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Chapter 1435: Silla's Maid
Li Ye hurried to Xingqing Palace again, but did not see Xiao Hong. He asked the eunuch in charge of Xingqing Palace, "Where is the woman who brought the child to cause trouble?"

The eunuch in charge bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the emperor has found a house outside to temporarily settle her down, and is waiting for Your Majesty to come back to deal with it."

Li Ye nodded and went directly to his father's study, where he saw Li Nan and Li Fang practicing calligraphy. Li Ye suddenly sighed in his heart, "Aren't these two children the same? Without solid evidence, he also recognized them."

He began to understand his father's feelings a little.

Li Dai, who was in the study, saw his son coming and hushed him softly, indicating that they should not disturb the two children from practicing calligraphy. He then pointed to the next room.

The father and son came to the next room. Li Dai knew why Li Ye came. He sighed and said, "I am not being unreasonable. There are some things your mother doesn't know, so I didn't tell her the truth."

"Father, sit down and talk!"

Li Dai sat down. He was a little embarrassed to speak, but he finally gritted his teeth and said, "During that time, your mother and I had a conflict. I was very lonely, and Xiao Hong took the opportunity to seduce me. I couldn't resist, so I had sex with her more than a dozen times in the study. Otherwise, I would never have given her three thousand strings of money."

"Then why didn't father just take her as a concubine?" Li Ye asked.

"I originally wanted to take her as my concubine, and I would have insisted even if your mother objected. But later I found out that she was the one who was spying on me, and I immediately hated her."

"What happened next? Did father contact her again?"

Li Dai nodded. "After she left, a few years later, she came to me twice, both times asking for money. I gave her five hundred strings of cash once, and three hundred strings of cash once."

"Does the father know that she gave birth to a child?"

Li Dai shook his head and sighed, "If I had known, I would have taken the child back a long time ago."

"But child, does your father think it is true?" Li Ye asked.

Li Dai lowered his head for a long while, and finally said: "To be honest, I don't know if it is my child. I think if it is my child, she would have brought it to me a long time ago, and would not have dragged it on until now. But the child's eyebrows and eyes do look a bit like me, and I want to recognize him."

"Has the father seen the child?"

Li Dai smiled bitterly, "I hid at the door and took a peek."

Li Ye pondered for a moment and said, "I'll let Liu Wutong investigate this matter personally. Mother will let her stay in Huaqing Palace for a while. Father should not contact that woman anymore. Wait until I have investigated the matter thoroughly."

Li Dai also knew that his son's reputation was extremely important and could not be easily tarnished. He nodded and said, "I'll wait for your news!"

Li Ye returned to the palace and immediately sent someone to find Liu Wutong. Li Chenghua had been appointed as the Anxi Road Surveillance Envoy, representing himself to inspect Anxi, Beiting and Hezhong. Liu Wutong was officially promoted to the commander-in-chief of the inner guards.

Liu Wutong cooperated with Li Ye to carry out drastic reforms of the Internal Security. Although he was not as meticulous as Li Chenghua, he was resolute and efficient and carried out orders to the letter, completing the reform in the shortest time possible, which made Li Ye very satisfied.

"I am here to see you, Your Majesty!"

Li Ye hesitated for a moment and said, "I'm calling you so late because I have a personal matter that I'd like you to investigate. To be more precise, it's the matter of the Emperor!"

"what!"

Liu Wutong was surprised and said quickly, "Your Majesty, just give your orders!"

"Do you remember a maid named Xiaohong?"

"Of course I remember. She kept pestering the Emperor, and later the Emperor sent her money twice, both of which were arranged by me."

"Now she has brought another child here, insisting that it is the child of the Emperor Emeritus, which has caused a conflict between the Emperor Emeritus and the Empress Dowager. I want you to investigate in person to see if this child is the Emperor Emeritus's child or not."

Liu Wutong sighed, "I knew this would happen sooner or later!"

"why?"

"I have long discovered that woman is not easy to deal with. I have advised the emperor not to let her get away with it, otherwise she will never stop. But the emperor still softened his heart."

"The Emperor had an intimate relationship with her, so it's normal for him to have some feelings for her. These are not important. What's important is whether the child is the Emperor's. Investigate it yourself, and don't leave it to your subordinates."

"I will start the investigation tonight."

Li Ye nodded, "Tell me immediately if there is any progress, no matter what it is!"

"I humbly obey my orders!"

Liu Wutong bowed and left in a hurry. Wang Sili woke up in the middle of the night and felt extremely thirsty. He shouted incoherently, "Woo woo!"

Soon, a glass of water was brought to him and he was helped up. Wang Sili naturally took the glass and drank a sip of water.

