161. Chapter 160
"I'm afraid this is it."
Mo Li brushed aside the dead grass and glued his fingers to the ground, Li Jianshen stepped forward to take a look, only to see a piece of weeds, and nothing else could be seen.
Seeing that Li Jianshen was puzzled, Mo Li explained: "This weed has been re-covered by people, this road seems to be remote but it is at the back door of Concubine Miao, if Acacia and Pomegranate are stunned in Concubine Miao's palace, then it is impossible for them to be transported out from the main gate, and they dare not hide in the palace for too long, in case they are discovered." โ
Li Jianshen flicked it with his hand, and sure enough, he found some new soil.
"If they want to get the acacia out of the palace, they must be able to leave the palace through a special passage, but the palace is heavily guarded, and there can be no secret passages, and they can only get people out by relying on the opportunity to transport things out at a fixed hour. I asked the chief eunuch before, if it was according to the time period when Acacia disappeared, there would only be a chance to transport filth out of the palace in the middle of the night, otherwise they would have to travel lightly and be carefully searched. Mo Liang patted the soil in his hand and said: "But Concubine Miao knows my feelings for Acacia very well, and knows that Acacia will never be hidden in the middle of the night." โ
"Concubine Miao lied." Li Jianshen continued: "Actually, they started half an hour earlier, because before you enter the palace, a cart will go out to purchase ingredients. And today there are no concubines to save relatives, or relatively large vehicles to go out. โ
"No matter what, the palace is not papery, and Concubine Miao is a close-minded person, she will not leave Acacia in her palace to gamble that little bit of luck that we can't find Acacia." Mo Li searched the ground again with his sword.
Indeed, Li Jianshen looked at Mo Liang thoughtfully, Concubine Miao must have investigated Mo Liang before, and knew that this person was as careful as a hair, so she would use Tian Jieyu as a cover first, wanting to get Acacia out of Kyoto first, and then make countermeasures, even if Mo Li had doubts about her, Acacia was no longer here, and it was too late to say anything.
Ignoring it like this, and even risking being discovered, what is Concubine Miao asking for?
"She thought that one blow would hit, but who knew that the praying mantis was catching cicadas and yellow finches behind." Mo Liang pointed to a small pit that was almost unclear: "This was originally a footprint, but it was covered later, but in a hurry, a small piece was left behind." โ
Li Jianshen squatted down to look at the little pit closest to the blue brick joint, and he couldn't tell that such a place that was any different from the usual dirt pit would be the so-called footprints.
"Acacia should have been robbed here." Mo Liang frowned and looked at the blue brick path, although it was not the main road in front, there were also many palace maids and eunuchs who liked to take shortcuts, so the traces left were also very messy.
Suddenly, a figure flashed over, and Mo Li's luck flew away, and he went straight to the rockery before grasping the man's wrist.
"Ahh
"Acacia?"
Mo Li pressed the acacia against the stone wall and called out in surprise.
"It's painful for me, let it go!" Acacia first followed a palace maid with a face, who knew that the person would disappear, she saw that there was someone in front of her and it was too dark, she could see the face clearly, so she wanted to hide quickly, who knew that she was grabbed by the arm.
Where is Mo Li willing to put it, Acacia's wrist he let go, but instead he hugged Acacia's waist and kissed it hard, lip flap against lip flap In this dark night, only the torch in Li Jianshen's hand in the distance was not bright.
Originally blown into the rockery of the cold wind, but because of this kiss, the temperature rose as the temperature rose, the acacia was red and almost couldn't breathe, and the whole person leaned on the stone wall and gently put his arms on Mo Li's arm.
"Acacia...... Acacia...... Acacia ......"
The whole person was hugged tightly, the name of the girl who had made her suffer ridicule in her previous life, and the hundred turns and thousands of times called by this man were trembling, she was lovesick, she was his Sauvignon Blanc.
