Xiao Shujun smiled dotingly when he heard this.

But the originally lively and warm banquet, don't be in a hurry to break the father-in-law: "Your Majesty, the mother's big thing is not good." ”

At that time, Xiao Shujun ordered all singing, dancing and music to stop; "Say, what's going on?"

The father-in-law hurriedly said; "Back to Your Majesty, Taihua Lake has just been killed, and Xu Yu and her maids have been drowned!"

"What?" Hearing this, Qin Kexin stood up in surprise first.

The underground minister has already exploded, "It's only been a few months since I entered the palace, why did I die!" ”

"yes, that's pretty bad."

Fear was written on the faces of the other concubines. I don't know why Xu promised to die tragically, so everyone is in danger.

"Let's go, let's go and see." Xiao Shujun walked in front, followed by Qin Kexin and the concubines who typed a little bigger.

When he arrived at Taihuachi, he saw from a distance that the bodies of Xu Gong and her maidservant were salvaged and placed by the lake, except for Qin Kexin, everyone was discouraged. Even Qin Kexin approached cautiously. Xiao Shujun advised Qin Kexin not to approach. But Qin Kexin wanted to see what was going on.

"Is there a result of the autopsy?" Xiao Shujun first asked about the work before and after.

The servant didn't dare to slack off, and hurried forward; "Back to Your Majesty, the lower officials have checked it, and it is indeed drowning and suffocating. I have also checked the environment by this lake, and it is indeed easy to fall into the water. ”

After listening to this, Xiao Shujun and Qin Kexin were basically sure that the two of them drowned.

But at this moment, Qing'er, who was sent by Qin Kexin to supervise the movements of the concubines, rushed over and whispered in Qin Kexin's ear: "Niangniang, when a palace maid passed by here just now, I saw Xu Promise and Concubine Qing have appeared here together. ”

"What?" Qin Kexin was surprised, and then thought about it carefully, he really didn't see Xu Qingran's figure just now.

"Carry the body of Xu Xu down and bury it." Xiao Shujun ordered.

"Wait." When he felt that something was wrong, he hurriedly stopped it, and Xiao Shujun immediately asked his father-in-law who was about to carry Xu Gong's body away.

Seeing this, Qin Kexin hurriedly walked over and wanted to lift the white cloth covered with Xu Xu to find out.

"Queen......" Xiao Shujun was afraid that Xu agreed's tragic situation would scare Qin Kexin, and wanted to speak out to stop it.

But Qin Kexin smiled at Xiao Shujun and signaled that he was fine. He took a deep breath and dared to lift the white cloth. The tragic sight of Xu Promise really frightened Qin Kexin, but Qin Kexin's attention was immediately attracted by the palm prints and scratches on Xu Promise's face, "Your Majesty, look at it." ”

Xiao Shujun approached when he heard this, followed Qin Kexin's gaze and fell on Xu Promise's face, and also saw the obvious slap marks and scratches on Xu Promise's face.

"Xu promised to obviously have a conflict with the others before falling into the lake, so it is not necessarily that he fell into the water." Qin Kexin tried to sniff out the clues.

"Why didn't you find such an important scar? Why not? Xiao Shujun questioned what he had just done.

Seeing Xiao Shujun's face slightly angry, the servant quickly knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty forgives me, the minister thought that this was not a fatal injury, so he didn't report it." ”

Xiao Shujun sighed: "If they are all like you, how many resentful souls will there be?" ”

"The minister will be more meticulous and conscientious in the future, and I hope that Your Majesty will forgive your sins." The man hurriedly kowtowed and begged Xiao Shujun for mercy.

Seeing this, Qin Kexin stepped forward to speak for him: "Your Majesty, they may have made an unintentional mistake, so don't blame them." ”

Qin Kexin opened his mouth, not to mention that he didn't make any mistakes in principle, so Xiao Shujun didn't plan to investigate: "That's it, just pay more attention in the future." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Queen Xie's intercession." Seeing that he was fine, he was relieved.

"What does the Empress think of Xu Promise's death?" Xiao Shujun knew that this matter must be investigated, although Xu Yu's identity was not high, and Xiao Shujun had nothing to do with him, but she and the maidservant were two lives after all. So Xiao Shujun wanted to ask Qin Kexin's opinion first.

Qin Kexin also thought the same as Xiao Shujun: "After all, this is two lives, and it happened in the harem, of course the concubine can't be hastily done as a queen." ”

"Then it is up to Empress Lao to find out the truth, and if you encounter any obstacles, you must tell me." Xiao Shujun knew Qin Kexin and knew that she would definitely want to find out this case by herself, because she would definitely not be at ease if it was handed over to someone else.

This is Qin Kexin's sense of responsibility as a queen.

Xiao Shujun's opinion was right in Qin Kexin's arms, "Your Majesty, rest assured, the concubine will definitely find out the truth and return the harem to peace!" ”

Now the biggest suspicion is Xu Qingran, because someone has witnessed her appearing by the lake with Xu Xu, but in order not to startle the snake, Qin Kexin did not go directly to Xu Qingran to confront her, but secretly tried to investigate.

