The guards quickly withdrew.
The two hid above Geng Yulin's former bedroom and found him lying peacefully asleep in bed.
"Sister, what brings you here today?" Fu Lu asked softly.
"I've always found it strange that such a strong-willed woman suddenly disappeared. I wanted to find out why."
After listening, Fu Lusi nodded. "The Emperor was in my palace for the first half of the night, but Li Qingzhou said it was a nightmare and called the Emperor away in the second half. That's why I wanted to come and see him."
Ruan and Mu looked around and felt something was off. Logically speaking, the entire palace shouldn't be pitch black! There should at least be a few palace maids holding lanterns.
Moreover, Geng Yulin was lying motionless on the bed. Wasn't it said that she had an injury on her back?
"Sister, let's go somewhere else. It'll be easier to talk to you in your palace."
Ruan and Mu and Fu Lu Si Yue flew swiftly to Yu Jing Palace.
"You dragged me away, did you discover something?" Ruan Yu Mu asked, but Fu Lu Si Yue quickly took off his clothes and told Zi Ling to burn them immediately.
She began, “Sister, please sit down. I arrived at Jiayu Palace at least half an hour earlier than you tonight. The palace truly seemed deserted. When I entered, Geng Yulin was lying there, and when you and I entered later, she was still lying there. And didn’t you notice her pale face…”
Reminded by Fu Lu's private key, Ruan Yu Mu also recalled that although it was not very clear by the light of the tinderbox, Geng Yu Lin's face seemed to be very white, extremely white, terrifyingly white.
"Now that you mention it, it does seem to make sense. It's midnight, so there should be palace maids and eunuchs lighting the lamps! Besides, she's always been particular about these things."
Ruan Yumu recalled that Jiayu Palace was indeed as silent and terrifying as an empty palace, and even had a strange bloody smell, which smelled just like human blood on the battlefield.
Human blood!!!
There is only one possibility: everyone in Jiayu Palace has been murdered, and the matter has been covered up.
It seems the Emperor doesn't want to incur bad luck, given that the army is setting out tomorrow.
"Sister, have you thought of something?" Fu Lu Si Yue looked at Ruan Yu Mu without saying anything for a long time, thinking that she already had a plan.
"I think we should be thinking the same thing!"
Fu Lu nodded.
"Why do you think this is? Even though she is not favored by the Emperor, there is no need to be so ruthless!" Ruan Yu Mu knew that Qi Jingxuan was not a ruthless person. Whenever the concubines made a big mistake, he would only lock them up or send them to the Sinzheku (a place for convicts to work in the Imperial Household Department).
"Miss, you don't know yet, do you? Consort Qing lost her child, and it's said that Geng Yulin was responsible. He sent her a pot of peonies. Miss, your first child was also because of peonies!" Zi Ling immediately told her what she knew.
"I see. If she harmed Consort Qing's child, then it makes sense. The Emperor values offspring most these days. Besides, Consort Qing's family has been Qi people for generations, so she's a true native. No wonder the Emperor punished her like this."
Fu Lu Si Yue's words sounded like schadenfreude. It's true what they say: Heaven's sins may be forgiven, but self-inflicted sins are unforgivable. He hadn't even really made a move yet, and this person had already fallen so quickly! It's really not interesting at all.
Looking at her ambiguous smile, Ruan Yumu said sarcastically, "Offspring, haha, miscarriage? That's hilarious. Sister, go to sleep and see how things develop tomorrow."
Fu Lusiye got up, bowed, and went out through the main gate.
Ruan Yumu knew that Li Qingzhou had been investigating who had prevented her from getting pregnant. She never expected that Li Qingzhou would be so stupid as to fabricate a fake miscarriage to frame Geng Yulin. What a show!
“Ziling, look at this harem, it’s full of strife. Even Fulu Siyue is such a heavy-hearted person.” Ruan Yumu stood up and watched Fulu Siyue’s departing figure.
Thinking back to when she first entered the palace, she often came to play in her palace with Qiao Siyu, and the three of them were very close. Now, looking at her now, although Qiao Siyu and Fu Lu Siyue were in the same palace, it seemed that there was already a great distance between them.
She was the only one left in the entire Yongshou Palace who could still enjoy the emperor's favor.
“The palace is about to undergo a major upheaval!” Ruan Yu Mu knew that every woman in the palace was extraordinary.
The reason why Fu Lu was so eager to check on Geng Yulin's condition was that he was afraid that after she recovered, the investigation into the Golden Juice incident would be thorough and that the investigation would eventually reach her.
Now that there's no way to prove it, she breathed a sigh of relief.
As for these matters, Ruan and Mu saw them clearly. Since the Emperor didn't care about this matter, and besides, only the two of them knew that Geng Yulin was dead, they decided to let it sink into their hearts.
There's no point in talking about it.
"Simin, was there anything wrong with my performance today?" Princess Nanjiang began to feel sorry for herself as soon as she returned to Suhua Terrace. She had clearly used all her skills today, so why did the Emperor still go to the other concubines tonight?
"Your Majesty, I heard that the army will be setting off tomorrow. It's only natural that His Majesty would visit Consort Zhaoyi at this time, after all, he needs to appease the generals leading the troops!"
Simin brought over some hot water and told the princess of Southern Xinjiang not to wait any longer, to wash up and go to bed.
"Your Majesty, don't be discouraged. Didn't His Majesty send the Imperial Household Department to make the Rainbow Feather Robe? He must still care about you. Otherwise, why would he have every concubine and beauty in the harem have one made? Don't you think so?"
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