Chapter 3 Suspicion of Theft

"Phew!" the right gate of the imperial city raised a puff of smoke and dust, the soldiers guarding the door were about to draw their swords, a man in the middle of the smoke and dust turned over and dismounted, handed out a token, the two put away their swords and hurriedly muttered "Little faux pas!" The smoke and dust dissipated, and it was General Qiao and Master Lu who looked at it, and after the door was opened, the two turned into the city instead, and when they entered the gate, the city suddenly opened up, and they never thought that the outer city in the imperial city was bigger than the civilian place outside the city, and the two horses ran fast, and the horse's hooves echoed loudly on the bright green bricks. After running for a while, I saw a bridge from a distance, and a pair of white jade lions at the head of the bridge were open with angry eyes, and several pairs of small lions of different shapes were symmetrically inlaid on the bridge.

When the two of them came to the bridge, they turned over and dismounted, and there was a stable beside them, and a dark-skinned stable, with sunken cheeks, came over, looking about twelve or thirteen years old. Two of them. Official. Official. Horse. Horse.. Just.." Before he could finish speaking, General Qiao handed over the reins of the two horses, "Give me the horse card, hurry up!" The little pony took the reins tremblingly, took the horse card from his trouser pocket in a panic, accidentally scattered it all over the ground, and hurriedly knelt down to pick it up and handed it to the two, his thin body kept trembling, "Official, I'm sorry! Official, I'm sorry" The hands handed over were full of red scars and whip marks, and he was frightened to speak coherently, and he didn't stutter at all. In the distance, a thin middle-aged man with a mustache walked over, "Oh, isn't this General Qiao! What's the matter, this little rabbit cub hit the adult? I..." As he spoke, he drew a horsewhip from his waist and was about to whip the ponyman, but General Qiao caught the flying whip, "It's okay, I accidentally bumped into him!" I was in a hurry, Master, please come here!" He turned to Master Lu and said. Lu Ziang picked up the kneeling ponyman, patted him on the shoulder, and turned to leave. The two were not far apart, and the screeching and cursing of the horsewhip whipping the air sounded behind them, Lu Ziang sighed and shook his head.

"Master, but your heart has relented? This situation is a common thing in the palace, and the officials and senior officials crush people to death at the first level, and they will even give their lives when they meet someone with bad conduct!

"Xiaosheng just sighed, parents send some unimportant children to sell into the palace to do miscellaneous labor for the sake of the family, and there are other children who die to support the elderly.

"Master, it's more than sadness! Let's hurry as soon as possible!" "The literati are so angry, they chant a poem in the wind, they read a pair of books in the snow, and they shake out all the beauty when they meet the beauty, and when the silver is spent, they mumble when they are a little lazy. As soon as General Qiao smelled this sour smell, he didn't debate with him, as the so-called Xiucai couldn't tell if he saw the soldiers, the two had different thinking logics, and their values were naturally the same, so it was better to change their words. The two walked on the white jade bridge, looked closer, the two watchman lions became taller and taller, and the white jade eyes burned their vision from time to time under the sun, making people feel empty, and the two hurriedly crossed the bridge in three steps. A tall city gate stands behind the bridge, a gate in the middle is the main gate, there is a gate on each side, there is a building directly above the gate, there is a plaque hanging high on the upper floor, there are three gold edged characters on the Huangji Gate, there are many brocade guards stationed outside the gatehouse, Lu Ziang was about to walk towards the main gate, and was pulled by Qiao Chenpei, "Master and slow! This main gate can only be walked by the saint today, the west gate is for the royal family to enter and exit, let's go to the east gate! If you are seen, you will be killed!"

Lu Ziang wiped his sweat, "Thank you for the general's reminder, Xiaosheng is rude! When I first entered the imperial gate, I didn't know the etiquette, and I hope the general can tell me earlier!"

"The master is serious, follow the last general and relax!" The two hurried away, crossed the Huangji Gate, and came to His Royal Highness, General Qiao asked the steward eunuch, at this time the saint should be in the imperial study, and the two hurried to the imperial study.

A few years of cold window nights, high school into the Dragon Palace! The jade under the feet is a brick, and the dancing ink gold is a page! There are phoenix feathers in the hanging window, and the pearls are shining in the night!

