Chapter 114： Rush

A tea cup filled with boiling water fell in front of the man's subordinates, and the man kneeling on the ground was scalded by the splashing water droplets and trembled.

"Trash! There are so many people, why can't we get a reward?!" The man growled and cursed.

The subordinate panicked: "My lord, my lord, calm down... Li, Li Chou has already been shot by an arrow, she will not live long..."

"Not long to live?" The man laughed angrily, "Chamaschama venom is so poisonous that it can kill her if she encounters blood. No matter how capable she is, she can't live for half an hour. But now the whole night has passed! Where is the person?! Even the corpse is dead." I didn't find it, what did you come back for?!"

"My lord, Your Highness, Your Highness, Li Chou was rescued by that woman surnamed Bai..."

His subordinates were also surprised. The prairie people clearly said that the arrowhead was poisoned, so they should not be able to escape, but their people could not find the Empress.

Could it be that he was tricked by the prairie people? !

"Two women, I have killed so many people, and I can't deal with two women!" The man threw the whole teapot over this time, "None of the killers sent to Chengguang Palace came back, and nothing is wrong." It’s done, what a bunch of idiots!”

The subordinate was terrified by the broken teapot on the ground: "I, I will add, I will send more people to look for it!"

"It's almost dawn, send more manpower!"

"That, that..." The subordinate knelt on the ground at a loss, waiting for the master's order in fear.

The man paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, and thought of a way: "My people can't lose any more, so withdraw them all."

"Yes." The subordinate finished speaking and was about to do it when the man stopped him again.

"Wait, you let those foreigners..." The man made a gesture to get him closer.

After hearing this, the subordinates showed a surprised and puzzled expression.

"My lord, why is this...?"

"Don't ask so many questions, do it quickly!"

The subordinate let out an oh, and said yes twice, and then stepped back to work.

//

Xie Zhi was stained with blood, went to change into a clean arrow robe, then guarded Chengguang Palace until dawn before preparing to leave.

Yang Dejin's guard, Yinniang, ran over, as if there was something urgent to report. Xie Zhi raised his index finger to his lips to signal silence, looked back at Yang Dejin who was sleeping soundly, and whispered, "Go out and talk."

Xie Zhi didn't know what Yinniang said, after she said "Protect Your Highness", she immediately went to the water prison where the killer was imprisoned.

The palace guards guarding the water prison surrounded the ground of the water prison, looking at the cold people inside, not knowing what to do. Seeing Xie Zhi coming, the guards all gave way to salute.

The killer's entire face sank into the water, lifeless.

"Open the top cover!" Xie Zhi ordered, "Fill him out for me."

"Yes." The two guards partnered to open the top cover of the water prison, and then dragged the killer's body out.

"Master Xie, this person hasn't moved since he was locked up. I thought he was fainted, but who knows..." A guard said, "At dawn, we felt something was wrong, and we found out after a closer look..." The person was already dead.

Xie Zhi knelt down to check the killer's body: "Did anyone come here in the second half of the night?"

"Everyone has been staying here, and no one has come."

All the weapons on the killer's body were searched away. He was soaked in the water dungeon, and he couldn't die so quickly. His face was purple, and there were bloodstains on the inside of his lips, as if he had been poisoned to death.

Xie Zhi frowned, opened his mouth, and found out as expected.

The guards next to him also understood - the man had poison hidden in his mouth.

"Thank you, sir, this..."

Xie Zhi stood up, she thought of the two men in black who stabbed themselves into the knife at night, her face was worried: "Dare to raise dead soldiers on the land of Dasheng..."

How bold!

Originally, he wanted to lock up the killer first, and then she would come to interrogate him at dawn, but now it seems that this effort has been saved.

The enemy in the dark is too ruthless, she missed it.

"Carry it down, don't dispose of it yet." Xie Zhi waved his hand.

"yes."

//

At the beginning of the morning, Xie Zhi went to the paddock monastery, and Yang Dejin needed to catch up on sleep. He didn't intend to call her, but he didn't expect that she had already arrived at the monastery by himself.

Liang Jing and his dog legs hid under the viewing platform and chatted.

"Why hasn't His Majesty come yet?"

"A moment in spring night is worth a thousand gold..."

"You mean the Empress? What nonsense, both of them are women!"

"What's the matter with the woman? Isn't there a couple of men in the court, right?"

Yang Dejin was passing by the direction indicated by Dogleg No. 1, followed by Xie Zhi.

Dogleg No. 2 withdrew his gaze: "Okay, you're right."

"Hey, the last time I saw the Queen was around this time yesterday."

"Did His Majesty not come back last night?"

"Go back, Zhou Sheren said that the empress went back to Jianzhang Palace directly."

Liang Jing took a peach and gnawed it sweetly. He didn't participate in the gossip among the small groups. He rolled his eyes when his colleagues mentioned Zhou Huaijin.

"Sure enough, we are spending the Spring Festival together..."

…

Not only Liang Jing's side, but the small groups waiting elsewhere were also whispering.

"Why don't we go hunting on our own, His Majesty won't say anything."

"Then go by yourself, I don't want to move."

"Did Your Majesty come back very late yesterday?"

"I heard that I went directly to Jianzhang Palace to rest."

"you saw it?"

"...No, I heard what others said."

…

Xie Zhi paid attention to the movements of these people, and as expected, no matter how dull the ministers were, they felt something was wrong right now.

Haven't the Queen and Bai Qingyang been found yet?

Xie Zhi searched the crowd for signs of acquaintances, but Meng Shike didn't know if he was still running in the paddock without seeing anyone else.

