"Young Master Ling? Are you here......" Chu Birou walked to the front hall and looked, it turned out that Ling Rui was sitting on the side, sweating profusely and panting. When she saw Chu Birou come out, Ling Rui hurriedly stepped forward to ask Chu Birou if she had any news about Meng Yan in the past few days after she returned to Chengdu, and Chu Birou replied that she had visited Liu Ji's pawnshop, but the door there was locked, and according to the people in the surrounding shops, it had not been open for business for a long time, so she had not found any useful news about Meng Yan for the time being.

Ling Rui sighed a little disappointed, he then said that he had discovered a strange thing and wanted to talk to Chu Birou alone, so Chu Birou took Ling Rui to a vacant guest room in the backyard of the medicine hall. After taking a big gulp of tea with an anxious expression, Ling Rui said to Chu Birou with some nervousness that he had eaten something in a small teahouse near the city gate when he entered the city, and accidentally heard someone at a table sitting next to him mention that he had found that there was a person who looked like Meng Yan among the group of young eunuchs who had just entered the palace a few days ago, and he was very sure of what that person said.

"Little eunuch?" Chu Birou thought for a while and suddenly remembered that when she entered the city, she passed by him on the day she entered the city, a little eunuch who was different from other people who could see his face clearly, and always lowered his head to look at his face, and she even noticed this person a little at that time, "Could it be that that person is him......"

"What? Miss Chu didn't think of any clues? Ling Rui asked a little eagerly after hearing Chu Birou's muttering.

"To tell you the truth, when I entered the city a few days ago, I met this group of eunuchs who entered the palace, and I only had a cursory look at those people at that time, but there was no Meng Gongzi among the people I saw." Chu Birou said to Ling Rui with some trepidation in her heart, "It's just that there is a man at the end of that team who buried his head deeply, and I didn't see his appearance clearly, but now that I think about it, his body shape is indeed somewhat similar to Meng Gongzi." ”

"Well, it's a bit of a coincidence to say it's a coincidence." After thinking about it for a while, Ling Rui decided to go to King Jin's Mansion to inquire about the situation first, he thought that if King Jin's case had been investigated clearly, then Meng Yan should also inherit the title and stay in King Jin's Mansion. At this moment, a knock on the door suddenly sounded, and Chu Birou opened the door and saw Gao Che standing upright in front of the door.

"Miss Chu, I'm really sorry, I overheard some conversation between the two of you when I was looking for a toilet below. I just wanted to tell the two of you out of kindness that you don't have to go to King Jin's Mansion to find Meng Yan, he has now become a murder suspect and is being secretly pursued by Xuanwuwei's people! After Gao Che introduced himself to Ling Rui, he said softly to the two of them in a slightly mocking tone.

Seeing the disbelief on the faces of the two of them written on their faces, Gao Che then walked slowly and sat down next to Ling Rui and explained to the two that half a month ago, more than 30 Xuanwu Wei's subordinate soldiers who were in charge of guarding in King Jin's mansion were all killed overnight, and Meng Yan was nowhere to be found, and after many investigations at the scene, he could not find any clues left by the perpetrators, so it was logical that Meng Yan, who disappeared at the scene of the incident, became the biggest suspect. The emperor was furious when he heard this, but in order to try his best to save Xuanwuwei's face during this troubled season, he ordered Xuanwuwei's operation to capture Meng Yan in secret. However, to this day, Xuanwuwei is still at a loss about Meng Yan's whereabouts.

"In this way, the little eunuch that Miss Chu noticed may really be Brother Meng himself." Ling Rui felt a little happy and annoyed by the answer he got in his head now, "But if that's the case, it's really a bit difficult to sneak into the heavily guarded palace and rescue Brother Meng!" ”

"This Brother Ling doesn't have to worry, as far as I know, there are several ways to sneak into the palace, it just depends on whether the two of you are willing to believe it." Gao Che said to Ling Rui and Chu Birou with a somewhat dark smile, and at the same time, he was also quickly planning the entire process of possible strategies in his heart.

Early the next morning, on the second floor of a lively tavern in the city, Gao Che, who had dressed up in disguise, set up a table of banquets, waiting for his childhood playmate named Shen Qi, who was now a palace gate guard.

"Lao Gao, if you have something to say, just say it, you, the deputy commander of the Xuanwu Guard, deigned to invite me to a door-guarding meal for no reason, if you just look for me to catch up with the past, I'm afraid you won't believe it yourself, right? Ha ha! After drinking two glasses of wine, Shen Qi asked Gao Che with a half-joking smile.

"Heh, you kid is still so clever, then I won't beat around the bush," Gao Che smiled helplessly and deliberately lowered his voice and said to Shen Qi, "I hope you can turn a blind eye when you inspect the carriage carrying the swill bucket to the palace tonight." Gao Che then took out a heavy bag of silver taels from his arms and threw it to Shen Qi.

Shen Qi looked a little hesitant, although he could instantly comprehend Gao Che's meaning, but he was worried that if the people sent in by Gao Che did something out of the ordinary in the palace, he would also be affected. Unsurprisingly, he began to find all sorts of excuses to prevaricate in order to refuse the errand without affecting his relationship with Gocher.

"Then there is no way, if I can't see this friend of mine come back from the palace safely tomorrow......" Gao Che's tone gradually became frivolous and cold, and then began to play with his fingernails, "Then not only will you not be able to get your two-year salary here, I'm afraid that the story of your life with the palace maid named Tian'er will be broken down into more than ten paragraphs that will be repeated day and night without interruption by the storyteller in the city, don't you care?" ”

Looking at Gao Che's smug and fearless expression, Shen Qi was stunned for a moment, he didn't dare to get angry at Gao Che, who had a higher status, and after thinking about it for a while, he still softened: "Okay, you are ruthless enough, I will accept it, who made you the best mix among our brothers who have played since childhood, it is really good!" ”

Gao Che looked at Shen Qi's helpless expression and was amused, but then he still promised Shen Qi with a serious face that if anything serious happened, he would definitely bear it for Shen Qi alone, and then expressed his heartfelt thanks to Shen Qi.

