Cloud Palace.

"Weichen Luo Ping, see Your Majesty!"

Luo Ping quickly entered the hall, saluted respectfully, and said loudly.

As he spoke, he also glanced at Li Wuji beside him, intentionally or unintentionally, and his heart tightened.

Originally, he was a little puzzled about what Leng Yue had done just now, but after seeing Li Anhou, he instantly understood.

After thinking of this, Luo Ping couldn't help but shrink his neck, and the jealousy of Anhou in his heart deepened a little.

"Have you ever been caught by someone who escaped?!"

The empress asked loudly with a calm face.

"Back to Your Majesty, Weichen led people to check the entire capital, but he never caught it."

Luo Ping came back to his senses and said with a look of self-reproach.

"I've really raised you bunch of waste for nothing!"

The empress frowned in disappointment and couldn't help but say.

"Weichen knows his mistakes, and I hope His Majesty will forgive his sins..."

Luo Ping shrunk his neck and said in fear.

"In my opinion, you, like Leng Yue, have been sitting in the position of commander for too long, and you have forgotten what your duties are!"

"I ordered you to be the commander of the capital camp guard to protect the security of the capital, but you let dozens of remnants of the Ning Kingdom easily blend into the capital!"

"What do I want you for?!"

The empress looked at Luo Ping coldly and said in a deep voice.

"Weichen is derelict in his duties, I hope Your Majesty will forgive me!"

"Please also ask Your Majesty to give Wechen some more time, Wechen will definitely catch the fish that slipped through the net!"

Luo Ping trembled his lips and said nervously.

"Your Majesty, in fact, this matter is not Lord Luo's dereliction of duty."

At this moment, Li Wuji, who was standing aside, suddenly opened his mouth.

"Oh? What do you say about leaving? ”

The empress hesitated for a moment and asked in a deep voice, although there was still a majesty that could not be offended between her words, her attitude had eased significantly.

"According to the investigation, not all of these rebels have recently infiltrated the capital, and most of them should have been lurking in the capital for a long time."

"Also, in my opinion, since the other party can hide in the capital for so long, there must be other ways to leave the capital, I'm afraid He Tianrui has already fled the capital at this time, and there will be no results if I want to investigate it again."

Li Wuji bowed his hand and said slowly, that is, he was speaking for Luo Ping, but he was not obviously partial.

"Well, what Liqing said makes sense."

The empress frowned and pondered for a while, nodded, and said slowly.

Seeing that the empress was discouraged, Luo Ping, who was kneeling on the ground, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart was full of gratitude to Li Wuji.

"Okay, I didn't close my eyes much last night, I'm a little tired, you all stand down."

"Although Liqing has a merit in eradicating the opposition party, he has always let the people behind the scenes escape, so the merit will be offset."

The empress waved her hand, and while giving the eviction order, she looked at Li Wuji seriously and said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Li Wuji looked grateful and hurriedly saluted.

After that, everyone retired one after another and left the main hall.

The empress sat on the couch, her brows furrowed slightly, and she reached out and gently pressed her forehead with a faint pain.

At this moment, the black-robed man slowly walked out of the corner, came to the front, stopped and looked at the door of the main hall, and his eyes exposed outside the mask couldn't help but narrow.

"You send someone to check if the person who escaped is He Tianrui, if it is him, even if he escapes to the ends of the earth, he must be killed!"

The empress closed her eyes and said in a deep voice while massaging.

"Yes!"

The black-robed man came back to his senses, turned around and saluted respectfully, and replied in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty, you have really decided on the matter of Cold Moon?"

The black-robed man hesitated for a moment and asked slowly.

"Hmph, I'm disappointed not because she lost to Li'anhou, but because of her stupidity!"

"She has been fighting with Li An Hou Ming for so long, has she ever won once?!"

"I wanted to use her to contain Anhou, but she disappointed me again and again! In that case, what's the use of keeping her?! ”

The empress snorted coldly and said with a dissatisfied expression.

"Leaving Anhou to do things, if it really doesn't leak, what Fang just said, his subordinates can't tell which sentence is true and which sentence is false."

The black-robed man hesitated for a moment, and said with some solemnity.

"You're suspicious of him too?"

The empress slowly opened her eyes and asked lightly.

"It's hard to say, it seems that Your Majesty has to try him again, so as not to have many dreams in the future."

