King Jing carried the fish and walked into the warm room of the side hall. Since King Jing raised fish, Wang Xi always carried some of King Jing's clothes with him. Now he took them out and followed him in. King Jing took the clothes from him and asked Wang Xi to guard outside and not let anyone approach.
Wang Xi: ???
King Jing's mansion actually produced more than one crystal bottle, but several identical ones, in case of emergency. King Jing quickly put the small carp into another crystal bottle with clean water and looked around. Fortunately,
he and the fish were the only ones in the warm room of the side hall, so no outsiders would come to disturb them.
I remember the first time I took Xiaoyu to meet the king, he was soaked by the fish and had to change his clothes. When he came out, he saw Qiu's mother and son in a mess. At that time, he thought it was a coincidence. Later, he found out that Xiaoyu was a carp spirit. Recalling this experience, he felt that it was very likely that Xiaoyu deliberately sent him away to punish Qiu's mother and son.
At this time, Xiaoyu wet his clothes again. Could it be that he wanted to tell him something?
But how can a fish communicate?
King Jing selfishly hoped that the carp spirit could change its shape and tell him in person.
He waited and waited, but Xiaoyu failed to change. King Jing thought that he might have misunderstood Xiaoyu and didn't want to say anything to him. After he entered the warm room, he didn't have time to change his wet clothes, so King Jing planned to change his clothes first.
The little carp has been circling anxiously in the crystal bottle. He knows that King Jing has been looking at him. It's not that he doesn't want to say it, but because the answer is too complicated and it's really hard for the fish to express it.
The crystal bottle knocking over was just an accident. The fish is not ready for anything yet. Sob!
Li Yu continued to rack his brains, his fins paddling with water irritably, and suddenly he found that King Jing turned around and had his back to him.
Li Yu's attention was immediately drawn: Hey, what is the tyrant king going to do?
The little carp immediately slid and stuck to the crystal wall.
The hem of King Jing's clothes was soaked when the crystal bottle fell, and he was changing clothes at the moment.
Because he mistook the little fish for a person, King Jing turned around and unbuttoned his jade button out of habit. Although he was changing his clothes, he was always paying attention to his fish out
of the corner of his eye, and he caught a glimpse of a fish shadow that was originally swimming and suddenly stopped. King Jing turned around immediately, and the little carp was clinging to the crystal wall, and its dark eyes looked at him. King Jing
and Li Yu: "..."
The experienced Li Yu quickly swam to the other side of the crystal bottle, with his tail facing King Jing, pretending that he was just passing by.
Could it be that this fish is watching...
King Jing suddenly realized something, and hooked his lips maliciously at the restless fish tail.
So what if it looks at him, he is not ashamed to show it.
King Jing stepped forward, grabbed the fish's tail forcibly, turned the fish around, and let the little carp that tried to escape aim at him.
Then the fish looked at the tyrant master in surprise, and changed his clothes in front of him without any shyness. The
over-stimulated little carp: Oh, don't do that, my eyes are going to go blind!
While resisting on the surface, the little carp continued to watch reluctantly. In his heart, he silently counted the abdominal muscles for his master.
Maybe stimulated by such a voluptuous scene of King Jing changing clothes on the spot, Li Yu used his hot head to think of a solution that was not a solution. This time the incident happened suddenly, and there was no chance for him to prepare the secret letter. King Jing was right in front of him, so it was naturally the most convenient to change into a human form and directly expose Qiu. But
how can he change his shape under the eyes of King Jing?
As Li Yu was thinking, King Jing suddenly came over and gently touched the fish's head.
Li Yu: ???
Touching the fish head seemed to be a secret signal. After touching it, King Jing left him and walked out of the warm room.
Li Yu: "..."
Then Wang Xi outside shouted: "Your Highness wants tea? Please wait a moment, the old servant will make it right away."
King Jing is going out to drink tea?
Li Yu looked in the warm room. Tea was prepared on the table, but this was in the palace. King Jing usually would not use tea from outside casually, so when he wanted to drink tea, he went to find Wang Xi.
He knew that King Jing would drink tea on weekdays, but this was not the point. The point was that if King Jing left, he could transform!
This is a good opportunity, but... he still has to think it through!
