Shuang Daqin comparison, no comparison, no harm

Fortunately, the two court ministers didn't seem to have any intention of defecting to any prince.

Now if Zhao Ze can win them over, with Zhao Ze's power in the court and Ying Zheng's support, wouldn't the position of the King of Chu be within reach?

The Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet broke up at midnight, and all the ministers resigned.

Only a few concubines remained in the entire Salt Water Palace.

Zhao Ze also followed the ministers to leave, but he didn't leave immediately, but instead brought a court lady to ask Li Yan if she had time.

After Li Yan received the news, she told the queen mother that she was feeling unwell and had to go out first.

Seeing that her face was slightly red, the Queen Mother knew that something must be wrong with her, so she asked, "Is the emperor's eldest grandson looking for you?"

The Queen Mother Zhao Ji knew that Li Yan's heart belonged to Zhao Ze, and Zhao Ze was probably the only one who could make her blush.

Li Yan nodded and said honestly: "He told me to go to Dahe to put lights on.

Upon hearing this, the queen mother immediately let him go, and he worriedly let his maid follow him.

Zhao Ze brought Li Yan to the vicinity of Dahe, and it was already midnight.

On weekdays, there are almost no people in the river, but today it is full of people.

Most of them come together in pairs, and they occasionally hold hands and embrace.

From the distance of the big river, you can also see the river lanterns drifting straight down.

The river lights flickered faintly, and there were so many of them that they looked like stars.

The surrounding area is very lively, and from time to time, you can hear the whispering conversations around you.

In the dim light, several couples can still be seen getting intimate.

Zhao Ze and Li Yan stood in the middle, but they looked abrupt, and the distance between the two people was almost one meter, as if they were strangers.

Li Yan looked up at Zhao Ze from time to time, but she didn't dare to speak.

She spends too little time alone with Zhao Ze.

So little that she hardly knew how to talk to Zhao Ze, nor did she understand Zhao Ze.

Feeling the embarrassment of the atmosphere, Zhao Ze took the initiative to break the ice: "I have asked the people below to wait for the lanterns to come, let's take a look at the side first."

Zhao Ze wanted to ask Li Yan on the spur of the moment, so he didn't make any preparations in advance.

As smart as Li Yan, she could see it, and felt a little lost at the moment.

She didn't know why Zhao Ze suddenly wanted to ask her out. Although she was happy in her heart, she always felt that there was an insurmountable gap between him and Zhao Ze.

After a while, Lin Zhizhou sent lanterns.

After the lanterns were delivered, Zhao Ze handed them over to Li Yan.

Li Yan was a little embarrassed, "This lantern is for two people to put up together, don't you want to let it go?"

This is the first time Zhao Ze heard that the two of them were going to play together, but in the end he could only do what Li Yan wanted.

The two of them each wrote their names on the lanterns and placed them on the bank of the river.

Watching the lanterns going downstream, Li Yan showed a slight smile on her face.

At this moment, Zhao Ze was staring at the flowing river, only to see a black shadow floating above the river.

The shadow looks very much like a human being, but the light is too dark for Zhao Ze to be sure.

Suddenly, the shadow was stuck on the boulder in the middle of the river, and the water slapped on the shadow, overturning the shadow directly. Only then did Zhao Ze see it clearly.

I saw a head protruding from the river water, with black hair all over the head.

The corpse was still wearing blue-green clothes, Zhao Ze hurriedly called to Lin Zhizhou, "Hurry up and send someone down to salvage it, there seems to be a corpse there."

Hearing this, Lin Zhizhou immediately sent people to fish

Standing beside Li Yan's face turned pale, he and she did not expect to encounter such a thing when they came to set off lanterns with Zhao Ze.

...asking for flowers...

Lin Zhizhou salvaged the body, and Zhao Ze guessed that it was a woman in her twenties.

The clothes on the corpse were complete, and the hair was disheveled. It hadn't been soaked in the river for a long time, and there was no difficulty or swelling.

While still able to see the original appearance of the corpse, Zhao Ze handed over the matter to the local county government in the morning.

Unexpectedly, Lin Zhizhou found a jade-colored hairpin from the woman during the inspection.

The hairpin is also inlaid with a golden phoenix.

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If you look closely, you can tell that the texture of this golden phoenix is ​​made of pure gold.

And the hairpin of this hairpin is made of high-quality ice muscle jade.

This thing is worth a lot just by looking at its material.

What shocked Zhao Ze the most was that Li Yan suddenly pointed out, "Isn't this the hairpin given to concubines by the emperor? Every concubine has it.

Ying Zheng occasionally rewards concubines when he is happy, and obviously this jade hairpin is one of them.

Li Yan and the concubines in the palace are relatively close and naturally recognize each other.

Knowing that this person might be Yingzheng's concubine, Zhao Ze couldn't ask the servants below to investigate, so he could only order Lin Zhizhou to take the body back first.

The body was found by the river, and the people around were frightened enough that the people who put up the lanterns went back early.

At this time, Zhao Ze was not thinking about setting up the lanterns, so he asked the people below to send Li Yan back, so he prepared to go back to Xianyang Palace with Lin Zhizhou by himself.

There are so many people on the street today, it is inconvenient for Zhao Ze and others to ride on the street, lest they bump into the crowd, so they can only walk back.

Zhao Ze was not in a hurry, he had to find out the identity of the corpse first.

So he also walked leisurely on the road. .