Chapter 427: Eyeliner
It turned out that Ning Yunyou felt that this matter was strange since he heard Ah Ping's report this morning, especially during this time, Liu Jiangkun was ambushed in Kyoto, so Ning Yunyou was more vigilant.
Since Ah Ping left the palace in the morning, Ning Yunyou did not leave the palace directly with Yu'er, but turned around and went to Li Yiyan's Qinzheng Palace.
After discussing with Li Yiyan, he also felt that the chaos in the medical hall at this time was really a little suspicious, plus he knew earlier that Liu Jiangkun had led troops to settle in Beijing, and he also knew that he had started to fight Ning Yunyou early in the morning.
So Li Yiyan and Ning Yunyou finally decided to send Yu'er to dress up as Ning Yunyou, let her go out of the palace to lure Liu Jiangkun's people out, and then captured them in one fell swoop.
Things were planned very carefully, but for some reason, Liu Jiangkun didn't attack Yu'er who pretended to be Ning Yunyou in the end.
There are only two possibilities. First, the chaos caused by the people in the hospital this time was not manipulated by Liu Jiangkun behind the scenes; The second is that there are people from Liu Jiangkun in the palace mixed in.
Of these two possibilities, Li Yiyan is more inclined to believe in the second one.
This is because the patients who came to the clinic this time all had the same disease, and it was an unprecedented disease. Although Ning Yunyou knew a little about this disease, he also clearly told Li Yiyan that this disease could not happen in this place, and it would never happen so strangely, almost all the people in Kyoto suffered from this disease.
And nothing like this has happened in Kyoto before, but since Liu Jiangkun lived here for a few days, the people have all contracted this strange disease overnight.
Therefore, Li Yiyan will definitely not be naΓ―ve to think that this matter has nothing to do with Liu Jiangkun.
As for the second, although Li Yiyan didn't want to believe that Liu Jiangkun's people had unknowingly mixed in in his palace, he was sure that in his palace, there must have been a special arrangement by Liu Jiangkun to come in.
This person may be an unknown little eunuch around him, a little palace maid, or a doctor in the hospital, or an imperial chef in the imperial dining room......
Anyway, this person must still exist in the palace at this moment, Li Yiyan is very sure of this.
Because Liu Jiangkun still needs the latest news of Li Yiyan at this time, the undercover agent will not leave the palace at this time.
"Ji Ming." As long as he thought that his palace had infiltrated the details arranged by others, Li Yiyan's heart was a little faintly uneasy, and he was angry at Liu Jiangkun's attitude of not having him in his eyes.
Ji Ming, who was on the side, heard Li Yiyan calling himself, so he hurriedly stood up straight, bowed slightly, and waited for Li Yiyan's punishment.
Today, Li Yiyan sent Yu'er out of the palace dressed as Ning Yunyou, and arranged for Ji Ming to go with dozens of imperial guards in the palace, hoping that Ji Ming could capture Liu Jiangkun and others. Even if Liu Jiangkun himself can't be caught, at least a group of his subordinates should be caught.
But today, neither Liu Jiangkun nor his subordinates appeared.
So it is conceivable that Ji Ming did not catch Liu Jiangkun and others.
Even if this matter can be said to be not Ji Ming's fault, he has never completed the task that Li Yiyan ordered him to complete, so he is willing to accept the punishment.
Li Yiyan is now only thinking about catching him before the gangster Liu Jiangkun arranged into the palace escapes from the palace at this moment. So he didn't notice the look on Ji Ming's face that looked at death as if he were at home.
"You send an order to go down and immediately block the palace gates of each palace, and no one is allowed to leave the palace without my permission." Li Yiyan walked up to Ji Ming's side and said to him in a voice that only two people could hear.
After hearing this, Ji Ming was stunned, as if this matter had nothing to do with him, he looked at Li Yiyan with a little doubt: "Yes." β
"Go ahead!" Li Yiyan waved at him, signaling that he could leave immediately.
