The servant shook her head and said, "all the maids in charge of the embroidery in the palace have been called together by me. But no one can tell who did it."
"And the witch doll in the princess Tai an's palace has already been the fifth one..." The empress kept silent for a long time and let out a sigh, "what about the fabric of the fifth doll?"
"The fabric is used to make clothes from the maids in the palace, and also used to make underwear. This is even more difficult to find who did this. Every maid has the same fabric, and every maid has a lot of it." The maid answered in a hurry again.
The empress kept silent for a while after hearing this and waved the maid away. Then she turned to Yun Shang and asked. "Lady Rui, in your opinion, who have done this?"
"I have no idea. Since this fabric belongs to the palace, it must be belonged to the people in the palace and is difficult for others to get. However, we just arrived in the state of Xia and rarely enter the palace. We have no enmity with the people in the palace. I have no idea who is that vicious." Yun Shang lowered her eyes and let out a sigh, her voice filled with grievance.
The empress choked in one breath. She clenched the handkerchief tightly in her hand. After a long time, she stood up slowly and changed the subject. "It's good that the peach blossom blooms in the spring. Lady Rui has to wait for the master Kong to come into the imperial palace. There is nothing to do during the wait. Why don't you accompany me to the imperial garden and watch the flowers?'
The peach blossom was in full bloom in the Imperial Garden. Pink and gorgeous. Following the empress, Yun Shang had no idea what the empress was up to.
After they walked half of the yard, the empress waved back the servants who followed her, picked up a withered petal from the ground, and whispered, "the concubines in the palace are like these peach flowers. When the time is just right, she can stand proudly on the branches, but if she grows old, she can only perish on the ground, and be crushed into mud."
Yun Shang remained silent at her words. The empress chuckled and then said again. "If you want to stay in the branches for a long time, you have to try your best to be more beautiful, attract butterfly and beat other women, and then make the butterfly to give you a peach. Originally, my peach was the most eye-catching one. Unexpectedly, it fell to the ground and disappeared."
Yun Shang understood the odd metaphor of the empress, but there was only one thought in her mind, 'In your opinion, his Majesty is like a butterfly. Does he know that?'
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