MTL - Restart the Protagonist’s Way of Survival-Chapter 28 lost horse

The spies placed by Bai Qingyang in the imperial court had received news. Holding the secret letter, she felt a sense of uneasiness in her heart.

When he left on his front foot, he found poisoned wine on his back foot. No matter how you think about it, Li Fu will also suspect him, because he is the closest to her and has the best chance to attack her.

In the past two days, a group of people from the Ministry of Criminal Affairs have been investigating the case at Qujiang Pavilion, and they are very strict. In addition, the empress has repeatedly warned against nonsense. When the spies sent the news, it was already the third day when the incident happened. She only learned about it in the evening , Qujiang's banquet was actually poisoned the day before yesterday.

Because of this accident, maybe that person has already found out that he is not in the palace...

Xie Zhi learned the news later than Bai Qingyang, and it took her a lot of effort to get rid of the people from the Prince's Mansion.

The murderer who poisoned Qujiang Banquet was still not found out.

It's not to blame for the incompetence of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, it's because the murderer's actions are too watertight, and their low-level department can't find the head of the queen, prime minister and prince, whichever side they offend is enough.

Xie Zhi is also a colleague, it's rare that the Empress and Prince Yu both guaranteed her innocence, so naturally they couldn't find out about her.

This is good, several suspects have been kicked out, the Ministry of Punishment's eyes were smeared, and there was no way to start, and they searched the scene of Qujiangting for two days in a daze, but they didn't find any results.

Li Zichou didn't expect the Ministry of Criminal Justice to find the murderer. That person dared to poison Dasheng's officials on this occasion, which showed that he was fully prepared and would not let people find out the person who poisoned him easily.

Taking a step back, even if the person who poisoned is found out, it cannot be determined that there is no other mastermind behind this person.

It is difficult to find out the real culprit behind the scenes by the Ministry of Criminal Justice alone, so Li Zifu sent another person to investigate.

As for the officials of the Ministry of Criminal Justice who were so busy, Li Zichou called them all back because tomorrow was the number one scholar's visit to the lake.

On the other hand, after Xie Zhi heard the news, she hurried home and found that the hidden guards of the Prince's Mansion around the house had withdrawn, and Bai Qingyang had also returned to the palace ahead of schedule.

It seems that Bai Qingyang also knew about this matter. The empress disappeared for two days and the empress was almost killed. I don't know what Li Chou would think.

Xie Zhi contacted his people in the palace and told him to protect the queen.

Bai Qingyang could not die.

Besides, Xie Zhi didn't know what to do. She thought it would be much smoother to do it all over again, but she didn't expect something like this to happen in the middle.

Obviously there was nothing before going back!

Bai Qingyang was also frightened, he was still thinking wildly when he entered the palace gate.

Now Li Chou has a brand new core, her personality is completely different from that of the tyrant Li Chou, her every move, every word and deed deeply attracts Bai Qingyang.

Bai Qingyang really only regarded her as a helper on his way to counterattack, and the current relationship can only be regarded as a good relationship between acquaintances.

But after all, Li Chou's identity is there: she is the empress, who deceives the monarch, and her crime is punishable.

In fact, these days, Li Fu has never done anything excessive, except when he was just reborn, he was pulled by his collar by her...

Bai Qingyang's thoughts suddenly brightened. Could it be that Li Fu's core has changed since then?

"See Your Majesty."

The sedan chair stopped suddenly, followed by the voice of the palace servants greeting the emperor.

Bai Qingyang was nervous, he got up and lifted the veil of the sedan chair, and saw Li Zichou standing alone in the middle of the palace road.

"The concubine sees Your Majesty." Bai Qingyang bowed and saluted.

"Oh, the queen is back?" Li Zichou replied casually, not noticing what he had missed.

She went out to play with Yang Dejin today, and ran a little far. Seeing that it was getting dark, she hurriedly sneaked in from the back wall of the palace, and accidentally bumped into Bai Qingyang who was returning to the palace.

Bai Qingyang thought to himself, sure enough, this person must be very angry. When she was talking to him, her tone was not as gentle as usual.

I'm afraid I'm going to be questioned.

In fact, Li Zichou was just too tired. She had just rushed back from outside the palace and had just taken a few breaths. She was so exhausted that she didn't have the energy to speak.

