Qi Ruihai bowed to Yun Shang and left.
Yun Shang opened her hand and looked at the piece of paper in her hand. She was confused. Could it be that what Lady Cao said was true? Lady Li did avoid the eyes of Qian Zhuo and Qin Yi and secretly imprinted some private seals.
Of course, there was another possibility. Lady Cao, or Lady Li, secretly took the paper with a private seal and asked someone to secretly carve a fake seal.
Yun Shang squinted her eyes and called Qian Liu.
Qian Liu came in in a hurry from the outside. Yun Shang ordered, "Go to the Imperial Household Department and ask Qin Yi to send someone to investigate in Lady Cao's palace and Xiangyi Palace to see if anyone has left the Palace in recent months?"
It was getting dark. Luo Qingyan sent someone to tell Yun Shang that he would go back to Weiyang Palace late tonight and ask her to have dinner by herself.
Yun Shang had dinner early, and Qin Yi came as soon as she finished it.
"Your majesty, I've got the result of what Qian Liu asked me to investigate. When your majesty were not in the Palace, I was afraid that someone would take the opportunity to make trouble in the palace, so I ordered all the servants not to go out to visit their relatives. Only the servants in the imperial household department could go out of the palace for work. As a result, no one in the two palaces has left the Imperial Palace recently. " Qin Yi replied softly.
This result was a little beyond Yun Shang's expectation. Yun Shang frowned and said, "That's strange."
While they were talking, Pei Lan reported from outside, "Your majesty, the Neishi Bureau has sent us a pamphlet."
Yun Shang nodded. It must be the pamphlet that recorded the detailed information of Ming Qiann. Yun Shang asked Pei Lan to bring it in, and then she took it over and read it carefully.
Ming Qian was from the Jin City, and her parents were still there. However, she had many brothers. They couldn't afford to raise so many children because of the poverty in their family. As a daughter, she was naturally abandoned. Fortunately, her parents were still kind. They didn't have the heart to sell her to other places and suffer. In the end, they sent her to the palace, hoping that she could have enough food and warm clothes.
Yun Shang took the paper and writing brush, copied the relevant information on the pamphlet, and handed it to Qin Yi. "Investigate."
First, Qi Ruihai had interrogated the other three people in Ming Qian's room. Qi Ruihai must be a resourceful man since he had been in the Neishi Bureau for so many years. The three maids had been locked up for a night, and finally someone couldn't bear to tell the truth.
Someone confessed that it was a secret known by all the people in their room. They didn't ask because they knew Ming Qian sent letters on behalf of Lady Li.
Lady Li was not born high, and her parents were far away from the Jin city. She was just a low-ranked concubine before, so her family members were not qualified to visit her, and she was unable to leave the palace. She had not seen her family for a long time.
That imperial guard came from the same hometown as Lady Li. Although the discipline of imperial guards was strict, it was okay to send letters back to their hometown. However, as a concubine, Lady Li couldn't have much interaction with the guard, so she always asked Ming Qian to secretly asked Ming Qian to give letters to the guard and ask him to send to her family.
Since it was Lady Li's order, the other three didn't dare to say anything, just pretending not to know.
The second news was bout Ming Qian's family. Recently, Ming Qian did not go out to visit her family, but the secret guard found something. Two months ago, one of Ming Qian's brother was lured into a gambling house and became addicted to gambling. A month ago, he lost a lot of money in the gambling house, but because he didn't have enough money, he was blocked in the street by the people of the gambling house and beaten randomly. However, the fifteenth Princess who went out of the palace saved him.
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