One Step to The End

"His Royal Highness! What happened..."

On a bustling street outside the imperial palace, various officials crowded into a tea house. Prince Duan sat in the wing on the second floor looking at the imperial palace. , The imperial army has tripled!"

"It won't be Zhao Yunxuan's assassination, he is the only outsider in the palace..."

An official looked at him nervously, and Prince Duan sprayed the tea he had just drunk into his mouth. He was shocked and said: "No, what kind of stabbing does he do well? Besides, if there is a leader escort, he must have that too. It's a good job, is it possible..."

"There is rebellion, blame him..."

The other party stomped hard, and the whole room changed all the civil and military weapons. Prince Duan threw the tea bowl and jumped up, and said with a pale face: "Oh! The prince will not rebel, right? The imperial martial law must be a major event, Zhao Yunxuan is. The best excuse!"

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

"one person?"

Prince Duan hurriedly leaned on the window and looked out. The prince walked out alone with a disheveled hair. There was not even a guard or **** by his side. He even turned around and cursed as he walked, as if he had been thrown out of the palace.

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

The prince Duan ran downstairs anxiously. When he came to the street, the prince was just sitting next to the tea stand. Seeing them coming, he raised his hands and shouted: "Don’t ask me, this palace knows nothing, Commander Let the emperor give an order, let the palace go to the guardian to sit in the hall!"

"Big Brother! Don't sell it..."

Prince Duan sat over and handed over a cigarette, and asked: "Did someone assassinate the emperor during the sudden martial law in broad daylight?"

"What the **** can I sell, I won't let Lao Tzu comb my hair..."

The prince lit the cigarette angrily, and said, "There must be something serious. All the court officials in the palace have been called out. Even my east palace is taken away together. The commander’s face is very ugly and there is nothing. Ken told me that if I hadn't seen you sitting here, my palace would have thought you had rebelled!"

"you……"

Prince Duan said angrily: "How can I rebel? You can't talk nonsense about this, Zhao Yunxuan, have you seen it?"

"Seeing a fart, I was framed by the Royal Guard..."

The prince took a few breaths of suffocating smoke and frowned: "It must not be an assassination. The Royal Guards were also dumbfounded. They only knew that everyone was concentrated outside the nave. When you saw Zhao Yunxuan sitting on the steps and smoking, your daughter followed Seventeen stood behind him!"

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

Prince Duan slapped his thigh abruptly, and solemnly said, "It must be the corpse poison leaked or stolen. The emperor left him to track down the corpse poison. The purpose of gathering everyone is to click on the corpse to see if there are fewer people in the palace!"

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

The prince looked at him with a stunned face, and squinted his eyes and said, "Prince! Your wife and children are all inside. What do you say to drive you out? Lao Jiu advises you not to go anywhere today, and stay honestly. Have tea here!"

...

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

Zhao Guanren sat on the white stone steps outside the nave. There were eight or nine thousand eunuchs and court ladies, plus the concubines of the emperor and the prince, as well as the descendants of the royal family, not counting twenty to thirty thousand internal guards. It has broken 10,000.

"Hey! Get up, you are sitting alone except the emperor..."

The little princess kicked him secretly. Zhao Guanren looked back and saw that Emperor Shunyao asked to move a chair and sit outside the gate of the palace. The concubines of good standing stood in a row behind him, and the queen also stood afraid. Fucked, but his brows were tightly locked.

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

Zhao Guanren leaned on 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 princeling party, the royal chef-Qianba Xuan!

That's right!

Qianye Xuan, one of the ten great masters, is a cook. It is said that he has been an imperial cook since the grandfather of Emperor Shunyao. No one knows how old his true age is. Anyway, he looks like a person in his fifties. He was dressed in a clean red official gown, thin, without a single beard.

"Quickly give the Grand Master a seat..."

Emperor Shunyao straightened up and raised his hand. He could see that he respected Qianye Xuan very much. Qianye Xuan also bowed and thanked him properly. He sat in a pile of imperial kitchens without speaking, and there was no emotion on his face. .

