Qin Muyao then touched his cheek, tried that his snort was quite even, and gently shook the child, but the child did not respond.

After pausing for a while, Qin Muyao suddenly didn't know what to do, looked at the child and was stunned for a while, and glanced at Xiuxiu in embarrassment.

Xiuxiu understood, and the nurse also knew what Qin Muyao meant, so she recommended herself: "Princess, let the old woman come, the old woman has been taking care of the child all her life." ”

"Okay, I'm sorry for the nurse. As soon as Qin Muyao held the child, she would be reluctant.

The nurse held the child upright, patted the child's back, muttered something in her mouth, the voice was too small, and the Xihua who was close to her could only vaguely hear "...... Hurry up and ......".

"Hmm~hmm~~"

After a while, I heard the sound of the child's small mouth chirping. The nurse hugged the child flat and made an expression to tease him, and the child's collapsed face rose again, "Haha..."

This is the laughter that only children have, and the nurse holds the child closer to the two of them. The child's big black eyes swirled around in their sockets, with an innocent gaze.

When she saw Xiuxiu, her mouth was wide open, revealing her pink gums, her eyes were bent, and Xiuxiu's eyes were full of love, which was the expression that a mother only has when she looked at her child.

Qin Muyao stared at the child's eyes without blinking, didn't find anything, and walked a few more steps. The child's little hands were raised in the air, and the small fingers were chubby, like a section of lotus root.

Suddenly wanted to touch the child's finger, Qin Muyao stretched out a finger over, and was tightly pinched in the palm of the child's hand, and the child's hand only pinched Qin Muyao's finger.

The scene in front of Qin Muyao's eyes suddenly changed, there was no fixed color and no fixed objects, as if everything was floating by randomly.

"Babble. ”

The child's cute cry pulled Qin Muyao back. I didn't see anything, but I felt like I saw everything.

Turning his head, his eyes met the child's black and slippery eyes, Qin Muyao looked at himself reflected in his eyes, and fell into a trance, why did he feel less like it the more he looked at it?

Qin Muyao thought that she was dizzy, shook her head, and fixed her eyes to see that her reflection in the child's eyes disappeared.

Instead, a weak back, wearing ordinary clothes, with two sky-high sideburns, looked like a child of twelve or thirteen.

Slowly, his head deviated a little, but before Qin Muyao could see it clearly, he disappeared, and in the blink of an eye, it was his own shadow again, and he looked at Xiuxiu: "Can you see it?"

"What?" Xiuxiu asked rhetorically, not knowing why.

"It's nothing, maybe I'm dazzled. Qin Muyao pulled out her fingers, Xiuxiu also looked at the child seriously just now, she didn't see it, so there was no need for others to ask.

"Princess, how can the little boy ......" Xihua stood behind Qin Muyao, her voice a little small.

"What?" Qin Muyao tilted her head slightly, how could she say half of it?

"It's just that it looks weird, and it doesn't seem to have any energy. "Xihua can't say why, she can only roughly say what she thinks.

When Xihua said this, she gave Qin Muyao a wake-up call, as if she had been at the door just now, giving her this feeling.

Now looking at the child, he laughs so much that he has no energy, no one teases him, and he is going to sleep again.

"Nurse, the little boy is sleepy, you can carry him down first. Xiuxiu looked at the child's half-open and half-asleep eyes, and said distressedly.

"Yes. The nurse was slightly blessed, and before she reached the door, the child fell asleep.

"What bad things have happened in Fang Mansion recently?" Qin Muyao looked at the maid who was standing behind Xiuxiu but had not spoken.

"No, I don't. Xiuxiu replied without thinking.

"Is there a twelve- or thirteen-year-old maid in that mansion?" Qin Muyao remembered the back she saw in the child's eyes just now, she didn't think she was wrong, maybe it was that back figure who was doing something.

"There are several. ”

"Send them all to me. ”

"Go and do as the princess instructs. Xiuxiu looked at the maid behind her and ordered, but the maid didn't raise her head or answer, but just retreated after being blessed.

In just a few moments, he stood in the courtyard outside the hall with seven or eight little girls.

Qin Muyao and Xiuxiu walked out.

"See Madame, Princess. The little maids saluted together, and their voices added up to a little shrill and thin.

"Turn your backs on me. Qin Muyao opened her mouth to order.

Seeing that Xiuxiu had no objection, the little maid turned around obediently. They are not the same in height, short, fat and thin, Qin Muyao looked at it carefully a few times, and there was no similarity with what she saw just now, and she was a little disappointed: "In addition to these few, are there any others?"

"No more. They were all born of the house. Xiuxiu shook her head and gave the big girl another look, and the big girl took the little girl down.

"Is there a child of this age who just died?"

"Not really. Xiuxiu was also puzzled, "Why do you keep asking the little girl?"

"You may not believe it, but just now I saw a back in your child's eyes, a twelve or thirteen-year-old child. ”

"Letter. I've been through all these things, how can I not believe you. ”

"Is there really none?"

"Hmm. Without. ”

At this time, Qin Muyao was confused, had no clue, and thought that she could start from the back of a child, but there was no such little maid in Fangfu.

"The shadow I see is not a little girl's, it's an adult. Look at the shadow of the bun on her head, it's a woman. ”

"Have you ever thought that it was the people in your mansion who pretended to be ghosts and wanted to scare you?" Qin Muyao wanted to see him in every direction.

"Why, Madame is kind to us. Everybody loves Madame. The big girl came back and spoke for Xiuxiu, her voice low and a little rough.

