Aunt Ashe moved directly into Ci'an Palace. On the other side, Old Lady Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
She complained in Huiqing Palace, "Do you think I like to hang out there? Every day when I see her dead face, I get angry. It would be nice if Ah She came back to help me for a few days. I can relax for a few days."
Zi'an said with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work, old lady. You stick to her like a plaster every day. Don't tell me, her face is really disgusting."
"Isn't it? She acts like a queen mother every day, looking down on her. She is so indifferent when she talks to her, as if she is begging him for help."
"Okay, Aunt Ashe will be here for a few days, then you can go back." Zhuangzhuang said.
"I'll leave early tomorrow morning. I don't like living in the palace." The old lady yawned, "Ah, I'm old and I really can't stand it anymore."
"Grandma, then you should go to bed quickly." Liu Liu felt sorry for her and urged her.
"Okay, you guys talk first, I'll go eat a meal and then go to bed." The old lady had a habit of having a midnight snack before she could fall asleep every night.
Xiaosun came in and said, "It's already been prepared, just waiting for you to eat."
"Xiaosun is the one who knows how to care for others!" The old lady stood up with a smile and walked out with Xiaosun.
Only Liu Liu, Zhuang Zhuang and Zi An were left in the hall. The charcoal fire in the room was burning brightly, but when Xiao Sun opened the door just now, some cold wind still blew in. Liu Liu wrapped herself tightly and said happily, "Now that Aunt Ah She is back this time, we can save ourselves some trouble. It would be best if she could deal with all the bad guys before she leaves."
Zhuangzhuang said: "Don't be too happy too soon. The old ancestor can't leave Aunt Ah She. At most three days, she will be taken away."
"Well, and even though we won a small victory, I believe they will counterattack soon. We need to predict their various plans and prepare various countermeasures." Zi'an said.
"Ah?" Liu Liu suddenly felt frustrated. "Will they win this game again? This is really boring."
"Whether they can get back the victory is another matter, but they will definitely fight back," Zhuangzhuang looked at Zi'an, "Zi'an, who do you think they will attack first?"
Zi'an looked at her and said, "It goes without saying that it must be you, Princess. Without you, the princess who guards the country, I, the regent princess, would be useless. Why don't I just let them manipulate me?"
"What you said makes sense. By the way, what exactly happened with Concubine Liang? How could she go crazy out of nowhere?" Zhuangzhuang was deeply puzzled. Moreover, after Concubine Liang went crazy, there was no further news about her, and no one investigated the matter of her suicide. The rumor of her suicide had spread, so didn't Concubine Yi intend to make a fuss about it
Could it be that Concubine Liang’s suicide had nothing to do with them
Zi'an said, "I have asked Madam Yang to go back and take care of Concubine Liang and observe if anyone approaches her. However, Madam Yang said that she did not find any suspicious people, and almost no one was willing to approach her."
"It's not surprising. She's just a criminal. Who would approach her?" Zhuangzhuang knew that people in the palace were cold to each other. A concubine who lost her power would only be kicked when she was down. How could she expect someone to rescue her? Difficult.
"It seems that only Concubine Liang knows what happened that day." Liu Liu said.
Zi'an and Zhuangzhuang looked at each other. Yes, it seemed that only Concubine Liang knew what happened that day.
Liu Liu thought for a moment and then said, "What do you think? Could it be that Concubine Liang saw that the crown prince was deposed and King Liang ignored her, and she thought about it day and night, and couldn't get over it for a while, so she went crazy, and then hanged herself. It's unreasonable for a madman to commit suicide."
"What you said makes sense." Zhuangzhuang nodded.
Zi'an disagreed. The crown prince was deposed not just in the past few days. She had been banished to the cold palace for so long. How could she suddenly become so depressed and crazy that she committed suicide
I have seen crazy people causing trouble and killing people, but I am not likely to see them committing suicide, unless they are suffering from depression.
She diagnosed Liang Bin's pulse and found that she had severe liver fire stagnation and abnormal heart pulse. It seemed that she had been hit hard and went crazy.
Liang Bin has been through everything. How could she go crazy all of a sudden
The prince betrayed her in the first place, and she was demoted from a queen to a concubine of Liang. She could still struggle for a while, but in the end she even managed to force the prince to abdicate.
Although she was later banished to the cold palace, Prince Liang was promoted. She should have been hopeful, so why did she go crazy
When something is abnormal, there must be something wrong.
"Maybe we missed something. I will summon the guards of the cold palace to ask for clarification tomorrow."
There was nothing to ask the guards because those on duty had gone to warm themselves and drink and were not guarding the cold palace.
Zi'an expanded the scope and asked the palace maids and eunuchs in the nearby palace to see who had entered and left the cold palace in the past few days.
The palace maids and eunuchs could not get any information from them, but a noble concubine who had been abandoned for three years said calmly, "A palace maid with pockmarks on her face came here twice."
This was a clue, and Zi'an immediately ordered people to find the palace maid with pockmarks on her face.
However, when the news got out, the person was found, but it was a dead body, lying on the edge of the lake outside Huiqing Palace. The surface of the lake in Huiqing Palace was not frozen because the hot spring water was drained out and warmed part of the lake water.
Zi'an was devastated to be silenced at his own doorstep.
The maid of Ma Palace was investigated. Her name was Xiaodie. She was 28 years old and had previously served in Jingning Palace of Concubine Liang.
If she went to visit because she remembered the kindness of her former master, it would be understandable.
But according to Nanny Yang, Xiaodie was not allowed to enter the palace to serve on weekdays. She was just a palace maid who cleaned the palace and had little contact with Concubine Liang.
Zi'an secretly became suspicious. Since she had never met Concubine Liang, there was naturally no favor to speak of. It was not easy to visit her in the cold palace. She could not easily enter the cold palace. Moreover, she was now working in Huilang Pavilion. How could she go to the cold palace at will without the master's order
Huilang Pavilion is a palace in Xuwei Palace, where Concubine Su lives. Now Xiaodie belongs to Concubine Su.
Zi'an had to ask Su Concubine. Su Concubine had no impression of this palace maid. She only knew that she was assigned by the inner court. She knew that she served Liang Concubine before. However, she was sent to work outside and never served in the palace.
Now that Xiaodie is dead, no one knows who she belongs to.
Zi'an still didn't give up and asked the people who had served in Jingning Palace before. Some of them said that although Xiaodie was just a palace maid who cleaned the palace, she was most likely present when the Grand Tutor came.
Nanny Yang also confirmed this, saying that when Xiaodie was 25 years old, she could have left the palace, but she chose to stay in the palace and had been working as a cleaning maid in Jingning Palace, which was very strange.
Someone who has been in the palace for so many years has never been able to get promoted. Moreover, she gave up the opportunity to leave the palace and stayed in the palace to be a cleaning maid. It is hard to say that she is dedicated to her job.
Unless, she is someone with a purpose.
(End of this chapter)