Great Tang Southern Emperor

"Is there nothing to say?" Li Ke said with a smile: "It seems that you don't have much confidence in Li Yuanchang either."

Li Yin smiled wryly: "I... I really have nothing to say, but brother, should we just watch like this?"

Li Ke asked back: "Then what do you think we can do? Are you going to tell the father? I'm afraid the father knew it a long time ago, and he is even prepared to deal with it. We don't have to do anything at all, just wait It’s fine when things work out.”

"Right."

Chapter 361 Weird shoe print o(╯□╰)o

Chapter 135 Weird shoe prints o(╯□╰)o

Li Yuanchang was expelled by Li Yin and Li Ke, but he was still not reconciled. He just fell down in Wu Wangfu, and his body was covered with dust. Naturally, he couldn't continue to contact other people's homes, so he had to go home unwillingly to change and wash his clothes.

When he got home, Li Yuanchang took a vigorous shower and was about to get up and get dressed.

With a bang, the bathroom door was violently kicked open from the outside.

"Who? Get out." Li Yuanchang was furious, and cursed without explaining.

"Hey, His Royal Highness the King of Han has such a temper, but I don't know how the servants should get rid of it?" A strange voice came into Li Yuanchang's ears through the water mist.

Hearing this voice, Li Yuanchang's complexion changed subconsciously - he grew up in the palace since he was a child, and there were such people in his own family, so why couldn't he hear that it was the eunuch's voice?

But this voice didn't belong to any eunuch in his family, and other eunuchs in the royal residence didn't have the guts to kick his own door—then the identity of the other party was already obvious, and the other party definitely came out of the palace.But even the eunuch who came out of the palace, even Wang Tingchu, had to pretend to be a grandson when facing himself, and absolutely dare not speak to himself like this.Unless the opponent is specialized in doing dirty work, such as the mysterious peach blossom inner guard.

After thinking about this, Li Yuanchang was terrified. You must know that just now he was trying to link up with the royal family and force Li Shimin to submit. Now he is being approached by the Taohua inner guard. How can he not be frightened?

Swallowing dryly, Li Yuanchang calmed down and asked loudly, "Who are you guys? Why did you break into my house?"

"Stop yelling, we have already taken all the people in the palace, and no one will save you." As the mist dispersed, an old eunuch dressed plainly walked up to Li Yuanchang and looked him up and down. , grinningly said: "Well, I didn't expect it, we slaves don't have that guy, it's nothing, I didn't expect that you don't have one, His Royal Highness, it's so strange."

"I have, but it's a little..." Li Yuanchang was ashamed and angry, and realized in a blink of an eye: "What the hell are you here for?"

"Of course I came to look for you." The old eunuch still smiled and said: "As for why you came to look for you...Your Highness, King of Han, you should be very clear. Have you forgotten what you did just now?"

"What do you mean? What have I done?" At this point, Li Yuanchang could only pretend to be crazy, trying to fool the past.

The old eunuch had no desire to speak anymore, and said bluntly: "Okay, I won't play with you anymore, come here, take His Highness King of Han away, remember, don't break it."

Only then did Li Yuanchang notice that besides the old eunuch, there were more than a dozen men with soft faces standing at the door. If nothing unexpected happened, they should all be eunuchs.

"Yes." At that time, two people randomly found a bathrobe and wrapped Li Yuanchang up, and were about to carry it away.

"What do you want to do? Don't touch me." Li Yuanchang struggled violently, shouting as he struggled, "I want to see the emperor, I am the emperor's younger brother, and I want to appeal... woo..."

Covering Li Yuanchang's mouth with a square handkerchief, the old eunuch sneered, "Of course we will let you see the emperor, but before meeting the emperor, you have to go to a place..."

"Woo!" Li Yuanchang was even more terrified, is he going to interrogate me before meeting the emperor?Then should I tell the truth, or would I rather die than obey?To be honest, I'm afraid I'm going to be unlucky, but if I'd rather die than obey, then these damned slaves are afraid that I will be severely punished. I have a delicate skin and tender flesh, but I can't suffer so much...

Sure enough, let's be honest...

In Daxing Palace.

"What? It's gone?" Li Shimin raised his head suddenly: "Why did you disappear? Aren't you very fast? What happened today? Someone cut off your beard?"

Kneeling below was a middle-aged eunuch in his 30s, with an ordinary appearance, and a blooming peach blossom faintly tattooed on the back of his hand.

This person is the eunuch who is the leader of Taohua's inner guard, Wang Du.

Hearing Li Shimin's question at this time, Wang Du's face was dripping with sweat, and he was so nervous that he was about to die, but he still replied: "The emperor forgives the crime, and the servants went to arrest the King of Han as soon as they got the order. It's a pity Although we are fast, we are still one step slower, the King of Han has lost track, and all the people in the palace have been subdued and tied up."

"Trash." Li Shimin scolded angrily, "Have you found out who did it?"

"According to the description of the palace guards, you are wearing the same clothes as us, but the leader is an eunuch who is over sixty years old." Wang Du's face became even more ugly: "Afterwards, the slaves searched the entire Taohua inner guard and the palace. , Even the palaces of the kings were searched secretly, but no eunuch matching the description of the guards was found."

