Chapter 46 (1/2)

Chapter 46

The Emperor's Appreciation

Mo Qi Qi gets up and turns to Ban Xiang, ”Go and find two people to dig this body out.”

”Yes.” Ban Xiang then instructs two eunuchs to dig out the dead body from the dirt.

Once they dug it out, they realizes that the corpse's face is rotten beyond recognition.  A plum blossom-shaped jade pendant hangs from her waist.  One of the consorts yelps in shock, ”It is the missing Dong Fei!  Look at that pendant!”

All eyes fall on the pendant.

Speaking about it; Hua Chen Kingdom's harem is arranged in this manner; the one in the highest position is the empress.  Below her is the Guifei.  And then, there are the four Feis.  However, Hua Chen Kingdom's Feis are not named as 'Xian', 'Shu', 'De' and 'Gui' and are instead named as 'Chun', 'Xia', 'Qiu', 'Dong'.

(TN: Xian (贤), Shu (淑), De (德), Gui (贵)are the t.i.tles given to the Feis (Consort)  in the Tang Dynasty + some other more dynasties.  As for Hua Chen Kingdom's, the Chun, Xia, Qiu, Dong refers to the four seasons.  Chun (春) = Spring.  Xia (夏) = Summer.  Qiu (秋) = Autumn.  Dong (冬) = Winter.)

All four Feis have their very own personalized pendants.  Chun Fei's is one in the shape of orchid, Xia Fei's is in the shape of lotus, Qiu Fei's is in the shape of chrysanthemum and Dong Fei's is in the shape of plum blossom.

Because of that, it isn't hard to determine her ident.i.ty after seeing that pendant.

This matter very quickly reaches Jun Qian Che's ears.

He was coincidentally in the empress dowager's palace with Yang Shi Han.  After he was informed of the matter, the empress dowager and Yang Shi Han follows him to the garden.

After asking about the situation, the empress dowager who is dressing beautifully looks at Mo Qi Qi sharply, ”Empress, why did you suddenly go around digging up the ground?  Did you know there was a dead body underneath?”

Mo Qi Qi's head turns like gear; telling the truth is out of the question.  If she tells the truth, they will either mistake her as an evil paranormal ent.i.ty or accuse her of the sin of lying to the emperor.  She smartly replies her, ”Your Ladyship, me and fellow meimeis are idle and bored.  So we decided to come here to pick roses.  Chenqie noticed there is an empty land here that does not have any flower, chenqie thought it was a loss.  Chenqie was trying to loosen the soil before asking people to plant roses here so this area will not be wasted.  Chenqie did not think we would dig out a corpse.”

Yang Shi Han glances at the pit before scoffing mockingly, ”Your Ladyship plans to plant roses in a hole this deep?  This is the first time chenqie sees someone planting a flower in a pit.”

Mo Qi Qi really wants to hit Yang Shi Han at the moment, but she only holds it in and replies her, ”Informing the empress dowager, chenqie has never planted flower before so chenqie did not know how deep the hole should be.  It was not even that deep in the beginning. It only got this deep after we dug out the soil after spotting the corpse.  All fellow meimeis over here can be chenqie's witnesses.”

Mo Qi Qi is confident the rest of the consorts will help her.  They are all jealous of Yang Shi Han, they naturally will not stand on her side.

As expected, the rest of the concubines agree with her, ”Right!  Right!  The pit is originally shallow.”

Mo Qi Qi arrogantly raises her eyebrows at Yang Shi Han.