Li Yu has now transformed into a human form, which will last for half an hour, which means that when the time is up, he will turn back into a fish. Before the time is up, he will still be a human. He cannot cancel the transformation, and the system does not provide him with a way to cancel it.
Seeing that he will be blocked in the house by King Jing again, although the house is large, there is no place to hide. Diving into the closet or hiding behind the curtain is basically seeking death.
Li Yu stood up and ran to open the window inside. He really had to jump out of the window again.
Remember this window, he climbed over it once when he used the transformation potion, and it was against the rockery outside, so he was more familiar with this road!
Li Yu used his fingers to pull the window bolt, but the window that was originally easy to open could not be opened!
What happened?
Li Yu shook the window twice in a hurry, but the window frame didn't move. He suddenly realized that the window couldn't be opened. It might be sealed.
Who can seal the window? Of course, but when was it sealed? Why didn't he know anything about it?
Li Yu broke out in a cold sweat. Since this window didn't work, he decided to try the other windows.
But after trying a lot, he found out in despair that none of them worked. He knew there was a guard outside the door, so he couldn't get out.
Xiong Feng's cries were getting closer and closer. Li Yu raised his head. If he was caught by King Jing...
King Jing had caught him for so long, would he kill him directly?
Should he say, "Stop, Master, I'm your pet fish!"
It's hard to imagine what King Jing's expression would be like when he found out that he was a pet fish. But if he didn't say anything and just made up a lie, it wouldn't take long for him to be exposed. If he fell into King Jing's hands, he wouldn't have to use any tricks, as he would be discovered as long as he turned into a fish...
The main mission was only one step away, and because he was in a hurry to save people, he didn't try hard to get close to them. If King Jing knew his true identity, he would be lucky not to kill him, and he would definitely not allow him to do any more missions in the future.
Is there really nothing he can do?
Beads of sweat oozed from the tip of Li Yu's nose, and his eyes tried to scan everything in the house.
King Jing and Ye Qinghuan followed Xiong Feng closely as he ran.
Xiong Feng was about to run into the backyard, and it seemed that he was going straight to King Jing's house. King Jing was surprised.
He already suspected that the boy who escaped before used Xiongfeng to send a message. Could it be that the boy still did not leave the palace despite his intensive pursuit?
King Jing recalled that the men he sent out had indeed not reported any useful information. He initially thought that the thief was too cunning, but this person left clues in the palace and in his room again and again...
Could it be that he was thinking wrongly, and this person was hiding in the palace and did not run far away? After all, the most dangerous place is also the safest!
If Xiongfeng did not lead the wrong way, the thief was really lurking in his room... He was sure that he would not let the other party escape this time!
Xiongfeng was about to break into the door, but suddenly stopped, sniffing east and west with his nose.
"Why don't you continue to chase?" Ye Qinghuan rushed up and rubbed his dog's head.
Xiongfeng barked twice, turned around and headed for a small bamboo forest outside the house, and ran towards a person standing at the entrance of the bamboo forest.
... Wrong?
King Jing looked at the house in surprise, hesitated for a moment, and followed Xiongfeng to the bamboo forest.
Li Yu, who was facing a powerful enemy in the house at this moment: Oh, oh, oh, the fish is scared to death.
He didn't know why Xiongfeng didn't come again, but one thing was clear, Xiongfeng's sudden change of direction just helped him a lot, and his transformation time was just about to come...
As long as he could turn back into a fish and return to the fish tank, he wouldn't have to worry about his vest falling off!
Xiongfeng ran to the people in the bamboo forest and wagged his tail at one of them. The man was dressed in white, squatted down and touched Xiongfeng's head affectionately. Xiongfeng seemed to like this man very much and circled around him several times.
"Who are you?"
Ye Qinghuan looked the man up and down, noticing his beautiful face. If he hadn't been wearing men's clothes, he would have thought he was a woman at first glance.
The man saluted and said, "My Lord, I am Chu Yanyu who lives in Qingxi Garden of the Wangfu. I was passing by here and didn't know why your dog ran over." "
So your name is Chu Yanyu... Xiongfeng seems to like you very much."
Ye Qinghuan grinned, but he didn't mean anything else. Lord Ye was usually very kind to beautiful women.
Although the other person was a man, Ye Qinghuan didn't like male beauty, and it didn't affect his appreciation of Lady Chu's face.
However, Ye Qinghuan didn't quite believe what Lady Chu said. The Cheng'en Mansion was a family with a high status, and they had seen all kinds of inner house tricks. Xiongfeng rarely took the initiative to throw in a stranger, so he was afraid that Chu Yanyu did it on purpose.
