[Rat cat] Long live the emperor

Li Baiwei's identity remains a mystery, and the purpose of approaching Zhao Zhen is unknown.

This guy has been dormant in Bianjing for several months as Chen Sanpang, is it Li Baiwei pretending to be Chen Sanpang, or Chen Sanpang pretending to be Li Baiwei?Is all this related to Li Jiayao, and what role does the royal chef Li's family play in it?One after another, the mysteries are getting bigger and bigger like snowballs. Before Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang can investigate in the future, Gongsun brings even worse news-Liu Fu is missing.

Liu Fu is the adopted son of Liu Xun. As a descendant of an unknown small country, Liu Xun has a deep blood feud with the Zhao royal family.For decades, Liu Xun has been recruiting troops everywhere, deliberately planning to destroy the Great Song Dynasty. Liu Fu, as Liu Xun's adopted son, not only did not help Liu Xun rebel, but instead defected because of some high-sounding reasons, which is really puzzling.

In the end, Liu Xun, who had been brutally betrayed, committed suicide in fear of crime, and Liu Fu led the crowd to surrender to Zhao Zhen.

Liu Fu behaved strangely and capriciously. He not only held a heavy army, but also had inextricable connections with the people behind the scenes.Liu Fu's existence is like a [chicken rib]. Zhao Zhen doesn't believe in him, but he can't ignore him.Zhao Zhen put Liu Fu under house arrest in Kaifeng Mansion, and sent secret guards to closely monitor his every move. Liu Fu was very self-aware, knowing that he was not to be seen, kept his own law and did not make noise, ate when he should, and slept when he should. I can hold my breath.

As the saying goes, good luck and bad luck never come singly, but at the critical moment of the examination, Liu Fu disappeared.

According to the memory of the secret guard who monitored Liu Fu, he saw Liu Fu come out to eat breakfast as usual in the morning. After eating and drinking, he practiced boxing in the yard for a while. He knocked on the door and entered the room only to find that Liu Fu was not inside.Therefore, no one knows when and how Liu Fu disappeared from the house. How could such a living person like Liu Fu disappear without a sound? !

Master Bao and Pang Tong were both locked up in the tribute courtyard, and only Gongsun could be in charge of the Kaifeng mansion.After receiving the urgent report from the hidden guard, Gongsun also felt that he was caught off guard. The matter was so important that he couldn't conduct a large-scale search. Gongsun ordered the hidden guard to report to Zhao Zhen, and at the same time came out to look for Zhan Zhao himself.

Gongsun rushed to Zhan's house in a hurry, but found that the house was empty, and there was no one who could make decisions.Just as he was looking for a servant to ask, he ran into Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang head-on.Zhan Zhao thought for a while, and called Pin Yao, Mrs. Zhan's personal servant girl, "Where is everyone in the family?"

Pin Yao followed Mrs. Zhan since she was a child, and was the head of the inner courtyard of the Zhan family, and she couldn't hide any big or small things from her eyes and ears.Usually Mrs. Zhan took Pin Yao with her wherever she went, but Pin Yao was getting old and would be married in two months, so Mrs. Zhan stayed at home to embroider her wedding dress.

Seeing Zhan Zhao's eagerness to ask, Pin Yao hurried out to collect information, and came back panting not long after. "Several wives took Young Master Sun and Miss Sun to the temple to offer incense. The elder master, second master, and master Bai brought many people in strange clothes to climb Qingyun Peak to eat vegetarian food. The eldest master went out to discuss business. The fifth master's The brothers made an appointment with someone to pick up the goods at the pier."

Gongsun looked sideways - the speed at which this girl gathers information is probably only comparable to Master Bao.

Zhan Zhao was flustered, and took a look at Bai Yutang - nothing will happen, right?

Bai Yutang patted him - don't worry, none of them are idle people.

