The princess - Wang Zhi came and sat beside her father - Wang Hongdi, the king. She told her bodyguard Yuze to pass on a scroll to her father. After reading the scroll, her father frowned and anger flared in his eyes.
"There is a mole in my ministry and no one told me. I wanna see for how long that mole can hide. That bastard is transferring our army's information to other states. Princess Zhi!
At that, Zhi stands in her place and bows.
" You will find out the mole within today itself. I will execute that person before dawn. I don't want an excuse. You are free to do whatever you want. " Declared the King.
This caused a lot of commotion among the ministers. Everyone was looking at each other in horror, surprise, or fear.
"I won't fail you, my King. " Said Zhi while bowing at 90 degrees. Then she leaves the palace along with Yuze. Yuze was shocked by what just happened as he did not know what the scroll was about. As soon as they came outside, he started nagging
" What the hell is your plan? Care to tell me what are you going to do? A mole!! In palace! And you will find him? HOW?? "
" WOW! You have said more words than you ever said since we met. I should do this like this more to make you speak. " Said Zhi while clapping her hands lightly with a smile adorning her face.
Yuze makes a "done" face, releases a deep sigh, and then looks down, defeated. Zhi gives a pat on his shoulder and tells him to follow her. They go inside her chamber where she dismisses all her maids.
" The plan is very simple. We just need to sit and act like we are going through all the documents of the palace and my other partner will do the work. Because I am the only one who can make the main target make a blunder so that we can catch him. If I keep reading the documents, of course, the culprit will try to get out of the palace and get rid of the evidence. And we plan to catch him red-handed. "
" And you think this plan will succeed? I highly doubt it. And our plan, our plan. How many are helping you and who is the one who deduced this plan? "
" Anyone can think of it as a stupid plan but you just wait and watch. I will show you that simple things can make a person make haste and a blunder occurs. The person who will catch the mole is someone who I trust blindly and he can do it"
Hearing this Yuze got curious and went out to bring some more documents for her.
Meanwhile, the working time was over so all the ministers went home. Outside the palace, three people dressed in all black with faces hidden behind the trees waiting for their prey to come out. One of them who was standing from where he could see who was coming and going inside signaled the other two to be ready. It was time to act.
The ministers came one by one.
Minister of finance
Minister of education
Minister of Commercial Affairs
Minister of Justice
And finally Minister of Defence.
The three went behind ministers of finance, justice, and commercial affairs.
The minister of finance rode on his horse towards his house followed by one guy in black.
Remove from the list of suspects.
The minister of commercial affairs went to a highly rich restaurant and after asking, the second black guy came to know that the finance minister was making deals with a few noblemen.
Can be or cannot be. But still removed from the list if suspect.
The third guy who was after the minister of finance came to a shabby place instead of his house. He looked around in the fear of getting caught.
Suspect confirmed.
Suddenly there was a loud screech of a hawk hovering high in the sky. The minister shook his head and then went inside. He quickly opened the door that was hanging around only with two nut bolts barely holding it in its place. There was heavy dust settled everywhere with barely any furniture kept inside. Only a wooden almirah standing in a corner which the minister opened. The almirah was empty for a stranger or intruder. The minister pressed a particular part on the right side and a secret compartment revealed itself. The monster took out a box and took out some papers, kept the box inside, and was about to tear the papers when the guy in black snatched the papers.
" Who... Who are you? Give me my papers back? How dare you take my thing! Do you know who I am? "
The guy starts reading the paper in his hands ignoring the minister completely. After reading he folds the paper and keeps it inside his pocket.
"Do you think I know you, Mr. Lee Jianguo? "
Hearing his name from the guy made his limbs weak and shake in fear. Someone who knows his name is someone of higher authority and knows much more about him.
"You!! ... How do you... What are..... Listen to me... I... I will give you money, huh? Tell me what you want... give me the papers"
" Oh!?? Bribery. I think you are not satisfied with the punishment you will receive due to embezzlement. Do you want to add bribery also? Well... I don't mind" Said the guy with a chuckle.
Lee Jianguo fisted his palm and wiped his forehead covered with sweat. His lips were trembling and had goosebumps all over his body.
" Now till people come, how about we talk? Tell me how did you commit this crime? "
" Why would I tell you? And who are you? "
" Will you tell me now or tell the inspector everything while he tortures you? You like tough things, I see. Okay then. Let's just wait quietly till others come. And don't try to escape, I sometimes get crazy about catching running prey so maybe hurt or kill you. "
" Are you sure that if I give you all the answers, I will not be inspected again? How can I believe you? "
" Jianguo you are responsible for more than 25 deaths caused by famine and still are acting like a coward trying to save yourself. But, still, I promise that if you give answers truthfully I may spare you from the torture and directly take you to the king for punishment. "
Jianguo gulped and looked at the floor thinking hard about his decision. He did a crime and if caught he will receive the punishment anyhow. But if the torture during inspection is removed it will not be so scary. Right?
"Okay, I will tell. The king ordered all the ministers to take care of finance, grains, rice,e, and health faculty for the people in Averon as it does not have any ministry of its own. So the responsibility of ministers was to just check whether the guards were giving money and all properly or not. The money and health care facility were properly transported from here as other ministers also had their eyes on this work and all cannot be bribed. So I thought to take all the money in my control by sending my men to Averon city. The money was not distributed nor food. Only at one store, the food was distributed but at a very high price. Care was also taken that this situation was not leaked outside. I don't know how you know that I came to take the papers where there is an account of the money I got and the money given to others whom I bribed to keep the situation unknown to others. Plus the account where I exchanged the grains and rice for money. But I think only you know about all this, as you are alone and his majesty did not mention this. If I take you down.... "
Saying this the monster attacked the guy with a plank lying on the floor. The guy dodged it just in time and defended himself. While the fight was going on, a person was keenly observing it while stretching the neck like an ostrich. The person was none other than Li Lian. She had followed the guy from the start.
Jianguo was defeated with a bruise on his face by the guy within two minutes. It seemed like the guy did not even put much effort into defeating Jianguo.
Suddenly Li Lian comes outside while clapping loudly. The guy in black was shocked to see Lian in front of him. He looked at the half-conscious Jianguo and then Lian. He kept blinking rapidly thinking of what to do now.
"I knew it. You are not what you appear to be. WANG XIAOBO!!.... "
And Xiaobo just kept staring at Lian while thinking of what she would ask and what he would tell.....