In fact, Li Yu had no idea how the mission was going.

On the one hand, the bandits came suddenly, and he ran away without caring about anything. Although he simply covered up, what if someone found out? But he couldn't care less at the time.

On the other hand, the system didn't give any hints. According to his experience, this meant that the mission was in progress and should not have failed. The main line failed. The system said that it would turn into fish bones and fish ash. He can now switch between mermaids and fishmen freely. It's good. No news is the best news.

King Jing hung the amulet for Li Yu again and guarded him for the remaining hours. During this time, Li Yu turned into an octopus and stuck to King Jing. He was determined that even if the king of heaven was outside, he would never be fooled. King Jing punished him by rubbing his head, which made him even more embarrassed.

If it weren't for him, King Jing would have been able to catch all the bandits in a short time. He had held King Jing back and made him worried, so he wanted to make up for it.

"By the way, Your Highness, don't forget to check on the military advisor."

Li Yu had overheard a lot of information about the military advisor from the bandits. In addition to the fact that his face was covered and his name was unknown, the fact that the military advisor could use babies and golden swaddling clothes as bait was completely different from the bandits' recklessness. He always felt that this person was most likely coming for him and King Jing.

It was well known throughout the western border that King Jing had only four little princes, and the golden swaddling clothes were only for Dabao. Ordinary people would not use this color. If someone was interested, these things could be found out. The military advisor must have inquired about it in advance.

Li Yu's suspicion was not unreasonable, and King Jing held the same opinion.

The large number of bandits were almost wiped out, and the few survivors were still a few who remained in the bandit's lair and had not yet been dispatched. King Jing ordered the guards to torture them severely and make them confess the identity of the military advisor.

This military advisor gave him a strange sense of familiarity.

He threw white powder at him, thinking that he was hit in the eye and then attacked his leg. This action seemed redundant, but King Jing himself knew that if he had taken any action in the past, he would hide a dagger in his boots in case of an emergency. This time he also brought a dagger, but after being blinded by killing, he casually put the dagger into his sleeve. It was the dagger he used to fight back.

The military advisor attacked the place where he had kept the dagger. Was he trying to prevent him from pulling out the dagger?

Regardless, the military advisor must have known something about him, otherwise he would not have used a baby as a lure, but why did he even know where he hid the dagger?

Apart from this time, he had only used a dagger publicly once, when he was attacked and injured in the eye in the palace, and was saved by Xiaoyu!

It was because of that loss that King Jing was particularly careful when fighting with others in close combat, so he avoided the fireworks in time and even turned the tables and pretended to have an eye injury.

The military advisor also used powder, which was similar to the method used by the person who attacked him in his memory. In addition, he knew that he had the habit of hiding daggers. King Jing had reason to believe that this military advisor was the person who attacked him that time!

"Your Highness, I once accidentally saw animal bite marks on the military advisor's hands..."

Li Yu said a clue. Although he didn't know if it was related, he just said it anyway.

When he mentioned this, King Jing immediately remembered that the person who attacked him in the palace always covered his hand that day, as if he was injured. King

Jing wrote down what happened that day in detail. Li Yu didn't know that King Jing's eyes were injured by quicklime, and there were such details behind it.

"Your Highness, do you suspect that the military advisor was the one who attacked Your Highness at that time?" Li Yu asked after smacking his hand.

King Jing nodded his chin.

In the Western Frontier, there was no one who opposed him except the bandits. The military advisor had only been in the Western Frontier for a short time. He was not a bandit before. He could only be related to the imperial city.

Li Yu thought about the scars on the military advisor's hands, and then thought about other things that happened that day besides the King's eye injury. It couldn't be such a coincidence, right?

"Your Highness, do you still remember that day, Xiongfeng and I also met the masked man, the one who poisoned the fish food... He was bitten by Xiongfeng, also on the hand!"

When Li Yu mentioned Xiongfeng, King Jing was obviously stunned for a moment, and then he realized that he was talking about his experience when he was cooking fish, and Xiongfeng was the dog raised by Ye Qinghuan.

Suddenly hearing Xiaoyu calling another name affectionately, King Jing felt a little uncomfortable, but soon turned his attention to the business.

The person who poisoned was bitten by Ye Qinghuan's dog, and there were animal bite marks on the military advisor's hands, so it was completely matched.

