The most important thing in the palace is often gossip, and the fastest way to know the ins and outs of a matter is to listen to the discussions of the palace people, although it may not be accurate, but you can still know the general situation of the matter. An Su and Zili had no way to enter the hall, so they could only stand by the palace wall outside the door and listen to the words of the two little palace maids who were waiting in the Zengcheng Palace.

"You said that our mother was fine yesterday morning, why did she suddenly die in childbirth?"

"Yes, the imperial doctor has always said that everything is fine with our mother's fetus, and my mother is also carefully raised, so it stands to reason that even if it is born prematurely, it will not hurt her life, right?"

"Who knows! However, the night before yesterday, I saw a girl in Mrs. Emei's palace who came to give spices to the mother, saying that it could calm the nerves and be good for the fetus. Our mother also liked the taste, so I ordered it that night, but something happened the next day. You say, could it be that Mrs. Emei hurt our mother? ”

"Don't talk nonsense! If others hear that you slander your master, you will be dragged out and beaten to death. ”

The little palace maid seemed to be frightened, and quickly shut up tremblingly, and said nothing more. An Su and Zili couldn't hear anything else, so they looked in vigorously, thinking that they would at least take one last look at Hu Bazi.

The people in the temple were busy coming in and out, but they didn't have time to pay attention to them. There is the emperor here, and the palace people only dare to wait outside, no one dares to go inside, and no one dares to leave.

In this busy temple of Zengcheng, there was a person who walked out with his head down, but he caught An Su's attention. It was a middle-aged woman, with a trace of gray hair on her head, she was different from other palace people, she seemed to care about the eyes of others, and her eyes kept dodging. An Su felt that there was something wrong with this person, and patted Zili's hand and motioned for her to look at the woman as well.

"Maternity Zhao, I'm looking for you!" A palace maid suddenly rushed to the middle-aged woman, and she was so frightened that she was shocked, and only after seeing the person in front of her clearly did she calm down a little.

"Girl, when will the mother arrange for the old body to leave the palace?" Mrs. Zhao poked her hands nervously.

"What's the hurry! After the matter is done, you naturally have to go and talk back to the mother first, and then arrange where you will go in the future. The palace maid reprimanded her in a low voice, and then gave her a look, signaling her to hurry up.

Zili's eyes followed Mrs. Zhao closely, and only after they had walked a distance did they suddenly make a decision.

"Ansu, we'll keep up too."

When Su Zili was still outside the palace, he often ran south and north with his brother, and he was also familiar with tracking people, and Ansu was far from being able to reach him. Therefore, Zili followed closely, and Ansu trotted towards Zili's back. Bypassing several palace walls, it seems that she has arrived in Yongxiang, An Su has no time to take a closer look at the layers of palaces, she has to keep an eye on Su Zili's back, otherwise she will be lost.

After a long while, An Su finally came to Zili's back out of breath, she had stopped, and was leaning against the palace wall to peek into an old palace.

"What about people?" Ansu patted her on the shoulder.

"Shh~" Zili hurriedly turned around, made a silent gesture to her, and then pointed to the inside of the palace, signaling her to look inside.

Seeing that the palace maid and Mrs. Zhao were inside, there was also a tall eunuch at this time, and the three of them talked in a low voice, but the content was not clear.

It was overgrown with weeds and desolate, and even some white bones could be seen. An Su looked up at the plaque, it was already covered with cobwebs, and the dust was even denser, and if he looked closely, he could vaguely recognize the words "Shenshui Pavilion". An Su once heard Mama Qin mention by chance that Shenshui Pavilion and Agarwood Courtyard are the two cold palaces in the harem.

But the difference is that most of the people in the agarwood courtyard are concubines and concubines who are not guilty of death, they are crazy, stupid, they can continue to live, and there are guards guarding the gate of the courtyard, and the door is closed on weekdays, except for the time of eating, they will not see the living again.

Shenshui Pavilion is the opposite, all the people sent here are some extremely vicious people who have been severely punished, most of them are already dying, and they have come here to wait for death. The door is open, there are no guards, and no one will bring food. The people who are thrown here can only fend for themselves, and when the bones are scattered here at will after death, and when the stench smokes other palaces, someone will come to collect the burial, and no one will approach it on weekdays.

This palace maid brought Mrs. Zhao here, and it was obvious that there was nothing good about it. Mrs. Zhao seemed to have noticed this, with an irrepressible panic in her eyes, and her legs couldn't stop trembling.

"Girl, let's, aren't we going to see Liu Ji Niangniang? Why, how did you get here? ”

"You can't see Liu Ji Niangniang, if you cooperate obediently, we can give you a good time."

"Girl, you, you can't be like this, Liu Ji Niangniang promised that as long as I do what I am told, I will buy a big house outside for the elderly." Mrs. Zhao looked at the rope that the eunuch had touched out of her sleeve and stepped back in fear.