It's not for nothing that Ye Qinghuan often comes to Prince Jing's mansion. He knows that Prince Jing has stuffed a lot of people from various places into this courtyard. It seems that this beautiful lady Chu is not from a legitimate background.
He didn't expect to encounter such a thing in Prince Jing's mansion.
Ye Qinghuan laughed. After all, it was not in his own mansion. He should just watch the show and not interfere.
Not long after the banquet in Prince Jing's mansion was over, Prince Jing still recognized Chu Yanyu. His cold eyes fell on Chu Yanyu's hand. Chu Yanyu said that he didn't know why Xiong Feng would rush towards him, but Prince Jing's eyes were sharp and he had already noticed that the other party hurriedly kicked a green-leafed grass aside, and the green juice on his fingertips had not been wiped off.
Prince Jing's eyes were dark. There was no doubt that Chu Yanyu was lying. This person must have done something to deliberately lure Xiong Feng to run over.
King Jing was unhappy and glanced in the direction of Ye Qinghuan.
Because King Jing and Ye Shizi were in a hurry, Wang Xi had not had time to catch up. Ye Qinghuan, who suddenly became a mouthpiece, said: "..."
Ye Shizi coughed lightly and pretended not to understand.
King Jing glared at Ye Shizi again. Ye Shizi asked reluctantly: "Chu Yanyu, why are you here?" Chu Yanyu
knelt down and saluted, raised his head and said confidently: "I heard that His Highness and the Prince are looking for someone who is good at calligraphy. Why don't I give it a try?"
Since entering King Jing's mansion, Chu Yanyu has been living in Qingxi Garden. King Jing's mansion is heavily guarded. The Sixth Prince finally handed him a letter, but it was instructing him to try to capture King Jing and let King Jing connect them with Cheng Engong Mansion.
Chu Yanyu really wanted to help Mu Tianxiao, but he had not even seen King Jing since he entered the palace. The entire Jing Palace treated the residents of Qingxi Garden as outsiders, including him.
If he wanted to help Mu Tianxiao, he had to get out of Qingxi Garden first and win King Jing's attention again.
When Chu Yanyu entered the palace, the Third Prince stuffed a lot of banknotes into his pocket to entangle him. Chu Yanyu spent a lot of money to buy off a guard who was in charge of patrolling outside Qingxi Garden. The servants in the backyard of King Jing were extremely difficult to bribe, so the guard only agreed to pass on a few words to him, most of which were useless information.
This time, the guard told Chu Yanyu that Ye Shizi had brought his dog to King Jing's mansion. King Jing and the prince were looking for someone - it seemed that the person was good at calligraphy. The guards were not there to serve them, so they didn't understand it very well. After Chu Yanyu learned about it, he came up with the idea of borrowing Ye Shizi's dog to show his face in front of King Jing and recommend himself.
He was well-read and had read in the books that dogs liked a kind of fragrant leaves. This kind of leaves were grown in Qingxi Garden, and Chu Yanyu managed to get some. He begged the guards to let him go out of Qingxi Garden. In fact, the people living in Qingxi Garden could go out for a walk occasionally, but they could not leave Qingxi Garden too far and had to be followed by guards.
The guards helped him for the sake of money and asked to follow him personally. Chu Yanyu got out of Qingxi Garden as he wished, and took advantage of the guards' unpreparedness to get rid of the guards.
He heard the guards talk about the general layout of Prince Jing's mansion, and tried to walk in the direction where he could meet Prince Jing. From a distance, he saw Prince Jing and a young man chasing a black-haired dog - he felt that the guards were not lying, the young man must be the prince of Cheng'en, and the dog must be the prince's pet dog.
Chu Yanyu suppressed his fear of dogs, tore the grass into pieces, and smeared the juice on his fingers. The dog's nose was very sensitive, and it was attracted from a distance.
Chu Yanyu has no name or status in Prince Jing's mansion. He is just an outsider who was forced in. He is not even a servant. He does not even have the qualifications to call himself a "slave" in front of Prince Jing. He used to follow the Sixth Prince. Mu Tianxiao is close to him. He knows that he is ambitious and has never asked anything
from him. Chu Yanyu calls himself a commoner, and he calls himself "I" in a weird way. Although he looks polite, he is extremely rude. If Wang Xi heard it, he would definitely scold him. However, Ye Shizi and Prince Jing, one of them never cared much about these false formalities, and the other was about to explode, but it was not because of Chu Yanyu's self-proclaimed title. Prince
Jing was very dissatisfied with Chu Yanyu for taking the initiative to lead Xiong Feng away and disrupting Xiong Feng's original route.
