When Empress Yuanzhen arrived at the well where the accident happened, Emperor Ning and Yunshang were already there. The corpse by the well was covered with a white cloth, the queen walked over, her eyes fell on the corpse, "The concubine has seen the emperor."
Emperor Ning nodded, "Get up."
The queen stood up, waved her sleeves in disgust, and said, "This is a New Year's Eve, how did such a thing happen? Your Majesty, which palace did this dead man come from?"
Emperor Ning narrowed his eyes and said, "In Changchun Palace."
"Eternal Spring Palace?" Isn't that the one in Ming Taifei's Palace? The queen's heart trembled, she always felt that something was wrong, seeing that the emperor had asked someone to carry the body down, the queen didn't want to stay any longer, so she saluted Emperor Ning and returned to Qiwu Palace.
"Xiu Xin, you go to Changchun Palace. I always feel a little uneasy in my heart. I always feel that there is something wrong. Go help me and ask about the situation of the maid who had the accident." The queen frowned.
Aunt Xiuxin pondered for a moment before she said, "My lady, I feel that in this situation, we should not get involved with the Changchun Palace. We are also besieged on all sides now. You have just lifted the embargo. Concubine Jin had a miscarriage and Princess Huajing was imprisoned." Wake up, Concubine Ming is also having an accident, at this time we should wait and see what happens."
The queen also knew that what Xiuxin said was correct, but she had a bad premonition in her heart. After a long time, she sighed, "I also said to find a chance to go back to the prime minister's mansion. What happened yesterday, Jing'er must be innocent." Yes, but she was framed by Yunshang and locked up. However, something happened in the palace just now, as the queen, I must not be able to leave, and I don’t know what happened to Jinger."
Xiuxin hurriedly said, "Mother, you can't be in a hurry now. Think about it, Princess Yunshang is just a girl, and she stays in the palace for a short time. She doesn't have time to set up so many traps. Prince Jing clearly intervened in the matter above, and the servant in Meiying Pavilion must have been found by Prince Jing."
"Oh, that bitch Xiao Shujin, I don't know why she has such good luck. The emperor is partial to her, and her daughter is actually protected by Prince Jing. No, I definitely can't let Yunshang and Prince Jing be together. Prince Jing is protecting her, so it will be difficult for us to do something..." The queen clenched her hands tightly and said after a moment of silence, "If Yun Shang's reputation is ruined, Prince Jing will definitely not want her..."
"Empress, do you want to?" Xiuxin was shocked.
The queen smiled slightly, "Father always told me to wait, but now, I don't want to wait anymore..."
"Ah Choo..." Yun Shang sneezed in the Hall of Pure Heart, "Who is cursing me?"
Qianyin hurriedly said, "Who dares to curse the princess? Qianyin will help you peel her skin, constrict her tendons, and drink her blood!"
Yun Chang smiled slightly, and leaned on the soft couch with a dignified expression, "Qianyin, did you see how the maid died last night?"
Qianyin heard the words, looked around, and then went to Yunshang and squatted down, "Princess, the person who watched the well told the servant that a man in black dragged the body of the maid and threw it directly into the well." , The man in black is not low in martial arts, the watchers didn't dare to act rashly, so they had to follow behind him and saw him enter the Changchun Palace."
"Changchun Palace, it seems that Concubine Ming has something to do with this incident..." Yunshang squinted her eyes, "Did our people see anything unusual in the Imperial Garden on New Year's Eve, such as someone passing by and throwing something on the ground?" something?"
Qianyin shook her head, "That night, Changchun Palace lost the Queen's seal, and all palaces and halls were surrounded by guards in the palace. No one was allowed to come in or out, so our people had no way to go out."
"All palaces and halls are not allowed to enter... Who is that? By the way, where did you find the queen's seal?" Yun Shang asked again.
Qianyin said softly, "It seems that it was taken by a maid in Changchun Palace, and Concubine Ming sent that maid down on the spot."
Yun Shang heard the words, closed her eyes, and sighed quietly, "Who threw those moss on the ground, and who cleaned it up?"
"Eunuch Zheng, are you here? Are you looking for the princess?" The maid's voice came from outside, Yun Shang stood up and went out to greet her, and then she saw Director Zheng standing in the hall, and when she saw Yun Shang coming out of the inner hall, she hurriedly said, " The servant sees the princess, the princess, the emperor came and asked the servant to tell the princess that the body of the maid is placed in a remote palace in the west, if the princess wants to see it now, the servant can guide the princess."
