Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty
Chapter 99 Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty
Fang Yi nodded, "The reason why your lord thinks that he speaks sincerely and seems innocent is because the current Qi Fei really thinks he is innocent, and he doesn't know that he has done these things."
"Is there really such a person in this world whose temperament can be divided into two, completely different?" Li Mingda asked doubtfully.
"I once saw it in a book called "I Heard All Stranger Things". The book described that the author saw a person with two temperaments, completely different, and did not remember each other. According to ancient records, the Gao family in the Northern Qi Dynasty was also very strange. There may be problems like this. So right now it is very likely that the real 'Connector Qi Fei' hasn't come out yet, but the honest and simple 'Accounter Qi Fei'."
Li Mingda understood a little bit, and nodded while thinking, "When I was in the wanton building, I heard those people's judgments on Qi Fei were good and bad. It is rare that some people say that he is really simple and honest, and some people say that he pretends to be a wolf. So it is Because of his two temperaments. But this kind of thing can’t just be heard by Shi Hongyu alone, it needs to be verified with Fengyuelou’s false mother and others.”
Fang Yizhi: "I've already asked. In order to cater to the preferences of the guests, this fake mother remembers the weather very clearly. Although it's been a long time, he can remember [-]% to [-]%. In her memory, the two of them met. It’s really cloudy at times.”
Li Mingda then looked carefully at the second page of the testimony, and she found that many of Shi Hongyu's ideas were very 'fresh'.For example, she described all men who see sex and have no brains as carrots, and said that no matter how many books these men have read and what their backgrounds are, they are all empty-hearted, stupid people who think with their lower body.In her eyes, these people are all carrots, no distinction is made between high and low, they are just ordinary dishes that she uses to barely fill her stomach when she is hungry.
No wonder Shi Hongyu is not picky about men, it turned out to be this way of thinking.
Li Mingda continued to look down.
The room was very quiet at the moment, and Fang Yizhi was very close to Li Mingda, so that Li Mingda could hear his heartbeat clearly.
Li Mingda raised his eyes and was about to speak directly to Fang Yi, when he inadvertently glanced at the word "Eastern Palace" at the back of the testimony.
Li Mingda stared blankly, and continued to read the content above.Shi Hongyu has frankly admitted that "Mutual Help" comes from the East Palace, and she is just one of the "Dharma Protectors".He also said that the ultimate purpose of obtaining the gold mine map is to help the prince achieve great success.But what is the specific plan, she said she didn't know about it because she didn't have enough status in Mutual Help.And everything she knows is from her superior, that is, Qi Fei.
"It's the East Palace again." Li Mingda frowned.
Fang Yi said straightforwardly: "Shi Hongyu has a treacherous mind and is not afraid of torture, so you can't believe everything he says."
"That's true," Li Mingda asked Fang Yizhi, "Then can I interrogate Shi Hongyu myself?"
Fang Yizhi promised to ask Tian Hanshan, Biyun and Zuo Qingmei to guard the princess, and he resigned.
Li Mingda was wondering why Fang Yizhi took all the men away when he heard a woman screaming outside.
Afterwards, the two wives came in escorting the crazy Shi Hongyu.
Shi Hongyu's hair was in a disheveled bun, her complexion was pale, and she was in a trance.Her eyes were black and her skin was parched.Although he recognized his handsome facial features, he had long since lost the charming look he had before.
Shi Hongyu was still in shock, she knelt down and looked around, and finally regained her composure.The next moment she saw Tian Hanshan behind Li Mingda, she screamed again in shock, until the mother-in-law next to her told her 'that's the eunuch' in a louder voice, Shi Hongyu gradually regained her senses and calmed down a bit.
After she finally realized who Tian Hanshu was, she looked at Li Mingda again, and then searched around Li Mingda in a panic, but she didn't see the ghostly figure.
Shi Hongyu closed her eyes and breathed a long sigh of relief.Then her complexion gradually calmed down, and she smoothed out her messy hair with her hands.
"Who is your master?" Li Mingda asked.
Shi Hongyu's eyes slanted, "Qi Fei, haven't I already told you guys. Ah, could it be that the real master is the Prince of the East Palace?"
At the end of Shi Hongyu's words, she raised her eyes to look at Li Mingda, and her eyes became very firm.
Li Mingda saw that she was avoiding her eyes at first, and then she became more confident in her speech, and she deliberately looked directly at him, and became more and more suspicious that what Hongyu said was a lie.
"What a powerful person I am to make you surrender. I didn't expect your 'master' to be a humble accountant, and he is very stupid. Thank you for being able to call him that. I thought it was because of your temperament. , the superior you can submit to must be a different person. It seems that I think highly of you." Li Mingda taunted with feigned surprise, intending to provoke Shi Hongyu.
Shi Hongyu relied on her beauty and was arrogant, even if the person in front of her was a princess, she couldn't tolerate another woman who dared to belittle her in such a tone.
"My master is naturally incomparable!"
"Then tell me, what are Qi Fei's incomparable features?" Li Mingda deliberately called Qi Fei's name loudly.
When Shi Hongyu heard the word 'Qi Fei', even though her emotions were controlled, she still frowned quickly, and then she showed a look of enjoying herself.
"The Qi Fei you see now is not my master, but when he becomes another person, your jaws will drop in shock." Shi Hongyu smiled triumphantly.
"Then let us see how to make the current Qi Fei your 'master'."
Shi Hongyu's eyes froze for a moment, obviously she was still not used to Qi Fei being called her 'Master', but this expression quickly disappeared from her face.
"Your lord, is this cheating me? You want to coax me into confessing a way to get another Qi Fei to show up? In fact, Hongyu has been tortured by you to this state, and she has already chosen to confess. What else can't be said. Your lord If you have any problems, you can speak up directly, and you don’t have to go around the bush.”
Li Mingda didn't care about Hongyu's complaints at all, but focused all her attention on Shi Hongyu's address. She said "another Qi Fei" instead of directly calling Qi Fei the master.According to Miao Feifei and Li Jingheng's description, when Shi Hongyu mentioned the above, she always called 'Master'.Apparently, she already knew the master's title by the way.
So this is more proof that Qi Fei is not the real owner of Shi Hongyu.
Li Mingda couldn't help but sneered.
Seeing Li Mingda smile, Shi Hongyu thought of Fang Yizhi's tricks to her, her body trembled instinctively, and her heart felt cold.
"Forget it, I'll tell you, it's cloudy."
"cloudy day?"
"As long as you bring Qi Fei out on a cloudy day, you will naturally see another him." Shi Hongyu reluctantly told her, then smoothed her messy hair with her slender fingers, Afterwards, it became a simple bun, and the whole person became more energetic in an instant.
Li Mingda saw that she still knew how to take care of himself, so he thought about it, and asked her: "There are still many things you haven't explained in your testimony. Where did you come from, what did you do originally? Why did you join Mutual Help, and what was the opportunity? How did you get to know Qi Fei as the master?"
"I am from Jinzhou. I was an orphan since I was a child. I am Qi Fei... The master raised me. As for the opportunity, there is no opportunity at all. The master added mutual help. Of course, I became a mutual helper with the master." When Shi Hongyu said this, she raised her head slightly, showing a hint of pride.
Li Mingda's inquisitive eyes were on Shi Hongyu's body.
After Shi Hongyu found out that Li Mingda was watching her, she bowed her head and kowtowed to Li Mingda, begging for a quick death.