Seeing that Li Yiyan didn't seem to want to pursue himself anymore, Ji Ming secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
He turned around and was about to leave, but was suddenly stopped by Li Yiyan: "Wait." β
Hearing this, Ji Ming didn't dare to move anymore, he turned around a little stiffly, pulled the corners of his mouth invisibly, lowered his head and asked, "The emperor still has orders?" β
"This order should not be publicized, just notify the palace gate guards secretly." After a long while, Li Yiyan slowly spoke.
Ji Ming subconsciously blurted out: "Why? β
"Don't say." Li Yiyan shook his head lightly, glanced around without a trace, and continued to wave his hand: "Go quickly!" β
"Yes." Ji Ming nodded, tapped his toes, and the whole person disappeared in place in an instant like a gust of wind.
After Ji Ming left, Ning Yunyou stepped forward with some doubts and asked, "What did the emperor say to Ji Guard?" β
Li Yiyan looked at Ning Yunyou with a smile in his eyes: "Come here, I'll tell you." β
Ning Yunyou didn't hesitate at all, so he stepped forward and leaned his ear over, waiting for him to speak.
Who knew that Li Yiyan lowered his head slightly, opened his mouth and bit lightly at Ning Yunyou's earlobe, which made Ning Yunyou tremble, and immediately pushed Li Yiyan away: "What is the emperor doing?" β
After speaking, he shyly glanced at Yu'er and the other guards on the side, and blushed most of his face. This appearance caused Li Yiyan to laugh heartily.
Yu'er chuckled and lowered her head, pretending she hadn't seen anything.
"The queen must not leave me half a step today." After Li Yiyan laughed for a while, he stepped forward and stretched out his hand to wrap around Ning Yunyou's waist, and took it into his arms, and Ning Yunyou's whole person was in his arms.
Ning Yunyou looked up at Li Yiyan with some confusion: "Why?" β
"I ......" Li Yiyan deliberately paused, looking at Ning Yunyou with a smile in her eyes, and deliberately did not continue to say the following words, leaving her own imagination.
Sure enough, Ning Yunyou thought crookedly, and her face, which had just regained her normal color, instantly turned red again.
Seeing Li Yiyan, he couldn't help but want to laugh.
"Stand down, all of you!" Li Yiyan raised his eyes and glanced at the guards in front of him who didn't know how to advance or retreat, and waved his hand at them.
Only then did the guards realize that they should have stepped down a long time ago.
So they leaned down, saluted, and disappeared without a trace.
Yu'er saw that the guards had already retreated, and it didn't seem good if she stayed here to make a light bulb.
Her eyes looked around, and when she saw that the sky was getting dark, she hurriedly said, "The slave maid went to prepare dinner for the emperor and queen." β
After speaking, without waiting for Li Yiyan or Ning Yunyou's permission, she ran out in a puff of smoke.
As soon as she ran to the door, she bumped into Ji Ming, who had summoned Li Yiyan's order, she looked up at Ji Ming, forgot to apologize, and ran out with a red face.
Ji Ming was stunned for a while, took back the apology he was about to say, withdrew his gaze from Yu'er's body, and turned around and walked towards the Qinzheng Palace.
"Your Majesty......" Ji Ming shouted as soon as he entered the door.
But after shouting, the three people present froze in place.
Li Yiyan held a hollow fist in one hand, put it to his mouth and coughed lightly twice, and let go of Ning Yunyou, who was already blushing in his arms, with some embarrassment.
Then he looked at Ji Ming and asked, "What's the matter?" β
"There is a father-in-law who wants to go out of the palace, saying that he went out early this morning to buy something and forgot to get it back, and now he wants to go out to get it." Ji Ming, who lowered his head, heard Li Yiyan's question, and hurriedly raised his head and replied truthfully.
