At Yin Xuanmo's command, all the guards and palace maids who were on duty in the palace on the two nights when the incident occurred but did not show up with excuses, as well as the palace maids who were resting and not on duty, were gathered together.
Among these more than 300 people, after screening out those who had witnesses around them, there were still more than 20 people left.
Yin Xuanmo, Master Qingqing and a group of people in Su Yi went up to the twenty or so people.
More than twenty people saluted in unison.
They were not very clear about what had happened, they only vaguely knew that there was a spy infiltrated into the palace.
The spy also captured Miss Su Yi the night before and last night, and somehow fought with other spies. In short, there was more than one spy who sneaked into the palace!
"My Lord, some of these people were on duty for various reasons during those two nights but were not there, and there were no witnesses around. The rest were on duty alone, and no one could prove that they left their posts midway."
Yin Xuanmo's gaze fell on Su Yi who was looking at those people, "You said that the person you saw in Weiyang Palace two nights ago was an old woman?"
Su Yi felt uneasy.
Among these twenty or so people, more than half are old women!
She had seen that person before and he might be inside. If she recognized the old woman, would the old woman recognize the brother with the broken arm?
What made her even more shocked and confused was that among these twenty or so people, none of them had a broken arm!
But I had already said this to Yin Xuanmo before, and if I didn’t admit it now, I would be admitting it myself.
"I couldn't see clearly in the dark, but from the sound of her voice I could tell it was an old woman."
Now that things have come to this, let’s take it one step at a time!
Yin Xuanmo turned to the guards and asked, "Let them all tell us where they were and what they were doing after dinner two days ago."
These dozen or so old ladies were obviously experienced people in the palace, and none of them panicked in this situation.
Even though no one could prove what they said, there was no guilt or fear on their faces.
Until the end of the conversation, Su Yi didn't hear the familiar voice.
However, there is a special situation. Due to the special nature of Weiyang Palace, there are five old maids on duty in Weiyang Palace.
Yin Xuanmo singled out those five people again and asked them to repeat themselves.
The five people said it again, but still there was no clue.
Throughout the whole process, Shi Qingqing and her maid Amei remained calm and composed, without showing any sign of abnormality.
Every imperial palace has some secret passages and secret rooms, and the Southern Xinjiang Palace has especially many of them.
All the palaces in the palace have been checked, and now the only ones left are the secret bases connected to the palace through secret passages.
And those involve royal secrets.
When Yin Xuanmo had the five people take them and walk through one of the secret passages for more than half an hour, they saw a place in front of them that suddenly opened up and looked like a natural valley. Both Su Yi and Shi Qingqing were so shocked by the scenes before them that their stomachs churned.
The people gathered in the huge open space included men, women, young and old. Almost all of them were disabled or had blues and yellowish skin on their bodies, and their skin color was extremely abnormal.
This is still considered good, as many of the exposed skin areas even have holes that have rotted to varying degrees.
The air was filled with an indescribable strange and rotten smell.
Yin Xuanmo said to the five women, "I guess you five don't want to be medicine men here."
The five old maids who had been calm and composed all knelt down.
Yin Xuanmo said coldly, "This king will only give you one chance. If you can take the initiative to stand up and find the person who fought with one of you last night, this king will allow you to atone for your sins and not implicate your family."
The five people looked at each other and saw suspicion of each other in each other's eyes.
"Take them down and look at them one by one."
The guards quickly took the five old maids to the group of people who had been emaciated from the drug testing and shuttled back and forth in rows.
Those five old maids were old people in the palace. After being hit by the double impact of vision and smell at such a close distance, two of them gradually couldn't bear it anymore and turned around and vomited.
The guards didn't care whether they could bear it or not and continued to escort them forward to identify the person.
There were thousands of medicine men gathered in the field, and these old maids could not bear it anymore after seeing only half of them.
One of them screamed.
"My Lord, my Lord, I have something to say!"
She pointed at an old maid standing on the far left. "She, she is suspicious! I once accidentally saw her secretly burning something on the oil lamp!"
They were all old people in Weiyang Palace, and the nanny she identified was surnamed Qin.
Nanny Qin said in a hateful voice, "You old bastard, you are guilty of something and you are slandering me!"
"Bring them all here."
The guards brought the person to Yin Xuanmo, and the two old maids started to argue in front of Yin Xuanmo, "Your Highness, not only did I see her secretly burning something on the oil lamp, I also saw a pile of fresh bird droppings on the window frame of the room where she lived. Now I remember that I once heard a cooing sound when I woke up at night from a daze. I didn't pay attention to it at the time, but now I think it might have been a carrier pigeon delivering a message!"
"You are such a thief crying thief! The night before yesterday I clearly saw you whispering with a dark figure in the dark!"
The two began to exchange verbal attacks and throw dirty water at each other again.
Yin Xuanmo did not stop them. He simply asked someone to prepare chairs. The group sat on one side and watched the two men biting each other coldly.