Bai Qingyang was about to plead guilty to her, but he heard the empress in front of her say: "It's getting late, empress, please go back to the bedroom and have a good rest. Tomorrow I have to go to the lake with all the officials." After speaking, he turned around and walked away quickly.

Li Zichou wanted to hurry up her Tianshu Palace, she didn't want to be asked by Bai Qingyang why she appeared near Yuheng Palace. It can't be said that there is an exit near your palace. I just came back after running out for a day, right? ?

Bai Qingyang just stood there in front of the sedan chair in a daze. Before she could ask any questions, she saw Li Zifu's figure disappearing into a corner.

Bai Qingyang's degree of doubt was comparable to that of Xie Zhi at the Qujiang banquet.

That's it, is it over?

She didn't punish her, and she wasn't even held accountable?

Until he returned to his bedroom, Bai Qingyang was still in a daze, Xiao Le saw that something was wrong.

My young lady bid farewell to his wife suddenly in the evening, and left without waiting for Mr. Xie to return home. After seeing the empress just now, she looked like this lost soul again. Don't be caught by something evil, right? !

Something is wrong with the master, Xiao Le is very worried.

On Yang Dejin's side, after sending Li Zifu back to the palace, he was not in a hurry to return to the Prince's Mansion, but instead went to Xie Zhi's house.

The number one scholar will swim in the lake soon, she must drive Bai Qingyang back to the palace.

"Huh? Bai Qingyang has already gone back?" Yang Dejin was sitting in the reception hall, almost losing his grip on the teacup in his hand.

Yang Dejin murmured in her heart: Why didn't the hidden guard tell me a word, and made my trip for nothing.

Yang Dejin was not in the Prince's Mansion all day, and the part of the hidden guards responsible for protecting Bai Qingyang could not find anyone, so naturally he did not have time to send a message.

Xie Zhi looked at Prince Yu who was sitting still in front of him, feeling panicked and puzzled. Li Chou had already found out that the Queen had sneaked out of the palace, so why did this person sit here so calmly and drink a cup of tea? Tea?

Was he really so sure he could clear himself up?

"Your Majesty probably already knew about the empress leaving the palace without authorization." Xie Zhi said in a deep voice.

Yang Dejin was taken aback: Huh? Did Li Zishou know? Why didn't I know that Li Zichou knew?

Didn't you just pretend to be ignorant?

Could it be that Li Zichou is showing his secrets?

Yang Dejin said it was a small problem, she cleared her throat: "Oh, you don't have to worry about this, the emperor won't do anything to Bai Qingyang."

Xie Zhi was even more puzzled. Is all this still in Yang Dejin's plan?

Xie Zhi simply asked directly: "How far has His Highness planned?"

Yang Dejin: Calculate...

Yang Dejin also felt that he was too good at acting, which made Xie Zhi have a weak sense of trust in him and a strong sense of crisis.

How to appease this person?

She remained silent for a while, blew the Gaiwan tea to cool down, and simply raised her head and drank it all in one gulp.

Xie Zhi's attention was attracted by her large movements, and then settled on her rolling throat.

Adam's apple is not visible.

Her pupils shrank slightly, thinking about the last time this person hurt his hand, Xie Zhi seemed to understand why she felt something was wrong.

Prince Yu, he...no...when did she...?

Wait, could it be said that Prince Yu, like himself, was a woman from beginning to end? !

The figure that looked like Yang Dejin I saw on the street earlier...

After all, Xie Zhi has more experience in disguise as a man than Yang Dejin. She deliberately portrayed herself as a withdrawn, indifferent, unhuman lone star, and blocked many people's courtship and clinging.

She is reticent in the officialdom, and she has never exposed it except that people who don't like her laugh at her behind her back for being a man or a woman, like a eunuch.

She looked at Yang Dejin who was pouring tea for herself, her eyes became complicated.

For some reason, I suddenly remembered the Prince Yu from backtracking.

She seldom got in touch with the Prince Yu before she went back, that Yang Dejin who was always clouded and depressed.

She is a descendant of Emperor Lie who was brought back from the people by the first emperor.

Xie Zhi had seen Yang Dejin when she first entered the palace. Due to malnutrition, she was as thin as a monkey with dark and rough skin. No one would have thought about whether she was a man or a woman.

