I was given the contraceptive soup and became the emperor's white moonlight

Chapter 118 Ring Set

After pacifying Mrs. Li, Xiao Heng went out and asked Xiao Xizi to summon Li Zhao. Li Zhao received the order, dropped his official duties and rushed to the palace without stopping.

"I can't wait any longer!" Xiao Heng said to himself without even looking at Li Zhao who was kneeling down to greet him: "Just follow the method I told you before."

"Just do as Su Zhaoyi proposed. I don't care how you implement it in the end. I just want you to quickly resolve the threat around me!" Xiao Heng issued a death order, "I will only give you ten days. If you still can't resolve it after ten days, do it according to the original method."

"But that method..." Li Zhao hesitated.

"I said, I can't wait!" Xiao Heng lowered his voice and spoke word by word, "Or you can give me a better way?"

Li Zhao looked at him deeply, then bowed his head and saluted deeply before their eyes met. "I obey your command!"

"Go and do it!" Xiao Heng didn't want to waste any more time, so he waved his hand to signal him to leave.

Before leaving, Li Zhaolian said, "Your Majesty, since the solution was proposed by Concubine Su, I would like to ask to see Concubine Su."

"Whatever you want!" Xiao Heng casually threw out a jade pendant, "Take this jade pendant and bring your people into the palace."

"You should understand what should be done, what should not be done, what can be touched and what cannot be touched, Li Zhao?" Xiao Heng turned around and looked down at him.

Li Zhao knelt down to thank him, "I guarantee it with my life!"

Xiao Heng then nodded, "Go!"

Li Zhao stroked the jade pendant in his arms, turned a corner and went straight to Linglong Palace before leaving the palace.

The guards in front of Linglong Palace perked up and surrounded the foreign minister as soon as they saw him stop. Li Zhao showed the jade pendant in his hand. The two looked at each other, and one of them bowed and said, "Please wait a moment, my lord. I will go and report."

Before Li Zhao nodded, the man ran in.

Su Minglang was holding a book and reading it word by word to Nanxing, and Xiaoye was also sitting beside him.

The eunuch guarding the door knocked on the door, startling the three people who were reading in the room. Xiao Ye was the first to get up and open the door. "What's the matter?"

"Lord Li requests an audience." The young eunuch handed Li Zhao's jade pendant to Xiao Ye.

Xiao Ye took a look and turned to hand it to Su Minglang: "Master, Lord Li is outside asking for an audience, take this jade pendant."

"Your Majesty's stuff?" Su Minglang recognized at a glance that this jade pendant was the one Xiao Heng wore every day, "Ask him in."

The eunuch waiting outside the door ran away without Xiao Ye's message, and soon led Li Zhao in.

"Empress Zhaoyi." Li Zhao bowed and said, "I pay my respects to you."

"Master Li, please stand up." Su Minglang glanced at him and waved his hand to signal Xiaoye, "Please take a seat and serve tea."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Li Zhao's eyes drifted over the jade pendant lying on the table. Su Minglang followed his gaze and saw the jade pendant on the table. He couldn't help but chuckled and handed it to Xiao Ye.

"Yes, return the things to Lord Li quickly."

Li Zhao took the jade pendant and carefully put it away, "Thank you, Madam."

"No need to be polite. Lord Li must have something important to discuss with me, right?" Su Minglang withdrew his hand and fixed his gaze on the teacup in front of him.

Li Zhao saw that she was being polite and reserved, and then he glanced around the room. The maids and eunuchs standing around him understood, "I am here to follow your majesty's orders, and I do have some questions for you, Your Majesty."

"However, this matter involves court affairs and should not be publicized. Please ask Your Majesty to dismiss the attendants."

"Not appropriate!" Xiao Ye knew what Su Minglang was planning as soon as he saw her, and before she could speak, he said, "Although Lord Li is acting under the emperor's orders, you are an outsider after all. It is not appropriate to leave the queen alone with you. Please forgive me."

Li Zhao didn't say anything. Instead, he looked at Su Minglang with amusement, waiting for her to speak.

Su Minglang curled his lips and waved his hand to dismiss the others, "Xiao Ye stays, everyone else leave."

"Wait!" Li Zhao stopped Nanxing who was about to push him away. "This matter is related to Miss Nanxing. Why don't you stay and listen?"

"What are you going to do?" Su Minglang frowned.

"No, no!" Li Zhao waved his hands hastily, stood up and said, "I just think that more people mean more opinions. What's more, this matter is indeed related to Miss Nanxing. I am not wrong in saying this."

Nan Xing was stunned for a moment, and without saying anything, he looked at Su Minglang. Su Minglang hesitated for a long time before nodding, "Forget it, you should stay too."

After all the people who shouldn't be there left, Li Zhao retracted his intentional aloofness and put on his nonchalant and unfocused look again, "Speaking of which, Your Majesty and I have met many times before, but this is the first time we meet in your palace."

"What do you want to say?" Su Minglang stared at him unfriendlyly.

"I didn't mean to say anything." Li Zhao didn't care about her attitude at all. Instead, he said sincerely, "I heard that Your Majesty has just recovered from a serious illness. It's not wrong to say that I came to ask about your well-being today."

"Lord Li, please do not worry about my health." Su Minglang raised an eyebrow and said, "This is not the first time we have met. Let's stop talking about these useless nonsense. What exactly did Lord Li come to see me for?"

Li Zhao chuckled and nodded, then turned serious and said, "Today, His Majesty suddenly summoned me to the palace, saying that he could not wait any longer and asked me to resolve the matter within ten days."

"Ten days? If we start from the beginning, we won't be able to find out even a fraction of the whole thing in ten days, right?" Su Minglang frowned, "Your Majesty is making things difficult for you!"

"Your Majesty said that if there is no result within ten days, we must follow the original method." Li Zhao glanced at Nanxing with a cryptic look, "But your Majesty, don't worry about this matter."

"After all, I already have the list of names in my hand and have secretly sent people to investigate."

"If that's the case, why did you come to see me?"

"Well..." Li Zhao fiddled with the ring on his index finger, "I came here to ask you to go again."

"I have something to say that is not convenient to say here."

After hearing this incoherent sentence, Xiao Ye looked at Su Minglang in confusion, but saw that she seemed to understand what he meant.

Su Minglang nodded, "Okay, but you have to erase Nanxing's name from the roster."

Li Zhao shook his head, "I can't do that."

"I have already assured you of Miss Nanxing's safety. Your Majesty, you can rest assured." Li Zhao stood up, took off the ring and placed it on the table. "Since I have brought your words, I will not waste any more of your time."

After that, Li Zhao leaned forward to salute and turned around. When he was almost at the door, he suddenly stopped and turned to look at Xiao Ye with a raised eyebrow. "Miss, remember, if you want to avoid suspicion, it is meaningless to keep a personal maid by your side."

“At least two or three people should go together.”