"After all, he offended the Lingyao Sword Sect and Qilin Mountain one after another, and on the last trip to the north, he was assassinated by the Lingyao Sword Sect and Qilin Mountain, which already shows that these two factions can no longer tolerate him!"

"If Your Majesty wants to protect him, you must make sure that he has no two hearts."

The black-robed man paused for a moment and said seriously.

"Reasonable."

"Then I'll leave this matter to you, I still have a New Year's banquet to attend in the evening, I'm a little tired."

The empress waved her hand, and as she spoke, she got up and walked towards the dormitory.

The black-robed man agreed and said goodbye.

…

Away from Anhou Mansion.

After returning to the house, Li Wuji immediately ordered the back kitchen to make some food, and was sitting in the main hall of the front yard to enjoy it.

After tossing all night, he was really hungry and tired, although he had been invited to the palace for a banquet when he left the palace, but he knew that he would not be able to eat enough on such occasions, so it was better to fill his stomach before going.

Up and down the Hou Mansion, there are lights everywhere, full of festive atmosphere, Li Wuji also wrote couplets in person, and the people below are arranging, and everyone's face is filled with the joy of the festival.

But they didn't know that their master had just experienced a war without gunpowder.

This time, it was an unexpected joy to be able to bring down Leng Yue, who had always been his enemy everywhere, so he was in a good mood.

However, looking at the table full of delicacies, he was the only one to enjoy it, and he was a little inexplicably lonely from Wuji.

Although Pang Xiaoxiao does not often stay in the shops now, because the people of Wuji ordered the people to prepare a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for the old people who have no children and no daughters in the capital today, Pang Xiaoxiao has been busy with this matter for the past few days.

As for the saintess Su Wanqing, she was arranged by Wuji to do something else a few days ago, and she has never returned.

At this moment, footsteps came, and Cao Zi'an and Dillon returned to the Hou Mansion together and walked quickly into the main hall.

"Didn't you eat it? Come on, come on, sit down and have a bite to eat. ”

Li Wuji glanced at the two of them, smiled and beckoned.

It's always boring to eat alone, and you can't eat any fragrance, and Lu Yuan, this kid, never sits at the same table with Li Wuji because he respects Li Wuji very much.

"Childe, we're not hungry, just eat by yourself."

Cao Zi'an smiled and waved his hand and said slowly.

Dillon also shook his head vigorously.

Although they had once sat at the same table with Li Wuji, now it was different from the past, and there were more and more rules in the Hou Mansion.

"How's it going?"

Li Wuji reluctantly ate a few bites and put down his chopsticks and asked lightly.

"Back to Gongzi, He Tianrui has escaped from the capital, and the holy woman has already gone out of the city, and after confirming He Tianrui's whereabouts, he will be handed over to Qingxuanmen for secret surveillance."

Dillon bowed and said slowly.

"How's his injury?"

Li Wuji continued to ask lightly.

After all, He Tianrui is an important figure in the remnants of Ning Kingdom, and he is still waiting for Wuji to do things for himself in the future, and he doesn't want him to die like that.

"The injuries are a bit severe, but they should be fine."

Dillon replied slowly.

"Well, what about you?"

Li Wuji nodded with satisfaction, glanced at Cao Zi'an, and then asked.

"The subordinates have already sent someone to settle Yun Ling'er in Wuji Building, and she also knows her situation, so she is quite cooperative."

Cao Zi'an bowed and replied slowly.

"That's good!"

"Send someone to keep an eye on her, and don't allow her to take half a step out of Wuji Tower without my permission."

Li Wuji nodded and said in a deep voice.

For him, Yun Ling'er is a double-edged sword, and at a critical moment, he can hold Yun Ling'er hostage to control the old department of Ning Guo to do things for himself.

But if he was not careful, he would also incur the disaster of killing himself, so from the beginning, he didn't want Yun Ling'er to appear by his side frequently, just a puppet.

"Yes!"

Cao Zi'an bowed and replied respectfully.

"Okay, take it, I don't have much appetite, I have to go to the palace for a banquet in the evening, go and squint for a while."

"Get ready for the New Year's gift to the Empress."

Li Wuji got up slowly, waved his hand and said a word, got up and left the main hall, and walked to the backyard.

Cao Zi'an agreed, frowned slightly, his face was a little solemn, he hesitated for a moment, and finally swallowed all the words that came to his mouth...