The eunuch pleaded guilty to his fault again and then let two young eunuchs clean it up.
Judging from their reaction, I was not sure exactly what the Emperor thought of the Queen, but what I could be sure was that the Emperor had much worry in his heart. Besides, my intuition told me that it was about the Queen.
After the two young eunuchs cleaned it up, they and the brocade eunuch were all driven out by the Emperor. I didn’t go out. Although it looked like the eunuch should know something, I was going to follow the Emperor. Apparently, it was much easier for me to get the information I wanted from a thoughtful and exhausted Emperor than to get from a eunuch.
After everyone went out, the Emperor walked back and forth in the hall, but avoided the place where the bowl had just been broken. I took a look and found the floor had been cleaned by two young eunuchs, and there was no trace at all.
The Emperor walked around a few times, then silently watched the place where the soup bowl had been knocked over. Then, in my astonished eyes, he knelt on the ground and burst into tears oppressively.
As a leader of the country and as a middle-aged man, what kind of pain would let him cry in hall without anybody.
Then the Emperor was obviously afraid of the sound coming out, trying hard to suppress his own crying, and then muttering to himself. Since I could not hear clearly, I hurried to the side of Emperor and slightly squatted.
The Emperor's faint voice came out, “I'm sorry about you. I'm sorry about you.”
Sorry? About who? The Queen or Rani Xian? Looking at the emperor crying to the soup bowl, suddenly I seemed to believe what those officials said.
Did Rani Xian really lie to me and the Queen was innocent? All of sudden, I felt a pain in my head.
The Emperor suddenly wiped his tears and stood up, almost knocking me down. I also hurriedly stood up and saw that he suddenly trotted to the front of his desk and began to write with his pen.
I hastened to follow him and I didn’t believe that the Emperor, who was now in a state of emotional agitation, would go to deal with official business.
However, after I walked over there, I suddenly felt a little confused, because the Emperor was writing, but all he wrote was traditional Chinese characters, which was cursive script. Each character was connected and it was very difficult to recognize.
Several years of kindness, hard to break for hundred years and love the beautiful scenery for many times...
After burning it, the Emperor’s whole spirit seemed to burn up, too, then lay on the bench languidly, and soon there was a slight snoring.
God, I just wanted to know some information, but it was so hard. I was speechless and found a place to sit down, and then thought carefully about what I had just seen.
Several years of kindness. The last Queen and Rani Xian had become the imperial concubine and the side concubine of the prince when the Emperor was a prince. Depending on the age, it was impossible for her to have several years of kindness with the Emperor. From this, the only qualified person was the present Queen.
Hard to break for hundred years. It was hard to break, which meant that the Emperor thought that the Queen was kind to him and also reminded it in his heart. Did I really misunderstand the Queen?
Then I decided not to think about the next one, because no poem would make a 180-degree turn at the beginning. I saw the Emperor sleeping well and was a little hesitant. I decided to go to the Queen’s Sleeping Palace and observe the Queen carefully. No matter how disgusting the Queen was, she couldn’t see me and also couldn’t hear me, so she could only hurt my heart at best.
Perhaps because the Queen had left a horrible and disgusting impression on me, it was very magic that I even found the Queen's Sleeping Palace very quickly. The Queen's Sleeping Palace was not strictly guarded, and most of the guards stood very far away. I didn't know if this was the Queen's arrangement, or just these guards were deliberately avoiding the Queen.
Having gone straight in, I found the Queen stayed in the pavilion of the garden on the one side, surrounded by an strong old lady, who must have a place in the palace, since she sat directly on the Queen's side, instead of standing or serving her.
I walked over a few steps and suddenly became hesitant. Then instead of going into it, I found a place outside the pavilion and sat down. It was quiet now, so I could clearly hear the Queen and the old lady’s conversation.
After listening for a while, I felt more confused, because it seemed that the Queen was talking about something after her death, and let the old lady, who was called granny Liu, do something. She said everything very carefully, even who to get a piece of jewelry was also very clear.
After a long time, all the things seemed to be arranged well. The Queen took a long breath and said, “All right. That’s settled, granny Liu. Then you can assign it in this way. As for whether they want it or not, if they don't, you just keep it.” The Queen’s tone was gentle, as if she was talking about some trifles.
Granny Liu first answered, “Yes.” Then she opened my mouth a few times before I finally said, “Empress, there may be another way.”
The Queen shook her head, raised her head slightly with her eyes closed, as if she was afraid that tears in her eyes would fall down, and said, “This is the best way.”
The Queen's face was still that very thin, just skinny, which almost made people shiver all over though not cold. Even now she showed the expression of sadness and it would only make people uncomfortable, instead of producing a trace of sympathy or compassion.
