An Eight-year-old Princess

Chapter 1237 The Disappeared Servant

"She wants to take a person away from the palace,"

Xia Huanyu pursed his lips and said, "She has made a clear guess of us. She thought that if something

happened to the person who was in charge of the imperial household affairs, we would not know what

would happen at that time. We wouldn't know who poisoned us and what poison it was. We would be

so afraid that the whole imperial household would be in a mess after hearing the news. The first thing

we would do must be to try to hide the news.

And then she can take advantage of this time to fake the imperial edict and take him away."

Yun Shang raised her eyebrows slightly. She was a little surprised. She had thought of countless

possibilities, but she did not expect that it was for this.

"Who did she want to take away then?" Yun Shang looked up and asked.

"A maid." Xia Huanyu casually put down his piece and added, "She is a maid in the Xiangyi Palace."

Yun Shang narrowed her eyes and tightened her grip on the chess piece.

The Xiangyi Palace was the place where Lady Li was kept under house arrest.

At the thought of this, Yun Shang vaguely guessed which maid that steward Wang wanted to take

away.

It was most likely that she had come to the Imperial Garden to beg her, saying that Lady Li had saved

her life, begging her to call for an imperial physician for her, and finally she agreed to the maid to work

in the Xiangyi Palace.

"Was she sent to the Xiangyi Palace to serve lady Li after she was under house arrest?"

Raising his head slightly, Xia Huanyu asked, "Yes, have you met her before?"

Yun Shang nodded and told Xia Huanyu what had happened,

"That maid came to me at the risk of offending me for such a small matter. Although Lady Li made a

mistake, she did not deserve to die. If she died in the palace because I did not call for an imperial

physician for treatment, I'm afraid that at that time, all kinds of rumors will spread, and it will be

unfavorable to the emperor, even to Father and Mother, so I agree.

But when I asked the maid to serve in the Xiangyi Palace, she looked a little strange. It seemed that

she didn't expect me to make such a decision. But I didn't wait for her to react and sent her to the

palace. "

Yun Shang told Xia Huanyu and Hua Ling what had happened before, and then she went on, "I guess

the maid must have some purposes. She asked me to call an imperial physician to treat Lady Li.

Maybe she wanted to make use of the imperial physician to go to the Xiangyi Palace to inquire about

information and send it out of the palace...

But I suddenly agreed to send her to the palace, which is heavily guarded. Because I was suspicious of

her, I specially asked someone to keep an eye on her, so she got the news from Lady Li, but she didn't

have the chance to send it out. The people outside were anxious, so they used steward Wang to come

up with this idea. "

Yun Shang rubbed the chess pieces with her fingers and said, "I just wonder what kind of news they

want to get from Lady Li."

After saying that, Yun Shang looked up at Xia Huanyu and asked, "Has the maid been sent out of the

palace?"

Xia Huanyu nodded and said, "Although we finally found out the person in charge of the Imperial

Library, it was still a little late. She had already been sent out. After that, we imprisoned and

interrogated her severely, but we didn't find anything. The emperor and I have sent people to search for

the maid, but we haven't found anything yet. "

Yun Shang replied and then asked, "What about Lady Li? Since it was the maid who asked for the

news from Lady Li, Lady Li should know everything. Did Father interrogate Lady Li? "

Hearing this, Xia Huanyu pursed his lips and said, "Lady Li is dead."

Huh?

Yun Shang looked up in surprise.

"She was strangled to death," Xia Huanyu frowned and said, "The maid did it to keep her mouth shut

before she left."

Yun Shang didn't expect such a thing to happen. But on second thought, she felt that what the maid did

was indeed reasonable.

Now that she had got the information she wanted, she could leave the palace immediately. Naturally,

she hoped to get rid of all the future troubles.

"So, the clue is gone?" Owned by NôvelDrama.Org.

Xia Huanyu nodded and replied, "The clue is broken like this. But Steward Wang is still in prison, and

she will be interrogated severely every day."

Yun Shang was not surprised at all. She nodded, "I'll meet this steward in person when I have time."

After leaving the Taihe Palace, Yun Shang went straight back to Weiyang Palace. The servants served

tea for her. Yun Shang sat behind the desk, and both Pei Lan and Hua'er came in with a pile of

pamphlets in their hands.

"Your Majesty, this is the copy of the pamphlets that we have disposed of when you were not in the

palace. Her Former Majesty has them sent here to show you."

Yun Shang replied, "Put it on the table."

Pei Lan and Hua'er put the pamphlets on the table and then stepped aside.

Yun Shang didn't look through the pamphlets. She took a sip of tea and thought about what Xia

Huanyu had just told her,

'Lady Li.

Who on earth wanted to get information from Lady Li?

And what kind of information could Lady Li offer?'

"Do you know that Lady Li passed away?"

"We know," Pei Lan replied in a low voice, "We heard about it at that time, but we didn't connect it with

the poisoning of her Former Majesty. After all, Lady Li had been under house arrest in the Xiangyi

Palace. With so many guards and secret guards watching, it was impossible to have connection with

her Former Majesty's poisoning. It was said that Lady Li died of a sudden illness. We all know that Lady

Li was in poor health, so we didn't think too much. "

Yun Shang nodded, "Then the funeral of Lady Li has been done?"

"Yes," Pei Lan said in a low voice, "but at that time, her Former Majesty was just poisoned and the

palace was in a mess. We should find the murderer to detoxify her Former Majesty. Lady Li was just a

concubine in the Cold Palace, and her death didn't arouse much attention. His majesty has ordered

people to deal with the aftermath, but in a very low-key way. "

Yun Shang nodded. No wonder the secret guards didn't mention it when they sent her the news that

her Former Majesty was poisoned.

After saying that, Pei Lan looked at Yun Shang, "What do you want me to do, your majesty?"

Yun Shang thought for a moment and asked, "How to deal with the Xiangyi Palace after Lady Li's

death?"

"His majesty ordered people to block it. They said it is ominous. However, the guards guarding outside

the palace haven't been removed. They are still guarding at the gate and don't allow anyone to get

close to it. "

Yun Shang breathed a sigh of relief secretly. She knew that the ominous news was false. Luo Qingyan

ordered to block the palace, because he felt that it was strange. He wanted to investigate the Xiangyi

Palace and see if he could get any useful information from it.