"Hey, why do I feel like something isn't right? I've never seen you care so much about others before, isn't it...... You kid also have peach blossom luck? After the two of them had eaten and drunk, Shen Qi seemed to suddenly realize something and asked Gao Che with a wicked smile, and Gao Che pretended to be angry and threw the money bag containing the silver taels in front of him to Shen Qi again and told him if he wanted this money, and he didn't need to ask anything else. Shen Qi then said goodbye to Gao Che with a mocking smile on his face that seemed to understand something, and finally told Gao Che in a joking tone that he would definitely do his best for the sake of his life's work. Seeing his brother, who had been the best friend since childhood, leave with joy, Gocher smiled as if he was shy and satisfied.

At the same time, in contrast to the scene of the cheerful brothers' reunion, in a corner of the imperial city surrounded by the black wall, a familiar but unfamiliar tough figure was chopping pieces of slightly damp wood in the inner courtyard of the imperial dining room. His unkempt hair obscured the still handsome half of his face, and his hands, which had once held long blades, were now blistered more and more by the rough axe handles, and his tattered clothes could not completely cover the shocking scars left by the whipping.

"Do a good job for our family, if anyone wants to escape or resist, that stinky slave chopping wood is your example." An old eunuch with a whip in his hand and a rich man pointed at Meng Yan triumphantly and yelled at the other working eunuchs. It turned out that Meng Yan once wanted to resist because he couldn't bear the humiliation, but for some reason, he lost all his internal strength instead of everyone's opponents, and was beaten badly, and was tied to the door of the imperial dining room after taking off his pants, so that the other palace maids and eunuchs were humiliated for three days.

After Meng Yan heard the old eunuch's words, he was stunned for a moment because he remembered that he had been humiliated and beaten, but the old eunuch whipped Meng Yan again, and the other working eunuchs were also taken aback.

"Little rabbit, give our family a hard split, fill these twenty water tanks after splitting, if you let our family see that one of the water tanks is not full before noon, you kid don't want to eat." After the old eunuch said to Meng Yan viciously, he walked away, leaving only the lonely figure in the courtyard who silently picked up the axe and continued to chop wood.

At noon, Meng Yan silently picked up a broken bowl with many gaps and prepared to go to the canteen to serve rice, and because he was told when he first entered the palace that the new eunuch could only serve the meal after everyone had eaten, when he walked to the dining table, there was often only leftover soup on the table that was eaten by others, and the leftovers in the rice bucket also exuded a strange smell that was difficult to swallow. However, driven by a dizzying sense of hunger, Meng Yan still devoured it alone in the cafeteria.

"Hey, little minion, I see that you eat so well, I still have some leftovers here for you, haha!" Four little eunuchs who often bullied Meng Yan in the imperial dining room came out of nowhere again, and one of them took a plate of leftover food that he brought back to eat without saying a word, and couldn't help but detain it in Meng Yan's bowl and sneered at Meng Yan proudly.

"Little minion, deaf, eldest brother kindly told you to eat, you eat quickly!" Seeing that Meng Yan was still expressionless, another person pressed Meng Yan's head from behind and pressed it into the bowl, and then the other three people looked at Meng Yan's appearance and laughed.

Meng Yan suddenly stood up in anger and smashed the little eunuch who was pressing him with his hand to the ground, but just as he tried to fight back, the other three people found a wooden stick out of nowhere and swung it fiercely at Meng Yan. Due to the loss of internal strength and the exhaustion of his martial arts, Meng Yan could only hold his head and dodge in front of the sticks of the three people, and then fell to the ground again and was punched and kicked by four people.

"You dare to do it with us, I have to let you eat these glutinous meals today!" One person scolded and threw all the food in Meng Yan's rice bowl to the ground, and the other two people pressed his head with their feet to force him to eat the food on the ground, and the cafeteria echoed with the terrifying laughter of several people like demons.

"Enough, you guys!" There was a sudden loud shout outside the door, and it turned out to be another relatively good-hearted old eunuch in the imperial dining room who appeared in time and stopped the vicious behavior of the four people. After the four of them left in a huff, the old eunuch glanced at Meng Yan, who was pitifully lying on the ground panting, and relented for a moment and asked Meng Yan to follow him, and then the old eunuch asked the kitchen to prepare a new meal for Meng Yan to eat in his residence. Facing the old eunuch's kinder smile, Meng Yan glanced at him with a soothing brow, but was still silent, lowered his head and slowly chewed the hot meal in front of him that he hadn't tasted for a long time.

At this moment, Ling Rui, who had been disguised, drove a carriage with a cleaned swill bucket alone to the side gate of the imperial city guarded by Shen Qi. Although he was inevitably questioned by another gatekeeper, he still passed through the city gate safely under the cover of Shen Qi. Since Gao Che had told Ling Rui that Shen Qi had learned from casual chatting with others that a new eunuch who looked a head taller than the others had been sent to the Imperial Dining Room, Ling Rui might just need to find a way to the direction of the Imperial Dining Room after entering the palace.

After fortunately asking a little palace maid to know the location of the imperial dining room, Ling Rui drove through the gloomy and chilling Shu Imperial Palace, and the place he drove through included the square where Xiahou Xu gathered the forbidden army to arrest King Jin's family. Perhaps for the miserable Jin family, the injustice "bestowed" by God has just begun in this young heir.