Daily life of the mistress

Chapter 189 Looks Like Something from the Palace

The next day, Du Ruo suddenly received news from her aunt that her aunt's old illness had relapsed.
    She asked Lu Lingjun to let her go home to visit her relatives for a few days, and Lu Lingjun agreed.

    After she left, the theft in the palace was still under investigation.

    For this reason, Cheng Yunshuo was also asked to increase his patrol time in the palace. He did not return for several days and lived directly in the barracks.

    After Lu Lingjun received the notice, she had no objection except to ask someone to send some clothes and food to Cheng Yunshuo.

    But she always felt that this matter seemed complicated. She was afraid that Cheng Yunshuo, the young man, would fall into trouble in the palace and be implicated. After thinking about it, she thought of Madam Wang.

    Madam Wang’s husband is the commander of the Imperial Guards, so he must know more.

    Thinking of this, Lu Lingjun urgently sent a visiting card to Madam Wang and took a car to go to her place to inquire about the situation.

    "Sister Lu, you don't have to be too nervous. There was a theft in Concubine Shu's palace." After Madam Wang knew the purpose of Lu Lingjun's visit, she told her everything without reservation.

    "Every few years, there are bound to be thieves in the palace. The things in the palace are so valuable that they can easily fetch hundreds or thousands of taels if sold. Some greedy or desperate people collude with the palace maids to steal the items that their masters don't use very much and sell them. It's normal."

    "The Concubine Shu is the most favored concubine in the harem. She has several rooms full of precious jewels that she can't even wear. Some time ago, she happened to remember that she had a hairpin she brought with her when she entered the palace, so she asked the maid to find it and put it on. The maid couldn't find it, so she ordered a thorough investigation. The result was that she discovered that hundreds of pieces of her jewellery were missing!"

    "so much?"

    "That's right! The whole palace is investigating!"

    "You didn't find anything?" Lu Lingjun asked with a slight frown.

    "Now the matter is stuck here!" Madam Wang clapped her hands. "The palace is big, but small at the same time. It is impossible that none of the hundreds of pieces of jewelry are missing. The higher-ups said that they were most likely shipped out of the palace, but there are hundreds of pieces. They can't all be shipped out of the palace. There must be some inside the palace!"

    Lu Lingjun understood.

    It's still something that happened in the inner palace, and it doesn't have much to do with the outer palace.

    "Now the higher-ups are strictly checking people who enter and leave the palace. If they find jewelry on them, they can basically find the thief. Secondly, they are checking whether there are guards who have an affair with people in the palace and help sell the jewelry."

    Madam Wang said this and looked at Lu Lingyun, "Sister Lu, don't worry, your young master just went to work a while ago, and the investigation will not lead to him."

    After hearing this, Lu Lingjun breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you, Sister Wang."

    "Why are you being so polite to me?" Madam Wang looked at Lu Lingjun with a smile on her face.

    She has a good relationship with Lu Lingyun, mainly because she thinks she is a nice person.

    She didn't have many friends in the capital, and it was even harder to get along with those noble ladies. There was no one like Lu Lingjun, who came from a high-class family but had no airs or bad temper at all.