Xianyang Palace Kunning Temple.

Li Si hurried over and met Meng Yi.

"What, did the emperor also summon Master Meng?"

Meng Yi nodded and said, "I don't know if there is anything urgent, I think it's a big deal." ”

Li Si said "um" for a moment, and then stopped talking, he thought in his heart, what could be a big thing that he didn't know, could it be that the nobles of the Six Kingdoms were restless again?

When the two entered the meeting hall of Kunning Academy, they saw that Zhao Gao was already by the emperor's side. The emperor seems to be in a good mood, could it be that Zhao Gao is in the right place again?

"The two of you are here, let's talk about a small matter today."

As soon as he heard that it was a trivial matter, Li Si put his heart down, it was good that there was no chaos, how long had the peaceful days just passed!

"Meng Yi, there was a kidnapping and injury case in Xianyang, it was done by two warlocks, do you know about this?"

Meng Yi was stunned for a moment, he was in charge of supervision, and he had been doing his best to deal with the warlock's affairs recently, but the kidnapping and injury case was a criminal case, and it should be Xianyang's business, right? Why did you ask him?

"The minister doesn't know that the investigation of the warlock who has recently taken over is ongoing, and he is inquiring and screening one by one, and the officials who may be specifically examined about this matter are clearer."

The emperor nodded, for an official of Meng Yi's level, this kind of case will not reach him for a while, but with such a big Xianyang, his sensitivity is too weak, right?

"Meng Yi, although you are in charge of supervision, mainly facing the problems that arise in officials, your position is also related to the affairs of the prison, so you should be more careful. You see. Although Zhao Gao was subordinate to the imperial servant and was in charge of the carriages and horses, he was very serious about the affairs of the prison, and he did not regard it as a rigid study, but often collected actual cases for use in the cultivation of the Fa. This kind of attitude of doing things is something that all my officials in Daqin should learn! ”

Meng Yi nodded sullenly and stopped talking. In his heart, Zhao Gao didn't know what kind of ecstasy soup he poured into the emperor, so that the emperor could say such specious words that were not divided between duties and subordinates.

Forget it, with the villain. Inevitably, you have to suffer a little idleness. I'll bear with it today, and there will always be a day to go back.

The emperor turned to Li Si again, "Tonggu, do you know about this case?"

Li Si asked tentatively: "Is the emperor talking about the kidnapping and injury case in which the two warlocks participated?" ”

The emperor nodded. He looked at Lees with burning eyes. This look shocked Meng Yi, who was onlookers. Just using Zhao Gao's matter to belittle himself can only be regarded as a beating. Could it be that today's main target is Li Si?

Li Si was still very calm, and he pondered and said: "I don't know how many cases of this kind have happened in Xianyang recently. Tonggu only knows together. The minister's subordinate is not in prison, and the minister believes that the kind of indiscriminate inquiry and indiscriminate interference should not happen to an official in a country ruled by law. A person can only do his job well if he concentrates and has no distractions, otherwise his energy will be too scattered. ”

The corners of the emperor's mouth twitched, it seems that the old prince is very unconvinced, he praises Zhao Gao. There is no way, Zhao Gao's popularity is too bad, and it is not easy to speak for him.

But how caring he is!

"Tonggu, Zhao Gao said that your mansion has accommodated an immortal for a long time, why don't you tell Lian about this? It took so much manpower and material resources to search all over the world! ”

Li Si turned his head sharply and looked at Zhao Gao. This is too poisonous, isn't this to create a suspicion of having no king in his heart?

Good boy, good villain!

Zhao Gao looked at the emperor respectfully as if he was fine. Of course he knew Lis's reaction. You are looking for Xiaohan all over the world, can I do nothing? If you don't make good use of this opportunity, then I'm so sorry for my Zhao someone's decades of cultivation!

Li Si sneered in his heart, turned his head to look at the emperor, and bowed respectfully, before he said unhurriedly: "Your Majesty, the woman Lord Zhao said is a Xiaohan girl, right?" You should be no stranger to this girl, the "Great Wall Map" presented by the eldest prince last year was from her hand. ”

"Oh, is that her?" The emperor became more and more interested.

Li Si continued: "If you want to say that this girl is indeed outstanding, the minister has also thought about linking her with the immortals. However, there is no trivial matter related to the safety and health of the emperor, Li Si lived for more than seventy years, if he didn't even have this awareness, he not only lived in vain, but also had no qualifications to be a courtier. Therefore, Chen observed her very carefully, pondered her, and established a very good teacher-student relationship with her. In Chen's opinion, she doesn't seem to be like the fairy we imagine, for example, she wants to change the color of ceramics, but where does the glaze come from? She bought medicine from the drugstore, grinded it the same, and did the same firing experiments, and the beautiful porcelain we see today was not conjured by her magic power, but by her painstaking experiments. Your Majesty, including the printing of the fabric, she tried it out little by little. It is no exaggeration to describe her obsession as a waste of sleep and food. In Li Si's opinion, she is more like an excellent craftsman. ”

"Craftsman?" The emperor frowned and turned his head to look at Zhao Gao.

