The Imperial Concubine Just Wants To Be a Salted Fish Every Day

  Chapter 33 Concubine Ning

  After Luo Qinghan left Qingge Hall, he immediately called Zhao Xian.

  According to Xiao Xixi’s prompts, they found a well about a hundred feet southwest.

  There is a female corpse hidden in the well. It seems that she should be the missing palace lady Yuhua.

  The location of this well is very remote. It has been abandoned for many years. Usually no one will come to this place, and the well head is still pressed by a heavy stone slab. If the stone slab is not removed, the situation in the well cannot be seen at all.

  If it weren’t for Xiao Xixi’s help to calculate, they would never have imagined that Tan Hua would be here.

  The corpse was soaked in the well water, it was so swollen that it was soaked, and the entire face was completely unrecognizable.

  The Yulin guards checked the corpse from head to toe, and found a silk scarf from her body. The name of the evening flower was embroidered on the lower right corner of the veil, which is enough to show that this person is the evening flower.

  In addition to Sipa, they also found a round jade pendant on the neck of the corpse.

  Zhao Xian wrapped the jade pendant with a silk handkerchief and held it in front of the prince.

   "Your Highness, this jade pendant looks like something from a palace."

  Luo Qinghan glanced at the jade pendant: "Go to Shaofu to find out which palace this jade pendant belongs to."

   "Here."

  Shaofu is the place in charge of royal money and supplies of various palaces. As long as it is in the palace, the Shaofu will keep records.

  Zhao Xian took the jade pendant to the Shaofu, dug out the Shaofu Supervisor from the bed, and asked about the origin of the jade pendant.

  The Superintendent of the Shaofu wiped off his eye feces, carefully looked at the jade pendant against the lights, and looked at it for a long time before saying.

   "This seems to be something from Changle Palace."

  Zhao Xian raised his eyes: "Are you sure?"

  The Shaofu Supervisor hurriedly said, “This is indeed something from Changle Palace, but it was awarded to Empress Ning by the empress dowager last year.”

  After he finished speaking, he also deliberately called up the relevant files, pointing to one of the records and said.

  "Look, here it is clearly written that the Empress Dowager will reward Concubine Ning with a pair of red jade bracelets, a string of agate beads, a pair of pearl earrings, and a round jade pendant..."

  Zhao Xian snatched the file directly, returned to the East Palace, and reported the matter to the prince.

  Luo Qinghan could not see any change in expression on his face, and said indifferently: "It's fine to find out here. You have worked hard all night, go back to sleep."

   "It's all within my subordinates' duties. I dare not say hard work. My subordinates bid farewell, and please rest early."

After Zhao Xian left, Luo Qinghan stared at the round jade pendant for a while before falling asleep.

   The next day, just after dawn, Luo Qinghan went to Jiaofangdian.

  Qin Empress got up earlier than him.

  At this time, she had finished her breakfast and was walking in the garden.

  Luo Qinghan bowed his hands and saluted: "My son, please greet his mother."

  Qin Queen asked: "I heard that you were running around in the palace with the Yulin Army in the middle of the night, but did you find anything?"

"The queen mother is wise, the son has found the person who poisoned her. It is a maid named Epiphany. Yulinwei found Epiphany's body in the well last night. After inspection, she was found to have been knocked unconscious and thrown into the well and drowned. Yulin Wei found a round jade pendant from her."

  Luo Qinghan opened the silk handkerchief, revealing the round jade pendant inside.

  Queen Qin just glanced at it, and didn't mean to touch it.

  She asked faintly: "Whose thing is this thing?"

   "It's Fei Ning's."

  Queen Qin raised her eyebrows: "It turned out to be Concubine Ning."

Concubine Ning is the biological mother of the fourth prince Luo Xinran.

  I heard that when Concubine Ning first entered the palace, she was very favored because of her beautiful dance.

   Soon she was lucky enough to become pregnant and unable to attend the bed. The emperor turned his attention to other women. Later, many new people entered the palace, and Concubine Ning’s grace gradually faded.

   But even without the grace of the emperor, she still has four princes, which is by no means comparable to those of ordinary imperial concubines.

  (End of this chapter)