Rebirth of the Phoenix Princess novel Chapter 341

Before the grand preceptor, the emperor and the new empress needed to stay in the mansion to pray for three days and can not eat mean, which was the rule of the old ancestors. Praying for three days meant that their happy events would be smooth and auspicious. So they can not eat meat during the three days...

Yun Shang narrowed her eyes and thought, 'those guys have gone too far. They initiated the attack first.'. Thinking of this, Yun Shang stood up in a hurry and said to Prince Jing, "I'm afraid I have to go to the palace now."

Prince Jing looked at Yun Shang. He hesitated a little and then nodded. "I know you are worried about lady Jin. I've heard the rumors in the palace several days ago. This time they are coming for lady Jin. Go to the palace now. Do you want me to go with you?"

Yun Shang kept silent for a while and slowly shook her head. Although the incident was related to the grand ceremony, it was still an incident in the imperial household. She didn't want Prince Jing to get involved in it too much. Men should be considerate and thinking about the matter of the whole country, and women should deal with matters in the family. Moreover, this is only related to her mother.

Yun Shang asked Prince Jing to drink the white fungus soup on the table, and then asked Qian Yin to change her clothes for her. She went out of the door with a pink cloak, and the carriage was ready. She rushed to the palace.

Lady Jin should be present as one of the persons in charge of the grand preceptor's preparation now that an incident happened. Besides, she kept the Empress' token for the time being, and the incident was in the imperial household now.

Yun Shang didn't want to go to the Jinxiu palace, so she asked a maid to take her to the Changan Hall. It was a Buddhist hall set in the palace, where the concubines pray, and the emperor prayed in qinzheng hall.

When Yun Shang arrived, she saw emperor Ning and Lady Ya sitting on the chairs. Lady Jin stood beside emperor Ning and looked at the maids kneeling on the ground, with a frown on her head.

"I have been staying in the cooking room all these days. His majesty and Lady ya have kept in the room for a whole day, and we have even prayed in the imperial household. Lady Jin ordered that all the food in the palace is forbidden to have meat, so in the following days, no meat has been sent to the palace. I don't know where the dog meat comes from either. I'm innocent..."

Yun Shang knew from the maid's words that she must be the one who worked in the cooking room. Judging from her wail, Yun Shang could not get any information from her.

"Were you beside the cook when he cooked?" Emperor Ning said calmly.

The maid shook her head. "There are many people in the imperial meal room, but I didn't expect that someone would dare to do something to the meal, so I didn't pay attention to it and left several times."

Yun Shang looked at the maid thoughtfully. Even in the face of such a situation, the maid was neither overbearing nor servile. She cried and screamed, but she gave a clear answer that could not be simple. She must not be a simple girl at all.

"Did anyone else come there when you were making lunch?" Lady Jin asked softly.

The maid fell into silence. She looked up at Lady Jin, and softly said, "I didn't pay attention."

Emperor Ning remained silent for a while and said, "take her away, and bring the next one."

It was then that Yun Shang realized the interrogation was made one by one in the imperial room. She sneered and believed that all the evidences would point to lady Jin in the end.

It was not until then that emperor Ning noticed Yun Shang. He beckoned her with a smile. "What brings you here, shang'er?"

Yun Shang walked to Emperor Ning with a gentle smile. "Recently, there are a lot of affairs in the palace. I was worried that mother couldn't handle them well, so I went to the palace every day. I was supposed to come this afternoon, but I was delayed by something in the prince's mansion this afternoon. What happened?"

Emperor Ning sank into silence for a while, and then slowly began to smile. "It's not a big deal, but there are people serving the meat in Lady Ya's meal."

"Really?" Yun Shang raised her eyebrows and said, "everyone knows that his majesty and Lady Ya are forbidden to eat meat for a few days. How dare someone do something so bold?" Then she looked at the bowl of Lily porridge placed on the table beside emperor Ning's hand. "Is this the porridge with minced meat? Father, can I have a look? "

Emperor Ning saw her eyes darken. He hesitated before he nodded, "Okay, go ahead."

Yun Shang smiled and picked up the bowl. She smelled it and found that it smelled like some fish was in there. Stir the congee with a spoon, she saw there were some white particles mixed in the bowl of the congee, almost the same as the pieces of the fish.

Yun Shang put down the bowl of the congee indifferently, smiled and said, "although it's not a big problem, I don't need to worry about the rules. As the empress' ceremony was about to start, you can't let anyone do anything against the rules."

Emperor Ning nodded, "that's exactly what I mean."

While they were talking, the guard dragged an old maid in from outside. The old maid looked frightened. When she saw emperor Ning sitting in the room, her legs became weak and she almost fell to the ground.

"Your Majesty, she is the madam in charge of burning the fire in the imperial dining room." The guard reported loudly.