Chapter 655: Backwater

Because Feng Xuan Che still didn't believe the Xiaozhi in front of him from the bottom of his heart, worried that this was a trap set by Du Qingheng, and waited for Du Xuechun to jump inside.
"Concubine Du... she once ordered a maid named Sun Ruoxue to kneel at the door of the sleeping hall with her bare hands holding a small hot stove. The girl refused, so Concubine Du had someone take out the gold silk charcoal from the stove. It squeezed into the girl's mouth abruptly, and finally the girl was hurt alive."
Xiaozhi gritted her teeth, her hands tightly clenched the corners of her clothes, her face full of fear, her thin body, kneeling on the ground and shaking uncontrollably.
"Isn't the maid's fate a fate? Just let Concubine Du to trample on it like this?" Mingying was also very frightened as she stood by, and looked at Du Xuechun who was sitting crying.
Du Xuechun shook her head at Mingying with a low expression, patted Mingying's hand, and said, "It's okay!"
"Why did Du Guifei treat that maid like this, but did she commit any serious fault?" Feng Xuan Che's face went dark completely, and he asked in a deep voice.
"She didn't make a mistake, it's just that the mother was upset that day. After hearing that the girl was named Sun Ruoxue, she... just tortured her like that."
"Oh? Why?" Feng Xuan Che put his elbows on the sandalwood table, tilted his head and looked at Xiaozhi who was kneeling on the ground, with a puzzled expression on his face.
"Because, there is a word "Snow" in that girl's name!" Xiaozhi looked up at Du Xuechun sitting on it timidly, and said cautiously.
"You mean Concubine Du hates my palace, so just because there is a word "Snow" in that girl's name, she deliberately tortured her like that?"
After listening to Feng Xuanche's dialogue with Xiaozhi, Du Xuechun suddenly understood Feng Xuanche's intentions.
Du Xuechun raised her eyebrows and looked at Xiaozhi who was kneeling on the ground.
"Yes!" Xiaozhi nodded solemnly, tears streaming down her eyes.
She was really afraid, not only that Concubine Du Gui would retaliate against her for telling the truth. Even more afraid that the emperor and the queen sitting on it would not believe her, after all, she was just a little maid.
How could her life be insignificant? In this harem, if anyone wants her to die, she may leave quietly at any time without leaving a trace.
"You know, as soon as you say this, there is no room for recovery?" Feng Xuanche looked at Xiaozhi for a long time, and then slowly let go of the worry in his heart. Looking at Xiao Zhi's appearance, it didn't seem like she was lying.
"The slave and maidservant knew that as soon as this was said, it would be a capital crime, so I asked the emperor and the empress to spare the maidservant.
Xiaozhi knelt on the ground and her head was knocked to pieces, and the bright red blood dripped down her forehead to the ground, and the people who looked at the mottled blood stains felt tight.
"Niang..." Mingying felt sorry for that Xiaozhi, so she couldn't help but squatted down, pulled the corner of Ladu Xuechun's clothes, blinked her flickering eyes, and looked at Du Xuechun.
"Well, I know what you want to say!"
Mingying’s thoughts, Du Xuechun, could not know that even though Xiaozhi had betrayed her master and betrayed her master, it is impossible for anyone to follow such master without fear, and finally chose to betray to save his life.
"Xiaozhi, get up!" Du Xuechun glanced at Xiaozhi and said softly.
"Thank you, the maidservant, Empress, and thank you, the emperor!"
Seeing that Feng Xuanche and Du Xuechun believed in herself, Xiaozhi nodded her head again and again, smiled with tears, wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes, and got up from the ground numbly.
Mingying also ran to Xiaozhi happily, smiled and stuffed her handkerchief into Xiaozhi's hand, and then ran to Du Xuechun's side.
Seeing Xiaozhi puzzled, Mingying raised her hand, gestured between her forehead, and said, "Wipe it, it's bleeding!"
Xiaozhi smiled at Mingying gratefully and raised her hand to wipe the blood from her forehead.
"Has Du Guifei destroyed the physical evidence in Yanxi Palace?" Feng Xuanche looked at Mingying's actions, secretly helpless.
"Yes, not long after the slave servant followed Concubine Du to the Yanxi Palace to rest, a little ran up and said that she needed Concubine Du for something.
Concubine Du ordered us to guard the door and talked to the little about half a cup of tea in the house.
As soon as the little left the house, Du Guifei asked us to clean up the things of the dead maids and set them on fire. "Xiaozhi glanced around in a low voice and said.
"Where did you burn it?" Du Xuechun asked. Secretly wondering how so many things can be burnt in such a short period of time, and there must be something left behind.
"In the incense burner."
When Xiaozhi said this, Du Xuechun and Feng Xuanche just remembered that Du Qingheng loves all kinds of spices on weekdays. Because of his solid family background, he recruited many capable people and strangers to make incense for her, and he deliberately went to Yanxi Palace. An incense room was left out, and there was a big incense burner in that room.
For some reason, Du Xuechun suddenly remembered something, a violent spirit, cold sweat broke out all over his body.
"Concubine Du has thrown the maid into the incense burner?" Du Xuechun's voice was not loud, but the three people in the hall heard the words clearly.
As soon as these words came out, there was deathly silence in the hall.
"Yes! In addition to the five female corpses in the dry well, there are still... three lives in the incense burner!" As soon as Xiaozhi said, everyone felt a deep chill coming to them.
What kind of vicious heart can kill so many innocent lives?
"I see, go down!" Feng Xuanche suddenly felt very powerless. In such a big harem, he didn't even know that anyone could make trouble under his nose.
"The emperor..." Xiaozhi immediately panicked when she saw this. If she goes back now, how will she explain to Concubine Du later, and what will the emperor and queen do with her?
Xiaozhi paled with fright, and knelt on the ground with a plop.
"Go back, pretend that nothing happened. As for what Du Guifei confessed to you, you can do it right!" Du Xuechun got up and walked to Feng Xuanche's side, rubbed his temples, and looked at the little the ground. Zhi said.
"This...Is it all right?" Xiaozhi widened her eyes in disbelief. Seeing that Feng Xuanche and Du Xuechun were unable to respond to her, she nodded and stood up.
"Well, you go, no one will tell you what happened in Kunning Palace tonight, don't worry!" Du Xuechun nodded.
"Yes!"
Xiaozhi had to pick up the black cloth on the ground and cover her face again, and after making a bet on Feng Xuanche and Du Xuechun, she turned around and disappeared into the night in a hurry.
Seeing Xiaozhi walking away, Du Xuechun made Mingying retreat. Looking at Feng Xuanche, who looked down and couldn't see clearly, Du Xuechun couldn't help but worry.
Du Xuechun stretched out his hand to hug Feng Xuanche, and Feng Xuanche buried his head in Du Xuechun's chest, feeling the warmth that Du Xuechun brought to him.
"Are you okay?" Du Xuechun asked tentatively.
"What if I'm not good?" Feng Xuanche said in a low voice, refusing to look up at Du Xuechun.
"why?"
"Because I suddenly felt that I was an incompetent emperor. So many horrible things happened under my nose, I didn't even know anything."