The Imperial Palace, the Pavilion of the Heart.

Kai Chenze was accustomed to squinting his eyes and listening to Ling Zuo's report in the audience.

"Your Majesty, according to the spy reports, the representatives of the Bawang families in the south have arrived in Beijing one after another in recent days, and the people of the Yu family have also arrived. ”

Ling Zuo stood straight down and said respectfully: "Among them, there are 2,752 people in the open place, 74 in the foothold, and 568 people in the dark place. ”

"Regardless of their property, the Cui family and the Wang family have frequent activities, and all the families in Beijing have contact, and they have visited the five major families in a row, but except for the Mu family who received gifts, the other four families all rejected them......"

"Hah...... That kid is really still unprofitable, and he never spits out good things in his mouth, so it would be strange if he didn't accept it!"

"Huh...... Yes......" Ling Zuo said with a smile.

"By the way, you mentioned the Yu family just now...... The Yu family ......" Kai Chenze smiled and muttered softly, "Who is the person from the Yu family this time?"

Ling Zuo hurriedly said: "The Yu family has just arrived by boat today, and on the surface it is the Yu family's fourth-room Yu Kechan who is in charge, but it is the second-room eldest daughter Yu Mengying who is secretly in charge. ”

Kai Chenze said with interest: "Oh? is it the Yu Mengying known as 'Duxiu Jiangnan'?"

Ling Zuo replied with a smile: "Exactly, it is said that this woman has been familiar with hundreds of schools since she was a child, proficient in the six arts, participated in the affairs of the clan when she was a teenager, and relied on the power of a woman to subdue the families, and then there was an endless stream of courtiers, but many talented sons were impressed by it, ashamed, there was no one who came to seek relatives, and it is rumored that this woman has the appearance of the country......"

Kai Chenze interrupted: "I'm just curious! ”

Ling Zuo hurriedly explained: "The slave has said a lot, if Your Majesty ......"

Kai Chenze said with a smile: "You just need to take care of your own affairs, don't think about this mess, I don't want to do this for the time being." ”

"Yes!"

Ling Zuo replied, but in his heart, he was secretly thinking, when His Majesty was young and vigorous, why was it wrong...... Wait, I've heard the cubs mention it before, it seems that His Majesty is very interested in a little girl in Namu Mansion, do you like this?

It's no wonder that Ling Zuo thinks blindly, once a son of heaven and a courtier, not only for foreign ministers, but also for internal servants, although he is in charge of the Investigation Department, his power is not small, but he has never understood who this scenery comes from!

If it weren't for the right position in the struggle for imperial power this time, otherwise no matter which new emperor ascended the throne, the first thing would be to take himself first, and those foreign ministers would not say anything, and it would be good if they didn't fall into the ground.

The Investigation Department is the sharpest blade in the hands of the emperor, and what matters to him now is to become the new emperor's henchman in the shortest possible time, so he must find out His Majesty's preferences.

Does Your Majesty like Lori? Hmm? Maybe, you can give it a try......

"Ahem......" Kai Chenze saw that he was absent-minded, and he didn't know what he was thinking, but if he knew that he thought of himself as Loricon, he would definitely scold.

Ling Zuo hurriedly came back to his senses and said contemplatively, "What does Your Majesty command?"

After a while, Kai Chenze seemed to have made a decision, and said in an unclear tone: "You go and prepare, I want to go to the shadow room." ”

Ling Zuo was shocked when he heard this, and exclaimed, "Your Majesty!"

"I've made up my mind. ”

"Old slave...... Yes!"

............

The imperial palace is composed of two parts, "the former dynasty" and the "inner court", surrounded by the city wall, surrounded by the tube river on all sides, there are corner towers at the four corners of the city, and there is a gate on each side, it is considered to be the palace of "the center of the transport, the temporary system of the four directions".

In a word: wide.

Each palace and each hall, divided into an orderly manner, after many dynasties and dozens of generations of emperors, the pavilion is newly built, and naturally there will be abandoned courtyards.

Located in an inconspicuous courtyard in the southwest corner of the palace, overgrown with weeds, separated from the outside by a wall, but it is a world of difference, with dilapidated windows, painted paint washed away by rain, and dusty carved railings like beasts, which at a glance look like no one has lived in for a long time.

"Squeak!!

The dilapidated door was opened, Ling Zuo walked in and waved his sleeve, driving away the flying dust, and then Kai Chenze walked in.

"Your Majesty walks slowly. Ling Zuo said on the side.

Kai Chenze looked around at the environment in the courtyard and frowned, "Here?"

