The wind is cold, the night is long and the dream is short.

"Eldest princess, why don't you sleep more? I listened to you spend half the night last night. ”

Xiao Qi was holding a copper basin, and Can'er was carrying a hot water jar in the back. The aunt of the housekeeper of Chonghua Palace also followed into the inner hall.

Seeing that Hua Qiao was about to get out of bed, Can'er hurriedly said:

"Eldest princess, you slowly, we just came in, it's cold here, it's not too late for you to come over after a while."

Hua Qiao sat on the edge of the bed and said blankly: "How pitiful Yue'er is, lying cold in that unpopular place, I don't know who is so ruthless, even a three-year-old child can't tolerate ......"

"Do you think it's not Concubine Sun? But now she has no evidence to clear her name...... If the crime is confirmed, the third princess will be pitiful, and when she grows up, she can't even remember what her mother looks like......"

Xiao Gao, who was standing outside the door, lowered his head, he died at the age of three, he just couldn't remember the appearance of his mother, and even met it in a dream, his mother's face was confused, and he couldn't see it clearly.

"Xiao Gao!"

Xiao Gao heard Hua Qiao calling him in the house, and hurriedly answered in.

"You go to inquire, is it Lord Xu who came from Dali Temple today? I don't know if he has returned to Beijing. ”

Xiao Gao nodded and went out. Black Bean wagged his tail and followed him to the door, and when the north wind blew outside, he shrank back again, and then returned to lie next to the fire cage.

"Eldest princess, are you going to go today? Didn't you see it clearly yesterday? Could it be that there is still a problem with the test? ”

Hua Qiao sat down in front of the mirror, and Aunt Yu had already warmed her hands and was waiting for her to comb her hair. She hadn't seen Hua Buckwheat's tricks, and thought that Hua Buckwheat was purely distressed about this imperial niece, so she persuaded:

"The cold palace next to Donghua Gate, I don't know how many corpses have stopped, some are wronged, some are hateful, you are a girl's house, don't run to that kind of place."

Hua Qiao said faintly: "At the beginning, my mother also stopped there. ”

Aunt Yu had no choice but to stop talking.

Knowing that she was going out, the hood was always worn, so he combed her into a neat bun, embellished with a few pearls, and paired it with an acacia flower strung with pearls.

The second princess died young, and there was no memorial ceremony for the children who died in the palace, and they didn't even have to wear plain clothes in the palace. Generally, the concubine puts an incense case in the palace for 7749 days, even if it is overtaken for the child.

Hua Qiao stopped dressing up, and Xiao Gao came back, and he returned:

"It's Lord Xu and Lord Feng who entered the palace today, and Lord Xu returned to Beijing at noon yesterday. But...... I went to the court this morning, and I guess I won't go to the house until the afternoon. ”

"That's right, let's go to the hospital first, I still have something I don't understand, I have to ask the master." The buckwheat put on a big coat and followed Xiao Gao out.

Cui Ling, the commander of Yu Linwei, gave them a special access control card, and he was also afraid that people other than the eldest princess would get out.

"Daddy! I'm worried you're not home. There was an accident in the palace last night, and I couldn't figure it out. ”

"Something? Homicide case? Is it related to you? "If you have money, you're afraid that something will happen to you.

"If it had something to do with me, I might have entered the Zongren Mansion by now. It's the second princess who is gone, saying that she was poisoned by the concubine. ”

"Have you seen the corpse? Do you find it suspicious? ”

"Well, I looked at the examiners, one was a bruise on the back of the head, and the other was arsenic in the throat. His silver needles were so long that I guess they reached the door of his stomach. The reason for the injury was that he came back with the corpse, and the chamberlain tripped and fell, and even the chamberlain was killed with a cane. ”

Hua Youcai thought about it and asked: "When it was determined that the poisoning was poisoned, the trauma was not examined?" ”

"The first to go is the imperial doctor, then he is already dead, and he is the last to go."

"Well, if the difference is very short, it really doesn't say who is in front and who is behind. Only dissection to see if there is poison in the stomach and whether the internal organs are congested. ”

Hua Qiao sighed and said, "Da Ming is not allowed to operate on people, let alone dissect the corpse of a princess." But I really can't think of any motive for Sun Guifei to kill. ”

"Only by asking the people around the queen, they may tell the truth." Hu Yanjin came in from outside and said through Hua Qiao's words: "I only heard about this this morning, don't think about it all night in the palace last night." ”

"Senior brother, what do you say? The emperor's brother is also uncomfortable to death, right? ”

"The emperor is absent-minded this morning, after all, Sun Guifei is his favorite concubine, but the queen is the wife, there is no reason not to punish the person who kills the emperor's heir in order to favor the concubine."

He took off his cloak and sat down next to the buckwheat, who wanted to cover his hands for him, but he gently pulled out his hands and went to the fire cage to roast them.

"Well, at present, there is only one thing to coerce a confession......

After spending money to do it for so many years, he has never been able to dissect the corpse of the bitter master, and the owner can throw the corpse quietly on his back, and he has to sew it up well.

The earliest practice of buckwheat was not for the living, but for the corpses they dissected.

If someone finds it, even if you dissect the corpse, it is a felony in Daming, and you will go to prison.

The buckwheat is a little stuffy.

"When I left the palace, Xu Zhijin was already ready to go over, but since you have no choice, they also went over to take a look, so they interrogated Kunning Palace, and the palace maids and chamberlains of Yikun Palace."

Hu Yanjin took the buckwheat's hand and wrapped it in his palm, and a warmth came from his hand, like snow melting grass green. Hua Qiao raised her head and said firmly:

"Concubine Sun Guifei needs the truth, and Yue'er also needs the truth. Although I didn't grow up in the palace, I felt the same way, and if it weren't for this little bit of pitiful favor, why would my mother be willing to be separated from me.

If you don't save Sun Guifei, it is not only the dead Yue'er who suffers, but also Ning'er, who has lost her mother's protection. ”

"I see." Hu Yanjin shook her hand.

After returning to the palace, Hua Qiao still went to the cold palace near Donghua Gate. The so-called cold palace is a palace that has not been lived in for a long time, and for convenience, most of the temporary houses are located here.

"Eldest Princess Baoying? Why are you here too? Feng Yuncheng hurriedly saluted the buckwheat.

"'Also' coming? Has anyone been here before? Hua Qiao asked casually.

Xu Zhijin also came over to salute and smiled: "Long time no see." Before you, someone did come, it was the eldest princess of Jiaxing. ”

"Jiaxing? She was also at the scene at the time, and she didn't avoid suspicion and ran here? What did she say? ”

All she said was...... The child is pitiful, don't reincarnate in the emperor's family again. ”

Hua Qiao didn't expect that Jiaxing would say the truth this time.

"My lord! Adults are not good! "There is a Dali Temple priest from outside.

"What's the matter? Panicked and unorthodox. Feng Sizheng scolded.

"Yes...... We just went to Kunning Palace to pick up people, but we didn't know that early this morning, the palace maid Peach Blossom of Kunning Palace threw herself into the well and died! ”

"Dead? Didn't the queen explain? ”

"It was said that the queen was angry this morning and scolded the palace maid who took the second princess yesterday, and the palace maid ran out crying. There are two people who followed the second princess, one was the emperor's attendant who was killed yesterday, and the other was the peach blossom who threw himself into the well. ”

Yesterday in the imperial garden, there were a total of five palace people present in Kunning Palace, two with the eldest princess, two with the second princess, and one was the queen's personal female official Xinghua.

Xu Zhijin frowned tightly and said:

"Then, interrogate the apricot blossoms next to the queen!"