After all, Xuanning Palace is the empress dowager's bedroom. E Wen refused to show his face, so naturally it was impossible for Ji Duoyou to come in to check the situation of the rat. Duoyou had no choice but to return in disappointment. Ji Jie was very puzzled: "General, we are guarding the palace city. Since the empress dowager is fine, we can just follow her. If we don't help, we can report to the Duke of the State. Why should the general be so troubled?"

"What do you know?" Ji Duoyou shouted: "Zi Mu is busy with all his affairs, and all the burdens of the dynasty are on him. The clues of this matter have begun to appear, but I don't know yet. How could I report it? Besides------" He did not say the following words. Judging from the more than thirty rats found in the palace alley, the Xuanning Palace has been in trouble for at least half a month. It was exactly when the three Nuo masters entered the palace to make a move. That night, Ewen whipped himself to stop the investigation of the three people. Could it be that there was a trick in this?-------

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly heard a lingering sound from the backyard of Xuanning Palace. Ji Jie listened with great interest for a while and nodded, "The rat is so powerful, who is so elegant?----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Many friends lowered their heads, looked slightly lonely, and said, "It was the Queen Mother who blew it----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ji Jie listened for a long time and said softly: "This seems to be a song from Guanzhong--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Many friends listened quietly to the music, as if they were moved: "Happy but not lustful, sad but not hurt, singing but thinking, crying but not feeling sad, it is really touching-------" He raised his eyes to the sky, let out a long sigh, and said to himself: "Who are you saying goodbye to?"

Suddenly, he turned around suddenly, his face turned pale: "This matter must be reported!"

He changed his face so quickly that Ji Jie couldn't react and asked, "Are you going to find Duke Zhao?"

"No, go find the eunuch of the Royal City Order, and go now."

Jia, an eunuch who served two generations of Zhou kings, discovered Ji Hu's uniqueness very early. Unlike most noble children born with a golden spoon in their mouths, Ji Hu's favorite since childhood is nothing more than two things. He never stops by reading and practicing swords. He is a kind of self-righteous and strong. Since he was the prince, he has set up a hunter courtyard outside the palace as a residence for concentration in spring and autumn every year. Now it is spring, and the King of Zhou is not in the palace, so after the eunuch Jia received the news that the Xuanning Palace Rat is still suffering from frequent disasters - at least he can handle this matter independently in the absence of the emperor.

Even though he had experienced many knowledges and walked into the gate of Xuanning Palace, he was still shocked.

Three dead rats outside the threshold were being left there. The rat was covered in blood, probably killed with a copper rat clip. A little eunuch was carrying the claws of another dead rat and was about to throw them together, muttering something in his mouth. When he looked up, he saw the face of the eunuch Jia Tieqing, and was so scared that he fell to the ground: "The Lord Wangcheng ordered the villain, I don't know how offended the adults are. Please forgive me!"

The eunuch Jia was shocked and angry: "You all caught these mice to death?"

"Yes, somehow, these days, there are more and more rats in the palace, which makes the Empress sleep uneasy at night. My uncle and sister are the youngest to catch mice. If you catch ten, you can go to her to seek reward. The villain has not caught many, look over there-----"

Following the direction of his finger, the eunuch Jia saw at least twelve dead rats on the stone path from the threshold to the main hall, thrown between rotten vegetable leaves and dirty rags. The eunuch smiled awkwardly: "Now, everyone is busy catching mice and has no intention of doing anything else------"

The eunuch Jia Qiang resisted the nausea that rushed into his throat and asked the eunuch to lead the way in front of him. He walked around the palace halls and became more and more frightened. On the steps leading to the main hall, more than ten rats died there. The copper baskets that were originally used to sweep the fallen leaves in front of the main hall were all covered with dead rats, and the long line of dead rats in the gutter beside each building were dead rats------

The little eunuch was talking and kept nagging: "Sir, these mice were just rushing around the palace a few days ago. In the past two days, they began to go out of the cave in batches and then died outside. They crawled out of the cellar and the gutter, lined up in long lines, swaying to the sunlight, under the palace lanterns, and circled in place, and then died in front of the young people------"

No need for his explanation, the eunuch Jia could clearly hear the dying slight screams of the rats wherever he went. The dead rats were piled in the gutter, with blood hanging beside their sharp mouths, some were soaked and swollen and began to rot; some were stiff and their beards were still upside down. In the yard, you could see piles of dead rats. As you walked, the eunuchs around you screamed from time to time, because they felt that they had stepped on the corpses of elastic small animals that had just died.

The entire Xuanning Palace seemed to be covered with boils, and the body was filled with pus and blood. Now the pus and blood are about to be discharged.

"Enough, don't go any further." The eunuch Jia felt his legs weak, one arm supported the beech beside the road, and the other hand stroked his chest to help swallow the nausea that had already flowed to the throat. This matter is by no means auspicious. Intuition tells him that if he is not dealt with properly, there will be a big disaster!

He calmed down and thought for a while. The uncle and maid had already arrived after hearing the news. Yingying bowed and waited for the order.

Originally, the eunuch Jia had to interrogate, but the creepy situation and disgusting smell in front of him made him really not want to stay any longer. He waved his hand helplessly and disgustedly: "From today, all the dead rats you caught must be burned with hot tinder oil, and then buried the ashes on the spot. All the maids and eunuchs in Xuanning Palace must not take a step out of the palace gate. As for whether the Empress Dowager should move to the palace------" he pondered for a moment: "This matter is very important, and we need to wait until the king returns to the palace before we deal with it."

"No!" Uncle and his uncle responded slowly: "I will follow the orders of the Lord of the Royal City Order!"

Walking out of Xuanning Palace, the eunuch Jia took a deep breath in the quiet breeze at dusk, turned around and ordered his apprentice Qi Zhong, "Go to the Shaofu to get 200 kilograms of hot turmeric oil and hand it to Xuanning Palace for listening. In addition, I would like to say to Lord Sima of the Wangcheng that from today, no one in Xuanning Palace will be allowed to enter and exit. Please send additional personnel to take care of it. Xuanning Palace will be closed from now on, and no one will be allowed to approach the palace wall three meters."

"Master, what if the Empress Dowager wants to go out?" Qi Zhong asked softly.

"Empress Dowager?" The eunuch Jia snorted coldly: "What empress dowager? She is not her biological mother, not her stepmother, nor her foster mother. What kind of empress dowager is she? Keep it closed together first, ignore her, and let everything be dealt with when the king comes back."

"promise!"


Chapter completed!