Chapter 1051 A Well-organized Scheme (Part One)


    "The fifteenth Princess has been out of the pce recently?" Yun Shang looked sideways at Qian Zhuo


    with confusion in her eyes.


    Qian Zhuo nodded and said gently, "On the first and fifteenth of the lunar new year, the fifteenth


    Princess would go out of the pce to pray in the temples outside the city. Because she is a princess,


    the guards of the pce generally let her pass."


    "To pray in the temple on the days of the first and the fifteenth of the lunar new year? Huh... " Yun


    Shang smiled, but her eyes were cold, "She doesn''t seem to be that kind of persons who have such a


    habit. Send someone to the pce gate to inquire about it. Try to find out whether she has always had


    this habit, or she has just developed it recently."


    Qian Zhuo nodded in a hurry. Yun Shang looked at Qian Zhuo and said indifferently, "I''ve investigated


    the two pces and tried to find if there were any servants who have been out of the pce recently. I


    forgot about the fifteenth Princess. Since the fifteenth Princess could freely enter and leave the court, it


    was possible that Cao Shanxiu was sending messages to the outside through the fifteenth Princess. To


    pray is most likely an excuse for her. What a coincidence it was when she just went out of the Imperial


    Pce and met the ident that Ming Qian''s brother was being chased by the people from the


    gambling shop. "


    However, there was one thing that Yun Shang didn''t understand. Logically speaking, even for the sake


    of Xia Houjing''s mother, Lady Cao might think of a way to help the seventh Prince, but why did she try


    so hard to court the servants around Lady Li. If Xia Huanyu was still the Emperor, it could be


    understood that she was making trouble for Lady Li in order to win favor for herself. But now there was


    no such thing aspeting for favor between both of them, and neither of them had a son. Why did


    Lady Cao take great pains to deal with Lady Li?


    At first, Lady Cao said that when Lady Li was dealing with the imperial household affairs for Yun


    Shang, she would take the opportunity to steal the seal of Yun Shang on a nk paper. As a result,


    Yun Shang paid special attention to Lady Li.


    Then, Ming Qian delivered a family letter to the guard of the imperial guards on behalf of Lady Li, but


    was discovered by the secret guard. ording to the clues avable now, it was very likely that Lady


    Cao took the opportunity to order Ming Qian to do so on purpose.


    After that, although Yun Shang received the news from the secret guards, she didn''t move. Then, Ming


    Qian suddenly died in her own room. Judging from the scene, it seemed that she hadmitted


    suicide. The broken pieces of letters in her room were from the same letter, but there seemed to be two


    copies. The first one was like Hua Ling''s instructions to Lady Li. From the content of the pieces, it


    seemed that Hua Ling said Yun Shang was infertile and wanted to choose a concubine for Luo


    Qingyan. The second one was only half of a private seal, but she didn''t know what it was.


    Yun Shang slightly narrowed her eyes. She found It was strange that Ming Qian died three days after


    she sent a letter secretly.


    Yun Shang thought it over carefully, and felt that the purpose of Lady Cao''s maniption of this matter


    was just to attract her attention.


    While Yun Shang was thinking, another secret guard came to report, "Your majesty, in a remote alley in


    the west of the city, there was a seal engraving shop. The owner said that someone had privately


    carved this seal on the first day of July. The person was a woman. She dressed like a maid. She was


    wearing a pink dress and the fabric was good. The storekeeper said that he couldn''t recognize the


    words on the seal, so he had a deep impression on it. "


    "The first day of July," Yun Shang repeated the time in a louder voice.


    Qian Zhuo, who was standing next to Yun Shang, rolled her eyes and hurriedly said, "Your majesty, the


    first and the fifteenth are the time when the fifteenth Princess go out of the pce to pray."


    Yun Shang nodded slightly, "Yes, what a coincidence."


    "I''ll have someone draw a portrait of the fifteenth Princess and send it to the secret guards. They can


    investigate with the picture where the fifteen Princess has appeared after she left the pce recently,"


    Qian Zhuo said in a hurry.


    Yun Shang smiled, "Good. You''ve made progress."


    Being praised by Yun Shang, Qian Zhuo ran out of the inner hall with a big smile on her face. Qian Liu


    wasing in from the outside. Seeing Qian Zhuo''s expression, Qian Liu asked with a smile, "What


    makes you so happy?"


    Qian Zhuo told Qian Liu what had happened with a smile. Then she said to Qian Liu, "There''s no one in


    the inner hall now. You can go in and serve her majesty."


    Qian Liu answered, lifted the bead curtain and walked in.


    Yun Shang looked up and saw it was Qian Liu. She lowered her head again watching a private seal in


    her hand. Seeing this, Qian Liu kept silent for a moment and then said, "Your Majesty, are you still


    thinking about the case of Lady Li?"


    Yun Shang nodded slightly and put the piece back into her sleeve with a smile. She said softly, "There


    is one key point that I haven''t figured out. Cao Shanxiu has so many schemes just to help Xia Houjing,


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    but why did she have to frame Lady Li to save Xia Houjing? Lady Li brings no harm to Cao Shanxiu."


    Qian Liu thought for a while and said softly, "I think it''s possible that Lady Cao wants to do something,


    but she''s afraid of being discovered by you, so she uses this method to distract your attention first and


    let you focus on investigating Lady Li, so that she can take the opportunity to do what she wants to


    do."