Chu Yanyu almost said directly, I am the person you are looking for. Prince Jing stared at him for a while and sneered.
Chu Yanyu was scared by being stared at. Although the Sixth Prince asked him to take down King Jing, he also told himself that he must make King Jing tempted. But King Jing was a mute, and he had no idea how to see through his mind. Anyway, the other party's eyes were not infatuated, but made him a little scared.
At this time, Eunuch Wang finally came up. King Jing raised his chin and moved his fingers. Wang Xi guessed and ordered people to prepare pens and ink. King Jing wrote a few words casually and threw them to Chu Yanyu.
Chu Yanyu didn't understand. Wang Xi said, "His Highness ordered you to write all these words."
Ye Qinghuan followed and took a look, smiling and saying nothing. Chu Yanyu didn't know, but he knew that King Jing chose to write the few words on the letter.
Since Chu Yanyu came up and said that he was the person they were looking for, he had to check the handwriting.
Chu Yanyu thanked him, and after careful consideration, he also wrote these few words. He wrote beautiful small regular script. In order to leave a deep impression on King Jing, he used both hands to write again in a free and unrestrained cursive script.
He was worried that he could not show his talent. Although people who had seen him would praise his handsome appearance, Chu Yanyu was most satisfied with his talent. What is talent? This is it.
Unfortunately, King Jing only glanced at his talent indifferently. The little bit of attention he gave him was not even as much as the pen he put aside after using it.
King Jing brushed his sleeves in disgust, and Wang Xi immediately said: "Your Highness said it's not, so get out."
Chu Yanyu: "..."
Before Chu Yanyu could say anything else, Wang Xi had ordered the guards to take him away.
He heard Wang Xi cursing because he had broken the rules by leaving Qingxi Garden without permission, and he and the guards he had bribed were severely punished with 200 strokes of the cane.
The guards were directly expelled from Prince Jing's mansion, and as for the talented Wang Xi, he was dragged back to Qingxi Garden to fend for himself. Eunuch Wang said that this was the order of Prince Jing, so that he would not die outside, and the Third Prince would be informed. If he died in the palace, he would be buried on the spot.
Chu Yanyu was frightened and lay on the bed with injuries all over his body, tears streaming down his face. No one had ever treated him like this before. How could this man be so cruel?
After Xiong Feng was seduced by Chu Yanyu's plan, he didn't want to move much. No matter how Ye Qinghuan teased him, Xiong Feng licked his hand and was very quiet.
I'm afraid he won't be able to find anyone like this.
Ye Qinghuan gave King Jing an apologetic smile. He did not expect that complications would arise along the way.
King Jing stared at Xiong Feng for a while in a trance. If Chu Yanyu had not come out to kill him, then Xiong Feng's original direction would be...
his house.
It might be too late to go now. King Jing still asked Wang Xi to keep an eye on him, and he went to check it out himself.
"Tianchi, I'll go with you."
Ye Qinghuan also wanted to know who sent the letter.
King Jing paused, looked back at Ye Qinghuan, shook his head lightly, and left on his own.
Ye Qinghuan: ???
Wang Xi sighed and said, "Sir, His Highness already has someone under suspicion, so you can leave it to the Prince Jing's Mansion."
Ye Qinghuan's eyes widened: "Does he have another clue... Who is it?"
Wang Xi frowned when he thought about it: "His Highness has ordered people to investigate for a long time, but still doesn't know the name. It seems to be someone's male concubine."
Ye Qinghuan: ???
Someone else's male concubine actually sent him a letter?
Ye Qinghuan shook his head in confusion. Is the prince so charming?
Prince Jing came to the front of the house and pushed the door hard. There was no one in the room.
He knew that the boy was used to running away, and he would clean up traces, and sometimes he would deliberately create suspicion, but he would always leave a little trace.
Before, when this boy sneaked in a few times, he asked Wang Xi to secretly seal the windows, and the windows could not be opened. At least this time, this person could not escape through the window.
King Jing took a look at his fish as usual, and the fish swam gently in the fish tank.
King Jing decided to look for clues himself this time, and walked around the house first, but found nothing. Because his underwear and underpants were stolen many times, once they were scattered all over the floor, and once they were mixed in his clothes, King Jing thought he had to start with his underwear, so he opened the closet.
He didn't notice that there was a gaze behind him, following him since he entered the house.
In the crystal fish tank, the little carp clung to the wall of the tank nervously, not daring to breathe, watching King Jing rummaging around.
