Chapter 329: Premeditated
That night, the emperor sent someone to the Zhengfa Division to remind Xiao Ti to get ready, and go to the concubine's mausoleum tomorrow morning to inspect Concubine Yue's mausoleum.
Xiao Ti told Luo Pingsha about this and told him.
"Tomorrow there should be people from the palace watching.
I'll find a way to distract them, and you take the opportunity to examine Concubine Yue's body.
Remember to be fast, and the range of movement must not be large, so as not to be discovered. ”
Luo Pingsha nodded: "Remember." ”
Yu Yuanyuan was full of expectations for the results of the autopsy.
Early the next morning, she got up.
Xiao Ti and Luo Pingsha were about to leave for the concubine tomb after breakfast, and Yu Yuanyu hurriedly stopped them.
"You're all out, it's boring to keep me here, or you can arrange a task for me too."
Xiao Ti thought for a while: "You go through Wangxue's information, she won't seek death for no reason, I suspect that she may have been threatened." ”
Yu Yuanyu immediately understood what he meant.
Wang Xue, as the most useful palace maid by Queen Wen's side, has neither lack of money nor status, and the only thing that can threaten her is probably her relatives.
Yu Xuan patted his little chest and promised: "This matter is on me!" ”
When Xiao Ti and Luo Pingsha arrived at the Concubine Tomb on horseback, they found that not only the people from the Inner Chamberlain and the Ministry of Rites were there, but even Wei Xiao was there.
Wei Xiao said with a smile: "I have never seen someone open the coffin for an autopsy, so today I have to have a long experience." ”
Xiao Ti ignored him and walked straight towards the interior of the concubine's tomb.
Others followed.
The concubine tomb is next to the imperial tomb, and the concubines in the palace of the Dayan Dynasty will be buried here after they die.
The officials who were in charge of guarding the place led the way, and they soon found the tomb of Concubine Yue.
The specifications of Concubine Yue's mausoleum are comparable to those of the queen of the main palace, so it can be seen that the emperor is really very fond of her.
Wei Xiao secretly sighed, maybe those rumors back then were not necessarily false.
If Concubine Yue and the child in her womb hadn't died, she would have really taken the place of Empress Wen.
Xiao Ti ordered people to dig up the grave.
The chamberlain and the officials of the Ministry of Rites stood by and watched.
The eunuchs in the Inner Chamberlain Division were fine, and they were just sorry for what happened to Concubine Yue, but the faces of the two officials of the Ministry of Rites were ugly.
When the Ministry of Rites learned that the king of Langjun wanted to open the coffin for an autopsy, it was resolutely opposed.
The Ministry of Rites Shangshu even rushed to the palace for this, crying and shouting and begging the emperor not to do this.
It is said that the deceased is the greatest, and rashly opening the coffin for an autopsy is disrespectful to the deceased!
If this matter is spread out, what will the people of the world think?
They are afraid that they will be drowned by the spittle of the people!
It's a pity that the emperor listened to and believed the words of King Langjun, and he couldn't listen to a word of other people's advice.
The Ministry of Rites was so angry that he fell ill after returning last night, and I heard that he was still lying in bed at this time.
Although he hated the traitorous villain of the King of Langjun to death, he had no choice but to let the King of Langjun do whatever he wanted in the Concubine Tomb, so he sent two officials to the Concubine Tomb to watch the every move of the King of Lang County.
As long as the king of Langjun has the slightest misconduct, the matter of opening the coffin and conducting the autopsy must be stopped immediately!
At this time, the two officials of the Ministry of Rites opened their eyes wide, staring at Concubine Yue's grave, and watched without blinking as the grave was dug up little by little.
The tomb is divided into two levels, the upper one is only an empty coffin, and after digging the upper floor, they have to go down the stairs to enter the real burial chamber.
Lopinsha and a few other eagle guards descended into the burial chamber.
Wei Yu also wanted to follow, but was stopped by Xiao Ti.
"Opening the coffin for an autopsy is not a trivial matter, and idlers are not allowed to enter."
Wei Yu: "I'm just looking, and I won't do anything." ”
With that, he jumped straight into the grave and walked down the stairs.
The chamberlain and the people from the Ministry of Rites also wanted to go down, but when they saw that Xiao Ti was still standing in place and didn't move, they hesitated a little, not knowing whether they should go down or not?
The eunuch of the Inner Chamberlain couldn't help but ask.
"Won't His Royal Highness the King of the County go down and take a look?"
Xiao Ti said lightly: "The air in the tomb is not circulated, and there may be poisonous gases, rashly entering too many people may cause poisoning, just wait on it." ”
Seeing that he was reasonable, the eunuchs also dispelled the idea of going down.
As for the officials of the two rites, they did not move after several weighings.
The Ministry of Rites Shangshu asked them to spy on the King of Langjun.
Where the King of Langjun is, they have to be there, and they must not let the King of Langjun take a step out of their sight!
The air inside the tomb was really bad.
Luo Pingsha felt that it was difficult to breathe, and he had to be prepared, so he took out a medicine bottle, opened the lid, and put the bottle to his nose and sniffed it.
A cool smell crept into his nose and immediately made his breathing much easier.
He handed the vial to the eagle guards beside him, letting them smell it too.
Seeing this, Wei Xiao cheekily leaned over to ask for it.
"What is this? Give me a smell too. ”
The eagleguards didn't have a good impression of him, and when they were done with it, they returned the vial to Lopinsha.
Luo Pingsha easily took the medicine bottle into his arms.
They worked together to open Concubine Yue's coffin, revealing the valuable burial goods inside, as well as two skeletons, one large and one small.
Wei Xiao covered his mouth and nose and leaned over, and when he saw two skeletons in the coffin, he couldn't help frowning.
"The bones of the little prince are still lying here, that is to say, the bones of the baby found in the palace are not the little prince, who will that child be?"
Luo Pingsha ignored him, took special gloves on his own, and carefully turned over the bones.
Wei Xiao immediately became vigilant and asked.
"What are you doing? Didn't King Langjun say that as long as the coffin was opened to see if the bones of the little prince were still there? What else do you want to do with the bones of Concubine Yue and the little prince? ”
Luo Pingsha asked rhetorically without raising his head.
"How can you be sure that these two bones must be Concubine Yue and the Little Prince? What if someone quietly put other bones here to confuse the public? I need to check it out. ”
Wei Xiao scoffed: "What are you kidding? This is the tomb of a concubine, who would dare to come here to steal the remains? ”
"The forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, if you want to know if these two bones are the concubine and the little prince, you can find out if you look it up."
As he spoke, Luo Pinsha took out the tweezers from the toolbox and picked up a piece of bone to take a closer look.
After so many years of corruption, the flesh had long since rotted away, and only a little crumpled gray-black object stuck to the bones.
Wei Yu stood next to him and stared at Luo Pingsha's every move, and asked coldly.
"You actually planned it, right?"
Lopinsha did not respond, and was busy with his own.
Wei Liao: "You said it was to prove the identity of the baby's remains in the palace, but in fact, it was to open the coffin and check the body of Concubine Yue, I'm curious, who came up with such a bold idea?" ”
(End of chapter)
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