After staying with Shen Qingwan for a long time, Qing Ling also understood her temper. Although she was not bad, to her, she was still her enemy.
Everything she had was lost because of this woman. How could she let her go? However, her current status was not enough to hurt Shen Qingwan at all, so she must need help from others.
"Lianyun, please tell the queen that I have to go out of the palace for something and should be back before the evening." After finding Lianyun, Qing Ling expressed her thoughts. She must go out today.
"You'd better go and tell the Empress yourself. I'm a palace maid just like you." Lian Yun didn't dare to agree. After all, she wouldn't want to be blamed. Besides, the Empress had already asked her to keep an eye on her, so she couldn't just agree to it.
Qing Ling glanced at Lian Yun coldly and turned away. Since she didn't want to, she didn't need to say anything more. Although she wanted revenge, she still suppressed the hatred in her heart every time she saw Shen Qingwan.
With her palace badge, she easily left the palace. She was now Shen Qingwan's maid, so naturally no one would dare to disrespect her. After confirming that no one was following her, she quickly walked to the outskirts.
"What's the matter with you asking me to come here today?" Although they had agreed to cooperate, she still didn't understand her or what she was thinking, so she just frowned.
The woman turned around after hearing that. Her red dress was as red as fire, but the veil on her face made it hard to tell her emotions. Seeing her coming over, the woman spoke in a cold tone, as if she was out of touch with the world. "Ms. Qingling should know. You come out like this, aren't you afraid that Shen Qingwan will find out something?" The woman's tone sounded, neither sad nor happy.
Qing Ling raised her eyebrows when she heard that, "Her? Why would I be afraid?" What she felt most towards Shen Qingwan was hatred, and she had already understood her temper over the past few days. How could a woman like her have the heart to hurt her.
The red-dressed woman couldn't help but chuckle when she heard this. "Okay." She took out a box from her sleeve and handed it to her. "This box contains something that the emperor would be very sensitive about. You must secretly put it in her room and make sure she doesn't find it."
The box was very small and exquisite, but the contents were disgusting. Qing Ling did not want to open it and went straight back to the palace.
When she returned to the palace, Shen Qingwan was already asleep, and Lianyun was nowhere to be found. She knew that Shen Qingwan never liked to have people around her when she slept. She walked to her quietly, unable to suppress her emotions any longer.
"It's all because of you. Why is it you?" He murmured to her, but there was still no emotion in his eyes. After making sure that the person on the bed would not wake up, Qing Ling slowly checked the room.
Finally, he gently lifted the curtain on the edge of the bed and slowly put the things in before leaving.
On the second day, nothing happened in Shen Qingwan's palace, but someone died in the palace. It was said that a little palace maid died for no reason, and her death was extremely horrible.
Lianyun heard about what happened and went to take a look. She came back looking dazed, which made Shen Qingwan feel very strange. "What's wrong? Why are you so absent-minded?" She didn't know what was going on outside.
"Empress." Lianyun came back to her senses and looked at her with some fear, hugging her arms tightly. "Someone died in the palace yesterday, and we found it this morning." There was already a hint of tears in her tone.
"Hmm?" Shen Qingwan responded indifferently. Although she was interested, it was normal for someone to die in the palace. Lianyun had been in the palace for a long time, but she was still a child.
Since she started in the palace, countless people have died. Concubines who have fallen out of favor, servants who have done something wrong, whether intentionally or unintentionally, will die. She couldn't bear to see such a scene, so she treated her palace servants very well.
"No, Your Majesty. That palace maid died so tragically. I just went to take a look and was scared to death." Lian Yun stroked her arm and spoke, her hair still standing on end.
"The palace maid was covered in blood, as if all the blood in her body had been released." The first thing she saw was the bright red area, and then she couldn't bear to watch it anymore and ran out in a hurry.
Shen Qingwan frowned when she heard this, "How could she die so tragically? Have you found out who did it?" Even if the palace maid was punished, she would be beaten to death directly, not die in this way.
"It seems not yet, but the guards are already investigating. Your Majesty should not go out recently." Lian Yun shook her head to indicate that there was no such thing. It had only been one day and she didn't know how to investigate.
Since the maid's death was discovered, everyone in the palace was in a panic. There were too many people who died in the palace without knowing why, and there were too many wronged souls. Maybe he would be the next one to die.
"Let's go, let's not stay here." Whenever they passed by the place where the palace maid had the accident, they would quicken their pace and dare not stop at all, as they always felt that the palace maid was still watching them from somewhere...
"Your Majesty, we haven't found out anything yet." Lianyun also told Shen Qingwan the latest news she had heard. In fact, she was not that scared anymore. She just felt disgusted the most.
Shen Qingwan listened but didn't say anything. She always felt that it was not just the death of a palace maid, and something else would happen next.
In the following days, incidents continued to happen in the palace. Palace maids or eunuchs would always die in the middle of the night without any clear reason, and would be found covered in blood the next day.
"Go call the imperial physician over for me. I'm feeling very uncomfortable." Hua Xiangwei has been feeling very uncomfortable and restless these past few days.
"Yes." The palace maid did not dare to neglect and hurried to invite the imperial physician. The conclusion was that Hua Xiangwei had been restless these days and was overly worried.
Hua Xiangwei was unhappy. The continuous deaths in the palace had made her afraid. She seemed to be afraid that she would also become a bloody corpse in the morning, so she sent many people to guard.
"Go, call more people over here to guard outside the palace gate." Hua Xiangwei still felt uneasy so she asked the palace maid to go out and call for more people.
Just after that, Nanny Gui came to visit her, but she fainted on the same day.
Fu Yuheng was also very upset when he heard the news. How could such a thing happen in the palace? Moreover, after so many days, the murderer has not been found yet.
"Sun Ning, do you have any clues?" He spoke to Sun Ning unhappily. He didn't even want to read the memorials. It wasn't that he was afraid of death, but the panic in the palace was really annoying.
Moreover, he was the true dragon emperor, who dared to touch him! He also wanted to see who was playing tricks.
"Your Majesty, not yet, but it should be available soon." Sun Ning spoke cautiously, fearing that Fu Yuheng would suddenly lose his temper.