It was late at night, and it was quiet in the Shuguo Palace, Li Pei had not yet slept, standing in front of the window and looking outside.

Outside his window, there is a small lake and a garden, and the environment is very peaceful.

The weather in Akebono is hotter in April than in Akigu, but today for some reason, the wind blew at night, and the climate suddenly became much colder.

The wind was blowing very strongly, and the leaves in the garden were rattling.

The east side of the country is the sea, so you can smell the sea in the air.

Li Pei took a deep breath.

The main purpose of his visit to Shuguo this time is to see Xiao Diyuan, and now that he has seen it, he does feel that he looks quite similar to him, and combined with his age and the events of Shuguo's twins when they were young, they have strengthened their inference, but unfortunately there is no evidence, so it can't be sure.

However, through today's conversation with Xiao Diyuan, Li Pei has passed on a message to him, if he is also suspicious of his background, then he will definitely start to act, and then coupled with Zhou Rong's secret investigation, there should be room for deep digging in this matter.

Li Pei's personal father-in-law, Liu Gonggong, walked over lightly and asked, "Your Majesty, what should we do next?"

"No further action is appropriate for the time being. Li Pei replied.

This is Shuguo, not their territory, if Xiao Hong knows that he and Xiao Diyuan will meet alone, I am afraid it will be bad for both him and Xiao Diyuan, so for the sake of both parties, he does not plan to make any other moves during the Shuguo.

Let's throw out an introduction first, and then let's take it step by step.

Xiao Diyuan hadn't slept yet, sitting under the light and closing his eyes and pondering.

He already vaguely felt the relationship between Li Pei and Zhou Rong.

No wonder Zhou Rong took the initiative to give him divination, and often took the initiative to create opportunities to get along with him.

This Zhou Rong, it was not by chance that he entered the palace, he was quietly inquiring about his background. This Zhou Rong obviously knows that if he wants to find out the truth, he has to start from the key people, and obviously, the key people in this matter are Xiao Hong and the Liu family, so he will do everything possible to attract the attention of Xiao Hong and the Liu family, and try his best to contact them more.

There is no point and no wind, and there must be a certain basis for Zhaoguo people to do this.

Xiao Diyuan only felt like a numb heart, and remembered what the Liu family helped him yesterday, so he decided to spend more time on the Liu family's side, in order to get the truth of the matter from her.

Of course, Liu is not stupid, if he doesn't pay attention to hiding his true purpose, she will definitely realize it.

So he had to come step by step, moisturizing things silently.

Li Pei and his entourage stayed in Shuguo for a total of four days, during which Xiao Hong personally took him to visit several historical sites in the capital of Shuguo, visited the barracks and library buildings, and also took him to taste the food of several famous restaurants in the capital.

His reception was impeccable.

On the first night of Li Pei's departure, Xiao Hong set up a farewell banquet for Li Pei, and asked Liu, Xiao Dikai and Xiao Diyuan to also participate.

Xiao Diyuan carefully collected his thoughts, and he didn't talk much throughout the banquet.

Li Pei has always talked and laughed with Xiao Hong, but while laughing, he also glanced at Xiao Diyuan from time to time.

Xiao Diyuan couldn't help but think in his heart - if he really had such a good brother, life would be different, right?

He was secretly determined to continue to investigate his origins.

On the afternoon after Li Pei left, Xiao Diyuan sent someone to call Zhou Ronglai.

Zhou Rong was actually very busy at the time, and he hurried over after learning about it. On the way here, he was quite apprehensive.

Xiao Diyuan stood with his back to Zhou Rong, so Zhou Rong couldn't see his expression when he came in.

Zhou Rong walked towards him cautiously, stopped less than three feet away from him, and saluted respectfully: "Slave Zhao Baomu has seen His Royal Highness. ”

Xiao Diyuan slowly turned around, sat down in the chair on the side, looked at him and said to Ding Cong, "Tie him up." ”

Ding Cong immediately called two guards to tie up Zhou Rong with the thick rope that had been prepared long ago.

"Second Highness, what are you doing?" Zhou Rong asked as he spoke.

He knew that there was no way for him to escape at this time, so he could only tie his hands down.

Xiao Diyuan said: "You are a spy sent by Zhaoguo, aren't you?"

Zhou Rong hurriedly replied: "Even if you give ten more minions, you don't dare." ”

Xiao Diyuan smiled coldly and said: "Yes, you did everything possible to sneak into the palace, do everything possible to let the people in the palace know about you, and then you constantly created opportunities to meet with the palace, and gave the palace fortunes, in order to make the judgment of the palace start to follow your thinking unconsciously, isn't this the purpose of your entering the palace?"

It turned out that he had speculated.

Zhou Rong suddenly felt his heart pounding.

In a situation like Zhou Rong, I am afraid that he will definitely die.

Zhou Rong looked at Xiao Diyuan.

There was a kind of sadness and helplessness in Xiao Diyuan's eyes that he couldn't guess, and Zhou Rong was stunned for a moment.

Zhou Rong pondered for a while before saying, "Yes, Second Highness, I was ordered to investigate your background. ”

Xiao Diyuan sat up straight, stared at him and said, "This palace is curious—what is there about this palace's life experience that is worth your trouble?"

"Some people suspect that you are the third prince of Zhaoguo who was eaten by wild wolves. ”

"What about the evidence?"

"Not yet, so I'm here to investigate. ”

"Do you know that you are going to be beheaded for this action?" Xiao Diyuan asked as he looked at him with blazing eyes.

Zhou Rong closed his eyes with emotion and said: "Since I have been recognized by the Second Highness, I have nothing to say, if you want to kill, you have to follow the Second Highness, just ask the Second Highness to kill quietly, don't be known by others." ”

He had long known that it was very dangerous to carry out this mission, and he also knew that it was very likely to be exposed halfway, but he didn't expect the day of exposure to come so quickly.

Xiao Diyuan slowly got up and came to him, and said, "This palace will send someone to send you through the customs secretly tonight, you can go back to Zhaoguo." ”

Zhou Rong was shocked.

Did he really not kill him? Why did he do that?

"Second Highness......." Zhou Rong wanted to speak and stopped.

Xiao Diyuan has been arranged.

As soon as it was dark, Zhou Rong was stuffed into a carriage by Xiao Diyuan's people, and then he was carried by the carriage and quickly ran towards the border route where Shuguo and Zhaoguo met.

Zhou Rong, who was sitting in the carriage, had mixed feelings.

He didn't expect him to leave Akeno in such a way, and he didn't expect his investigation plan to fall aback like this.

He felt that he was ashamed of Li Pei's entrustment, but now he had no way to reverse the situation.

He remembered that he hadn't said goodbye to Zhang Shibai and Fang Can yet, and he didn't know how sad they would be when they found out that he was gone.

After the carriage arrived at the border pass, Zhou Rong was watched by the people sent by Xiao Diyuan to cross the border pass.

As soon as the iron gate of the border pass was closed, it was difficult for him to fly to the Dawn Kingdom even if he had wings.

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