Qin Muyao glanced at her, and the maid saluted: "Please forgive the princess, it is the slave who is reckless." ”

"That means that no one has a grudge against your wife. Qin Muyao waved her hand, didn't care, and asked something else.

"Hmm. The maid nodded hurriedly.

This stumped Qin Muyao, where should she start investigating?

Cheng Lianjin entered the palace, the palace was still so depressed, and every door in the hall was locked, which was an order from the emperor, because the last time Cheng Lianjin came to worship on the day of Concubine Lan's sacrifice, he was discovered by the emperor and gave an order. One can imagine how reluctant the emperor was to mention Concubine Lan, even if he and Concubine Lan's son couldn't.

This aroused Cheng Lianjin's psychology of seeking the truth more and more, Concubine Lan's death was something that the entire palace did not dare to mention, and those who knew about it were beheaded by the emperor, and Cheng Lianjin had no way to start if he wanted to investigate, until today, he had some eyebrows.

Cheng Lianjin pulled up a piece of dry grass and played with it in his hand, and suddenly the door rang, the gate was locked with an iron chain, and it was possible to push open a small crack, and the palace maid was thin and weak, just enough to squeeze in through the crack in the door.

"Slaves and maids see the prince. The palace maid saw Cheng Lianjin and made a big salute.

This palace maid was the palace maid who stopped Cheng Lianjin in Xuanwu Road that day and asked him for help.

"No courtesy. If you deceive the king, you should know what will happen. Cheng Lianjin looked lazy, and his voice was cold without any friendship.

The palace maid hit a spirit, got goosebumps, and her heart beat faster, she was afraid: "The slave doesn't dare to deceive the prince for half a point." ”

"The youngest palace maid who entered the palace is nine years old, you can't be in the palace, even if you are in the palace at that time, at most four or five years old, how can you remember it so clearly?" Cheng Lianjin threw away the dry grass in his hand and shook his wrist, full of threat.

"The slave maid is indeed not in the palace, but the slave's own sister is there, and she is the second-class palace maid who served Concubine Lan at that time. The palace maid raised her head a little, and her tone was affirmative.

"What's your sister's name?" Cheng Lianjin walked up to the palace maid and stared at the palace maid who didn't get up.

"Yunlan, or the name given by Concubine Lan's mother, my sister's real name is Liu Fern, because the family is poor, and has four children, when my sister was ten years old, my father sent my sister to the palace. The palace maid said sincerely, and when she mentioned her sister, she was a little sad, and the longing in her eyes could not be pretended.

Cheng Lianjin pondered for a while, indeed, Yunlan beside the concubine, she said word for word: "This king thinks it's strange, why did you enter the palace?

"Like my sister, I was sent to the palace by my father in order to marry my two elder brothers in the family. When the palace maid said this, she was a little helpless and a little sentimental, ordinary people have a serious patriarchal mentality, as long as she is good for her son, it doesn't matter what her daughter is.

At first, it was the eldest daughter, and when the eldest daughter died, they were only sad, and they did not make a living from the monthly cases sent out of the palace in the future, and when they were older, they were sent in again when they reached the age of entering the palace.

"The slave maid was originally a third-class palace maid who served Wan Zhaoyi, and became a scapegoat because of some things, and was sent to the miscellaneous room, and because Lou Zhaoyi knew the life experience of the slave and maid, she dotted it, and life was better, and then a few days ago, there was less Lou Zhaoyi's dot, and the father-in-law was ruthless to the slave and maid, and the slave and maid ran out secretly, and met the prince by chance......" The palace maid paused for a while, a little disappointed, "After being caught back, she was beaten, and at this time, Lou Zhaoyi sent someone to dot it, and the slave and maid saved a life." ”

"Wan Zhaoyi?" Cheng Lianjin lowered his eyes and whispered, this Wan Zhaoyi was a sister on the surface when her mother was alive, but who knew secretly? She had already fallen out of favor, because she gave birth to a princess and lived reluctantly.

"Phew. Cheng Lianjin didn't know when he pulled out a short dagger and pressed it on the palace maid's neck, the sunlight lengthened his shadow and covered half of the palace maid's face: "Say it, if you say it without a head or a tail, then you don't have to live." ”

"Lord Wang......" The palace maid's eyes were swirling with tears, her face was pale, and her hand on the ground trembled slightly, "The first three days of my sister's death were the days of routine family visits in the palace, when the slave maid was four years old and came with her father. At that time, my sister was very unhappy, she didn't tease me, the whole person cried and mourned, when she left, I grabbed her clothes, she threw her on the ground, and knocked her elbow into a big hole, my sister cried and hugged me, stuffed me with a piece of brocade cloth, warned me to put it away, no one can look at it, and kept saying that I was scared by my sister, which is the clearest memory when I was a child. ”

The palace maid said, pulling up the right hand sleeve, and a black scar could be seen when she turned around.

"What is the content on the brocade?" Cheng Lianjin didn't want to believe it, but he couldn't control it, maybe because he wanted to know the truth too much, even if it was fake, he wanted to hear it.

"The slave doesn't know. The palace maid shook her head, "After returning home, the slave and maid sewed the brocade cloth in the small purse and carried it close to her all the time, no one has seen it, and the slave and maid are illiterate." Only after entering the palace, the sisters who worked together taught me a few. ”

"Liar!" The short dagger never left the throat of the palace maid, Cheng Lianjin gritted his silver teeth and became ruthless, "You are only four years old, what do you know?"