Chapter 41: The Dead Man in the Well

Although it had snowed, the weather was unusually warmer, and Jiang Liu took off the eunuch suit and wore the shoulders without feeling breathable.

This year, the people in the Yunyan Pavilion have all been given good clothes, not to mention wearing them, even looking at Jiang Liu, they have never seen them before.

Let's just talk about the clothes and materials, not to mention what kind of good materials they are, they are definitely sent by ordinary people during the New Year's holidays.

Besides, there is cotton, but it is all pure cotton.

The year before last, Jiang Liu's clothes were scratched by tree branches when he was wearing a eunuch suit to sweep the snow, and when he was helping to sew it in the rain, he found out what kind of cotton was inside? Most of it is catkins, no wonder the wind blows through the clothes.

Although Yao Chuxi had a miscarriage, whether it was the dining room or the palace supervisor in Shangyi Prison, no one dared to snub this Yao Cairen.

Guan Shanggong specially made two large boxes of new clothes and sent them to Yunyan Pavilion.

Yao Chuxi's mood has eased a little in the past few days, and she usually doesn't talk or move much, but she still smiles when Luoxue deliberately teases her.

Guan Shanggong thought, no matter what happened, Yao Cairen was only a seventeen or eighteen woman after all, and she was still very young at all, so why wouldn't she like new clothes?

Sure enough, Yao Chuxi liked the clothes sent this time.

Han Shanggong carefully touched the material, squinted his eyes and closed his mouth, and he didn't dare to intervene in the rain and snow that looked provoking.

After checking for a while, Han Shanggong nodded, and only after the rain and snow did he relax his heart.

They hadn't seen any good winter clothes in the palace for so long, but now it's different.

Otherwise, Guan Shanggong can be in charge of the entire Shangyi Prison, people are really skilled! Let's just say that half of the clothes sent this time are from her hands, and the embroidery stitches are not as good as the best embroiderers in the palace.

Touching a cotton coat, the broken mouth of the falling snow began to talk again, "You touch the falling rain, this dress is so soft, like a steamed cake eaten by the little master." ”

Han Shanggong and Luo Yu both laughed.

Yao Chuxi also smiled when he heard this: "Then next time you steal steamed cakes, I will punish you for eating this!" ”

"The little master is more greedy than the slave!"

After Luo Xue finished speaking, she seemed to remember something, and covered her mouth violently.

In the past, when the master did not have a miscarriage, the dining room sent steamed cakes and steamed rolls all day long, and she could eat a few pieces with her if she was fine. But the master was sad when he saw those snacks after giving birth, and he didn't dare to fall in front of her.

"It's okay, I just want to eat the steamed cake when it comes to it, you ask Jiang Liu to go to the dining room to ask for a plate."

Luoxue hurriedly answered twice and went outside to find Jiang Liu.

Yao Chuxi stood up with Luoxia's hand, and went to the corridor to sit and bask in the sun for a while.

At noon, the sun was just right, Yao Chuxi squinted his eyes slightly, and looked at the people in the Yunyan Pavilion.

Luoshuang was holding the quilt and putting it on the clothesline, looking like a quilt from Han Shanggong. In winter, the house is cold and cloudy, and the bedding also becomes damp, if you don't pick a good day to bask in the sun, I am afraid that I will catch a cold and get sick.

In front of the firewood room, two little eunuchs were carrying half a basket of silver charcoal, and it seemed that they were going to move into the front room.

Luo Yu and Han Shanggong sat on the steps under the corridor and were embroidering, which was embroidered by Yao Chuxi himself, so he had to ask Han Shanggong to help change it.

Ying'er and Xin'er put a large basin of clothes in the courtyard, looking like they were going to do laundry.

After Luoxue instructed Jiang Liu to go to the dining room to get steamed cakes, she returned to the courtyard, and at this time she stood in the sun, and the hairpin on her head flashed after being illuminated by the sun.

Luoxia brought a cup of warm water, Yao Chuxi picked up the cup and took a sip, and then warmed his hands with the cup in both hands.

"Why don't you go and get a hand stove for the little master?"

"No need." Yao Chuxi waved his hand lightly, "I'll just sit for a while, and I have to add charcoal to the hand stove, it's troublesome." ”

Luoxia agreed, and added some hot water to the cup.

After sitting for a while, Jiang Liu walked quickly into the courtyard with the food box.

"Little master, this is a peanut cake newly made by Mr. Yuan, and some powdered sugar is sprinkled, saying that you like to eat it the most. Although the steamed cake is delicious, it should not be eaten too much, so Mr. Yuan only gave one plate. Jiang Liu put the snacks in the food box on the square table in the front room one by one, and said as he put them.

He was actually happy in his heart, after all, his master hadn't paid attention to anything in the past few days, as if he was decadent, and Jiang Liu couldn't stand it. This time, the master actually took the initiative to eat steamed cakes, which is always a good sign.

"What are you eating?"

"Why didn't you report when the emperor came?" Luo Yu reprimanded a few eunuchs waiting outside the door.

"It's none of their business." The emperor helped up Yao Chuxi, who was saluting, "How do you feel today?" ”

"The concubine is much better."

"I asked Doctor Nian yesterday, and he said that your body has improved a lot, but it is winter now, so you should pay attention to keeping warm." The emperor looked at the people who fell into the rain as he spoke, meaning to let them watch more closely and serve Yao Chuxi well.

