Those palace maids and eunuchs who came to see the excitement heard that they were going to be left here, and they were inevitably a little dissatisfied, they had sneaked out, and if they were found out at that time, they would inevitably be punished when they went back.

Then they knelt down and pleaded: "Mrs. Xi spared the little ones, the little ones just came to see the excitement, and it has nothing to do with this matter at all, and I ask the little Lord Xi to spare my life." ”

The sound of pleading was everywhere, and suddenly the entire Lingxiu Palace was like a pot of porridge, and everyone who wanted to leave made a noise.

Chou'er walked over and whispered to He Xi: "Little master, I have already sent someone to invite the queen mother and Your Majesty, these people ......"

He Xi's expression remained unchanged and said: "Let them make noise, the more chaotic it is, the easier it is to show their feet, the eldest prince will arrange a few more people to watch, there are many people, don't let anything happen." ”

Chou'er nodded, and led a few people towards the backyard.

He Xi looked at the position of the person, thoughtfully, everyone cried and begged for a long time, He Xi didn't pay attention to himself, and gradually lowered his voice, shrunk in the corner, and lowered his sense of existence as much as possible.

The courtyard suddenly fell silent, and He Xi knew that they were noisy enough. Got up, looked around lightly with eyes as calm as water, paused on everyone's faces for a moment, and then slid over, just like that, everyone's expressions were exhausted.

She pointed to the newcomers to Lingxiu Palace: "That day, you said that you had turned over the soil here, didn't anything unusual happen?" ”

The eunuch who was asked hurriedly stepped forward on his knees and stepped forward, and said cautiously: "Little master, we didn't dig deep, and we didn't find anything abnormal at that time. ”

He Xi nodded, and at this time, the voice of the eunuch came from outside the hall.

I only heard the eunuch singing: "Your Majesty has arrived, the Queen Mother has arrived, and His Royal Highness King Xian has arrived——"

When He Xi heard Tuoba Yue's name, her heart sank, and she remembered what he said to herself that day - if you didn't see your mother die in front of you, don't say such things.

Since the two broke up unhappily that day, Tuoba Yue never appeared in front of him again, was he too much that day?

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard footsteps, and from far and near, he came to front of him, and his elbows were held by a pair of calm and powerful hands, and he dragged him up.

He Xi got up, raised her eyes and crashed into a pair of dark pupils, and she called in a low voice: Your Majesty.

Tuoba Chen had already learned from the mouth of the eunuch who returned to the palace what was probably going on, and Pingbai found the body in the palace.

First invited someone from the Criminal Department to conduct an autopsy, and then invited someone from the Internal Affairs Department to check the identity of the deceased, looking at the palace people who were hulala and kneeling, Lan Ruo said with a somewhat impatient expression: "Sister Xi, what is this?" ”

"Most of them came to see the excitement, but the concubines were worried that there would be fish in troubled waters, so they all stayed for His Majesty and the queen to investigate."

From beginning to end, He Xi avoided Tuoba Yue intentionally or unintentionally, and the two didn't even look at each other, and no one in the hall noticed the subtle emotions between the two.

Tuoba Chen ordered someone to carefully check those palace people, and there were no suspicious people on them, so they let them out, and in an instant, more than half of the people in the palace were missing, and the rest were just some suspicious people who were struggling and couldn't tell their own situation, He Xi only glanced at it, and knew that these people had nothing to do with this matter at all, at most they were people sent by the palaces, with selfish intentions.

The people from the Internal Affairs Office and the Shen Criminal Division arrived immediately, and the steward of the Shen Criminal Division, Sun Gonggong, carefully looked at the injuries on the palace maid's body, and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, the whip marks on this woman's body are ordinary whip wounds, but the torture instruments of my Shen Criminal Division have been specially treated, and they cannot leave such whip marks, presumably this woman died of personal grudges." ”

Tuoba Chen slammed the table and said angrily, "When did my harem become a place for this kind of selfish desire? I really didn't take this emperor of mine seriously. ”

Qiao'er, the palace maid beside the queen, was in a cold sweat since she entered Lingxiu Palace, and she has not gone down, this palace maid, she knows, originally a maid in Zhao Concubine's palace who was responsible for sprinkling and sweeping, Zhao Concubine had an accident, but the emperor did not condemn these subordinates, but if you want to serve which favored master, it is not a simple matter.

She looked at Li Zhong, who was kneeling at the bottom, and saw that his face was also very ugly, but at this angle, he hung his head and couldn't let others see it.

She couldn't help but feel resentful in her heart, it's all this Li Zhong, what is not good, she likes such a torturous heavy taste, there have been countless palace maids who have died in his hands over the years, but he has always hidden it very well, but he doesn't want to protect himself this time.