The military advisor was indeed from the imperial city, and he had dealt with them a long time ago. He was the one who poisoned the fish food and turned around to attack him.

"...Yes, the Second Prince?" Li Yu asked tentatively.

When the masked man poisoned the fish food, the Second Prince was plotting against the Cheng'en Mansion and ordered people to buy arsenic. Therefore, King Jing and Eunuch Wang believed that the person who poisoned was sent by the Second Prince, and the Second Prince intended to vent his anger.

At that time, the Second Prince was indeed the most suspicious, but now the situation has changed. The Second Prince was beaten by King Jing and was unconscious. How could a person who had withdrawn from the power stage for a long time have his accomplices appear? And this person was the masked man who poisoned the fish?

This doesn't make sense. King Jing also left someone at the Second Prince's place. He knew very well what Mu Tianzhao was like. It was definitely not the Second Prince who continued to stir up trouble. Therefore, there was only one possibility: they had all thought wrong before. The person who poisoned was not sent by the Second Prince. The Second Prince was blamed for the poisoning.

If it wasn't the Second Prince, then it could only be the Third Prince or the Sixth Prince.

In the past, King Jing might have suspected the Third Prince, but now the Third Prince himself could not protect himself. Someone used the Third Prince's name to pass messages between the Western Frontier and the Imperial City. The emperor discovered it, and it was the Third Prince who got into trouble.

This method of making the Third Prince take the blame, isn't it similar to making the Second Prince take the blame?

King Jing thought for a long time, picked up the pen and wrote a "six" on the paper with great force.

Xiaoyu was right. Mu Tianxiao was indeed his strongest enemy.

And he had been plotting against him for such a long time.

"So it was him..."

Li Yu sighed softly. If all this was done by the scheming Sixth Prince, it could be explained.

The military advisor was the Sixth Prince's man. The only one who had time to come to the western frontier to do bad things at this time was the Sixth Prince.

In the past, the Sixth Prince hid behind the Third Prince, and there was the Second Prince in front of him. He acted without anyone noticing, and no one would think of this unfavored and transparent person.

Now that the Sixth Prince has killed the Third Prince, he has become "the emperor's only adult prince who stayed in the imperial city." Although he has become very prominent in the court, he has also brought himself to the surface.

There is no shield in front of him anymore.

After discovering that it was the Sixth Prince's work, Prince Jing did not hesitate. One month later, the people who stayed behind in Prince Jing's Mansion in the Imperial City received a secret letter from Eunuch Wang.

There was only one line of words on the secret letter: Move him.

Who he was, there was another channel to tell, this is the secret rule of Jing Wang Mansion.

These people used to follow Jing Wang through life and death, and now they are guarding such a huge mansion, they are so idle that they are panicking. When the master gave the order, they immediately acted like chickens with blood.

Soon, Zheng Jing, the Minister of Works, reported to the emperor, impeaching the Sixth Prince for accepting bribes and passing off inferior goods as good ones when he was in charge of repairing Zhongcui Palace.

Mu Tianxiao's face changed drastically and he denied it flatly, saying that he was just doing things according to the rules.

Zheng Jingyi confronted him angrily and took out the old drawings of Zhongcui Palace, saying that although the appearance of Zhongcui Palace renovated by the Sixth Prince was exactly the same as the original one, the wood used was not in accordance with the drawings, but inferior wood was used, even the beams were like this.

The emperor was shocked and immediately ordered people to remove the beams of Zhongcui Palace for inspection. He found more than a dozen carpenters to come and identify them. The emperor was afraid that someone would frame the Sixth Prince, so he even selected the carpenters himself. However, all of them said that the wood did not match the original drawings.

In fact, the actual renovation was different from the drawings. It was not uncommon before, and it could be explained away by finding a reason. But the problem was that the Sixth Prince reported to the Emperor and the Ministry of Revenue based on the top-grade wood. So the accounts were one set, and the actual work was another. Where did the difference go?

