Zhao Xi wasn't sure if he could meet her tonight. After all, it was too accidental to meet him in the morning.
Even if there was even a slight chance, he had to do it, and at the same time, he would also remind his father: It’s time to give orders to your concubines. What have become of them?
Wang Zhongzheng just squatted under the palace wall with the prince. He didn't know what the prince wanted to catch. Anyway, the prince wanted to do it, so he just accompanied him.
Before he followed the prince, he also worked as a guard and knew how to stay up late. But the prince... the prince wouldn't let him get close to him, and asked him to drag the fishing net here, saying that he was waiting to catch Haodou.
Hey... Wang Zhongzheng suddenly heard a rustling sound, which seemed to come from the palace wall... someone!
Wang Zhongzheng's scalp was numb. The prince... looked towards the prince, but saw that the prince was gesturing to him, which meant that he would not make any sound.
Wang Zhongzheng did not dare to speak out. At least the prince was now dressed as an internal prisoner. He was afraid that if he shouted, people would know that it was the prince. If the prince made any mistake, not to mention himself, even if all his clan members from the nine clans would accompany him, they would also change.
Don’t come, Your Majesty.
Sure enough, it's here! I hope this is just the first time. Zhao Xi is worried about his father, what a bad life he has been living.
The sound is getting closer and closer, and you can already see the person's lower body without raising your neck.
He really calmed down...he fell down and leisurely took off the rope from his body.
The moment the man untied the rope, Zhao Xi used all his strength to lift the corners of the fishing net higher...
Wang Zhongzheng has been paying attention to the prince. In fact, he can put this person down, but the prince has told him that he dare not make the decision without authorization and must follow the prince.
The height of the two of them was limited, so the fishing net that was folded up did not cover them at all, but only made the person hurriedly pull the fishing net.
Wang Zhongzheng still remembered the prince's instructions, and he needed to press his head and cover his mouth... When he saw this person, Wang Zhongzheng didn't have to worry about the prince's safety. With his legs weak, he jumped into the air and hit the stall of the fishing net that the man was pulling, accurately.
He hugged the man's head.
Wang Zhongzheng hurriedly touched the man's mouth, slammed him against the palace wall, and held him still. His body was still hanging on the man's body.
It seemed that this man did not dare to cry out, but just wanted to free his hands to pry Wang Zhongzheng open. Unfortunately, every time he pulled a section, the hole in the fishing net always caught his arm, making it impossible to move smoothly.
Zhao Xi also ran over, holding a long silver needle in his hand and looking at his head that was just out of reach...
Alas, it's still too small.
Zhao Xi suddenly crawled over, hugged his legs, took out the iron nails he had prepared, and drove them into the man's nest...
"Woooo..."
Finally he couldn't stop his voice... Wang Zhongzheng held his arms and hands tighter and tighter.
"Plop..."
Kneel down! At this time, Zhao Xi was finally able to catch him.
"Don't let him sway!"
Zhao Xi tried several times, but could not accurately insert the silver needle into the ear.
Wang Zhongzheng has tried his best, but after all, he is only twelve or thirteen...
Zhao Xi made a fist with his hand, protruded the knuckle of his middle finger, and aimed it hard at the side of the man's neck... Hey, it actually worked.
After a momentary pause, Zhao Xi inserted the long silver needle into the man's ear hole...
The two of them were breathing heavily. They were both young, Wang Zhongzheng was better, Zhao Xi was only a three or four-year-old child after all, and all his strength was exhausted in this moment.
"Your Majesty, would you like to notify Bingjing Wu?"
"No, let's go back."
"go back?"
Wang Zhongzheng looked at the people leaning against the palace wall like dead dogs. He was not sure why the prince wanted to go back. This... this was a great achievement for him.
But the strange thing is that the prince said he wanted to go back, but he still went back the way he came. As he walked, he kept looking down at the wooden pillars in the corridor...
The prince's behavior tonight was very strange. He stuck a silver needle into the ear hole and stirred it for a long time. After the man died, the prince checked to see if there was any bleeding in the ear hole. He was very satisfied that there was no bleeding.
Before leaving, the prince tied up the man's nest where the iron nails had been pierced, as if he was afraid that the dead man would bleed to death.
Now I keep looking at the wooden pillars in the corridor... they are all mortise and tenon joints. What can you tell?
What is this for?
Wang Zhongzheng saw the prince staring at a wooden pillar for a long time, and then stuffed the bloody iron nail into the bottom corner of the wooden pillar that looked rotten.
Looking at the bloody nail tips exposed, the prince seemed very satisfied.
Zhao Xi took off the prison prisoner's clothes under the window sill and asked Wang Zhongzheng to take them back and burn them, then climbed back through the window.
The next day, Zhao Xi woke up just after Yin time. He was a little sleepy, but he still suppressed his sleepiness and woke up.
As usual, Wang Zhongzheng was asked to walk around the inner garden while shouting "one, two, one", and then went to school.
When passing by Xu Cairen's palace, Wang Zhongzheng glanced at the prince several times, but saw that the prince seemed to have nothing to do.
The prince is the prince. I remember when he saw a murderer for the first time, he couldn't even move his legs.
…
"Who is it?"
Early in the morning, Chen Lin reported to Zhao Zhen the people who died under the palace wall.
"Going back to the official's house, we haven't found anything yet!"
"Then investigate! Let the detective investigate!"
"Back at the official residence, this person seemed to have been injured by an iron nail in the corridor when he was escaping from Xu Cairen's residence. He suddenly suffered a brain attack and died under the palace wall."
"Brain disease?"
"Back at the official residence, the Imperial City Chief's Office determined that it was like this. There was a wound on the right leg, and a bloody iron nail was found in the corridor leading to Xu Cairen's palace. The Office determined that it should have been injured by this iron nail."
"There is bleeding deep inside the mouth and nose, and there are wounds that have not been checked. It should be caused by a rupture in the brain."
Zhao Zhen always wanted to avoid Xu Cairen whom Chen Lin mentioned, but Chen Lin mentioned it again.
Every time he mentioned it, it felt like someone slapped him in the face, it was crisp and painful.
He is not stupid and can understand what happened. Even though it is just a guess, it should not be too far from the truth.
"Have you informed the saint?"
"I've returned to the official's house, but I haven't spoken to my empress yet."
"Report it to the saint..."
After all, the Queen is the head of the Sixth Palace, so it is up to her to decide how to deal with it.
Empress Cao never thought that such a scandal would happen in the inner garden...
"Who else knows about this?"
"Go back to your Majesty, only the Imperial City Division is on duty, I have warned you."
The officials let them handle it themselves... Speaking of it, it is indeed a matter within the palace and can be handed over to the Imperial City Department. Alas, the officials are so temperamental!
"Bring Xu Cairen here, and call the examiners in the palace to Ciming Palace as well."
If this matter is confirmed, execution is the only option. The inner garden cannot tolerate such dirty things.
…
"Your Majesty, Xu Cairen hanged himself."
After school every day, Zhao Xi would stroll back home instead of shouting out one by one.
At this time, there were always people coming and going in the palace, and people would stop to salute from time to time.
Wang Zhongzheng didn't stay in Zishan Hall for the whole day. He kept thinking about the dead person. He reported to Zhao Xi right after school.
"The Imperial City Secretary found the iron nail and determined that the man died of sudden brain disease. Then Xu Cairen was called by the empress and hanged himself while changing clothes."
Wang Zhongzheng said it casually, but he couldn't figure it out in his heart. He knew very well how the man died, but why did Zuo Zuo judge that it was a sudden brain disease?