Zhao Zhen had just returned to the palace and felt that he might have had enough burritos in the morning, so he took Nangong for a walk in the garden.

Qiuwei had a three-day holiday, and Zhao Zhen didn't have to go to court. After walking around the yard three times, he started to feel a little bored.

The daughter was attending morning classes, the beloved concubine was nursing the child, the Queen Mother was chanting sutras in the ancestral hall... Zhao Lan took little Ge Qing to attend classes at Taixue.

Zhao Zhen thought about it over and over again, and then he remembered the ghost play that the fourth son said.

When Nangong heard that he was going to start making trouble again, he quickly said to go find the fourth son and let them discuss... and accurately passed the blame to the fourth son.

Nangong ordered the guards to find the regiment king. When he looked back, he saw that Zhao Zhen had disappeared again.

Nangong sighed, “This emperor cannot be idle.

After passing through the door of the study room, in the garden at the back, Zhao Zhen was standing next to a sand pit with a shovel in his hand.

This sandpit was dug not long ago and is located under a big tree in the courtyard.

This tree is the largest tree in the entire garden. There is a swing installed on it. Xiangxiang likes to swing here.

But one time before, Xiangxiang accidentally fell down while she was swinging. Although she was caught by the guards, Zhao Zhen still took a big jump.

After much deliberation, I felt it was unsafe, so I had someone dig a big pit under the swing and fill it with fine sand... This way, even if Xiangxiang fell, it would not be broken, and the father and daughter would always be in the pit if nothing happened.

Play with piles of sand.

It was good at first, but then I discovered a problem - there were so many cats in the palace, and they all came here to use the toilet.

When Zhao Zhen was piling sand that day, he picked up a bunch of cat poop. He was so angry that he wanted to punish the cats for bullying.

However, Zhao Zhen can command the world, but he can't control the cute four-legged creature. He can't beat or scold him. He said a few harsh words to the cats, and the cats fell down collectively, turning their bellies to Zhao Zhen.

"Meow meow meow" is acting like a spoiled child, and the emperor has no temper.

Fortunately, there were capable people in the court, so Nangong asked Fang Jingxiao to come into the palace to help.

Fang Jingxiao had a "chat" with some kittens. From then on, the cats no longer came to the sandpit to go to the toilet.

Zhao Zhen was quite happy, but he didn't know what Fang Jingxiao said to the cat cubs. After the group of cats hit them, they looked at the Emperor of the Song Dynasty in a strange way.

Zhao Zhen walked to the garden today and noticed a bulge in the sandpit.

The emperor put his hands behind his back and looked left and right. He saw a hemispherical pile of sand! It didn't look like the castle of Xiangxiangdui. Looking at the technique and the flatness, it should be some cat's poop.

Zhao Zhen let out a "hum" and said to himself, you guys, let's see how I deal with you!

After thinking about it, Zhao Zhen went to find a shovel, rolled up his sleeves, and went down to the sand to "shovel shit."

Nangong hurriedly tried to persuade him, but when he saw that he could not be persuaded, he had no choice but to get into the sand pit and ask Zhao Zhen for a shovel. What he meant was - you go up there and wait, I will shovel.

Zhao Zhen doesn’t want to do it.

The maids and eunuchs nearby also came up to stop him. Who dared to ask the emperor to shovel cat poop? Of course they rushed to do it.

But Zhao Zhen refused and said, "I will personally clean up the rules of the harem today!"

Nangong Wuyu, what kind of harem, cat palace...

There was nothing he could do to stop him, so Nangong could only accompany Zhao Zhenfeng.

result……

The Emperor of the Song Dynasty shoveled down the cat's poop but shoveled out a human head.

Everyone around was stunned, Nangong was also stunned, and a group of shadow guards fell down from the roof.

As soon as Zhao Zhen let go, the shovel fell to the ground.

Nangong looked at Zhao Zhen who quickly ran out of the sand pit.

Zhao Zhen also asked, "Did Zhan's guards come yesterday?"

A group of palace maids and eunuchs all shook their heads - No.

Zhao Zhen looked at Nangong.

Nangong also looked at him and said in his heart - You can't get rid of this pot. How many people stopped you just now and you have to dig it! Is the emperor planning to compete with Zhan Zhao for the title of Great Song Dynasty Ming Deng?

Zhao Zhen flattened his mouth and heard two "quacking" sounds.

Everyone looked up and saw a big crow landing on one side of the roof.

Nangong ordered his guards to notify Kaifeng Mansion. At the same time, he ordered all palace doors to be closed and no one was allowed to leave the palace.

…

Just like that, Zhan Zhao and the others heard the bell ringing at the palace gate and bumped into the guards.

