In the palace, the eunuchs and palace ladies turned inside and out, and really turned the entire palace upside down, but as the so-called one person hides thousands of people, it is difficult to find it, and in a hurry, a small puppet or straw puppet, where is it so easy to find.

Hearing that she didn't find anything, Empress Dowager Li was very angry in her heart, and when she saw that her brother was still sitting aside, she said to Li Xuancheng with the hope of just in case: "Third brother, do you have a way to help the emperor find that nightmare puppet?" ”

Li Xuancheng originally didn't want to involve too much, so as not to be suspicious of himself, but Xu Boyi put the puppet in a place that was not easy to be found, if he didn't point out and ask the emperor to find the puppet, then I am afraid that the emperor would still be suspicious of the statement of the curse.

Thinking of this, Li Xuancheng frowned slightly, and pretended to hesitate and said: "Brother Chen's Taoism is limited, I'm afraid I may not be able to calculate the location of that puppet, Brother Chen is reluctant to make it difficult, let's try!" ”

Li Xuancheng pretended to pinch his fingers mysteriously and silently calculated for a while, and said: "When His Majesty attacked, he was on the Danqi in front of the Qianqing Palace, although this nightmare puppet technique is mysterious, it can't be too far away from the target, otherwise wouldn't it be thousands of miles away to hurt people?" Since it is to be close, then as I expected, that nightmare puppet should be in the Qianqing Palace! ”

Emperor Wanli had completely sobered up at this time, and he was no longer shocked and angry, and after listening to Li Xuancheng's words, he did not get angry, but just glanced deeply at the young uncle, and said: "Then there is Uncle Lao Guo, and he must find out the evidence for me!" ”

Li Xuancheng bowed his head and said: "I should serve His Majesty!" ”

Li Xuancheng rushed to the Qianqing Palace, and a group of eunuchs surrounded him when they heard the news, looking at him with blank eyes. In the Qianqing Palace, there were also little eunuchs holding ladders to climb the dragon pillar. Inspecting the caisson and the beams, there were not many ornaments and furniture on the ground, but now they have all been examined.

As for the ground, just glance at it, and you don't need to check it at all. Because the gold bricks are all huge pieces, and they are so tightly paved that it is impossible for anyone to pry open a gold brick, dig a hole in the solid iron-like ground, hide something in it, and then lay the gold bricks. And the whole process goes unnoticed.

Li Xuancheng opened his mouth and asked, "Have you searched the palace?" ”

A big eunuch replied: "Uncle Guoguo, the palace has been searched, and now the top of the palace is being searched, as for the outside of the palace...... You see, it's this stone fence, this stone staircase. The stone turtle, the stone crane and the golden pavilion have also been checked, but nothing has been found. ”

Li Xuancheng looked around and said affirmatively: "Uncle Guo can only calculate a general direction, and he can't calculate it too clearly for a while." However, according to my uncle's calculations, if the nightmare puppet is there, it must be on the stone steps in front of this palace! ”

Li Xuancheng walked in front of the stone turtle. Bending down to look, the stone turtle raised its neck, but the gap under it was limited. And it was cleaned cleanly, it was impossible to hide anything, Li Xuancheng circled around the stone crane again, and the long-legged independent crane was even more clear at a glance, and it was impossible to hide anything.

Li Xuancheng pointed to the Jin Pavilion on the left and right, and instructed, "Have you searched all there?" ”

The great eunuch replied, "Yes." It has already been checked. ”

Li Xuancheng said: "If there is any place to hide things in front of this hall, there are only these two places. Search again! ”

The big eunuch had no choice but to order people to rush to the golden pavilions on both sides. Open the carved railings and windows on all sides, and look in on your feet.

Seeing this, Li Xuancheng shouted: "How to do it in this way, you send someone to go in and search carefully, and you can't let go of a place." ”

When the big eunuch heard this, he sent two young eunuchs, who were also small in stature, to climb the stone platform on the shoulders of the older eunuch and get into the golden pavilion. It was only a moment before the two little eunuchs entered the pavilion that a joyful exclamation came from one of the golden pavilions: "Found it!" I found it! ”

Then he saw a little eunuch crawling out of the golden pavilion with a puppet in his hand......

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Emperor Wanli clenched the puppet in his hand with his birth date written on it and a silver needle on his head, and said nothing with a gloomy face. Empress Dowager Li was so angry that she trembled all over, and said hatefully: "What a gut! So bold! Dare to murder the king, mourning the family wants to punish his nine clans! ”

Wanli had a gloomy face, turned the puppet in his hand twice, and said to Li Xuancheng: "Uncle Guo, this puppet was found in the Golden Pavilion?" ”

Li Xuancheng bowed his head and said: "Yes!" After the little eunuch got in, he searched around at first and found nothing, but then he looked up by chance and found that there was this puppet hanging on the top of the inner wall, and when he took it off, he found that it was glued to it. ”

Emperor Wanli approached the puppet and sniffed it, frowned, and said, "What is this, why does it smell fishy?" ”

Li Xuancheng said: "The minister has already asked someone to see it, it is dried fish gelatin!" ”

Fish maw is one of the eight treasures of the sea, and it is a very delicious dish, and it is very sticky when cooked. Emperor Wanli thought for a while, suddenly thoughtful, and said: "I remembered, among the dishes that were given to the hundred officials in the palace last night, it seems that one of them is fish gelatin?" ”

Li Xuancheng nodded and said, "Yes!" The minister has also eaten it! The minister thought that someone should have smeared the fish glue on the puppet, and took advantage of the unpreparedness to secretly open the golden pavilion and glue the puppet backhand to the inside of the pavilion wall. At that time, everyone was watching the fireworks, and the movement was so fast that no one could find it, and because of this, it was impossible to find it without entering the pavilion. ”

