In the fifth year of Taihe, September Gengshen, the beginning of Si.

Chengdu Mansion, Jiedu Envoy Mansion.

Che Gong Gong, Ma Xiao Xiao. The people in Shu never thought that in late autumn, at the right time of Zichen, Chengdu Mansion couldn't wait for the snow to fall. It had been half an hour now, and the snow had been falling like tearing cotton, but since the climate had not completely cooled, snowflakes the size of goose feathers fell to the ground and turned into snow in a moment.

After quickly finishing the morning's official duties, Li Zhi stood under the eaves of the central hall of the mansion, standing with his hands in his hands, exhaling white air, and looking at his mansion in a daze, his green bamboo gradually covered in silver, with a gloomy expression.

"Ah Lang," Li Ah Si quietly walked up to Li Zhi and whispered, "Lunch is ready for you, in the main hall of the back room." You haven't eaten morning food either, why don't you fill your stomach first? ”

Li Zhi gave an ambiguous "um" and nodded.

Seeing that Li Zhi seemed to be worried, and whenever this happened, with Li Assi's understanding of his master, he didn't have the heart to eat. Li Assi stopped mentioning the lunch and handed an invitation to Li Zhi.

"Fang Cai Yacheng sent someone to inform Ah Lang that tonight Shen Zheng and Li Deyu are going to hold a banquet in Yanning Building to celebrate the surrender of Victoria. Invitations have been distributed to officials of Chengdu Prefecture, you see, do you want to go? Many people in Chengdu ...... We are waiting for your opinion. ”

"Go, why don't you go," Li Zhi sneered, looking at the snowflakes fluttering, "Li Wenrao's seat has not been sitting for long, and I will have a game with my colleagues, which can be regarded as seeing him off." ”

"Looking at Ah Lang's appearance, it seems to be a previous request for 'Bird City'...... Already have a countermeasure? ”

Hearing Li Assi's words, Li Zhi flicked his sleeves, sighed, sat back on the chair in the middle hall, and instructed the subordinates in the palace to make a bowl of tea and soup.

"This 'Flybolt City', if it weren't for the fact that the prince was behind him, how could I be so obedient to him? Besides, it's just a matter of killing, and he doesn't look at who kills. If you are not careful, if you are not secret, you will never recover. The prince handed over to him 'Crane City' to do this, why didn't he take action himself, and had to drag me into the water? ”

After Li Zhi complained this time, he felt that more anger had accumulated in his heart, and he happened to see the servants and maids in the house bring freshly brewed tea soup. Li Zhi took a sip of the teacup, and before the slave could remind him, Li Zhi had already scalded his lips from the hot tea soup.

Li Zhiguo is really a tea lover, and he was about to have a seizure, but he was afraid that he would spill the tea soup, so he reluctantly suppressed his anger, first put the tea cup back on the table, and then wiped his lips while scolding angrily: "Get out!" Useless stuff! How many times have I said that I can't boil tea with a mountain spring! Get out of here! ”

The slave's face was as dead as ashes, and she repeatedly kowtowed to Li Zhi and apologized, and stumbled out. Seeing this, Li Ah Si also hurriedly stepped forward, "Ah Lang, it's Ah Si who is not well trained, this matter is really to blame Ah Si for not instructing the teaching in place, and asking Ah Lang to forgive his sins." ”

Li Zhi was stunned and glanced at Li Assi. Li Assi was old, and Li Zhi saw that he had a slightly rickety back, so he couldn't bear it a little and motioned for him to sit down. The anger in his chest had dissipated half unconsciously, so he waved his hand and said, "It's none of your business, it's the slave and the maid who are stupid, and it has nothing to do with you." ”

"Ah Si has served Ah Lang since the year of Ah Lang's Huangkou, and since the adults entrusted Ah Lang to Ah Si, if there is no good care, it is indeed Ah Si's fault."

"I told you everything, it has nothing to do with you." Li Zhi glanced at Li Asi, a little impatient.

Li Assi looked stunned, then turned back to the topic and sighed.

"This time, 'Crane City' is inconvenient to shoot, presumably there must be a reason for him. But...... In addition to the 'Bird City' in the Shuai Mansion, Ah Si remembered that there was another person who seemed to be able to take action for Ah Lang. I wonder if Ah Lang remembers? ”

Li Zhi hooked the corners of his lips slightly, and a hint of playfulness crossed his eyes, "Yes...... Don't you say that I really forgot, this person can indeed be perfectly avoided by people's eyes, presumably when the envoy comes, the Shuai Mansion will not be able to find out anything......"

