Chapter 100

Lin Nanjie came out of the west room and saluted to the three adults: "My lords, did you hear me?"

Cai Yuanli put his hands behind his back and said, "I heard you. This matter is of great importance and concerns the safety of the emperor. It is better for the three departments to participate together. What do you think?"

Zheng Yongnian and Wang Wenhe had no objections, so the matter was settled. The dirty water that was intended to be thrown on Lin Nanjie could not be thrown at all.

Lin Nanjie smiled and said, "In this case, I will have to trouble the three of you. I will send someone to hand over these ten assassins and Chang Fu to Lord Cai."

Cai Yuanli snorted coldly.

Lin Nanjie continued, "You have been waiting for a long time and have not eaten yet. I am sorry that I have not entertained you well. The Emperor has specifically instructed me to give you the fruits and crabs that he has gifted you. He also told you that crabs are cold in nature, so you should not eat too much and take care of your health."

After hearing this, Cai Yuanli cleared his throat uncomfortably and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Since it is a gift, how can we refuse it?

Zheng Yongnian and Wang Wenhe also said: "We, the old ministers, thank the emperor for his gift."

Zheng Yongnian laughed cheerfully and said, "We can finally enjoy this crab feast."

After seeing off the adults, Lin Nanjie and the others yawned and fell asleep.

***

Underground palace.

Li Chengsi looked at the painting of a thousand miles of rivers and mountains carved on the stone wall in front of him, his face hidden in the dim light. He was skinny and looked like a lifeless corpse in the darkness. He was wearing a dragon robe and holding a teacup in his hand, the tea had already gone cold.

Jinyi slowly walked behind him: "My Lord."

Li Chengsi slowly turned around, his glassy eyes revealing an uncertain look: "Did you break it again?"

He clenched his fingers and threw the teacup to the ground, making a loud cracking sound that was particularly harsh in the underground palace.

Jin Yi lowered his head and said: "I failed to do my job well, please punish me, my lord."

Li Chengsi shook off the cold tea on his hands, took out a handkerchief and wiped his hands: "No need, I will do it myself."

Jinyi exclaimed, "Ah!" "You're coming in person?"

Hearing this, Li Chengsi glanced at her and asked, "Do you have any opinion?"

Jin Yi: "I dare not, I respectfully welcome Your Highness out of the mountain."

Li Chengsi showed an intriguing expression: "I want to see who this Lin Nanjie is."

This Lin Nanjie had ruined his plans time and again, yet he was still safe and sound in the end. Li Chengsi wanted to see who he was that could have bewitched Li Chengqian so much.

Jinyi glanced at Li Chengsi cautiously, her eyes showing hesitation, and she couldn't help but ask, "Master, when can my father come back?"

Li Chengsi glanced at her and said, "It's almost there."

***

After resolving the blood letter issue, Lin Nanjie had a peaceful sleep. When he woke up the next day, he felt refreshed.

As soon as I got up, I heard Li Dai's voice.

"Come down quickly! You little beast, how dare you climb up the roof and tear off the tiles? Do you know where this place is?"

Lin Nanjie pushed open the door in the morning light and saw Li Dai poking at the roof with a bamboo pole. He walked out of the house, walked behind Li Dai, and looked up at the roof. He saw the cat he saw at the entrance of the alley dragging a large crucian carp and looking at Li Dai proudly.

"Wow, what a big fish."

Li Dai was angry: "I just bought it from the kitchen this morning, and was going to make a crucian carp and tofu soup for you. Who would have thought that it would be taken away by the cat in the blink of an eye!"

Lin Nanjie raised his hand to cover his forehead, facing the morning sun and looking at the sleek cat: "I can see that he eats a lot every day."

"Isn't it?"

"If it likes it, let it eat it. Let's make something else today."

"ah?"

Lin Nanjie stretched his waist lazily: "Okay, let's go to court!"

With yesterday's testimony and witnesses, the blood letter case progressed smoothly. It was found that there was indeed a scapegoat, but this scapegoat was not an innocent person. Not only that, he was also connected to the palace. He was a eunuch who was released from the palace early because of illness. When he was outside the palace, he made friends and collected money everywhere, and was caught by people with ulterior motives as a scapegoat.

If Lin Nanjie hadn't broken the impasse early on, once the truth had been uncovered, the dirty water would have been confirmed.

After all, he was once a eunuch in the palace, and it seemed natural for eunuchs to help eunuchs.

In any case, it was none of his business.

Lin Nanjie could once again leisurely eat ice cream in the Zichen Palace.

Seeing that the blood letter case was solved perfectly, Li Chengqian felt quite proud: "The blood letter case was successfully concluded. What kind of reward do you want?"

Lin Nanzhen chewed the soft glutinous rice balls and said, "I have everything I need."

Li Chenghuan looked mysterious: "No, you are missing it."

"No...wait a minute," Lin Nanqi looked puzzled at first, then remembered something, "The secret guard that the emperor assigned to me, Brother Jing Zhu, is very powerful. I want to borrow him for a while."

In such a good atmosphere, Lin Nanjie suddenly mentioned another man. Li Chengzhen's eyes showed jealousy: "I originally called it for you, so why bother to lend it to you? But, is there something wrong?"

Lin Nanjie said seriously: "Catch the cat."

Li Chengqian: “…”

What the hell is going on.

Li Chengqian: "Stop, can you think of something else?"

Lin Nanqi: "Anything else?"

Li Chengqian: "For example, this one."

With a calm expression, he took out a phoenix seal from his arms and put it into Lin Nanjie's hand.

Li Chengqian pretended to be calm, but he was actually very nervous and his right hand was tightly grasping his left hand.

