Chapter 393 Is the Emperor Crazy?
"My Lord, you have finished your dinner. I have brought you some tea."
The maid knocked on the door, but got no response from Su Ying. After knocking for a while, the maid tentatively pushed the door open and walked in.
She saw that the food on the table had been eaten, and Su Ying had fallen asleep on the bed.
Seeing this, the maid cleared the dishes and left, then came to Yi Kun and said, "Sir, the master from the capital has fallen asleep."
Yi Kun frowned in displeasure. Why did he feel that this man was unreliable? He was not in a hurry to resolve such an important matter, and he seemed to be in no hurry at all until now.
"Sir, you said...did he find any flaws?"
Yi Kun's eyes showed a gloomy look, "What did he know?"
The clerk shrank back in fear when he saw him. "Sir, have you verified his identity? Is he really an official from the capital?"
"The guard has seen the token in his hand, and it is true that he belongs to the higher-ups, but he has never revealed his identity." This is also what Yi Kun is unsure about. There has been no news from the capital about who the emperor has sent to deliver the original map this time.
For such an important thing, the person who sent the picture must not be a simple person.
"What did he bring?"
"I didn't see anything, just a bundle. It didn't look like there were any blueprints."
Yi Kun's face was gloomy, "Let's go check it out tonight."
"yes."
As the night deepened, a dark figure sneaked up to the door of the guest room. He held a cigarette in his hand and blew it in through the gap in the window.
After a moment, the figure quietly opened the window and jumped in.
With the help of the pale moonlight, the figure found the bag that Su Ying brought, opened it and searched through it, and discovered that there were only one or two sets of clothes, as well as the token and the pass.
The spy document clearly stated that the person coming was the imperial guard with a sword.
The imperial guards are highly skilled in martial arts and are suitable candidates to be sent by the emperor, but the only question is where the blueprint is placed.
The man searched in vain and had to leave.
The man didn't notice that Su Ying, who was lying on the bed, kept her eyes open and watched his every move.
After making sure that the other party had left, Su Ying turned over, sat up, climbed out of the window and came to the guest room where Zhu Lin was.
In the dim candlelight outside the door, Su Ying could see two people guarding outside.
Su Ying came to Zhu Lin's bed, pinched his mouth open and stuffed a pill in. When she came here during the day, she found that the boy was poisoned, but the poison was not fatal, so she did not rush to take action.
After feeding him the medicine, Su Ying took out the antidote needle and injected it into him. In less than two quarters of an hour, Zhu Lin's pale face slowly regained some vitality.
Su Ying took out a silver needle, grabbed his finger and pierced it, squeezing out a few drops of blood.
Zhu Lin slowly opened his eyes and saw someone grabbing his hand and then he raised his hand and started to hit the other person.
Su Ying quickly turned around and grabbed his wrist, and before he could open his mouth, she whispered, "Shut up, it's me."
Zhu Lin could recognize Su Ying's voice, but he still widened his eyes in shock. He thought he might be hallucinating, otherwise why would Su Ying still have a man's face in this ghost place.
Su Ying let go of him when she saw him gradually calm down. "Don't doubt it, it's me. Tell me, what's going on with you?"
Zhu Lin came back to his senses and confirmed once again that the person in front of him was Su Ying. There was no mistake about that look.
Zhu Lin sat up, holding his chest. Thinking of his experiences during this period, he became furious and angry.
"The emperor asked me to inspect the progress of the dam construction. When I first arrived, everything was normal. But not long ago, a part of the dam was loose and collapsed. I realized that something was wrong, so I immediately reported it to the emperor."
At the beginning, the officials in Jingzhou City were very cooperative and actively looked for the cause of the problem with the dam. They said that there was something wrong with the sand and gravel used and that it could be rebuilt by tearing it down. When he got the news and took the craftsmen from Beijing to confirm the situation, the craftsman suddenly slipped and fell into the water and drowned.
"I felt something was wrong at the time, but the craftsman was dead. I was worried they would attack me, so I pretended to be stupid and waited for the court to send someone down. But that night, before the news got out, I suddenly fell ill."
Before he passed out, he used up his last bit of strength to ask his confidants to quickly deliver a message to the capital, but he was worried that the message would be intercepted, so he didn't say it too directly.
What surprised him was that the court's aid had arrived, but he did not expect that the person who came was Su Ying.
"You mean these people tampered with the dam?"
Zhu Lin nodded and shook his head. "I don't have any solid evidence, but judging from their behavior, the problems at Xinba must be related to them."
Su Ying frowned when she heard this, the dam concerns the lives of thousands of people and this is no trivial matter.
"The Queen brought the original picture?"
Su Ying nodded.
"Your Highness didn't give them the original picture, did you?"
"not yet."
Zhu Lin exhaled, "Fortunately they didn't give it to me. I suspected they just wanted to destroy the blueprints."
"What is your Majesty going to do?"
Su Ying's eyes were gloomy. The problem with the dam must be related to Yi Kun and the others, but Zhu Lin and the others dared to take action, not to mention other people. Maybe there were people behind the scenes who wanted to take advantage of this incident to cause trouble.
"Tell me all the information you have, then continue to pretend to be unconscious, and I will take care of the rest."
Zhu Lin was a little worried that if this matter was not handled properly, many people might even lose their lives.
"What is your Majesty going to do?"
Su Ying narrowed her eyes and said, "Let them know that I am here."
Revealing Su Ying's identity is actually a very risky decision, but if things go well, it will also be a great opportunity for the emperor and empress to win the hearts of the people.
Risks and opportunities coexist, and Su Ying chose the latter.
The next morning.
Yi Kun was just about to find someone to inquire about Su Ying's situation when he saw a clerk running in hurriedly.
"My lord, my lord, here I come, here I come."
Yi Kun said unhappily, "Speak clearly, what is coming?"
"The Queen is here."
"What?"
Yi Kun thought he had heard wrongly, "The Queen is here?"
It was not until Yi Kun saw Su Ying's phoenix carriage arrive outside the City Guard's Mansion that he believed it was true.
"Your humble servant pays respect to Her Majesty the Queen. Long live Her Majesty the Queen."
Su Ying got off the carriage and glanced at Yi Kun indifferently, "Get up."
"Yes, Queen, please."
Su Ying followed Yi Kun into the City Guard Mansion and was treated as a guest of honor. Yi Kun stood aside, feeling uneasy, wondering why the Queen suddenly came to Jingzhou.
"I heard that there was a problem with the Cangjiang Dam, and the emperor sent me here with the original map of the dam."
Yi Kun was stunned when he heard this. Is the emperor crazy?
(End of this chapter)
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