Eight-year-old Princess: Phoenix Reborn

Yunshang smiled, turned her head to look at Qianyin, with a bit of teasing in her eyes, "Unexpectedly, we Qianyin would also listen to these incongruous market rumors. You have been with me for so long, so you naturally know it. It is especially unbelievable to believe rumors in the market, who might spread them there."

"But this rumor seems to be true to the slave girl. I heard it was spread by a man not far from the courtyard where the slave girl lives. He said that his niece is the waiter in Mrs. Liu's courtyard." Qianyin said softly, frowning slightly, as if thinking about something.

Yunshang looked at Qianyin with a smile and said, "Then have you ever asked, why did Liu Situ quarrel with Mrs. Liu?"

Qian Yin was choked by Yun Shang's question, gritted her teeth and said, "Maybe it's because of Liu Situ's affair with the eldest princess. Mrs. Liu herself is very jealous. Princess, look at it for so many years." Now, besides Mrs. Liu, there is only one concubine around Liu Situ. I heard that Liu Situ met and fell in love with him in the Fireworks Land. Originally, Mrs. Liu didn't want that woman to enter the mansion, but the woman suddenly became pregnant. Thinking that Liu Situ was at a critical time in the officialdom at that time, and she didn't want him to get a bad reputation, so Mrs. Liu let the woman into the mansion under Concubine Liu's persuasion. But then the woman inexplicably She lost her baby, presumably it was also caused by Mrs. Liu."

"Well, you have heard a lot of gossip." Yun Chang said with a smile.

The door curtain was lifted, and the maid who was asked by Qian Yin to cut the plum blossoms came in with a few plum blossoms, and said with a smile, "Princess, the plum blossoms are here, how about you look at these few branches?"

Yun Chang raised her eyes and looked, but they all looked like buds, and there were some drops of water on the flower bones, which looked fresh. Yun Shang nodded, pointed at the vase beside her and said with a smile, "Put it there."

The maid went to the vase to arrange flowers.

Qianyin also turned away the conversation in a very tacit understanding, "This flower has been drenched by the rain with snow, although it looks fresher, but the fragrance has faded. If the weather is fine in two days, I will pick it off again." It's the best."

Qianyin sat for a while, then left.

After Qianyin left, the sky darkened, and she said with a light smile, "Wangfei also said that it is good to have a rest. After the Empress Empress came, she has been busy all the time. Now it is finally over. The slaves went to pass on the meals, and the Wangfei used them." Let's take a rest earlier."

Yun Chang also felt a little tired, so she responded, and took a rest early after dinner.

It was already noon when I woke up the next morning, Yun Chang got up slowly, and was still having breakfast, the housekeeper was waiting outside the door.

Yun Chang was not in a hurry, and had breakfast leisurely before letting the housekeeper in.

"Princess, this old slave ordered people to find out where Mrs. Liu went the day she came to our mansion. The secret guards found out that Mrs. Liu left the Liu manor early in the morning and was in a hurry to enter the palace. As a result, they were stopped at the gate of the palace. The guards guarding the palace gate said that the empress had an account and would not disappear without being summoned. Mrs. Liu seemed a little anxious, and almost had a conflict with the guards, and was persuaded to come down by the maid beside her. Later Mrs. Liu was helped back to the carriage by the servant girl, she seemed to sit in the carriage for a long time before she let the carriage driver drive to our residence."

The butler paused for a moment, and saw that Yun Shang did not interrupt, so he continued: "Later, after leaving our mansion, Mrs. Liu asked the carriage driver to drive the carriage around the city several times, and then went to Palace gate, but still failed to enter the palace, so I went back to Liu's residence."

"Imperial Palace, Prince Rui's Mansion..." Yun Shang frowned lightly, her eyes were full of puzzlement, why did Mrs. Liu insist on entering the palace, and why did she come to find me?

Yun Shang was still confused, and the doubts in her heart deepened.

The housekeeper said again: "Woke up early today, the Empress Empress left the palace and went out of the city to meet the Imperial Forest Army in person, accompanied by the Seventh Prince, Su Taiwei, Liu Situ, and Hua Guogong."

Yun Chang nodded, presumably Liu Ming had already passed the Imperial Forest Army's token into the palace.

"How did the Empress arrange the Imperial Forest Army?" Yun Shang asked.

"The Empress ordered someone to temporarily tidy up a large mansion in Jincheng, let Commander Liu live in it, and let the Imperial Forest Army camp outside the city. However, Commander Liu said that he must be with the Imperial Forest Army, so he rejected the empress empress. arrangements." The butler quickly responded.

Yun Shang laughed when she heard the words, "Liu Ming is a blessed person who doesn't know how to enjoy it. If it were me, I would accept the queen's gift."

Other than that, the housekeeper had nothing else to report, so he withdrew.

It was a very calm day, and nothing happened.

The next day was the day of Mrs. Liu's funeral. The weather cleared up, and Yun Chang became interested. She took her maid for a walk in the mansion, and she could faintly hear the sounds of mourning and crying outside through the barriers of layers of walls.