Qiao'er thought like this, Li Zhong also thought like this, and at this time, Tuoba Chen's cold voice came down and said: "Li Zhong, can the identity of this palace maid still be determined?" ”

Li Zhong pretended to come forward to identify that the woman was originally face down, Li Zhong covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief with some disgust, and turned the woman's body over, because she had been dead for a long time, and her body was stiff and could not move.

Li Zhong wasted a lot of strength to turn the woman over, because her face had been soaked in the wet soil for too long, and now the skin on her face was already swollen, and she could barely see her original appearance, and her facial features were almost crowded together.

It looked very distorted and terrifying, and there were already palace people who couldn't stand the scene in front of them, and retreated to the corner of the palace wall and vomited, Lan Ruo also covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, frowned, and endured the discomfort of his body, and he didn't want to lose his demeanor.

He Xi looked at it coldly, she only felt that Li Zhong's reaction was a little strange, and even when Gonggong Sun of the Shen Criminal Division saw this palace maid, he couldn't help but have a surprised expression in his expression, but this Li Zhong-

I don't know why, He Xi suddenly remembered what Ruyi said to herself yesterday, Li Zhong's harassment of her, it was difficult for this palace maid Li Zhong to know?

Li Zhongzheng here is carefully looking at the features on this woman's face, and now in such a situation, even if he says that he can't recognize it, it will definitely not arouse suspicion.

As soon as he wanted to speak, the female corpse in his arms suddenly opened his eyes, and with a shake of his hand, Li Zhong pushed the woman's body out, and he was so frightened that he sat on the muddy clearing.

The dark blue robe on his body was stained with mud, and he looked even more embarrassed.

He didn't seem to notice it, hurriedly took a few steps back, let out a burst of strange screams from his mouth, stretched out his fingers and trembled and pointed in the direction of the female corpse, as if he had seen something terrible.

"She opened her eyes, deceived the corpse, Your Majesty, save me, deceived the corpse!" Li Zhong seemed to have lost his mind and crawled in the direction of a few people, tears flowing, where there was still a little exquisite.

Qiao'er endured her fright, and looked in the direction pointed by Li Zhong, only to see that the palace maid was half-tilted, falling to the ground, her eyes were wide open, there were no pupils, and the whites of her eyes were all white!

Lan Ruo also saw it, she seemed to be unable to hold back any longer, the things in front of her were really beyond her psychological defense, she screamed, her eyes were dark, and she fainted.

Qiao'er's feet were soft and she almost fell, but when she saw Lan Ruo fainting, she hurriedly stepped forward and pressed Lan Ruo's middle with her hand, and said in a loud voice: "Queen Mother, wake up, don't scare the slave." ”

He Xi turned his head and instructed Chou'er: "Chou'er, take the queen to the inner hall to rest." ”

Chou'er hurriedly went down and followed a few palace people to help the queen in, He Xi's face was slightly pale, but there was no fear on his face, Tuoba Chen was impressed by He Xi, he reached out and held He Xi's hand, so as to give He Xi strength.

This scene happened to fall in Tuoba Yue's eyes, he skimmed his eyes as if unintentionally, and asked in a cold tone, "Does Manager Li know this person?" ”

Li Zhong fell to the ground, his body shrunk into a ball, as if he was running away from something, and said in a trembling voice: "The slave doesn't know, this woman has no clothes on her body that can be distinguished, and her appearance is no longer clear. ”

Speaking of the word appearance, Li Zhong seemed to think of those terrifying eyes, only to feel that his body was hot, and a fishy breath came, and he was frightened to urinate and incontinent.

He Xi looked over, only to see the palace maid's dead face, she saw that in the palace maid's eyes, the white thing surged a few times, and it actually fell from the eyes, revealing the original pupils.

It turns out that the so-called whites of the eyes are just maggots, and it seems that they have really been dead for too long.

Fu Qing had someone take Li Zhong down early in the morning, and he bowed down and asked, "Your Majesty, what should I do, I can't even determine my identity now, how can I check it out?" ”

Tuoba Chen's face was gloomy and said: "Send someone to sort out a list of palace people who have disappeared in the palace in the past six months, compare them one by one, I don't believe it, is this still a nameless female corpse?" ”

Fuqing saw that Tuoba Chen was angry, so he naturally knew that the matter was serious, so he hurriedly went down and sent someone to investigate, and Tuoba Yue's eyes were staring at one place again, as if he didn't know what he was thinking.

The Emperor sensed his distraction and asked, "Did the Seventh Emperor Brother discover something?"

Tuoba Yue looked at him, and then looked at He Xi first, but He Xi hung his head and didn't find it, he pointed to the empty space where flowers and plants were originally planted and said: "Brother Chen thinks that this place should be rummaged through, maybe you can find any clues, but it is not necessarily." ”

Tuoba Chen nodded and ordered the palace people to carry out King Xian's order.