His Majesty is my ex-boyfriend

Before Eunuch Li said it, Chu Ya glanced at him intentionally or unintentionally, where Bai Lu couldn't notice, the two exchanged a secret look, and then Eunuch Li continued: "...It's the imperial dining room One of my housekeepers, named Zhao Ping, is 27 this year."

Bai Lu was a little surprised, "Aren't you from the harem?"

Eunuch Li shook his head, "My lord, I have already checked the roster. There are a total of 230 palace eunuchs in the harem, and there are not many of them missing."

"……All right."

Chu Ya deliberately asked: "Why do you think that the person who died was someone from the harem?"

Bai Lu didn't realize Chu Ya's temptation, and replied truthfully: "I see that his death date is so close to that of Concubine Mei, so I think these two cases are related."

"Oh?" Chu Ya looked at him meaningfully, and asked sharply: "Do you think I killed this eunuch?"

When he asked such a straightforward question, he appeared to be frank and honest, with a clear conscience, which made Bai Lu suspicious, so Bai Lu panicked all of a sudden, and hurriedly explained: "No, I didn't mean to doubt you, Just a little..."

"Don't trust me?"

How could Bai Lu be Chu Ya's opponent in terms of scheming? After a few words, the upright Bai Lu suddenly felt that he was a villain who could only be suspicious, and even felt ashamed because he had doubted Chu Ya.

Bai Lu lowered his head with vacillating eyes, and said embarrassingly, "Then...I'm sorry...I didn't mean to doubt you."

Chu Ya smiled tolerantly, stretched out his hand to embrace Bai Lu, put his arm on his waist, helped him straighten the hair on his sideburns with the other hand, and said kindly: "Okay, you too Don’t feel guilty, after all what happened to Concubine Mei not long ago, you should doubt me, but you also heard that the eunuch who died this time belonged to the imperial dining room, it had nothing to do with the harem, it was just an accident.”

Bai Lu nodded hesitantly.

He is completely confused now, his brain is not very smart at first, and he can barely think for a while, but he was "kidnapped by morality" by Chu Ya for a few words, and when he felt guilty, it became even more difficult. What is the state of what.

Chu Ya touched his head again, and said with a smile, "Okay, don't bother thinking about it, let's go out and play."

After sending Bai Lu away, Si Zhu came out from behind the [-]-fold crane and orchid screen in the inner room, and walked up to Chu Ya to salute.

Chu Ya seems to be very dissatisfied with him recently, and really wants to change the personnel transfer of his own shadow guard. He frowned and said, "Ah Bai is doubting again."

Si Zhu wanted to cry without tears, and complained: "Your Majesty, I promise that I have done it very carefully this time, and I deliberately used Mabosan to numb people first, and then threw them into the water. There are no traces, but the date of death is so close to Concubine Mei, Bai Lu must be suspicious, I really can't help it."

In fact, this Chu Ya had thought about it a long time ago. Even in ancient times, the dead should not be so frequent. If he can be fooled this time, it may not be the case next time.

Their plan was to completely wipe out those eleven people before the end of the month, and they only killed one, and Bai Lu was already suspicious. If ten people died in a row, it would really be hard to deal with it.It's okay for the servants to die, they can be hidden, but those three concubines are really hard to deal with.

As Si Zhu said, it is easy to kill people without leaving traces, so that the investigators can't find any clues at all, but it is really difficult to make people have no doubts at all.

Si Zhu looked at Chu Ya anxiously, "Then please give me an idea, Your Majesty, my subordinate is dull, and I can't think of a trick even after racking my brain."

The implication is that if you can't do anything, don't force him, a pure little shadow guard who can only kill, to use his brains.

However, Chu Ya just thought about it briefly, and then said unhurriedly: "There is a way to kill many people at the same time without arousing suspicion."

Si Zhu was a little dazed, but also a little disbelieving, "Dare to ask Your Majesty, what method is it?"

Chu Ya said calmly: "The plague."

"Plague?" Si Zhu repeated subconsciously, and then a flash of inspiration came to his mind, and he suddenly realized, with a look of admiration on his face, "So that's the case, what do you mean..."

"Yes, I want you to use poison to create a fake plague. You can prepare a poison in two days, which will make people dizzy within three days, cough up blood and have a fever within five days, and watch the plague within seven days." It looks like dying of illness, so that the imperial physicians can't detect the clues, this is easy for you, right?"

Si Zhu nodded, "Although the preparation is a bit complicated, it can be done."

"Very good, after making the medicine, you will poison the remaining ten people step by step, remember to start with the servants."

Si Zhu bowed his head and accepted the order, "Yes."

A man-made plague spread silently into the harem one night. The first person who was caught was an eunuch who had worked in Concubine Mei's Palace and was later transferred to another palace. Participated in the cold food powder business and made a lot of money privately, so Si Zhu took him first.

On the night of Si Zhu's mission, Chu Ya found an excuse to keep Bai Lu in the palace—he was accompanying Bai Lu to set off fireworks.