"I know that there is no way out for the various crimes I have committed. In fact, I know very well that I will die sooner or later. Since life is painful, it is better to die early. Please, your lord, for the sake of my honesty and frankness, please give me a happy life and leave me alone." A whole corpse."
Li Mingda: "You are special, you are not even afraid of death, and you want to die."
Then Fang Yizhi came, and when Shi Hongyu saw him, her expression changed greatly, she was flustered and panicked.She turned around on her knees, and hurriedly crawled out.Seeing this, the guards outside the door rushed to get her, Shi Hongyu was even more frightened when she saw this, she lost all reason just now, and struggled to run, screaming continuously.Then her mouth was blocked and she kept whining.
When Shi Hongyu was taken down, Li Mingda continued to read Shi Hongyu's previous evidence, and asked Fang Yizhi: "She said her master is Qi Fei, do you believe it?"
"I don't believe it." Fang Yi watched Shi Hongyu being dragged down, trembling all over, "But your lord, seeing her like this, what else can she confess."
"She is not afraid of torture, and she has exhausted all the punishments. She has confessed to the present level. It has bottomed out. Just now she was begging to die with me, but I think she is still arranging her hair. You don't seem to really want to die. I am more and more curious about what her real master is like, who can subdue her and make her swear to be loyal to her." Li Mingda pondered for a while, "From her tone, she should think highly of her Master, at least his master must not be an empty, shallow and lustful man."
Fang Yi directly agreed, feeling that Li Mingda's analysis was extremely accurate.
"Waiting for the cloudy sky to interrogate Qi Fei again, hoping to make a breakthrough in him."
Li Mingda: "That's the only way to go."
After speaking, Li Mingda asked someone to supplement Shi Hongyu's testimony.Then she and Fang Zong went out, stood on the porch, holding a cup of hot tea, looking up at the cloudless sky.
"It's late autumn, and there's not much rain." Li Mingda sighed.
"Look at the sky, it will rain tomorrow." Fang Yizhi also sighed, "Sure enough, your lord is investigating the case, with the help of God."
Li Mingda's eyes lit up when she heard this, and then she looked at Fang Yizhi cautiously, "It's really going to rain on such a sunny day? You're not trying to make me happy, are you?"
"No."
After a while of silence, Fang Yi felt that Li Mingda was looking at him.
He turned his head to look at Li Mingda, the light happened to shine on her face through the shade of the tree, so she had to half-close her eyes.
At the moment when the four eyes met, Li Mingda suddenly smiled, and the smile was so sweet that it filled people's hearts with honey.She must be a fairy, otherwise, how could even her long and thin eyelashes have aura?
"Could it be possible that you can still watch the sky? Although I really want to interrogate Qi Fei as soon as possible, but in this kind of weather, how can it be cloudy and rainy tomorrow." Li Mingda looked up at the sky again, the sky was clear, with occasional white clouds That's all.
"Nineteenth Lang doesn't believe it? How about we gamble again?" Fang Yi asked directly.
Li Mingda looked at Fang Yizhi calmly for a moment, as if he was seriously calculating his chances of winning.
"To bet or not?" Fang Yizhi asked amusedly.
"Bet!" Li Mingda said bluntly, "I don't believe you can do anything, so just gamble again. It's still the old rule, the loser can make a request."
Fang Yi smiled and agreed.
The two then discussed how to deal with the issue of Ye Yi, the order of the Prince of the East Palace.Li Mingda felt that this matter was of great importance, and it would be best to be cautious when it involved the East Palace.It would be best to investigate the problem as clearly as possible before reporting it to the higher authorities.
Fang Yizhi also agreed with Li Mingda's idea.
"But I'm afraid that if we don't report this matter, the saint will get news soon. If we wait until then, we will be passive, and the weight of speaking will definitely not be as effective as reporting it proactively."
"What you said makes sense, and Ye Yi, we can't let it go for too long. Monitoring him is tantamount to monitoring the East Palace. If you don't report it, you will be out of order." Li Mingda pondered for a while, and asked Fang Yizhi How long do you think it is appropriate to hold this matter down.
"It's best not to exceed three days." Fang Yizhi suggested.
"Okay, then after three days, we will report the matter to the saint no matter how much we find out." Li Mingda decided.
Fang Yi nodded his head.
As soon as Tian Hanshan got the news, he quietly sent a messenger, waited for a while, and after seeing his noble lord and Fang Yizhi finished chatting, he hurried forward to report.
"The king of Wei sent a message, please take time out of your busy schedule to go to him."
"Why did he come back again? Didn't he go to Dingzhou?" Li Mingda asked.
Tian Hanshan shook his head.
Li Mingda asked Tian Hanshan to prepare the horse immediately, and she said goodbye to Fang Yi straight away: "I will go to see him, and I will go back to the palace directly. The Ministry of punishment will trouble you to guard here."
Fang Yi agreed, and then reminded Li Mingda not to forget to bring Wei Wang's favorite food when coaxing people, so that he appeared sincere.
"It really reminded me."
Li Mingda immediately asked Tian Hanshan to Zhang Luo.She went straight to Wei Wangfu.At this time Tian Hanshan and the others came back, of course Li Mingda had to wait to join them before going in.So at the moment she was wandering around the back door of King Wei's Mansion, because this back door is where the servants of King Wei's Mansion come and go, and the door is usually closed when no one is leaving. There are people guarding the inside, but the outside is not guarded like the main entrance.
Li Mingda happened to hear the voices in the courtyard.
"Where are you going, Madam Wang?"
"Why did you forget? I asked for instructions. I went out today to buy a writing brush for my son so that he can learn to write well and become a scholar in the future."
"Another day, don't go today. Your Majesty just called Princess Jinyang, she likes to drink tea the most, and you are the best in the tea crafts house. Your Majesty asked you to come."
Hearing this, Li Mingda suddenly felt a little stingy.She thought that the fourth brother called her here in a hurry this time to accuse the teacher of wanton building, but she didn't expect that he was still thinking about what she liked to drink, so it was obvious that he was not very angry.
Voices continued to come from that room, but the voices became farther and farther away.
"Okay, I'm going to prepare now, it must be done."
"Don't be in a hurry and listen to my instructions as you walk here. Today, the king has a special request. He doesn't want you to do well, but to make you do badly, and it has to be the kind that looks good. You are asked to choose the bitterest tea for frying. It comes out with a fragrance, which cannot be discerned, but it tastes really bad..."
Li Mingda used to play a game with Li Tai when he was young, called 'drink bitter water if he answered wrong', he asked the other party questions, if he answered wrong, he had to drink a glass of Huanglian water.Li Mingda made Li Tai drink bitter water every time because of his quick response.Now Li Tai asked someone to make bitter tea for him to drink, Li Mingda felt that he wanted to warn him.
After Tian Hanshan rushed over to meet Li Mingda, he smiled back and said: "Nineteenth Lang, I have prepared nine things that the king likes to eat."
"En." Li Mingda responded coldly, she clenched the whip tightly, and slapped the ass of the horse hard.
When they arrived at the main gate of Prince Wei's mansion, the guards saw that it was Princess Jinyang and quickly opened the gate.
Li Mingda hurried in and asked where King Wei was.
"East Garden, I will lead your lord there." The servant bowed respectfully and led the way.
When Li Mingda passed through the moon arch and saw a piece of green, he got a scent of tea in his nose.
