After Gui Bugui was too slandered, Gao Lishi finally believed that he had nothing to do with the death of the emperor and the imperial concubine. He didn't even bother to say anything at the moment. The emperor's personal eunuch pulled Wu Mian, Gui Bugui and others ran to the carriage that was docked in front of the King Cheng's mansion. Under the escort of a group of cavalry and imperial guards, he quickly headed towards the direction of the palace.

On the carriage, Gao Lishi told the strange things that happened in the palace this morning. Because the emperor was drunk last night and slept late, Gao Lishi specially ordered the eunuch to wake up His Majesty and the imperial concubine one hour later (there was no early court system in the Tang Dynasty). Because there were Tubo envoys meeting this afternoon, Gao Lishi was busy with the envoys meeting early in the morning.

Just when Gao Lishi was about to prepare, the eunuch general manager who was responsible for serving the emperor's daily life came to him in panic.

At first, Gao Lishi thought that he had not done his job, which made the emperor and the imperial concubine angry and came to ask for help to say a few good things. In name, Gao Lishi was still the master of the general manager. Seeing his face full of sweat and panic, Eunuch Gao cursed: "What are you panic? Look at yourself as a general manager? Your Majesty is there, what are you panic..."

"Your Majesty is gone..." Before Gao Lishi finished speaking, the eunuch general manager lowered his voice and continued in his ear: "I went to invite you early just now, but I didn't expect there was nothing on the bed. Your Majesty and the Empress disappeared at some point..."

Hearing this sentence, Gao Lishi's mind "buzz!" for a moment, and then he hurriedly came to the emperor's bedroom with the company of the eunuch. Sure enough, there was nothing on the emperor's dragon bed. In the huge bedroom, there were only a few eunuchs and palace maids who were so scared that they were at a loss.

The eunuch general manager continued while wiping his cold sweat: "I have searched all the palaces around me, but no trace of His Majesty is found. I have sent people to the bedrooms of the other empresses to inquire, but no whereabouts of His Majesty and the imperial concubine. The guards and imperial guards on duty last night also inquired, but no abnormality has happened... Master, you must save me this time..."

"Save you? I don't know who will help you! Your Majesty has really made mistakes. I'm also the crime of raiding the house..." At this time, Gao Lishi began to panic. Seeing the eunuchs's director unable to handle the matter, he couldn't help but slap him on the left face. The slap made both of them calm down a little. Gao Lishi then realized that there seemed to be something missing in the bedroom...

"Where are the palace maids who accompany the sleeping room?" Gao Lishi said that the palace maids who serve the emperor and the imperial concubines rest. Such palace maids are usually the personal palace maids of the concubines in the harem. The palace maids who accompany the sleeping room cannot leave the palace all night, and are ready to cover the emperor and the concubines with blankets and wait for the night. The emperor and the concubines will not avoid them even if they go to the room.

"It's gone. There were two palace maids who accompanied me last night. They were both personal palace maids of the Imperial Concubine - Chunhua and Qiuyue. After His Majesty disappeared, they both disappeared." The eunuch general manager wiped his cold sweat and continued, "Master, do you think the evil ghost that happened last year has come back. Let Your Majesty and the Imperial Concubine..."

"Nonsense! Why did I tell you? Do you still dare to mention the matter of last year? Don't you have no brains?" After the haunted palace last year, the emperor asked Gao Lishi to silence the palace, and no one was allowed to mention what happened that night. Gao Lishi also killed the chicken and scared the monkey, and beat several eunuchs who were talking nonsense, so he did not spread the story that happened that night. The eunuch general manager said this. Although Gao Lishi scolded him, he himself had a little thought. Maybe this time it was really the evil ghost who stayed in the palace last year.

Just as he was about to ask his eunuchs to go to Chengwang Mansion and invite a few old gods to the palace, the eunuchs general manager came in to report the news, saying that two chopped bodies were found in the well of the empress dowager's bedroom. Now that the empress dowager has been alarmed, the old lady is about to send someone to investigate the matter.