Granny Liu said with a slight sound of cry, “Empress, the bones of the lowly maidservant have been buried under the gate of the city, trampled by thousands of people. Is this not enough to suppress her?”
“Not enough!” The Queen shook her head and then the peace returned to his face again.
Originally the bones Rani Xian let me dig was hers. Just wasn’t it suppressed under a dry well? Why did it went under the gate of the city? I continued to eavesdrop with doubt.
The Queen said again, “Rani Xian killed the Queen Zhang, just for her throne of Queen. Unexpectedly, her deliberate plan was found by me. How could Rani Xian be happy to stop. She dared to kill even his own son for the Queen's throne, and what else did she dare not do? And again, you also heard the her vows before her death, and there was no throne of Queen, except her.”
Granny Liu showed the fear on her face and her body couldn’t help but begin to tremble.
The Queen said again, “The head of the second prince was finally found in these few days. Although I didn’t give birth to him, it was I who raised him up, so he was the flesh of my heart. It was just that those f**king slaves, for so long, still couldn't find the body of the second prince. How could the second prince rest in peace!” While she was saying, two lines of tears fell from the skinny face.
Granny Liu also sighed and then comforted the Queen, saying that they would certainly find the remains of the second prince.
The second prince? Is that the rotten head I saw last time? No, it was impossible. Was the second prince still in that dry well? I felt that the whole thing was getting even weirder.
The second prince was the son of Rani Xian. That should be true. But why the Queen does so? She even used her face to rub that rotten head and even slept with it. It must take a lot of emotion to do that.
However, neither the Queen nor granny Liu could see me, so conversation between them should be true. But if the Queen was right, which meant that Rani Xian was lying to me and let me dig up her bones. Although I didn’t know what the use of this, I did know that until the truth of the matter was found by me, the bones was absolutely unable to move, because nobody knew what would happen after bones were dug up.
The Queen continued talking with granny Liu.
Queen wiped away her tears and said, “granny Liu, go to check the dry well. I'm afraid someone will make trouble."
Granny Liu nodded and then stood up to say goodbye to the Queen.
I also got up in a hurry. I thought there were too much doubt and too many blank in the whole thing, so I would like to go to the dry well to listen to Rani Xian’s view. I even wanted to know what granny Liu and Rani Xian would talk about, although I felt it was almost impossible.
Granny Liu got the Queen's orders, did not stay, and just went directly to the dry well. Just when I went out of Yongshou Palace, I heard a terribly sorrow cry from inside, which directly made my fine hair stand up.
“No!” granny Liu screamed and rushed in the palace hurriedly. I also rushed in, at the same time, I also admired her courage.
As soon as he stepped into the gate of Yongshou Palace, the cry suddenly stopped. I could not help but be stunned, because the cry broke too suddenly, as if it was deliberately cut off by someone.
I just saw several maids standing at the rockery. They all lowered their head, crying, with face peal. There was a big palm print on one of their faces and granny Liu just slowly put her hand down.
“All wait here. Don’t take a step forward, otherwise, I will use the stick to beat her to death.”
These maids nodded one after another and dared not move.
What happened? I was stunned again. At this moment, granny Liu had turned to the back of the rockery, and I also hastened to follow her.
Granny Liu just stood alone by the dry well, staring at it. I thought something happened, then hurriedly bypassed granny Liu, only to see the dry well was the same dry well, and the huge stone above the well was still unmoved.
It was strange. What on earth was granny Liu looking at? Not only was she very distracted, but her face gradually turned to iron green.
“Bitch maidservant! You are so cruel.” She said it almost by biting her teeth.
I just looked following the granny Liu’s direction and saw a small hole in the shaft wall and a pale arm was out of the hole. The arm was not big and it might belong to a child. Besides, a little jade plate was held tightly in the hand.
After scolding, her face changed a few times. Unexpectedly, she even dig the soil aside by her hand to bury the arm up, saying, “Bitch! Dare you use second prince’s remains to lead the Queen put you out. You are almost dreaming!”
I couldn't help but surprise. This was the body of the second prince, then didn’t that mean that the Queen was a good person, and I was deceived by Rani Xian.
I was a little dazed for a moment, with the soft voice of Rani Xian and the skull-like look of the Queen haunting in my mind. Granny Liu's action was so quickly. She just thought for a moment after she buried arms. Then she took off the jade plate in the hand of second prince, put it in her pocket, and then went out. Not long, I heard her voice of commanding those imperial maids.
Just as I was about to leave, Rani Xian’s voice sounded out of the dry well, still as weak as it was.