Chapter 863

"Empress, my sister is thirsty. I wonder if I can ask empress for a cup of tea?"

Long Ning half leaned on the beauty, turned his eyes to Su Yi and touched his belly. "Moreover, my sister suddenly wanted to drink fruit tea. I don't know whether her preference has changed or the child in her belly wants to drink. Hehe, please the queen, okay?"

Su Yi was stunned. She wanted to refuse. In this snowy weather, she came to enjoy the snow. She only prepared green tea. Where is fruit tea? Long Ning made it clear that she was embarrassed!

But turning her head and looking at LONGNING's eager face, Su Yi didn't want her to complain to Nangong Qing. She had to reluctantly turn her head and say to Ruyi next to her: "Princess Yao wants to drink fruit tea. You can get it yourself, and the palace can rest assured."

When she got the order, Ruyi couldn't help it. After saluting, she left the pavilion and came back after a while. She was carrying hot tea in her hand. She came to Suyi and made tea for Suyi with a teapot.

Looking at the blue and white porcelain teacup on Su Yi's table, long Ning smiled and said, "I didn't expect that the queen likes to drink green tea, but she specially makes fruit tea for her sister. My sister is really terrified."

Naturally, she heard the pride in LONGNING's words, but Suyi didn't say anything. She just nodded to Ruyi. Ruyi put the teapot on the table and withdrew.

The little maid in waiting wanted to take another cup of fruit tea to LONGNING's hand, but she didn't know how. The tea cup fell directly to the ground. She was scared and begged for mercy: "please forgive me, please forgive me..."

"Forget it, clean it up and let Ruyi bring a teacup again." Suyi has a good temper. No wonder. She comforts the maid in waiting on her knees and asks her to pick up the broken teacup and take the dregs down.

Ruyi takes a teacup again and puts it in front of Princess Yao. She pours tea again. Then she retreats.

"The empress is really good tempered. Such a clumsy slave will at least have to rely on responsibility if she is in the palace." Long Ning picked up the cup with a smile and was about to drink. Suddenly, the handkerchief fell to the ground. The Pearl on one side wanted to pick it up for her, but long Ning stopped it: "I don't like others to touch things in this palace. Jade lake, pick it up for this Palace."

"Yes, Princess Yao." The decline is good. Pearl is unhappy, but she can't.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to pick up the handkerchief in Yuhu lake to attract the attention of Su Yi and the public, long Ning stretched out his hand behind his back, pinched some soil in the cedar bonsai behind him, and put it in the fruit tea cup in front of him without revealing any trace.

Her hands and feet were so fast that no one found it at all. When Yuhu picked up her handkerchief, Su Yi also turned to look at her. She didn't find long Ning's small movements before.

Holding the tea cup, long Ning smiled and said, "it's cold. It's fun to drink a cup of hot tea." Then he lifted the lid of the teacup.

Su Yi didn't care about these details at all. She said to imperial concubine Yao, "it's true, but imperial concubine Yao's sister is pregnant. We must be careful."

"Don't worry, empress. My sister will take care of herself." Long Ning smiled and was about to have a cup of tea, but the cup stopped at his mouth.

Su Yi looked at imperial concubine Yao with some doubts and asked, "what's the matter, but I feel hot?"

As soon as his face changed, long Ning sneered, put the teacup heavily on the stone table, looked at Su Yi and said, "empress, I'm just asking you for a cup of tea. Why do you treat me like this? Didn't I really offend empress, and she ordered her servants to harm me like this?"

When questioned by imperial concubine Yao, Su Yi was even more confused. Her eyes were full of doubts: "sister imperial concubine Yao, what are you talking about?"

"Why doesn't the empress see for herself what's in this tea cup!" Long Ning said and pushed the teacup in front of the queen.

There are some things in the teacup. The tea is muddy and the color is obviously wrong. Su Yi carefully identified it and found that it was soil. She immediately frowned.

"This..." Su Yi looked up at imperial concubine Yao, then turned to Ruyi behind her and asked, "Ruyi, what's going on?"

Ruyi naturally looked at the teacup. She didn't know this would happen. She felt bad and quickly knelt on the ground to argue: "empress, maidservant doesn't know..."

"Don't know?" After directly interrupting Ruyi's words, long Ning angrily patted the stone table, Sneered: "a little maid in waiting deliberately put soil in the teacup so that the palace would have diarrhea after drinking it. What's your heart? Empress, I can't imagine that the maid in waiting beside you is so vicious. If others don't know, I'm afraid she will think that the empress ordered her to do it. Empress should punish her well!"

If such a charge is deducted, Ruyi shakes her head in fear. She can't admit it. She is disrespectful to the noble people. Long Ning is still pregnant with a dragon heir, which is equivalent to murdering the prince. This is a capital crime!

She was so frightened that she kowtowed. Ruyi knelt beside Su Yi and her voice trembled: "empress, there are no slaves, there are really no slaves..."

"Ruyi, did you really do such a thing? What's the matter?" Su Yi knows Ruyi won't do this, but now the evidence is conclusive. The tea cup is muddy and there is soil. This is a fact. She doesn't know how to excuse Ruyi.

Hearing Su Yi's reprimand, Ruyi shook her head hard. Even if her hair bun was messy, she couldn't control it: "empress, I don't have any! This tea is the fruit tea designated by Empress Yao. I specially chose the nourishing longan red jujube tea. I cooked it myself! How can I serve tea to empress Yao? How dare I mess around."