At this time, Wei Wang Li Tai was sitting alone in the gazebo in the middle of the lake drinking.Seeing Li Mingda coming from a distance, he smiled and waved.
Li Mingda also smiled, and walked up to King Wei with cheerful steps.
"Fourth brother is so excited, drinking and eating meat here early in the morning." Li Mingda sighed.
"I just came back on a hurry, and I'm hungry." Li Tai sighed, let Li Mingda sit down, and then asked him straight to the point about wanton building.
Li Mingda has nothing to hide, "Qi Fei, the cashier in the wanton building, is a suspect in a case I'm in charge of."
"So that's the case, then you should tell me before arresting someone."
"You're not here."
"Tell your sister-in-law, it happens that your fourth sister-in-law is in charge of these industries, so you should say hello."
"But before Qi Fei committed a crime, did he greet his fourth brother and fourth sister-in-law?"
"What are you talking about! I just said that you should say hello to arresting people, and we will take the initiative to send them to you. Why do you want to make people think of you when people from the government go to wanton building? Brother?" Li Tai asked back.
Li Mingda: "But before I arrested him, I didn't know who that person was. I wanted to tell, how could I tell? Besides, if the news leaked during the process of passing messages back and forth, and the person ran away, who would be responsible?"
"Okay, this matter is over, don't mention it. For my favorite sister, it's worth losing face a few times."
"When did you come back?" Li Mingda didn't care about this question at all, he was more concerned about why Li Tai left and returned.
"We didn't go halfway. Someone told me that your fourth sister-in-law was ill, so I hurried back to see her. This morning I went to the palace to report to my father. He has promised me to stay in Chang'an for a few days. " Li Tai said.
"Sister-in-law Si is sick? Then I'm going to take a good look at her." Li Mingda got up and was about to leave.
"Your fourth sister-in-law is asleep, didn't you see that I'm still sitting here, didn't you go to see her? Come on, sit down, let's talk for a while." Li Tai smiled, and then persuaded Li Mingda to drink tea .
Li Mingda looked at the tea in the teacup in front of him. Under the reflection of the white jade, the tea soup was green and fragrant.If she hadn't heard those words just now at the back door of the palace, Li Mingda would have thought it was good tea.
"Drink! You're welcome. Fourth brother knows you love tea, so he specially asked the servant who knows how to make tea in the mansion to prepare this cup of good tea for you."
Li Mingda thanked Li Tai, raised the teacup to her lips, and after completely attracting Li Tai's attention, she put the teacup down again.
"Not thirsty."
"This tea tasting is just like drinking alcohol. It's about whether you're thirsty or not. It's just fun to drink." Li Tai said.
"Then drink it. I just heard from Imperial Physician Gao that tea can cure hangovers." Li Mingda then pushed the teacup to Li Tai.
Li Tai glanced at Li Mingda.
Li Mingda laughed, "Could it be that the fourth brother poisoned the tea, he only wanted to drink it for me but he didn't dare to drink it himself?"
"What do you mean, you don't believe your fourth brother so much? Just drink it." After Li Tai finished speaking, he drank the tea in one gulp. Covering it up with an exaggerated smile, "It's really good tea."
"Fourth brother, tell me, you came to me today, other than Xingshi asking about the wanton building, and wanting to warn me, is there any other purpose?" Li Mingda asked directly.
Li Tai was stunned, "That's all, otherwise you think I have something else to ask you. Wait, why did you say I warned you just now? I was just asking you."
Li Tai asked the maid to serve tea to Li Mingda again, and asked Li Mingda to drink it quickly with a smile.
"I brought the snacks that the fourth brother loves very much." Li Mingda beckoned, and asked Tian Hanshan to bring all the things, "I know that the fourth brother likes to drink, so I just took these as snacks."
After Li Mingda finished speaking, he smiled gently at Li Tai.
Li Tai blinked, uncontrollably moved, and then he saw Li Mingda bowed his head and picked up the teacup.Li Tai rushed to grab it, and drank the tea in the cup again.
"Why did fourth brother grab my tea?" Li Mingda asked with a smile, his eyes lit up.
"I'm a little drunk. Didn't you say tea to soothe the hangover? I'll drink it and see." After Li Tai finished speaking, he turned his head and winked at the maids, telling them that the tea was cold and they would make new tea.
Li Mingda smiled happily and nodded, thank you Li Tai.
Li Tai glanced at Li Mingda and scratched his head subconsciously. For some reason, he always felt that Li Mingda might have seen through his petty thoughts.He didn't have any other intentions, he just wanted to remind Li Mingda with bitter tea, so that she would remember to take care of her fourth brother's face next time.
"Qi Fei's matter, I always thought it had nothing to do with the fourth brother. But the fourth brother specially called me here because of a servant, and asked the teacher to question the crime, which made my sister have to doubt. Why do you care about him so much? .” Li Mingda sighed.
Li Tai said angrily: "Okay, I just said I don't care about this with you, but you bite me instead. Then we brothers and sisters can talk about it."
"The fourth brother told me, do you know about 'helping each other'?" Li Mingda asked.
Li Tai glanced away, "I've never heard of helping each other."
Li Mingda knew that he was clear, his heart was shocked, and he immediately got up and said he wanted to see Princess Wei.Li Tai still used the old excuses to stop her, but Li Mingda refuted Li Tai with the reason that "sleeping for a long time during the day is not good", and went directly to the backyard.
Coincidentally, not long after Li Mingda left, he heard the laughter of Princess Wei and the child from the direction of the West Garden.The child's voice was crisp and clear, and his tone of voice was somewhat similar to Li Tai's. It sounded like her precious nephew.
Li Mingda stopped and looked at Li Tai who came after him with reproachful eyes.
"Even if you want to meet again, you have to let someone inform her in advance, so that your fourth sister-in-law can make preparations. She is most afraid of meeting people with a disheveled appearance."
"That's okay, let's go to the West Garden first." Li Mingda led the way with his hands behind his back, and Li Tai followed immediately after not knowing the situation.Along the way, he still looked serious, reprimanding Li Mingda for being so capricious and impulsive.But not long after he finished speaking, Li Tai vaguely heard his son's laughter coming from the garden.Li Tai's face froze, he was embarrassed, and then hurriedly laughed loudly to cover it up, so Li Mingda went back to see the princess with him.
"I've heard it all, brother four doesn't have to pretend." Li Mingda raised his eyebrows and glanced at Li Tai.
Li Tai was embarrassed for a moment, a little ashamed, and then he blamed the servants around him for lying to him.The attendant must be apologizing, and then make up a reason that sounds reasonable.
Li Mingda was too lazy to listen to this, he waved his hand, sent the attendant down, and then chose to scatter in the forest with Li Tai alone.
"How did I treat fourth brother before? How can fourth brother treat me like this now? It makes Sizi chill."
Li Tai was stunned for a moment, and quickly explained: "It's just that there are some things that I can't speak to you directly, so I forgive such a big circle. It's my fault for making my sister Shangxin feel sad, and I will apologize to you."
"Your Majesty apologizes, but I don't dare to take it. Just tell me what you want to do, don't go around in circles." Li Mingda glanced at Li Tai, saw that he was still hesitant, turned around and was about to leave.
Li Tai hurriedly called Li Mingda to stop, hesitated for a while, and then said: "I heard that the case you are investigating is related to the East Palace."
"When did you get the news?" Li Mingda was surprised.
"The day before yesterday. What happened?" Li Tai asked.
