After hearing what Leng Yi told him about his purpose, Long Jong took the list directly and handed it to Leng Yi without any trouble. Leng Yi took the list and asked Long Jong: "Did Mr. Long notice that there were any obvious incidents in the inner court three days ago?"

Abnormality?"

Long Jiong said: "I really haven't noticed this. You also know that I am only responsible for the emperor's vigilance, and I am not responsible for the safety of the entire inner court. Therefore, I don't know much about other parts of the inner court.

"

Leng Yi said to himself: "Then I just have to go through the palaces one by one to see whose maid is missing."

Although he already knew that only Emperor Taizu's beauty Daji and the prince had come to Hushan in the past five days, he did not go to them directly because it would be too direct and would not only alarm the snake, but also cause harm to others.

His impression meant that they were criminals, and once he ruled out the suspicion that they were not criminals, he would be passive. After all, these people were people he could not afford to offend. So, he decided to investigate one by one so that it would not be too obvious.

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Leng Yi took the roster and started checking it from the emperor's palace. He summoned all the maids and eunuchs to roll the roll. Of course, some of them were serving the emperor. They could only wait for the meeting before the roll call.

After counting them one by one, no maids were found missing. Leng Yi took the list and came to the queen's palace. These concubines had received the emperor's order and were to fully cooperate with Leng Yi's case investigation. Therefore, he still treated him

Very polite.

There was no shortage of people here. Leng Yi arranged the list and inspected the palaces of Zhao Guangyi's concubines, young prince, and young princess one by one. There was no shortage of any of them.

Next, we have to investigate Emperor Taizu’s people.

The first thing to investigate was the palace of Queen Kaibao. It went very smoothly. Queen Kaibao personally accompanied her to conduct a roll call. However, all the registered maids were there, and there were no shortages.

Seeing that the number of people on the list was decreasing one by one, and the case still had no results, Leng Yi began to become a little anxious.

Finally, we investigated the palace of Song Taizu’s beauty Da Ji.

However, they were rejected. No one opened the door to greet them.

Leng Yi asked the palace maid to go up and knock on the door. After knocking for a long time, someone finally answered the door. A fat palace maid looked at them warily: "What are you doing?" The tone was very rude.

"Master Yu Dai Leng is ordered to investigate the case and needs to investigate whether there is a missing maid in your palace.

"No!" the fat palace maid said coldly, and was about to close the door. However, a palace maid on Leng Yi's side pushed her back: "It's not enough to just say there is no! You have to name them one by one and ask them."

"Who said that?"

"Master Leng is carrying out the order, and even Empress Kaibao personally accompanied her to ask why you didn't let us in? Is there something fishy about it?" This palace maid is quite talkative.

"No matter who your will is, it doesn't matter. Our empress has said it. She wants to be quiet and no one can disturb her!" After that, the fat palace maid closed the door again.

But the palace maid here pushed hard, pushed the courtyard door open, and stepped in. The fat palace maid said angrily: "What are you going to do? Do you want to rebel? - Come here! Someone is going to run wild here!"

"

As soon as he finished speaking, dozens of palace maids and eunuchs came, holding sticks, kitchen knives and other things in their hands. They stared at them eagerly.

The palace maid was startled and quickly retreated. The fat palace lady was about to close the courtyard door triumphantly, but someone suddenly opened it again. And the force was so strong that she almost knocked her down. She quickly stood still and raised her head.

Look, I saw Leng Yi pushing the courtyard door with one hand and holding up a shining golden belt with the other hand: "Look clearly what this is!"

All the maids and eunuchs looked up and saw that it was the golden belt given by the current emperor!

Seeing this belt is like seeing the emperor himself!"

Hurrah, all the maids and eunuchs knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Leng Yi held up his golden belt and said: "I have been ordered to investigate the case. Anyone who dares to stop it will be regarded as resisting the order! - Immediately notify your empress and summon all the maids in your palace to the courtyard. I will name them one by one!"

"

When these palace maids and eunuchs saw Leng Yi carrying the emperor out, they dared to talk back and went to report to the empress obediently.

Da Ji finally came out with a gloomy face.

Leng Yi took a look and found that although this woman was gorgeously dressed, graceful and elegant, she could be considered beautiful, but she was not considered to be a world-famous or otherworldly woman. Compared with Xiao Zhou Hou, Mrs. Huarui and Bai Hong, there was a clear gap. Even compared with

The Cheng Luojie sisters were slightly inferior. It seems that the reason why Emperor Taizu doted on her so much was mainly because Emperor Taizu and her brother were sworn brothers and accidentally killed her brother Zheng En.

Daji was followed by several maids, one of whom held a long whip, rolled it into a circle, and held it in her arms.

The fat palace maid walked up to Daji timidly and said politely to Daji: "Mother, they insist on forcing their way in..."

Da Ji raised her hand and slapped the palace maid in the face, causing the palace maid to spin in a circle, with blood flowing from the corner of her mouth. Then, Da Ji kicked the fat palace maid again, causing her to kneel on the ground and vomit. She couldn't get up.

But he didn't dare to let out a moan.

Daji glanced coldly at the palace maids and eunuchs. They immediately looked like mice seeing cats, shrinking their necks and not daring to say anything.

As soon as Daji raised her hand, the whip-wielding maid behind her stepped forward and handed a golden whip to Daji. The handle of this golden whip was made of gold, but the whip in front was made of beef tendon, and the entire whip was made of beef tendon.