"The evidence is conclusive. It's good to argue!" After hearing Ruyi's words, Yuhu, the palace maid beside Princess Yao, stepped forward, pointed to Ruyi and shouted, "if our mother hadn't seen it, I'm afraid it would have been drunk! Can you afford it if something happened?"

When Princess Yao heard Ruyi's words, she gave a strange voice: "a little palace maid naturally dare not, but... If someone secretly instructs behind her back..."

Before she finished speaking, Ruyi quickly denied: "Princess Yao, my maidservant didn't do it. Why do you have to wrong my maidservant?"

"Dare you talk back? You didn't do it. Did you mean that Princess Yao put the soil in her tea cup?" Yuhu has a sharp voice and a bad face.

How could Ruyi admit such treacherous words: "that's not what I mean..."

Just then, a gentle and hearty voice came from a distance: "what's the matter? It seems very lively?"

Seeing Nangong Qing's long body and jade standing, he had appeared outside the rain and snow Pavilion and walked to the public in two steps. Su Yi and long Ning quickly saluted with the palace maids around them: "Your Majesty."

Nangong Qing waved and asked the people to get up. He took a seat at will and sat down. Then he raised his head and looked at them with a gentle and mellow smile: "if I hadn't heard that you were in the imperial garden, I wouldn't come here. Empress Yao and imperial concubine Yao, why would you still want to go out if you weren't in the house to keep warm in this cold day?"

Su Yi just wanted to answer. Long Ning walked gracefully to Nangong Qing and said angrily, "Your Majesty, I heard that the queen was enjoying the snow in the imperial garden and didn't go out for many days. Since the snow is very beautiful, I might as well come and enjoy the snow with the queen. It's also interesting."

"You!" Nangong Qing took Princess Yao's hand and smiled, "you're not convenient. You still like to come out in such cold weather. If you freeze my son, I can only ask you!"

Long Ning smiled shyly and said coquettishly, "what are you talking about, your Majesty's children are also the children of concubines. How can concubines be willing to cold him?"

Nangong Qing smiled, but didn't answer her. Instead, she turned around and asked Su Yi, "by the way, what just happened here? Why did I hear a maid crying?"

Seeing Nangong Qing's inquiry, Su Yi knew she couldn't be perfunctory, so she had to explain: "Your Majesty, I saw the soil in the tea cup when my sister of imperial concubine Yao was drinking tea. She said that Ruyi, the concubine's palace maid, put it in. Ruyi said she didn't put it in, so there was a dispute."

Seeing Ruyi kneeling on the ground, Nangong Qing's face sank and asked, "did you put the soil in Princess Yao's cup?"

Ruyi quickly shook her head. If she admitted it, she would be killed. She said in a panic: "Your Majesty, I didn't put the soil into the tea cup of Princess Yao. There were palace eunuchs watching all the way. How could I do that?"

Before long Ning could speak, the jade lake on one side said sarcastically, "who knows if you want to fix our empress Yao? Empress Yao is kind-hearted. That's why you haven't been cured. I didn't expect you to admit it."

"Your Majesty, Ruyi is not such a person..." Su Yigang wanted to intercede for Ruyi. Long Ning said wrongfully: "I don't know who I'm provoking, but I came out to enjoy the snow with the queen. Unexpectedly, I can be treated like this by a palace maid."

"Well, don't worry, imperial concubine Yao. I will decide for you." Nangong Qing stroked the hair of imperial concubine Yao with gentle eyes. "Don't go out in such a cold weather in the future. What if you freeze your body?"

Long Ning nodded and smiled, Nangong Qing then focused on Ruyi, who was kneeling on the ground: "since you made the tea, even if it wasn't intentional, it was unintentional. Imperial concubine Yao is pregnant. You slaves don't know how to serve carefully. In the face of the queen, I'll avoid your death! Come on, drag the maid out to me and hit the 30 big board again!"

"Your majesty!"

Su Yi quickly said, "Ruyi has been with the palace for two years. Your majesty will spare her! She is a woman. How can she bear these thirty big boards? Your majesty, you want her life!"

Nangong Qing's face softened a little, but he still said, "empress, you are too kind. The palace maids are not serious, and you connive at it. This time, Princess Yao found it. What if you don't find it next time? Even if it's not for Princess Yao, you can't rest assured that such palace maids follow you!"

"Thirty big boards are exempted, and twenty staff are blamed! Don't plead!"

With that, Nangong Qing stood up, hugged imperial concubine Yao in her arms and asked softly, "since it's all right, go back and ask doctor Li to take your pulse and see how it's going."

Long Ning leaned in his arms with a shy face and nodded: "yes, your majesty."

Looking at the two people's love, Su Yi seems to want to ask for Ruyi's favor. But before she can say anything, she hears long Ning raise her head and say in a charming voice, "Your Majesty, my concubine feels a little cold. Why don't we go back."

Nangong Qing nodded: "I said, don't go out in this cold day. Go back to the palace."

Then the eunuch's sharp voice said, "drive back to the Palace -"

"Mother." Pearl had lingering palpitations. She took a look at the back of her majesty leaving and whispered to her.

Suyi then recovered and looked at the palace maids around her and put away her loneliness and disappointment in her eyes. Today, she fought with long Ning for the first time, but she lost. It seems that your majesty likes her again, but long Ning is pregnant after all. She can't compete for her edge at present.

She sighed and said, "go and see how Ruyi is. You must not let those people really put a heavy hand on it."

Pearl quickly turned and left, while Su Yi still stood in place, looking at the direction Nangong Qing left. She didn't return to her mind for a long time, as if she had stood as a sculpture and didn't move.