Hearing that Zhu Rong was dead, Xiao Nuan curled the corners of her mouth, on the first day of the new year, there will be good things!

Zhu Rong is Empress Li's confidant, and most of Empress Li's bad deeds were done by him. When he died, Empress Li's threat dropped a lot. Xiao Nuan asked, "Do you know who did it?" ”

Zhu Rong is not a fool, he ran to the ice pool in the imperial garden in winter.

Xuan Wu shook her head, "There is no news yet." ”

Xiao Nuan suddenly remembered Zhu Rong's disgusting eyes when he looked at Hua Yu, and secretly hoped that Hua Yu would not be involved in this matter. Because Zhu Rong is dead, Empress Li will definitely be mad.

Today is the first day of the new year, and of course the death of Zhu Rong cannot be publicized. Empress Li, who had broken her head, suppressed her anger and ordered someone to cover the wound on her forehead with concealer and a golden phoenix, and summoned the women of all mansions to enter the palace to pay New Year's greetings.

The queen mother died, and the concubines and ladies of various provinces no longer entered the palace to celebrate the New Year. Those who came were all princesses, princesses of the county, duchesses and marquises, as well as ladies of the imperial court who had not been crowned lords.

Because of the injuries on her body, although Empress Li had the heart but was unable to deal with it, she summoned the ladies of various mansions and said a few words of homely things, and then ended hastily.

The big thing of winning people's hearts for her son was not done, and the anger in Queen Li's heart was burning, "Go and call Dexi to the palace!" ”

Zhu Rong was killed, and Empress Li couldn't find any clues from her palace, so she spread her anger on Dexi, the chief eunuch of the Great Inner Palace.

When the little eunuch of Yongfu Palace ran to Yishou Palace, Emperor Jianlong was summoning the princes, county kings, monarchs and ministers of various provinces with several sons. When Dexi heard Empress Li call him, of course he knew that it was for Zhu Rong's business, so he came out and said to the little eunuch, "Our family has returned to Long Live this matter, Long Live sent the errand to find out the cause of Zhu Rong's death to Deng Jinzhong, you go to the Inner Servant Province to find him to see the queen mother." ”

The little eunuch ran to the Inner Servant Province, but Deng Jinzhong had no time to go to Yongfu Palace to see Empress Li. Because the excerpts given by Emperor Jianlong were sent one by one, Deng Jinzhong, who was in charge of Emperor Jianlong's private treasury, selected suitable things from the treasury according to the excerpts, and sent the little eunuchs to all parts of the prefecture, so he was very busy, how could he care about how Zhu Rong drowned.

Empress Li was so angry that she pushed to the Bogu shelf in the main hall, and the gold, silver, jade and porcelain fell to the ground, so frightened that the palace concubines who came to Yongfu Palace to ask for peace did not dare to enter, and stood at the palace gate for a while to let Zilan and other palace maids know that they had come, so they wandered around and chatted.

Zhu Rong's methods are vicious, his death can be described as very happy, and the people in the palace are eager to tell each other, but they don't dare to laugh loudly in front of the people of Yongfu Palace. Yongfu Palace can't enter, the imperial garden is so cold, these people don't want to go to Chonghua Palace to see Hua Guifei's face to block themselves, go to Taoxia Palace to comfort their father Xianfei, who just died, so they went to Concubine Chen and Concubine Shufei in groups.

Compared with the liveliness of Concubine Chen and Concubine Shu's Palace, Chonghua Palace is unusually quiet, and there is no New Year's joy. Hua Guifei was reading in the room, Liu Ruoshi, who was scolded by Empress Li for breaking her foot, sulked behind closed the door, Zheng Chunfeng in the east chamber gloated for a while, and looked at the remote Zhixu Lake where Zhu Rong drowned in the imperial garden, and then went to Yongfu Palace and told Empress Li that she knew who killed Zhu Rong.

"Knowing that Xu Lake is remote, why did Father-in-law Zhu Rong run there?" Zheng Chunfeng looked at Empress Li with blazing eyes.

