Inside the prison, Yi Sheng, who had been waiting for the two men to return for a long time, realized that something was wrong and hurriedly reported the matter to the warden.

The prison warden looked at the panicked Yi Sheng in front of him and shouted, "Calm down. Take my token and go to the Weiwei to lead a team of cavalrymen and rush to the scene immediately."

"Yes."

Yi Sheng received the order and withdrew, rushing to the Weiwei.

The prison warden put the relevant documents in order and hurried to where the Chief Justice Xin was.

"Master Tingwei Xin, things have changed."

Tingwei Xin took the letter handed to him by the prison warden, casually placed it on a corner of the table, and gently pointed with his right hand, asking him to sit on a chair on the side of the room.

"what happened?"

The prison warden sat down on a chair, his brow furrowed, and bowed in the direction of the Chief Justice. "Your Excellency, the servants sent to search for clues in the Xiang family have disappeared."

"Have you sent anyone to check it out?"

"The official has sent someone to the Weiwei's office to dispatch a team of cavalrymen."

After the words were spoken, the room fell into silence.

Ting Wei Xin closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair, tapping the table lightly with his fingers.

"Da da da"

The sound of fingers tapping on the table continued, and the atmosphere in the room gradually became more and more anxious.

"Have those people made any unusual moves?"

Tingwei Xin stopped tapping the table and looked at the prison warden.

The prison warden shook his head slightly, "No unusual movement."

"Keep an eye on those people. Go back first and report back when you have any news."

"Yes."

The prison warden Xie left the room, but the chief justice Xin was still thinking about something, flipping through the records in the book.

Then he stood up suddenly and walked out of the room.

The door closed gently, leaving only the scattered love letters on the table.

Tingwei Xin hurried all the way to the Weiwei's office to ask for help.

"Master Weiwei, I come to ask for help."

The Weiwei stood up to greet him. "But what about the missing servant? I have arranged for a rider to go there, and I believe there will be news soon."

"No." Tingwei Xin raised his hand to stop the other party's doubtful questioning, and walked into the house with him while speaking.

"I have come here to borrow the Palace Access Book, both the internal and external volumes."

The Weiwei suddenly stopped and looked at the other party with a serious expression, "Are you sure, it's two volumes?"

"Yes, two volumes."

The two looked at each other, confirming the caution in each other's eyes.

After a moment, the Weiwei nodded slightly and agreed, "Okay, you wait here for a moment."

Ting Wei Xin nodded in agreement and sat in the room waiting.

The Weiwei walked across the desk, passed two screens, and came to the bookshelf at the innermost part of the room.

He reached out and moved the books on the left side of the third row of the bookshelf, revealing an empty partition.

Press the partition lightly, and with a light "click" sound, a stack of documents pops out from the partition.

He pulled out a stack of books, pushed the partition back, moved the rest of the books back to their original places, and then turned around and went back to the reception area.

"Take a look. This is the inner register of the palace's recent comings and goings."

The entry and exit book is divided into two volumes, the outer volume records the daily entry and exit of the palace, while the inner volume contains all the people who enter and exit secretly, including the routes of spies.

As early as the beginning of the year, Ying Zheng ordered him to secretly control the entrances and exits of the palace and record them one by one.

The path that the spies were complacent about and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to break through was actually just a surveillance hole he secretly set up.

He has discovered many secrets and is just waiting to catch them all in one fell swoop one day.

Tingwei Xin carefully checked every name on the entry and exit book.

Time passed slowly, with only the hissing sound of fingers sliding across paper spreading in the air.

Suddenly, his fingers quickly turned back to a name and stopped moving.

After closing his eyes and thinking for a moment, he gently closed the entry and exit book and handed it back to the Weiwei.

He raised his hand and bowed to the Weiwei. "Thank you, Weiwei. Once the riders return, we will go to the Qinzheng Palace and report this matter to His Majesty."

