Chapter 89: Night Exploration



It was obvious that Concubine De was not interested in this. Even after receiving the reward from the Queen, she still had a perfunctory attitude.

This made the eunuch sent by the Queen feel resentful, thinking that Concubine De was now in favor and even the Queen was not in her eyes.

Back at the Queen's palace, the eunuch was very annoyed.

But the queen didn't care much, she just clenched her slender jade fingers and said: "No matter how frivolous she is, I am the queen, I am the legitimate queen of the dynasty."

Zhao Ji didn't know about the twists and turns of the women in the harem, and he was not idle tonight.

Taking advantage of the fact that the envoys were in the palace, Zhao Ji visited the palace at night.

Originally, Zhao Ji had already climbed over to the palace where Gutali and the others were, and had even hidden on the roof.

As a result, when Zhao Ji was concentrating on monitoring, he was suddenly patted on the back.

This scared Zhao Ji, and he turned around and used a killing move, but the person behind him actually blocked Zhao Ji's move.

The two of them exchanged a few moves on the roof, but they both had a tacit understanding and did not alarm Gutali and the others under the beams.

After Zhao Ji hit him twice, he realized that this man's moves were somewhat familiar. When he looked closely, he found that it was Yueying.

So Zhao Ji quickly withdrew his attack: "So it's you, I didn't expect that Lord Yue would come to this palace and do such a sneaky thing!"

Yueying glared at Zhao Ji in anger and said, "I just feel like there's something wrong with these people. When you went to change your clothes today, they were wandering around the palace!"

"The more I think about it, the more I feel something is wrong, so I came here to see what's going on and see if I can find out any information!"

When Zhao Ji heard Yueying say this, he smiled faintly and deliberately leaned close to Yueying's ear and said, "It seems that Lord Yue and I are really in tune with each other. We can be said to think alike!"

Yueying's face turned red when Zhao Ji teased her like that.

"Get down to business!"

Yueying glanced at Zhao Ji coquettishly.

At this time, Gutali and his group did not rest, but gathered together instead.

It seems like they are having a meeting.

However, they probably took into consideration that this was the imperial palace, so they didn't speak too loudly.

He even lowered his voice deliberately, as if he was on guard against someone.

The more they did this, the more Yueying and Zhao Ji realized that there was something wrong.

"Damn it, their voices are too soft, I can't hear them clearly!" Yueying had already focused all her attention on hearing, but still couldn't hear clearly.

However, Zhao Ji looked at Yueying strangely, because Zhao Ji found that he could hear clearly.

"It seems that the magic of this innate skill is still to be discovered. If it weren't for the moon shadow for comparison, I wouldn't have noticed that my hearing has become much more sensitive!"

Zhao Ji thought to himself.

I only heard that the envoys below were discussing about what happened today.

"Today, the third brother went to the east, which is closer to the emperor's bedroom. Unfortunately, he was discovered by the palace servants not long after he walked away and was sent back!"

"The fifth one went to the west... the sixth one went to the south, and Gutali went to the north himself."

"Now use your memory to draw the route to this palace!"

The third prince said in a low voice.

The others nodded, and soon, these envoys began to draw on a piece of paper.

Although Yueying couldn't hear them talking, she could see what they were doing.

"What are they drawing on this map?" Yueying asked in confusion, frowning.

Zhao Ji smiled faintly: "It seems that although Master Yue's ears are not good, his eyes are still quite useful..."

Yueying was so angry that she didn't know what to do, mainly because she couldn't beat Zhao Ji again. If she really did beat him, it would be even worse if it alarmed the people below.

But Zhao Ji's words were too hurtful. Yueying had never been a woman good at talking, so in a fit of rage, she reached out and pinched Zhao Ji's waist.

Zhao Ji grimaced and endured the pain, leaning close to Yueying's ear and saying, "Master Yue was really harsh on your benefactor who cured your illness!"

After saying this, he moved two steps to the side.

Yueying was standing aside, feeling angry and helpless. She could only turn her grief and anger into motivation and continue to monitor the situation below.

After a while, these envoys drew a simple route map, but this route map looked very crude, and some people even believed it was just graffiti.

Gutali reached out and tore the paper into four pieces and gave each one to four people.

"Write some poems on it tomorrow, and then take this thing out!"

After arranging all this, the restless envoys finally fell asleep peacefully.

Zhao Ji and Yueying sat on the roof, carefully considering whether or not to search these people for their belongings tomorrow.

"I think we should still search them out. They obviously figured out the route to the palace by getting lost."

"That piece of paper is obviously a crude map they drew. Although they don't know the deployment of the guards in the palace, they want these route maps. There must be a conspiracy..."

Zhao Ji smiled faintly and said, "In fact, I think it's better to let them take him out. Now we can say that they are in the dark and we are in the light. Now we finally know a little bit of their trick. If we break this trick, we don't know what they will plan next..."

"Instead of alerting them, why don't we just wait and see what they are up to?"

After Zhao Ji said this, Yueying was silent for a moment, then said: "What you said does make sense, but how can you guarantee that every step they take is within your calculations?"

"If there is no way to guarantee the emperor's safety, I would rather prevent it before it happens!"

Zhao Ji did not argue with Yueying, but smiled faintly and said: "How about this, Lord Yue, you go and report this matter to the emperor tomorrow, and see what the emperor says!"

Yueying nodded stubbornly, turned around and left.

Early the next morning, Yueying went to tell the emperor about this matter.

Originally Yueying thought that the emperor would take this matter very seriously. After all, what the emperor feared most was that his throne would be in trouble.

But the emperor said, "I know about this. You don't have to make a fuss. This morning, Concubine De came to tell me that people like them who come from the grasslands are most likely to get lost, so sometimes in order to avoid forgetting the route, they will definitely draw a route map."

"And early this morning, Concubine De had someone bring up the route map they drew. I looked at it carefully and it's really at the level of a child!"

"I guess if they were to take the map out, no one would know it was a map of the palace. They would think it was a rough sketch of some deep mountain forest!"


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