Wishful Things

"His Majesty……"

The inner eunuch stepped forward to salute and said: "Just now, Minister Ji's envoy came to deliver a message, saying that there is progress in the assassination matter."

Emperor Qingming's eyes moved.

The queen's fingers holding the teacup tightened slightly, but she didn't show any abnormality on her face: "Since there is progress, Your Majesty, let's get busy with business. The concubines will definitely take care of themselves so that Your Majesty will not be distracted."

Emperor Qingming nodded, and said to her: "Queen, please rest at ease, I will go back and have a look first."

"Yes." The queen got up and said, "The concubine will send you off to Your Majesty."

She sent Emperor Qingming out of Yukun Palace, and watched the dragon chariot go away with enough dedication.

"Your Majesty, let's go back." Mother Jiang said softly from the side.

The queen nodded, feeling a little uneasy.

She also has some understanding of what kind of person Li Ji is. If he said that there is progress, then there must be real progress worth mentioning...

Where is it not cleaned up?

And she still hasn't received a reply that the matter has been settled, could it be that something went wrong in the middle?

But no matter what kind of possibility and change it is, she can only wait and see what happens instead of acting blindly and impulsively. Test whether she will make any moves under her guilty conscience.

At this time, Habayashi guarded her palace...

I have already done what I should do boldly, the more this is the case, the more calm I have to be...

The queen covered up the ups and downs in her eyes, and took Mother Jiang back to the bedroom.

...

half an hour ago—

Not long after the group of eunuchs who came to the dark court to deliver meals left, Xiao Jiezi was squatting in front of the house, drinking cold water from a broken bowl. In the evening, the salty porridge was delivered, and it had a faint smell of rancidity. In order not to let others see the strangeness, he swallowed a bowl of it. Press down with cold water.

Just after pouring down a bowl of cold water, Xiao Jiezi rubbed his chin with his sleeve, but suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps.

"It's him! Last night I saw him sneaking around and staying up, even climbing the wall!" A thin eunuch with disheveled hair and beard covering his face said, pointing at Xiao Jiezi.

And the two people beside him were dressed as Habayashi Army.

Xiao Jiezi was startled when he heard that, dropped the broken bowl and stood up abruptly: "Liu San'er, why are you so crazy!"

"I just saw it! I saw it with my own eyes!" The eunuch named Liu San'er pointed to his eyes with two fingers, and there was an abnormal light in those eyes: "I'm telling the truth, you can take three A steamed bun!"

"Did you go out last night?" One of the Habayashi soldiers looked at Xiaojiezi firmly.

"The villain didn't even leave the house last night!" Xiaojiezi hurriedly said: "Brother guard, I'm afraid you two don't know that this Liu San'er has been crazy for a long time, he is talking nonsense to cheat the reward ! The two of you must not believe his words!"

The two Habayashi guards exchanged glances, and then one of them said, "Let's talk after searching!"

Jigong kept putting pressure on them, and now he couldn't let go of any suspicious things.

The inside and outside of the dark court were also searched last night, but because we found traces of the 'assassin' leaving the dark court, and urgently needed manpower to expand the area and block the exits, so we only searched and interrogated here. , if you say how fine it is, it is not.

"Brother guard, the villain is really wronged!"

Xiaojiezi panicked, shouting for grievances from the sidelines.

The two Habayashi guards didn't care about him so much, they almost turned the house upside down.

Although the house was occupied by people, it had not been cleaned for a long time, and there was a thick layer of dust accumulated in the corners. After searching like this, the dust danced in the sunlight from the dilapidated window, causing the two Habayashi guards to frown and cough.

At this time, two soft rustling sounds suddenly came from a jar placed in the corner.

"What's hidden in the jar?" A Habayashi guard heard the noise, stared at the jar closely, and asked in a cold voice on guard.

The jar was half the height of a person, and it was covered with a tattered, moldy bamboo lid.

Another Habayashi guard has already stepped forward quickly, pulled out the long knife in his hand and lifted the bamboo cover off.

"Chi Chi Chi..."

Suddenly a light appeared, and the things in the tank screamed in shock.

The Yubayashi guard took a closer look and saw four or five little mice.

"This is kept by a villain!" Xiaojiezi came over and explained: "Last time I found a mouse nest, and seeing that the mice were still young, I kept them in a tank. In summer, insects are easy to catch." , I caught some crickets and grasshoppers in the grass nest and fed them, thinking that if they were raised bigger, they would be delicious as well...the ones raised by themselves can be eaten with confidence, right?"

Habayashi Wei frowned upon hearing this, his stomach churned.

"The two big brothers have also seen it. I really don't have any assassins here, and I can't even get enough food. Where did the dog dare to do this!"

But the eunuch ran in again, stared at him and said viciously: "I just saw it, he went out secretly! He is with the assassin!"

What a madman it seems.

When the two Habayashi guards were about to leave, they saw an inner eunuch coming over, glanced at the situation in the house, and said in a soft and arrogant voice, "Ji Gong said that anyone who is suspicious should be taken to his old man for a closer interrogation. Nothing must slip through the net."

Li Jicai was the person directly responsible for this matter, Yubayashi Wei didn't dare to say anything else, so he escorted Xiaojiezi away from the dark court.

When seeing Li Ji, Xiao Jiezi was already in cold sweat, and there was nowhere to hide the panic in his eyes.

Before he was punished to go to the dark court, he was just a lowly little eunuch, even though he had never seen this great eunuch with palm print before the imperial court, he still had a natural fear.

This is a dark room, only a small square hole is opened on the back wall, a ray of light penetrates through the small hole, but the indoor view is still dim.

The big eunuch was sitting in an armchair, his expression and demeanor were hard to see.

Xiao Jiezi was escorted to kneel on the ground, he saw a Habayashi guard whispering something in Li Ji's ear, and then Li Ji looked up at him.

"Ji Gong, the villain was really wronged, the villain didn't do anything..."

"Really?" Li Ji lightly hissed, and said, "But why did you come in, and when the two doors were closed, I smelled a scent of medicine? I sniffed it in the dark room..."

Xiaojiezi's face instantly turned white.

Last night, he entered the dark room and carried the man surnamed Qiao on his back. Could it be the smell from that time? !

"Little man... I really don't know anything!" He knocked his head on the ground, defending with a trembling voice, but he didn't know what to say. The more he said at this time, the easier it would be for him to reveal his truth!

However, in Li Ji's eyes, his reaction was undoubtedly strange.

A person who can climb up to the position of the eunuch with palm prints has a pair of eyes that have been trained to be unique and vicious——