It is slightly dark and oval in shape, as if it is directly attached to the skin, and is extremely conspicuous on the porcelain-like skin.
Jing Li himself didn't notice anything unusual about his neck. He just felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by the Regent. He was about to shrink back when he heard the man command, "Don't move."
Jing Li didn't dare to move for a moment.
Qin Zhao stretched out his hand toward him.
His fingers landed on the side of the other person's neck, and his fingertips felt a slight chill.
Jing Li's body trembled slightly.
But at this moment, someone suddenly knocked on the door: "Your Highness, there's a letter from the capital."
Qin Zhao withdrew his hand like lightning.
Jing Li also seemed to come to his senses. He quickly stood up, looking a little embarrassed.
The Regent had regained his usual composure and responded calmly, "Come in."
The visitor was the housekeeper.
The housekeeper didn't expect there would be someone else in the room. He frowned and looked at Jing Li, then asked, "What's your name? I don't think I've seen you before."
“I…I…”
Jing Li avoided his gaze and looked at Qin Zhao helplessly.
The butler has been in the Regent's Palace for many years and is directly responsible for all the servants in the palace.
This is the end...
"It's okay. He came to bring me some cakes." Qin Zhao said, "You go down first. I have something to discuss with the housekeeper."
Jing Li was overjoyed and quickly responded and slipped away.
The butler looked at the young man's back as he left and asked in confusion, "Your Highness, this man..."
"You haven't seen it?" Qin Zhao asked.
The housekeeper thought for a moment and said, "I saw the newcomers once yesterday, but I don't remember their faces. Perhaps I was careless, but..."
"But what?"
"If you have really seen a face like this, it would be hard to forget it." The butler told the truth.
Qin Zhao nodded: "You make sense."
If you have really seen such a handsome boy, how could you forget him?
However, even if the butler had not said so, Qin Zhao could be sure that the young man was indeed not a servant.
If they were really servants, how could he not even know that the new batch of servants arrived at the house the day before yesterday and that food should be tested for poison using the homemade silver needles that Qin Zhao placed on the table.
Qin Zhao just tried it out a little, and the little fool let the cat out of the bag.
The butler thought about it and was horrified: "Could it be an assassin?"
Qin Zhao didn't think there was such a stupid assassin.
"Send someone to investigate," Qin Zhao said. "This village is full of our people within a few miles. He can't escape."
The butler nodded in agreement. Qin Zhao lowered his head and his gaze fell on the plate of pastries beside him.
The boy's half-eaten pastry was still on the plate. Qin Zhao put the uneaten pastry in his hand back, a little absent-minded.
He couldn't remember the last person who shared a piece of cake with him.
"Who could you be..." Qin Zhao said slowly with a sigh.
.
The regent, who was known for his meticulous planning, miscalculated this time.
The butler and the strange young man had just left the study at the same time. When the butler ordered the servants to look for him, the young man was no longer to be found.
After a thorough investigation, they only discovered a set of household clothes missing from the servants' yard and that Old Yang, who had been preparing dim sum in the kitchen that day, had met the young man briefly. Beyond that, no one in the Regent's Palace, from the maids and servants to the palace guards and even the Prince's personal guards, knew where the young man had gone.
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