Harem for a living

Chapter 156

"Mother, something happened in the Chonghua Palace." Chen Manrou was holding Xiao Wu to teach her how to speak, when Li Qiu came in in a hurry, and said nervously: "A beautiful girl accidentally fell and hit the rockery head-on I went up, and got hit on the forehead."

Chen Manrou was stunned before quickly asking: "Have you invited the imperial doctor? What did the imperial doctor say?"

"I invited the imperial doctor, and the imperial doctor said that the incision is a bit big, and I'm afraid it will leave scars in the future." Li Qiu looked depressed: "What should we do? That beautiful girl is the daughter of the governor of Hunan."

If this matter is not handled well, it will be difficult for Chen Manrou, the queen, to be convicted of improperly managing the harem, and it would be considered trivial to hand over the palace affairs to others.Therefore, Li Qiu had a look of resentment and tension.

"Go and have a look." Chen Manrou called the nanny over, handed Xiao Wu to the nanny, and then led the people to Chonghua Palace.The show girl's surname is Zhang, and because her father is considered a second-rank official, she lives near the middle.

When Chen Manrou entered the room, she saw two or three girls talking around a bed. Lying on the bed was a very beautiful girl, wearing a water blue chest-length skirt, with a white strip tied on her forehead. The girl was wiping her tears with a handkerchief.

"Your servant has met the empress, please greet the empress." Hearing the announcement from the little eunuch at the door, several girls hurriedly got up to salute, even Zhang Xiunv who was on the bed also got up.Chen Manrou glanced around, Tang Wan'er and Zhu Lirong were also there, and she had never seen another beautiful girl.

Li Qiu leaned close to her ear and whispered, "This is Sun Yun, the daughter of the Minister of the Ministry of Industry."

Chen Manrou knew it well, judging by their identities, these beautiful girls probably lived in the same house.

"What can the imperial doctor say?" Chen Manrou nodded slightly, walked directly to the bed and asked, the beautiful girl's eyes were red, and tears rolled down: "The imperial doctor said that this wound should not be wet, it can only be kept warm." , but the wound is too deep, and it will leave a scar in the future."

Chen Manrou frowned: "I still have some progressive plasters over there, I will send someone to bring them to you later, those things can remove scars, you use it twice a day, maybe you can remove the scars. How did this thing happen today? Well, why did it hit the rockery?"

"I beg the empress to make the decision for my daughter. My daughter was framed." The girl Zhang Xiu burst into tears, wiped her tears with a handkerchief, stood up and knelt in front of Chen Manrou and said, Chen Manrou hurriedly helped her up: "Tell me slowly, you don't need to beg me to find out about this matter."

"I had breakfast today, and the ministers and daughters were talking in the room. Later, someone from the eldest princess asked Miss Zhu to go over and talk. After Miss Zhu left, Miss Sun suggested to go outside to enjoy the scenery. The ministers Thinking that it would be quite boring in the room, I agreed. Anyway, I was just walking around the Chonghua Palace. But who knew, when I walked to the edge of the rockery, the minister's foot suddenly slipped, and then hit On the rockery."

The girl told the story, but didn't provide much useful information.

Chen Manrou turned her head to look at Li Qiu, who immediately turned and went out.Chen Manrou turned to Chuyun and Chuxia again: "Look at Miss Zhang's embroidered shoes, and then ask, from yesterday to today, who are the people who passed the rockery."

As soon as these two went out, the room was quiet for a while.Chen Manrou sat by the bed and carefully looked at their expressions.Tang Wan'er's face was calm, she lowered her head and remained silent.Zhu Lirong looked worried and frightened, looking at Zhang Xiunv from time to time.Sun Yun, on the other hand, was a little timid, secretly looking at this, and then at that, her face turned pale.

Not long after, Li Qiu came over: "Your Majesty, this servant found this thing by the rockery." Fortunately, the people in the Chonghua Palace were beaten by Chen Manrou before Xiunu moved in. On the rockery, someone came to help Zhang Xiunv into the house on one side, and someone surrounded the place where the incident happened on the other side.

