Spirit of the Phoenix: 20. East Wing

The emperor was overjoyed: "Rui'er is kind and intelligent, and extremely fair and respectful. It's perfect for him to share the burden for you! That's it, Rui'er is in charge of the overall situation, and the two Shang Palaces will assist from it. The Ya Qinwei is under the personal command of Rui Er, if it is necessary to find Qin Baolin, give the Qin family an explanation!"

The emperor didn't need to worry about it himself, he was very happy and relaxed, and continued to say with joy: "If Rui'er can handle this errand well, Kaichun will just get a position, and he doesn't have to stay in the palace all day."

He glanced anxiously at Queen Chen, "What do you think, Queen?"

The empress slowly leaned back on the pillow, her lips curled up in an indistinct arc, and she lowered her eyes and said: "Your Majesty is very right."

When the news reached the East Palace, Tai'an was so startled that he almost fell into the white porcelain fish tank, and was quickly picked up by the little prince.

She was still in shock, and tightly hugged the little prince's fingers: "Your first time on business, you have to lead a team of Beiya's personal guards, what if you stab Lou Zi? It's so big in Miyagi, how can you find a Baolin in the middle of the night? Isn't that right?" Have you confirmed your reputation as a loser? The queen is so vicious, she clearly arranged a trap for you! Little prince, please don't go! How about we continue to pretend to be sick?"

The little prince dragged her out of his hands, gently clamped her into the "Saint Ancestor's Instructions", and put her in his arms.

"Soldiers come to block, water comes to cover. Tai'an, at this time, water is coming and soldiers are coming, we can't hide."

He got up slowly and pushed open the vermilion door of the inner hall. The bright moon hangs high, and the silver-white moonlight shines on his resolute face, making his face blurred with the vicissitudes of age.

"Let's go." The little prince smiled slightly, and straightened the golden crown of the bright yellow dragon on his head.

However, Taian's expected search for Qin Baolin was at a loss, but it did not happen.

In the early morning, although the prince guarding the Sanqing Palace did not receive a report from the Beiya Qianniuwei, Cui Shanggong who accompanied him waited until the female official Dianzheng in Yongxiang, kneeling in panic with a pale face. in front of them.

Baolin Qin Xiangying, the prostitute's daughter of a wealthy gentry in Jinzhong and the emperor's new emperor, has been found.

It's not anywhere else, it's just in the Yongxiang where she disappeared in the first place.

The little prince hurried forward and followed the two Shanggongs behind him, when he arrived, the Beiya Qianniuwei had already surrounded Yongxiang with no water to pass through. Qianniuwei General Li Shaolin was about thirty years old, and he was in the prime of life. When he saw the prince coming, his eyes flashed with surprise. He immediately knelt down on one knee to cover it up, and reported respectfully: "Your Highness, the death here is unlucky. I hope His Highness avoids it."

Dead? Tai'an was shocked.

The little prince suddenly stopped in his tracks, closed his eyes a little and then opened them again, and said softly: "Qin Baolin... has died."

Qin Baolin is indeed dead.

Just after four o'clock, Xue Xiunv, who lives in the north wing of Yongxiang, got up at night with a stomachache. After reporting to the head, she went to Daoshan hall to go to the toilet. The sky has revealed fish belly white.

The North Wing Room hardly sees sunlight in winter, it is dark and humid, and it is also a Datong shop for ten beautiful girls.

Xue Xiunv remembered where she slept, the last person next to the east wall. The water vapor on the wall made her sleep extremely uncomfortable, but unfortunately her father was an official, and her family property was not rich and her money was tight, so she was unable to accommodate the female officials in the palace to allocate berths.

She tossed and tossed back and forth for a long time, and she was already freezing cold all over, so she tiptoed open the door.

The rules in the palace are strict, low-level court ladies have to lie on their right side even when sleeping, Xue Xiunv sighed softly, and walked in with the light from the window.

She walked all the way to the innermost part of the bed, but suddenly stood by the bed in a daze.

She remembered very clearly that she had been sleeping in a bed against the east wall for two months since entering the palace. But now on her bunk...why is there another puffed up figure?

Xue Xiunv was dazed for a moment, then slowly retreated to the door, looking left and right.

That's right, it's my own room! Frowning, she walked doubtfully toward her bunk, counting the puffed figures sleeping on the bed.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.

Huh? Xue Xiunv was very surprised. There were ten people in one bunk, and there were already nine people lying on the bed, and she who was standing by the bed was supposed to be the tenth person sleeping by the east wall.

But now there are already ten people lying on the bunk! Including herself, there are a total of eleven, one more person!

Xue Xiunv reached forward in a daze, and patted the extra maid who was sleeping on the side of the wall: "Wake up! But you slept in the wrong room when you got up at night?"

Her hands were as cold as ice outside the room, but when she touched the maid on the bed, she found that the person curled up in the thin quilt was obviously colder than her hands.

Not only cold, but also stiff.

"Ah!" The shrill scream resounded through the sky, especially clear in the silent morning. The **** in charge gagged Xue Xiunu's mouth with a cloth towel, and dragged her pale face out of the north wing. A house full of panicked maids huddled together, weeping in a low voice, until His Royal Highness appeared outside Yongxiang, and then turned into an extraordinarily sad cry.

Qin Baolin, who disappeared in the afternoon, died for unknown reasons in the north wing of Yongxiang, a ten-person bunk where ordinary court ladies lived.