readx;?readx; Chapter 370: Freshen up

Qin Lei was looking forward to the moment when he sawed over the imperial book case with excitement. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But I heard Zhuo Yan laugh on the side: "Your Majesty is angry, this imperial book case is on all fours, connecting the palace veins, and the sawing is unknown......"

Emperor Zhaowu let go of his hand, panting heavily, and shouted to the old eunuch Zhuo: "Detain me Lou Wanli's killing!" ”

As soon as Zhuo Yan was about to respond, Qin Lei stiffly spoke: "Father and Emperor will consider it, and scare the snake......

Emperor Zhaowu saw that he couldn't lift the table, and he couldn't detain a person, so he was extremely aggrieved, and roared angrily, and lifted the golden tassel tablecloth on the imperial book case, and finally threw the pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and seal on the table to the ground, and shattered a piece of it.

Emperor Zhaowu saw that he finally got his wish, so he was a little relieved, and coldly watched the little eunuchs kneel down to clean up the mess, gritted his teeth and said, "Who stole it?" ”

Qin Lei said softly: "May I ask my father, does anyone else know about this test question?" ”

Emperor Zhaowu shook his head and said, "Nai Zhen personally made the question, and I didn't let anyone see it. "This big competition is of great significance to him, and with his hope of selecting the best and reorganizing the team, he naturally needs to pay special attention to it.

I saw Emperor Zhaowu take a bronze key from his waist and say to Zhuo Yan who was standing on the side: "Go to my bedroom and bring that box." Zhuo Yan took the key with both hands and quickly retreated.

The eunuchs packed up the things on the ground, replaced them with a set of pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, and put the scattered pieces of music neatly, and quietly withdrew from the imperial study.

There were only two people left in the room, Emperor Zhaowu and Qin Lei, and they suddenly fell silent.

Youyou glanced at his son, who lowered his eyebrows, and Emperor Zhaowu said in a deep voice: "Lou Wanli is my spy...... Chieftains. ”

Recalling the anecdote between the old man and Wanlilou, Qin Lei was not surprised, but he was still surprised on his face: "Then how dare he ......?"

Emperor Zhaowu squinted slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Since I accidentally saved Lou Wanli more than ten years ago, he has been serving the royal family......"

Qin Lei asked softly, "Is it for the royal secret agent, or for the father?" ”

Emperor Zhaowu's face was slightly ugly and said, "To serve me, his mission is to spy on the royal secret agent. ”

"What did my father say about this man?" Qin Lei asked softly.

Emperor Zhaowu touched his eyebrows and said lightly: "I originally thought he was my loyal dog, but now it seems that he is just an ungrateful ...... Dog. ”

Qin Lei pursed his lips and said, "This person dares to use his own private seal to issue a guarantee, it is really bold. ”

This seemingly unintentional remark reminded Emperor Zhaowu, he pondered for a while, and then frowned: "This person was quite bold when he was young, but he was frightened by the bloody wind and rain seven years ago, and now he does things for me without merit but without fault, how can he be so unscrupulous?" "Leaking the exam questions is a big crime for the Nine Clans, not madness, and they will not take such a risk.

Qin Lei breathed a sigh of relief and said: "This matter is quite mysterious, please think twice about my father." ”

At this time, Zhuo Yan came in with a yellow silk burden in both hands and knelt under the imperial steps.

Emperor Zhaowu took the burden, put it on the imperial case, and carefully observed it for a long time, and then opened it with a solemn face, revealing the exquisite iron box inside. I saw two yellow seals pasted vertically and horizontally on the iron box, and the scarlet emperor's seal was also stamped on it.

Qin Lei saw that the seal was intact, but Emperor Zhaowu picked up the iron box, squinted and looked at it for a long time, then put it on the case, and hissed with a gloomy face: "It has been moved." He pinched a very fine hair on the tin box, and whenever someone opened the tin box, the hair would naturally fall out. Now the place where the hair clip is held is empty, and it goes without saying that I know what happened.

