Yang Ruoning found Xiao Guizi outside Yanfu Palace.

"Miss Yang? Ah, no, no, Mrs. Love, is there any hurry? I saw you running all the way, you take your time first," he said, he beckoned a little eunuch next to him to come over, "What tea to give to Mrs. Luo," Then he turned his head to Yang Ruoning and said, "Mrs. Luo is here to find Your Majesty, right?" The emperor and Concubine Rong are still resting inside, and Mrs. Luo is afraid that she will have to wait a little longer. ”

"I'm here for you."

"Coming for me?" Xiao Guizi's face was full of doubts.

Yang Ruoning was very anxious, she didn't explain much, and directly pulled Xiao Guizi out of Yanfu Palace. After pulling Xiao Guizi to a secluded and uninhabited corner, she asked, "Xiao Guizi, I ask you, you have to tell me the truth." That day in the palace book fair, I asked you how many pieces of the emperor's hair, do you remember this? ”

Xiao Guizi immediately said, "Of course I remember, the first snow of that winter fell at the book exposé that day." You asked me for the emperor's hair, such a strange thing, how could I not remember? ”

"So did you go to the emperor's bedroom to find hair from the emperor's comb or bed as I got it?"

Xiao Guizi tilted his head and thought about it, and then he suddenly realized that he said, "Ah, I remember, those hairs were given by the emperor to Xiao. ”

"The emperor gave it to you?" When Yang Ruoning heard his answer, his heart suddenly cooled, he really didn't go to Qingye's hair according to his request. "So you didn't go looking for it as I asked?"

"The little one was going to go to the emperor's bedroom, but the little one happened to meet the emperor outside the palace. The emperor asked the little one what he was doing, how could the little one dare to deceive the emperor, so he truthfully told Miss Yang that it was Miss Yang who asked the little one to come to the emperor's dragon hair. ”

"So, where does the hair come from? Have you seen Aono plucked from his head and given it to you? ”

"No, the hair of the little one was in the purse when I got it."

"Oh? What does that mean? ”

"When the little one made it clear, the emperor took out a purse from his sleeve and told the little one that this was Longfa and asked me to give the purse to Miss Yang."

"So the purse is prepared in advance......" Yang Ruoning lowered her head, she bit her nails, and muttered to herself while thinking. Suddenly, she looked up and asked, "Do you know whose hair is in that purse?" ”

"Huh? Isn't the hair in the purse long-lived?! Xiao Guizi looked uncertain.

It really went wrong! Just ran all the way and kept praying in her heart that there was no mistake in the DNA sample she got, and Aono was really the exception to the 100-point system, but ...... Everything pointed to the outcome she didn't want to believe the most.

"Little Guizi, do you know where Jiang Qi is imprisoned?" Yang Ruoning was anxiously walking around in place, and suddenly she thought of something, paused, and asked Xiao Guizi. She knew that after Qingye returned to Bianliang, he did not immediately kill Jiang Qi, but imprisoned him in the palace. She thought that Qing Ye was thinking that Jiang Qi was his uncle, so she wanted to spare his life, but now, Yang Ruoning felt that Qing Ye actually had another purpose for leaving Jiang Qi.

"Ah, this ......," Xiao Guizi said, "where Lord Jiang is imprisoned...... I can't say anything about the small ones. ”

"Xiao Guizi, you look at me," Yang Ruoning grabbed Xiao Guizi's shoulder, "I'm Qingye's friend, Luo Yuan's wife, I helped Qingye return to the throne, I'm Qingye's most trusted person, so you tell me it's okay, the emperor won't blame you." ”

"But......" Xiao Guizi was still hesitating.

"I'm not going to tell anyone that you told me, I'm going to say I found it myself by accident. Even if the emperor blames it, I'll block it for you. ”

Yang Ruoning used both soft and hard, grinding Xiao Guizi for a long time, and then Xiao Guizi sighed, "Lord Jiang is locked in the northeast corner behind the Zichen Palace...... That's all I can tell you, it's not a big place, just look it up. ”

Xiao Guizi told Yang Ruoning that the location was in the northeast of the Imperial Garden, which was a few rows of courtyard-like houses, which were extremely simple compared with the residences of the emperor and the concubines in front, and were more like the places where the eunuchs and palace maids lived. Probably because it is behind the Zichen Hall, the sun is blocked by the majestic hall, so even in the hot and dazzling weather at the end of summer, it is still dark and cool here.

