Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Ugly Secrets of the Imperial Palace (Revision)
The next day, the spring rain stopped, and the dark rain marks remained on the bluestone slab when the sun warmed up.
The air after the rain is exceptionally fresh, and the smell of fresh water is interspersed with wisps of flowers and plants, which makes people feel comfortable.
"Your Majesty, it's not good, it's not good, something happened to my mother."
"What are you doing! Why can't I make a loud noise and disturb the Holy Dragon's Sleep? You know who I am, so why don't you tell me quickly..."
The palace maid Green Lotus went around looking for the emperor, but was unexpectedly stopped on the first floor by the soldiers guarding the Jinque Tower, and she couldn't ask for it.
Xiao Jingyu heard the noisy sound in his sleep, frowned, turned sideways, put his wide palm on the back of the beauty in his arms, and swiped up and down a few times, feeling that the hand felt slightly unfamiliar, and he couldn't correspond to the face of the harem concubine for a while, and opened his eyes suspiciously.
The person in front of him sleeps peacefully, and his long eyelashes are intertwined with each other, outlining a corner of his stunning face.
Xiao Jingyu stared at him for a long time, until those eyes suddenly opened like a hollow valley orchid, and then he withdrew his stagnant gaze in shock, and asked as usual: "Brother Xiao, why am I here with you?"
Han Qing frowned slightly, and pulled the brocade quilt underneath, and the two of them tightly intertwined their legs, and Xiao Jingyu released it in a panic.
Han Qing pulled away his loose black hair and sat up lazily, the brocade quilt slid down his waist with his movements, revealing his lean and firm chest, and there were a few fresh kiss marks on his white chest and neck.
Xiao Jingyu breathed a sigh of relief.
Han Qing's dark eyes flowed, and slowly fell on his secretly suspicious face.
"Han Gongzi, are you awake?" Under the voice of the palace maid Moon Shadow questioning the soldiers with an angry glare from the green lotus, she smiled and slowly went upstairs, and her soft voice rang out outside the door.
"Come in." Han Qing straightened his figure and replied.
Moon Shadow came step by step with breakfast, and the streamers flew between the skirts, reflecting the beautiful face of this moon shadow, like a fairy envoy in the sky, and it was good-looking.
"Moon Shadow, give me new clothes." When the words fell, he glanced at Xiao Jingyu with dark eyes, and Xiao Jingyu, who was lying next to him, added: "Prepare one for him too."
"Yes." Moon Shadow saw that the emperor was on Han Qing's bed, his eyes were uncertain, and he wanted to speak, but under Han Qing's signal, he closed his mouth and slowly retreated.
"I ......"
Han Qing didn't speak, staring straight at Xiao Jingyu's ashamed face, thinly slashing the corners of his upturned lips, and hooking a meaningful smile on his side.
"Your Majesty...... Emperor...... Something happened to our mother-in-law......" shouted again downstairs.
Xiao Jingyu wanted to get up and go out to see the movement, and was surprised to find that the two of them were naked, and there was no trace of clothes in the empty room, and sat back on the bed silently in front of Han Qing's playful eyes.
Xiao Jingyu pulled up the quilt uncomfortably, and the atmosphere between the two of them became a little more subtle in an instant.
Xiao Jingyu was like a stalk in his throat, wanting to ask what happened last night, why did even his clothes fly away?
Han Qing's slender fingers played with the ends of his hair, and his narrow eyes stared at him interestingly, without the meaning of answering.
Under his blazing gaze, Xiao Jingyu actually gave birth to a little uncomfortable seeing the bride after the candle night in the newlywed cave room.
About a quarter of an hour later, Moon Shadow brought the court clothes to the Golden Gate Tower with a few other palace maids who usually served the emperor.
Han Qing and Xiao Jingyu were finally unclothed under the service of several palace maids.
Xiao Jingyu heard the unstop shouting outside the door, calmed down, sat down on the stool, and ordered: "Who is making noise downstairs and bringing it up."
As soon as Lu He went upstairs, he immediately fell to the ground, tears in his eyes and horror: "Our mother was attacked last night."
Xiao Jingyu's face changed, and his charming thoughts immediately dissipated, and he got up excitedly, and the overturned chair made a stinging sound on the ground.
"What was killed, in detail." Xiao Jingyu pointed to the green lotus and ordered solemnly.
"Woo, when we went to serve Niangniang and got up, when we opened the curtain, we found that Niangniang's body was lying in a pool of blood, her eyes were gouged out, her hands and feet were all broken, and her body was cut into a blur of flesh and blood. She's waiting for you, Your Majesty, you must be the master for our mother, woo woo. ”
Han Qing picked up a cake in a good mood, opened his mouth and took a bite, his eyes kept looking at Xiao Jingyu's side, with the pleasure of watching the play.
The green lotus knocked on the ground a few times, Xiao Jingyu left everyone, opened the door, and shouted loudly: "Come on, Gao Sheng, go to Ronghua Pavilion with me quickly."
"Your Majesty, Manager Gao Sheng, fought with General Mu in the rain yesterday and was wounded in bed." The father-in-law at the bottom stepped forward to report.
Xiao Jingyu frowned, beckoned impatiently and said, "You come with me." Then he strode away, and the green lotus looked up and found that the emperor was gone, so he hurriedly ran down and chased after him.
When Xiao Jingyu stepped into the Ronghua Pavilion, he saw the palace maids staying outside the boudoir, crying helplessly, and the atmosphere was very heavy.
Xiao Jingyu pursed his lips, walked quickly to the boudoir, looked at the bloody handprints on the light purple bed curtain, his pupils tightened, and he opened it in an uproar, staring at the jade body of the *.