"It just so happens that Zizhi and I are brothers in the same school, and when we studied under the teacher together, I often imitated his handwriting, and I didn't expect this to come in handy." Li Zhi's eyes lit up, and he felt more and more that Li Assi's proposal was extremely feasible, so he patted Li Asi's shoulder, "You really helped me a lot!" ”

Li Assi just smiled and shook his head, but didn't say anything.

"Quick, without further ado, bring me the pen and paper."

Jiannan Road, Xichuan, Chengdu Province.

The festival envoy's mansion is three quarters at the beginning of the year.

Li Deyu rarely had time to spare, so accompanied by Li Huaishen, he walked along the pavilion road and walked to the Shuaifu Library. This library is much older than Li Deyu himself, and is said to have been built by Li Jun, the first Jiannan Jiedu envoy, in the Kaiyuan period.

Later, Anshi caused Xiao Wall, Jiannan Jiedu made Yang Guozhong to Ma Weiyi's mutiny, Emperor Xuanzong hunted into Shu in the south, Cui Yuan was the deputy envoy of Jiedu, Chengdu Mansion was promoted to Nanjing according to the system, and Gao Lishi was sent to send a batch of court books. Since then, this library has completely become the official Tibetan Academy of Jiannan Province, and later renamed the Library Pavilion. There are 10,000 volumes in the collection, ranging from astrology and astronomy to hydrology and geography.

Li Deyu loves to read, and he has a room in his family house in Chang'an, which is dedicated to storing books, but it is far less abundant than the books in this library. Because many of the books in this pavilion are unique, it shows its preciousness.

However, when Li Deyu came to the library today, he felt a little strange in his eyes.

"Huayuan ......"

"What's wrong, Gong Li?"

"If you look closely, are there some books that are different from the day before yesterday?"

Li Huaishen looked around, although he didn't have the key to the library, he would accompany the envoys to the library almost every day, and he also knew the placement of the books.

What Li Deyu said is true.

However, this was originally a trivial matter, after all, the Jiedu envoy handed over to the secretary of the palace, Ling Hu, had a task, which was to copy the lone fragment of ancient books in the library pavilion, and then seal and protect the original. Therefore, in addition to Li Deyu, there is also Ling Hulu who has the key to this library. It is understandable that the placement of books has changed.

However, Li Deyu randomly picked out a few books from the bookcase and looked at them, but the discomfort in his heart only increased.

"No," Li Deyu shook his head repeatedly, "the position of the books has changed. ”

"What does Li Gong mean, how does Hua Yuan ...... Can't get it? ”

"Take a closer look." Li Deyu took out two adjacent books from the same bookcase and handed them to Li Huaishen, one was "Sou Shen Ji" by Gan Bao, and the other was "Notes on the Water Classic" by Li Daoyuan.

"Mystery Fiction and Hydrogeography." Li Huaishen said.

"Yes, although the two books are in the same era, they belong to very different places." Li Deyu put the two books back and concluded, "Someone has been looking for something in the library cabinet." ”

However, what he was looking for, Li Deyu was difficult to determine for a while.

Suspicious, Li Deyu carefully closed the bookcase, stepped out of the library, and carefully locked the door.

"Gong Li," Li Huaishen deliberately lowered his voice, "...... Could it be Linghu? ”

"Ling Hulu has been responsible for transcribing ancient books for a long time, and he cherishes ancient books very much, it can't be him."

"Hua Yuan knows, but Li Gong thinks about it," a treacherous look flashed between Li Huai's deep eyebrows, "Who is Ling Fox's uncle?" The relationship between that man and Niu Sidian...... It's not ordinary. ”

Li Deyu shook his head silently thoughtfully, "Ling Fox has been with me for so long, and he has always been loyal, and it is impossible for him to do this......"

"Linghu is loyal and disloyal...... Li Huaishen lowered his voice and said: "However, if his family context is like this, if there is really a Xichuan Niu Party with his family to threaten him and force him to hand over the key to the library pavilion, so as to tamper with the copywriting and plot against him, it will be bad......

Li Deyu looked at Li Huaishen deeply.

For a while, the words that Zhang Yijun had said to Li Deyu, the words he had been avoiding and unwilling to believe, began to echo in Li Deyu's mind at this moment, and it became clearer and clearer.

"There is a hidden stake in the Shuai's mansion ......"

At the same time, the front hall.

Liu Zhan, the judge of Jiedu, and Ling Hulu, the secretary in charge, continued to do official business in the front hall as in the past.

"It's weird!" Ling Fox shouted suddenly.

"What's wrong?"

