The death of Shuyuan was concealed from the top and bottom of Ningshou Palace, but it is not unreasonable for Pan Zhenan to gain a firm foothold in the palace over the years.

"Your Majesty, the slave checked that a person was carried out by Ningshou Palace last night." Pan Zhen'an's voice was not loud, and the emperor, who was reading a book, listened and put down the book in his hand.

"Who was it that carried it out?"

"It's a woman, her face is rotten, some people say that she was moved out of Ningshou Palace because of a strange disease, and later after an autopsy, she said that the injuries were heartbreaks, not like they were rotten in a few days, but more like rot caused by drugs in one day."

"What about the cause of death?"

"Suffocation to death, it cannot be ruled out that it was strangled to death." After Pan Zhenan finished saying this, he cautiously raised his eyes and looked at the emperor, "I said that there was more than one cause of death, and I found a lot of soft rice paper around the corpse, and I suspected that she was suffocated to death by smothering the rice paper." ”

This is an old trick in the palace, tying people's hands and feet, and soaking them in rice paper and applying them to their faces one by one, and when the time comes, the person will be out of breath, no different from suffocating to death.

The emperor's fingers moved, still expressionless, "It's the book, right?" ”

"The people of Ningshou Palace are strict-mouthed, no matter how they ask, they can't tell where the book has gone, I heard that it was before the New Year's banquet and was moved out, whether it was dead or alive, they don't know, they also insisted that it was the rough palace maid in their palace last night, if it wasn't for the slave sent by the person to guard it tightly, so they would have been fooled by them, or in the second half of the night, they took advantage of the patrol eunuch to change the guard to transport the person out, wrapped in a straw mat and thrown in the mass grave, if no one saw it, no one knew that they did it."

It's sneaky again, and it's taking advantage of the absence of the patrols, there must be something greasy among them.

Pan Zhenan knows, and the emperor knows even better.

"This time, Concubine De's hands and feet are really not slow."

"And how are you going to go?" Pan Zhenan asked.

The emperor didn't answer immediately, but asked rhetorically, "How is Shu Ying now?" ”

"The princess is much better, she doesn't delay talking and panting at this time, but the things that tonify the body can't be broken, and the medicine prescribed by the young doctor can't be broken, and the others are nothing."

This is already a good recovery, only a few days.

"Go with me, find someone who can write, and write down everything Shu Ying says in a while."

Good weather in the depths of winter is nothing more than no snow and the sun is shining, and today's day is like that.

Concubine De raised her head and looked at the sky with cloudy eyes.

There is no wind, and the sun shines on the body warmly.

She was there when Shuyuan died yesterday, because she was afraid that the girl Shuhuai would be unreliable, so she had to watch it with her own eyes to feel at ease.

And Shuhuai didn't dare to use the knife, nor did he dare to see blood, so he tossed for a while before choosing to use the method of soaking rice paper.

The night passed, and until now the voice of Shuyuan when he died is still in Concubine De's ears, big and small, but it has never stopped.

These two have served her the longest time, and they are also her confidants.

If she wants to say that she is sad about Shuyuan's death, she is really sad, she is not distressed, she is also really distressed. But she got on a boat that couldn't turn her head, so she could only keep going, and there was no almost, no matter whether the ending was good or bad, she only had to be obedient.

From bewitching Concubine Qing and bewitching Princess Shuying, to poisoning for the first time and poisoning for the second time, Concubine De herself can't imagine how much the thoughts in her heart have changed.

Does she regret it? How can you not regret a good hand of cards? But if she didn't fight like this, Concubine De couldn't let go of this breath.

has only gained a virtuous reputation in the palace for many years, no heirs and no real power, if she doesn't use some means, then her life will be in this deep palace in vain.

She had never felt so conflicted.

When the emperor and Pan Zhenan came, she was just about to go back to the side hall to rest, when the sudden knock on the door startled her.

"Who are you going to see?" Concubine De said to Shuhuai.

Shuhuai's current black green is very heavy, although she has done a lot of hurtful things for Concubine De, but she still broke new ground when she killed people with her own hands.

At the moment when she choked her breath, her tears couldn't stop flowing, and she fell to the ground without taking two steps when she got up, and when she woke up, she was already in her room, and it was late at night when the wind was raging outside.

The person who used to live with her is gone, and she is the only one in the empty room, and that person is still removed by her own hands, how can she not be afraid?

In this way, she almost didn't close her eyes for half the night, just sat against the head of the bed covered with a quilt, and when the candle burned out, she lit another one, trembling until there was some light outside, and she couldn't help falling asleep.

But this night, she didn't sleep well, like a dream, and it seemed to be a real thing, and she woke herself up first before Concubine De called her.

So much so that at this moment her mental state is extremely poor.

