The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Chapter 376: Suspicious Points of Falling from Building

Preface: I found that I got the seniority of the eldest princess and the grand princess wrong. Concubine Ning’s biological mother should be the grand princess Rong Huan, and Princess Rong Le is the emperor’s sister. But I’ve already written it and I won’t change it orz.

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After the heavy crash, there was a panic in the restaurant.

The restaurant owner, Princess Rong Le, who was dressed in light blue, was lying in the courtyard, her life or death unknown. The maids and female servants of the princess's mansion anxiously ordered the servants of the restaurant to comfort the guests, and then quickly took the token of the princess's mansion and went to invite the doctor separately - one went to the nearest clinic not far from the street, and the one with the token went straight to the Imperial Hospital of the Palace.

"Her Royal Highness the Princess has had an accident. The Heyi Building is temporarily closed to the public. I hope you ladies will understand!" A serious-looking old maid stepped out and said to the panicked and confused crowd. She glanced at the men who heard the commotion in the building and ran over from the next door. She turned around and bowed to them, "There are mostly women in the Heyi Building. Please do not walk around casually."

"Of course, of course." A middle-aged man in brocade clothes with a goatee nodded repeatedly.

Lin Qiao, who was standing next to him, asked, "Madam, I am worried about my elders at home, so I came in because I was in a hurry. Madam, can you allow me to stay with my elders?"

"Who is your elder?" The nanny frowned and asked in an unfriendly tone.

Lin Qiao replied in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "My surname is Lin, and I am the nephew of the wife of the Marquis of Yongjia."

After hearing Lin Qiao's story, the old nanny's expression did not relax, and her tone became a little more polite: "My surname is Wan, and I am just a nanny. I am not worthy of being called Madam by you. Since you are the nephew of the Madam, please go up, Master Lin."

Lin Qiao bowed to the old maid gratefully. She looked over the head of the slightly shorter Wan Mama and saw a group of people from the Princess Mansion gathered at the bottom of the courtyard. They seemed to be trying to move Princess Rong Le. She frowned and reminded them, "Mama Wan, although the Princess asked the curtain in the middle of the courtyard to support her body and slow down her fall, she fell from the third floor after all. There is no visible injury and no blood on the surface. But I think it's better not to ask so many people to gather together, and don't move her without permission."

Nanny Wan was immediately startled. She didn't bother to continue talking to Lin Qiao. She turned around and began to scold a young woman who seemed to be the leader of the maids: "Yaoyu! Who allowed you to move the princess without permission!"

The maid named Yaoyu shuddered, and the maids who had followed her orders and tried to move Princess Rong Le to the side all moved away.

Yao Yu lowered her head and said, "Madam Wan, I just... I just saw that Your Highness might not be convenient for the doctor to treat her lying here..."

The patio of Heyi Building, from the highest third floor to the middle of the first floor, is hung with colorful dried flowers and cloth curtains. On the ground of the first floor, an irregular small canal is dug out to form the shape of auspicious clouds. The middle is covered with fine white sand, and a tree of Albizia Julibrissin is planted at the edge, supplemented by strange stones.

Lin Qiao on the other side did not rush up to find Xie's mother, but narrowed his eyes and looked at the various arrangements in the patio again.

She had taken a look when she came in and found that Princess Rong Le fell from a room on the left side of the third floor - Heyi Tower has a total of five floors, which is extremely rare even in the capital of Dasheng. It was the dowry given to Princess Rong Le by Empress Dowager Hu when she got married. Because it was the property of a princess of the royal family, it was not considered an overstep even if it was built to five floors. After the princess passed away, unless there were unexpected circumstances, the tower would be taken back by the royal family, or the top two floors would be demolished.

When Lin Qiao came in, he noticed that in front of a room on the left side of the third floor, the curtain began to tear, and it fell along an arc, and the dried flowers and curtains appeared in a broken state wherever it passed. Continuing down, it happened to be where Princess Rong Le was lying.

Princess Rong Le was saved by these curtains and the soft white sand underneath, and she happened not to fall on the decorative stones, so she only suffered a blow to the head and fell into a coma.

But... the maid's behavior was a bit strange. Even if they had confirmed that Princess Rong Le did not die on the spot, but just gasped for breath, without knowing where Princess Rong Le was injured, no normal person would think of moving her without permission. Not to mention that Yao Yu was dressed like a maid who could follow the princess, and she should have been taught the relevant knowledge.

Nanny Wan's words of rebuking Yaoyu cleared up Lin Qiao's doubts: "Her Royal Highness the Princess pities you for being alone and helpless, so she asked you to serve her closely, and you..."

She pointed at Yaoyu angrily, and then pointed at the maids who were also keeping their heads down and keeping silent: "Yaoyu didn't learn the rules well, and you don't know anything either, so you just let her give you orders?!"

"If Her Royal Highness the Princess has injured her bones, and you are asked to move her like this, dislocation is a small matter, but I am afraid that the broken bones will hurt her internal organs, and then..."

They were maids in the princess's mansion, most of them were slaves. Even if they were girls from good families hired from outside, if they accidentally caused the princess's death, it would be a serious crime that would implicate the entire family!

The maids knelt down one after another, and one of them bravely said to Nanny Wan: "It was our fault that we behaved inappropriately. We hope you will forgive us. We...were really frightened..."

Nanny Wan snorted and told the maids to disperse quickly. She then carefully observed Princess Rong Le's breathing before calling another maid: "Yaoqin, take Yaoyu down first."

After saying this, she lowered her voice and asked, "Is the upstairs blocked?"

"No matter who is in that room, she can't escape." Yaoqin replied, "I will also keep an eye on Yaoyu and won't let her escape."

"That's good." Nanny Wan could no longer suppress the worry in her eyes. She gritted her teeth and said, "If my guess is correct, the person in the room is most likely the prince consort. I didn't expect that he would dare to... Your Highness will be safe this time. Don't try to deceive him with sweet words again!"