The Regent's Tender Darling

"Ah?" After hearing this, several maids looked at each other, and then quickly responded, "Yes."

Although they didn't know what happened, they knew it was right to listen to the princess's order.

The reason why Lin Jiaojiao ordered the people in the courtyard was that she was afraid that they would encounter some danger when they went out. If the bad guys could reach Lin'an, they might come to the capital.

After such a big incident, a curfew should be implemented outside. Those bureaucratic families who knew a little about it should have begun to be on guard. Maybe there would be something that disturbed the people.

I don't know if the court can handle it properly this time.

"Empress? What's wrong with you?" Xuemei saw that something was wrong with her and looked at her with worry on her face.

She shook her head and glimpsed Qin Zhi, who was a little dazed, with her head down, as if thinking about something.

She asked, "Qin Zhi, are you feeling better?"

As soon as she came back, she asked someone to take Qin Zhi to bathe, and then warmed her body with ginger soup, and then asked a doctor to check. The doctor said that it was nothing serious, just a common cold.

Now she looks much more energetic than before.

However, Qin Zhi just stared at her skirt in a daze, as if she didn't hear her words, and looked like she had lost her soul, which made people worry.

She said again: "Qin Zhi?"

Everyone's eyes were on Qin Zhi, Dong Xue patted her shoulder and said: "Qin Zhi, the queen is talking to you."

"Ah?" Qin Zhi suddenly came back to her senses, and reacted in a breath, and quickly bowed to the person sitting on the upper seat: "My queen, I was distracted just now, please forgive me."

"It's okay." Then she asked: "Qin Zhi, where have you been these days? I forgot to ask you when you came back."

She didn't ask this to punish Qin Zhi, she just wanted to know the reason, she couldn't disappear without knowing why, she had people looking for her all over the capital these days.

Even Ye Ming said that he asked the guards to help keep an eye on her, but there was still no news. What surprised her was that Qin Zhi came back today.

Although it was good that she was back, as her maid, she still had to ask.

After hearing this, Qin Zhi lowered her head again and stammered, "I... I was caught by a group of bandits."

"Bandits?" This surprised everyone.

Then Qin Zhi said, "I was knocked unconscious by the bandits in Lotus Alley. When I woke up, I was tied up. They said they wanted me to be their wife. I ran out in the dark last night while they were drunk. I ran into a villager digging medicinal herbs in the woods. He took me down the mountain and I ran back."

After she finished speaking, Qin Zhi lowered her head again, looking a little scared.

Xuemei was distressed when she saw this and hurried to comfort her.

Lin Jiaojiao was thinking that the capital was heavily guarded, and the bandits outside the city were also encircled and suppressed when the Great South was established. The bandits who dared to take root near the capital basically could not escape the eyes of the imperial guards.

In recent years, there have been no robberies around the capital. Could it be that there are some well-hidden and slipped through the net?

Even if there are, how dare these people come to the city to commit crimes? What are the guards at the city gate doing?

Then, she felt something was wrong. Qin Zhi said that they met the bandits in Lotus Alley. Lotus Alley is indeed remote and sparsely populated, but this place is far from the Imperial Street, almost out of the city. Why would Qin Zhi go to Lotus Alley to buy something?