Su Xi knew that his brain was definitely not as quick as Zhao Ji's, but he understood one thing very well: it would be right to follow Zhao Ji.

So Su Xi nodded and said, "Now that Master Zhang lives near the emperor, he must want to know the news from the emperor. If the lord needs me to pass on any news, just let me know."

Zhao Ji liked smart people like Su Xi, so he nodded immediately.

"If there is any place where I can use you, I will definitely come here to trouble you shamelessly. In fact, we all have the same intention, but it's all for the emperor!"

The head of the Imperial Hospital also nodded and said, "In this case, I will gradually increase the dosage of the tonic medicine..."

The meeting basically ended with the three of them exchanging some information.

Even though Zhao Ji was the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Household Department, he was still not the only one with eyes and spies in this huge harem.

Therefore, these three people could not discuss these things openly in the harem.

All we can say is that like now, we use Zhao Ji's identity as the seal holder to know the defense and shift changes of the imperial palace, and hide in such a remote palace to discuss.

The director of the Imperial Medical Bureau left first, followed by Su Xi, and Zhao Ji was the last to leave.

Just after leaving this remote palace, Zhao Ji suddenly bumped into a soft body.

"I'm sorry, sir. I was rude to you!"

Before I could see the person clearly, the palace maid knelt on the ground and cried softly and innocently.

Zhao Ji looked at the maid with great interest, and admired the beauty's tears for a moment, then he slowly said, "It's okay, you can get up. Are you a maid working nearby?"

The maid wiped away the tears from her eyes, then raised her face and looked at Zhao Ji carefully: "To answer your question, sir, I am a maid in charge of bathing in the palace next door. I was in a hurry to collect this month's salary and left in a hurry. That's why I offended you! Please forgive me, sir!"

As the maid spoke, tears that were about to fall ran down her cheeks and fell from her chin to the ground.

Zhao Ji admired it for a while, then suddenly bent down, approached the maid and asked, "Did you hear anything just now?"

The maid's shoulders shrank, and then she suddenly said in a firmer tone: "I didn't hear anything, and I don't know what you were doing alone in the palace. I was just in a hurry to collect my monthly salary, so I bumped into you!"

Zhao Ji didn't say anything, but just watched the palace maid's head lowering continuously.

Suddenly, I smiled when the atmosphere was extremely depressing.

"So you didn't hear it. I thought you had been listening for a long time and were just about to slip away when I bumped into you!"

The palace maid trembled, suddenly knelt on the ground and began to kowtow. She did not stop until her forehead was bleeding.

"Please spare me, sir, please spare me. I didn't mean to hear this. I just happened to be sweeping up fallen leaves nearby. From now on, I am willing to poison myself and mute myself. I will never reveal a single word!"

Zhao Ji just looked at the palace maid indifferently as she kowtowed continuously.

The beauty who looked like Liu Fufeng just now now has disheveled hair.

However, there was no mercy in Zhao Ji's heart.

When the palace maid bumped into him just now, she didn't even see clearly whether the person she bumped into was a man or a woman, and the word that came out of her mouth was "Sir".

Obviously, this was either a premeditated encounter, or the palace maid already knew who would come out of the palace.

Zhao Ji clearly remembered why he chose to discuss such an important matter in such a remote palace.

This is because there would not be anyone on duty in the three or four palaces within a radius of this palace.

Then the palace maid who suddenly appeared to do the cleaning was very suspicious. After Zhao Ji said a few words, the palace maid did not respond to a single word.

If Zhao Ji hadn't gotten a little angry at the end and his tone hadn't become much colder, the palace maid probably wouldn't have told the truth.

To be honest, at that moment, Zhao Ji really wanted to kill this palace maid.

After all, only the dead can eliminate trouble forever.

But now, Zhao Ji suddenly figured out one thing.

It is absolutely impossible for this palace maid to appear in the situation that Zhao Ji has arranged by relying on her own strength.

Now there is only one way left.

This palace maid was arranged by someone with ulterior motives.

So there is someone who has such great energy in this palace.

Or it could be the queen's concubines. These concubines all have their own people trained in the harem and are good at gathering information.

Or it could be another situation, those princes who grew up in the harem.

These princes also have their own set of connections, so it should be relatively easy to place people in the harem.

However, no matter who she is, this palace maid certainly did not get in by her own ability.

"Get up, you know how important today's matter is, and you should also be very clear that if this matter is made public, it will cause an uproar. If you are not clear-headed and say these things, then I don't mind burying your head in the ground to let it sober up!"

When the palace maid heard this, she became even more frightened, or at least she acted even more frightened.

She knelt on the ground and sobbed non-stop: "I really barged in accidentally, so I really don't want to know all this. If you are really worried about me, I can also pretend to be sick and not serve for a few days! I only ask you to spare my life so that I can be released from the palace and reunite with my family when I am old enough!"

"I want to keep everything to myself and not say a word to anyone. Even if someone holds a knife to my neck and asks me about it in the future, I won't tell them! Please give me a chance, sir!"

The woman's words were sincere and heartfelt, but Zhao Ji had a heart of stone. In the face of such important matters, what did a woman's tears mean?

Moreover, only the dead can promise not to tell others. As long as people are alive, no one can judge whether she can keep her promise.

Zhao Ji naturally had hundreds of other ways, but he chose the most risky one.

Let the tiger return to the mountains.

"Since you've spoken so sincerely, I'll give you a chance today. But if there's any disturbance in the future, I'll assume it was you who spread it. By then, just expect your head and body to be buried in different places!"

At this point, Zhao Ji grinned, with a cruel expression on his face: "Also, you must remember that you are not just a little palace maid, you still have your nine clans behind you. As long as you don't care about these... then I believe your nine clans will take another path!"

Such a severe threat made the palace maid's body tremble even more violently. Then she fell to the ground and raised her bloody forehead.

"I can't!"