Princess, please respect yourself!

Chapter 185 The Storm Is Coming
Changming Palace · Xinuang Pavilion.

"Your Majesty, there is news from the south!"

"Oh, give it to me." On the soft bed, Emperor Yongxi lifted his spirits, pushed away the maid who was beating his legs, sat up straight and ordered.

Eunuch Qixi quickly stepped forward and presented a sealed bamboo tube.

"You won't read it, will you?"

"Slaves don't dare." Qi Xi was so frightened that she quickly knelt down and said.

"I'm sorry you don't dare." Emperor Yongxi took off the seal, poured out a paper roll, unfolded it, glanced at the contents, smiled, and immediately took off the lampshade on the table, burning the paper on the spot.

"Have you checked Luo Xiaoqi's footsteps?"

"Reporting to His Majesty, the Imperial City Secretary reported back, checked, and there is no problem." Qixi said.

"No problem, then where did his medical skills come from? Did it fall from the sky? I don't know how to find a better excuse to fool me?" Emperor Yongxi said angrily, "Wang Hai, what about others?"

"Eunuch Wang has occasionally felt a cold recently and is resting in bed."

"This old bastard, he's even lazier than me!" Emperor Yongxi scolded, "Besides that, doesn't he have a single explanation?"

"Eunuch Wang said that Luo Xiaoqi used the pseudonym of 'Westward Journeyer' to bid for a fragment of "The Handbook of the Green Bag" at the No. [-] Auction House in Ghost City."

"The Handbook of the Green Bag, a medical book written by the medicine demon Su Xiaoye a hundred years ago?" Emperor Yongxi was surprised.

"Yes."

"He is a secret agent of the Southern Yamen, what is he doing buying a volume of medical books?"

"Eunuch Wang also said that before this, he went to many bookstores and medicine cabinets in Nanshi, and bought a lot of books about medicinal herbs."

"Self-taught, is this guy a genius?" Hearing this, Emperor Yongxi said to himself, is there really such a person in this world?
"Let him write a detailed note and submit it!"

"Your Majesty, Eunuch Wang asked the servants to deliver this to you." Qixi took out a memorial from her cuff and held it up high.

"This dog thing, why didn't you take it out just now?"

"Your Majesty was just asking your servants something."

"I remember that you entered Nan Ya in the same batch as this Luo Xiaoqi, you didn't have enough aptitude to enter the palace, right?" Emperor Yongxi took the memorial and asked slowly.

"What Your Majesty said, the servants don't quite understand."

"Wang Hai adopted you as his adoptive son, didn't he tell you Luo Xiaoqi's identity?" Emperor Yongxi said, "Don't pretend in front of me."

"The slaves left very early, even if Luo Xiaoqi and the slaves entered the secret camp of Nanya, what's the point?" Qi Xi knelt down.

"Okay, I don't doubt you, I just want to know about Luo Xiaoqi's situation in the secret camp of Nanya, so it's boring for you."

"Your Majesty, I was only 12 years old when I left, and my childhood memories have long been blurred. I don't have much contact with the one you mentioned, Your Majesty."

"Okay, I won't ask any more questions, you can go down." Emperor Yongxi waved his hand, signaling that Qixi didn't need to stay and serve.

This kid is clever, knows how to advance and retreat, what to say and what to ask, much more convenient than those little eunuchs in the palace.

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"Through the investigation and inquiry of the people and business travelers who took refuge in Luojing from Yangzhou northward in the past few days, Ding Xian, the deputy envoy of Yangzhou regiment training, did not have much sense of presence in Yangzhou official circles. He basically lived in seclusion in Yangzhou for three years and rarely participated in A gathering of colleagues can be said to be an invisible person in the officialdom..." The newly promoted captain Wu Jiong introduced the relevant investigation.

"Yangzhou is the land of fireworks. He is a single man, so he doesn't go to that kind of place?" asked Lai Junjie, the chancellor of Dali Temple.

"Master Lai is also single, so do you have to go to a dark place?" Qingyi asked rhetorically.

Lai Junjie smiled awkwardly.

"In fact, he may have been there, but none of the people we asked mentioned relevant information." Wu Jiong continued to answer.

"Ding Xian is a martial arts practitioner, so he has no contact with Yangzhou martial arts?" Ye Liuli asked.

"Yes, Ding Xian has the most contact with a security agency called Zhenwei. This Zhenwei security agency is an industry of the Huadu Sword Sect in Yangzhou. Ding Xian's Yangzhou militia has a close relationship with the Zhenwei security agency. They are in a cooperative relationship. Most of the time, the Zhenwei Escort will ask the militia to help escort them, and they will be escorted by the government, which will have a deterrent effect on ordinary bandits."

"Has he had contact with Southern Chu secret agents?"

"In the information that can be found so far, there is no relevant discovery."

"Master Ye, His Majesty ordered us to investigate within ten days. Tomorrow is the day to reply. How can we reply now?" Lai Junjie asked Ye Liuli.

"There is no evidence!"

Lai Junjie was stunned when he heard the words, even if no definite evidence was found, he couldn't be so perfunctory to His Majesty the Emperor. His Majesty can't do anything to you, but what should we do?
"Lord Lai, the investigation should be based on the facts. We can't just make up things and make fun of the court's laws, right?" Qingyi said, "Even if Ding Xian committed a crime, but it wasn't his crime, we can't force him to blame him." on the head?"

"Then give it to His Majesty like this?"

"The time limit is up now, so it can only be like this, Lai Sicheng, are you going to sign the paper together with me, or should we submit the paper separately?" Ye Liuli asked.

"Counselor Ye, you are the host of this case, and the subordinates are only assisting in handling it. Naturally, this is a joint signature with you." Lai Junjie hurriedly said.

