Yin Xuanmo gave an order, and all the guards and palace attendants who were on duty at the palace on the two nights when the incident occurred but did not show up for some reason, as well as those who were not on duty during rest, were all gathered together.
Among the more than 300 people, after filtering out those who had witnesses around them, there were still about 20 people left.
Yin Xuanmo's master Qingqing and a large group of people in Suyi went to the two dozen people.
More than twenty people saluted in unison.
They didn't know exactly what happened. They only vaguely knew that there were spies in the palace.
The spy arrested the girl in plain clothes the night before and last night, and somehow got involved with other spies. In short, there was more than one spy infiltrated in the palace!
"Lord, some of these people were on duty during those two nights for various reasons but were not at their posts, and there were no witnesses around them. The rest were on duty alone, and no one can prove that they left their posts midway."
Yin Xuanmo's eyes fell on Su Yi who was looking at those people, "You said the person you saw at Weiyang Palace two nights ago was an old woman?"
Su Yi felt uneasy.
Among these twenty-odd people, more than half are old women!
She had seen that one and was probably inside. If she recognized the old woman, would the old woman recognize the broken-arm man?
What was even more surprising in her heart was that among the twenty or so people, there was no one with a broken arm!
But I have already said this to Yin Xuanmo before, and if I don't admit it now, I will be doing nothing to myself.
"I couldn't see clearly in the dark, but the voice was indeed that of an old woman."
This is it, let’s take it one step at a time!
Yin Xuanmo turned to the guards and said, "Let them all tell where they were and what they were doing after dinner two days ago."
These dozen old women were obviously experienced in the palace, and no one was very panicked in this situation.
Even if no one could prove what they said, they didn't show any guilt or fear on their faces.
Until she finished speaking, Suyi didn't hear a familiar voice.
But there is a special situation. Because of the special nature of Weiyang Palace, there are five old nuns here who are all on duty at Weiyang Palace.
Yin Xuanmo singled out those five people again and asked them to say it again.
The five people said it again, but there was still no clue.
During the whole process, Shi Qingqing and her maid Amei acted calmly, with nothing unusual at all.
Every palace has some secret passages and chambers, especially the Southern Xinjiang Palace.
All the palaces in the palace have been inspected, and now only the secret base connected to the palace through various secret passages is left.
And those are related to royal secrets.
When Yin Xuanmo asked the five people to take the five people together and walked through one of the secret passages for more than half an hour, when they saw a place that suddenly opened up in front of them, like a natural valley, both Su Yi and Shi Qingqing were attracted by what they saw in front of them.
The scenes were shocking and made my stomach churn.
The people gathered in the large open space include men, women, old and young. Almost all of them are mutilated or have green and yellowish skin, and their skin color is extremely abnormal.
This is not bad, a lot of exposed skin is even pitted to various degrees of decay.
There was an indescribable strange rancid smell in the air.
Yin Xuanmo said to the five women, "I guess the five of you don't want to be medicine men here."
The five old ladies, who had always been calm and unchanging, all knelt down.
Yin Xuanmo said coldly, "I will only give you one chance. If you can take the initiative to find out the person who fought with one of you last night, I will grant you the right to atone for your sins without affecting your family."
The five people looked at each other, and they all saw suspicion of each other in each other's eyes.
"Take them down to see them one by one."
The guards quickly led the five old ladies to the crowds of people who had been tested for medicine and were no longer human-like, and they walked back and forth in rows.
The five old nuns were no longer the elderly in the palace. With such a double impact on vision and smell at such a close distance, two of them gradually couldn't hold on any longer 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 them.
There were thousands of medicine men gathered in the field, but these old ladies had only seen half of them before they couldn't bear it anymore.
One of them screamed.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I have something to say!"
She pointed at an old nun standing on the far left, "She, she is very suspicious! I once accidentally saw her secretly burning something on an oil lamp!"
They were all old people from Weiyang Palace, and the nun she identified was named Qin.
Aunt Qin said bitterly, "You old bastard, you have a guilty conscience. You grabbed me and swore at me randomly!"
"Bring them all here."
The guard brought the person to Yin Xuanmo, and the two old ladies started biting each other in front of Yin Xuanmo, "Your Majesty, I not only saw her burning something on the oil lamp, but I also burned something in the house where she lived.
I saw a pile of fresh bird droppings on the window lattice. Now I remember that once I heard a cooing sound when I got up from sleep. I didn't pay attention at the time. Now that I think about it, it was probably a carrier pigeon delivering a message!"
"What a thief and thief-catcher! I clearly saw you and a shadow whispering in the dark the night before yesterday!"
The two began to quarrel and throw dirty water at each other again.
Yin Xuanmo didn't stop him and simply asked someone to prepare chairs. The group of people sat aside and watched the two people bite each other coldly.
At the same time, the guards were asked to bring the medicine men in groups of five to the two men.
