Chapter 40: Darkness
Baomin Fang is located at the foot of Wu Mountain, across the royal street is the Deshou Palace where Emperor Gaozong lived after his abdication, legend has it that the reason why the emperor is unwilling to live in the forbidden middle is that he is afraid that his own storage will put too much pressure on the successor Xiaozong, and the second is to show that he is happy with the people, but in private, the people believe in another rumor, that the emperor has a special obsession that is very different from others, and the truth is unknown.
The news that Lao Pingzhang vomited blood and fell into a coma had already come out, so although it was night, almost all of the cars and horses outside the square were driving in the same direction, including officials appointed by the imperial physician who rushed to visit after hearing the news or various people who spied on the movements, and so on.
On a street corner near the royal house, a young man who looked like a scholar was walking in a hurry, and he didn't turn on the lights when it was dark, but he barely got down the way by relying on some large lanterns hanging on the mansions, and when he came to a secluded place, he left and right, and then flashed in quickly, and there were already people waiting inside.
"How's it going? Why did you come at this time? ”
The waiter's tone was urgent, but his voice was very low, and the young man recognized only his voice by his appearance.
"Mo Ti, I didn't expect that there were so many people to protect that guy, there were two or three hundred messengers in the city alone, and then there were more than a hundred forbidden soldiers, plus the family members in the house, how many do I have in total? Everyone's legs are weak, where can they still move for half a minute, this does not leave a picture, as soon as it arrives, the people will disperse, fortunately, a certain opportunity to go fast, no one recognizes. ”
The young man recounted in despair, and the waiting man did not interject, but listened quietly, thinking in his heart, until when the young man had finished speaking, he pulled the man by his hand, and a car rumbled past, startling them with a sudden noise.
"If you say that you want them to make a bigger fuss, what is the matter with just shouting?"
As a result, he was a little wrong from what he thought, and he couldn't help but complain.
"At the beginning, I wanted to do it, but when those people heard that there was no man in it, they were all intimidated, and they couldn't rush in alone, they could not hold on until now, it was not easy, and I hope you will explain one or two things to the same person, if you don't want to, you can't."
The waiting man could not say anything for a moment when he heard him explain this, and since this was already the result, what else could he do, he thought for a moment, took out a letter from his bosom, and handed it to the young man, who took it with a smile on his face.
"This is what I promised you, the letters are all in it, you better leave tomorrow, after leaving this place, remember that we don't know each other, and we have never met."
At the end of the sentence, he had a faint hint of threat, but the young man was only happy and didn't think much of it.
"Don't worry, I will leave early tomorrow morning, and I will never delay a moment."
"That's good, you go first, I'll wait before I go."
The young man nodded, put the letter close to him, and flashed out of the secluded place, and strangely enough, he did not go straight out of the workshop, but went around to the back door of the palace.
The figure of the waiting man disappeared in the darkness, and after a long while, he slowly came out, and like the young man, he walked directly to the royal mansion not far away, and followed the visitor into the half-open side door.
After a while, two figures suddenly appeared from a farther away, even dressed in black, and the two stared at the direction of the royal mansion, and invariably glanced at each other.
"Who's going to report back?"
"It was you yesterday, I'll go today, you watch."
With that, a man in black turned and walked in the other direction, and in the darkness he walked faster and faster, and soon disappeared into the night.
But after a moment's effort, the man in black who had left had already appeared in the forbidden Imperial City Division, and when he heard the news of his return, the attendant on duty did not dare to slack off, and directly led him to the front of the Ciyuan Palace.
A guard called the fat Huang Nei Waiter, and after hearing the news, Huang Nei Shou also did not dare to make the decision, and went in again to inform the saint's confidant female officer, and only then did he get the exact decree that the saint should personally meet them for questioning.
"Say it word for word what you've seen."
There were only four people left in the main hall, Xie was behind the big case, the man in black stood not far below her, the female official who trusted her stood beside the man in black, the waiter Huang stood on the other side, and the rest of the people, including the waiter on duty in the Imperial City Division, were blocked out of the hall.
"Yes, the little one will play."
The man in black didn't dare to raise his head, and when he heard the female official's order, he stood in place and replied, his voice was neither loud nor small, neither of which would be transmitted or that the Xie family above would not be able to hear it really.
"The little one stared at that place for two hours, and before the little one came back, a middle-aged man who looked like a clear guest waited around the corner, and after about half an hour, a young man came, and the two talked for less than a quarter of an hour, and the middle-aged man handed the young man something to him, and the man left, and the direction he walked was the back door of the palace, and in order to avoid startling the snake, the little ones did not follow."
"Who is it?"
After listening to him, the female officer asked.
"The young people know that they are a student who took the lead in making trouble outside Donghua Gate more than two months ago, surnamed Liu, named Liu Jiugao."
Xie still remembered that incident, and when he saw the female officer looking at him, he nodded slightly and motioned for her to continue asking.
"Have you checked about that incident?"
"The little ones have checked, this student surnamed Liu is a classmate and friend of Wang Yanei, and that time he got the news from Yanei's mouth, and the matter was instigated by him alone, and Wang Yanei did not participate."
The female official didn't ask any more, but gave Xie a time to think, the matter involved a country's level, and how to ask next can only be decided by the sage.
"So you think that this incident is also related to the palace?"
Xie didn't think about it for long, and opened his mouth directly.
"Back to the words of the saints, the little ones are just guessing, but the middle-aged man did enter the palace in the end, this is what the little ones saw with their own eyes, because it was too dark, and the man deliberately hid it, and the little ones didn't look like it, and they didn't know which one in the palace it was."
The words of the man in black still left room for it, but it was in Xie Shi's ears, it meant something else, she didn't believe that Wang Entropy would do such a thing, because the imperial doctor reported that he himself had not woken up yet, or pessimistically said that he might not be able to wake up, but if the thing was done by Wang Jiaya?
What was the motive, just to breathe a sigh, she was a little skeptical.
"What's going on over there in Liu's Mansion?"
Putting this question aside, Xie Shi is actually more concerned about the other end.
"I withdrew early in the morning, and the prime minister personally rushed over to persuade him to leave, but"
When the female officer said this, she wanted to speak again and again.
"Get out."
Xie asked Huang Neishou to lead the man in black to retreat, and the female officer stepped forward and whispered in her ear, and her face changed as soon as she heard it.
"How could such a thing happen? Didn't you say before"
Xie Shi looked strange, and the latter showed a wry smile on his face, where would she know that things had become like this, if she had known earlier, when Liu Fu came to the palace to ask for a female doctor, she should have changed people, but unfortunately there was no if.
"Miserable child."
Xie Shi sighed slowly, today is also a difficult moment for her, the worst news came from the mission, no one can say which direction the country will go, but there are all kinds of chaotic things in the court that make her overwhelmed, and she finally calmed down and cared about the affairs of the young couple, and found out such a result.
So what?
The old father was lying on the sickbed and his life and death were uncertain, he was the only adult man in the house, and he couldn't catch it, not to mention that Xie didn't believe that things would be so simple at all, it was hard to say who was behind him.
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