0p0 Chapter 172 Today is New Year's Eve
Chapter 172 Today is New Year's Eve
After finishing these, Lin Yi copied the treatment plan and gave it to Yang Jian and Huang Chang.
"It will be useful in the future. Let the doctors in the army learn it too."
After Lin Yi gave the things, he took the two of them to the Imperial Garden.
At this time, the eunuchs and palace maids in the imperial garden were using water to clear the bloodstains near the rockery.
Huangfu Qingling and others also washed the smoke and blood off their hands.
"Lin Yi, come here."
"You discovered this case by accident."
Seeing Lin Yi, she slowly said, "How do you feel?"
As they said this, everyone sat down at the table.
Although the weather was cold, it was quite comfortable with the roof covering us and a stove underneath.
After a while, snow started falling around, and it really felt like winter.
"Until that person wakes up and confesses, let's not say who did it."
Lin Yi frowned slightly and began to think about things.
"How did this person get in?"
That's the biggest problem.
The palace was guarded by imperial guards, and it was impossible for palace maids and eunuchs to leave the palace and bring people in at will.
"Apart from this, there is another point. Why is there space in this rockery?"
Bao Bu Tong then analyzed that this was the bigger problem.
Afterwards, Prince Qing and Yu Jin also raised some questions from the perspective of guarding.
"Hmm... there are a lot of questions."
"Let's go one by one."
"First of all, how is he going to get in?"
Lin Yi said this and looked at Yu Jin.
Although Yu Jin was the Minister of War and theoretically had no connection with the imperial guards, as the Minister of War in charge of the soldiers, he still had a lot of say.
"Let's put aside the fact that he came in from the front."
After hearing this limitation, Yu Jin frowned and thought about the process.
He then outlined several possibilities.
First, you can use the hook to climb over the wall of the palace. Although this is the most reliable method, there are soldiers patrolling the walls around the palace. It is difficult to avoid being discovered if you climb over the wall casually.
"If this goes undetected, then unless there's a traitor, I think the Imperial Guards are unreliable."
Yu Jin then mentioned the second possibility, which was to sneak in.
Every two hours, the imperial guards would change shifts at the various guard posts at the palace gates, and this was the only opportunity to enter.
"Well, that's more likely."
Huangfu Qingling nodded and said, "As long as you keep an eye on the palace gate for a few days, you will usually be able to find a pattern."
"There's also a way to sneak in openly."
Lin Yi spoke slowly. He thought of another possibility. "If he wears eunuch's clothes and shaves his beard, he can pretend to be a eunuch and come in."
Then he said that the man before had no beard on his face.
Of course, some fine stubble can be seen, which was obviously shaved off intentionally to pretend to be a eunuch.
"Well... the palace is so big, the eunuchs inside and outside the palace gates, and the imperial guards, won't know much."
Huangfu Qingling nodded slightly, "This possibility is not small."
After this discussion, the path this person took to get here may suddenly become clear.
Among those who came to climb the wall with the hook claws, the others needed assistance from insiders.
"So, there's a spy in the palace."
Huangfu Qingling nodded slightly. This conclusion was very reliable, and it was inferred without interrogating the assassin.
"Your Majesty, when was this rockery built?"
"If it existed in the past, then it's very likely that our ancestors had prepared it..."
Now that the possibility of this person coming in has been discussed, the only thing left is that he is hiding in this rockery.
If Lin Yi hadn't stumbled upon it by accident, he could have hidden for a long time.
"This rockery... I remember it was built twenty years ago, when the late emperor was still alive."
"I still remember playing around here when I was a kid."
Huangfu Qingling spoke as she recalled, and suddenly she realized a problem.
Even things that are very clear in memory.
When she was a child, she once climbed up a rockery and fell down.
The rockery at that time was solid because she had knocked on it when she climbed up.
There was no hollow sound coming from inside.
But now this rockery... has been dug out into such a big hole, there is even space for a person!
“It was solid at that time.”
“I’ve climbed up there before.”
Thinking of this, Huangfu Qingling spoke slowly, and then told the story of when she climbed up and fell down when she was a child.
If she hadn't knocked it hard, she wouldn't have accidentally fallen down, so she remembered this incident very clearly.
"So this rockery has been replaced?"
Lin Yi asked thoughtfully.
"I don't know. I don't come to this imperial garden often."
Huangfu Qingling waved her hand.
She was very young to be able to play around, and she started receiving education when she was about six years old.
Then there is constant learning.
Poetry, books, rituals, music, riding, archery and martial arts.
In the past, she had a very persistent interest in these things.
It is precisely this point that makes him better than other princes that has enabled him to be favored by the previous emperor and ascend the throne.
Although Prince Qing was good at military power, he was not good at civil administration.
In addition, he was very protective of his "sister", so the emperor arranged for him to stay.
The remaining princes were either sent out or stripped of their power and left in the capital.
"I think that we should give up."
"Today is New Year's Eve, and the eunuchs and palace maids have already packed up everything."
Lin Yi slowly said, "In fact, as long as we can wake that person up, it would be much more convenient for us to interrogate him directly."
"Yes, even if I speculate like this, I can only have an idea of the situation."
"It's also good to speculate in this direction later."
Bao Bu Tong explained that this was his way of solving cases.
Or it could be said that it was the method of solving cases that he learned from Lin Yi when he was in Liangzhou City.
After hearing this, everyone felt relieved.
Prince Qing put away his matchlock gun and stored the gunpowder materials far away.
Afterwards, palace maids and eunuchs began to enter, and various hot pot ingredients were placed on the side.
There is even a small shelf next to each person with various dishes on it.
In addition to raw food, there are also some cooked food on the table on the side.
Everyone started eating hot pot and drinking cider.
Naturally, they talked about past events, happy ones.
"It would be great if we could get King Yan to come and eat hotpot with us."
Huangfu Qingling said, "I haven't contacted him for a long time."
"By the way, I remember King Yan also wanted to find Lin Yi to do something before, right?"
Prince Qing asked thoughtfully.
"Later, if there is long-term peace, these things can be connected and built."
Everyone became happy as they chatted like this.
As night fell, Huangfu Qingling made an exception and allowed some actors to come in and perform.
Lin Yi leaned back in his chair and took a deep breath.
It’s been almost three years now, and time is passing by as fast as ever.