When Xiang'er left, Kou Shu slowly turned her head, but saw that the mandarin duck's face was very bad.

"Mandarin duck—" Kou Shu spoke again, but the mandarin duck remained motionless.

"Mandarin duck!" Kou Shu's voice was a little higher.

"Huh?" Only then did the mandarin duck come back to his senses: "What does Niangniang command?" ”

Kou Shu shook her head, stared at the mandarin duck's face carefully, and after a while, she said, "That Xiang'er just now, the aunt Wang you talked about, do you know something?" ”

The mandarin duck's face was even more ugly, nodded, and said, "Hui Niangniang, that Aunt Wang, is indeed missing." ”

"Dead?" Kou Shu was surprised: "How do you know?" ”

Mandarin Duck nodded: "Not only is Aunt Wang dead, but also Xiao Dezi of the Imperial Pharmacy, Meng'er and Ya'er, who originally served Concubine Xuan's palace, and later came to the Huanyi Bureau, as well as Mother Xue, who was serving in the outer hall of our palace, suddenly disappeared." ”

Kou Shu's face was even more surprised-the inner courtyard and the outer courtyard, the sprinkled and sweeping servants of each palace, the personal palace maids, the small servants, as well as the Huanyi Bureau, the Imperial Dining Room, the Imperial Pharmacy, the Shanggong Bureau, etc., there are thousands of people in the palace, and from time to time someone dies violently, or if they can't think of looking for a short-sighted, it is also a common thing, it is really nothing. But it's a bit unbelievable that so many people have had an accident at once.

Seeing Kou Shu's solemn face, the mandarin duck said timidly: "Originally, the slave maid thought that it was common for one or two people to die violently in the palace, so she didn't tell the mother. ”

Shaking his head, for some reason, Kou Shu always felt that this matter was a little strange.

Sure enough, within a few days, the bodies of the missing people in the palace appeared one after another in various places. All of a sudden, the air in the harem seemed to be filled with a strong smell of blood.

Kou Shu slowly sent the ripples of the green reed soup that had just been served to her mouth, although the green reed was not rare, but now it was the cold winter, and the green reed that was fresh and at the right time was transported from the Jiangnan fast horse.

"This green reed soup tastes delicious." Kou Shu tasted it, only to feel that it was refreshing and abnormal, and her lips and teeth were fragrant, and she couldn't help but praise it.

Hearing this, Ripple had a trace of dissatisfaction in his eyes, and pouted: "Niangniang, although this green reed soup is delicious, it is not specially made for our palace, as soon as I think of it, my heart is jammed." ”

It turned out that a few days ago, the Rong nobleman said that he wanted to taste the green reed, and Song Jinyan ordered the green reed sent by Jiangnan Weaving, and Kou Shu was only touched by the light of this Rong nobleman.

However, Kou Shu didn't care about these things, shrugged her shoulders casually, and said with a smile: "Ripples, what are you thinking about these things for, anyway, if you have something delicious, you think too much, your little head is not enough." As she spoke, Kou Shu smiled and stretched out a finger and poked Ripple's head.

Ripple flattened his mouth and tried to speak, but the door creaked open.

The mandarin duck walked towards Kou Shu, saluted, and said in a heavy voice: "Niangniang-"

Kou Shu nodded, and there was no look of ridicule in her eyes, but she said solemnly: "Say." ”

"The dead bodies that were just found in the palace are indeed the palace people who disappeared before." The mandarin duck nodded and continued: "Because the dead are all some subordinate girls, and some have been dragged to the mass grave to be buried alive, but the slave maid still invited a servant to go according to the instructions of the mother." ”

Kou Shu raised her eyebrows: "What is the result?" ”

"But they were all wounded by the sword and died."

"Indeed?" Kou Shu frowned.

The mandarin duck nodded.

Since that day Xiang'er came to Changle Palace to ask Kou Shu for help, there have been many deaths in the palace one after another, most of these people are inconspicuous little people, but one after another, no matter what palace it is, there are men, women and children, and it is completely intangible.

The mandarin duck paused, thought for a while, and continued: "Now it is rumored in the palace that it is the Qinglong sword in the palace of the noble man. ”

"Oh?" After hearing this, Kou Shu immediately smiled and said lightly: "It turns out that I was waiting here." ”

Mandarin Duck continued: "Now there are rumors outside, saying that the green dragon sword was originally a sword used to kill enemies on the battlefield, but it was contaminated with too much blood and gas, and it was not released. ”

Kou Shu chuckled: "That's what you said, could it be that the sword will fly by itself to kill people?" ”

The mandarin duck shook his head: "But what is said outside is the same, and some people say that they saw the sword flying to kill people." Seeing Kou Shu frowning, the mandarin duck cautiously stepped forward and said, "Queen Mother, do you think this rumor is not credible?" ”

"No," Kou Shu slowly took a sip of the tea in her hand, and then said: "It's true that people died, and sword wounds are also true, I don't care what the rumors are." But how this rumor came about, this palace is very interested. ”

"This ......" Mandarin Duck frowned slightly, the rumors were originally spread in people's mouths, who was the first to spread the story, and who made up this story, it is really difficult to say clearly: "Niangniang, why don't I find someone to check again and see who is the initiator behind the matter?" ”

Kou Shu waved her hand: "Don't worry, this matter is not over yet." ”

"It's not over?" The mandarin duck was puzzled and asked.

Kou Shu nodded, with a hint of seeing through in her eyes, and then said, "We know that so many palace people have accidents, but do other palaces know?" ”

The mandarin duck thought for a while, and shook his head: "The slave's intelligence network is closely related, so he knew so quickly that something had happened to someone in the palace." ”

Kou Shu continued to ask, "Then how many people in the masters of the various palaces know about this?" ”

The mandarin duck suddenly realized: "Niangniang is saying that the person behind it still thinks that the matter is not big enough, and there is a next move?" ”

"This is natural, a few maids and daughters-in-law died, just to spread gossip among the maids-in-law, and these things are not considered Dai at all in the eyes of the emperor and queen mother-" Kou Shu pointed to the palaces lined up outside the window, and continued: "And the real purpose behind this person's doing this is to let the superior know. ”

"The superior knows about this?" There was a trace of puzzlement on the mandarin duck's face: "But Niangniang, if someone knows that so many people have died, wouldn't they have to track it down?" What's in it for him? ”

Kou Shu smiled lightly and didn't continue to answer, but saw Ripples rushing in from outside the door in a panic, and said in her mouth: "Niangniang, it's not good, it's not good-"

Kou Shu's heart tightened: "What's the matter?" ”

"The leader of the light cloud group, the leader of the light cloud small group-" Ripple was out of breath when he spoke, but he still made the name of the person clear.

"What's wrong with Qingyun?"

The county lord of Qingyun is a relative of Concubine Shuniang and the cousin and niece of the Marquis of Dingguo. These days, I have been in the palace with the Queen Mother in the Ningci Palace, and I have been staying for a long time.

"Qingyun Little County Lord, she's dead-"