Yunshang stopped and listened for a while, then returned to the house. Just as she stepped into the house, the butler hurried over, "Princess, the little beggar who brought the hairpin box came and said that he was on the street just now. I saw that woman."

Yun Chang was taken aback, turned around and said quickly, "Go, bring that little beggar here, I want to ask myself."

The housekeeper responded, and after a while, he took a little boy about seven or eight years old. The little boy's clothes were thin, and he didn't even wear shoes in such a cold weather.

Seeing this, Yunshang hurriedly asked Qianzhuo to find a piece of clothes and shoes for his servants to wear, and then asked, "Just now you told the housekeeper that you saw the person who asked you to bring the box that day. Where did you see her, girl?"

The little beggar looked at Yunshang timidly, and his voice was a little soft, "It was on the street just now, and it was on the street outside here. I saw the woman who was in the procession for the dead, Not far behind the person holding the wooden sign."

Yun Chang narrowed his eyes, and carefully sorted out the little beggar's words. What he meant was that he just saw the woman who delivered the box that day in the funeral procession, and the woman was walking behind the person holding the spiritual tablet. Far.

The funeral procession, the funeral procession that passed near Prince Rui's mansion just now, should be only Mrs. Liu's. The woman is in the funeral procession, and she is not far behind the person holding the coffin, so she should be someone close to Mrs. Liu.

That hairpin may have been sent over by Mrs. Liu's people.

According to the housekeeper, the time when the hairpin was delivered was the second day after Mrs. Liu passed away.

A few thoughts flashed through Yunshang's mind, and she hurriedly raised her head and ordered the steward, "Take him to identify the woman, arrange for someone to create some chaos, and take advantage of the chaos to bring the woman back to the mansion."

The housekeeper responded, and hearing Yun Shang's tone, he knew that the matter was very urgent, so he quickly hugged the little beggar and left the house.

Yun Shang stood up and paced back and forth in the room, always feeling that there was something crucial that she hadn't figured out, and she was also a little anxious.

Seeing Yun Shang's appearance, Qian Zhuo didn't dare to disturb her, so she made a cup of tea for Yun Shang. Yun Chang frowned and looked at the plum blossoms in the vase, and said after a long silence, "Tell me, what is the purpose of Mrs. Liu going to the palace to beg the queen and come to the palace to find me?"

Qian Zhuo just didn't know, and was stunned by Yun Shang's question. After thinking for a while, he hesitated and said, "Um, could it be for the eldest princess?"

"Princess?" Yun Chang shook her head, but she didn't know what she was denying.

Qianyin quickly said, "Except for the eldest princess' servants, I really can't think of what it is for."

When Yun Chang's mind was in chaos, a servant girl's report suddenly came from outside, "Princess, the Duke's wife is here."

Only then did Yunshang quickly put away the chaotic thoughts in her mind, and walked to the door, Mrs. Guogong came in from the door with a cane, Yunshang hurried forward to help her, and Mrs. Guogong frowned when she saw Yunshang She said, "Why don't you go for a walk in the courtyard in such a fine weather? You should take more walks when you are pregnant, and the baby will be born then."

Yun Shang responded, and interrupted the conversation, "It's such a mess outside today, how could grandma come here?"

Mrs. Guogong seemed to be stunned when she heard the words, she raised her head and patted herself on the head, "Look, I'm getting old, and my memory is not very good. I came here to ask you to do something. Didn't someone say that someone gave you Is the hairpin with the purple jade cloud and phoenix pattern coming? I thought about it for a long time in the mansion these two days before I realized that the eldest princess especially likes the hairpin with the cloud and phoenix pattern, because she advertises that she believes in Buddhism, so the hairpins are relatively plain. This cloud and phoenix pattern is beautiful, majestic, and simple. She often wore it when she was younger, but I haven’t seen it much recently. But I haven’t seen her wearing purple jade, usually she only wears something made of wood or bamboo.”

"Princess?" Yun Chang frowned again when she heard this.

Since it is the style that the eldest princess likes, why did the people around Mrs. Liu send that hairpin to the palace?

princess...

Yun Shang still had no idea, so she had to accompany Mrs. Guo to inquire about the eldest princess's previous affairs in detail. After talking for about half an hour, the housekeeper rushed over again, followed by a woman in sackcloth and filial piety.

The Duke's wife frowned, "Who is this? Why did you come here in such a suit? It's unlucky."

But the woman hurriedly walked to Yun Chang, knelt down with a thud, her voice choked with sobs, "The servant finally saw the princess, the princess, the master of the slave was wronged, I beg the princess to be the master."

"Who is your master?" Before Yun Shang could speak, the Duke's wife asked a little unhappy again.

Yun Shang hurriedly said, "Grandmother, this is Mrs. Liu's side attendant, and she asked that little beggar to send that purple jade cloud and phoenix hairpin."

When the Duke's wife heard this, she was stunned. Only then did Yunshang turn her head to look at the woman and said, "You said your master died unjustly, why?"

The woman hurriedly said, "The master of this servant was killed by the master and the eldest princess, just because the master saw something he shouldn't see, knew something he shouldn't know, and was discovered by the master..."\u003c