"The emperor! No need to count..."

Zhao Guanren got up and walked to the side of Emperor Shunyao, bending down and said, "There are so many people who eat empty salaries. There are 189 fewer eunuchs, and 236 fewer court ladies. Your concubine has not yet Count, but Weichen estimates...I'm afraid it is not enough!"

"Bastard! It's over to Lao Tzu to eat free money..."

Emperor Shunyao slapped the armrest of the seat with a palm, and suddenly rose up in rage. The concubines knelt to the ground in fright, and the ebony slaves also knelt down, and the old eunuch's face was more serious than that of a dead mother. It's ugly, it's obviously a matter of knowing how to eat money.

"Wait a moment!"

The empress raised her head and said in shock: "The guards haven't finished counting, how do you know how many people are missing?"

"Return to the queen! Weichen asked them to align back and forth, and multiply the horizontal and vertical rows to get the number of people..."

Zhao Guanren arched his hands and said: "It's just that it's not convenient to count the number of officials in the harem. Please send someone to take out a roster and count the corpses in the Imperial Garden. If the situation is true, the trouble will be great!"

"Get out of here, if I have fewer concubines, don't be a queen..."

Emperor Shunyao exploded again with anger, the empress did not even dare to put one fart, and hurriedly led her concubines down the steps, and Emperor Shunyao was like a beast in a cage, with red eyes and troops on the high platform. Pace up and down.

"emperor!"

Jin Wuming finally counted the number of people, and it was the same as Zhao Guanren's number, but he also handed out a list of people who were missing.

"Those who ate empty salaries were all dragged out and chopped..."

Emperor Shunyao threw the list abruptly, Zhao Guanrenshun copied it by hand and stepped forward and said: "The emperor! If someone cuts it, they will die without a proof. There must be many people who have been deceived by their subordinates, like Father Tian. You can't let a sinner go, but you can't kill an innocent by mistake!"

"Did you make it clear..."

Emperor Shunyao was furious and pointed at the queen. The queen hurried up and knelt down and said, “The concubine has to inspect the harem every day. There is no shortage of concubines in the harem, and there are also a lot of slaves in the harem. people!"

"Prince!"

Emperor Shunyao has completely disregarded decency, and yelled: "You shamelessly yourself, don't blame me for not giving you decency today, you roll over to me, and I will chop your head if you don't know it!"

"emperor!"

A round prince rushed out and knelt down and tremblingly said: "Tai, the prince has heavy hands, and he missed a few troublesome slaves and maidservants. The wife was dragged out and buried. But the servants of the East Palace cannot enter the Royal Garden, and the dead are not from the East Palace!"

"You gangsters..."

Emperor Shunyao gritted his teeth and cursed: "If I don't check today, I'm afraid you will keep hiding until Lao Tzu enters the imperial mausoleum. Don't be a princess, you too, come here! Beat her into the cold palace and let her go!"

"The emperor! It's none of your daughter-in-law's business, it's none of your daughter-in-law's business..."

The princess banged the floor tiles, but the four female guards directly carried her away, and Princess Demon Moon stood below and didn't even dare to lift her head. The little princess was gloating, taking advantage of the emperor's carelessness. , And gave Zhao Guanren a wink.

"I'm so angry, I'm so angry..."

Emperor Shunyao walked back and forth several times, pointing to Zhao Guanren and said: "Zhao Yunxuan! You let go and check, I must figure out today, who is the woman who died in the imperial garden, and the demons and demons in the harem have found out, how many are you? All accompany him!"

"Fortunately everyone! The yamen who read the list can go..."

Zhao Guanren raised the map of the Zhang Forbidden Palace and shouted: "The Supervisor of Li, the Imperial Horse, the Supervisor, Shangbao, the Shrine, the Yinshou, the Duzhi, the Imperial Kitchen, the Xishen Division, the Tai Hospital, Division of Bells and Drums, Division of Huntang, the entire Outer Eighth inning can go, and all the female officials Liushang stay!"

