PFC Chapter 790 I Won’t Save You This Time (33)
Chapter 790 I Won’t Save You This Time (33)
After the maid told the other maids in the same room about her worries, she explained in a low voice: “Actually, I also understand that it is a taboo to discuss the master in private, but I also want to!
It's our bad luck. When the master was in power, we servants didn't get any benefits. Now that she has lost power, we have to suffer the consequences. "
This is absolutely true.
Liu Yunqing has always regarded himself as "a person as quiet as a chrysanthemum", "not fighting or competing", and "not liking luxury".
At least on the surface, she does give people the impression of being pure-hearted and indifferent to fame and fortune.
However, the reality is not that simple.
During every festival, the palace would give each servant a reward as a sign of grace.
But when these reward silvers came into Liu Yunqing's hands, she always kept a large portion of them, under the pretext of "praying for the people", and took them to the temples outside the palace as incense money.
No one can tell where the money went after it came into her hands.
Anyway, every time after receiving the reward, Liu Yunqing could always buy some new items.
Liu Yunqing was born into the Liu family. She had been the eldest daughter since childhood and lived a life of luxury. It seemed that she had never worried about money.
Naturally, she couldn't understand what this silver meant to the servants.
In the deep palace, although the servants received a fixed monthly salary, they still had to take care of everything in the palace.
Asking someone to do something for you or smoothing relationships both require money.
Therefore, these extra rewards are often the key to their saving for retirement.
But even this tiny hope was taken away by Liu Yunqing.
Over time, how could her subordinates not hate this master?
However, due to the power of the Liu family, everyone dared not speak out and could only do some small actions in secret to vent their resentment.
Now that Liu Yunqing has fallen from power, these accumulated grudges are the main reasons why they betrayed Empress Liu.
Looking back, although Qingyun Palace has a large number of people and spies everywhere, why can those who are against Liu Yunqing easily give her drugs that are harmful to the fetus?
This is certainly no accident.
After all, Qingyun Palace had long been infiltrated by various forces, like a sieve, anyone could hit her, but the severity could be different.
Of course, the concerns of this personal maid were not unfounded.
In this deep palace, every step is like walking on thin ice. If you are not careful, you will fall into the abyss.
After hearing what the personal maid said, the maid who shared the same room with her but was not as favored as her sneered and said, "Look, you are the only one who is trying to get close to her these days!
Look at everyone in our palace, except when they have to, who will take the initiative to serve her! You are the only one who only remembers to eat and not to be beaten, how come she has been greedy for your money for these years, and she has been greedy for less than us!"
After hearing this, Concubine Liu's personal maid fell silent.
She was actually a servant girl of the Liu family, brought into the palace by Liu Yunqing, so she had some ties to the family.
Seeing that the other party didn't say anything, the palace maid felt that she should give another "strong medicine": "By the way, the money you asked my brother to send last time, he returned it."
"Why? My mother is in poor health. After she was redeemed from the Liu family, their monthly allowance must have been reduced." The senior palace maid worriedly said, "If they don't accept the money, life will be very difficult. My brother still has to get married!"
What a silly girl, you are still dreaming!
With a sigh, another palace maid said, "Your parents and brother were never able to redeem themselves from the Liu family! They all died half a year after you entered the palace."
It turned out that not long after she followed Liu Yunqing into the palace, her younger brother was chosen to be a doorman. However, he was young and had no experience. One night, a "thief" suddenly came to the Liu family, and her brother died in the conflict.
Her mother was in poor health and passed away soon after hearing the bad news.
As for her father, he lived for two more months. Later, while traveling by water for business with a steward of the Liu family, he fell into a river and drowned.
Of course, a palace maid couldn't possibly investigate these things in such detail, but there was always someone who could pass the information on.
"It's impossible! They wrote to me some time ago!" The personal maid still didn't believe what the other party said.
The maid shrugged and said disapprovingly, "Does anyone in your family know how to write? You can just find someone to write a letter to you. Think about it, isn't it always Concubine Liu who gives you the letter directly?"
Her face turned pale instantly, in fact, she had already believed what the other person said.
But she was not a brainless person, so she thought that since the other party could find out all this, there must be someone behind this person: "Who are you working for?"
"What do you care about me? Anyway, I have a place to go in the future, and I can live a good life." The man began to seduce her, "In fact, you can do the same. Just pour out all the dirty work you did for her, and there will always be a way for you to make a living."
"I...I said!" At this point, the last person in Qingyun Palace who was loyal to Liu Yunqing also betrayed her.
That night, the senior palace maid was taken away from Qingyun Palace.
In less than three days, all the bad things Liu Yunqing had done in the past few years in order to win favor were clearly recorded by the secret guards, and then presented to Liang Song.
Looking at the key point circled in red - the assassination of Xiao Qiluo during the royal hunting trip, Liang Song's heart was almost numb with pain.
"Where are those who are responsible for this mission?" Liang Song's fingernails had pierced his palm and blood was dripping onto the ground.
Chang Xi was a careful person. He noticed this immediately and almost immediately exclaimed, "Your Majesty, please help me. I will send someone to call the imperial physician."
As he said this, he wanted to bandage Liang Song's wound with a handkerchief, but he was slapped away by the other party: "Get lost!"
Liang Song continued to stare at the spy who came to report the news: "Tell me, when and where did they last see Concubine Xiao!"
"Your Majesty, our previous guess was correct!" The spy leader paused and decided to speak out, "The lakeside should be the burial place!"
It goes without saying whose burial place it is!
Liang Song's head began to hurt again, and the pain was not just in his head, but also in his heart and the bones all over his body. Those injuries that had been treated by Xiao Qiluo were now rapidly spreading with a bone-piercing pain.
"Puff!" Before getting the definite news, Liang Song had always been hoping for a lucky break, but now that the dust has settled, he knows that he can no longer deceive himself.
He was already in poor health, and now he was so angry that he spit out a mouthful of blood.