Chapter 142
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"How did you do it?"
After the concubine selection, the banquet was temporarily over. Empress Cao smiled and took the women to the Imperial Garden to enjoy the flowers. The noisy Weiyang Palace was soon empty. Only dozens of maids and eunuchs stayed in the hall to clean up.
Behind the screen, Xiahou Qing asked Ning Shu with an indifferent expression.
"Mirror." Ning Shu raised her hand and pointed at the top of the screen. Hui Mo opened his eyes widely and found the corner of the bronze mirror behind the palace lantern. He jumped up and took the bronze mirror down.
"The angle of the mirror is so good. It happened to be blocked by the palace lantern. I looked carefully for a while before I found it." Hui Mo handed the bronze mirror to Ning Shu.
Holding the bronze mirror in her hand, Ning Shu frowned tightly, "In addition to Qi Juanyu, there are five people who have touched the letter. They are the personal Mammy who helped her with the fire wax, Thirteenth Princess who fought with her for the envelope, the two maids who were ordered by Old Princess Xu to stop it, and Old Princess Yu who persuaded Xiao Zhangping.
After the incident, I immediately observed the position of everyone in the front hall. I found that only the maid who stood in the southeast corner of the front hall and was ordered by Old Princess Su to stop the farce could see through the angle of the bronze mirror that we were preparing the letter behind the screen. "
As she finished her words, her sleeve slipped, and another letter appeared in her hand. She slowly unfolded it. There was a poem that was exactly the same as the one in Qi Juanyu's hand.
And the one in her hand was the real one!
As for the 24 letters she put in the brocade box before, they were all empty. The so-called "concubine selection" was a trap set by her and Xiahou Qing in advance from the beginning to the end. The purpose was very simple — to lure the snake to take the bait!
Unexpectedly, the other party really did it. Using the mirror hidden behind the palace lantern, they peeped at the poem on the letter. When the maids were serving the dishes, they spread the news and forged an identical letter. The target was Qi Juanyu!
And the quarrel between Xiao Zhangping and Qi Juanyu provided the other party with an excellent opportunity to steal the sky and replace the sun.
"This matter must have something to do with that palace maid. So, is it Old Princess Su who planned this?" Huimo was confused. He was surprised and confused, "But that person is famous for being aloof from worldly affairs. She has no grudges with our Lord Pingnan's Mansion. I didn't hear that she was not on good terms with Concubine Qi. Why did she try so hard to set up such a big trap? What good would it do her to kill Qi Juanyu? "
From the imperial astronomer to today's consort selection, over a hundred people were involved. She was an old concubine who was nearing seventy years old and only had a Princess Royal who was already married. Why would she raise such a big storm to deal with a teenage girl who had nothing to do with her and had no enmity with her?
This was simply inconceivable.
"The relationship in the palace is complicated. Although the palace maid is Old Princess Su's maid, we can't directly conclude that it was Old Princess Su who did it. In short, at present, the first clue of the case has been found smoothly. Next, we should follow this clue to check the details of the palace maid first. "After Xiahou Qing finished, he didn't hear Ning Shu's voice for a long time. So, he said," What do you think of? "
Ning Shu hesitated for a moment. She kept recalling what happened in the hall just now. After a while, she frowned and said, "I don't think of anything. I just have a lot of questions."
Xiahou Qing raised his eyebrows slightly with a trace of interest, "Tell me."
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