Eight-year-old Princess: Phoenix Reborn

After seeing Su Luo and the others, the empress took a nap for a while. After sleeping for less than half an hour, she was woken up by the nanny: "Empress, Master Wu, has entered the meeting hall."

The queen woke up with a jolt, and ordered repeatedly: "Hurry up and order someone to go to the meeting hall to watch. If you see that His Majesty has sent a servant to Shuya Palace, come over and report to me. I want to go and see in person. How Concubine Shen Shu will end up, I'm afraid she is not complacent enough, she will fall to the bottom again, and this time she has to be with her son."

Seeing the rare gleam of joy on the Empress's face, Mammy also responded repeatedly: "Yes, servant girl will arrange it now."

The queen didn't have the intention to take a nap anymore, so she ordered someone to wait on her and got up, and when she was fully dressed, she sat quietly on the chair and waited, only waiting for the messenger to come back before getting up.

After waiting for about half an hour, the messenger hurried back.

Perhaps it was because he ran too hastily, the servant kept panting heavily, and couldn't even utter a complete sentence. The queen was also a little anxious, so she simply ignored him, stood up and asked her to help her, and was about to go to Shuya Palace.

As soon as he reached the entrance of the hall, the servant hurriedly said: "The Empress, it's not Concubine Shen Shu, the Empress..."

The queen was stunned, her steps stopped, and she turned her head with a frown, with some doubts in her eyes, "Isn't it Concubine Shen Shu? What do you mean?"

The servant hurriedly said: "Master Wu asked the slave to tell the empress, but it failed."

"What?" The queen's face was a little stiff, "Failed? What's going on?" Her voice also turned cold.

The servant knelt on the ground and said softly: "Lord Wu said that he was reporting to His Majesty about the stele. When His Majesty heard the birth date on the stele, his complexion suddenly changed. At that moment, Master Li Qianmo from the Ministry of Punishment suddenly walked in in a hurry."

"Li Qianmo? Isn't he from Concubine Shen Shu? What are you here for?" The queen frowned, feeling a bad premonition in her heart.

The servant quickly continued to report: "Master Wu said, then Li Qianmo came to report to His Majesty that an old craftsman who was good at lettering died in Jincheng."

"Why did the old craftsman die and report to His Majesty? The Yamen can investigate the case..." The queen was a little displeased.

"Coincidentally, Li Qianmo said that in the house of the dead old craftsman, a piece of paper was found, and the words written on it were exactly the things that have been making a lot of noise in Jin'an and Jincheng in recent days. The writing on the stone tablet." The servant lowered his head, his voice trembling slightly.

A look of surprise flashed in the queen's eyes, she pondered for a moment, and then said: "Could it be that old craftsman..."

The servant quickly replied: "Yes, that old craftsman is exactly the one we are looking for."

The queen's face became very ugly when she heard the words. She had always felt that putting the stele in Jin'an Town would make people feel that this matter had nothing to do with her or with the inner palace. , but did not expect that something went wrong with the old craftsman: "What's going on? Didn't the palace specifically ask you to dispose of the old craftsman, and you must do it cleanly? Why did the paper stayed in the old craftsman's house?"

The waiter hurriedly responded: "The slaves must have done it very cleanly when they started before. Master Wu said that the place where Li Qianmo found the paper was on the table. If there is such a conspicuous place on the table, we will It must be visible. We have checked many times, but we have never found paper on the table..."

There was a bit of coldness in the queen's eyes, "You mean, someone went to the old craftsman's house after ours?"

"Exactly... Exactly." The servant lowered his head and responded in a low voice.

"Not many people know about this matter, how could such a thing happen?" The queen sneered, and then said: "There must be a traitor among the killers sent, and all the killers sent should be dealt with."

The servant waited and knelt on the ground with his head bowed.

The queen was silent for a long time, and then said again: "Apart from the paper, what else did Li Qianmo find?"

"Master Wu said that Li Qianmo sent people from the criminal department to look for the old craftsman's neighbors. A middle-aged man said in his statement that he had seen a man come to look for the old craftsman. Thin and thin, likes to look at the orchid fingers, looking at that appearance, it is very likely that it is a servant in the palace."

The Queen's hand clenched tightly in her sleeves, and after a while she sneered and said, "Good for you Concubine Shen Shu, good for you Li Qianmo! Great!"

"Master Wu said that His Majesty ordered a strict investigation into this matter..." The voice of the servant became lower and lower.

"Then why don't you hurry up and order people to deal with all the traces. There are so many servants in the palace, and I don't believe it. She can find out about it." The queen's eyes were full of anger, and she sat down on the chair, holding her hands tightly. Hold the arm of the chair.

The servant quickly responded, bit his lip, and stepped back hastily.

"Your Majesty, this servant feels that the Empress may have premeditated her coming out of the cold palace." The nurse next to the Empress said softly.

