In the latter half of the night, fog descended upon Tongyou City, burying the streets and alleys in the darkness and fog before dawn, making it impossible to see one's hand in front of one's face.
Two lithe figures, as agile as cheetahs, slipped out of the study of Wang Qiang, the prefect of Tongyou. One of them carried a thick stack of papers and posted them on walls and pillars along the main streets with the highest foot traffic in Tongyou City.
The content on the paper was quite simple, just a few sentences:
I am innocent! I presented a beautiful concubine to the emperor, but the emperor was assassinated. In his panic, he revealed his ugly side and imprisoned me in anger, confiscating my property!
Signed: Wang Qiang.
“Brother Hei, didn’t you say Wang Qiang’s crime didn’t warrant death? If this notice is posted, the emperor will surely chop off his head tomorrow.” Ji Fengming’s low, cheerful voice came from the darkness.
"This is clearly a frame-up. If he really had Wang Qiang's head, then that would be a pretext for people to criticize him," Black Owl sneered.
"Tsk tsk, killing someone by destroying their spirit! When they wake up, the Emperor and Wang Qiang will be furious! You're ruthless, cunning and wicked. I fucking love being with you." Ji Fengming sneered gloatingly, and put up the small advertisements under his hands even more frequently.
Black Owl paused for a moment, as if he had experienced something similar before.
It was as if he had experienced something similar at some point in the past.
Black Owl couldn't help but wonder: Why do I always experience this strange feeling after practicing the internal energy cultivation method given to me by Xiao Yao'er?
Could it be that his mind was not at peace, which caused him to show signs of going astray?
"Brother Hei, I'm done pasting them up." Ji Fengming came back to find Hei Xiao and saw that he was still holding the last one in his hand. He said, "What are you doing? Keep one as a souvenir? I'll help you paste it up."
"Don't stick this here," Black Owl said, dodging the paper and putting it into his pocket.
"Where should we stick it?" Ji Fengming asked, puzzled.
"Weren't we going to the Summer Palace to see Xiao Yao'er? This will be posted by the Emperor's bedside." Black Owl flicked his long sleeves and walked away with a dashing and elegant gait.
"puff!"
Ji Fengming almost choked on his bold and exciting idea, and then excitedly peeled off a small advertisement on the wall as well.
The next morning, Shang Xiche woke up groggily and heard a faint rustling sound of paper.
When I opened my eyes, I saw a piece of paper with neat handwriting pasted on the bed curtains.
Upon reading the contents of the paper, Shang Xiche suddenly sat up in bed, grabbed the paper, crumpled it in his palm, and roared angrily, "Guards! Drag that audacious bastard Wang Qiang out immediately and behead him!"
The eunuch De, who was dozing off by the door, was startled awake by the emperor's roar. He opened his eyes and saw guards lying haphazardly on the ground by the door, with a small poster pasted in the middle of the lintel. He was so frightened that he scrambled to his feet and belatedly shouted at the top of his lungs, "Help! There are assassins! Protect the emperor! Protect the emperor!"
Inside the bedchamber, Shang Xiche's face was grim: A bunch of useless things. If you were here to protect me, I would have died eight hundred times over!
Gao Chengwei arrived and dealt with the group of guards who had neglected their duties.
It was already daylight.
Wang Qiang, with his eyes swollen from sleep, holding a small poster in his hand, cried his eyes out and ran over to Shang Xiche in a panic, begging for forgiveness: "Your Majesty, I guarantee with the heads of my entire family that I did not do this! Even if I had a hundred lives, I would not dare to post this all over the streets!"
"You mean, these kinds of things are plastered all over Tongyou City?!" Shang Xiche suddenly stood up, feeling a throbbing pain in his head!
So now everyone in Tongyou City knows that he imprisoned Wang Qiang because his disgraceful assassination attempt was witnessed by the beauty Wang Qiang presented to him, and that's why he was so petty!
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