"Mother Empress, do you believe this yourself? The Xie Family has a waist token and can visit Pan'Er in the palace at any time. If she misses her family, she can simply send a message for them to visit. Why sneak out of the palace herself?
Moreover, how many days has she been gone? I've sent people to the Xie and Ji Families, and no one has seen her!"
"Then where do you think she could have gone with her big belly? It's been so many days; could she have been captured by spies from a rival nation?"
The Empress Dowager became more worried the more she thought about it.
The Emperor was also very anxious. Long Wu, after searching for days without finding the Empress, knelt before the Emperor to plead for punishment.
"What good does it do for me to hit you? Would hitting you help find the Empress? Instead of asking for punishment, why don't you go to the Ji Family again and see if they can think of where the Empress might have gone?"
