"The other party's intentions are nothing more than two, either to help my family, or to trap my family."

Li Tong frowned, and said his opinion, although it seemed nonsense, but it helped to straighten out his thoughts.

The most eye-catching incident in the current situation is naturally the rebellion of Li Chong, the king of Langya, Bozhou, and this strange incident is most likely related to this, and some people secretly want to involve Li Tong's family in it. As for the specific intentions of the person, there is so little information at the moment that it is impossible to judge.

Leaving aside the questions that can't be figured out for the time being, the most critical question now is, how should the family deal with it? This is also the reason why Li Guangshun hesitated and wanted to come to Li Tong in private to discuss.

Li Tong did not rush to express his opinion, but asked Li Guangshun: "According to what the eldest brother sees, how should my family deal with itself?" ”

"I just don't know what to do ......"

Li Guangshun's face was embarrassed and worried, and he seemed to feel that he was too assertive, and he pondered for a while before gritting his teeth and saying: "If this is really related to the military affairs of King Langya, my family is in the net, and it is best to stay away from it." But those who plot in the dark may not be willing to give up. I, I want to continue to wait and see, and not to involve the whole family in this. Tell Saburo you now, I just hope you can prepare a little, and no matter what happens in the future, you must appease Niangniang, Noriko, and Ah Mei......"

Hearing Li Guangshun say this, Li Tong was quite pleased. He saw that Li Guangshun was low-key and cautious in his daily life, lest he make a mistake, and even bordered on cowardice, and he was worried that the other party would be smoothed out, so he was willing to accept his fate, and did not dare to make the slightest effort to reverse the situation.

But Li Guangshun's answer is obviously still unwilling and still longing. This also makes Li Tong's understanding of this brother more detailed and rich, people should save themselves in the end, as long as they refuse to accept their fate, everything will turn around.

"Since Brother said me, how can I let you go into danger alone! There are already two brothers in the family, and the two of us should try to find life instead of waiting for disaster to come. At the moment, I am floating on the surface, and people are hiding in the dark, so it is really not appropriate to act rashly. ”

The extremely boring life of several months in a row has also seriously worn out Li Tong's patience, and he doesn't want to miss this abnormal change now, no matter whether it is good or bad.

At the moment, they are completely passive, and after summing it up, Li Tong really can't think of how to turn into an active one, so the two decided not to tell the rest of the people about it, but just wait for the next message to be delivered with peace of mind.

On the second day, Li Tong summoned the Xu family to take charge of the Xu family, and casually used an excuse to ask the Xu family to send all the people in the kitchen and the palace to other places, and only let the maid Zhu Niang and the servants who had followed his family for many years stay in this place to ensure that the matter would not be spied on by miscellaneous eyes.

As the situation in foreign countries has become more and more tense recently, the Zhangzhi Xu family has also become more respectful to Li Tong, obeying his words and plans, and not daring to disobey him in the slightest. This is not because she is optimistic about the future of King Yong's family, but she is not optimistic, worried that King Yong's family will be implicated in disasters at any time, so she tried her best to release her kindness, hoping that King Yong'an can feel something, even if she really suffers, don't bite her out.

The ingredients of Renzhiin are sent by the eunuchs and palace maids of the Shangshi Bureau once a day in the morning and evening. There are relatively more ingredients in the evening, and according to Zhu Niang's explanation, the cloth pieces are all mixed with the ingredients in the evening.

In the evening, Li Tong personally came to the kitchen in the courtyard, stared at the palace people who were responsible for transporting the ingredients, and carefully looked at the palace people of the Shangshi Bureau, hoping to get a glimpse of the clues. Those people also felt the serious eyes of King Yong'an, and their eyes wandered and dodged, which were all normal reactions, so it was not possible to infer whether these people were strange or not.

The ingredients are sorted into different types and placed in cages of various sizes, and when the cages are opened, they show obvious signs of being turned over. After Li Tong looked at several palace people for a moment, he pretended to be displeased and said, "The food is so messy, how do you do it?" ”

When several people from the food palace heard this, they were busy bowing and pleading: "How dare the slaves be lazy, it's just that the guards searched and picked it on the way, and after sealing the box, the servants were not allowed to open the box and sort it out, so they could only send it ......like this."

"Which one of the guards is making things difficult for my family? How many people are digging through the boxes? Come quickly, I won't embarrass you! ”

Li Tong put on an indignant look, but in fact, he wanted to lock down the suspects through these people.

Those few people trembled and said: "Slaves and lowly palace servants, how dare they ask the name of General Yulin Lang." It's just a glimpse of the color of the costume, it should be a hundred horsemen......"

In the Northern Ya Forbidden Army, the hundred cavalry belonged to the absolute elite, and was even independent of the Imperial Forest Army. At the beginning of Zhenguan, Taizong Li Shimin chose a hundred people who were good at shooting as the second long to go to the north gate and follow Tian Hunting. After the arrival of the Empress Wu, the scale of the hundred cavalry was greatly expanded, in addition to the selection of the Nanya guards, but also the selection of the household slaves among the Ding Zhuang and brave to fill the matter, compared with other guards, the composition of the soldiers is much more complicated.

Li Tong asked a few more questions, making sure that he could not get more useful information from the mouths of a few people. At the same time, the maidservant Zhu Niang made another gesture to Li Tong, indicating that the cloth was found in the ingredients again.