"It's okay, I'm okay, I've been saved...... I wasn't taken away. Acacia touched his back and whispered relief.
Mo Li's whole body was trembling, he couldn't speak, and tears ran down the corners of his eyes, and his voice pressed into his throat.
Don't look at the fact that he can calmly analyze a qiฤ before, and he can quickly judge among the many choices, in fact, he has been crazy since the moment Acacia disappeared, and he didn't dare to think that Acacia had been transported out of the city, let alone what would happen to Acacia in the hands of King Guangjun. He just struggled with the last bit of sanity, and followed the clues to find the direction little by little.
He knew very well that if Acacia was really no longer in the palace, then it was very likely that he would take all the resources left behind by the Four Seasons Villa and enter the Guangjun Palace, or poison everyone in that city, including the Guangjun King and ordinary people.
Killing is compared to the pain of losing lovesickness, and he would rather bear the burden of the world.
Fortunately, Acacia is still there, and the final evil ghost in his heart has not been released.
"Mo Li, did you catch it?" Li Jianshen saw that Mo Liang had come in and hadn't gone out for a long time, so he couldn't help but bring someone over.
Mo Li secretly wiped his eyes, stretched out his hand to lead Acacia and walked out from behind the rocks.
"Fuqing?" Li Jianshen was surprised.
"What about me?" Acacia tugged at her crumpled dress and said with a wry smile: "Every wolf bรจi, in front of the son." โ
"I'm your uncle, why be polite to me?" Li Jianshen saw that Mo Li's face was still not very good, and it was rare to joke.
Acacia laughed more ugly than crying, and said in frustration: "Okay, uncle, this time you have to support your niece and granddaughter." โ
Li Jianshen's face was straight, and he said solemnly: "It must be so, the palace is so bold, no matter who it is, you must always say why." โ
Mo Liang didn't speak, he grabbed Acacia's hand tightly, and walked towards Concubine Miao's bedroom, Acacia had to face everyone's eyes and follow him hard.
"Are you hurt?" Mo Liang turned his head to ask her.
Acacia shook his head and said, "I just fainted, and I didn't suffer." Until I heard about pomegranates......"
"Listen to whom?" Mo Liang asked in a low voice.
Acacia immediately reacted, subconsciously looked at Li Jianshen, leaned closer to Mo Liang and whispered, "Let's go back and talk." โ
Mo Li immediately didn't ask, and only told him how he found this place all the way and his lovesickness.
Thinking of Huo Guiren's bedroom, it is not far from here, if Mo Liang is allowed to look for it again, maybe a group of people will be able to find Huo Guiren's bedroom, no wonder she let people take herself out immediately, and save her from exposing her.
"Fuqing, I have always had doubts in my heart, Mo Liang said that judging that Concubine Miao was the murderer of you, the evidence is on the sachet you dropped. I couldn't think of a reason, and he refused to sue me, but asked me to ask you face to face, can you solve my confusion for me? Li Jianshen walked to the side of the two and couldn't help but ask.
Thinking of Huo Guiren, the sachet was originally on her, but Huo Guiren gave it to Tian Jieyu in some way, so that when Concubine Miao married Tian Jieyu, she would be seen by Mo Li, thus locking Concubine Miao.
It was originally her helpless move when she found out that Concubine Miao was wrong, and she didn't know if this sachet would be discovered, and she didn't know if this sachet could reach Mo Li's hands, but she was unwilling to be caught silently, so she would use that sachet.
"I want to leave today, but Concubine Miao delayed the time several times, so I hesitated, after all, as long as I said goodbye on weekdays, she never stopped me." Acacia recalled: "I didn't know what she was thinking at the time, but I was in danger, so when they were not around, I took out a handful of incense ashes from the incense burner in the palace of Concubine Miao that had not been completely burned and stuffed it into my sachet." โ
"Incense ash?" Li Jianshen obviously didn't expect it.
