food queen

Chapter 443 Investigation (1)
In the small kitchen, Qian Fen was guarding the small stove and cooking another pot of soup for Gu Ningshuang. She held a cattail fan in her hand and gently fanned the stove, watching the soup in the casserole gradually boil. Then he stopped the fan and let the fire in the stove down.

"Fen'er?" Liu Ying came in, sat down beside Qian Fen, and smiled lightly, "How's it going?"

"It will take another hour, the pot has just started." Qian Fen smiled lightly and turned to look at Liu Ying, "Miss, have you finished the soup?"

"Well, I drank it. The girl said that your soup is very good, and let me thank you." Liu Ying smiled lightly.

"I don't dare to take that." Qian Fan laughed hurriedly, "Thank you, Miss, for taking me in, otherwise I don't know where I'm going right now."

"You can't say that. In this deep harem, we are always outsiders. If you say that we don't stick together and rely on each other to help each other, who else can we rely on and help?" Liuying's smile was caught by the fire. It was warm.

"Sister said so." Qian Fen smiled sweetly.

"I heard that Miss Zhao's body was cremated, do you know?" Liuying asked in a low voice.

"Ah? Really?" The smile on Qian Fen's face froze instantly.

"So, this matter is over, you don't have to worry about it. From now on, you can follow us with peace of mind... In the future, when our girl becomes the imperial concubine, you and I will be the first-class female officials in the imperial concubine's palace."

"Well, thank you sister for supporting me." Qian Fen nodded lightly.

What the two people said in front of the small stove has already been heard by the other person, but they don't know it yet.

In Fengzhang Hall, Han Qian leaned on the soft pillow and said nothing.

Qianye glanced back at Pingguo'er, and cast a look for help. Just now he told the empress in detail about the conversation between the two little girls in Fanghua Xuan, but what is the empress's non-urgent look? What do you mean?

Apple shook his head lightly, signaling him to wait quietly and stop talking nonsense.

"That little girl named Qianfen has a ghost in her heart, and that girl named Liuying is definitely not ordinary." Han Qian sneered faintly, "Ask someone to thoroughly investigate this little girl named Liuying... and the Gu family. As for the girl named Qianfen Little girl, lock her up quietly first."

"Yes." Qianye bowed in response, turned around and left.

Pingguo'er brought tea to Han Qian, and asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, don't be angry."

"I'm not angry." Han Qian shook his head, then smiled suddenly, "I really think it's a little funny. These people are really amazing, and they have extraordinary thoughts!"

"Your Majesty?" Pingguo'er looked at the gleam in Han Qian's eyes, and felt a little uneasy. It had been a long time since she had seen such brilliance in her eyes.

"Is Your Majesty doing something tonight?"

"It seems to be worrying about the household affairs." Apple said in a low voice.

"Well, Mr. Yao, Minister of the Household Department, is sick at home, and the money for Zhihe has not been found. That stubborn old man Lu Haoran impeaches Yao Yanyi all day long. If I were His Majesty, I would let him be the Minister of the Household Department, and let him take care of it." This treasury, let’s see if he can find a way to not delay the military rations and salaries of the soldiers at the border, and not delay the treatment of the river, but also help the victims of the disaster and arrange the people’s hard life. Hmph!" Han Qian said coldly.

This is a major political event, Apple naturally dare not talk too much.

Han Qian chattered to herself for a while, then Fang said to Apple: "Tonight, let's do something interesting."

"What's interesting?" Apple asked puzzled.

"Go and call Sun Defu," Han Qian ordered.

"Yes." Apple went out in response.

On a winter night, the cold wind howled and the snow fluttered. The entire magnificent palace was shrouded in thick white snow, like an ice palace.

Wearing thick winter clothes and a thick dark purple ermine cape, Han Qian led Sun Defu, Pingguoer and others out of Fengzhang Hall and went straight to a small unused courtyard.

There were two old eunuchs guarding the gate of the small courtyard. When they saw Han Qian, the two old eunuchs knelt and kowtowed but did not speak because they were all dumb.

"Has the palace warden come?" Han Qian asked in a low voice.

"I'm already waiting inside." Sun Defu replied.

"Okay." Han Qian entered the yard, looked around the deserted yard, and finally his eyes fell on the window with the dim light.

"Your servant sees the empress." Several people came to bow down in the corridor next to her.

"Get up." Han Qian whispered.

"Thank you, ma'am." The palace supervisor kowtowed and stood up.

"Let's get started." Han Qian turned and entered the door behind him.

This is an extremely simple small room, even though a brazier was put on inside early, it still exudes a bone-chilling chill.

Han Qian held her cloak and sat on the only armchair in the room.He glanced coldly at Sun Defu next to him: "Bring people in."

Sun Defu responded and winked at the people outside, and someone went to the opposite hut to bring the light powder over.

Qian Fen was inexplicably brought here to watch during the day, she was a little confused at first, and then panicked, for fear that those people would kill her in silence.But at night, someone suddenly came to take her away, and then suddenly knelt down in front of the queen. With all these twists and turns, she was about to be tossed stupidly.

"Don't kneel down after seeing the empress!" Sun Defu shouted in a low voice.

Qian Fen was so frightened that her legs went limp, and she knelt down: "My servant pays homage to the empress, and the empress is blessed and safe."

"Your name is Qianfen, right?" Han Qian looked at the little girl kneeling in front of him. She was very small and looked only fourteen or fifteen years old.

Qian Fen quickly responded: "Go back to Empress Empress, the servant girl is called Qian Fen."

"A domestic slave of the Zhao family?" Han Qian asked.

"Yes, the servant's father and mother are servants of the Zhao family, the servant's father is in charge of the spring and autumn renters, and the servant's mother... is with the wife." Qian Fan whispered.

"That's why you are qualified to accompany your girl into the palace to serve you, right?" Han Qian asked.

"...Yes." Qian Fen lowered her head.

"How did Zhao Yuan treat you when she was alive?" Han Qian asked again.

"Back to the empress, our girl is very good to the servant. The servant has served her since childhood." Qian Fan said, her voice choked up.

"So, you feel a little guilty for killing your girl?" Han Qian sneered.

"What... empress, you... slave girl, how could this slave girl harm our girl, our girl hanged herself..." Qian Fen stepped back in fright.

"Your girl hanged herself, but why did she hang herself?" Han Qian asked.

"She...she was punished by the emperor..."

(End of this chapter)