Zhao Gao was nervous for a while, and hurriedly said, "Can Li Xiang conclude that she is not an immortal based on these alone?" Mahjong was invented by her, Xiangqi was improved by her, and even paper, which is now sold quite expensive, is also sold in her shop. Also, can Lee Sang-sang tell where she came from? If she is a fugitive with an unclear household registration and conceals her identity, she can only be an immortal of unknown origin. ”

Li Si smiled coldly in his heart, and said in that unhurried tone: "It seems that Lord Zhao wants to detain me for the crime of hiding a fugitive!" According to Lord Zhao's thinking, lonely people should not be taken in, and compassion should not be possessed. No wonder Lord Zhao doesn't have a high reputation, it turns out that he does things like this! ”

Zhao Gao was speechless for a while, and turned to look at the emperor. "Your Majesty, the minister is not here to debate with Li Xiang today about his character, he just wants to tell the emperor where the gods are, so as to solve the emperor's worries for many days. And Li Xiang has been down to the topic here for a long time, and he is still quibbling in every way, does he want to keep the immortals for himself in order to live forever? ”

The emperor looked at this and then at that suspiciously, thinking, what is going on with this little cold girl?

Meng Yi felt that it was time for him to speak: "Your Majesty." The minister didn't hear where the quibble was, the minister agreed with what Li Xiang just said, everything related to the emperor's safety and health is no trivial matter, Li Xiang has been in contact with the girl for many days and can't determine whether the girl is a fairy, just carefully observe and ponder, the minister thinks that this is a responsible attitude to the emperor. And Lord Zhao only relied on a few inventions to determine that people were immortals, which had to make Meng Yi think of the recent cases of warlocks - ordinary appearances, simple scrutiny, and indiscriminate publicity, I said. You believed. Your life is gone, my money is earned. ”

Li Si smiled secretly, this knife is well stabbed!

"Your Majesty, you really have to be cautious about this matter! I, Daqin, stipulate that 'no concomitant crimes' is afraid that the warlocks will treat different prescriptions at the same time, which will endanger the emperor's health. If you find a woman who is keen on experimentation, put it next to the emperor. Isn't that too presumptuous? In Lees's opinion. She's so bold! ”

The emperor stopped saying anything when he heard this, but looked at Li Si solemnly, and after a while. He asked, "How is this Xiaohan's character?" She wouldn't mean to hurt anyone, would she? ”

Li Si's face was slightly smug, and he said: "She is quite good to the minister, and will cook something delicious for the minister from time to time, and treat the minister like her old father." But it's hard to say what about the bad guys, you can ask Lord Zhao about this kind of thing. ”

Meng Yi snickered in his heart, this old man is so fast, he even saves the effort to cover up!

The emperor shook his head when he heard this, and said with a wry smile: "Tonggu, you are also in your seventies, do you think that Jianyu will be rewarded for your health?"

Li Si also smiled, and he said: "It's not that the ministers will repay him, but that Lord Zhao, a man in his forties, is too unparticular about doing things." It's normal for courtiers to want to please the emperor, but if they step on the stairs of their colleagues, it will be very uncomfortable. It's not good to be too eager to be favored, if Xiaohan is not a fairy, isn't that just a bully? ”

The emperor waved his hand and said, "Okay, don't charge each other, I want to know how this girl is now?" ”

Li Si said: "After she was rescued, she recuperated from her injuries in the minister's mansion. She was beaten and starved during her abduction, and is now very weak and has not yet awakened when she left home. ”

"Oh," the emperor nodded, and said, "It's pitiful enough, so let her go to the palace to raise her!" ”

Li Si and Meng Yi were both stunned, the emperor was so anxious that she would run away?

Zhao Gao couldn't help but feel proud for a while, what's the use of you being sharp-tongued, and in the end it didn't come according to my intentions?

Li Si looked at Zhao Gao's expression and hurriedly said, "There is one thing that the minister can't help but say." ”

The emperor glanced at him impatiently and said, "You say! ”

"Your Majesty, the minister had the intention to tell the emperor about Xiaohan's magic, but she later became the favorite of Gongzi Fusu, and the minister dispelled this idea."

"What? Fusu's pet? "How could it be involved with Fusu?

Meng Yi looked at the emperor's expression, and said in his heart, will this matter involve Fusu, so that the emperor thinks that he has taken the immortals by his side and has a plan for the future?

He glanced at Li Si and said: "Your Majesty, Li Xiang and the eldest prince, one is a teacher-student friendship with Miss Xiaohan, and the other is a husband and wife with Miss Xiaohan, and they must know more about Miss Xiaohan than Lord Zhao's speculation." It is because they are not sure that she is a fairy, so they treat her as an ordinary person. It was originally a trivial matter for the emperor to let Miss Xiaohan go to recuperate, but the eldest prince is in the field, is it better to know? ”

Zhao Gao took a step forward, looking selfless from the bottom of his heart, "Your Majesty, since the minister has provided clues to the immortals, she is not afraid that she will have anything to do with which prince, in the heart of the minister, the interests of the emperor are the highest interests, and the rest is not something that the minister should consider." ”

Li Si also took a step closer and said with a sneer: "Lord Zhao, the old man really has to rely on the old man to sell the old, you think about the problem like this, it's easy to win favor, do you think of the relationship between the father and son of the monarch and the minister?" You can't be so careless, right? Is the discord between the monarch and the minister, and the restlessness of the family house what you want to see? ”

"Enough!" The emperor's eyes coldly swept over several courtiers with different thoughts, and said majestically: "Fusu is not here, he will know about this sooner or later, it's just a change of place to recuperate, what's the big deal?" Magical or not, Lian has its own judgment, which round will you speculate here? Liang Chen, bring people, and follow Tonggu to the house to pick up people! (To be continued.) )

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