My eunuch An is a yandere

Chapter 45: Find a Scapegoat

When An Jiu arrived at the imperial study, he saw the emperor pacing in place, which was a sign of impatience.

He knew that if he didn't come up with something this time, he would not be able to fool people.

The emperor wanted to find a reborn person, so he naturally couldn't reveal his true identity and surrender himself. He could only find a scapegoat.

However, no one could have imagined that the scapegoat that Anjiu found was Wang Xiuyi, the deceased mother of the second prince.

This story begins with the establishment of Yanwuwei.

Xiao Duo founded the Yanwu Guard to find those who had been reborn. An Jiu understood that the emperor was trying to arrest him. However, the emperor was suspicious of everything and had never considered that a lowly slave could have such a great opportunity to be reborn.

In the end, he even asked An Jiu to be the seal of Yan Wuwei. Isn't this a cliché plot of meeting but not knowing each other?

An Jiu knew that the person who had been reborn must be found. Since it couldn't be him, he would find a suitable and reasonable person to come out.

It was also because his thoughts were different from those of ordinary people. Since he had sent the second prince away, Wang Xiuyi would be sad and upset to be left alone in the world. It would be better to send the mother and son on their way so that they could stay together in the underworld, thus completing the fate of mother and son in this life.

An Jiuben was a man who would do anything to achieve his goals. In his previous life, he had committed many evil deeds, such as framing and forcing people to confess. Now, to protect himself, he would sacrifice the life of an innocent person, and he would not feel any guilt.

An Jiu's method was not complicated. He asked the eunuchs who were responsible for cleaning to go to the gate of Wang Xiuyi's palace to chat.

It was said that the princes' tents were close together during the autumn hunt, and it was the Second Prince's bad luck that he caught a cold and lit a charcoal fire, which allowed the venomous snake to get in. If the Second Prince hadn't caught a cold and hadn't lit a charcoal fire that night, who knows where the snake would have gotten.

In fact, this statement was full of loopholes. The Second Prince did not catch a cold on the day of the accident, nor did he light a charcoal fire. How did the snake get into the Second Prince's tent? Only Anjiu knew.

But Wang Xiuyi had lost her son, and she always needed an outlet for her anger. So when she heard this conversation, she was convinced that her son had attracted the poisonous snake because he had caught a cold and lit the charcoal fire.

If it weren't for the charcoal fire, the poisonous snake would have definitely crawled into the eldest prince's tent.

From then on, Wang Xiuyi had a demon in her heart.

The inner demons are the most difficult to resolve. At this time, two young eunuchs came and told some folk stories about exchanging lives to ward off disasters and scapegoating. Wang Xiuyi naturally believed them without a doubt.

He immediately summoned her family members to the palace and asked her sister-in-law to go back and find a master to make up a fortune for the second prince.

The fortune that Wang Xiuyi's sister-in-law got was - the mandarin ducks are separated without any intention, and there will be serious troubles caused by quarrels and lawsuits; the sick will die from external ghosts, and the traveler who asked for help from a friend will have no news.

When Wang Xiuyi saw the fortune, she collapsed. Everything seemed to fit in. It made sense. Her son was in trouble because of a lawsuit, or because of some external evil.

This was exactly the effect Anjiu wanted, and it took him less than half a month to achieve it.

As for what Wang Xiuyi would do next, it all depended on her. An Jiu just had to sit back and wait to be the final pusher.

So in the imperial study, An Jiu presented a booklet that recorded Wang Xiuyi's recent daily life.

One day, Wang Xiuyi was taking a nap when she mumbled in her sleep, "Wrong! I bit the wrong thing." When she woke up, she broke down and cried.

-There are signs of excavation outside Wang Xiuyi Hall.

-Wang Xiuyi’s family is searching everywhere for a Taoist master.

Xiao Duo's brow furrowed as he looked at the notes in his hand. Thinking back to the results of the three-court trial, it was filled with loopholes and doubts. For example, how had the venomous snake managed to get into the Second Prince's tent without anyone noticing? And how had the venomous snake managed to find its way into the Second Prince's tent with such precision, given the large number of tents at the time?

