Chapter 133: Battle
Su Yiqing shook her head gently. Some things were already involved and there was no way to avoid them. But for some reason, she touched Lian Yufeng's eyes. There seemed to be something in his eyes that could confuse people. She hesitated and said, "Madam Li is asking questions. After she asked, you can take the person away."
What Madam Li said before is right. The more people know a secret, the safer it is for the person who knows the secret. If she knows what she should know, why not leave it to Lian Yufeng?
"Then thank you, the princess." Lian Yufeng said thank you, then handed a box and whispered, "I know a woman must always have some guarantee. No matter how beautiful you say, it is better to be real."
Lian Yufeng put down the box, nodded slightly and left.
Su Yiqing picked up the box, opened it gently, took a look, and a purple light flashed by, and she couldn't help but be stunned.
This is purple gold, which is as many as 100 taels. One 200 taels of purple gold on the market can be exchanged for 100 taels of gold, and the supply is in short supply. Zijin is more noble than gold. The noble ladies in noble families are proud to collect purple gold jewelry. Before she got married, Xu used up all her skills and could only barely get a pair of purple gold bracelets.
Looking back on the gifts sent by Lian Yufeng before, in addition to daily consumption such as food and clothing, most of them are jewelry such as jewelry that are easy to carry and unmarked. There are actually very few finished jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings. She didn't expect so many of them at that time, thinking that Lian Yufeng was just too lazy to choose antique jewelry. Now thinking about it, maybe he has other intentions...
It was in chaos outside, and Madam Li didn't come back until the east side turned white.
I didn't sleep all night. The old woman didn't look tired at all. Although her expression was as calm as usual, Su Yiqing felt that the more normal it was, the more abnormal it was.
Of course, it is not the time to care about this. Su Yiqing had already finished washing under the maid's service and used breakfast again. At this time, she sent Xin'er out to guard the door and met Madam Li alone.
Madam Li was always neat and did not talk nonsense. She stepped forward a few steps and whispered: "Prince, I asked clearly that the assassin was the commander of the person, but he couldn't tell who he was responsible for. He was specializing in this kind of business. Through the contact of the Chinese people, he only said that he was ten days old, and climbed into a certain place from a certain place to kill people. The one who wanted to kill was the prince of the Prince's Mansion. They had seen the prince of the Prince's Mansion from afar. However, when it was dark, they saw a similar prince of the brocade and the servant came in. They killed the person. After the killing was carefully, they realized that the wrong person was killed. They simply kept doing it and hid the body first and waited for the prince of the Prince's Mansion. But as soon as the hiding corpse was hidden, two maids seemed to be looking for a cat or a dog to go in that direction. There was no way. They could only kill the two maids again."
Su Yiqing carefully pondered the words of Madam Li, and they could smell such a heavy smell of blood. Obviously, the murder site was very close to the courtyard wall where they were standing, and it was the outer courtyard of the Princess' Mansion and the place where the servants lived. She didn't know what the layout of Princess' Mansion was, but based on common sense inference, it was noisy during the day near the street and it was easy to get into trouble at night, and it was definitely not the place where the masters lived.
Why could those two killers determine where Princess Cheng would go and wait there? There must be an insider in this matter.
"Does nanny know the situation in the inner courtyard of Prince Cheng's Mansion?" Su Yiqing looked up at Madam Li.
Madam Li immediately said, "Other old slaves may not be very clear. They only know that Prince Cheng has two sons and two daughters. Among them, Prince Cheng is the eldest son and the original wife is born. This year, the biological mother has passed away. Prince Cheng has married her second wife and gave birth to a second son. The second son is only five years old and both daughters are born. The Prince Cheng is more than ten years younger than Prince Cheng, and is very popular with Prince Cheng. After entering the door, Prince Cheng also sent her concubine, even the concubine who has given birth to two daughters is no exception.
The incident is not a big deal in the capital, but many people criticize it. However, it is said that they favor concubines and destroy their wives. Now it is not a law to replace them with favor wife and destroy concubines. Besides, the princess Cheng County is so much smaller than Prince Cheng, and she is even more beautiful. Loving her beautiful wife and young children is also a common problem for men. Everyone criticized her for a while and then passed. Prince Cheng County was studying with the princes in the Duke of the Middle School a few years ago. Recently, because she got engaged with General Shao’s family, she returned home to prepare to marry her.”
"The Prince Cheng should be an extremely outstanding person, right?" Su Yiqing suddenly asked.
"Yes, Prince Cheng's talent was praised by the emperor immediately." Madam Li didn't ask Su Yiqing how she knew.
"What about the second son of Prince Cheng?" Su Yiqing asked again.
"I haven't heard anything about this old slave. Maybe these two young masters are still young." Madam Li recalled for a moment, and she really couldn't remember any rumors about the second young master of Prince Cheng's Mansion.
"I understand, you go down." Su Yiqing said lightly.
