Reborn to overthrow the throne, I became the new emperor's dark moonlight

Chapter 117 Discovered

Qiao Xi found her way to the cold palace as if she was familiar with it, but she found that the cold palace had changed since she left the palace.

Originally, there were many substitutes for the queen hidden in the East Garden of the Cold Palace. The emperor often came here, so there were many guards here.

But now, the guards are gone, and the substitute women are gone too.

The place was completely cleaned out, even the furniture was gone.

No one else can issue this order except the emperor.

Qiao Xi searched the entire cold palace thoroughly, and found that there was no one alive except the abandoned concubines in the West Courtyard who were actually banished to the cold palace.

There is no Qiao Chengwang either.

Qiao Xi stood in the empty room. A gust of wind blew and she suddenly shivered.

Were the stand-ins moved, or were they all killed?

Why did the emperor do this?

Is he worried that Su Heting will find out, or is there some other reason?

Qiao Xi had no time to think deeply. Since his fourth brother was not in the cold palace, it was very likely that he was hidden in the secret factory.

The secret factory is heavily guarded. If she goes in rashly, it will alert the emperor, so she needs to plan carefully.

Qiao Xi turned and headed towards the East Palace.

Last time they speculated that the jade seal for summoning the ghost army might have been given to the prince by the late emperor as a toy.

The prince's things are all in the East Palace, so she has to go there to look for them.

Now that she is married to Su Heting, and the emperor has renovated the Second Prince's Mansion for them, it will not be so easy for them to stay overnight in the palace in the future.

She had to seize her chance tonight.

The Eastern Palace was not far from Linghua Pavilion where she lived, and Qiao Xi was familiar with the palace. She avoided the guards and palace servants and quickly arrived at the Eastern Palace.

After the incident involving the crown prince, the Eastern Palace became deserted and had been almost abandoned over the years, so naturally there was no defense.

Qiao Xi knew that the prince's old things were piled up in the East Palace warehouse, but Qiao Xi did not go to the warehouse.

Since the emperor already knew that summoning the ghost army required the Qiao family's jade cicada, he might have guessed the matter of the jade seal. I think he must have searched the East Palace storehouse.

Even if the emperor had not guessed this, if something happened to the prince, the valuables in the Eastern Palace would be promptly added to the national treasury.

That jade seal was made by the late emperor, so it must not be an ordinary item. How could the dog emperor allow it to remain in the East Palace storehouse?

Therefore, there was no need for Qiao Xi to go and look for him. She went directly to the prince's bedroom.

The furniture in the prince's bedroom had never been moved, not because the emperor cared about the father-son relationship, but because people in the palace felt that the prince had killed his father and committed suicide out of fear of punishment, so his things were unlucky.

In addition, many items bore the Eastern Palace logo, and it would not be appropriate to give them to other people, so the furniture and bedding were retained.

Outsiders don’t know that the prince has always had the habit of hiding things under his bed and under his couch.

Just like when he was reborn as Su Heting, he still had the habit of hollowing out the space under his bed and hiding her portrait and other things inside.

With this thought in mind, Qiao Xi first went to the low couch by the window and opened the partitions and boxes of the couch according to the method the prince had taught her.

The things are still there, but they are all rare copies of calligraphy and paintings.

After putting it away as it was, Qiao Xi turned to the bed and used the same method to open the box under the bed.

The items here are varied, but most of them are things she used when she was young.

There were also two little clay figurines, which she had asked the clay master who was setting up a stall to make when she sneaked out of the palace.

One is her, and the other is naturally the prince.

When she returned to the palace, she gave the prince's to him and took her own back to Linghua Pavilion.

But after a while, she saw more and more interesting things and got tired of the clay figurines.

She thought it was taken away by the palace servants, but she didn't expect that the prince had hidden it under his bed, lying head to head with his clay figurine.

Qiao Xi's face flushed. Thinking of the man rocking the bed vigorously, she cursed softly, "Stop it."

He immediately gathered his thoughts and looked for the jade seal.

Su Heting said that he had no impression of the jade seal, so it was unlikely that he had collected it, but Qiao Xi still looked for it very carefully.