Now that the two were combined, the truth was faintly revealed. With the perspective of a reborn God, Xiao Duo felt that everything was reasonable and made sense.

Wang Xiuyi is the reborn person.

Because she was reborn, she knew that she had no intention of choosing the successor between the eldest and the second son, so she had evil intentions to assassinate the emperor in order to seize power for the second prince.

After all, the tents of the three of them, father and son, were in the same place, which was why Wang Xiuyi cried and shouted that he had bitten the wrong thing during his nightmare.

It turned out that the poisonous snake was targeting him.

This also explains why a poisonous snake bit the prince to death without anyone noticing. He must have been carrying it but not closed it properly, and eventually, due to a combination of circumstances, it ended up harming him.

Xiao Duo pointed at the word "break ground" and said coldly.

"Go and see what's buried here?"

In the palace, construction could only be started after a calculated date; it was taboo to start construction privately.

Unlike planting flowers and grass, breaking ground means just digging the soil without planting anything.

What is digging necessary?

Just as Xiao Duo guessed, Wang Xiuyi actually encountered the art of exorcism.

An Jiu and his men raided Wang Xiuyi's palace under the cover of night.

Because they were from the Yanwu Guard, Anjiu had specially modified their uniforms. They were all black with crow patterns on the back, and the eunuchs he had chosen were all masters of fighting and kicking.

There were only five people in the group, with different body shapes, running quickly on the palace road, giving off a sense of oppression as if a dark cloud was looming over the city.

The eunuch guarding the palace gate of Wang Xiuyi was stunned when he saw the five people. He knew that they were not friendly and lowered his head and took a step back.

The palace maid was not familiar with the new department of Yanwuwei, and she started shouting out of habit.

"Who dares to break into the palace so late at night?"

The most burly of the Yan Wu guards pushed the palace maid who scolded them to the ground.

The other three people, except An Jiu, scattered around, found traces of freshly turned soil in the four corners of east, south, west and north, and dug out the things inside.

When Wang Xiuyi heard the noise and came out, she saw the four puppets that had been dug out. Their faces were pale and their legs were trembling.

Anjiu took over four puppets that were covered in mud and whose shapes were unrecognizable, and symbolically passed them in front of everyone.

"This was dug out from your Jujiu Palace, right?"

After An Jiu finished speaking, everyone collapsed to their knees, too frightened to even utter a word of defense, as they already knew what their fate would be.

"In that case, I'll have to trouble Wang Xiuyi and the head maid to accompany me personally."

An Jiu waved his hand, and two Yanwu guards came forward and dragged Wang Xiuyi and the palace maid up.

The other two Yanwu guards directly sealed off the Jujiu Palace and guarded outside the red gate.

On the way back to the imperial study, Anjiu walked in front, playing with four puppets that were so covered in mud that they were unrecognizable.

Where no one could see, he flicked his thumb and a piece of paper stuck on a puppet fell off. Anjiu pulled out a piece of paper of the same size from his other sleeve, put it back on, and then covered it with mud.

Outside the imperial study, An Jiu called Wang Xi's godson Liu Quan.

"Bring in a basin of water."

After giving the order, he reported and went into the hall alone.

After telling Xiao Duo about what he had just discovered at Wang Xiuyi's place, Liu Quan also brought in some water.

Anjiu was washing the mud off the four puppets in the corner, and suddenly he knelt down in front of the basin.

When Xiao Duo saw this, he had a 70% guess in his mind.

"Bring the things here."

The tone was intimidating without being angry, and contained murderous intent.

An Jiu did not dare to disobey and kept his head down the whole time. He held the four puppets high above his head and brought them to the imperial desk, not even daring to put them on the table.

Xiao Duo looked at the tattered piece of paper with his and the eldest prince's birth dates written on it, and he was so angry that he could no longer hold back and kicked An Jiu on the shoulder.

"Be bold!"

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