no.330 The man who had an affair (to make up for yesterday’s post) “Go back to my mother-in-law, the mustache from the Ministry of Internal Affairs committed suicide!”

As soon as he finished his sentence, the expression of the head of the House of Internal Affairs suddenly changed, and his already pale face turned completely pale in an instant.

Not to mention Li Tianyou and Aoxue, even the other palace people in the room saw his expression and intuitively guessed that there must be something hidden in it.

"Who is the mustache?" Aoxue said.

That’s right, in any country, in any harem, for a person of the queen’s level, apart from the dozen or so palace people she often comes into contact with, titles like “mustache, stool, table” are simply just titles.

, apart from knowing that the deceased represents a palace person, it has almost no practical significance.

She looked at the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a half-smiling expression. Since the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs showed such an expression, the eighth floor had something to do with him.

"Back to the Empress, from a public point of view, Xiaozi is an ordinary palace servant of the House of Internal Affairs, but privately speaking, he is the godson of a slave!" The head of the House of Internal Affairs said bluntly, as an old palace servant who has been working in the palace for more than 20 years, he

It is very clear that when encountering something like this that can lead to death if you are not careful, telling the truth is the only way to save your life!

In the palace, all eunuchs were eunuchs. Except for a small number of eunuchs who came to the palace to make a living after getting married and having children, most of them entered the palace when they were young. These people were unlikely to get married in their lifetime, let alone have children.

As time goes by, some people move up the ranks and hold a lot of money and power. In order to curry favor with their bosses and make their career paths easier, some new eunuchs often consider themselves godfathers.

Not to mention the 40-year-old head of the Internal Affairs Bureau, Li Tianyou's father-in-law Duan, as a popular figure around the emperor and the chief eunuch in the palace, probably has only a few more godsons than the head of the Internal Affairs Bureau.

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Naturally, even though there are many godsons, there are also some close ones. Judging from the look on the head of the House of Internal Affairs just now, the mustache who died just now was obviously very favored by the head of the House of Internal Affairs.

"How did he die?" Aoxue asked.

"Go back to my wife, he died by swallowing gold."

Swallowing gold... Aoxue had a strange look on her face and glanced at Li Tianyou.

Their country, Xiliang, is not an ordinary place of wealth! A few days ago, a little Chang Zai actually used gold as lotus flowers while dancing, trying to make lotuses grow step by step. In the end, all the gold powder sank to the bottom of the lake.

Now, a famous eunuch actually commits suicide by swallowing gold!

Well, even if as a eunuch, you can often get gold, silver and jewelry as rewards from your concubines, you can’t show off your wealth like this, right?!

Li Tianyou immediately gave Aoxue a comforting look. Anyone who was a servant in the palace, as long as he often walked around his master, had some wealth. A piece of gold was really nothing. What was important was why he committed suicide!

"What does this mustache do on a daily basis?" Li Tianyou asked.

"Mustache usually delivers various expenses to various palaces." The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs bowed to the ground, "Mustache delivers all the supplies for the entire harem, including the Emperor, the Queen, the Concubine and the beautiful concubines.

." At this point, the head of the House of Internal Affairs seemed to feel that something was wrong, and hurriedly added, "Occasionally, I also send supplies to other palaces."

Aoxue smiled, with a hint of ice at the corner of her mouth: "You really like your godson very much. Your godson is the one who sends gifts to the highest ranking people in the palace, and the rewards he gets should be quite a lot!"

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs broke out in a cold sweat again. The eunuchs in the harem were different from the previous dynasty. In the previous dynasty, there were many official positions with many levels. In addition to various official positions with real power, there were also some false positions. The harem was different. There were only a few people in charge of the harem, one carrot and one pit.

, he put a lot of effort into his mustache.

Among the palaces, the emperor is the eldest, followed by the empress. The virtuous concubine now holds the real power and naturally wants to please her. The other is the beautiful concubine. I heard that the emperor favored her for five nights before. Although the emperor now lives in Jiaofang Hall every day, but

Who knows if the beautiful concubine will suddenly show up again in the future?!

In the palace, the ups and downs are the most indescribable!

He arranged for Mustache to deliver things to these people. Firstly, it was because there was a lot of money and water. In fact, it also had another meaning. One day, he himself would retire, and by then, he hoped that Mustache would be able to work with these people who took care of him.

You have to look familiar and be able to successfully take over his position!

It's a pity...

I don’t know what inspired me to commit such a thing!

"Your Majesty, my servants are waiting in Xiaozhu's room to search for these things!" At this time, a large palace man and two small palace men came in with a tray each.

There are two things on the tray of the person in front. On the left is a small jade vase with a thin neck, and on the right is a neatly folded white silk handkerchief. The most exposed thing is a pair of mandarin ducks playing in the water. The person on the right has

There is a small potted plant on the tray, which is an ordinary osmanthus. The leaves and flowers of the osmanthus are a little dry, and they are not growing very well.