Yun Chang nodded and said, "Then go and have a look."
Yun Shang instructed Qian Yin to take the cloak and put it on, and then followed Mr. Zheng towards the remote palace.
"Eunuch Zheng, when did Prince Jing return to the imperial city? Why hasn't Chang'er heard that the emperor has issued an edict to let him return to the imperial court?" Yun Shang held Mrs. Tang in her arms, and her eyes fell on the snow-covered snow in the distance. tree, asked casually.
Director Zheng chuckled and said, "What? The princess doesn't know either? The slave didn't hear that the emperor had summoned him, but on the night before New Year's Eve, at midnight, Prince Jing suddenly barged in, which shocked the slave. But on New Year's Eve Only then did the servant know that the emperor had bestowed a marriage on the princess and Prince Jing, and Prince Jing must have come back for the marriage. Prince Jing grew up under the watchful eye of the slave. , and, the servant saw that Prince Jing had been protecting the princess that day, so the princess can rest assured that Prince Jing will definitely treat the princess well."
The corners of Yunshang's mouth twitched. It turned out that Director Zheng felt that he was a little worried about this marriage, so he turned around and said good things to King Jing. Is King Jing not bad? It's not bad, it's just a little bigger.
It really was a remote palace, the weeds in the palace grew half a person's height, with a somewhat desolate and cold atmosphere, Yun Chang walked into the main hall, and saw a corpse covered with a white cloth parked in the main hall.
Yun Chang walked to the corpse, handed Tang Pozi to Qianyin, stretched out her hand and lifted the white cloth, and saw that the face under the white cloth was soaked pale, still a little swollen, with a bit of bluish purple.
Yun Chang carefully looked at the eyes, ears, nose, and nose of the corpse, pressed the abdomen again, and then said softly, "There is no water in the abdomen, and he was pushed down the well when he was dead. His skin was blue and purple, and he probably died of suffocation. "
Yun Chang raised the corpse's hand, frowned, and twisted a few blue filaments from the corpse's nails.
"Princess, this is exactly the same as the strands of moss that I saw at the place where Concubine Jin's accident happened that day. Could it be that this maid put those moss?" Seeing this, Qianyin said hastily.
Yun Chang didn't speak, she pondered for a moment, then checked other places carefully, and then stood up straight. Qianyin hurriedly fetched water, asked Yunshang to wash her hands carefully, and then handed Pozi Tang up again.
"Go back, there's nothing to see, Mr. Zheng, let's dispose of this corpse." Yun Chang said indifferently, and walked out of the main hall door.
After returning to Qingxin Palace, before Yunshang took off her cloak, she turned to Qianyin and said, "Go and ask the people we arranged in Changchun Palace. That day, Ming Taifei ordered all palaces and halls to be searched." At that time, was that court lady there, that maid was Bi Luo, who was in charge of fetching water in Changchun Palace."
Qianyin responded and hurried away, only then did Yunshang take off her cloak, and raised her voice, "Get a basin of hot water and take out the suet paste."
The maid hurriedly fetched water in, and Yun Chang put her hands in the basin to soak for a while, washed her hands carefully, and wiped the lanolin ointment, before she breathed a sigh of relief. In the previous and present lives, it was the first time I touched a dead body. Now that I think about it, I can't help but sweat a little.
Yunshang was lying on the soft couch reading a book, and Qianyin walked in, "Princess, when the queen's seal was stolen, Bi Luo was always in Changchun Palace."
Yunshang nodded, not half surprised. When she found the moss in the maid's fingernails just now, Yunshang already knew that the maid was just using it to confuse her eyes. When I paid my respects in the Queen's Palace early in the morning, I pretended to be flustered and said the two key words moss and well, and was overheard by those who cared. The moss was indeed there, but the well was guessed by Yunshang. But it was enough to make the real murderer mess up.
The murderer did this because he wanted to create a scapegoat.
"In the past two days, Hua Jing was in Dali Temple. Has anyone visited?" Hua Jing suddenly rang, and Yun Chang couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth. I heard that the prison in Dali Temple is very good. I don't know about Hua Jing. How comfortable is the princess who was spoiled and spoiled since she was a child
Qianyin quickly said, "Miss Li Yingying from the Prime Minister's Mansion went to see Princess Huajing. I heard that Miss Li blamed herself and cried like rain. Princess Huajing is also in good spirits. She scolded Miss Li for nearly half a year What time is it?"
