Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty

"If it hadn't been for the king of the county, how could someone shoot her from the roof immediately when she found Du Shi at the critical moment."

"It's too ridiculous for you to accuse me based on this point." Li Daozong was not as excited as before when he heard Fang Yi say such a sentence.

"Since the death of the two Taoist priests, they have been secretly ambush to capture the water ghost, but there has been no sign of the water ghost. The water ghost that appeared easily for three consecutive days suddenly disappeared from our ambush. Later, Yuchi Erlang brought the water ghost in public People retreated and made a scene. Everyone was still lurking in secret. When they came, there was only one cow, which was no different from the first time. We have deduced before that there must be someone who is eager to get behind the legend of the water ghost in the river. What has been accomplished, and now the water ghost has been so calm for half a month, which is inconsistent with his eagerness to kill the two Taoist priests. For this reason, there is only one explanation, that is, the real culprit behind this incident has long been Knowing the news about our ambush to catch ghosts, that's why we haven't moved.

After that, we really withdrew people, but some people were frightened by our two ambushes.Out of caution, he sent people several times to find out if he should continue to catch water ghosts.Later, I only sent a few of the most trustworthy people around me to guard here, without notifying anyone other than the princess, and only then did the real water ghost appear.

And during this period of time, whoever panicked and lost his position, and who can know our ambush situation from the inside, is very likely to be the real culprit behind the scenes.Coincidentally, the king of the county is all in line. "

"Our criminal department is just cooperating with you in handling the case. Since the princess is involved in this case, I attach great importance to it. It is common sense for Guan Hongbo to inquire about it diligently. There is nothing wrong with it. You dare to accuse me based on these random suspicions. A county king is guilty? Fang Yizhi, I thought you had a brain, but I didn't expect you to be a person with a false name, not as good as a farmer with a clear head."

To say that a person is not as good as a farmer's slave is to complain behind his back.Saying this in front of all the gentlemen is a great humiliation to a scholarly nobleman.

Everyone was horrified and looked at Fang Yizhi, waiting for his reaction.

Li Mingda kept his eyes on Li Daozong, looked at him coldly, and frowned.

Fang Yizhi was not at all annoyed by Li Daozong's humiliation, he still stated in a calm tone: "When the king of the county just arrived, except Guan Shilang, you took a total of one hundred and two people behind you. Now, you There is one less person accompanying him. If I remember correctly, it is a small official with a little gray hair on the left back of his head."

Everyone immediately looked at the head of the dead assassin.

Cheng Chubi personally snatched the corpse from Li Daozong's subordinates, took off the assassin's turban, and looked at the back of his head. As Fang Yizhi said, there were a lot of gray hairs on the left back of his head.Seeing that his age is only about 20 years old, just like what Fang Shizi said, he is young and gray-haired.

Li Daozong frowned, he didn't show it on the surface, but he was already speechless by Fang Yizhi's words in his heart.

"Fang Shizi was here just now, and was almost wiped by an arrow. He must have never seen this assassin before, but the characteristics of the lost entourage of the county king he said are the same as this assassin." Di Renjie said.

Li Daozong frowned, and immediately shot Di Renjie with threatening eyes, "Who are you?"

"Son of Di Zhixun in Jinzhou." Li Mingda said, "I invite friends to solve the case together."

Li Daozong glanced at Li Mingda, his face became more and more cold.

"As for the evidence, what Fang Shizi said is just your own words, but is there a second person who saw the same situation as you? And I brought so many people here, even if Fang Shizi can count them, how can he remember them? Everyone’s characteristics. I think your words are strange, and I can also say that it’s more like you deliberately designed this matter, pretending that you were the victim of the arrow, and then wronged me in turn.” Li Daozong continued to quibble road.

"People with a guilty conscience, their words are full of loopholes." Li Mingda looked directly into Li Daozong's angry eyes, and stated forcefully, "If Fang Shizi really wants to block the investigation of this case, there is no need to really catch the water." Ghost, track down the clues step by step, and show it to everyone. How can he design this assassination, so that he can reduce the design of King Jiangxia's entourage? I had expected that there would be a lot of people coming and going today, so all parties set up checkpoints at the entrance and exit. At the time of the meeting, I specially ordered someone to count the number of people. If Tang Shu does not admit that he has brought one hundred and two people with him, I can send someone to ask the guards guarding the intersection whether it is this number."

