After traveling through time, I became the aunt of the loyal dog emperor

"Because you said you would come tonight, I've been looking forward to it since yesterday"

The days are short in autumn, and soon after the banquet ended, the night began to spread, and the sky gradually became dark. Wan Ning deliberately changed into a low-key light blue dress. The simple style and color were perfectly hidden in the darkness. So that she could sneak into Ziheng's palace without being noticed.

Now that she is famous enough, she is worried that she will become the focus of some people's attention, so she naturally has to act more low-key than before to avoid giving others an advantage.

Fortunately, the journey today was very smooth, even surprisingly smooth. She hardly saw any guards or palace maids on the road. Even if some people passed by, she cleverly avoided them. Even the emperor's bedroom, which was heavily guarded in the past, was looser today than usual.

However, to be on the safe side, Wan Ning chose her old way - climbing over the wall. She just swooped down and climbed up the wall easily. She sat on the wall and wondered what happened today. She looked around and realized that there was a landscape flower pot outside the wall, and there happened to be a small rockery inside, just like a moving step that acted as a stepping stone, perfectly and naturally.

She slapped her head and urged herself not to waste any more time, then she jumped in and came to the study room in the bedroom with ease. Ziheng worked here every day, the door was half open and the surroundings were unusually quiet, and the candlelight in the room flickered up and down on the window.

"The security here is too bad. I will sneak in later. It will scare them." Wan Ning was thinking badly. She planned to sneak in without anyone noticing and catch them off guard. She carefully looked at the size of the door opening, and tried to get in through the crack of the door with her body sideways and steps carefully. She was almost concentrating, staring at the door for fear of touching it. This expression was very funny.

She didn't know that all of this had already been seen by Ziheng who was sitting at the desk. Seeing her smug look after she successfully came in, Ziheng almost laughed out loud. So before she could make any scary moves, Ziheng took the lead and "counterattacked" her.

"Yan Yan is here."

As she was walking on tiptoe, Wan Ning suddenly realized that her plan was discovered, and she instantly lost her temper. She simply stopped pretending and walked to Ziheng's desk with bold steps, sitting on the mat on the other side of the desk facing him. She picked up a book in front of him and flipped through it, deliberately making some noise.

Although he could hardly suppress his laughter, he still pretended to be serious and continued to read the memorial in his hand without raising his eyes.

"Hey, how did you know I came in?" Wan Ning still lost in this competition of concentration and couldn't help but ask.

"Because you said you were coming today, I've been preparing for it all day."

Ziheng put down the paper in his hand, looked into her eyes carefully from the other side of the table, and answered very gently and seriously. In this joyful competition, Ziheng was the first to lose.

Wan Ning blushed instantly, and then pretended not to understand and acted busy, lowering her head and frantically searching for something in the pile of books. Realizing that her pretense was so childish, she touched her neck again, raised her head and avoided Ziheng's gaze, looking around the room, not knowing how to start.

Seeing her uncomfortable look, Ziheng regretted his gaffe, clenched his fists under the table, and stubbornly turned his eyes away to avoid another eye contact. Seeing that the atmosphere was a little subtle, he noticed the memorial in his hand and took the initiative to hand it over. Changing the subject: "This is the memorial that Wang Ji sent back from Sangcheng at full speed, which records his recent investigation results."

Wan Ning took it naturally, unfolded it in front of her eyes, and read it carefully word by word, gradually frowning. Ziheng stood up, holding the candle in front of him, and walked around behind Wan Ning in two steps, and used the candlelight to illuminate the letter for fear that she could not see clearly.

"Yanyan, what do you think about the things in the memorial?"

Hearing this, Wan Ning spread her hands and put the memorial on the table, then buried her head in pain. With Wan Ning's help, she had learned a lot of Chu country's characters in the past few days, and daily communication and record keeping were no longer a problem. However, there were a lot of written expressions and special words in this memorial, which felt like a sudden language test.

She suddenly raised her head and stared at Ziheng with wide eyes, looking innocently and a little embarrassed: "There are many words here that I don't know. What does this word mean?"

She was startled at first, then Ziheng sat down next to her, took the memorial from her hand and asked patiently: "I was careless. If there is any word you don't know, I will tell you."

Wan Ning stretched out her finger with a guilty conscience, pointing out the parts that she didn't know or understand. Ziheng didn't rush to explain to her, but took out a pen and paper, wrote down the words and phrases one by one, and patiently explained the pronunciation and the meaning behind them. She also understood what he meant, so she took the pen and paper and marked the pronunciation on it in pinyin.

After the annotation was completed, he turned around and saw Ziheng watching carefully. Although he was confused, he acted very calmly, as if it was not the first time he had seen this kind of thing. Wan Ning did not want to cause trouble and did not intend to explain to him what it was, so she deliberately pointed to the content of the memorial and said knowingly: "From here to here, I know the name 'Wang', so it refers to Wang Ji, right? But what did Wang Ji say?"

"These two words are indeed 'Wang Ji'. Yanyan is really smart." Wan Ning was a little embarrassed to be praised for such a thing. Ziheng then read the contents of the memorial to her.

"So Wang Ji said in his memorial that Liu Xueyu's disappearance might be related to Yu County next door?"

"The summary is correct!" Wang Ji proudly explained his investigation process and conclusion in the memorial, but Wan Ning only summarized this sentence.

"After Wang Ji went to Sangcheng, he first visited Liu Xueyu's interpersonal relationships and found out that there had been some conflicts with Yu County over the canal construction. Yu County refused to allow the canal to pass through the county on the grounds that the canal would affect Feng Shui. In the end, negotiations failed, so Liu Xueyu had to re-plan the diversion and it was finally implemented."

"It will affect Feng Shui? The water channel passes through them and brings them convenience. Are they going to refuse such a good thing?" Wan Ning was very puzzled.

"Yucheng is located upstream, and there was a lot of rain in previous years, so they are not short of water. However, Sangcheng is different. They also lack water even when the weather is good. Therefore, Yucheng's need for water channels is not as urgent as Sangcheng's. If the water channels want to pass through Yucheng, they have to pay them a 'toll'. If there was less rain like this year, Yucheng would not refuse it."

"I heard that Yulin City is not short of water even this year. There is reason to suspect that they are the ones who messed up the canal. We'll know if they did it once we check!" Wan Ning expressed her opinion calmly.

The cool breeze blew in through the half-open window, and the candlelight also fluttered up and down, just reflecting on her raised face. Ziheng was a little absent-minded when he looked at it, and his heartbeat seemed to be jumping up and down in panic with the candlelight. Fortunately, he realized his loss of composure in time, deliberately turned his face away to pretend to be calm, and answered the doubts in a gentle voice: "Wang Ji went there, and Yucheng cooperated on the surface but secretly made all kinds of obstacles. Wang Ji's memorial is to request the court to issue an order to temporarily remove Yucheng County Magistrate Guo Ming from the investigation at this time."

Seeing Wan Ning's confused look, she took the initiative to explain: "Just temporarily detain Guo Ming and not allow any relevant information to be passed to him until the investigation is completed. Yanyan, what do you think of this?"

"inappropriate"