"We didn't find out about this layer the day before yesterday. It was only last night and this morning that we saw some clues about it. Thanks to my pressing fourth brother just now, I made fourth brother tell the truth." Li Mingda was a little scared Dao, then asked Li Tai about the specific source of the news.
"After I left, I also wanted to know more about the news of Chang'an City, so I asked someone to take charge of it. I also heard about Mutual Help, and I sent people to join in secretly to find out the news. The news is that a famous subordinate who joined Mutual Help During the investigation, I heard from a Yacha from the Ministry of Punishment."
"What is the surname of the Yacha of the Ministry of Punishment, what does it look like, do you know?" Li Mingda asked.
Li Tai immediately summoned his subordinates to inquire, only to find out that the person who sent the message was actually the guard at the gate of the Department of Criminal Justice.Li Mingda still had some impressions of this person. When she first arrived at the Criminal Department, this guard was the first to talk to her. Later, because he found out that he was inconsistent with his appearance, Li Mingda ignored this person again.
Li Mingda persuaded Li Taidao: "Everyone in the house can see clearly what happened to the fourth sister-in-law just now. If the fourth brother didn't provoke anything, no one will investigate this excuse. But if you really got involved in something, It attracts people's attention, and this matter can be found to be false after investigation. What will those admonishers say at that time, Wei Wang's heart is heavy, he lied that the princess returned from illness, and had other purposes and schemes..."
Li Mingda didn't say anything later, but it was enough to remind Li Tai.
Li Tai was shocked, and narrowed his eyes: "It seems that I was really tricked."
"I should know the progress of the case I'm investigating, but someone knows the situation two days earlier than me. Brother Si think about it, who could it be?"
"The mastermind behind the scenes." Li Tai suddenly said.
"He sent news to the fourth brother, which made the fourth brother shake his heart, and rushed back to Chang'an City, just to stir up more troubles. Although I don't know what the purpose of this person is, Chang'an City has already caused troubles because of this 'mutual help' It's very messy, if there is another scene where brothers kill each other, it will be really exciting." Li Mingda stared at Li Tai closely, and asked him if he had forgotten what he said to him before.
Li Tai sighed embarrassingly, then bowed his hands and apologized repeatedly to Li Mingda, saying that he would leave for Dingzhou now.
"I will tell my father that after seeing that my sister-in-law's illness is fine, I left immediately because I missed the people of Dingzhou."
"Thank you."
"It's just a matter of embarrassing my sister-in-law and calling her 'delicate'. Before you leave in a while, it's better to talk to her and be more considerate of her." Li Mingda said.
Li Tai smiled and agreed, "You don't have to worry about our husband and wife. Your sister-in-law is virtuous, and she will definitely not care about this grievance. I am sorry for her, and I will definitely make it up to her in the future. Fourth brother is still transparent about this matter, so you don't have to worry about it. Just worry about your case."
"Crossing the river and tearing down the bridge." Li Mingda sighed, before leaving, she turned to warn Li Tai, "Don't think I don't know the tricks in your tea."
"My sister is kind and generous." Li Tai smiled apologetically.
"If you don't listen to me, I don't care about you next time." After Li Mingda warned Li Tai severely, he finally said goodbye to him.
After that, Li Mingda went back to the Lizheng Palace, thinking about Li Tai.Li Mingda didn't expect the news to spread so quickly. Obviously, the other party had already started to act against his purpose, and she couldn't wait.As Fang Yizhi said, if they miss the opportunity, then their words will have less weight.
Li Mingda thought about it, but still felt uneasy. He thought it would be better to inform his father about this matter in advance.While notifying Fang Yizhi on the other end, she changed her clothes, tidied up her appearance, and went to see Li Shimin.
When Li Mingda entered the Lizheng Hall, Li Shimin happened to be alone in a daze.
Li Mingda rarely called him that.He rushed forward to try and ask him what he was thinking.
"I miss you big brother." Li Shimin glanced at Li Mingda, "You came back earlier today, but you don't look good. Didn't the case go well?"
"A little bit," Li Mingda said while checking Li Shimin's expression, "Why does Aye miss Big Brother?"
"Your elder brother has been uneasy recently, and someone has stalked him again." Li Shimin glanced at Li Mingda, and sighed meaningfully again.
Li Mingda knelt down hurriedly.
"You child, why did you kneel down?"
Li Mingda roughly told Li Shimin about her investigation process.
"It's not that Sizi intends to speak for the eldest brother. But the whole incident makes people feel that the involvement of Mutual Help and Donggong is a bit deliberate. The matter has not been verified, and there may be other inside stories."
There was no surprise on Li Shimin's face, he smiled at Li Mingda, "Since it was found that there was something wrong with the prince's family order, I took him for interrogation. Aye knows that you and Fang Yizhi are very measured people. .Check it out, and report back after checking everything.”
Li Mingda felt that Li Shimin's reaction was too flat, so he looked at him quietly, and saw that his face was tired, and his eyes were fixed on the memorial from time to time, as if he was troubled by some problem.Li Mingda remembered that when she first entered the Lizheng Palace, her father said that he was thinking of her elder brother. Could it be that there was something about her elder brother written in the notebook?
It's a pity that her eyes can't see through, so she can't take a good look at the contents of the booklet.But it's not a day or two before her elder brother has ambitions.Although Li Mingda intends to stop him, but the East Palace is not a place she can go to often, and the eldest brother is already on guard against her, and he doesn't want to listen to her advice anymore.
Li Shimin saw Li Mingda bowed his head, his eyes were red, and he looked very disappointed.Knowing what she was worried about, Li Shimin pulled her to him.
"If you don't want to investigate this case, you can let it go."
"I want to check!" Li Mingda hurriedly said.
"Then check it out, don't worry, Aye will patiently wait for your investigation results." Li Shimin said.
Li Mingda looked at Li Shimin suspiciously, then nodded.She didn't understand what her father really meant. It was that he already had the evidence of his elder brother's crime, and he was just waiting for the result to come out and be dealt with as a crime.She is still not sure about anything, just doubts, so she has to wait for her investigation results as supporting evidence.
Later, Li Mingda was kicked out by Li Shimin because of Changsun Wuji's visit.In the past, not to mention her father discussing with her uncle, even when discussing matters with those foreign ministers, he never carried her behind his back, but today he has his back.
After Li Mingda came out of the Lizheng Hall with a heavy heart, he ordered Cheng Chubi to go to the East Palace immediately to arrest Ye Yi, the order of the prince's family.
"Try to do it secretly, don't make it public, I will send someone to explain it to the prince."
Li Mingda immediately said to Zuo Qingmei: "Go and help me spread the word, you are an old man next to your mother, he should give you face, and don't react too violently."
Zuo Qingmei agreed and left immediately.
Li Mingda went back to his room, changed his clothes and left.
Tian Hanxi hurried to catch up and asked where he was going.
"Department of punishment."
"Didn't you say you won't go today?"
"The plan hasn't changed quickly. I must clear up this case today and sleep well."
After Li Mingda finished speaking, he galloped to the Ministry of Criminal Justice. He joined Fang Yizhi, and when he began to re-discuss the case, he saw Di Renjie coming again.
"Just now I have carefully investigated and questioned all the servants in the wanton building. When I heard them describe Qi Fei's character, there are indeed two completely different expressions. Of course, this is not a new clue. I also discovered a more important thing When Di Renjie said this, he looked at Fang Yizhi, and still hesitated, not knowing whether he should speak or not.
