Two quarters of an hour later, when the Imperial Guard general wearing silver armor appeared in front of Li Qi, Wei Changtian no longer knew where he had gone.
"The general has met the emperor!"
With a "pop" sound, the person knelt on one knee in front of Li Qi.
He is none other than the general of the Imperial Guard, Ding Chong, who just went to report to Lord Yu Ping.
"Well, get up."
Li Qi raised his eyelids and asked slowly after Ding Zhong stood up: "General Ding, where were you just now? Why did you come so slowly?"
"Back to the emperor, General Mo has just been inspecting the palace."
Ding Zhong replied without changing his expression: "I rushed to Tianlu Hall immediately after hearing the news."
"Inspection in the palace..."
"boom!"
Li Qi suddenly slapped the table, and his tone instantly became extremely cold: "Just now a thief entered the palace! I ask you if you know?!"
"What?!"
His eyes suddenly widened, and Ding Zhong raised his head in shock: "Your Majesty, when did this happen?!"
"You don't need to worry about when this happened, I just ask you..."
Squinting his eyes, Li Qi asked again in a deep voice: "Do you know about this?"
"The last general..."
The atmosphere in the hall instantly reached freezing point, and beads of sweat appeared on Ding Zhong's forehead.
Do you know this?
This kind of question can only mean one thing, that is, Li Qi is doubting himself.
"Wow~"
"boom!"
The armor rubbed, and Ding Zhong knelt down and kowtowed again without thinking: "Your Majesty! The general really doesn't know!"
"This is a dereliction of duty! Please punish me, Your Majesty!"
"..."
To be honest, there was actually no big problem with Ding Chong's performance. From beginning to end, he looked like the reaction a general who committed "crime of dereliction of duty" should have.
On the other side, Li Qi's expression softened slightly at this time.
Whether Bai Youheng entered the city through a secret passage is just a guess, so he was originally deceiving Ding Zhong.
Now that the latter has not shown any "tricks", it means that there is a high probability that he is really ignorant.
"Get up..."
"The general will not dare!"
"..."
Soon, Ding Zhong came and went in a hurry and left Tianlu Hall in a hurry.
As soon as he stepped out of the palace gate, Wei Changtian appeared from behind a screen and walked back to face Li Qi with a frown.
"Master Wei, did you hear everything clearly just now?"
"Um......"
Wei Changtian thought for a while and then asked: "Your Majesty, is there any other secret passage connecting Fengyuan City to the outside of the city?"
"Yes, there is, but nothing else leads to the north of the city."
Li Qi answered truthfully: "And if someone enters the city through this secret passage in the north of the city, it is impossible for General Ding not to know about it."
"So, in my opinion, Bai Youheng probably didn't enter the city from a secret passage."
"I see."
Nodding noncommittally, Wei Changtian was still thinking about the conversation between Li Qi and Ding Chong just now.
He indeed didn't hear anything wrong, but...if Bai Youheng didn't take a secret passage, how did he enter the city?
There can be no flaws in the city gates and walls, and there are even spies of our own among the refugees outside the city.
To put it mildly, people would notice Bai Youheng even if he had wings and flew in.
Didn't he enter the city?
impossible.
Now that Bai Youheng has determined the time and place, it will definitely not be to check the situation, but there must be a way to enter the city...
The more Wei Changtian thought about it, the more confused he became, but he could never find a reasonable explanation.
Until he saw Chu Xianping again an hour later and told him exactly what happened...
...
"Sir, Ding Zhong may have a problem."
This was the conclusion Chu Xianping came to immediately after listening.
"As a general of the Imperial Guard, if he hears that a thief has sneaked into the palace that he is unaware of, he should immediately ask about the thief's situation."
"But he didn't ask a question. There is definitely something wrong with this."
Under Wei Changtian's surprised gaze, Chu Xianping continued to analyze calmly:
"It's fine if ordinary people feel panic for a moment, but Ding Zhong is an important minister responsible for protecting the safety of a country's royal family. He would not be such an incompetent person."
