Chapter 4: The Remains of Infants
Miao Miaomiao was so frightened by it that she gasped.
But she didn't panic when she was in the dry well of white bones, what was this little fright?
After stabilizing her mind, she slowly squatted down with her waist on her back.
The baby's hands were clenched around its bent legs, and its head was lowered in a ball-like shape.
She compared the mouth of the wine jar, which must have been forced into it.
"Is this human?" Miao Miaomiao held the branch and tried to lift its head, but the corpse was already stiff and couldn't move at all.
It seems that you can only get started.
To do a good job of psychological construction, she took a deep breath and started to do it.
When touching the epidermis of the baby's remains, Miao Miaomiao felt a chill.
The strange touch of hair and hard bones made him very disgusting.
"Click."
There was only the sound of bones breaking, and the head was completely broken off by her.
"Mom......"
When she saw the face of this thing, she couldn't help but cry out.
It's not human, is it......
I saw that its lips had rotted, revealing the beast's teeth inside.
It is impossible for a man to have such long canine teeth!
"What the hell?" Miao Miaomiao couldn't help muttering.
"Monkeys."
A deep male voice sounded in her ears, and she almost threw the head out of her hand.
"Master, Master?!"
This Si Yubai squatted silently behind her, scared her soul away.
"You...... What are you doing here? As soon as Miao Miaomiao opened her mouth, she almost bit her tongue again.
The man glanced at the head in her hand: "What are you doing with this?" ”
"I'll just see, can't I?" She threw her head back into the broken altar, "You say it's a monkey?" ”
"Isn't this a monkey! Don't you see the tail behind the ass? ”
The man said, holding a branch and pointing to a strip that was glued to his body: "See? ”
Miao Miaomiao pointed to the pile of wine jars under the locust tree with a complicated expression: "Won't these be all monkeys?" ”
"I can't say." The man got up and kicked the nearest jar, making a dull sound, "People like to drink all kinds of things, maybe it's not just monkeys in it......"
"Whole monkey soaking in wine?! What a heavy taste to drink! ”
"As long as you say that this thing is aphrodisiac, the pit can be licked clean for you!"
"Can you please stop being so disgusting."
Disgusting is disgusting, Si Yubai's words are right.
It's just that why are there so many wine jars piled up in the cold palace?
And there are monkeys stuffed in the jar!
That's the problem.
"Let the Department of Internal Affairs handle this matter......" Si Yubai squatted down and pointed at her nose, "You go back to check for the teacher obediently, don't run around, today is the Midyear Festival......"
"But Master...... It's going to be a draft tomorrow, and it's too late to check the details! ”
If Li Xuan was lucky and chose a fine work as a concubine, wouldn't it be even more important for her!
She can't be close to her for twelve hours a day, can she?
"Listen to the ...... of the Teacher"
The man lifted her up, but it hurt Miao Miaomiao's waist, and the pain made her face pale and cold sweat flowed.
Seeing that it was different from his usual reaction, Si Yubai frowned: "What happened?" ”
……
Zichen Palace.
Li Xuan glanced at the items on the tray, and then put down the white cloth.
"Your Majesty, the Department of Internal Affairs was cleaning up the wine jar in the Meditation Palace, and most of them were monkey wine, but I didn't expect that there were baby remains soaked in wine......
The man in the black robe glanced at the deacon and eunuch of the Internal Affairs Division who was kneeling in the hall: "How can you clean up the things in the cold palace for no reason?" ”
"It was the chief detective who said that the wine jar under the locust tree in the meditation palace was too heavy, so the servants quickly cleaned it up......" The deacon and eunuch trembled, not daring to look at the holy eye.
"What about Si Yubai?" The man asked Liu Zhongtian.
Liu Zhongtian cocked his orchid finger and thought for a while: "Back to Your Majesty, I heard that ...... I went to the palace commander to ......"
"What about the palace ban? Let him come over. ”
"This ...... Your Majesty, just now there was a message from the palace commander, he said that he had a broken leg and would have to recuperate for a few days. ”
"Broken leg?!" Li Xuan waved his hand and sat down, closed his eyes and sighed, "If it's broken, it's broken...... Call Si Yubai over. ”
……
Miao Miaomiao lay on the bed tossing and turning, unable to sleep.
The injury on her waist was mostly healed by Si Yubai's blood stasis massage.
She was thinking about two things.
The first thing, how can there be a wine jar in the cold palace, and how can there be monkeys in the wine jar?
Could it be that it is really used for aphrodisiac?
The second thing is, who is the fine work!
If she can't find this person, she can't call it a day!
Looking at the moonlight outside the window, Miao Miaomiao's mind gradually drifted away.
Suddenly, in front of the bed stood a man in a black cloak, the dagger in his hand held high above his head, and the cold moonlight reflected on the blade.
Miao Miaomiao reflexively volleyed in the air and dodged his attack.
Due to the force, the dagger had already been pierced into the bed by the black cloak.
"Boom!"
"Hmm!"
Miao Miaomiao took advantage of the fact that he was pulling out the dagger and gave him a hard kick in the stomach.
"Women?"
This voice sounded quite high-pitched, either a woman or a eunuch......
The black cloak retreated again and again, almost sitting on Lin Guiyan's big face opposite.
He stabilized the lower plate, immediately pulled out a soft sword from his waist, and pulled a sword flower in his hand.
Miao Miaomiao covered her faintly aching back, she would lose if she continued like this!
"Who the hell are you?! Why kill me?! ”
"......" The black cloak didn't seem to eat her delay, and stabbed it directly with an arrow.
But who knew that a thin quilt was thrown in front of him, and after he split the quilt, only a bed of clothes and an open window were left to inform others that he had run away!
"The golden cicada is out of its shell!" The black-robed man was obviously extremely shocked, this trick was not something that ordinary people could learn.
Miao Miaomiao hid under the window and watched the black cloak jump out of the window and chase away.
"Whew-"
Fortunately, she was clever and escaped by turning back into a cat.
"Whoever loves to be this cold book, I will be a fool if I die again!"
She climbed to the roof lightly and looked down on the entire palace city, all the palaces were lit up, but Fushou Palace was still brightly lit.
What does this old woman do when she doesn't sleep in the middle of the night?
Tomorrow is the concubine selection ceremony, doesn't she want to control the process herself?
It's all at this point, can you get up tomorrow?
Miao Miaomiao was very curious, and went to Fushou Palace with the mentality of caring for the elderly.
In fact, after wandering around the palace for so many days, she also knew the gossip that many people knew.
For example, the emperor was not born to the queen mother, and the emperor's mother was actually from a very low background.
If Li Xuan hadn't been supported by the queen of the year and the current queen mother, he would have no chance to participate in the succession!
It's just that now there is only identity etiquette between the mother and son, and there is no other family affection to speak of.
There is also the fact that the Queen Mother doesn't like Concubine Qi.
I don't like it very much.
This dislike has been carried to the only prince now, so she has always wanted the women of the harem to give birth to a few more babies for the emperor.
This is also the reason why she insisted on presiding over the selection of concubines herself.