Qin Lei estimated that Emperor Zhaowu had made a move on the box, so he didn't ask much, but only listened to his voice and commanded: "After the five gates of the Forbidden Palace are closed, no one will be allowed to enter or leave!" Then detain all the palace people in Qianming Palace and interrogate them strictly overnight! Zhuo Yan hurriedly took the order.

Emperor Zhaowu has been looking forward to it for many years, and it is easy to have the opportunity to raise his eyebrows, who would have thought that before his wings were flapped, he was beaten with a stick, and he was naturally annoyed in his heart. Qin Lei saw the cold light in his eyes, and knew that he had already made a killing move.

He stayed with this angry old lion for a long time, and it was not until the end of the unitary time that Zhuo Yan reappeared, and said with a solemn face: "Your Majesty, the slave maid has interrogated the eighteen palace people in your dormitory, and it is said that only the three princesses have entered your dormitory in three days. "Emperor Zhaowu has always treated his daughter more leniently than his son, and it is not impossible for Princess Shanyang to run rampant in the forbidden palace for many years.

"Sanyo?" Emperor Zhaowu muttered, "Unlikely, right? ”

Qin Lei suddenly asked out loud, "Can she bring the maid palace people in?" ”

Zhuo Yan shook his head and said: "No, Her Royal Highness the princess entered the palace alone," he said a little helplessly: "Just because there is no witness, it is impossible to clear the suspicion of Her Royal Highness the princess." ”

Qin Lei shook his head categorically and said, "Looking at the inspection of the emperor, the person who stole the book is obviously as careful as a hair, and it is obviously not something that Heyang's frizzy temperament can do." "Although I don't like this crazy girl for a long time, I still have to help the gang.

Emperor Zhaowu nodded when he heard this, "Ask her to ask." ”

After a while, the confused Princess Shanyang was brought over, and after saluting Emperor Zhaowu, she thought about it, and then gave Qin Leifu a blessing and said, "Fifth brother......"

Qin Lei nodded at her and asked gently, "Shanyang, my father asked me to ask you, why did you go to Qianming Palace three days ago?" ”

Shanyang also felt the solemnity of the atmosphere, where did he dare to be presumptuous, and whispered: "They said that my father was looking for me, so I went, but I didn't see anyone when I turned around." I felt hungry, so I went back to eat. ”

Listening to her mixed answers, Emperor Zhaowu became more and more unable to do that kind of thing, so he asked in a deep voice, "Who can testify?" ”

Shanyang opened his eyes and thought about it, and said aggrievedly: "The guards at the door didn't let the entourage enter the door, and my daughter and I went in alone, but there were no witnesses." ”

Qin Lei smiled and asked, "Then who sent the word?" ”

Shanyang's lower lip tightly wrapped her upper lip, and she thought hard for a long time, but she said in discouragement: "I don't know." ”

Qin Lei still smiled and asked, "What do you remember?" ”

"I don't remember." Shanyang shook his head fearfully, the fierce people only admired the more sturdy, Qin Lei was undoubtedly ten thousand times stronger than her, so she admired Qin Lei very much. I was afraid that I would look too stupid, so I thought hard for a while, and finally smiled and said, "I thought of it, it's three eunuchs!" ”

Qin Lei reluctantly smiled and asked, "Very good, good memory." He cleared his throat again and said, "Now let you identify, you can still recognize it, right?" ”

Shanyang nodded and said, "I can't forget it." ”

Emperor Zhaowu snorted coldly and said, "I just said that I don't remember what I looked like." ”

Shanyang said aggrievedly: "I know in my heart, I just can't say it, but I must know it when I see it." ”

Emperor Zhaowu lowered his eyelids and said to Qin Lei: "Take the Sword of Heaven to investigate this matter, I am here waiting for your news." ”

Qin Lei arched his hand towards Emperor Zhaowu and said, "Obey the order." Then he took the sword representing the imperial power from the wall and took Shanyang out of the imperial study.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the group arrived at the Qianming Palace, all the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace had been detained in the ear room, and when they saw Qin Lei coming in with the sword of the Son of Heaven, they all knelt on the ground tremblingly, and no one dared to look up. Because Emperor Zhaowu was in the imperial study these days, most of the palace people followed, and only the eighteen people in the house stayed in the Qianming Palace.