It's an eventful time right now, it's a [coincidence] that it's too [coincidence] for such a coincidence that no one is at home.Not to mention that Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were skeptical, even the dull Gongsun felt uncomfortable.This is obviously being tricked, and the biggest suspect is naturally Li Baiwei, but I don't know if Li Jianiang is an accomplice... What's going on with the Li family?Has it really become a base camp for rebels?

Bai Yutang asked Pin Yao again, "Where are Li Baiwei and Li Jianiang?"

Pin Yao had been prepared for a long time and smoothly reported the whereabouts of Li's uncle and nephew. "The young master of the Li family went to the temple with his wife, and the uncle of the Li family went out early in the morning. I heard from the old Liu who was in charge of the carriages that the uncle of the Li family is going to the palace to face the saint." Pin Yao spoke out. "Master Li's uncle is very strange. The emperor comes to our house every day. When would he not want to see him again? Why bother to go all the way to the palace?"

The three of them naturally understood the problems that Pin Yao could find.

Hearing that Li Baiwei had entered the palace, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang couldn't sit still. As the saying goes, there are priorities, Zhao Zhen's safety is more important than the possible troubles caused by Liu Fu's disappearance.Gongsun hurriedly pulled them back, "Wait, go through the secret path, take a shortcut!"

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No matter how smart Zhao Zhen is, it is impossible for him to know the foresight. He has no knowledge of what happened outside the palace, let alone guard against it.

Not long after, Li Baiwei came in after Fuquan, bowed his eyebrows and saluted Zhao Zhen in a standard manner.

"The grassroots see the emperor."

Zhao Zhen was immersed in reviewing the memorial, so busy that he didn't lift his head and said, "Be flat, there are no outsiders here, so don't be too polite." Then he said to Fuquan, "Give me a seat and serve tea." Fuquan responded, stepped back tactfully, and left Don't forget to close the door before.

Li Baiwei stood up from the ground and waited for Fuquan to go out before slowly saying, "I admire the emperor very much. Since ancient times, there have been many emperors who claimed to be courteous and virtuous and corporals, but very few of them really did it, and those who are as approachable as the emperor are even rarer. Xiao You are in a high position at a young age, but you can be tall without arrogance, bend and stretch, and just for this, I admire you."

Zhao Zhen froze for a moment, keenly aware that Li Baiwei's tone was wrong, looked up, and saw Li Baiwei was holding a bunch of candied haws in his hand, and smiled slightly at Zhao Zhen. There was a strangeness in that smile that could not be expressed in words.Zhao Zhen was vigilant, and the hand holding the brush turned slightly white, leaving an ink dot due to too much force. Zhao Zhen looked at the ink dot, and said with a normal expression, "What do you mean?"

"This is Chen Sanpang's candied haws that the emperor loves most." Li Baiwei said lightly, "I heard that before kidnappers abducted children, they would sometimes use candied haws with Mongolian sweat medicine. This is the first time I have kidnapped a child and I have no experience. After much deliberation, I decided to learn from the kidnapper's method."

Zhao Zhen was not disturbed by him, and continued to review the memorial with his pen and ink, and said while writing, "Are you going to kidnap me? Just use Mongolian sweat medicine?"

Li Baiwei shook his head, "The emperor is invulnerable to all kinds of poisons, how can a mere Mongolian sweat medicine work? This candied haws is a gift for meeting."

"I don't understand what you mean." From Chen Sanpang to Li Baiwei, it's like the distance from steamed buns to deep-fried dough sticks. Zhao Zhen doesn't have Bai Yutang's photographic memory. When he sees candied haws, he can only think of Chen Sanpang. Can't understand Li Baiwei's hint.It's not so much that I don't understand, it's better to say that Zhao Zhen didn't think about it at all...

Li Baiwei finally stopped playing charades, "Maybe the emperor didn't recognize me, but I am Chen Sanpang."

Zhao Zhen opened his eyes wide, "My darling! You have used Shenma weight-loss medicine, and it has such a miraculous effect! How about you and I partnering to open a weight-loss drugstore, I will seven you three, and I will guarantee your daily progress until you are soft! "Don't look at the advertisement to see the effect of the medicine, you are all weak in the diet pills of the 21st century!

