After I bloom, a hundred flowers will kill

Chapter 815 Relics of the First Empress
"His Royal Highness, Gu Siyi asks to see you." Shen Xihe had just finished reading Shen Yueshan's letter when Hongyu's voice came from outside.

"Let her in." Shen Xihe put down the letter, stretched out his hand to be supported by Biyu and walked out.

Gu Zexiang didn't come alone, but brought along several maids from the Department of Clothes of the Shangfu Bureau to tailor clothes for Shen Xihe.

The Bureau of Shangfu was in charge of the clothes of the women in the harem. Shen Xihe was pregnant and changed every month, so no one cared about the frequent arrival of the Bureau of Shangfu.

After measuring the size, deciding on the style, material, and pattern, Gu Zexiang was about to take the maid to leave when Shen Xihe said, "Gu Siyi, I also make clothes in private, and I have some patterns, please take a look at them. "

"No." Gu Zexiang lowered his eyebrows and followed Shen Xihe to the sewing room where Shen Xihe usually sewed, "Your Highness wants to inquire about the former queen?"

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

These years, Gu Zexiang was in the palace, first in the Yeting Palace where the criminals were imprisoned, and then in the complicated and chaotic six bureaus and 24 divisions in the palace. No matter where she was, she stood tenaciously. She was Shen Xihe's promising future female official in charge of the palace.

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

She once told me that she took care of the former queen.The former empress passed away before His Majesty ascended the throne, and before the prince was three years old, there were still people left by the former empress by his side, but these people were all released from the palace when they reached the age, and their whereabouts were difficult to trace.

This man made a mistake in taking care of the crown prince, so he was demoted to Yeting Palace. "

"Where is she?" Shen Xihe asked.

"She died of illness five years ago." Gu Zexiang said as he took out a jade pendant, "The lives of people in Ye Ting Palace are lower than grass, and no one looks at her when she dies. When she died, she was the first maidservant." One found out that she was holding this jade pendant in her hand, and the servant girl was also the daughter of an official, with some insight, she knew that this jade pendant was unusual, so she put it away."

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

The fine mutton jade, jade pendant carved a peony, exquisite carving, lifelike, blooming stamens, stretching through the light.

Such a thing, not to mention a sin slave, even an ordinary family of officials may not have it.

"The former queen's boudoir name has the character Shao." Pearl reminded.

Shen Xihe knew without Pearl's reminder.

Holding the tassel of the jade pendant, Shen Xihe was silent for a moment before asking, "Did she say anything?"

Gu Zexiang shook her head: "Mostly she is insane and has no symptoms. She doesn't speak, and bites anyone she catches. When she is awake... she just shrinks in one place and stares at another in a daze."

The only thing he said to her was that during the Chinese New Year that year, she overcooked a bowl of pills, and the man slipped his mouth, saying that she had served the queen, served in the Eastern Palace, and had eaten something even finer than that.

Immediately she realized that she had made a slip of the tongue, and quickly looked at Gu Zexiang. Gu Zexiang heard it but went about her own business calmly, as if she didn't hear it.

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

Gu Zexiang still shook her head: "My servant doesn't know either. When I entered Yeting Palace, she had already been in Yeting Palace for more than ten years."

The crown prince was three years old, three years since You Ning, a full 21 years ago, she died five years ago, that is 16 years in Ye Ting Palace.

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

"I see, you can go back." Shen Xihe didn't stay with Gu Zexiang much, and if he stayed for a long time, it would easily arouse suspicion.

After Gu Zexiang left the East Palace, Shen Xihe ordered Pearl: "Go and find out who were the queen's people around the prince back then, and then find out when these people were transferred away."

"promise."

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. Shen Xihe said a long time ago about the power of palace affairs. She may not always hold back, sometimes for better paralysis. The enemy must be handed over.

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

Regarding the roster of personnel changes in the palace from the first year of Youning to the 24th year of Youning, this is the most important thing. Shen Xihe can see the rules of some people coming and going from it. Combined with Lan Shangyi's help, the Find out the factions in the palace.

They are, of course, the first transcripts.

Pearl was easy to find out, but she had a solemn expression: "Your Highness, in the three years since You Ning, no one has been demoted from the East Palace to Yeting Palace."

It's not that there is no one, but this record has been erased.

Tianyuan soon came over with news about the list of maids serving by the queen's side and where they were going.

"They're all dead." Shen Xihe roughly checked.

The death is not suspicious, because these people did not die in the same year, some died of diseases, and some died of accidents.

The last one died in the eighth year of Youning.

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

"The person that Zexiang met may be just an inconspicuous servant girl. She must be taken care of by a smart maidservant next to the Empress." Shen Xihe closed his eyes and began to speculate, "This maidservant..."

Opening his eyes, Shen Xihe looked at the booklet that Tianyuan handed over, and it was on the name of Youning who drowned in the East Palace in the third year.

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

The cause of death was getting up at night in the cold winter, and Lu slipped into the Donggong Pond.

At that time Xiao Huayong was only three years old, and Tianyuan hadn't even come to Xiao Huayong's side, they were afraid they didn't know anything.

The queen rescued her and died, and the prince was established as the East Palace. Naturally, all the maids around the queen could not disappear overnight, otherwise it would be suspicious.

According to Shen Yueshan's description, all the people who accompanied the queen died that day. This maid probably did not participate in the queen's frame-up of Princess Qian. She was not there that day, so she was not silenced at that time and died in a sneak attack with others." the hands of the enemy".

She did her part and became the No. 1 choice to take care of Xiao Huayong, but she was likely to discover something that she shouldn't have discovered, which made her helpless, so she gave this queen's relic to the person she trusted the most.

Relegating this person to Ye Ting Palace under another name, and not allowing her to reveal her background, only then did she escape a catastrophe.

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

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

Her guess may be wrong, but as long as Gu Zexiang is not lying, such an exquisite thing must belong to the former queen.

(End of this chapter)