Chapter 155
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"If a person wants to commit suicide, there are a thousand ways. You can't guard against it. Before she acted today, I'm afraid that she had already planned to be exposed and arranged for her funeral. You're not to blame for this. "
Ning Shu bent over and looked at the woman lying flat on the couch. This woman had spent most of her life bowing and nodding in the palace. She was wearing a set of clothes that she didn't believe but were very neatly starched. Her hands were peacefully placed on her chest, and every strand of her hair was neatly combed. Her face showed a kind of blue after being poisoned, but her expression was extraordinarily calm. There was even a slight smile on her lips, as if she had finally fulfilled her wish of many years. She was satisfied with peace of mind.
"What happened before she died?" Ning Shu asked.
"I asked the palace maids who were with her. They all said that after she came back from the Taiping Banquet with the old Imperial Concubine, she didn't go anywhere. She stayed in her room and didn't talk to anyone. She seemed to be in a good mood and even hummed a song. Then she said that she was a little sleepy and wanted to take a nap. Then she lay down to rest. After I sneaked in, I waited outside her room for a while and didn't hear anything. I was a little flustered, so I rushed in and found that she had stopped breathing. " Hui Mo frowned and said, "Looking at her face, she should have died of poison. But I just hurriedly checked her throat and stomach, and didn't find any poison."
With his words, Ning Shu's eyes slowly slid over Shen Xing's hands, arms, soles, and other parts of her body. She didn't find any wounds. Finally, her eyes fell on her neatly combed hair and said, "Pull out that hairpin and see."
Hui Mo answered and pulled it out. Sure enough, the hairpin was shining with a strange blue-purple color, and there was a touch of blood on it.
Ning Shu couldn't help but sigh, "That means she was prepared to die early. Even if we caught her one step ahead, we couldn't stop her."
Every day, countless people quietly disappeared into ponds, wells, and corners of the Cold Palace in this crowded Imperial Palace, which was home to tens of thousands of people. Shen Xing's death was nothing.
It was just that the only exposed clue at present was broken.
Hui Mo sighed as he sealed up Shen Xing's body and all her belongings. He was going to take them back to the palace and continue to check them one by one to see if he could find anything. He thought that everything that had happened today was already exhausting enough, but he didn't expect that something even bigger and more bizarre had yet to happen, and was quietly waiting for it to suddenly break through the ground before the arrival of the next day, causing everyone to be in fear and trepidation, and stupefied.
Qi Juanyu had been captured by the wolf demon.
No one would have thought that in the pavilion of the Royal Palace, under the heavy security that not even a mosquito could get in, in front of 150 palace guards, as well as her own maidservants, she disappeared without a trace in this starless and moonless night.
Only a red dress she wore during the day floated down slowly from the second floor of the palace as high as 40 feet like a ghost after a scream. It rolled a few times in the wind and fell on the grass beside the pavilion. It was covered with bloody wolf paw prints.
Ning Shu had just laid down and was about to fall asleep when someone knocked on the door. She jolted awake from her half-asleep state. She had a splitting headache and was in a bad mood. Then, she heard the news.
She opened her eyes and woke up at once.
At three o 'clock in the morning, the palace gate opened wide. Ning Shu entered the palace in the carriage of Prince Nanping's Mansion with morning dew on her body. Then she squatted on the ground and looked at the silk dress full of wolf paw prints. She sighed silently with her face in her hands.
She had a premonition that the days without day and night would come back in the next period of time. It was a pity that her beautiful face couldn't endure for long. She was afraid that she would become a haggard old woman in advance. What a waste of God's gift.
Beside her, Qi Juanyu's maidservants were sobbing. Mother Hui was even out of breath from crying. Even Concubine Qi, who hurried over after hearing the news, couldn't help but turn pale. She said in shock, "How, how could this be?"
Another maidservant was also scared pale. She looked at the silk dress in front of Ning Shu in horror, "It must be that monster that took Miss away. It must be! That monster is back. It's back for revenge! What should we do? I'm afraid that Miss is in danger … "
Hearing this, Ning Shu had an idea. She got up and walked to the maidservant's side. She said softly, "May I ask what the monster you're talking about is?"
"Shut up! Don't talk nonsense! "Mother Hui rushed over and wanted to cover the maidservant's mouth, but it was too late.
The maidservant had already blurted out, "A wolf demon! When Miss was seven years old, she killed it! "
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