Li Baiwei's calm face cracked for a moment.

Although it was the first time Li Baiwei heard the word [diet medicine], it did not prevent him from understanding the effect of this medicine. Thinking of himself dressed as Chen Sanpang, Li Baiwei endured and said calmly, "Compared to this Small things, shouldn’t the emperor care about more important things, such as..."For example, my purpose, such as your safety, such as why Fuquan never returned, why the dark guard didn't come in to save you, etc...

Zhao Zhen said empathetically, "There are indeed more important things."

Zhao Zhen put down the imperial pen, Baozi said with a serious face, "Give me the candied haws, I've been thinking about it all morning."

Li Baiwei: "..."

I heard that the emperor is addicted to food, and today I saw it, and it really lives up to its reputation.

Li Baiwei stepped forward and handed the candied haws to Zhao Zhen. The distance between the two was only half an arm, but Zhao Zhen didn't show any resistance or fear. A dreamy smile. "That's the taste! Sanpang, before you kill yourself, you must pass on the craft of making candied haws! This is the intangible cultural heritage of my Song Dynasty!"

As a winner who had the upper hand, Li Baiwei originally wanted to delay time and enjoy the thrill of [cat teasing the mouse].But now, Li Baiwei suddenly felt that he was the poor mouse being toyed with by the cat. I really don't know where this feeling of suffocation came from?

Zhao Zhen smiled happily while eating candied haws, and smiled at Li Baiwei, who was an eyesore, "Do you have anything else to do?"

The implication: Get out if you have nothing to do, don't bother me to eat candied haws.

Li Baiwei felt his heart was congested, took two deep breaths and said coldly, "Please move, Your Majesty."

Considering the force value of the two, Zhao Zhen felt that he had no chance of winning, so he stood up obediently, without any resistance, but raised his head to discuss with Li Baiwei, "You want to knock me out, right? My lord has a lot of things that I don’t care about with you, I just hit people without slapping them in the face! And don’t forget my candied haws, I still want to eat them when I wake up.”

Li Baiwei beat him to death, never seen such an arrogant meat ticket!

With a coffin face, Li Baiwei slapped Zhao Zhen on the back of the neck with his palm. The noisy Zhao Xiaozhen fell limply on the ground, and the candied haws also rolled to the ground.Li Baiwei disliked Zhao Zhen from the bottom of his heart, intentionally did not take away the candied haws he had ordered so much, and carried Zhao Xiaozhen on his shoulders to escape.

Not long after Li Baiwei left, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang kicked in the door together, followed by Gongsun who was trotting all the way with a ruddy complexion.For a frail scholar with no strength to restrain a chicken, the amount of exercise he ran all the way was obviously beyond the limit that Gongsun could bear.

It's no wonder that the three of them moved slowly, it was because Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang was ambushed as soon as he entered the secret path.I wanted to take a shortcut, but unexpectedly I hit the enemy in the arms. The sound of the fight alarmed Gongsun, so he urgently dispatched the yamen guards to help out the secret road. The enemy was not many in number, and the victory was brave and fearless, regardless of casualties. Bai Yutang opened the way ahead, Zhan Zhao Protect Gongsun and break out of the encirclement.

For the safety of the palace, many intersections of the secret road were sealed off, and the only remaining entrance was also guarded by heavy soldiers. Only a few people were allowed to pass through. Kaifeng Mansion was just within the scope of access. The arrow shoots into a hedgehog.

When everyone entered the Qinzheng Palace, they found that the hidden guards, maids, servants and even Fuquan had been brought down.Everyone didn't have any wounds on the outside, and they seemed to be attacked unexpectedly. "This is a drug [dream] made by Master Fushan. Those who smell the fragrance will fall into nightmares."

