In the fifth year of Taihe, September Xinyou, the beginning of Hai.

Chengdu Mansion, supervising the military embassy

The military embassy of Chengdu Mansion is located in Dacifang, which is close to Jiande Fang, which not only has the residence of the palace senior attendants in Xichuan Domain, but also the world-famous Daci Temple, where Xuanzang was ordained before he traveled west. To this day, the plaque at the main entrance of Daci Temple still retains the imperial pen left by Emperor Xuanzong when he entered Shu: Dashengci Temple.

The Prison Army Embassy is located in Daci Temple across a main street and alley. Although its area is not as large as the size of the Shuaifu Yacheng, it does not lose its solemn majesty, and the eaves and courtyards are not inferior to the three major halls of the Shuaifu.

After the turmoil at the banquet in Yanning Building, in addition to being shocked, Wang Jianyan, the envoy of the prison army, urgently left the table and returned to the prison embassy with the support of several entourages and the escort of personal guards. Because the status of the military envoy in the feudal town was second only to the Jiedu envoy, even if the Yanning Building was blocked at that time, no one dared to stop it. What's more, in Xichuan, who has always been loyal to the imperial court, he gave the tooth army ten dares, and he didn't dare to offend the people in the palace easily.

In the main hall of the prison embassy, Wang Jianyan was sitting on a chair and pondering. Because of Wang Jianyan's obese figure, it seems that the top chair is quite shaky and on the verge of falling apart at this moment.

Wu Yiling, the commander of the six-rank close personal guard of the supervising military envoy and the captain of the Yiwei school, bowed slightly to the supervising military envoy and said in a low voice: "Princess, according to you, do you want to play the saint immediately for today's affairs?" ”

Wang Jianyan glanced at Wu Yiling, and was about to answer, so that the slaves and maids of the courtyard served Wang Jianyan a bowl of freshly brewed tea soup with a pear wood tray according to the instructions, and placed it in a delicate Yue kiln celadon tea bowl, which was refreshing and fragrant.

Wang Jianyan picked up the tea bowl and was about to sip it, but suddenly recalled the scene at the banquet when the fox committed suicide by drinking tea, so he pursed his lips in a little disgust, and put the tea bowl back into the pear wooden tray held by the slave.

"Princess, why are you ...... today?" Wu Yiling was a little puzzled, and thought that the tea soup was not brewed well, so he reprimanded the slave maid.

"Forget it, just drink water today." Wang Jianyan shook his head and sighed, and waved his hand to let the slave and maid retreat, "Once bitten by a snake, I was afraid of the well rope for ten years." ”

"Eh, my father-in-law is ready to quit tea for ten years?"

"Shhh...... Are you really stupid or fake stupid? Wang Jianyan glanced at him with some incredulity, and said slowly: "But then again, don't play blindly for the time being. At first glance, this matter looks like a small section of the secretary committed suicide by drinking poison in public, but if you combine the words that Ling Hu said before his death, it is not so simple, and the secret is very deep. Let's let Li Deyu check it, find out what the result is, what content will be played by our family, our family is a prison envoy, isn't this what we do? ”

Wu Yiling nodded as if he didn't understand, and his hand habitually touched the mustache on his upper lip, "However, the meaning of the Chengdu government seems to be that the fox is unwarranted suspicion, and the key to the library is deprived, so he is depressed, so he decided to drink in public at the banquet and die ......."

"You've been with our family for two years, don't you know that the rhetoric that was decided so quickly was purely for outsiders to see? It's really hard to carve rotten wood! Wang Jianyan was made angry and laughed by Wu Yiling's words, and wanted to get up immediately by holding the chair, but he didn't stand up because of his figure.

"That'...... According to Yiling, now that the Bull Party in the DPRK and China is in power, why don't you sell your personal favor to Qizhang Xianggong, make a fuss about this matter, and make a stumbling block for Li Deyu? ”

Wang Jianyan shook his head slightly, the slave maid sent warm water, and the military envoy opened the lid of the cup and took a sip, "The Niu Party and the Li Party have been fighting for several years, don't look at the current Niu Party in power, in my opinion, it is only temporary." Today's events are a hot potato, and it should not be moved. Let's stir it up, let's sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, if anyone wins in the end, we will push the boat down the river to sell personal favors, which is called wise! ”

"My father-in-law is clever!" After hearing this, Wu Yiling hurriedly gave a thumbs up and complimented.

"Report!"

With a long sound, the guards guarding the main gate of the embassy quickly ran from outside the main hall, entered the hall, and immediately knelt down to Wang Jianyan while lighting the token of the Shuai Mansion, and reported on the side: "Wang Jian Jun, the Shuai Mansion has an order, Li Jie Du Wangjian Jun envoy immediately went to the front hall of Yacheng to discuss matters!" ”

After Wang Jianyan listened, he looked at Wu Yiling. It was almost half of the night, and even if it was such an urgent matter as the surrender of Victoria, Wang Jianyan, who had not sent someone to inform him until the early morning of the next day, had Li Deyu sent someone to come at this moment, what had happened?

