Lian'er said, "The Empress's health has never been very good, but she has no serious illness. The imperial physician said it was yin deficiency, so she kept getting nourishing. When the army returned to the capital and passed Lincheng, Shandong, it was very hot that day. The emperor, the empress slept very late. I and several other maids served the emperor. After the empress fell asleep, they left. Eunuch Jin and I were waiting outside the door."

Yang Qiuchi asked, "Eunuch Jin? Is it Jin Liang, the eunuch who was in charge of the seal of the Sili Supervisor who went on the expedition this time?"

The son said, "After about half an hour, an emergency military newspaper came. Eunuch Jin entered the room and reported to the emperor. I went in to serve the emperor and put on a dragon robe. The emperor went to the inn study to read the memorial. Eunuch Jin also followed the emperor, and I was the only one waiting outside the door."

"Didn't Concubine get up?"

"No, when I served the emperor to dress, the empress had to get up too, but she said her head hurt a little, so the emperor asked her to sleep by herself and stopped getting up. So the empress didn't get up."

"Heart?" Yang Qiuchi asked, "Didn't you hire an imperial physician?"

"No, the queen doesn't let her go, saying that the pain is not bad, it doesn't matter, it's okay to sleep for a while."

"Are there any other symptoms besides headaches?"

Lian'er thought for a while and said, "No more, I just said I had a headache. Then I went to bed."

"What happened later? Have you ever been in between?"

"No, I've been waiting at the door. When we were on duty, we could only wait at the door without the Queen. We can't enter casually. Until the fifth hour, we didn't hear the Queen's call. I thought it was strange..."

Yang Qiuchi interrupted and asked, "Does the Empress call you tonight?"

"Yes, the empress is not in good health. She is thirsty at night and often needs to drink water and urinate. In the past, I had to fan my body when it was too hot. But later the imperial doctor said that the empress was yin deficiency and could not be exposed to the cool breeze in the cool summer, so she rarely let her sleep and did not open the window."

Yang Qiuchi nodded. He knew that traditional Chinese medicine theory believed that wind is the main source of all diseases, and wind is dispersed and discharged. Wind is mixed with some disease evils, such as wind and cold, rheumatism, etc. Therefore, traditional Chinese medicine's medical advice generally has the saying of avoiding wind and cold. This is common knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine. He knows a little.

Yang Qiuchi signaled Lian'er to continue.

Lian'er continued, "After I entered the room, I called the Empress gently from afar. I didn't hear the answer. I walked to the bed and screamed, but I still didn't hear the answer. Logically, the Empress wouldn't sleep so heavily, and I was a little panicked. I reached out and pushed it gently, but the Empress still didn't move, because there was no light in the room, so I couldn't see what happened to the Empress - the Empress never liked to light the light when she was sleeping, and said she couldn't sleep like that. I quickly found the flint and lit the light. When I saw it, the Empress opened her eyes and did not move, and she vomited a pool of mouth..."

Yang Qiuchi interjected and asked again: "Have you touched her hands and feet? Have you been stiff?"

"Not stiff, I shook the Empress's body. She didn't move, her eyes staring straight ahead. She couldn't move anymore. I was frightened and ran out crying. I went to call Wang Sicai. After Wang Sicai came, he was panicked and asked me to call the Imperial Doctor quickly. I hurriedly ran to call the Imperial Doctor, and at the same time asked the father-in-law on duty outside to report to the Emperor. Later, the two Imperial Doctors and the Emperor came. After the Imperial Doctor checked, he said... that the Imperial Doctor had passed away."

Yang Qiuchi asked, "What did the Empress eat on that day in Lincheng?"

"It's hot, and the lady has no appetite. She only drank some porridge at noon and drank a small bowl of noodles and tea before going to bed at night. She didn't eat anything else."

Lian'er said something similar to the imperial physician and Wang Sicai said it. It seems that the situation is roughly like this.

After leaving the mail room, Song Yuner couldn't help asking: "It seems that this Empress died of illness."

"How can I see it?" Yang Qiuchi asked.

"You think, the emperor and the others live in the inn, and there are tens of thousands of troops outside. The entire inn is protected by the great guards. If you want to murder, who can come in?"

"What if the people around the Empress murdered?"

Song Yuner was stunned and said, "No, the Imperial Doctor said it was the wind evil that penetrated the brain and caused violent disease. If it were murder, the Imperial Doctor would definitely see it."

Yang Qiuchi smiled: "The imperial physician is good at treating diseases, but to find out the exact cause of death, clinicians are not good at this."

"Clinician?" Song Yuner didn't understand this strange noun.

"It's the doctor, the imperial physician." Yang Qiuchi said, "It's two different things to find out the cause of death and diagnosing the disease. If the same patient dies, different imperial physicians may make different judgments."

After hearing what Yang Qiuchi said, Song Yuner couldn't understand: "Then how did this virtuous concubine die?"

Yang Qiuchi shook his head: "I can't judge until the body is examined in detail without opening the coffin and conducting a detailed examination of the body."

"Then let's go and open the coffin and examine the autopsy."

"Not in a hurry, we need to find someone to check the situation and then go. Lincheng, Shandong is not close to."

"Who else are you looking for?" Song Yuner asked, and her eyes lit up, "I understand, I'll find Jin Liang, the eunuch who was accompanying him to seal the last time!"

