Yang Qinwu was silent for a long moment before he answered, "Miss Li, do you know that almost all the palace maids and eunuchs who were on duty outside Zhaohua Palace that night have disappeared?"
Li Qingluo was shocked. "What do you mean they all disappeared? Did they die or were they transferred out of Zhaohua Palace?"
Yang Qinwu: "A few days ago, I found a female corpse in a dry well."
"The deceased happened to be Cuixiang, the young palace maid who was on duty by the lake outside Zhaohua Palace that night."
Li Qingluo waited for Yang Qinwu to continue.
This person did not disappoint her and continued to talk about the clues he had discovered: "Not only that, there have been several murders discovered in the palace recently. They all looked like accidents, but the victims were all palace servants who were on duty outside Zhaohua Palace that night."
Li Qingluo: "What a coincidence? Could someone have killed them to silence them? Who could it be?"
Yang Qinwu shook his head.
"This incident has been giving me a real headache lately. His Majesty has already noticed something is amiss and has had our Royal Guards increase patrols to ensure this doesn't happen again."
Li Qingluo was puzzled. "Since so many people died in the palace, why didn't His Royal Highness Prince Su from the Dali Temple come into the palace to investigate? Did he just ask your Imperial Guards to increase patrols?"
Yang Qinwu stared at Li Qingluo with a very strange look.
"Miss Li, don't you know? His Majesty does not allow His Royal Highness Prince Su to enter the palace to investigate the case."
"Although His Royal Highness Prince Su holds the position of Dali Temple Minister and can even investigate all cases under heaven, all cases within the palace can only be investigated by the Ministry of Justice, and the Dali Temple cannot review them."
Li Qingluo really didn't know about this!
She was extremely shocked. Yang Qinwu then said, "It's strange, though. This time... Your Majesty didn't even notify the Ministry of Justice to investigate. It's as if he'd rather believe that these palace maids died by accident and coincidence."
Li Qingluo: What if it was the emperor who did it?
Or maybe something touched his interests, so he turned a blind eye.
Li Qingluo: "Then, Lord Yang, do you know anything else? You weren't on duty nearby that night, so you didn't see anything?"
Yang Qinwu shook his head. "I'm sorry. I wasn't outside Zhaohua Palace when this happened that night. But my colleagues were on duty that night. If you really want to know, I can ask for you."
After saying this, Yang Qinwu had nothing else to say.
But Li Qingluo understood the meaning of his words.
What happened in Zhaohua Palace that night could cost lives.
Li Qingluo said goodbye to Yang Qinwuhou and came out of Zhenxiu Restaurant. When passing by Fumanlou, Nanny Deng parked the carriage in the corner.
"Miss, I think I saw the eldest master."
Li Kechuan?
Li Qingluo gently lifted the carriage curtain a little and looked out.
Seeing Li Kechuan being pushed into Minglou, Li Qingluo said, "Go and see who he's meeting."
After a while, Nanny Deng came back.
"Girl, you can't guess, it's the Liu family!"
Li Kechuan meets the Liu family?
And invite them to dinner at Fumanlou?
"Who did you see? Did you see it clearly?"
Aunt Deng: "Only Liu Lao Er and Liu Lao San."
Boss Liu and Old Man Liu both had their legs broken at Prince Yun's mansion that day, so even if they wanted to come, they probably couldn't.
Although Li Qingluo was a little surprised, he was not that surprised.
She even had a vague guess about what Li Kechuan was going to do when he saw them.
Li Qingluo couldn't help but smile: "I was just about to deal with them, but they just got together like a bunch of snakes and rats."
"Come on, let's go and take a look. Let's see what my vicious and stupid brother is going to do!"
Li Qingluo put on a hood and entered Fumanlou accompanied by Nanny Deng and Que'er.
This time when he came to Fumanlou, Li Qingluo couldn't help but look around a few more times.
Prince Su said that this was Princess Qinyu's restaurant.
So the last time, when his own Zhenxiu Restaurant opened, those who were making trouble were actually Princess Qinyu's tricks behind the scenes.
Princess Qinyu runs such a big restaurant. She blatantly killed the eldest son-in-law's niece in the palace, but people in the palace covered it up for her. Even the emperor and the empress made excuses for her.
Nan Jia's death was inextricably linked to her...
This woman is really not simple.
Li Qingluo recalled the warning Princess Qinyu gave him before she left Jinling, and knew that this girl would become his strong rival in the future.
Fumanlou's business has been quite bleak over the past month.
Not only was it suppressed by Minglou, but the new Zhenxiu Restaurant that suddenly appeared also took away a lot of business from Fumanlou.
So now, whenever Fumanlou sees a guest, it is like a bee seeing a flower and immediately flies over quickly.
"Dear distinguished guests, please come in——"
The dishes at Fu Man Lou are very novel.
The tea is also special.
Li Qing was not selected and was placed in a corner, waiting for Nanny Deng to find out the news.
She and Que'er started eating seriously.
After a while, Madam Deng came back and said, "Miss, it's in the Shuke wing on the first floor. Would you like to go over?"
Li Qingluo: "This isn't Minglou, nor is it our Zhenxiu Restaurant. There are no traps here. Even if we go to the next door, we won't be able to hear what they're saying."
"It would only alert the enemy."
"You go and keep an eye on them. Once Li Kechuan leaves, we'll tie up those two!"
After a meal, in a small alley, Nanny Deng and her men tied up the two Liu brothers tightly.
Then they covered their heads, and Li Qingluo went up to them and started punching and kicking them.
“Ouch—ouch—”
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