There are so many old things here, and the jade seal is made to look like a child's toy. The prince no longer had time to play when he was five or six years old, so it is normal that he could not remember things from his childhood.

Qiao Xi comforted herself in this way, not wanting to miss any possibility.

But in the end she was disappointed, because this was not among the old things hidden by the prince.

He had no choice but to restore everything and quietly leave the East Palace.

She should go back.

Otherwise, if she couldn't hear any movement from her, the palace maid outside the door would become suspicious.

However, just as she reached the back door of Linghua Pavilion, she heard a sharp voice shouting, "There is an assassin, catch the assassin."

Qiao Xi's heart trembled, and without stopping, she simply turned over and entered the room using light skills.

Su Heting also heard the noise outside. Seeing her come back, he hurriedly took off her nightgown.

Then he captured her lips, quite forcefully, and continued to strip off her inner clothes. After messing up Qiao Xi's clothes, he whispered in her ear, "Bite me."

Qiao Xi understood what he meant instantly, and with a cruel heart, she bit his lips.

After their lips were slightly swollen, showing the signs of their affection, Su Heting opened his clothes again and ordered, "Prepare water."

At this time, there was chaos outside because of the shouting. The palace maid was about to knock on the door when she heard this voice.

He hurriedly said, "Second Prince, Princess, there are assassins outside."

Su Heting opened the door, closed it behind him, and frowned, "Why is there an assassin in the palace?"

The palace maid was also confused. As she was shaking her head, she saw a eunuch leading a group of imperial guards. The eunuch said, "I saw it clearly. The assassin went straight into Linghua Pavilion."

The imperial guard stepped forward, saluted Su Heting, and said, "Second Prince, someone has discovered an assassin sneaking into Linghua Pavilion. For safety reasons, please allow me to search the palace."

Su Heting's eyebrows darkened. "In the middle of the night, you want to search the bedrooms of the king and the princess?"

The imperial guards also looked embarrassed. The eunuch had discovered the assassin, and they would be derelict in their duty if they did not come to search.

If the assassins really harmed any noble in the palace, their heads would fall off their necks, but they did not want to offend the newly arrived Second Prince, so they said, "It is our duty. I hope Your Highness will understand."

Su Heting leaned against the door frame with his arms folded. "The king and the princess are both awake. There are no assassins in the house. You can go back."

The eunuch said hurriedly, "I'm not mistaken. Someone came in. I searched Linghua Pavilion, but this room was the only one I didn't search."

"Did you see it?"

Su Heting looked at the eunuch, smiling, "Then tell me, what does the assassin look like?"

The eunuch hesitated.

He was ordered to squat outside Linghua Pavilion. He only saw a shadow flash by and then shouted. He couldn't see anything clearly.

Just as he was wondering how to respond, he heard a vague voice say, "We'll know what an assassin looks like if we send the Imperial Guards in to search him."

It’s Cao Ying.

Her face was so swollen that she couldn't see anyone, and she came in the middle of the night wearing a veil.

Her face was so swollen that she had difficulty speaking, but she was unwilling to miss the opportunity to fight back against Qiao Xi and Su Heting.

She suspected Qiao Xi, and after waking up, she ordered people to wait near Linghua Pavilion, and they actually found her.

“The Second Prince grew up outside the palace and doesn’t know that if an assassin appears in the palace, he must cooperate with the search.

To prevent assassins from hiding in the palace, if anything were to harm Your Majesty, no one would be able to bear the responsibility."

Cao Ying was very sure that the assassin the eunuch was talking about must be Qiao Xi.

She just couldn't guess where Qiao Xi had gone or what she was doing.

But it doesn’t matter. As long as it can be proved that Qiao Xi went out tonight, it will be enough to make the emperor suspect her.

Seeing Su Heting looking at her in silence, Cao Ying sarcastically asked, "Could it be that there is something in this room that the Second Prince doesn't dare to send people in to search?"

But he heard Su Heting slowly say, "I was thinking, you are in such a terrible state, and you still come here to join in the fun.

I am also very sure that there is someone in the house. Could it be that this assassin is your man?

Or maybe you are already mentally twisted, staying up late at night and fabricating an assassin just to mess up our newlywed couple.

Or, you can't tolerate me and you have to cause trouble for me?"