Eight-year-old Princess: Phoenix Reborn

Along the way, Yunshang and Luo Qingyan did not speak, Qin Yi and Qianzhuo thought that Yunshang and Luo Qingyan were just a little tired because it was too late, so they waited for them to rest without thinking too much .

Early the next morning, Yunshang was woken up by Qianzhuo. Panic was written on Qianzhuo's face, and she hurriedly took Yunshang's hand. He said, "Ma'am, it's not good, Yuqin is dead, and Uncle Liu outside the palace is also dead..."

Yunshang's eyes were still full of confusion. Hearing what Qian Zhuo said, he was still a little confused: "Dead? What died? How did you die?"

Qianzhuo hastily repeated it again: "Madam, it's Yuqin, and Uncle Liu, the family member of the Wen Po more than 20 years ago, are both dead. Both of them were slashed in the neck and killed .”

Seeing that Yunshang hadn't opened his mouth, Qianzhuo continued to ask: "Your Majesty, do you want the slaves to send someone to investigate? Yuqin and Uncle Liu are under the protection of secret guards, and such things have happened. Afraid that the strength is not weak."

Only then did Yun Shang come back to her senses completely, her hands tightly gripping the corner of the quilt, her face was a little pale, she was silent for a while, and then sneered: "No need, I know who the murderer is."

After hearing the words, Qianzhuo was stunned for a while, and then asked quickly: "Your Majesty, do you know who the murderer is?"

Yun Chang nodded lightly, and the coldness in his eyes became more intense. Besides Xia Huanyu, who else could be involved in this matter? Last night, I made a special trip to take the picture of the beauty to warn them severely. Seeing that they had no intention of stopping, they deliberately ordered someone to kill Yuqin and Uncle Liu, just to tell her that all their actions They are all under his control, let them know how to retreat in spite of difficulties, and don't continue to investigate.

Yun Chang smiled, but the more Xia Huanyu was like this, the more she wanted to know what the identities of Liu Yinfeng and Xia Houjing were. It's just that Xia Huanyu is afraid to keep an eye on her these two days, so she can't act too hastily.

"Then empress, how should we deal with it?" Qianzhuo carefully looked at Yunshang's face and asked.

Yun Chang raised her eyebrows, then lay back under the quilt, the corners of her mouth curled up slightly: "In a few days, it will be New Year's Eve, and this year is the New Year's Eve of His Majesty's first year on the throne, there is no room for sloppy, I will sleep again In a little while, you go and call Nanny Qi and Nanny Qiu to wait here, and tell me how the preparations for the New Year's Eve palace banquet are going."

Yun Shang suddenly changed the subject, and Qian Zhuo couldn't help being taken aback for a moment. After a while, she realized that what Yun Shang meant by saying this was to save her from further investigation.

Qian Zhuo quickly responded, and then asked softly: "The servant ordered the small kitchen to prepare breakfast for the empress, what would the empress want to eat today?"

Yunshang thought for a while: "Let's cook some barley and red bean porridge. Jincheng is very humid, and the barley and red bean porridge removes the moisture. For the rest, just prepare some pastries and side dishes at will."

"Yes." Qian Zhuo agreed, then put down the bed curtain again, and exited the inner hall.

Yunshang said that she would only sleep for a short while, and it really only lasted for a short while. In less than half an hour, Yunshang called someone to come in to take care of her and stood up. Nanny Qi and Nanny Qiu were already in the hall waiting.

After eating breakfast, Yunshang announced the two of them to come in, took a sip of tea and asked, "How are you preparing for the palace banquet?"

Nanny Qi hurriedly said: "It's basically done." Then she presented a few brochures to Yunshang, "These are the banquet layout and seat arrangement of the palace banquet, as well as the preparations to be placed in the Taiji Hall. There are also various utensils and location maps. There is also a list of meals and drinks prepared for the palace banquet, and a list of performances. Originally, the empresses of each palace and hall have become concubines and concubines this year, and all costumes also need to be made according to the regulations again. The service patterns and patterns of the palaces and palaces are also included."

Yun Chang nodded, took them over, looked at them one by one, and then smiled and praised: "Emerald green sunflower bowl, imitation Ge glaze chrysanthemum petal bowl, imitation Longquan glaze sunflower plate, green gold blue glaze bowl... Fortunately, I have you, otherwise I don’t know what to do, I’m afraid I’m going to lose my head just by looking at the names of these utensils.”

When Nanny Qi and Mother Qiu heard this, they were overjoyed.

Yun Shang smiled again and said: "The Chinese New Year is coming soon, have all the decorations in the palace been done?"

"It's basically done. All the palaces, halls, and imperial gardens. The red lanterns are all hung up. I just hung them yesterday. The slaves walked around last night and looked around. It's so beautiful. Spring couplets, door gods, New Year pictures, window grilles We have all of them ready, and we will post them together on New Year's Eve." Mother Qiu hurriedly stepped forward to answer.

"Oh?" Last night, because of Liu Yinfeng and Xia Houjing's life experience, she was full of thoughts about those things, even though she was out of Weiyang Palace, she didn't notice it. It's just that the Taihe Palace has already been set up, she saw it, and presumably other places should also be ready.

"That's good." Yun Chang smiled and nodded, and then returned the booklet to the two of them: "Just do it according to your ideas, I trust you, if you need something, just report it yes."

Nanny Qi and Nanny Qiu agreed, and retreated.