Lin Nanjie felt as if something cool and heavy had rolled into his arms. When he lifted it up, he almost dropped his chopsticks.

Phoenix...Phoenix seal.

The Da Qi Phoenix Seal is made of the finest white jade. It is a square seal with a lifelike phoenix head carved on it and has a moist texture.

Lin Nanjie felt like he had a hot potato on his hands and asked in panic, "Is this the Phoenix Seal?"

Li Chengqian: “Yeah.”

Lin Nanjie: "What if it gets lost?"

Li Chengqian didn't expect Lin Nanjie to worry about this. According to past experience, the Phoenix Seal was kept in the harem, and there was basically no possibility of it leaving the palace, and the possibility of it being lost was even smaller. But Lin Nanjie was beyond all his experience.

"Don't worry, if you lose it, just try another one."

Lin Nanjie: [So careless! ]

If you are not careful, you will reveal your true feelings.

Li Chengqian: …

However, it was not lost, which is a good thing.

Lin Nanjie touched the Phoenix Seal and said, "Okay, I accept it with a smile."

Li Chengqian breathed a sigh of relief.

After eating the ice cream and getting intimate with each other for a while, Lin Nanjie wiped his mouth and went back home with the phoenix seal in his pocket. He felt a lot more nervous and was ready to find a box to lock it up when he got home.

I just walked to the door of my house and was about to push it open when someone called me from behind.

"Sir, do you know where Xiao'an Yi Lane leads to?"

The voice sounded a little weak, like someone who had been seriously ill for a long time. It stopped behind Lin Nanjie at some point, startling him.

Lin Nanjie turned around and saw a man in white clothes with a sickly look standing not far behind him.

The man in white looked like he was seriously ill. Before I got close, I could smell a strong smell of medicine. Although he was tall, he was very thin and frail. He had a handsome face, but his eyes were a little gloomy. I wonder if it was because of his long-term illness that he looked like this.

The man in white was accompanied by an attendant, who was looking at the road in front of him with a confused look on his face.

I'm just asking for directions, why wouldn't I help?

"This is Anyi Lane."

The man in white nodded and thanked him: "Thank you for showing me the way, sir. Do you know of a vacant house in Anyi Lane? How far is it?"

Lin Nanqi remembered that he had heard from Li Dai that there was an empty house next door that was looking for a tenant. It was rented out in the past two days. "It's in the back. I have to go around it."

The man in white was hesitant. "Sir, you don't know. I'm ill and came to Beijing for treatment. This is my first time renting a house. I don't know many things. Could you please lead the way?"

Lin Nanjie readily agreed: "Okay, I'll take you there."

Lin Nanjie led the two of them around the west wall of the mansion and brought them to the destination.

Lin Nanjie raised his head and saw a small dormer window on the top of the two-story main house. It turned out that this empty house was where Jing Zhu hid that day.

Jing Zhu hid in the dark, and it was unknown whether anyone saw him.

He stood at the door of the empty house and raised his voice slightly: "This should be the place."

[This house is not small, but it is empty for two people to live in. This person is very generous.]

The sick young man in white slightly curled his lips.

The place I specifically looked for was separated from the Lin Mansion by a narrow alley. It was secluded from the city yet convenient for observing what was going on.

He did not respond to Lin Nanjie's words, but looked around the house and said, "Thank you very much, sir. I am unfamiliar with the capital, and I will need your help in the future."

The attendant beside him asked again: "Hey, is there any reliable doctor you can recommend to us?"

The sick young man in white also looked at Lin Nanjie with a questioning look in his eyes.

Lin Nanjie then realized that the master and servant were very rude. Although the master was pretending, at least he looked decent, but the servant was even tougher than the master.

However, since the other person was a patient, Lin Nanjie did not care and said in a good-tempered manner: "No problem, I'll let the housekeeper explain it to you in detail later."

After exchanging a few more pleasantries, Lin Nanqi didn't want to stay any longer and went back home.

Lin Nanjie returned the same way he came. Thinking about the two of them, he suddenly felt puzzled:

[Strange, that person just said he was unfamiliar with the place? But when he spoke, it was clear that he spoke with a genuine Beijing accent?]

[This person is really rude, leading the way and taking care of me. He seems to be polite, but in fact he is very good at calling people to do things. He is definitely a beggar. How boring.]

The young man's voice was clear and particularly pleasant, and his words were unusually straightforward.

Li Chengsi's body froze, his face flushed with anger, he was exposed in public and couldn't help but feel angry.

His Beijing accent is so obvious?

Was he that rude just now?

This was simply the most polite moment for the former crown prince!

Also, what is the "hand-out party"?

It sounds like you're scolding him!

Birds of a feather flock together. It turns out that all of Li Chengqian's people are such two-faced people!

Li Chengsi was so angry that his whole body was shaking.

The attendant beside him said: "This Master Lin doesn't seem to have any ulterior motives. He answers whatever you ask. It shouldn't be that difficult to take action against him."

Li Chengsi looked at the attendant as if he were a fool: "Didn't you hear what he just said?"

The attendant was stunned and said cautiously, "My Lord, Lin Nanjie just said that he could recommend a doctor for us."

Li Chengsi was also stunned: "Didn't you hear him say that I have a Beijing accent? Didn't you hear him say that I am a member of the "Sending Hands" Party?"

The attendant looked puzzled and said, "I have never heard of this. What is the "Sending Hand Party"?"

Li Chengsi frowned, and his aura suddenly became gloomy: "You really didn't hear anything?"

The attendant's face turned slightly pale: "I really didn't hear it."

In broad daylight, Li Chengsi watched Lin Nanjie's brisk figure disappear around the corner and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

I walked on the road too much at night, and I really saw a ghost?