Chapter 31: Doubts
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Several ponds in the Imperial Garden have bottomed out, and the dried silt at the bottom of the pond has cracked into pieces. Some palace people are lazy and cross directly from above, saving a lot of roads.
On this day, I don't know which palace maid went to the big pond on the north palace wall, because this pond is the deepest, and there are still two large silt ponds on the tabletop in the middle, which are bubbling from time to time, and they will fall into it if they are not careful.
The little palace maid carefully avoided the edge of the silt and ran quickly forward. I stumbled under my feet, fell, and the wooden plate in my hand flew out of the distance, and a cup gurgled and rolled all the way to the middle of the pool, bubbled a few times, and disappeared.
The little palace maid turned white in fright, hurriedly pulled out her right foot that was stuck in the crack, didn't care about the pain, limped to the side of the sludge, and picked a dead branch to fish, but the cup was slippery, and she couldn't catch it several times. Look around, ruthlessly, roll up your sleeves, and stretch out a hand to touch the mud that is bubbling with sewage.
Probed, touched, grabbed, and slipped away. He simply rolled up his sleeves, reached in with both hands, and when he was happy, he lifted it up, and a cup was already in his hand.
hurriedly wiped the sludge, but was stunned, a celadon cup. That's not right! It's obviously a white porcelain cup. It was the lady's favorite thing, a set of sweet white porcelain cups. Now she has lost one, and she can't go back......
She reached in with her hands again, ignoring the mud on the sleeves and plackets of her robe. No, I touched it again, I touched it, I fished it, it seemed to be stuck by something. With both hands, he lifted it up, and with a bang, he brought up a large mass of things, and when he looked at it, he was so frightened that his soul flew away, and it took a long time to burst out with a sharp scream.
When the people in the nearby palace heard the sound, they were also frightened: there was a human hand in the mud, which was so rotten that it was not good, and only the white bones remained.
Soon, a steward eunuch came and reported to the queen that the body had been fished out and moved to a dry pond.
The corpse was only a skeleton, and it was a female corpse. Judging from the silver bracelet on her hand, she should be a palace maid. There were only a few pieces of fabric left in the clothes, and they were already rotten.
Because it was really difficult to recognize, the queen called for quick convergence and was transported out of the palace and buried.
The onlookers were all whispering guessing that it might be that the palace maid of the previous palace accidentally fell into the water, sighed for a while, and dispersed!
No one noticed that a palace maid in Tsing Yi hiding behind the crowd was trembling, and two lines of tears kept flowing.
She quietly turned to leave, avoiding crowded places, walking one foot deeper, one foot shallow, and her head was booming: Su Xin! It's plain heart! She recognized the bracelet! And that celadon cup. It's also plain. However, didn't she go out of the palace to get married? What's going on?
Suspiciously returning to the palace, a little palace maid saw her coming back and stepped forward: "Aunt Ying, the Queen Mother just looked for you!" She was furious and hurried inside.
Xinyan sat in the room and listened to the little palace maids Ting'er, An Qin and Huancui discussing the female corpse in the imperial garden outside, and couldn't help but get goosebumps on her body. She went to Fu Fangfei's in the afternoon, and only when she came back did she hear about it.
Seeing that Ting'er said with a nose and eyes, she couldn't help but walk out and interjected: "You saw it with your own eyes?" It's weirdly scary. ”
Ting'er's eyes widened, and she swore a curse: "Really, master!" It was Yuan Fang who found out, and Yuan Fang was so scared that she couldn't speak! The little palace maid on the side, Wang'er, also nodded.
Yuan Fang is a third-class little palace maid in the palace of the concubine, and it was she who found the female corpse under the lotus pond that day.
This Ting'er, the new little palace maid this time, has a tuangang face and is petite. She has a characteristic, she especially likes to inquire about all kinds of gossip, and Anqin calls her "Bao Dating" (Bao Inquire) behind their backs.
