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Chapter 282 Next Action

In the imperial study, the residual scent of the drug had not yet dissipated. Chu Lu expressionlessly directed the eunuchs and palace maids to clean up the drugged midnight snack remnants, destroy the incense burner with the lover's incense, and ordered people to carry the unconscious General Meng and the palace maid who had been drugged to the side halls and properly place them, while blocking the news.

After a busy day, it was already late at night. Chu Lu returned to his bedroom alone, with not much emotion on his face.

He sat down on the couch, rubbed his brows, and said bluntly: "Let's discuss it, how to get rid of her?"

"Honestly, I don't have any idea." Qin Su asked, "What are you going to do?"

"The situation is tense right now, and we don't know the situation with Fei Wu, so we can't act rashly." Chu Lu pondered for a moment and made a decision, "Anyway, let's test it out first."

"Test?" Qin Su asked.

Chu Lu quickly went over the Xiao Jiu storyline Qin Su had told him before, and then said, "Well. Let's try to get her out first. She's different from Jiang Miaoyan. Jiang Miaoyan is the eldest princess, and her status is noble, so it's more difficult to get her out. But Xiao Jiu is different. Although in her original storyline, she will be the top scorer in the imperial examination, be chosen as a consort, and then rise all the way to become a powerful official, and even be able to help the princess ascend to the throne, but that's all in the future."

"She is only a top scorer now." Chu Lu said confidently, "As long as we fail her in the next palace examination, and then find a reason to send her far away to some remote place to be a small county magistrate, her threat will naturally be eliminated."

"This method is worth a try." Qin Su analyzed, "However, the influence of the heroine's halo cannot be underestimated. She will definitely not accept it easily and will definitely fight back when the time comes."

"I know." Chu Lu naturally wouldn't miss this point, "That's why I said it was a test. I just want to see how she will respond when the time comes. If she is as crazy as Jiang Miaoyan, then no matter how big the risk is, I have no choice but to take action... By the way, how much correction value is needed to offset her heroine aura?"

"Thirty o'clock." Qin Su replied.

"That's good." Chu Lu's current correction value is as high as forty-five points, which is more than enough to deal with Xiao Jiu.

"Then I hope she can be more human next..." Chu Lu sighed.

After discussing with Qin Su, all he could do now was to wait for the palace examination. But Chu Lu did not intend to just sit there idle, but to deal with another matter - to prepare for the arrest of Li Zhu, the chief of the department.

From Zhang Wei, they have obtained detailed information about Li Zhu. As the head of the department, this person has a clear identity. If they can capture him, they will undoubtedly gain a lot of correction value.

However, Li Zhu is not an easy person to deal with.

According to Zhang Wei's confession, Li Zhu had a miraculous skill in controlling horses. Almost all horses, whether they were imperial horses or ordinary horses for pulling carts and doing odd jobs, had been tamed by him, either openly or secretly, and obeyed his orders. In the original story, Li Zhu planned to use these controlled horses to set fires everywhere in the palace, creating large-scale chaos, and then take the opportunity to have the gang members who had been ambushed disguised as fire-fighting imperial guards, sneak into the depths of the palace, and kill the emperor.

Therefore, if you want to deal with him, you must not alert him. Otherwise, once he realizes the danger, he may launch that crazy arson plan in advance, and the palace will be in chaos, and the situation will be difficult to control.

In addition, Li Zhu himself is also a martial arts expert, especially his whip technique is superb and difficult to defend. With Chu Lu's current strength, he is definitely not his opponent if he fights alone. So the only way to take him down in one fell swoop is to find a suitable reason to make him unguarded and come to see Chu Lu alone. Chu Lu gave another order, and the ambushes around him emerged and captured him in one breath.

But this person is extremely cautious in daily life, and it is not easy to trick him.

Chu Lu pondered over it, and a plan gradually took shape in his mind. He planned to summon the imperial horse supervisor Li Zhu to the secluded back garden to look at a few imperial horses, and privately ask for a solution, on the grounds that the emperor's recent dragon body was not in good health, and he was weak during sex at night, and the imperial doctors were helpless. The Imperial Observatory reported that the horses in the palace were too yin, which might collide with the emperor's body.

Doing so would not only seem reasonable, but would also allow Li Zhu to relax his vigilance. After all, this matter concerned the emperor's health and palace secrets, and the emperor naturally did not want to publicize it. It was reasonable to summon him secretly and ask him to come alone.

The best part is that due to the story line of Concubine Li, the heir of Medicine Valley, the emperor is now really impotent, so this is not even a lie. Even if Li Zhu is extra cautious and investigates secretly, he will not find any clues.

At that time, we only need to set up an ambush in the back garden and capture him in one fell swoop with a single order.

Of course, it was not enough to just capture Li Zhu. Chu Lu also hoped to get intelligence about other heads of the company through him, otherwise he would have to collect intelligence in public, which was time-consuming and laborious. This required sufficient correction values ​​as a guarantee, otherwise, given the stubborn nature of these spies, once they were captured, they would immediately commit suicide by taking poison, and then all the efforts would be in vain.

Therefore, before the correction value increases to a level high enough to pry open Li Zhu's mouth, all we can do now is some preliminary preparations, such as selecting people for ambush, surveying the terrain of the back garden, etc.

In this way, the days passed one by one, and soon it was the day before the palace examination.

Chu Lu finished dealing with the matters at hand and prepared to rest early. The palace examination would be held tomorrow, and he had to be fully rested to deal with Xiao Jiu.

He lay on the dragon bed, closed his eyes, and his chaotic thoughts gradually calmed down.

The night was as dark as ink, covering the entire palace city, and even the moon had disappeared. On the corridor outside the palace, the palace lanterns on both sides swayed gently in the breeze, and the dim light cast a swaying shadow on the bluestone slabs underfoot.

A cool breeze came in through the doors and windows, causing the flames on the candlesticks to sway slightly. A faint scent of sandalwood filled the air, and an inexplicable loneliness and sadness suddenly spread out from nowhere.

In the dead of night, Chu Lu's breathing became long and slow, his face was peaceful, and the boundaries of his consciousness gradually blurred, as if he was slowly sinking into an endless, cold and dark deep sea.

Then, a spot of light suddenly appeared in the darkness, becoming brighter and brighter, turning into a clear yet unfamiliar picture.

That is the picture of a dream.

(End of this chapter)