Chapter 175 I am a useful chess piece
Fu Qingyin lightly turned the ring on his hand and swept his sharp eyes over everyone present.
"There's still one missing. Let's take a look and see who's missing."
The remaining eunuchs and palace maids were scared to death. They had barely escaped a great disaster, and then they had to be interrogated by Fu Qingyin.
Their hearts were about to jump out of their throats, they kept their mouths tightly shut, their faces turned grim, and they looked around.
A little palace maid said in a trembling voice: "Reply...Commander, it seems that Xing'er is not here."
Fu Qingyin waved his hand: "Go and check the body to see if she is there."
The little palace maid was shaking and trembling all over. She almost fell down after taking a few steps. Yu Shengsheng held her up.
"Be careful, I'll help you over."
The little palace maid lowered her head, she was so scared that she was about to cry.
The bodies had been placed together, but they were still bloody.
The little maid mustered up her courage and forced herself to watch. By the end, tears were streaming down her face. She shook her head desperately, “No, no.”
Yu Shengsheng asked softly, "Was she the one who went to the Imperial Household Department today to retrieve the pearl necklace for Concubine Yu?"
The little palace maid cried and shook her head: "I don't know, I am just a servant, doing things in the yard, I don't know, please forgive me..."
A young eunuch whispered, "My lord, it was indeed Miss Xing'er who got the pearl necklace for the master today."
Yu Shengsheng looked at Fu Qingyin: "It's her."
Fu Qingyin ordered: "Search the entire palace for a palace maid named Xing'er."
Yu Shengsheng thought for a moment and said, "Commander, please wait a moment."
She turned and walked into the hall, found a desk and pen and ink, and started sketching quickly.
Then he took the portrait and gave it to Fu Qingyin: "Look for the person in the painting."
Fu Qingyin raised his eyebrows slightly and took the portrait. The person in the painting had delicate features and a hint of sadness in his eyes. Although the painting was simple and without color, one could capture the person's charm at once.
This style of painting...
Fu Qingyin remained calm and handed the painting to the Red Dragon Guard: "Go check it out."
"yes."
"Follow me around."
The place where Concubine Yu lived was not as big as that of the Empress and the Imperial Concubine, but it was not small either.
Fu Qingyin was in front, and Yu Shengsheng followed behind him, always keeping a distance of about one meter.
Fu Qingyin asked: "What do you think of the queen?"
Yu Shengsheng lowered her eyes and said, "As the mother of a country, you are majestic and noble."
"Where is Concubine Shu?"
"Beautiful and intelligent."
"Where's the prince?"
“……” Yu Shengsheng couldn’t think of the right words for a moment, and his mind was working rapidly.
Before I knew it, I had walked some distance.
Suddenly, Fu Qingyin's voice came from the left: "What did the prince say to you?"
"He made me little..."
Yu Shengsheng suddenly came back to his senses and realized that he had said something wrong.
When she looked up again, Fu Qingyin had already turned the corner in front of her, but she was still walking forward.
Fu Qingyin smiled and said, "What do you mean by be careful?"
Yu Shengsheng pursed her lips tightly and said, "Your Highness is so noble, it's only right for me to be careful."
"The mother of a country is majestic and noble," Fu Qingyin said with a cold smile, "Such words sound good, but you don't want to use good words, right?"
Yu Shengsheng remained silent.
Fu Qingyin secretly laughed: Although she was silent at the moment, her energy gradually returned, and she was no longer like a little rabbit being manipulated. It was interesting, what did the queen and the prince do to arouse her strong hatred and fighting spirit.
Fu Qingyin turned and walked forward: "Following me, it is essential to be arrogant and wanton. Otherwise, it will be unworthy of the reputation of the Red Dragon Guard."
"I don't keep cowards around me, understand?"
Yu Shengsheng's heart was slightly shaken. She looked up at his back, bit her lips hard, and said softly but firmly: "Yes."
Fu Qingyin's lips curled slightly, but suddenly he paused and stopped walking.
His eyes flickered, and he turned back to Yu Shengsheng and said, "Come here."
Yu Shengsheng didn't understand what was going on, but he just followed the order and went forward.
Fu Qingyin raised his chin and pointed to the well in front: "Look what's in here."
Yu Shengsheng nodded, walked slowly forward, glanced inside, and his mind suddenly buzzed.
Subconsciously took a step back.
Fu Qingyin was standing behind her and she almost stepped on him.
"Commander, please forgive me."
"What? You're so scared."
"This is a dry well, and there is a dead body in it."
Yu Shengsheng's face turned pale, her heart was beating violently, and sweat suddenly broke out on her palms.
Fu Qingyin smiled faintly: "You can't be so timid."
Yu Shengsheng looked at him and suddenly realized—this man did it on purpose.
A little angry.
Fu Qingyin said again: "Go and see if it's the one you've seen."
Yu Shengsheng gritted her teeth and decided to just watch. But she couldn’t scare her again this time.
She walked forward slowly, clenched her fists, plucked up her courage, and looked down with wide eyes.
Before she could see clearly, her feet suddenly felt empty and her waist felt tight. She was so scared that she almost screamed and grabbed Fu Qingyin's shoulders tightly with both hands.
Fu Qingyin took her and jumped down from the well.
He landed gracefully, looked at her hand that was tightly grasped, and whispered, "You can let go now."
"Your hand is quite strong."
Yu Shengsheng quickly let go of his hand and tried to take two steps back, but he grabbed her again.
"Look at your feet."
Yu Shengsheng lowered her head. If she took another step back, she would step on the corpse's hand.
His heart started beating again. He forced himself to calm down for a moment and looked carefully. "Yes, it's her, the maid named Xing'er. I saw her this morning."
Fu Qingyin nodded: "Let's test it."
Yu Shengsheng didn't understand for a moment: "What are you testing?"
"Autopsy, don't you know how to do autopsies?"
Yu Shengsheng hesitated for a moment, then said firmly: "I won't."
Fu Qingyin narrowed her eyes slightly, and before she could speak, she continued, "I said that before so that I wouldn't stay by the Queen's side. I only know a little bit about medical skills, not autopsies, and I think the two are somewhat similar."
"You spoke so clearly about the corpse of the noble lady Yu."
"She was strangled to death. The signs of strangulation are nothing more than those, so..."
Fu Qingyin almost laughed out of anger: "So, you dare to lie in front of the emperor."
Yu Shengsheng nodded.
He would rather risk being discovered for deceiving the emperor than escape from the queen.
Fu Qingyin's eyes deepened: "Okay, since you don't know how to do it, then go up."
"I won't be able to go up even if I do," Yu Shengsheng said in a low voice.
Fu Qingyin: "...I mean, go up and have someone take the body back for further examination."
Yu Shengsheng blushed.
"You are really brave now," Fu Qingyin asked, "If you can't do an autopsy, it's useless. What is the use of you then?"
"I am the key," Yu Shengsheng said seriously, "The person who set up this game wants to drag me into it. Why? It shows that I am useful. I am such a useful chess piece. Even if I am useless, it can make the people behind the scenes feel uneasy."
Fu Qingyin looked at her for a while and actually felt that what she said made some sense.
"It suddenly occurred to me that you are not completely useless," he thought of something, "can't you draw those little people?"
Yu Shengsheng recalled that he had seen her drawings of her and Grandma Wu’s daily life in the countryside.
"Yes."
"Draw a picture for me."
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