Doctor, you are so cold

Yan Yunqi coaxed Ning Wuxin in a low voice for a long time, until Ning Wuxin calmed down, the two hugged and kissed for a while, and then got up from the bed.

Eunuch Lian was already sweating profusely, and was running around in a hurry outside.

While putting on his clothes, Yan Yunqi pretended to be sober and said, "Don't blame the father-in-law, he was drunk just now, so he really didn't hear it."

Ning Wuxin was not only upset, but she also knew the seriousness of the matter. After getting dressed, she looked a little absent-minded.

The two opened the door of the room, and Eunuch Lian rushed up to greet him, "My lord, you are ready! Please come with your lord and servants!"

After finishing speaking, he wiped off his sweat, and tremblingly supported Yan Yunqi to walk.

Ning Wuxin slowly followed behind.

Yan Yunqi said as he walked, "Where did the murder happen?"

Eunuch Lian wiped the sweat from his forehead, "It's...a hot spring."

There is an open-air hot spring pool in the palace, named Hanlu, and the surrounding environment is very beautiful.

In winter, even if it snows, people can soak in it.

Snowflakes are flying on the head, but the body is soaked in the water and it is extremely warm. It is indeed a very strange feeling.

At this time, it was close to the fifth watch, and the sky was dark. Yan Yunqi and the others walked past dozens of guards outside the hot spring courtyard, and came to the Spring of Cold Dew.

A few torches were lit around the hot spring, but it was still very dark.

The dim and flickering fire reflected the tragic faces of several people, the maids were crying, and the eunuchs hung their heads.

Yan Yunqi and the others walked step by step on the snow on the ground, making a "creaking" sound in the silent night.

Suddenly, several faces looked at them at the same time.

Ning Wuxin's heart trembled slightly, and she grabbed Yan Yunqi's arm tightly.

Yan Yunqi carefully felt the uneasiness in his heart.

He has already understood that these subtle feelings cannot be ignored after years of experience.

Sometimes, the heart knows earlier and more accurately than the head.

Who is it?

Even if someone died in the palace, the emperor didn't have to come and see it in person.

A few people came to the hot spring, and before they had time to salute the emperor, Ning Wuxin was already overwhelmed by the scene in front of him.

In the steam-covered spring, the water bubbled outwards, but it was not clean and transparent, but had a faint red color.

A naked female corpse floated in the water, her body was pale and her face was facing upwards, but no one could see her expression.

The reason why she couldn't see her expression was because her face had been slashed out of shape, as if how much resentment and anger she had towards her face was vented through one knife after another.

Ning Wuxin looked at the waist and abdomen of the female corpse, and couldn't help but whisper, "Pregnant?"

When Yan Yunqi heard it, he was also shocked, and his brows furrowed tightly.

They are in the palace, who in the palace can get pregnant?

This dead person, could it be...

Yan Yunze looked at the two of them, and spoke in a calm voice, with an unconcealable bleakness in his voice, "It's Concubine Ming who is eight months pregnant."

The night was extremely quiet, only the sobbing of the maids and the gurgling of the hot springs could be heard.

How many holy graces in the past, today are just a pale body floating on the water.

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Everyone repeatedly asked, finally, the emperor went back to rest.

Ning Wuxin asked several people to salvage the body ashore.

Ning Wuxin clapped his hands and began to examine the corpse under the dim light of the fire.

Yan Yunqi sat down, listened to everyone's breathing, and said slowly, "Tell me. How did you find out?"

Everyone hesitated for a while, as if they didn't know where to start.

Finally, a young guard spoke.

The guard's name was Song Lianqing. When he was on duty tonight, he walked past the hot spring courtyard and vaguely saw a fire inside.

When the hot spring came to winter, few people used it. He felt a little strange in his heart, and the palace was not peaceful recently, so he went in to have a look.

Unexpectedly, when he took a look, he saw the female corpse.

He was very flustered at the time, as soon as he saw the pregnant woman's corpse, he immediately thought of Concubine Ming who was eight months pregnant.

In the huge palace, only this person is eight months pregnant.

Moreover, the Yunhua Palace of the Concubine Ming is very close to here.

Furthermore, Empress Ming also encountered strange things recently, which made him very nervous.

He rushed out from the hot spring courtyard in a hurry, and ran into Eunuch Liu and Eunuch Feng who had just finished the emperor's banquet in the imperial dining room.

The three of them were shocked, and after discussing, they split up.

So, Song Lianqing immediately went to guard the body in the hot spring courtyard, Eunuch Liu went to report to Eunuch Wu, the eunuch in charge of the queen's harem, and Eunuch Feng hurried to Yunhua Palace to see if there was anything wrong with Concubine Ming.

The people in Yunhua Palace had already fallen asleep, and Eunuch Feng was impatient, so he asked someone to wake up Eunuch Zhao and Qinglian, the eunuchs accompanying Concubine Ming.

Something happened to Concubine Ming recently, and they immediately panicked.

Several people hurriedly came to Concubine Ming's bedroom and asked the two maids guarding the door how Concubine Ming was doing.

The maids replied, "Ming Concubine went to sleep on the second night, and she didn't get up, no one went in, and no one came out."

The few people calmed down, for fear of disturbing Concubine Ming's rest, they dispersed after thinking about it.

Eunuch Feng felt very uncomfortable.

He had already seen the female corpse, the figure, skin color and number of months of pregnancy were all very similar to Concubine Ming.

So, regardless of everyone's objections, he boldly yelled a few times, "Is the imperial concubine Ming here?"

As a result, he called many times, but no one answered.

Only then did the few people panic, and after discussing, they pushed the door open, looked around the bed and the room, and found that there was no one there, and the doors and windows were all closed.

They shut the bedroom door behind them, in a real panic.

Concubine Ming really disappeared.

How good is this!

The two palace maids who were guarding the door were frightened and cried.

Several people discussed it and decided to split up.

Eunuch Zhao, Qinglian and everyone from Yunhua Palace rushed to the hot spring to look at the corpse and confirm whether the corpse belonged to Concubine Ming.

Concubine Ming was eight months pregnant, and she was pregnant with the emperor's eldest prince.

This matter is of great importance and must be told to the emperor.

Therefore, Eunuch Feng hurriedly reported the matter to Eunuch Lian, the eunuch next to the emperor.

As Yan Yunqi listened, he felt more and more uneasy in his heart, and said to the two maids, "Since Concubine Ming fell asleep, you have been guarding the door and never left?"

The two maids nodded hurriedly.

"The doors and windows are locked?"

"My lord, there has been chaos in the palace recently, and the imperial concubine Ming is often afraid at night. Now it is cold winter, so there is no need to open the windows. Therefore, the windows in the empress' bedroom are all sealed and cannot be opened at all."

Yan Yunqi frowned.

The window couldn't be opened, and no one came in or out of the door, how did Concubine Ming disappear?

A little maid's voice trembled, sobbing, "Your Majesty... It wasn't murdered at all, it was a resentful spirit, a resentful spirit..."

Yan Yunqi quickly asked, "Wraith? What kind of spirit?"