Why mess with her? Even the emperor has to pamper her.

After Xie Xin and Yun Chuwei finished talking, they decided to personally lead the team to search the enclosure.

When they were leaving, they happened to meet Concubine Xi who was walking towards them.

Concubine Xi had changed her clothes and combed her hair again, and there was no trace of having encountered the assassin on her body.

Xie Xin and Yun Chuwei paused and bowed to Concubine Xi.

Concubine Xi glanced at the two of them and gave them a charming smile.

"Fifth Princess and Miss Yun, there is no need to be so polite. You two are both very popular with His Majesty. Why do you need to bow to me, a concubine?"

Yun Chuwei didn't say anything, but Xie Xin spoke up: "After all, Concubine Xi is our elder, so we should naturally pay our respects to you!"

Concubine Xi smiled even more: "If I remember correctly, the guarding work for this hunt was in charge of the Fifth Princess, right? Now that something like this has happened, I'm afraid the Fifth Princess can't escape the blame."

Xie Xin narrowed her eyes slightly and said slowly: "This princess will naturally find out everything and give father an explanation!"

Concubine Xi nodded slightly, and then said meaningfully: "There are some things that the princess may not be able to handle. Why not go find my nephew? I believe he will do his best to help the princess!"

After hearing this, Yun Chuwei and Xie Xin both had a chill in their eyes.

"Please don't worry about my affairs, Concubine Xi. Just take good care of my father!" Xie Xin's voice was also frosty.

After hearing this, Concubine Xi sneered twice, which sounded like a mockery.

But she didn't say anything else and walked into the main tent.

Xie Xin couldn't help but spit at Concubine Xi's back.

"What the hell! She even asked me to go find her nephew. I think the Zhao family not only has no bronze mirror, but also no urine!"

Yun Chuwei couldn't help laughing.

"Well, there's no need to bother with her. Let's go and search the forest!"

Xie Xin snorted, then followed Yun Chuwei away.

-

The two men split up into two groups and searched until it was almost dark before they made the discovery.

After capturing two men in black, they discovered the hiding place of one of the men in black.

There was a big tree by the river, and a hole was dug in that tree.

The tree hole didn't look deep, but it was actually a door disguised as a tree trunk.

When the door in the tree hole was opened, there was a tunnel. Going down the tunnel, it turned out to be a natural stone chamber.

There are signs of human life there.

And it can be seen that more than one person lives there.

There are more than a dozen quilts alone.

Looking at those quilts, Xie Xin frowned.

She began, "These assassins should have been hiding here before we took over the guard of the enclosure."

They didn't search very carefully, so they didn't find the assassins.

In fact, it is understandable. If this incident had not happened, who would have thought that there was a team of assassins hiding here?

Yun Chuwei looked at the situation around him and frowned slightly.

"How did these people know in advance that His Majesty would come hunting?"

Xie Xin pursed her lips. This was also something she couldn't understand.

This hunting trip can be said to be a spur-of-the-moment decision.

Before Xie Xin took over the guard of the parade ground, few people knew about it.

How could these people have known this in advance?

"You said that this hunt was proposed by Concubine Xi?" Xie Xin seemed to be thinking, "If the assassin really moved in here in advance, then... the finger of blame for the leak would be pointed at Concubine Xi, right?"

However, Xie Xin did not think that Concubine Xi would leak the secret.

It seems that there is no benefit in Concubine Xi's collusion with the former crown prince.

"Do you think it's possible?" Xie Xin asked.

Yun Chu pursed his lips slightly, then slowly shook his head.

Now, the most favored concubines and princes around His Majesty are Concubine Xi and Xie Yang.

Concubine Xi passed the message to Xie Sheng and asked him to ambush and assassinate His Majesty, which made no sense to her at all.

What Concubine Xi has to do now is to continue to persuade His Majesty to make Xie Yang the crown prince, rather than getting rid of His Majesty.

"You also think it wouldn't be Concubine Xi, so do we still need to report it truthfully?" Xie Xin said.

Yun Chu nodded slightly: "Of course I have to report it truthfully! And, according to normal thinking, point the finger at Concubine Xi!"

Xie Xin showed a puzzled look on his face.

Yun Chuwei's expression turned more serious. "The hunting notice was only issued after you took over the guarding of the enclosure. In other words, before you took over the guarding of the enclosure, only a handful of people knew about the hunting!"

Yun Chuwei paused and continued, "If it's not you, it's not me, it's not Concubine Xi, then who else is it?"

Xie Xin's eyes widened slightly after hearing this: "You mean... it's impossible!"

After excluding all these people, there is only one person left, and that is Emperor Tianqi!

Yun Chu sneered: "No matter what our guy... does, I won't be surprised!"

Xie Xin fell silent.

Then, she said seriously, "Just pretend you don't know about this matter. I'll report it and you can just sit in!"

Yun Chu nodded slightly.

-

Soon, Xie Xin presented the results of the search to Emperor Tianqi.

Finally, Xie Xin gave his conclusion: "Father, ever since you assigned the guarding job to me, I have been leading the troops to take over the guarding of the enclosure without stopping. I am sure that no assassins were allowed in, so those assassins must have ambushed in the enclosure in advance."

Xie Xin paused and continued, "This hunting trip was a sudden idea of ​​your majesty. I would like to ask, before your majesty informed me of this matter, who else knew about it?"

After hearing this, Emperor Tianqi looked at Concubine Xi who was standing beside him.

Concubine Xi's face turned pale. She had never expected that this matter would happen to her.

She knelt down before Emperor Tianqi and said quickly, "Your Majesty, I am wronged. It was indeed I who proposed the hunting, but I just wanted Your Majesty to feel better. I have never told anyone about this. Please understand, Your Majesty!"

Emperor Tianqi had a sullen face and did not look at Concubine Xi.

Instead, he looked at Yun Chuwei and said, "Chuwei, how do you think this matter should be handled?"

Yun Chuwei pondered for a moment and said slowly: "Perhaps there are people around Concubine Xi who betrayed her. Why not let the Fifth Princess interrogate the people around Concubine Xi?"

Emperor Tianqi still had a gloomy expression on his face, and said to Xie Xin: "Then do as Chu Wei said!"

Xie Xin agreed immediately and quickly arrested everyone around Concubine Xi and took them away for interrogation.

At the same time, members of the Zhao family were also tried as usual.

Just as Yun Chuwei expected, these people were recruited very quickly.

Soon, those people's confessions were delivered to Emperor Tianqi.

The senior maidservant beside Concubine Xi said that after His Majesty agreed to the hunt, Concubine Xi immediately passed the news to the Zhao family.

The route from Concubine Xi writing the letter to delivering the message was clearly revealed.

The Zhao family's housekeeper said that after receiving the message from Concubine Xi, he followed the lady's wishes and spread the news out of the Zhao mansion.

As for where it would be sent, the housekeeper said he didn't know either.

After reading the confession, Emperor Tianqi threw it directly at Concubine Xi.