Outside the palace gate, five hundred death-seeking troops were waiting in formation.

They were motionless, like wooden sculptures, so indifferent that they ignored everything, but they exuded an aura that made people avoid them.

Qin Youzhen's face was livid. In front of these 500 death-seeking troops, the Royal Forest Army and the Hussars Battalion were just like a three-year-old child and a seven-foot strong man. The gap was huge!

He could even imagine that if he had dared to do anything to Qin Xinglie in the palace just now, these soldiers would have rushed into the palace without hesitation, and they would not be afraid of rebellion and regicide!

With such a vassal king at his side, which emperor can sleep peacefully?

King Li's guards, under the command of a scar-faced man, sent him into the carriage.

Scarface gave an order, and the death-seeking army raised their guns and saluted Qin Youzhen, then turned around and escorted the carriage away.

Looking at the death-seeking army with such forbidding orders, Qin Youzhen's eyes hid deep fear.

He turned his head and saw Gu Zhao next to him with a shocked expression. As if he had found a close friend, he asked in a low voice, "What does Gu Aiqing think of this death-seeking army?"

Gu Zhao blinked and came back to his senses, "It is indeed a large army that made the Ma Rong and Donghao people flee. It is heartbreaking."

Qin Youzhen sneered.

The death-seeking army is indeed of extraordinary achievements, but such a national weapon should only be held in the hands of the king.

Otherwise, if the leader is weak and the minister is strong, it will not be a blessing to the country.

Gu Zhao heard the meaning in Qin Youzhen's sneer, and felt frightened in his heart.

The reason she was shocked just now was not because of the appearance and momentum of the death-seeking army - the death-seeking army had helped her a lot in Yu Chong Mountain last time, and she had already seen it at that time.

She was shocked because of the scar-faced man.

That was the man who helped her when she first returned to this world and fought for her life with the kidnapper at the dock!

After Gu Zhao was rescued, he chased him to ask for his identity, but before he could get over, he saw him leaving next to a carriage.

The carriage was very low-key and ordinary, without any special features, so that when Gu Zhao later wanted to find the owner of the carriage to repay the favor, he had nowhere to start.

Who would have thought that today I would see this person among the death-seeking army, and he was obviously the leader of the death-seeking army and a confidant of King Li.

So it was King Li who asked his men to rescue her at the dock?

"Gu Aiqing, I'll leave this case to you. I'm waiting for you to find the truth." Qin Youzhen's voice interrupted Gu Zhao's thinking.

After Gu Zhao agreed, Qin Youzhen immediately led his people back to the palace.

During this period, the mother-son duo of Yuan Zhimei and Qin Xinglie put so much pressure on him that he couldn't even sleep well in the palace.

Now that Qin Xinglie suddenly fell into a coma due to poison, he could just clear out Yuan Zhimei's many informants in the palace and find a general who could replace Qin Xinglie among the death-seeking army.

At the same time, he also had to find a way to impress Gu Zhao, get her to agree to marry him as the queen, and get He Zheng's support.

Qin Youzhen went over his plan in his heart, feeling that God was giving him a chance, and finally a smile appeared on his lips.

When he thought of the scene of arresting the demon concubine for revenge, Qin Youzhen felt like his heart was scratching with claws, and he was so impatient that he no longer had any interest in the true identity of the secretary.

Anyway, he was completely at ease leaving this matter to Gu Zhao.

After sending Qin Youzhen away, Gu Zhao squatted in front of the small pool of dark blood and motioned to Xiaohe to wipe off all the blood with a white cotton cloth and preserve it.

This is a very important clue, through which we may be able to find the murderer who poisoned Qin Xinglie.

"Brother Shen, take someone to check on the deceased. Start with his friends, acquaintances, residence, daily life, etc., to see if there is anything suspicious."

Gu Zhao ordered in a deep voice.

She had a feeling that what King Li said just now was true, and this clerk was most likely really Donghao's spy.

On the matter of forcing King Li to counterattack, Donghao people have the same position as Yuan Zhimei.

It was really a good deal to abandon a dead soldier, forcing King Li to rebel with no way out, and letting Bei'an fall into the flames of war.

The imperial guards and idlers all retreated, and silence returned to the cabinet offices.

Mr. Shen Ge returned to the room where he had just questioned Qin Xinglie, but this time, the person being questioned became himself.

Gu Zhao stretched out his hand, "Old Shen Ge, I'm offended."

Old Shen Ge had a bitter look on his face. He had long heard that the female officer Konghe Si was good at sensing the pulse, but he had regarded this statement as a joke in the past. He never thought that one day he would experience it himself.

He hesitated for a while, but still did not refuse and stretched out his arm.

Gu Zhao sat across the desk and placed his finger on Mr. Shen Ge's pulse.

Rumors may not be credible. This female officer just judged the truth of what I said based on various details such as pulse, heartbeat, and expression. What's so scary?

Mr. Shen Ge's voice was very clear, without too many distracting thoughts. He seemed to be at two extremes from Gu Pandi, Gao and others.

Gu Zhao gave him a polite smile, "Please tell Mr. Shen Ge first about the situation at that time."

Mr. Shen Ge calmed down and recounted what he had just seen and heard as objectively as possible.

I just want to follow the palace instructions and force King Li to make him feel disgusted with the emperor and realize that as long as he is not the emperor, being feared and plotted against him will be his eternal destiny.

Who would have thought that the secretary would be Dong Hao's spy, and they don't know how he poisoned King Li...

Now that King Li was directly poisoned and fell into coma, the emperor said that he was sending him to Yu Chong Mountain for treatment and recuperation, but in fact he wanted to put King Li under house arrest. The next step would definitely be a series of counterattacks, and the subsequent plans must be adjusted.

Gu Zhao looked at Mr. Shen Ge with his eyes unchanged, but he was shocked in his heart that Yuan Zhimei's hand was stretched out so long. Mr. Shen Ge was actually Yuan Zhimei's accomplice.

At the same time, Gu Zhao also roughly understood the real purpose of Yuan Zhimei's actions these days.

She just wants to force the counterattack king!
Chapter completed!