Concubine GL

Just as the imperial garden was in chaos, a furtive figure flashed into the bedroom of Fengxi Palace.

"See empress." Du Yan smiled obsequiously, but his face was still a little pale, and the dark circles under his eyes showed that he didn't sleep well last night.

"Is everything settled?" Chen Lai obviously became more calm.

"It's all right..." Du Yan wiped the sweat from his forehead and blurted out.

"Is the bracelet on her hand?" The queen asked again worriedly.

"I'm wearing it! The concubine put the bracelet on her wrist with her own hands, there can be no mistakes!"

Chen Lai raised her eyes and glanced at Du Yan, and said, "It's better not to make any mistakes, or I will clean it up with you."

"Yes..." Du Yan's heart trembled, and he called out his bad luck.

"Okay, let's go down first, pack up, there will be a good show soon."

Chen Lai got up and waved her hand, and Du Yan hurried out in short steps.

Before noon, when morning came, Ru Huai heard the tragic news from Lian Niannian, and hurried to the Imperial Garden in shock and horror.

There are many strange-shaped stones piled up on the edge of the Bagua Tan, and a large circle of withered willows hangs down. The path is covered with cobblestones. It is obviously such a pleasing autumn scenery, but it is a little more desolate because of this.

Even the perennial high-pitched "The Emperor is here-" caused the crowd on the inner three floors and the outer three floors to be silent, and they diverted their way for a moment.

Jin Yan's body was carried on a simple table covered with a white cloth, the white cloth covered Jin Yan's body, only half of her pale face was exposed, and the inspectors stood aside with their hands down.

Seeing this scene, Ru Huai couldn't help but feel a little moved. He tightly held the bodhi string in his hand, couldn't bear to look at the golden frown, and only glared at the palace servants: "What's going on? Tell me clearly!"

The leading palace man couldn't push it, so he had the courage to go forward and said: "Reporting to the emperor, Yan Xiaoyi was found this morning, and there is no trace of fighting or struggling on her body. middle……"

"It's late at night, what is she doing in the Imperial Garden?" Ru Huai asked suspiciously, "Where are the servants by her side?"

"This servant, the concubine has already brought it." The queen's voice came from behind the bushes, accompanied by the sound of "plopping" kneeling.

"Slave...Slave She Lan, see the Emperor...the Emperor." She Lan's hair on the temples was disheveled, extremely disoriented, and she couldn't even straighten her tongue.

"Say, why didn't you look at your master? Where were you when you fell into the water? Why didn't you report it in time?" Ruhuai asked a lot of questions in one breath, and Musk Lan, who was already at a loss, was even more panicked at this time.

Seeing Musk Lan "I, I, I" I couldn't utter a word for a long time, and Chen Lai also said unhurriedly beside him: "This is a matter of life and death, if you dare to speak nonsense, I will wait to give it to your family." Let the master be buried with you."

After hearing this, She Lan almost cried, kowtowed and wiped her eyes, and said with a sob: "For some reason, Xiaoyi insisted on coming to the Imperial Garden last night, saying it was... she said it was to enjoy the scenery, but the servants couldn't help it, so they followed her Here we come. Unexpectedly, this night, the wind was strong at night, so Xiaoyi asked the servant girl to go back and get a robe. But when the servant girl came, Xiaoyi had disappeared. The servant girl was sleepy and tired after searching for a long time. Called more people to look for it together, but it was already too late at that time, and there were few people passing by in the imperial garden, and the servants did not catch them, so they accidentally fell asleep... It wasn't until this morning that they found out that something had happened... "Speaking, Musk Lan burst into tears.

"You useless lowly maid, send to the Sizheng Bureau for custody!" The emperor waved his hand and frowned when his ears hurt from the noise.

"Your Majesty, spare your life, spare your life..." Musk Lan's voice spread farther and farther.

When She Lan was dragged past Wang Yin, she grabbed the corner of Wang Yin's clothes swiftly and said with tears in her eyes, she was extremely pitiful: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you have to save this servant girl! Xiaoyi is innocent, she was framed ..." For the phrase "framed", Mulan lowered her voice very carefully, as if she was afraid of being overheard by someone, as if she would kill her.