"Yes, princess." Madam Li bowed and bowed.
After Madam Li took her leave, Su Yiqing suddenly felt a little tired. Something big happened. Although she didn't say that she didn't close her eyes all night, she was lying on the bed and couldn't sleep. When she relaxed at this moment, she couldn't help feeling tired. Thinking about it, she was alone. Although she had just gotten up, why bother herself, so she continued to lie down again.
When I was just sleeping hazy, I suddenly heard someone calling her and said, "Princess, Princess."
Wake up in his sleep, no one has a good temper. Su Yiqing suddenly opened her eyes and said angrily: "What happened again?"
The little maid Biyun woke up from Su Yiqing. There were not many decent maids around Su Yiqing before, but she was too smart and didn't like it, so she arranged other errands that were not to serve her. In the past, there were Xin'er, Shuangxi, Madam Li, Madam Yin, and Madam Liang in front of her. There were enough of them, so she only served in the yard and was not allowed to enter the house without any trouble.
This Biyun and the other Biyu were originally served in the yard. They were only responsible for circulating a message on weekdays. Since Shuangxi was sent out, Madam Yin made some troubles from time to time, while Madam Liang had to go to the shop to check it out frequently. In this way, there was a shortage of people around her. Seeing that Biyun Biyu was young and honest, she promoted her in, and she didn't need to let them do any heavy work, so she just brought tea and handed a veil. Sometimes there was just someone standing in the house to avoid accusing him of Shuangxi Palace again, and she didn't know what she was doing all day long.
The clumsy maid is naturally fine when it's okay. Now that there is something wrong, the reckless girl is a little annoyed. Before Su Yiqing can speak, Biyun knelt down and said tremblingly: "I, damn it... Yes, Madam Yin asked me to ask the princess for instructions, saying yes... Princess Cheng handed over the post, and wanted to... go to the mansion to visit the princess."
Seeing Biyun's small body shaking, Su Yiqing could not get angry when she woke up. She was not the one who liked to vent her anger on the little maid. But she really didn't want to see this Princess Cheng, at least not immediately, and said, "You just sue Madam Yin. I haven't slept all night and I really can't get up. Let her go back to Princess Cheng and come back another day."
"Yes, princess." Biyun saw that the princess was not punished, so she dared not say too much and took the order and left.
Su Yiqing shook her head secretly. This Madam Yin is really. She knew that waking her was a chore, so she sent the little maid to hide outside by herself. This time she would be better off dealing with Princess Cheng County smoothly, otherwise...
After hearing Biyun's words, Madam Yin looked at Biyun's panic again, and she felt a little glad that she was right to not go in just now. When she thought of the princess's order, she hurried out.
She was really as Su Yiqing thought. She didn't just turn her words to the nanny of Prince Cheng's Mansion waiting outside the door, but laughed and refused, saying that the fire broke out in the mansion lasted all night. The princess was a little scared and didn't close her eyes all night. She had just fallen asleep today, and the maid didn't dare to wake up the princess. If Prince Cheng had something important, she would have to go in and disturb the princess.
After talking about the scene, the nanny of the Prince Cheng's Mansion did not dare to say that our princess has a noble status and even if your princess can't get up, she could only stammer and talk back to Princess Cheng and came to visit the princess later.
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The palace at this time.
Queen Xu looked at the secret report in her hand and smiled slightly, then put the secret report with only two words into the incense burner.
Everything was as she thought, and it seemed that somewhere in the capital was going to be earth-shaking again.
Just as she was thinking about it, her personal palace maid heard a quiet voice, "Empress, the emperor is here."
Empress Xu did not make any big moves. When ordinary concubines heard that the emperor was coming, even if they had just washed and dressed up, they would look for a mirror. They must be sure to have even a strand of hair in the most appropriate position. However, Empress Xu never did this. She was not like this before the emperor came, and she never dressed up deliberately.
Because she never relies on beauty.
"The Emperor is here."
As the eunuch's loud voice rang out, a bright yellow figure slowly stepped into the queen's bedroom.
The queen happened to come out of the inner room to greet her.
"Long live the emperor, long live, long live, long live."
The palace maid and eunuch beside Empress Xu knelt all over the ground.
"No gifts." The emperor said lightly, then waved his hand impatiently, and ordered all the palace maids and eunuchs to retreat.
Empress Xu personally brewed a cup of chrysanthemum tea for the emperor, watching the dry chrysanthemums slowly stretched in the tea and returned to their initial blooming appearance.
The emperor did not like drinking chrysanthemum tea, but liked to watch the mistake of making tea. No matter how irritable the mood was, he could calm down while the flower tea was quietly stretched in the water.
After a cup of tea was brewed, the emperor's face was no longer impatient.
The queen then asked softly: "Master, are you worried about anything?"
"Those who know me are Zi Tong." The emperor sighed softly, "It's not the things in the court." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)
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