Daughter of a High Sect: Abandoned Concubine Reborn

Chapter 352 Deciphering step by step
The guests gradually dispersed, and the banquet was drawing to a close. Aunt Jing helped the old queen back to the Palace of Compassion, and only Xuanyuan Jincheng, Xuanyuan Jingxiu, Xuanyuan Heng, and Xuanyuan Ye remained.

The lights were dimmed, and the palace servants began to clean up the wreckage left by the fireworks.

The night returned to silence, but the strangeness in the silence was tacitly understood by everyone.

"Why don't you see the fourth and fifth brothers?" Xuanyuan Heng looked around with suspicion on his brows, Xuanyuan Jingxiu also looked around, and there were indeed no two figures.

"Brother, why do you look so bad?" Xuanyuan Heng noticed the strange look on Xuanyuan Ye's face, and asked, but Xuanyuan Ye didn't answer, just snorted coldly, and walked away.

"This is ???????" Xuanyuan Heng looked at the back figure that was walking away in puzzlement, feeling inexplicable.

"Princes, Your Majesty, I inform you to go to the main hall." At this moment, Eunuch Hai suddenly appeared in front of them, holding a fly whisk in his hand, his expression could not be seen to be happy or angry, he didn't know why his father summoned them at this hour.

They looked at each other in blank dismay, and began to wonder in their hearts. Only Xuanyuan Jincheng knew that the matter must have alarmed his father, so he rushed to pass it on to them.

Arriving in the main hall where the government was discussed, Xuanyuan Qiche sat on top with a heavy expression, still wearing a bright yellow dragon robe.

"My son pays my respects to my father." They saluted respectfully, perhaps because Xuanyuan Qiche's expression was too heavy, after paying their respects, they stepped aside respectfully without saying a word.

After a while, the sound of footsteps at the door broke the silence, and everyone looked at the door in unison. It was Xuanyuan Jingyi, Concubine Jing Shu, and Concubine Ouyang who came, followed by guards, carrying two corpses.

After Xuanyuan Jingxiu and the others saw it, they became more and more confused.

"Here, what's going on???????"

The rustling discussion began below.

"Today, the palace is not peaceful. First, the palace maid died tragically in the dry well for some reason, and then Concubine Ning was killed. I would like to ask my princes, what do you think of this matter? Although Concubine Ning died, the murderer has already been arrested. , but things don't seem to be that simple." Xuanyuan Qiche's sharp eyes glanced at the audience, and found that there were two people missing, he frowned and asked, "Where are Ye'er and Jue'er?"

"I'll go look for this old slave." Eunuch Hai took a step forward and was about to go out, but he saw Xuanyuanjue had already walked to the door.

"Fourth prince, where is the eldest prince?" Seeing that Xuanyuanjue was alone, Duke Hai asked openly.

Xuanyuanjue chuckled, shook his head to indicate that he didn't know.

"See Father." After Xuanyuan Jue saluted Xuanyuan Qiche, he also stepped aside, standing in line with Xuanyuan Heng and the others.

Glancing at Concubine Ning's corpse on the ground, Xuanyuan Jue's expression flashed with astonishment, but he quickly hid it.

Huancai was supported by several guards, her eyes were red, and when she saw Xuanyuanjue, the brilliance in her eyes revived, Xuanyuanjue was a little horrified by her sudden glance.

He raised his eyes and watched everyone's reactions cautiously. Fortunately, everyone's eyes were caught by the two corpses on the ground, and they fell into deep thought and had no time to pay attention to him.

He was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but found that Ouyang Feixue's sharp eyes were looking straight at him, the deep meaning in those eyes was self-evident.

His eyebrows darkened, and he moved his eyes to pretend to be calm.

"Father, my servant has checked that this court lady Ping'er was killed by someone hitting her brain with a hard object, and then she was thrown into the dry well. This is the murder weapon." Xuanyuan Jingyi took out a wooden stick, and The stick was different from the others in that it had an inlaid iron hammer at one end, and it was this hammer that killed Pinger.

Xuanyuan Qiche carefully looked at the wooden stick in Xuanyuan Jingyi's hand, and nodded thoughtfully.

"There are clues to the murderer." His stern and majestic demeanor was irresistible.

Xuanyuan Jingyi shook his head and felt a little disappointed. He had searched many places, but he couldn't find any useful clues except this stick.