"I can't remember clearly. The people were all arranged by Guan Shilang," Li Daozong was stunned for a moment, and then slowly explained this sentence, then he suddenly shuddered and looked at Guan Hongbo, "There are really one hundred and two people? Could it be? Say it's you—"

Guan Hongbo was so frightened that he froze, and hurriedly explained to Li Daozong and Li Mingda that it was really not him.However, the number of people in the entourage was arranged by his personal servants.

Guan Hongbo then looked sternly at the little official beside him.

The little official knelt down, looked at Li Daozong tremblingly, and said: "Princess and Fang Shizi may have wronged the county king. The county king only brought a hundred and one people with him. This person really doesn't know him."

"Did you hear that?" Li Daozong asked bluntly, his eyes were full of hostility, as if he was going to swallow everyone alive.

Li Mingda immediately sent someone to ride a fast horse to the intersection to ask how many guards there were counting.

Not long after, the guard came to report: "Go back to the princess, the count over there is 100 people."

Everyone didn't expect to come up with a third number, so they sighed and didn't know which one to believe.

"It's a wrong count. After all, the county king and his men rode past in a flash, how could they count so accurately." Guan Hongbo sighed.

"I think it's right, very right. There were originally 100 people, but after they came in, two more people were added." After Li Mingda said that, he immediately ordered someone to guard the [-] people brought by Li Daozong, and then sent to call Yueji The ten attendants of the inn asked them to enter the courtyard individually to identify these people.

"I don't need to say what the crime of deceiving the princess is. Now I will tell you honestly. Even if you don't tell me, and someone else will tell you later, you are also lying, and you will not get well." Tian Hanshan said before leading everyone into the hospital. Word of warning.

The ten servants of the Yueji Inn identified one by one and pointed to the same person.This person is also the one who bows his head the deepest among all the accompanying officials.

When Li Daozong saw this, panic finally appeared on his face.

"He is one of the two scholars who live in our inn,"

The ten servants were very sure, and then they all went to identify the corpse, and immediately admitted that it was another scholar who lived in their inn.

Li Daozong frowned, and slowly closed his eyes, as if he regretted that he had kept the 'scholar' alive, and let him mix with the accompanying officials, intending to take him away from Qujiang Village.He really didn't expect that Li Mingda and others would count the number of his entourage. He thought that one more person would get in and no one would pay attention.The two of them are so meticulous, even though they are still children, they are so thoughtful and meticulous, it is amazing and admirable.

"Actually, even if there is no difference in the number of people, Tang Shu can't escape." Li Mingda walked eastward.

Li Daozong opened his eyes in confusion, and looked at Li Mingda.Even if he dies, he must die to understand where he has missed a loophole.

Li Mingda immediately pointed to the little official who was closest to him.

The little official was so frightened that Li Mingda pointed at him, his legs were weak and he couldn't stand up.

Li Daozong was startled for a moment, but his face was still sullen, and he looked at Li Mingda pretending to be puzzled: "What's wrong with him?"

"his hand."

Everyone immediately looked at the little official's hand, but found nothing special, except that the index finger of his right hand was slightly scratched, and the wound was not serious.

"If I'm not mistaken, the reason why this hand is scratched is because he forced poison into the assassin's mouth just now. No one is willing to die willingly. Even if both hands and feet are held down, the mouth must be Resist instinctively. The wound on your hand is scratched by the assassin's teeth." Li Mingda took a deep breath, and looked up and down the guilty and kneeling little official, "There are two 'scholars' who are in charge of guarding the gold bars. Since you have prepared poison, there should be more than one."

Hearing this, Cheng Chubi immediately knocked down the little official, found a porcelain vase from him, opened it, and poured out a dozen pills the size of mung beans.

Zuo Qingmei immediately took it with a handkerchief, inspected it carefully, smelled it, and then said to Li Mingda: "It is a pill made of willow leaf peach, digitalis or honey, both are used for the same purpose, as long as one of this size is enough to make seven The tall man died immediately."

Li Mingda immediately noticed that the maid named 'A Hua' shivered after seeing the porcelain vase, and lowered her head even more, as if hoping that no one would notice her.

Li Mingda immediately winked at Zuo Qingmei.

