one step closer to the end

"Your Majesty! Do you know what our Dashun lacks? A role model..."

Zhao Guanren said with a smile: "Sounding and dignified are the same, enough to convince most people, even if ten corrupt officials can only be touched by me, that humble official is considered to have immeasurable merit. Young and promising benchmark!"

"What a benchmark!"

Emperor Shun Yao suddenly turned around, stared at him deeply and said: "I clearly think you are shameless, but I can't find any faults with you. You should be what people often say... What a villain!"

Zhao Guanren cupped his hands and said with a smile: "There are too many hypocrites around the emperor, what is missing is a real villain, and this humble minister is your demon mirror!"

Chapter 0479 Headless Female Corpse

"Look at my imperial garden, it's not worse than your southern garden..."

Emperor Shun Yao was walking in the imperial garden with his hands behind his back. This is the inner harem of the emperor. It is almost impossible for foreign ministers to come here, but he brought Zhao Guanren in. Of course, there is also Jin Wuming, the commander of the imperial guards. And the old eunuch who is always by his side.

"The emperor's words are inappropriate. The whole Dashun belongs to you. How could it become our south..."

Zhao Guanren walked beside him neither humble nor overbearing, his eyes flicked around the kneeling maids, but Emperor Shun Yao waved his hands and said with a smile: "Don't flatter me, since I brought you here, I just want to hear about you What a villain, tell the truth!"

"Thousands of wears and thousands of wears, only flattery does not wear, if you tell the truth, you will be beheaded..."

Zhao Guanren shook his head with a smile, just as a group of concubines Yingying Yanyan came over, suddenly saw the emperor hurriedly knelt down to say hello, but one of them happened to be Princess Yaoyue, she subconsciously looked up at Zhao Guanren, then quickly lowered her head again .

"Zhao Yunxuan! Do you know who this is..."

Emperor Shun Yao smiled and pointed at Princess Yaoyue. Everyone knew that he had revealed his secrets when he said this. Princess Yaoyue's head drooped a little more. It is a crime of treason for the royal family to make friends with officials in private.

"I know! Princess Seventeen..."

Zhao Guanren smiled and said: "Your Highness came to Ningzhou for a visit last month. After hearing my name, he came here specially to have a look at it. He also rewarded me with three large boxes of silver, asking me to be loyal to Dashun, and to handle the errands of the Arch Guard Division well. !"

"Seventeen! You went to Suizhou to play, why did you go to Lantai again..."

Emperor Shun Yao slightly raised his hand, obviously looking for trouble, a group of concubines hastily left, leaving only Princess Yaoyue alone.

"Father!"

Princess Yaoyue is also an old fritter, she got up and said without changing her face: "My daughter heard that there are many novelties in Lantai, so she went to Lantai to buy them when she saw Lie Xinxi, and met the famous Chief Zhao on the way, but the boss who met Mr. Why don't you just empty your hands!"

"Oh!"

Emperor Shun Yao said with a half-smile: "It seems that the more you live, the more you go back, and you become as playful as that girl in Yongning!"

"Father! My daughter is still young before leaving the cabinet..."

Princess Yaoyue swayed her body coquettishly, but the little princess suddenly jumped out and said in surprise: "Zhao Yunxuan! Why did you come here? Are you going to be castrated and become a eunuch?"

"Hahaha……"

Emperor Shunyao and Jin Wuming raised their heads and laughed, while Zhao Guanren said with a wry smile: "Little princess! Can't you just hope for me to order, you want me to be a eunuch in Lantai, but I'm the only one in my family. I really can't castrate it!"

"Grandfather!"

The little princess threw herself on Emperor Shunyao, and said with a smirk: "You eunuch him, this guy is very interesting, you eunuch him and give me a little eunuch, let him play with me every day, okay?"

"Okay!"

Emperor Shun Yao raised his head and smiled and said, "If this kid doesn't tell the truth today, I will eunuch him and give you a little eunuch!"

"Your Majesty! Don't scare me, I'm just pointing at this bit of happiness..."

