I'm a detective for Dongchang

Chapter 249 Shocking News
The sun at noon falls into the study of Kunning Palace, and the cool breeze blowing from the landscape lake in the yard gently caresses the tulle curtains. In this study built near the lake, A plate of hanging incense exudes pleasant sandalwood. On the huanghuali imperial concubine chair facing the window, a woman wearing a purple double-breasted skirt and green pleated patterns is lying lazily halfway on the chair, covered with a warm brocade quilt. , stepping on the stove, holding a book in her hand, the sunlight cast a light golden layer on her white and greasy skin, perhaps it was just the highlight, her lips raised slightly, showing some smile.

The slightly revealing smile immediately made the maids waiting on the side look dumbfounded. She is a new girl in Kunning Palace, and she is often stunned by the empress's beauty.As for Chang Xinyue, who was lying on the chair and reading the book, she was so immersed in the book that she naturally didn't notice the little maid's gaffe, and just read the book quietly.

In the past few days, my father sent people a lot of posts, saying that he wanted to visit her.

Chang Xinyue raised her head, looked at the rare sunshine in winter, and pulled her lips with a self-deprecating smile.

Miss your daughter?

In her memory, she has never felt a little love from that person. She has been told since she was a child that she will be a queen in the future. The Chang family is not an ordinary family, and she must strictly follow her father's arrangement in every word and deed. If she doesn't follow, she will be punished even as a daughter.Heh, the whole family is just a tool for his ambition to climb to glory.

Seeing myself repeatedly rejecting it several times, my father has not posted again for more than half a month.According to close friends, the mother suffering from rheumatism left the capital for the time being, and went to the south of the Yangtze River to avoid the cold with her uncle and aunt. Of course, this was only on the surface. How can a father do so many things alone.Mother's going to the south of the Yangtze River is not just as simple as recovering from illness...

The corners of her lips raised slightly, and she sighed softly: "It's better to avoid it, so as not to spare her the kindness of a woman."

Saying this in her heart, Chang Xinyue once again cast her eyes on the volume of "Biography of Heroes" in her hand. Although she had read this script many times, she never got tired of it. For more than ten years, she The desire in my heart is getting stronger and stronger.

Just when she was firm in her belief, a pale pink figure suddenly jumped in, and it was her daughter Qi Lexin who came in.

"Mother!"

Qi Lexin, who took three steps at a time, almost jumped in front of Chang Xinyue, her delicate face was full of smiles.

"Be careful, you're still so childish even when you're married, be careful not to let your royal father see and bind your feet..."

Qi Lexin, who knew the pain of binding her feet, waved her hands hastily after being reprimanded inadvertently.

"Hey, daughter, I don't dare, I don't dare..." When she waved her hand, she was already lying on the chair, lying in the arms of the queen, and said coquettishly.

"The queen mother will definitely be reluctant!"

"Why don't you want to part with it? Your royal father has said it countless times, that is, this palace will let your temper hurt you!"

"Xin'er knows that my mother loves me the most!"

After she finished coquettishly, she sat up straight and said solemnly: "Mother, do you know that Miao'e and I were in the teahouse just now, what did you hear?"

"You're out of the house again!?" Chang Xinyue looked at her daughter, and seeing her fearless look, she knew that her daughter must have refused to listen to persuasion and ran out and wandered around. You are becoming more and more disobedient, how did I explain to you? To let you stay at home and get along well with your son-in-law, do you have to let this palace ask someone to tie you up?"

Qi Lexin was taken aback. She rarely saw her mother get so angry. She used to go out of the house often. At most, her mother just muttered a few words, why today...

"Queen mother, calm down!" She panicked and knelt on the ground, holding her mother's hand tightly, tears rolling in her eyes.

The surrounding maids and empress listened to the queen's anger, and they didn't know what was going on inside. They were afraid of taking the anger on themselves, so they quickly knelt on the ground, not daring to vent their anger.

Seeing her daughter's pitiful appearance, Chang Xinyue's heart softened, but when she thought about how she hadn't restrained herself in this critical period, and was still running around recklessly, her anger became choked up.

"Mother, please calm down and listen to me."

"What's the matter!? You must be punished after I finish listening! What did you hear?"

Qi Lexin wiped away her tears, sat on the couch, held her mother's arm, and said, suppressing the choked sobs that hadn't been suppressed: "Mother, do you know that Father might be among the people..."

She wondered what to say...

"Father, he...is outside the palace, maybe he has children?"

Chang Xinyue's face turned pale with shock at her daughter's words, her face turned pale in an instant, and her eyes widened again in disbelief.

Qi Lexin's expression became unpredictable when he saw his mother.

"Xin'er, what did you say?"

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Back then, back then...

"Mother, you don't know, it seems that overnight the whole streets and alleys of the capital have spread, saying that there are royal heirs living among the people, and there are rumors..."

"What?!" Chang Xinyue grabbed her daughter's hand fiercely, with a hideous expression.

"Mother, you hurt me by grabbing me." Qi Lexin wanted to break free from her mother's grip.

"Say it."

Qi Lexin hurriedly said: "Ah... Rumors say that he is the child of Concubine De."

The daughter's words fell into Chang Xinyue's ears, like a thunderbolt from the blue sky, freezing her in place and being paralyzed, but unable to move. If someone touched her lightly at this time, she might faint on the spot.

"Which teahouse did you hear that from?" Clutching her daughter's hand tightly, Chang Xinyue didn't even notice that there were several deep red marks on her daughter's hand, so Qi Lexin said in pain .

"Mother, mother, please be gentle!" After finally getting rid of Chang Xinyue's "devil's claws", Qi Lexin muttered in fear: "Mother, my hand should leave a mark."

"Is it the empress's mother, is it the empress's mother, tell the empress quickly, where is your news, and who did you hear it from?"

"My daughter heard it from a tea drinker in the listening book building. Everyone in the restaurant knew about it, and many people were talking about it."

"Fushun!!" Looking at the eunuch approaching, Chang Xinyue said in a trembling voice.

"Pass down the decree of the palace, saying that the palace is not feeling well, and misses the relatives at home very much, and summons the father-in-law to enter the palace."

"Whoo."

"Xin'er, without my palace's permission recently, you are not allowed to leave the princess mansion again!"

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The East Palace, as the name suggests, is in the east of the Imperial Palace. Although it is also a part of the Imperial Palace in name, it is actually a small independent world. It is separated from the Imperial Palace by a palace wall and connected only by a city gate. , this gate is closed on weekdays, and even the crown prince cannot pass without an imperial decree. There are four gates in the north and south of the East Palace for the people of the East Palace to travel. There are three gates in the south: Guangyun Gate, Chongming Gate, Yongchun Gate, and Xuande Gate in the north. The entire East Palace covers about one-third of the main courtyard of the Imperial Palace, and there are more than 20 palaces and pavilions in it. The largest and most important palace is the residence of the prince—Xianren Hall.

At this time, Qi Yuzhang also summoned his teacher, confidants and cronies of the Imperial Forest Army in Xianren Hall.

Apparently, this thunderous news spread to every palace.

(End of this chapter)