At this moment, she was afraid that Xinyan would not believe it, so she added mysteriously: "I heard that it may be Aunt Suxin of Huaxi Palace!" ”
An Qin was startled, glanced at Xinyan, and hurriedly scolded: "Die!" Anything to say in front of the master! ”
Xinyan was also startled, raised her hand to stop An Qin, and stared at Ting'er: "Where did you hear this?" ”
Ting'er secretly glanced at Wang'er on the side, Xinyan also looked over, and Wang'er lowered her head in fright. Ting'er bit her lip and snorted, Huancui was anxious and glared at her, "Say it quickly!" ”
Ting'er whispered: "The slave maid also listened to Sister Lingjue, saying that someone said that the bracelet seems to be Aunt Suxin's." ”
Xinyan was puzzled and looked at An Qin, who explained: "Su Xin was a first-class palace maid by Empress Dowager Chen's side back then, and no one recognized her as an old man back then. ”
said, and said to Ting'er: "Be a good errand, don't listen to the wind and rain, be careful of getting into trouble!" ”
Ting'er was so frightened that she shrank her neck, didn't dare to say more, and ran out in a hurry.
An Qin motioned for Ting'er and them to step back! Only then did he say to Xinyan: "I heard that Su Xin was released from the palace to marry someone earlier, how could he ......?"
Xinyan was taken aback and looked up at An Qin: "Really? ”
An Qin nodded affirmatively and said, "Slave and maid for sure!" At that time, the slave maid had just entered the palace for less than a year, and listened to the aunts and aunts in charge. ”
As he spoke, he lowered his head slightly, and recalled: "The aunts said that as long as they are willing to be good on errands and serve their masters loyally, they will have a good future." Speaking of this, he looked up at Xinyan, saw her eyes shining and staring at herself, and continued: "Aunts often say that Aunt Centennia is the aunt who is the housekeeper in the queen's palace...... When the age is up, I let it out, and the queen also prepared a dowry, which is very decent! ”
Huancui listened and interjected: "That iron must not be a plain heart." ”
An Qin glanced at Huancui and said, "The slave also feels that it is not." It must be that the man who chewed the root of his tongue and rotted like that, who could recognize it? After a pause, he said: "The bell has never seen Su Xin, and he entered the palace a year later than the slave maid, and I don't know where I heard about it, so it spread randomly." ”
Xinyan was silent for a while, waved her hand, and said to An Qin and Huancui, "Okay! Go out first. Tell a few of them, keep their mouths shut, and let them just pass on their own, and we only have our ears and eyes. ”
The two of them said yes and didn't mention it.
Xinyan leaned on the edge of the table with one hand, but her mind was full of suspicions: a female corpse was found in the pool of the imperial garden. Those ponds had not been dry for decades, and if it weren't for this great drought, no one would have imagined that there were dead people down there.
Suddenly, I thought that someone had caught a lot of fish in that pond last time, and the big guy had eaten fish for several days, and he had drunk a lot of soup, and Xiao Quanzi also praised the freshness of the fish soup and the fat ...... of the fish."
Thinking of this, his face turned pale, his stomach churned, and he hurriedly ran to the gong bucket, and he didn't vomit for a long time, but he was even more disgusting.
Outside, Huancui heard the sound and came in, hurriedly poured tea for her to rinse her mouth, helped her to sit down on the couch, and worriedly: "But you have eaten something bad?" Why don't you ask Xiaoquanzi to give Zhaoyuan Niangniang, and go to the hospital to ask for ......"
Xinyan gasped and waved her hand: "It's okay, I'll just rest!" ”
Huancui was still careful: "Why is this face so white?" Or, ask An Qin to stew a bowl of fish soup, this thing can be replenished......"
Before she finished speaking, she saw Xinyan cover her mouth and run into the room, and after a look, Xinyan was lying there, vomiting so much that tears came out.