Zhao Guanren said bitterly: "As long as the emperor doesn't cut off my dog's head, I will dare to say a few words today, just say that you are a real man in this imperial garden. The yin energy is concentrated, and you are almost a ghost. You are the only real man in the whole palace. No matter how strong the yang energy is, it can't suppress this yin energy!"

"Hmm~ I'm also a boy..."

Jin Wuming coughed lightly, and Zhao Guanren turned around and said, "Commander Jin! You don't live here at night, and the yin energy is floating around at night. Besides, I think you have insufficient energy and blood. I'm afraid it's because of old injuries. You have been cultivating in this imperial garden all night, and I promise that you will not survive this year!"

"Bullshit!"

Emperor Shun Yao said angrily: "Is my imperial garden a mass grave? What you say is useless. I live here day and night. Shouldn't I have died a long time ago?"

"Look! Honest words are hard to hear..."

Zhao Guanren smiled wryly and said: "Of course the commander-in-chief can't compare with you, I might as well say it again, this imperial garden is really a mass grave, if you don't believe me, let someone dig up the flower bush behind the rockery, if there are no grievances underneath, my minister Take your head off and kick it for you!"

"A ghost?"

Emperor Shunyao looked over in surprise, the faces of Jin Wuming and the old eunuch also changed, the little princess and Princess Yaoyue were stunned, and the little princess asked timidly: "You mean there are ghosts there? But where did the ghost come from in broad daylight?"

"Your Majesty! Please follow me to see..."

Zhao Guanren walked to the rockery, pointed to a slightly withered flower bush, and said, "As the saying goes, a woman's waist is the knife that kills people. , so there must be a corpse under this withered flower bush!"

"Come on! Dig up..."

Emperor Shun Yao took two steps back and yelled loudly. The old eunuch in cold sweat rushed to call for someone, but Princess Yaoyue asked suspiciously: "Chief Zhao! It is rumored in Lantai County that you can subdue demons and catch ghosts, but Is there a matter?"

"Your Highness!"

Zhao Guanren pretended to force a smile and said: "A person with a clean heart can find even a speck of dust. If the heart is not clean, even if he is in a cesspit, he will not notice it. This is the truth that those who are close to ink are black. Confrontation, naturally pure and sensitive!"

'You can really brag...'

The little princess silently mouthed to him, just as a group of little eunuchs ran over with tools, Emperor Shunyao folded his arms and frowned at the side, but he smelled a stench before digging too deep, the little princess He ran to the side and vomited it out.

"Yuck~"

The little eunuchs also turned their heads and vomited, and large strands of maggots came out from the ground. Emperor Shun Yao also covered his nose and retreated. Only Princess Yaoyue was fine. She didn't retreat in a hurry until Zhao Guanren gave her a wink. Pretending to be unbearable.

"Your majesty! Your dragon body is precious, it smells too bad here, you should go back to the palace first..."

The old eunuch held his nose and almost felt sick. More than a dozen young eunuchs couldn't dig any further, and the severely decomposed body parts had been exposed, but Emperor Shun Yao held his nose and shouted: "Dig! Dig them all out for me." , I want to take a good look, whose wronged soul is down there!"

"Let me come! You go and carry the big box..."

Zhao Guanren put on a mask and picked up the farm tools. He had seen many corpses more disgusting than this, and Jin Wuming also came over to help him.

The two quickly dug out the body parts, but in the end there were only seven or eight fragments. They could only barely confirm that the deceased was an eunuch. They didn't know where his head was buried, and he didn't have a single piece of clothing on his body.

"This is a master, basically chopping it up with one knife..."

Jin Wuming squatted down and fiddled with the corpse with a wooden stick. Zhao Guanren even picked up a large piece and looked through it carefully. The old eunuch finally couldn't take it anymore and ran away to vomit. The little princess had already hid behind Emperor Shunyao. I hugged him so tightly that I didn't dare to look at him.

"Male or female? What kind of status..."

