Queen is the top

Since Concubine Hui regained her favor, she has changed from her previous domineering and domineering style of competing with the queen in everything, and has become more low-key and cautious in her dealings with others. She is the first one to greet the queen on time every morning, and spends most of the rest of the time in her own Hehe. In the palace, such a huge change in her surprised everyone in the harem.

The queen sent people to watch her closely for a few days, and saw that not only did she not move, but she was very respectful when she spoke to her. After living with her for a few days, seeing her surprisingly quiet, he thought about it secretly and decided to take care of the pure beauty first.

The queen originally wanted to execute the pure beauty in secret so as to preserve the face of Yingzong and the royal family, but seeing that the pure beauty was still young and in her youth, pleading with herself, she thought that if she was executed secretly, the harem would be afraid. It was discussed that if the matter between the eldest prince and the pure beauty could not be concealed, it would have violated her original intention. Thinking of this, she felt soft in her heart and struggled for a while. Regardless of Su Jin's dissuasion, she just beat her into the prison. Leng Gong.

Not many people knew about the eldest prince and the pure beauty, except for the emperor and empress who were present at the time, only Su Jin and Xu Tinglu knew about it in the harem. Su Jin and Xu Tinglu were instructed by the empress to keep the news tightly locked. For this matter, it was only said that the eldest prince was caught in the cold in the hunting ground, and to the pure beauty, it was only said that he violated the palace rules and was taken away by the queen.

The queen leaned on the phoenix couch, slightly closed her eyes, rubbed her sore temples with her fingers, and sighed: the matter of the pure beauty has finally been arranged.

Her tense nerves gradually softened, and she was tired for a few days, and the queen gradually fell asleep without knowing it.

The sound of hurried footsteps came from the ear, the queen opened her eyes, and saw Su Jin, who was frowning tightly and looked dignified, hastily walked in.

Seeing that her expression was different, the queen glanced at her, "What made you hurry?"

Su Jin narrowed his eyes slightly, frowned, walked up to the Queen's ear and whispered, "Your Highness, the pure beauty died suddenly last night."

The queen was startled, her eyes widened suddenly, she sat up and said to Su Jin, "What did you say?!"

Su Jin said solemnly: "The pure beauty died suddenly in the secret room where she was held last night."

The queen glanced at Su Jin and paused, "Su Jin, but you...?"

Su Jin and her master and servant have been in tacit understanding for many years, and she knew what the queen was referring to when she heard it, and hurriedly said: "It's not a slave girl. After His Highness stopped that day, the slave girl gave up the idea of ​​cutting grass and roots."

The queen knew Su Jin best, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that she knew Su Jin better than Cheng Yingzong. Seeing that she didn't look like she was lying, she panicked and felt something was wrong.

Su Jin's eyes were a little flustered. It doesn't matter if Chunmei dies, but now no one in the palace knows that Chunmei was imprisoned in Changle Palace, let alone the real reason why she was imprisoned. Once the news of her death in Changle Palace spreads , is bound to be detrimental to the queen.

She looked at the Queen's frowning side face and said: "Your Highness, I have locked up all the palace people who had contact with Chunmei during her imprisonment. What do you think should be done next?"

The queen's fingers wrapped around the embroidered handkerchief tightly, stretching the smooth silk surface of the embroidered handkerchief even tighter, "I will go to see her body first before making any plans."

Hearing the words, Su Jin blessed her body, gently helped the queen up, and hurried towards the apse together with her.

The queen and Su Jin came to the secret room, there was no one at the door of the secret room, only Shi Qiao Huang was there, and Shi Qiao Huang hurriedly blessed the queen when he saw the queen.

"Qiao Huang, get up quickly." After the queen finished speaking, she looked at Su Jin, and Su Jin said, "The inner eunuchs guarding Chunmei have also been locked up, but this place cannot be left unattended, so I asked Qiao Huang to come."

The queen nodded, approving her behavior quite a bit, Shi Qiaohuang carefully looked at the solemn expressions of the two, and couldn't guess what happened in the secret room.

Su Jin opened the secret room with the key, looked left and right to see that no one was passing by, and then invited the queen in. Shi Qiao Huang didn't get the order, his eyes were lowered and he didn't look at anything indiscriminately, and he didn't follow him in.

The queen was shocked when she saw Chunmei's already stiff and bluish-black body, she hurriedly looked away, and walked out of the secret room quickly.

