The King of Liang, the feudal lords outside the town, and the generals inside

In the dark night, with the dim moonlight, a young eunuch sneakily peeked out the window of the imperial study.There was no light in the imperial study room, and he couldn't see anything, but he could clearly hear the emperor and Liang Wang two people inside, and after a while, something made a very soft noise, and then the imperial study room was completely silent.

The little eunuch waited quietly for a while, listening carefully, there was indeed no one in the imperial study room, but no one came out of it.He thought for a while, quietly bypassed the patrolling and guarding guards, and under the cover of night, he just lowered his head and walked quickly towards the direction of the Compassionate Ning Palace.

"Stop." Someone behind said.

The little eunuch was startled, thinking that the guards had discovered him, he turned around shyly, only to see the emperor's new favorite, Ye Zhiyan, coming out of the arch behind him, looking at him quietly.

Seeing that he was alone, the little eunuch breathed a sigh of relief, bowed his waist and said, "My lord, do you have any orders?"

Ye Zhiyan didn't answer, and stepped forward step by step, the little eunuch shivered for no reason.But seeing Ye Zhiyan's fragile appearance, he also felt relieved.

Ye Zhiyan looked around, but there was no one, so he smiled and said, "Sorry."

Before the little eunuch could react, Ye Zhiyan suddenly struck him hard on the back of the neck. The little eunuch's eyes widened and he fell to the ground.

In the early morning of the next day, Bai Yu came out of the side hall of the Chongming Hall, the emperor passed on a breakfast meal, and the two had it together, and Bai Yu accompanied the emperor to the court.When Fang Xing passed the corridor on the west side of Chongming Hall, he saw several palace people rushing to and fro, and some guards shouted: "Hurry up, hurry up! Don't disturb the emperor!"

The emperor frowned, raised his hand, and the eunuch immediately ordered the sedan chair to be put down, and shouted loudly: "The emperor is here——"

The palace people knelt on the ground, the emperor went over with his hands behind his back, and saw two eunuchs carrying a stretcher one after the other, on which there seemed to be a person lying on it, covered with a white cloth.

"How is this going?"

A eunuch said: "Reporting to the emperor, this servant found a dead young eunuch in the corridor this morning, and was about to move out of the palace to be buried in a mass grave. I didn't want to but disturbed the emperor, this servant deserves to die!"

Just as he was about to go to court, the emperor didn't have time to ask, so he turned his head and glanced at Bai Yu, Bai Yu said knowingly: "Your brother understands, brother Huang, hurry up and go to court."

The emperor nodded, got on the sedan chair and drove away.

Bai Yu squatted down and lifted the white cloth from the little eunuch's face, and asked, "Do you know which palace he is serving?"

The eunuch who replied just now said: "Reporting to His Royal Highness King Liang, he is Xiao Xiangzi from the Palace of Compassion and Ning."

"The Palace of Compassion and Ning?" Bai Yu got up immediately and said, "Qiu Ye, go and invite Wu Zuo to do the autopsy."

Qiu Ye agreed to go, and the eunuch laughed and said, "Your Highness, there is no need for an autopsy. The servants should be moved to the mass grave and buried. It is common for servants in the palace to die of sudden illness. Why dirty His Highness's eyes."

Bai Yu didn't say anything, but just gave him a cold look, and the eunuch lowered his head and stopped talking.

The results of Wu's autopsy came out in the afternoon, and it was said that he died of poisoning.

Bai Yu took a bite of a soft cake in the morgue and said, "Poisoning? Blood poisoning or stomach poisoning? If stomach poisoning, why didn't the deceased have bleeding from the mouth and nose? If blood poisoning, where is the wound?"

Wu Zuo scratched his head and said: "This, I also find it strange. To tell you the truth, what Your Highness said is the crux of the problem. According to the minister, the poison of the deceased should be blood poison, that is, the poison enters the human body through trauma and causes death. I searched for the body of the deceased, but I didn't find any wounds. The only scar that has been burned for a long time... is my incompetence."

"It's not that you're incompetent." Bai Yu shook his head, and took another soft cake from the plate in Qiu Ye's hand, "It's that you were careless. Have you really searched for the dead body?"

Yuzuo nodded hesitantly.

Bai Yu then asked, "Have you seen it in your hair?"

Wu Zuo was taken aback, and said: "There should be no wounds in the hair, I have checked carefully, and there is no blood on the head of the deceased."

"Don't think so. An autopsy is too late to guess." Bai Yu pointed to Xiao Xiangzi's hair, "Shave off all of them and we'll see."

After Wu used the razor to shave off all the hair of the corpse, he found a very small needle hole in the head of the corpse, which would never have been discovered if he didn't pay attention.The eye of the needle was faintly blue, with a negligible amount of blood oozing out. The little bit of blood solidified as soon as it came out, and it was naturally invisible under the cover of hair.

"This..." Wu Zuo was stunned, "The poison infiltrating such a small wound can actually kill people? Your Highness, you really..."

Wu Zuo was about to turn around to flatter, but he saw Bai Yu standing there holding a half-bitten soft cake, his eyes widened, as if he had been greatly frightened.

"Your Highness?" Wu Zuo called out in confusion.King Liang, who was calmly eating cakes next to the corpse just now, why was he so frightened by the eye of a needle?

"Your Highness, what's the matter?" Qiu Ye also noticed something was wrong, and hurriedly asked.

Bai Yu just woke up like a dream, and said in a deep voice: "Qiu Ye, let the people from the palace guard the morgue, and don't touch this corpse without the emperor's imperial edict. Follow me back to the palace."