Emperor Wanli nodded, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said, "I originally felt strange, if there was a palace eunuch who intended to murder me, why did he risk attacking in the Qianqing Palace, it doesn't make sense. Now it seems that the foreign minister should be the one who intends to be unfavorable to me! ”

Concubine Shu said angrily: "The whole world is not a prince, and attempting to kill the king is a capital crime!" Those foreign ministers go to the palace on weekdays, and it is impossible to move around, that is, last night, His Majesty summoned them into the palace to watch the fireworks. Majesty, who was standing on the edge of the golden pavilion where the puppets were hidden? ”

Emperor Wanli was awakened by her words, and immediately summoned the eunuch on duty in the Qianqing Palace last night to come in for questioning, and the eunuch held the record book and replied tremblingly: "The slave and maid checked the record, and ...... last night Standing next to the Golden Pavilion last night was Ye Xiaotian, the official of Tongren Mansion. ”

Emperor Wanli's gaze jumped slightly. Word by word: "Ye Xiaotian! ”

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"This person's name is Ye Xiaotian, and he is a pusher of Tongren Mansion who went to Beijing to report on his work, and now lives in the Sanbao Inn on the front street of the Criminal Department. All you have to do is stop him from coming back to the inn, you know? A man with triangular eyes threw the silver coin in his hand to the first few splashers. Commanded coldly.

A few pranksters nodded again and again: "Seventh master, don't worry, our master relies on this business to eat, isn't it just to delay him back to the inn?" Easy. ”

"He's out, go, remember, if the deal doesn't work out. Come back and break your legs! ”

The triangular eyes stacked a cruel sentence and walked away, a few splashes gave each other a look, and seeing Ye Xiaotian coming out of the Tao Chief's Mansion, they quickly retreated into the alley, they were very familiar with the streets and alleys of the capital. At a glance, you can know where Ye Xiaotian is going to pass.

The capital is the residence of the supreme in the world, the strong dragon has to be coiled here, the tiger has to lie down here, the local officials don't care what kind of important people they are, how domineering they are in the place, most of them are extremely low-key when they enter the capital, and they dare not provoke right and wrong.

The gangsters in the capital are already very bold, abducted, deceitful, and extorted. Doing all kinds of evil, about 100 years ago, the atmosphere has become more and more corrupt. Then some scoundrels began to extort outsiders.

Among these outsiders, especially the officials who go to Beijing to run for official positions or report on their work, they are the most cautious, and it is best to extort money, as long as they create some trouble casually, most of these non-local officials will settle the matter with money with the attitude of calming the matter, so that these splashes will become more and more arrogant.

There was also a street patrol royal history, jealousy and hatred. This kind of behavior has been severely cracked down, but this kind of thing is constantly prohibited. If you hit once, you can stop for three or two months at most. Then he reverted. Moreover, these people do not make big mistakes, and they will not be able to be locked up for a few days if they are really arrested, which also fuels their arrogance even more.

Today, these sloppy people who have collected money to do things for others are a group of habitual criminals in Beijing who are good at "fraud". After they copied the path to the intersection in front, one of them discussed with the leader: "Big brother, let's go to the whole thing today, I'm afraid that 'releasing pigeons' will not succeed, and 'dead fishing' is not appropriate, only 'live fishing' and 'horizontal fishing', which trick is better?" ”

This kid is talking in their industry, releasing pigeons is to find a woman to seduce, as long as you are fooled, the two of them sleep in the bed, and immediately someone rushes in the door and says that he is the husband of the woman, sue you for abducting the woman, you don't want to be an official? Cheng, take the money to settle the matter, this is called 'pigeon fishing'.

'Death hanging' is to find a corpse that died of illness or starvation, and what is even more poisonous is to directly find a beggar to die, and hang it in front of your house while it is dark, not afraid that you will not take the money, not only will you have to take the money, but also have to come up with a very generous sum of money.

If there is really that person who does not believe in evil, you will bless you to meet a clean official who judges the case like a god, you know, those who dare to do this also have collusion with the soap officials and officials in the yamen, even if you are not guilty in the end, you can also toss you to peel off the skin.

As for the live hanging methods, there are even more, such as finding an accomplice with beautiful eyebrows, articulate and taking the case, pretending to be a pitiful look of despair, begging you to take him in, as long as he eats, he will not be paid.

If the clam wants you to take pity on you or take him in for the cheap labor, then the catch will appear quickly, and a crime of harboring a fugitive can kill your tortured immortals, which is called live fishing.

Horizontal fishing, that is, do not pay attention to any technical content, touch porcelain, deliberately create disputes, etc., as long as you are troublesome, then you have to take money to settle it, but the money is the least.

However, their only task today was to prevent Ye Xiaotian from returning to the inn, not to extort money from him, in this case, it was obvious that horizontal fishing was the most appropriate means.

Sure enough, the eldest brother touched his chin and thought about it, and ordered: "Just use horizontal fishing, Lao Wang, you prepare, and I will startle his horse and hit you in a while." Little Si'er, you hurry up and call Luo Zhutou and tell him to prepare to collect people! The two named subordinates hurriedly agreed, and each prepared to go.

In the palace, Emperor Wanli sat silently for a long time with a calm face, and then saw the Jinyi Guard's commander Yu hurriedly walked to him and knelt down on one knee, and immediately obeyed the order. Emperor Wanli instructed word by word: "You go, immediately arrest Ye Xiaotian and find out who is behind him!" ”

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