Emperor Shun Yao's face was livid, and Jin Wuming shook his head and said: "Eunuch! It's too rotten, and there's not even a single piece of clothing, but last month a young eunuch disappeared from the harem for no reason. A sea arrest document has been issued!"

"Commander! Wrong, these are two corpses, a man and a woman..."

Zhao Guanren stood up and clapped his hands. Jin Wuming was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly looked through the body parts again, stood up and asked, "How did you know that there are no body parts with female characteristics here!"

"Look carefully at the two broken legs, it can't be a eunuch..."

Zhao Guanren said loudly: "Eunuchs often have to kneel, calluses have formed on their knees long ago, and the kneecaps are different from normal people's, so these are not only a pair of women's legs, but also not a court lady, it should be a young woman's legs." Empress!"

"What are you talking about, no one is missing from my mother..."

Emperor Shun Yao rushed over in shock, and Zhao Guanren said anxiously: "Your Majesty! I don't understand the titles in the palace. Anyway, she is a plump young woman who doesn't need to kneel often. The other corpse is a young eunuch, mixed together Just to confuse the public!"

"Your Majesty! The body will rot within ten days..."

Jin Wuming clasped his fists and said: "However, no woman has disappeared in the palace in the past two years, let alone the concubine, but there are indeed two dead bodies here. I know!"

"Great Commander! How many women are there in the palace? There must be three thousand..."

Zhao Guanren folded his arms and looked at him. Jin Wuming said, "Not only! There are 630 palace maids alone. Counting more than 600 royal children and concubines, the total number should exceed 5000!"

"Yeah!"

Zhao Guanren clapped his hands and said, "It takes a long time for so many people to count. As long as there is a small group of people who hide it together, you don't know how many people are missing. You should quickly pull people out to count, Your Majesty! The humble minister has resigned, and foreign ministers should not be here. Stay long!"

"You are not allowed to go anywhere..."

Emperor Shun Yao said angrily: "You are the right supervisor of the guard, and you have the responsibility of guarding the palace. You have to investigate today's matter to the end. I will let the chief eunuch accompany you to investigate, and Xiao Shiqi and Xiao Yongning will also be with you. , I want to know who is cheating!"

"Oh, my broken mouth..."

Zhao Guanren slapped himself, and said helplessly, "Your Majesty! You can investigate the case, but I'll just sit here and investigate, and I won't go anywhere. Don't say that I saw something I shouldn't, and castrated me with a knife. That humble minister has nowhere to cry!"

"Stop talking nonsense, I'm not so narrow-minded..."

Emperor Shunyao pointed to him and said: "Take people to the place where you should go. If there is anything you can't see in broad daylight, then find the other corpses for me. These damned dogs dare to mess up the imperial garden. It's a miasma, this time I will definitely kill it!"

"Great Commander! Hurry up and ask someone to order it, and then arrest the gardener for inspection..."

Zhao Guanren sat down on a rock helplessly, and the little princess and Princess Yaoyue were all squatting in the distance watching, but Emperor Shunyao suddenly leaned over and asked, "Zhao Yunxuan! Do you really have dark eyes, you can see things that ordinary people can't see?" s things?"

"Why did the emperor say that?"

Zhao Guanren stood up in a daze, and Emperor Shun Yao squinted his eyes and said: "You have fought against Onmyoji, and it is impossible for you to beat them back alone. You can tell me honestly, will it be possible?"

"Your Majesty! I understand, you invited me to catch ghosts..."

Zhao Guanren smiled wryly and said: "I dare not hide it from you, the prince's mansion where you put me, there is a room full of hanged ghosts, the old prince is wearing a red dragon robe, hanged two princesses on the left and right, and there are a few little ghost heads Running around the house, three men and two women!"

"Gudu~"

Emperor Shun Yao actually swallowed hard, grabbed his wrist and said nervously: "Then, that is my fourth uncle. Over the years, I have often reported dreams to me, saying that he was killed by an adulterer, and it was not self-destruction. I will avenge him!"

"They won't pester you anymore, I've already opened an altar to let them reincarnate..."