At this time, Su Yi could no longer smell the disgusting stench, and she clenched her hands under her sleeves.
I'm afraid of seeing the familiar faces I saw last night.
Su Yi felt nervous and uneasy in her heart, and the two old ladies were not much better either.
Waves of medicine men were brought past them by the guards. Those medicine men were so permeable that their psychological defenses and rationality began to become chaotic under the impact of waves of medicine men.
About three hours later, Nanny Qin said bitterly, "It's fine if you try to grab me, but if you try to grab me, you are wronging the king..."
Before she could finish speaking, Nanny Qin stopped talking, her whole body was like sifting chaff.
"Oh, who are you wronging by trying to catch me? The king? The princess? I only let people say that there was a spy in the palace, and the spy arrested Su Yi twice. But he didn't say that this matter had anything to do with the princess."
The expressions of other people around him suddenly changed drastically.
Nanny Qin even fell to her knees on the ground, her face ashen.
Yin Xuanmo's eyes moved to Shi Qingqing who was sitting next to him, "Princess, do you know this slave?"
Shi Qingqing's expression changed slightly and immediately returned to normal, "Your Majesty, I don't recognize her."
Su Yi secretly took a deep breath.
What a Yin Xuanmo.
He himself accompanied him in this kind of environment, and forcibly destroyed an old woman's spirit and reason...
"I also believe that she is being random..."
"Master, these things were found in the houses of these five nuns." Before Yin Xuanmo could finish speaking, a guard rushed over.
After being in the palace for so long, everyone is a little secretive.
What Nanny Qin found in her house was a small portrait that was well hidden.
When everyone present saw the person on the somewhat old portrait, they all felt that it looked familiar. Then someone quickly remembered that the person on the portrait looked very similar to Amei, the eldest maid next to the princess!
In other words, Amei looks a few years older, just a little taller!
Shi Qingqing frowned slightly and looked at the nanny, "Who is in this portrait?"
The grandma had her head knocked to the ground like a dead person.
"Say!" Shi Qingqing rarely got angry.
The grandma just kept kowtowing, not raising her head or speaking.
Shi Qingqing turned to Yin Xuanmo, "Your Majesty..."
Yin Xuanmo raised his hand to stop her, "Su Yi said that the person who sent her the message used Amei's handwriting. And this slave has a small statue that is very similar to Amei."
"Your Majesty, this matter has nothing to do with Amei!" Shi Qingqing said quickly.
Amei, who suddenly suffered a disaster from the sky, had already turned pale and fell to her knees.
Yin Xuanmo glanced at them lightly, "It doesn't matter if you don't tell the truth. We still need to find other hidden dangers. I don't have that much time to spend with you. Throw this slave to feed Gu. As for Amei, stay here for the time being."
Is it okay for the princess to act as a medicine man?"
Shi Qingqing's face turned pale again, "Your Majesty, I am not protecting my own shortcomings. In fact, these are just the words of my sister Suyi..."
She was still turning around, but she didn't expect that Mei herself exploded in panic first.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..." Amei kowtowed, "It's the Princess! It must be her! She wanted to deal with the girl in plain clothes, but she was afraid of being caught if she was exposed, so she used a slave as a scapegoat!"
She looked like she was going crazy 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 the scapegoat. It's none of my business. From the beginning to the end, I don't know anything!"
The old nun finally stopped lying like a dead person and kowtowed as hard as she could.
"Your Majesty, I said this, I said everything!"
"This matter has nothing to do with Miss Amei, let alone the princess. It is the old slave himself, and everything is the old slave himself! The old slave once had a younger sister who depended on each other, and she looked very similar to Miss Amei. Only
It's a pity that my sister died young, and the old slave entered the palace alone and helpless."
"A while ago, Miss Amei entered the palace with the princess. The old slave saw it unexpectedly. He felt very kind and moved his thoughts about his sister to Miss Amei. The old slave began to ask people to inquire about Miss Amei, so he
People secretly took the belongings around her and looked at the plum blossoms to quench their thirst. The old slave was originally serving the master's pen and ink, and Miss Amei's notes were also copied by the old slave during this period..."
"That day, that day, Miss Amei entered the palace with the princess again. The old slave followed Miss Amei secretly, and heard Miss Amei complaining in a low voice...complaining that the princess was not treating her well. The old slave, the old slave was angry for a moment, and thought
To vent my anger for Miss Amei..."
"The old slave originally thought that on the one hand, it would be easy to lure the girl in plain clothes out using Miss Amei's notes. On the other hand, even if she was discovered, as Miss Amei is a maid, others would only think of the master behind her...
"
"This is all a stupid thing done by an old slave who misses his younger sister. Even if he wants to kill or chop me into pieces, this old slave will admit it. But it really has nothing to do with the princess and Miss Amei. Please give me some warning!"
Su Yi felt like she was being suffocated by a tight net.