Chapter 1751 No Recruitment
Xu An left the palace, and Xu Yu's body remained in the palace. Everyone in the palace was busy, but Man Bao and Bai Shan seemed to have returned to their past. They read and revised books every day, or went out of the palace to teach. They had much more free time.
Even when Princess Mingda and Princess Changyu came over, Manbao still had time to sit on the rockery and chat with them, swinging his legs.
But they themselves knew that there was something different about each of them. Even Mr. Zhuang said, "You have become more stable."
There was some relief and sigh in his words.
Princess Changyu was mostly unhappy. She picked up a small stone from the rockery and threw it down, shaking her legs and saying, "Are you in a bad mood too?"
Manbao turned his head curiously and asked her, "Why are you in a bad mood?"
Chang Yu complained, "It's all because of my brother, the Crown Prince. He said the Eastern Palace wanted to investigate the people who harmed the Emperor's grandson, but they ended up investigating my palace."
She said, "Many people were taken away from my palace. This morning I asked for hot water to wash my face, but the water they brought me was barely hot."
Mingda said, "It's not just you, my father, and my mother's palace. We've all taken away quite a few people. And it's not just because of the eagle slaves. If there are such malicious people in the palace, of course we have to investigate."
After pondering for eight or nine months, the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess still had not decided on a nickname for their child. The Emperor could not bear it, so he finally decided on a nickname for the child himself after his third birthday: Ying Nu.
Because the child looks quite strong now, the emperor hopes that he will be as strong as an eagle and be able to soar into the sky in the future.
Although the prince was somewhat reluctant to use the nickname given by the emperor, after thinking about it, he found that the name was not bad, so he accepted it.
Manbao shook his legs without saying anything.
Seeing her silence, Chang Yu nudged her and asked curiously, "You live in Chongwen Hall, and this incident actually started with you. Haven't you heard about it?"
She said, "Too many people have been arrested in the palace now. I heard that even the Empress Dowager has arrested several people."
Manbao smiled and said, "I was just questioned a few times by Lord Tang. Although the needle bag that was replaced was mine, it wasn't me who harmed anyone. The only person I had any connection with, Xu Yu, also committed suicide. So, this matter has little to do with me anymore."
"That's right," Chang Yu thought for a moment and said, "They should be investigating Xu Yu's accomplices right now. But are there so many of her accomplices?"
Manbao didn't say anything, and Mingda didn't say anything either. Now, it was not their turn to take care of these things, but they did have some doubts in their hearts.
There are many people on Xu Yu's list, including some she knows for sure are accomplices, not many, only twelve in total.
Three of them had studied together. Although they hadn't seen each other for a few years and were young at the time, she had always had a good memory, so she remembered them.
In fact, she knew of a total of eight people, but only three survived in the end. One of them became infected after the cleansing and did not live for more than two years.
The remaining four died due to illness or other reasons.
After she entered the palace, she was taken care of by a woman named Aunt Mao, who was a manager of the Yunting Palace. However, she was in poor health and was about to die.
Xu Yu was the person she wanted to train to take over, and it was because of this that Xu Yu came into contact with many people in the past two years.
These people are naturally from the same group.
There were also people who were not in the same group. Xu Yu was able to know them because she was young when she entered the palace and many people were not on guard against her.
But she was also smart and sensitive to her own kind, so she felt that there were many other spies in the palace.
The second reason is because of Aunt Mao.
Aunt Mao has been working in the palace for many years, and of course she has discovered other spies. She doesn't care who is behind those people, she just asks Xu Yu to write them down so that if she is investigated in the future, she can find a way to push those people out to save herself from trouble.
But Aunt Mao had planned everything, but she didn't expect Xu Yu to die before her and push her out.
Aunt Mao was dragged onto a chair, with a lot of blood on her body.
Yin Li walked in from outside and asked Tang He, "Are you still unwilling to speak?"
Lord Tang nodded, "The family members listed in her documents are also fake."
Yin Li looked down at her and said expressionlessly, "If you don't want to talk about it, forget it. Her real family may not still be around. Xu Yu has only been in the palace for a few years. Isn't the news she received all false?"
Aunt Mao, who had been silent, moved and raised her head slightly.
Tang He said, "Xu Yu's aunt, Aunt Xu, was arrested. I think she should know more about the person behind the scenes than you do, right?"
Aunt Mao looked at him weakly without saying a word.
Lord Tang said slowly: "Xu Yu has a younger brother, you should know that, right?"
"Did you first get the news of her brother's situation outside the palace, and then tell her?" Lord Tang asked. "Let me think about it. How did they lie to her in the beginning? They said her brother was doing well, working as a servant to a young master, and that he could marry and have children in the future, or redeem himself and become a good man?"
Aunt Mao said in a hoarse voice, "Her brother was sent to the palace."
"When did you find out?"
Aunt Mao said, "About two years ago."
She said, "Every month, news is sent to the palace from outside, including news about her brother. But I once caught her making underwear for someone, a man. I thought she had fallen in love with a guard or eunuch, but later I secretly watched her. She didn't send the underwear away, but she made a detour to Anfu Gate more than once."
"I saw Xu An. Eunuch Ren, who brought Xu An with him, and I discussed it and found that they looked a bit alike. We figured out that they were siblings and that the news sent in from outside the palace was false."
Lord Tang asked, "Have you ever considered that the news about your family members is also false?"
Aunt Mao, who had been reluctant to speak, shook her head and smiled, "I've had no family for a long time. We're different from Xu Yu and Xu An. We had no relatives when we came to the palace. It's just that if we don't obey, we will die quickly. Later, we did too many things and there's no turning back."
She lowered her head and said, "Sir, I was going to die anyway. Please kill me if you want."
Lord Tang frowned, "Since you are about to die, why do you still refuse to admit who is behind this?"
Aunt Mao shook her head and said, "They have wronged Xu Yu and Xu An, but they haven't wronged me. I can't betray my master."
Lord Tang was very angry.
Yin Li had already turned around and walked out. Lord Tang glanced at Aunt Mao, turned around and followed him out.
Yin Li said: "Focus on investigating the Xu family outside the palace. The family members of these people in the palace are either fake or there is no one. But don't the people outside the palace have any family members?"
Xu Yuji's list is very complicated. Although Yin Li is investigating comprehensively, the focus is still on the master behind Xu Yu. Only by pulling out a thread can the whole network be pulled out.
See you at 4 p.m.
(End of this chapter)
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