"Yeah! The opponent." Yang Qiuchi nodded, "He is the eunuch who is accompanying this time. He should be very clear about whether there are any abnormalities." After saying that, he paused for a moment and continued, "I'm afraid he will fight. If something goes wrong, he will be the first to hold him accountable. So, even if there is any problem, he is unlikely to tell it out. Let's take a look first."

Soon, he found Jin Liang, the eunuch in the Sili Supervisor who was accompanying him last time. Jin Liang was in a daze in the Sili Supervisor's office room. He was shocked when he heard that the Jinyiwei was looking for him. However, after all, he was the person who had been serving the emperor for a long time, so he quickly calmed down.

After greeting Yang Qiuchi and others with a smile, he greeted the eunuchs and presented incense tea.

Yang Qiuchi asked him about his passing at that time, which was roughly similar to the previous ones. However, Jin Liang emphasized that he followed the emperor to read the emergency memorial and had been serving the emperor, but he never left. Until he got the news that Concubine Xian was seriously ill, he followed the emperor back. Then the imperial physician said Concubine Xian had passed away.

After asking if there were any abnormalities, Jin Liang insisted that he had arranged all the duty on duty properly, and there would be no mistakes at all, and no other idle people had entered and exited the post station where the emperor lived.

This was already under Yang Qiuchi's expectations. Before he could find out whether Concubine Xian was murdered, he was not going to take extreme action to avoid alarming the enemy. He asked Jin Liang to go to Lincheng Station with him, identify the scene and open the coffin for an autopsy. Jin Liang was happy and agreed.

Yang Qiuchi and others left the palace and went to the Ministry of Works to find Lord Li, the official in charge of building the tomb at the time, and asked him to go to Yi County tomorrow. Then he returned to Yang's mansion and told Yang's mother and others about the matter of going to Lincheng, Shandong to investigate the case.

Yunlu was talking to Yang's mother, her eyes were red and she seemed to have just cried. Of course Yang Qiuchi knew why. After returning from the palace yesterday, until late at night, Yunlu was crying. It seemed that she was not prepared for this and lacked enough knowledge of the princess's inability to be a concubine.

Early in the morning, Yunlu came and talked to Yang's mother and Feng Xiaoxue in the room for a whole morning. It seemed that she was in a better mood.

Yang's mother heard that Yang Qiuchi was going to Shandong, and the journey was long, and she was a little worried. She wanted Liu Ruobing to protect her, but Yang Qiuchi said that Liu Ruobing's son was still young and could not live without her mother. She was not going to fight this time, but she was relieved with a guard and Song Yuner.

That night, Feng Xiaoxue packed Yang Qiuchi's luggage. Although Song Yun'er is now Yang Qiuchi's concubine, she is used to being a eldest lady and doesn't know how to serve others, so she asked Hong Ling to go with her to serve Yang Qiuchi.

The next day, Yang Qiuchi took Song Yuner, Hong Ling, the eunuch in charge of the seal of the Sili Supervisor, and Li, the Ministry of Works, responsible for the construction of the Xianfei Mausoleum, and set off for Lincheng, Shandong under the protection of the Nangong Xiong Guard.

Since the threats of foreign enemies in the Ming Dynasty mainly came from the north, from Yingtian Prefecture to Shuntian Prefecture (Beijing), it was the main focus of the official road, and the maintenance of the official road can be regarded as the best. It is wide and flat.

They were not in a hurry to rush, but after half a month they arrived in Lincheng, Shandong. They first went to Lincheng station to check the scene, so they had a general impression.

Lincheng (now Xuecheng) in the Ming Dynasty was just a small town. The post station was relatively simple, but it was a relatively good place in Lincheng. Therefore, when the emperor passed by this place, he stayed at the post station.

In the courtyard of this inn, several houses were arranged in a disorderly manner. According to Jin Liang's instructions, he came to the room where the emperor and the concubine Xian lived. After checking, he found nothing unusual.

At that time, the emperor was reading memorials in another house not far away. Yang Qiuchi and Song Yuner also went to check it out, but found nothing unusual.

After leaving Lincheng, a large group of people went to Yi County (now Zaozhuang City), and the Xian Concubine was buried here. The two places were not far apart, and two days later, they arrived at the Yi County Government Office.

Magistrate Wang from Yi County learned that the Jinyiwei Tongzhi was coming, and he was busy and led a large group of strong people to follow Yang Qiuchi to the tomb of the Xian Concubine in Baimao Mountain outside the city.

The tomb of Xianfei is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there is a stream in front of it. There is a saying: "The lion on the left and the elephant on the right is full of guards, and the emperor's mother is buried in three mountains and one water."

The tomb piles in the cemetery cover half the size of a football field. The tomb is surrounded by high walls and is guarded by local county governments.

Although Concubine Xian was very favored by Emperor Chengzu of Ming, he was just the imperial concubine and the emperor's concubine, so he was not qualified to be buried in Huangling. At that time, Chengzu of Ming Dynasty made several motions to bury Concubine Xian next to Empress Xu, but was persuaded by the ministers.

Since it had just been buried for half a year, the officials of the Ministry of Works who built the tomb at that time quickly determined the entrance of the tomb passage of the tomb. The civilians and brave men excavated based on this, and in half a day, they found the entrance of the tomb.
Chapter completed!