The queen stood at the door and took a few deep breaths, still feeling sick. The stench of the corpse seemed to linger at the tip of her nose and never dissipated. Her chest was also panting slightly due to breathing.

"Your Highness, are you okay?" Shi Qiaohuang stepped forward to support her and straighten her back.

The queen waved her hand, stroked her chest, and her breathing gradually became steady. She patted Shi Qiao Huang's hand, "I'm fine."

Shi Qiaohuang looked worried, Su Jin walked up to the queen and helped her other arm, looked at her worriedly and said, "Your Highness."

The queen shook her head, thought for a while, then looked back at the body of the pure beauty lying on the ground in a strange posture in the secret room, and sighed, "We must find out the cause of death of the pure beauty."

Su Jin nodded, "Yesterday he was fine during the day, but he died overnight. There must be something strange behind this."

Shi Qiaohuang was startled when she heard that, she knew about Chunmei being imprisoned in Changle Palace, but she didn't know the reason, and she didn't want to ask. The palace is heavily guarded, and the people in the palace are carefully selected by Su Jin. How could such a thing happen?

What she was thinking was really the confusion between the Queen and Su Jin, and they were even more worried that there was some conspiracy going on behind their backs.

Su Jin looked sad and said again: "We don't have many people in the imperial hospital. It just so happens that one of Xu imperial physicians and Chang imperial physicians is out of the city for business, and the other is not in the palace. Where can we find a tight-lipped imperial physician at this time?" Come on, if the news spreads to Changle Palace at this time, it will definitely cause unnecessary trouble."

Before the cause of death was ascertained, the Queen and Su Jin were unconsciously thinking wildly, feeling uneasy.

"Your Highness, Qiao Huang knows some medical principles. If Your Highness doesn't mind, Qiao Huang can try it."

When the queen heard this, her eyebrows opened instantly, and she said happily: "No, I heard Yuqing say that Qiao Huang is proficient in medical science, but I forgot at this time." She tapped her temple as she said, "I was confused."

Shi Qiaohuang hurriedly said he didn't dare, and stood aside obediently with lowered eyebrows, waiting for the queen's order.

"Qiao Huang, go and have a look." The queen said she wanted to go in with her teacher Qiao Huang and Su Jin, but was stopped by the two of them. Teacher Qiao Huang blessed her body and said, "The rotting smell of the corpse might startle your highness's phoenix body, Qiao Huang One person can go in."

The queen was a little worried that a girl like her would be frightened when she saw the corpse, and said, "Are you all right in there alone? Let Su Jin accompany you?"

Shi Qiaohuang saw the empress's worried expression and knew that she was worried that she would be frightened, so he felt warm and said with a smile: "Your Highness, there is no need to worry, Qiao Huang has practiced martial arts since childhood, and he is not afraid of this."

The queen was a little surprised to hear that she knew martial arts, but it did reassure her, she nodded and said, "It's better, then go Qiao Huang, we'll wait for you here."

Shi Qiaohuang nodded, and said respectfully: "Yes." He turned and walked towards the secret room.

After less than a stick of incense, Shi Qiao Huang came out, and the queen looked at his worried expression and hurriedly asked, "Qiao Huang has found out the cause of death."

Shi Qiaohuang nodded, "Return to Your Highness, the pure beauty died of poisoning."

The queen and Su Jin looked at each other, both of them were shocked.

"Poisoning?!" Su Jin said: "Chunmei has carefully checked her diet for the past few days, how could she be poisoned?"

Shi Qiaohuang said with serious eyebrows: "I suspect that the pure beauty's poisoning did not happen overnight. There is a kind of poison in her body, as long as she eats it with another kind of food that repels it, she will die suddenly within two hours. Death,"

The queen was shocked, "Qiao Huang means that the pure beauty was poisoned early in the morning? The pure beauty is a concubine, who is so bold."

Shi Qiaohuang lowered his eyebrows and said nothing, the queen tightened the veil with her fingers, "This person attacked Chunmei so early, I'm afraid he has already regarded her as a pawn. Everything today seems to have been set up. "

Su Jin looked at the Queen and said, "Who does Your Highness think would be like this?"

The queen snorted coldly, and said in disgust, "If you talk about the chance of poisoning, there are too many suspects in this palace, but if you talk about the motive, there are other people besides the one in Hehe Palace and her precious son." who?"