The first emperor said that she was the youngest son of Emperor Lie and Concubine De, and the thirteenth brother, so the courtiers and common people believed that she was the half brother of the first emperor.

Although Yang Dejin was nearly two rounds behind the first emperor.

If Yang Dejin's gender didn't change because of strange things, but just like himself, she was a woman disguised as a man from the beginning, then Xie Zhi understood the feelings of the former Yang Dejin.

For an unknown reason, as a woman, she had to stand in the hall as a man, always worrying whether her identity would be exposed.

Just like myself who was just recommended to the Ministry of Criminal Justice back then, working with a group of men, I was in fear all day long.

That Yang Dejin was a victim of fate.

When the royal family didn't need her, she was abandoned among the people and grew up in the countryside.

When the royal family needed her, they brought her into the palace and gave her royal education.

I thought I would finally not have to suffer from hunger and cold, but instead I stepped into another abyss from one swamp.

She returned to the clan, but was not allowed to return to the Li surname.

Xie Zhi didn't know why the late emperor wanted her back from the people, but he only knew that for that frail girl, that was not the end of suffering, but the beginning of suffering.

As soon as you enter the palace gate, it is as deep as the sea.

Back then, Xie Zhi never understood why Prince Yu was provoked by Bai Qingyang so easily. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that this was a scheming to use her to destroy the balance between the monarch and his ministers.

At the beginning, Xie Zhi attributed it to the fact that Prince Yu was ambitious but vulgar and dull.

Looking at it now, the reason for her rebellion is not only full of ambition, but also a trace of envy?

Envious of Li Fu being able to dominate the world as a woman.

Even though he knew it was a trap, he still jumped into it with his ridiculous fantasy.

It's a pity that Yang Dejin's talent was mediocre, and eventually became Bai Qingyang's pawn, besieged in Qinzhou, and shot to death by random arrows.

Of course, these were all Xie Zhi's conjectures. In that case, it's not surprising that Yang Dejin would become a gloomy and silent person.

If Yang Dejin's gender is fluid and changes due to external factors...

"Master Xie? Xie Zhi?"

Xie Zhi wandered away for a while, Yang Dejin said something, she went in her left ear and out of her right ear.

After all, this is a big secret.

Xie Zhi stared at Yang Dejin in a daze, he had already known the biggest secret of the person in front of him...

Xie Zhi wondered if she could turn her into an army...

For a while, it was the gloomy and perverted Prince Yu in his mind, and for a while, it was the cheerful and confident Yang Dejin in front of him.

They are the same person, but it seems that they are not the same person...

"Hey! Are you listening carefully to what I have to say?"

Seeing her staring at him unblinkingly, Yang Dejin thought she was thinking seriously, but turned out to be distracted!

Xie Zhi came back to her senses very quickly, she nodded as if nothing had happened, and followed Yang Dejin's advice just now: "Your Majesty understands, my lord can rest assured."

Yang Dejin stared at her suspiciously: I was afraid that you would be worried...

"In short, Mr. Xie, you just have to believe in me, and I will definitely do what I promised." Yang Dejin looked away and said, is her sincerity enough?

Xie Zhi blinked, looked at her secretly, and replied respectfully: "Yes."

Yang Dejin didn't have anything to say, she would be there for tomorrow's lake tour, so she cared about it casually, asked Xie Zhi to stay, and then went back to her home.

Xie Zhi watched her walk out from the hall, then turned back to rest in his room.

She lay on the bed, closed her eyes and thought about it for a long time, and her thoughts were very complicated.

The fact that Dasheng's prince is a woman involves a lot of past events, and the stakes are complicated. If it is exposed rashly, it may cause chaos.

Xie Zhi thought of the daughter of the teacher's family, and Bai Qingyang, who is now the mother of a country, and weighed it in his heart for a long time.

Let's keep it a secret.

The author has something to say:

Yang Dejin: Anyway, sexual orientation can be fluid, but gender is absolutely not fluid!

Li Zichou: Young man, you are awake, the operation was successful, and you are now a lovely girl.

Yang Dejin:? I've always been cute!

Xie Zhi: ...What is your focus here?

Yang Dejin's background is very important (knocking on the blackboard), and he will take an exam in the future.