After finishing a bowl of braised pork, Xiao Chen got some soup from another pot and poured it into the gap in his stomach before he left the imperial dining room unsteadily.
Watching Xiao Chen walk away, the eunuch at the door said, "You see, Master Ziyi is not checking for safety. He is clearly taking this opportunity to taste the delicacies of the imperial dining room."
With a "crack" sound, the captain of Dongchang next to him pulled half of the saber from his waist.
"Brother Xiao is willing to test the poison with his own body, but you slander him like this. If you dare to slander him again, I will fight to be punished by the emperor and make your blood splatter on the spot." His eyes widened in anger,
It was as if his heart was extremely angry.
"You, you are really terminally ill, and you have a serious personality cult." The eunuch muttered, but looking at the shining sword half exposed, his voice became smaller and smaller, and finally he simply turned away, what should he do?
Nothing happened.
After wandering around the Tumu Fort twice, Xiao Chen still couldn't find anything interesting to do.
Although the days before were a bit hard, they were fulfilling.
He has been busy all day long, worried about the progress of the case. Although he loses countless brain cells every day, compared with this extremely boring day, Xiao Chen still likes to be a little busy.
"Since the emperor has asked himself to be responsible for the safety of the earthen fort, let's check the emperor's camp inside and out again. If you are too busy, just check it twice or three times." Xiao Chen thought to himself, wandering around.
, and walked into the hall covered with red carpets.
Seeing Xiao Chen walking into the hall for the second time today, the old eunuch at the door bowed with a smile on his face: "Master Ziyi, this is very dedicated."
"This is my duty. If I am not dedicated, and the emperor replaces someone else to be responsible for the safety of the civil fort, I will have no chance even if I want to be dedicated." Looking at the old eunuch with a smile, Xiao Chen felt bored.
So much so that he started joking.
"Lord Ziyi is joking. Apart from you, who else does the Emperor trust to be responsible for the safety of this earthen fort camp? Your Excellency, I can't go to the 'hunting' site. It's a bit boring. Why don't you just go around?" After getting along with each other for the past few days, Xiao Chen and
This old eunuch is already somewhat familiar.
Knowing that Xiao Chen was not the kind of pretentious person, the old eunuch also said with a smile.
Xiao Chen grinned and looked at the old eunuch with squinting eyes: "If you talk like this, I won't be interested in standing here chatting with you. Just think that I'm just checking for safety, can't you?"
"Oh?" The old eunuch was stunned for a moment, then reacted, "What do you mean, you obviously took the trouble to carefully check the safety of every camp for the safety of the emperor over and over again."
"The flattery photo was good, but it was too obvious." Xiao Chen chuckled and said, "Let's go."
Turn around and walk towards the main hall.
"Sir, go slowly." The old eunuch bowed and said with a smile.
Walking into the main hall where the emperor used to receive envoys from foreign countries, a faint scent of sandalwood drifted into his nose.
This smell is exactly the same as the smell I smelled in the imperial study room in the palace.
After looking at the dragon chair, the only seat in the side hall that could be used to sit, and looking at the closed windows around him, Xiao Chen nodded and prepared to leave.
"Hey, that's not right. Why does this fragrance seem to be slightly different from the fragrance in the Imperial Study Room?" Xiao Chen sniffed hard and walked towards the incense burner burning sandalwood.
In the exquisite incense burner, a piece of dark brown sandalwood was inserted, burning slowly.
A wisp of green smoke rose up, curved around the beams, and floated throughout the entire side hall.
Judging from the appearance and color of the sandalwood, it was clearly the same as the sandalwood in the royal study. Why did I smell two different smells?
Could it be that he ate too much braised pork in the imperial dining room and his sense of smell was muddy by the lard?
Thinking of this, Xiao Chen couldn't help shaking his head and chuckled.
This person must not be bored. He is so boring. Things that he had never even thought about before are actually enjoyable to do.
I have never been particular about eating and drinking, let alone greedy. Now it's better, everyone is watching the "hunting", and I am so bored that I use my rights to go to the imperial kitchen to cheat on food and drink.
After shaking his head, Xiao Chen was about to turn around and leave. He accidentally glanced into the incense burner, but his eyes could no longer move.
Under normal circumstances, when the ashes of this kind of sandalwood fall off, they remain in their original shape, or at most they are broken into a few sections. But now in the incense burner, they are evenly scattered in the incense burner, with only one or two short sections.
, intact.
"This ashes has been stirred by someone!" This sentence quickly came to Xiao Chen's mind.
Approaching the incense burner, Xiao Chen looked at it carefully.
There seems to be extremely fine white powder mixed in the cyan ashes. If you don't look carefully, you can't see it at all.
Calmly, Xiao Chen returned to the main hall and came to the old eunuch's side.
"Sir, the inspection has been completed so quickly. Did you find anything wrong?" The old eunuch joked with Xiao Chen with a smile.
"Who has been to the main hall today?" Xiao Chen did not answer, but asked seriously.
These eunuchs in the main hall are all people who have been serving the emperor, so there will be no problem. If no one else comes in, then there is an extremely skilled person who lurked in while he was away.
If this is the case, the emperor's safety will be in danger.
Seeing Xiao Chen's serious expression, the old eunuch also suppressed the smile on his face: "I have been standing in the main hall, and no outsiders have come."
"When did you stand here?" Xiao Chen asked.
"After the emperor leaves, this servant will be here."
"What happened before the emperor went out?"
"Oh, I have remembered. Early in the morning, King Zhao came to pick up the emperor." The old eunuch said as if he just remembered.
"King Zhao? How many people are here?"
"I don't know how many slaves there are. They should be accompanied by followers. However, the only one who entered the Tumu Fort was King Zhao." After thinking for a while, the old eunuch said.
"Where did King Zhao go when he entered the hall?"
"First we waited in the side hall, and then we went to the emperor's palace." The old eunuch answered hurriedly.
"Okay, I got it." Xiao Chen turned around and hurriedly walked towards the emperor's palace.
"Sir, what happened?" the old eunuch behind asked anxiously.
"No, I just asked casually." Xiao Chen responded, and the figure had already entered the back hall.
It is said to be the emperor's palace, but it is actually just a small room in the back hall of the main hall. In addition to a dragon bed, there is a wooden shelf with a silver basin for the emperor to wash his face.
If it weren't for the fact that he had to receive envoys from foreign countries, the emperor's camp would be even simpler. With a magnificent hall and a side hall specially designed to receive envoys from foreign countries, there was no extra space left to decorate the palace.