"It's my duty, no need to say more."

The Weiwei put away the entry and exit book and waited with him for the arrival of the riders.

Amidst the clatter of horse hooves, Yi Sheng and his riders galloped along the dirt road heading towards the abandoned village, raising clouds of dust.

"drive!"

"Drive!!"

Finally, the group arrived at their destination.

They dismounted their horses swiftly, formed a battle formation, and slowly advanced towards Xiang's old residence.

The evening breeze suddenly blew, causing the courtyard gate to creak.

As the courtyard door was blown open, what came into everyone's eyes was an extremely horrifying scene.

Two bloody bodies were hung in the corridor.

The soldiers came closer to check and found that both men had been stabbed in the throat and their tongues had been cut off.

Yi Sheng rushed forward with red eyes, and was about to put the two men down, but was stopped by others.

After searching for a while, they found a piece of cloth written in blood on the two men.

In the middle of the night, shadows are dim in the village, and the lonely guard has a locked heart.

I am wandering alone, neither human nor ghost. I ask you, what is guarding the streets?

Ying Zheng looked at the blood letter presented to him and glanced at the words with contempt.

He exerted a little force with his right hand and threw the blood letter to the ground. Then he took the towel handed to him by the servant and wiped his right fingers with disgust.

He asked with a hint of anger, "Are you sure it's that person?"

In the center of the hall stood Weiwei and Tingwei Xin with their heads bowed.

Upon hearing this, Ting Wei Xin took a step forward, bowed, and replied in a deep voice, "I have already ascertained that after the incident, only Lady Gui left the palace overnight, and she had changed into new clothes when she returned."

"Lady Osmanthus..."

The corners of Ying Zheng's lips moved slightly, and he squeezed out these three words from between his teeth. The face that looked like Prince Dan of Yan flashed through his mind.

It was because of these three-point similarities that he became suspicious and found out that he was the orphan of the former King of Yan.

It was also because of these three similarities that he recalled the beautiful moments he spent with his childhood friend, and made an exception to keep it as a hidden chess piece.

Thinking about what was written in the blood letter now, I just feel it is childish and ridiculous.

"Ah, a young calf does not know the power of a tiger, it is like an ant trying to shake a tree."

He thought of the death of the soldier reported by the Weiwei, and showed hesitation. In the end, his concern for Su Jinyue's safety prevailed, and he gave up the idea of ​​using her as bait.

"Forget it..." He sighed and turned to instruct the two people in the palace, "Find a suitable excuse to transfer Gui away from Yuehua Palace. Send in a team of secret guards to closely monitor her whereabouts. I believe we will soon be able to find the person behind them."

"Yes."

In the afternoon of the second day, inside Yuehua Palace.

Su Jinyue looked deeply at the newly transferred attendants, and the voice of Shi Nudan introducing the newcomers echoed in her ears.

She knew in her heart that her good father had finally softened his heart towards her and no longer made her a target.

The progress of the strategy task is very fast, happy, hehe~

"Dan, ask the kitchen to prepare some delicious food to welcome the new students!"

"Let the guards come together and warm up a few more pots of hot wine."

"Don't bother with that, Dan. Let them do it. Come and help me with the swings."

"Tou Hu, and more Tou Hu!"

Su Jinyue greeted everyone again and again, her heart filled with two words: happy, hehe.

It was worth it for her to act like a spoiled child and pretend to be stupid. Finally, the clouds cleared and the sun came out, and she gained a little sympathy from her father.

The feast was filled with joy, people were drinking and chatting, and the entire Yuehua Palace was immersed in a cheerful atmosphere until the moon was high in the sky.

The newly arrived lady Tan led her men to clean up the tables in the courtyard, took the hot water handed to her by the waiter, and went into the inner hall to serve her master and let him rest.

However, before she entered the inner hall, she saw Su Jinyue rushing out of the hall dragging Dan.

"Princess, what are you going to do?"

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