Chapter 988: Suspicious Candidate

Ji Lianyi is missing......

It was lunchtime, and the palace maid who couldn't find Ji Lianyi didn't dare to slack off, so she hurried to report to the little emperor. But the little emperor took Shen Lang out of the palace to play, but he couldn't find it anywhere. It wasn't until the time of the unitary that Nangong Ao happily returned to the palace to learn about it.

Nangong was shocked, and hurriedly and Shen Lang personally took the inner guards to look around.

As a result, I searched the entire palace, but there was no trace of Ji Lianyi.

"Was it taken captive, or did you flee on your own?" Nangong Ao muttered, suddenly remembering the cave next to him, he immediately ran to the firewood room, and sure enough, the door of the cave was open.

Nangong Ao glanced up at Shen Lang and said, "It seems that this is where you go." ”

Shen Lang nodded: "It should be right." Fang Cai Weichen asked the guards on duty, and they all said that they didn't find anything abnormal. They thought that the guards were so good that they wouldn't let someone as big as Empress Dowager Ji go out without noticing. ”

"However, the queen mother will be disguised!"

"No matter how easy you look, you have to get out of Liwuyuan in the end, and you have to walk out of the palace. However, when I asked the guards guarding the gate of the Igo Courtyard and the entrance of the palace, they all said that no one had passed by the gate all day today, or that they had found anyone going over the wall. They only saw two people out of the palace, and that was you, and me! Shen Lang was very determined.

"So what are we waiting for? Uh, I'm afraid of the dark, you go ahead, Master Taifu! Nangong Ao, who ran out, ran back again, hiding behind Shen Lang and tugging at the corner of his clothes.

After all, he is a six-year-old child, with a bright nature and strong martial arts, but he is afraid of the dark. Haha, this makes the seventeen-year-old boy Shen Lang finally mentally balanced!

Shen Lang raised his chin arrogantly and walked ahead.

In this cave, Nangong Ao once heard someone say it, and now, it can be regarded as walking into it himself.

After carefully inspecting every corner, they finally found the newly dug tunnel, and walked through the tunnel, and found the rotting corpses in the tunnel, smelling the stench. Nangong Ao grabbed the corner of Shen Lang's clothes more closely, urging him to leave quickly.

The two of them walked again, walked and walked, and finally found the dazzling light, and then continued to walk, came to the entrance of the cave, stood in the spring breeze, and found that they were standing halfway up the pear mountain.

"Your Majesty, don't say a little, someone must have taken the Empress Dowager Ji away from here. Looking at the soil in this cave, it is clear that it was newly dug, and looking at the work and the number of rotting corpses, it took no less than three months. And in the past three months, Empress Dowager Ji has either been imprisoned in Kudan or in Liwuyuan, how can she go to these people to work for her? So, someone must be doing it. The goal is clear. And this person is still a person who has been to the cave and is familiar with the terrain. Shen Lang analyzed methodically.

Nangong Ao immediately replied: "Reasonable." I have two suspicious candidates in mind. The first is the dumb slave Tang Zhongqing. He has not appeared, his whereabouts are unknown, and the queen mother has said that she wants me to seek revenge on him. Could it be that he took the initiative to come to the door before he found him? The second is the left owl. Zuo Xiao also went to the cave in the ground. I'm thinking, how could Aunt Mei'er be so generous and not afraid of this mother-killing revenge? Could it be that for fear of starting a war between the two countries, she pretended not to pursue it during the negotiation and returned the queen mother to me, but then secretly Chen Cang ordered Zuo Xiao to take the queen mother away to avenge her mother? ”

Shen Lang pondered and hesitated: "Indeed, it is possible!" ”

"So, Master Taifu," Nangong Ao immediately commanded, "I now decree that there are two things for you to do. First, you immediately send someone to inspect the entire Lishan and Licheng, and close the gates of Licheng, so as not to let go of any suspicious characters, especially the disabled; Second, when I wrote to Aunt Mei'er, I said, 'I want my mother'. ”