Zuo Qingmei immediately searched A'hua's body, and found the same porcelain vase on her body, but her porcelain vase contained yellow-white powder.

Zuo Qingmei carefully looked at the dust, smelled it, and immediately covered her nose to prevent the powder from being blown into her nostrils by the wind.

"Poison mushroom powder." Zuo Qingmei said to Li Mingda.

A'hua hurriedly kowtowed tremblingly, and confessed: "The lady ordered the maidservant to do it. The maidservant really doesn't want to kill those two Taoist priests."

"Where did it come from?"

"This poisonous mushroom is the most famous three-color mushroom in Jinzhou. It looks very beautiful, but as long as you use it a little, it will make people hallucinate. That day, when the lady saw two Taoist priests doing things to delay things, she sent her maid to pretend to be Yuchi The servant girl from the mansion brought some food and wine over there. The two Taoist priests didn't suspect the slightest when they heard that the maidservant and Huahua reported that they belonged to Yuchi's mansion. The maidservant then led them over on the grounds that there was a gazebo by the river bank where it was convenient to serve food. The purpose is to lure them to a farther place, so as not to delay the lady sending people to salvage gold bars on the river bank.

Originally, they planned to let the two Taoist priests drink some of the wine mixed with poisonous mushrooms, just to stay in a daze overnight.Unexpectedly, the two Taoist priests were actually perverts, and after drinking alcohol, they mistakenly thought that Huahua was a beauty, and started to touch her.In a fit of anger, Huahua threw the two of them into the water.Seeing that the water was not too deep, the maidservant and Huahua ignored them and left.Unexpectedly, the two of them drowned in the river in the end. "A Hua then kowtowed and explained that she really didn't mean it, and it was Hua Hua beside her who kicked those two into the water.

The maid named Huahua heard her words, turned her head and spit at her angrily, "You were the one who poisoned and the wine was poured, but now it's all my fault, you don't want to be ashamed."

From this point of view, this tall and tall maid called 'Huahua' should be straightforward and without brains.

Li Mingda immediately asked Huahua, but there was nothing else to explain.

Hua Hua glared at A Hua fiercely, kowtowed to the princess, and said, "My servant has something to say, that is, she committed adultery with that idiot named A Niu, and made that idiot pretend to be a water ghost to scare people."

"What adultery, I was forced!" A Hua blushed and defended.

Huahua sneered: "You were forced to enjoy it so much? Oh, oh, it's a little deeper, and you still say that you care about him. And when you are doing such nasty things, you still mention the princess to that idiot."

A'hua hurriedly reached out to hit Huahua, "You are talking nonsense, you are jealous of my beauty and wronged me!"

"Bah!" Huahua directly reached out and grabbed A'hua's wrist, raising her eyebrows and glaring at A'hua viciously, "I wronged you? You don't even look at yourself, you deserve me to wrong you!"

Tian Hanshan yelled at the two with an embarrassed face: "Shut up! You can say anything in broad daylight, and you two girls don't feel ashamed at all!"

Zuo Qingmei also looked embarrassed, she glanced at the princess, then gritted her teeth viciously at the two poor maids: "It should be dragged out and beaten to death."

Everyone felt that among the people present, the person who was least suitable to listen to such dirty words was probably the youngest Princess Jinyang.

After all, she is a woman and has not left the court...

So it was difficult for everyone to control themselves, and they sneaked a glance in Li Mingda's direction, only to see the princess was calm and calm.She is not tall among the crowd, but she is graceful and upright.

The princess didn't even bother to care about the gossip of these lowly slaves, just like people don't care about barking dogs.Compared with the princess's calm demeanor, they looked very wretched with the mentality of watching a show.So everyone hastened to correct their attitudes and no longer had the same thoughts as before.

Li Mingda continued to ask the two of them in the same tone as usual: "Since we are going to drink and eat food in the gazebo, why does the fat Taoist still light incense?"

After Huahua realized that she had made a slip of the tongue, she wanted to express herself well. After kowtowing to the princess repeatedly to make amends, she honestly replied: "Don't look at them as Taoist priests who exorcise ghosts. They are more afraid of ghosts than anyone else, and they are lustful and gluttonous. What should they be?" Fishermen."

