binnovel Chapter 355: Leaking the water
Chapter 355: Leaking the water
In the Pepper Room, Shen Ningyue was flipping through the booklet in which the female officials wrote comments on each of the beauties, and occasionally chatted with Shunpin Shi Qingzhang.
The spring day was bright and the cool breeze blowing on my body instantly turned into comfort.
Pu Jie and Xiao Ji came in directly without notifying anyone, along with a palace maid with an unfamiliar face.
Shen Ningyue looked up in surprise.
"Empress, there's a fire in Chuxiu Palace!" the palace servant reported hurriedly.
"How did the fire break out? Is the fire out?"
Shen Ningyue frowned slightly and clenched the booklet in her hand.
"It was extinguished immediately, but, but..."
The palace maid seemed to be hesitant to speak, and the nervousness and uneasiness on her face made Shen Ningyue feel a little flustered.
"But what?"
"What caused the fire? How long did it burn? What was burned? Tell me one by one."
Shen Ningyue pursed her lips and threw the booklet in her hand at the hesitant palace servant. She asked unhappily.
"Reporting to the Queen, when I arrived, the cause of the fire had not yet been found. The fire only burned for less than half a minute, and Xiu and Xiunü Huang Zhongling are gone."
The palace maid knocked her head heavily on the ground, her face pale and her heart heavy.
She was a palace maid in charge of delivering messages in Chuxiu Palace. A concubine was gone in Chuxiu Palace where she worked. If they were implicated, no one in the palace would end up well.
Who on earth is causing trouble in the palace without caring about his life? If she knew this, she would tear that person to pieces even after she died and became a ghost.
Her elder sister was the head aunt in Chuxiu Palace, so she had some impression of this young lady named Huang Zhongling.
Her elder sister had told her that among this year's concubines, there were a few who needed special attention and care. They were the ones who had been designated as the prince's principal or concubine wives. There were five of them in total, and one of them was a concubine named Huang Zhongling.
The father of concubine Huang Zhongling is the Right Censor-in-Chief Huang Yanzhe, a fourth-rank official, and she herself has been designated as the seventh prince's principal wife. The designated concubines are tacitly known in the Chuxiu Palace, and the other concubines are generally unaware of it.
How could he be harmed when he looks like an ordinary person and seems to have no competitiveness at all?
Even if everyone knew that Huang Zhongling was designated as the Seventh Prince's consort, was there anything special about the Seventh Prince among the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Princes who were chosen as the principal wives this time?
Shouldn't the most special one be the Ninth Prince? His Highness the Ninth Prince is the legitimate son, and the Queen is still alive, still loved by His Majesty.
Now that Huang Zhongling is gone, everyone in Chuxiu Palace, from the female officials to the lowest-ranking palace maids, is probably finished.
You Censor-in-Chief, Censor, she heard that the Censor was the toughest person, and now his daughter was burned to death in Chuxiu Palace, and the palace people were shaking all over.
"I don't know what caused the fire. How could it kill someone if it only burned for less than half a minute?"
Shen Ningyue stood up angrily and staggered accidentally.
"Has anyone reported this to His Majesty?"
Shen Ningyue took a deep breath. The palace had been peaceful for too long, and now there was a big incident of burning the palace? Who was so arrogant? A concubine? Or someone in the palace?
"Go, go and report it."
"Go to Chuxiu Palace immediately. I want to see what's going on."
Shen Ningyue had a stern face, and the solemnity in Ruifeng's eyes made Shunpin Shi Qingzhang, who was a little confused, surprised and frightened.
She followed Shen Ningyue silently all the way to Chuxiu Palace.
In all these years, she had never seen the Queen Mother so angry. The fire only lasted less than half a minute. How much could it burn? And only a concubine died. Was it that serious?
There are plenty of beauties, especially this year. The number of beauties selected to enter the palace is three times that of previous years. Even if one is chosen as the seventh prince's wife, so what? There are so many replacements lining up.
Shunpin Shi Qingzhang raised her head and looked around, paying special attention to the emotions of Pujie and Xiaoji.
At the end of the phoenix chariot, the legs of the palace maid who came to report were shaking constantly. She clutched the arm of the palace maid next to her tightly with both hands, supporting herself with weak legs as she continued to follow.