Kerosene lamps were lit throughout the palace, twice as many as usual, but few people in the harem dared to go out and walk around. Even the concubines did not want to get into trouble. Only Zhao Guanren led a team of female guards from the capital's guard field.
Patrolling around with your hands behind your back.
"You guys go take a walk in the alley, I'll smoke a cigarette here..."
Zhao Guanren stopped outside an alley, and the female guards entered the alley with oil lamps. Only Tan Qingning was left to light cigarettes for him, while Bian Xianglan and other girls had already settled in the princess mansion. The old princess had already married to the county. This
They will all live in the Princess Mansion for a while.
"Sigh~ It's just some messy things, almost like a city woman..."
Tan Qingning said helplessly: "What about hanging out with a certain eunuch and giving abortion pills to a certain concubine? I don't bother to read these reports and have sealed them all, but many empresses have reported that Bai Shufei's prince is not the emperor's biological child!
"
"Oh? Do you have any evidence? Where did the wild man come from in the harem..."
Zhao Guanren looked at her in surprise, and Tan Qingning said in a low voice: "They said that the emperor had been injured in his lower abdomen during the military expedition a few years ago and was no longer able to give birth. He had been blessed with more than a dozen empresses, and only Concubine Bai Shu was happy. They suspected that she borrowed the seed from the prince.
, you can’t tell that they are all dragons!”
"Cut~"
Zhao Guanren curled his lips and said: "Suspicion is useless. Without evidence, it is just empty talk. Besides, why did the prince lend her the seed? He thought he didn't die fast enough. By the way! Which concubine didn't give her a gift?"
"have!"
Tan Qingning said in a low voice: "Concubine Zhou Huang, Concubine Qin, Concubine Tong and Concubine Bai Shu, the other empresses have given some gifts. There are really two honest ones who made dumplings for you!"
"I have no impression of Concubine Qin. I only heard that she is a professional on the bench..."
Zhao Guanren narrowed his eyes and said: "The noble concubine Zhou is the wife of the King of Chu. If the prince is deposed, her son will most likely take over, but she actually didn't even meet me. According to the logic that whoever benefits is the real culprit,
This Zhou Emperor’s noble concubine needs to be investigated carefully!”
"Well! One queen and two concubines, she is the third head of the harem..."
Tan Qingning walked forward with him, and all the female guards followed him. However, every once in a while, he ran into two female guards standing guard. They were both female imperial guards transferred from outside the palace. This shows how suspicious the emperor was and how uneasy he was.
His own woman doesn't trust him either.
"What do you want, sir? Your Majesty has already gone to bed..."
An old palace maid happened to be about to close the courtyard door. When she saw Zhao Guanren approaching, she blocked the door. Behind her was the bedroom of the Sixth Prince and his wife.
Wear a personal maid.
"You are not allowed to go out privately after the curfew. If there are special circumstances, please inform the female guard on duty..."
Zhao Guanren gave a warning and left. Although the soul-chasing eyes could only see two golden souls and could not see what the old lady was doing, it could be guessed from the posture of the palace maid that she was stuffing the letter into the envelope and then put it away.
In the sleeves.
"Qing Ning! Send someone to keep an eye on this old woman..."
Zhao Guanren said in a low voice: "The Sixth Prince is not in the palace and does not know what is going on inside. His mother will definitely send someone to deliver a message. All the people and objects coming out of Xiaoduan Palace must be carefully inspected by me!"
"Based on my experience, letters are generally not traceable..."
Tan Qingning shook her head and said: "These empresses are all cunning and cunning. Secret letters will not be written openly. The cronies around them are also prosperous and destructive. They are very tight-lipped. If you want to catch their pigtails, you have to get around them.
Start with people close to you!”
"Well! Looking for their rivals, who doesn't have two who have the right rivals..."
Zhao Guanren nodded in agreement, but Tan Qingning smiled bitterly and said: "You have just entered the palace for the first day, and I can't understand what you said. Let's wait all night tonight, and bring people out early tomorrow morning to interrogate, slap and scare others.
If you go down, you can definitely dig something out!"
"Ah~~~"
A burst of children's cries sounded from the front. Zhao Guanren walked over to take a look. In front of him was Bai Shufei's third courtyard, but Bai Shufei was lazily
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Yang was reading a book, and even though the child was crying, she didn't even look at it, but the maid ran in and nursed the child.