The whip body is also decorated with tiny spikes!

Daji whipped her whip in the air, and there was a crisp sound. The palace maids and eunuchs were so frightened that they trembled and fell to the ground one by one, but no one dared to speak.

Da Ji said coldly: "How did I explain it? Tell me!"

The fat palace maid's mouth was swollen from the beating. Her words were slurred: "My Majesty said, no one is allowed to come in, except the officials."

Da Ji pointed her hand at Leng Yi: "Then what is he? Is he a human or a pig or a dog?"

"It's... it's a person..."

Snapped!

Daji whipped her away, and the fat palace maid's clothes were torn to pieces, her skin was torn, and blood flew everywhere, but she bit her lips and did not dare to cry.

The whip-wielding maid behind her came forward and said to Daji: "There are so many people watching and they can't stand it. Let these pigs and dogs come in. Every one of them will be blamed!"

"Yeah!" Da Ji whipped her whip towards the other palace maids and eunuchs, cracking...

Some palace maids couldn't bear it any longer and screamed. Immediately, the whip seemed to have grown eyes and was specially whipped at the palace maids. It turned out that they would hit anyone who moaned. No wonder they all gritted their teeth and remained silent.

"Enough! Your Majesty!" Leng Yi said angrily: "Didn't your Majesty see the golden belt in my hand?"

Daji didn't stop whipping her whip and said coldly: "What are you going to do?"

"Didn't they tell you? I am ordered to investigate the case!"

"You came here to investigate the case? Do you think that I am the king of thieves? Are you really here to bully me when Emperor Taizu is no longer here?"

Leng Yi put away the golden belt. It was still tied around his waist, and he cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, in this humble position, I am also ordered to investigate the case. There is no issue of bullying or not. Please forgive me."

"No! No matter what the case is, it won't work. Get out immediately!"

Leng Yi suppressed his smile and said calmly: "It's not good for your Majesty to be like this. Maybe your Majesty has heard about it. This morning, more than ten female corpses were found in Hushan, most of which had turned into bones. After investigation,

I found out that these corpses were all palace maids. The officials had issued a decree and asked me to take charge of the investigation of this case. I needed to find out the identity of the corpses and investigate them one by one. I even checked with Queen Kaibao. When I got to the empress, why didn’t I

Let me check? Then again, I don’t dare to offend the empress. If the empress doesn’t let me check, I can only go back and report it to the officials.

Daji slowly turned her head and stared at the fat palace maid: "Why don't you tell me about this matter?"

The fat palace maid shivered, lowered her head and did not dare to speak.

The whip-wielding maid behind Daji came forward again and said: "My dear, since she refuses to speak, let the thing that speaks serve her and bite her until she speaks!"

"Well, good! Come here! Drag her to the dogs!"

"My Majesty, please forgive me! My Majesty, please forgive me!" The fat palace maid was lying on the ground, wailing.

The whip-wielding woman said sternly: "You have pierced ears and are deaf? Didn't you hear? The queen ordered her to be sent to the kennel to see if her skin is hard or if the dog's teeth are sharp!"

The fat palace maid screamed: "My queen, please spare my life! I don't dare to do it anymore..."

Several eunuchs came up and tried to drag the fat palace maid away. The fat palace maid seemed to know that she would have a narrow escape from death, so she could only make a final struggle and beg to see if she could get her life back. So she cried and begged hysterically.

Leng Yi took a step forward and said, "Empress, are you going to send her to be bitten by your dogs, right?"

"That's right! Such a lowly servant is only worthy of being fed to my own dogs!"

Leng Yi smiled apologetically and said, "Weichen has never seen a dog bite a human. Can you open your eyes to Weichen?"

Da Ji looked at him sideways: "Are you also interested in this?"

"Hey, I haven't seen it before, so I'm naturally interested."

"Okay, since you are interested in seeing my human-dog battle, come with me!" After that, he turned around and walked in. The eunuch and the palace maid dragged the fat palace maid to the backyard.

From a long distance away, Leng Yi heard the barking of dogs, one after another. Although the roars were not as powerful as those of tigers, they were still very powerful.

As soon as she heard this voice, the fat palace maid's face turned pale with fright, and she no longer had the strength to beg. She collapsed on the ground, and was dragged forward by the eunuch and the palace maid like a dead dog.

Two strong eunuchs stood at the moon gate in the backyard. When they saw Daji coming, they quickly bowed and saluted.

Da Ji made a gesture, and the two eunuchs quickly opened the moon door. They saw five sturdy eunuchs in a large empty yard behind, holding iron chains in their hands, with five strong heads tied to one end of the chains.

The fierce dog showed its sharp fangs and roared at the palace maid who was dragged in. It struggled to break free of the chains and pounced on her.

The fat palace maid collapsed in the middle of the field, curled up, holding her head in her hands, not even begging.

Leng Yi looked at it and asked, "Did the empress let these dogs bite her?"

"Yes. Don't you want to see it? You will see the most exciting thing in the world soon, don't blink!"

The smile on Leng Yi's face disappeared: "It's better to let a tiger bite than a dog, that would be more exciting."

"Yes! You are right. However, the tiger is too powerful and there is no way to control it. If you attack too hard, you will die."

"Wouldn't it be more in line with the Queen's wishes to bite them to death? Aren't the dozens of corpses in Hushan the Queen's 'masterpiece'?"
To be continued...