In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through Hou Junji's mind!
Just this morning, he had never thought that just a trivial "little thing" would brew overnight into a major earthquake that shook the entire officialdom of the Tang Dynasty!
"How is Li Jing? How dare Wang Shilong do something to him!" Hou Junji asked his subordinates with difficulty, holding on to his shaky body as his eyes turned black.
"I don't know." The subordinate also looked ashen and explained with his head drooped: "Most of the people present at the time ran away when they saw that the situation was not good! I only know that Hongfu Nu took action angrily, and Li Jing also wanted to protect her. Then Wang Shilong took action, and Wang Shilong may have been trying to protect himself. In the chaos, the guards took action and injured Li Jing."
"Where is Wang Shilong? Where has he gone!"
"He was also injured and was protected by his men and returned to the house!"
"Injured? Why doesn't he die?"
At this moment, Hou Junji felt that his lungs were about to explode!
Who knows how much effort it took on Li Jing to get him to the state where he was idle at home, and how many chances and coincidences were involved! This creates a state that is most in line with their interests!
It will not prevent him from monopolizing the Ministry of War, nor will it cause too much backlash from others, nor will it arouse the emperor's resentment!
But now, with Wang Shilong's interference, everything has been ruined!
Li Jing, who is idle at home, and Li Jing, who is injured, are completely different people!
The former can only make people feel a little pity.
And the latter is enough to make people feel guilty!
A hero! After going through all kinds of hardships and finally completing the unparalleled feat, not only did he not get the respect and rewards he deserved when he returned to the court, but he was even injured? What do other heroes think of this? Let everyone in the world think about it!
"Where is your Majesty? How is he?"
With a chill in his heart, Hou Junji suddenly thought of someone else and hurriedly turned his head to look inside the Suzaku Gate!
Just at this moment, an eunuch running out from the tall vermilion palace door.
The eunuch was young, and because he ran so fast, his forehead was covered with sweat. When he came out of the palace gate and saw the ministers waiting at the palace gate, he quickly stood up, cleared his throat, and screamed: " Your Majesty has decreed that if you feel unwell today, you will have to stay away from work for the rest of the day!"
"Feeling unwell?"
"What's going on? Wasn't it fine yesterday?"
"How is your Majesty doing now? Would you like me to ask Divine Doctor Sun to take a look?"
Outside the palace gate, when they heard the little eunuch's cry, all the ministers who were already shocked and confused immediately stepped forward to surround him and started asking questions.
This little eunuch is also young. Seeing so many princes and ministers surrounding him, he immediately sweats more on his forehead!
He didn't dare to show off in front of these people, let alone talk casually, so he had to hand over his hands: "Ministers, I... I am just a messenger, I don't know anything. Please go back today and come back tomorrow. "
"Come back tomorrow? Your Majesty will be well tomorrow?"
The minister who can stand here, is he not a human being? Although the little eunuch didn't seem to say anything, but based on his demeanor and casual answers, a simple inference, and what happened last night, how could they not know what happened in the palace?
"General, do you want me to go alone and ask him what happened in the palace?"
Next to Hou Junji, the subordinate who was looking at the little eunuch with him gritted his teeth and took out a envelope of silver from his arms, hoping to find an opportunity to bribe the little eunuch to see if he could find out anything.
However, before he could go forward, Hou Junji behind him had already grabbed him back.
"Do you want to die? How many heads can you withstand being chopped off as a private spy in the palace?" Holding his subordinate tightly, Hou Junji's voice was as cold as the north wind in the twelfth lunar month of winter!
"But...but..."
"But what! I didn't see that none of those people dared to ask directly! Let's go!"
"Go? Where?"
"Idiot! I'm going to find Wang Shilong! You! Go and find me the person responsible for monitoring the Li family. I want to find out who has seen him in the past two days?"
"Here!"
The subordinates did not dare to delay and left in a hurry.
Hou Junji looked back at the little eunuch who was surrounded and being misled. He got on his horse angrily, flicked his whip, and galloped away towards Wang Shilong's house.
"Hey, someone is going to be in trouble!"
"You deserve it! Those who deceive their masters and destroy their ancestors are better off unlucky!"
The sound of horse hooves gradually faded away. Behind the scenes, many ministers saw Hou Junji leaving, and a smile of gloating appeared on their lips.
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"Master Shangshu is looking for the master of the family?" At Wang Shilong's residence in Chang'an, a man with bruises on his face stood with his fists clasped and respectfully replied to Hou Junji: "What a coincidence, the master of the family was called by Mr. Yan early in the morning. I don’t know when he will come back.”
"Mr. Yan?" Hou Junji's expression changed and he asked in a deep voice, "But Yan Zitui from the Yan family?"
When the man heard Hou Junji call Yan Zhitui by his name, a trace of displeasure flashed across his brows, and his tone became a bit harsh: "Back to Master Shangshu, that's right!"
"Yan Zhitui, Yan Zhitui!" Hou Jun heard the affirmative answer and recited the name several times in his mind. Then he took a deep look at the man, turned around, mounted his horse, and galloped away again.
idiot! People want to kill your family leader, but you still foolishly protect them! Looking at you like this, I guess even Li Jing's injury was fake, someone pretended it!
Thinking of this, Hou Junji was no longer interested in asking this man who was obviously involved in what happened last night what happened.
They are a bunch of idiots. If someone tries to trick someone, just let them trick you. It would be better if they are tricked to death! Save wasted air!
"Yan Zhitui came out at this time. Did he come out of his own volition, or was there someone behind it? And the emperor should have gone to Li Jing's house at this time! Does that person want to use Li Jing's tragic situation to arouse His Majesty's guilt? Humph? Huh, dreaming! I’m afraid you don’t know that it was His Majesty’s intention to ask Li Jing to withdraw from the court! In this case, how can Your Majesty admit that he was wrong!”
The cool morning breeze blew across Hou Junji's stern face, but it made his heart even hotter.
Hou Junji is a crazy person at heart! If he wasn't crazy, he wouldn't have the ambition to replace him with the throne!
In the past, Hou Junji was famous for his cold-blooded madness on the battlefield!
But in the past two years, he has been hiding in Chang'an to explore the situation, look for opportunities, and use evil hands to make troubles! His sinister skills have been strengthened a lot, but he lacks a place where he can vent his madness wantonly!
Now, facing this series of blows, Hou Junji felt that he suddenly became excited, and at the same time, he became very interested in the mastermind behind these things.
"He went through all the trouble to stage such a big battle. Was it me or someone else? If it were me, how could he implicate all of this on me?"
