sick princess

At this moment, a pair of soft little hands suddenly stretched out from behind Emperor Zhaode, grabbed Emperor Zhaode's sleeves and shook them: "Father Emperor."

When Emperor Zhaode heard this soft call, his expression softened a lot.

"My sons and ministers see father and mother." Baoluo was just about to be blessed when he was helped up by Emperor Zhaode: "Why do you need to be so polite in front of me? Get up quickly, as long as you have this filial piety." .”

After a pause, Emperor Zhaode said again: "Baoluo, you are weak, you shouldn't be here, you should go back quickly."

Concubine Zhou also persuaded: "I know that the princess likes to play with the emperor on weekdays, but now that the emperor is doing business, I'm afraid I won't be able to take care of the princess for a while, so the princess should go back for now. Otherwise, the emperor will inevitably If you are distracted from caring about the princess, it will be bad if you delay the main business. The emperor can go to the princess earlier if he finishes his busy work earlier. The princess said, is this the reason?"

In the words, it seems that Baoluo is regarded as an ignorant little doll.

"Your concubine, please worry about me. It's really not easy for your concubine to take care of the second brother, the seventh brother, and me." Baoluo smiled and said, "However, I have a father. The emperor and the empress are concerned, and the imperial concubine can rest easy."

As soon as the news of Concubine Rong's death spread, the Seventh Prince fell ill.Concubine Zhou directly took the Seventh Prince back to her palace on the grounds that the Seventh Prince was too young to be left alone.Because she is the biological mother of the Seventh Prince, although some people thought it was inappropriate for her to do so, no one said anything.

However, seriously, it was Emperor Zhaode who ordered the Seventh Prince to be raised in Rong'an Palace at that time. Without Emperor Zhaode's will, Concubine Zhou took him back directly, which was her own initiative.

"Father is facing a problem now, so naturally I can't go away, I want to stay and share my worries."

When Emperor Zhaode heard this, he became interested: "Oh? How do you plan to share my worries?"

Emperor Zhaode knew that Baoluo's intelligence and intelligence were not inferior to the Seventh Prince's, but because she was weak and a princess, she was raised a little more delicately in daily life, unlike the Seventh Prince's, who looked at her at a young age. A bit old and steady.

Emperor Zhaode was also quite curious about how Baoluo would handle this matter.

"Your Majesty, this is a serious matter after all. I'm afraid it's not appropriate to hand it over to the princess for practice." Tian Guiren said from the side.

Tian Guiren and Rui Xiaoyi are the same group of high-ranking concubines who entered the palace. Because they are not as beautiful as Rui Xiaoyi, they have been crushed to death by Rui Xiaoyi.Today, Tian Guiren has already boarded the ship of Zhou Guifei through the way of a distant cousin Li Ronghua in the palace.

If it weren't for Li Ronghua's presence, a low-status concubine like Tian Guiren, who is not very favored, would not be able to get into the eyes of Zhou Guifei.

It is rare to catch such an opportunity, Tian Guiren naturally wants to perform well, not only can step down his old rival Rui Xiaoyi, but also can take the opportunity to get into the eyes of Concubine Zhou, why not do it?

"Your Majesty, Tian Guiren is right. The Concubine Rong is gone, and the Seventh Prince is eager to find out who killed the Concubine Rong... If the Seventh Prince knows that you have entrusted this case to the princess for practice, I am afraid I'm going to be sad..." Li Ronghua knew that Zhou Guifei didn't want Baoluo to intervene in this matter, so he stood aside to help Tian Guiren.

"When I talk to my father, is it your turn to intervene? My father has encountered a problem. As a son and daughter, I naturally have to share my worries for my father. When it comes to your mouth, why does it become disrespectful to the concubine Rong and the seventh emperor?" Have you neglected? Could it be that some people are afraid that this palace will find out something?” Baoluo glanced lightly at Li Ronghua and nobleman Tian, ​​and finally, that gaze fell on Concubine Zhou, full of deterrence, not at all seen by Emperor Zhaode. The Jiaohan in front of her.

"Mother, you should take good care of these harem concubines. My sons are out of the palace on weekdays, and I have never seen a concubine's room can intervene at will when the master of a big family is discussing matters. Even the inner courtyard of those courtiers is like this, Father is the ruler of the world, so the harem should be more like this. Otherwise, wouldn't it be embarrassing for father if he said it in the future?"

"What you said is very true." Empress Xu glanced at the concubines present: "Have you heard that? If anyone dares to talk too much, I will have no choice but to treat you as restless concubines and deal with them according to palace rules! "

Although Baoluo was young, but after speaking, the people present did not dare to underestimate her.This also made her follow-up questioning a lot smoother.

"Father, my son is thinking, since the eunuch on duty and the maid beside Rui Xiaoyi both said that Rui Xiaoyi pushed Concubine Rong into the pool, let's separate the two of them for interrogation. You will know whether they have lied or not, what do you think?"

Emperor Zhaode was very pleased to see that Baoluo was thinking clearly and doing things in an orderly manner.Empress Xu herself is not a smart person, and she doesn't know how she taught Baoluo so well.