Fushan used to be a pharmacist behind the scenes. Before he died, he handed over the prescription he made to Gongsun. Gongsun developed antidote according to each poison, just to deal with this emergency.Gongsun took out a bottle of extremely ugly [Xianglu], everyone who smelled it was awakened by the smell, Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang was stinked away, and even Gongsun was stinked away...

Closer to home.

Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang kicked the door into the main hall, the first thing he saw was a candied haws that fell on the ground, Zhan Zhao broke off a small piece and tasted it.Although Zhan Zhao did not inherit the culinary skills of the royal chef Li's family, he perfectly inherited the royal chef's Li family's tongue. Li's tongue is tricky and sensitive, and he never makes a mistake in tasting.

Zhan Zhao said, "It's Chen Sanpang's candied haws."

Bai Yutang flipped through the memorials on the table, and found that one of the memorials was stained with candied haws syrup.Bai Yutang knew Zhao Zhen very well. Regardless of the carelessness of snacks, he was always meticulous in dealing with the government. It was impossible for him to eat candied haws while approving memorials, let alone sticking syrup on the memorials.

Bai Yutang's heart moved, he picked up the memorial and read it carefully, and found that the last paragraph of Zhao Zhen's Zhu Zhu's handwriting was a bit sloppy, and the words were not very smooth, and Zhao Zhen hated ministers who used flowery rhetoric to sing praises. ]?Perhaps due to time constraints, Zhao Zhen didn't have time to write [Tibetan Head Poetry], so he only hastily hid eight characters in a paragraph.

Bai Yutang was taken aback, "Why him?"

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When Zhao Zhen woke up, the sun had already set in the west, there was no wax in the room, and the lighting was dim, making it difficult to see the furnishings in the house.Maybe it's because no one has lived in it for a long time, and the house can smell the smell of dust and a faint musty smell.Zhao Zhen felt that he had smelled it somewhere, but couldn't remember it for a while. Whenever this happened, Zhao Zhen was particularly envious of Bai Yutang's good memory.

With a sore neck, Zhao Zhen couldn't help scolding Li Baiwei, "He has no conscience! This guy is so ruthless, what kind of hatred is there?!"

"I don't dare to be so conscientious, the hatred for the subjugation of the country, the hatred for the extermination of the clan." Li Baiwei's cool voice sounded in the room.

Zhao Zhen was so startled that his hairs stood on end when the voice came out so suddenly in the empty room.Li Baiwei has been sitting in a corner where the light cannot reach, the dark blue clothes are perfectly blended with the darkness, and when he is not moving, he looks like a ghost...

"Scare me." Zhao Zhen patted his chest. "So, you are also a descendant of the unknown country?"

"That's right." Li Baiwei was obviously not interested and didn't want to talk to Zhao Zhen.

Li Baiwei has calmed down, and has returned to a state of reticence, not so easy to talk.Zhao Xiaozhen sighed silently, and tried again: "Where is this? Why do I seem to have been here? You worked so hard in Bianjing, and you didn't hesitate to expose Li Baiwei's identity to get me back, just to be relatively silent and stupid with me." Sit down? How about we chat~~"

As soon as Zhao Zhen opened his mouth, Li Baiwei became angry, and he couldn't just kill him, "Shut up and just stay."

Zhao Zhen pouted, "Where's my candied haws? Just shut up if you give me candied haws!"

Li Baiwei sneered, "You threw it on the ground by yourself."

"It's shameful to waste!" Zhao Xiaozhen puffed up his cheeks angrily, but he was actually rejoicing.

Zhao Zhen deliberately provoked Li Baiwei before, just to leave the clue of candied haws.Zhan Zhao has a sensitive tongue, and he can tell it's Chen Sanpang's candied haws just by tasting it.Zhao Zhen didn't know that Bai Yutang had seen through Li Baiwei's identity, so he had to make a bad plan so that Zhan Zhao would not be clueless.As for the memorial, Zhao Zhen deliberately left syrup on the memorial, because he was afraid that Li Baiwei would not be provoked and took away the candied haws to eliminate clues.The second is to leave the most important clues - find your own important clues!