After drinking tea, it was already nine o'clock in the evening, and it was time to rest.

After observing for a long time, after all, she didn't recognize Li Xiaodong's true body, although Yumiko was a little confused, she could only press the distracting thoughts and bow to her master to say goodbye.

According to the usual practice, Hirakawa Hachiro politely asked Yusuke Yamamoto to spend the night here, but he didn't expect that this time Yamamoto was not polite, but generously agreed.

If there are guests staying overnight, Hirakawa Hachiro will naturally be happy to receive them, so Li Xiaodong got a simple room and spent the night here.

At ten o'clock, the whole shrine was quiet, Li Xiaodong got up from the tatami mat, took off his suit, revealed a black night outfit, and then put on a black hood that only showed his eyes, like a ninja of the Koga faction, and gently jumped out of the window.

The secluded Mount Kinabalu is located behind the shrine, and a stone path leads to the summit of Mount Kinabalu via a stone path in the backyard of the shrine.

Taking advantage of the night, Li Xiaodong sneaked into the mountains and forests of the sacred mountain, and went all the way up to the mountainside.

Here he heard the sound of a babbling mountain stream.

Generally speaking, where there is a stream flowing, that is, where the wild turtle infests and feeds, the burrow of the wild turtle is generally located in the Beiyang Plateau, which is a little further away from the water source.

He changed direction in time, and the cat's waist sneaked towards the place where the water flowed.

Under the moonlight, a babbling stream cascades down from among the rocks and forms a small pool below, and on the shore of the pool, there are natural hot springs, as if several hot springs have been carved out of the entire rocky surface.

Li Xiaodong circled around the waterhole, and saw that there were several rows of turtle crawling paw prints on the mud ground of the water beach, some of which were still very large, Li Xiaodong couldn't help but squat down, staring at the sparkling water surface of the pool, knowing that he came to the right place, around this pool, there must be a huge and very long-lived spirit turtle.

As long as you keep watch over this pool, you will most likely see mountain turtles returning to their nests after feeding, and if you follow these turtles, you will find their burrows sooner or later.

Li Xiaodong sat in the cave, pulled down the mask covering his face, lit a cigarette, and waited unhurriedly.

Under the bright moonlight, the sound of fish cutting through the waves on the sparkling water surface sounded from time to time, waiting for the rabbits, and it was slowly progressing.

Half an hour passed imperceptibly.

Suddenly, in the direction of the stone road in the mountains, there was a sound of hurried footsteps running.

After listening carefully for a while, Li Xiaodong was sure that the man's footsteps were running to this side, and he hurriedly crouched behind a mountain rock, pulled on his mask, and observed vigilantly.

It's so late, who came to this place?

Under the moonlight, a woman in a white kimono and a court bun trotted all the way to the shore of the pond.

I saw her take out a paper bag from the sleeve of her wide kimono robe, find the largest hot spring by the pool, and then look around nervously, and the next moment, she hurriedly shook off the paper bag and sprinkled all the powder into the hot spring pool.

After doing this, she turned around and ran.

Perhaps in a panic, the woman fell on the edge of the potholed hot spring pool, but she got up and ran again in the other direction, without a trace of the pain.

Seeing this scene, Li Xiaodong narrowed his eyes slightly.

What was the woman doing? So nervous about Mao?

What does she mean by sprinkling powder into the hot tub?

Li Xiaodong hesitated for a while, but after all, the cat's waist sneaked over, came to the hot spring pool, and observed carefully.

In the corner of the bare rock by the hot spring, there was still a little powder left that had not had time to be melted by the water vapor, Li Xiaodong squatted down, gently wiped a little with his index finger, and sniffed at the tip of his nose.

A faint pollen smell with a hint of fragrance.

Li Xiaodong's heart moved, and he immediately understood what kind of powder this was.

It is a rare powder ground from exotic flowers in the tropics, which is generally used as an adjunct to the treatment of skin diseases, and is not a poison in essence, but with the correct usage and dosage, it can also kill invisibly.

Once a large amount of this powder encounters sufficient sulfur, it can form a compound poison, which can quietly penetrate the human skin, causing the human heart function to be disordered, and if the dose into the human body is large enough, it will induce heart failure within a few days, such as death from heart disease.

And it just so happened that the hot spring water was rich in a lot of sulfur, and the water was hot enough to synthesize this poison, and if anyone soaked in this hot spring for ten minutes or so, it could be concluded that he was not far from death.

It's just that Li Xiaodong doesn't understand very much, the woman in the palace costume sneaked here at night to give drugs, who does she want to harm?

This is a secluded sacred mountain, and no one else has come here except to secretly watch the mountain turtle here.

Just when he was puzzled, there were footsteps and the sound of someone talking in the direction of the stone road in the mountains.

He sneaked back into the cave in time and quietly hidden.

On the stone path in the forest, a woman in a kimono carrying a paper lantern led a man and a woman behind her to the hot spring by the pond without hurrying or slow.

Li Xiaodong could see clearly that the woman in the palace costume who was carrying a lantern and leading the way in front was the one who had just been drugged.

And a man and a woman in the back, the man is a white-haired old man wearing a wide navy blue kimono, wearing clogs, and a thin body, and accompanying the old man is Yumiko Sagawa, who is wearing a white kimono, bangs and hair, and is tall and tall.

Yumiko Sagawa accompanied the white-haired old man to talk and laugh softly all the way, and all the way to the medicated hot spring pool under the guidance of the palace woman.

Then the white-haired old man took off his navy blue kimono and wore only a pair of white boxers, and slowly sat down in the hot spring water with Yumiko's support.

Under the moonlight, Li Xiaodong could see clearly that the woman in palace clothes standing next to him quietly raised her head and glanced at the white-haired old man very unnaturally.

Li Xiaodong already understood very well that the object of the palace woman's murder was probably the old man who was already sitting in the hot spring.

"Yumiko, it's grandpa's birthday in a few days, what gift did you prepare for grandpa?" asked the white-haired old man kindly.

"Yumiko's gift can only be told to grandpa on his birthday. ”

Yumiko smiled at the corners of her mouth, crouched down, and carefully scrubbed his arms with a white towel.

Yumiko did not go down to the hot spring pool, but squatted to the side and did what was supposed to be done by the maid.

They didn't talk loudly, but Li Xiaodong could hear it clearly.

Hearing them say words like "grandpa", "birthday", and "abdication", Li Xiaodong already knew that the white-haired old man was the emperor.

It's a pity, I'm afraid that if he doesn't reach his birthday, he will die.

He never imagined that he would be drugged to death by the maid in the palace.

I don't know what kind of palace conspiracy is hidden in this......

(End of chapter)