Xiong Feng didn't run into the house directly, buying him time. Li Yu took off all his clothes. After his space capacity increased, he usually used one compartment to store clean water and the remaining one compartment could be used to store other things. After the letter was sent away, a space was left open, which was enough to hold a set of clothes. But if he really put the clothes into the space and King Jing couldn't find them, he would still suspect that the clothes were stolen.
So Li Yu simply folded the clothes and put them back in the closet.
Facts proved that he was right. After opening the closet, King Jing curled his lips, as if he didn't find anything...
The next moment, King Jing, who should have found nothing, actually took out the clothes he had worn easily!
Li Yu: !!!
Li Yu was dumbfounded. He even forgot to pick up the clothes. How did he do that?
He had paid special attention to the fact that the clothes were not dirty. After folding them, they were the same as other clothes in the closet. He also didn't put the clothes he had worn on the top. King Jing shouldn't be able to see it.
Li Yu didn't know that since the second time the clothes were targeted, King Jing secretly ordered Wang Xi to embroider number tags inside the clothes. The clothes were placed in the cabinet and could only be arranged according to the number tags...
The thief had stolen twice, and King Jing had a hunch that the thief would steal again.
As long as he matched the order of the number tags, he would know whether the clothes had been touched - and it turned out to be touched!
But other than that, there was no other gain.
The thief was not trapped in the house as he thought, but slipped away again.
And in a way that he didn't even understand.
King Jing walked over, watching the fish swimming while thinking about the boy's whereabouts.
Li Yu was afraid that he would look so focused and serious, too handsome... No, no, it was too smart. He was always just one step away from taking off his vest, and he couldn't let his guard down.
Li Yu made up his mind and decided to sell out the fish again!
But King Jing and him were together day and night, and it was probably difficult for a normal fish to be tempted. It was Xiongfeng who reminded him that some dogs like to chase their tails in circles, and Xiongfeng was one of them. Li Yu planned to learn from him and chase the tail once!
Even if it looked silly, as long as it could divert King Jing's attention!
Li Yu turned around and chased the tip of the tail, repeating to himself that as long as he didn't treat the tail as a tail...
As he chased, he was surprised to find that the tip of the tail could touch his head.
Li Yu, who couldn't help but play with the tail for a while, said: I accidentally played too much again!
King Jing easily noticed that the fish was playing with its tail, and he watched it for a while. King Jing had never seen a fish play like this before, so it was a bit new.
When the fish stopped, King Jing took the fish to a nearby teacup as usual and rubbed it a few times. Li Yu, without any shame, once again used the tip of his tail that had just slapped his head to entangle King Jing's fingers, entangled for a long time.
The coldness in King Jing's eyes faded, and he smiled and shook his head.
Humph, you say no, but you really want it in your heart!
Li Yu saw through the hypocritical master and entangled with the tip of his tail.
Suddenly, King Jing seemed to see something, his eyes showed surprise, and he didn't let him play anymore, and straightened the fish's face.
Li Yu: ? ? ?
King Jing gently took a piece of food residue from the connection between the fish fin and the fish body.
Li Yu: "..."
Li Yu often eats fish food, so it's not strange that he occasionally drops some fish food residue. After all, he is a fish raised by King Jing, so there is no need to worry about dirtying the water. The subordinates change the water quite frequently.
But the residue now is pink...
Li Yu: Damn, peach blossom cakes!
When he turned into a human, he was indeed greedy and ate a few peach blossom cakes. His mouth was still full before he turned back. Although he remembered to wipe his face, who knew that he didn't wipe it clean, and it actually fell on the fish fins after the transformation?
Li Yu felt very guilty, and always felt that his vest would not be kept again.
King Jing thought about it, looked around the room, and guessed that it was the peach blossom cakes on the table. The corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably.
This little fish can jump around in the room, and it is estimated that it jumped onto the peach blossom cakes.
Could it be that the fish also want to eat peach blossom cakes?
King Jing thought, why can't they eat it? Peach blossom cakes are vegetarian cakes, fish should be able to eat them.
King Jing walked over slowly and took the whole plate of peach blossom cakes sent today. He picked up a piece, broke it into pieces, and sprinkled it into the clear water.
Li Yu was stunned for a moment, shaking his head and tail happily. He didn't expect that King Jing not only had no doubts, but also fed peach blossom cakes to the fish with his own hands. He cried, inexplicably moved.
The broken cakes soaked in water still tasted good to the fish.
Seeing that the fish was eating happily, King Jing also picked up a piece. When he put it into his mouth, he glanced at the remaining snacks inadvertently.
Although the snacks were arranged in a common style, the number of snacks was obviously wrong.