It was Zhou Huaijin, Xie Zhi saw him talking to Chen Feng over there, Chen Feng also passed by after a while, he couldn't hear what they were talking about, but judging from his expression, it was not hard to guess.

The armor on the Chen brothers and sisters has never been changed, it seems that they were too busy last night.

Just as he was thinking, Zhou Huaijin suddenly had someone lead two horses over. He and Chen Feng each rode one into the paddock, followed by a team of medical officers from the Imperial Hospital.

...too hospital?

Could it be that the Queen and Bai Qingyang found it? !

Xie Zhi was about to catch up, but heard Yang Dejin say: "You go first, I have to explain something to the soldiers."

Xie Zhi found the point: "Have your soldiers entered the paddock?"

Yang Dejin paused: "...No."

Xie Zhi didn't intend to let her go: "What about your hidden guard?"

"Dark guards..." Yang Dejin muttered, knowing that she couldn't hide it from Xie Zhi, she simply told the truth, "Yes, they came in."

Yang Dejin added: "Not only the few who protected me last night, but I also transferred all the secret guards in the Prince's Mansion."

Xie Zhi: "Why?"

"Why?" Yang Dejin repeated word by word, and she pulled Xie Zhi into a corner, "Do you think I didn't know that the two of them disappeared all night? If something happens to them, the consequences will be worse than mine. clear."

She had tried her best to avoid Li Zishou, but something happened to him. She couldn't figure out what the problem was, and she really didn't know what to do.

"You have been absent-minded these two days, and you are worrying about this."

"…what?"

Xie Zhi: "What do you know?"

Yang Dejin: "I don't know anything."

If she knew what was going on, she wouldn't be in such a passive situation. She couldn't even protect herself, let alone protect Li Zishou.

Yang Dejin: "I can't trust others, I can only rely on myself."

Xie Zhi took a deep look at her: "And me."

Yang Dejin: "Bai Qingyang is also missing, what can you do without her order?"

Xie Zhi: "I can do a lot, even if she's not here."

Yang Dejin was silent for a long time, she looked into Xie Zhi's eyes, and Xie Zhi also stared at her.

"... What if I am a bad person?" Yang Dejin asked.

What if I, Yang Dejin, are the mastermind who planned all this, what are you going to do, Xie Zhi?

"Then I'm an accomplice." Xie Zhi replied rationally but not so rationally.

Yang Dejin was startled.

"I believe you."

Xie Zhi trusted Yang Dejin.

"Xie Zhi..."

"Don't you have something to do, go now." Xie Zhi smiled and patted her arm.

After "driving" Yang Dejin away, Xie Zhi remembered that he wanted to follow Zhou Huaijin, but now he and Chen Feng had already entered the forest, and even Chen Feng didn't know where to go.

Xie Zhi: "...how did you run so fast?"

The empress didn't show up, and the rest of the officials were free to move around, some went hunting, some went to enjoy the scenery in the garden and waterside pavilions, and some even went to have a romantic relationship with the little girl who hadn't left the court.

Really shameless.

"There is no news from the emperor and the empress, and the courtiers are still having a great time. I don't know if it's because they are big-hearted, or Zhou Shoufu is better..." Xie Zhi stayed in the monastery for a while, and then returned to Chengguang Palace.

Although the men in black who sneaked into Chengguang Palace at night to assassinate were all dead, in Xie Zhi's eyes, the dead also had something to say.

//

Another hour passed, and when Xie Zhi returned to the monastery, Liang Jing had already made a fuss there.

He was originally the licking dog by the empress's side, and he felt uncomfortable if he couldn't get Li Zifu's flattery for a day. No, he asked many people and they said that he hadn't seen the queen, and only then did he realize that something big happened.

"Where is the queen?!"

"She never went back to the monastery, nor is she in Jianzhang Palace!"

"Where is Zhou Huaijin?! Isn't he a close minister? Why is he acting like a turtle at this time??!"

Liang Jing and several officials are confronting Zhou Huaijin's subordinates. They demand to see Zhou Huaijin and ask him about the whereabouts of the empress.

"Prime Minister Liang, Zhou Hanlin is really not in the tent, he just went out." Zhou Huaijin's guard outside the tent wondered.

"What did he do?! Did he do something to His Majesty?!" Some people started talking nonsense indiscriminately.

"Master Zhou is so good at hiding people's eyes and ears, that he keeps so many people in the dark!"

After Liang Jing made such a fuss, many officials onlookers also began to chatter.

"What do you mean? Zhou Shoufu hid His Majesty?"

"From yesterday to now, I really haven't seen Her Majesty the Queen. So she hasn't come back?"

"The Empress is nowhere to be seen, what's going on?!"

Seeing that the ministers got closer and closer, and more people who didn't know the truth gathered around, the suspicion and accusations intensified, and it was about to develop into internal strife. Ji Zhuilu, who arrived late, hurriedly asked people to maintain order on the scene.

The soldiers of the city defense battalion forcefully opened the distance between people, and there were some bumps and bumps in their actions, which aroused some people even more annoyed.

"Go away, don't touch me!"

"Are you trying to rebel?!"

When Yang Dejin came back, he was dumbfounded, what was he doing?

Rush?

Xie Zhi went over and pulled Yang Dejin aside, and gave her a brief explanation.

Just when the two were thinking about how to calm down the scene, a group of sergeants came out from the paddock. The leader seemed to be Zhenxi General Huang Qian, followed by Chen Feng and Zhou Huaijin, and at the end was...

Li Zishou and Bai Qingyang were in a panic.

The author has something to say:

Li Zichou: Who is spending the Spring Festival together? ! My mother is back from the robbery!

Today's teaching qualification test is a bit late (the naked test is really painful, I want to die)