Chapter 316 The Corpse of a Woman in the Lotus Pond

"Did Empress De steal vegetables?"

Concubine Jiang spurted out a mouthful of hot tea and said displeasedly, "It's possible. After all , the dishes in the Imperial Concubine's palace are delicious."

No matter how delicious they are, Concubine De, one of the four concubines, can't be so despicable as to sneak through a dog hole to steal vegetables!

Concubine Ye was sitting below Concubine Jiang and had tea spit on her face. When the palace maid wiped her face with a handkerchief, the little eunuch came in with an embarrassed look on his face, "Master, Concubine Liu and Concubine Cheng are here again."

"Tsk!"

Concubine Jiang touched her forehead impatiently, "Is it never going to end? All the lotus flowers in my Xihe Palace are gone. How can they be so shameless to come and pick them?"

How is this different from Concubine De sneaking through a dog hole to steal vegetables?

The same shamelessness.

At least there are fruits and vegetables to steal in the Royal Concubine's palace. The lotus here will wither at the end of August, and the lotus flowers have been picked by the palace servants. Why are these two people still harassing her under the pretext of picking lotus flowers?

"My Royal Concubine, they may be coming for me."

Originally, Noble Lady Ye was the lowest in status among the three. When Concubine Cheng and Noble Lady Liu were competing with each other, Noble Lady Ye was always the punching bag. Now Noble Lady Ye suddenly climbed up to the high branch of the Royal Concubine. The people in the palace changed their attitude according to the situation, and Noble Lady Ye was not someone they could bully.

So these two formed an alliance again, just like before in Chuxiu Palace.

Lady Ye, who has been living with the Imperial Concubine in the palace for several months, now sees the alliance between Concubine Cheng and Lady Liu as a child playing house.

What good sisters?

They wish the other person dead at the slightest sign of trouble.

Lady Ye doesn't dare to have such sisterhood.

Usually they insist on coming to enjoy the lotus, and Concubine Jiang is too lazy to care about them, but today she invited the Imperial Concubine and the remaining concubines to play Ye Zi mahjong together.

As for why they didn't play cards, it was of course because the Imperial Concubine was killing all over the place, and the three of them couldn't stand it, so they strongly requested to play Ye Zi mahjong.

September in the capital is not as cool as July in Chenzhou. Jiang Xinyue sat on the sedan chair, and Xi Que was still fanning her from the bottom.

After a trip to Chenzhou, she still couldn't adapt to the climate and couldn't stand the heat.

No wonder several fortune-tellers said she was destined to be a young lady.

Now she has become a "coquettish" young lady, right?

"Wow!"

"Ah——"

When walking across the long wooden bridge, suddenly a large basin of water splashed out from behind the lotus leaves, and Xi Que, Shuangjiang and Xiao Xiangzi were all affected.

The eunuch carrying the sedan chair was splashed by the water in the pond and his body swayed, and he almost let go.

"Hold it for me, don't let go!"

Jiang Xinyue was splashed on the face and body, but she didn't care about the dirty water on her body. She shouted loudly and grabbed the handrail of the sedan chair with her swaying body to avoid falling into the pond.

The eunuch who was carrying the sedan chair and was splashed with water was frightened by the angry shout of the imperial concubine and stood up straight. He held the sedan chair tightly with both hands, which saved Jiang Xinyue from falling into the lake.

"Who is hiding there secretly?"

Xi Que rolled up her sleeves, wiped the dirty water off her face, and pointed at the shaking lotus leaves: "If you don't come out, I will find two sticks to beat you to death."

After a while, two large wooden basins floated out from behind the lotus leaves. Liu Guiren smiled and said: "Please forgive me, Your Majesty, I was playing with Cheng Jieyu just now. I didn't know you were passing by the bridge. We didn't mean it."

Cheng Jieyu glanced at her. This idiot has learned to be smart. It was clearly she who saw Jiang Xinyue's sedan chair and splashed water on it, and she knew to pull her into the water.

Looking at the cold eyes of the superiors, Cheng Jieyu didn't dare to say anything. Her butt was still aching!

"Ahhhhh..."

Suddenly, Shuangjiang seemed to have seen something terrible, pointing at the front of the wooden basin and screaming.

Jiang Xinyue leaned over to look over, and was also startled, taking a breath of cool air.

Cheng Jieyu also looked in the direction of Shuangjiang's finger, and what she saw scared her so much that she lost her voice, but her body had already stood up uncontrollably.

The little eunuch who was washing the wooden basin for Liu Guiren also screamed, and was so scared that he dropped the bamboo pulp. The water splashed in Liu Guiren's eyes, causing her to be unable to see clearly what it was.

"Dog slave, what are you doing?"

"My Lady Imperial Concubine, you..."

At this time, Jiang Guipin and Ye Guiren also walked out from inside and saw the weird scene.

When Lady Ye saw that the people on Jiang Xinyue's side were soaked, she immediately realized that Lady Liu was doing something stupid again, so when she saw that horrible thing, she screamed, "Lady Liu, why is there a dead body in front of you? It's all rotten, only bones are left, it's so scary!"

Three "were", not one extra.

Lady Liu rubbed her eyes, took a closer look, and was scared to death. She screamed and tried to pull Concubine Cheng away.

But Concubine Cheng's eunuch was already beating and rushing out. Lady Liu grabbed Concubine Cheng's sleeve in a panic, but Concubine Cheng threw her hard, and she and her little eunuch, both of them, fell into the pond with the basin.

"Gu...ah...help...I can't...gugu..."

What scared Lady Liu the most was not that she couldn't swim, but that she happened to fall on the skeleton. There was still rotten flesh on the skeleton's arms, and when she struggled, it was folded at an angle and held her tightly.

And when she turned around to break free, she saw half of the skeleton's rotten face, one of which had no eyeballs, only black holes left, and a maggot crawled out of the eye socket. She was so scared that she closed her eyes and fainted.

Cheng Jieyu's hands and feet were weak. She finally climbed to the shore and pointed at Concubine Jiang and shouted, "Murder! Murder! Concubine Jiang killed someone!"

Jiang Xinyue had already gotten off the sedan chair and gave Cheng Jieyu a warning look with her fierce eyes. Cheng Jieyu, who was already frightened, pinched her throat and forced herself not to make any more sounds.

"Don't worry about her."

Jiang Xinyue grabbed Concubine Jiang and pointed at Concubine Liu who had already sunk into the water: "Save her first."

Xiao Xiangzi had already taken a bamboo pole and picked up the corpse, and said to the eunuch in the water: "Save Concubine Liu."

The corpse was fished out of a mud pool, and it still had a foul smell. Jiang Xinyue stepped back and covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief.

"Why are you all standing at the door? Do you welcome me so much?"

Yupin twisted her waist, stumbled, and fell to the ground with a thud.

"Who is it? Why are you lying... Ah ah ah ah ah ah... Ghost!"

It was impossible to play leaf cards. Two of the five concubines fainted. The most critical thing was that Yupin also fainted, and her feet were almost fainted.

The officials of the Suspension Mirror Department were in a hurry. They heard that an old female corpse was found outside the Xihe Hall, which scared two ladies. Now all the concubines in the palace and the emperor had gone to the scene, so they had to find out something before they could report back.