"Staying for fame." Di Renjie couldn't help correcting him.

"Yes, that's the word." Huahua looked at Di Renjie and immediately agreed.

Di Renjie suddenly regretted that he had spoken. After all, it was not a compliment for him to be approved by such a person who was full of obscene words.

At this time, Fang Yizhi said gently to Li Mingda: "The death of the two Taoist priests is clear."

Li Mingda nodded.

Fang Yi saw the princess and looked at the two maids, knowing that she still had something to ask.Then he felt that it was better to speak up to these two maids who were full of dirty mouths, so he said: "Who are you two under orders, besides Du Shi, is there a second person?"

A'hua and Huahua shook their heads at the same time.

"The lady does have correspondence with others, but after every correspondence, she burns the letter, and she never tells the maidservants. It is only she who orders the maidservants to do things."

"Then when she returned to Chang'an City, where has she been and who has she met?"

"I've been to Princess Chengyang's mansion, I've met Prince Consort Du, and I sent my servants to inquire about Wang Changshi's situation, and sent letters to visit several aristocratic families. Pass."

Fang Yi looked straight at Li Daozong, and was about to continue asking questions, but he heard that Li Mingda asked before himself.

"What about Jiangxia Palace?"

"No...not delivered." Hua Hua said.

"I really didn't give it away." Seeing that everyone didn't believe it, Ah Hua had no choice but to agree with Hua Hua's words.

Li Daozong had no expression on his face, and he just stood there without saying a word, but his eyes stared at Li Mingda like a cannibal.

"This Mrs. Du tried everything to save her husband, and all the big families did not let her go, but she chose to avoid Tang Shu's house. Is it interesting?" Li Mingda asked.

Li Daozong narrowed his eyes, "You know how to call me uncle, but you dare to question me like this in front of everyone!"

When Li Daozong had no temper at ordinary times, he was easy to talk and had a smiling face.But when he really shows his power, it is very frightening. It also makes people immediately realize that he was once a hero galloping on the battlefield with the saint. '.

Fang Yi looked at Li Mingda silently, then frowned slightly, lowered his eyes, and he could not help clenching his hands slightly behind his back.He actually understood why your lord suddenly snatched his words away just now, because she expected that she would question Li Daozong, and she might offend him because of this, and it was very likely that she would offend several Li royal families that Li Daozong usually made good friends with.That's why she cut off the conversation and stood up to bear it for herself.

Apart from being grateful for the princess's understanding, he also felt very complicated.This is not the first time that the princess stood up to protect him.

"I'm not questioning uncle Tang,"

At this time, everyone took a cold breath in their hearts, expecting that the princess is indeed a little girl, and if King Jiang Xia oppresses her with his seniority, will she be afraid?

"I'm questioning the criminal right now." Li Mingda's eyes were piercing, and his petite body exuded a powerful aura.

Under the gentle autumn wind, she raised her head recklessly and looked at Li Daozong without fear.You must know that even Li Tai, the king of Wei, never had the courage to deal with the mighty Li Daozong.

"It seems that I am usually too polite to you, but it makes you so disrespectful."

"Do you want to explain?" Li Mingda asked.

Li Daozong snorted coldly and turned his back, too lazy to look at Li Mingda again.

"If you count your 28 boxes of gold, it will not be a problem to raise [-] soldiers and horses." Li Mingda said without hesitation.

Li Daozong froze, and then said to Li Mingda angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about? I didn't raise soldiers. It was just that when I was an official in the Ministry of Households, I got some money from taxes, but the crime was not so serious as treason." .”

"Where is the rest of the money now? What is the intention of embezzlement? Why did you conspire with Mr. Du?"

"The money should be on the way to Dingzhou at this moment. I have a house there. I wanted to take away the money I had been greedy for because of my desire to retire all these years. As for Mrs. Du..." Li Daozong hesitated for a while, not knowing How should I put it, finally sighed gently, "It's an old acquaintance."

Old acquaintances, how many meanings there are in the three words, everyone can more or less figure out some of them.

Li Mingda didn't ask Li Daozong about this in detail in public, but asked him whether Wang Changshi knew about it, and whether he had killed him.