"Is there actually gunpowder in this era?!" Bai Lu stood in the spacious courtyard, looking at the golden little flower in his hand in the dark night, very surprised, "You brought this too?"

Chu Ya explained gently: "Gunpowder is already here. You have seen it before. The saltpeter used to make ice is one of the raw materials for making gunpowder."

"It's so powerful." Bai Lu looked at the small firework that was slowly extinguishing in his hand, and stretched out his hand to the side, Chu Ya handed over a new one, and lighted it for him with incense.

"Since there is gunpowder, is there a gun?"

As a man of martial nature, Bai Lu has a natural interest in guns, but most of his knowledge of guns comes from police and gangster movies, and a small part comes from the shooting gallery that Chu Ya took him to in his free time. By the way , if it was really close contact, it should be the shot on the ship.

Bai Lu has really let go of that shot now, and doesn't mind at all, and can even think carefully about the model of the pistol that Chu Ya used at that time.

But at that time, it was pitch black and it was raining heavily, so I couldn't see clearly.

Chu Ya didn't know that his brain circuit had already gone to Java, so he answered Bai Lu's question, "I don't have a gun, but if you want, I can try to ask a craftsman to make one."

Bai Lu was shocked, "The craftsmen in the palace are so powerful, they can even make guns?!"

Chu Ya took the almost burnt fireworks in Bai Lu's hand to prevent him from getting burned, and then said: "Yes, the ancient craftsmen were very powerful in a certain kind of research spirit."

One by one, of course, modern craftsmen can't make something, at most they deduct wages. Ancient craftsmen can't meet the requirements of His Majesty, but if they want to beheaded, don't they have to work hard and work hard?

"However, it is impossible to make a gun that is too detailed. It is still possible to make a flintlock musket. I will draw a blueprint for the craftsmen another day and let them have a try."

Bai Lu's eyes lit up, "Really? Am I going to upgrade from a guard with a knife to a guard with a gun?"

Chu Ya was helpless, "I made this gun for you to play with occasionally, and you are not allowed to carry it with you at ordinary times, it is too dangerous."

Bai Lu's eyes darkened, and he curled his lips unhappily, "Stingy, old-fashioned, worrying about others, sticking to the rules!"

Chu Ya laughed angrily, "When did you learn to use idioms to curse people?"

Chu Ya was born with a very high IQ and a very good memory. He only saw the blueprint of the firecracker once in the museum when he was in junior high school, and he memorized it completely.

He spent an hour in the study drawing the structure of the firecracker in his memory, and improved a few places according to his own ideas, so that it could fire bullets twice in a row.

Just as Chu Ya expected, after handing over the blueprints to Shanggong Pavilion, Bai Lu's interest was immediately attracted. After he was on duty and patrolling every day, he went to the craftsmen to watch them refining parts. I will personally go into battle to give pointers, and toss around for a while, although in the eyes of skilled craftsmen, it is just a trick.

But he did not pay attention to the affairs of the harem for several days in a row. Bai Lu has a single-core brain and can only handle one thing at the same time. After focusing on Shanggong Pavilion, he will completely focus on other things Forget it.

Chu Ya's plan is really killing two birds with one stone.

As I said before, Chu Ya knows Bai Lu's character like the back of his hand, and he can play tricks on him casually. How can Bai Lu be his opponent? .

Seven or eight days passed like this, one day Bai Lin suddenly sent a little maid to look for him, and invited him to come to He Huan Yuan for a gathering.

The little lady-in-waiting didn't know exactly what she was doing, she just said that Concubine Wen and Miss Bai were playing a delicate and complicated game recently, the rules were very difficult to fathom and unfathomable, and the ladies-in-waiting couldn't learn it even after racking their brains. I had no choice but to invite Mr. Bai to go over.

Bai Lu was quite surprised, what kind of game can be so difficult?Besides, it's really difficult, is it useful to let him pass?

When he arrived at He Huan Yuan and stepped into the main hall, he saw a square table in the middle of the hall. Bai Lin, Concubine Wen, and Concubine Wen's personal maid Ming Si were sitting at the table playing mahjong.

Bai Lu: "?"

Oh...is this the legendary inscrutable game?It's so profound!

Bai Lin turned her head and saw Bai Lu coming in, she quickly raised her hand and waved, "I'm waiting for you, baby, come quickly, one of three is missing."

Bai Lu walked in helplessly, sat on the empty seat, and complained, "I don't want to play mahjong, I have other things to do."

Bai Lin: "The money you win is yours, and the money you lose is mine."

Bai Lu: "I'll shuffle the cards!"

This mahjong set is gorgeously made, with smooth ice jade on the back and white jade on the front, and the hand-carved tiles are painted with gold lacquer to outline the pattern.

Bai Lu took a rough look at the cards while shuffling them. There were no missing cards. After all, his own mother liked to play mahjong very much in her previous life. She knew exactly what cards a set of mahjong had.