The moonlight shone on the deep courtyard, and the grass and trees were like frost, and they were faintly pale.

Seven or eight eunuchs carrying lanterns and stepping on small steps were rushing to the Jinglan Palace where Concubine Shu lived, and several ministers in red official mansions were hugging in the middle.

The guards sent by Zhuo Chen hid in a corner of the attic and watched the movement below, like a crow that wanted to drink water quietly landed on the roof, waiting for half a bottle of water that needed it to throw stones.

In the courtyard, I saw Concubine Shu wearing a loose apricot-colored sleeved shirt, sitting on the Taishi chair that the maidservant girl brought out for her, and saw from a distance that the row of human-shaped lanterns sent out came back, and raised her slender fingers dyed with Kodan and said, "These are all distinguished guests, sit down for them."

"As Your Majesty expected, those ministers did not leave, and someone took them to the courtyard of the harem."

The palace illuminated by the glazed lamps raised on both sides was resplendent with gold, and the shadow guard kneeling on His Highness continued: "But the night is too dark, and the minister can only judge that they are heading in the direction of the east."

On the low bed where the golden thread was embroidered all over the flying dragon, the emperor leaned on the collapse and closed his eyes to recuperate: "Did you send someone to follow?"

"Follow."

He didn't bother to raise his eyes, and waved his hand: "Pull out half of the dark lines in the palace to find these things that are eaten inside and out, and if you find them, don't make a noise, just report the people to me."

The leader of the shadow guard bowed his head and pushed out the main hall to melt into the boundless night like a gust of wind.

When the shadow guard left, the big eunuch Hu De'an came in with a lacquer plate, on which was a stack of letters sealed with beeswax, and he respectfully placed it on the small case of the low bed: "The list that the old slave got is almost here, but there are some little eunuchs who are not on duty tonight are also on the list of those who are being investigated, this ......"

Hu De'an kicked on the buttocks of the little eunuch Hu Bu who followed behind him, and Hu Bu hurriedly crawled to his knees in front of the emperor, and said tremblingly: "It's Gonggong Hu who is tolerant a lot, no, no...... It was His Majesty who was tolerant of a lot, a small dereliction of duty, and some of the ministers who retired from the court let them go without checking the roster of the palace. ”

His head slammed on the ground: "The little one didn't expect such a thing to happen, so he derelicted his duty, it was a small dereliction of duty, and the little one was willing to be punished."

The Emperor raised his hand.

"Okay, don't knock, Hu De'an has come to take you to admit your mistake, and I have to give you a chance to make a difference."

The light of the fire in the courtyard was so low that it was so dark that no one could see who clearly, and Concubine Shu rolled up her sleeves and said, "Some of you said that there are too many discrepancies between these and those investigated by the palace."

She tilted her head and stared at the dark figure in the courtyard and smiled sadly: "Whether what you say is true or not, this palace will naturally order someone to compare, if you find that someone has lied, the next time you greet him in the courtyard will not necessarily be a chair, it may also be a sword that asks for your life."

The two eunuchs in the back easily lit up the two lanterns and hung on the ground to find a little light on the road, pinched the eunuch's unique voice and said: "You can get up, I will take you out, it's still the same, I hope you don't look around with your eyes, be careful of what you shouldn't see."

Two bean-like lamps walked through the huge harem, and when a group of people went out of the palace gate, the "crows" on the roof followed out like feathers and ghosts.

The sky was slightly bright, Mo Shihuan got up early, and was half-lying on the bench in the pavilion holding the ancient books of the Wu clan to read.

"Girl, girl, His Royal Highness King Liang is here."

She tilted her head slightly, meeting Zhuo Chen's gaze.

"God, why are you looking for me so early?"

She sat up like a carp and said, "Why are you looking for me so early?"

I saw a subordinate following him, holding a wooden box in his hand.

"This is the Xiangyun cake of the Zhuangyuan Building, the last time I saw you eating in the teahouse, I let people buy some."

"Nothing to do - either a traitor or a thief."

Zhuo Chen nodded calmly: "I want to ask you for some medicinal powder to track down people, I don't know if you have it."

Of course Mo Shihuan has it, and she has it with her, she tilted her head and thought about it, pretending to think for a long time, and conjured a small porcelain bottle from her hand, and the mouth of the bottle was hooked on her finger with a red thread.

"Chase powder, sprinkled on people for a long time, for trained hounds to smell can be chased hundreds of miles away."

She threw herself into Zhuo Chen's arms.

"It's given to you, it can be regarded as a thank you for checking Pei Yuanzhi for me."

Zhuo Chen shook his wrist and quickly took it, and put his arm on the wooden railing of the pavilion, "There is one more thing." ”

"Last night, I found someone to have a banquet for some of Pei Yuanzhi's drinking friends, and checked what Pei Yuanzhi has done these days, and even found out that he slept with the girl in the Qinglou."

Mo Shihuan suddenly felt that Pei Yuanzhi was a little unlucky, he was originally a big wrongdoer, but now he accidentally let Zhuo Chen, a scheming fox, pull out the inside and out and look at it.

"You've been reading this witch book lately, how much do you like it?"

Zhuo Chen said this abruptly again.

Mo Shihuan was afraid that he would talk too much, and he didn't want to pay attention to him, so he simply stood up and put the book in his arms as soon as he hit it in his heart.

The atmosphere between the two of them was slightly tense, and suddenly there was silence, they looked at each other with big eyes, and finally Mo Shihuan put the book on the table: "You want to read it to you, anyway, I'm done reading it."

"Don't be angry, I won't ask," Zhuo Chen took a step back, his tone softened a little, "Pei Chengzhi came to you and said that there was something important to discuss, and now that people are staying in the living room, do you want to go over?"

stay in the living room

"That's right, Brother Pei thinks the same as I think." Mo Shihuan showed a mouth full of silver teeth and bowed his hand to Pei Chengyi, "I also came to this conclusion after thinking about it last night. ”

She looked at Pei Chengzhi, and her eyes fell on the jade pendant that he had carried around his waist for several years, only to see that the jade pendant was in the shape of a semi-circular moon, with a pattern of cloud patterns carved on the outside, but there were some very strange lines carved on the inside, some concave and some convex.

Pei Chengzhi took the jade pendant off his waist and put it on the table, a little puzzled: "This may be the token you are looking for, but I only have half of it."

Zhuo Chen stared at the jade pendant for a long time and slowly spoke: "Does your brother also have a similar one, just can be spelled together, right?"

Pei Chengzhi nodded, took out another letter, and saw that the envelope was marked with gold clay to leave the payment, and Zhuo Chen only felt a jump in his forehead when he saw those words.

"This is my father's secret letter?"

"That's right, it was sent by two eunuchs, one old and one young, and they told me that I wanted to personally give this letter to the person who tracked down the jade key, saying that he would understand it when he read it."