"The spices that Concubine Miao burned are not common in Kyoto, but the spices with insect repellent effects sent back from the frontier by Prince Liang, the only son of Concubine Miao." Acacia rubbed his fingers, the heat seemed to be still on his fingertips, "I already carried a sachet with me, and I would not be noticed by anyone if I put some incense ash, so I deliberately put the sachet in my sleeve before I went out and was stunned." This is purely a gamble on luck, if the sachet falls outside the concubine's palace, I still have a chance, if it is discovered by the concubine, I am afraid it will be destroyed. โ
"The sachet was sent to Tian Jieyu's palace by Concubine Miao and asked her to make a cushion." Li Jianshen said.
"Tian Jieyu......" Acacia knew that the sachet was not sent by the concubine, but it was not bad for the concubine to find Jieyu as a shield, after all, their relationship was really not very good.
"Now, we want to know why Concubine Miao is desperate to send Fuqing out of the palace at the risk of failure." Li Jianshen asked people to send a letter to the emperor, and personally took the two of them to enter the concubine's bedroom again.
However, when they stepped in, the dormitory had changed, the palace maids and eunuchs knelt aside, no matter which palace they were in, Concubine Miao sat in the left hand position, the emperor stood in the middle of the hall, and the queen mother who had not appeared before sat in the middle of the position.
"It's nonsense!" When the Queen Mother saw the three of them coming in, she glared angrily and said, "But for the sake of a little girl, the harem chickens and dogs are restless in the middle of the night, what are you going to do?" Foreign men dare to enter the harem, and they still accuse the palace concubine, are you going to rebel? โ
"The Queen Mother! This is what I promised. The emperor retorted angrily.
"Shut up!" The Queen Mother patted the case and pointed to everyone: "All the palace maids and eunuchs who participated today have all been demoted to the Huanyi Bureau, and the rest of the guards will each receive fifty boards and be lowered to the next level, as for the rest of the idle people who come in, wait for the rest of the miscellaneous people......"
"Queen Mother, I am the emperor!" When the emperor saw that the people he brought were dragged down, he couldn't suppress the anger of the fire anymore.
"You also know that you are the emperor!" The Queen Mother stood up and walked in front of the emperor, and snorted coldly: "If it is the emperor, you can treat the palace rules as child's play, and if the emperor can make the harem people panic for a woman?" Is it the emperor who can do whatever he wants without respecting his elders? โ
"It's not a woman, it's the county lord of my Chen country!" The emperor retorted.
The Queen Mother ignored it, bypassed the emperor and walked to Mo Li and Zhuang Jinyuan and said: "None of you are worry-free people, since you dare to be so bold and instigate the emperor, then your fame will be stopped from now on." โ
"The Queen Mother is too arbitrary." Li Jianshen asked dissatisfiedly.
Zhuang Jinyuan didn't care at all, Mo Liang was more like he didn't hear it and just looked at Acacia's fingers, for fear that he would be burned by the incense before.
"Arbitrary? If you do something wrong, you ......"
"Enough! The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics! Queen Mother, you have too much to do! The emperor threw off his sleeves angrily, pulled Zhuang Jinyuan and Mo Liang and walked out, and then said to the people around him who were pulling his guards: "Stop!" If you think that the Queen Mother's words are more useful than my words, Ming'er will send you to the Prime Minister's Mansion! โ
After hearing this, everyone knelt down, and no one dared to move.
The Queen Mother was so angry that she covered her chest and scolded the emperor for being unfilial.
Acacia and his entourage followed the emperor out.
"Your Majesty is like this, will Prime Minister Ming'er ......" Acacia asked cautiously.
Mo Liang looked at the emperor's back, shook his head and said, "The emperor has lost today." โ
Acacia comprehended, she turned her head to look at the gate of Concubine Miao's bedroom, it seems that the queen mother's intention to come is not to scold herself or punish anyone, what she wants is for the emperor to make concessions, no matter for whom, the ultimate goal is to let the concubine go and not be held accountable.