Chapter 1068: Dilemma
"What are you talking about," Hearing Wang Meng's words, the most surprised was naturally Zhu Xuanqi, even more surprised than Zhang Fan, who had already known what would happen and could pretend to be surprised now, "Outsiders sneaked in into the palace," After saying this, even if Zhu Xuanqi had already drunk a lot of wine before, but now the wine has also woken up a lot, obviously being scared awake.
Speaking of which, it's no wonder that Zhu Xuanqi lost the prince's bearing and made a fuss, it's really because he has been on the throne for more than ten years, but let alone more than ten years, even when he was a prince, he had never encountered this kind of thing, and now he heard Wang Meng say that there were uninvited guests in the inner courtyard of the palace, how could he not be surprised.
"What about people," and Zhang Fan's "performance" at this time was very good, he calmed down after being surprised, looked at Wang Meng and asked in a low voice, "Won't you still be here?"
"No," Wang Meng shook his head, and said, "the man is no longer here, and now he doesn't know where he went, but I'm sure that the man has never left the palace, or that he must have just come to the palace,"
"This ......" Wang Meng's words once again surprised Zhu Xuanqi, and it was the same, after all, he heard someone sneaking into the palace before, which was already surprising him, but the next moment he heard Wang Meng say that the other party had just come in, in fact, the news that Wang Meng told was nothing compared with the previous one, but because Zhu Xuanqi couldn't recover from the previous shock for a while, and now he was naturally a little surprised when he heard Wang Meng's words.
"Don't panic," Zhang Fan hurriedly comforted, "Now that we are all here, we will definitely ensure the safety of the prince, by the way, Wang Meng, there are a few people on the other side,"
"I only heard one just now," Wang Meng said, "but looking at his appearance, it doesn't look like he is going to assassinate the prince, if it is an assassin, when he comes in and hears movement or sees candlelight, he will not come close to check it, so as not to expose his figure, but this person is different, but he came to check, I'm afraid, his purpose should not be the prince, but someone else, or something,"
"Lord, is there anyone in this palace who has an enmity with the outside," Zhang Fan immediately turned around and asked Zhu Xuanqi, "Or is there anything in this palace that is quite valuable and let outsiders know?"
"How is this possible," Zhu Xuanqi listened to Zhang Fan's words, immediately shook his head, and said, "This is the palace, if there is anyone who has an enmity with outsiders, this point is not very clear, but Wang Qianhu also said just now, it seems that the people who came in do not look like assassins, then I am afraid it is for something, but in this palace, I don't know which valuable things are, and how can outsiders know about the things in the palace,"
"It's difficult, it was done by the people in the house," Zhang Fan said as if talking to himself.
"I don't think so," Wang Meng said, "If someone in the palace does it, and can have this kind of skill, then it is definitely a guard in the palace, but the guards in the palace have to patrol every night, if they find that something is missing the next day, when the time comes, check who is not on patrol at that time, isn't this exposed?"
"That maybe, someone here I colluded with outsiders to make it," Zhu Xuanqi is now a lot calmer, and the thoughts in his mind have returned, so he can naturally start to analyze the problem, after Wang Meng's words came out, he immediately thought of another possibility, and immediately raised it.
"What the prince said is naturally possible," Wang Meng said, "but it is also possible, this matter has nothing to do with the people in the palace at all, it is done by outsiders, firstly, now that the New Year is coming soon, some people want to take advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune, and secondly, even if they don't know what valuable objects are in the palace, it doesn't matter, after all, this is the palace, if you think about it as an outsider, I am afraid that there must be something valuable in the palace."
"But no matter whether this person is an external thief or an internal thief, he is definitely very familiar with the situation in the inner courtyard of this palace, this inner courtyard is not big, but it is not small, on weekdays, two guards are enough, but two people, one in the east, one in the west, after all, there are too few people, if you have to patrol everywhere, there will naturally be gaps, so that others can take advantage of the loopholes, but you also have to know how the two patrol here.
"Then what should I do now," although Zhu Xuanqi had regained his composure, the situation in front of him always made him a little unable to come back to his senses, and he didn't know what to do for a while, so he had to turn to the person in front of him for help.
