Chapter 152: The Nameless Female Corpse
This year, Hexi Palace has not been peaceful.
When the flower snake opened its bloody mouth and bit the magpie, Xiao Xuanzi bravely rushed over and hit the flower snake's fangs with a stick.
Jiang Chuan was taking the newly delivered kitchen knife from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the small kitchen before he came in. When he heard the sound of the screen falling to the ground, he didn't even have time to put down the kitchen knife and rushed in.
At this moment, he and Xiao Xuanzi cooperated tacitly. When the flower snake was stunned and confused, he chopped off its head.
The magpie just breathed a sigh of relief, and she felt a touch of coldness in her hand. Without thinking, she quickly got up from the ground and ran out with Jiang Xinyue and Shuangjiang.
While running, she shouted, "There are still snakes, there are still snakes! There are still snakes under the queen's bed!"
Nanny Li and Nanny Xiang were relatively calm and comforted her, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, they can't bite the queen. Don't run around. This is an empty yard. You guys come here to protect the queen."
After all, the guards were outsiders and it was not easy for them to get close to Jiang Xinyue. Nanny Li simply pointed to a few eunuchs who were skilled in martial arts and surrounded her in the middle: "Pay attention to see if there are any more snakes on the ground?"
There were six guards in Hexi Palace, all of whom were sent from the rear by Emperor Xuanwu to protect Jiang Xinyue. They came in handy.
Nanny Xiang trotted all the way, rushed into the storeroom, took out a box of realgar powder, and sprinkled it around Jiang Xinyue to prevent snakes, insects, rats and ants from getting close to her.
The six guards quickly killed the snake that crawled out from under the bed. Because they were worried, they took a lantern and shone it under the bed for a long time.
After confirming that there was really no snake, the guards came out to report.
In fact, Jiang Xinyue didn't even see the appearance of the snake clearly, and Shuangjiang had already pulled her out.
None of the palace maids in the palace were idle, they were all very capable, which greatly increased her safety factor when she encountered danger.
"What should I do? I definitely can't sleep in there."
Xi Que patted her chest in shock: "Your Majesty, otherwise... I'll go find the Emperor."
"I can't go."
Jiang Xinyue shook her head: "We just showed our goodwill to the Empress, and you turned around and called the Emperor from Yikun Palace to Hexi Palace. Isn't this a slap in the face of the Empress? Can she let me go?"
"But..."
Xi Que sighed: "Then where are you going to sleep, Your Majesty?"
"Clean up the side hall, and you and I will rest in the side hall tonight."
Hexi Palace was awarded by the Emperor to Jiang Xinyue to live in alone. He had no plan to let other people live in it before. Later, he fell in love with her, and it was even more impossible for him to let other concubines live there, so the side hall has been empty.
Usually, only the palace maids clean it occasionally, and it is definitely not okay to let Concubine Zhen live in it.
All the quilts and bed curtains had to be replaced with new ones.
"Click!"
Frost just picked up the quilt in the side hall, and a small box fell out on the ground.
"What is this?"
Xi Que picked it up curiously and opened the lid of the small wooden box. Inside were two small cloth figures, one male and one female. Judging from their clothes, they should be the emperor and the empress.
The key point was that there were several long and thick steel needles stuck in the bodies of the two small cloth figures.
Her eyes were wide open and she couldn't make a sound, which made Frost realize that something was wrong.
Jiang Xinyue came in at this time: "Is it done? This queen..."
Shuangjiang threw down the quilt in her hand, and took the box while Nanny Li and Nanny Xiang were still outside the door, and stuffed it into Jiang Xinyue's hand: "Your Majesty, Wu Gu..."
Jiang Xinyue looked down, and immediately tightened her fingers. When Nanny Li came in, she hid the box in her wide sleeves.
She yawned, and Shuangjiang and Xi Que quickly made the bed: "Your Majesty must be very sleepy, and there is no need to talk about anything tonight. Your Majesty, go to bed!" Nanny
Li took Nanny Xiang to check again, and after confirming that there were no omissions, she bowed to Jiang Xinyue and left.
As soon as the two of them left, Jiang Xinyue put on her coat and sat on the bed, holding her belly: "Go to the clothing room and invite Fang Dianyi."
"Yes, my queen!"
This man used the witchcraft to frame her. If she is reported by the mastermind behind the scenes, even if she cries out for injustice, her life will be over.
During the time of the previous emperor, there was a concubine who, because she was jealous of the relationship between the empress dowager and the previous emperor, wrote the empress dowager's birth date on a villain and stabbed him with needles. This was discovered by a palace maid. The palace maid was afraid that she would be implicated after the incident, so she went to the previous emperor to report it.
The previous emperor did not investigate at all, but directly executed the concubine, and the concubine's family was also implicated because of this, and has not recovered until now.
Later, the late emperor even issued a decree, stating that he hated the witchcraft. From now on, if anyone was found to be doing such evil in the palace, no matter the reason, he would be executed.
By then, even if the emperor did not want to kill her, the courtiers and the people would force her to die.
Jiang Xinyue held the wooden box tightly. She regarded her life as precious. The person behind the scenes really touched her bottom line this time.
There are many people who want her life, but she is still alive and well now, and it is not just luck.
But this time she is really lucky.
Someone wanted to use a poisonous snake to kill her twice, but she accidentally discovered the conspiracy of another person who wanted her life.
Her eyes were shining. Since she survived the disaster, the one who harmed her would be in big trouble.
There are many people in the palace who want her dead. This is the price of being favored!
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty..."
"Who is making noise outside?"
In the Yikun Palace, the emperor and the empress were watching the New Year together. The fifth prince, who was almost one year old, was hiding in the arms of Empress Zhu and playing hide-and-seek with the emperor.
His eyes were so sleepy that he couldn't open them, but he was unwilling to go to sleep and insisted on watching the New Year with his father and mother.
The screams frightened him so much that his whole body shuddered. Empress Zhu patted his back and frowned unhappily: "You knew the emperor was here, but you still yelled like that. Where did you learn the rules?"
A young eunuch came in hurriedly and knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, Empress, it was the maids in Empress Liang's palace. They said... they said that an unknown female corpse appeared in Shun'an Palace. The eldest princess was frightened and cried and vomited. It was useless for the imperial physician to go, so we can only ask Your Majesty and Empress to go and take a look." "
Unknown female corpse?"
Emperor Xuanwu felt it was unlucky that such a thing happened on New Year's Day. He was very unhappy and asked, "Are the Mirror Department and the Imperial Household Department a bunch of rubbish?"
And the patrolling guards, didn't they find anything unusual?
Where are the palace maids in Shun'an Palace?
Are they all dead?
Empress Zhu handed the fifth prince to the wet nurse and asked in a low voice, "Where is Fenyun?"
"Fenyun seemed to have eaten something wrong at night and has a constant stomachache. Eunuch Wang brought the imperial physician here earlier. She should have taken medicine and gone to bed by now."
No wonder.
If it was Fenyun guarding the gate tonight, she wouldn't let the palace maids in Shun'an Palace come in.
Isn't it just a dead palace maid?
The lives of palace maids are worthless. There are tens of thousands of palace maids in the palace, and it is not uncommon for several to die in a day.
Can't you wait until the eighth day of the first lunar month to report?
Why do you have to offend the emperor now?