It is the early winter season, but there is no snow to watch. The drizzle mixed with snow last night only moistened the ground. The sycamore trees are bare, and there are eunuchs who clean up the fallen leaves and dead branches on the forest path.

The sun was so bright that it was almost noon. Walking on the clean gravel road, eunuchs Xiao Tang and Xiao Gao checked the road conditions ahead to ensure that there was no accident.

Yao Jiaxin's travel route was ordered early in the morning, from Bitong Academy to the west, to the shore of Houhu Lake, and then take a walk along the shore of the lake.

This is the path she often walks.

Suddenly, the eunuch Tang Yin ran back in a panic and knelt on the road. Please stop!

Yao Jiaxin frowned: What's wrong with the front? - Checking the road conditions has always been just a process. Could it be that something really happened?

Tang Yin's young man's childish white face showed a look of embarrassment. He didn't know how to reply, so he kowtowed and said: Something happened on the lake is probably going to scare the empress.

The more I said this, Yao Jiaxin was curious. What could happen to the lake?

Tang Yin whispered: A palace maid drowned in the lake.

Has anyone drowned?

Yao Jiaxin raised her eyebrows. The waters in the garden are positive and large, and the waterways are well connected, comparable to the water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, the rules in the palace are not allowed to act alone, and at night, each palace and courtyard will be locked. Once the lock is locked, the palace servants are not allowed to walk around at will. In this way, the possibility of not seeing the road clearly during darkness and accidentally falling into the water is avoided.

Therefore, there have been people who fell into the water in the garden, but it seems that she has never been out of the past two years since she came to the garden.

He took the sixth prince back. Yao Jiaxin turned around and ordered the nanny.

Hong Xiaoxu immediately pouted his little mouth and twisted his little butt in dissatisfaction.

Yao Jiaxin had to settle for the second best and took Cihang Pudu to worship Guanyin. Then, she stroked Hong Xiaoxu's chubby and soft face to comfort her: You go first, mom will go later.

Su Yu nodded quickly: If you encounter such a bad thing, you should indeed worship the Bodhisattva.

Yao Jiaxin: That's not what she meant.

The nanny sanitation steadily picked up the heavy meat balls Hong Xiaoxu, bowed his knees and headed towards Cihang Pudu. Later, he followed a group of eunuchs and palace maids.

Yao Jiaxin smiled slightly, OK, go to the lake to take a look.

Su Yu was stunned, Empress!

Yao Jiaxin did not give Su Yu a chance to dissuade him and said lightly: I am not that timid yet!

Su Yu hesitated for a moment, but after all, the master who did not dare to disobey was forced to help Yao Jiaxin carefully and go to the shore of Houhu Lake.

The wind in early winter is a bit cold, especially the wind blowing from the lake is mixed with cold air, which makes it a little bit cold.

The cold waves slapped the shore, and a female corpse floated on the shore, rising and falling with the rippling waves.

Yao Jiaxin looked carefully and said that this was a young palace maid. She looked at it at most twenty years old. Her eyebrows were curved without drawing, and her face was pale and pale, without any blood.

Xiao Tang and Xiao Gao had already stepped forward to take off the floating corpse from the lake. Xiao Tang quickly covered a sweat towel on the terrifyingly white face of the female corpse.

Yao Jiaxin's expression was faint, just a floating corpse, of course she couldn't scare her. This palace maid should have died not long ago. Apart from her pale face, the body was not obviously swollen. It can be seen that she had not been soaked in the water for too long, probably for one night at most.

Su Yu hurriedly comforted him again: Empress, the matter has been notified by Shenxing Department and asked Shenxing Department to investigate. What if you are pregnant, what if you are infected with unclean things?

Xiao Tang came forward again and reported: Empress, this palace maid is Lanjiao from the Kaiyun Palace.

Yao Jiaxin blinked, the queen's palace maid? And it's from the Lan generation?

However, Yao Jiaxin really doesn't recognize Lan Jiao. After all, there are as many as twelve personal palace maids. Although Lan's generation palace maids are also personal, how could she know them all?

Then let Hu Zhongliang notify him again. Yao Jiaxin ordered.

As soon as the words were finished, a familiar voice came from not far behind him. See the Imperial Concubine!

Yao Jiaxin looked back and saw that she was a woman in a brown palace outfit. She was the young nanny Hui Li next to the queen, who was known as Aunt Hui Li.

Yao Jiaxin raised her eyebrows. This Hui was so coincidental.

Get up. Yao Jiaxin's tone is indifferent.

Hui Li quickly got up, ran to the female corpse quickly, and lifted the sweat towel covering the female corpse's face. Hui Li immediately cried, it was Lan Jiao's sister!! She disappeared last evening. The servant was looking for her, but she accidentally fell into the water!

Huili covered her face and started to cry.

Yao Jiaxin was speechless, there were no sisters among concubines, and the same was true between palace maids! They were both competitors, and the sisters were deeply in love with each other!

Yao Jiaxin asked lightly: The palace maids have never been allowed to act alone, so how could this Lanjiao fall into the water and drown?

Hui Wei's eyes were slightly red, and her eyes looked at Yao Jiaxin's face with trembling eyes, trying to find a frightened look on her calm face, but it didn't! The imperial concubine's calmness and ease exceeded Hui Wei's expectations.

Huili wiped the tears that did not exist at the corner of her eyes and said: Yesterday, Lanjiao accidentally broke one of the queen's beloved jade cups. The slave was anxious and hit her twice. The girl ran out crying. The slave thought she was running back to the palace maid's residence to rest, but she didn't expect

As she said that, Hui Li showed a look of self-blame. She quickly bowed her knees again: It’s all because of the bad servants, which made the concubine frightened.

Yao Jiaxin said lightly: Frightened? That's not.

This plain tone and expression made Hui Li froze, and she forced a smile. That's good. The concubine finally got pregnant with her second child. If there was any mistake, the servant would be unable to forgive her!

As she said that, Hui Li bowed her knees again, the concubine, Lan Jiao was the palace maid of the Kaiyun Palace, and the slaves have always taken care of her sister. Now she is unfortunately drowned and she should be the slaves to settle her funeral.

Yao Jiaxin's lips curled up. It was a life of human beings at least, so it would be better to ask Shenzheng to deal with it.

Huili's face changed, but she quickly recovered as usual. Anyway, she did it clean and could not find anything.

The eunuch from the Jingshi Department was late.

Yao Jiaxin ordered to the eunuch kneeling on the ground: Although he was just a palace maid, he was selected by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was a person from the Empress Palace. You must check it carefully. If you really fall into the water, you will be buried in your life and give silver to comfort his family.

Oh!

After the explanation, Yao Jiaxin was not interested in blowing the cold wind by the lake, so she asked her to sit on the imperial concubine's carriage and ordered: Go to Cihang Pudu.

Hui Li couldn't help but snort coldly when she heard it, pretending to be calm, and she was so scared that she was going to worship the Bodhisattva?!

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