"Pension is free, wouldn't it be nice to send you away directly." The palace maid glanced at the eunuch, "Let's do it!" ”

An Su gasped in shock, and quickly reached out to cover his mouth, so as not to cry out uncontrollably. Although I vaguely guessed what they would do, I still felt a strong shock in my heart when it happened in front of my eyes. Su Zili next to him was a little calmer, but his expression also changed slightly.

The Zhao midwife struggled a few times, and her feet made two traces of dirt in the weeds, and slowly stopped moving. The eunuch's eyes were indifferent, and his movements were also very skillful, and it was not the first time he had done such an errand. After dealing with Zhao's midwife, the palace maid tried her snort to confirm that she was out of breath, and then walked out with the eunuch.

An Su and Zili hurriedly hid on the other side of the palace wall, desperately holding their breath, and didn't dare to take a breath. Fortunately, they left in the opposite direction and would not pass by them. After waiting for a while, their footsteps were completely inaudible, and the two of them walked out of the palace wall and went to Mrs. Zhao's side.

"Hey, wake up, are you still alive?" Su Zili pounced on it and shook the body of Zhao's wife. The strangulation marks on her neck were very conspicuous, and her face was also the color of pig liver, but the quilt shook a few times, and she really coughed a few times and slowly opened her eyes.

"Ahh

An Su hurriedly covered her mouth: "They thought you were dead, but now you are gone, if you shout and call them back, you really want to die again." ”

After hearing this, Mrs. Zhao gradually quieted down, and was stunned for a moment before looking at the two of them a few times: "Then you, who are you?" ”

Zili didn't beat around the bush with her: "We want to know how Hu Bazi died, you are the midwife who stayed in the Zengcheng Hall last night, you must know the truth of the matter." ”

"No, no, no, I don't know anything, it's none of mine." Mrs. Zhao waved her hand again and again, "I just want to go out of the palace to take care of the elderly, please let me go!" ”

"We could have spared you, but what about those people just now? Those who instructed you to harm Hu Bazi, will they let you go? Ansu said.

Seeing that Mrs. Zhao began to hesitate, Zili said step by step: "You tell us what you know, there is no fourth person here, we don't know it." If you are really victimized by those who instruct you, you will not let the truth sink into the sea, and maybe one day we will be able to avenge you. ”

"No, no, no, I just want to get out of the palace, I can't offend Liu Ji Niangniang anymore." Mrs. Zhao still waved her hand again and again.

"Liu Ji Niangniang? The Liu Ji Niangniang you are talking about is the lady of the Phi Xiang Palace? Ansu grasped the point of her words.

Mrs. Zhao realized that she had missed her mouth, and quickly shook her head and denied it: "No, no, I don't know what Mrs. Emei is, don't ask me." ”

"If you don't say anything about the opportunity I gave you before, I won't be polite to you. Tell me the truth about Hu Bazi's death, or else this dagger will stick in your chest. An Su was a little surprised, Zili actually took out a dagger from his body, grabbed Zhao and put it on her back.

"Don't, don't, don't kill me, I, I say, I'll tell you."

Seeing the dagger, Mrs. Zhao finally compromised, and in Zili's threatening gaze, she told everything she knew.

"I was originally an ordinary midwife outside the palace, and it was Mrs. Emei who sent someone to find me a month ago. I am related to a palace daughter of the Phi Xiang Palace, and she came to me and said that there was an errand waiting for me who could make a lot of money at once. I thought it was just for the Mother's Day in the palace, thinking that there have been a lot of children delivered over the years, and there are so many doctors in the palace, it should be no problem, so I entered the palace with a fever. Mrs. Zhao wiped her tears as she spoke, "I was really fascinated by ghosts, I knew that this was the result, so I didn't come to this trip to the troubled waters!" ”

"Don't nag, get to the point!" Zili hit her with a dagger, and Mrs. Zhao was immediately frightened.

"Yes, yes, I said." She wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, "When I arrived at the palace, I was led to see Mrs. Emei, she said that a Hu Bazi was about to give birth, and asked me to deliver her." If you give birth to a girl, you don't have to do anything, but if you give birth to a boy, you have to ......."

"What's all it takes?" An Su suddenly felt an ominous premonition rise in his heart.

Mrs. Zhao gritted her teeth: "I have to cover the little prince to death on the spot, and claim that he gave birth to a stillborn child." ”

"So was it a boy or a girl?" Zili's voice trembled a little.

"Yes...... It's a boy. ”

An Su raised his eyes and looked at Su Zili stupidly: "I just heard that Hu Bazi was over there and the adults and children couldn't keep it." ”

"You killed Sister Weak Water's son?" Zili gritted his teeth and stabbed the dagger forward. An Su looked at her like this, and knew that she still had a deep affection for Hu Bazi, who had mistakenly thought that she had a grudge against killing her brother, but now that the misunderstanding was solved, she also regarded Hu Bazi as her sister.