Chapter 275 The Royal Family's Secret Guard

As a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, he had a great chance to meet the emperor. But after taking office for so long, the emperor seemed to have forgotten Qin Chi and had never summoned him.

Otherwise, Mao Shaojie would not have made such an effort to trip him up.

It was obvious that he wanted to provoke Qin Chi.

As long as people are angry, they are prone to make mistakes. Mao Shaojie had already agreed with Minister Yuan that whenever Qin Chi made a mistake in his official duties, someone would report Qin Chi and bring the matter of Qin Chi's extraordinary promotion to the court meeting for discussion.

At that time, the ministers will use the reason that Qin Chi is young and not competent for the job and will be able to bring Qin Chi back to his original form.

Unexpectedly, Qin Chi was so calm.

He completed his duties conscientiously and even did what his colleagues did to make things difficult for him. He also did not do any other small actions that he should not have done.

"Someone sent you a message today."

Song Jin handed the invitation sent by others to Qin Chi for review. "I saw it, it's from the Yang family. Lu Yanji and Lu Bozhou also sent a message saying that they passed the examination and became scholars."

"I didn't interfere with their exams."

Qin Chi flipped through the invitation and read it.

The invitation was sent by Yang Yingrong, and he had set up a flower-viewing banquet.

Qin Chi had no intention of going. "I will not go to this banquet. Let Uncle Li go back to Yang's house. I have just taken office and it is the busiest period. I should not have the energy to attend the banquet."

"Okay, I know what to do."

Song Jin as the wife of the number one scholar.

She received quite a few invitations this month.

Ninety-nine percent of them are people I don’t know.

Song Jin rejected all of them.

Qin Chi's way of entering officialdom was too high-profile. It was time to keep a low profile. This low-profile does not mean that he is really low-profile, but that he is low-profile for outsiders to see.

Attend all kinds of banquets.

Revealing an ambitious attitude will make people more afraid of you and also give those behind the scenes an opportunity to take action.

The couple was just about to undress and rest.

"Sir, it's urgent."

The voice outside was that Qin Ba deliberately lowered.

Qin Chi put on his clothes again.

He walked to the outer room and opened the door, then Qin Ba quickly went in to report.

"We caught the son of the bandit leader, who gave us a clue. When we were tracking him down, we found a wealthy businessman's villa. One of the spies who sneaked in was killed and another was injured. Qin Yi had people surround the villa and brought out a group of experts during the fight..."

The most important thing is that those "masters" actually have the same martial arts moves as them! This matter is difficult to judge! On the day of the No. 1 Scholar's parade, it was someone from the royal family who attacked Song Jin? The fight attracted patrolling soldiers.

The other side retreated quickly, and Qin Yi also ordered an evacuation.

Qin Yi took the two of them to chase after them.

We will have to wait for Qin Yi to return to find out what the situation is.

Qin Chi's expression was terrifyingly gloomy. "Are you sure he is a secret guard of the same kind as you?"

"Yes, sir, you are absolutely right."

One secret guard might be wrong, but not everyone would be wrong.

The secret guards of Prince Rui's palace were originally from the royal secret guard camp. For example, Old Man Hong was one of the secret guards given to Prince Rui by the late emperor. Later, the privately built secret guard camp of the palace also used the royal training method.

Isn't it just the same method? Qin Chi and the others were shocked.

I guess the other party also has some doubts.

Qin Chi went out for a while and didn't come back until late at night. Just as he undressed and lay down on his side, Song Jin woke up and asked, "Husband, are you in trouble?"

"Qin Yi and his gang went after them, but lost them."

Qin Chi went out to wait for them to come back. "They said they entered a house in the south city, and then no one came out. They sneaked in and found that there was no one inside. Qin Yi looked for it, but did not find any secret passage."

Song Jin listened quietly.

Qin Chi said in a complicated tone: "The person who has bad intentions towards you is likely from the royal family."

Song Jin asked doubtfully, "I haven't caused any trouble to anyone in the royal family. I've never even met them. What good would it do them if something happened to me? Could it be that the Yuan family is supporting the prince behind the scenes?"

"The Yuan family sent a granddaughter to the palace."

Qin Chi remembered this.

Song Jin was speechless for a moment, "Why are you bringing this up? Could it be that the old man in the palace can have another son?"

No concubine has been pregnant for more than ten years.

Someone suddenly got pregnant...even the emperor would probably suspect that she was cuckolded.

Qin Chi couldn't help laughing, "What are you thinking about? I want to tell you that the Yuan family is a royalist party, and there is no so-called prince behind them. Minister Yuan followed the emperor when he was young."

Emperor Ming Cheng would not send anyone to attack Song Jin.

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

There are now only three adult princes left among Emperor Mingcheng.

The Crown Prince, Prince Shou and Prince Lu.

The prince is said to be in poor health and has lived in the East Palace for many years, rarely appearing in public.

Prince Lu fell off his horse and broke both legs in his early years, and he had no chance of becoming emperor.

The prince was not ambitious and was obsessed with music, chess, calligraphy and painting. He often wrote poems with scholars, drank tea around the stove, and talked about the past and the present, but he never cared about the affairs of the court. It's not that no one suspected that the prince was pretending. In fact, many people tried to test him, but all returned empty-handed.

Prince Shou is already in his thirties and has been pretending for many years.

Even if you are not a useless person, you will become a useless person.

Emperor Mingcheng no longer had any expectations for his three sons and had long since turned his attention to his grandchildren.

The most outstanding one at present is Helian Mian, the eldest grandson born to the Crown Princess. He often follows Emperor Mingcheng and is taught by him personally.

Helian Mian has begun to get involved in court affairs.

His grandchildren had the opportunity to fight for the power that his father and two uncles could not get when they were young. But there was really no one who had a large number of royal secret guards to protect him. The most respected Helian Mian was only surrounded by four secret guards sent by the emperor.

Qin Chi went over the person in his mind.

Unfortunately, the suspect was not found.

Song Jin muttered to himself: "The prince's reputation in the court is not high. He is so low-key that people almost forget his existence. I heard that he is also a sickly person, but I don't know whether it is true or not."

"It's true. He's not sick. He was poisoned when he was young." Qin Chi got this information from Helian Pu. "The imperial physician said that even if the poison is removed, it will seriously damage his vitality and affect his life span."

"Could he be the one who attacked me?"

Song Jin thought that there had never been a prince who didn't want to be the emperor, so it was possible that he wanted to make trouble for the emperor.

Qin Chi shook his head again. "He lives in the East Palace and is under the surveillance of the Royal Guards all day long. It's not that I underestimate the prince. Under the eyes of the Royal Guards, it's unlikely that the prince can do anything tricky."

The two of them eliminated them all.

The real culprit becomes increasingly confusing.

"Those who are not afraid of His Majesty and have strength, after going around, the most likely candidate is Prince Rui's Mansion."

Song Jin looked around and found that the most suspicious person was actually one of his own people.

After listening to her analysis, Qin Chi was amused and angry. He hugged her in his arms and said, "I will have someone continue to investigate this matter. It's late at night. Don't think about it anymore. Go to bed first."

"I'm in high spirits."

I was so busy thinking about things that I couldn't sleep anymore.

I only felt a handsome face approaching me in the dim light, "Aren't you sleepy? Then do something else..."

“Hmm…”