Concubine

Chapter 427 Visiting the Tomb (asking for a monthly ticket)

Lian'er said: "Your Majesty's health has not been very good, but there is no serious illness. The imperial doctor said it was Yin deficiency, so she has been taking supplements. When the army returned to the capital and passed Lincheng in Shandong, the weather was very hot that day. The Emperor and Your Majesty slept soundly. It was very late, after me and several other maids, my father-in-law served the emperor, and my mother went to bed, they left. Eunuch Jin and I were waiting outside the door."

Yang Qiuchi asked: "Eunuch Jin? Is it the eunuch Jin Liang who is in charge of the eunuch Jin Liang who accompanied the expedition?"

"Yes." Lian'er said, "After half an hour or so, an emergency military report came. Eunuch Jin entered the room and reported to the emperor. I went in to help the emperor put on the dragon robe, and the emperor went to the station study to read the memorial. Yes. Eunuch Jin also left with the emperor, leaving me alone waiting outside the door."

"Is the concubine Xian not up yet?"

"No, when I was helping the emperor to dress, the empress was going to get up, but said that she had a headache, so the emperor let her sleep by herself, don't get up. So the empress didn't get up."

"Headache?" Yang Qiuchi asked, "Didn't you ask the imperial physician?"

"No, the empress refused, saying that the pain is not severe, it's okay, it'll be fine after a while."

"Besides the headache, are there any other symptoms?"

Lian'er thought for a while and said, "Not anymore, I just said I had a headache. Then I went to sleep."

"And then? Have you ever been among them?"

"No, I have been waiting at the door. When we are on duty, we can only wait at the door. Without the call of the empress, we can't enter casually. I haven't heard the call from the empress until after the fifth watch. I feel very strange... ..."

Yang Qiuchi interjected and asked, "Did my mother call you at night before?"

"Yes, the empress is not in good health. She sweats at night and is thirsty. She often drinks water and then urinates. In the past, it was too hot and she asked me to fan her. But later, the imperial doctor said that the empress was yin deficiency, and she should not be exposed to the cool wind in the hot summer." , so I seldom let the fans sleep, and don’t open the windows.”

Yang Qiuchi nodded. He knew that the theory of traditional Chinese medicine believes that wind is the root of all diseases, and the nature of wind is dredging. There are some pathogenic factors in the wind, such as wind-cold, rheumatism, etc., so Chinese medicine doctors generally say to avoid wind and cold.This is the common sense of Chinese medicine, but he knows a little bit.

Yang Qiuchi motioned for Lian'er to continue.

Lian'er continued: "After I entered the room, I called my lady softly from a distance, but I didn't hear an answer. I went to the bed and called again, but I still didn't hear an answer. It stands to reason that my lady can't sleep. It was so heavy, I panicked, stretched out my hand and pushed it lightly, but the empress still didn’t move, because there was no light in the room, I couldn’t see what was wrong with the empress——the empress never liked to light up the lamp when she was sleeping, she said that she couldn’t sleep like that I hurriedly found Flint and lit the lamp, and when I saw it, the empress was motionless with her eyes open, and she spit out a puddle from her mouth..."

Yang Qiuchi interjected again and asked, "Have you ever touched her hands and feet? Are they stiff?"

"No stiffness, I shook my mother's body, she didn't move, her eyes were staring straight ahead, she couldn't move anymore. I was frightened, I ran out crying, and went to call Wang Sicai, Wang Sicai is here After seeing it, I panicked and told me to call the imperial physician quickly. I hurried to call the imperial physician, and at the same time asked the father-in-law who was on duty outside to report to the emperor. Later, the two imperial physicians and the emperor came. After the imperial physician checked, he said ... Said that the empress has died of illness."

Yang Qiuchi asked: "What did your mother eat that day in Lincheng?"

"It's hot, my lady doesn't have much appetite. She only drank some porridge at noon and a small bowl of noodle tea before going to bed at night. She didn't eat anything else."

What Lian Er said was similar to what the imperial physician and Wang Sicai said, and it seemed that the general situation was like this.

After leaving the service room, Song Yun'er couldn't help asking: "It seems that this lady really died of illness."

"How do you know?" Yang Qiuchi asked.

"Think about it, the emperor and the others live in the station, there are tens of thousands of troops outside, and the whole station is heavily guarded by the inner guards, if you want to murder, who can get in?"

"Then what if the people around the empress murdered her?"

Song Yun'er was stunned, and said: "No, the imperial doctor said that the wind and evil entered the brain and caused the sudden death. If it was murder, the imperial doctor would definitely be able to see it."

Yang Qiuchi smiled: "The imperial physician is good at treating diseases, but when it comes to finding out the exact cause of death, this clinician is not good at it."

"Clinician?" Song Yun'er couldn't understand this strange term.

"It's the doctor and the imperial physician." Yang Qiuchi said, "Finding out the cause of death and diagnosing the disease are two different things. When the same patient dies, different imperial physicians may come to different judgments."

Hearing what Yang Qiuchi said, Song Yun'er couldn't understand: "Then how did this concubine die?"

Yang Qiuchi shook his head: "I can't judge without opening the coffin and conducting a detailed examination of the corpse."

"Then let's open the coffin for an autopsy."

"Not in a hurry, we still need to find someone to check the situation before we go. Shandong Lincheng is not close."

"Who else should I look for?" Song Yun'er asked, her eyes lit up immediately, "I see, I'm looking for Jin Liang, the eunuch who accompanied me last time!"