"The slave and maid retire!"

A large number of people retreated in a hurry like an amnesty, but the faces of the remaining people were all white, and there were thousands of concubines and royal children, all kneeling in panic, it is estimated that everyone's buttocks were not clean.

"The first time the official enters the palace, if the title is wrong, I hope you forgive me..."

Zhao Guanren arched his hands underneath and said: "Please return to their respective dormitories, princes and grandchildren, and order your servants and maidservants. Don’t go out for the time being. In case of emergency, you can send an **** to pass the report. Everyone in the East Palace, please move to the library to rest. !"

"The concubine retires!"

The concubines walked away in a torrent of torrents, and basically only the harem waiters were left. Dozens of gardeners and flower slaves were all tied up. They were uncontrollable by rootless people, and more than half of them were scared to pee. Pants.

"The emperor! The Weichen will start to investigate..."

Zhao Guanren turned around and bowed, and Emperor Shunyao waved his hand tiredly: "Go! No matter who is involved, I will find out whoever is involved, I will find out, dare to protect me, and I will not forgive!"

"Chen Zunzhi!"

Zhao Guanren took a booklet and walked down the steps, and came to the gardeners for questioning, but they did not expect that there would be corpses in the imperial garden, and they did not eat money, and no one was missing.

Zhao Guanren frowned and said, "Digging holes will definitely kill the flowers and plants. How can they not know if the ground is overturned?"

"My lord! Ladies love to play in the imperial garden, flowers and plants are often trampled to death..."

The gardener cried and said: "Especially around the rockery, peekaboo will be trampled to death, and the palace maids and eunuchs are lazy, and the trousers urinate there. Moreover, we are all on duty. Some people turn the soil and transplant. Will be suspicious!"

"Just hold it down, I'll see you again if I have something to do..."

Zhao Guanren got up and walked towards the ladies. The dozens of ladies were neither humble nor overbearing. They were also very decent, but their tone was tighter than the belt of the trousers. They didn't say anything that shouldn't be said, and the ordinary ladies didn't ask what they learned.

"Master!"

Zhao Guanren quickly ran into the nave. Emperor Shunyao was already sitting in the hall and drinking tea. Jin Wuming stood beside him sinking like water and asked, "How?"

"The female official Liushang colluded a collective confession, and the confession was not bad..."

Zhao Guanren reluctantly said: "These palace ladies are old fried dough sticks, and there is no flaw in the confession. I will put them back later. Please find some skilled female guards and secretly stare at them to see if anyone is there. Destroy the evidence!"

"Don't worry about it..."

Emperor Shunyao asked in a deep voice: "I just suddenly realized a problem. Normal people should never bury the corpse in the imperial garden. It is easy for people to find it, but the rockery where the corpse is found is exquisite. You might see something. Mystery?"

"Mystery?"

Zhao Guanren quickly took out the floor plan of the palace. In fact, he didn't see anything, but he was able to get a general idea. He exclaimed in shock: "Jianyan! Feng Shui's feng shui, someone is deliberately destroying the harem's Feng Shui. It’s just..."

"What is it? But it doesn't hurt to say..."

Emperor Shunyao lowered his tea bowl and stared, Zhao Guanren bent over in fear, and said, "The emperor should not blame it. It is no wonder that the Yin Qi of the Yu Huayuan condenses and does not disperse. It turns out that someone has defeated the harem Feng Shui with malicious tricks. This Feng Shui defeat is... No one! No one's sons and grandchildren!"

"Hiss~"

Jin Wuming took a breath, and Emperor Shunyao "clicked" and smashed the tea bowl, and said in anger: "I know that the corpse will not appear in the eyes for no reason. It is still the vicious trick of mixing men and women. , Go check it out quickly, don't even want to eat if you can't find out!"