"That's good, I've written a note here, please trouble Lai Sicheng to sign it." Ye Liuli directly took out a written note and handed it over.

Lai Junjie opened it and frowned. This is clearly a closed case. The Liu family released Ding Xian. Collaboration with the enemy and treason was found to be unsubstantiated, but destroying the Sheng family's leather goods store is a serious crime, but he has been arrested by Xirong. Killed by the phantom of the Puppet Shadow Hall, you can't take the corpse to the execution ground and behead it again, right?

So this case is closed, and it is easier to explain to Xirong. The murderer was also killed by you, what's the matter?You people from Puppet Shadow Hall have killed Cheng Guogong's fourth son and haven't said anything yet!

By signing his name, he agrees with the above judgment, which makes Lai Junjie extremely entangled, this is not his task.

The superiors whispered to him that he wanted to catch evidence of Ding Xian's "collaboration with the enemy and treason", even if it was suspected.

After handing in the memorial, will my official career be over?

But if you don't sign it, you can't do it. The words have been spoken. If you really refuse, Ye Liuli will not be able to pass this test. This is simply difficult to die.

"Cheng Lai doesn't want to sign, so don't force it. This counselor doesn't like forcing people to make things difficult." Ye Liuli said lightly, not caring at all.

"Chan Shi Ye, isn't it too hasty to close the case like this?"

"This counselor can't help it. His Majesty gave ten days, and the result will be in ten days. In ten days, I can only give this result."

"Then can't you ask Your Majesty to give me some more time?"

"Who will say, you go, or I go, this is a thankless thing."

"Master Counselor, can you ask Commander Pei or the Commander-in-Chief to speak?"

"Lord Pei has just taken office and is busy. How can he have the time, besides, why does he listen to me? As for the governor, he doesn't care about anything now, so he won't go to His Majesty for such a trivial matter. Isn't that making you uncomfortable?"

"Then this..."

What Lai Junjie wants to say is, you can go on your own, you are a princess, if you really open your mouth, will His Majesty refute your face?
But he dared not open his mouth.

This case was ordered by His Majesty to let Ye Liuli take over. She didn't want to handle it in the first place, but now she finds an opportunity to close the case, let go, and continue to investigate, that fool will listen to you.

The article is not in the case itself, but outside the case.

His Majesty wanted to use Ding Xian's case to involve Cheng Guogong, Ding Xian was obviously not enough, the Liu family could do it, if Ding Xian colluded with the enemy and treason, and the Liu family covered up and hid, it was naturally an accomplice.

The Liu family and Shen Zhuang are related by marriage, and Liu Qian is also Shen Zhuang's eldest brother-in-law, so they are involved.

His Majesty wanted to beat him into a Duke, and at the same time he didn't want to confront him directly, so he put Princess Ye Liuli in front. Anyway, he was going to marry the princess, so it didn't matter if he offended.

"Will Sicheng Lai sign or not, or can Mr. Lai find the definite evidence before tomorrow?" Ye Liuli asked directly.

Sweat dripped from Lai Junjie's forehead.

"Chan Shi Ye, can I give you an answer later?"

"Okay, before the counselor handed over the paperwork, as long as Lai Sicheng wants to sign, come at any time." Ye Liuli did not press any further.

She has already found out that Lai Junjie is the emperor's man, and the case is deep. If he is a smart person and can close the case under the circumstances of someone's thunder in front, he should follow the trend, but he didn't do it.

This is enough to show that he came with a mission.

From the fact that he was guarding Pingkangfang No. 3 before, waiting for him to lead someone to search, he could tell that this guy's purpose was not pure.

"Ye Canshi, Master Hou, please go with General Qinglang immediately!" Suddenly, a small official came in from outside the door, who was the person serving by Ye Hou's side.

"What can Master Hou say?"

"The little guy doesn't know."

"Qingyi, let's go and take a look." Seeing Ye Liuli and Qingyi leave in a hurry, Lai Junjie couldn't help but have a bad premonition that something big was going to happen.

Ye Liuli and Qingyi came to Sansi Hall, and saw Ye Hou, and Yao Wenzhong, the commander of the Jing'an Division, was also there.

"Your Highness, this is the Eagle letter just received. The Saintess of the Medicine King Valley and the Great Elder encountered a blizzard in Anle Town, Shuozhou, and then they were attacked halfway. , This saved them." Yao Wenzhong got up and clasped his fists.

"Who did it?"

"Your Majesty's Black Feather Guard." Ye Hou said slowly.

"What?" Ye Liuli was taken aback when she heard this. The Black Feather Guards were directly under Emperor Yongxi's personal guards. There were only 3000 of them in total, and they were all selected from true martial arts students. There are one-tenth of the masters, dozens of masters at the Wuzong level, and four first-rank grand masters.

This personal guard has been stationed in the capital all the time, guarding the safety of the palace, and it is easy to leave the capital without Emperor Yongxi's edict, no one can move it.

The Black Feather Guard intercepted and killed the Saintess of the Medicine King Valley and the Great Elder without even hiding their identities. What is His Majesty trying to do?
"Yaowanggu has a deep layout in Southern Chu these years. As the martial arts sect of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it has colluded with Southern Chu secretly. Your Majesty has long been dissatisfied with him." Ye Hou explained, "This time it is just an excuse, deliberately for the In short, I think His Majesty will definitely find a legitimate reason to explain this matter."

"Is this the sore foot that caught Yaowanggu?"

"I don't know. I'm afraid that His Majesty did this because he wanted to tear himself apart with Yaowanggu." Yao Wenzhong analyzed.

"The storm is coming, so be careful."

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