"Unless...he already knows who the thief is."
"..."
After Chu Xianping finished speaking, the room fell into a brief silence.
Damn it!
That makes sense!
After reading Chu Xianping's words again, Wei Changtian stood up immediately when he came back to his senses.
"Du Chang is still in the north of the city. Tell him to keep an eye on everything within five miles outside the city! Don't let a fly go!"
"Brother Chu, you and I will go to the palace again immediately!"
"yes!"
Wei Changtian, who had just returned to the Princess Mansion and was about to go out again, but his butt was still hot from sitting, made the most correct response.
Let Du Chang guard the north of the city to prevent Bai Youheng from noticing something is wrong and escaping through the secret passage again.
He went to the palace to capture Ding Zhong, and forced him to find out Bai Youheng's whereabouts from the latter's mouth.
If he had done this for half an hour in the morning, he would have been able to make up for the situation and completely trap Bai Youheng to death in Fengyuan City.
Unfortunately, just when Du Chang received the order to deploy manpower on a large scale in the north of the city, Bai Youheng, who had already recovered the Gu carvings, quietly got out of the secret passage, took the remaining four dragon guards, and headed east without looking back. Escaped.
...
"Queen, Mr. Bai has left."
In ugly times, Zihua Palace.
As the queen's palace, under normal circumstances, the only man who can appear here, except the eunuchs, is Li Qi.
But it was obvious that the man standing opposite Yu Pingjun was not the latter.
"Just leave."
With his delicate chin raised slightly, Yu Pingjun took a step closer, looked at Ding Zhong with a smile and asked, "General Ding, why do you look so sad?"
"Queen, the Emperor has already become suspicious of me..."
Ding Chong's face was serious and he recounted what happened in Tianlu Hall just now.
He originally thought that Mr. Yu Ping would not say that his beauty was pale after hearing this, but would at least have some concerns.
But who would have thought that the latter would smile even more, and there was even a trace of disdain on his face.
"Keke, general, don't worry."
"Since Wei Changtian knows about Bai Youheng's entry into the city and has made such a big move as sealing the city, it is normal for Li Qi to have such doubts."
"Besides, the general has never shown any flaws. Now that Bai Youheng has left, what can they do?"
"this......"
Ding Zhong shook his head when he heard this, thinking that it would be so simple.
He thought for a while and was about to open his mouth again to discuss the next strategy with Mr. Yu Ping, but who knew that a pair of jade arms slowly wrapped around his neck at this moment.
"Emperor, Queen..."
The pupils shrank slightly. Although Ding Zhong had an affair with Yu Pingjun a long time ago, he was not in the slightest mood at the moment.
only......
"General..."
As the broad phoenix robe slipped away little by little, the body that once made the two emperors jealous appeared in front of him.
Seeing Ding Zhong's stunned look, Yu Pingjun slowly brought his lips closer and sent a moist and warm word into the latter's ear.
"Don't worry about that, can I serve you?"
"..."
A stunning beauty, a half-covered body, and the status of a queen...
At this moment, Ding Zhong had completely forgotten about his situation. He picked up Yu Pingjun with a heavy breath and walked towards the big bed.
"Plop!"
With a slight gasp, Yu Pingjun was roughly thrown onto the bed, and the general's armor on Ding Chong's body also clattered to the ground.
The two didn't even lower the curtain, and they were "entangled" together in the next moment.
Then......
"W-who is that person?!"
"ah!!"
"boom!!!"
Accompanied by a sudden scream outside the house, the door to the bedroom was kicked open in the blink of an eye.
The helpless Ding Zhong turned around in panic, and even Yu Pingjun finally showed a trace of panic on his face.
In addition to several masters from the Dafeng royal family, there were three men standing in their sight.
Wei Changtian, Chu Xianping...
Li Qi.
