Shen Zhan's words fell, and two young maids and a palace maid stood up tremblingly, the youngest young maid had wet mud marks on his chest to his knees, and he didn't know where he fell hard, and the older palace maid was no better, her eyes were red and swollen and her face was pale, she didn't know how long she cried, and when she stood up, there were still tears seeping out of her eyes, and she kept wiping her sleeves, but she couldn't wipe them clean.

The other young waiter bit his mouth and helped one person, and the three of them limped to the center of the clearing, which was closer to Ah Ran's body, and looked at Song Mier tremblingly.

The bloodshot eyes of the palace maid looked at Song Mier with eyes full of horror, pain, pleading and hope, and Song Mier's heart was suffocated, and then a faint sense of sadness and powerlessness swelled up, as if she and this palace maid who had only met a few times in their own palace were left between heaven and earth, as well as the corpse of the young palace maid between them.

And as the master they saluted day and night, trusting and depending, he couldn't give her a positive explanation to the little palace maid Ah Ran, and he didn't even know what happened. When she was still in the palace, when her confidants were in this palace, when she was still drinking wine and singing with her friends, a palace maid who was about the same age as her little sister died not far from her happy courtyard, but she didn't know it, she couldn't find out the murderer who killed Ah Ran, and even if something happened, she had to tell the palace maid in front of her who was already on the verge of collapse to tell herself, I don't even dare to guarantee that I will be able to find out the murderer, after all, I have been passive since I entered the palace until now, and I am despised by most palace people, and I don't seem to have the slightest action and ability, and I can't even find out the matter of Rou Guiji's change of prescription, let alone this murder case.

The palace maid in front of her looked at herself with such trusting eyes, and she could only look at her blankly, couldn't she even protect the palace people in her palace?

Song Mier held his mind strongly, and used all his strength to give the palace maid a reassuring look, but he didn't dare to discern whether the tears in the palace maid's eyes still carried other expectations for her, "Xiping, don't be afraid, you say, what you and they see, you say it, we know what happened." ”

didn't even dare to have a word that promised it, but it made the eyes of the thin screen flash with a burst of light, and the queen's words seemed to give her a reassurance.

She took the two young attendants beside her and took another step forward, and together they saluted Shen Zhan, Song Mier and the others, took a deep breath, swallowed her saliva, and said: "Hui Yu Xià, the queen mother, the palace mother, this Ah Ran's corpse was found by the slave maid and Ah Yu and Ah Qiu." The slave's name is fine, is responsible for the palace people who are responsible for the sprinkling and cleaning of the back courtyard of the Biwu Palace, Ah Yu and Ah Qiu are the apprentices of the gardeners who are responsible for the flowers and trees in the courtyard, today the three of us are on duty, because the sun is good, we want to move some flowers and plants to the sun to dry, Ah Ran said early this morning that she would come to clean the rockery, and she did not come back at lunchtime, because Ah Ran is young and playful, and often does not know where to go to play, and we are not careful, so we left her a meal. In the afternoon, when the three of us moved the potted plants near the rockery, we saw that Ah Ran, she, her, she was lying in the rockery like that, and she had no ...... for lunch! ”

The thin screen cried again as she spoke, crying with a choked despair in her voice, which made people unbearable to listen to.

"The palace maid here can be taught well, and a sprinkled palace maid is clear and coherent in her words, and those who don't know think it's your big palace maid. It's hard for you, this dead little palace maid is just that, an ordinary sprinkler palace maid you also remember her name, heh! ”

Without waiting for Song Mier to ask anything, Liu Shuxing took the first step to open his mouth, saying that the palace maid taught well, but implied that the palace people may have confessed to each other, and the person who confessed to this pair is naturally also the queen, otherwise how can he even remember the name of a little palace maid clearly.

"Back to the words of the concubine," but it was the little young maid named Aqiu who spoke, "We palace people are taken care of by the queen mother, the queen mother is good-hearted, every two days, there are big palace maids and sisters around her, Sister Zhu Lu, and Sister Yulan They come to teach us to read and write, teach us to speak and do things, not only Sister Thin Screen, even the lowest young maid like me, can also write a few lines!" I don't have anyone to write my family letters now! Everyone, all the palace people in our palace are talking neatly! The queen mother said, what is better than collecting all the fish, in the future, no, we will walk in the palace, so that we will not be looked down upon, and we don't have to ask for help when writing family letters! ”

"That's called 'It's better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish'! What do you collect one fish and two fish", Ah Yu, the youngest on the side, added in a low voice.

"Oh, I'm stupid, I can't even remember those big sentences!" Aqiu scratched his head and said.

came and went, but it diluted the miserable and desperate atmosphere just now.

