How it is here does not matter to us. Now that there are few people here, it's just convenient for us to investigate, so let's start checking now! ”

Compared with arguing with Ah Ye, Yu Panxi felt that the most important thing at the moment was to take advantage of this opportunity to seize the time to investigate. Otherwise, if the lazy palace maid here suddenly comes, or someone from another palace comes, then they can only leave early.

Although she was accustomed to seeing the warmth and coldness of people in the palace, she knew that these two possibilities were not very large, but just in case, she still urged Ah Ye to start checking.

The people from Xifu had come to see it early in the morning, and they didn't find anything suspicious in the palace of the concubine at all, and at this time, with the strength of just two people, even if they turned this palace inside and out, they naturally didn't find anything wrong.

Ah Ye looked at the last corner, then turned around and sat on the stool in the concubine hall, the words in his mouth were not complaints, but he didn't have any fighting spirit: "I said it was in vain." Even the people under Liu Suifeng's men haven't found clues, you and I have never been exposed to these things, how can we find out this mystery before them? Maybe that concubine really fell down by accident! ”

He doesn't care about the life or death of people he doesn't know well. Instead of being here for something you're not sure about, why don't you stay in the house and have a good snack!

If it weren't for the fact that Yu Panxi entered the palace alone to investigate, and in order to dispel her doubts, he would not have returned to this seemingly wide bird cage. God knows how he endured the dull atmosphere in the body of the little emperor in the first place!

When Xiao Chumo brought back the news of the death of the concubine, Ah Ye was playing with Xiao Douding in the back garden, so he didn't hear a few suspicious points that were summarized by several people at that time. Yu Panxi didn't blame him, but automatically ignored his deflated words, and said to himself: "...... Back to the Imperial Garden, let's go to the pool where the concubine fell into the water. ”

Since there are no clues in the palace of the concubine, the only place where the most suspicious point is the place where the concubine died. After all, although it was night, there were many guards coming and going, and no one heard the movement there.

I don't know if it's because I'm a little anxious in my heart, or I'm worried that the palace maid of the Concubine Palace will come in suddenly, in short, Yu Panxi's steps are a little fast. So, she kicked something without paying attention.

"Bang-"

The object that had been forced to move to one position made a strange noise, which sounded neither dull nor crisp, but something like the sound of a copper basin used for burning charcoal in winter.

Yu Panxi was startled by this sudden voice at first, but after reacting, she felt a little strange in her heart, so she squatted down and pulled out the basin that she had just kicked out from under the tablecloth.

Seeing her actions, Ah Ye probably guessed that she was suspicious of this brazier, but the look on her face was a little disapproving: "Isn't it just a basin, what's so nice about this?" I heard that the eldest concubine died this time, and she was almost thirty years old. ”

Ah Ye has always talked a lot, and he is the most impatient with careful work like this. And Yu Panxi seemed to have become accustomed to his chatter, and was not affected at all at this moment, just staring at the brazier at his feet and pondering.

It's true that winter is about to fall right now, and Ah Ye's guess seems reasonable, but the location of this brazier is too suspicious. As long as people with a little common sense know that this charcoal heating has a spark, it is best to put the brazier containing carbon in the widest place in the middle of the room, so someone will stuff the brazier under the table and be done? Not to mention that the brazier under the table will not achieve the effect of heating at all, in case of carelessness, it is even possible to bring the tablecloth spread on the table into the brazier and cause a fire.

The brazier that had been stuffed under the table was not so much a careless kick in as someone deliberately hid it in an attempt to hide something.

Yu Panxi had a vague guess in her heart, but she didn't know the specific content vaguely, so she simply looked down and looked at the gray residue in the basin.

Seeing her like this, Ah Ye only felt that she was stunned. After all, even Xifu couldn't detect something, could it be that she thought that she only needed to look at a pot of carbon ash to know?

"It's just a pot of soot, what's there to see? If you want me to say, there is probably no clue you are looking for in the palace of the concubine. Instead of wasting time here on a pot of soot, let's go back to the Imperial Garden, as you just said. ”

Fang Cai was the concubine hall that he accompanied Yu Panxi to inspect, and he didn't find any valuable clues at all, he really couldn't understand why she had to be so persistent, and even a pot of carbon ash had to look at it for so long.

Ah Ye pursed her mouth, and was about to persevere to continue to persuade a few more words, but Yu Panxi suddenly picked up a little black ash on the top, and her appearance seemed to be a little dignified: "This is not carbon gray, the color is not quite right." ”

The carbon supplied to the concubines in the palace is the best, and the color after burning should be grayish-white. However, the point that was now on her fingertips was as if she had touched a handful of coal, and the color was much darker.

Yu Panxi's two fingers twisted slightly, and the black ash immediately spread out on her fingers. She leaned in and sniffed a little, and a faint scent seemed to creep into her nose. It's not the smell of any balm, but it's a bit like the fragrance of herbs.

"It's strange, the medicinal materials in the Tai Hospital all need to be registered, where did the Taifei Hall get the herbs?"

Yu Panxi muttered to herself, trying to dip a little more black ash to take a closer look. When Ah Ye on the side heard this, she couldn't help but come over and sniff her fingertips, and suddenly her face changed drastically, and she pulled out the handkerchief around her waist, and directly wiped all the black ash on her fingertips.

This was not enough, after wiping it, he threw down the handkerchief in his hand, picked up the teapot on the table again, and rinsed Yu Panxi several times with the tea in it, and finally gave up.

The latter was a little confused by his sudden action, and it was not until this series of actions was completed that she finally came to her senses, and immediately thought of the reason: "What's the matter, is there something wrong with this ash?" ”

Ah Ye's behavior just now was obviously guarding against Black Ash, as if she was afraid that it would cause her any harm. It's just that Yu Panxi wasn't sure about this, so he couldn't help but ask more.

“…… You're right, there really wasn't just a charcoal fire in this pot, but also herbs that someone had burned in it. ”