The vicious female supporting role is ruthless and arrogant

Chapter 376: Red Apricot Turns Against the Party

Luo Huiru had dressed in a white gauze dress early in the morning and was sitting in the living room waiting for the news of Princess Ling's death.

An hour later, the gate of the side courtyard was kicked open again.

When she heard the sound of kicking the door, she did not panic, but instead had a faint smile on her lips.

The guard heard her sobbing quietly before he even entered the room.

"Sister Princess, it's all my fault. I made you die with regret..."

"What are you going to do?"

Before she could finish her words, she was pulled up by the palace guards and dragged into the yard.

"The Queen Mother has issued an oral order that Concubine Luo was not strict in her administration and plotted to murder the princess. She will be severely punished with thirty strokes of the cane as a warning to others."

"No, no, it's not..."

"beat……"

The guards dragged out a horse stool, pressed Luo Huiru on the stool, tied her hands and feet, and hit her buttocks with a stick again and again.

"It's unfair, I am innocent..."

After only a dozen hits, the man fainted.

The guard fetched a bucket of ice water from the well in the yard and poured it on Luo Huiru.

The Queen had instructed that she must be sober and endure the thirty strokes of the cane.

In this way, she was splashed with ice water three times before she was sober enough to take the thirty beatings.

After beating the man with the stick, the guard untied the rope and turned away without paying any attention to the man lying on the stool, half dying.

Luo Huiru fell to the ground with blood in her mouth, and tears rolled down her eyes.

The white dress formed a sharp contrast with the bright red bloodstains behind her.

She climbed on the stool until late at night. No one came to take care of her, and she did not hear any news of Princess Ling's death.

Late at night, at the back door of the palace, Hong Xing cried and said goodbye to Zuo Zixuan.

"Thank you, Princess, for not killing me. Good people will be rewarded. You will surely be blessed in the future."

Zuo Zixuan patted Hong Xing's hand and said, "Okay, let's go now. Remember, don't come back to China again."

Hong Xing held back her tears, pursed her lips and nodded, turned around and got on the carriage, and disappeared into the night accompanied by the guards of the palace.

Last night, Hong Xing ran out of the side yard crying and hid under the big willow tree beside the pond.

She has followed Luo Huiru for more than ten years and knows her character too well.

It has been like this since childhood. Luo Huiru is the one who comes up with the ideas, and she is the one who does the bad things.

Then once the matter was exposed, she would be blamed for everything.

In the past, she was often beaten with a stick. As a slave, she had to take the blame for her master. This was her fate and she accepted it.

It's okay to be beaten, but she doesn't want to die.

She followed Luo Huiru into the Lingwang Palace. Although the princess was favored, she had never made things difficult for Luo Huiru.

And he never targeted them, the master and servant.

On the contrary, it was Luo Huiru who tried again and again to put the princess to death.

She didn't want to help Luo Huiru harm others, but she was just a servant after all, so how could she influence her master's decision?

She's had enough of this kind of life, it would be better to end it all.

She stood up and walked towards the lake step by step.

As the water reached her waist, she was pulled out of the water with great force.

Before he could react to what was happening, he was thrown into the living room of the main courtyard.

Zuo Zixuan was sitting by the charcoal stove roasting melon seeds with Aunt Xu when suddenly a person was thrown into the living room, scaring her.

"What, what's going on?"

"Princess, this maid tried to commit suicide by throwing a pot. I was worried that the master and servant had some conspiracy, so I arrested her." The guard stood beside Hong Xing and reported respectfully.

Zuo Zixuan squinted his eyes in the candlelight and looked up and down at the person lying on the ground.

"Are you Hong Xing, the maidservant who came with Concubine Luo as a dowry?"

Hong Xing didn't say anything, she just lay on the ground with her mouth pursed and cried bitterly.

She just wants to die, why is it so difficult?

Do I have to die at the hands of others?

"Why are you doing this? Are you an orphan?" Zuo Zixuan asked with a puzzled look.

Hong Xing didn't understand what Zuo Zixuan meant for a moment. "My lady, I am not an orphan. My family lives in a village in the suburbs. My parents are still alive and I have a twelve-year-old brother."

"Then why did you commit suicide? Your parents gave birth to you just to let you live a good life.

You are already such a grown-up, and you haven't done enough for your parents yet, and you want to end it all?"

When Hong Xing heard Zuo Zixuan mention her family, she suddenly burst into tears.

"I'm going to die anyway. Rather than being killed, I might as well end it myself and suffer less."

"Did you offend someone, or are you seriously ill?"

"I'm about to offend the prince and princess..."

"How are you going to offend me and the prince?"

Hong Xing suddenly realized that she had blurted out what was in her heart.

"Come on, I can see that your master is trying to make trouble again, right?"

Hong Xing pursed her lips tightly and said nothing.

"I'll give you a chance. Tell me, how does your master want to harm me this time?

Tell me, and I will spare your life."

Hong Xing still pursed her lips and said nothing.

"If you don't tell me, I will kill you now."

"Someone, push Hong Xing down and beat her to death."

The guard entered the room, dragged Hong Xing up, and prepared to drag her out.

Hong Xing refused to beg for mercy and let the guards drag her away.

When they were about to reach the entrance, Zuo Zi said:

"etc……

Let her go.”