Chen Manrou stretched out her hand to take the pearl in Li Qiu's hand, it was so round that if ordinary people stepped on it, their feet would definitely be slippery.The outside of the pearl was covered with a layer of dust, it looked dusty, and it was really hard to see if it was thrown on the ground without looking carefully.

"Your Majesty, this servant has already checked Miss Zhang's shoes, and there is no tampering with them." Chu Yun also replied, Chen Manrou nodded, and re-evaluated the expressions of several people in the room.

"May I ask who has passed by the rockery during this time?" Afterwards, Chen Manrou pinched the pearl and asked, and Chu Yun hurriedly bowed: "I have already asked about the question of returning to your mother. Since yesterday morning, There are twelve beautiful women who have entered the edge of the rockery. They are Miss Wang who lives in the first room on the east side, Miss Li and Miss Song who live in the third room on the east side, and Miss Chen who live in the fifth room on the east side. And to the west..."

Chen Manrou nodded: "Call these beautiful girls over and see who of them has seen this pearl."

Chuyun took the order to go out, and Chuxia also went to help.

Chen Manrou didn't speak, and the room was very quiet.Lichun and Lixia stood beside Chen Manrou all the time, and Zhang Xiunv, who was crying, also slowly quieted down, wiping her tears with a handkerchief.

After a while, Zhu Lirong moved, with a slightly cautious expression: "Your Majesty, look, do you want to search the belongings of the courtiers? See who lost that pearl."

Chen Manrou raised her eyebrows slightly, and looked Zhu Lirong up and down.Sure enough, looking Jiaojiaoqie timid, but not necessarily really Jiaojiao timid.She is a queen, and she came to search the intimate clothing of the beautiful girls, what kind of words did it sound like?

Even when the modern police investigate a case, they must first have evidence before they can get a search warrant, otherwise it will be a nuisance to the people.

Zhu Lirong's suggestion, Chen Manrou really adopted it, it not only offended the families behind these beautiful girls, but also showed Chen Manrou's incompetence.If a queen is incompetent, what will happen?
"Bold, do you still need your advice on what to do, Madam?" Li Chunliu raised her eyebrows and scolded Zhu Lirong.Although Zhu Lirong is the daughter of the Zhu family and the younger sister, Lichun represents Chen Manrou, and what she says now is equivalent to what Chen Manrou said.So Zhu Lirong's face turned pale, and she hurriedly saluted and apologized: "I didn't mean that, my lady, please forgive me."

"You are also impatient, I don't blame you." Chen Manrou smiled with the corners of her mouth pulled.After waiting for a while, Chu Yun came back with the pearl, first glanced at Tang Wan'er who was sitting on the side, and then saluted Chen Manrou: "Ma'am, several beautiful women said that they had seen this pearl at Miss Tang's. "

Tang Wan'er's face turned pale, and she stood up suddenly: "What?"

"Miss Tang here?" Chen Manrou reached out and took the pearl and turned it around: "Have you asked clearly?"

"Yes, I have already asked clearly. Those beautiful girls are waiting outside the door, is the empress going to let them in?" Chu Yun stood aside and asked, seeing Chen Manrou nodding, he came out and called those beautiful girls Female.

The one who took the lead was a girl with a baby face, and she saluted Chen Manrou as soon as she entered the door: "My daughter, Yang Lingling, has seen the empress, please greet the empress." Under her leadership, several other beautiful girls also saluted.

Chen Manrou signaled them to stand in a row: "You said earlier that you saw this pearl at Miss Tang's place. This Miss Tang is you, Tang Wan'er, right?"

"Yes, empress, my servant has seen it before. Miss Tang once brought a bead hairpin with many pearls on it, which is exactly the same as this one." Miss Yang spoke very crisply, and as soon as she finished speaking, , and several other show girls followed suit.

"Your Majesty, my servant has also seen that bead hairpin, which is made of peony flowers glued with pearls. Miss Tang brought it with her when she entered the palace, but she hasn't brought it with her these two days." Another very delicate and beautiful girl followed. stepped forward and said.