This Master Lu was full of feelings, General Qiao in front of him had stopped, turned his head sideways, and there was a golden plaque hanging on top of a Chinese hall, the imperial study! General Qiao attached a few words in the ear of the little eunuch attached to the door, the little eunuch bowed respectfully, walked into the hall, and came out in a few moments, calling the two into the hall!

The two of them entered the hall, and saw a person standing behind the bookcase in the hall, with neat and neat hair, sword eyebrows and nose, fair skin, a yellow robe draped over the body, a purple python jade girdle, a jade jade with a blue blood jade in his left hand, his right hand behind him, and several palace maids serving beside him, some with a long-handled fan, some peeling lychees, and picking watermelon seeds with silver needles. Presumably, this person is the saint of the day, this dress is very suitable, but it looks a little funny on a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, but the whole person of the little emperor reveals a heroic spirit! The two came to the bookcase, knelt down and shouted, "The last general (grass people) see the emperor!"

"Pingshen, I don't know what's important!?" The little emperor's immature voice echoed in the hall.

"Qi Qi Shengshang! This person is Lu Ziang, a gentleman who is extremely accurate in folk divination, and the last general wants to ask the Holy Lord for permission, so that the two of them can inquire about last night's affairs in the palace!"

The little emperor stepped down from the platform with a kick, the eunuch next to him hurriedly went over to help, the little emperor waved his hand and repulsed, and looked at Lu Ziang carefully, seeing that Lu Ziang's heart was hairy, and beads of sweat oozed from his forehead.

"Is it really accurate?I've been a little troubled lately, why don't you help me solve it?"

"The saint is serious, the gentleman doesn't dare to be, the grass people should share the emperor's worries and solve problems! dare to ask the saint what is the trouble?" Lu Ziang's raised hand trembled a little.

"You might as well calculate what I'm worried about!" the little emperor smiled playfully, thinking that if he couldn't answer, he would be punished for the crime of bullying the king.

"The grass people dare to borrow the holy hand of the saint!" The little emperor handed it over, Lu Ziang knelt with his head bowed, one hand supporting the little emperor's palm, Shaoqing, "I don't know if I can please ask the saint to invite the eunuchs and palace maids who have served and eaten here in the past few days?"

The little emperor waved his hand at the little eunuch next to him, and after a while, there were more than a dozen eunuchs and palace maids standing in the hall, all with their heads bowed.

"Excuse me, please reach out!" Lu Ziang said.

Seeing that the little emperor nodded, everyone stretched out their right hands. Lu Ziang touched one and stayed for a while, touched one by one, and halfway through, a little eunuch was about sixteen or seventeen, with high cheekbones and small eyes, and a slight buck teeth! Lu Ziang said to the emperor, "This is the person the saint is looking for!"

As soon as the words fell, the little eunuch Lima knelt down, "Your Majesty! The slave is wronged!" It turns out that the little emperor's meal has been missing a few pieces recently, and he is secretly looking for someone to keep an eye on the little eunuch who already knows that it is such a little eunuch who steals food, and is planning to treat him.

The two of them looked for the eunuch on duty in the imperial study last night, and the narrative was no different from the description of General Qiao before, the little emperor left the imperial study when he was united, and the maid in the clean room found that the seal box on the book case was opened, and the seal inside was missing, and hurriedly reported to the chief eunuch that it was indeed lost, and immediately went around to investigate, and could not find any clues in these places, so he sought this folk strange person.

Sure enough, Master Lu didn't count any useful clues, and the two of them visited the imperial study, the imperial pharmacy Wenhua Hall around the imperial study, and the eunuchs and palace maids on duty in Wenzhao Pavilion and Wuzhao Pavilion without any clues.

"Master, how is it! Do you have any clue?" Lu Ziang shook his head, and his heart began to be a little frightened, worried that he would be killed. Maybe you will ask, this divination technique can really touch the hand to calculate the past and the future? Maybe there is really an immortal master Taoist can calculate one or two, that is also vague, the so-called heavenly machine can not be revealed, the accurate calculation is either to heaven or into the earth, no matter how it is taken away, even if there is still in the world, this I Ching Taoist art will only live in seclusion in the mountains and forests, practice the way of heaven alone, talk about inaction, go with the flow, naturally will not come out to change other people's life chart luck with their own strength. This Lu Ziang naturally doesn't have such a powerful ability to conquer the heavens and the earth, so his deeds that made him famous are actually other articles!