There was a solemn atmosphere in the lobby of the Black Yamen Center. Several civilian staff were constantly summarizing the reported information, while the chief arrest officer was on standby and would immediately set off for inspection as soon as there was news.

Dongfang Liren sat in front of the hall, directing and arranging the personnel. She was assassinated last night. She thought the empress would call her into the palace to scold her, and she had been waiting for the imperial edict from the palace.

But what I didn't expect was that the messenger from the palace didn't come. Instead, a maid from the palace trotted to the lobby and whispered in her ear:

"Your Highness, the Holy One is here..."

"Um?!"

There was a man hiding on Dongfang Liren's bed. Hearing this, his face turned pale and he asked nervously:

"Your Majesty is in Mingyu Tower?"

"No, I'm waiting for His Highness in the garden so you can hurry over."

Dongfang Liren secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He quickly stood up and tidied his robes. After walking out of the black office lobby, he whispered again:

"Hurry up to the Night Terror Hall and leave through the back door. Don't be caught by your Majesty."

"My maid understands."

After the arrangements were made, Dongfang Liren suppressed the chaotic emotions in his heart and led the maid slowly through Mingyu Tower and arrived at the palace garden where hundreds of flowers were blooming.

The palace garden is very large. There is a lake on the side of Mingyu Tower, which is home to thousands of colorful koi.

In the verandah by the lake, the Empress of Wei in a red dress leaned against a beauty, holding a porcelain cup and feeding the fish. Several maids from the palace stood respectfully not far away, bowing their heads and waiting for orders.

Dongfang Liren asked the maids to retreat and came forward alone:

"Sister, why are you here?"

The empress looked at the koi in the pond and spoke in a rather affectionate tone:

"You were assassinated by a traitor yesterday, so I naturally want to come over to visit you. Sit down."

Dongfang Liren hesitated for a moment and sat next to him. The silver fat-headed dragon python suit he was wearing, put together with the empress's red skirt, gave him a feeling of two worlds of ice and fire.

"Sister, did you just go to Mingyu Tower to find me?"

"I saw you were busy with official business in Heiya, so I didn't go up."

"oh……"

Dongfang Liren was relieved: "I did nothing wrong last night, but the assassin has not been found yet. I will do my best to patrol and capture the thief..."

The empress turned her head and looked at her good sister beside her:

"Who was protecting you last night? Being able to guard against Blood Bodhi is quite a feat."

Dongfang Liren did not dare to blatantly deceive the empress, so he thought for a while and said:

"He is a new helper from Hei Yamen. His name is Ye Jingtang. He is a descendant of a Tianshuiqiao merchant family. He has good martial arts skills. I am going to take him into Hei Yamen and let him hold an important position..."

"With such a high level of vigilance, loyalty and fearlessness, it is natural to entrust him with a heavy responsibility. The thief has not been caught yet. If he sneaks into the palace and causes trouble, it will be difficult to explain to the court officials. Let the night terror hall patrol with the masters of the black government recently. In the Imperial City, the Queen Mother is timid and was frightened yesterday, so she patrolled around Fushou Palace more so that the Queen Mother could sleep more peacefully."

Um?

Dongfang Liren was confused - it was nothing to inspect the palace, but asking Ye Jingtang to inspect the Queen Mother's palace would not lead a wolf into the house... No, would it lead a sheep into a tiger's mouth?

The impatient Queen Mother found out that she could still sleep?

It was hard to say this clearly, Dongfang Liren just said euphemistically:

"Ye Jing Tang protected me last night and was injured..."

The empress had just seen the lively Night Terror Hall, and asked with concern:

"The injury is serious? Do you want to send an imperial doctor to take a look?"

Dongfang Liren was not easy to answer, so he hesitated:

"It's not too heavy. I should be able to do the inspection. I will arrange it later. Hmm... Blood Bodhi is really powerful. He sent people to the imperial city. I don't know what to do if I live in the palace, so I will go to the palace to accompany you in the next two days. Stay with me, sister, so that the people below won’t be distracted.”

The empress saw that her sister wanted to run to the palace and continue to be sweet with her lover. She asked Ye Jingtang to inspect the palace, which just fulfilled Ye Jingtang's desire to see the thousand-year-old tree, and she didn't say anything about it:

"That's good. There are a lot of things going on in the court recently. With your help, I can have some leisure time. Speaking of which, you are not young anymore. I asked you to choose a husband. I have been looking for something recently."

Dongfang Liren sat up a little straighter: "Sister, why are you mentioning this again? You don't have anyone to sleep with. As a sister, I have good candidates, so I should give them to my sister first. How can I get ahead of you?"

?

Li Ren, are you really embarrassed to say this?

The empress took a deep look at her sister. She couldn't say anything in her heart. She didn't say anything about it. She just cast her eyes on the lake:

"Ha~ I'm just afraid that you'll be anxious and do something stupid."

"Sister, you are worrying too much. Why should I be anxious... anxious..."

Dongfang Liren looked along the fish food thrown by the empress, and saw a... one... on the bottom of the clear lake.

! !

Dongfang Liren's cold and proud face stiffened, and his eyes showed shock and confusion!

The empress sighed softly: "The objects used in the boudoir are thrown around and can be seen in the garden. I really don't dare to think about how many are hidden in the house."

Dongfang Liren's scalp was numb, and he recalled briefly - the Queen Mother said yesterday that Hong Yu should throw away this dirty thing...

Dare you throw this dead girl Hongyu at my doorstep? !

I'm afraid there's water in your head...

Dongfang Liren saw that his sister had misunderstood and quickly explained:

"No, no, sister, please listen to my explanation. This thing was thrown away by the Queen Mother..."

The empress saw with her own eyes the corpses and traces of the Night Terror Hall, and when she saw that her sister was blaming the Queen Mother for the incident, she felt even more speechless:

"Alas~ You are already old. It is normal to yearn for the pleasure of a man and a woman. If you have a man you like, tell me. No matter what, it will warm your heart more than a stone..."

Seeing that his sister didn't believe it, Dongfang Liren couldn't tell her the pain, so he could only explain the origin of this thing carefully, and then ordered in a cold voice:

"Come here, pick up this thing and throw it away. Then take Wang Chihu out and give him twenty sticks. If he dares to come up with bad ideas in the future..."

The empress originally thought that her sister and Ye Jingtang had developed to the point where they were using props to entertain themselves between the sheets.

But when she saw Li Ren's innocent reaction that turned into anger, she felt that it didn't look like it, so the empress shook her head and said:

"Well, Wang Chihu's original intention was to eliminate harm for the people. I was just joking with you. Are you sure you didn't fall in love with him?"

Dongfang Liren didn't want to discuss this topic with his sister at all, so he interrupted:

"No, let's not talk about it. Well...my sister likes poetry the most. What good works have you got recently? Tell me about it, and I will help my sister comment on it."

The empress leaned against the fence, gently stroking her forehead with her hand, and you could see the helplessness between her brows:

"Have~ wait until autumn comes on September 8th, and after my flowers bloom, hundreds of flowers will bloom. The incense array will penetrate the clouds, and the city will be filled with golden armor. What do you think?"

Dongfang Liren is proficient in poetry and poetry. As soon as he heard this poem, his brows became more solemn:

"This poem is quite murderous, and seems to indicate dissatisfaction with the court... Who wrote it? I will capture it and examine it."

"No need."

The empress threw some fish food into the lake:

"The superiors must be tolerant. They are not allowed to write about this or talk about anything. Catching wind and shadows to create a prison of words shows a guilty conscience. I never care about the writings of literati."

"Goodbye, sister..."

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