Chapter 331 - Chapter 331: Twins

Chapter 331: Twins

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Yu Niaoniao’s small head immediately looked up. Her eyes were wide, and her face was filled with curiosity and anticipation.

“What clue is it?”

Xiao Juan said, “Let’s go in first?”

Only then did Yu Niaoniao remember that they were still standing in the courtyard.

She hurriedly replied, “Yes, yes!”

After the three of them entered the house, Xiao Juan said to Lo Pingsha.

“Share what you discovered.”

Lo Pingsha said smoothly, “I checked the remains of Imperial Concubine Moon and the little prince and found that Imperial Concubine Yue had been poisoned when she was alive. She should have suffered a difficult delivery because of the poison and died of hemorrhage.”

Yu Niaoniao listened carefully. These were more or less what they had guessed.

Lo Pingsha continued, “In addition, I discovered something else. Imperial Concubine Yue’s pelvis was very wide and accompanied by slight damage. I originally thought it was caused by difficult labor. Later, I placed the remains of the little prince at her pelvis for comparison. The little prince was very thin and weak. With his size, he should have been born easily. It wouldn’t have damaged Imperial Concubine Moon’s pelvis unless…”

Yu Niaoniao continued, “Unless the little prince in the coffin is not Imperial

Concubine Yue’s biological son! Someone replaced the little prince’s remains!”

However, Xiao Juan said, “The possibility is very low. I’ve checked Imperial Concubine Yue’s mausoleum. It’s very well-preserved inside and out. There are no traces of it being dug up. There are people guarding the Imperial

Concubines’ mausoleum. If someone really wants to dig up Imperial Concubine Yue’s mausoleum, it’s impossible for no one to notice such a huge commotion.”

Yu Niaoniao was really confused now.

“Then what’s going on?

Lo Pingsha said slowly, “There’s another possibility. Perhaps Imperial Concubine Yue was pregnant with twins back then. She gave birth to a pair of little princes. One of the little princes was buried with her, and the other little prince was buried in the Glazed Jade Palace.”

Yu Niaoniao’s little head spun quickly.

“As the imperial physician in charge of treating Imperial Concubine Yue, did your father already know that Imperial Concubine Yue was pregnant with twins?”

Lo Pingsha recalled his father hanging himself from a beam, and his expression darkened.

“My father was experienced in medicine. If Imperial Concubine Yue was pregnant with twins, he would have been able to diagnose them.”

Yu Niaoniao said, “But I’ve read the dossier related to Imperial Concubine Yue.

There was no mention of twins. Have you interrogated the people from the

Imperial Hospital? They didn’t mention this either.”

Xiao Juan pondered. “Someone was deliberately hiding this.”

Yu Niaoniao was puzzled. “What’s there to hide about twins? It’s not like the royal family has never given birth to twins before. I don’t see anything wrong.” Xiao Juan asked, “What if Imperial Concubine Yue deliberately hid this matter?” Yu Niaoniao and Lo Pingsha looked at him in unison, not understanding what he meant.

Xiao Juan said, “Granny Xiu Yan said that Imperial Concubine Yue was plotted against more than once when she was pregnant. This was on the premise that she did not know if the fetus in her stomach was a male or a female.”

“If the news that she was pregnant with twins who were princes leaked, there would definitely be more people in the harem who wanted her life. For this reason, she chose to hide the twins and kept a low profile to protect herself.”

Yu Niaoniao thought about it carefully. With Imperial Concubine Yue’s situation at that time, it was indeed very likely for her to do so.

She asked immediately, “Even so, why were Imperial Concubine Yue’s two children separated?”

Such young children died at birth. Logically speaking, they should be buried with Imperial Concubine Yue. But one of them was buried in the Glazed Jade Palace. This matter was strange.

Xiao Juan had clearly thought about this long ago.

He gave an answer unhurriedly, “There’s only one way to separate the two children:

One of the children might still be alive.”

Yu Niaoniao felt goosebumps all over her body.

She rubbed her arms and whispered, “Didn’t we find the remains of both children

Lo Pingsha groaned.

“The remains of the two children are only bones. I can only determine their age and cause of death through the bones, but I can’t restore their appearance. In other words, no one knows who these two children are.”

Yu Niaoniao missed the DNA technology of modern society.

In such a situation, one only had to compare the DNA of the two children with Imperial Concubine Yue to know the answer.

Unfortunately, this was ancient times. DNA was out of the question.

Now, they could only deduce through the existing clues and continue investigating in the direction of the deduction.

Yu Niaoniao said, “Assuming one of the children is still alive, where will he be?” Lo Pingsha frowned and his baby face was tensed.

“In a sea of people, finding a child who’s been missing for twenty years is like looking for a needle in a haystack.”

Xiao Juan said slowly, “Compared to finding a needle in a haystack, why don’t we start with the Glazed Jade Palace? Who secretly hid a child back then? Who buried the child’s body in the backyard of the Glazed Jade Palace?

Lo Pingsha said, “The people who are qualified to do these things are most likely from the Glazed Jade Palace. But everyone who came out of the Glazed Jade Palace is dead. There’s no evidence.”

The trail broke off again.

Yu Niaoniao caught a glimpse of the dossier piled up on the desk and recalled what she had just read. A thought flashed through her mind.

She said quickly, “I checked Wang Xue’s information this morning and realized that she was from Hexi County. Coincidentally, Noble Consort Shu is the descendant of a famous family in Hexi County. In order to prove that this is not a coincidence, I checked all the information on all the palace servants in the Glazed Jade Palace to see if anyone else were from Hexi County.”

Seeing her excited expression, Xiao Juan and Lo Pingsha thought that she had found a clue.

They all sat up straight and asked in unison, “How did it go?”

Yu Niaoniao said, “In the end, I realized that none of them were from Hexi

County.”

Xiao Juan and Lo Pingsha were speechless.

They felt as if someone had poured a basin of cold water on their heads in the dead of winter. It was cold!

Then, they heard Yu Niaoniao say, “But I found something else that was interesting.”

She stood up and ran to the desk. With her extraordinary memory, she accurately found the two scrolls she wanted from the large pile of dossiers. Yu Niaoniao spread out the two dossiers and placed them in front of Xiao Juan and Lo Pingsha.

“Take a look. What’s wrong with these two dossiers?”

Xiao Juan and Lo Pingsha each picked up a dossier and read it carefully.

These two dossiers recorded information about all the second-grade palace maids in the Glazed Jade Palace.

They read the dossier from beginning to end. When they were done, they exchanged glances.

In the end, they could not see anything wrong.

Yu Niaoniao reminded them.

“It’s ink! Didn’t you notice that the ink on these two dossiers is very new?”

In order to verify her words, she specially brought another stack of dossiers and placed them in front of them so that they could make the comparison themselves..