"Nonsense!" Wu Yiling scolded: "It's so late, the prison envoy is going to rest......"

"Don't, prepare the car!" Wang Jianyan raised his hand and interrupted.

"Huh? My father-in-law really wants to go. ”

"I just finished talking to you," Wang Jianyan reproached, and emphasized in a slightly mischievous tone: "Sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight ......."

Jiannan Road, Xichuan, Chengdu Province.

The festival is the envoy of the government, Hai Zheng.

Yesterday's rain and snow did not bring a little cold to Chengdu.

Soon after receiving the order to open the door, the guards of Jiande Fangya City saw several sedans of different sizes rushing from the empty main road of Chengdu Mansion one after another. The tooth soldiers recognized that the two sedan chairs escorted by dozens of foot soldiers belonged to the Jiedu envoy and the Xichuan supervising military envoy respectively.

It only took more than half a burnt of incense, and in the front hall, more than a dozen people such as Wang Jianyan, the envoy of the supervising army, Li Zhi, the envoy of the Jiedu, Wei Rong, the Marquis of Yu, Liu Zhan, the judge of the Jiedu, and Wu Yiling, the captain of Yiwei, have been seated.

Xu is heart was beating a drum, and he didn't know why the Jiedu envoy called the senior officials of Chengdu Mansion so late, so they didn't speak to each other, and they all agreed, quietly staring at the empty chair of the festival commander in the hall.

Next to the chair of the Jiedu envoy, in front of a carved pine and green bamboo screen, the marching Sima Li Huaishen also did not say a word, although he stood straight at the moment, looking straight ahead, but looking closely, the expression on his face was enough to show his inner nervousness.

There was a full half a moment of work, and Li Deyu still did not come out. Li Zhi couldn't hold back at all, Huo Ran got up and asked Li Huaishen, who was standing next to the chair of the handsome: "Where is Li Jiedu, why did you call the princes to come at this time?" ”

Li Huai breathed deeply, as if he wanted to suck the air of the entire hall into his lungs, and said quietly: "Don't worry, Duke Li called the princes to come, there must be something important, not to mention that the Wang Jian army is here, please rest assured." ”

Li Zhi glanced at Wang Jianyan, but he didn't want Wang Jianyan to turn his head and look at Li Zhi, the two looked at each other, and Li Zhi had to make a slightly embarrassed hand salute.

Li Zhi was suspicious in his heart, Li Deyu had just called so many senior ministers to the Shuaifu at this moment, and Wang Jianyan, the military envoy who rarely showed up, also came. The duty of the military envoy is to supervise the punishment of the feudal town, and to investigate the violations. Besides, Wang Jianyan rarely goes out of the prison army embassy and shows up in the Shuaifu, since Li Deyu called Wang Jianyan here, there must be something important to discuss, considering the turmoil of the wine banquet in Yanning Building in the evening, it can only be for this matter, could it be that Li Deyu has already heard the news and found out the inside story?

No way!

The most important piece of evidence, the secret letter, had been burned to ashes. Even if Li Deyu deduced it and had some suspicions, the letter signed by Ling Fox was signed by Ling Huxuan's brother Ling Fox, and he could not suspect Li Zhi's body. Then why did everyone arrive, leaving only Li Huaishen here to fill the number, but Li Deyu himself did not show up for a long time? What is this Li Huaishen doing here?

Li Zhi suddenly raised his eyes, and there was a palpitation in his chest: he was delaying time!

The inner hall of the Shuaifu is at the right moment.

What Li Zhi didn't know was that Li Deyu was in the inner hall not far from the front hall at the moment, talking with the same cloth clothes. Zhang Yijun, who had disappeared for a whole day, returned to the Shuaifu half an hour ago, and then, the Jiedu envoy ordered to summon the Jiedu envoy, Yu Hou, the military supervisor and others to rush to the Jiedu Envoy's mansion to discuss matters, which could not be said to have nothing to do with Zhang Yijun's appearance.

Although Zhang Yijun has dust on his face at the moment, he can't hide his handsome face at all. The hair is black, the edges and corners are sharp, the shaved eyebrows are heroic, and the clear eyes are as cold as ice. However, the fly in the ointment is that Xu has not been able to shave for a few days, the mustache on the upper lip has already emerged a little sharp, and the beard on the lower jaw is also about to move, so the beard grows messy, which adds a bit of raunchy temperament to his plainness.

"Gong Li, since Li Zhi is already here, why don't you go over?" Zhang Yijun looked a little worried, "Yijun is afraid that it will be too late, and Li Sima will not be able to control ......"

Li Deyu held a few pieces of letter paper in his hand, frowned, and bit his lip.

"Are you sure this letter was really written by Li Zhi?"

"I'm very sure," Zhang Yijun said in a low voice: "When Ling Hulu handed over the secret letter to Yi Jun the night before, I had already concluded that this letter was definitely not written by his cousin Ling Hujun, and Yi Jun guessed that the letter writer would try to destroy the physical evidence, so that he could wait in Chongming Fang Lane during the banquet, and really saw Li Zhi's envoy riding a horse at the right time......"