When Zhan Zhao and the others ran into the garden, they heard Zhao Zhen talking to Nangong with his hands on his waist, "In the final analysis, it is still the fault of the cats who buried their shit in this sand pit! Right? Burying shit is not the same as burying shit.

Does “corpse” sound like the same word as “corpse”? When it comes to the end of the world, it’s all the cat’s fault!”

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang unhappily - look at this petty emperor!

Bai Yutang did look at Zhao Zhen, and at the same time he saw the shovel and the human head in the sandpit... Could it be that Zhao Zhen shoveled the human head while shoveling shit?

Lin Yehuo and Zhao Pu also looked at Zhao Zhen in disbelief - So what do you do in the palace every day? Do you need to go to the ground to shovel shit yourself? And why are there such a big cat litter box in the palace?

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Zhao Zhen looked at Nangong angrily - my reputation has been harmed! Those cats are ruining my reputation!

Nangong sighed. Most of them accompanied the emperor's family to Qiuwei for camping yesterday, and only a small number of guards remained in the palace.

However, the outside of the palace is still heavily guarded. The possibility of someone from outside sneaking in and burying a head is extremely small, but the possibility of insiders committing a crime is greater.

The fourth son ran to the sandpit, squatted down and looked at the head for a while, then took out a portrait of Sun Luoye from his pocket.

This portrait was brought by the disciples of Luoye Sect yesterday. They are also looking for their leader all over the world.

The head looked dead for several days, as if it had been soaked in water and was a little swollen.

The fourth child competed with the portrait for a while, then ran out and said to Zhan Zhao, "Mao Mao, it's Sun Luoye."

Zhan Zhao took the portrait, looked at it, and nodded—it seemed right.

Bai Yutang and Lin Yehuo both recalled the song they heard last night - "A sand pit, where are the bridge holes, roof beams and hot kilns?"

Zhan Zhao glanced at Nangong faintly.

When Nangong saw Zhan Zhao looking at him, he thought he had some clues. If it was an insider, he would have to catch him quickly.

But looking at Zhan Zhao's eyes, Nangong thought for a while and suddenly felt that something was wrong - wasn't it? The body was also in the palace?

Zhan Zhao nodded and said he would lead someone to search for him.

Zhao Zhen heard it all fresh, "Huh? Could it be that someone killed someone here and cut the body into pieces and buried it on the spot?"

Nangong also felt that the matter could be big or small. Bringing in a head and bringing in a whole corpse were not the same concepts!

Zhao Pu said it seemed to be related to the song last night.

After Zhao Zhen heard this, he ordered his guards to search all the bridges and beams in the palace.

"Is there any hot kiln in the palace?" Zhao Zhen asked Nangong.

Nangong said that the princess had been doing pottery for a while last year and had a small kiln over there in Leng Palace.

Zhao Zhen also asked people to look for him.

A large number of guards began to search in the palace. Outside the palace, Zou Liang came with the imperial army to strengthen the defense of the palace.

Zhao Zhen asked the fourth son, "How do you sing that song?"

The fourth son sang all the recent songs.

"So corpses have been found in all the places visited by this singer?" Zhao Zhen touched his chin, "Then the murderer who dumped the corpse seems to be quite obsessed with this troupe."

Zhao Zhen became more and more interested in the ghost theater troupe.

…

After a careful search, sure enough, corpses in black cloth bags were found under the bridge in the garden, on the beams of the side hall, and in the pottery kiln near the Leng Palace.

Along with the body, there were also clues to the case.

Several kitchen workers said that they saw those black cloth bags yesterday afternoon and thought they were ingredients. They were brought into the palace along with the truck transporting ingredients. Later, they were piled up in the garbage area. , thought it was going to be thrown away...no one paid attention.

Zhao Zhenxin said - Good fellow! What does the imperial kitchen cook for me every day?

Several cooks were sweating on their foreheads, and they all said that they had indeed seen some black cloth bags yesterday, but when they were sorting out the ingredients, those bags had disappeared.

In addition, several young eunuchs said that there was a young eunuch sleepwalking last night. He went out until midnight and wandered for a long time before coming back. When he woke up this morning, he found sand on the ground.

Some guards also said that one of the guards who was off duty last night also sleepwalked. After going out, he came back wet. The other guards asked him what happened.

The guard looked confused and said he didn't know what was going on. He seemed to be sleepwalking. When he woke up, he was in the pool and almost drowned.

After some investigation, we found that many people in the palace were sleepwalking last night.

Zhan Zhao gathered all the sleepwalkers together and used the devil's eyes to see what they had done last night.

Only after looking at it did I realize that it was really these people who did it.

They left the resting place and went to the place where debris was piled up near the kitchen. They found several black cloth bags, and took out the human head from a cloth bag. They went to different places to hide the bodies, and then returned to the original place. In the resting place, everyone fell asleep like nothing happened.
To be continued...