If Empress Xu had Baoluo's ingenuity, he probably wouldn't have to worry about the harem affairs.

Baoluo has also grown up gradually, maybe in the future, Baoluo can assist Empress Xu in managing the affairs of the Six Palaces, Emperor Zhaode thought.

"Just do what Baoluo wants."

Seeing Emperor Zhaode's approval, Baoluo nodded and said without much nonsense, "Let's interrogate the eunuch on duty first."

As soon as she spoke, the maid who identified Rui Xiaoyi was immediately gagged by the guards around Emperor Zhaode and pushed her down.

Seeing this, Concubine Zhou quietly clenched the prayer beads in her sleeves—this is a habit she has developed in three years of worshiping Buddha.As long as she touches the beads, she can calm down.

"Since you saw the conflict between Concubine Rong and Rui Xiaoyi, then you should have seen where they had the conflict, right?" Baoluo looked at the eunuch who came out to identify Rui Xiaoyi.

"Returning to the princess, at that time, Concubine Rong and Rui Xiaoyi were in the gazebo."

"you sure?"

Those three simple words gave the eunuch a bad feeling.The eunuch always felt that Baoluo would catch the loopholes in his words and make trouble.However, Emperor Zhaode personally agreed that Baoluo would try the case, if he didn't answer, it would only appear that he was guilty.

Maybe, Baoluo was deceiving him, maybe, she couldn't find any clues at all.

The eunuch gritted his teeth: "Slave is sure. This servant just saw Concubine Rong and Rui Xiaoyi quarreling in the gazebo...Maybe, Concubine Rong was pushed into the water there too."

"Since Concubine Rong has encountered an accident, what about the people who are with Concubine Rong today? Are they still there?"

"Today Concubine Rong only brought a maid named Moxiang with her. After Concubine Rong fell into the water, Moxiang devoted herself to savior, so she jumped into the water and disappeared."

"Oh. This is really weird. The maid named Moxiang knew she couldn't swim, and there were people on duty around Huaqing Pool, but she didn't call for your help, but jumped down by herself instead?"

"I think that Moxiang is also the savior's eagerness to come, and she is in a hurry..."

"Since you saw the conflict between Rui Xiaoyi and Concubine Rong, why didn't you find out immediately when Concubine Rong fell into the water?"

"Slave thought, it's common for women to have a few quarrels, but I never expected it to be so serious..." The eunuch had beads of sweat on his forehead: " Before and after Concubine Rong fell into the water, the servant happened to be in a hurry, so he found someone to replace the servant for a while. The person didn't know which area the servant visited, so he started the inspection from the beginning."

"You asked someone else to take over for you, which direction did you go?"

The eunuch pointed casually: "It's about that direction. The servant was in a hurry and didn't pay much attention."

The eunuch originally thought that Baoluo would hand in the person who would take over for him for questioning, but unexpectedly, Baoluo didn't seem to have such a plan at all.

Baoluo just stared fixedly at the eunuch in front of him, and after a while, he said: "You're lying. You didn't go in the direction you pointed at at all. At that time, you were busy pushing Moxiang into the water."

"Moxiang didn't jump into the water and drown the Savior by herself at all. She was hit on the head with a stone and hammered to death!"

"And Concubine Rong was pushed down by you and your accomplices! It is because Moxiang witnessed your crime with your own eyes that you want to kill her to silence her."

Baoluo turned to Emperor Zhaode and explained to Emperor Zhaode: "Royal father, I have raised a dog over the years. The dog's sense of smell is very sensitive. Before I came, I asked someone to take a piece of honor Let it smell the clothes worn by Concubine Empress and Moxiang recently. Just now, since it came here, it has been circling around the shore."

Baoluo pointed, and everyone discovered that there was indeed a puppy on the shore.The size of the puppy is not big, and the place is relatively hidden, covered by a bush under it.If Baoluo hadn't mentioned this matter, I'm afraid they wouldn't have discovered that there was a puppy there.

"Go there and have a look." Emperor Zhaode ordered with a pale face.

Of course Emperor Zhaode was unwilling to make a detour, so the guards stepped forward spontaneously and pushed aside the grass as quickly as possible so that Emperor Zhaode and his party could pass.

When they got to the bottom, everyone found that the ground by the pool was soft mud, and there were four footprints criss-crossing on the ground.The two footprints are larger, and it can be seen that they are the footprints of a man, while the other two footprints are relatively small.Two of the larger footprints reached the edge of the pool and turned back, while the other two petite footprints never returned.

"Woof!" Seeing so many people suddenly coming around, the puppy immediately bristled its hair and made a defensive posture.

Baoluo clapped his hands at the puppy: "Jiujiu, come here."

Baoluo thought that it was a troubled time recently, so in order to feel at ease, she deliberately brought the puppy Jiujiu, who has a keen sense of smell, from outside the palace to live for a while, unexpectedly, it really came in handy.

Seeing his master calling him, Jiujiu put away his guard, wagging his tail and rushed towards Baoluo.

After Jiujiu puppy left, everyone found a stone covered by its body.

The people around Emperor Zhaode reacted the fastest, and immediately stepped forward to investigate: "Your Majesty, there are bloodstains on that stone."