Li Tong walked into the corner and took the piece of cloth still stained with vegetable juice from Zhu Niang's hand, and found that there was no handwriting left on it. Probably the people who are secretly playing tricks are not sure whether the message has been effectively transmitted, and they are cautious and do not dare to deliver the message too frequently.

After a short groan, Li Tong instructed the palace again: "Send more ingredients tomorrow morning, and you don't have to come again in the evening." ”

The palace people didn't dare to ask the reason, so they took the order and left.

For the next two days, there was only one delivery of ingredients. Li Tong made such a change, first, he wanted to see how much energy the troublemakers behind him had, and whether he could continue to send messages after blocking the evening route. Second, it is also a hint to the other party, and the hospital has been alert to this and wants to see how the other party will react.

After two days of trial like this, no strange things happened in the courtyard, and the cloth was not mixed with the morning ingredients. On the third day, Li Tong asked people to resume sending ingredients at night, but the cloth was sent in again, but there was still no word.

At this point, it can already be determined that the group of guards who patrol the outside of Renzhi Courtyard at night are the ones who do it, and the other party should only be a small role in the hundred horses, once this path is cut off, there is no ability to expand new paths.

With such a result, Li Guangshun has no shortage of regrets.

Although the other party's intentions are unclear, people in difficult situations always tend to think about the good, and he is more willing to believe that there are people in the Beiya Forbidden Army who have sympathy and kindness for their family, and hope to provide some help. But now it seems that the other party is inferior and weak, and even if he has the intention to help, the help he can provide must be limited.

But Li Tong felt that this was not necessarily a bad thing, because it should be able to determine that the other party did these things, and the kindness to his family should be greater than the malice, and to a certain extent, it can be ruled out that someone intends to implicate and frame their family.

The evidence for coming to this conclusion is also very simple, although his family is in a bad situation, his identity is unusual after all, and not just anyone can climb and frame.

If some low-ranking people have malicious intentions towards his family and do this, once the deeds are exposed, whether Li Tong's family will suffer because of this is still between the two parties, but the other party is absolutely not exempt from the matter. It must be known that the hundred cavalry is a Praetorian Guard armed force that the Empress Wu relies on as his henchman, and some of them dare to make any small moves in private, which is absolutely intolerable to the Empress Wu!

Of course, Li Tong didn't think about whether this was a self-written and self-directed drama by people like Wu Zetian, but he quickly denied it. Their family, but a nest of quails in the forbidden, has not been moved, and the young man Li Shouyi in his predecessor has already hung up.

Hundreds of thousands of troops were dispatched to quell the rebellion, and there were still many Beiya Tigers in the forbidden center, Wu Zenaïve still had to be in the mood to engage in this kind of small action, do you want to play truth or dare with me? Is it bad to just raise your hand and twist it to death?

After confirming this, Li Tong was much more relieved and decided to continue to keep this communication channel, hoping to see the other party's intentions clearly, and it was best to contact them directly.

Li Guangshun objected, believing that it was not worth the risk for the sake of one of the low-ranking guards in the Hundred Cavalry.

Some of the guards intended to contact their family who were imprisoned in the deep palace, and it was a big crime for them to know that they didn't report it, and if they still had to take the initiative to maintain this contact, the guilt would naturally be even deeper. It's worth the risk if it's certain that the other person can be of considerable help, but it now seems that even if you get in touch, the benefits are disproportionate to the risks.

Li Tong knew that after the rebellion in the second half of the year, the purge of the Li clan had lasted for several years, and his family would also be in turmoil. And according to the current state of his family, there will be no powerful people who will provide shelter to his family at all.

So even if it is a little insignificant help, Li Tong does not want to miss it. After all, born in such an era, born with such an identity, the risk is always accompanied, and the slightest danger is unwilling to get involved, so there is no need to think about it, wait for death, there is no help.

Although the two brothers had differences, Li Guangshun was finally persuaded by Li Tong, although he was a few years older, he was not as assertive as Li Tong.

Although such a decision was made, Li Tong did not dare to take the initiative to contact him before the other party further revealed his intentions, and he could not ensure that his message would be received by the other party, so he could only wait passively.

After the resumption of evening feeding, only blank pieces of cloth were sent to the hospital for several days. It can be seen that the other party is also cautious, and is still hesitant to communicate further.

After a few more days, the message finally changed, no longer with pieces of cloth mixed with vegetables, but with a fingernail on a steamed pear. If it weren't for Zhu Niang's orders from the two kings to carefully pick up the ingredients, I am afraid that she would have missed this message.

Holding the steamed pear sent by Zhu Niang, Li Tong couldn't help but sigh that the person who secretly used his hands and feet was quite lively and playful, and he actually knew how to play homophonic stalks. If he didn't have the wrong intention, this should be the meaning of the Li family, and it can be regarded as a disclosure of the other party's risk.

After thinking about it all night, when the palace people delivered food the next day, Li Tong instructed the palace people to send three more raw pears in the evening. This feeling of secret interaction is so exciting that people can't help but be thrilled and very addictive.

After a few hours of anxious waiting, in the evening, Li Tong came to the kitchen again, as soon as the ingredients were delivered, he drove out all the idlers, and picked them up by himself, and finally found a small ball of cloth in a messy mess of lettuce, and unfolded it to see the three words "West Bamboo Pavilion" on it.