Chapter 376: Fire in the Household Department

After the palace banquet was over, the emperor specially asked Jiang Yankun and his wife to stay. They went into the inner hall of the Hall of Supreme Harmony to see the prince. After confirming that the prince was fine, he sent

someone to escort them out of the palace. After countless acupuncture and medicinal compresses, the redness and swelling on the boy's face subsided a little, but it was still not fully recovered. The skin on his face was covered with small rashes, densely packed, and looked very creepy .

He was still humming in his sleep, rubbing here and there, and unconsciously wanted to scratch the itch.

Jiang Xinyue knew that there were many bacteria hidden in people's nails. If the skin was scratched, it would probably cause some inflammation and cause the wound to fester.

It would be bad to leave scars in the future.

She grabbed the boy's hand and hummed softly in his ear to coax him to sleep.

The emperor and Jiang Xinyue took turns watching the prince all night, fearing that the prince would have some relapse.

When it was dawn, the emperor had to go to the morning court, and he hurried to the Golden Throne Hall without even closing his eyes.

When he left, his eyes were full of red bloodshot.

Jiang Xinyue told Xi Que and Shuang Jiang to watch over him well, and she leaned against the bedpost and closed her eyes to rest for a while.

After she rested and her mind was clear, the rash on the prince's body had almost subsided.

The little guy was tortured all night and was very listless. He stared at Jiang Xinyue with a pair of dark eyes without blinking, and then showed a weak smile: "Mother... Concubine..."

He knew how to call mother, but his tongue still felt a little awkward, and his childish voice melted people's hearts.

But apart from this sentence, he could not say anything else.

Jiang Xinyue kissed the prince's little face, smiled at him, and asked Xi Que to bring the warm codfish porridge: "Are you hungry, little dumpling? Can your mother feed you some porridge?" When the prince

heard the word "porridge", his eyes lit up and he immediately sat up from the bed.

Xi Que brought the codfish porridge to Jiang Xinyue, holding the little prince and sitting on the bed. Jiang Xinyue scooped a spoonful of porridge and blew on it, and a smell of cooking oil mixed with the aroma of codfish went straight into his nose.

She took the porridge farther away and looked at it, then put it under her nose and sniffed it: "Xiao Xiangzi, go to Hexi Palace and bring the prince's auxiliary cooking oil from the small kitchen to Doctor Yan for a look. This palace smells... why does it smell like peanut oil?"

Peanuts and walnuts are both nuts, and the smell of the oil squeezed from them is very similar. If you don't smell it carefully, it is difficult to distinguish.

But the food that the little dumplings eat in Hexi Palace is managed and arranged by a dedicated person in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and is strictly implemented according to Jiang Xinyue's standards, so it is impossible to mix it up.

There was silence in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. The prince was sick, and no one dared to make a noise to upset the Empress.

Xiao Xiangzi was gone for about a quarter of an hour, and then returned to the Hall of Supreme Harmony with a small jar. Doctor Yan quickly took it, scooped a spoonful with a small spoon, and then dipped a little with his little finger to taste it.

All eyes were on Doctor Yan, who covered his mouth with a handkerchief and spat out the oil: "Empress, this is peanut oil! The walnut oil of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been replaced."

Jiang Xinyue had guessed it long ago, and slammed the bowl of cod porridge on the table: "Let the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs come to see me and bring all the stored walnut oil."

"Wow, wow, wow..." The Crown

Prince, who had not eaten the delicious fish porridge for a long time, burst into tears. Jiang Xinyue asked Xi Que and Shuang Jiang to take him to Nanny Lu: "Since the nurse is fine, let her feed the Crown Prince first, and don't make complementary food for the Crown Prince in the next few days."

She wanted to find out whether it was only this jar of oil that had problems, or all the oils.

If only the jar of oil in Hexi Palace had problems, then she would have to start from her own palace to find out if there was a ghost.

If all the oils are problematic, then someone in the Imperial Household Department has been bribed to harm the prince.

Jiang Xinyue actually believes that there is a problem in the Imperial Household Department.

Hexi Palace has been cleaned up from top to bottom. From Xi Que, Shuangjiang, Xiao Xiangzi, Jiangchuan to Xiang Ma and Lu Nanny, they are all her confidants and would never betray her.

The people below are also carefully selected and cultivated by them to be loyal to Hexi Palace.

It can be said that her place is like a copper wall and an iron wall, and no one can pry it open.

The Imperial Household Department...

"Bang!"

"Aiya!"

"Xiao Shunzi, what's wrong with you?"

"Hoo!"

"Ah! It's on fire... It's on fire, put it out!"

As soon as Xiao Xiangzi reached the door of the Imperial Household Department, he saw thick black smoke coming out and a large number of eunuchs rushing out, shouting to put out the fire.

He immediately realized that someone was "destroying the body and the traces". If nothing unexpected happened, it must be the batch of walnut oil that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had burned.

He pushed aside the eunuchs who were blocking the way and rushed in quickly. No matter what, he had to grab a few more cans of oil.

In the chaotic crowd, a pair of sinister eyes stared at his back as he rushed in: "You're looking for death!"

The emperor had not yet left the court, the sky was still a little gloomy, and it was not yet completely bright. Many people were still asleep and were awakened one after another by the noise from the Imperial Household Department.

When Xiao Xiangzi rushed into the fire scene, there was no one inside. Everyone rushed out to fetch water to put out the fire.

It turned out to be the warehouse!

The arsonist was really brave. In order to cover up the truth, he actually burned the most important warehouse of the Imperial Household Department.

Fortunately, this side was just a place to store grain and oil. If it was next to the residences of the people, who knows how many people would die when the wind blew.

He covered his mouth and nose and quickly searched in the place where the fire had not yet spread.

In the blazing fire, Xiao Xiangzi saw a young eunuch in a light blue eunuch's uniform, who had been burnt beyond recognition and fell in a pile of gray-black charcoal.

He suppressed his disgust and fear, and went over to push the wood away with his sleeve. Under the wood was the prince's walnut oil.

Sure enough... Sure enough...

the arsonist wanted to burn all the walnut oil.

With Xiao Xiangzi here, forget it!

He stretched out his hand and tried to take the walnut oil out from the gap in the wood, but the wood got stuck on his shoulder, and he was always a little short, so he squeezed forward even harder.

He didn't notice at all that there was a dark shadow approaching him from behind.

The shadow held a thick wooden stick in his hand and raised it high.

"Bang!"

Xiao Xiangzi's body collapsed into the sea of ​​fire, and the crackling sparks were about to burn him.

When it was a little light, the emperor came out of the morning court. It was still early today. The main reason was that the ministers saw his flaming eyes and swallowed back the things they wanted to report.

Forget it, forget it, if there is anything, we can talk about it tomorrow!

There is no rush today.

More haste makes waste!

"The Household Department is on fire?"

The emperor stopped and asked, "Why did it catch fire?"

"I heard that a young eunuch's clothes caught fire for some reason, and knocked over the oil drum in the warehouse. The fire suddenly started and the young eunuch was burned to death."

How could it be such a coincidence?

He just wanted to send someone to investigate the Imperial Household Department, and then someone died and a fire broke out in the Imperial Household Department?