Wang Yin glanced at her, gently pushed her hand away, and said with a smile: "Which is right and which is wrong, I naturally understand in my heart."

Musk Lan kowtowed as she was being dragged to thank her for saving her life.

Wang Yin turned around and snorted, hooked the corners of his lips, and asked Huai Sang beside him in a very low voice: "Is it all right?"

"Of course, I completely follow the orders of the empress, exactly." Huai Sang also whispered.

Wang Yin nodded, put on a nervous expression, and quickly walked towards the crowd with the hem of his skirt.

"The concubine sees the emperor, the queen." Wang Yin's voice was a little crying, and before Ru Huai called her to get up, she raised her head and looked at the bleak face on the stage, her eyes were red, "It's so good It's really embarrassing to lose one of my friends..."

Ru Huai also sighed, and patted Wang Yin's shoulder comfortingly.

Chen Lai wiped the corners of her eyes with the silk cloth pretending, then walked carefully to the edge of the golden hairpin, walked around in a circle, and asked the inspector, "Are you sure you accidentally fell into the water? There is nothing unusual?"

The palace people looked at each other and nodded hesitantly.

Chen Lai carefully lifted off the white cloth covering Jin Yan's body -- only her hands were folded on her abdomen, and her cuffs covered her wrists.Chen Lai frowned, and instead of looking at Jin Mao's hair-raising appearance, she gritted her teeth and stretched out her hand to open her cuff.

Looking at it this way, Chen Lai was shocked, there was no bracelet on Jin Yan's wrists that he specially arranged!

Chen Lai took a step back with staring eyes, and checked again in disbelief, but the jade bracelet did not appear in her hand, and it disappeared.

Chen Lai was in a state of confusion, so she spread the white cloth pretending to be calm, and told the palace man: "Check it carefully, there must be no mistakes!"

The palace people kept saying yes.

Chen Lai retreated back to the original place, with stern eyes, stared hard at Du Yan, who was standing among the group of little girls who came to see the fun in Huancui Palace, Du Yan hurriedly shook his head desperately, expressing that he didn't know what was going on.

"Hey, what is this?" Yu Tianxi, who came with Wang Yin, walked out from behind Wang Yin, pointed at the gap between the two big rocks beside Tan, and asked doubtfully.

Being pointed at by Yu Tianxi, everyone's eyes were attracted to——

The stones wetted by the frost-thawing water are black, and the pine green in the cracks is very conspicuous.

"Your Majesty, it's a tourmaline pearl." Lian Changnian took it and presented it to Ruhuai.

"Your Majesty, maybe it's Xiaoyi who doesn't fall behind." Chen Lai felt a little ominous, so she took the initiative to give this step to Jinxiao.

"I don't think so, it's better to investigate clearly. This Xiaoyi doesn't have a single piece of jewelry on her body, why is she wearing a cumbersome bracelet for no reason?" Wang Yin said, "I think there must be something in it." Concealment."

Chen Lai frowned, and glanced at Wang Yin: Sure enough, this girl had other strategies, but the jade bracelet disappeared, what a pity...

Not far away, Du Yan, who was already very anxious, saw this Bu Yao at first sight, and was almost scared out of his wits—isn't this his own Bu Yao?Why did it appear here at this time? !

It's fine if you know it well, but the so-called "good sisters" around you looked at Du Yan ignorantly, and chirped: "Sister Yan, isn't that your Bu Yao?"

"What? This is yours?" Ruhuai held the handle of Bu Yao, and quickly walked towards the group of little girls in Huancui Palace.

"No, no, this is not mine, your majesty knows it!" Du Yan flatly refused.

"Tell me, does this belong to her!" Ru Huai then asked the other girls.

"Concubine... Concubine doesn't know..." The little girl had never seen the world, and her face turned pale with fright.

"If I don't make it clear, I will send you all to the cold palace one by one!" Ru Huai's voice sounded quite intimidating.