"This person knew about it. He was my subordinate in the Ministry of Household Affairs and committed the crime together with me. But I did not do it, but Mrs. Du did it. She said that her man is useless, so she can't drag her down alive. , and even threatened me with the matter of gold, asking me to give her half of her life to settle down. When she said this, I was shocked. Who would dare to stay with her for a long time for this kind of woman who is ruthless when a man loses his face? Together." Li Daozong glanced sideways at Du Shi's body, "Hmph, you dare to threaten me, death is not a pity."

"Uncle Tang planned to silence her after letting her finish her work." Li Mingda sighed.

Li Daozong didn't speak, and didn't deny it, that is to say, he acquiesced.

"Since the real culprit behind the scenes has thrown himself into the net, let's forget about the case and bring it back for a closer examination," Li Mingda ordered Cheng Chubi, and Fang Yizhi to be responsible for tracking down the batch of gold bars sent to Dingzhou.

Fang Yi nodded straight, and settled down with a few sentences.

Li Mingda, Fang Yi, Zhicheng Chubi and others rode horses and personally escorted Li Daozong to Dali Temple.

At the same time, Tian Han was also sent to Taiji Palace to report the situation, and asked the saint to decide how to try and deal with Li Daozong.

After bringing Li Mingda and his party to Dali Temple, there was an imperial decree ordering Prince Li Chengqian to cooperate with Dali Temple Secretary to try the case together.

Both Li Mingda and Fang Yizhi had doubts about the will of the sage, and they did not expect the sage to suddenly hand over the case that was about to end to the prince.

After about a stick of incense, Li Chengqian arrived quickly.He immediately took over, after reviewing the evidence, asking about the situation, and after roughly understanding the whole case, he smiled at Li Mingda: "Don't worry, I will leave it to the elder brother, and I will definitely deal with it properly for you, and it will not be in vain for you for the past month." Take the trouble to investigate."

Li Mingda nodded, and after saying goodbye to Li Chengqian, he was about to leave.

Li Chengqian stopped Li Mingda again, and waved his hand to signal his followers.The eunuch with the food box beside him ran over quickly, intending to hand over the contents of the food box to Li Mingda.

Li Mingda had already smelled the smell in the food box and knew it was stinky tofu.He waved his hand to signal the little eunuch not to open it on the spot, and it is not suitable for such a serious butler place in Dali Temple.

Zuo Qingmei then took the food box.

"Where's the second brother?"

"I guess he's still in Pingkangfang. He's a bit obsessed with Jiu Po's stinky tofu. When I left, he had already eaten a whole plate." Li Chengqian showed a look of disgust as he spoke, feeling that the thing was too stinky up.

Li Mingda stared at Li Chengqian, smiled politely and said goodbye to him again, and left Dali Temple Mansion together with Fang Yizhi.

"The Minister of Dali Temple is a tactful and timid person, and he is well versed in the principles of moderation in the officialdom. The final interrogation of this case may be decided by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"I don't understand either, but the sage must have a reason for doing this." Li Mingda glanced behind him, and then whispered to Fang Yizhi with deep eyes, "He knows many things better than anyone else."

Fang Yi nodded straightforwardly, understanding what Li Mingda said implied that the sage had already begun to suspect the prince, "Then we don't need to worry about it."

Li Mingda knew that his father's arrangement must be due to doubts about the relationship between Li Daozong and Li Chengqian, so he asked Fang Yizhi, "What do you think of the two of them?"

Fang Yi shook his head at Li Mingda.

"What do you mean?" Li Mingda asked him.

"Your elder brother is not that simple." Fang Yi said straight.

Li Mingda was startled, then looked at Fang Yizhi in doubt.

Fang Yi shook his head lightly at her, "I advise the princess not to get involved in this matter, since the sage already knows it well, he will make a decision sooner or later, we just need to wait for the result."

"Okay, I believe you."

In terms of court affairs, Li Mingda knew that he was not as good as Fang Yizhi. Since he had hinted to himself that Li Daozong's case probably had nothing to do with his elder brother, there was no need for her to chase him out of thin air.

Li Mingda lowered his eyes, feeling a little complicated.

"Wanting to kill someone and preparing to kill someone are two completely different things." Fang Yizhi looked at Li Mingda deeply, "But there is one thing in common, no matter which choice he chooses, it is his own decision. None of your business."

Li Mingda suddenly raised his head and looked at the room.

