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Chapter 250 Retreating ([-])

Eunuch Zhao hurried back to the mansion and went to see Princess Qin first.

Qin Wangfei frowned: "What's the matter? It's all right, why did you seal the mansion?"

Eunuch Zhao replied in a respectful voice: "The reason is that I don't know about it. Your Highness only ordered the servant to come back and deliver a message, asking the concubine to seal the palace immediately and not allow anyone to leave the palace."

Princess Qin's heart suddenly sank, and a haze flashed in her eyes.

Although I don't know where.However, looking at this movement, one can guess that it is not a good thing.

King Qin has lost his holy family, and now he is not even as good as King Zhao.The Prince Qin's Mansion could no longer withstand any disturbances.

Concubine Qin forced herself to settle down, and gave orders to seal the mansion immediately.As soon as the order was issued, several palace servants immediately stepped back to pass the order.

The main gate of Prince Qin's Mansion was already closed, so he couldn't wait to open it.The one to be sealed is the side door and the back door of Prince Qin's mansion.All the servants in the mansion come in and out through the back door.

The palace man hurried to the back door, and said to the servant in charge of the back door: "The queen concubine has an order to lock the back door from now on, and no one is allowed to leave the house."

The servants responded repeatedly, and locked the back door in front of the palace servants.

After the palace servant left, the servant touched the purse in his arms.This purse is not big, but the inside is bulging, containing two taels of broken silver.

"Xiaoxi left the back door a moment ago, but the concubine gave the order a moment later. No wonder I am." The servant muttered softly, counting the money happily.

At this time, Eunuch Zhao, who entered the study, summoned all the servants in the study.

As for the personal guards of the King of Qin, they will be convened by the commander of the personal guards.

Eunuch Zhao glanced at him, his heart skipped a beat, and he asked sternly, "Where did Xiaoxi go?"

Waiters, you look at me, I look at you, no one knows.

Xiaoxi works diligently on weekdays, doesn't like to talk, walks alone, and has a thin sense of existence.If Eunuch Zhao hadn't suddenly summoned all the servants, no one would have noticed that Xiaoxi had disappeared.

The king of Qin ordered on the front foot, but there were fewer people in the study room on the back foot.

Could this Xiaoxi be the inner ghost?
Eunuch Zhao's premonition grew stronger, and he said angrily, "Who is making friends with Xiaoxi?"

Xiao Lu shrank his body back.But there was already a servant who opened his mouth and shouted: "If you go back to your father-in-law, Xiaolu and Xiaoxi lived in the same room, and they often talk together on weekdays."

Eunuch Zhao glanced over like lightning.

Xiaolu's legs softened, he knelt down, and said with a mournful face: "Grandpa, please forgive me! The servant and Xiaoxi lived in the same room. However, Xiaoxi is very reticent, and can't speak two words a day. Most of the servants speak, and he Listen. I haven't seen him today, so I really don't know where he went."

Eunuch Zhao held back his anger and ordered people to go to the back door, and brought over the servant who guarded the back door.

Seeing this battle, the servant didn't dare to hide it. He knelt on the ground and said with a bitter face, "Grandpa Zhao, please forgive me. This servant usually guards the back door. Except for holidays, this servant never dares to let anyone out of the house."

"This Xiaoxi, I used to only go out on holidays. Early this morning, I suddenly told my servant that I had to go out urgently, and even gave him two taels of silver. The servant was obsessed with money, and a soft heart opened the door to let him go out. "

"Xiaoxi went out for a while, and the concubine let someone pass the envelope to the back door. Slave... hey!"

Before he finished speaking, there was a scream.

Eunuch Zhao kicked the servant to the ground, sparks flashed in his eyes.

At this moment, it is too late to say anything.It's important to catch people back quickly.

Eunuch Zhao called a few guards over and told them to go out immediately to search for Xiaoxi's whereabouts.Then, Eunuch Zhao went to Xiaoxi's house in person, searched and searched, but found nothing suspicious.

The ominous premonition in Eunuch Zhao's heart grew stronger and stronger.They brought Xiaolu over again, and asked carefully: "Think about it carefully, is there anything unusual about Xiaoxi?"

Xiao Lu was already trembling with fright, and under Zhao Eunuch's cannibalistic eyes, he had to think hard: "I have worked with Xiaoxi for several years, and he used to be dull. Over the past year, he has become a Stuffy gourd. However, every holiday, he will go out of the house. The servant also asked him, and he said that he has a good friend who goes out to meet every month."

"By the way, once, the slave saw that he brought a jade hairpin back. The slave doesn't know anything else, only that the jade hairpin is very beautiful. He must have bought it for a good friend."

Hosta is nothing unusual.

It is also common for servants to have good friends outside the house.

Eunuch Zhao frowned, and continued to ask: "Did he talk about His Highness in front of you?"

Xiao Lu shook his head affirmatively: "No, not once."

its not right!
It's normal for a servant to talk about his master behind his back.Xiaoxi never asked or asked, could it be that she was guilty of being a thief and deliberately avoiding suspicion?

Xiaolu suddenly remembered something: "By the way, a few months ago, Xiaoxi suddenly entered the study as an errand. At that time, the slaves tried to persuade him, but he didn't listen at all."

Eunuch Zhao's face also darkened.

At that time, Xiaoxi came to give him 20 taels of silver.He also felt that Xiaoxi was honest and hardworking, so it was just right to put him in the study as an errand... Now that he thought about it, it was clear that Xiaoxi wanted to sneak into the study on purpose.

Half a day later, all the guards who went out to arrest people came back.

All of them looked bad and got nothing.

I have searched all the places that the servants often go to.I also asked many people, but no one said that they had never seen this Xiaoxi.

Eunuch Zhao's face was ashen, and he gritted his teeth and ordered: "Go out and look for it. If you dig three feet into the ground, you must find Xiaoxi."

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In the study of Duke Qin's mansion, because Xiaoxi, a servant, was missing, people were panicked and became a mess.

King Qin was sitting on pins and needles in the yamen of the Ministry of Rites.

After waiting for a long time, I didn't wait to come to the palace to call.King Qin not only did not breathe a sigh of relief, but became more and more nervous.It is an unassailable and ancient truth to be a thief with a guilty conscience.

It would be fine if Emperor Long'an announced him into the palace, became furious and scolded him.

Now that it was like this, it made him even more frightened.

Waiting until Luo Ya, there was no order from the palace.

The king of Qin had to go back to the mansion of the king of Qin first.

As soon as they entered the study, Eunuch Zhao and the commander of the personal guards all knelt down.

A servant was missing from the study for no reason, and he couldn't find it no matter how hard he looked.Both the chief servant and the commander of the personal guard are guilty.

King Qin entered the study with a pale face, and quickly opened the secret room.After entering the secret room, he quickly found three letters from Xue Pan.When I opened the envelope, I saw that the letter paper inside had been replaced with blank paper at some point, and it was empty.

The white paper was shining brightly under the candlelight, very glaring, as if mocking King Qin's negligence.

With such strict security, he even lost Xue Pan's letter!

King Qin was furious, stretched out his legs and kicked over the bookshelf, and made a loud bang: "Come on, keep looking for Xiaoxi. If you want to see people, if you want to see people, if you want to see dead bodies!"

(End of this chapter)