"Just say it, why hesitate." Li Mingda urged.
"Is there really such a person in this world whose temperament can be divided into two, completely different?" Li Mingda asked doubtfully.
"I once saw it in a book called "I Heard All Stranger Things". The book described that the author saw a person with two temperaments, completely different, and did not remember each other. According to ancient records, the Gao family in the Northern Qi Dynasty was also very strange. There may be problems like this. So right now it is very likely that the real 'Connector Qi Fei' hasn't come out yet, but the honest and simple 'Accounter Qi Fei'."
Li Mingda understood a little bit, and nodded while thinking, "When I was in the wanton building, I heard those people's judgments on Qi Fei were good and bad. It is rare that some people say that he is really simple and honest, and some people say that he pretends to be a wolf. So it is Because of his two temperaments. But this kind of thing can’t just be heard by Shi Hongyu alone, it needs to be verified with Fengyuelou’s false mother and others.”
Fang Yizhi: "I've already asked. In order to cater to the preferences of the guests, this fake mother remembers the weather very clearly. Although it's been a long time, he can remember [-]% to [-]%. In her memory, the two of them met. It’s really cloudy at times.”
Li Mingda then looked carefully at the second page of the testimony, and she found that many of Shi Hongyu's ideas were very 'fresh'.For example, she described all men who see sex and have no brains as carrots, and said that no matter how many books these men have read and what their backgrounds are, they are all empty-hearted, stupid people who think with their lower body.In her eyes, these people are all carrots, no distinction is made between high and low, they are just ordinary dishes that she uses to barely fill her stomach when she is hungry.
No wonder Shi Hongyu is not picky about men, it turned out to be this way of thinking.
Li Mingda continued to look down.
The room was very quiet at the moment, and Fang Yizhi was very close to Li Mingda, so that Li Mingda could hear his heartbeat clearly.
Li Mingda raised his eyes and was about to speak directly to Fang Yi, when he inadvertently glanced at the word "Eastern Palace" at the back of the testimony.
Li Mingda stared blankly, and continued to read the content above.Shi Hongyu has frankly admitted that "Mutual Help" comes from the East Palace, and she is just one of the "Dharma Protectors".He also said that the ultimate purpose of obtaining the gold mine map is to help the prince achieve great success.But what is the specific plan, she said she didn't know about it because she didn't have enough status in Mutual Help.And everything she knows is from her superior, that is, Qi Fei.
"It's the East Palace again." Li Mingda frowned.
Fang Yi said straightforwardly: "Shi Hongyu has a treacherous mind and is not afraid of torture, so you can't believe everything he says."
"That's true," Li Mingda asked Fang Yizhi, "Then can I interrogate Shi Hongyu myself?"
Fang Yizhi promised to ask Tian Hanshan, Biyun and Zuo Qingmei to guard the princess, and he resigned.
Li Mingda was wondering why Fang Yizhi took all the men away when he heard a woman screaming outside.
Afterwards, the two wives came in escorting the crazy Shi Hongyu.
Shi Hongyu's hair was in a disheveled bun, her complexion was pale, and she was in a trance.Her eyes were black and her skin was parched.Although he recognized his handsome facial features, he had long since lost the charming look he had before.
Shi Hongyu was still in shock, she knelt down and looked around, and finally regained her composure.The next moment she saw Tian Hanshan behind Li Mingda, she screamed again in shock, until the mother-in-law next to her told her 'that's the eunuch' in a louder voice, Shi Hongyu gradually regained her senses and calmed down a bit.
After she finally realized who Tian Hanshu was, she looked at Li Mingda again, and then searched around Li Mingda in a panic, but she didn't see the ghostly figure.
Shi Hongyu closed her eyes and breathed a long sigh of relief.Then her complexion gradually calmed down, and she smoothed out her messy hair with her hands.
"Who is your master?" Li Mingda asked.
Shi Hongyu's eyes slanted, "Qi Fei, haven't I already told you guys. Ah, could it be that the real master is the Prince of the East Palace?"
At the end of Shi Hongyu's words, she raised her eyes to look at Li Mingda, and her eyes became very firm.
Li Mingda saw that she was avoiding her eyes at first, and then she became more confident in her speech, and she deliberately looked directly at him, and became more and more suspicious that what Hongyu said was a lie.
"What a powerful person I am to make you surrender. I didn't expect your 'master' to be a humble accountant, and he is very stupid. Thank you for being able to call him that. I thought it was because of your temperament. , the superior you can submit to must be a different person. It seems that I think highly of you." Li Mingda taunted with feigned surprise, intending to provoke Shi Hongyu.
Shi Hongyu relied on her beauty and was arrogant, even if the person in front of her was a princess, she couldn't tolerate another woman who dared to belittle her in such a tone.
"My master is naturally incomparable!"
"Then tell me, what are Qi Fei's incomparable features?" Li Mingda deliberately called Qi Fei's name loudly.
When Shi Hongyu heard the word 'Qi Fei', even though her emotions were controlled, she still frowned quickly, and then she showed a look of enjoying herself.
"The Qi Fei you see now is not my master, but when he becomes another person, your jaws will drop in shock." Shi Hongyu smiled triumphantly.
"Then let us see how to make the current Qi Fei your 'master'."
Shi Hongyu's eyes froze for a moment, obviously she was still not used to Qi Fei being called her 'Master', but this expression quickly disappeared from her face.
"Your lord, is this cheating me? You want to coax me into confessing a way to get another Qi Fei to show up? In fact, Hongyu has been tortured by you to this state, and she has already chosen to confess. What else can't be said. Your lord If you have any problems, you can speak up directly, and you don’t have to go around the bush.”
Li Mingda didn't care about Hongyu's complaints at all, but focused all her attention on Shi Hongyu's address. She said "another Qi Fei" instead of directly calling Qi Fei the master.According to Miao Feifei and Li Jingheng's description, when Shi Hongyu mentioned the above, she always called 'Master'.Apparently, she already knew the master's title by the way.
So this is more proof that Qi Fei is not the real owner of Shi Hongyu.
Li Mingda couldn't help but sneered.
Seeing Li Mingda smile, Shi Hongyu thought of Fang Yizhi's tricks to her, her body trembled instinctively, and her heart felt cold.
"Forget it, I'll tell you, it's cloudy."
"cloudy day?"
"As long as you bring Qi Fei out on a cloudy day, you will naturally see another him." Shi Hongyu reluctantly told her, then smoothed her messy hair with her slender fingers, Afterwards, it became a simple bun, and the whole person became more energetic in an instant.
Li Mingda saw that she still knew how to take care of himself, so he thought about it, and asked her: "There are still many things you haven't explained in your testimony. Where did you come from, what did you do originally? Why did you join Mutual Help, and what was the opportunity? How did you get to know Qi Fei as the master?"
"I am from Jinzhou. I was an orphan since I was a child. I am Qi Fei... The master raised me. As for the opportunity, there is no opportunity at all. The master added mutual help. Of course, I became a mutual helper with the master." When Shi Hongyu said this, she raised her head slightly, showing a hint of pride.
Li Mingda's inquisitive eyes were on Shi Hongyu's body.
After Shi Hongyu found out that Li Mingda was watching her, she bowed her head and kowtowed to Li Mingda, begging for a quick death.