Suddenly, he spurted out again. This was not water at all, but clearly extremely smelly blood.

He looked back and recognized the person next to him at once. He was immediately frightened out of his wits. How could the beaten dead Sang Gan appear in front of him?

"Master, according to the custom in my hometown, when you send your master off, you must give him a bowl of goat's blood."

Wang Sili was horrified and reached out to grab the bell on the table. Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his throat, and all the strength in his body seemed to be drained.

He watched helplessly as a large amount of blood spurted out of his throat and his whole body gradually lost consciousness. Wang Sili let out a mournful cry. He had fought on the battlefield for half his life, but in the end, he died at the hands of a Kunlun slave.

The next morning, the Wannian County Court received a report that the Right Guard General Wang Sili was killed by his servant the night before. The servant had fled and his whereabouts were unknown.

The Wannian County Government was horrified. On the one hand, it asked the internal guards for help, and on the other hand, it sent a large group of detectives to Wang Sili's mansion to seal off the scene.

Soon, the Internal Guard also sent an investigation team to the scene, followed by the Privy Councilor Guo Ziyi who also hurried over.

"Have you found out?" Guo Ziyi asked.

The general of the inner guard clasped his fists and said, "Reporting to the old general, it has been confirmed that Kunlun Nusanggan was the murderer!"

"What's the reason?"

"This Kunlun slave has been responsible for taking care of General Wang. He accidentally angered the general the day before yesterday and was beaten with a hundred sticks and thrown into prison. He escaped from prison in the middle of the night last night and killed the general in revenge!"

"How did he escape from prison?" Guo Ziyi continued to ask.

"This Kunlun slave was very skilled in martial arts. He had the ability to pretend to be dead. His heartbeat and breathing were gone. The jailer thought he was dead, so he dragged him out of the cell, wrapped his body in a mat, and prepared to bury it at dawn.

Unexpectedly, he was pretending. He went back to the house, got a dagger, and killed the general. All his valuables were taken away, and he also took a large bag of silver coins from the general's room, a total of 500 coins. "

Guo Ziyi went to see the murder scene and Wang Sili's body again, then hurried back to the Daming Palace to report to the emperor.

At this time, Liu Wutong was reporting the preliminary results of his investigation to Emperor Li Ye.

"These past two days, I have visited Xiaohong's former friends and other maids in the mansion and learned an important clue. When Xiaohong seduced the master, she already had a lover in the mansion. This person was originally my subordinate, named Zheng Xiaoze, from Nanzheng, Hanzhong. A few days after Xiaohong was driven out of the mansion, he also resigned and left on the pretext of his grandfather's death. I suspect that they have been together all along, and I decided to start the investigation from Zheng Xiaoze."

"Could this Zheng Xiaoze also be responsible for monitoring the emperor at that time?"

"It's possible, but I have no evidence. He was very low-key at the time, and I didn't take him seriously."

Li Ye nodded. "The Emperor gave her 3,800 strings of cash, plus the 200 strings of cash the Empress Dowager gave her for repatriation, so she received 4,000 strings of cash in total. This is a large sum of money. How did she spend it? We need to find out."

"Your Majesty is right. She has four thousand strings of cash, so she must have hired a maid. But she is alone with her child, which means she has a place to stay somewhere else. It is very likely that Zheng Xiaoze is there!"

Li Ye took two steps with his hands behind his back and said, "She may not know that you are already an inner guard. You can pretend to be the chief guard of the emperor's guards and negotiate with her on behalf of the emperor. Say that the emperor does not recognize the child. Let's see what she will do."

"Your Majesty, she must want money!"

Li Ye sneered and said, "Then give her the money, and follow her after she leaves. If you find Zheng Xiaoze, don't alert him first, and pull Zheng Xiaoze out for interrogation."

"I humbly obey my orders!"

Liu Wutong left in a hurry.

Wei Gao walked to the door and said, "Your Majesty, Privy Envoy Guo urgently wants to see you. General Wang Sili of the Right Guard is in trouble."

Li Ye frowned, "Let the Privy Councilor come in!"

After a while, Guo Ziyi hurried in and said, "Your Majesty, General Wang Sili had an accident last night. He was killed by his servant, and now the servant has escaped!"

Guo Ziyi then reported to the emperor in detail what he knew.

Li Ye was stunned for a long while. It was really a coincidence. Wang Sili was killed by a Kunlun slave, and Xiaohong who blackmailed her father was a Silla maid. A Kunlun slave and a Silla maid, who had never shown their true colors, unexpectedly got together at this time.

(End of this chapter)