"Don't panic," Zhang Fan said, "Liang Chao, you stay, Wang Meng, you go and see what the situation is, who it is, how many there are, what to do, if the other party has only one person, if it is convenient, capture him, if the other party is more than one, then you have to deal with it carefully,"
"Yes," Wang Meng replied and left, speaking of which, he and Liang Chao came in, both of them were unarmed, after all, this is the palace, but even if Wang Meng is unarmed, he is not afraid at all, and the other three people present don't care about this.
"Lord Wang," seeing Wang Meng leaving, Zhang Fan turned his head to Zhu Xuanqi and said, "Now Liang Chao is here here, and it is safe, but although Wang Meng is there, I don't know how many people there are, I mean, do you want the guards in the palace to come over to help, aren't the Zhao guards here now?"
"You're right," Zhu Xuanqi naturally agreed, and immediately prepared to summon someone over.
"Wait, wait," Zhang Fan said, "It's better to keep quiet in this matter, it's not that I'm afraid of alarming the thief, but now the thief is in the inner courtyard of the palace, if there is chaos in the palace, then they will be weak-minded, I'm afraid it will hurt the prince's family, then it's not good,"
"Lord Zhang is right, but this king was negligent," Zhu Xuanqi nodded immediately and called the maid outside the door to come in.
The maid didn't know what was going on, and thought that Zhu Xuanqi had something to call them for, but when they heard that they were asked to call Zhao Zijie, the two didn't know why, and thought that they were going to call Zhao Zijie over to drink together, and they thought even more highly of Zhao Zijie in their hearts, after all, Zhao Zijie was young, extraordinary, handsome and chic, and he was trusted by the prince, and the two young girls had a dispute over who to call Zhao Zijie.
And Zhang Fan, after waiting for Zhao Zijie to come, wants to see what his face will look like, it should be very exciting, after all, it was originally a planned thing, but now it is because Zhang Fan is such a Cheng bite gold, and he was suddenly greatly hindered, and in fact, Zhang Fan has nothing to do with this matter at all, it is just a coincidence, and even, Zhang Fan is not important to this matter, for Zhao Zijie, Wang Meng and Liang Chao, Especially Wang Meng would come to the palace at such a time to report to Zhang Fan, which is the most coincidental and deadly to him.
But no matter what Zhao Zijie thinks, it is absolutely impossible for him to put the responsibility on Zhang Fan, the reason is very simple, he inspected tonight, naturally he saw Wang Meng and Liang Chao entering the mansion, he suspected it at that time, but he didn't care too much, in his opinion, if Zhang Fan found out about him, I'm afraid he wouldn't tell Zhu Xuanqi, but it was possible to come to him directly, but Zhang Fan didn't look for him, he felt a lot more relieved.
However, now that Wang Meng and Liang Chao have arrived, and for Zhao Zijie, the person he notified has already come, so there is no way for him to notify them to cancel tonight's action.
Although Zhao Zijie didn't know the details of the operation, he estimated that there would definitely not be many people coming tonight, maybe only two or three people, at most only three or five, and if there were only so many people, let alone others, Wang Meng alone would be more than enough, not to mention Liang Chao, who even Zhao Zijie would not be able to match.
Of course, he can also help, but he doesn't want to do it too much, after all, in this way, it is equivalent to completely exposing his identity, when the time comes, not only the Shu Wangfu will reward him, I am afraid that Jinyiwei will not let him go, in the past he was able to escape under the pursuit of these two sides, but his life is over.
However, this is not the only choice that Zhao Zijie is facing now, in fact, he still has a way, that is, to do nothing, and even turn his head to help the Shu Wangfu deal with those people, so that he will be considered to have betrayed them when the time comes.
At that time, those people will definitely want to kill him, and not only that, it is very likely that they will reveal Zhao Zijie's true identity, so that even if he helps this side tonight, it is impossible for Zhu Xuanqi and Zhang Fan to trust him.
All in all, today's Zhao Zijie is in a dilemma, and the funny thing is that even if he is very smart, he still doesn't see that he has fallen into the trap of others, but he still thinks that he just encountered a very unlucky coincidence.
Just when Zhao Zijie was thinking about what to do alone, or just pretending not to know anything, the person sent by Zhu Xuanqi to summon him arrived.
Listening to the maid's words, Zhao Zijie frowned deeply, and walked in with heavy steps, where can he care that the girl on the side looked at him with a pair of affectionate eyes.
It seems that tonight, many people are destined to lose sleep, and it can be predicted before the show is staged, tonight's drama must be extremely exciting.