When Gao Lishi heard that two broken bodies were found, he almost fainted. He was so energetic that he went to the Queen Mother's bedroom. Before meeting the Queen Mother, he took the courage to check out the two broken bodies that had just been salvaged. At this time, the broken bodies had been spliced, but they were two female corpses. Gao Lishi and the eunuch general manager then breathed a long sigh...

Although there were only two female corpses, the eunuchs and general manager still recognized at a glance that the two female corpses were the two companions who served the emperor last night and the imperial concubines were sleeping. An unknown premonition filled Gao Lishi's heart. They were both like this, and His Majesty the Emperor would not be much better...

Just when Gao Lishi was worried, something even more troublesome happened. An Lushan, who woke up, came to pay tribute to the emperor and the imperial concubine. He did not find the whereabouts of the emperor, so he came here to pay tribute to the empress dowager with the courtesy of the Hu people. After hearing that two broken bodies were found in the bedroom, An Lushan came to watch. The governor of the Three Towns recognized the two broken bodies as his godmother's personal palace maid at first sight.

Now An Lushan knew that something was wrong in the palace, so he hurriedly asked Gao Lishi and the eunuch general manager what had happened. The general manager could not handle the matter. After being scared by An Lushan, he told the emperor and the imperial concubine that he disappeared. It happened that the eunuch in the empress dowager heard it and hurriedly reported to the empress dowager to find out.

After knowing that the emperor was missing, he found a broken body in the well of his bedroom early in the morning. The old empress dowager was so scared that she fainted. After rescued her, the empress dowager hurriedly issued an imperial eunuch. She summoned the eunuch Yang Guozhong to the palace and asked him to find the whereabouts of the emperor.

Yang Guozhong was the elder brother of the imperial concubine Yang Yuhuan. After knowing that his sister and the emperor disappeared, he was also scared. He hurried into the palace to look for the whereabouts of the emperor and his sister. Those who accompanied Yang Guozhong to the palace together were also officials responsible for handling the case in Dali Temple. After checking the death of the two broken corpses, they told Yang Guozhong that his Majesty and the imperial concubine would be in danger and asked him to make plans early.

His own sister, also his greatest backer, Yang Yuhuan, disappeared, which was definitely not good news for Yang Guozhong. However, at this time he had no time to mourn his sister. After hearing the news that the emperor might have passed away, Yang Guozhong made a small plan. If the emperor really returns to heaven, the country will not be without a king for a day. The emperor has not yet established a prince. He only needs to choose a young child among the princes and let him inherit the throne. At that time, he would not dare to learn from Cao Cao who used the emperor to command the princes and rebelled against Yang Guozhong, but at least he could make his family rich for decades...

At this moment, while Yang Guozhong continued to send people to find the whereabouts of the emperor and the imperial concubine, he sent people to the palace of the emperor's youngest son to find an obedient child. As soon as the emperor found the body of the emperor, he immediately supported the child to ascend the throne. At that time, as the prime minister, he said that the emperor had said in front of him that he had intended to make the child the crown prince. As long as the new emperor presided over the emperor's funeral ceremony, even if the raw rice was cooked into cooked rice, it would be too late for anyone to have any objection.

Just as Yang Guozhong was preparing for both actions, An Lushan saw the traces. After seeing through Yang Guozhong's thoughts, the fat man was furious and came to the empress dowager's bedroom to curse Yang Guozhong. Then he complained to the old empress dowager, saying that Yang Guozhong was preparing to establish a new king in an attempt to rebel.

Yang Guozhong and An Lushan have always been in a disagreement. Seeing Fei Hu talking nonsense, the prime minister was furious. He now used his prime minister's rights to seize An Lushan. He wanted to put the blame for the disappearance of the emperor and the imperial concubine on Fei Hu's head.

An Lushan, who was already outside the Great Wall, saw that Yang Guozhong was going to attack him. At that time, he did not hesitate to say that the eight hundred Hu soldiers who brought him to the Queen Mother's bedroom were summoned to the Queen Mother's bedroom, and he was ready to fight with Yang Guozhong. Now the palace was in chaos, and he thought that these An Lushan's personal soldiers were here to help find the emperor. Without stopping, Hu soldiers arrived in the palace.
Chapter completed!