Empress Li frowned irritably, "What do you know, let's talk about it directly." ”

Zheng Chunfeng didn't dare to sell the lawsuit, so she lowered her voice and said mysteriously, "In the past few months, Zhu Rong has often gone to Chonghua Palace to find Hua Yu next to Hua Guifei, and the two of them have a bit of a tacit understanding. ”

Empress Li frowned, "Do you have any evidence?" Did Hua Yu leave Hua Guifei's side last night and go elsewhere? ”

"The concubine has no evidence, and she didn't pay attention to Hua Yu's whereabouts last night." Seeing that Empress Li's face sank, Zheng Chunfeng hurriedly said, "The concubines don't know, but the palace maids and eunuchs in Chonghua Palace must know, and you can send someone to check it out." You believe in the concubine, Huayu must be wrong. ”

sent Zheng Chunfeng away, and Empress Li called Yanhong, "Go and check Huayu's whereabouts last night." ”

Yan Hong filtered the people from Chonghua Palace and replied, "Wen Yang from Cining Palace is serving tea in Chonghua Palace, and the slave maid went to ask her. ”

Empress Li waved her hand to let her retreat, and asked Zilan again, "Do you think what Zheng Meiren said is credible?" ”

Zilan has followed Empress Li for half her life, and she knows everything about what has happened in the palace over the years. She recalled carefully and said in a low voice, "When Concubine Hua Guifei entered the palace, she was accompanied by two maids, in addition to Hua Yu, there was also a person named Hua Cheng, do you remember?" ”

Empress Li nodded.

Zilan said in a low voice, "More than ten years ago, Hua Cheng drowned in Zhixu Lake, and at that time, she was looking around for evidence that Li Zhaorong killed the sixth princess. ”

"Who killed Hua Cheng?" Empress Li asked.

Zilan shook her head, "After Hua Cheng's death, no one traced the cause of her death, and the slave maid didn't know it. It was only when Zheng Meiren mentioned Zhixu Lake and Hua Yu that the slave maid remembered this. ”

Hua Cheng was secretly investigating Li Zhaorong, and at that time Li Zhaorong had not been beaten into the cold palace, Zhu Rong was originally a eunuch beside Li Zhaorong, and he only entered the Yongfu Palace after Li Zhaorong was beaten into the cold palace, and gradually became reused by Queen Li.

In this way, if it is said that Huacheng was killed by Zhu Rong, it is also possible.

The two little palace maids brought by Hua Shu's little slut were as unpopular as Queen Li, but the three of them were extremely close. Maybe Hua Shu found out out where Zhu Rong killed Hua Cheng, so she asked Hua Yu to kill Zhu Rong!

Hua Yu's cheap maid is worthy of Hua Shu's maid, and she has learned ten out of ten the ability to seduce people, she must have seduced Zhu Rong to Zhixu Lake and pushed her into the lake! The more Empress Li thought about it, the more she felt that this was the case, and her gaze became more and more fierce.

"Check, you must find evidence, you can't cheapen that!"

In the inner room of the main hall of Chonghua Palace, Concubine Hua looked at Hua Yu quietly, "You killed Zhu Rong last night?" ”

Hua Yu did not deny it, "Yes." ”

"The hand that moved when the firecrackers started last night?" At that hour, Hua Yu helped her go back to the palace to get a cloak, and Hua Guifei wanted to come now, so she should have done it at that time.

Hua Yu still nodded, "Yes." ”

"Why do you want to do it at this time?" Concubine Hua had long noticed that Hua Yu had killed Zhu Rong, but this was definitely not a good time to do it.

Hua Yu said in a low voice, "The slave maid originally wanted him to live a few more days, but Zhu Rong caught up and asked the slave maid about the fetus in Princess Sheng's womb. When the slave saw that he was paying attention to Princess Sheng, she wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible, so as not to have too many dreams at night. ”

There was such a thing, Hua Shu frowned, "You shouldn't be so impatient, kill him at this time, and want to cover up." ”

"You also know Empress Li's temperament, if there is no full evidence, Zhu Rong will not dare to chew his tongue in front of Empress Li. At that time, he wanted to blackmail the slave and maid with this matter, but the slave and maid couldn't hold back for a while, so they did it. Hua Yu said truthfully. Zhu Rong had long wanted to take advantage of her, and last night he was a little impatient, so Hua Yu took the opportunity to get rid of him.

Hua Guifei looked at Hua Yu, who had been by her side for decades, and said softly, "Hua Cheng was killed by him, right?" ”

Hua Cheng raised his head and looked at Hua Guifei in surprise, how did Niang Niang only know, what Qingxin said?