, and she must have no external intentions. It is inevitable that Ying Dongjun, a vixen, wanted to relive the old dream! Xiao Huiniang was holding her breath, so this time she came out to cause trouble for Ying Dongjun without waiting for Empress Xiao to hint.
Xiao Huiniang looked at Ying Dongjun and said, "Princess, you are disrespectful and unfilial."
Ying Dongjun frowned, "That jade cicada was not something I intended to lose! What crime did this palace commit? "
Xiao Huiniang was also a little anxious. She said, "I remember that at that time, a Zhongshu Sheren named Liu was impeached by the censor for accidentally tainting the imperial edict and losing his official position. The Liu Sheren was ashamed and finally committed suicide by hanging himself."
There is indeed something Xiao Huiniang said. However, the fundamental reason for the death of the fifth-rank official named Liu was due to party disputes in the court, and the defiling of imperial edicts was just an excuse.
Ying Dongjun sneered, "Mrs. Jing'an Hou Shizi wants me to learn from that Liusheren, and commit suicide by hanging the beam?"
Xiao Huiniang felt that Ying Dongjun called her Mrs. Hou Shizi at this moment, and she said coldly: "I didn't force the princess to die, but the princess is indeed punished."
Ying Dongjun looked at the Empress Dowager and asked, "I wonder how the Empress Dowager plans to punish me this time?"
Ying Dongjun's meaning is to suspect that Xiao Huiniang was instructed by Empress Dowager Xiao, so she asked Empress Dowager Xiao directly.
In fact, most people present think so. After all, Xiao Huiniang has always been in the same mind as Empress Dowager Xiao.
However, Ying Dongjun asked this in public, but she also had the intention of confronting the Empress Dowager, and Empress Dowager Xiao was a little annoyed.
To this day, how could Empress Dowager Xiao allow Ying Dongjun, a powerless princess, to ride on her head and provoke her in public?
Empress Xiao said indifferently: "When Your Majesty gave the jade cicada, he said that the jade cicada is not only worth one million yuan, but also a thing Taizong loves. Since you have lost it, you can go to Fengxian Temple to kneel all night."
Ying Dongjun looked at Empress Xiao without saying anything.
"What? Are you going to resist the order?" Empress Dowager Xiao asked softly.
Ying Dongjun smiled coldly, "Chengping doesn't dare."
Empress Xiao was satisfied. She asked Ying Dongjun to kneel down in public to serve the palace, which was considered to suppress Ying Dongjun's arrogance and made her recognize her current status.
Xiao Huiniang finally felt very happy when she saw Ying Dongjun suffer a loss, although she felt that it would be too light to let Ying Dongjun kneel for one night.
Everyone present saw this and couldn't help but look at the familiar ones secretly.
It seems that Princess Chengping is now a phoenix that plucks her hair, so she doesn’t need to be too polite to her in the future. This is what many people present think.
Empress Dowager Xiao took all the expressions of everyone and smiled slightly.
At this moment, the maid who bent down to pour wine for Empress Dowager Xiao to recite fish. The wine pot in her hand suddenly fell, and the wine splashed out, wetting Empress Dowager Xiao's clothes.
Empress Dowager Xiao frowned and was about to scold him, but she saw Nianyu slumping on the ground with her right hand covering her, and she started to cry out in pain.
This scene shocked everyone.
"What's going on?"
"What's wrong with her?"
I saw that Nianyu's right hand quickly became red and swollen in a short period of time. Because it hurt so much, she couldn't help but roll in the hall and almost knocked over the desk in front of the empress dowager.
Seeing her like this, the Queen Mother knew something was wrong and quickly sang: "Come on, carry her down."
Immediately, two eunuchs walked over quickly, trying to carry Nianyu down.
A voice stopped them.
"Slow down."
Ying Dongjun stood up, walked to Nianyu Lei Ran, turned his head and looked at her hands carefully, then smiled sweetly, and said to the Empress Dowager: "I know what's going on with her hands."
When the Empress Dowager saw Ying Dongjun's smile, she knew that it was wrong and was about to interrupt her.
Ying Dongjun did not give Empress Xiao a chance to stop her. She squatted down, touched Nianyu's sleeves, and then put on a purse. Finally, she took out a purse from Nianyu's clothes in full view of everyone.
Ying Dongjun took out the things in his purse in front of everyone.
It was a jade cicada with a clear jade quality, but unfortunately it had been broken in half.
Chapter completed!