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When she returned to Lanxiao Palace, if Xie Danniang asked something, Xiao Ruo would answer what she wanted to hear. After coming and going, Xie Danniang was in a good mood when she heard it, and she treated Lan Xiao Palace with indescribable "kindness".

Since the day of the queen's funeral, Lanxiao Palace has naturally become the most lively place in the harem. Those favored and unfavored concubines, and those high-ranking ladies of the imperial court, all came up with their eyes. Even if they talked about which lady gave birth to triplets, Xie Danniang just casually said "En, ah", but they still couldn't resist the enthusiasm of these people, and they all thought of a way to stay in Lanxiao Palace.

It's just a noble lady, she must want to get a good deal with the biological mother of the future prince, thinking that it is good to be familiar, or to contact and contact feelings, and it is impossible to say that the old man and priest in the family will make a fortune in the future, and she will rely on this imperial concubine.

As for the concubines, of course, there is no shortage of ideas for what else they can do, and some of them feel that it is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree, and they want to lean on the big tree of Xie Danniang; It's just that more concubines dress up carefully every day, and then lie in this Feng Dynasty Palace, which is nothing more than knowing that the emperor will come here every day to visit the imperial concubine. Now although the imperial concubine is noble, but after all, he can't serve the emperor is not this man, when he sees more flowers, he will always want to come forward and smell it, maybe tomorrow which of them will be able to go to the emperor's bed, and then the mother is expensive with her son, and the imperial concubine is the same

The ideal is plump, but the reality is quite skinny, as everyone knows, after Lan Shikang arrived at Lanxiao Palace every day, he asked a few words meaningfully, and hurriedly left with political affairs as his head.

As soon as someone inquired, they learned that after the emperor left Lanxiao Palace, he went to the Feng Dynasty Palace of the first queen, or the inner room where the queen died in the cold palace, and sat for many hours. It's just that no matter how others inquire, they don't know what the emperor is doing inside, just that the emperor and the former queen have a deep relationship between husband and wife, and the emperor is just remembering the place where the former queen stayed.

It's just that this matter reached Xie Danniang's ears, and it suddenly made her like a fried hedgehog, seeing who was not pleasing to the eye, and what she ate tasteless, but it made the palace maids and eunuchs serving in Lanxiao Palace unable to speak.

After Jiang Ruyue's death, the inner room in the cold palace was sealed, and only when Lan Shikang went, someone would open it, and no one approached it at all on weekdays, and no one dared to approach there.

Outside is a clear sky, the cold palace may lack popularity, or because of the remoteness, there is always a gloomy smell, but the pestle outside the inner room to protect the emperor's Praetorian Guards feel that it must be because the queen knows that the emperor came to see her, so she hurriedly appeared.

In the inner room, Lan Shikang sat on the bed, holding four blank pieces of paper in his hand, the same size as all the papers, but there were no traces on them.

When he found the Empress dead that day, he found two of the blank papers in the corner of the inner chamber. I thought it was just a palace maid who accidentally left it there, but not long after, someone also found two blank pieces of paper that were nothing from a corner not far from the outside of the house.

Is it a coincidence Lan Shikang looked at every inch of the paper carefully, but he never found any traces on it. smells, no taste; Fire, dripping, everything, but still nothing can be found. But he always felt that something was wrong, or that there was something he didn't remember.

"Your Majesty, the commander of the Praetorian Guard has something to ask to see." Just when Lan Shikang was puzzled, Grandpa Zhang's voice came in at the door.

Lan Shikang put down the piece of paper in his hand, sat down on the bed, and said, "Let him in."

After a while, the only door in the inner room opened, and the sound of footsteps mixed with the friction of armor came in through the layers of curtains, and soon, I saw a burly man with a beautiful appearance, but a somewhat unsuitable figure, walked in, knelt down on one knee towards Lan Shikang and said, "Weichen see the emperor." ”

"But what new discoveries," Lan Shikang said in a low voice as he looked at the man in front of him.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." After Commander Qian got up, he bowed down and said: "Back to the emperor, Weichen has checked the female eunuchs of each palace today, and there are several people in each palace who have disappeared for no reason, but only one of them disappeared after the death of the first queen, only Lanxiao Palace." "Fortunately, the emperor doesn't like women, and there are no three thousand beauties in the palace. Otherwise, if this place was investigated, he would have been ordered to return to Xitian and accompany the first queen Feng.

"Lan Xiao Palace" Lan Shikang repeated it a few times, but he still had an expressionless face, which made the commander Qian who replied at the bottom unable to guess. "Who is the one who died, have you found it" Lan Shikang narrowed his eyes and looked at Commander Qian and asked.

