Rebirth of the Phoenix Princess novel Chapter 446

"I heard that you were the first to discover the evil thing in the mansion. Are you scared?" The empress smiled amiably and asked Yun Shang.

Yun Shang replied hastily to her, "you are right, your majesty. Yesterday I wasn't in the house during that time. A servant found the doll. But he didn't report the news to the butler. Instead, he spread the news to the other servants. When the Butler found out, the servant was killed and the witch doll was also missing. When I came back in the mansion, I was so anxious when I heard the news. The evil thing must cause trouble for so many people. What if it was let out? What if it got out of the mansion?" Then she let out a sigh. "I thought before that his highness and I just arrived in the state of Xia, so we are not very familiar with the people and the traditions here. Some of the old servants in the mansion are good for helping us, and they can give me some advice as well. I don't expect that such a terrible thing to happen because they don't want to be taught by the butler and made things worse."

The empress' face was a bit pale when she heard the words. She sank into silence for a moment, and let out a sigh. "How unlucky my son was! He was very young when he was killed. If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't let him go to the state of Ning at all. The people in his mansion are all loyal to the rules. I'm afraid they are not used to the new master so they did such a thing."

Yun Shang sneered in her heart. If the crown prince hadn't known who his royal highness really was and had planned to assassinate her and Prince Jing, he wouldn't have been put in jail, and the seventh prince wouldn't have thought of such a plan to kill him, the crown prince asked for it when he planned to kill Prince Jing. Yun Shang could tell from the empress' words that she was blaming Yun Shang for not being able to hold the servants in the mansion well.

"Yes. When I was in the state of Ning, his royal highness often went on a war outside. The servants in the mansion were nice, so it wasn't difficult for me to discipline them at all. Thus I have no experience in managing the domestic affairs. Besides, I'm too young to deal with things as flexible as the ex crown prince's wife. I was still thinking, since the previous crown prince's wife has already been used to these old people, I will give them all to her, so when the time to guard the tomb is over, she could use her old servants. I'll send someone to select some new servants for the mansion. Although the new members need to be tamed well first, it's not a big deal and it will be easier for me to manage them. " Yun Shang said gently with a soft smile on her face.

A hint of disdain appeared in the empress' smile after she heard what Yun Shang said. She sneered, "since his majesty has given the mansion to you and Prince Rui, it should be decided by you. You can do Whatever you think that should be done." After a pause, she changed the topic and added. "I heard that you slept in the Xiang Zhu Palace yesterday night? I noticed that you have been a little closer to the Lady Xiang of the Xiang Zhu Palace recently. Well, you are about the same age as her, so you can talk to each other."

Yun Shang didn't deny it. She smiled and said, "the Lady Xiang is really beautiful. She is also good at lyre playing, chess, calligraphy and painting. I admire her very much. When I was in the state of Ning, my mother often taught me to have more contacts with talented people, more contacts with decent people, and more contacts with humble people. I followed her advice."

"Your Mother?" The empress was a bit stunned when she heard it. "Why did I hear that you were brought up by the empress?" Before Yun Shang could answer, the empress added, "Oh, I forgot. You are lady Jin's daughter, right? I heard that lady Jin had spent more than ten years in the cold palace before..."

Yun Shang clenched her fist in the sleeves for a long time before she said with a gentle smile, "I didn't grow up with the empress, to be honest. When I was eight years old, I was sent to the ning'guo temple for recuperation because of my poor health. I didn't return to the palace until I came of age before 15. Not long after I returned to the palace, my mother has resumed her original rank." She smiled and continued her words, "now my little brother is almost one year old. In the imperial household, the rank is not the most important. Sometimes the rank is more depended on the person's identity and background. It's lucky for my mother to have a son and a daughter."

This time, the empress couldn't smile at her words. She had only one son. She used to be very proud of him, but now that he was dead, and she had nothing to be proud of.

"Your Majesty, Lady Xiang and Lady Shu have also found a witch doll in their palaces." While they were talking to each other, a servant came in and knelt on the ground, reporting in a low voice to the empress.

The empress was silent after hearing this. She took out a silk handkerchief carelessly and wiped her mouth. "The Lady Xiang? And Lady Shu? "

After a while, she asked again, "have you brought the witch dolls here?"

The servant immediately answered: "yes, your majesty. I brought them here. I've just found the same cloth and thread on the dolls that I found in the two princes' mansions. But the embroidery techniques don't look like the same as them. They are all not made by the same person." "Not embroidered by the same person? It's very strange. If the embroidery wasn't made by one person, then it means that the culprit who did it was not only one person? " The empress could not help but frowned and rubbed her forehead in a worried way, "Have the masters of the embroidery in the palace has recognized the dolls? Can they tell from the embroidery that who made these dolls?"

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Translator: HCIO