"Oh? Li Yingying?" Yun Shang turned a page of the book in her hand, "Has her poison been removed?"
"I heard that there is nothing serious, but it still looks a little pale, and it seems that there is a cough, but nothing else. What is it about Miss Li, who dared to frame the princess? How could she be poisoned to death? Princess, that day When the servant girl goes to the Zangzhen Pavilion, she should put a layer of deadly poison on the pipa to see how arrogant she is!" Qianyin said bitterly.
Yun Chang smiled slightly, "Come on, fortunately Li Yingying is fine, I heard that she is favored in the prime minister's mansion, if she really died, wouldn't prime minister kill me?"
Qin Yi opened the curtain and walked in from the outside, and said with a smile, "Princess, it's sunny outside, why don't we go to the Imperial Garden for a walk? It's been snowing these days, but it's rare to see the sun once. The sun is shining warmly and it is comfortable.”
Yunshang smiled and nodded, "It's okay, the bones are a little soft from lying on the couch all the time, let's go." Yunshang stood up, put on the shoes, and since the sun was out, Yunshang only ordered to take Putting on a thicker cloak, he went out.
"Princess, look, there is actually a wintersweet there, which is covered by a rockery. I have never seen it before. The wintersweet is more fragrant than plum blossoms. The slave went to pick it for the princess and put it in a vase." Qianyin laughed. Pointing to a few wintersweet branches growing behind the rockery, he walked over with a bit of joy.
Just walking halfway, but suddenly stopped. Yun Chang saw that she looked a little wrong, so she followed her up.
"Pick more, the concubine likes wintersweet, pick a few more, and put them in every hall. The toffee can ask for the fragrance of wintersweet wherever she goes, and she will be happy." A voice of a court lady came.
Then, one of the servants responded, "It's just that the empress is in good health recently, and the empresses of other palaces don't come to our Changchun Palace to pay their respects. Take back the queen's seal, the emperor doesn't seem to have ordered the empress dowager to return the queen's seal to the queen."
The maid said, "That's right. The queen's seal was stolen that day. I thought the emperor would be angry, but nothing happened. But it's also strange. I searched the Changchun Palace before, but I couldn't find it." Why did the queen's seal suddenly find it under Bi Yan's pillow again..."
The waiter seemed to smile, "Maybe I didn't search carefully enough before, hurry up, that one, that flower bone is really big, it will open soon after going back to the bottle, and it can be kept for several days."
A dim light flashed in Yun Shang's eyes, she turned around and left with Qian Yin and Qin Yi.
Yun Shang's footsteps became faster and faster, Qin Yi saw that Yun Shang was not going in the direction of Qingxin Palace, so she hurriedly said, "Princess, where are you going?"
Yunshang stopped in her tracks, with a cold smile on her lips, "Qinyi, I seem to know who the murderer of my mother and concubine is..." After Yunshang finished speaking, she raised her foot and walked forward again, Qin Yi's footsteps paused before she realized that this seemed to be the way to Qinzheng Hall.
Director Zheng saw Yunshang approaching from a distance, and greeted him with a smile, "The princess is here? The emperor is talking to Prince Jing in the palace right now. Princess wait a moment, and the slave will go and report first."
Prince Jing? Yun Shang was slightly taken aback, and was about to say that she would leave first and come back later, but Manager Zheng had already pushed open the door of Qinzheng Hall and walked in.
Yunshang was somewhat unwilling to see Prince Jing. Now that the imperial decree has been issued, I am afraid that the people in the imperial city have already known it. Although he has made up his mind to find a way to ruin this marriage, he has not yet thought about it. It's a good idea, but right now, the concubine's affairs are more important. "Princess, the emperor welcomes you." Director Zheng walked out with a smile.
Yun Chang nodded, and walked into the inner hall. Emperor Ning sat on the chair behind the imperial table, and Prince Jing sat aside. The two seemed to be talking about something. Hearing Yun Shang's footsteps, both of them stopped talking and turned their heads to look at Yun Shang.
Yun Shang bowed to Emperor Ning, walked to the side and sat down, "Shang'er has something to ask Father, but Father and Uncle Huang seem to be discussing important matters, so Shang'er will wait here."