Yun Shang took out the book and read it. Halfway through, she saw Pei Lan poking her head at the gate of the inner hall, so she asked with a smile, "What is Pei Lan looking for?"

Pei Lan was taken aback, and quickly walked in and said, "Your servant is looking for Banxia. Just now, Madam Qi asked your servant and Banxia to take someone to clean the house in the side hall. She said that the Chinese New Year is about to come. Cleaned up all the places in the palace, but the slaves couldn't find Banxia, ​​so they thought that Banxia might be in the empress's house, so they came to take a look, and saw that the empress was reading, so they didn't dare to disturb her."

Hearing the words, Yunshang raised her eyes to look at Qianzhuo, Qianzhuo shook her head and said, "Your maidservant didn't see it either, maybe she was called away by Aunt Qin Yi, and Aunt Qin Yi went to the House of Internal Affairs, I'm afraid there are many Be busy."

Yun Shang nodded, and told Peilan, "Since you can't find Pinellia, go find Qinghao and clean it together."

Perrin quickly complied, and retreated in a hurry.

Yun Shang didn't care about it, she lowered her head to read a book for a while, then had lunch, and was just about to take a nap on the soft couch, when she saw Pei Lan running over in a hurry, her face full of panic: "Ma'am, it's not good, Pinellia is dead."

Yun Chang was startled, sat up straight, looked at Pei Lan and asked, "What's going on?"

Perhaps Peilan was a little frightened, his face was a little pale, his mouth was open for a while, and he couldn't speak, so he quickly poured a glass of water and handed it to Peilan, comforting him softly: "Don't worry, drink a glass of water to slow down." Slow down, tell the empress carefully, what exactly did you find?"

Pei Lan took the cup, his hand still trembling slightly, took a sip of water, and finally opened his mouth after a while: "Just now, the servants and Qinghao brought people to clean the Xibian Hall. The Xibian Hall is usually empty, and they mainly placed some miscellaneous items. Things. In one of the rooms, there were some old chairs that were probably replaced before, and the maidservant called someone to remove those chairs and dispose of them, but unexpectedly, Ban Xia’s body was found behind those chairs.”

A corpse, another corpse? Yun Chang frowned, feeling a sense of powerlessness in her heart, couldn't it be possible for people to have a good New Year's Eve?

Yunshang stood up, asked Qianzhuo to take a cloak to put on, gathered the clothes, went out of the main hall, passed through the round arch on the left side of the courtyard in front of the main hall gate, and entered the west side hall. The gate of the side hall was already guarded by Qinghao, except for the palace servants who accompanied them to clean it, no one else was alarmed.

When Yunshang entered the side hall, she saw that Banxia's body had been carried out and placed in the yard.

Yun Chang squatted down and checked carefully. She must have not been dead for a long time. The skin was still a little elastic. There was a wound on the neck that was not too obvious. The blood did not flow much, and there was no damage to the rest . Yun Chang looked at the wound on her neck. Although the wound was not obvious, it was killed with a single knife. Presumably the knife used by the murderer was extremely sharp and struck very fast.

"Take her in and search carefully." Yun Chang said softly.

Qianzhuo quickly agreed, and asked Qinghao to bring Banxia's body to a room in the side hall. Qinghao carried the corpse in, then walked out and stood guard at the door.

Not long after, Qianzhu came out in a hurry, holding some things in his hand.

"Niang Niang, this servant girl found it from Banxia's body." As Qian Zhuo said, he opened his hands, and Yun Chang saw that what Qian Zhuo held in his hand was a sachet and a jade pendant.

Yun Chang took it over, first picked up the jade pendant and looked at it carefully, the jade pendant was white all over, it was a high-quality suet jade, and the jade pendant had the logo of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on it. Yun Shang curled her lips coldly, how could a palace man have such a good jade pendant? Even if the master rewards it, it is absolutely impossible to use such a good item.

Yunshang put the jade pendant aside, picked up the sachet again, but found some brown pills in the sachet, Yunshang put the pills on the tip of her nose and sniffed gently, the pills in the sachet But there are three or four kinds, some are used for aphrodisiac, and some are used as drugs.

Yun Shang squinted her eyes, and had some guesses in her heart, raised her head to look at Qianzhuo, and asked softly: "You look at the wound on her neck, but is it the same as the wound on Yuqin and Uncle Liu's neck? "

Hearing the words, he quickly nodded his head: "This servant also wants to talk to your mother about this matter, so what does the wound on Uncle Liu's neck look like? This servant has never seen it before, but the knife on Banxia's neck The wound was exactly the same as the one on Yuqin's neck. The wound didn't look too serious, but it was very deep, and it killed him with a single knife, clean and neat, and it was obvious at a glance that it was done by someone with extremely high martial arts."

Qianzhuo thought for a while, then lowered his head and whispered in Yunshang's ear: "By the way, empress, the servant has not seen Shen Ke for a long time, could it be that Shen Ke..."

Yun Chang smiled, shook her head, the smile in her eyes became a little colder, and said lightly: "These people who died last night were probably caused by Shen Ke."

She was stunned for a moment, with a bit of disbelief on her face, and Yun Shang said lightly: "Go and order the kitchen to make some Ningguo-style pastries, and send them to the Taihe Palace. You go in person and send them to the Supreme Emperor, and then tell He, I would like to thank the Supreme Emperor for eradicating the traitors in this palace."\u003c