The guard put the man down and walked out without asking any questions.

"You are very loyal to your master, go back.

If you just want my life, I'm afraid it won't be that easy.

You need to be more sophisticated in your methods."

After saying that, he went to roast water and eat melon seeds.

Hong Xing stumbled out of the main courtyard.

"Princess, I don't understand. This slave has personally admitted that she wanted to harm you, so why did you let her go?

Being kind to your enemies is being cruel to yourself."

Aunt Xu asked in confusion.

"Madam Xu, I'm betting on Hong Xing's conscience."

"Conscience? They are both the master and the servant and want to harm you, how can you have any conscience?"

Zuo Zixuan smiled and shook her head, "From the fact that the girl wanted to commit suicide, it can be seen that she doesn't want to do anything that is against the will of heaven and earth.

She did not betray her master, nor was it because she was so sincere to her master, but because her master had something in his hand to threaten her.

It's either her life or the lives of her family.

If she helps her master kill me, she will definitely die. If she betrays her master and returns to him, she will also die.

So, when I said I would beat her to death, she accepted her fate and prepared to die."

"Alas, I just don't understand what the prince is thinking. Aunt Luo has been trying to murder the mistress again and again.

Even if the entire Luo family is exterminated, it is not a pity to die, why should such a person be left behind? "

"After all, it hurts when a blunt knife cuts the flesh!"

Nanny Xu seemed to understand the significance of King Ling keeping Luo Huiru.

In less than an incense stick of time, the guard came in to report.

"Princess, Hong Xing said she has something important to report to the Queen."

Zuo Zixuan nodded calmly, "Let her in."

Aunt Xu gave Zuo Zixuan a thumbs up in her heart.

Hong Xing walked into the living room and knelt down at Zuo Zixuan's feet.

"What have you decided? Are you going to betray your master?"

Hong Xing sniffed and said in a muffled voice, "We're all going to die anyway, so it's enough for me to die alone."

Zuo Zixuan looked at the little girl at his feet with amusement. She was only fourteen or fifteen years old, still childish, and yet she had to face life and death.

In their era, these girls aged fourteen or fifteen were probably still studying in school.

"Well, tell me about your master's plan."

"She asked me to buy some Gelsemium elegans and find a way to put it in the medicine that Madam Xu brews every day.

She wanted to poison the princess and at the same time implicate Madam Xu in the crime of murdering the princess."

Zuo Zixuan looked calm after hearing this. Wasn't Luo Huiru also adept at taking the blame in the 70s?

It turns out that this ability is engraved into the soul and has been brought over from ancient times to thousands of years later.

"What? This vicious woman...

I will tear that bitch into pieces right now."

When Aunt Xu heard that Luo Huiru wanted to harm her, she was so angry that she rolled up her sleeves and was about to rush out the door.

Zuo Zixuan quickly stood up and stopped Madam Xu, "Hey, hey, hey..., Madam..., Madam...

calm down.

Have you forgotten what I told you, that it hurts only when a blunt knife cuts the flesh?

If you go to her now, not only will she not admit it, she will also turn the tables and say that you are slandering her.

There will be no good consequences for cheating on someone in the end."

Aunt Xu sat down angrily, but fortunately the matter was discovered in time.

If this heartbreak grass was really added to the medicine, if anything happens to the princess, I will be to blame.

Zuo Zixuan said to Hong Xing who was kneeling on the ground:

"Just do as Aunt Luo says, I will make sure you don't die."

"Really? My Lady? I don't have to die?"

"Have you ever seen a servant die at my hands?"

Hong Xing shook her head.

"Isn't that okay?"

Hong Xing got up and left the main courtyard, went out through the back door, went to the drugstore to buy a coin of Gelsemium elegans, and hurried back to the palace.

When Luo Huiru woke up the next morning, she immediately called Hong Xing over.

"Did you buy the things you were asked to buy?"

Hong Xing took out the medicine from her waistband tremblingly and handed it to Luo Huiru.

"Buy, buy..."

Luo Huiru took the medicine bag and opened it to check.

She didn't recognize the medicine, but pretended to check it anyway to prevent Hong Xing from deceiving her.

"Okay, in the afternoon, I'll put the medicine in the medicine jar as I told you before."

Hong Xing had tears in her eyes and nodded with a pursed mouth.

In the afternoon, the master and servant hid in a small bamboo forest not far from the kitchen and watched with their own eyes as Nanny Xu carried the medicine into the kitchen.

"Go, lead Aunt Xu out and put the Heartbreak Powder in."

Hong Xing hid beside the kitchen door, picked up a stone, and smashed it against the wall, making a noise to lure Aunt Xu out.

Nanny Xu was also quite cooperative. Not only did she come out, she also deliberately walked far away to allow Hong Xing to take action.

If it weren't for Aunt Xu's cooperation, Hong Xing's clumsy skills would have made it difficult for her to succeed.

She cooperated and sat in the kitchen for enough time, then placed the entire medicine jar in the food box and carried it back to the main courtyard.

As soon as she got back, she immediately asked Zuo Zixuan to check it out.

She didn't put any herbs for boiling in the medicine pot, she just put half a pot of water.

Therefore, it is still easy to identify what is added to the water.