"Yes... yes, I saw Sister Yan wearing it a few days ago!" The little girl was so frightened that she almost bit her tongue.

"Say, what's going on?!"

The emperor, the empress, and Wang Yin stood in a row together, and Du Yan was kneeling on the smooth pebbles, his face was earthy.

"Concubine... I don't know! Your Majesty! I don't know why the concubine appeared here...Could it be that my younger sister took it secretly, and then accidentally..." Du Yan began to make up things.

"You mean that Yan Xiaoyi stole your step and threw herself into the lake just to frame you?" Wang Yin said, "Your reason is too far-fetched."

"No, concubine doesn't mean that..."

"Then what do you mean?" Wang Yin smiled.

Du Yan's eyes rolled wildly, and he hurriedly pulled the corner of the queen's skirt and said: "Your Majesty, you know that my concubine is innocent, you must uphold justice for my concubine!"

Chen Lai frowned, seeing Ru Huai looking at her, she hurriedly kicked Du Yan's hand, and turned her eyes away: "How can I know whether you are innocent or not? I know best what you do."

"Empress..." Du Yan had a look of disbelief.

"Come on, send this shrew and her maidservant to the Sizheng Bureau to watch, and interrogate carefully!" Ru Huai turned around with her hands behind her back, and walked a few steps away, "Send Xiaoyi's body back to Huan if there is no problem. The Emerald Palace is at a standstill, tidy up and put in the coffin."

"Yes." The eunuchs behind them said in unison.

After Du Yan was dragged away, those little girls in Huancui Palace also retreated tremblingly with the one who carried the corpse, and Tan Bian became much quieter in an instant.

Wang Yin sighed, and said: "The womb is really not peaceful these days, so many big things happen one after another, it's hard for the emperor."

Yu Tianxi said mysteriously, "What's even more shocking is that both Xiaoyi and the former imperial concubine died unexpectedly. The concubine heard that the person who died suddenly was very resentful. The autumn wind is howling and strange..."

Ruhuai's expression changed after hearing this.

"What nonsense!" The queen looked at Yu Tianxi sternly.

Seeing this, Wang Yin stopped the Queen's hand, and nervously said to Ru Huai: "Your Majesty, Sister Yu is right... why don't you invite some Taoist priests who are good friends with the Emperor to come and do it, so that all the sisters can pray Peace of mind!"

Ru Huai nodded heavily, he must also be afraid in his heart, what Wang Yin said hit his heart, so Ru Huai said to Lian Changnian: "You go and tell the Internal Affairs Bureau to pay a few hundred taels of silver for the layout, please ask the Taoist priest of Yuan Lingshan Seniors, come down and preach!"

To Chen Lai, these words were like another bolt from the blue.

"Your Majesty, people die in the harem every year. This...isn't enough to mobilize people like this. There are people coming and going in the palace. It's a trivial matter if people's hearts are unstable. What if there are some troubles?" Calm, but his eyes are full of anxiety.

"It's okay, I have some friendship with those Taoist priests, but a few days of religious affairs will save these women in the palace from chattering." Ru Huai said, looking at the queen suspiciously, and asked, "It's only two or three hundred taels, the Internal Affairs Bureau Is it still possible?"

"I can... I can do it, I can do it." Chen Lai smiled apologetically, Qingzhu behind her pulled her wrench finger, and silently swallowed her saliva.

Wang Yin looked at Chen Lai with a smile, then looked at Qingzhu, he noticed that the expressions of the master and servant were not quite right, so he winked at Huai Sang, Huai Sang nodded, expressing his understanding.

Just when a few people were about to go back, a voice of a big eunuch reprimanded came from outside the crowd: "Little bastard, what are you doing sneaking around?!"

"Eunuch, I... I didn't do anything."

"It's nothing. Why are you shrinking your head? Hey... what is this? A jade bracelet? It's not bad, where did it come from?"

"This is a treasure passed down from my ancestors, give it back to me..."

Hearing the jade bracelet, Chen Lai's eyes lit up, and she shouted, "What's the fuss?! Come here!"