There was a solemn atmosphere in the lobby of the Black Yamen Center. Several civilian staff were constantly summarizing the reported information, while the chief arrest officer was on standby and would immediately set off for inspection as soon as there was news.
Dongfang Liren was sitting in front of the hall, commanding and dispatching her men. She was assassinated last night. She thought that the empress would call her into the palace to scold her, so she has been waiting for the imperial edict from the palace.
But what I didn't expect was that the messenger from the palace didn't come. Instead, a maid from the palace trotted into the lobby and whispered in her ear:
"Your Highness, the Holy One is here..."
"Um?!"
There was a man hiding on Dongfang Liren's bed. Hearing this, his face turned pale and he asked nervously:
"Your Majesty is in Mingyu Tower?"
"No, I'm waiting for His Highness in the garden so you can come over quickly."
Dongfang Liren secretly breathed a sigh of relief, quickly stood up and tidied his robes, walked out of the black office lobby, and whispered again:
"Let Ye Jingtang go back quickly and leave through the back door. Don't be caught by the Holy One."
"My maid understands."
After the arrangements were made, Dongfang Liren suppressed the turbulent emotions in his heart and led the maid slowly through Mingyu Tower and arrived at the palace garden where hundreds of flowers were blooming.
The palace garden is very large. There is a lake on the side of Mingyu Tower, which is home to thousands of colorful koi carps.
In the verandah by the lake, the Empress of Wei in a red dress leaned against her beauty, holding a porcelain cup and feeding fish. Several maids from the palace stood respectfully not far away, bowing their heads and waiting for orders.
Dongfang Liren asked the maids to retreat and came forward alone:
"Sister, why are you here?"
The empress looked at the koi in the pond and spoke in a rather affectionate tone:
"You were assassinated by a traitor yesterday, so I naturally want to come over to visit you. Sit down."
Dongfang Liren hesitated for a moment and sat next to him. The silver fat-headed dragon python suit he was wearing, put together with the empress's red dress, gave him a feeling of two worlds of ice and fire.
"Sister, did you just go to Mingyu Tower to look for me?"
"I saw you were busy with official business in Heiya, so I didn't go up."
"oh……"
Dongfang Liren was relieved: "I did nothing wrong last night, but the assassin has not been found yet. I will do my best to patrol and capture the thief..."
The empress turned her head and looked at her good sister beside her:
"Who was protecting you last night? Being able to guard against the Blood Bodhi is quite a feat."
Dongfang Liren did not dare to blatantly deceive the empress, so he thought for a while and said:
"He is a new helper from Hei Yamen. His name is Ye Jingtang. He is a descendant of a Tianshuiqiao merchant family. He has good martial arts skills. I plan to recruit him to Hei Yamen and let him hold an important position..."
"With such a high level of vigilance, loyalty and fearlessness, it is natural that he should be entrusted with an important task. The thief has not been caught yet. If he sneaks into the palace and causes trouble, it will be difficult to explain to the court officials. Let the night terror hall be patrolled with the masters of the black government recently.
In the Imperial City, the Queen Mother is timid and was frightened yesterday, so she patrolled around Fushou Palace more often so that the Queen Mother could sleep more peacefully."
Um?
Dongfang Liren was confused - it was nothing to inspect the palace, but asking Ye Jingtang to inspect the Queen Mother's palace would not lead a wolf into the house... No, would it be a sheep into the tiger's mouth?
The impatient Queen Mother found out that she could still sleep?
It was difficult to say this clearly, Dongfang Liren just said euphemistically:
"Ye Jing Tang protected me last night and was injured..."
The empress had just seen the lively Night Terror Hall, and asked with concern:
"The injury is serious? Do you want to send an imperial doctor to take a look?"
Dongfang Liren was not easy to answer, so he hesitated:
"It's not too heavy. I should be able to do the inspection. I'll make arrangements later. Well... Blood Bodhi is really powerful. He sent people to the imperial city. I don't know what to do if I live in the palace, so I will go to the palace to accompany him in the past two days.
Keep your sister close so that the people below will not be distracted."
The empress saw that her sister wanted to run to the palace and continue to be sweet with her lover. She asked Ye Jingtang to inspect the palace, which was just to fulfill Ye Jingtang's desire to see the thousand-year-old tree, and she didn't say anything about it:
"It's okay. There are a lot of things going on in the court recently. With your help, I can have some leisure time. Speaking of which, you are not young anymore. I asked you to choose a husband. I have been looking for something recently."
Dongfang Liren sat up a little straighter: "Sister, why do you mention this again? You don't have anyone to sleep with. As a sister, I have good candidates, so I should give them to my sister first. How can I get ahead of you?"
?
Li Ren, are you really embarrassed to say this?
The empress took a deep look at her sister. She couldn't say anything in her heart, and she didn't say anything about it. She just looked at the lake:
"Ha~ I'm just afraid that you'll be anxious and do something stupid."
"Sister, you are worrying too much. Why should I be anxious... anxious..."
Dongfang Liren looked along the fish food thrown by the empress, and saw a... one... on the bottom of the clear lake.
!!
Dongfang Liren's cold and proud face froze, and his eyes showed shock and confusion!
The empress sighed softly: "The objects used in the boudoir are thrown around and can be seen in the garden. I really don't dare to think about how many are hidden in the house."
Dongfang Liren's scalp was numb, and he recalled briefly - the Queen Mother said yesterday that Hong Yu should throw away this dirty thing...
Dare you throw this dead girl Hongyu at my doorstep?!
I'm afraid there's water in your head...
Dongfang Liren saw his sister's misunderstanding and quickly explained:
"No, no, sister, please listen to my explanation. This thing was thrown away by the Queen Mother..."
The empress saw with her own eyes the corpses and traces of the Night Terror Hall, and when she saw that her sister was blaming the Queen Mother for the incident, she felt even more speechless:
"Alas~ You are already old. It is normal to yearn for the pleasure of a man and a woman. If you have a man you like, tell me. No matter what, it will warm your heart more than a stone..."
Seeing that his sister didn't believe him, Dongfang Liren couldn't tell her the pain, so he could only carefully explain the origins of this thing, and then ordered in a cold voice:
"Come here, pick up this thing and throw it away. Then take Wang Chihu out and give him twenty sticks. If he dares to come up with bad ideas in the future..."
The empress originally thought that her sister and the Night Terror Hall had developed to the point where they were using props to entertain themselves between the sheets.
But seeing Li Ren's innocent reaction that turned into anger, she didn't think it was the same, so the empress shook her head and said:
"That's all, Wang Chihu's original intention was to eliminate harm for the people. I was just joking with you. Are you sure you're not interested?"
Dongfang Liren didn't want to discuss this topic with his sister at all, so he interrupted:
"No, let's not talk about it. Well...my sister likes poetry the most. What good works have you got recently? Tell me and I will help my sister comment on it."
The empress leaned against the fence, gently stroking her forehead with her hand, and you could see the helplessness between her brows:
"Yes~ wait until autumn comes on September 8th, and after my flowers bloom, hundreds of flowers will bloom. The fragrance array will penetrate the clouds, and the city will be filled with golden armor. What do you think?"
Dongfang Liren is proficient in poetry and poetry. As soon as he heard this poem, his eyebrows became more solemn:
"This poem is very murderous, and it seems to have the intention of disobeying the court...Who wrote it? I will capture it and examine it."
"No need."
The empress threw some fish food into the lake:
"The superiors must be tolerant. They are not allowed to write about this, and they are not allowed to talk about anything. Catching the wind and shadows creates a prison of words, which shows a guilty conscience. I never care about the pen and ink of literati."