"What do you mean? She's not the original imperial concubine. Are you saying she was swapped?" Zeng Yi and the others looked at the fourth child in surprise. None of the three of them thought about it.
"It's just a guess. Didn't the second brother say that he has asked the pro-military governor's office to investigate the concubine's family power? We will know what the situation is when the news comes back."
Zeng Yi nodded, "The current inferences are just suspicions without any evidence. Let's take a look at the investigation results of the Qingjun Duwei Mansion first. I hope the Qinjun Duwei Mansion can investigate and find useful information."
When it went online the next day, Zeng Yi still stayed at the prince's mansion. In the past few days, apart from sneaking to the palace twice to see Concubine Ning and the noble concubine, the prince only went out once to visit them one by one to support him.
Officials. In order to stimulate the prince, Zeng Yi designed several officials to betray him. This made the prince extremely anxious. In addition to rushing to those officials that day, he also asked the family to prepare many valuable gifts, each with various gifts.
It was given to those officials in name, and even Zeng Yi had to bring a valuable gift.
This prince was betrayed, and the other prince was naturally very happy to watch the fun, but at the same time, it also gave him a wake-up call, and he quickly moved on with emotion and reason, hoping to stabilize the court behind him.
officials.
Of course, those officials had sworn to chase whoever he wanted. Most of them had secretly been the little princess's people for a long time. Without orders from Zeng Yi and others, they would not have taken the initiative to betray the titular lord.
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Two days later, the detailed information of the imperial concubine's family was finally investigated. It was really difficult to investigate the imperial concubine's family. In front of the imperial concubine's father was the general of the army, which is the position that the old prince now holds concurrently, in name only the military.
The boss, although he has died of illness, has disciples all over the military, and the family's power cannot be underestimated.
Through the investigation of the Qingjun Duwei Mansion, Zeng Yi also learned that the imperial concubine’s family actually had very strong opinions towards the imperial concubine, but they only dared to be angry and dared not speak out. As an imperial concubine, in a harem without a queen,
She can be said to be the most powerful concubine, but not only does the imperial concubine not help the children of the family, but even the children of the family come to ask for gifts. The imperial concubine also behaves very coldly, which leads to the family's opinion of her being really big.
Looking at the information, I know that the relationship between the imperial concubine and the family is really not good, but this is also because the imperial concubine treated her natal family with such an attitude, which caused the natal family to be dissatisfied. In fact, the natal family did not know what the imperial concubine was.
That's how you would treat your own people.
Moreover, before the imperial concubine entered the palace, she was a very pure and kind-hearted girl. Her relationship with her family was harmonious and loving, and there was nothing to deal with. After entering the palace, the battles in the palace were so overwhelming.
It makes sense that a kind and pure girl has become like that, but after changing, she shouldn't have that attitude towards her family, which is a bit hard to explain.
"According to the information, before her father died of illness, the relationship between the imperial concubine and her family was still very good. Just after her father died of illness, it suddenly changed like that. Something must have happened to the imperial concubine." Zeng Yi hurriedly said.
I searched for information again, and after a while, I finally found a piece of news in the data. It was the news that the pro-military Duwei Mansion investigated in the emperor's daily notes. It recorded that less than a year after the death of the imperial concubine's father, the imperial concubine died of illness.
She once suffered from a serious illness, and that serious illness was the beginning of the imperial concubine becoming unkind to her family.
"Haha, a serious illness leads to a drastic change in personality, which is a very good reason. It's a pity that even with a drastic change in personality, you won't ignore your natal family. This only proves that there is something wrong with the imperial concubine."
Zeng Yi was silent for a while, muttering: "Is it true that as the fourth child guessed, this imperial concubine is no longer the original imperial concubine?" Due to various doubts, Zeng Yi couldn't help but think of the fourth child's guess.
Thinking of this, Zeng Yi decided to find an opportunity to see with his own eyes what the imperial concubine was like.
The opportunity came soon. On this day, the prince once again took Zeng Yi and others into the palace secretly in the afternoon. Zeng Yi had a different plan in mind when he entered the palace this time.
Watching the prince enter Concubine Ning's palace, Zeng Yi and others were taken to a room where the servants rested. Zeng Yi looked at the guards who were already very familiar with him, took out a jar of wine, and smiled.
He said: "Brothers, it will take more than an hour for the prince to come out. We have nothing to do, so why not have a drink together. I also have a jar of fine wine here."
"It's a good relationship, so we have to be respectful rather than obey orders." A few people were bored, and when they heard Zeng Yi's words, they quickly agreed.
Zeng Yi's wine was not that delicious. There were added ingredients in it. After a few glasses of wine, a few people were all dizzy and drunk. Seeing a few people fall on the table, Zeng Yi smiled.
He smiled, quickly opened the door, looked around, and ran out quickly when no one was outside.
After running out of the room, Zeng Yi immediately rushed to the imperial concubine's palace. When he decided to investigate the imperial concubine in detail, Zeng Yi already knew where the imperial concubine lived. Although he had never been to the harem, Zeng Yi was still very relaxed.
He ran to the imperial concubine's palace.
The imperial concubine lived in Chengqian Palace, which has two entrances. The main entrance faces south and is named Chengqian Gate. The main hall in the front yard is Chengqian Palace, with a width of 5 rooms. It has a mountain-style roof with yellow glazed tiles, and 5 animals are placed in the corners of the eaves.
It is equipped with a single upright and five-step dougong, and the inner and outer eaves are decorated with dragons, phoenixes and seal paintings. It can be said to be very luxurious. There are guards guarding the deep palace compound of Qianqing Palace, and Zeng Yi was afraid of being discovered and did not dare to move too much.
It's big, so it's more troublesome to get in.
Just when Zeng Yi was thinking about how to go in and investigate, there was a noise from behind. Zeng Yi hurriedly hid and took a peek. It was the prince and a eunuch walking over, talking and laughing, and arrived in front of the Qianqing Palace.
, the two guards looked at the Crown Prince, smiled and said: "See Crown Prince, the imperial concubine was talking about you just now, please go in quickly."
The prince also smiled and said: "Thank you two brothers very much. I will take these and divide them among the brothers."
"Why are you so embarrassed about this?" The two guards immediately smiled on their faces.
"Hey, it's just a small amount of money for the brothers to drink. Don't refuse. If you refuse any more, you will look down on me."
"Then, we would rather obey orders than be respectful."
While the prince was bribing some of the guards guarding the gate, Zeng Yi quickly seized the moment, jumped up and flew into the Qianqing Palace.
