"How much do you know about this Crown Princess?" Su Ningxin asked Gu Mingxi.
The presence of this empress dowager is really low. I don't know much about him as a former concubine. It is probably the same thing whether others know that there is such a person in the palace.
But Gu Mingxi should be an exception. She has grown up with the Queen Mother since she was a child, and this Queen Mother served the same emperor as the Queen Mother.
Gu Mingxi thought for a while and said, "I don't know much about her. I only know that she has always been attached to the Queen Mother and was low-key and unassuming. When the Queen Mother was alive, she would occasionally come to talk to the Queen Mother. After the Queen Mother passed away, she Even the door of Heyi Palace is closed."
Su Ningxin looked at the direction Su Jiaxin left and said, "A person who just wants to live peacefully, eat fast and chant Buddha all day long will not reach out to the palace, and can bring outsiders into the palace safely at this time. , not everyone can do it.”
"It seems that she hid it so deeply that even the Queen Mother was deceived by her." Gu Mingxi sighed.
Gu Mingxi was stunned as she said that, had she deceived the Queen Mother? Why did she lie to the Queen Mother? If she just wanted to survive in the palace, then she had already done it. Wouldn't it be better to take care of herself now? Why do you want to interfere in things outside the palace like this
"Peony peony!" Gu Mingxi suddenly exclaimed.
Su Ningxin looked at Gu Mingxi in confusion. Although Gu Mingxi usually had a somewhat out-of-the-box personality, she was able to do so with ease and rarely exclaimed out of control like she did now.
"What peony?" Su Ningxin asked doubtfully.
Gu Mingxi had calmed down at this moment and explained to Su Ningxin, "Do you still remember the death of the Queen Mother? At that time, the Queen Mother was suddenly poisoned and there was no cure. That's when I started pretending to be the Queen Mother."
As she said this, Gu Mingxi kept silent because she heard footsteps coming not far away. The palace was not the place to talk. Gu Mingxi winked at Su Ningxin, and the two of them started walking together. After leaving here, I planned to leave the palace first.
"The Crown Princess doesn't know what to do, so she needs to send someone to keep an eye on her first," Gu Mingxi said.
Su Ningxin also agreed with her opinion, but now both of them don't have much manpower in the palace. It should be the best way to find Mu Zhiyun, the leader of Fengying. After all, Fengying's people have tight control over the harem. , ahem, now this is a bit ironic.
Anyway, Feng Ying has more energy in the harem, so it would be safer to go to her. However, the two of them are not sure when the Crown Princess's plan will be launched, and they don't know if they will go to Mu Zhiyun now, and then she will send them. It was too late for anyone to investigate.
"Isn't Xiao Dezi the head eunuch now? It shouldn't be a problem to tell him to send someone to keep an eye on him, right?" Gu Mingxi suggested, Xiao Dezi was Huang Dezheng beside the emperor.
Su Ningxin: "..."
[It shouldn’t be a problem to let him stare, but I have a problem. If I go to him now, he will probably beat me to death if he thinks about it.]
Although they had some concerns, the two of them still approached Huang Dezheng. Huang Dezheng was very understanding of justice and knew that such things were not a joke, so he promised that he would keep an eye on Dian and Yi Gong.
If you could ignore the look in his eyes that wanted to pounce on her and bite her twice, Su Ningxin even had the illusion that they were still friends.
Although Huang Dezheng did not really attack Su Ningxin because of his status as the chief internal manager. Of course, it may also be that he knew that he could not defeat Su Ningxin so he endured it. However, during the entire conversation, he talked to Gu Mingxi and to Su Ningxin. Ning Xin's nose is not a nose, her eyes are not eyes, and her angry eyes are flying all over the sky.
After Huang Dezheng was informed, Su Ningxin and Gu Mingxi left the palace. After returning to Prince Anjun's Mansion, they made sure that there would be no ears between walls, and the two began to chat about what had just been planned.
Gu Mingxi took a sip of tea to moisten her throat, and then began to talk about the death of the Queen Mother. Five or six years had passed since then. While pretending to be the Queen Mother, I have been secretly investigating the truth behind the Queen Mother’s poisoning.”
"We found out that the Queen Mother was poisoned because the medicine she usually drank contained an excessive amount of medicine. However, this medicine is not toxic. It only changes when mixed with the smell of peony."
Su Ningxin frowned and asked, "Peony? How did the Queen Mother come into contact with peony?"
When she first joined Fengying, Fengying was in the hands of the Queen Mother, so Su Ningxin also knew a little about the Queen Mother's character. One thing the Queen Mother always said was, 'Only peonies are the true national beauty. When the flowers bloom, the capital is moved. So the Ai family likes peonies the most, and they plant them all in the yard. '
The whole poem is: "The peony demon in front of the court has no character, and the hibiscus on the pond is pure and has little emotion." Only peonies are the true national beauty, and they move the capital when they bloom. '
The Queen Mother felt that the peony was unqualified and she had never allowed such words to appear in her palace. How could the peony be exposed to its medicinal properties
Gu Mingxi also knew what Su Ning was wondering about, "Yes, peonies like this should not have appeared in the Queen Mother's Palace, but they were planted under the window of the Queen Mother's Palace, mixed in among a bunch of peonies. People notice.”
"The Queen Mother was poisoned by this. My mammy and I investigated in the palace for several years but could not find the poisoner who had hidden so deeply. The imperial doctor and his family who had put in too many medicinal herbs disappeared as if they had evaporated, and the peony seeds were The people who went down there have no clues.”
"Seeing the behavior of the Crown Princess now, I have a guess. If the Crown Princess does not want to be as content with the status quo as she seems to be, then maybe the peony plant was her handiwork. After all, it can enter the Queen Mother's Palace. There were very few people inside, and she, who often came to chat with the Queen Mother, had the opportunity to throw the seeds under the window."
Su Ningxin only knew that the Queen Mother died of poisoning and was replaced by Gu Mingxi, but she didn't know there were other reasons. However, after hearing what Gu Mingxi said, she also felt that the Queen Mother who had been dormant beside the Queen Mother might be the Queen Mother. The murderer who could not be found after searching for a long time.
"Send a letter to Mu Zhiyun. With this clue, she might be able to find out something." Su Ningxin suggested. After saying that, she got up and went to the desk nearby to write, and quickly wrote a piece of paper. The note was tied to the white pigeon's leg and let fly.
After doing this, Su Ningxin looked at Gu Mingxi who was sitting at the table, holding a teacup in a daze. She knew that Gu Mingxi and the Queen Mother had always had a good relationship, and finding the murderer was also an obsession of hers. She probably thought of the Queen Mother again. , Su Ningxin didn't know how to comfort her at this time.
(End of chapter)