Your Majesty, the Empress Runs Again

"Empress, not good." That night, just as Shen Xin finished his supper and was about to go to bed, he heard a palace maid's shout. After dressing up again, Shen Xin walked in and was met with a palace maid he had never seen before.

"Who are you?" Qingxu was displeased with the palace maid who had disturbed Shen Xin for no reason. She had seen all of the palace maids in the Zither Phoenix Hall before, how did a servant not from the Zither Phoenix Hall come in?

"Please forgive me, Empress. This servant let big sister Miao'er in. Something happened to the Consort Shu."

"Get up and reply." Shen Xin glanced at the palace maid who spoke. She was the one who sent the medicine to Eunuch Chen by her side after she purposely provoked the palace maids at the Qin Phoenix Palace.

"Empress, my wife hanged herself." Miao'er's eyes had swollen to the size of a walnut. It was obvious that this was the result of her heartbreak from crying.

"Your Empress hanged herself! You did not find the Consort Lin to properly settle matters for your Empress, and instead came to find me? What was your intention?" It was not because Shen Xin was heartless, but because she was the empress and had no real authority. The one in charge of the harem was the Consort Lin, she really did not know why this palace maid had come to her place at this time.

"Empress, my esteemed mother sends her regards to you today, before instructing her servants to immediately come to the Phoenix Gin Tower to look for you if anything were to happen to her. This servant suspects that my concubine did not hang herself, but was instead harmed by someone. Empress, please help my family! " Miao'er silently shed tears. If her mistress hadn't been harmed, how could she have said such a thing?

"Oh? Do you have evidence for that? " Shen Xin raised his eyebrow, this palace servant previously said that the Consort Shu hanged herself, and now that she said that she was murdered, there was conflict.

"Empress, this servant doesn't have any evidence, but my mistress gave this to this servant. Your servant couldn't read, so I didn't understand what was written on it, so I brought it here. " Miao'er took out a piece of letter from her bosom and carefully handed it over to Qingxu.

"Alright, I already know. You can go back now! " Shen Xin opened the letter and looked at it for a while before handing it over to Qingxu. Qingxu read it for a long time but still could not understand the meaning of the lines written on the paper. A dying person actually had the leisure to write poetry that was concerned about the nation and the people, accusing the powerful and corrupt. It was truly bizarre to the extreme.

"Empress, you must find out the truth for my esteemed wangfei! This humble servant will repay the great kindness that the Empress has shown me. " After saying that, Miao'er took out the dagger she had prepared earlier and stabbed herself in the stomach. Instantly, the light colored dress was dyed red with blood.

"It's been buried well!" Convinced that she knew that Miao'er was determined to die, she wanted to use her death to force herself to take revenge for the Consort Shu. Although the method was a bit stupid, it was still rare to be a sincere palace maid. Shen Xin ordered her corpse to be carried away and buried properly. It was just that she suspected that there was some kind of secret behind the death of Consort Shu. The harem life was too boring, so it was fine to find something interesting to do.

"Miss, since Consort Shu had already predicted that someone would want to harm her, why weren't you prepared? Isn't it against common sense that you would still have the mood to write poems? " When there were only two people left in the room, Qingxu asked. She had already tried many different methods, but finally discovered that other than the few lines of poems that she wrote on the letter, there were no other secrets on it.

"It's not that she doesn't want to be on guard, but that she knows she will definitely die. Even though there was only a 'whine' written on the paper, 'whine', and 'whine', and 'whine', it was written all over the east side of the hall. There were four to five brothers, all serving officials. On the fifth day, the onlookers came to the side of the road. The golden head of the horse, He Huang! ', but there were still a few lines at the end,' On the Peach Aperture Well, by the side of the tree. "The worms come to eat the peach root, and the plum trees become stiff." The Consort Shu only wanted to say the last two sentences, but maybe she was being watched by someone, so she did not dare to write too clearly.

"Miss, are you talking about Li Dai Tao being stiff? Is the Consort Shu telling us that she has treated others wrongly? " Qingxu realised in a flash, the truth was that the Consort Shu actually had such an intention, just who was this Consort Shu suffering for? There was no one surnamed Tao or peach in the palace.

"Yes, that's how it should be."

That night, Shen Xin sneaked into the Historical Institution. She felt that some of the answers were about to come out, but they seemed to be missing something. Although there was no one surnamed Tao in the harem now, it didn't mean that there hadn't been anyone in the past.

The next day, Shen Xin woke up early.

"Qingxu, contact the owner of the room." With the information on all the concubines in the harem, Shen Xin believed that since Consort Shu had left his last words, he must have his reasons for doing so.

"Yes."

Before long, the master of the room came to the Qin Feng Palace to greet him. "This servant greets the Empress, the Empress is extremely fortunate." The owner of the house was an elderly woman with white temples.

"Owner, please rise. I came here today to ask you some questions, and I hope you can answer them for me. " Shen Xin sized up the woman in front of him without batting an eyelid. Years had turned the woman in front of him into a paralyzed state.

"Your Highness has forced this servant into a corner. What does Your Highness wish to know? This servant will definitely speak without reserve, and will not dare to slack off in the slightest." The owner of the upper-class room was named Lou Junlan, who had trained her calm abilities throughout her years of life. However, when she was being sized up by the young Empress, she felt that he had already dug out the fear in her heart.

"That's good. I wonder if the house owner still remembers Old Mistress Tao? " When Shen Xin said this, he did not miss the fear that flashed past Lou Junlan's eyes.

"Niangniang, this servant naturally knows Madame Tao. All of the reason I have come today is because of the holy servant and Madame Tao's recommendation." Lou Junlan tried her best to remain calm, but her trembling hands betrayed her, showing the uneasiness in her heart.

"Then can the owner of the room tell me why Old Madam Tao would reject the position of the owner? According to what I know, Old Madam Tao has not reached the age of suitor back then. " Last night, she had investigated the Historical Courtyard and discovered that the previous owner of the room was surnamed Tao. However, the historians only had a few words about her, as if they were dreading something.

"Empress, this servant knows nothing." Lou Junlan, who was trying her best to remain calm, fell to her knees in fright. Her fear came from the bottom of her heart. The weather was hot, but she was covered in cold sweat.

"Tower Lord, Consort Shu is dead. If you had told me what happened all those years ago, you would not have reported it. Can you understand that I am the one responsible for your death in Consort Shu? " Shen Xin knew that his words were full of loopholes and completely illogical, but it was enough to deal with Lou Junlan, who was already afraid of death and afraid of life.