At night, Li Linhuai climbed over the wall and entered the general's mansion. He noticed a dark figure standing in the corridor and was about to attack him. The man turned around.
Li Linhuai saw the person coming clearly and said without changing his expression: "Why are you standing under the Linhuai corridor in the middle of the night, father?"
"You also know it's getting late?"
Li Kailuo entered the house first. While Li Linhuai was lighting the oil lamp, he asked: "You rarely appear in the palace these days. What are you busy with when you leave early and come home late?"
His father looked serious, so Li Linhuai had no choice but to go back to him and help the young princess with errands outside the palace.
Li Kailuo waited for him to continue.
Seeing that he refused to say what errands he was doing, Li Kailuo smiled: "You kept silent, stirring up a hornet's nest without realizing it? Today King Qi suddenly came to the palace to ask for a marriage between you and the Lord of Ji'an County."
"Linhuai, what do you think about this matter?"
The rumors about his last trip to the capital disturbed the general's palace.
Knowing that his son hated the head of Ji'an County because of Li Sixu, Li Kailuo thought that Li Linhuai would be extremely disgusted with King Qi's request for marriage.
After all, even after he got the news, he felt that the county head of Prince Ning's Mansion was a fly he couldn't get rid of.
After learning the lesson from Ruyi Tower last time, why don’t you give up?
Unexpectedly, Li Linhuai was just stunned for a moment, and then said calmly: "That kid may have really stirred up a hornet's nest."
Are you finally willing to say it now?
Li Kailuo motioned for him to continue.
Li Linhuai said calmly: "This hornet's nest is the Zen Temple."
"Originally, my son was not sure that the incident at Zending Temple was related to His Majesty Prince Qi, but these days I have been squatting at Zending Temple to find out the mystery behind Jiang Jiao's puppetry. At this time, His Majesty Prince Qi suddenly helped Prince Ning's Mansion to beg for help in front of His Majesty. The marriage decree is obviously intended to use the rumors about me and Ji'an to disturb the General's Mansion and prevent me from investigating Zending Temple."
King Qi always indulged in pleasure, indulged in wine and music in the palace, and his reputation for being romantic spread throughout Chang'an City.
Li Kailuo was surprised to come to this conclusion.
He considered it carefully: "Is this too arbitrary an inference? After all, on the night of Princess Mu's wedding banquet, you helped the little princess offend Prince Ning's mansion to death."
"Father, the son's offense against Prince Ning's Mansion has nothing to do with the little princess. The Lord of Ji'an County harmed others, so what's wrong with the little princess's retaliation? My son was ordered to protect the tenth princess, and he just did what he was supposed to do."
After defending Li Sixu for a few words, Li Linhuai expressed his doubts: "On the day when the little princess went out to see Jiang Jiao off from the city, the princess and I bumped into King Qi at the gate of the city. His solicitation was obvious, so I declined. , in the past few days, he once again invited me to a banquet at Prince Qi's Mansion through his consort, Captain Pei Xuji, but my son did not agree, so he came to the palace to ask for a marriage between his son and Ji'an."
"My son has been squatting at the Zending Temple for these days, and he has also discovered a pattern. The courtiers who have been to the banquets of Prince Qi's Mansion all come to the Zending Temple to offer incense in person, and they stay for a long time. His Royal Highness, Prince Qi, has a quiet building near the Zending Temple. The other courtyard.”
Li Linhuai analyzed and concluded: "All the clues are connected together and must be inextricably linked. If my son stays here for a while, he should be able to see the strangeness and secrets."
It must be said that Li Linhuai's inference was very bold and shocked his father Li Kailuo.
His Highness King Qi, who has always been obsessed with music, wine and sex, isn't he as absurd as he seems on the surface?
"My father thought that this matter could no longer be investigated. King Ruoqi really had objections. Judging from the fact that he entered the palace to ask for a marriage between you and Ji'an, he was already on guard. If you continue to investigate, be careful of falling into his trap. In the arranged urn.”
Li Kailuo reminded him: "If he has no objection and everything you see is inferred by yourself, then your majesty's brothers and sisters will definitely be hated by your majesty if they provoke King Qi without conclusive evidence." , and even caused King Qi's revenge and brought disaster to the general's palace."
The matter of Jiang Jiao is a knot in the heart of the little princess.
Li Linhuai thought that this matter could not be stopped and that it must be investigated to get to the bottom of it.
He asked Li Kailuo: "Father, how can we get to the bottom of the matter without making His Highness King Qi wary?"
I don’t know who I am following this temperament?
Don’t hit the wall and don’t look back!
Knowing that his son has always had his own opinion and his reminders were ineffective, Li Kailuo said helplessly: "Change light to darkness!"
"You have been keeping an eye on Zending Temple these days and have alerted the enemy. Your temporary departure from the capital will allow King Qi to relax his vigilance."
Li Kailuo told him: "Yang Sixu has been checking for His Majesty Wu Zhou's remaining forces in the palace, and Jiang Jiao happened to have been possessed by the puppet technique in Chanding Temple. Yang Sixu will definitely be interested in tracking it down after you leave."
Li Linhuai answered: "But when my son leaves the capital, he will leave with Eunuch Yang. The leader of Wuxi, Qin Xingzhang, has already rebelled. If his son guesses correctly, the court will first issue a decree asking him to hand over the bandit leader and wait for him to commit suicide." His arm raised the flag and turned against him, and the suppressing army captured him with lightning speed, thus ending the battle."
"So in the next few days, your son will go on a secret expedition with Yang Sixu."
Today, when Yang Sixu told him about King Qi's visit to the palace to ask for a marriage, he also mentioned the order from the Ministry of War to Qianzhou.
Li Kailuo was very surprised at that time. How could Yang Sixu, who had always obeyed His Majesty's orders and was very taciturn, be interested in mentioning the rebellion of Wuxi leader Qin Xingzhang to him.
It turned out that he had reached some kind of agreement with his son Li Linhuai.
Trapped in Chang'an City, no matter how much you learn about the art of war, it's just a matter of paper. This expedition to central Guizhou will give you an excellent opportunity to practice and skillfully get rid of the unreasonable entanglement of Prince Ning's Mansion.
Li Kailuo, who initially objected to his pursuit of Zending Temple, readily agreed: "After you went to central Guizhou, the Father's Association sent people to secretly keep an eye on Zending Temple."
Father and son reached a tacit understanding.
When Li Kailuo was about to leave, Li Linhuai paused: "My son also wants to ask his father to take more care of the princess."
Li Kailuo stopped and looked at Li Linhuai for a few breaths.
He asked Li Linhuai: "Don't the princess know about the Zending Temple?"
"My son is afraid of causing trouble to the princess!"
Li Linhuai explained: "My son is afraid that his inference is wrong, or that King Qi is cunning and cannot hit the target with one hit, and will harm the little princess, so he has been hiding this matter from her. He only said that there is nothing to know about Zending Temple for the time being."
The man of General Zuo Yulin's Mansion should have such a responsibility.
Besides, that little girl is very adorable!
Hearing that because of his son Linhuai's matter, he had beaten her uncle Wang into silence in the imperial study room. Li Kailuo looked at his son with a look that revealed his true nature and agreed to his request to take care of Li Sixu.
When leaving, he stretched out his hand and patted Li Linhuai's shoulder: "Be gentle with your daughter's family. Don't follow Yang Sixu quietly to conquer central Guizhou. Remember to tell that little girl before leaving Beijing..."
