"Princess, I have brought you." Xiao Xi led a slave into the woodshed.
The servant was not tall, about sixteen or seventeen years old, with an ordinary face, and worked as a busboy in the palace kitchen. He did not appear panicked when he saw Lan Duoduo, and bowed his head in a normal manner.
"Your name is Sangui?" Lan Duoduo asked.
"Yes, I wonder what the princess has to do with the servant?" the leader of the three nobles replied.
"Of course I have something to do with you. I heard from people in the mansion that you have a good relationship with Xiaozhu. I would like to ask you if you saw her when you applied for the application on May 4th?" Lan Duoduo looked at Xiaozhu and saw her.
His eyes were stunned for a moment.
Sangui didn't even think about it, shook his head and said: "No."
"Is it true or are you lying?" Lan Duoduo stared at him with questioning eyes and a sneer on his lips.
Sangui's palms were sweating, and he said calmly: "Back to the princess, I have never seen Xiaozhu on May 4th."
"Princess, please don't embarrass Sangui. He really hasn't seen any slaves during the application process on May 4th." Xiaozhu, who was lying on the ground, spoke, his weak voice filled with distress.
"It seems that you have a really good relationship with Sangui. I just asked him, but you are so anxious." Lan Duoduo chuckled, carefully studying their expressions.
When Sangui heard this, he felt a little uneasy, and then said: "Back to the princess, Sangui works in the kitchen and socializes with the maids in the house, while Xiaozhu serves the prince, and the prince's daily life and food are all
She is responsible, and the slave naturally has to ask questions about every meal, so the slave talks to Xiaozhu more on weekdays, and everyone thinks that Xiaozhu and I have a good relationship."
"You lied. Xiaozhu would go to the dining room every day to announce what kind of dinner he would prepare for the prince. And on May 4th, Xiaozhu also went to the dining room at the same time, and you also asked the dining room supervisor for a meal.
During the holiday, many people saw you leaving with Xiaozhu, tell me, where did you go during that time?" Lan Duoduo's sharp voice sounded, with a cold light shining in his eyes, looking extremely scary.
Sangui kowtowed and looked a little panicked: "The princess is wronged. I asked for an hour's leave, but I went out to buy things!"
"Really? Then why didn't the guard see you going out? Could it be that you had wings and flew out?" Lan Duoduo glanced at Sangui coldly, "Very good, I won't shed tears until I see the coffin."
"Since you are unwilling to tell the truth, don't blame me for being ruthless, but you must be able to withstand my punishment!"
Before Sangui could say anything, Lan Duoduo shouted: "Xiao Xi, go get Huaxin Powder and let this little slave have a taste of Huaxin Powder."
Xiao Xi immediately froze after being ordered. She had already tortured Xiao Zhu badly enough, and now she had to torture another one. When did this princess become so cruel...
Before Xiaoxi went to get the Huaxin Powder, Xiaozhu got up and knelt in front of Lan Duoduo and told what he had hidden: "Princess, please let Sangui go! He was indeed with the slave that day, but we were not
He broke into the princess's garden privately, but... instead went to the bamboo forest in the backyard of the palace."
Lan Duoduo was a little surprised and surprised, but finally understood why Xiaozhu couldn't answer where Shen Shi went that day. She would rather die than tell anyone, just to protect her beloved man.
Lan Duoduo looked at Sangui expressionlessly and said calmly: "Do you know that cheating is a capital crime and you will be imprisoned in a pig cage." According to the regulations of the palace, male slaves and female maids are not allowed to have romance.
Once you find out, you will be punished, let alone having an affair.
Sangui's face changed, and he panicked and said: "Princess, it's none of this slave's business, it's Xiaozhu... She was the one who seduced the slave, she took off her clothes first."
Hearing Sangui's words, Xiaozhu burst into tears for a moment: "Princess, Sangui is right, I seduced him first, please let him go and give Xiaozhu death!" The voice was trembling, and her eyes were full.
The tears in his eyes dimmed, and the pain was unbearable, like a blunt rusty knife being cut on his body.
"It's none of your business?" Lan Duoduo sneered, approaching Sangui step by step, and slapped him in the next moment: "Xiaozhu sacrificed his life to protect you, and you, since you said it's none of your business
, you are really worse than an animal." Lan Duoduo scolded fiercely, and the sharp voice made people terrified.
"This slave deserves to die. Princess, please spare my life. Spare this slave's life!" Sangui kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.
"Get out, get out..." Lan Duoduo kicked him hard, scaring him so much that he rolled out.
"How lucky you are to plead for such a man!" Lan Duoduo lowered her eyes and looked at Xiaozhu who was crying silently, with a hint of pity in her words.
"Princess, Xiaozhu knows that his crime is unforgivable, so he doesn't dare to beg Princess for mercy. He only asks Princess to be merciful and let him live!" Xiaozhu cried regretfully. Even though he felt so painful and disappointed in his heart, he still interceded for Sangui.
"Xiaozhu, why can't you see clearly! I have never wanted to take your life, not before, now, and in the future!" If she had wanted her life, I would have poisoned her long ago.
Xiaozhu suddenly looked at Lan Duoduo in confusion, as if he thought he had heard wrongly. But the princess didn't want her life, so why did she lock her up.
"Xiaozhu, I don't want to embarrass you. Since you didn't break into Tinghua Pavilion privately, I will naturally let you go. However, I have a few questions to ask clearly." Lan Duoduo no longer claimed her identity, but made it clear.
explain.
"What question does the princess want to ask? I know that I will answer it truthfully." A trace of surprise flashed through Xiaozhu's heart, as he considered Lan Duoduo's purpose.
"How is your relationship with Bichun? Do you know her origin?" Lan Duoduo looked at her intently and asked tentatively.
"Sister Bichun entered the palace a year earlier than Xiaozhu. However, when Xiaozhu entered the palace, Sister Bichun was only working in the dressing room. Half a year later, she was transferred to the prince as a personal maid. Sister Bichun, like Xiaozhu, both
I became a slave because my parents died, so we love each other as sisters and share everything together." Xiaozhu said with a smile on her lips, but soon she looked at Lan Duoduo in confusion.
"Xiao Zhu, it's not that I want to doubt you, but among the maids of the palace, you are the only one with a scar on the palm. But do you know who said they saw a scar on the murderer's palm?" Although Mei'er and Bi
Chun's one-sided words are not enough to prove it, but Xiaoxi said that the last time she came back to get the medicine box, she bumped into Xiaozhu and Bichun in her study. If you want to investigate among the two, Xiaozhu is the most suspicious on the surface.
In fact, Bichun is the most suspicious, because Xiaozhu and she love each other as sisters, but they just push Xiaozhu into trouble.