The royal family is very particular about this. The things sent up to them, even snacks and fruits, must be in a lucky number.
But now, including the one he has in his hand and the one he feeds to the fish, the number is obviously wrong.
The peach blossom cake has been touched...
Realizing this, King Jing quickly put down the peach blossom cake in his hand. He knew that the servants would never be so brave, and it seemed that there was only one person who had the courage to touch the things in his house.
Fortunately, the other party did not poison, otherwise his fish...
King Jing looked at the small carp with a small piece of peach blossom cake on its head and its mouth anxiously trying to eat another piece.
King Jing: "..."
The little fish was a little cute, which disturbed his thoughts.
King Jing shook Yuling and called the guards outside the house to guard.
All the guards told a fact: "Before Your Highness came here, only the Prince of Cheng'en and Eunuch Wang Xi had been to this room, and no one else had been there. Prince Ye originally came here with his dog, but after Prince Ye left, the dog stayed in the room for a while and ran out by itself."
As for whether Xiong Feng had a letter in his mouth when he left the room, the guards didn't know.
King Jing rubbed his brows. This didn't make sense. If only Ye Qinghuan and Wang Xi had entered, and no one else had, how could the clothes be moved and the wrong number of peach blossom cakes be there?
If the thief had entered the room when the guards weren't paying attention, he couldn't have gotten out because the windows had been sealed shut...
He had made all kinds of arrangements, but it was a fact that the thief could come and go freely in his room.
"Tianchi, Xiongfeng seems to have recovered."
Ye Qinghuan, led by Wang Xi, brought his beloved dog into the house. Xiongfeng excitedly rushed to the fish tank and swung his tail wildly at the small carp to show that he had completed the task well and asked for praise.
Li Yu quickly swam over and wagged his tail at him twice: "Stupid dog, don't always hang around me!"
But the dog couldn't understand the fish language. When Xiongfeng saw the fish swimming over, he insisted on poking the fish with his nose. He was hit several times through the crystal wall, but he still persevered.
Ye Qinghuan looked at his beloved dog with embarrassment.
This situation reminded King Jing of one thing. When Xiongfeng went to deliver the letter to Ye Qinghuan, he was mostly wet. Now there are still some water stains on the dog's body, but the fish tank in the house was not broken, and Xiongfeng could not get into the fish tank. So how did Xiongfeng get wet?
Everything was wrong, from the unidentified boy who always appeared in the house and whom he could not find, to the clothes and peach blossom cakes that no one had entered or left the house but had been moved...
I always felt that there was just one more thing, just one more thing, and he could string all the things together, and then the truth would be revealed.
Ye Qinghuan's eyes widened after listening to Wang Xi's story one by one. He swallowed his saliva and said uncertainly: "Tianchi, is there a ghost in your house?"
...Ghost?
King Jing paused, then sneered. Where did the ghost come from? It shouldn't be a thief at most.
And even if there is a ghost, he is not afraid.
Xiongfeng shouted excitedly a few times, and still wanted to poke the fish. King Jing saw that his little fish cleverly hid in the rockery, leaving only a tail.
Seeing the fish, His Royal Highness King Jing, who was not afraid of ghosts, became calmer.
This won't work. He is not afraid of thieves, but he is afraid that thieves will harm the little fish. It is useless to strengthen the defense before.
King Jing glanced at Wang Xi. Since strengthening the defense didn't work, there was only one way.
Ye Qinghuan felt that the fish of King Jing had a connection with his dog, so he wanted to take the fish back to Cheng'en Mansion to raise it for two days, so that he could experience the fun of raising fish. However, before he proposed it to King Jing, Wang Xi pulled out a crystal bottle from his sleeve... which was a circle larger than an ordinary teacup.
It should be a crystal bottle. The bottle was covered with a gold lid, and there was a handle inlaid on the bottle body for easy carrying.
Wang Xi opened the crystal bottle neatly, poured some clean water into it, and then carefully put the small carp hiding in the rockery into the crystal bottle. As
soon as the small carp entered the crystal bottle, it swam happily out of curiosity.
Ye Qinghuan was stunned: "What are you trying to do?"
Wang Xi smiled and said: "Your Highness is worried about Master Xiaoyu, and plans to take him with him wherever he goes. This bottle has a hole on the gold lid, so it won't be stuffy. It's just right for Master Xiaoyu."
Ye Qinghuan was embarrassed: "It's not enough to put it in the big fish tank given by the king, but you still want to take the fish with you?"
I originally wanted to ask King Jing for the fish, but now he has it with him, what else can I say.