Fang Yizhi slightly raised the corners of his mouth, and gave Li Mingda a very bright smile, which was a rare smile he had never seen before, like a ray of warm sun driving away the darkness in people's hearts.

"It's troublesome for you these days to guard Qujiang Village every day, so you can go back and rest."

After Li Mingda said goodbye to Fang Yizhi, he turned his horse's head and walked a few steps. He felt that Fang Yi behind him had not moved, and knew that he was staring at him.Li Mingda suddenly remembered something, stopped the horse, and turned around again.

She immediately pulled a jade pendant from her waist and handed it to Fang Yizhi, "This is for you."

Fang Yi looked directly at the jade pendant, needless to say the material is high quality, it is rare that it is the pattern of this jade pendant, a sheep is engraved on the front and back of the round bottom, and this sheep even sticks out its tongue.

Sheep tongue should refer to sheep tongue gills.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a sage in the State of Jin named Yang Tong He. He was a well-known virtuous official in the State of Jin at that time.His father admired this man very much, and even took him as a model to learn from. Because Confucius called this man "Yi Zhi", his father named him this, because he had high hopes for him, hoping that he would be like a sheep's tongue in the future. virtuous.

So this 'sheep tongue' jade pendant symbolizes his name.

Fang Yi's eyes froze, and his slender fingers tightly grasped the jade pendant in his hand.He never expected that the princess would be so thoughtful, he sent a golden si to him, and the princess returned it to him with a more thoughtful gift.

"I also wanted to give you a gold one. As you said, it's durable. But it's okay for us girls to wear gold, and you guys still like to wear jade. Modesty gentleman, gentle and moist like jade. So I made ten for you, and it's also durable." Fall." After Li Mingda finished speaking, he informed Fang Yizhi that the other nine were still in the palace, and he didn't bring all of them because it was inconvenient to travel today.

"Princess Lao, don't worry, one is enough, it won't break." Fang Yizhi's hands clenched even tighter.

"It's okay, anyway, I begged for this jade from my fourth brother. If you are polite, it will be cheaper for him, and he doesn't care about such things." Li Mingda's words are to persuade Fang Yizhi not to be polite, so that he can accept it. just go.

"I am ashamed, today the princess saved Yi Zhi's life, saved Yi Zhi's troubles, and even gave Yi Zhi such a precious gift," Fang Yizhi cupped his hands to Li Mingda, "I'm afraid there will be no repayment."

"You are my follower, I should take care of you, have you forgotten?" Li Mingda sighed with a smile, and then asked Fang Yizhi, "I promised me that I would report everything in detail, why didn't I see you? "

"Waiting for the princess to ask." Fang Yi jumped off the horse, then took out two booklets from the saddle bag, and handed them to Li Mingda with both hands.

Li Mingda was stunned for a moment, took it and flipped through it, then looked at Fang Yizhi, "You really write every day."

"It's my duty as a follower, I dare not lie to the princess."

Fang Yi saluted without being humble or overbearing, still in a high-spirited manner, it didn't seem like she was submitting to her at all.

But it really did what it said, and people couldn't fault it.

"Okay, then you can treat my saving you as a reward for your loyal follower, so don't worry about it too much."

After Li Mingda finished speaking, he laughed and left with Zuo Qingmei and others.

Fang Yi stood upright on the spot, watching her go without moving, but still didn't look back for a long time.

"Da Lang." Luo Ge led the horse and leaned forward.

"Go home." Fang Yi Naogata said slowly, still holding the jade pendant tightly in his palm.

……

When Li Mingda returned to the Lizheng Hall, he was called to him by Li Shimin.

Although Li Shimin had already listened to Tian Hanshan's report on the case, he seemed to be ignorant at the moment. He looked like a curious child, and asked Li Mingda to quickly explain the case to him.

Li Mingda sat down and drank tea, rested for a while, and then sorted out his language and talked to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin listened with gusto, and from time to time he reached out to take a piece of 'Guomenxiang' and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it crisply, as leisurely as listening to an opera.

Halfway through the hearing, Li Shimin stopped and asked Li Mingda: "So it was you and Fang Yizhi who were solving this case, and Yuchi Baoqi hid because he was afraid of ghosts?"