At the same time, he asked the guards to bring the medicine men in groups of five to the two men.
Su Yi could no longer smell the disgusting stench at this time, and her hands were clenched tightly under her sleeves.
I was afraid of seeing the familiar faces I saw last night.
Su Yi was nervous and worried, and the two old maids were not much better.
Wave after wave of medicine men were brought in front of them by the guards. Those medicine men were so creepy that the two's psychological defenses and rationality began to become confused under the impact of wave after wave of medicine men.
About three hours later, Nanny Qin said in a hateful voice, "It's fine if you blame me, but you are wronging the king..."
Before she could finish her words, Nanny Qin stopped talking, and her whole body was shaking like a sieve.
"Oh, who are you wrongly accusing? The king? The princess? I only let people say that there was a spy in the palace, and that the spy arrested Su Yi twice. But I didn't say that this matter had anything to do with the princess."
The faces of the other people around him changed drastically in an instant.
Nanny Qin fell to her knees, her face ashen.
Yin Xuanmo shifted his gaze to Shi Qingqing who was sitting next to him, "Princess, do you know this servant?"
Shi Qingqing's face changed slightly and then immediately returned to normal, "Your Majesty, I don't recognize her."
Su Yi took a deep breath secretly.
What a great Yin Xuanmo.
He himself was in this environment, destroying the spirit and reason of an old lady...
"I also believe that she is talking nonsense..."
"Master, these things were found in the rooms of these five maids." Before Yin Xuanmo finished his words, a guard rushed over.
After being in the palace for so long, everyone has some secrets.
What was found in Nanny Qin's room was a well-hidden small portrait.
When everyone present saw the person in the old portrait, they all felt that he looked familiar. Then someone soon remembered that the person in the portrait looked very similar to Ah Mei, the maidservant beside the princess!
In other words, Ah Mei looks a few years older and has grown a little!
Shi Qingqing frowned slightly and looked at the nanny, "Who is in this portrait?"
The nun had already knocked her head to the ground like a dead person.
"Speak!" Shi Qingqing got angry, which was rare.
The maid just kept kowtowing without looking up or saying a word.
Shi Qingqing turned to Yin Xuanmo, "Your Majesty..."
Yin Xuanmo raised his hand to stop her, "Suyi said that the person who sent her the message used Ah Mei's handwriting. And this servant has a small statue that looks very similar to Ah Mei."
"Your Highness, this matter has nothing to do with A-Mei!" Shi Qingqing said hurriedly.
Ah Mei, who was struck by the sudden disaster, had already turned pale and fell to her knees.
Yin Xuanmo glanced at them calmly, "It doesn't matter if you don't tell the truth. We still have to find other hidden people, and I don't have that much time to waste with you. Throw this servant to feed the Gu, and as for Ah Mei, stay here for the time being to act as a medicine man. Does the princess agree?"
Shi Qingqing's face turned pale again, "My Lord, it's not that I'm trying to protect my sister, but these are all one-sided words from Su Yi..."
She was still trying to figure out the situation, but unexpectedly, Mei herself exploded in panic.
"Your Highness, Your Highness..." Ah Mei kowtowed, "It's the princess! It must be her! She wanted to deal with Miss Su Yi, but she was afraid of being caught after being exposed, so she used me as a scapegoat!"
She acted like a madman and was held down by the guards on both sides.
"It must be the princess! It must be her! I don't want to be a scapegoat. This has nothing to do with me. From the beginning to the end, I know nothing!"
The old woman finally stopped lying there like a dead person and kowtowed desperately.
"My Lord, I will tell you everything!"
"This matter has nothing to do with Miss Mei, and even less to do with the princess. It's all my fault. I once had a sister who depended on me for everything. She looked very similar to Miss Mei. It's a pity that my sister died young, and I entered the palace alone without anyone to rely on."
"A while ago, Miss Mei entered the palace with the princess. I saw her unexpectedly and felt very close to her. I transferred my thoughts about my sister to Miss Mei. I began to ask people to find out about Miss Mei through my connections and secretly take her belongings to quench my thirst. I was originally there to serve my master's writing, and I learned Miss Mei's notes by copying them myself during this period..."
"That day, that day, Miss Amei entered the palace with the princess again. I followed Miss Amei secretly and heard her complaining in a low voice... complaining that the princess treated her badly. I was angry for a moment and wanted to vent my anger for Miss Amei..."
"I originally thought that using Miss Amei's notes would easily lead Miss Suyi out. On the other hand, even if she was discovered, Miss Amei was just a servant, and others would only think of her master..."
"These are all stupid things that I did because I missed my sister so much. I will accept it if you want to kill me or cut me up. But this has nothing to do with the princess and Miss Mei. Please understand, Your Majesty!"
Su Yi felt as if she was suffocated by a tight net.
This old lady is lying!!
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