There was only a terrifying blood hole left in Sima Jiao's eyes, and the two eyeballs with nerves were placed upright on his chest, undulating with his breathing, staring at Xiao Jingyu strangely.
Her body was covered with traces of desire, and her white and flawless carcass was cut by a knife at the moment.
"Your Majesty, you have to make the decision for me and catch the thief ......" a fragile voice came out of that mouth.
Xiao Jingyu's fingers tightly grasped the bed curtain, the green tendons bulged out on the back of her white hand, leaned over her ear, slowly closed her eyes in disappointment, and said in pain: "Why are you still alive?"
"Your Majesty ......" Sima Jiao endured the pain and fear of being mutilated and supported until dawn, but she didn't expect to wait for Xiao Jingyu's words, the blood in her body instantly cooled, and she shouted sadly.
"Do you want to be laughed at every day?" Xiao Jingyu was in her ear, threw down this sentence, and left resolutely.
"Hahahahaha......" The mournful laughter spread in the Ronghua Pavilion, from big to small, and finally gradually extinguished.
Outside the Ronghua Pavilion, the gorgeous and graceful peony hangs with the raindrops, there is no shy color, the colorful butterfly bee is playing among the flowers, there is a full spring.
In the Ronghua Pavilion, the atmosphere was serious, and the people who came in and out were all dignified, and more than a dozen soldiers wearing armor held long soldiers in their hands, strictly guarding the door of Zhu.
A imperial doctor dressed in plain white clothes bowed his hand to Yan Zijin and Li Junye, who rushed to hear the news.
The imperial physician arched his hand with a hidden face: "In order to find out the main cause of Concubine Rong's death, this matter is complicated, please discuss it in detail with the two prime ministers."
Li Junye and Yan Zijin glanced at each other, and they both knew that this matter was not simple.
The three of them walked to a secluded corner, and Doctor Wen watched the two of them consider how to speak.
"Doctor Wen, but it doesn't hurt to say it." Li Junye said.
"Concubine Rong Gui Niangniang, this morning, was found by the palace maids biting her tongue and committing suicide on the boudoir bed, bleeding everywhere, and her death was extremely miserable.
His eyes were gouged out by a knife, and his whole body was cut nine hundred and eighty-one times, and the wound was less than half an inch deep.
In addition, the concubine was sexually assaulted before her death, with kiss marks on her chest, and a man's relics remained on her lower body. ”
In the last sentence, the imperial doctor said it in an extremely low voice, this is a taboo scandal in the palace, and it insults the reputation of the concubine.
Li Junye and Yan Zijin looked at each other and were silent.
The two walked heavily into the Ronghua Pavilion, and saw Sima Huan pinching the palace maid's neck at the door, crying profusely: "You damned slaves, what did you do last night, you let my sister die a tragic death, you give my sister a funeral."
Yan Zijin and Li Junye hurriedly stepped forward, broke Sima Huan's hand, and said comfortingly: "General Sima, we will definitely find out the murderer, please don't involve your life for no reason."
"You'd better find out the real culprit, or I won't give up." Sima Huan pushed the palace maid to the ground and left angrily.
Yan Zijin and Li Junye went to the boudoir and lifted the bed curtain to take a look at the corpse that had been dressed.
The two put on sheepskin gloves, broke open the deceased's mouth, looked at the broken tongue, lifted the sleeves, lifted the deceased's soft and slender wrist, which was still warm, and checked the smooth incision on the hand.
Then, he checked the nooks and crannies of the room.
In the end, the two went out together with heavy faces, and when they raised their eyes, they saw Xiao Jingyu standing outside the door of Ronghua Pavilion with his head back, and his slender and tall figure looked extremely sad at the moment.
The two didn't know when the emperor would arrive, so they stepped forward and patted him comfortingly.
"Two Aiqing, this time we must catch the murderer of Jiaojiao, return her innocence, and give an explanation to the Sima family."
Xiao Jingyu turned around and said bitterly, a pair of phoenix eyes were red with some tears of grief, and the handsome jade face was a little obvious fragility.
"We're going to do everything we can to catch the real culprit." The two said comfortingly, Xiao Jingyu's phoenix eyes that hung down were not easy to flicker dimly.
"The aftermath of this matter is entrusted to you." Xiao Jingyu grabbed the hands of the two of them, clapped his hands and said please, and then walked away sadly under the support of the eunuch.
Yan Zijin and Li Junye, the two walked to a quiet pavilion with few people, and communicated with each other, and they had just explored the scene and got the news.
Li Junye picked up the white jade gourd bottle on his waist, took a big sip, sighed and said, "I'm afraid this matter is not easy to investigate."
Yan Zijin nodded depressedly, closed the folding fan and patted his hands, and said angrily: "This murderer is too cunning, he wiped all traces away."
"It's not that all the traces have been erased, there are them on Concubine Rong." Li Junye glanced at his friend, put on the cork and said leisurely.
"The injuries on the body of Guanrong Guifei were all cut with ninety-nine eighty-one knives, but the knives were cut neatly, and there was no difference in thickness and length, less than half an inch deep.
The serious injury was a gouged out eye, and the cut surface was neatly dug out.
And don't break the tendons of your hands and feet, I'm afraid Concubine Rong will not be able to walk and use her hands for the rest of her life.
I am afraid that the murderer's purpose is more out of revenge and humiliation of the deceased, rather than lustful. In order to prevent the deceased from committing suicide, he stuffed clothes in his mouth.
This murderer is very cautious and vicious, and wiped out all the evidence remaining at the scene, but if you think about it carefully, you can actually deduce the scene of last night. ”
Li Junye analyzed carefully, and just as he wanted to say the scene of the crime that he had restored, Yan Zijin exited, hurriedly stopped him and said, "Wait, let me talk about it."
Li Junye smiled and spread his hands to signal him to tell.