Ling Zuo replied: "Yes, since the first emperor ascended the throne, this place has been closed, and it is strictly forbidden for palace people to come and go, so it is deserted." ”

Kai Chenze nodded and said, "Well, lead the way!"

Ling Zuo carefully led Kai Chenze inside, came to the door, and buckled five times of varying severity, and then the dusty gatehouse slowly opened.

The figure flickered, and two black-clothed people appeared from inside, impressedly dressed in the same clothes as Nan Tianyi met in the Wanjuan Building.

The two of them did not make a sound, but knelt on one knee in unison, waiting for orders.

Kai Chenze glanced at the two of them and ordered, "Open the door." ”

The two of them got up and walked to the main hall, and moved the two stone sculptures on the wall in opposite directions, only to see that the wall in front of them cracked, revealing a dark passageway.

Ling Zuo stepped forward and stood at the entrance of the secret passage, clapping his hands heavily.

Smack!

There was a loud sound, and a line of fire formed on the walls on both sides, which continued to extend downward, illuminating the entire passage.

Ling Zuo greeted Kai Chenze, led the way in front, and slowly walked down, while the two black-clothed men stood at the entrance of the passage, motionless like sculptures.

There was a musty smell in the passage, it smelled bad, and it was underground, although it had been treated, it was still a little damp, and it turned left, and there were two forks in the road.

In the end, Ling Zuo suddenly stopped halfway, and without waiting for Kai Chenze to ask, Ling Zuo explained: "Your Majesty, although there is still a way to go down, it is full of shutdowns, and it is a life of death, and the real entrance will not be thought of by anyone, so it is set on this halfway." ”

Ling Zuo pressed a few stone slabs the wall, and suddenly a secret door opened, and the flames on the side extended in.

"Your Majesty waited. ”

After speaking, Ling Zuo knocked on a hollow stone slab three more times, and after a while, there was a sound of the mechanism turning, and finally it stopped abruptly.

"Your Majesty, it's safe now. ”

Kai Chenze looked at this heavy mechanism, and couldn't help but sigh that this shadow room really deserves its name.

When he was a prince in the past, Kai Chenze still inadvertently knew that there was such a place, if the black prison is the darkest place in the entire Dahua, then this shadow room is the darkest place for the royal family, and the people who are imprisoned are all involved in royal secrets, and this place is only mastered after he ascended the throne.

After walking for another cup of tea, he came to a bright and wide hall, surrounded by various crystals for lighting, and five black-clothed men flashed out from the side, kneeling to greet Kaichenze.

The whole hall is semi-circular, with a total of three stone doors, each of which is engraved with a huge "shadow" character.

"Where are the people?" said Kai Chenze with a blank face.

A man in black may have not spoken for a long time, and said in a hoarse voice: "Your Majesty, this one on the left is." ”

Ling Zuo made a look, and several black-clothed men walked up to the stone door, opened three small holes, and took out a few keys, twisting them in different orders at the same time.

"Click!"

A crack opened in the stone door, and several people pushed it open with a heavy sound.

Kai Chenze stepped in, and Ling Zuo followed closely behind.

Kai Chenze waved his hand and said, "You wait outside." ”

Just as he was about to continue walking, he found that Ling Zuo was still behind him, frowned, and looked back, "Didn't you hear my orders?"

Ling Zuo bent his body and said firmly: "The old slave doesn't dare, but Your Majesty must not be alone." ”

"It's okay!"

Ling Zuo knelt on the ground and said solemnly: "Even if there is only a trace of danger, Your Majesty must not easily make a mistake, the old slave can die, but I hope that Your Majesty will put the country and the people of the world first." ”

Kai Chenze stared at Ling Zuo expressionlessly, seeing that he did not back down, he sneered in his heart, this old eunuch was a little interesting.

"Then you follow. ”

After speaking, Kai Chenze brushed his sleeves away.

Obviously, the passage here is much more wide, and after walking down for a while, a bright light came, and Kaichenze squinted for a moment before he could see the hall clearly.

Different from the gloomy atmosphere outside, this place is more like an ordinary temple, magnificent, far from the scene of prison that Kaichen Ze originally wanted to be imprisoned.

"Oh, how long has it been...... Someone is here again!"

There was a sigh from the side, and a middle-aged man came out from behind a stone pillar, dressed in a robe, with his long hair draped behind him in an orderly manner, and an ancient book in his hand.

Kai Chenze crossed Ling Zuo, who had already been in front of him, walked over, looked straight at the comer, and smiled slightly.

"Uncle Six Emperors, the demeanor is still the same!"