The Rebirth of the Deposed Empress

Lin Siyu is Huo Lian.

When in Anyang City, the captured Northern Kingdom spy Luo Xue confessed that she was poisoned by the Northern Kingdom's royal family and had to follow Huo Lian's orders.

The white bone grass is unique to the royal family of the northern kingdom, and they like to use this poison to make poison.

It just so happens that Lin Siyu has this white bone grass in her hand!

No wonder she and Ye Buhuo had been investigating for so long and had thoroughly searched the generals of the Hua family army but had not gained anything, because Hua Jingqian was not on the list at all, and Lin Siyu, who was staying in his backyard, naturally escaped her and Ye Buhuo's investigation.

Lin Siyu is Hua Jingqian's concubine. When Hua Jingqian was in the general's mansion before, he could easily learn about the movements of the Hua family army.

That was why she could give orders to the spies at the border from far away in the capital, asking them to find ways to delay Ye Buhuo and buy time for the Northern and Western countries to jointly attack the Ye Kingdom.

The more Hua Wu Ke thought about it, the more he felt that his guess was very reliable, so he decided to go in and investigate.

"Go in and have a look."

No one has lived in this yard since the second branch moved out. Fortunately, there are servants cleaning it all the time, so it doesn't look messy.

Because of the doubts in his heart, Hua Wu Ke walked straight to the yard where Lin Siyu used to live.

The door opened and Hua Wu Ke walked into the outer room. She looked around and said:

"Look around to see if there's anything odd."

As she spoke, she walked into the inner room and began to search.

This room really lived up to Lin Siyu's image of not competing with others. It was decorated very simply. There was a bed in the middle, facing a window. Next to the window was a dressing table, and then a cabinet.

There was no extra decoration in the entire room, even the quilts and other things had been packed up and taken away by the second roommate.

This actually made it convenient for Hua Wu Ke to investigate.

Hua Wu Ke checked the bed first, and touched the side of the bed, but there was nothing wrong with it. He then bent down and looked under the bed, but there was nothing unusual either.

The dressing table was also empty. I pulled out every drawer and checked but found no clues.

Finally only the cabinet was left.

The cabinet had three doors. She opened the first one and saw three wooden boards placed horizontally inside for clothes. She knocked on the inside of the cabinet, but the sound she heard did not sound like it was hollowed out.

I opened the second door and found that this small compartment was used to store long skirts. There was nothing inside except a smooth wooden stick across the top of the cabinet.

I knocked on it like I did before, and it was solid.

Hua Wu Ke opened the last door. This cabinet was also empty. There was no wooden board for clothes. Only on the left side of the cabinet, at half a person's height, there was a half-square hollow wooden block that was polished very smoothly.

She had a hunch that this was not right, as an ordinary wardrobe would not have such a thing.

But Hua Wu Ke looked at it several times and still couldn't understand what the purpose of this hollow wooden block was.

The furnishings in the outer room were simpler than those in the inner room, and Qingmei and Qingzhu quickly checked it out.

"Miss, there's nothing outside. What do you want us to find?"

Qingmei walked into the inner room and approached Hua Wuke curiously.

Seeing her staring at the empty cabinet in a daze, Qingmei curiously leaned closer to look inside the cabinet.

"This is obviously empty. There's nothing in it."

The further Qingmei leaned in, the more unsteady her body became, and she almost fell into the cabinet.

She subconsciously grabbed the hollow wooden block and managed to stand firmly.

Hua Wu Ke stretched out his hand to straighten her up and said:

"Be careful."

Qingmei subconsciously rubbed the wood in her hand a few times and said thankfully:

"Luckily there is this handrail, otherwise I would have fallen in."

armrest?

After hearing Qingmei's words, Hua Wu Ke looked at the wooden block and suddenly realized that this was just a square handrail!

Qingmei was still muttering to herself.

"But is it normal to have armrests inside the cabinet?"

Hua Wu Ke sneered:

"Of course it's not normal."

The armrest is not high and is in such an unusual position. There must be something wrong at the bottom of the cabinet.

As she spoke, she squatted down and knocked on the bottom of the cabinet. As expected, there was a 'dong dong dong' sound. From this sound, one could tell that it was hollow.

She fumbled around at the bottom of the cabinet for a while, and finally found a small piece of wood sticking out from a corner.

Pushing the small wooden block inwards, the wooden board at the bottom of the cabinet also retracted inwards, revealing an entrance that was large enough for one person to pass through.

Looking at the changes, Qingmei stayed where she was in surprise.

"Miss, this..."

Hua Wu Ke touched her head soothingly, and told her to stay here and not let anyone else in.

"Qingzhu, come with me."

Qingzhu turned on the fire to illuminate the entrance. Hua Wuke used the light and held on to the handrail on the side and slowly walked down the stone steps at the entrance.

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Just as Hua Wu Ke was looking for clues in Lin Siyu's room, Ye Buhuo and Hua Wujing finally received the envoy from the Northern Country.

Ye Buhuo was dressed in black as usual, and Hua Wujing was also wearing a dark blue that looked calm.

The two men rode their war horses in a majestic manner, followed by three hundred soldiers in full armor, looking very impressive.

In contrast, the envoys from the Northern Kingdom were much more low-key, with dozens of people protecting a bunch of things and following a few masters.

Seeing the two people appear, the Northern Kingdom's envoy Meng Shi walked up behind a man in gorgeous clothes.

Meng Shi bowed in the style of the Central Plains and said:

"Prince An, General Hua, thank you for coming out of the city to greet us."

Meng Shi said this and pointed at the man standing in front of him.

"This is His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince of our Northern Kingdom."

Bei Su, the fourth prince of the Northern Kingdom, took over the conversation and said:

"I've long heard that the war god of the Ye Kingdom, His Royal Highness Prince An, and the major general of the Hua family army are both outstanding people. After seeing them today, I find that the rumors are indeed true."

Although Bei Su is from the north, he speaks the Central Plains dialect fluently.

Ye Buhuo walked past Bei Su and Meng Shi and took a look at the things behind them. Several carriages were filled with stacked boxes and were being carefully guarded.

If we say that these are all treasures sent in exchange for peace, it would be too much.

Ye Buhuo felt that they must have another purpose for this trip.

Hearing Bei Su's words, Ye Buhuo replied calmly:

"Excellent."

The two short words revealed an unspoken perfunctory attitude, and Bei Su and Meng Shi's faces turned a little ugly.

Hua Wujing turned his head to glance at Ye Buhuo and felt that it was unwise for the emperor to send Ye Buhuo to pick someone up.

Hua Wujing secretly winked at Ye Buhuo: Even if they were defeated and had to sue for peace, you should at least be polite when others praise you!

Ye Buhuo pretended not to see anything, Hua Wujing had no choice but to speak up:

"The Fourth Prince is just as rumored, a handsome man."

Hua Wujing's polite words were not entirely false. Bei Su grew up in the north, but he was not as muscular as other northerners. He had a handsome face and could be considered a handsome man.