The wood used for the renovation could not escape the eyes of the supervisors, and it was also the supervisors' responsibility. The Sixth Prince had no way to explain this. In addition, the Sixth Prince got married a month ago. In principle, the prince's wedding was prepared by the Ministry of Rites. Except for Prince Jing, who was in the western frontier and had obtained the emperor's special permission, and was held by Prince Jing himself, the rest of the princes' weddings were all handled by the Ministry of Rites, and there was no difference in regulations. However, it is said that when the Sixth Prince was betrothed, he secretly gave many gifts to his fiancée, the daughter of Marquis Dingbei, and all of them were put into the dowry of his daughter and carried all the way to the Sixth Prince's mansion.

Marquis Dingbei loved to show off, and he had already shouted out the gifts given by the prince's son-in-law. Anyone with a discerning eye could see what the Sixth Prince gave. Gold and silver jewelry were the most inconspicuous. There were also pearls, agates, corals, jade, and ivory, all of which were counted at two hu. There were countless ancient books and paintings, but the Sixth Prince claimed that he could not even prepare a decent birthday gift on his birthday.

So the question is, how could the Sixth Prince get so much money in less than a year? You have to know that according to the prince's share and the salary for his official duties, it is absolutely impossible to make up these. Moreover, the Sixth Prince's biological mother was born as a palace maid, and the family was very poor, otherwise the Sixth Prince would not have been so tight before. Either

he lied to deceive the emperor during the Wanshou Festival, or the money came from an illegal source.

In fact, some court officials had doubts, but the emperor had only one adult prince, and the Sixth Prince's status was rising. The court officials really didn't need to make things difficult for the Sixth Prince who was very likely to ascend the throne in the future.

And Zheng Jing also thought twice after obtaining evidence that the Sixth Prince had accepted bribes before he dared to impeach the Sixth Prince.

Zheng Jing was very familiar with the Sixth Prince's work in the Ministry of Works. When he learned that the wood used in the renovation of Zhongcui Palace was different from the drawings, but the Sixth Prince had never mentioned it, Zheng Jing guessed that there was something fishy going on. He could figure out the parties who benefited from this after a little thought.

Zheng Jing ordered people to follow the Sixth Prince's servants and found out that during the renovation of Zhongcui Palace, the Sixth Prince had asked someone to pawn several mahogany boxes. Zheng Jing tried his best to get them and found that they were heirlooms from the imperial merchant who was responsible for the wood. This showed where the Sixth Prince's money came from.

Zheng Jing used the pawn tickets and the pawned treasures as evidence to question the Sixth Prince. The Sixth Prince insisted that his confidant had done it behind his back, taking the money without authorization and cheating him when he was a supervisor, passing off inferior goods as good ones. He trusted him and did not doubt it, so he pushed the blame away.

The Emperor looked icy all the time, staring at the Sixth Prince. The Sixth Prince felt that he had nowhere to hide from the Emperor's cold eyes, so he gritted his teeth and continued to pretend to be innocent.

The Emperor accepted the Sixth Prince's explanation.

But because of this, he replaced all the people around the Sixth Prince with clean ones.

That's all for later.

Li Yu finally survived until the last moment of "protecting his pet fish".

The long-awaited system sound rang, but instead of informing him whether the mission was completed or not, it asked him to enter the system to check it himself. This was different from the usual pit fishing system, which made Li Yu feel uneasy.

He was really afraid that the mission had failed.

After briefly explaining to King Jing, Li Yu immediately entered the system.

The main line "Postpartum Care" was still on, and the step "Protect the Fish Pets" had small blocks that kept changing colors during the judgment.

Was this step also subject to judgment?

The system said: "This mission was originally for the tyrant to protect the fish pets. If the fish pets that have changed their forms are discovered by others, it will be considered a failure..."

Li Yu explained: I actually covered up, and they didn't see my true face, so it shouldn't be considered as being discovered, right?

The system said, "It doesn't count. But two bandits were executed by the tyrant after seeing the host's mermaid form. This mission can neither be counted as a success nor a failure. We can only re-evaluate it based on the tyrant's actions." That was a

close call. Li Yu breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it was not directly counted as a failure. He had been judged several times before. King Jing was always right, so there shouldn't be any problem this time.

Li Yu stared hard at the small square symbolizing the result. Green meant success and red meant failure. He remembered that the small square had turned colorful once. What color would it be this time?

The color of the small square changed faster and faster, and finally stopped abruptly.

It was yellow.

Li Yu: "..."

This unexpected other color!