After listening to her mother's instructions, she glanced at the eunuchs next to her and asked them to open the door, but when she opened the door and saw someone coming outside, Shuhuai only felt that blood was surging all over her body, and her hairs stood on end.

It's not cold, it's not windy, it's just nervous and scared.

"The emperor is here?" Concubine De tried to stay calm: "The concubine asks the emperor for peace." ”

"Go in and say." The emperor didn't look at her, but skipped her and went directly to the main hall.

The golden gourd filigree stove in the hall was burning, and the emperor looked at the portrait of the beauty hanging on the central wall, and felt a lot of emotion for a while.

The person in the painting was when Concubine De first entered the palace, and she had not yet been poisoned by the Chen family, and her scheming was not as deep as it is now.

The most helpless thing for people is probably to watch the changes of the people around them, but there is no way to stop it.

Sitting on a flowered chair with dark green brocade, next to a black lacquer carved hexagonal table, everything was as when Concubine De first entered the palace.

Concubine De's dislike of extravagance is a well-known thing in the palace, and this set of furniture ornaments has not been replaced in this Ningshou Palace for many years.

In normal times, the emperor may be pleased, but for now, this woman who seems to be virtuous but has been thinking about taking his throne more is really terrifying!

When you are happy for her diligence and thrift, maybe it is a trap set by her, just to have a good impression of you.

When you praise her for her understanding and unscrupulousness, it may be her trick to make a good impression on you.

What a sinister idea.

The previous kind of seed was piled into the emperor's brain at this moment, and he suddenly found that the previous Concubine De was actually no different from the current Concubine De, in fact, she had not changed at all.

It's just that what she did was discovered by the emperor, that's all.

"The emperor hasn't been here since the New Year's banquet, what are you doing today? Princess Shu Ying is better? I don't know if An'er and Yun Cheng are used to living in Zhaoxi Palace. ”

A series of questions disrupted the emperor's thoughts.

"I came today because I heard something that I didn't believe, so I came to ask you if you had done those things."

Finished.

It seems that it is completely unbearable.

Shuhuai listened beside her, and for a moment she had a feeling of suffocation, she didn't dare to gasp or blink, and she looked motionless as if someone had tied her up with something.

"If the emperor has something but it doesn't hurt to say it, the concubines must know everything."

Concubine De is still gentle, like a piece of soft cotton that is not in a clump, so that the emperor has no place to use it.

But the emperor won't be eating this set.

As Pan Zhenan beckoned, a man who looked like a eunuch came in from outside, holding a square plate in his hand, and in the square plate was a piece of paper full of words.

"Shu Ying and I said that you tricked her into poisoning herself to poison Yao Guifei, but is there such a thing?"

Is there anything else to argue? If the emperor didn't find out clearly, how could he come here and say this calmly with her?

"There are no concubines, and I don't know why Princess Shuying wants to frame such a thing as a concubine."

The emperor sighed, it seemed that the wind and waves were calm on the surface, but in fact, it was like overturning the boat in his heart.

In fact, if Concubine De agrees to come down, it will be fine, or imprisoned for life or whatever, the emperor will always let her live.

Like Concubine Qing and Lin Jieyu, in fact, he didn't even think about asking for their lives, and many times captivity is more terrible than death, it is better to let them live.

Of course, the abolition of the Chen family is an exception, she is the murderer who poisoned the queen mother, and the emperor has no reason to let her go.

As for Concubine De... It seems that it can't be let go.

He stood up, and the two eunuchs outside the door walked in and motioned for her to go out with him.

The third prince will turn over, Yao Chuxi is overjoyed, and Princess Yunshu is when Yi Yi is learning to speak, when she sees something, she points and babbles and talks non-stop, the two children can not only turn over, but also climb twice.

It's just that he climbed backwards first, Yao Chuxi didn't know it before, and said with a joke, "Yunshu, how can you learn from your third brother?" He is upside down, and you are upside down. ”

Or Han Shanggong said, "Children climb backwards first, only a few children climb forward, the emperor used to climb forward directly, and the first thing he said was his father." ”

It seems that the emperor was surprised when he was a child, and he was a person who achieved great things.

What will the three princes and Princess Yunshu say in their first words? Father? Mother? Yao Chuxi has been bothered by this problem for a long time.

She wanted to be called the mother concubine, and I heard that children would learn what to call when they heard more, so for a while, they changed their words from the mother to the mother concubine, just so that the two children could learn.

Later, I thought it was good to call my father, so I asked them to teach the children their father.

This time, the second prince and Princess Yun Cheng came, and the task of teaching them to speak was given to the two of them.

Thereupon... Zhao regrets that the father and the mother and the concubine in the palace are constantly in the palace for a day and the second prince and the princess Yun Cheng are tired, and they took a nap at noon, and they can still guard them when they get up in the afternoon.

As long as the third prince and Princess Yunshu are awake, as long as it is not the time to feed, the second prince can hardly stop.