lcionline Chapter 467: Not Unjustly Died
Chapter 467: Not Unjustly Died
In the Yangxin Palace, Qi Deyuan was instructing the young eunuchs to clean the hall that had just been stained with blood. Even though incense was being burned, the smell of blood was still difficult to dissipate for a while.
"Sir, please be gentler next time. This blood and flesh stuck together is difficult to handle and could easily offend His Majesty."
Qi Deyuan looked at the hall that had been cleaned with great difficulty, pinched his nose and shook off the smell of blood in the air.
Ever since they had been beaten together, Qi Deyuan thought that he and the commander had developed a stronger friendship of sharing hardships, and he unconsciously complained to the commander.
An Yi was wiping the blood off his soft armor. When he heard Qi Deyuan's words, he didn't even glance at Qi Deyuan, only saying:
"Her Royal Highness the Princess will be here soon. If there's anything you shouldn't say, don't forget it, Eunuch Qi."
After saying that, An followed His Majesty's footsteps into the inner hall without looking back.
Qi Deyuan looked around the outer hall of the Yangxin Palace, shuddered when he thought of what had just happened, and quickly asked someone to add two more incense burners to fumigate together, trying to get rid of the bloody smell in the outer hall before Her Royal Highness the Princess arrived.
In the Yangxin Palace, Liang Zhan was burning the blueprints of the bed crossbow. An Yi walked in from outside and saw this scene. He stepped forward and took the blueprints that were almost burned from His Majesty's hand and continued to burn them.
"Has everything been taken care of?"
His Majesty's majestic voice came from the upper seat. After An Yi burned the last bit of the blueprint, he covered the incense burner and said to His Majesty:
"Everything has been dealt with, and all the traitors in the army have been eliminated."
Liang Zhan sat on the dragon throne with a stern face and eyes staring into the distance. His sharp gaze seemed to be able to penetrate the palace walls and see every inch of land in the vast mountains and rivers.
Outside the palace, after the snow stopped, the snow in the palace had been cleared away except for a few scenes that were deliberately preserved. The sunlight shone on the glazed tiles of the palace, reflecting dazzling light and shining in through the windows.
Liang Zhan sat quietly, as if the whole world was under his control.
A spy appeared in the army and stole Her Royal Highness the Princess's weapon manufacturing drawings. If Her Royal Highness the Princess had not discovered it in time, the extremely lethal weapon manufacturing drawings would have been on their way to the northern border.
An Yi sensed that His Majesty was angry, so he waited beside His Majesty, imitating Qi Deyuan's usual behavior, adjusting his breathing, reducing his presence to a minimum, and almost blending into the pillar beside him.
"Dark one."
"My subordinate is here."
Liang Zhan replayed before his eyes everything that had happened in the Yangxin Palace this morning. Half of the royal family members in the capital had died overnight. The action was so clean that not a single clue was left behind.
When An Yi took the coroner to check, the body had turned black and purple, with only two small holes on the neck left by a snake.
The list of those who did not have time to die that night had been delivered to him and was still in his hands.
"Who do you think did this?"
An Yi already had a guess in his mind that the only person in the whole of Da Xia who could do such a foolproof thing was Her Royal Highness the Princess.
"I am stupid, it must be Her Royal Highness the Princess."
Hearing An Yi's modesty, Liang Zhan finally smiled and gave him a sidelong glance:
"If you are stupid, wouldn't all the ministers I raise be pigs?"
The news of the death had already spread during the morning court session today, and those pigs were still talking nonsense. No wonder Chongyue always said that they were useless. Even if they passed the imperial examinations, they would probably just eat dry food in the court.
An Yi is the chief of the Sifangtai, a position that belongs only to the Emperor of Daxia. All the civil and military officials in the court were appointed by emperors of all dynasties. It is not appropriate for An Yi to respond at this time.
Seeing that An Yi became mute again, Liang Zhan lost interest in teasing him.
"She's about to go to war, and it's a good thing she still has the energy to solve these troubles in the capital. I heard that the unlearned fourth son of the Xiang family is looking for someone who can detoxify the poison. Doesn't Sifangtai have seven or eight people? Send six to him."
After Liang Zhan finished speaking, he casually threw the list in front of An Yi, opened the first memorial and began to read.
"Six isn't too many? When the late Emperor was alive, he issued an order to exterminate all Miao people. The eight people being kept at the Sifangtai were secretly rescued by Your Majesty. Even if we turn Daxia upside down, we might not be able to find someone who can detoxify them in such a short time."
Her Royal Highness the Princess is very smart, and she will definitely be suspicious of six people at once.
An Yi's hands still have the smell of blood left by those dead people. Her Royal Highness the Princess has done too many things in less than a month. Even if these people send the suspect list to Sifangtai, Sifangtai will have to investigate for more than a month.
Her Royal Highness the Princess was able to finalize the list so quickly, so she must have a group of capable and efficient people under her command.
If someone is sent there suddenly, even through the Xiang family, it is not impossible for His Highness to kill him directly if he becomes suspicious.
It is not easy to raise a capable person, but it is easy to kill him.
"When did you become so cautious? Chongyue's suspicion is even worse than mine. What's the difference between giving one and six?"
Liang Zhan had just read a long-winded memorial when his anger, which had just subsided, rose again and he threw the memorial directly at An Yi's face.
"Don't hang out with Qi Deyuan anymore. This guy is on the list. We'll go to his house and kill him later."
An Yi reached out and took the memorial that was thrown at his face. The memorial had already been scattered. An Yi glanced at it casually. At a glance, all he saw was a pile of words. The words looked nice, but there was nothing useful in it.
An Yi lit a candle for this man in his heart. His Majesty might be able to tolerate him on normal days, but today His Majesty was furious, and he was lucky to have come at a good time.
An Yi was about to close the memorial when he saw the name written at the end - Liu Shi, Junior Master of the Zhanshi Mansion.
This person was also in the team that knelt in front of the Yangxin Palace that day to force Her Royal Highness the Princess to marry, so his death was not unjust.
"I will do it immediately."
An Yi packed up his things and threw the list that His Majesty had just thrown at him into the incense burner and burned it clean. Just as he was leaving the Yangxin Palace, he ran into Her Royal Highness the Princess coming in.
"Your Highness, the Princess, is here to see you. The outer hall is being cleaned. Please enter the inner hall from the side."
Liang Chongyue glanced at the masked man who was bowing to him in front of him. The only person who could pass through his scumbag father's Yangxin Palace like this was his scumbag father's personal guard An Yi.
Moreover, the person just walked out directly from the outer hall. It seems that the things in the outer hall just cannot be seen by her.
"Thank you for the notification."
Liang Chongyue walked around An Yi and entered the inner hall from a side path. She had always had a sensitive nose and she smelled the pungent scent of ambergris just outside the Yangxin Palace.
The more An Yi asked her to take the shortcut, the more careful she became. There was a faint smell of blood in the strong ambergris.
If you don't smell it carefully, you really won't notice it. Fortunately, Liang Chongyue has a keen sense of smell.
Liang Chongyue reached out and patted the system's head. Needless to say, after sixteen years of getting along, the system already understood.