The leading elite soldier looked at them cautiously and ordered them to open the food boxes one by one. After carefully checking the food inside, he let them in one by one.
"Wait a minute. What's wrong with these two?"
Baisu stood behind Lin Mengya. At this time, both of their bodies were also tense.
Their small hands secretly clenched the food boxes, but they pretended to be more and more frightened.
"Your Excellency, the road is slippery in the snow. They are the new little palace maids of the Imperial Kitchen. They were careless and fell. When we go back, I will definitely punish them. "
It was the leading palace maid who was calm and immediately explained.
After scolding them for a while, Lin Mengya and Baisu pretended to be frightened and uneasy at the right time. The elite soldier who was in charge of the inspection at the door saw them with wet hair sticking to their faces. They were so timid that they didn't dare to wipe their faces, and the doubt in his heart disappeared a lot.
He turned over his hand and snatched the food box from the hands of the palace maid in front.
Lin Mengya and the others saw clearly that there was a pot of warm wine in a small copper basin.
The palace maid subconsciously wanted to snatch it back, but the palace maid who helped them just now quickly held the hand of the younger palace maid.
"It's so cold and freezing. It must be hard for all of you to be on duty. Ning, leave the mutton pot in your hand for all of you to warm up. "
The little palace maid holding the pot immediately did as she was told. The elite guards on duty saw their sensible filial piety and grinned.
But that was all. They probably did not dare to do anything more than that.
"Well, hurry up and send it in. His Majesty is waiting anxiously. You can't afford it."
Lin Mengya paid special attention to the Imperial Palace Maid. She had been in the palace for some time and had seen a lot of forces. However, she felt that this person was a little unfamiliar.
Although she was also dressed like an ordinary palace maid, her face was a little different from the others.
Although the women who could serve in the palace were not all beauties, at least they had delicate features.
For example, the Head Palace Maid. Her appearance was decent, but what she chose the most was her calm and composed temperament.
As if sensing that someone was sizing her up, the palace maid turned around and glanced at them indifferently.
It was just a glance. He didn't say anything, nor did he make any eye contact.
But Lin Mengya knew that she and Baisu had already been seen through by that person.
He lowered his head and a playful smile appeared on his face.
Interesting, it seemed that this palace maid was indeed not simple.
"Your Majesty, we are here to deliver food."
After entering the gate of the imperial study and walking to the door of the East Warm Pavilion, the First Palace Maid said respectfully.
After a while, a voice came from inside.
It was Eunuch Wang, who served His Majesty closely, who poked his head out to take a look.
After confirming that it was just a servant who came to deliver food, she took the food box from the hands of the palace maids with a cold face.
Soon, it was her and Baisu's turn. The two of them were calm and obediently handed the food boxes to Eunuch Wang. Eunuch Wang didn't show any change in his attitude.
Lin Mengya suddenly felt that those who could survive in the palace must be Best Actor and Best Actress with excellent acting skills.
Otherwise, they wouldn't survive for more than three days.
"Why did the two of you come empty-handed?"
Eunuch Wang stood at the door and asked in an unfriendly tone.
His shrewd eyes fell on the palace maids whose food box had been taken away.
Even though he and his master had become birds in a cage now, the prestige of the past was still there.
The two palace maids immediately knelt down and kowtowed to the ground, begging for mercy in a soft and weak voice.
"It's my negligence. Please punish me, Eunuch Wang."
At the critical moment, the Head Palace Maid didn't try to shirk her responsibility.
Eunuch Wang's ambiguous eyes turned to the Head Palace Maid again.
What kind of person was he? How could these things be hidden from him?
But now, a dragon in shallow water would be teased by shrimps, and a tiger in a flat land would be bullied by dogs.
Those dog servants always thought that their masters could win.
She felt a little helpless and waved her hand angrily.
"You should be more thoughtful in the future. Alas, forget it. Except for the two of them who will stay to serve, the others can leave first. "
Eunuch Wang seemed to be in a bad mood, so he pointed at Lin Mengya and Baisu unintentionally.
"Yes, you two must be careful. Don't offend the emperor."
The Head Palace Maid bowed and gave them a few instructions. Then, she left the imperial study with the rest of the palace maids.
Lin Mengya peeped at the back of the person, but she was thinking.
In this situation, the Head Palace Maid could still come and go freely. She was probably a powerful person.
However, no one knew who that person's loyalty was to.
"You two, be careful. If you go against His Majesty's orders, you'll lose your lives."
Even though there were only three of them left, Eunuch Wang still didn't show any flaws.