Chen Manrou looked sideways at Tang Wan'er: "Miss Tang, what do you want to say?"

Tang Wan'er had been waiting for a long time, and now she saluted Chen Manrou with a flushed face: "Madam, I do have such a beaded hairpin, but it was suddenly lost two days ago, and I couldn't find it, so I didn't return it. bring."

"Lost it?" Chen Manrou raised her eyebrows slightly, and Tang Wan'er looked angrily: "When you return to your mother, the minister is absolutely not lying, it is indeed lost. The minister put it on the dressing table when she was washing up the night before. When I wake up the next morning, I will go to see it and it will be gone.”

"What about you guys, have you seen Miss Tang's hairpin?" Chen Manrou turned to ask Miss Sun and Miss Zhu, but Miss Zhang looked angry and looked at Miss Tang silently in disappointment.

Chen Manrou sneered: "Look, even the show girls who don't live in the same room with Ms. Zhang can tell that this pearl was taken from Ms. Tang's hairpin. You live in the same room every day, so why don't you see it?" recognize it?"

As soon as these words were said, the faces of the group of people changed.

After a long time, Sun Yun said boldly: "My lady, there are many similar pearls in the world. When everyone enters the palace, they more or less bring some pearls, and Miss Tang's pearls are not more than one. Flowers, or Miss Tang's name, of course we can't recognize it."

As soon as the words fell, Miss Yang became furious: "You mean we got it wrong? We planted it on Miss Tang's head at random? It's fine if I got it wrong by myself, but the few of us must have bad eyesight." of?"

"Then who knows." Sun Yun muttered, Zhu Lirong stretched out her hand to grab her, and said with a timid smile, "Miss Yang, don't be annoyed, Sister Sun is outspoken, don't take it too seriously, she didn't mean it."

"Outspoken?" Ms. Yang was even more angry: "Are you on her side? Being outspoken doesn't mean you can speak freely. Don't you know that the words come from your mouth? I don't mind, but she can't make false accusations at will." A few of us."

Probably Zhu Lirong had never been slapped like this before, and her face immediately turned a little ugly.However, he opened his mouth but didn't speak, just stood aside with his head down.

"When you entered the palace, what you wore on your body, what you wore on your head, and what you put in your package were all recorded. Now, the palace will send people to check one by one, and compare them to see who lost the pearl." Chen Manrou finished admiring the strife between the show girls, and then slowly dropped a sentence.

Yang Xiunv was a little unconvinced, but she didn't dare to say anything more.Zhu Lirong heaved a sigh of relief, Tang Wan'er tightened her handkerchief, and went forward to salute Chen Manrou: "Your Majesty, for my cousin's innocence, please ask your Majesty to search your things."

Sun Yun followed suit: "Your Majesty, you should also send someone to search the belongings of the court lady. The court lady and Miss Tang live in the same room. She is suspected, and the court lady can't escape."

If the pearl really belonged to Tang Wan'er, then the person who could steal the pearl hairpin without anyone noticing it might be one of the four of them.So, Tang Wan'er was suspected, and the rest of them couldn't escape.

The search at this moment is different from the one suggested by Zhu Lirong before.When Zhu Lirong said before, there was no evidence and no suspects. Now that there are suspects, it is natural to start the search.

Chen Manrou nodded, and ordered Chuyun and Chuxia to check everyone's pearls with the record booklets of the beautiful ladies when they entered the palace, to see if they could match the number.But Li Qiu and Li Dong took the four little maids to inspect Tang Wan'er's room.

The house was in a mess, so Chen Manrou simply took the beautiful ladies outside the door to wait.It was already mid-May now, and the weather was getting hot. Chen Manrou looked up at the sun on the chair, and instantly remembered the scene when she entered the palace for a draft.

Well, before the final re-election, it seems that a show girl accidentally had an accident.However, at that time they were living in Chuxiu Palace, and there was a small pond in the yard, the show girl fell into the pond, and then caught a cold, and then was sent out of the palace.

This time, I don't know how many beautiful girls can be sent out of the palace.

(End of this chapter)