She had been to the palace many times, and she thought that she had visited every place here, but she only found out today that there were still such rows of houses behind the Zichen Palace.

She searched room by room, but found nothing. Judging from the tattered window paper and the thick dust falling from the furniture in these rooms, it is clear that these rooms have not been inhabited for a long time.

She searched all the way, and finally found the room in the corner of the last row of rooms, and she was a little distraught before pushing the door in. Xiao Guizi told her that Jiang Qi was locked behind the Zichen Palace, but she had been looking here for an hour and hadn't even seen a living creature, so she wondered if she had found the wrong place.

The door creaked open, and Yang Ruoning walked in. Even at 10 o'clock in the middle of the day, the room was dark. Yang Ruoning saw that the mottled walls of the room were covered with black and green mold; The decaying wooden furniture is covered with cobwebs; The murky air was filled with a disgusting smell of putrefaction—a rancid smell that made one wonder if some critter had died in the house.

The air in the room made Yang Ruoning almost breathless, and after a quick glance, she prepared to retreat. But just as she was about to withdraw, she suddenly heard a faint moan. Yang Ruoning became suspicious, she stepped into the house again and leaned into the inner room.

He had just taken two steps forward when the voice sounded again.

Inside the back room was a narrow, rotten black bed, with tattered curtains pulled down to block the view. It seemed that the sound came from there.

Jiang Qi? She approached softly. When she lifted the curtain, what she saw made her sit down on the ground in fright.

She couldn't describe the humanoid creature on the bed who groaned in pain. The 'zombie' had long since fallen out of shape, and all that was left was a scarlet bone, and it was festering all over its body, not an inch of intact skin, and yellow pus and black blood were oozing from the wound. That's where the stench came from.

Zombie?…… Zombies? Yang Ruoning screamed in fright.

"Who? Who is it? The 'zombie' heard her scream and asked.

Hearing the 'zombie' speak, Yang Ruoning calmed down a little, after all, the zombie apocalypse movie told her that zombies have no thinking and can't speak.

She got up from the ground with the audacity, and she stared at the person on the bed, hesitating to get closer. "Who are you?" She asked.

"Bold, what slave or maid dares to ...... So powerless...... The widow ......" just such a sentence, but he said it intermittently, as if every word he said required great physical strength.

"Widows? Are you the emperor? You are...... Jiang Qi?! ”

"How dare you ......"

Yang Ruoning calmed down, she stood up and walked to the side of the bed, she said to Jiang Qi, "Jiang Qi, I'm Yang Ruoning." ”

"You...... It's finally here...... I've been waiting for you for a long time......" Jiang Qi's eyeballs sunken in their sockets were cloudy and dim, and they stared at the ceiling blankly, as if they were no longer visible.

"Jiang Qi, who made you look like this?"

“…… It's Aono...... He came every day...... Rip off a piece of my flesh...... I know...... He's taking revenge......"

It turned out to be Qingye, Yang Ruoning didn't seem so surprised. When Qing Ye tried his best to keep Jiang Qi from dying, Luo Yuan had doubts, but she thought that Qing Ye did this because Jiang Qi was his uncle, and he was reluctant to kill his uncle, who he once regarded as his father. But Luo Yuan said that there was no family affection in the imperial city.

Yang Ruoning took a deep breath, and she continued to ask, "Jiang Qi, tell me, did Yuefeng have another child...... I'm afraid that the child has a serious physical defect......"

"Hehehehe...... You...... Finally I know......" Jiang Qi actually laughed weirdly - that kind of laughter was so terrifying, as if it was not a human laugh, as if he had really become a walking corpse.

Yang Ruoning's hairs stood on end, and she instinctively took a step back.

"What do I know?" She asked, trembling.

“…… You finally got it...... Aono ...... It's that kid's name...... He stole his name...... His life...... He won...... He got everything...... That scumbag, dirty bitch!! Jiang Qi finally roared out in a rage.

"He? Who is he? ”

"Miss Yang, depending on the relationship between the old man and Ruoxuan, can you ...... Help the old man ...... End? As he spoke, a tear fell from the corner of his eye, "Pain...... It really hurts...... All I want is ...... Instant death...... Ms Yeung...... Please......"

"Tell me, who is he?!" Yang Ruoning was in a hurry, she rushed over and grabbed Jiang Qi's collar and pulled him up.

"Hahaha, he's just a lowly ......" Before Jiang Qi's words were finished, a long sword pierced his head.