The first difficulty for him to transform is dressing. There happened to be several eunuch clothes hanging in the warm room, some of which were similar in shape to him. Maybe the eunuchs also changed clothes here... he could borrow them.
Secondly, there are too many uncertainties in the transformation in the palace. As a person without an identity, he has to be careful all the time. After the transformation, he must find King Jing as soon as possible and finish what he needs to say. How to gain King Jing's trust in such a short time is also a problem, but he is still quite confident.
After he tells him, King Jing will definitely go to expose Qiu himself. He will hide with the crystal bottle. As long as he doesn't run around in the palace and insists on hiding for an hour to turn back into a fish, it will be fine.
When he transformed in King Jing's mansion for the sake of stuttering, he always felt that the transformation time was too short, but now, he felt that the transformation time was a bit long. It was really depressing that he couldn't cancel the transformation at will, and it was not very safe to hide in the palace.
But if not, he had no other way to communicate with King Jing. The clues of Qiu's self-torture may have disappeared in the past few days. What if the emperor fails to obtain solid evidence in time and turns to believe Qiu?
Occasionally, it is time to bravely transform for serious matters!
Li Yu thought about it roughly and clicked the skill. After the transformation, he touched his belly first. It was a shame that the crystal bottle was crushed. He first made sure that his fish body was just a circle bigger, and his human form was not fat. Then he confidently chose a suitable eunuch uniform to change into.
After changing, he gently pushed open the door of the warm room. Prince Jing was standing outside, guarding the warm room in person, waiting for the eunuch Wang's tea.
"You - Your Highness!"
Li Yu was shocked. Fortunately, he didn't make a big noise in there, but why didn't Prince Jing sit down at the table and wait?
Prince Jing smiled and glanced at the eunuch in front of him.
Li Yu soon realized that he was wearing eunuch's clothes and was also dressed as a eunuch. Normally, eunuchs would salute when they saw the king, but how should eunuchs salute? And should they curl their orchid fingers?
Although he changed his clothes, his face did not change. King Jing should be able to recognize him, right?
"Your Highness, hello!"
Li Yu thought about kowtow and just fooled the crowd. Anyway, when he was a fisherman, he often saw people kowtow to King Jing!
Li Yu was about to kneel, but King Jing supported him just as his knees were about to bend.
When the strong hand grabbed his arm, Li Yu knew that the other party had recognized him.
Li Yu felt relieved for some reason, and quickly sorted out his thoughts. He said, "Your Highness, I have something to tell you. It is true that Qiu was injured, but she was not injured in the fire in Zhongcui Palace... The wound on her arm smells like cypress, and the wound was caused by a burning cypress branch."
This cypress branch was the weapon that Qiu used to burn herself, and it was also evidence.
It is easy to imagine that this fire was Qiu's idea. How could Qiu really get caught in the fire? If she accidentally got injured by the fire, or if something else happened, it would be a loss. In fact, when Zhongcui Palace caught fire, Qiu had already taken his confidants to hide far away. When the fire was almost out, he gritted his teeth and added some more burns on his arm, and then quietly returned. At that time, as long as she insisted that she was injured by the fire, no one would doubt it!
And the palace maid Huanhua was the confidant arranged by Qiu to set the fire in Zhongcui Palace. She disappeared after the fire, so as long as Qiu herself did not say it, no one would know.
This is what the original book said, but unfortunately Qiu made several fatal mistakes. One was that she accidentally used cypress branches to burn herself. Cypress has a special woody fragrance, and Qiu used a type of cypress with a stronger fragrance. This caused her wound to be stained with the cypress fragrance, which lasted for a long time and was first noticed by the Sixth Prince.
Qiu said that she was injured in the fire in Zhongcui Palace, but in fact, there were no cypress trees planted in Zhongcui Palace. This means that Qiu was not in Zhongcui Palace when she was injured, but in another place where cypress trees were planted.
The Sixth Prince in the book was somewhat intelligent and helped the Third Prince find this palace, which was Yaxin Terrace not far from Zhongcui Palace. He also found several guards who had seen Qiu there, which were human witnesses. The cypress branch that Qiu carelessly dropped on the ground was also found. One end of the branch had been burned to charcoal, and the other end was wrapped with a thick handkerchief for easy grasping. The handkerchief was embroidered with Qiu's favorite crabapple flowers, which became physical evidence like the cypress branch.