"Yes! Right." Yang Qiuchi nodded, "He is the chief eunuch accompanying him this time. He should be very clear about any abnormalities." After finishing speaking, he paused for a moment, and continued: "I'm afraid he's just kidding , If something goes wrong in this kind of thing, he will be the first to be held accountable. Therefore, even if there is a problem, he is unlikely to say it. Go and see first. "

He quickly found Jin Liang, the eunuch who was accompanied by the supervisor of ceremonies last time. This Jin Liang was in a daze in the office of the supervisor of ceremonies. He was shocked when he heard that Jin Yiwei was looking for him, but after all, he was someone who had served the emperor for a long time. , soon calmed down.

After welcoming Yang Qiuchi and others into the office with smiling faces, he greeted the little eunuchs to offer fragrant tea.

Yang Qiuchi asked him what happened at that time, and it was roughly the same as the previous few, except that Jin Liang emphasized that he followed the emperor to read the emergency memorial, and he has been serving the emperor and never left.He didn't go back with the emperor until he got the news that Concubine Xian was seriously ill, and then the imperial doctor said that Concubine Xian had passed away.

Asked if there were any other abnormalities, Jin Liang insisted that there was nothing. He had arranged all the on-duty duties properly, there would be no mistakes at all, and no other idlers had entered or left the post where the emperor lived.

This was already within Yang Qiuchi's expectation. Before finding out whether Concubine Xian was murdered, he was not going to take drastic actions, so as not to startle the snake.He asked Jin Liang to accompany him to the Lincheng Station, identify the scene and open the coffin for an autopsy. Jin Liang happily agreed.

Yang Qiuchi and others left the palace and went to the Ministry of Industry to find Mr. Li, the Yuanwailang who was in charge of building the mausoleum at that time, and asked him to accompany him to Yi County tomorrow. Then they returned to the Yang Mansion and told Yang that they were going to Lincheng, Shandong to investigate the case. Mother them.

Yun Lu was talking to Mother Yang, her eyes were red as if she had just cried, and Yang Qiuchi certainly knew why.After returning from the palace yesterday, until late at night before returning to Princess Jiadi, Yunlu kept crying. It seems that she was not mentally prepared for this, and she lacked sufficient understanding of the fact that a princess cannot be a concubine.

Early in the morning, Yunlu came and talked with Mother Yang and Feng Xiaoxue in the room all morning.It seems that the mood is better.

Yang's mother heard that Yang Qiuchi was going to Shandong, and the journey was far away, so she was a little worried. She wanted Liu Ruobing to accompany her for protection, but Yang Qiuchi said that Liu Ruobing's son was still young and couldn't do without his mother. Song Yun'er felt relieved.

That night, Feng Xiaoxue packed Yang Qiuchi's luggage. Although Song Yuner is now Yang Qiuchi's concubine, she is used to being a young lady and doesn't know how to serve others, so she asked Hong Ling to go with her so that she could serve Yang Qiuchi.

The next day, Yang Qiuchi took Song Yun'er, Hong Ling, Jin Liang, the eunuch who was in charge of the ceremony, and Mr. Li, a member of the Ministry of Industry who was in charge of building the mausoleum of the concubine, and under the protection of Nan Gongxiong's guards, they set off for Lincheng, Shandong.

Since the threat of foreign enemies in the Ming Dynasty mainly came from the north, from Yingtianfu to Shuntianfu (Beijing) was the focus of official roads, and the maintenance of official roads can be regarded as the best.It is wide and flat.

They were not in a hurry, and arrived in Lincheng, Shandong after half a month.First go to the post station in Lincheng to check the scene, so as to have a general impression.

In the Ming Dynasty, Lincheng (now Xuecheng) was just a small town, and the post station was relatively simple, but it was considered a better place in Lincheng. Therefore, when the emperor passed by here, he stayed in the post station.

Inside the courtyard of the post station, several houses are arranged in a chaotic manner.According to Jin Liang's instructions, he came to the room where the emperor and the concubine Xian lived.After checking, nothing unusual was found.

At that time, the emperor was reading the memorial in another house not far away.Yang Qiuchi and Song Yuner also checked and found nothing unusual.

Leaving Lincheng, the brigade went to Yi County (now Zaozhuang City), where Concubine Xian was buried.The two places are not far apart, and two days later, they arrived at the Yixian county government office.

When the magistrate Wang of Yi County learned that Jin Yiwei's co-prefect Yang Hou Ye was coming, he was so busy that he led a large group of people and followed Yang Qiuchi to the tomb of the virtuous concubine in Baimao Mountain outside the city.

The tomb of Concubine Xian is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there is a small stream in front of it. There is a saying, "The left lion and the right elephant serve as guards, and the three mountains and one water will bury the emperor's wife."

The graves in the cemetery occupy half the size of a football field. The mausoleum is surrounded by high walls, and the local county government sends Min Zhuang to take turns guarding it.

Although Concubine Xian was extremely favored by Ming Chengzu, she was only a concubine and the emperor's concubine, so she was not qualified to be buried in Huangling. At that time, Ming Chengzu proposed to bury Xian Concubine next to Empress Xu several times, but was rejected by the ministers. They tried their best to dissuade them.

Since they had just been buried for half a year, under the identification of officials from the Ministry of Industry who built the mausoleum at that time, the location of the entrance to the mausoleum was quickly determined.The folks dug accordingly, and after half a day, they found the entrance of the mausoleum.

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