Coming out of the queen's Fengxi platform, Qin Huai and Liu Yanxin glanced at each other, not forgetting the imminent task.

They happen to be in the harem now, and it is the best time to find the "deep lotus flowers" in the note left by the noble concubine.

"Now we'd better go to my mother's Qiongying Hall first, although so many years have passed, it's hard to guarantee that there won't be any clues that have been overlooked!"

Spring goes to autumn, since the death of the mother, this Qiongying Hall has been empty, and no new people have entered.

Many years ago, Qin Huai would return here from time to time to stay for half a day, but then she gradually came out and learned to keep her emotions in her heart.

After coming and going, I forgot the feeling of returning to Qiongying Palace, all these years, Qiongying Hall has been empty here, and there is a special person to clean it every month, so that Qin Huai can return here at any time.

It's like...... There has always been a vacant place in my father's heart, left to the mother concubine.

The door of Qiongying Hall was pushed open by Qin Huai with a light push, and the door was almost not locked here on weekdays, except for the guards who patrolled the night to check it every day, no outsiders dared to come here.

Liu Yanxin looked at the well-trimmed begonia trees in the yard, and every pebble was dazzling in the sun. If no one took care of it carefully, the whole palace would not be so quiet, and it would not be possible to be filled with a faint aroma of incense.

She remembered that in the previous life, the first thing Qin Xuanlang did after ascending the throne was to raze the Qiongying Hall to the ground and detain Qin Huai and others to avenge the grudges of his youth.

At that time, Liu Yanxin was deeply sympathetic and empathetic to his re-encounter, and it was not until later that he saw Qin Xuanlang's true face clearly, and knew the black heart that had already rotted and had maggots under his humble face.

During those years in the stone prison, she had left countless tears of remorse, and countless times she wished to crush her bones and ashes.

Fortunately, God gave her a second chance, so that she could look at the whole thing from a different side, and not do things that she regretted.

Her gaze went down from the glazed tiles of the palace, and the long silk curtains that floated slightly in the breeze on the cloister.

The stone tables and benches in the courtyard are unusually new, and there is no trace of wind and sun exposure at all, not to mention the placement of the teapot and water cups on the table.

She passed past Qin Huai with doubts, pushed open the door and walked indoors.

What greeted her was a longer smell of incense, and with Liu Yanxin's ears and eyes in Pojun Mountain for so many years, she could roughly distinguish that this smell of incense, if it was not made through multiple processes, would be very sure to have such a refreshing taste.

When the Boshan incense burner in the house was opened, it was spotlessly cleaned, and not even a trace of spice dust could be picked out, which was really incomprehensible.

It takes so much effort to leave the aroma inside and outside the palace, but there is ...... have to hide the ingredients of the incense.

"Princess, did Concubine Ying like to mix perfume back then?"

Yan Xin sniffed around the room, and finally asked.

"That's not it, my mother is also the daughter of a military general, so she naturally likes to ride horses and play with guns, and even the female celebrity only learned it after entering the palace."

Qin Huai shook her head and sat down at the round table, she was playing with the things she had left behind at the table, and the whole person seemed to have returned to the past.

On the table were clay figurines made for her by her former concubine, and some unfinished temari balls scattered in the drawers. Everything in it has unusual memories for Qin Huai, and every time he sees it, he feels that his mother is still by his side.

Yanxin got such an answer, and she felt even more magical.

Since Ying's concubines don't like perfume, this fragrance must not be the usual taste she used during her lifetime, so how could it be so widely diffused after her death.

After thinking about it for a long time, she might not get an answer, Yan Xin turned around and returned to Qin Huai's side, looking at the hand bow ball in her hand with some surprise.

"Is this also what the Ying Guifei left behind?"

Qin Huai nodded, and handed the handbow ball in his hand to Yan Xin, "This drawer is a small object given to me by my mother in the past, and it has always been treasured. ”

For Qin Huai's answer, Liu Yanxin frowned slightly, she fiddled with the ball in her hand left and right, from the texture to the embroidery thread, it was indeed a popular pattern in the palace many years ago, and this kind of stitching method was also the most difficult one, which was the first choice for Ying's concubine.

She checked the contents of the drawer again, and on the surface it looked like some old things, but Yan Xin took it to her hand and weighed it, but she felt that it was not simple.

There is some obvious dust on these old objects, and there are even some traces of artificial aging hidden in the corners, which is a very strong contrast with the new furnishings outside.

It is because of this that Liu Yanxin feels strange.

She picked up Fang Cai's hand-bowed ball again, and regardless of Qin Huai's expression, she directly pinched it open with internal force.

"Feast Heart...... You! ”

Qin Huai looked at Liu Yanxin in surprise, not understanding why she did this.

