Outside the window, there was a scream that pierced the heart and lungs, and it sounded like the howl of a ghost in hell. Mother Zhong was so frightened that she trembled, and several palace maids also looked at each other and stood with their hands tied. Ling'er's face turned pale, she stumbled back, and fell to the ground, her two eyes lost their luster in an instant.

"Ling'er, what's wrong with you?" Mother Zhong held her.

Ling'er trembled with fright, her eyes stared straight at a corner, Mother Zhong called her several times, but she didn't react at all.

A little palace maid brought a basin of cold water and said, "Maybe I was scared by something, Mother Zhong, just pour some cold water on her face." ”

Mother Zhong salivaed, sprayed on Ling'er's face, and called her several times in a row, before Ling'er came to her senses, she slowly raised her head, looked at Mother Zhong, and then looked at the little palace maid who was carrying water.

"Mother Zhong?"

The little palace maid stared at her with a pair of big black eyes, and looked at her blankly: "Sister Ling'er, what's wrong with you?

"Hand ...... Foot...... Also!" Ling'er thought of the picture just now, vaguely as if in a dream, she stiffly pointed to the window: "There are several large vats outside the window, against the window, I opened the lid, and it was full of ......"

Ling'er covered her face, and her body trembled like chaff.

Mother Zhong glanced at the little palace maid and said, "Xiangyun, you go and see what it is." ”

"Yes. Xiangyun answered, put down the basin, and was about to go out to see. Ling'er struggled and pulled Xiangyun to the ground: "Don't go, don't go!

"What dirty?" asked Mother Zhong and Xiangyun in unison.

Ahh

It was another terrible scream of the two palace maids, and Mother Zhong felt that there was something strange about it, so she wanted to go out and have a look. Seeing that the two screaming palace maids just now rushed in one after the other, their faces as pale as Ling'er.

"Hongxiu, Green Shadow, what's wrong with you?"

Xiangyun looked at the basin beside him, and wanted to splash them with cold water, but Hongxiu and Luying stopped one after another: "There are dead people in the tank!"

"What!?" Mother Zhong stood up suddenly.

"Mother Zhong, don't look at it, we can all see it clearly, there are broken hands and feet in that tank, and there are heads, fragmented, and it's scary to watch!" Hongxiu said to Green Shadow, and the two of them were still snuggling together.

"How is this possible?" Mother Zhong felt incredulous, Ling'er grabbed her clothes and nodded: "I saw it too." ”

"This ......" Zhong's mother ran out of ideas.

The inner guard took out a total of two corpses from the two large vat outside the window, and fought for a long time before they were about to be put into a human form. Judging by the bodies that have not yet completely decomposed, this is a man and a woman. The age should be around twenty or thirty years old, and in terms of clothing, they are all first-class internal supervisors and palace maids in each palace.

Rong Zhan was quite stunned, he had never heard of such a terrifying thing in the palace since he was a child. asked people to search in the Huxin Pavilion, but they didn't find anything else that didn't see people, Rong Zhan breathed a sigh of relief.

Since the time of the first emperor, there has been a precedent for entering the palace. When Dali Temple Qing Wenyuan took Huang An into the palace, he felt a little nostalgic in his heart, remembering that the last time he took Huang An into the palace, the first emperor once said to Huang An that his future is limitless. Too many things have happened in the palace in the past six months, and all those who have been rewarded by the emperor have lived in fear. Finally, when the new emperor ascended the throne, Huang An's life was a little better.

Looking at a group of wild geese that crossed the eaves of the palace wall, Huang An's mood was a little heavy.

The bodies were kept in the prison guards' quarters as usual.

Huang An was busy inside, and Wen Yuan waited outside the door, and several old internal eunuchs stared at him with big eyes, as if they were looking at a monster.

"What are you staring at this official all the time?" Wen Yuan was looked at for a while, and finally couldn't help asking.

A few inner eunuchs, you look at me, I look at you, and the first one said: "Lord Palindrome, the minions are waiting for Lord Wen and Lord Huang to go back to the emperor together." ”

"Master Wen, you say, who are those two inside?"

Wen Yuan stared at these curious old eunuchs, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and said in a rough manner: "When you entered the palace, didn't anyone teach you not to ask a lot? ”

A few old eunuchs naturally knew this, but once their curiosity was aroused, they couldn't stop it.

After a long while, Huang An walked out of the inner prison residence. The old inner supervisor brought a basin of water for him to wash his hands, and Huang An turned his head and glanced at Wen Yuan.

"How's it going?" asked Wen Yuan, leaning against the stone pillar on the porch.

Huang An's face was a little solemn: "The woman is about twenty, and the man is ...... If I'm not mistaken, it should be the great eunuch next to the first emperor, Xu Wenliang. ”

"What?!" Wen Yuan jumped up as soon as he heard this, as if there was a fire burning him under his buttocks.

"Xu Wenliang? He, isn't he missing?"

Huang An lowered his head and was speechless for a long time.

Rong Zhan was also speechless, since the palace was broken, he has been sending people to search for Xu Wenliang's whereabouts, but there has been no result. always thought that he was killed by Xiao Rongshen neatly, or went away to the end of the world. Unexpectedly, he died so humiliatingly. After death, they are hidden in a dilapidated water tank, slowly fermented, and forgotten in a corner.

