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The hearts of the people in the harem after the Wanshou Festival have calmed down a lot, mainly because of the monks who have done rituals in the palace, and the coffin of Princess Qinghua has also been buried, so there is no need for anyone to keep vigil every day.

In the morning light, the lowliest palace maids and eunuchs had already gotten up and started to sweep.

Two young palace maids who had just entered the palace went to fetch water with their companions, and they were rough palace maids who were assigned to the salary department.

The place is remote and remote, and the work is heavy.

In the morning alone, six buckets of water were carried for the palace ladies who were in the palace ahead of them.

However, the well wheel that is commonly used is broken, and many people are standing by waiting to be repaired.

"What should I do? I'm going to be scolded again when I go back. "The cowardly of the two palace maids was already about to cry.

"When I go back, I say that the well is broken, and it's not that we are deliberately lazy." Another said.

"If only they were willing to listen to the explanation." This one said helplessly: "Others don't know don't you know?" They practice us every day. It doesn't matter whose fault it is! ”

The other one was right when he heard it, but his mind was more lively, and he rolled his eyes and said, "Do you remember the well in the garden over there?" There are very few people going there, so let's go there before these people remember! ”

"You're still smart, why didn't I think about it!" The other also thought it was a good idea.

So the two little maidens took buckets and went to the well, which was rarely visited.

Because these two little palace maids felt fresh when they first entered the palace, they walked around in their spare time, and they didn't dare to go ahead, so they found this place, and they knew that there was a well here.

There are occasional pass-by during the day, but few people come in the morning and evening.

At this time, it is naturally quiet.

The two of them came to the well, and when they looked out, they found something in the well.

Although the light was still a little dim at this time, a corpse could be seen half-floating and half-sinking in the well.

The whole body was swollen and white, and the clothes were tightly bound to the body, and it was a eunuch suit.

The timid palace maid was already paralyzed with fright at that time, and she only knew hysterical shouting.

The bolder one was already crying, but he knew how to help the other one to stand up.

The shrill cry was especially piercing in the quiet morning light, and it soon attracted people.

Wherever the dead are placed, they are the most likely to cause panic, and panic is the easiest to gather.

After a while, this usually unusually deserted well was surrounded by palace maids and eunuchs on the inside and outside three floors.

Before the queen could get up early to greet the queen mother, Bai Lu hurriedly came in.

"Qi Yu Niangniang, the missing eunuch in Tianxi Palace has been found." Bai Lu said.

"Where?" The queen asked busily.

She really wants to find out the real culprit behind it, otherwise it will be difficult day and night.

"He's dead," Bai Lu looked helpless: "He was found by the palace maid who fetched water in the well that passed through the hall at the back of the Fuji Palace." ”

"Dead?!" When the queen heard this, she only felt blood gushing up: "Then was he killed or committed suicide?" ”

"I've experienced it, but I fell into the well." Bai Lu glanced at the queen with some unbearability and continued: "I didn't find it when I sank into the well before, but then the body was soaked and swollen and floated. And he didn't find anything suspicious. ”

This shows that there is no evidence to prove that this eunuch has a curse, and since it cannot be proved that he is suspicious, then the suspicion of Xu Guifei has also been cleared.

"Alright, I see, you go down! Tell Qu Qing about this, so that the emperor can know. ”

Looks like we're going to have to find new clues next.

The queen cheered up and went to greet the queen mother, and met the second prince on the way back.

Seeing him holding a bow and arrow, he couldn't help but say, "How old are you?" Why can't you still be stable? In the past, if it wasn't for the indiscriminate archery, it would hurt people somewhere. You, since you were a child, you don't let people worry. ”

"It's enough to have the prince worry," the second prince said indifferently: "I didn't give birth to that reading head, even if I can't pretend to be hard." ”

How could the queen not know her son's temperament? Knowing that the country is easy to change and her nature is difficult to change, it's really not that she, as a mother, doesn't teach, but I'm afraid that no matter how powerful people in this world are, it is impossible to teach ducks to climb trees.

I remembered that the Queen Mother once said that a man will always be a child in front of his mother, and when he becomes a family and a husband, he will learn to be like an adult.

What's more, the crown prince is already married, and the second prince is not young, if someone around him is holding him and persuading him at any time, most of them will not be as unruly as a wild horse now.

Thinking of this, she thought of Wei Yining, who has always been the candidate for the second prince's concubine in her heart.

After the recent incident, she felt more and more that Wei Yining was delicate and reliable. With her by the second prince's side, you don't have to worry about the second prince getting into trouble again.

So he asked the second prince tentatively: "You are also nineteen years old this year, do you have a favorite girl?" ”

Generally speaking, men are already in love at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and they will have their favorite opposite sex, and the second prince is nineteen years old this year, and he should have opened his mind a long time ago.

"What do you like that thing for?" Who would have thought that the second prince hurriedly shook his head when he heard this: "It's squeamish and difficult, and it's going to be annoying to death." What's more, children are bound to be heroic and short of breath, so I don't want to bury my spirit on women when I'm young. ”

"What nonsense are you talking about, you kid?!" The queen couldn't help but reprimand him, and wanted to tell him the benefits of Wei Yining in detail.

But before he could say anything, he saw Xiao Qingqing coming over there with a slight smile, so he had to stop talking.

The second prince was about to get out, when he saw Xiao Qingqing coming, he hurriedly saluted, and then turned around and ran away, and the queen didn't forget to call him behind him: "Ji'er, come to Fengyi Palace to eat at lunchtime!" You are not allowed not to come. ”

After saying that, he couldn't help laughing, he really didn't have any good way to deal with his little son.

"My daughter-in-law is about to say goodbye to my mother, I wonder if you rested well last night?" Xiao Qingqing is gentle and polite, and she is really a daughter-in-law who can't find faults.

The more the queen looked at it, the more she loved it, and replied with a pleasant face: "Okay, you don't have to worry about it. I fell asleep last night after you left, and when it was almost dawn I heard what seemed to be a little wind outside, and then I stopped. I slept for a short time before I woke up. ”

"Then the daughter-in-law will rest assured, I will go back with you and wait for you to have breakfast." Xiao Qingqing said and took the queen's hand.

"I said that you don't have to get up so early every day, just have breakfast with the prince, and you don't have to come over to accompany me every day." The queen is really willing that Xiao Qingqing and the prince will get along as husband and wife, the prince has a lot of homework, and they can spend less time together.