"I know that there is no way out for the various crimes I have committed. In fact, I know very well that I will die sooner or later. Since life is painful, it is better to die early. Please, your lord, for the sake of my honesty and frankness, please give me a happy life and leave me alone." A whole corpse."
Li Mingda: "You are special, you are not even afraid of death, and you want to die."
Then Fang Yizhi came, and when Shi Hongyu saw him, her expression changed greatly, she was flustered and panicked.She turned around on her knees, and hurriedly crawled out.Seeing this, the guards outside the door rushed to get her, Shi Hongyu was even more frightened when she saw this, she lost all reason just now, and struggled to run, screaming continuously.Then her mouth was blocked and she kept whining.
When Shi Hongyu was taken down, Li Mingda continued to read Shi Hongyu's previous evidence, and asked Fang Yizhi: "She said her master is Qi Fei, do you believe it?"
"I don't believe it." Fang Yi watched Shi Hongyu being dragged down, trembling all over, "But your lord, seeing her like this, what else can she confess."
"She is not afraid of torture, and she has exhausted all the punishments. She has confessed to the present level. It has bottomed out. Just now she was begging to die with me, but I think she is still arranging her hair. You don't seem to really want to die. I am more and more curious about what her real master is like, who can subdue her and make her swear to be loyal to her." Li Mingda pondered for a while, "From her tone, she should think highly of her Master, at least his master must not be an empty, shallow and lustful man."
Fang Yi directly agreed, feeling that Li Mingda's analysis was extremely accurate.
"Waiting for the cloudy sky to interrogate Qi Fei again, hoping to make a breakthrough in him."
Li Mingda: "That's the only way to go."
After speaking, Li Mingda asked someone to supplement Shi Hongyu's testimony.Then she and Fang Zong went out, stood on the porch, holding a cup of hot tea, looking up at the cloudless sky.
"It's late autumn, and there's not much rain." Li Mingda sighed.
"Look at the sky, it will rain tomorrow." Fang Yizhi also sighed, "Sure enough, your lord is investigating the case, with the help of God."
Li Mingda's eyes lit up when she heard this, and then she looked at Fang Yizhi cautiously, "It's really going to rain on such a sunny day? You're not trying to make me happy, are you?"
"No."
After a while of silence, Fang Yi felt that Li Mingda was looking at him.
He turned his head to look at Li Mingda, the light happened to shine on her face through the shade of the tree, so she had to half-close her eyes.
At the moment when the four eyes met, Li Mingda suddenly smiled, and the smile was so sweet that it filled people's hearts with honey.She must be a fairy, otherwise, how could even her long and thin eyelashes have aura?
"Could it be possible that you can still watch the sky? Although I really want to interrogate Qi Fei as soon as possible, but in this kind of weather, how can it be cloudy and rainy tomorrow." Li Mingda looked up at the sky again, the sky was clear, with occasional white clouds That's all.
"Nineteenth Lang doesn't believe it? How about we gamble again?" Fang Yi asked directly.
Li Mingda looked at Fang Yizhi calmly for a moment, as if he was seriously calculating his chances of winning.
"To bet or not?" Fang Yizhi asked amusedly.
"Bet!" Li Mingda said bluntly, "I don't believe you can do anything, so just gamble again. It's still the old rule, the loser can make a request."
Fang Yi smiled and agreed.
The two then discussed how to deal with the issue of Ye Yi, the order of the Prince of the East Palace.Li Mingda felt that this matter was of great importance, and it would be best to be cautious when it involved the East Palace.It would be best to investigate the problem as clearly as possible before reporting it to the higher authorities.
Fang Yizhi also agreed with Li Mingda's idea.
"But I'm afraid that if we don't report this matter, the saint will get news soon. If we wait until then, we will be passive, and the weight of speaking will definitely not be as effective as reporting it proactively."
"What you said makes sense, and Ye Yi, we can't let it go for too long. Monitoring him is tantamount to monitoring the East Palace. If you don't report it, you will be out of order." Li Mingda pondered for a while, and asked Fang Yizhi How long do you think it is appropriate to hold this matter down.
"It's best not to exceed three days." Fang Yizhi suggested.
"Okay, then after three days, we will report the matter to the saint no matter how much we find out." Li Mingda decided.
Fang Yi nodded his head.
As soon as Tian Hanshan got the news, he quietly sent a messenger, waited for a while, and after seeing his noble lord and Fang Yizhi finished chatting, he hurried forward to report.
"The king of Wei sent a message, please take time out of your busy schedule to go to him."
"Why did he come back again? Didn't he go to Dingzhou?" Li Mingda asked.
Tian Hanshan shook his head.
Li Mingda asked Tian Hanshan to prepare the horse immediately, and she said goodbye to Fang Yi straight away: "I will go to see him, and I will go back to the palace directly. The Ministry of punishment will trouble you to guard here."
Fang Yi agreed, and then reminded Li Mingda not to forget to bring Wei Wang's favorite food when coaxing people, so that he appeared sincere.
"It really reminded me."
Li Mingda immediately asked Tian Hanshan to Zhang Luo.She went straight to Wei Wangfu.At this time Tian Hanshan and the others came back, of course Li Mingda had to wait to join them before going in.So at the moment she was wandering around the back door of King Wei's Mansion, because this back door is where the servants of King Wei's Mansion come and go, and the door is usually closed when no one is leaving. There are people guarding the inside, but the outside is not guarded like the main entrance.
Li Mingda happened to hear the voices in the courtyard.
"Where are you going, Madam Wang?"
"Why did you forget? I asked for instructions. I went out today to buy a writing brush for my son so that he can learn to write well and become a scholar in the future."
"Another day, don't go today. Your Majesty just called Princess Jinyang, she likes to drink tea the most, and you are the best in the tea crafts house. Your Majesty asked you to come."
Hearing this, Li Mingda suddenly felt a little stingy.She thought that the fourth brother called her here in a hurry this time to accuse the teacher of wanton building, but she didn't expect that he was still thinking about what she liked to drink, so it was obvious that he was not very angry.
Voices continued to come from that room, but the voices became farther and farther away.
"Okay, I'm going to prepare now, it must be done."
"Don't be in a hurry and listen to my instructions as you walk here. Today, the king has a special request. He doesn't want you to do well, but to make you do badly, and it has to be the kind that looks good. You are asked to choose the bitterest tea for frying. It comes out with a fragrance, which cannot be discerned, but it tastes really bad..."
Li Mingda used to play a game with Li Tai when he was young, called 'drink bitter water if he answered wrong', he asked the other party questions, if he answered wrong, he had to drink a glass of Huanglian water.Li Mingda made Li Tai drink bitter water every time because of his quick response.Now Li Tai asked someone to make bitter tea for him to drink, Li Mingda felt that he wanted to warn him.
After Tian Hanshan rushed over to meet Li Mingda, he smiled back and said: "Nineteenth Lang, I have prepared nine things that the king likes to eat."
"En." Li Mingda responded coldly, she clenched the whip tightly, and slapped the ass of the horse hard.
When they arrived at the main gate of Prince Wei's mansion, the guards saw that it was Princess Jinyang and quickly opened the gate.
Li Mingda hurried in and asked where King Wei was.
"East Garden, I will lead your lord there." The servant bowed respectfully and led the way.
When Li Mingda passed through the moon arch and saw a piece of green, he got a scent of tea in his nose.
At this time, Wei Wang Li Tai was sitting alone in the gazebo in the middle of the lake drinking.Seeing Li Mingda coming from a distance, he smiled and waved.