"Who are the backers of Concubine Tong and Concubine Bai Shu..."
Zhao Guanren rubbed his sore eyes, feeling that if he kept peeping like this, his soul-seeking eyes would turn into needle eyes sooner or later. But what surprised him was that the rest of the corpses had not been found so far, and the missing head had disappeared without a trace.
No trace.
"Concubine Bai Shu is the granddaughter of the Minister of War, and her backer is quite strong..."
Tan Qingning said as she walked: "But I didn't find out about Concubine Tong. I asked several empresses but I couldn't tell clearly. But I don't think these two are suspicious. Their eldest prince is only seven years old. There is no way the prince will fall."
On their sons’ heads!”
"Who are you? What are you carrying..."
Zhao Guanren suddenly jumped to the intersection ahead and saw a few eunuchs carrying three large quilts. However, when he saw that the quilts were all young women, he put down the hammer and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, you are so happy tonight.
Are you going to turn over the cards right after clicking?"
"Ouch~ Your Majesty! You scared me..."
A middle-aged sissy turned around and laughed softly: "The emperor was very angry tonight and couldn't calm down. My godfather suggested that the emperor use his virginity to get rid of bad luck. No! This slave has selected three
Talented people, strip them naked and show them to the emperor for selection!"
"You must have received a lot of money from others, how dare you give it to Chubby Dun..."
Zhao Guanren walked over and looked at him curiously. The heads of the three girls were exposed. They all closed their eyes shyly when they saw him, but the eunuch smiled and said: "The short one is fat and has a big butt. One child can give birth to three or two. This is all."
She is a girl who is easy to give birth to!"
"You idiot! Unless you are Lao Tian's godson, I wouldn't even bother to talk about you..."
Zhao Guanren said disdainfully: "Your Majesty is for purging fire but not for giving birth to a son. Lin Xiang'er from Chu Xiuyuan is a tall person who can sing. You ask her to dress up as Zhong Kui's daughter and sing "Zhong Kui's Married Daughter"
, if the emperor doesn’t like her, you will destroy my sign!”
"Oh, this slave is so stupid. Thank you, Your Majesty, for reminding me. Take it back quickly..."
The mother-in-law and the others ran back in a hurry, but Tan Qingning came over and said puzzledly: "You are so talkative that even the emperor flips the cards, don't worry too much!"
"I just can't stand the faces of these bitches..."
Zhao Guanren said disdainfully: "Lin Xiang'er is a child from a poor family. If you can't give them any rewards, these bitches deliberately bully them and let them live in the shabbiest houses. They wash their own clothes and sometimes even the food is rotten.
Please help me!"
"Oh~ this harem is really like a big prison cell..."
Tan Qingning sighed quietly, Zhao Guanren looked at his watch and said: "I have left the harem. I have sent people to seal the hospital. You will take people with you tomorrow morning..."
Zhao Guanren was stunned before he could finish his words. He saw several senior men walking over. They were all dressed in white uniforms. The handsome middle-aged man in the lead was wearing black armor and white robes. He was actually an official with both black and white guards.
Mix and match clothes.
"Lord Commander!"
Tan Qingning and other women hurriedly knelt down on one knee, and Zhao Guanren suddenly realized that it was the boss of the Jingdu Guard Field, the famous Commander Duan, but the five of them were all tall and burly tough guys. He was surprised and said: "A few of them are incompetent
A person with roots?”
"Exactly!"
Commander Duan walked over with a fake smile, bowed his hands and said with a smile: "Didn't Qing Ning tell the prince? Otherwise, how could we dare to enter the harem at night? Apart from the emperor, the only real man who can enter the harem at night is Yong Shi.
The king of the county!"
"This is beyond my expectation..."
Zhao Guanren looked him up and down and smiled: "Maybe people think that I, the king, should know. No one has ever told me that Commander Duan is actually a father-in-law. Judging from the appearance of the father-in-law, he must have just returned from other places.
bring it on?"
"Your Majesty summons you urgently! I'm going to rush over six hundred miles from Yongcheng..."
Commander Duan smiled in a neither humble nor overbearing manner: "We are no longer ministers, and the prince cannot call us father-in-law. The emperor has ordered us to assist the prince on errands. If we are here,
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If there is any inconvenience in the harem, just send us to deal with it, but I hope the prince will not treat us as outsiders!"
