After hearing that Lin Xixue agreed to enter the palace immediately to meet the emperor, Yanyou didn't have any flaws in her expression. He just walked quickly to lead the way and brought her to his official sedan chair.
The eight bearers seemed to have received some news in advance and were already waiting beside the sedan. When they saw the banquet approaching, they all bowed respectfully.
Yanyou waved his hand casually, stepped forward and opened the sedan curtain, making a gesture of invitation.
Lin Xixue squinted her eyes and alertly used her spiritual consciousness to check if there was anything strange inside the sedan and the eight bearers. This moment was already noticed by Yanyou.
"Miss Lin?"
"Nothing, let's go."
After confirming that there was nothing wrong with the sedan, Lin Xixue lifted up her skirt as if nothing had happened and stepped onto the sedan, with Yanyou following closely behind. The sedan is quite spacious, enough for two people to sit facing each other.
Yanyou sat down, dusted his front, and said casually: "Get up the sedan."
Eight strong bearers lifted the sedan and trotted towards the palace. The eight people were in unison and in unison, Lin Xixue unexpectedly felt no bumps.
The two sat facing each other, but they were silent all the way. The atmosphere in the sedan was a bit dull, but Yanyou suddenly asked: "Miss Lin doesn't seem nervous?"
"Why should I be nervous?"
"Killing a court official is a capital offense. Are you really not afraid of Miss Lin?"
"The fact that I killed Shi Xueqian is known to heaven and earth. You know it and I know it. Killing a court official is certainly a capital crime, but who knows that I am guilty?"
The corner of Lin Xixue's mouth curled up, "Or are you saying that Young Master Yan is going to report this matter to the Holy Emperor truthfully?"
"Young Master Yan just talked about loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. It seems that Mr. Yan is going to choose loyalty to the emperor?" Lin Xixue tilted her head and put her left hand lightly on her cheek, which was quite teasing.
Yanyou laughed a few times and replied: "Master Lu will hand over the Lixin Jade Slip to you. Logically speaking, you are Yan's junior sister."
Lin Xixue didn't say anything, just looked at Yanyou without commenting.
"There are no outsiders left or right. Today I will show off as a senior brother." Yanyou sat upright for a moment, holding his knees with both hands.
"The so-called loyalty to the emperor and patriotism refers to the emperor, and to the ministers, if being loyal to the emperor is conducive to the current situation, then choose loyalty to the emperor, and if being patriotic is conducive to the current situation, then choose being patriotic."
"Haha, in these troubled times, it is not incomprehensible that Young Master Yan is doing this." Lin Xixue raised her eyes, "So, right now, loyalty to the emperor is more beneficial to Young Master Yan?"
Yanyou smiled and shook his head and said: "Miss Lin is joking. I regard you as half a junior sister and one of my own. How could I do such a thing of betraying one of my own?"
How could Lin Xixue believe his nonsense? She was afraid that after entering the palace, Yanyou would directly betray her and put all the blame on herself.
However, before entering the palace, all the drama should be done.
Lin Xixue slightly cupped her hands and said, "In that case, I'll thank Mr. Yan in advance."
After the two of them exchanged words, they stopped talking. The bearers walked very quickly, and it didn't take long for them to enter the palace and get off the sedan chair.
Lin Xixue and Yanyou got out of the sedan one after another, and a eunuch dressed in plain silk came to guide the two of them to the temporary "mourning hall".
Outside the mourning hall, the emperor blew his beard angrily, pointed at the three ministers kneeling on the ground and yelled: "A bunch of losers, a bunch of losers, the court official died like this. A full day has passed, but no clues can be found."
"Your Majesty, calm down. We have already sent troops to blockade the entire Jingyun City. We have mobilized all our troops to conduct door-to-door inspections. We will not let a fly out of the city."
"What about you!" As he said this, the emperor kicked another minister to the ground. "What do you, Tingling Secretary, do for food?"
The emperor tore the memorial in his hand into two pieces and threw it in the minister's face. "The cause of death is still unclear. How dare you submit this kind of memorial?"
"Where's the Minister of Civil Affairs? Check with me immediately to see if there are any other available people in the Tingling Division. As for this waste, his property will be confiscated and the whole family will be sent to the north!"
After hearing this, the kicked-up head of the Spiritual Resting Department was naturally heartbroken. He quickly knelt down on the ground and begged for mercy: "Wei Chen deserves to die. Your Majesty, please give Wei Chen another chance. Wei Chen will do your best to investigate thoroughly." .”
Lin Xixue suppressed the smile in her heart, thinking that this dog emperor was ignorant of government affairs, but she didn't expect that his acting skills were first-rate. If he hadn't known the inside story, he would have been deceived to death after seeing this.
Seeing this, Yanyou hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down, saying: "See you, Your Majesty!"
"No courtesy, no courtesy." The emperor was obviously in a bad mood at the moment. He didn't even look back at him, but continued to blame the head of the Lings Department in front of him.
"Your Majesty, Chief Zheng has been loyal for many years, but this time things went wrong. Maybe there is something inside." Yanyou knelt on the ground and advised.
After hearing this, the emperor turned around and saw that it was Yan You, then he slightly changed his attitude and tone and said: "It turns out to be Yan Aiqing. You should go and express your condolences to Shi Aiqing first."
"Your Majesty, actually I have something to report!" Yanyou looked in the direction of Lin Xixue, obviously about to start taking the blame on her.
"If you have any questions, let's wait until after the condolences are over. Let's go." The emperor had already exchanged information with Lin Xixue. How could he not know what Yanyou was going to say, so he choked him back with just one sentence.
After Yanyou heard this, he had no choice but to swallow the words he had prepared and put them in his throat, and only spit out the word "yes".
After saying that, he stood up and walked towards the mourning hall that had just been set up. Halfway through, the emperor suddenly added: "By the way, there is Shi Aiqing's favorite Jade Baihua Brew over there. Go and toast him with a drink."
"Wei Chen takes orders."
Yanyou walked to the altar table covered with white cloth. A eunuch had already filled the wine for him. He took the wine and sprinkled it in front of the mourning hall.
Then, the eunuch poured the wine for him again, but he didn't know whether it was intentional or not. The hand of the eunuch who was pouring the wine shook violently, and the jade-like wine spilled out, soaking Yanyou's hands holding the jade cup. .
When Yanyou saw the green smoke rising from his hands, he was stunned for a moment, and then screamed in pain.
A sharp scream filled the ears of the wine-serving eunuch beside him. In an instant, the eunuch was bleeding from all his orifices. He fell to the ground and twitched a few times, then became motionless.
The wine mixed with the soul-stealing soil instantly broke through the disguise of the banquet. Its hands could no longer maintain a fixed shape, but quickly turned back into slippery tentacles covered in mucus.
But the soul-stealing soil continued to erode Yanyou's body, and the originally slippery tentacles quickly shriveled, became necrotic, and fell off, peeling off layer by layer like dead skin.
Yanyou did not hesitate, immediately cut off his hands and turned around to escape, but the emperor was naturally well prepared. The dragon energy was circulating around his body, and there was a faint roar of dragons between heaven and earth.
Shocked by the dragon's roar, Yanyou's escape was slowed down for a few breaths. The eunuchs around him took out water guns made from bamboo tubes and poured water mixed with spiritual soil into Yanyou.
However, at this moment, something unexpected happened again
The missing persons are back!