Li Yiyan smiled with a faint hook of his lips, and then asked, "Then you let him out?" β
"Nope." Ji Ming shook his head, "The emperor said that no one can be allowed to leave the palace, so let the palace gate guard look at the father-in-law first, and then come back immediately to report to the emperor." β
"Yes." Li Yiyan nodded with satisfaction and said, "Go and escort that person over, I will interrogate him personally." β
After Ji Ming received the order to go out, Li Yiyan shouted behind him again: "Sui Qing." β
"The minions are here." Hearing this, Sui Qing clasped his hands in front of him, hurriedly stepped forward, and bowed beside Li Yiyan.
Li Yiyan glanced at Sui Qing, who had already arrived beside him, and said to him: "You bring the list of palace maids and eunuchs who have entered the palace in recent years." β
"This ......" Sui Qing frowned lightly when he heard this: "Your Majesty, there are hundreds of people here, you ......"
Every year, the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace will be replaced, and the names of the old, sick, disabled and dead will be crossed off the list. And because every year, some palace maids leave the palace to get married, or return home, and the eunuchs are old or die in accidents, so every year, some palace maids and eunuchs will enter the palace.
So Sui Qing said that there are hundreds of people on the list, which is not false at all.
Li Yiyan nodded to show that he knew, and then continued: "You just need to bring the list to me to see, I can be useful." β
Sui Qing opened his mouth and was about to say something, but after thinking about it, he only replied "yes" and turned around and walked out.
"What are you doing here?" Ning Yunyou saw that Li Yiyan had done these things inexplicably, and the doubts in her heart were even worse, and after she waited for Sui Qing to walk out, she stepped forward and asked.
Li Yiyan took two steps in the direction of Ning Yunyou, lowered her head and was about to speak, Ning Yunyou had only been tricked by him once, so this time she saw Li Yiyan coming, so she guessed his next move, so she flashed slightly, and left Li Yiyan's side: "You don't want to bully me again." β
"Haha." Li Yiyan laughed twice, stepped forward, and said to her, "I don't bully you." β
"What you did today, could it be that you suspect that Liu Jiangkun has installed someone in the palace?" Ning Yunyou originally didn't understand the conversation between Ji Ming and Li Yiyan, but then when she heard that Li Yiyan asked Sui Qing to bring the list of palace maids and eunuchs who had entered the palace in recent years, she vaguely guessed something.
Hearing this, Li Yiyan smiled appreciatively: "It's really worthy of being my queen, I guessed it so quickly." β
"Cut," Ning Yunyou snorted coldly and tilted his head to the side: "Did the emperor underestimate his concubines." β
"I ......" Li Yiyan was about to speak, when Ji Ming's voice came from outside the door.
Ji Ming learned smart this time, so he shouted outside the door, he didn't want to see Li Yiyan and Ning Yunyou making out as soon as he entered the room, in that case, not only would he be embarrassed, but even Li Yiyan and Ning Yunyou would be uncomfortable.
He escorted a person dressed as a eunuch to approach the Qinzheng Palace, and when he saw Li Yiyan and Ning Yunyou, he saluted, and then pushed the person in his hand forward, and the latter knelt on the ground.
"You are the eyeliner that Liu Jiangkun planted in the palace?" Ning Yunyou frowned lightly when she saw someone coming, when she came to find Li Yiyan today, she happened to see this eunuch at the door of the Qinzheng Palace.
The eunuch who was kneeling on the ground raised his eyes and glanced at Ning Yunyou, then at Li Yiyan, but did not speak.
Li Yiyan was about to speak, when he saw a stream of red blood flowing down the corner of the eunuch's mouth.
"Quick, pass on the Imperial Doctor." Li Yiyan subconsciously said to Ji Ming.
Seeing this, Ji Ming was about to call the imperial doctor, but was stopped by Ning Yunyou: "No need, he is already dead." β
Hearing this, Li Yiyan and Ji Ming looked in the direction of the eunuch, only to see that there was still a flesh-and-blood person, but in a blink of an eye, it turned into a skeleton, and then turned into a pool of blood.