After being reborn with Sister Zha, I was stunned!

"Tell me what's so strange about it?" The lady became excited.

"Just now, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager invited the two of us over. I'm afraid their original intention was to find out what happened in Mingzheng Palace today. However, the Empress Dowager and the Empress are the closest people to the Emperor. Why didn't they go and ask the Emperor in person, but instead took a detour to ask you and me? Isn't this strange?"

Madam Mu nodded: "Well, you are right. I can see that the Queen and the Queen Mother are indeed interested in finding out about the Mingzheng Palace. However, although this matter is strange, it is not really strange."

Shen Qingyin was slightly stunned and didn't understand what the lady meant.

The Madam sighed, "This is a long story. When the Emperor was the Crown Prince, he wanted to depose the Crown Princess and marry that woman as his principal wife for the sake of a woman, but the woman's background was said to be unknown, and the late Emperor and the Empress Dowager strongly opposed it, so the matter was dropped. Since then, the Emperor and the Empress Dowager have had a rift, and the Emperor rarely tells the Empress Dowager about his past affairs. The Empress was originally chosen by the Empress Dowager, not by the Emperor, so for many years, the Emperor and her have always been estranged."

Shen Qingyin nodded.

I didn't expect that there was such a secret between the emperor, the empress dowager and the queen.

"Since the Queen was chosen by the Queen Mother, why do the Queen Mother and the Queen seem to have a very good relationship?"

If they have a good relationship, is it necessary to invite them both separately to find out?

"At first, the relationship between the Queen Mother and the Queen was indeed very good, but ever since the incident with that woman, somehow the relationship between the Queen Mother and the Queen has become a little cold."

"Oh, what kind of woman is she?" Shen Qingyin asked curiously.

The lady shook her head, indicating that she didn't know either.

"Only a few people knew about this back then, and even fewer people know about the situation now. I only learned about it accidentally from an old maid in the palace many years ago."

Shen Qingyin sighed, there are so many secrets in the deep palace.

In the previous life, the empress dowager fell ill and passed away not long after the emperor suffered a sudden heart attack.

As for the Empress, although she controlled the government for a period of time when Qin Yueze just ascended the throne, she claimed that the new emperor's foundation was unstable.

However, the Prime Minister's Mansion was very powerful, and soon they helped Qin Yueze send him to the Royal Villa in Cuiyun Mountain, ostensibly to recuperate, but in fact to confine him.

In this life, I wonder what will happen to these two people in the end...

"Grandma, do you know where that woman is now?" For some reason, she was inexplicably interested in the woman's affairs.

The lady shook her head again. "It is said that since then, the woman has disappeared without a trace and no one has ever seen her again. Some say that she is no longer alive, while others say that she has gone to live in seclusion in an uninhabited place. I am afraid no one can tell the truth."

After saying this, Mrs. Mu suddenly felt that she had said too much.

She heaved a long sigh and warned Shen Qingyin, "The affairs of the palace are far more complicated than we imagined. We should not ask about things that we can avoid asking about. We must not get involved easily. Remember to be careful in what you say and do."

Shen Qingyin nodded, agreeing with him: "Grandson's wife will remember this."

He paused and continued, "It's just that the secret guards saw the spy outside the palace enter the West Court Gate earlier. Could it be the Queen Mother's people or the Queen's people?"

Seeing Shen Qingyin mention this, the lady's face immediately showed a worried look, "I understand what you mean, this matter will be figured out sooner or later, but we still need to think about it in the long run and must not rush it."

In order to prevent the lady from worrying, Shen Qingyin hurriedly explained: "Don't worry, grandma, my granddaughter-in-law won't do anything reckless."

The two returned to the general's mansion, where the leader of the secret guards was already waiting.

"Madam, Madam, King Yama has confessed. He confessed that it was the second son of Prince An, Qin Zhihao, who paid them to kill Madam."

I originally thought that King Yama was a powerful character.

But he mistakenly thought that the people who arrested him were Qin Zhihao's men, and after being caught, he couldn't help but curse angrily.

Later he found out that the people who arrested him were not Qin Zhihao's men, but he had already said everything that should and should not be said.

Upon hearing this, the Madam and Shen Qingyin looked calm.

This is no longer important.

"Have the dozen or so people who set fire outside the Dongfeng Inn confessed?" Shen Qingyin asked.

The leader of the secret guards hesitated. "Those people are even more stubborn than the people from Yanluo Pavilion. Eight of them died from biting the poison on their collars on the way out of the city. As for the remaining six, my subordinates took away the poison they hid in time and controlled them. But up to now, no one has spoken—"

"Oh?" Shen Qingyin thought, "In your opinion, could they be the guards of Prince An's Mansion?"

The leader of the secret guards shook his head: "Madam, they are not like the palace soldiers. Most of the palace soldiers would not hide poison in their collars, and they would not be as decisive and cruel as they are."

"Those who hide poison and are ready to take it at any time are probably trying to hide their identities. The soldiers of each prefecture in the capital are all on record. If they are really soldiers, taking poison to conceal their identities is unnecessary. If they are trying to hide a secret, they will probably kill themselves with a sharp weapon on the spot when they are captured... In short, I don't think they are soldiers."

Shen Qing nodded in agreement and fell into deep thought.

"So, there is another wave of power in Prince An's Mansion?" Madam Mu quickly came to the conclusion.

"Grandmother, today in the hall, they only admitted from beginning to end that they bribed the Yanluo Pavilion and killed me, but they did not mention the murder and arson in the Dongfeng Inn. Why? I think there is only one reason. We can't find them by following these people who committed murder and arson--" Shen Qingyin analyzed.

They chose to plead guilty.

If they were really palace soldiers, they would naturally admit it together.

Otherwise, if this matter is discovered later, the crime will be even more serious.

All this proved that those people were definitely not the palace soldiers.

Madam Mu continued to analyze her words: "Yes, you are right. They didn't mention it, not because they forgot, but because they knew about it and could deny it. But this also shows that Prince An's Mansion does have another force that they can control. This force may not be related to Prince An's Mansion on the surface-"

A bold idea suddenly popped up in Shen Qingyin's mind: "Could it be that Prince An's Mansion is raising soldiers in private?"

As soon as he said this, Shen Qingyin was shocked himself.

Madam Mu's expression also changed.

Raising troops privately is a serious matter. Does Prince An’s Mansion really dare to do that?

But if you think about it carefully, it seems that this is the only explanation.

"Interrogate, continue to interrogate those people, and make sure to get something out of their mouths." The lady ordered immediately.

"In addition, send more people to keep a close eye on the entrances and exits of Prince An's Mansion, and report any unusual movements in a timely manner." Shen Qingyin added.

At this moment, this unexpected conclusion was like a dark cloud hanging over the heads of the grandfather and grandson, making them immediately nervous.