Liu Yanxin gently soothed, turned over the silk thread and compared it: "Princess, don't worry, this thing is greasy." ”

Qin Huai, who reacted, suddenly became nervous, and hurriedly found other hand-bowed balls and prepared to follow suit.

"Do you suspect that there are clues left for me by my mother in these things?"

But she didn't hear a positive answer, and Liu Yanxin's words made her whole person confused.

"No, princess, can you confirm that these things are all left by you before, and have been with you for so many years, and have never been dropped?"

"What does that mean?"

Although she had doubts in her heart, Qin Huai still carefully began to inspect it, she remembered that this golden horn was sewn by her and her mother, at that time she was still young, and her temper was irritable, and there were marks on the corner that she had bitten, and this one did have it.

There is also this sand hammer that was brought in from the Yisha Department, which has a rustling sound when shaken, and the handle has faded its original color due to years of play.

There is also this double-sided embroidered fan, because he was greedy and scratched the corner of his clothes, in order to avoid the mother from finding out, he specially asked a palace person in the division room to make up for himself, and showed off the pink butterfly as a cover.

Qin Huai unfolded the pink butterfly pattern embroidered on this whim, and was stunned for a moment.

"The original cut here is gone?"

In an instant, Qin Huai understood what Liu Yanxin meant, and looked at her helplessly.

"Looks like my guess was right."

Yan Xin clenched the things she was holding in her hand, and looked around the room again, although everything looked the same as when Ying Guifei was there, but according to her guess, anything here was just similar to what had been there.

And the real furnishings, even brick by brick, have been completely replaced.

In order to make Qin Huai understand more intuitively, she took the crushed handbow ball in her hand as an example.

"Look at this Temari ball, the method of Temari ball is to wrap silk threads around the outside of the ball, each silk thread needs to be tight, and directly wrap the ball, and the third to fifth layers of the demon are the best state. And Temari balls are time-consuming and material-intensive because of such a process. ”

Maybe Qin Huai is not very clear about this, Liu Yanxin asked.

"Princess, please see, is the silk thread of this hand bow ball the same color?"

Yan Xin slowly unwrapped the winding silk threads on the juju ball, flipped left and right and asked Qin Huai.

"It's a color." Qin Huai replied truthfully.

So that's wrong.

"It's because it's the same color on either side, and that's not right. Many things will fade over time, paint will fade and lose their taste, but this time is difficult to grasp, and different ways of placing and making these things will affect the degree of fading of these things. ”

Liu Yanxin's gaze instantly became cold, as if he had grasped the breakthrough in the matter of Qiongying Palace.

"According to common sense, the color of the silk thread on the outside is indeed the color after fading, but it should not be like this inside, the silk thread inside is tightly wrapped, and it is difficult to contact the gas without contact with water, so the color should be darker than the silk thread on the outside."

Qin Huai's palms were oozing with sweat, she was really frightened by Liu Yanxin's expression and analysis, if she hadn't brought her here today, she might not have been able to find out for the rest of her life.

If you stay in a room full of incense for a long time, you will gradually get used to it and no longer notice the abnormality. Just like Qin Huai has been looking at these things for many years, he will not have any doubts about his preconceived notions.

But Liu Yanxin is different.

"I suspect someone has dropped everything here and put a lot of effort into restoring it. However, it is difficult to restore the traces of time, and even if you redo it with old silk threads, you may not be able to do the same as before. If people don't know what they can't do, as long as it's a fake, it will definitely be discovered. ”

The entire Qiongying Hall was surprisingly quiet, everything was very quiet, obviously the most familiar place, but for a moment, Qin Huai felt very strange.

If it weren't for Liu Yanxin to accompany her, she would probably run away.

"So what are we going to do now, and why are we doing it?"

Liu Yanxin also realized this incident and has always regretted his fastest.

The Qiongying Hall was rebuilt, and all the furnishings, utensils, and playthings here were restored together. The manpower required here can be imagined, so who else can be able to operate so vigorously in the harem and manipulate behind the scenes, except for Your Majesty?

Seeing that Qin Huai was getting closer and closer to the truth of the incident, Liu Yanxin suddenly had a trace of worry.

But since she wants to know, let her be. There are some things that can be hidden for a while, but not for a lifetime.

Just like at the beginning, he didn't want to find his biological mother, so as to break through the military mountain, go to Biyun Island, and enter the Chu country.

Since she wanted to seek the truth like this, there was no reason why she should not consider her.

"It seems that someone is trying to trick you into finding out the secret of that incident."

The truth is cruel, but that's just the first step.

Qin Huai suddenly became angry and stood up suddenly. "No way, I must know, since they hide the truth like this, then the more I need to know!"

This was also expected by Liu Yanxin, she pursed her lips and continued to ask, "What if the truth is something you can't accept?" ”

"Since I'm looking for it, I'll accept whatever it is."

Qin Huai's reaction was extremely fast, and it was an instinctive reaction.

"That's good."