I saw the palace man walking up to the first tray and pointing to the small jade bottle: "This is an empty bottle. I have asked the imperial doctor to identify it. There is still a small amount of nux vomica residue in it. It must have been filled before."

It's the refined nux vomica liquid." She said, pointing to the potted osmanthus on the second tray.

, "This pot of osmanthus is placed on the table in Xiaozi's room. The soil in it contains strychnos. The slave girl inferred that after Xiaohu mixed the strychnos into the empress's hair oil, she was afraid that someone would find the nux vomica, so she specially removed the nux vomica.

Pour the liquid into the soil, and wait until the next time the plantation is repotted, and you won’t notice it anymore!”

Li Tianyou nodded slightly, and the palace man immediately felt his presence. He pointed at the mandarin ducks playing with water silk handkerchief on the tray and continued his analysis: "As a eunuch, this kind of thing appeared in Mustache's room and was placed next to the pillow.

My servant heard that the father-in-law, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, treats Xiaowu very well, and there should be no shortage of material things. What can make Xiaohu do such a treasonous thing must be something other than money."

The implication is that the person who instructs Mustache to do such a thing must be his sweetheart!

"Check whose handkerchief this is!" Li Tianyou said, obviously believing the palace man's inference.

"Huh?" Aoxue, who had been staring at the embroidered pattern on the handkerchief, let out a surprised sound, with confusion in her eyes, "Bring the handkerchief over here."

"Yes." The palace man immediately held up the white silk handkerchief with both hands and walked respectfully to Aoxue.

Aoxue stretched out her hand and picked up the silk handkerchief with her fingertips. With a shake of her hand, the silk handkerchief was spread out in front of her eyes and held in her palm.

The silk is the best silk and the thread is the best thread. The mandarin ducks playing in the water are embroidered in the middle of the silk handkerchief. The color is bright and the embroidery skills are excellent. The most rare thing is that it is actually double-sided embroidery!

"You look so familiar, mandarin ducks playing in the water!" Aoxue suddenly smiled, turned her head, and stretched out her hand holding the silk handkerchief in the direction of Li Tianyou, "Does your Majesty have any impressions?"

Li Tianyou only glanced at the handkerchief but did not take it. He thought to himself: How could I have any impression of such a thing as a mandarin duck playing in the water? You have never embroidered it for me!

Thinking of this, he subconsciously looked at the ugly red purse on his waist. Alas, his Aoxue could only come up with something like this.

Following Li Tianyou's eyes, Aoxue naturally saw the purse on his waist. As the king of a country, carrying such an ugly thing every day, to be fair, it was really embarrassing for him! Thinking of this, Aoxue's original resentment towards Li Tianyou , two points less.

"It seems that you don't remember. Aomei made a purse for you earlier." Aoxue reminded, "It was also a mandarin duck playing in the water."

Li Tianyou looked like he didn't remember, and Aoxue had no choice but to continue: "Although people in the world use patterns like mandarin ducks playing in the water, the colors and embroidery methods are very different, and the picture on this silk handkerchief is different from the previous one. The purse Aomei gave you is exactly the same in terms of embroidery method and color." Aoxue said, after putting the silk handkerchief on the table, she glanced at the palace people next to her, "Come here, please invite Concubine Xian. Come in."

After a while, Shen Aomei walked in with two personal palace maids, Yingying. Her peripheral vision quickly passed over the palace servants who stood less and knelt more in the room: "I have met the emperor and the queen sister!"

"Get up." Li Tianyou's voice was always without warmth.

"Yes." Shen Aomei stood up, his eyes did not look everywhere, but directly on Shen Aoxue, with anxiety on his face, "Is sister okay? I heard that there was poisoning here! "

Aoxuexiao, Shen Aomei can act, she can act just as well, her expression is all noble and generous: "Fortunately, it was discovered early and there is nothing serious, otherwise, my sister will never see her again!"

"Sister Hongfu Qitian, even if there is a villain who does something behind your back, the emperor and sister will definitely find out!" Shen Aomei smiled.

To be honest, even though she heard what happened inside, she and the other concubines were kneeling outside, and she was the only one who was asked to come in at this moment, so she felt somewhat unsure.

Aoxue glanced at the table, picked up the silk handkerchief, and handed it to Shen Aomei: "Please see, is this thing yours?"

Shen Aomei raised her head and her eyes fell on the silk handkerchief. After being puzzled for a moment, her face suddenly changed. She bent her knees and knelt on the ground with a "pop": "Your Majesty, I have been wronged!"

Aoxue smiled: "Sister, why do you want to cry out that you are wronged so quickly? The emperor hasn't said anything yet? I just want to ask if the things are yours!"

Just now, when Shen Aomei was still waiting outside, she naturally knew that the palace officials had found several things from the mustache room where the man committed suicide, one of which was a silk handkerchief, but she never dreamed that this handkerchief was actually a silk handkerchief. My own!

Not to mention who is the murderer behind the poisoned hair oil, as the emperor's concubine, this silk handkerchief alone is enough to convict her of "having an affair with a man"!
Chapter completed!