Song Mier glanced at Liu Shuxing, straightened his back a little more, and said lightly: "It's not just Ah Ran, it's the fine screen, there are ninety-three people in this palace, and I remember their names, ages, and what kind of difference they are in my palace." It's not as good as you, concubine, except for a few palace people close to you, you don't know anyone. ”

Seeing that he couldn't speak Song Mier, Liu Shuxing moved slightly, snorted coldly, and stopped talking.

Song Mier looked at Shen Zhan, and saw that he was also looking at himself, and when he saw himself looking, he nodded slightly at himself, pulled the corners of his mouth, and then turned his head to look at the ground in front of him.

It seems that Shen Zhan does not plan to try this case in person.

Song Mier thought secretly in his heart.

"Fine screen, when you found Ah Ran, was there anything wrong around you?"

Song Mier asked again.

"Something is wrong...... The slaves and maids were watching Ah Ran go at that time, and they didn't notice if there was anything wrong around them. ”

Xiping hesitated, replied to Song Mier's words, and frowned and thought carefully.

"Queen Mother, you still, wait for someone who can try it, besides, even if you can try the case, you have to avoid suspicion."

Liu Shuxing seized the opportunity, and always had to stab Song Mier a few words. Seeing that Song Mier asked a key question again, Liu Shuxing couldn't help but stab coldly again.

"I said Liu Shuxing, is your mouth so idle?" Yuan Wanyou really couldn't stand it, took Liu Shuxing's words, and looked at Shen Zhan's expression again, seeing that he heard Liu Shuxing stabbing Song Mier like that, there was no movement, and he couldn't help but pouted quietly.

In the silence, Lang Zhong of the Criminal Department came with a few servants and the imperial doctor Meng Xun.

The people of the Great Calendar Dynasty are civilized, and the harem concubines and officials of the previous dynasty are in the same room, as long as the two of them are not secretly teaching and receiving each other, they are all calmly treated, not to mention that there is the emperor himself sitting in the back courtyard of the Biwu Palace.

Seeing that the atmosphere in the courtyard was not right, the criminal department Lang Zhong didn't dare to say much, and respectfully saluted Shen Zhan and Song Mier, and after Shen Zhan's order, the criminal department Lang Zhong ordered the man to go and inspect the body of the palace maid.

The linen cloth covering Ah Ran was lifted again, and Ah Ran's thin body was completely exposed to the sun.

Most of the palace people present couldn't bear to look too far, and some of them were timid or kind-hearted, silently blessed Shen Zhan and the others and quietly retreated into the distance.

Wei Chi Yanran, who had not opened her mouth since entering the Biwu Palace, seemed to be unable to bear to see that the palace maid was dead and would be turned over, so she took a silk handkerchief and covered it in her palm and covered it at the lower end of her nose, revealing red circles under her eyes. Shen Zhan also took his hand and turned to face the courtyard door.

"Nam no Amitabha night Amitabha night, Amitabha night, Amitabha Dubhabi." Concubine Xian Lou Hengbo had already lowered her head, put her hands together and silently recited the mantra of the past, Yuan Wanyou looked at Song Mier worriedly, and only relieved when she saw that her face was calm.

Although they all know that the cause of death is unknown, it must be examined, but the little girl in front of her is still a young girl with a hanging bun, because she is a low-class palace maid, she has been working as a coolie all the year round, and her body looks much smaller than that of an eleven-year-old girl from a good family.

Liu Shuxing, who was still arrogant just now, didn't say a word, changed his normal state and looked at the corpse in silence.

"Look what that is?!" A sharp-eyed man pointed to Ah Ran's right hand and said.

Everyone looked intently and saw Ah Ran holding a thin strip of cloth in his right hand.

"Quick, open her hand and see!" The criminal department Lang Zhong said hurriedly.

Because Ah Ran's body was already stiff, several puppets lifted Ah Ran's arm up, and it took a lot of effort to break Ah Ran's fist.

"Wow! There's still a word on it! ”

When Ah Ran's fist was broken, the strip of cloth fell down, and before it landed, Liu Shuxing, who was standing on the side, had already snatched the strip of cloth in his hand, and the two servants who were about to pick up the strip of cloth hurriedly stood still and lowered their heads, Liu Shuxing glanced at the strip of cloth up and down, raised a smile, and looked at Song Mier meaningfully, and read out the words on the strip of cloth in a loud voice: "Queen...... Dressing change ......"

"What does this strip mean? Change the dressing, change the dressing, doesn't it mean that Rou Guiji's change of dressing is related to the queen? Liu Shuxing raised the strip of cloth in his hand, smiled at Song Mi'er, and handed the strip of cloth to Shen Zhan, "Your Majesty, look, the words on this strip of cloth are dark red, like a blood book." Mo not. This little palace maid bumped into the queen's change of dressing, the queen's mother, are you afraid that she will publicize it, be ruthless, and kill her? ”

"You talk nonsense!" Zhu Lu hurriedly said.

