"Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess, Gu Siyi asks to see you." Shen Xihe had just finished reading Shen Yueshan's letter, and the sound of red jade came from outside.

"Let her in." Shen Xihe put down the letter, stretched out his hand and walked out with the help of Biyu.

Gu Zexiang didn't come alone, but brought a few palace maids from the Shangfu Bureau to tailor Shen Xihe.

The Shangfu Bureau is responsible for the clothes of the harem ladies, Shen Xihe is pregnant, and it changes every month, and no one cares about the diligence from the Shangfu Bureau.

After measuring the size, setting the style, clothing, and patterns, Gu Zexiang was about to take the palace maid to say goodbye, Shen Xihe said: "Gu Siyi, I will also make clothes in private, there are some patterns, please Gu Siyi take a look." ”

"No." Gu Zexiang lowered her eyebrows and followed Shen Xihe to the house where Shen Xihe did needlework every day, "Your Highness wants to inquire about the first queen?" ”

"Do you have a way?" Shen Xihe asked.

Over the years, Gu Zexiang has been in the palace, first in the Yeting Palace, where sinners are imprisoned, and then in the complex and chaotic six bureaus and twenty-four divisions in the palace, she has a tenacious foothold no matter where she is, she is Shen Xihe's optimistic future female official in charge of the palace.

"Your Highness, the maid met an old woman when she was in the Ting Palace." Gu Zexiang thought for a while and said, "She is sometimes crazy, and there are many crazy people in the Ting Palace, and no one cares about her." She was sober at times, and I spent some time with her later.

She once told her that she had taken care of the first queen. The first queen died before His Majesty ascended the throne, and before the prince was three years old, there were people left by the first queen by his side, but these people were later released from the palace when they reached the age, and their whereabouts were difficult to trace.

This person made a mistake while taking care of the crown prince, and was demoted to the palace of the court. ”

"Where's she?" Shen Xihe asked.

"She died five years ago." Gu Zexiang said and took out a piece of jade pendant, "The people of the Ting Palace, life is cheaper than grass, and no one takes a second look at it when she dies, when she died, it was the maid who first discovered it, she held this jade pendant in her hand, and the maid was also the daughter of the eunuch, and she had some vision, knowing that this thing was extraordinary, so she put it away." ”

Gu Zexiang handed the jade pendant to the pearl, and the pearl handed it to Shen Xihe.

The high-grade mutton fat jade, the jade pendant carves a peony, the carving is exquisite, lifelike, the stamens bloom, and the light is stretched.

Such a thing, not to mention a criminal slave, may not be available in an ordinary eunuch family.

"The name of the first queen has a peony character." Pearl reminder.

There is no need for pearls to remind, Shen Xihe also knows.

Pinching the jade pendant's tassel, Shen Xihe was silent for a moment before saying, "Did she say anything?" ”

Gu Zexiang shook her head: "Most of her is crazy, she doesn't speak, and she bites whoever she catches." When awake...... Just shrunk in one place, stunned, and looked at one place in a daze. ”

The only thing I ever said to her was that year, during the Chinese New Year, she brought a bowl of prison pills, and the man leaked his mouth, saying that she had served the queen, served in the East Palace, and had eaten something even more delicate than it.

Immediately, she realized that she was speechless, and quickly looked at Gu Zexiang, Gu Zexiang heard it but did her own thing quietly, as if she didn't hear it.

"What's her name?" Shen Xihe asked again.

Gu Zexiang still shook her head: "The maid doesn't know, when the maid entered the Yeting Palace, she had been in the Yeting Palace for more than ten years. ”

The crown prince was three years old, three years after Youning, a full twenty-one years ago, and she died five years ago, that is, she had been in the Yeting Palace for sixteen years.

Gu Zexiang entered the Yeting Palace, this person has indeed been in the Yeting Palace for more than ten years.

"I know, you can go back." Shen Xihe doesn't stay much and is fragrant, and it is easy to arouse suspicion if he stays for a long time.

After Gu Zexiang left the East Palace, Shen Xihe instructed Pearl: "Go and check, check if there were those queens around the prince back then, and then check when these people were transferred." ”

"No."

In fact, it is very easy to check, because Shen Xihe has been in charge of palace affairs, and all the internal affairs files have been handed over, and Shen Xihe said a long time ago that the power of palace affairs may not be dragged all the time, and sometimes in order to better paralyze the enemy, she has to hand it over.

Especially after Xiao Huayong decided to leave, Shen Xihe knew that without Xiao Huayong, she would no longer be the crown princess, and if she was in charge of the palace again, she would be a little unjustifiable.

Regarding the roster of personnel changes in the palace from the first year of Youning to the twenty-fourth year of Youning, this is the most important thing, Shen Xihe can see the law of some people coming and going, and combined with Lan Shangyi's help, find out the factions in the palace.

Naturally, they were the first transcriptions.

The pearl was easy to find, but her face was solemn: "Your Highness, in the three years of Youning, no one has been demoted from the East Palace to the Yeting Palace. ”

Not that there was no one, but that this record was erased.

Tianyuan soon came with news, which was about the list of palace maids who served by the queen's side at the beginning, and the whereabouts of these people.

"All dead." Shen Xihe roughly flipped through it.

There is no doubt that they died, because none of them died in the same year, some died of disease, some died of accidents.

The last died in the eighth year of Yuning.

What a coincidence, the eighth year of Youning was the year when Xiao Huayong was poisoned by eating butter cherries by mistake in the Ming Zheng Palace.

"The person Zexiang met may just be an inconspicuous rough girl, she must be taken care of by a smart big girl next to the queen." Shen Xihe closed his eyes and began to speculate, "This big girl ......"

Opening his eyes, Shen Xihe looked at the booklet handed over by Tianyuan, which fell on the name of the drowning in the East Palace in the third year of Youning.

She is the queen's eldest maid, and she is also the female official in charge of the East Palace after the queen's death.

The cause of death was a cold winter night, and the road slipped and was planted in the East Palace Pond.

At that time, Xiao Huayong was only three years old, and Tianyuan had not yet come to Xiao Huayong's side, they were afraid that they would not know anything.

The queen died in the rescue, and the prince was established as the East Palace, and the maidservants around the queen naturally could not all disappear overnight, otherwise it would be suspicious.

According to Shen Yueshan's description, everyone who accompanied the queen that day died, so this big girl should have not participated in the queen's framing of Princess Qian, and was not present that day, so she was not killed at that time, and died at the hands of the "enemy army" who attacked with others.

She became the first person to take care of Xiao Huayong, but she probably found something that she shouldn't have discovered, so she couldn't do anything, so she handed over this queen's relic to the person she trusted the most.

demoted this person to the Yeting Palace under other names, and she was not allowed to reveal her origins, so she escaped.

Maybe she told this person to wait for the prince to come looking for her, but Xiao Huayong didn't look for it after all, and she didn't know about it.

"This is the relic of the former queen." Shen Xihe was very sure at this moment.

Her speculation may be biased, but as long as Gu Zexiang is not lying, such a delicate thing must belong to the first queen.

(End of chapter)