He never thought that anyone would protect a palace maid, so he acted without hesitation.
As a result, Yan Cheng's sudden attack made him a little frightened, and in a moment of desperation, Yan Cheng actually got the upper hand.
Soon, the killer was defeated and captured by Yan Cheng.
After catching the killer, Yan Cheng immediately wanted to ask him who asked him to attack Chu Meng. After all, they didn't know what happened in the palace, nor did they know that the killer's real target was actually a little palace maid beside Li Eimi.
However, before Yan Cheng could open his mouth, he saw a trace of blood oozing from the killer's mouth, and his head tilted and he died.
Although the killer was dead, the matter was still brought to the attention of Situ Yao.
In Yan Cheng's words, Chu Meng and he had been out of the palace for such a long time, and he never expected that someone would assassinate him the first time he entered the palace. If this matter could not be investigated thoroughly, they would not be able to rest easy in the palace.
What's more, when a killer sneaked into the palace, the concubines in the harem were also in panic. They thought that it was just an outsider who could make the killer so dedicated. If the killer wanted to attack them, it would be easy.
So Situ Yao took this matter to heart and immediately began to investigate who had entered the palace during this period.
Later, Situ Yao saw the prime minister's name on the list of people entering the palace during this period.
He frowned slightly and immediately discovered something fishy about this.
"Call the Prime Minister to the palace."
The prime minister was suddenly summoned by the emperor and had no idea what was going on.
When he walked into the imperial study, he saw a corpse lying on the floor. The body was not covered, so the prime minister could see the man's face clearly.
After seeing the man's face clearly, the Prime Minister's heart couldn't help but tremble. It turned out to be the killer he brought into the palace, but why did the killer's body appear here?
After gathering all his thoughts, the Prime Minister bowed to Situ Yao and said, "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you. I wonder what important matter has the Majesty summoned me to discuss today?"
He suppressed his thoughts and stopped looking at the killer's body on the ground. He couldn't let the emperor see that this killer had anything to do with him.
However, his eyes were fixed on the killer as soon as he came in. From the surprise in his eyes, Situ Yao had already understood that the killer was indeed the Prime Minister's man. At the beginning, he was just suspicious, so he asked someone to call the Prime Minister in, but now he had already made up his mind.
Thinking that the killer was brought in by the prime minister, Situ Yao felt a chill in his heart. He knew that the prime minister was extremely powerful, but he was only the emperor. He was a prime minister, and he actually dared to plant a killer in his own palace. It was really hard to understand what he was thinking.
"My dear minister, please don't be so polite. I asked you to come here today because I want you to take your people back." After saying this, Situ Yao raised his chin slightly and pointed at the corpse on the ground.
After hearing Situ Yao's words, the Prime Minister narrowed his eyes slightly, lowered his head, and bowed to Situ Yao and said, "Your Majesty, what do you mean by this? Why can't I understand what Your Majesty means?"
Looking at his expression, if Situ Yao had not noticed the surprise in his eyes at the beginning, he would probably have been deceived by him.
"Oh, so this isn't your man? I thought you had placed this person next to Lin Da Ying to protect her." Situ Yao said slowly.
The prime minister was an old fox, and he didn't believe what the prime minister said at all.
However, the Prime Minister at this time was determined not to admit that he had anything to do with this matter. Although he didn't know what had happened, he could see that this matter was definitely not a good thing.
Since it is not a good thing, if I am involved in this matter, it will definitely give me an extra handle in the hands of the emperor.
So after just a brief thought, the Prime Minister immediately said, "Your Majesty, the palace is the safest place in the world to see Wei Sen Yan. How could I send someone to protect Lin's safety without permission?"
He said this so beautifully that Situ Yao was speechless. However, Situ Yao did not expect the Prime Minister to admit it, so after testing him for a while, Situ Yao did not say anything more about this matter.
"By the way, Lin Xiaoxiang has been pregnant for more than three months. I don't know if the imperial physician made a wrong diagnosis. I only favored her more than two months ago." Although Situ Yao didn't want to deal with the matter directly regarding the child in Lin Xiaoxiang's belly, he felt that he should test the Prime Minister's attitude to see if the Prime Minister knew about this matter.
When the Prime Minister heard Situ Yao's words, he was startled. He immediately raised his head and looked at Situ Yao in disbelief: "Your Majesty, what do you mean?"
Seeing this reaction, it seemed that he didn't know about Lin Xiaoxiang and the guards. Situ Yao couldn't help but think, could it be that this matter was really done by Lin Xiaoxiang alone and had nothing to do with the Prime Minister?
After thinking about it carefully, Situ Yao felt that this was not impossible. After all, if this attempt to confuse the royal bloodline was discovered, the entire nine generations of the family would be executed. He felt that with the Prime Minister's intelligence and talent, he would definitely not do such a thing.
Then, Situ Yao said, "It's nothing. Perhaps I remembered it wrongly. Prime Minister, don't take it to heart."
Having said that, he knew that the Prime Minister was a scheming man and would understand the meaning of his words. He wanted the Prime Minister to know that there was something wrong with the baby in Lin Xiaoxiang's belly. Although he knew it, he was unwilling to investigate.
Of course, this is equivalent to planting a bomb in the Prime Minister's heart. As long as Situ Yao has the urge to get to the bottom of this matter one day, the Prime Minister's family will be destroyed in an instant.
On the other hand, when Lin Xiaoxiang learned that the killer was so stupid as to mistake Chu Meng for Xiangling and not only failed to kill her but also committed suicide on the spot after the assassination failed, she became worried.
Keeping a killer privately in the harem is punishable by death, and Chu Meng is the Queen's sister, so there is no guarantee that the Emperor will not continue to investigate this matter.
The emperor could easily find out that he was involved in this matter as long as he investigated.
So ever since Lin Xiaoxiang learned about this matter, he has been worried about when the emperor would issue an imperial decree to throw him into prison.
However, she waited day after day, but there was no news at all about this matter, especially there was no response from the emperor.
"Could it be that the emperor hasn't found out about me?" Thinking of this, Lin Xiaoxiang felt a hint of joy in her heart. If it was true that the emperor hadn't found out that the killer was related to her, then naturally there would be no punishment.
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