Speaking of this, Wang Du took out a piece of paper: "However, the servants did not find nothing. The servants found this in the Palace of the King of Han."

"This is..." Li Shimin took the paper, and after looking at it, his nose almost turned out of anger.I saw that what was carried on the paper was not other things, but a shoe print, and this shoe print was not painted, but printed directly with the sole of the shoe, covered with mud, and even Seeing the patterns on the soles and the faint smell...

Ok?

and many more……

Stink?

Li Shimin's eyes widened, he looked at the black thing on the shoe print, and immediately flew into a rage: "Wang Du, you'd better give me an explanation, otherwise I don't mind changing the leader of the Taohua inner guard."

"The emperor calms down." Wang Du immediately grabbed the ground with his head, and said in a trembling voice: "Please also ask the emperor to give this servant a chance to explain."

"Say." There was already impatience in his tone.

"Yes, please return the paper to the servant."

"Take it." Throwing the paper to Wang Du in disgust, the fine rice paper floated down and landed on Wang Du's head, but Wang Du didn't dare to get angry, picked up the paper and pointed to the shoe print on it and said: "Although the servants did not find out who the other party was, their shoes revealed where they came from. Please look, the emperor, the size of the shoe print is too small, which shows that the other party's height is not too high. The height of people is generally lower than that in the north..."

When Wang Du said this, Li Shimin immediately interrupted: "Wait a minute, isn't your judgment too arbitrary? The northerners are indeed lower than the southerners, but this doesn't mean that there are no dwarfs in the north, right?"

"What the emperor said is very true. The servant girl originally thought so. We collected a total of 180 three shoe prints and one footprint in the Han Palace. Among them, the footprints were identified by the Queen of Han. It was definitely His Royal Highness. This shows that before he left No shoes were worn. Five of the 160 shoe prints have found their owners, but the remaining [-] have not found their corresponding owners, and it is a very coincidental coincidence that these [-] shoe prints are all biased towards the small size.”

In order to show his hard work and prove that he is not a waste, Wang Du explained the matter in great detail, for fear of missing a detail, and Li Shimin would suspect that he did not try his best.

Chapter 362 Speculation

Chapter 136 Speculation

Li Shimin naturally knew his little trick, and said with a dark face: "Say the key point."

"It's a special case for one person to be short, but all eighteen people are short. This can't be explained by coincidence." Wang Du said quickly, not daring to play any more tricks.

"It makes sense, continue." Li Shimin said: "We can only confirm that the other party is from the south, which is not a skill. Do you have more details?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty." With encouragement, Wang Du cheered up: "I'm sure the other party is from the south, it's really nothing, but the patterns on the shoes betray the other party's information."

"Oh? What do you say?"

"Your Majesty does not know that these shoes are not our shoes in the north, but the craftsmanship of a famous old brand in Yangzhou - Xiangji Shoe Shop. According to our information, this Xiangji Shoe Shop is a century-old brand in Yangzhou. The shoes made are light, soft and durable, and are very popular with the local people. It is even said that even in the pre-Sui period, Emperor Sui Yang wore them when he was in Yangzhou (Yangzhou is Jiangdu, where Emperor Sui Yang died) The shoes are all made by Cheung Kee Shoe Shop. It’s just that although the shoes of Cheung Kee Shoe Shop are good, the output has not been increasing, so it is only famous in the local area, not well-known in the outside world.”

"So you think the opponent's lair is likely to be in Yangzhou generation?" Li Shimin narrowed his eyes: "Aren't you afraid that this is the enemy's suspicion? Is it a wrong clue deliberately left for you?"

"There is indeed such a possibility, but after we reasoned, we found that this possibility is not great." Wang Du explained again, holding up the piece of paper again, and said: "Please look, Your Majesty, this shoe print is obviously Deep in the middle, shallow on both sides, especially the right side is very obvious, which means that the shoes have been worn for a while-at least within ten days, it is impossible to have this level of wear and tear. Only old shoes will have this kind of wear This kind of serious wear and tear, it must be worn on the feet for at least a month. A month ago, His Royal Highness Yue Wang had just arrived in Lingnan, and he had not even set off for Linyi. With the thoughts of the general, His Highness the King of Han naturally would not have the idea of ​​dealing with His Highness the King of Yue, and since His Highness the King of Han did not deal with the King of Yue, how could the people behind the scenes notice the King of Han?"

"That makes sense." Li Shimin nodded in agreement, and then frowned again: "However, the entire Yangzhou is still a bit large, can you be more precise?"

"This is the last thing I want to say." Wang Du put away the rice paper and said in a sharp voice: "The servants interrogated the lowly servants in the Han Palace, and according to what they said, among the eighteen people, the leader was An old man in his 50s, although the rest of the people are relatively young, most of them are also in their 30s, and more importantly—these people have all passed away.”

"What?" Li Shimin was shocked.

Wang Du still felt that this news was not enough, so he threw out another more news: "And the most important thing is that these people are all young."