If a palace maid died on weekdays, she shouldn't have mobilized the crowd like this, and let Xuanyuan Qiche call their princes over.

But recently, let alone the Empress Dowager's birthday, it is a special day, not to mention the concubines in the harem who died.

Xuanyuan Qiche arranged the two cases together, obviously because he felt that the two things were related.

"Your Majesty, there is a young eunuch asking to see you." At this moment, Eunuch Hai brought Xuanyuan Ye over.

"Xuan." A trace of surprise flashed across Xuanyuan Qiche's face, but without the slightest hesitation, he let the little eunuch who was asking for an audience come in.

"Your servant sees the emperor." The little eunuch came in bowing, with his head lowered so that people couldn't see his appearance clearly. When he saluted, his head was buried even lower, and it was stuck to the ground.

Xuanyuan Jue's gaze was like a torch, staring fixedly at the little eunuch, an inexplicable brilliance flashed in his eyes, Ouyang Feixue had a panoramic view, and couldn't help but think a little more about the little eunuch.

"Mianli, it's okay to say what's the matter." Xuanyuan Qiche frowned slightly, looked at the little eunuch on the ground, and said expressionlessly.

"Go back to the emperor, this servant knows the cause of the death of the maidservant Ping'er." The little eunuch kept his head down, not making eye contact with anyone, it was really weird, which made Ouyang Feixue a little more suspicious of him.

"Say." Xuanyuan Qiche's expression remained the same, without any fluctuations.

"It's the maid next to the empress, Xia Yi did it." His words shocked everyone, Xuanyuan Ye was the one who reacted most obviously.

"Don't talk nonsense, what evidence do you have?" Xuanyuanye asked in a cold voice, he was not trying to defend Xia Yi, but for himself and his queen mother.

It was very difficult for them to get to where they are today. The father no longer cares about the past. If there is a side issue now, their mother and son may not have a chance to stand up again.

"Come on, bring Xia Yi over here." Xuanyuan Qiche's complexion darkened, he cast a glance at Xuanyuan who was excitedly stepping up to grab the lapel of the little eunuch on the ground, and shouted coldly.

At this time, Xia Yi was waiting for the queen to fall asleep, just as the queen lay down, Xia Yi was about to go out, when a sudden noise outside the door disturbed the queen.

"What's the noise?" The queen shouted to the outside with some displeasure.

"This subordinate is ordered to arrest Xia Yi, please open the door to the queen." The guard's strong voice sounded outside the door.

Xia Yi lost his mind, staggered and almost fell, the queen felt that something was wrong with Xia Yi early in the morning, but she didn't investigate further, unexpectedly alarmed the emperor.

She looked coldly at Xia Yi's gradually pale face, and said sharply, "What the hell did you cause?"

Xia Yi came back to her senses, knelt down on the ground with a plop, crawled in front of Empress Dao, and pulled her trousers, her face was covered with tears.

"Your Majesty, save the slave——save the slave—" Xia Yi begged in tears.

The queen looked at her for a while, kicked her hand away, dressed herself neatly, and followed Xia Yi when the guards took her away.

This night, all life fell into a deep sleep, and there was no occasional chirping of insects.

The lights were dim, the bustling scene ended, and the silent wreckage was scattered all over the ground one by one. After the bell on the high wall rang, it was already early morning.

The ethereal bell sounded far, far away, until no echo could be heard.

In the main hall, there was a murderous atmosphere, and everyone's faces were abnormally heavy, and no one spoke to break the silence.

Until the two figures that appeared at the door slowly walked in, the dead silence was broken, and everyone's eyes were attracted.

"The concubine sees the emperor—" The queen's face was calm, without any panic, followed by two guards dressed in black, one on the left and the other on the right to hold Xia Yi.

"Kneel down!" With a shout, the guards mercilessly pressed Xia Yi to the ground, and the sound of knees colliding with the ground could be clearly heard.

"Queen, do you know what happened to your girl?" Xuanyuan Qiche cast a sideways glance at the kneeling queen, and was not in a hurry to get her up.

Xuanyuan Ye watched from the side, anxious, but helpless.

"The concubine doesn't know. If she knows, she will definitely be punished." The queen said calmly, her tone was slow, and there was no trace of anxiety, which could be seen in her palace.

With a sneer on the corner of Xuanyuan Qiche's mouth, he looked past the queen and landed on Xia Yi.

(End of this chapter)