The Six Palaces of Favorites: The Black-bellied Emperor's Cold Concubine

Chapter 370 Ghost Mao Xingsha (13)
As soon as she returned to Tonghua Palace, she asked Xiao Xiangzi the reason for the fire in the kitchen. Xiao Xiangzi seemed to have checked everything, and replied calmly: "It's not that our people were careless, the fire started from the outside first." Yes, the back wall of the small kitchen is connected to the palace wall, and there is a garden outside. The servants thought that someone lit a fire on the window, but they asked the guards on duty at that time and the palace servants working in the garden, and they said they didn’t find it. Suspicious people passing by."

Qingchen thinks that no matter how quick the hands and feet are, they may not dare to set fire in broad daylight. After all, people come and go in this imperial garden, and it is not easy to get it even at night, let alone during the day.

She went into the kitchen to check, and saw that the back wall was blackened by the fire, and a large piece of wood on the window was burnt, but there was no oil stain on it, and dry wood is easier to burn. But it is not so easy to quickly ignite something that does not ignite.

Qingchen stepped on a small stool and looked out the window. The reflection of something dazzled her eyes. She raised her hand to cover her face and took a closer look. She couldn't help being surprised. Does anyone understand this principle in this era?

She took Xiao Xiangzi to the foot of the rockery behind the small kitchen, and saw that there was clearly an ice cube the size of a small millstone standing on the rock, and the ice cube had been patiently polished so that it was thick in the middle and thin around the sides, and placed in the sun. Next, the spot of focus is on the back window of her kitchenette.Although it took a long time to melt the ice, it was still obvious at a glance that it was a convex lens made of ice.

The father-in-law serving in the palace is not allowed to read and write, so Qingchen guessed that the principle of this convex lens that can concentrate light to ignite the fire may have been accidentally discovered by them when they used ice in summer.

Hearing her brief explanation of the purpose of this piece of ice, Xiao Xiangzi's face turned blue with anger, "It's really a good way, he just needs to find a good place in advance, and get a piece of ice to polish it in the middle of the night and put it here. Long, it didn't happen that the fire started in broad daylight without anyone noticing. Once the ice melted, even the evidence would be destroyed automatically. The slave will go to inform Xiao Yinzi and ask him to check carefully which palace is at this time. The eunuch even received ice."

"No need." Qingchen walked back holding Yun Lan's hand, "Take this, the emperor has gone to Ningshou Palace, and he will probably come to our Tonghua Palace in a while, as long as he knows that this is not a natural disaster but Man-made disasters are enough. One thing and two masters can easily cut off the vines and can't touch the melons. In order to facilitate the silence, they will not find too many people to frame me. Don't worry, don't I have to go to the Buddhist hall to fast? Don't worry if he doesn't show up by then."

Yun Lan smiled knowingly, knowing very well that some people's schemes are always as long as they don't make a move, and if they make a move, it must be a series of conspiracies, and they will never stop until they achieve their goals.

"Your Majesty said that even a place where gods are worshiped in the palace may not have a moment of peace. When that person is caught, we will naturally know who ordered him to set fire to Tonghua Palace."

Qingchen smiled calmly, and walked leisurely, "Yun Lan, you are really smart. The empress asked me to copy the scriptures and worship the Buddha. There must not be many people who can guess the intention. , are you afraid that you will be involved if you follow me?"

The expression on Yun Lan's face was calm and gentle, and her tone was soft, but it seemed to carry an indescribable tenacity, "Ever since the maidservant followed the empress, I have never thought of being afraid to shrink back. The way of concubine, or Soaring all the way to prosperity, just like the queen mother, no matter how much pain she experiences, she is the final winner; I can live in a bleak evening, huddled with people in the small and remote corner of the imperial palace, and end up miserable. But the slaves have been with the empress for so long, I believe that even if the empress does not fight, the emperor will not treat the empress badly. So since there are such good prerequisites, the empress You still have to know how to handle it.”

(End of this chapter)