On the first day of the Lunar New Year, when everyone was still asleep, Ye Xun had already begun to wander around the palace, and he hadn't walked around the palace for a long time.

The guards of the inner palace are all elite of the West Factory, and the people of the Jinyi Guard can only guard the palace gate, as for the Yamen that were originally managed by the eunuchs, such as the Imperial Horse Supervisor, they were all abolished as early as after Ye Xun took control of the palace.

Among the eunuchs in the palace, except for Ye Xun, only Mu Zheng is the most powerful, but it is limited to eunuchs, that is, he is not allowed to interfere in politics, and he also has no military power, fortunately, Mu Zheng has no ambitions, otherwise he will have to die of grievance.

The main entrance of the Qianqing Palace has not been opened for a long time, and usually the palace maids and eunuchs can only go through the side door.

Ye Xun also entered through the side door, he wanted to see Zhu Youxiao, although Mu Zheng had always reported that there was nothing unusual about it, but for such a potential bomb, he still had the best confidence in his heart.

Especially the disappearance of Zhu Youzhen and the mysterious ninja who appeared in the backyard of Ye Xun's house, all reminded Ye Xun that there were still people staring at him secretly.

The son is still too young, otherwise, the children of Zhu Youxiao, who have completed their mission, can already go to his father to ask for guilt in person.

The huge Qianqing Palace was quiet, and a few eunuchs and palace maids came over to greet Ye Xun after seeing him.

Ye Xun beckoned to the eunuch of the Qianqing Palace, and then took out a thousand taels of silver tickets from his arms and handed them over.

smiled: "All fathers-in-law and sisters have worked hard, this bit of silver is a little bit of my father-in-law's heart, take it and divide it!" ”

The emperor is abolished, and now the eunuchs of the Qianqing Palace can be said to be the most oilless, and they can only live on that salary, so it can be said that they have not seen such a large denomination of silver tickets for a long time.

In the excitement, the steward eunuch hurriedly knelt down and kept saying, "Gong Xie Ye rewarded..."

"Get up! How is Your Majesty's health? Has anyone been here lately? ”

"Back to the father-in-law, Your Majesty's health is okay, and no one has come, by the way, Your Majesty has been fortunate to have a palace maid who is waiting for him, in order to avoid accidents, that palace maid has been drugged by the slave"

The accident pointed out by the eunuch, of course, was that he was afraid that the palace maid would be pregnant, so he gave the fetal pills, although it was a little cruel, but this situation was very common in the deep palace.

Ye Xun nodded, it was also because he thought of this problem that he left a woman for Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao had a problem with his brain, which did not mean that he could not do anything else.

However, it is not ruled out that this palace maid may take the initiative to seduce Zhu Youxiao, if that is the case, this palace maid's mind will have to be checked.

The overseer diligently led the way in front, pushed open the closed hall doors one by one, and soon came to the outside of Zhu Youxiao's dormitory.

The eunuch was just about to push the door of the dormitory, but he was pulled by Ye Xun, turned his head to look, but saw Ye Xun's face was slightly gloomy, and his eyes were narrowed.

"Ye Gonggong..."

Ye Xun shook his head, waved his hand to signal that the superintendent would not go in, and then turned around and walked out.

The superintendent scratched his head suspiciously, and then walked out quickly with Ye Xun.

"Go and bring the maid who sleeps there."

After listening to Ye Xun's instructions, the superintendent hurriedly agreed, turned around and walked quickly.

Just outside Zhu Youxiao's dormitory, Ye Xun smelled a faint smell of medicine, the smell of medicine was very special, there was an indescribable sweetness, it was definitely not the kind of medicine that the red sleeves prescribed to Zhu Youxiao.

If someone prescribes medicine to Zhu Youxiao alone, let alone Mu Zheng, this Tai Supervisor will definitely know about it, and now that no one reports this matter to Ye Xun, it can only be said that there is a problem here.

In order to protect the safety of the orb, the palace is heavily guarded, and unless you have extremely high skills, you can't sneak in at all.

Although Red Sleeves is pregnant, she is still very vigilant because she was born in the rivers and lakes, so Ye Xun dares to go out on patrol with confidence.

However, compared with Kunning Palace, the guards on the side of Qianqing Palace are obviously much worse, not to mention anything else, if there are really Japanese ninjas sneaking in, the guards may not be able to find out.

There was not much time, and he saw that the eunuch himself turned out of the apse, and said apologetically in front of Ye Xun: "Father-in-law forgives the sin, Xiaocui is not in the room, so the slave will send someone to find it."

"Take me to where she lives, and ask the guards outside the palace if you have ever seen her go out."

While speaking, Dolgon, who got the news, also hurried over, he had no relatives in the capital, so he stayed in the palace on Chinese New Year's Eve.

"Master, what's wrong?"

"You're here just in time, call a few brothers to come with me"

The eunuch had already instructed his subordinates to ask the guards outside the palace, and he led Ye Xun and his party to the residence of the female eunuchs in the apse.

The place where the palace maids and eunuchs live is like a small courtyard, and the palace maid Xiaocui lives in the innermost, and as soon as she arrived at the door, Ye Xun stopped again.

Turning to Dolgon, he said, "Do you smell anything?" ”

Dolgon leaned closer, stretched his neck and sniffed hard, and said, "It seems to be a little fragrant, no, it's not a woman's scent, it's a bit like musk."

Ye Xun glanced at Dolgon with a smile, the kid is not very old, and he actually knows what kind of fragrance a woman is, and he has a future.

"That's not right! Master, there seems to be a dead person in the room."

Dolgon's exclamation startled Ye Xun, Ye Xun felt that his nose was very good, but he didn't want Dolgon's nose to be smarter than him.

"Go in and have a look"

Following Ye Xun's order, several guards who were called in by Dolgon behind him quickly stepped forward to open the door.

As the door was opened, the breath inside was completely emanated, this time even Ye Xun smelled it, it was a corpse smell, covered with musk, if you didn't smell it carefully, you couldn't smell it at all.

The overseer on the side was almost stupid, he had just gone in to see it, and he thought of a dead person hiding in the room, but he didn't find it, at this moment, he only felt that his hands and feet were cold, his knees were sore, and he almost sat on the ground.

"Grandpa Ye, I..."

Ye Xun waved his hand, signaling him not to speak, and turned his head and nodded at Dolgon.

After receiving instructions, Dolgon immediately led people to search the room, and soon found that something was wrong under the bed, and after removing the bed, he found that the floor under the bed had been turned over.

The guards immediately found tools to dig up the earth, and before they could dig deeper, a corpse that had begun to decompose was revealed.

Obviously, someone killed the palace maid who was sleeping in the bed, and then approached the emperor in the form of a palace maid, and as for the extent of the later development, it is necessary to further investigate.

"Blockade the Qianqing Palace, no one is allowed to enter or leave, I'll go see our majesty"

After Ye Xun finished speaking, he turned his gaze to the eunuch in charge, and said slowly: "When was the last time you saw her?" ”

"Return, go back to Grandpa Ye, the slave saw her last night..."

After saying this, the Tai Supervisor couldn't help but tremble again, the corpse in front of him had been dead for at least half a month, so what he saw last night was a ghost?

He didn't know that according to Ye Xun's analysis, this palace maid was probably dead for more than a month, because it was winter, and the corpse was embalmed, so it didn't decay so quickly...

(End of chapter)