Li Mingda also smiled, and walked up to King Wei with cheerful steps.
"Fourth brother is so excited, drinking and eating meat here early in the morning." Li Mingda sighed.
"I just came back on a hurry, and I'm hungry." Li Tai sighed, let Li Mingda sit down, and then asked him straight to the point about wanton building.
Li Mingda has nothing to hide, "Qi Fei, the cashier in the wanton building, is a suspect in a case I'm in charge of."
"So that's the case, then you should tell me before arresting someone."
"You're not here."
"Tell your sister-in-law, it happens that your fourth sister-in-law is in charge of these industries, so you should say hello."
"But before Qi Fei committed a crime, did he greet his fourth brother and fourth sister-in-law?"
"What are you talking about! I just said that you should say hello to arresting people, and we will take the initiative to send them to you. Why do you want to make people think of you when people from the government go to wanton building? Brother?" Li Tai asked back.
Li Mingda: "But before I arrested him, I didn't know who that person was. I wanted to tell, how could I tell? Besides, if the news leaked during the process of passing messages back and forth, and the person ran away, who would be responsible?"
"Okay, this matter is over, don't mention it. For my favorite sister, it's worth losing face a few times."
"When did you come back?" Li Mingda didn't care about this question at all, he was more concerned about why Li Tai left and returned.
"We didn't go halfway. Someone told me that your fourth sister-in-law was ill, so I hurried back to see her. This morning I went to the palace to report to my father. He has promised me to stay in Chang'an for a few days. " Li Tai said.
"Sister-in-law Si is sick? Then I'm going to take a good look at her." Li Mingda got up and was about to leave.
"Your fourth sister-in-law is asleep, didn't you see that I'm still sitting here, didn't you go to see her? Come on, sit down, let's talk for a while." Li Tai smiled, and then persuaded Li Mingda to drink tea .
Li Mingda looked at the tea in the teacup in front of him. Under the reflection of the white jade, the tea soup was green and fragrant.If she hadn't heard those words just now at the back door of the palace, Li Mingda would have thought it was good tea.
"Drink! You're welcome. Fourth brother knows you love tea, so he specially asked the servant who knows how to make tea in the mansion to prepare this cup of good tea for you."
Li Mingda thanked Li Tai, raised the teacup to her lips, and after completely attracting Li Tai's attention, she put the teacup down again.
"Not thirsty."
"This tea tasting is just like drinking alcohol. It's about whether you're thirsty or not. It's just fun to drink." Li Tai said.
"Then drink it. I just heard from Imperial Physician Gao that tea can cure hangovers." Li Mingda then pushed the teacup to Li Tai.
Li Tai glanced at Li Mingda.
Li Mingda laughed, "Could it be that the fourth brother poisoned the tea, he only wanted to drink it for me but he didn't dare to drink it himself?"
"What do you mean, you don't believe your fourth brother so much? Just drink it." After Li Tai finished speaking, he drank the tea in one gulp. Covering it up with an exaggerated smile, "It's really good tea."
"Fourth brother, tell me, you came to me today, other than Xingshi asking about the wanton building, and wanting to warn me, is there any other purpose?" Li Mingda asked directly.
Li Tai was stunned, "That's all, otherwise you think I have something else to ask you. Wait, why did you say I warned you just now? I was just asking you."
Li Tai asked the maid to serve tea to Li Mingda again, and asked Li Mingda to drink it quickly with a smile.
"I brought the snacks that the fourth brother loves very much." Li Mingda beckoned, and asked Tian Hanshan to bring all the things, "I know that the fourth brother likes to drink, so I just took these as snacks."
After Li Mingda finished speaking, he smiled gently at Li Tai.
Li Tai blinked, uncontrollably moved, and then he saw Li Mingda bowed his head and picked up the teacup.Li Tai rushed to grab it, and drank the tea in the cup again.
"Why did fourth brother grab my tea?" Li Mingda asked with a smile, his eyes lit up.
"I'm a little drunk. Didn't you say tea to soothe the hangover? I'll drink it and see." After Li Tai finished speaking, he turned his head and winked at the maids, telling them that the tea was cold and they would make new tea.
Li Mingda smiled happily and nodded, thank you Li Tai.
Li Tai glanced at Li Mingda and scratched his head subconsciously. For some reason, he always felt that Li Mingda might have seen through his petty thoughts.He didn't have any other intentions, he just wanted to remind Li Mingda with bitter tea, so that she would remember to take care of her fourth brother's face next time.
"Qi Fei's matter, I always thought it had nothing to do with the fourth brother. But the fourth brother specially called me here because of a servant, and asked the teacher to question the crime, which made my sister have to doubt. Why do you care about him so much? .” Li Mingda sighed.
Li Tai said angrily: "Okay, I just said I don't care about this with you, but you bite me instead. Then we brothers and sisters can talk about it."
"The fourth brother told me, do you know about 'helping each other'?" Li Mingda asked.
Li Tai glanced away, "I've never heard of helping each other."
Li Mingda knew that he was clear, his heart was shocked, and he immediately got up and said he wanted to see Princess Wei.Li Tai still used the old excuses to stop her, but Li Mingda refuted Li Tai with the reason that "sleeping for a long time during the day is not good", and went directly to the backyard.
Coincidentally, not long after Li Mingda left, he heard the laughter of Princess Wei and the child from the direction of the West Garden.The child's voice was crisp and clear, and his tone of voice was somewhat similar to Li Tai's. It sounded like her precious nephew.
Li Mingda stopped and looked at Li Tai who came after him with reproachful eyes.
"Even if you want to meet again, you have to let someone inform her in advance, so that your fourth sister-in-law can make preparations. She is most afraid of meeting people with a disheveled appearance."
"That's okay, let's go to the West Garden first." Li Mingda led the way with his hands behind his back, and Li Tai followed immediately after not knowing the situation.Along the way, he still looked serious, reprimanding Li Mingda for being so capricious and impulsive.But not long after he finished speaking, Li Tai vaguely heard his son's laughter coming from the garden.Li Tai's face froze, he was embarrassed, and then hurriedly laughed loudly to cover it up, so Li Mingda went back to see the princess with him.
"I've heard it all, brother four doesn't have to pretend." Li Mingda raised his eyebrows and glanced at Li Tai.
Li Tai was embarrassed for a moment, a little ashamed, and then he blamed the servants around him for lying to him.The attendant must be apologizing, and then make up a reason that sounds reasonable.
Li Mingda was too lazy to listen to this, he waved his hand, sent the attendant down, and then chose to scatter in the forest with Li Tai alone.
"How did I treat fourth brother before? How can fourth brother treat me like this now? It makes Sizi chill."
Li Tai was stunned for a moment, and quickly explained: "It's just that there are some things that I can't speak to you directly, so I forgive such a big circle. It's my fault for making my sister Shangxin feel sad, and I will apologize to you."
"Your Majesty apologizes, but I don't dare to take it. Just tell me what you want to do, don't go around in circles." Li Mingda glanced at Li Tai, saw that he was still hesitant, turned around and was about to leave.
Li Tai hurriedly called Li Mingda to stop, hesitated for a while, and then said: "I heard that the case you are investigating is related to the East Palace."
"When did you get the news?" Li Mingda was surprised.
"The day before yesterday. What happened?" Li Tai asked.