Qin Lei ordered everyone to stand up and line up, and walked to the front one by one, for Shanyang to check, and the number of people was not large, and they would finish reading it after a while.

Shanyang frowned and asked the eighteen palace people to go again, but he didn't find a single face in his memory, so he had to shake his head at Qin Lei and whispered, "No." ”

Qin Lei asked again, and seeing that Shanyang still shook his head resolutely, he had no choice but to say to Zhuo Yan: "Gather the palace people who are waiting in the imperial study and check again." ”

There are more than 300 female women in the eunuch palace in the imperial study, and there are more than 200 eunuchs alone. After reading these people, it was already the end of the time, and Princess Shanyang still hadn't found any of the three eunuchs.

Qin Lei wanted to gather all the eunuchs in the inner palace again, but Princess Shanyang was already so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes, and it was estimated that everything she saw was like a pillow. He had no choice but to let her go back to sleep first, and he took Zhuo Yan back to Qianming Palace.

"Have you counted the number of people? Are there any palace people who have escaped? Qin Lei asked in a deep voice as he walked.

Zhuo Yan shook his head and said softly: "There are three hundred and twelve palace people in the imperial study and eighteen people in the Qianming Palace, a total of three hundred and thirty people are registered, one is no more and one is not less. ”

Qin Lei frowned and said, "It seems that they have changed their faces." After a pause, he said: "Whether there are any familiar palace people in and out of Qianming Palace, maybe they didn't care." ”

Zhuo Yan smiled bitterly and said: "Qianming Palace is His Majesty's bedroom, how can you enter and exit at will?" They were to be reported outside the palace gate, and the record book was clean and there was no record of anyone. ”

Qin Lei said lightly: "There is no record of entering and exiting Shanyang. ”

Zhuo Yan said with a slightly embarrassed face: "Hey, Princess Shanyang is His Majesty's daughter, who dares to let her leave her name for registration?" ”

Qin Lei pouted and said, "So you can't be superstitious about records." After saying that, he kicked open the door of the corner room and strode into the room, startling the guards and palace people inside.

Glancing around coldly, the eighteen palace people lowered their heads in fright, Qin Lei pointed to the old eunuch Zhuo on the side and said, "Do you know who he is?" ”

"Know... Dao ......" The palace people replied in a low voice: "Chief Zhuo." ”

Qin Lei glanced at Old Eunuch Zhuo with a wicked smile and chuckled, "Then do you know who he was twenty years ago?" "The hearts of the people said, 'Twenty years ago we were not born.'"

Don't sell it either, Qin Lei said with a smile: "He is the underworld hero Zhuo Yan King who is known as the 'Eighteen Layers of Hell' in the rivers and lakes, and he loves to torture people to death in his life. ”

Zhuo Yan heard his nonsense, and smiled bitterly in his heart, but he still had to cooperate with the smile on his face: "The prince doesn't know, what I loved most back then was 'grooming'." ”

Everyone said: "It's too showy, isn't it?" ”

But I heard Zhuo Yan Sensen say: "First strip the prisoner naked, put him naked on the iron bed, pour it on his body several times with boiling water, and then use an iron brush to brush off the skin and flesh on his body one by one, just like when the folk kill pigs during the New Year, after scalding them with boiling water, they will remove the hair of the pig's body until the skin and flesh are brushed out, revealing the white bones,"

A gust of wind blew, and then took advantage of his dry and terrifying face, making everyone in the room feel creepy, but Eunuch Zhuo still did not give up, and continued to be intoxicated and said: "This is a handicraft, every brush down, you have to brush off the yellow, white and red, and you can't brush people to death," stretched out his scarlet tongue and licked it on his lips, and Eunuch Zhuo stared at the eighteen people like a poisonous snake: "Until there are only white bones left, and you can still see that the heart and lungs of the tortured person are still beating, this is considered to be a great success." After speaking, he laughed like a night owl, which made Qin Lei also have goosebumps.