After listening to this, Li Deyu looked at Zhang Yijun's expression and groaned for a long time, his eyes flashed, as if he was secretly thinking, but he seemed to want to speak and stopped, and finally asked: "He is not suspicious?" ”

"Since he dares to come to the Shuaifu, it means that he is absolutely not suspicious," Zhang Yijun had a cold smile like ice and snow on the corner of his mouth, "Otherwise, with his temperament, if he is not completely sure, he will never easily put himself in danger." ”

Li Deyu glanced at the letter paper in his hand again, sighed and said: "Li Zhishu has deep roots and has been operating in Xichuan for many years...... This time the people were urgently summoned, and it was rare that there were no other bull parties around, and the opportunity was indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, which could expose its sinister behavior in one fell swoop...... However, there is a saying in the penal code that says that isolated evidence cannot be established......"

Zhang Yijun had an epiphany about Li Deyu's meaning.

Li Zhi is a person with excellent speech and talent, a wide range of knowledge, and a deep understanding of observing words and feelings, and winning over and suppressing. In addition, the Chengdu Fu Niu Party is mostly used for it. If he can't be convicted in one fell swoop, Li Zhi will only need a little operation in the future to get rid of all the blame. Therefore, Li Deyu discussed with Zhang Yijun in the inner hall for a long time, and the reason why he did not show up in the front hall is here: it is difficult to complete his work in one battle.

"Then Li Gong believes that with this lonely evidence, he tricked Li Zhi into pleading guilty...... How sure are you? ”

"Three points."

"Only three points?"

"Hmm." Li Deyu nodded lightly, staring at the letter paper for a long time as if he was stunned, as if he was thinking about countermeasures, his eyes trembled, and he looked at Zhang Yijun and said, "Yes, although I don't know if it's too late." ”

Zhang Yijun smiled at the corner of his mouth, he knew that when Li Deyu said this, if he really did it, he would be able to add six points on the basis of this three-point grasp.

"You may need to run a trip to the official post ......"

At the same time, the front hall of the Shuaifu.

Li Zhi swallowed his saliva, although he didn't know anything about why Li Huaishen needed to delay time, but he suddenly noticed something strange around him: except for the adjutant of the military embassy, the palace was all Li Deyu's people!

Go for the top!

Li Zhi hurriedly got up from his seat and scolded Li Huaishen: "Li Sima, I really didn't expect you to be so bold, do you think that if you are temporarily doing things, you can do anything wrong, and call Wang Jianjun and me to the Shuaifu late at night, so that you can have fun?" ”

Li Huaishen's neck collapsed, as if he was about to have a seizure, in front of more than a dozen people present, Li Zhi's sudden attack and scolding tone made Li Huaishen very embarrassed.

As everyone knows, Li Zhi is taking advantage of Li Huaishen's temperament, if Li Huaishen breaks out here, he will fall into Li Zhi's arms, and let Li Zhi exit with this justifiable.

However, this time, Li Huaishen failed to do what Li Zhi wanted, he knew that Li Zhi had already retreated, and Li Huaishen was not ready to give Li Zhi this opportunity. Therefore, he forcibly suppressed the anger in his chest, and uncharacteristically tried his best to calm down: "Please also ask Li Zhi to calm his anger, although Hua Yuan has temporarily taken care of the festival, but it was an hour ago, and the goldfish bag has already been returned to Li Gong." This summoning of the princes to come is really from Li Jiedu's order, and he also asks the envoy to wait for a while. ”

Li Huaishen really made a modest gesture when he said this, and he didn't know how Li Huaishen, who had always had a hot temper, endured it, but it made Li Zhi the unreasonable side.

However, this situation was also expected by Li Zhi.

Li Zhi sneered, since Li Huaishen didn't have a goldfish bag, he had no position to stop Li Zhi from leaving, so he turned around and walked straight towards the palace gate.

Without waiting for Li Huaishen to stop him, a voice came from behind Li Zhi leisurely, making Li Zhi immediately nail in place.

It's not Li Huaishen, it's not Li Deyu......

"Envoy Li, I still want to save our family's face, let's stay for a while."

Wang Jianyan, the prison envoy who has never stood in line, actually made a stumbling block for Li Zhi at this time!

Although Li Zhi wanted to retreat, Li Zhi didn't dare not give Wang Jianyan's face, so he had to bite the bullet, turn around without saying a word, and sit back on the original seat.

Li Zhi only felt that countless pairs of eyes were staring at him at this moment, making him feel like he was on pins and needles. However, he calculated in his heart that even if Li Deyu suspected him, he would not be able to produce decent evidence, and as long as Li Zhi grasped this, he could countersue Li Deyu for slander. At that time, it is still uncertain who will kill the deer.

At this moment, Li Deyu was dressed in a purple robe, and walked out from behind the screen. Seeing this, Li Huaishen immediately retreated to his seat, and everyone present quickly got up and bowed.

"I came a little late, and I ask the prince and all the dukes present to forgive me."