"We didn't find out about this layer the day before yesterday. It was only last night and this morning that we saw some clues about it. Thanks to my pressing fourth brother just now, I made fourth brother tell the truth." Li Mingda was a little scared Dao, then asked Li Tai about the specific source of the news.
"After I left, I also wanted to know more about the news of Chang'an City, so I asked someone to take charge of it. I also heard about Mutual Help, and I sent people to join in secretly to find out the news. The news is that a famous subordinate who joined Mutual Help During the investigation, I heard from a Yacha from the Ministry of Punishment."
"What is the surname of the Yacha of the Ministry of Punishment, what does it look like, do you know?" Li Mingda asked.
Li Tai immediately summoned his subordinates to inquire, only to find out that the person who sent the message was actually the guard at the gate of the Department of Criminal Justice.Li Mingda still had some impressions of this person. When she first arrived at the Criminal Department, this guard was the first to talk to her. Later, because he found out that he was inconsistent with his appearance, Li Mingda ignored this person again.
Li Mingda persuaded Li Taidao: "Everyone in the house can see clearly what happened to the fourth sister-in-law just now. If the fourth brother didn't provoke anything, no one will investigate this excuse. But if you really got involved in something, It attracts people's attention, and this matter can be found to be false after investigation. What will those admonishers say at that time, Wei Wang's heart is heavy, he lied that the princess returned from illness, and had other purposes and schemes..."
Li Mingda didn't say anything later, but it was enough to remind Li Tai.
Li Tai was shocked, and narrowed his eyes: "It seems that I was really tricked."
"I should know the progress of the case I'm investigating, but someone knows the situation two days earlier than me. Brother Si think about it, who could it be?"
"The mastermind behind the scenes." Li Tai suddenly said.
"He sent news to the fourth brother, which made the fourth brother shake his heart, and rushed back to Chang'an City, just to stir up more troubles. Although I don't know what the purpose of this person is, Chang'an City has already caused troubles because of this 'mutual help' It's very messy, if there is another scene where brothers kill each other, it will be really exciting." Li Mingda stared at Li Tai closely, and asked him if he had forgotten what he said to him before.
Li Tai sighed embarrassingly, then bowed his hands and apologized repeatedly to Li Mingda, saying that he would leave for Dingzhou now.
"I will tell my father that after seeing that my sister-in-law's illness is fine, I left immediately because I missed the people of Dingzhou."
"Thank you."
"It's just a matter of embarrassing my sister-in-law and calling her 'delicate'. Before you leave in a while, it's better to talk to her and be more considerate of her." Li Mingda said.
Li Tai smiled and agreed, "You don't have to worry about our husband and wife. Your sister-in-law is virtuous, and she will definitely not care about this grievance. I am sorry for her, and I will definitely make it up to her in the future. Fourth brother is still transparent about this matter, so you don't have to worry about it. Just worry about your case."
"Crossing the river and tearing down the bridge." Li Mingda sighed, before leaving, she turned to warn Li Tai, "Don't think I don't know the tricks in your tea."
"My sister is kind and generous." Li Tai smiled apologetically.
"If you don't listen to me, I don't care about you next time." After Li Mingda warned Li Tai severely, he finally said goodbye to him.
After that, Li Mingda went back to the Lizheng Palace, thinking about Li Tai.Li Mingda didn't expect the news to spread so quickly. Obviously, the other party had already started to act against his purpose, and she couldn't wait.As Fang Yizhi said, if they miss the opportunity, then their words will have less weight.
Li Mingda thought about it, but still felt uneasy. He thought it would be better to inform his father about this matter in advance.While notifying Fang Yizhi on the other end, she changed her clothes, tidied up her appearance, and went to see Li Shimin.
When Li Mingda entered the Lizheng Hall, Li Shimin happened to be alone in a daze.
Li Mingda rarely called him that.He rushed forward to try and ask him what he was thinking.
"I miss you big brother." Li Shimin glanced at Li Mingda, "You came back earlier today, but you don't look good. Didn't the case go well?"
"A little bit," Li Mingda said while checking Li Shimin's expression, "Why does Aye miss Big Brother?"
"Your elder brother has been uneasy recently, and someone has stalked him again." Li Shimin glanced at Li Mingda, and sighed meaningfully again.
Li Mingda knelt down hurriedly.
"You child, why did you kneel down?"
Li Mingda roughly told Li Shimin about her investigation process.
"It's not that Sizi intends to speak for the eldest brother. But the whole incident makes people feel that the involvement of Mutual Help and Donggong is a bit deliberate. The matter has not been verified, and there may be other inside stories."
There was no surprise on Li Shimin's face, he smiled at Li Mingda, "Since it was found that there was something wrong with the prince's family order, I took him for interrogation. Aye knows that you and Fang Yizhi are very measured people. .Check it out, and report back after checking everything.”
Li Mingda felt that Li Shimin's reaction was too flat, so he looked at him quietly, and saw that his face was tired, and his eyes were fixed on the memorial from time to time, as if he was troubled by some problem.Li Mingda remembered that when she first entered the Lizheng Palace, her father said that he was thinking of her elder brother. Could it be that there was something about her elder brother written in the notebook?
It's a pity that her eyes can't see through, so she can't take a good look at the contents of the booklet.But it's not a day or two before her elder brother has ambitions.Although Li Mingda intends to stop him, but the East Palace is not a place she can go to often, and the eldest brother is already on guard against her, and he doesn't want to listen to her advice anymore.
Li Shimin saw Li Mingda bowed his head, his eyes were red, and he looked very disappointed.Knowing what she was worried about, Li Shimin pulled her to him.
"If you don't want to investigate this case, you can let it go."
"I want to check!" Li Mingda hurriedly said.
"Then check it out, don't worry, Aye will patiently wait for your investigation results." Li Shimin said.
Li Mingda looked at Li Shimin suspiciously, then nodded.She didn't understand what her father really meant. It was that he already had the evidence of his elder brother's crime, and he was just waiting for the result to come out and be dealt with as a crime.She is still not sure about anything, just doubts, so she has to wait for her investigation results as supporting evidence.
Later, Li Mingda was kicked out by Li Shimin because of Changsun Wuji's visit.In the past, not to mention her father discussing with her uncle, even when discussing matters with those foreign ministers, he never carried her behind his back, but today he has his back.
After Li Mingda came out of the Lizheng Hall with a heavy heart, he ordered Cheng Chubi to go to the East Palace immediately to arrest Ye Yi, the order of the prince's family.
"Try to do it secretly, don't make it public, I will send someone to explain it to the prince."
Li Mingda immediately said to Zuo Qingmei: "Go and help me spread the word, you are an old man next to your mother, he should give you face, and don't react too violently."
Zuo Qingmei agreed and left immediately.
Li Mingda went back to his room, changed his clothes and left.
Tian Hanxi hurried to catch up and asked where he was going.
"Department of punishment."
"Didn't you say you won't go today?"
"The plan hasn't changed quickly. I must clear up this case today and sleep well."
After Li Mingda finished speaking, he galloped to the Ministry of Criminal Justice. He joined Fang Yizhi, and when he began to re-discuss the case, he saw Di Renjie coming again.
"Just now I have carefully investigated and questioned all the servants in the wanton building. When I heard them describe Qi Fei's character, there are indeed two completely different expressions. Of course, this is not a new clue. I also discovered a more important thing When Di Renjie said this, he looked at Fang Yizhi, and still hesitated, not knowing whether he should speak or not.
"Just say it, why hesitate." Li Mingda urged.
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