"And then?" A guard on the side asked curiously.

"What, then?" Eunuch Zhuo, who was completely involved in the play, was still immersed in crazy conjecture and couldn't extricate himself.

"No one is dead yet...... the guard muffled.

"No matter, love what's wrong." Eunuch Zhuo smiled and said, this sentence gave people infinite associations, and it made the palace people get goosebumps again.

Seeing that their faces were as white as earth, Qin Lei sneered: "I believe you don't want to see Gonggong Zhuo return to his old business, right?" The palace people nodded in fright.

"Then tell King Gu, who else has entered the Qianming Palace in the past three days?" Qin Lei's voice suddenly became very high-pitched: "Except for Shanyang. ”

"Deputy Chief Hu......" someone in the corner screamed, obviously frightened by the two singing and harmonizing.

"Hu Chuanyi?" Zhuo Yan squinted.

"Isn't he the head of Hualin Garden?" Qin Lei asked puzzled, he still had some impressions of this guy who had gone to the south to preach the message.

"Hualin Garden is His Majesty's daily living place, and it is concurrently served by the deputy head of Ouchi." Zhuo Yan explained with a gloomy face.

Two guards stepped forward and dragged the quail-like prisoner out of the crowd.

"Tell me about the situation of that day in detail, and I missed half a sentence of careful miscellaneous grooming." Seeing Eunuch Zhuo's professional appearance, Qin Lei said in his heart: "This guy has really done it. ’

The little eunuch hurriedly poured beans into a bamboo tube, and told the secret thing: "In the second half of the night three days ago, the slave maid was on night duty in the side hall, and because of the urgency of urine, she forgot to take the night pot, so she had to go out for convenience. When he came back, he saw a few people quietly entering the temple, and the slave and maid said to themselves, 'There must be nothing to do at such a late hour.' ’”

When Zhuo Yan heard this, he immediately became angry, and screamed: "What are you doing on duty, why don't you catch thieves and don't call people?" ”

The little eunuch covered his head and said, "The slave has the heart to follow up, but she is afraid that she will be discovered; I had the heart to shout, but I was afraid that he would have an accomplice outside, and he would be found out and killed. I had to huddle behind the pillar, trying to wait for them to leave. Later, when they came out, I saw that one of them turned out to be Mr. Hu...... Deputy Director. ”

Eunuch Zhuo laughed angrily: "What about after they leave? Why haven't you reported it yet? ”

"The slave maid wants to report it, but she thinks about it... The deputy chief has been in the palace for decades, and there are countless disciples and grandchildren, and he will inevitably be retaliated against in the future, so he didn't dare to speak out......"

"If you want a dog, you might as well let a dog!" Eunuch Zhuo was so angry that he wanted to whip him, but was stopped by Qin Lei and said, "It's better to hand it over to Yousi to deal with him, you first detain that Hu Chuanyi." ”

Zhuo Yan left angrily at this time, and at midnight Fang said: "That guy is gone, saying that he left the palace gate yesterday and has not returned." ”

Qin Lei sighed and said helplessly: "Lone is going to go on an errand, Your Majesty is still waiting." Zhuo Ran smiled bitterly and said: "The old slave will accompany His Highness, I can't let you take it for me." ”

Sure enough, Emperor Zhaowu was extremely angry at the two of them for a night of white tossing, and scolded the two of them with blood, and then he exhaled angrily: "What should I do next?" ”

Qin Lei wiped his face and said with a dry smile: "It is a top priority to re-issue a new test question. Said with a smile: "Don't make a noise, you can get rid of a group of beetles on the day of the exam, and you want them to eat this dumb loss!" "The 'they' he said are the big families who can always occupy the top dozens of the emperor list.

Emperor Zhaowu thought for a while, and finally showed a smile and said, "You kid, you can always come up with some ghost ideas and find some good from the worst things." ”

Qin Lei hurriedly said modestly: "It's still my father's teachings. ”