C70 The Ghost King, Saint Yongle, Losing his Sword

The Old Eunuch led Gui Hou and An Ping to turn left and right in the Qian Qing Palace. After passing through a long corridor, they finally arrived at a huge palace courtyard. There was a fake mountain in the middle of the courtyard, and below the fake mountain was a pond. On both sides of the pool, there were two corridors. Outside the corridors was a vermilion palace wall. Next to the walls of the palace was a weeping willow tree, straight and handsome. Behind the pool was a palace that faced south from the north. This was the imperial concubine's sleeping quarters. Under the guidance of the two eunuchs, the three of them walked around the hall before arriving at the main hall. There were four eunuchs and four maids standing in two rows in front of the hall. On the left and right were Jinyiwei that were dressed in Red Ribbon Flying Fish attire.

Seeing that the three of them had arrived, the four men and four women hurriedly bowed. The old eunuch waved his hand and the four of them left the hall.

Then, the Old Eunuch turned to Li Wenyuan and said: "Reporting to Gui Hou, Your Majesty, he is in the esteemed wangfei's palace. "However, I'm afraid it would be inconvenient to disturb you late at night."

"Nothing." With that, Li Wenyuan walked up the stairs and reached the front of the hall. He knelt on one knee, and then said loudly: "Your Majesty, this subject has something to report to His Majesty immediately. I hope that Your Majesty can get up."

However, there was no movement in the hall. He raised his true qi and asked again.

Not long after, the lights in the hall lit up and the voice of an ancient looking middle-aged man could be heard, "It's already so late. Who dares to disturb our rest? Are you not afraid that we will sentence you to death?"

Li Wenyuan immediately knelt on the ground, and then replied: I am Li Wenyuan, and it is only because this matter is related to my safety, I risked my life to enter the palace, please forgive me!

"Who is it!?" Li Wenyuan? Just you wait! I'll go out immediately. "

In a short moment, the door of the hall was half opened, a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a yellow silk cloak, holding onto a palace lamp, stood inside, it was the current Emperor Yongle, the former Swallow King Zhu Di.

Zhu Di saw that Li Wenyuan was kneeling on the ground, so he quickly used one hand to help him up, and asked: "Nephew, what are you doing in the palace at this time? "Even if I summon you, you don't have to be in such a hurry. You can come meet me in the morning when the court is in the morning." The Emperor Zhu Di's tone carried a tinge of doubt and complaint, but his words did not reprimand Gui Hou.

Gui Hou hurriedly said to His Majesty, "Long live! This matter is related to the safety of the Emperor, which is why I was in such a hurry to enter the palace. With that, he wiped the sweat from his forehead. A giant stone in his heart fell to the ground.

"Oh? "Could it be that there is someone in this palace who wants to take my life? Tell me about it. I would like to know who dares to be so bold!"

"Long live!" Li Wenyuan looked around. Zhu Di naturally understood.

"Wait here for me!" With that, he held the palace lamp in his hand and walked into the hall. Suddenly, he heard His Majesty Zhu Di shouting angrily, "Where is my sword!? Who stole my treasured sword! "

When Li Wenyuan heard this, he immediately pulled out the ghost sword behind him and rushed in. An Ping also unsheathed his sword and followed him in, the old eunuch followed closely behind, the Jinyiwei who was on guard duty at the front of the palace took out her Embroidered Spring Sabre and rushed in, the rest held onto their blade and leaned on the door, they sat down, and looked around to be on guard.

When Li Wenyuan and the rest entered the hall, they saw that the emperor's master, Zhu Di, was blankly staring at a sword rack that was made from red wood. After that, the cloak he was wearing fell to the ground.

Suddenly, the emperor suddenly thought of something and cried out in alarm, "My beloved concubine!" With that, he walked into the inner room. Li Wenyuan and An Ping followed him in. Jinyiwei also wanted to go in, but they were stopped by Honorable Eunuch.

Only then did he turn his head and nod towards Li Wenyuan and Li Wenyuan. Li Wenyuan then left, taking a palace lamp, he leaped into the hall and stood on the roof of the palace, reaching towards the ceiling of the palace, he realised that someone had opened a small hole in the roof of the palace, it was not big, it was around thirty inches wide, and looking down at the Sword Discourse Arena, he could tell that someone had stolen the sword from here.

With that, Li Wenyuan flew down and entered the courtyard. He ran a few steps, pointed at the pond in the courtyard, then flew up to the palace and looked around with the lamp in hand, only, it was already late at night, and the surroundings were completely dark, so how could he possibly see anything clearly? Li Wenyuan was secretly shocked, and thought to himself, who exactly has the ability to rush into the forbidden palace and steal the Emperor Sword in the blink of an eye? Even I did not discover anything. But he was worried about His Majesty's safety, so he rushed into the room and went inside the hall. He saw the emperor instructing his subordinate Jinyiwei to quickly ask for a doctor to treat Imperial Concubine Wang. An Ping and Honorable Eunuch were by his side.

Zhu Di walked into the palace and bowed towards His Majesty. At this moment, Zhu Di was extremely furious, how could he not be annoyed when he saw that the imperial palace was in a state of chaos as though he had stolen an Emperor Sword from a bag of holding. If someone wanted his life, it would be as simple as that.

With a gloomy face, he said to Gui Hou: "Gui Hou, do you know who in the world has such abilities?"

Li Wenyuan anxiously replied: "Long live, this humble one has not been to the Jianghu for a long time, I do not know. Your Majesty, the most important thing to do right now is to increase the guard within the palace! "

Emperor Yongle Zhu Di frowned and thought, only feeling that something was amiss, because Gui Hou had entered the palace late at night and met him at the throne, but he had just at the right time to throw away the Emperor Sword, so he had some suspicions, but he understood that his own life was more important now, so he gave the order, "Come." A Jinyiwei walked in and knelt on one knee.

"Bring me the commanders who are on duty tonight!" Zhu Di said.

"Yes!" Jinyiwei replied.

After waiting for a while, the Jinyiwei who had stopped Gui Hou at the avenging hall, Master Li, walked in with large strides. Just as he entered the door, he kneeled on the ground and kowtowed continuously, saying: "Your Majesty, this servant was incompetent, and had startled Your Majesty! Please forgive me, Your Majesty! " It was obvious that he found out about the loss of the Emperor Sword from the Jinyiwei.

"Get up! "It's not your fault, I don't blame you." Zhu Di did not blame him, but the reason, was because he knew very well that even an expert like Li Wenyuan did not notice, so there was no need to blame him.

"Thank you for not killing me!" Li Tongzhi stood up and carefully retreated to the side.

Zhu Di then said: "Li Tongzhi."

Li Tongzhi immediately replied: "This official is here!"

"I command you to mobilize all the Jinyiwei in the capital immediately. Those who are not on duty, enter the palace immediately and reinforce the defenses of the palace." Then, Zhu Di took out a golden plate from his chest pocket, with a red tassel on it, he said, "This is our order badge, we order you to immediately go to General Chang's Residence, who is in charge of the security of the capital city, give him the order plate and order him to immediately head out of the city to the tiger camp and increase his patrolling of the city. From that point on, the entire city is under martial law, day and night, so that even if you search carefully, you will not be able to secretly let go out of the city, go!"

Li Tongzhi quickly replied and took the gold plate from His Majesty's hands, then left.