In the palace, the eunuchs and palace maids were flipping through the entire palace inside and out, and they really turned over the entire palace. However, as the saying goes, one person hides things and is difficult to find. In a hurry, a small puppet or straw puppet is not so easy to find. ⊙

When she heard that she had not found anything, Empress Dowager Li was very angry. Seeing that her younger brother was still sitting aside, she said to Li Xuancheng with a hope of fate: "Third brother, do you have a way to help the emperor find that nightmare doll?"

Li Xuancheng didn't want to involve too much to avoid being suspicious to himself, but Xu Boyi placed the puppet in a place that was not easy to be discovered. If he didn't give any advice and asked the emperor to find the puppet, then the emperor would probably still be half-believing and half-doubted about the Nightmare Curse.

Thinking of this, Li Xuancheng frowned slightly and said hesitantly: "My brother's Taoism is limited, and I'm afraid he may not be able to calculate the location of the nightmare puppet. I'm reluctant to do it, so let's try it!"

Li Xuancheng pretended to be mysterious and counted for a while, and said, "When Your Majesty was on the elixir in front of the Ganqing Palace, although this nightmare art was mysterious, it could not be too far away from the target. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a thousand miles away to hurt people? Since it was close, then as I expected, that nightmare should be in the Ganqing Palace!"

Emperor Wanli's mind was completely awake at this time, and he was shocked and furious just now. After hearing Li Xuancheng's words, he was not furious. He just looked at the young uncle deeply and said, "Then I will have to go there, and I must find evidence of the crime for me!"

Li Xuancheng nodded and said, "I should serve Your Majesty!"

Li Xuancheng rushed to the Ganqing Palace. A group of eunuchs surrounded him after hearing the news and looked at him eagerly. In the Ganqing Palace, there were also little eunuchs climbing up the dragon pillar with a ladder and inspecting the caisson and beams. As for the decorations and furniture on the ground, they had not been many, but now they have been checked.

As for the ground, just take a look. There is no need to check it, because the gold bricks are all huge, and they are covered with tight seams. It is impossible for anyone to pry open a gold brick, dig a hole in the iron-sized ground, hide something in, and then lay the gold bricks, and the whole process will not be discovered.

Li Xuancheng asked, "Have you searched the palace?"

A large eunuch replied: "I have searched the palace in my uncle. I am searching for the top of the hall now. As for the outside of the hall... you see, the stone railings, stone steps, stone turtles, stone cranes and golden pavilions have also been searched, but nothing has been found."

Li Xuancheng looked around and said with certainty: "My uncle can only calculate a general direction, and cannot calculate it too clearly for the time being. However, according to my uncle's calculations, if the nightmare is there, it will definitely be on the stone steps in front of this palace!"

Li Xuancheng walked to the stone turtle, bent down and looked at it. The stone turtle raised its neck and raised its head, but the gap under it was very limited. Moreover, it was cleaned and it was impossible to hide anything. Li Xuancheng turned around the stone turtle again, and the long-legged crane was even more obvious at a glance. He could not hide anything.

Li Xuancheng pointed at Jin Tingzi on both sides and ordered: "Have you searched there?"

The eunuch replied, "Yes, someone has already checked it."

Li Xuancheng said: "If there is any place in front of this palace that can hide things, then there are only these two places. You can search again!"

The eunuch had no choice but to instruct someone to rush to the golden pavilions on both sides, open the carved doors on all sides, and cross his feet and look inward.

Seeing this, Li Xuancheng shouted: "How can you check it out like this? You send someone in and search carefully, and don't let a place go."

After listening, the big eunuch sent two young eunuchs, who were young and small, to climb onto the stone platform on the shoulders of the older eunuch, and into the golden pavilion. After only a moment, a joyful exclaim came from one of the golden pavilions: "Finished! I found it!"

Then, a little eunuch crawled out of the golden pavilion with a doll happily...

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Emperor Wanli held the doll with his birth date written in his hand tightly, with a silver needle inserted on top of his head, and his gloomy face did not say a word. Empress Dowager Li was so angry that she trembled all over and said hatefully: "So brave! So bold! You dare to murder the Lord, and the Ai family wants to kill his nine clans!"

Wanli looked gloomy and turned the doll in his hand twice, saying to Li Xuancheng: "Uncle Guo, was this doll discovered in the Jinting?"

Li Xuancheng nodded and said, "Yes! After the little eunuch got in, he searched around and found no results. Later, he looked up and found that the puppet was hanging on the top of the inner wall. He took it off and found that it was stuck to it by someone."

Emperor Wanli put the doll close to sniff it, frowned and said, "What is this? Why does it smell fishy?"

Li Xuancheng said: "I have asked someone to see it. That's the fish glue that was killed!"

Fish glue is one of the eight treasures of the sea. It was originally a very delicious dish. This product was very sticky when cooked. Emperor Wanli thought about it and suddenly thoughtful, saying, "I remembered that among the dishes given to all officials in the palace last night, there seemed to be a fish glue?"

Li Xuancheng nodded and said, "Yes! I have eaten it yet! I thought that someone should have put fish glue on the doll. When the person was unprepared, he secretly opened the golden pavilion and stuck the doll backhand to the inside of the pavilion wall. At that time, everyone was watching the fireworks and moving faster, no one could find it. It was precisely because of this that if they didn't get into the pavilion, they would not be able to find it."

