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Mysteries in the Imperial Harem: Chapter 90
Chapter 90: Sounding Out (Part 1)

“With the acceptance of the Mandate of Heavens, the Emperor has decreed
that Imperial Concubine Qing from the family Qing, has respectful,
harmonious and respectful virtues and is warm, charming, and virtuous.
Zhen is comforted that the Imperial ancestral are pleased and she had
gave birth to a son. Today, my son is full month old, the name: Zhi and
Chu Xiu Palace are bestowed upon him. By the Emperor himself.”

In the third quarter of Sishi (modern timing: 9 – 11am), the morning
court has ended and the Imperial Decree was immediately sent into Qing
Feng Hall. As the eunuch from Imperial household affairs read out the
Imperial Decree in his sharp voice, the main mistress just froze there
motionless as she knelt on the floor, unsure if she was overjoyed or was
not even listening.

Ru Yi knelt behind Qing Feng and hearing not a single movement for quite
some time, she quietly looked up and saw her own Mistress staring at the
floor and not the Imperial Decree or thanking for the honour. The steward
gonggong from the Imperial household affairs held the decree out but did
not dare to call her and gave a perplexed look on how to proceed. Ru Yi
tookd a small step forward and softly advised, “Your Ladyship?”

Qing Feng was slightly startled and quickly recovered to her senses and
took a while before speaking, “Thanking the grace of the Emperor. May the
Emperor long live.”

Qing Feng replied dispiritedly but fortunately she had said her thanks.
Wu Gonggong gave a sigh of relief in his hard and quickly passed the
decree to Qing Feng’s hands and knelt down to greet, “Congratulations to
Imperial Concubine Qing. Congratulations to Prince Zhi.”

Ru Yi supported Qing Feng to the living area to sit down at the main
seat. Qing Feng placed the Imperial decree casually by the side table and
coldly said, “All withdraw.”

“Yes.” After giving a bow, Wu Rong immediately exited the house. He has
been working in the Palace for almost all his life and had served many
mistresses but this Imperial Concubine Qing was the most bizarre one he
had seen. Today it’s the big day of the Emperor’s bestowment but she had
a cold and lethargic expression. It would seem that this was a Mistress
that was hard to serve.

When the roomful of people withdrew, only Shen Yao was left in the inner
chambers coaxing the Little Prince. Qing Feng was still uncommunicative
and just sat that with a unusual cool expression. Her Ladyship had sat
overnight, was she not tired? Seeing the Imperial Decree on the side
table, Ru Yi lightly smiled and said, “Your Ladyship, the word ‘Zhi’ that
the Emperor bestowed is good. It must be meant ‘true love’ (pronounce as
Zhi Ai)!”

Qing Feng’s dark expressing eyes slightly raised and her lips slightly
arched but it was not like a normal smile. Thinking back on the past few
days, he did not even come over to take a glance at both mother and son.
True love? Why be so pretentious. Zhi… It also has the meaning of
“seizing”, who really knew what his heart was thinking. The most
difficult thing to guess was a monarch’s mind and now she did not want to
guess. She was waiting. Waitng for Fu Ling to give her an answer.

“Your Ladyship…â€‌

“Bengong wants some peace. You go in and take care of the Little Prince.”

Ru Yi still wanted to say more things to make her happier a little but
Qing Feng’s cold voice interrupted her words, so Ru Yi can only quietly
retreated back to the inner chambers. When she just entered, she saw Shen
Yao feeding the Little Price. As Ru Yi was still an unmarried young lady,
she immediately turn her face the other side and naturally did not see
Shen Yao placing something quietly back to her sleeves.

Qing Feng never knew that the greatest suffering in the world was
actually waiting. Facing with the eagerness to know the answer yet also
scared, as the time pass, she felt more fear. Not even that night in the
Imperial Prisons or the attempted suicide at the ruined temple had she
felt that life was so difficult.