"Emperor Qi, the traces of the hammer blow on Eunuch Xu's chest, the bones in his chest were all shattered, presumably he was tortured. Huang An crouched in front of the hall, talking about the cause of Xu Wenliang's death, but his head couldn't help but recall half a year ago, on the day Zhao Shangshu died, Xu Wenliang accompanied the emperor to inquire about the cause of Zhao Shangshu's death.

At that time, Xu Wenliang was in high spirits, and the first emperor was also in good spirits.

"What about the other one?" Rong Zhan was silent for a long time, and finally asked.

"Another ......" Huang An's voice was a little hesitant, he definitely hadn't seen this woman, because her cheeks were so rotten that she couldn't distinguish her appearance at all. Just by looking at the color of the clothes, you can roughly guess the identity.

"The other one is a woman of about twenty, looking at the color of the clothes, it should be the personal maid in the Niangniang Palace. ”

"Personal maid?" Rong Zhan suddenly raised his head: "The personal maid of the first emperor's concubine, how could it be that the eunuch died in one place?"

Huang An shook his head and said, "If you go back to the emperor, this slave didn't die with Eunuch Xu. Both of these people were chopped up and thrown together after death. ”

"In front of the emperor, there is no taboo to speak!" Wen Yuan reprimanded in a low voice.

"It doesn't matter. Rong Zhan waved his hand: "Let him continue, what kind of things haven't you seen in the Horse Frontier?"

Huang An bowed his head and continued: "This palace maid was killed with a knife, the injury was in the throat, when I killed her, I thought there was a violent struggle, this slave's finger bones were broken in several places, and they should have been broken during the struggle." ”

This is easy to do, as long as you ask the palaces, whose close maid was taken away by Xiao Rongshen's people, and then calculate by age, the truth can be revealed to the world.

"Your Majesty, in this palace, only the Queen Mother is the old man......" Qin Shun said in a low voice.

Rong Zhan raised his head suddenly, seeing Qin Shun looking at him meaningfully. Rong Zhan frowned, it seemed that only the Queen Mother's close palace maid was killed by Xiao Rongshen in this palace, could it be that this female corpse was the Queen Mother's close maid?

In terms of age, it's about the same, aren't the palace maids around the Queen Mother all under the age of twenty?

"Qin Shun, you go to spread my will, the people of Zichen Palace, don't move to Huxin Pavilion for the time being. ”

Qin complied, raised his leg and went to Zichen Palace.

Since the internal guards searched the Huxin Pavilion, they sealed the Huxin Pavilion, and the things moved by the Zichen Palace were also moved back. As soon as Mother Zhong returned, she instructed the slaves and maids to cook soothing soup.

Yuan Xi was a little surprised, but after listening to Zhong's mother's story, she was even more surprised. This is unheard of, Huxin Pavilion is the place where the first emperor enjoyed playing, who would have the courage to hide the corpse in the first emperor's place?

Ling'er and Hongxiu and Luying sat opposite each other, holding a bowl of freshly cooked soothing soup and drinking it slowly.

The three of them held the bowl and stared at each other with wide eyes. It's as if the person sitting opposite is not the palace maid, but the dead body that I saw in the Huxin Pavilion during the day today.

The people who looked at them were furious, and Mother Zhong couldn't help it, so she slapped them on the head: "It's all normal, hurry up and drink the soothing soup, don't be like three wooden stakes, don't scare the master anymore." ”

The three of them lowered their heads and gulped down the soup into their stomachs.

Xiangyun entered the dormitory silently, and said in front of Yuan Xi: "Master, I have inquired." The emperor summoned him to the palace for an autopsy. Listening to the inner eunuchs, it was a man and a woman, and the female one didn't know who it was, but I guessed which palace Niangniang's personal maid, and the male one was Xu Wenliang, the great eunuch who served by the emperor's side before. ”

Yuan Xi sighed in his heart, Xu Wenliang?!, that Xu Wenliang who was once favored for a while?

Mother Zhong was also a little surprised: "Xiangyun, don't you make a mistake, Eunuch Xu is strong in martial arts, who can kill him?"

Xiangyun shook his head: "Master, you can't be wrong, Eunuch Xu's face is not completely rotten, you can see it clearly, it's him." ”

Hearing the word rot, Wonxi only felt a burst of pantothenic acid in her stomach, she covered her mouth and retched for a while.

"Eunuch Xu has followed the emperor for many years, so he must have thought that the emperor would die because of him, right?" Yuan Xi stroked his stomach and couldn't help but shiver.

"It's a pity that Eunuch Xu, who was loyal to the emperor, ended up like this. Mother Zhong gritted her teeth and squeezed hard: "This Xiao Rongshen is really hateful!"

Yuan Xi condensed for a while, and suddenly felt strange: "Xiangyun, you just said that that woman is the close maid of a certain palace lady?"

"Yes. Xiangyun nodded.

"Do you think there is any suspicion?" asked Mother Zhong softly.

"In this palace, it seems that only the queen mother's maid has completely disappeared, right?" Yuan Xi stared at Zhong's mother: "Now the people around the queen mother are all towards Zhao Kezhen." Do you think it will be ......?"

Mother Zhong was also a little confused: "The master suspects that Concubine Zhao killed the maid in the Empress Dowager's palace?"