Zhao Guanren pointed to the sky inscrutablely, and Emperor Shun Yao hurriedly said: "No! You have to use your dark eyes, and let me check it from the inside to the outside. There are a lot of unjust dead ghosts in the palace. Who would dare If you pester me, you will kill anyone!"

Chapter 0480

"Your Highness! What happened..."

On a bustling street outside the imperial palace, all kinds of dignitaries crowded into a teahouse. Prince Duan sat in a wing room on the second floor and looked at the imperial palace. , The forbidden army has tripled!"

"It couldn't be Zhao Yunxuan who did the assassination, he is the only outsider in the palace..."

An official looked at him nervously, Prince Duan spit out the tea he just drank, and said in shock: "I can't, what kind of assassination is he doing so well? It's the job, it's hard to..."

"Someone rebelled, blame him..."

The other party stomped their feet vigorously, and all the civil and military people in the room changed their expressions. Prince Duan threw the tea bowl and jumped up, and said with a pale face: "Oops! The prince will not rebel, the martial law in the palace must be a big deal, Zhao Yunxuan is Best excuse ever!"

"Your Highness, don't worry! The crown prince has also come out, alone..."

"one person?"

Prince Duan hurriedly leaned on the window to watch, and the prince came out alone with disheveled hair, without even a guard or eunuch by his side, and even turned around to curse while walking, as if he had been kicked out of the palace.

"It's over! Zhao Yunxuan really assassinated..."

Prince Duan hurriedly ran downstairs. When he came to the street, the prince had just sat down by the tea stand. When he saw them coming, he raised his hands and shouted: "Don't ask me, I don't know anything. According to the emperor's order, let me sit in the palace guards!"

"Brother! Don't be a fool..."

Prince Duan sat over and offered a cigarette, and asked, "The sudden martial law in broad daylight, did someone assassinate the emperor?"

"What the hell can I do? I won't even let my hair be combed..."

The prince lit a cigarette angrily, and said: "Something must have happened. All the courtiers in the palace were called out to light their guns. Even my East Palace was taken away. The commander's face was very ugly. He didn't know anything." Ken told me, if I hadn't seen you sitting here, I would have thought you were rebelling!"

"you……"

Prince Duan said angrily: "How could I rebel, you can't say such words, Zhao Yunxuan, have you seen that?"

"Damn it, I was framed by the imperial guards..."

The prince took a few puffs of stuffy smoke, frowned, and said, "It's definitely not an assassination. The imperial guards were also confused. They only knew that everyone was gathered outside the nave. Seeing Zhao Yunxuan sitting on the steps smoking, your daughter and Seventeen stood behind him!"

"Seventeen stands behind him? I know..."

Prince Duan slapped his thigh abruptly, and said solemnly: "The corpse poison must have been leaked or stolen. The emperor left him to investigate the corpse poison. The purpose of gathering everyone is to get rid of it. See if there are any people in the palace!"

"But what are you driving me out for..."

The prince looked at him in astonishment, and Prince Duan squinted his eyes and said: "My lord! Your wife and children are all inside. Why do you want to drive you out? Lao Jiu advises you not to go anywhere today, just stay here honestly." Let's drink tea here!"

……

"I'm going! There are more people than people going to the market..."

Zhao Guanren was sitting on the white stone steps outside the central hall. There were eight or nine thousand eunuchs and maids in total, plus the concubines of the emperor and the prince, as well as descendants of the royal family, big and small. It's over ten thousand.

"Hey! Get up, you are the only one sitting besides the emperor..."

The little princess kicked him secretly, Zhao Guanren looked back, Emperor Shun Yao asked someone to move a chair and sit outside the palace gate, the concubines of high status stood in a long row behind him, the empress also stood there and dared not Fluttering, but frowning tightly.

"I won't get up, I don't know how long I will be busy..."

Zhao Guanren leaned against the guardrail and refused to get up. At this time, he finally saw the second great master in the palace besides Jin Wuming, and one of the staunch supporters of the princelings, the imperial cook——Qianyexuan!