"It was premeditated." The queen fell silent, and after a while she leaned back on the chair in frustration, and said with a sneer, "It's my negligence. I knew before that that Concubine Shen Shu, the Seventh Prince and the Eldest Princess all joined forces." Come to think of it, although the eldest princess is like a mouse crossing the street now, she must be able to evade His Majesty's arrest for so long, and even the hidden guards can't find her in a carpet search. Let alone the Seventh Prince, the Seventh Prince It looks sick and weak, but it is a hidden one."

"Looking at it this way, I really have to think long-term." The queen raised her hand and gently rubbed her painful temples, but she didn't speak for a while.

The nanny then continued: "I feel that Concubine Shen Shu came out of the Leng Palace so quickly, and she has a lot to do with Prince Qi. Besides, the Seventh Prince is at the border and there is still no news of Prince Rui's disappearance. , but the King of Qi is in Jincheng, if there is a slight change, the one who reaps the benefits of the fisherman will become Concubine Shen Shu and King Qi."

The queen turned her head abruptly: "You mean Concubine Shen Shu and King Qi intend to rebel against each other?"

The nanny was silent for a long time before responding: "I just feel that if King Qi has such thoughts, now is the best time. And now Concubine Shen Shu has also come out of the cold palace. Cooperating with the inside and the outside, it is really impossible to guard against."

The queen was startled suddenly, the more she thought about it, the more she felt it was very possible, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that it was too dangerous.

"No, I have to report to His Majesty." The queen couldn't sit still.

The nanny quickly grabbed the Queen's sleeve, "Your Majesty, we don't have any evidence now, if we go there rashly, I'm afraid it will only anger His Majesty, and make Concubine Shen Shu, mother and son be wary of us."

"What do you think, what should you do?" the queen said softly.

The nanny thought for a while, and then continued: "I feel that the empress might as well send more people to keep an eye on the movements of King Qi and Concubine Shen Shu's mother and son. And in the palace, those who came yesterday It's time for them to come out to share favor with you little master. Concubine Shen Shu's mother and son are in the limelight now. If we are against them, it's really not worthwhile. Why don't we attack from the side, bit by bit Take each other."

The queen was silent for a long time before she nodded her head lightly, and then said softly, "In that case, let's do it according to Mammy's wishes, and Mammy will personally send some good fabrics to them later, so that people Inform Su Luo and the others of His Majesty's daily whereabouts from time to time, so that they can show their talents. As for whoever can win the holy favor, he can also become the right-hand man of the palace. Do your best."

The nurse quickly responded and exited the inner hall.

Not long after the nanny retreated, a palace official rushed over and knelt down in front of the queen, "Your Majesty is overjoyed..."

The queen frowned, she was in a bad mood because of all kinds of troubles these two days, but when she heard someone say happy to herself, she felt very unhappy: "Happy?" Queen With a sneer, he looked at the palace man kneeling in front of him, "Tell me, where does this joy come from?"

The palace man hurriedly said: "The Empress does not know something, just now Your Majesty ordered to come to Weiyang Palace tonight, and ordered the servant to come and inform the Empress..."

When the queen heard the words, an unbelievable light flashed in her eyes, and then she quickly turned her eyes to look at the man in the palace and said, "What did you say? Really? Your Majesty is really going to come to Weiyang Palace tonight?"

"Yes, His Majesty just said it himself, saying that it has been a long time since I had dinner at Weiyang Palace, so let me have dinner at Weiyang Palace today."

The corner of the queen's mouth raised a smile, as if she had returned to the original noble and dignified queen in just a short while, "Come here, thank you."

The maid next to the queen hurriedly stepped forward and stuffed an ingot of gold into the hand of the palace man, the palace man quickly accepted it with a smile, said two more happy words, and then retreated.

With a long-lost smile in her eyes, the queen stood up and said, "Hurry up and tidy up the good students in the palace, and go to the imperial garden to pick two brighter flowers to put in the vase. Tell the small kitchen to prepare some sour bamboo shoots, Your Majesty likes to eat. If the nanny comes back, let her come in directly, and I will redress."

After a pause, he ordered in a hurry: "Hurry up, hurry up, get someone to boil a bowl of medicine for Bengong, I want to drink it."

After ordering many things in succession, the queen sat down happily, her eyes were full of smiles, and the corners of her mouth slightly curled up as she looked at the pattern of phoenix spreading wings embroidered on the screen.

After a while, the nanny came in, saw the queen's face was happy, she paused, and then hurried forward to salute: "Your Majesty."

The queen just came back to her senses, and said repeatedly: "Get up, let me do my makeup, let's do some of the more popular hair buns, and then bring me the newly made phoenix crown for me to wear. Your Majesty will come to Weiyang Palace tonight."\u003c