“Mistress? Mistress…â€‌

As the soft voice floated into her ears, Qing Feng’s head snapped up and
it was only then that she found Fu Ling standing by her side, looking at
her with concern. She had waited for an entire night and it was for Fu
Ling to return. At this moment she was standing in front of her, but Qing
Feng was afraid and grabbed Fu Ling’s palms for a while before she
finally asked, “How was it?”

Ice cold hands and pale white face. Mistress looked so haggard that it
was evident that she was up awake all night in fear. She still could not
understand why Mistress would want to investigate her own sisters. Even
if it was to investigate, why would it be such urgent and in a state of
panic?

Fu Ling did not reply for a long time and Qing Feng got anxious, “Was it
checked out or not?”

Qing Feng looked like she was nearing a fainting spell but was still
pressing urgently about it. Fu Ling swallowed her words of rests and
nodded helplessly.

“Will speak in your room.” Qing Feng grabbed Fu Ling’s hands and rush to
the side wing of the side courtyard.

When the doors were just closed, Qing Feng impatiently asked, “How was
the investigation?”

Fu Ling closed the door properly and supported Qing Feng to sit on the
chair. She did not keep her waiting and told her from how Qing Ling enter
the Prime Minister’s residence to how she performed autopsy in the great
hall and how she help Dan Yu Lan to break the cold case of the lost gold,
to the case of the missing heart in the female corpse. Fu Ling carefully
said everything she had investigated, “When Lou Furen initially reached
Qiong Yue, before she entered the Prime Minister’s residence, she was
kidnapped by the villagers and then…”

In the timespan of a night, Fu Ling could only investigate this much and
it was already not easy. Qing Feng was most concerned about one thing.
“She… Truly did an autopsy… In the Grand Hall?”

“Yes. This servant found the palace maids and eunuchs who were at the
great hall holding up the curtains at the event. From their words, Lou
Furen was at the great hall… Performing the autopsy for the Princess of
Northern Qi.”

“Was it what they have personally witnessed? Dan Yu Lan did not step
forward to help at all?” Qing Feng asked quickly and anxiously which can
be seen as aggressive. Fu Ling saw Qing Feng grasping the arms of the
wooden chair and felt that it was not quite right but dared not hid
anything from her, “They witness it themselves. This servant also
interviewed them individually and the details of it matched up. Dan Daren
only stood by the side and did not say anything or step up to help.”

It was indeed true? She had heard earlier that Eldest Sister performed an
autopsy in the great hall but she never once believed it and always
thought that it was Dan Yu Lan who let Eldest Sister to put up a show of
doing it but not actually doing it so as to appease the Prince of
Northern Qi. So it was just her who was kept in the dark.

Taking a deep breath, Qing Feng cautiously asked, “Qing Mo… How about
Qing Mo?”

“The General’s residence is very strict and impartial. Miss Qing also
rarely go out of the residence and make contact with others, so it was
not easy to investigate. It was fortunate that Miss Qing’s reputation in
the Su family army is high and according to the commander of guards of
the General’s residence, when Miss Qing entered the residence, she had a
competition with General Su Yu on training of the new recruits and came
out victorious.”

Training the troops? Since when did Mo-er know how to train the troops?
Recalling the beautiful archery skills of Qing Mo, Qing Feng only felt
her head buzzing. If it was autopsy, it could be explained that Eldest
Sister was born intelligence, read up in medical books and was
self-taught. But martial arts skills were not possible to excel overnight
right? If this Qing Mo knows martial arts, then she was definitely not
her Mo-er!

After deliberating over, Qing Feng then asked in a trembling voice, “In
the hearts of everyone in the General’s residence, how is her… Martial
arts skills?”

Mistress was indeed a good elder sister. She must be worried about her
own Youngest Sister being wronged in General’s residence. Fu Ling smiled,
“Miss Qing’s martial arts skills naturally is not comparable with General
Su Ling, but it was difficult to find an opponent in the General’s
residence. It was said that General Su Yu had also lost to her before.”
After investigating for the entire night, she had to admit that the
famous reputation of the three sisters of the Qing family that spread to
the six nations was indeed well-deserved.

