Eunuch Zhao quickly returned home and went to see Princess Qin first.
Princess Qin frowned: "What happened? Everything is fine, why do you want to seal the mansion?"
Eunuch Zhao respectfully replied: "I don't know the reason for this. His Highness only asked the servant to come back and deliver a message, asking the princess to seal the palace immediately and not allow anyone to leave the palace."
Princess Qin's heart suddenly sank, and a haze flashed in her eyes.
Although I don’t know what’s going on, I can tell from the movement that it’s not a good thing.
The King of Qin lost his holy favor, and now he is not as good as the King of Zhao. The Palace of the King of Qin can no longer withstand any disturbance.
Princess Qin forced herself to calm down and ordered her to seal the palace immediately. After giving the order, several palace servants immediately withdrew to deliver the order.
The main entrance of Prince Qin's Mansion is already closed and cannot be opened. What needs to be sealed is the side entrance and back door of Prince Qin's Mansion. All the palace attendants enter and exit through the back door.
The palace man hurried to the back door and said to the chamberlain in charge of the back door: "The princess has an order to lock the back door from now on and no one is allowed to leave the palace."
The chamberlain responded one after another and locked the back door in front of the palace people.
After the palace attendants left, the chamberlain touched the purse in his arms. The purse was not big, and it was bulging with two taels of silver in it.
"Xiao Xi left the back door just a moment ago, and the princess gave the order just a moment later. It's not my fault." The waiter murmured in a low voice, counting the money happily.
At this time, Eunuch Zhao entered the study and summoned all the servants in the study.
As for the personal guards of the King of Qin, they are summoned by the commander of the personal guards.
Eunuch Zhao glanced around, his heart skipped a beat, and he asked in a stern tone: "Where did Xiao Xi go?"
Waiters, you look at me and I look at you, no one knows.
Xiao Xi is usually hard-working, not talkative, keeps to herself, and has a weak sense of existence. If Eunuch Zhao hadn't suddenly summoned all the servants, no one would have noticed that Xiao Xi was missing.
King Qin gave the order at the front, and there were fewer people in the study at the back.
Could this Xiao Xi be a mole?
The bad premonition in Eunuch Zhao's heart became stronger and stronger, and he said angrily: "Who is on good terms with Xiao Xi?"
Xiao Lu shrank his body back. However, a chamberlain already opened his mouth and shouted: "Going back to my father-in-law, Xiao Lu and Xiao Xi lived in the same house and often talked together on weekdays."
Eunuch Zhao's eyes were like lightning and he swept over.
Xiao Lu's legs went weak, he knelt down and said with a mournful face: "My father-in-law, please forgive me! The servant and Xiao Xi lived in the same house. However, Xiao Xi was a taciturn person and could not speak more than two sentences a day. Most of the words were spoken by the servant, and he
Listen, I haven’t seen him today, and I really don’t know where he has gone.”
Eunuch Zhao held back his anger and sent someone to the back door, where he brought over the servant guarding the back door.
Seeing this battle, the servant didn't dare to hide anything. He knelt on the ground and said with a grimace: "Eunuch Zhao, please forgive me. I usually guard the back door. Except for holidays, I never dare to let anyone out of the house."
"Xiao Xi used to go out on holidays. Early this morning, he suddenly told the slave that he had to go out on urgent matters, and gave the slave two taels of silver. The slave was obsessed with money, and he felt soft-hearted, so he opened the door and let him out.
"
"Xiao Xi went out and burned a stick of incense before the princess asked someone to pass the envelope through the back door. My slave... oh!"
Before he finished speaking, there was a scream.
Eunuch Zhao kicked the servant to the ground, sparks swooshing in his eyes.
At this moment, it's too late to say anything. It's important to catch the person as soon as possible.
Eunuch Zhao called a few personal guards over and asked them to go out immediately to search for Xiao Xi's whereabouts. Then Eunuch Zhao personally went to Xiao Xi's house and searched around, but found nothing suspicious.
The ominous premonition in Eunuch Zhao's heart became more and more intense. Another person brought Xiao Lu over and asked him carefully: "Think about it carefully, is there anything unusual about Xiao Xi?"
Xiao Lu was already so frightened that he was trembling all over. Under the fierce eyes of Eunuch Zhao, who looked like a cannibal, he had to think hard: "I have been working with Xiao Xi for a few years, and he was dull before. In the past year or so, he has become even more...
Meng Hulu. However, he will go out of the house every holiday. My servant also asked him, and he said that he has a sweetheart, and he goes out to meet her every month."
"By the way, once, I saw him bring back a hosta. I don't know anything else, except that the hosta is very beautiful. He must have bought it for his sweetheart."
Hosta is not a strange thing.
It is common for a servant to have a lover outside the house.
Eunuch Zhao frowned and continued to ask: "Did he ever talk about His Highness in front of you?"
Xiao Lu shook his head affirmatively: "No, not even once."
its not right!
It's normal for a chamberlain to talk about his master's affairs behind his back. Xiao Xi never mentioned or asked, could it be that he had a guilty conscience and deliberately avoided suspicion?
Xiao Lu suddenly remembered something: "By the way, a few months ago, Xiao Xi suddenly came into the study to work as an errand. At that time, the servant even tried to persuade him, but he couldn't listen at all."
Eunuch Zhao's face also turned dark.
At that time, Xiao Xi came to give him twenty taels of silver. He also thought that Xiao Xi was honest and hard-working, so it was just right for him to be put into the study as an errand... Now that he thought about it, Xiao Xi clearly wanted to sneak into the study on purpose.
Half a day later, the guards who went out to arrest people came back.
Everyone looked bad and gained nothing.
I searched all the places where the chamberlain often went. I also asked many people, but no one said they had never seen this Xiao Xi.
Eunuch Zhao's face turned pale as he gritted his teeth and ordered: "If we go out and search again, we will dig three feet into the ground to find Xiao Xi."
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In the study room of Prince Qin's Mansion, because one of the servants, Xiao Xi, was missing, people were panicking and became a mess.
The King of Qin was sitting on pins and needles in the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites.
After waiting for most of the day, the king of Qin did not come to the palace to announce the summons. Instead of letting out a sigh of relief, King Qin became more and more nervous and apprehensive. It is an unbreakable and time-honored truth that a thief has a guilty conscience.
It would be fine if Emperor Long'an announced his entry into the palace, got furious and scolded him.
Now this situation made him even more frightened.
I waited until I was sent to Yamen, but there was still no order from the palace.
The King of Qin had no choice but to return to the Prince of Qin's Mansion first.
As soon as they entered the study, Eunuch Zhao and the commander of the personal guards knelt down.
There was an eunuch missing from the study for no apparent reason, and no matter how hard he looked for it, he could not be found. The chief eunuch and the commander of the personal guards were all to blame.
With a livid face, King Qin entered the study and quickly opened the secret room. After entering the secret room, he quickly found three letters from Xue Pan. When he opened the envelope, he saw that the letter paper inside had been replaced with white paper at some point.
Nothing.
The white paper was shining brightly under the candlelight, very dazzling, as if mocking King Qin's carelessness.
They were so heavily guarded that they even lost Xue Pan’s letter!
King Qin was so angry that he stretched out his legs and kicked over the bookshelf, making a loud bang: "Come here, continue to look for Xiao Xi. If you are alive, you will see the person, if you are dead, you will see the body!"
