After Qin Yi left the inner hall, Yun Shang followed her out. She saw Cai Yi standing quietly at the gate of the outer hall, her dress swaying slightly in the wind. Yun Shang felt colder in her heart. She stood in the outer hall for a while, and when she saw Qin Yi conning near, she looked up at Cai Yi and said, "It's about to spring, but the grass in the front yard is frosted today. I almost fell when I passed by. Take someone to get rid of the frost."
Hurriedly, Cai Yi turned around and bowed, "All right."
Yun Shang didn't look at her anymore. She turned around and entered the inner hall with Qin Yi. But the first thing she did after entering the inner hall was to open the window. She stood by the window and looked out. She saw Cai Yi standing in the front yard, commanding the servants to pour out all the frost on the grass with bamboo branches, and then asking someone to bring some grass ashes to pave a layer with them on the wet road.
After the servants went to get the ashes, she looked up at the direction of the inner hall from afar, but her eyes met Yun Shang's unexpectedly Cai Yi was stunned and turned away in a hurry.
Seeing what Yun Shang was doing, Qin Yi also walked to Yun Shang and stood beside her. She happened to see this scene, so her heart jolted and a suspicion came to her, "Just now, Cai Yi was eavesdropping on us outside there?"
Yun Shang nodded and smiled coldly. "You just mentioned Qi Ruihai. How about Cai Yi?" Qin Yi came back to her senses and said, "I didn't find anything wrong with Cai Yi up till now. After coming out of the Zhaoxia Palace, she went straight to the Neishi Bureau. And I heard that the Neishi Bureau was unwilling to give the things your highness ordered, so Cai Yi had a quarrel with eunuchs there. Later, it was a stalemate between she and the eunuchs until Qi Ruihai returned to the Neishi Bureau so that Cai Yi got what your highness ordered. Then she hurried back to the Zhaoxia Palace."
Yun Shang nodded without saying anything.
"Your Highness, do you suspect that the case of Lady Liu was done by Cai Yi?" Qin Yi peeped at Yun Shang's face and asked softly.
A vague light flashed in Yun Shang's eyes. After a long time, she smiled and said, "I'm not sure. There's no evidence yet. She's just eavesdropping on us. Maybe it's the Emperor's order. It's so odd that his highness is missing. Maybe his majesty thinks that I know something, so he asked Cai Yi to investigate about it on purpose."
Qin Yi opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't.
Yun Shang stood quietly by the bed for a long time before she turned around and said toQin Yi, "Qian Zhuo was taken away by the Neishi Bureau."
Qin Yi was stunned for a while, and then she understood what Yun Shang meant. She said in a hurry, "They suspected that Lady Liu was murdered by Qian Zhuo. But do they have any evidence?"
"Evidence?" Yun Shang narrowed her eyes and said, "They said they found a small piece of cloth in Liu's hand. It was pulled from Qian Zhuo's dress."
"But how could Qian Zhuo do such a thing?" Qin Yi frowned and looked pale.
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