"Weichen checked, it's the rough mother-in-law who cleans the front yard in Lanxiao Palace. It's just that Weichen has inquired about the people of the Internal Affairs Office, and the background is innocent before entering the palace, just an ignorant woman in a small village; Weichen also secretly inquired about the palace maids and eunuchs of Lanxiao Palace, and they all said that she was cowardly and often bullied by several other mothers-in-law. From this point of view, it doesn't look like a murderer. Commander Qian said what he had checked, raised his eyes and looked at Lan Shikang and analyzed.

It's just that since Qian Tonghui will mention this person, it won't be so simple. "If there's anything else, let's just say it" Lan Shikang got up when he heard this, walked to the window next to the bed, looked out the window and said.

"If you go back to the emperor, this woman really doesn't look like a murderer on the surface. It's just that Weichen accidentally learned that she and the palace maid Le'er who had just been executed were biological mother and daughter, could it be possible that it was because of the death of her daughter that she had the intention of murdering the former queen?" asked Commander Qian thoughtfully.

The commander has also been checking for many days, and he has not returned home for so many days, and he misses his wife and newborn son at home. But the emperor not only didn't believe that the first queen committed suicide, but also wanted to find out a murderer. It's just that after checking and checking, except that this mother-in-law who died for no reason can barely get some suspicions, there are really no other results.

But everyone knows that a woman from a small village may be a good hand at killing chickens and cooking with a knife, but it is impossible to kill people with a knife. Even if he was killed by his daughter, he whimsically wanted to kill the first queen, but the first queen was not a wooden man who stood there and could not move, and anyone could kill her. Besides, the first queen came from the Mighty Marquis Mansion, and she always had some kung fu on her body, how could she die so simply at the hands of a cowardly and timid ignorant woman

So where is this mother-in-law who disappeared for no reason, if he died, how did he die?

Lan Shikang always felt that something was about to be unraveled, but he couldn't figure it out for a while: "Let those people under your command carefully check all the places in the palace for me, especially around the Lanxiao Palace, and you are not allowed to let go of the slightest clue."

"Yes, Weichen understands," said Commander Qian, and bowed away.

The door of the inner room opened and closed again, and the inner room became a little dark again, and only Lan Shikang's breathing could be heard.

Just after Commander Qian left, when everyone was speculating about how long the emperor would stay inside today, Lan Shikang opened the door from the inside, walked out, looked at Gonggong Zhang who was guarding the door and said: "I want to go to Lanxiao Palace to chat with the imperial concubine Niangniang for a while, those idle people, you go over and deal with it first."

"Yes, the old slave knows." Gonggong Zhang replied, and then took the two little eunuchs and walked quickly towards Lanxiao Palace.

The women who were ordered to enter the palace to ask for peace had to hand over the folds, and in the past, they had to ask the queen's permission to enter the palace. Now that the position of the queen is vacant, it is natural to ask the highest-ranking imperial concubine in the harem to allow it. Although Xie Danniang said that she was very proud of the flattery of those people, she should have been annoyed by the greetings she had come to for a few days, so she no longer allowed the greetings, thinking that it would be quiet for a few days.

But the harem concubine didn't need to hand over any folds when she came to Lanxiao Palace to ask for peace, and she ran over early in the morning, even if Xie Danniang let people pass the word, saying that she was not happy and didn't want to see people. But those concubines are all thick-skinned women, and they all stayed in the main hall of Lanxiao Palace chatting with themselves, saying that they wanted to touch the "joy of my sister", but they were just waiting for the emperor to come up.

As soon as Gonggong Zhang arrived, the concubines above the hall immediately stood up and looked behind Gonggong Zhang: "Gonggong Zhang, but the emperor is coming" A concubine hurriedly helped the silk flower on her head that looked like a real flower, which she bought at a great price outside the palace, and she could smell the fragrance of flowers when she got closer

"The old slave greets the ladies of the palace." Gonggong Zhang asked for peace in a proper manner, and said: "If you go back to Niangniang, the emperor is indeed coming to Lanxiao Palace soon, and the emperor still has an edict, the emperor just wants to chat with the imperial concubine Niangniang for a while, and has no intention of meeting other idle people." With that, Father-in-law Zhang stepped aside without caring about himself, so as not to block the ladies from leaving.

This command immediately made the faces of the concubines a little ugly.

Seeing that everyone had no intention of leaving, Gonggong Zhang said: "The emperor is quite sad because of the death of the first queen. If you are fine, it is better to leave as soon as possible, so as not to make the emperor unhappy. ”

The emperor doesn't like to be close to women, if he makes the emperor unhappy, how can he have the opportunity to get close to the emperor in the future Thinking of this, a concubine shook her handkerchief a little helplessly, stomped her feet, and walked towards the outside of Lanxiao Palace with her personal palace maid.

With one taking the lead, the others naturally reluctantly followed suit. It made Xie Danniang, who heard about it in the dormitory, very proud.

It's just that she didn't know that Lan Shikang was here, not really just chatting with her, but also unexpected accidents that she couldn't imagine.

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