Fu Ling was sincerely praising but the colour of Qing Feng’s face was
getting paler as she spoke. Actually this result had been swirling in her
mind since last night but she kept telling herself that it was absolutely
impossible. Now that Fu Ling told her that Eldest Sister could perform
autopsies and Youngest Sister had martial arts skills, were these
versions of them still her sisters?

If they were not, who exactly were they?

Who?!

“Mistress?!” The energy in Qing Feng’s body seemed to have left and Fu
Ling had to support the fallen her. At this time Ru Yi’s voice suddenly
sounded, “Your Ladyship…”

After no response after a long time, Ru Yi raised her voice louder,
“Older sister Fu Ling, are you in?”

Fu Ling was supporting Qing Feng and cannot go out to open the door. As
the door was locked just now, Fu Ling could only shout her reply back,
“What’s the matter?”

“Prince Zhi seem to be in some discomfort and his entire body is burning
up…”

“My child…” Qing Feng who was leaning in Fu Ling arms suddenly sat up
straight and quickly got up. She rushed to the door to open and urgently
spoke, “What is wrong with him?”

Ru Yi jumped in shock and very quickly replied, “Prince Zhi seemed to be
sick as his body is hot. Please quickly go and see.”

Qing Feng anxiously ran back to the house. Just as she pushed open the
doors, she heard the child crying out. Qing Feng took the child from Shen
Yao’s hands as her heart ached. The little fellow body was already
burning up, in addition to how he was crying, his entire face turned red.
Qing Feng placed her face against the child’s little head and felt a
surge of heat hitting her.

“Why is it so hot? Wasn’t he alright just now?!” Since last night, she
kept thinking about the matter on Eldest Sister and Youngest Sister and
only carried the child just now. This was all because of her not taking
care of the child. A night of torment and including the remorse she felt
now, tears finally welled in her eyes.

Seeing her like this, Ru Yi and Shen Yao was shocked that they got down
to their knees, “This servant deserves dead. The Little Prince was almost
asleep but don’t know why he suddenly cried. This servant only then
touched his forehead and discovered that his body was burning up.”

Fu Ling lightly took the child’s pulse and found that the pulse was a
little strange. However a child’s pulse was normally relatively weak and
Fu Ling did not take the pulse of a child before and can only
comfortingly say, “Mistress need not worry so much. It could be that a
cold was caught during the full month celebration and would not be
serious.”

Fu Ling was a female medical attendant. If she say it was not a problem
then it should be fine. Qing Feng’s heart quickly calmed down and she
asked, “Are the Imperial Physicians called in?”

“Lan-er had already gone to invite. This servant will go and take a
look.” Ru Yi quickly got up and exited. It seems that it was not enough
to only invite Imperial Physician Lin and should also invite Imperial
Physician Wang. If anything happen to the Little Prince, all of their
heads would not be enough.

After carrying the child and coaxing a while, it seems that even though
his body was quite hot, it was good that he was not crying. Qing Feng’s
perturbed heart at least settled down a little. As if suddenly thought of
something, Qing Feng softly called out, “Fu Ling…”

Fu Ling bend down and Qing Feng whispered into her ear, “Go and invite my
Eldest Sister over. Go do it now.”

“Yes.” Fu Ling quickly nodded. Lou Furen can perform autopsies, perhaps
her medical skills area also very high.

“Wait.” Just as Fu Ling was about to exit, Qing Feng said, “Just say that
I miss her a lot and ask her to enter the Palace. Do not tell her about
the Little Prince’s fever.”

“Yes.â€‌

Why not tell Lou Furen? Since last night till today, Fu Ling had a belly
full of questions but seeing Mistress’s nervous attitude, she would not
get any answers.

With her son in her arms, Qing Feng look at that quiet but reddish little
face as she listened to his slightly fast breathing and the slightly
panicky heart since yesterday night seemed to slowly calmed down.

Even though others were filled with certainty, she still dare not and did
not want to believe Eldest Sister and Youngest Sister was as what they
said. So… She must test it out to be satisfied!

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