Chapter 109: Why is this female corpse so familiar...?

When Qingdai returned to Qingju Pavilion with the medicine, it was already dusk. Walking on the straight path from afar, she saw two little eunuchs at the door of Qingju Pavilion!

One of the little eunuchs was Eunuch Gao's apprentice, Xiaofangzi!

Qingdai's brows furrowed slightly, her face full of confusion and incomprehension: "Xiaofangzi, you are not serving the Emperor in front of the Imperial presence, why are you here?"

"Hey, I was also following the Emperor's oral decree to bring someone here. Why are you and your master not in this Qingju Pavilion?"

"Is Lin Guniang not inside?" Qingdai was a bit confused: before she went to get the medicine, she was clearly still in Qingju Pavilion!

But Qingdai quickly discovered: the two guards who should have been guarding Qingju Pavilion were not here. It seems Lin Guniang had gone out.

Who could Xiaofangzi have brought to Qingju Pavilion?

"Xiaofangzi, who did you bring here?" Qingdai asked puzzledly, but Xiaofangzi was tight-lipped, "I just brought a dead person here."

"A dead person!?" Upon hearing this, Qingdai subconsciously covered her mouth and nose, frowning and complaining dissatisfiedly: "How could you bring a dead person to our Qingju Pavilion? Even if Lin Guniang's medical skills are outstanding, the dead cannot be brought back to life. How can you—"

But Xiaofangzi didn't explain much and prepared to leave: "Qingdai Guniang, this is the Emperor's order. We have brought the person to you. Since you have returned to Qingju Pavilion, I will go back first to report to the Emperor."

"Hey?" Qingdai wanted to stop him and ask them to move the dead person away, but Xiaofangzi and the other little eunuch walked away without looking back!

"How could the Emperor bring a dead person to Qingju Pavilion? He truly believes in Lin Guniang's medical skills!!" Qingdai could only cover her mouth and nose, muttering to herself as she walked into the courtyard.

As soon as she entered the door, a stiff female corpse caught her eyes!

"Ah!" Her heart trembled violently, her legs softened involuntarily, and her body lost support, almost falling!

She saw the female corpse's hair was messy, and she couldn't see her face, but Qingdai could tell from her attire that she was a palace maid. The female corpse was lying on a stretcher on the ground, just left in the courtyard, attracting a few flies to fly around the corpse's forehead!

"Uh..." Suddenly, a sigh came from the corpse's throat, scaring Qingdai into throwing the medicine package she was holding, which hit the corpse directly!

Wait... why is this female corpse so familiar...? She was about to lean in to see what was going on when suddenly there was a flurry of footsteps behind her!

She turned her head abruptly and saw that the visitors were Lin Jiaojiao and two guards, so she breathed a sigh of relief, "Lin Guniang, you are finally back."

But Lin Jiaojiao didn't answer. Her apricot eyes were wide open, her gaze seemed to have lost focus, hollow and blurred. And the two guards were holding their swords, protecting her on the left and right, their eyes vigilantly scanning the surroundings.

"Lin Guniang, what's wrong with you?" Qingdai realized something was wrong and hurriedly greeted her. When she supported her, she realized her palms were ice-cold!

"Someone died..." Lin Jiaojiao blinked gently, her eyes focusing for a moment. She fixed her gaze on Qingdai, staring at her, and opened her trembling lips, "They killed someone... They killed Qin Liuye, and they want to kill me..."

"Who wants to kill you!?" Qingdai was completely shocked, "Who killed Qin Liuye!?"

But Lin Jiaojiao's expression remained wooden. The look of help Qin Liuye cast at her before he died was deeply imprinted in her mind, lingering and unable to be dispelled.

In her hand, she was clutching the prescription she was going to give to Qin Liuye.

She just wanted to ask for more useful news, who knew it would implicate Qin Liuye! This killer was truly ruthless, actually daring to lay a hand on a member of the Imperial family!

And he didn't shy away from setting her as the next target!

Who was the killer!?

She racked her brains, and the only person she could think of was the dead soldiers raised by Xu Xiao!

But it had been nearly a month since she poisoned Xu Xiao, why did his dead soldiers act only now!?

She couldn't figure out the key to this!

Qingdai saw Lin Jiaojiao's distracted state. Thinking that she said Qin Liuye was killed and that she herself had become a target for assassins, she couldn't help but feel her scalp tingle. She hurriedly checked Lin Jiaojiao thoroughly and didn't find any external injuries, so she breathed a sigh of relief, then helped her into Qingju Pavilion.

When walking into the courtyard, Lin Jiaojiao clearly saw the female corpse!

She felt her brain was in chaos and hurriedly knocked on her head, only then vaguely remembering the origin of this "female corpse"!

"This is Fu'er," Lin Jiaojiao said, bending down to touch Fu'er's breath, and seeing her move her fingers, she instructed Qingdai, "You go and boil the medicine first, pour it for her to drink, and she will wake up soon..."

"Fu'er!? You mean she is Fu'er from Ruyi Palace!?" Qingdai was stunned, dumbfounded, "How could it be her, how could she be here?!"

"Yes..." Lin Jiaojiao looked at Fu'er in a daze. At this moment, she didn't want to get involved in the inner palace affairs at all, but thinking that she was originally a palace maid beside Ningfei Niangniang, if she kept her, maybe she could dig out some clues about Ningfei's maiden family, the Xu Mansion, from her mouth...

"You go and get busy, I need to rest..." Lin Jiaojiao said, wanting to push Qingdai away, but suddenly a wave of nausea surged into her mouth. She rushed into the room in two or three steps, hugging the spittoon and retching!

Qingdai hurriedly ran over to pat her back. When she finally stopped retching, Qingdai ran to pour tea and water for her to rinse her mouth to relieve her discomfort.

Afterward, she helped Lin Jiaojiao to the bed, tucked her in, lowered the bed curtains, and then turned to ask the guards to understand the cause and effect of the matter, before busy going to boil medicine to give Fu'er medicine.

But Lin Jiaojiao lay quietly on the bed, her eyes losing focus, staring hollowly at a spot on the top of the bed, falling into deep thought.

Even though she had seen cadavers during her university years and was not afraid of death, it was the first time she had so truly seen a living person die in front of her eyes!

It was one thing that she had no way to save him, but she was also targeted for assassination!

If she hadn't reacted quickly, if there hadn't been guards beside her, she might have been shot to death by an arrow!

She had only been lying on the bed for a short while when she heard Eunuch Gao's voice outside: "The Emperor has arrived—"

Lin Jiaojiao knew why Qin Yuan had come, but at this moment, she didn't want to get up to welcome the Emperor at all! ===== CHAPTER 110 =====