"He's really afraid of ghosts," Li Mingda saw Li Shimin's skeptical and disbelieving expression, "he has some difficulties in it, so it's not good to be humane to outsiders."

"I'm an outsider?" Li Shimin asked, "This world belongs to me, and you are all my 'insiders'. Why do you say outsiders? But let's talk about it. What's the problem? People say."

Li Mingda then told Li Shimin about the "horrific" experience of Xia Wei Chi Baoqi's childhood.

"This Yuchi Gong is really a rough man, how can he teach children like this. It's okay, he is afraid that the ghost will not go, Aye thinks it's for your sake, don't care about it."

"Then Aye doesn't care about the uncle's corruption case?" Li Mingda asked curiously seeing that Li Shimin was calm and calm at the moment.

Fang Qirui quickly winked at Li Mingda.

Li Shimin's face was pulled down, and he sighed unhappily, "I've been angry for a long time, and you, Aye, feel better. These relatives of the royal family, relying on their meritorious service and high status, are reckless and bold, and they wantonly exercise power and corrupt the country. Severe punishment. But this Li Daozong is a troublesome person. His meritorious deeds and exile can be fine, but he can't die. He still has a daughter in Tubo, so we should give him some face. Of course, if he is really just corrupt, Anything else is unforgivable.”

"Then why did Aye suddenly let the eldest brother take over the case?"

"As the prince, your elder brother has the important task of assisting the country. It is right to entrust this matter to him." Li Shimin reached out and nodded Li Mingda's head, "Who is King Jiangxia, what identity do you little girl use to fight with him?" Head-to-head, Aye is doing it for your own good. Don’t worry, although your elder brother will try the case, the credit goes to you.”

Li Mingda smiled, she had just carefully noticed the expression on her father's mention of her elder brother, her complexion was a little heavy, and there was no meaning to it, obviously his arrangement was not as simple as the explanation he just gave herself.

Li Shimin ate two pieces of incense and motioned Li Mingda to continue talking.

Li Mingda explained what happened one by one according to his words.

During Li Mingda's narration, Li Shimin wiped his hands, then hung his hands behind the case naturally, fiddled with something.

Li Mingda looked at Li Shimin curiously while talking.

When Li Shimin heard that Fang Yi had been assassinated here, he realized that Li Mingda had said it, and hurriedly stopped, "So you saved his life. Please tell me in detail first, how did you find out that there was an assassin on the roof?"

"The light reflected by the arrow." That's all Li Mingda could explain.

At that time, she had actually heard the noise from the east, because at that time there were servants in the mansion searching around, and there were voices from all directions, and she was a little distracted because she was anxious to interrogate Mrs. Du, so she didn't pay special attention to the noise from that side.Later, she realized that it was because she heard the sound of pulling the string, and it was impossible for the guards who were conducting the search to pull the bow.

Li Shimin was dubious, but nodded clearly on his face, "That's really a coincidence."

"There are many coincidences in this world." Li Mingda argued.

"Just like this Jin Si, someone just happened to see you off." As soon as Li Shimin's words came out, he received a surprised look from his daughter.

Li Shimin raised his right hand from behind the table with a smile, and unfolded the golden si in his palm to show Li Mingda.

"It's quite beautiful, I didn't expect it." Li Shimin sighed.

"Aye, you stole from me." Li Mingda immediately got up and went to Li Shimin's place, trying to get Jin Xi back.

Li Shimin held onto it, but refused to give it to him, "How can it be considered stealing? Because my father just told you that the world belongs to Aye, and you little Jinsi... naturally belongs to Aye."

"Aye doesn't care about this golden si. Aye took it just to tease Sizi. Sizi won't be fooled. Just now Sizi snatched it, but it was just to cooperate with Aye and make him happy." Li Mingda accepted it without hesitation. Hand, let Li Shimin hold the golden si.

"Really." Hearing this, Li Shimin put Jin Si down instead, rubbed his chin, looked at Li Mingda, and then raised his left hand hidden behind the table, "What about this one?"

Li Mingda glanced sideways, and his father took the whole set as soon as he took it, and the nine-piece 'sheep tongue' jade pendant also fell into his hands.

"It's hard for Aye to hide so many things in his sleeves." Li Mingda couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"You still have the guts to say it," Li Shimin's eyes suddenly became sharp, "What's going on between you and Fang Yi?"