"The key to the library that was closed a few days ago is gone, and I can't find it no matter how I look for it......" Ling Hu held a copper long-handled key in his hand, "It turned out that I found it under the desk, don't you think it's strange?" ”

"Oh......"

"If you can't find it, it's good."

The colleagues in the palace were preoccupied with the official documents that needed to be approved today, and they had no time to worry about anything else, so they were indifferent to this matter. Ling Hu Xuan glared in disdain, still shook his head in confusion, put away the key, but also sat down in front of the desk, and began to copy the unfinished ancient books.

Who knew that Ling Hu had not yet sat hot, and with a flick of his fingers, the marching Sima Li Huaishen stepped in from the pavilion road, causing the palace marshals and officials to get up and salute. However, Li Huaishen obviously didn't just turn around casually, after looking at Ling Fox Silence, he actually came straight towards him, and was so surprised that Ling Fox hurriedly put down the wolf hair, and almost knocked over the inkstone on the case when he got up.

Before Ling Hu could say anything, Li Huaishen had already crossed his hand on the left side, and his tone was very serious.

"The secretary of the palace is silent, and the marshal has an order."

Ling Hu hurriedly walked to the side of the case and arched his hand: "Huh! ”

"Ling Hu was ineffective, immediately snatched the key to the library pavilion, and now copied the books, and handed them over to Liu Zhan, the judge of the festival, for temporary consideration."

There was an uproar in the hall, and everyone was confused.

Ling Hu only felt his heart sink, and he was also extremely shocked by this sudden change, but no matter how he asked himself, he couldn't think of what was going on. And not only Ling Hu himself, but even other assistants felt inexplicable about this decision, Ling Hu Mu was conscientious and conscientious, and was praised by Li Deyu in public several times, why is this time?

Seeing that Linghu was stunned in place for a long time and did not react, Li Huaishen urged disdainfully, and his voice was extremely light, "Secretary Zhang, hand over the key." ”

"Can you let the lowly man see the handsome side and ask the reason in detail?" Ling Hu raised his head and crossed his hand towards Li Huaishen.

"Oh, no," Li Huaishen made a look of refreshment, and added as if it were true or false: "Li Jiedu also said that you must be tired of copying ancient books, so I wish you to take a break for half a day this afternoon." Tomorrow's banquet will still have your seat, so don't worry. ”

Ling Fox's crossed hands hung in the air for a long time, his mouth opened slightly, looking at Li Huaishen with an incredible expression, and then a burst of unconcealable frustration surged into his heart.

Chongming Fang, Linghu's house, noon.

Ling Hulu's house in Chengdu Mansion is located in the more remote Chongmingfang, and the furnishings at home are relatively simple. On weekdays, if he wants to go to Yacheng, he often needs to get up at the beginning of the morning to arrive early in time. The festival envoy also felt sorry for him to get up early every day and be greedy for darkness, although he could come later than others, but Ling Fox never "obeyed".

Today, Ling Fox carried his backpack dejectedly and returned home early.

However, the teenage maid was secretly fighting crickets, but he didn't expect Ling Fox to go home so early today, so he hid the cricket tube in a panic, and hurriedly came out three steps and two steps to greet him, but no matter how he asked, Ling Fox refused to say the reason for going home this morning, so he had to give up.

"Oh yes, Jiro sent a letter today." The maid reminded.

"Brother Shui has sent a letter?" Fox Mo was surprised.

"Well," the servant nodded, gesturing to the back room, "the letter to Ah Lang is on the table in the back room." ”

There was no doubt about him, so Ling Fox hurriedly handed over the backpack to the servant and ran to the back room. Sure enough, there was a lacquered letterhead on the table, and judging by the payment and handwriting, it was indeed sent by his cousin Ling Fox.

Since Ling Hu entered the Li Deyu shogunate, the contact with the family has been cut off, so today I received a letter from my cousin at home, to be honest, Ling Hu is still a little overjoyed.

As soon as Ling Fox opened the letterhead, a small casing pouch popped out of it and fell to the ground. Ling Fox picked it up with a suspicious face, and for a moment he didn't know what it contained, so he carefully put it down, and silently read the letter, but he was suddenly shocked.

“…… If Gorou has no intention of breaking with the family, Brother Yu asks for this, and I hope Gorou will do so......"

“…… Send a intestinal sac with the letter, which contains Yunshan poison, a few drops can be white-eyed, the body is shivering, suddenly I don't know that I am drunk, my eyes are red, my mouth is vomiting blood, and I will die when my eyes are closed. ”

“…… It can be placed in the banquet in the Jiannan Xichuan Festival to make Li Deyu tea and wine......"