There was a lot of movement among the palace people on the side, and it was quiet again, Qinghe, Yulan, Chukong and a few others who grew up with Song Mier since childhood, they also didn't care about the etiquette of respect and humility, and looked at Liu Shuxing angrily at her.

"Concubine! You can eat things indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense! Yuan Wanyou was obviously angry, pulled Song Mier behind him, pointed at Liu Shuxing and shouted.

"Poof!" Liu Shuxing took a step back, avoided Yuan Wanyou's fingers, stood at Shen Zhan's side and held his hand and looked at the note in Shen Zhan's hand, "This is not something I made up nonsense, the note clearly reads, the queen, change the medicine, the queen, it is on this dead little palace maid again, you say, what else is there to say besides the queen killing people and killing people?" ”

"I didn't!" Song Mier stood up from behind Yuan Wanyou and faced Shen Zhan and Liu Shuxing, "I don't know why Ah Ran wrote like that, but I didn't kill Ah Ran, and I never changed the medicine for Rou Guiji!" ”

Again, again! Song Mier felt a sense of powerlessness all over his body. She didn't understand what was going on, why Ah Ran died, and why there was such a strip of cloth in Ah Ran's hand.

"Show me the strip of cloth!" Song Mier took a step forward and said to Shen Zhan.

Shen Zhan raised his head and handed the strip of cloth in his hand to Song Mier.

Glancing around at the situation, and then at Song Mier's anxious look, Shen Zhan slowly raised his hand, took a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from the tip of Song Mier's nose.

"Don't worry." Shen Zhan comforted Song Mier in a low voice.

"The queen is cautious and virtuous, this matter will not be done by the queen." Shen Zhan said loudly to everyone. "Wen Lingyi, teach people to check well and see if there are any other clues", Shen Zhan said solemnly at Lang Zhong of the Criminal Department. He turned his head to look at Liu Shuxing again, "Shuxing, you should also calm down." ”

Liu Shuxing blinked slightly, leaned lightly on Shen Zhan's arm, raised his chin and looked at Song Mi'er.

"Mother, let the slave and maid see the strip of cloth." Yu Lan, who was not far away, walked around to Song Mi'er and Yuan Wanyou's side from behind, bowed her head and blessed the two, looking anxious, "Ah Ran is young, she doesn't know many words, and on weekdays, slaves and maids are teaching her to read and read," Yu Lan took the strip of cloth with both hands, and explained while looking down to look at the words on the strip, the speed of her speech became slower and slower, and her voice became lower and lower, only to see her carefully consider the strip of cloth several times, before taking a deep breath and saying firmly: "Niangniang, this word must not have been written by Ah Ran!" ”

Fu turned to Shen Zhanfu again, "Your Majesty, the handwriting on this cloth strip is definitely not that of this dead palace maid." ”

"If you say no, it's not, you are the big palace maid next to the queen, of course you help your master speak." Liu Shuxing interjected without waiting for Yu Lan to continue.

"Shuxing!" Shen Zhan's voice was fierce, and he roared low at Liu Shuxing, "You," he raised his chin slightly towards Yu Lan again, "Why do you say that this is not the handwriting of this little palace maid?" ”

"Avoidance, Ah Ran's handwriting is taught by the slave maid, and the handwriting is fifty percent similar to the slave's, because Ah Ran is young and unstable, the words written often like to be upturned, for this reason, the slave maid also hit her palm a few times." Yu Lan's voice did not stop, and her eyes were already red, "The writing on this strip of cloth is powerful, the strokes are smooth, and the pen is soothing and downward, it is definitely not written by a person like Ah Ran who has only been practicing for a few months." "Meng Xun, come and see", Shen Zhan nodded, and called Meng Xun, who was standing next to the body of the palace maid and was looking at Meng Xun for inspection.

Meng Xun strode up, nodded at Yulan, and took the strip of cloth from her hand, "My lord, this is a sachet that the slave maid embroiders every day to practice her hands, and the words on it are all written by the slave maid herself, and it should be much different from the words of the slave and maid herself." Handing over the strip of cloth, Yu Lan pondered for a moment and took out a cloth bag the size of a man's palm from his sleeve and handed it to Meng Xun.

Meng Xun also took it with one hand, and carefully compared it with the strip of cloth in the other hand.

"Your Majesty, the ministers have come to a conclusion."

The voice of Lang Zhong of the Criminal Department suddenly sounded in the courtyard.