Yongfu Palace was still the same Yongfu Palace, but when Yuzhu walked outside the palace gate, he did not have the courage to step up the steps.
She came to plead guilty, and it was a capital crime, so it was normal for Yuzhu to feel tortured.
Just when she was struggling, she heard a voice coming from the front: "Sister Yuzhu, why are you back?"
I saw a maid carrying a basket walking out of the palace gate.
"Who else is back?" Yuzhu asked.
"Mrs. Wu has just returned. She seems quite anxious and is talking to the princess inside!"
Hearing this, Yuzhu felt a haze in his heart. This was not a good sign.
"Go and do your work!" Yuzhu said to the maid in front of him.
After the maid left, Yuzhu took a deep breath and then walked up the steps of the palace gate.
In the main hall of Yongfu Palace, Mrs. Wu Liu knelt in front of Xue Baojun, wiping away tears.
"Your Majesty, you can't ignore this matter. The lives of my family depend on your Majesty!" Mrs. Wu Liu cried.
At this moment, Xue Baoyun's expression was extremely ugly, but she was still short of five hundred kilograms of food, and it was all recorded in her account.
"You get up first, I will investigate this matter strictly and you will not be implicated!" Xue Baoyun said calmly.
After hearing this, Mrs. Wu Liu finally understood, and Xue Baoyun didn't know the reason for her feelings.
Then there was no need for her to stay here any longer. She stood up slowly and said, "Mother, you have to figure this out as soon as possible. If it's too late, it will be difficult to deal with it!"
"I understand, you should go back first...I will send someone to investigate closely immediately!" Xue Baojun tried his best to squeeze out a smile.
Mrs. Wu Liu didn't stay long. After getting up, she turned around and walked outside. When she left the main hall, she happened to meet Yuzhu.
Yuzhu wanted to ask a few questions, but Wu Liu ignored her at all and walked out directly.
In the main hall, Xue Baojun was concentrating on his thoughts when he heard a voice calling from outside: "Your Majesty, Yuzhu wants to see you!"
This was Yuzhu's voice. Normally, he could enter the palace directly, but this time she was waiting outside.
Xue Baoyun was about to ask Yuzhu for questioning. After all, Yuzhu and his wife were all responsible for the procurement of food and supplies.
"Come in!"
Hearing the cold voice in the hall, Yuzhu felt a sting in his heart, but he still braved the bullet and entered the hall.
Seeing Xue Baoyun sitting upright, Yuzhu knelt down on the ground with a plop, and then kowtowed: "Your Majesty, this slave is guilty!"
"Guilty? What crime?" Xue Baoyun asked coldly.
Something happened just now, and someone came to confess immediately. This was really a quick response.
"Liu Bao was so bold that he secretly misappropriated hundreds of kilograms of grain by taking advantage of the opportunity of doing things for the empress!"
In just one sentence, Yuzhu explained the reason clearly, so that the doubts in Xue Baoyun's heart suddenly disappeared.
"Liu Bao is guilty, and this servant is also guilty. Please hold me accountable!"
Yuzhu kowtowed seven or eight times in a row, but Xue Baoyun didn't want to look at her at all.
The extra few hundred kilograms of grain was indeed misappropriated by his subordinates, which made Xue Baoyun extremely uneasy.
Even if those three hundred kilograms of grain were found out, she only had to explain it to Zhao Yanxun.
But now the extra few hundred kilograms have made things not so simple. That is a full eight hundred kilograms of grain, which is extremely unreasonable no matter how you look at it.
What made Xue Baoyun even more angry was that these slaves below were so bold and dared to act recklessly behind her back.
"Someone is coming!"
Upon hearing Xue Baoyun's summons, the maid serving at the side turned around and said respectfully: "Please give me your orders!"
"Take someone to capture Liu Bao and kill him with a stick!" Xue Baojun said in a cold tone.
Although there was some hesitation, the maid still accepted the order. She did not dare to offend the princess.
"Yes!" After glancing at the jade bamboo on the ground, the maid turned and left.
"Empress, empress... spare his life!" Yuzhu kowtowed one after another.
She really didn't expect that Xue Baoyun would be so ruthless, which was very different from the young lady in her impression.
Yuzhu grew up with Xue Baojun, so even though the latter was already a princess, in her mind she was still a young lady from the Hou family.
Sometimes people are like this. You think you understand each other after having been together for many years, but you don't know that time has passed quietly.
At this time, Xue Baoyun could not restrain his anger and scolded: "Only if he dies can we give an explanation to the prince, so that you and your children will not be implicated!"
Hearing this, Yuzhu could only cry continuously, but she could not refute Xue Baoyun's words.
This is indeed the truth. The trap Liu Bao broke into this time was so big that he would not be able to deal with Xue Baojun unless he died.
"Don't think that Liu Bao's life can offset all his sins. He stabbed this guy...even I have to apologize to the prince!"
"If I hadn't missed you as my master and servant for many years, I could have just blamed all of this on you, so why bother taking the responsibility myself?"
Yuzhu kept shedding tears. She was particularly desperate at this moment, but she also knew that Xue Baojun was protecting her.
"Mother...is there really no other way?"
After a long silence in the hall, Xue Baojun sighed: "If you want to blame... I can only blame Liu Bao for seeking his own death. Go back and see him one last time!"
"yes!"
Extremely sad, Yuzhu stood up and left the hall. She knew that no matter how much she said, it would be useless.
Looking at her leaving figure, Xue Baoyun also sighed.
She actually didn't want to kill anyone, but she could save her image by killing Liu Bao, so she had to kill him.
In fact, if Zhao Yanxun was very angry when he went to apologize to Zhao Yanxun later, Yuzhu could also be discarded.
In other words, Yuzhu's life is hanging by a thread now.
"Change my clothes!" Xue Baojun stood up and said.
Since he is going to plead guilty, he must be perfect. Xue Baoyun must package himself as a sin-bearing person. This is called retreating in order to advance.
Under the busyness of the maids, Xue Baojun put on a light blue robe, with all the hairpins on her head except for a piece of wood that fixed her simple hairstyle.
Some people are naturally beautiful, just like a woman like Xue Baoyun, even if the decorations are removed, she is still beautiful and refined, and cannot be copied.
After sitting in Yongfu Palace for a while, Xue Baoyun thought about the countermeasures in detail and waited for news about the execution of the maid.
After a while, the maid returned with four eunuchs.
"Empress, Liu Bao has been killed with a stick!"
A trace of unbearability flashed in Xue Baoyun's eyes, but then he asked: "How did Yuzhu react?"
"Sister Yuzhu first held the body and cried bitterly, then she restrained Liu Bao's body!"
"What didn't she say?"
"Tell me, she said that Liu Bao was the cause of his own misfortune, and she also scolded him for betraying the trust of the empress!"
Xue Baoyun nodded, no matter what Yuzhu said was true or false, as long as she was on the right track, that would be fine.
Putting down the teacup in his hand, Xue Baoyun, dressed in green clothes, stood up from the soft couch and walked out of the hall.
She was going to Jinshen Hall to plead guilty, and before Zhao Yanxun came back, she would go there and kneel there.