Qin Kexin was very anxious for a while, because the harem had already begun to panic.

"Have you heard, it is said that Xu promised not to fall into the water by himself, but to be pushed down."

"Yes, I also heard about it, I heard that the queen mother found that there were slap marks and scratches on the face of Xu Gong's corpse, and it was obvious that she had an argument with someone else before she was withdrawn from the water by that person. The queen has already begun to investigate the matter. ”

"Who the hell is so vicious that he actually retired Xu Yu with her maids, and he won't attack other concubines in the future!"

The palace ladies are discussing word by word.

And these words fell on Xu Qingran's ears not far away. Xu Qingran was so nervous that he bit his mouth at this time. originally thought that Xu Xu's death would be judged by falling into the water, but I didn't expect that it would be this Qin Kexin who had a lot of things.

"Mother." Qing'er saw that Xu Qingran was extremely nervous, and wanted to step forward to comfort her, who would have thought that Qing'er's call would scare Xu Qingran into a thrill, which shows how nervous and scared Xu Qingran was about this matter.

Seeing this, Qing'er hurriedly stepped forward to support Xu Qingran, "Don't be afraid, no one has seen you push Xu to agree, and no one has seen the slave and maid push that maid down in order to destroy the mouth, no matter how the queen mother checks, she won't find out about you, as long as we don't mess up." “

Having said that, Xu Qingran was still nervous.

And at this moment, Su Lianrong suddenly appeared behind the two: "It turned out that Concubine Qing did it!" ”

Xu Qingran and Qing'er's frightened hearts stopped for half a beat, Xu Qingran turned around tightly, saw that it was Su Lianrong, and shouted, "What did you hear?" ”

Su Lianrong smiled: "My sister has heard everything she did, for example, she was ...... by her sister if she agreed."

"Shut up!" Xu Qingran didn't dare to listen to it anymore, a little crazy.

"I can't blame me, my sister and the maidservant girl said such an important secret, don't you want to find a place where no one is? My sister overheard it too. "In fact, Xu Qingran and Qing'er's current position is hidden enough, but Su Lianrong just saw that Xu Qingran was a little abnormal recently, so she deliberately followed, but she didn't expect this tracking to overhear a shocking secret.

"What the hell do you want?" Qing'er was too scared at this time, and she couldn't care about her status anymore, and even dared to shout at Concubine Rong.

Seeing this, Concubine Rong pretended to be very frightened and said, "This palace doesn't want to demolish you, don't kill this palace." ”

Su Lianrong broke down Xu Qingran and Qing'er's psychological defense in just a few words.

"Say, what are you going to do so that you don't give me out?" Up to now, Xu Qingran knew that being scared was the most useless, so he tried to calm down and negotiate conditions with Su Lianrong.

"Sister, where are these words? How could my sister give up my sister? My sister and sister are grasshoppers in the same line. Su Lianrong's words were metaphors.

"A grasshopper on a line? What do you mean? Xu Qingran can't relax his vigilance now just because of Su Lianrong's words.

"To put it simply, if my sister has an accident because of this incident, it is not good for my sister, but if my sister can stand on the same front as my sister and use this matter to deal with another person, it will be good for my sister and me, of course, it will help my sister more, so this is a matter of only making money and not losing money." Su Lianrong had the feeling that she had pinched Xu Qingran in the palm of her hand.

"Against whom?" Xu Qingran, who is usually quite smart, was so nervous at this time that she could only ask Su Lianrong about everything, and she led her by the nose.

Su Lianrong was very willing to explain to Xu Qingran, "Of course it's the queen's mother." ”

Only then did Xu Qingran understand what Su Lianrong meant.

"If you blame the queen mother for this matter, my sister can not only clear the suspicion, but also the queen mother can be postponed by the emperor, killing two birds with one stone, why not?" Seeing Xu Qingran's hesitation, Su Lianrong felt anxious to talk about the benefits.

Xu Qingran knew that Su Lianrong's purpose was to deal with Qin Kexin, and wanted to use this incident to defeat her. If you think about it, it's really good for you.

"I promised you to cooperate, what are you going to do next?" Xu Qingran knew that he had to agree tightly, otherwise Su Lianrong would be unhappy and make public the things she had promised to do, and she would not be able to eat and leave.

"My sister really understands people." Su Lianrong was also very happy when she saw Xu Qingran agree. After all, it is really as she said just now, it is not beneficial for her to deal with Xu Qingran, so it is not cost-effective to expose Xu Qingran's secret. But using Xu Qingran to deal with Qin Kexin, this is different.

Although Su Lianrong also secretly cultivated her own people among the newcomers, Xu Qingran, an old person, did not need to be in vain.

"Tomorrow, my sister will send someone to tell my sister what she should do, sister, you have to be patient."

Su Lianrong also just heard Xu Qingran's secret before she temporarily came up with the idea of using Xu Qingran to deal with Qin Kexin together, although she already had a rough plan in her heart, but in order to plan carefully, she had to go back and plan carefully.

"Okay, I'll wait for your news." Xu Qingran is passive, and can only listen to Su Lianrong for everything.

Su Lianrong left satisfied.