"Savior!"
Zhao Guanren held his hand and said excitedly: "Investigating the case is the duty of the field guard. My intervention is just to catch the duck. I will leave the harem to you. You must find out the truth. I will take the first step. You thousands of
Don’t come looking for me!”
"My lord, don't be anxious! I haven't finished what I've said yet..."
Commander Duan smiled and said: "Your Majesty's decree! Promote Prince Yongshi to the position of Chief Inspector of the Arch Guard Department, and all twenty-one female court guards will be assigned to your command. From now on, the Imperial Guard Guard will assist the Arch Guard Department in investigating cases, so you are
He is a general, we are just your soldiers!"
"What? We have been assigned to the Guards Division..."
Tan Qingning and the other girls were all dumbfounded. Commander Duan nodded and said with a smile: "Qingning! I have a happy news for you. Your master has also been transferred to the Guards Department to take up the right supervisor position vacated by the prince. From now on, you will still be under his command.
If you take up the post, you will receive the documents from the Ministry of Personnel tomorrow!"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Zhao Guanren raised his head and laughed loudly, and said: "The emperor is really an emperor. He will never let go of his power. He demolished a Jingdu Guards Station to keep an eye on me, but the Jingdu Guards Station cannot be allowed to grow bigger.
I guess Ye Mingsha went to your place to fill the gap, his master is Qianye Xuan!"
"..."
Commander Duan's eyes flashed with light, and he raised his hands and smiled: "Your Majesty is indeed very witty, and I admire you so much. Ye Mingsha has indeed filled the vacancy of the deputy commander in black. The deputy commander in white is the one behind me.
Lord Shan Qixiang is in charge!"
"Old Duan! You can take care of yourself..."
Zhao Guanren patted him on the shoulder and said: "The emperor really values me too much. He ambushed me on all sides and blocked me from all directions. But if the job goes wrong, don't think about it like the last time, where you just get scolded and it's over.
If Wang doesn’t recruit a group of people to support me, my surname will not be Zhao!”
"Hmph~ People are afraid of you, Zhao Wenshen, but I'm not afraid..."
Commander Duan lowered his voice and said angrily: "You brought this all on yourself. You have been making trouble since Lantai County. There are already many people below to back you up. You'd better not let me take advantage of it, otherwise I will
I will settle the old and new accounts with you, Zhao Jiacai!"
"uncle!"
suddenly!
An empress led the maid to the street, waved and said with a smile: "Why did you arrive so late? Come in and have a bowl of hot soup. I have specially made rock sugar ginger soup for you. The weather is cold and rainy."
When it rains, don’t let the cold air enter your body!”
"Thank you so much, my Majesty, I'll be here right now..."
Commander Duan puffed up his chest and led the people over. Zhao Guanren and others finally suddenly realized that he was actually the backer behind Concubine Tong, and that old eunuch Duan was actually Concubine Tong's uncle, which was really shocking.
"Yunxuan! This is really troublesome..."
Tan Qingning listened and said: "Master Duan, a nephew was implicated by Thai thieves and had his head beheaded by the emperor's order. This debt is all placed on your head. Although my master has no dealings with him, my senior brother is also because of you."
If you are dismissed from your post and sent to the army, he will not retaliate against you and will never show favoritism to you!"
"Am I afraid of their revenge? I wish someone would come to block my gun..."
Zhao Guanren crossed his arms and sneered: "This pool of muddy water is getting deeper and deeper. Monsters and ghosts are jumping out. Your Majesty, an old bastard who has no eyes for giving birth to a son, still has the nerve to tell me that father and son are of the same mind. I wish him the best today."
If you break it later, you will become a eunuch!"
"You're crazy! Keep your voice down..."
Tan Qingning punched him in fear, but Zhao Guanren said again: "I know it's difficult for you to be caught in the middle. I only have one request for you. Do your duty before finishing the errand and keep our secrets. Your master can't even ask
Say, can you do it?"
"Yes! This is my responsibility and my limit..."
Tan Qingning puffed up her chest seriously, Zhao Guanren patted her shoulder and said: "Go! No one is allowed to approach the queen's palace, so as not to destroy the evidence of rebellion. I will show the emperor the door, damn it! This is the first time for the boss.