The key figure Huanhua was also found later. It turned out that Huanhua knew the inside story and was afraid that Qiu would attack her, so she ran away and hid in the Yu Garden. She was discovered by the Third Prince's men. The Third Prince tortured Huanhua, causing her to tell the truth and expose Qiu.
In this episode in the original book, Qiu was basically beaten. But now, the Third Prince and the Sixth Prince are not taking any action. Li Yu is afraid that Qiu's evil plan will succeed. He cannot remind the Third Prince and the Sixth Prince, so he can only remind King Jing and let King Jing make the decision.
Li Yu tried his best to talk about the most important things, pointing out the secret of Huanhua's hiding place and Qiu's injury. King Jing: "..."
Li Yu was afraid that he would not believe it, and said anxiously: "It's true, Your Highness, please believe me. Although I can't explain how I know these, I promise that what I tell Your Highness is the truth. The secret letter received by Ye Shizi was also written by me. You--"
The only way Li Yu could think of to quickly gain the trust of King Jing was to prove himself through something that King Jing had already accepted-that is, the letter he had written to Ye Qinghuan.
This letter actually helped Cheng'en Mansion escape the disaster, and King Jing must believe this letter now.
Li Yu recited the contents of the letter word for word. This letter was confidential to King Jing and Ye Shizi. Except for a few confidants, that is, the person who wrote the letter, he knew about it. Since King Jing chose to believe this letter, he would definitely trust him as the writer!
After Li Yu finished speaking generously, King Jing nodded calmly, indicating that he had understood, but he did not let go of Li Yu's arm.
Li Yu swallowed his saliva, no way, why did King Jing react like this? It seemed to be the same the last time they met.
King Jing took out the jade bell and rang it a few times. Before Wang Xi went to make tea, King Jing stuffed a note in his hand, asking him to pretend to make tea and stay far away, and not to come over and look without permission. Now that he received the order, he rushed over in a hurry, and saw that his prince was holding a young eunuch and refused to let go.
Wang Xi: "..."
This scene seemed familiar, Wang Xi's heart trembled, and when he looked again, the eunuch was indeed familiar. Wang Xi was horrified. Isn't this someone else's male concubine, how come they met again in the palace?
King Jing glanced at Li Yu, who came to his senses and quickly told Wang Xi what he had just said.
Wang Xi knew the seriousness of the situation and asked, "What is Your Highness going to do?"
Li Yu thought that Your Highness would definitely do it himself.
Who knew that King Jing looked at him meaningfully and raised his hand to make a three.
Wang Xi smiled and said, "I understand. I will secretly pass the news to the Third Prince's people. Anyway, the Third Prince is worried that Marquis An can't be killed. Let's give him an opportunity to go over there, so that Your Highness doesn't have to do it himself."
Li Yu: "..."
Is it still like this? ?
King Jing's impatient eyes signaled Wang Xi to leave quickly. Wang Xi quickly said that he was not going to do business, but Li Yu was still caught by King Jing and stared at King Jing.
King Jing pulled Li Yu to a table in the warm pavilion, forced Li Yu to sit down with him, and took out a pen and paper from his pocket.
Li Yu: "..."
Is King Jing waiting for him?
Li Yu felt something was wrong and said timidly: "Your Highness, I have something important to do, I want to..."
King Jing quickly wrote: "Answer the question."
Li Yu pouted and glanced at him: "Then I will answer, can you let me go?"
Li Yu had already said this when he suddenly remembered that Wang Xi had said more than once that King Jing didn't like others to negotiate conditions. He... He actually spoke to King Jing like this. If King Jing got angry and threw him out, it would be... not bad.
However, the fool King Jing just raised his eyebrows: "Answer truthfully and I will let you go."
Li Yu: "..."
No way, King Jing was not angry and agreed to him?
King Jing wrote in a flash: "What's your name, how old are you, why are you here?"
In order to leave earlier, Li Yu had to answer. If he resisted now, he would only hinder himself.
Li Yu made a bitter face and whispered: "My name is Li Yu, I am eighteen years old. Why am I here..."
Li Yu remembered that the system said that it would change the nature of the tyrant, which he definitely couldn't tell. As for why he was in the book...
Li Yu said: "I don't know either."