Chapter 14 The Unlucky Crow
Xia Baoer sat up from the bed with her small body, and she looked around.

The hall was quiet and empty, and there seemed to be someone talking outside the door.

"Mother..." Xia Baoer spoke, her voice hoarse and weak.

The conversation outside the door stopped abruptly at this moment.

In the next second, someone pushed the door and came in, Concubine Hui quickly walked to the bed with red eyes.

"Bao'er, do you still feel pain now?" She brushed aside Xia Bao'er's black hair sticking to her forehead, looked at her white face, feeling distressed for a while.

Xia Bao'er shook her head, seeing the teardrops falling from Concubine Hui's eyes, she gently wiped them away with her little finger.

"Mother is not sad, Bao'er is not sad."

Yan Hao followed closely behind Concubine Hui, and poured a cup of hot water for her. She helped Xia Bao'er drink it carefully, and then said distressedly: "Princess Nine, you were poisoned. Fortunately, nothing happened. It's really too much." Thrilling!"

Xia Baoer blinked her dark eyes in confusion.

At this moment, a eunuch shouted loudly at the door——

"I'm caught! My lord, the poisoner is caught!"

Concubine Hui was startled, Yan Hao quickly said: "My lord will dress the nine princesses first, and the slaves will go and see what's going on."

Yan Hao hurriedly took the door and went out, followed the little eunuch to the side courtyard of Fuhua Hall.

There are only two side rooms in the side courtyard, which are usually used to store sundries, and there is a well in the middle of the courtyard.

At this time, there were already three or four eunuchs pulling the rope around the well.

The surrounding ladies and wives all stretched their necks to watch.

But for a moment, a heavy, dark "thing" was pulled up.

"Ah! Is that a person?"

"Why do I look so much like Lu He who is serving by the concubine's side?"

"Ouch! It's really Luhe!"

The crowd started talking at one go.

Yan Hao looked at it, and the black thing that was pulled up was actually the hair of the female corpse.

The body connected to the lower head is soft white and slightly swollen, and there is a strange trace of blood beside the black lips, which looks very scary.

The eunuch who caught it said: "Your Majesty ordered a thorough investigation into the poisoning incident last night. As soon as Lu He was found, she refused because she had a stomachache. But after going to the latrine, she never came back."

A woman next to her answered, "It's her fault that she did something she shouldn't have done! So she just threw herself into the well."

"But look at her mouth, is there blood? If she drowned in a well, why would she vomit blood?"

Yan Hao hurriedly stopped everyone's chatting, and asked someone to cover her with a white cloth: "Don't scare the concubine and the nine princesses, you go and report to your majesty, and I will inform the concubine."

Suddenly, a few crows crowed in the blue sky.

Everyone looked up and saw a few crows hovering over Fuhua Hall.

The nuns groaned again and again: "The crows came just after someone died, how unlucky it is!"

Not only that, many crows slowly flew from all directions, flying around the dome of Fuhua Hall.

The eunuchs threw stones and drove them away with sticks. These crows flew away for a while and then came back again.

Yan Hao hurried into the palace and told Concubine Hui all these things.

Xia Hongmo heard that Xia Bao'er was awake, so he hurried over.

At this time, more than a dozen black crows had gathered above the Fuhua Hall, and their quacking voices were desolate and disturbing.

Xia Hongmo glanced at Eunuch Dequan: "Go and find out what's going on."

Dequan took the order to retreat.

Xia Hongmo stepped through the door, Xia Bao'er was pale and weak, leaning against Concubine Hui's arms and drinking medicine.

The concoction was very bitter, she tried her best not to frown, she was well-behaved and obedient.

Seeing Xia Hongmo coming in, Xia Baoer softly called out, "Daddy!"

(End of this chapter)

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