Emperor Wanli nodded, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said, "I thought it was strange. If there were eunuchs in the palace to plot against me, why did they take the risk of attacking in the Qianqing Palace? It is somewhat unreasonable. Now it seems that the intention is not good for me, the foreign minister should be the one who intends to harm me!"

Concubine Shu said furiously: "Are all the kings under the world? The intention to kill the monarch is a death sentence! Those foreign ministers usually go to His Highness's Palace and cannot walk around randomly. That is, last night, Your Majesty summoned them to the palace to watch the fireworks and had a chance. Your Majesty, who was standing next to the golden pavilion where the puppets were hidden?"

Emperor Wanli was awakened by her words and immediately summoned the eunuch on duty in Qianqing Palace last night to come in and ask questions. The eunuch held the record book and replied tremblingly: "I have checked the records. Last night... Last night, the one standing next to Jinting was Ye Xiaotian, the regent of Tongren Mansion.

Emperor Wanli's eyes jumped slightly and said word by word: "Ye Xiaotian!"

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"This man is named Ye Xiaotian. He is a prosecutor who came to the capital to report his work. He now lives in Sanbao Inn on Qian Street, the Ministry of Justice. What you have to do is to prevent him from returning to the inn. Do you understand?" A man with a triangular eye threw the silver money in his hand to the rogues in front of him and ordered coldly.

A few rascals nodded repeatedly: "Don't worry, Master Qi, we men rely on this industry as a foodie. Isn't it just delaying him from going back to the inn? It's easy."

"He's out, you guys go, remember, if this business is not done well, come back and break your legs!"

The triangular eyes piled up with a harsh word and left. Several rascals gave each other a wink, and saw Ye Xiaotian coming out of Tao's mansion and quickly retreating into the alley. They were very familiar with the streets and alleys of the capital, and they could tell at a glance where Ye Xiaotian was going to pass.

The capital is the most noble residence in the world. If a strong dragon is here, it has to be scattered, and a tiger is lying down here. No matter how important the local officials are, they are so domineering in the local area. Most of them are extremely low-key when entering the capital and dare not cause trouble easily.

The gangsters in the capital are already very brave. They cheat, extort, and do everything evil. About a hundred decades ago, the atmosphere has become increasingly corrupt. Some rogues have begun to extort foreigners.

Among these foreigners, especially those who go to Beijing to run for office or report their duties, they are the most cautious and are best to blackmail them, as long as they create some troubles. Most of these foreigners will solve the problem with money with a calm attitude, and this will make these ruffians become more and more arrogant.

There were also street censors who hated evil and had severely cracked down on this kind of behavior. However, this kind of thing was constantly prohibited. If you fight once, it would be at most three or two months before you would resurface. Moreover, these people would not make a big mistake, and they would not be imprisoned for a few days if they were arrested. This also further encouraged their arrogance.

These thugs who collected money to do things for others today are a group of habitual criminals in Beijing who are good at "fraudulent". After they took a small road to the intersection ahead, one of the thugs discussed with the boss: "Brother, we are going to do something today. It is probably not possible to 'release pigeons', and 'dead fishing' is not appropriate. There are only 'live fishing' and 'horizontal fishing'. Which trick is better?"

This kid is talking about the slander in their industry. Putting pigeons is to seek lure women. As long as you are fooled and the two of them sleep in bed, someone will immediately rush into the door and say that he is the woman's husband and sue you for abducting the woman. Don't you want to be a steward? So, use money to settle the matter. This is called "release pigeon fishing".

"Deadly hang" means finding a body that died of illness or starvation. What's more poisonous is finding a beggar to kill it and hang it in front of your house while it's dark. You are not afraid that you will not only have to get the money, but also have to take out a lot of money.

If there is really someone who doesn't believe in evil, you can bless you to meet a honest official who is like a god. You must know that people who dare to do this will also collude with the souvenirs and clerks in the yamen. Even if you prove that you are not guilty in the end, you can still be so trampled on your skin.

As for the way of living, there are more ways to hang on the go, such as finding a handsome, eloquent and sarcastic accomplice, pretending to be a poor and outrageous look, begging you to take him in. As long as you keep your mouth and eat, you can do nothing to pay.

If you want you to be merciful or to be greedy for labor and take him in, then the constable will then appear. A crime of hiding a fugitive can torture you to death. This is called live fishing.

If you fish horizontally, you don’t care about any technical content, you can do it, deliberately create disputes, etc. As long as you find it troublesome, you have to settle it with money, but you can make the money like this.

However, their only task today was to prevent Ye Xiaotian from returning to the inn, rather than to blackmail money from him. In this case, it is obvious that fishing is the most appropriate method.

Sure enough, the elder brother touched his chin and thought for a while and ordered, "Just use horizontal fishing, Lao Wang, prepare for it. I will shock his horse and hit you. Xiao Sier, hurry up and call Captain Luo and ask him to take him down!" The two men who were named quickly agreed and prepared to go.

In the palace, Emperor Wanli sat silently for a long time when he saw the commander of the Jinyiwei, Yu Wuguo hurriedly walked to him and knelt down on one knee, and obeyed the order. Emperor Wanli ordered word by word: "Go, arrest Ye Xiaotian immediately and find out the mastermind behind him!"

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