In the Duke's Mansion, Xu Mingyi, wearing a tan-colored robe, was sitting at the table and reading the contents of the note over and over in front of the lamp.
Just looking at the content, it was just a simple letter from home, addressed to the steward of the Xiang Prince's Mansion in Dianzhou - the general idea was that some changes had occurred in Beijing, and the return to Dianzhou would be delayed, so some soldiers from the mansion were temporarily handed over.
affairs in.
If that's all it is, this letter obviously has nothing to make a fuss about.
But if it was really that simple, why would King Xiang choose to send the message late at night?
And he chose to use carrier pigeons instead of sending people to deliver the letters directly, obviously because he didn't want others to know.
So, what is the mystery behind this letter?
In the end, Xu Mingyi simply lay back on the bed and read it over and over carefully, but still found nothing.
She didn't put down the letter until the sky became bright outside the window.
But he directly called the maid in to wash and change clothes.
After packing everything, Xu Mingyi took her things and went to find Xu Yun.
There might be some strangeness between the lines, but she couldn't tell, maybe her second uncle could.
At this time, it was just dawn, and the servants were sweeping the courtyard. Xu Yun was still in his dream, soundly asleep.
The boy came to the bedside and shook her awake: "Second Master, the girl is here..."
If it were anyone else, he could have said, "The second master hasn't woken up yet" to block him. But this is a girl. In this house, who does the girl want to see? When has she ever been restricted by time and place?
Xu Yun was very sleepy, but when he heard that it was his niece, he still forced himself to sit up and complained: "What's so important this early in the morning..."
"Second uncle, can I come in?" The girl's questioning voice reached her ears.
Xu Yun sighed after hearing this.
I don’t know what’s going on with today’s young people. They don’t know how to sleep well at this age. How can they be so energetic early in the morning? Is it ridiculous?
"Come in, come in, if you don't come in, you still want me to go out..." Xu Yun said helplessly as he took the coat from the boy and put it on.
Xu Mingyi walked in with a smile: "I waited until dawn to come here, so I didn't disturb your sleep too much, right?"
Xu Yun's brows jumped when he heard this.
Is this the time when my niece paid special attention to him?
"Tell me, why are you so anxious to find your second uncle?"
"I want you to read the letter for me." Xu Mingyi sat down on the drum stool that the boy brought next to the bed, handed the note in his hand over, and said: "Be careful, don't get it broken or wrinkled.
Yes, just hold the two ends and look at it."
Xu Yun followed the instructions and asked: "What do you want me to help you see?"
My niece is not an illiterate grandma on the street, so she needs to find him specifically to read the letter.
"Look carefully. Is there anything special between the lines in this letter? For example, if you change the order of reading the words, will there be other meanings or codes?"
Xu Yun nodded knowingly. When his eyes scanned the signature mark, he couldn't help but be startled. He immediately turned to look at his niece and asked confirmingly: "...is this the family letter from King Xiang?"
Xu Mingyi nodded.
Xu Yun's brows twitched: "How come you have Prince Xiang's family letter in your hand?"
"Of course it was intercepted."
Xu Yun's eyes suddenly became even more surprised: "...Why did you intercept King Xiang's family letter?!"
The girl's expression remained calm: "I'll take a screenshot and see if there's anything wrong."
Xu Yun's cheeks trembled: ...he couldn't tell if there was something wrong with the letter for the time being, but something was really wrong with his niece!
"Please help me take a look." Xu Mingyi urged: "If you can't see anything, I can ask someone else."
Do you want to ask others about it?
Does your niece know that what she did is shady?
Xu Yun was full of words and didn't know where to start, but when he saw the girl's sober and bright eyes, he chose to remain silent.
I can't control it anyway, so I might as well say less. After all, it's me who makes my niece anxious and suffers.
Thinking like this, when Xu Yun looked at the letter in his hand, he felt inexplicably that there was an invisible knife on his neck, forcing him to help the evildoer.
But he still read it carefully several times.
In the end, he just shook his head: "There's nothing wrong..."
As he said that, he took the letter paper farther away, looked at it again, and said thoughtfully: "But there is one thing that is a little strange..."
"What's weird?" Xu Mingyi asked hurriedly.
"Look here." Xu Yun pointed to the letter paper and said, "Is there too much white space on this letter?"
Leave blank?
Xu Mingyi nodded slightly. She had noticed before that a small half of the letter paper was blank, but she didn't pay too much attention to it.
Xu Yun asked: "This letter paper of yours must have been taken out of a bamboo tube, right?"
In addition to creases, there are also traces of rolling.
Xu Mingyi's eyes moved slightly, nodded and said: "That's right..."
The focus is on this bamboo tube——
When the letter paper is folded and placed in an envelope, it doesn't matter if there is more white space, but if it is to be rolled up and placed in a bamboo tube, such a large white space should probably be cut off...
"But it's just a little strange." Xu Yun said: "Maybe the person who wrote the letter was too lazy to cut it. After all, it seems that this blank space is of no use..."
After Xu Ming thought about it for a moment, he stood up and said, "Thank you, uncle, I'll go back first."
She probably couldn't find any clues here in a short period of time, so why not give it to Wu Chao and the prince first, and let the experts around them take a look.
After Xu Mingyi returned to Xiyuan, he asked Ah Zhu to send the things away.
As soon as Ah Zhu left with his front legs, Zhu Xiu came over with his back legs.
"girl--"
Zhu Xiu, dressed in black robe, saluted in the hall.
"How? Have you found an opportunity to take action?" Xu Mingyi asked.
"Girl, not yet." Zhu Xiu replied: "Now that the case of Minister Ji has not been resolved, Zhan Yunzhu is also under strict supervision because he is suspected of being an accessory to conspiracy, and he is summoned by Dali Temple from time to time. Moreover,
I am very vigilant, and my subordinates have not yet found a convenient opportunity to strike."
Of course, if he wants to take action directly, the other party will naturally not be his opponent, but the matter must be done quietly and cleanly, and the officials of Dali Temple must not be disturbed - now that the general is not in the capital, the situation in the palace is tense, so the girl must act cautiously
Be careful, you can't just occupy Yunzhu and give people the opportunity to express themselves.
Xu Mingyi nodded understandingly: "Then let's keep a close eye on him first, and we can't relax for a moment, and we must never let this person have any chance of escaping."
What she wanted has always been to take Yunzhu's life.
This time she entrusted the Imperial Master with this matter, not because she wanted the other party to fall into the quagmire and let him taste the so-called loss of reputation - these nihilistic things were meaningless to her. On the contrary, he thought that she would delay it for a little longer.
The more likely it is that innocent people will be harmed.
She wanted to kill people, but she never had to pay too much attention to it. The reason why she did this was just to let the other person roll out of the turtle shell in the palace so that she could do it.
Zhu Xiu responded calmly: "Don't worry, girl, I dare to guarantee with my head this time, there will be no mistakes at all -"
