Daughter of the royal palace

Chapter 207 The New Year's Eve Kiss (2)
There were soft footsteps outside the screen, and a woman in a pink silk-cut jacket, a horse-face skirt embroidered with green onion and yellow flowers, and a maid bun on her hair came calmly with a tray of red lacquered crabapple flowers.

"Miss, you didn't eat anything this morning, so I made lotus leaf soup for you." She put the white porcelain bowl of Eight Immortals and lotus flowers on the tray on the small table with plum blossom and vermilion lacquer next to it. Smell the appetite greatly increased.

The woman smiled, "Ruoyu's craftsmanship is good." She held up the porcelain bowl with her fair porcelain hand, and stirred the soup with a white old kiln lotus-patterned spoon, and the aroma was tangy.

Ruoyu, who was praised, was a little embarrassed, but suddenly thought of something, and asked solemnly: "Miss, are you really going to Youzhou after the Chinese New Year?"

Ling Xihan's eyelashes flickered, she put down the porcelain bowl, took the white silk handed over by Ruoxue, wiped the corners of her mouth, and said calmly, "Yes." She lay down again, and Luo Wenchong's family property was filled into the treasury The emperor used it to help the family of the woman who had been persecuted by Luo Tianyun in Youzhou.

But she knew that most of Luo Wenchong's family property was probably transferred by Prince Li.Besides, there are quite a few businessmen in the Luo clan.There was one Luo Wenchong, and the boss Luo Wenbin, plus there were quite a few people from the same clan involved in business.It was just an excuse for the queen to let her go to Qingzhou to run the shop of Tianxia No. [-] Village.

The Luo clan's influence in the court is already strong enough, and they must not expand their wealth any longer, otherwise they will become the biggest threat to the imperial power.

Therefore, the queen asked her to use this opportunity to rapidly develop the Leng's shops hidden all over the country.Not only must Luo Shi be suppressed, but also they must be unable to turn the tide again, and their seedlings that will grow again must be strangled in the cradle.

But she had some doubts in her heart. If the queen asked her to suppress the Luo family, wouldn't she be afraid that she would take the opportunity to expand the business of the Leng family and control the economic lifeline of the entire continent?
This question has been around her.

It stands to reason that the queen is an extremely smart and cunning woman. She even secretly suppressed her own family, so why did she deliberately let herself be big?

She rubbed her aching eyebrows, her brows were wrinkled, and she felt a little depressed.

"Miss, what's the matter with you?" Seeing that her expression was wrong, the careful Ruoyu asked with concern.

"It's okay." Unable to think of a reason, Ling Xihan simply gave up thinking about it. Anyway, she can be sure of one thing, the queen will never harm her.

She closed her eyes, suddenly thought of something, and suddenly opened her eyes bright as stars.

"Have you found out the cause of my mother's death?" Her dark eyes flashed coldly, and her voice was indifferent and elegant.The maid who served her mother back then left the palace long after her mother died, and the queen sent people to look for it, but it was too late. When the queen sent people to look for them, those people had been dead for a long time. Nothing to check.It is precisely because of this that it proves that there is something tricky in it.

So she changed her strategy. Her mother was originally from the Jianghu, and she was highly skilled in martial arts. If someone really poisoned her, it was absolutely impossible for her not to notice it at all.She thought, if her mother's death was really related to the princess, and she was able to hide it from her father's eyes, then the princess must have put eyeliner around her mother, so that she can cooperate with the outside, right?

Just as Ruoyu was about to speak, a black shadow suddenly landed, and it was Fengying.Her cold face was as expressionless as ever, but her pupils had a faint light.

"Miss."

There was a flash of light in Ling Xihan's eyes, and he stared closely at Fengying's face.

"What did you find?"

Fengying's face was solemn, "My subordinates found out that after the death of Princess Ping, all the maids who served Princess Ping were transferred to other concubine's rooms. Among them was Cui Hong, who was a The one in charge of cleaning the yard, but..." Her voice paused slightly, and a cold light flashed across her eyes.

"But my subordinates checked the names and origins of the servants in the palace, and found that Cuihong and Mingyu, the second-class maid in the princess's room, were distant cousins. Not long after the death of Princess Ping, Mingyu committed a crime. She was beaten to death for theft. After Mingyu's death, Cuihong, who was transferred to Yun's room, also fell seriously ill. Seeing that she might not live long, Yun let her out. In the early years The concubine has been looking for Cuihong, but later the empress discovered something strange about the cause of Princess Ping's death and started to investigate. Since then, the concubine has stopped tracking Cuihong's whereabouts."

She looked up at Ling Xihan with firm eyes.

"This subordinate only found out about it by chance. I believe that as long as we find Cui Hong, we will know the cause of Princess Ping's death."

Ling Xihan narrowed her eyes, "You mean, Cuihong didn't die at all back then. She was afraid of being silenced by the princess, so she pretended to be seriously ill and left the palace to hide the truth?"

Fengying nodded, "Yes!"

Ling Xihan pondered for a while, "Okay, let Huaying, Xueying, and Yueying be with you, and the four of you can find Cuihong as soon as possible." She narrowed her eyes, "It must be fast, since the princess has been able to hide this matter for so long, it must be done. Xiao Wang, we must bring Cuihong back before she finds out about the silence." Before rushing to Youzhou, she must find out the cause of her mother's death as soon as possible.

Fengying hesitated, "Miss, we are all gone, who will protect you? It is better to let one of the subordinates go, Huaying and the others will stay and protect you secretly."

Ling Xihan shook his head, "Princess Wang is not that simple, if you two are together, the chances of finding someone will be greater."

"But Second Miss..." Fengying was still a little worried.

"You don't need to say anything." Ling Xihan's eyes suddenly turned cold, and his face was indifferent: "You just need to do what I say."

Fengying's heart trembled, and she immediately knelt down on one knee: "My subordinate overstepped, please punish me." She is only the subordinate of the young lady, and she only needs to follow the instructions of the young lady, without any rebuttal or doubt.

Ling Xihan's face softened a little, "Go." Now is the period of employing people, and she doesn't want to punish Fengying.

"Yes." After Fengying finished speaking, she left incognito.

Ruoxue came back to her senses, and immediately said angrily: "I didn't expect that it was really the concubine who killed my wife. Damn it!"

Ruoyu tugged at her sleeves, and said calmly: "Be careful that the walls have ears."

"What are you afraid of?" Ruoxue was angry, "It was the princess who killed Madam, are you afraid of being heard?"

Ling Xihan didn't speak, she was thinking about what Fengying said just now.Cuihong was once transferred to wait in Yun's room, no wonder Yun used her mother's death to reach an agreement with the princess and helped her get out of the Buddhist hall.It's just that she should only suspect that the princess killed her mother, but there is no evidence, otherwise she would never let the princess use it without resisting.

Also, according to the information she investigated, Yun's family background was clean, and nothing special happened to her when she entered the Wangfuqian.But what happened to her martial arts?Even if her father didn't spend much energy on the battle in the inner court, but with the scheming of Ling Xiqing and Ling Xizhen, the city will prevail.It is absolutely impossible for the Yun family to practice martial arts under their noses.And this Yun family is indeed not someone else pretending to be.

(End of this chapter)