Chapter 58: Eunuch

Wang Hai's heart sank.

Things were a bit big.

Under the Ming Sect Leader, the Left and Right Envoys had the highest status. Fifteen years ago, the Ming Sect Left Envoy was a peak expert, and the Left and Right Envoys were of the same rank, so this Right Envoy probably wouldn't be much worse.

Moreover, the Imperial Guard had never received any news about this Right Envoy in the past fifteen years. They didn't even know if it was a man or a woman.

Originally, they intended to catch a tongue and follow the vine to dig out a few dead ghosts of the Ming Sect, but they didn't expect to catch the tail of a whale.

It was not easy to handle.

The Imperial Guard didn't know the relationship with the Ming Sect when they caught this person, and the methods were a bit rough. In a few days, this line would probably be broken.

If the Ming Sect Right Envoy's martial arts were at the peak level, then only Li Miao, Zhu Zai, and the North Office Commander Bu Lei could stably eat this person in the Imperial Guard at this time.

If it were a Jianghu expert with territory and foundation, they could mobilize troops to encircle and suppress. But since the Ming Sect was severely damaged fifteen years ago and went underground, the experts in the sect had always been alone.

Catching such a lone expert required an expert who could drag him so he couldn't use light-body techniques to escape, waiting for troops to encircle and kill.

After Li Miao left, Zhu Zai had to sit in Shuntian Prefecture and couldn't easily go out.

The North Office Commander Bu Lei was also not in the northern territory at the moment, and he couldn't come back even if he sent a message.

"First send someone to send the message to the Battalion Commander, I will secretly touch this line, and if I can't handle it, I will retreat in time." Wang Hai made up his mind.

Among the Imperial Guard, except for Li Miao, Zhu Zai, and Bu Lei, Wang Hai was already a top expert. At this moment, pushing it to others was not as good as doing it himself.

"These things appearing together on this road seem to have a line connecting them, not like a coincidence."

"Must touch it, can't let these things ruin the Battalion Commander's plan."

Wang Hai stood up and interrogated the man. The man's psychological defense had been broken. At this time, he was trembling when he looked at Li Xiaosi, who was eating snacks back at the table, and poured out all the news he knew like beans from a bamboo tube.

After asking everything clearly, Wang Hai didn't hesitate, stood up immediately, and took Li Xiaosi out.

He told someone to send the message to Li Miao, explained a few words to Li Xiaosi, and then took his luggage and rode his horse on the road.

Li Xiaosi couldn't do martial arts after all, could only sneak attack, and couldn't do this tracking errand. Moreover, Jinan Prefecture also needed someone to bring the personnel from Shuntian Prefecture to the Taishan Sect.

Li Xiaosi stayed in Jinan Prefecture until the afternoon, and someone sent a message: The Imperial Guard sent from Shuntian Prefecture had arrived.

She went out, and saw several people standing in the courtyard, all of whom were Battalion Commanders under Li Miao, and a North Office Battalion Commander, all of whom recognized Li Xiaosi.

If it were usual, these people would smile at Li Xiaosi for Li Miao's sake.

It was just that for some reason, these people didn't speak, secretly winking at Li Xiaosi, as if it was inconvenient to speak.

Just when Li Xiaosi was strange, she heard a sharp voice from outside the door: "Since when does your Imperial Guard yamen accept women!?"

"Where is Battalion Commander Li Miao? Why don't I see him? I have something to tell him."

As the voice approached, a middle-aged man walked in.

This man was around forty, with a white face and no beard, his posture was twisted, and his voice was sharp like a woman's.

Li Xiaosi had been in Shuntian Prefecture for many years, so she naturally knew: this person was a eunuch.

That North Office Battalion Commander stepped forward and whispered to Li Xiaosi: "Fourth sister, this is the Seal-Holding Eunuch of the Directorate of Ceremonial, Cheng Yuanzheng."

"He is not coming with good intentions. Be careful."

That eunuch Cheng Yuanzheng walked to Li Xiaosi, scanned her from head to toe, and asked: "Who are you? This government office... is it a place a woman can just enter?"

He turned to the North Office Battalion Commander and said: "Why... do you have to bring female family members when you Imperial Guards go out of the capital to handle errands?"

"The Emperor is still too indulgent to you. If we in the palace were as careless as you when handling errands, we would have to be beaten with boards~"

Hearing this person speak, Li Xiaosi immediately understood that this eunuch definitely didn't come with good intentions.

Thinking of the appearance of the several Imperial Guard Battalion Commanders who were inconvenient to speak, Li Xiaosi roughly knew the situation in her heart.

Something went wrong.

I don't know what happened to Zhu Zai in Shuntian Prefecture, but the Imperial Guard's own errand, which was only one step away from being finished, was brought with a eunuch who didn't hide his malice at all.

It was inconvenient to speak in front of this person, so Li Xiaosi took out a waist token from her waist: "I am an Imperial Guard spy, here to report an errand, and I am leaving now."

Having said that, she didn't look at the eunuch and walked out the door.

She didn't go far, but found a place opposite the yamen to wait.

Waiting until the sun set, she saw a Battalion Commander under Li Miao come out to look around, saw Li Xiaosi, and hurriedly walked over, greeting in a low voice.

"Fourth sister."

"Brother Zhang." Li Xiaosi nodded: "What's going on, what's the background of that eunuch?"

Battalion Commander Zhang smiled bitterly: "Fourth sister, we are going to have our peaches picked!"

"Our people had already gathered the personnel and were ready to set off. The Commander went into the palace, and when he came back, he smashed his little courtyard to pieces."

"The next day, the palace sent some eunuchs. They said that this errand should be handled by the Directorate of Ceremonial and us together."

"This time our errand, half of it was divided by these eunuchs. Half of the personnel who came were also replaced."

"The one this afternoon, Cheng Yuanzheng, is the leader. He has caused us a lot of trouble on this road."

"Hai is not here, we can't grasp the Battalion Commander's idea, and the North Office's Battalion Commander Wang is just helping out this time. You are the Battalion Commander's foster daughter, and you also know the situation of this errand now."

"You say, what should we do now?"

Li Xiaosi thought for a while, raised her little hand and drew a line downward, and looked up at Battalion Commander Zhang.

"Grandmother, can't kill him. This is a person sent by the palace, and we don't know the inside story here, so there will be big trouble if we kill him."

Li Xiaosi stretched out two fingers again, making a wriggling motion on her arm.

"Gu is also not okay, even if it can't be checked for a while, it will be counted on us afterwards."

Li Xiaosi thought for a while and nodded: "Let's do this."

"There are still five days before the Five Mountains Alliance meeting, and this place is not far from Tai'an City, it only takes two days to ride a horse."

"I will go one step ahead and find my grandfather to explain the situation. You drag him for a few days, and walk slowly on the road."

Having said that, Li Xiaosi suddenly reached out, and her white little hand patted Battalion Commander Zhang on the chest.

"I have to wrong Brother Zhang."

She passed a trace of extremely subtle Gu poison into Battalion Commander Zhang's body.

Li Xiaosi grasped the proportion, Battalion Commander Zhang had true energy protection, so nothing would happen, but there would always be some reaction, just right to pretend to be sick and delay.

"Go back and have a meal with a few eunuchs, they will also be infected with this poison. If their own people get sick, they should be able to delay some time."

Battalion Commander Zhang rubbed his chest and smiled bitterly: "Okay, okay."

Li Xiaosi didn't hesitate, turned and left immediately, went to the stable to lead the horse, rode out of the city, and rode all night toward the Taishan Sect.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 59 =====