Chapter 358 One Step Away
A quarter of an hour later, when the silver-armored general of the Imperial Guard appeared in front of Li Qi, Wei Changtian had disappeared.
"I greet the Emperor!"
With a "thump", the man knelt on one knee in front of Li Qi.
He was none other than Ding Zhong, the general of the Imperial Guard who had just gone to report the news to Yu Pingjun.
"Well, get up."
Li Qi raised his eyelids and waited for Ding Zhong to stand up before slowly asking, "General Ding, where were you just now? Why did you come so slowly?"
"Your Majesty, I was inspecting the palace just now."
Ding Zhong replied calmly, "I rushed to Tianlu Hall immediately after hearing the news."
"Palace inspection."
"Bang!"
Li Qi suddenly slammed the table, and his tone instantly became extremely cold: "Just now a thief broke into the palace! Let me ask you if you knew about it?!"
"What?!"
His eyes suddenly widened, and Ding Zhong raised his head in astonishment: "Your Majesty, when did this happen?!"
"You don't need to worry about when this happened. I just want to 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.
Did you know about this?
This way of asking can only mean one thing, that is, Li Qi is doubting himself.
“Crash~”
"Bang!"
The armor rubbed against each other. Without a second thought, Ding Zhong knelt down again and kowtowed heavily: "Your Majesty! I really don't know!"
"This is my fault! Your Majesty, please punish me!"
“.”
To be honest, there was nothing wrong with Ding Zhong's performance. From beginning to end, his reaction was exactly like that of a general who committed "dereliction of duty".
On the other side, Li Qi's expression indeed eased a little.
Whether Bai Youheng entered the city through the secret passage is just a guess, so he was originally trying to deceive Ding Zhong.
Now that the latter has not revealed any "flaws", it means that there is a high probability that he is really unaware of it.
“Get up!”
"I dare not!"
“.”
Soon, Ding Zhong left Tianlu Hall in a hurry.
Just as he stepped out of the palace gate, Wei Changtian appeared from behind a screen, frowned and walked back to Li Qi.
"Master Wei, you heard everything clearly just now, right?"
"Um"
Wei Changtian thought for a while and asked again: "Your Majesty, are there any other secret passages connecting Fengyuan City to the outside of the city?"
"Yes, there are, but none of them lead to the north of the city."
Li Qi answered truthfully: "And if someone entered the city from this secret passage in the north of the city, General Ding would not have been unaware of it."
"So, in my opinion, Bai Youheng should not have entered the city from the secret passage."
"I see."
Wei Changtian nodded without comment, still thinking about the conversation between Li Qi and Ding Zhong just now.
He did not hear anything wrong, but if Bai Youheng did not take the secret passage, how did he get into the city? The city gates and walls could not have any loopholes, and there were spies among the refugees outside the city.
To put it in an exaggerated way, even if Bai Youheng grew wings and flew in, he would have been noticed.
Didn't he go into the city?
impossible.
Since Bai Youheng had specified the time and place, it was impossible that he was here to check the situation, but he must have a way to get into the city . Wei Changtian became more and more confused, but he still couldn't think of a reasonable explanation.
It was not until an hour later that he met Chu Xianping again and told him everything that had happened. "Sir, there might be something wrong with Ding Zhong."
This was the conclusion Chu Xianping came to immediately after listening to it.
"As a general of the Imperial Guard, if he heard that a thief had sneaked into the palace, he should have immediately asked about the thief's situation."
"But he never asked a single question. There is definitely something wrong."
Under Wei Changtian's surprised gaze, Chu Xianping continued to analyze calmly:
"If an ordinary person was frightened for a moment, it would be fine, but Ding Zhong is an important official responsible for protecting the safety of the royal family of a country. I don't think he would be such an incompetent person."
"Unless he already knew who the thief was."
“.”
After Chu Xianping finished speaking, the room fell into a brief silence.
Oh shit!
That makes sense!
After going over Chu Xianping's words again, Wei Changtian came to his senses and immediately stood up.
"Du Chang is still in the north of the city. Tell him to keep a close eye on all places within five miles outside the city! Don't let even a fly escape!"
"Brother Chu, come with me to the palace again right now!"
"yes!"
Wei Changtian, who had just returned to the princess's mansion and was about to go out again, had made the most correct response before his butt had even warmed up.
Let Du Chang guard the north of the city to prevent Bai Youheng from realizing something was wrong and escaping through the secret passage again.
He went to the palace to capture Ding Zhong and force him to tell him the whereabouts of Bai Youheng.
If he had done this half an hour earlier, he could have made up for his loss and completely trapped Bai Youheng in Fengyuan City.
Unfortunately, just when Du Chang received the order and began to deploy manpower on a large scale in the north of the city, Bai Youheng, who had already taken back the Gu Diao, quietly crawled out of the secret passage and fled to the east with the remaining four Dragon Guards without looking back.
"Queen, Mr. Bai has left."
Chou hour, Zihua Palace.
As the queen's bedroom, under normal circumstances, the only man who could appear here, apart from the eunuchs, should be Li Qi.
But it is obvious that the man standing opposite Yu Pingjun is not the latter.
"It's good to go."
With his delicate chin slightly raised, Yu Pingjun took a step closer, looked at Ding Zhong with a smile and asked, "General Ding, why do you look so sad?"
"Empress, the Emperor has become suspicious of me."
Ding Zhong's face was serious as he recounted what had just happened in Tianlu Hall.
He thought that after hearing this, Yu Pingjun would at least be worried, if not horrified.
But who would have thought that the latter smiled even wider, and even showed a hint of disdain on his face.
"Hehe, General, don't worry."
"Since Wei Changtian already knew about Bai Youheng's entry into the city, and caused such a big commotion as sealing off the city, it's normal for Li Qi to have such doubts."
"Besides, the general has not revealed any flaws. Now that Bai Youheng has left, what can they do?"
"this"
Ding Zhong shook his head upon hearing this, and thought to himself that it would be great if it were that simple.
He thought about it and was about to speak to Yu Pingjun again to discuss the next strategy, but who knew that a pair of beautiful arms would slowly wrap around his neck at this moment.
"Empress."
His pupils shrank slightly. Although Ding Zhong had been having an affair with Yu Pingjun a long time ago, he was not in the mood to do so at the moment.
Just "General."
As the wide phoenix robe slid down bit by bit, the body that had once made the two emperors jealous appeared before their eyes.
Looking at Ding Zhong's dazed look, Yu Pingjun slowly moved his lips closer and spoke a warm and moist word into the latter's ear.
"Don't worry about that. Can I serve you?"
“.”
The most stunning beauty, the half-covered body, the status of the queen At this moment, Ding Zhong had completely forgotten his situation, panting and holding Yu Pingjun horizontally, and walked towards the big phoenix bed.
“Plop!”
With a slight gasp, Yu Pingjun was thrown roughly onto the bed, and the general armor on Ding Zhong also fell to the ground with a crash.
The two of them didn't even let down the curtain, and the next moment they were "entangled" together.
Then "Wh, who?!"
"ah!!"
"Bang!!!"
Accompanied by a sudden scream outside the house, the dormitory door was kicked open in the blink of an eye.
Ding Zhong, who was naked, turned his head 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.
(End of this chapter)
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