King Jing's gaze fell on Yunshang, and his cold gaze softened instantly, causing Emperor Ning, who was sizing up the two of them secretly, to be slightly stunned, and his gaze was a little more probing.
"I am discussing with King Jing, it happens to be the new year, and when the affairs in the palace are settled, I will go to Ningguo Temple to offer incense. You have been protected by Master Wuna for so many years, and Master Wuna has also helped me A lot of help, I should thank him personally." Emperor Ning smiled slightly.
Yun Shang heard the words, thought for a moment in her heart, and then said softly, "Father can arrange it, but it's always snowing these days, and the snow on the road may be deep, so it's not easy to walk."
"Don't worry, Chang'er, I will have someone sweep the snow along this road ahead of time later." King Jing slightly hooked the corners of his mouth, his gaze was soft.
Yun Shang pretended not to hear King Jing's tender "Shang'er", and said calmly, "That's good." She didn't say any more.
Emperor Ning smiled and discussed with King Jing about offering incense, and then King Jing saluted and left the Hall of Qinzheng.
As soon as Prince Jing left, Yun Shang raised her head and said, "Father, the minister seems to know who the person who killed the mother and concubine is."
When Emperor Ning heard the words, his expression froze, "Oh? I heard from Mr. Zheng that you made a special trip to check the body of the palace lady earlier, and it seems that you found something. Mr. Zheng said that you found it in the maid's fingernails. There are traces of moss, could it be that the maid did it? The maid is from Changchun Palace, could it be... "
Even if he didn't say it, Yunshang knew who Emperor Ning wanted to talk about. Yunshang shook his head and said, "Although Concubine Ming also participated, she was barely an accomplice, but the person who threw moss on the road was not She, the queen's seal in Changchun Palace was stolen that day, Ming Dowager arrested all the palace people, and the maid who died in the well this morning barely left Changchun Palace..."
"Who is that?" Emperor Ning said in a deep voice.
Yun Shang pondered for a moment before saying, "On New Year's Eve, everyone in the Jinluan Hall can be ruled out as suspects. The people in the other palaces have been questioned by the ministers, and they are all inspected in their own halls. The guards in the palace It is definitely impossible for all of them to belong to the emperor."
"If you say so, then there will be no one..." Emperor Ning frowned slightly.
Yun Shang shook her head, "Father, think about it carefully, who is the person who hasn't been in the palace for a long time that day?"
Emperor Ning thought about it for a while, then raised his head and looked at Yunshang hesitantly, "You mean, Li Yingying?"
Yun Chang nodded, "She is the one who harmed my concubine."
"However, she was poisoned that day. Even if she wasn't poisoned, the palace is full of people. It's impossible for her to set up such a situation." Emperor Ning couldn't believe it.
Yun Shang smiled slightly and said, "Just now, in the imperial garden, I accidentally overheard the palace servants chatting in Changchun Palace, talking about the theft of the queen's seal that day. The palace servant said that the princess said that the queen's seal After the theft, people searched the palace first, but found nothing, so they came to report to the emperor, sealed off the palaces and palaces, and sent guards to search the palaces one by one, but in the end, they found nothing in Changchun Palace. Chang'er thought about it. It is very likely that the Queen's seal was not lost at all. The Concubine Ming just used a cover to keep all the palace people in the palace. On the road, there is no one..."
Seeing that Emperor Ning's expression gradually turned serious, Yunshang continued, "I heard that Li Yingying went to Dali Temple to see the emperor's sister. Li Yingying's face was a little pale, and she seemed to be coughing, so she must have caught a cold However, Li Yingying was poisoned that day. When Li Yingying entered the hall on New Year's Eve, she gave the cloak to the attendants and put it away. There are braziers in the hall. If Li Yingying stayed in the hall, she would definitely not catch a cold. Explain that Li Yingying has been out before."
"Father, do you remember that Shang'er originally planned to go to see Li Yingying, but the imperial sister suddenly said a few words to provoke the son, and the son did not go. Now that I think about it, I am afraid that the emperor is also involved in this matter." Sister Huang was afraid that Shang'er went to the side hall and found that Li Yingying was not in the side hall. She didn't see Li Yingying until Shang'er left, so Shang'er sent someone to inquire. I left the palace at the time."