He was just recovering from a serious injury. He was weak and afraid of the cold and heat. There were many large tanks in his room, which were filled with ice cubes, and there were wind wheels turning slowly beside him, making the room very cool.

Bai Yu knocked lightly on the door, and said righteously, "Come in."

"Master, did you rest well last night? Did you take your medicine on time?" Bai Yu came in with a smile as usual, and sat down beside Cui Zheng.

Qianzheng nodded, "Don't worry, I'm fine. But you, your eyes are blue, did you spend the whole night talking with the emperor last night?"

"The royal concubine is newly mourning, and the emperor's brother will inevitably be depressed." Bai Yu was silent for a moment, stretched out his right wrist, rolled up his sleeve, and unfastened a small box two fingers wide from his wrist.He stared at Qizheng, and said slowly, "This is Master's unique hidden weapon. Inside is a row of tiny needles. It was supposed to quench the poison on it, but the poison was also developed by Master. It is called Xiqianglian, and it seals the throat with blood." The poison is extremely poisonous, just one prick can kill a person. Moreover, the deceased will not turn purple, nor will his mouth and nose bleed, and there will not even be any signs of poisoning on his body—it’s a pity that I didn’t dare to kill people, so I only quenched the anesthetic. "

After Bai Yu finished speaking in one breath, her hands curled up unconsciously, and she tightly clenched the small box.

Kui was looking at him with a smile, "Well, quenching poison is useful for quenching poison, and quenching anesthetic is useful for quenching anesthetic."

Bai Yu nodded, and said, "That's right. I have the anesthetic quencher, so master, who owns the poison quencher?"

Kui Zheng was stunned for a moment, and said, "Why do you ask such a question?"

Bai Yu said: "A young eunuch died in the palace today, that's how he died. I really want to know, didn't the master give this to me alone? Who else can get it? How could that person be in the palace?" inside?"

Kui Zheng said calmly: "Li Guang, Master will not harm you."

"I know." Bai Yu became more and more anxious, "I know Master won't harm me, but I also want to know who that person is and what he wants to do in the palace!"

"He will help you, Li Guang." Cui Zheng stretched out his hand to caress Bai Yu's cheek, his fingertips were very dry, "Trust Master. All these years, I have lived for you, you are my only hope, I Do everything for you."

These words reminded Bai Yu suddenly of his poor boyhood, he had never met his biological parents since he was born, and he only had his master, Chi Zheng.Even if there is no blood relationship, Kui Zheng treats him very well, because he has never married, people who don't know think he is the son of Kui Zheng.

Unconsciously, Bai Yu knelt down in front of Kuizheng like she did when she was a child, lay on his lap and called out, "Master."

Cuizheng's hands trembled, and he gently stroked Baiyu's head in a trance, immersed in the remembrance of the past.

It was obvious that there was no way to ask further questions about this matter, Bai Yu didn't say a word, and retreated slowly.

Originally, he had made an appointment with the emperor, and took Wanwan into the palace in the afternoon to see Nanny Feng.Last night, as soon as Bai Yu asked Mother Feng if she had a daughter, now she is eleven or twelve years old, Mother Feng immediately jumped up and slapped the table like crazy.

However, when I went to Yan's mansion and asked, I found out that the day before yesterday, Princess Chunyi took her daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter out to relax, and was not in the mansion at night.Bai Yu rushed to nothing, and when he was about to leave, he bumped into Yan Jun, Yan Zun and his son who had just returned from a trip.

Yan Jun bowed to Bai Yu, caught a glimpse of his second son just staring at him, and kicked him with a cold face, Yan Zun recovered his senses and hurriedly saluted.

Bai Yu smiled politely, "Mr. Yongming is exempt from the ceremony, and Minister Yan is exempt from the ceremony."

Yan Jun straightened up and said, "Your Highness is here, what can I do?"

"Unfortunately, I wanted to visit Wanwan, only to find out that she went out to play with the princess." Bai Yu looked at the baggage in Yan Zun's hand, "Mr. Yongming is going to..."

Yan Jun sighed, and said: "I went to the General's Mansion to send something to Xun'er, but I couldn't send it in. I want to talk to him, but I can't say anything in front of a group of guards across the door."

Bai Yu's heart tightened, and he frowned and said, "But Brother Huang only said to let the general close the door and think about his mistakes. When did he say that his family members are not allowed to send things? Are those guards not even letting the door open?"

Yan Zun said: "The guards are no longer the original guards of the General's Mansion. They have been replaced by another group. It doesn't matter if you put money in them."

"There's no reason for that!" Bai Yu's expression changed, her heart ached endlessly, "He's still a general, and the emperor hasn't decreed to demote him yet, so why is he being treated like a prisoner?!"

Bai Yu's sudden outburst of anger caught Yan Jun quite by surprise—he didn't seem to have heard that King Liang and Yan Xun had a good relationship.

"...Your Highness?"

Bai Yu was stunned for a moment, and when she came back to her senses, she realized that her emotions were a bit too obvious. She didn't know how to explain it, Yan Zun silently pulled the corner of her mouth, and pulled out a seemingly natural smile, "Your Highness loves loyal ministers just as much as the Emperor, really. Blessings to the courtiers."

"That's right, this king can't bear to see his loyal ministers being wronged like this." Bai Yu smiled sarcastically, "Then, this king will accompany Yong Minggong to the General's Mansion to deliver things."