Since the last time the Yin incense poison happened, the emperor was worried and happy. I am worried that I don't know what tricks I will have to deal with Yao Chuxi in the future, fortunately, although the child was not saved, at least the person is fine, fortunately, Yin Xiang is not a poison that is difficult to treat in the bones, and it will recover almost after a few days of drinking medicine.

"Your Majesty, where is this fighting?" Yao Chuxi asked.

The emperor paused, "Chang Mingge, Zhao Cairen said that he has always had nightmares recently, so I went to take a look at her." ”

"And how is she? Have you been there? ”

The emperor nodded and said nothing.

He understood how sad Yao Chuxi was in his heart, and he didn't want her to think about it anymore.

At this time, Pan Zhenan came in and whispered a few words to the emperor, and then the emperor's face sank.

"You go, get it done, see if it's true, and find out who has been in contact with it lately."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Pan Zhenan said as he exited the east hall.

Yao Chuxi looked uncertain, but he didn't ask the emperor what was the matter.

Pan Zhenan walked to the courtyard and beckoned Jiang Liu to come over, leaving his apprentice Duan Kui in Yunyan Pavilion to serve the emperor, and taking Jiang Liu to run errands.

Now at this moment, Jiang Liu is walking hurriedly behind Pan Zhen'an, and there are a few little eunuchs with him.

Pan Zhenan didn't say what to take him to do, so he naturally didn't dare to ask.

After walking for a while, he realized that the road was wrong, he was already out of the back garden, where could he go if he walked again? Jiang Liu stared closely at the road under his feet, and suddenly found that this road was somewhat familiar.

How can it be said to be familiar, Jiang Liu searched carefully in his memory, and suddenly thought of someone.

Qing Fei!

The last time his master was captured by Bian Zongchen, the emperor took him on this road.

Could it be that this matter has anything to do with Concubine Qing?

After walking for a while, Jiang Liuyan watched the palace gate of Fule Palace pass by beside him. To be exact, he should have walked past the door of the Paradise Palace.

I continued to walk and turned two more corners, and then walked forward was a courtyard called Yin Linxuan, which didn't look much bigger than Yunyan Pavilion.

Yin Linxuan and Jiang Liu were here for the first time, but he had heard of this.

About the time of the first emperor, a concubine committed suicide here, I heard that she threw herself into the well, and later there were rumors that this place was haunted.

The emperor and the first emperor definitely didn't believe it, but they couldn't help but have a lot of people, and no one wanted to live in Yin Linxuan in the long run, and some people felt panicked even passing by.

This area is still remote, unlike other palaces that are wall-to-wall courtyards, and even the palace roads are full of people coming and going. Yin Linxuan's courtyard is an extra place, the front is not leaning on the back, ordinary people will not want to live here, and few people usually go here.

In a few years, this yard has been abandoned here, and there are some low-rise weeds in the courtyard wall, and the weeds have lost their color in winter, and they have withered there like no life, and it is not difficult to see that few people usually clean up Yin Linxuan.

Jiang Liu followed Pan Zhen'an into the courtyard, crossed the east and west halls to the backyard.

There was a well in the backyard, and there were three eunuchs standing by the well, and it seemed that the three eunuchs were left behind for these people.

"Father-in-law Pan." The eunuch led by him came over and spoke to Pan Zhenan first.

"What's going on?" Pan Zhen'an's attention was not on the eunuch at the head, but under the white cloth behind him.

Jiang Liu was shocked when he saw it. The one under the white cloth is obviously a dead man!

"The little one was ordered by the chief of the inner palace to bring people here to prune the weeds, saying that it was almost the New Year."

When the eunuch spoke, Pan Zhen'an had already walked around behind him, kicked the person covered under the white cloth with his toes, and then pouted his lips as if disgusted.

"A few of us cleaned up from the backyard first, and when we were tired of cleaning up, we thought about resting at the mouth of this well, and before this ass could sit down, I saw a dead man in the well, and the little one didn't dare to delay and immediately returned to the inner palace supervisor, and a few people brought it up for her."

After listening to this, Pan Zhenan looked into the well again. This is a dry well, and even a well with water will freeze into ice this day.

"Jiang Liu, come here."

Jiang Liu was stunned for a moment when he heard Pan Zhenan call him, and then immediately passed.

"What did Grandpa Pan command?"

"Look who that person is."

If there were other jobs, Jiang Liutie would definitely be able to rush to do it, but he was really afraid of it, and it was taboo and disgusting.

But Pan Zhenan said all this, and Jiang Liu had to do it hard.

He trembled and lifted a corner of the white cloth, paused when he first saw his hair, gritted his teeth and lifted a large piece, revealing his entire face.

"Ling'er!" The shock of this incident was already greater than the fear in Jiang Liu's heart.

"Sure enough, it's her." Pan Zhenan said with some relief.

"How did you die in the well?" Jiang Liu asked.

"Dead people don't speak, and you're not going to ask that question." Pan Zhenan squatted down as he spoke, and his fingers gently pinched the hair on Ling'er's neck.

Apparently Ling'er had been dead for a while, and there was a deep purple strangulation mark on her neck, and Pan Zhenan felt that she had been strangled to death.

Secondly, her body was a little swollen, as if she had been soaked in water.

The well had already dried up, and the normal dead had already begun to rot a few days after throwing it down, but Ling'er had nothing to do, which means that she had been soaked in water for a long time after she had choked her air, and was finally thrown into this well.