The queen kept thinking about these words until Zhao Ji left. She didn't know why Zhao Ji had to say these words, but she couldn't control herself from thinking about everything Zhao Ji said.

This is like planting a bomb in Queen Lingyan's heart. On the surface, nothing seems to be wrong, but once the moment of powering on is reached, who can guarantee that the bomb will not explode?

While walking in the palace, Zhao Ji wondered where this army came from and who was behind it.

"If it's not the Prime Minister, then who else could it be?"

"No, even if the Queen doesn't know, we can't rule out the possibility of the Prime Minister. You know, he might have done it without telling the Queen!"

Zhao Ji was walking and thinking, and almost bumped into a palace maid when he turned a corner.

When he was about to collide with her, Zhao Ji subconsciously helped the panicked palace maid.

[There is so much blood in the Third Prince's palace. It's so scary...]

Zhao Ji didn't expect that he could hear information about the third prince from this little palace maid he bumped into casually.

Blood?

What did the third prince do that his blood would be seen by such an ordinary palace maid?

Could it be that the third prince was injured?

Doubts flashed through Zhao Ji's mind. After the little palace maid disappeared, Zhao Ji immediately went to the third prince's palace.

However, what was strange was that the Third Prince's palace was full of secret guards, and it seemed that there was no chance to get in at all.

Even though Zhao Ji is now practicing innate skills, there are at least more than twenty secret sentries in the Third Prince's palace.

The more this happened, the more Zhao Ji felt that there was something fishy going on.

Since acting in secret didn't work, Zhao Ji planned to use some fair means.

"Open the door for me. I want to go in and ask the Third Prince something."

Zhao Ji showed the shining badge on his waist and rushed straight into the third prince's palace.

At least seven or eight people came out from the darkness at once. They seemed to be wearing palace clothes, but they were actually strangers.

If Zhao Ji had time, he would definitely investigate carefully, but now Zhao Ji just wanted to rush into the hall to see what was going on.

We have already alerted the snake. If we were slower, the snake would have slipped away and all our efforts would have been in vain.

Those unfamiliar faces pretended to be the guards inside the prince's palace and had to act out the whole thing.

The guards knew that Zhao Ji had a shining golden token hanging around his waist, and Zhao Ji almost threw it in their faces. If they pretended not to see it, it would be too obvious.

It would be even worse if Zhao Ji used this mistake to make trouble for me!

In desperation, these fake guards made way, but their movements were slow.

Zhao Ji refused to tolerate this and rushed in directly, breaking into the prince's inner chamber.

Unfortunately, it was still a step too late. In the bedroom, only the third prince and the strong smell of incense were left.

When the Third Prince saw that it was Zhao Ji again, he was furious and shouted, "Master Zhao, this is against the rules, isn't it?"

Zhao Ji fiddled with the special gold medal on his waist and said, "I am investigating the case under the order of the Emperor. It is you, the prince, who is breaking the rules, right?"

"I seem to smell blood in this room. Is the Third Prince injured? If so, call the imperial physician over quickly!"

The Third Prince's face suddenly darkened: "I am not injured. There is no blood in this room. I am afraid that Master Seal has made a mistake!"

Since the person had already escaped, Zhao Ji was too lazy to pursue the matter. He couldn't get anything out of the Third Prince by talking to him.

However, Zhao Ji discovered that the Third Prince was not as stupid as the outside world rumored. How could a truly stupid person send an injured person out under the layers of protection in the palace?

Moreover, Zhao Ji had a vague feeling that the Prime Minister might not even know about the Third Prince's matter.

"Interesting, interesting. I wonder if the Prime Minister would be sad if he knew that you seemed to be hiding something from the Third Prince?"

Zhao Ji said this with a smile, then turned and left the Third Prince's palace.

Originally, what Zhao Ji said when he separated from the Queen was just to disgust her. After all, the Third Prince was not the Queen's biological son, and which woman would not want her own son to sit on the throne?

What's more, the queen has known the taste of power. How could she be willing if she were constrained by the new emperor and the new queen in the future?

However, I didn’t expect that the third prince was also a two-faced person. It was an unexpected surprise.

"I am too shallow. Among the princes who can survive in the palace, how many are truly stupid?"

Zhao Ji thought secretly in his heart.

It seems that there are no new clues in the harem for the time being. The Third Prince was able to clean up all the traces to this extent in a short period of time, so the person who slipped out of his palace must have already hidden himself by now.

Zhao Ji did not pursue the matter. He just thought that this was a deliberate act of alarming the snake, causing it to hide in fear for a few days, so as to avoid causing trouble for Zhao Ji during this period of time.

The environment in the prison of the imperial city was relatively clean, or perhaps those people cleaned it deliberately because they knew Zhao Ji was coming.

In short, when Zhao Ji saw the two corrupt officials, they were still relatively clean.

"You two should tell me the truth. If you tell the truth, I will give you a quick death. If you don't tell the truth, I have a way to make you live another ten or eight years, but you won't live like you do now."

Zhao Ji said this with a smile. The two corrupt officials knew Zhao Ji's methods. They couldn't help but recall how they were thrown into the plague pit.

At that time, they were already terminally ill, but Zhao Ji refused to give them even a drop of water or a bite of food.

Just when the two thought they were going to starve to death, Zhao Ji fed them rotten soup that not even dogs would eat.

At that time, there was no such thing as human dignity and integrity. Faced with life and death, they could eat even the most disgusting things.

Enduring the double torture of illness and hunger, the two corrupt officials eventually lost their will to resist. There was even a time when Zhao Ji asked them to work in the fields, they all rushed to go.

The purpose was just to escape from Zhao Ji for a short time.

Speaking of which, they also knew that the methods Zhao Ji mentioned must be more terrifying than the previous epidemic.

But at this time they still had a glimmer of hope, thinking that in this palace, if the adults behind them could protect them, maybe they could still survive?

Zhao Ji also knew what the two were thinking. He slowly finished drinking the tea brought by his subordinates and said, "I may be able to let you live for a while longer, but the adults behind you just want you to die now."

"As a discarded pawn, what room for bargaining is there for me?"