Lin Mengya and Baisu nodded submissively, like two trembling little palace maids.
Carrying the food box with Eunuch Wang, they stepped into the door of the East Warm Pavilion.
This used to be the most important place in Dajin.
All the people of Dajin worshiped this place as the cave of immortals.
But now, this place was cold. The dim and depressing light made people's mood sink rapidly.
Jin Yuandi, the emperor who was still in high spirits yesterday, was now listless and slumped on the dragon chair behind the large desk.
The appearance of the Long family had always been very outstanding.
Her husband was already a rare handsome man in the world. Otherwise, he would not have seduced all kinds of beautiful women, who would die for him.
But half of Long Tianyu's appearance was inherited from this man.
Therefore, although Emperor Jin Yuan was over 50 years old, he looked like a man in his 30s or 40s.
He was the kind of handsome uncle who was noble and domineering.
If he were in modern times, he would definitely be the type of man that little girls would cry and shout to throw themselves at him.
But now, even if he was still wearing the dragon robe and sitting on the throne.
But he had long lost his former elegance.
He was like a gem that had completely lost its luster.
Lin Mengya couldn't help but feel a sense of pity.
After a while, she forcibly dispelled it.
Because Jin Yuan Emperor's misfortune today was entirely his own doing.
As the saying went, the evil that he brought on himself was the hardest to bear.
"Your Majesty, the princess is here."
As soon as he entered the warm pavilion, Eunuch Wang seemed to have changed into a different person.
He quickly took the food box from Lin Mengya and Baisu, walked quickly to Emperor Jin Yuan's side, and said in a low voice.
"Well, is she here?"
Emperor Jin Yuan's voice was a little weak, and his eyes, which had been slightly closed, slowly opened.
After seeing Lin Mengya in front of him, he just smiled bitterly.
"Child, I let you see something you shouldn't have seen."
Lin Mengya understood what he meant in just one sentence.
She sneered in her heart, but on the surface, she pretended to be distressed and hateful.
"Your Majesty, how dare they —"
The second half of the sentence was interrupted by Emperor Jin Yuan's sigh.
"Alas, as an emperor, I really have eyes but fail to see. That unfilial son has long had the idea of disobedience, but I have been lenient to him many times for the sake of the relationship between father and son. But that unfilial son covets my country! "
After saying this, Emperor Jin Yuan was so angry that his veins were bulging.
It seemed that the Crown Prince's plot had really penetrated the emperor's heart.
Lin Mengya could no longer have any sympathy for him.
No matter how bad the Crown Prince was, he was also taught by his father.
Perhaps when His Majesty appointed the Crown Prince, he was indeed threatened by those aristocratic families and old ministers.
However, the most important reason was that he wanted to stabilize his empire.
For his country, he could secretly connive at his wife to murder the wife of a loyal minister.
For the sake of his empire, he could even ignore the fact that his beloved woman and his beloved son had been set up by others over and over again.
For his country, he could even show weakness and be imprisoned by his wife and son. He wanted to accumulate strength in secret and regain control of the country.
Perhaps, to be an emperor really needed great wisdom and amazing courage.
But he could be so ruthless to himself and his wife and son. How much could he sacrifice for his country?
In the end, he still loved himself and his ambition the most.
If he hadn't appointed the Crown Prince early for expediency.
If he had seriously cultivated the Crown Prince with mediocre aptitude for the sake of the country, how could he be a wise emperor?
He wouldn't have followed the Crown Prince's vicious mother to do evil.
He wouldn't have forcibly destroyed the Lin family in order to appease those neutral aristocratic families.
Emperor Jin Yuan wouldn't have ended up like this.
But he still did it, and he did it in a dignified and self-satisfied manner.
That was why he ended up like this. He couldn't blame others.
Even so, he still deliberately put on a show of weakness, putting on a show that no one but him would believe.
It was just that he wanted to be like his father in the past, sacrificing his life for him.
Unfortunately, Lin Mengya could learn everything quickly, but she couldn't learn to serve the country blindly.
Whoever cheated her, she would cheat them back a hundred times.
This was her way of doing things, and it was also her temperament.
Well, it was just a competition of acting skills. Who was afraid of who?
"Your Majesty, don't be so discouraged. I heard from people outside that Prince Yu is fighting alone and wants to rescue you. So, please persist. Otherwise, Your Highness's efforts will be in vain. "
Lin Mengya deliberately said that only Long Tianhao was working hard.
The reason why she dared to say so was that His Majesty's contact with the outside world had long been cut off by the Crown Prince.
The current situation was that the Crown Prince's men couldn't break in.
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