Chapter 280 Mention
Jixiang checked and found that all thirty-six beds were like this.
Rong Que leaned over and lifted the sheets on the bed next to him. Under the sheets, the mattress was also rust red. He lifted the mattress, revealing the bed board underneath. The bed board was also covered with dried blood stains. With a light touch with his fingertips, the blood stains shattered into powder.
Jixiang took out the fire starter he carried with him and wanted to light the dragon and phoenix candles next to him to shine under the bed, but was stopped by Su Qingqing.
"There might be something in here. Let's take it back and have the doctor check it out. Go open all the windows."
Jixiang took the order and turned away.
All the windows were opened, and the light from outside was shining in strongly. Rong Que squatted beside the bed and looked under the bed. Sure enough, there was a patch of dried blood rust.
The blood soaked through the sheets and quilt, soaked through the bed board, and dripped onto the ground...
Back then, a living person must have been bled to death on this bed.
It was hard to imagine that scene: thirty-six women were neatly laid out on the beds, their blood gushing out, staining the back room.
Not far away, some people were watching and some were waiting.
What kind of scene was this that led to such a thing?
Su Qingqing couldn't think of a more appropriate word except "living sacrifice".
But these activities were not very popular in the Dayan Dynasty. Why would such a tragic thing happen in the palace!
Who was the one who presided over this sacrifice back then?
The answer is almost self-evident.
Apart from the emperor, who else has the ability to do such a thing in the palace!
Not to mention, there is another prince, the legitimate prince, who is deeply involved in it.
What Su Qingqing can think of, Rong Que can also think of.
Minglu sent the corpse back to the imperial study and then returned again. He and Rongque worked together to move one of the beds from its original position.
"Hey, the weight is wrong." Minglu lifted the bed and frowned, "Even a bed is not this heavy."
Su Qingqing's heart skipped a beat, her breath became tight, and her eyes stared straight at the box under the bed.
At the same time, Jixiang's face turned pale as he leaned against Su Qingqing, gasping in shock, "Could there be something in here?"
Minglu looked at Rongque, who was silent for a moment, "Pull it open!"
There is a large drawer similar to a box under the bed board of the ebony step-out bed, which can hold a lot of things.
Ming Lu received the order and immediately tried to pull the drawer, but it didn't budge. He then discovered that the edge of the drawer was nailed shut with wooden strips. "Your Majesty."
Rong Que's eyebrows were cold, and his whole body was filled with chill, "Get rid of it."
Minglu took out the dagger he carried with him and pried the wooden bar up and down. After getting over his initial fear, Jixiang also stepped forward to help.
The whole piece of wood was split in half, and Minglu pulled open the drawer.
In the drawer, there was a shriveled corpse curled up.
The corpse was wearing a bright red wedding gown, and its hands and feet were bound with iron chains, on which hung a large square stone similar to the one blocking the wellhead in front.
No wonder it’s so heavy!
Perhaps it was because the bed was too old, or perhaps the things inside were too heavy. The moment Minglu opened the drawer, there was a clicking sound, and the drawer broke and collapsed in half.
The corpse inside immediately slid to the lower side, and the huge rock also slid along, squeezing the corpse's already shriveled face and deforming it.
Rong Que stared inside without saying a word.
Su Qingqing stood beside him and asked softly, "Do you know him?"
Rong Que shook his head.
There were thirty-five beds left, and Minglu pulled out another thirty-five bodies without exception.
They were all wearing the same bright red wedding dress, and their bodies were all shrunken in the same way.
This is a person who was bled to death, and after death, he was stuffed into a drawer.
Now, the only people who can answer this brutal sacrifice are the Queen Mother who was imprisoned by Rong Que and the mother of the Second Prince.
He Chao had some knowledge of Taoism, so Rong Que asked Minglu to call He Chao over to take a look at the layout of the formation here. He then took Su Qingqing to the Queen Mother's bedroom.
Jixiang knew that Su Qingqing was pregnant and the fetus was unstable in the first three months, so she originally wanted to stop them, but Su Qingqing insisted on accompanying Rong Que. Rong Que was still unaware of the existence of the fetus in her belly, so Jixiang didn't know what to say for a while. She could only follow her master all the way to the Queen Mother, accompanying her as carefully as possible on the way, and suggested that Rong Que call for a sedan chair.
Rong Que was greatly stimulated by this series of events. Although his emotions were stable, his mind was still not completely clear. Jixiang wanted to call for a sedan chair, and Su Qingqing had no objection, so Rong Que naturally agreed.
When the sedan chair carrying the emperor and empress was heading to the empress dowager's bedroom, they met the princess of Da Qi who was to be married at the door.
"Greetings to your Majesty, and to your Majesty."
As if she had expected Su Qingqing and the others to come, she stood at the door of the Queen Mother's bedroom, knelt down and saluted, and said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "I have something to say to His Majesty and His Majesty. I hope Your Majesty and His Majesty can give me half a quarter of an hour."
Su Qingqing didn't say anything.
Rong Que was full of things on his mind, so he had no mood to talk to her about the marriage. He just said irritably, "I have already made the marriage very clear to the envoys of Da Qi."
The princess didn't show the slightest embarrassment of being rejected; she smiled gracefully and looked dignified and elegant.
"I came here not for the marriage, but for another matter. Today at the inn, I suddenly heard my maid mention the Luo tribe, which reminded me of something ."
Just as Su Qingqing and her friends discovered the stone with the totem of the Baro tribe in the cold palace, they met the princess of Da Qi here.
It would be hard not to marvel at this kind of fate.
"What do you want to say?" Su Qingqing looked at her.
The princess of Da Qi said, "I just suddenly remembered that my father mentioned before that the late queen of your dynasty, oh, now she should be called the queen mother, that is, your majesty's mother, seemed to be from the Baro tribe."
Rong Que immediately said, "You remembered it wrong."
The princess of Da Qi smiled with her eyes curved. "Did you remember it wrongly? That may be wrong, or it may be someone else. However, I mentioned this matter because the Baro tribe had a blood sacrifice.
Blood sacrifice can change fate.
Those who want to change their fate often resort to brutal blood sacrifices."
Every word she said hit Rong Que's heart, and every word was consistent with what they discovered in the cold palace today.
But Rong Que was extremely confident about what was happening in the cold palace, and not a single piece of information leaked out.
Why would she know!
Even if they knew, shouldn't the people in the palace know it first? How come this princess of Daqi, who lives in the inn, got the news so quickly!
The princess of Da Qi seemed to have guessed Rong Que's doubts and chuckled, "Your Majesty, are you wondering why I would bring up this matter at this moment?"
Right now!
When and what moment?!
