Chapter 1503: Who Harmed Someone and Ruined the Phoenix Robe!

Three days later.

Bai Zhi’er was accompanying Bai Xilie to practice calligraphy, while Jing Jia lay on the nearby chaise longue, taking a nap.

"Daddy..."

As soon as she spoke, Bai Xilie hushed her, "Keep your voice down, your mother is tired."

Bai Zhi’er silently looked in Jing Jia’s direction, "Mother has been sleeping for an hour."

Bai Xilie nodded, "We stayed up late last night, stargazing."

Bai Zhi’er chuckled and whispered, "You two have such a good relationship!"

Just then, Eunuch Quan Xi came running in a panic.

"Your Majesty!"

Jing Jia turned over in response to the commotion.

Bai Xilie frowned immediately, "Why are you shouting? What’s the rush, are you being chased by a ghost?"

"No... it’s not that! Just now, someone from the Imperial Affairs Bureau came to deliver a message, saying that the phoenix robe prepared for the Empress was..." Quan Xi seemed hesitant, continuously glancing at Bai Zhi’er, not daring to speak out.

"Was what? Eunuch Quan Xi, just speak frankly." Bai Zhi’er said.

Jing Jia also sat up, yawned, and looked at Quan Xi with an utterly calm gaze.

Quan Xi knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, the phoenix robe was worn by a palace servant named Lan Xiu, and Lan Xiu... is dead."

Bai Zhi’er and Bai Xilie were both taken aback.

Jing Jia, however, remained calm.

"Let’s go take a look," she stood up and asked, "Where is the person?"

Quan Xi’s voice was trembling, "Because it happened suddenly and the palace attendants just found out, I rushed to report it, and the body is still hanging on the rack, untouched."

Jing Jia nodded, skillfully put on her veil, and said to her husband and beloved daughter, "I am going to take a look, are you coming with me?"

Bai Zhi’er was the first to react, "I’m going! Mother, I’ll go with you."

Naturally, Bai Xilie was going to follow as well.

He shuddered, "Based on Quan Xi’s tone, that scene seems frightening. Why don’t you let me go alone to find out what happened?"

"No, you can’t resolve this alone. Either I or Zhi’er need to go." Jing Jia said decisively.

Bai Xilie was puzzled, "Why are you so sure?"

Jing Jia smiled at her husband, "Because I foresaw it through divination; I knew something unexpected would happen with the phoenix robe."

However, Jing Jia’s divination didn’t reveal that it would involve a death.

If she had known earlier, she would’ve stopped Bai Xilie from making a big fuss about the phoenix robe.

The family of three, accompanied by rows of Imperial Guards, arrived at the Imperial Affairs Bureau.

Inside the courtyard, they heard the palace attendants sobbing.

"Lan Xiu was such a good person, how could she die so miserably? Who on earth killed her?"

"Indeed, killing her wasn’t enough; they even made her wear the Empress’s clothes, isn’t this ensuring her a tragic fate?"

Someone shouted, "The Emperor and the Princess have arrived!"

The palace attendants immediately froze in fear, standing to the sides, heads lowered.

The crowd parted, and Bai Zhi’er followed in Jing Jia’s footsteps into the left hall where the clothes were stored.

With just one glance, she was stunned.

A woman who had been dead for some time was hanging on the rack, wearing the phoenix robe that was originally intended for Jing Jia.

The eyes of the phoenix were inlaid with South Sea White Pearls, and at this moment, one of the pearls was missing.

The blood on Lan Xiu’s neck had long dried, staining the phoenix blood red.

Seeing this scene, Bai Xilie furrowed his brows, his anger rising abruptly.

"Who did this? Have you questioned the patrolling soldiers?!"