C14 Consort Xian's Coffin Can't be Covered

The harem was divided into the East Six Palaces and the West Six Palaces. There were a total of twelve palaces, and each palace had a few palaces for the concubines to live in.

Although the empress was in charge of life and death in the harem, there were many things to be done, so there were unwritten rules since the founding of the country.

The empress was in charge of the Phoenix Seal, as well as the harem, but it didn't include the numerous minor matters of the West Six Palaces.

Thus, most of the time, the only palaces that Xiao Ruo Yu's fox could reach were Taiji, Chang An, Yonghe, Changan, and Yanxi palaces. Oh yeah, there was also his own Phoenix Palace.

These were just chores for the men of the emperor's family. The empress also had some troubles that came from outside the Six Palaces of the East and West.

Jiang Qiuyue only knew that the master of the West Six Palace, the Imperial Conferred Bamboo, lived in the Plum Garden and was still grounded. Even now, she hadn't been released, so she didn't know what he had done wrong.

The West Six Palaces did not have many high ranking imperial concubines. In addition to the imperial concubine, the only other palace lords were the imperial concubine Luo Ying and the late Consort Li Wanyu.

The rest were all concubines of the side chambers, scattered in a few dozen.

The bamboo palace that Consort Xian lived in was already considered an extremely unlucky place, and the concubines and concubines in the side palace were also moving away. They would rather go to the storage palace than live in the bamboo palace, perhaps no one would be willing to live in the future.

Jiang Qiuyue was also very surprised. She had over a hundred concubines, but there were only six that lived in the main hall. Most of them were the young masters of the side chamber and the storage palace.

Jiang Qiuyue rubbed her chin. Another day, should she find a reason to send dozens of people out? She didn't want to die from excessive lust one day …

"Where are we?" Only now did Jiang Qiuyue realize that she had been distracted, and she unknowingly stood in front of a palace.

A few willow trees were planted in front of the palace, probably because no one had cleaned them in the past few days, the catkins were spread all over the ground, and a few branches that did not want to be lonely stuck out of the wall.

The courtyard was empty. Under the cold night wind, it was inevitable that it was somewhat frightening.

"Reporting to the emperor, this is the bamboo palace where His Highness, the Consort Xian, resides." Luo Ying stood half a step behind Jiang Qiuyue and playfully stuck out her tongue at her.

Jiang Qiuyue frowned. "Remove the seal, I'll go in and take a look."

"Yes!" The accompanying palace maid answered quickly and quickly went up and removed the seal.

The thick and heavy door of the palace was pushed open. Through the palace lamp held by the servant, he could faintly see the dust floating in the air.

The hall was pitch black, and he could not even see his fingers in front of him.

Jiang Qiuyue lifted her foot and walked forward, kicking something with a dull thud.

"Light the lamp." Jiang Qiuyue stared gloomily at the kick in the darkness.

The palace servants immediately entered the hall and lit the lamps in the bamboo palace.

The hall suddenly lit up. It was almost a palace that a concubine should have. It was quite ordinary and there was nothing particularly outstanding about it, nor was there anything inappropriate about it.

Jiang Qiuyue looked down and actually saw a black coffin!

"This …" Jiang Qiuyue took two steps back in shock.

Luo Ying took two steps forward and smiled sweetly as she took Jiang Qiuyue's arm. "Your Majesty, this is the coffin of the Consort Xian. Since Your Majesty didn't bury her after waking up, he has been staying in the bamboo palace."

From start to finish, she felt that the death of Consort Xian was strange. Even though it was a heinous crime for her to be drunk, it was not enough to cause her to die so miserably.

Jiang Qiuyue's thoughts stirred, "Do you want to wait for Zhen's orders before dealing with it?"

"No, perhaps Your Highness would prefer for His Majesty to forget this matter." Luo Ying hugged Jiang Qiuyue's arm and laughed.

"Did he say why he sealed the bamboo palace?"

"The empress always does things flawlessly. His argument is that Consort Xian's skin and flesh have been peeled off, leaving only bones. It's very frightening, and he doesn't want His Majesty to see it." Luo Ying curled her lips, she obviously didn't like Xiao Ruo Yu either.

"Cherry Blossom, you go out first." He was still a child, so scaring him wasn't good.

Luo Ying nodded and left.

Jiang Qiuyue cast a cold glance at the coffin, her red lips slightly parted as she spat out two simple but incomparably cold words, "Open the coffin."

The palace maids walked over to the coffin and began tiring to open it.

Jiang Qiu Yue's eyes were fixed on the coffin. The lid of the coffin slowly opened. Under the flickering candle flame, the corpse of the man that had been sentenced to death by torture was gradually revealed.

The first thing that came to him was a strong stench of corpses. Jiang Qiuyue's throat tightened, the food that she just ate was rolling in her stomach and she almost vomited it out.

Jiang Qiuyue hurriedly pinched her nose, and the servant handed over the handkerchief at the right time. Jiang Qiuyue used the handkerchief to cover her nose before continuing to look into the coffin.

As Xiao Ruo Yu had said, what was placed in front of Jiang Qiu Yue was a pile of white bones. The bones were completely intact, they were placed inside the coffin, and both of them had their hands folded on the abdomen.

Beside the bones, however, were piles of sliced meat, evenly thick, which surrounded the body. The entire coffin was covered with congealed blood and festering skin.

Because it had been there for some time, it had already started to rot. Even though Jiang Qiuyue was covering her nose, she could still smell the stench that filled the air. White maggots weaved between the flesh and bones, filling the bones, crawling in and out of the empty eyes and mouth.

However, she had never seen rotten meat that grew maggots under the bones of a human after a short period of time.

Fortunately, Jiang Qiuyue was a medical student, so such a scene was nothing more than disgust for her. The court ladies accompanying her couldn't help but vomit.