Before Gao Yong took the initiative to report to the emperor, the incident of the attack on the prison of the Criminal Department had already reached the emperor's ears through the mouth of the scarlet Qing.

Late at night, the moon and stars are scarce.

The emperor hadn't been to the harem for many days, and when the lights in the Heart Nourishing Hall were half turned out, the emperor suddenly stood up from his seat.

"What did you say?!"

Seeing this, Father-in-law Gao, who also had no chance to rest, hurriedly reminded.

"Alas, Your Majesty, pay attention to your body, the Imperial Doctor said that you can't be too excited lately."

The emperor glared at him fiercely.

"Now that someone dares to go to the prison of the Criminal Department to kill people under my nose, how can I calm down? Qian Du, what the hell is going on! ”

Obviously, he came late at night, but Qian Du was dressed properly, and he didn't even see a trace of his hair scattered. He respectfully gave a brief account of what happened in the prison of the Criminal Department, and added.

"Lord Gao is really far-sighted, and the people from the Criminal Department have already controlled the situation before we made a move. In Yichen's opinion, there should be two groups of people who went to the Criminal Department this time, and each of them didn't know about the other, so they happened to meet together. ”

"Two?"

The emperor calmed down a little, but his brows were still furrowed.

"Can you find out who the other party is?"

Qian Du shook his head.

"The Assassins were locked up in a prison by the Torture Department, and all of them committed suicide by poisoning. The speed was so fast that Scarlet didn't even have time to make a move. ”

Even they couldn't stop it, but it is conceivable that the other party is not a person who robbed the prison on a whim, but a well-trained and well-targeted killer.

As for who that target is, it is now self-evident.

The emperor had completely calmed down, pacing back and forth in the hall a few times, talking as he walked.

"You are secretly investigating this matter, and in addition to strengthening the vigilance of the Criminal Department, I don't want to see this kind of thing a second time."

"The minister is guilty, and the minister understands."

The expression on the emperor's face was relieved.

"How is that dusty woman named Hongxuan doing?"

Qian Du responded quickly.

"Indeed, as the county lord said, she was only sold on the day when the eldest prince of the Xiangfu went to the water dragon, as for who the other party is...... The time is too short, and he is still investigating, and now he only knows that the other party's power in the capital is not small. ”

"Not small?"

The emperor repeated, and then his voice cooled.

"I think it's huge, huh!"

Qian Du is noncommittal, and adheres to the fine tradition of not saying a single superfluous word.

"That's it, you keep having people look it up. That's right...... I haven't seen Beishui for a while, isn't he in charge of all these things related to the killer, why are you busy? ”

"Beishui has found some clues about the assassins during the spring hunt, and now he is doing his best to track them down, and he will definitely return to His Majesty as soon as he has the results."

Hearing this, the emperor nodded slightly.

"Alright, you can go down first."

Qian Du saluted and said respectfully.

"The minister retired."

Walking out of the Palace of Nourishing Hearts, Qian Du's little follower outside the palace gate was waiting for him with a lamp, the night was deep, and the candle flame was faint, like a lighthouse.

He paused slightly.

In the past, when he first entered the Scarlet Clear, someone once told him that the Scarlet Qing was a lamp in the boundless dark background on the other side of the Great Zhou.

Someone will have to do the dirtiest things in the night, wash away the most despicable ugliness, but in that process, Scarlet hands will never be clean.

This is a bit arrogant, even a little whimsical.

A dynasty, how many intertwined forces and ugliness are behind it, how can it be so easily controlled.

But when the man said it, it made people feel that it was not impossible. Because at that time, he had a chase in his hand, and no one could compete with him.

It's just that later the man no longer used the sword, and Scarlet Qing completely became a mysterious knife in the dark, dedicated to doing secret things for the emperor.

In fact, the current situation is not a bad thing for Qian Du, someone gave an order, and it would be good for Scarlet Qing to concentrate on it.

It doesn't matter if that's right or wrong.

It's just that occasionally he thinks of the past, and it should be a very good time for him to recall it from time to time like now.

The little follower was rarely stunned for a while when he saw his adult staring at the palace Qiong Yu in the distance, and felt a chill on his back, shouldn't something big happen?

Qian Du came back to his senses before he opened his mouth to ask, and gave a faint order.

"Send more people to the criminal department to guard."

"Yes."

The little follower kept up with Qian Du's footsteps, and he followed suit, and after waiting for a long time, he didn't hear the following, and finally couldn't help but ask.

"Just staring at the Criminal Department? What about the woman named Hongxuan? ”

"Leave her alone."

"Huh? That's Your Majesty......"

Before he finished speaking, he was glanced at by Qian Du, and that glance made the little follower feel cold.

"If it weren't for Your Majesty's intentions, I would say so?"

Although the emperor asked him to continue the investigation, when he said that the other party was "not small", but the emperor did not have any special reaction, Qian Du knew that the emperor already knew that person.

Judging from the conversation between the emperor and the county lord of Shaoyang that he heard in the Zichen Palace, nine times out of ten it is the person of His Royal Highness King An.

But the emperor chose to expose the past temporarily, and of course he, as a courtier, could not disobey the holy will.

After a pause, he reined in his momentum and reverted back to his lazy appearance.

"Alright, let's go down and do something, don't stick here."

"Huh? Oh, okay sir. ”

Watching the little follower disappear into the night, after a while, Qian Duyou sighed and went overtime late at night.

After the morning of the next day, Shangguan Li was summoned into the palace again.

This time the emperor met her in the imperial garden, and the capital has completely entered summer, with cicadas chirping and flowers and butterflies dancing.

The lotus flowers by the Wing Chun Pool are half blooming, and when the wind blows, the lotus fragrance and green shadows sway.

When Shangguan Li followed the little eunuch to the place, the emperor had not yet come.

"Your Majesty is stumped by political affairs, and I ask the county lord to wait for a while."

She certainly had nothing to say.

After a while, the little eunuch also left, and the huge imperial garden seemed to be the only one left at once.

Shangguan Li sat on the wooden railing of the pavilion, thinking about the purpose of the emperor's summoning her.

It should be related to the attack on the criminal department yesterday night.

Two groups of people, two princes, she can basically confirm this.

Feng Sichen would want to kill Shangguan Xun after reacting, as for Feng Sibei, although he looked very good at talking when he was in the teahouse, but as she expected, he still couldn't help but attack Shangguan Xun.

It's just that she didn't expect that these two people could even collide together, and the tacit understanding between the brothers was vividly reflected at this time.

It saved Gao Yong a lot of effort.

What should be shown to the emperor, she has already laid it out, and now it depends on the emperor's thoughts.