Walking out of the restaurant, Zhang Lei asked worriedly: "Old Five, why did you make a feud with the Yuan family?" ”

Guo Song wrote lightly: "Actually, there is nothing, the idea of beating my fiancée during the Lantern Festival, sending the warriors in the house to kill me, and I killed two, and then I threw the assassin's body into the East Palace, and the East Palace thought that someone had assassinated me, and later found out that the body came from the Yuan family, and the Yuan family was difficult to argue, and the grudge was settled." ”

Zhang Lei gave a thumbs up for a while and said: "Old Five, I found that you are ruthless enough, this trick kills people invisibly, and the Yuan family will not want to be reused in twenty or thirty years." ”

Guo Song shook his head, "It's not that I'm ruthless, but they forced me, my martial arts are a little worse, and the person who was killed was me, since the Yuan family wants to put me to death, why should I show mercy?" ”

Zhang Lei sighed and said: "You're right, in the eyes of these powerful people, killing us is like killing an ant, but we can't touch them in the slightest, fighting with the Yuan family, the elder brother can only support you financially, and other aspects can't help you, you should be careful yourself." ”

"I don't need your help!"

Guo Song smiled slightly: "As long as you take care of yourself and don't be dragged down by me, I'll be very happy." ”

"It's alright! These Guanlong aristocrats are extremely proud, they all rely on their own status, and they generally disdain to beat the idea of a small person like me, and they generally don't do that kind of thing that loses their worth. ”

"That's good, senior brother, don't forget to go to Xue's house the afternoon after tomorrow and send a post first."

"Don't worry! I can't forget. ”

Zhang Lei waved his hand to Guo Song and returned to the Treasure Pavilion alone.

Guo Song turned over and rode towards the Qingxu Palace with two entourages, Yang Jun and Zhao Xiu.

As soon as I arrived at the gate of Qingxu Palace, I saw two carriages parked outside the gate, and there were more than 20 powerful men standing.

At this time, Senior Brother Li Ganfeng ran out in a panic and whispered to Guo Song: "The Son of Heaven is here, in the Golden Body Pavilion, I want to see you, go quickly!" ”

Guo Song hurriedly dismounted, threw the reins to the guards, and walked quickly towards the Golden Body Pavilion.

There were several guards standing at the door of the Golden Body Pavilion, and they knew Guo Song, so they waved their hands and asked Guo Song to go up.

Guo Song walked up to the second floor quickly, and saw Li Shi, the son of heaven, sitting cross-legged on the futon, silently staring at the golden statue of Master Guo Song's Mu Daoren.

Guo Song slowly walked upstairs, and Li Shi sighed softly: "This is my famous Tang Dynasty general Wang Zhonghei, but now he is a golden body heavenly master, and it is difficult to connect the two." ”

Guo Song groaned: "My master often said that Wang Zhonghei Tianbao died in eight years, and it was Mu Zhenren who was resurrected later, Your Majesty, he is my master Mu Zhenren, not Wang Zhonghe." ”

Li Shi smiled slightly, "I actually understand what you mean. ”

"Your Majesty has come here to see my master?" Guo Song asked again.

"It's not! I want to go to the West Market to have a look, and I want you to come with me. ”

Guo Song noticed that Li Shi was actually wearing a very ordinary dress, a fine white satin brocade robe, a leather belt around his waist, and a gauze hat on his head, which looked like the son of a big family.

Guo Song smiled happily: "If I accompany Your Majesty, these guards don't have to follow." ”

"Of course, they just wait outside the gate of the West Market, just the two of us, you bring two more retinues."

"Your Majesty and I will ride a horse!"

Li Shi got up and smiled: "You can call me Li Gongzi." ”

"Yes, Li Gongzi."

Li Shi laughed and followed Guo Song downstairs.

A guard brought a horse, Guo Song and Li Shi turned over on their horses, urging the horses to slowly go to Xishi, Yang Jun and Zhao Xiu followed behind them, followed by two carriages and a large team of guards.

"I've been looking for my mother, but I don't know where she is." Li Shi sighed softly.

Li Shi's mother is Li Yu's wife Shen Zhu, who disappeared during the Anshi Rebellion, which has always been an unsolved case, in fact, Li Yu later found her in Luoyang, but she was not well protected, and when Luoyang fell again, Shen Pearl disappeared completely.

There are many theories about her whereabouts, some say she died in the war, some say she was taken captive by the rebel army or the Hui Hui, and some say that she became a nun at home.

In fact, the third possibility is the greatest, the husband married Cui as his wife, and there was no place for her, so she was extremely disappointed and became a nun, and since then she has escaped into the empty door.

As for being taken captive, once the rebels or Hui know her identity, they will definitely use her to make a fuss, and this kind of good political resource will not be easily wasted.

It is also unlikely that she will die in battle, and with her appearance, she will usually be taken captive rather than killed easily.

Guo Song pondered for a moment and said, "I estimate that it is more likely that the Queen Mother is in the empty gate. ”

"I think so too, but the queen mother refuses to show up, and I have nothing to do."

Guo Song smiled slightly: "Actually, there is no way, it depends on whether Your Majesty will adopt it?" ”

Li Shi was overjoyed, "What is the way, Guo Dudu, please say!" ”

"It's very simple, Your Majesty issued an order to order all female nuns and female Taoist priests in the world to return to the world, and the Queen Mother will understand that Her Majesty is looking for her, and she will definitely stand up to stop Your Majesty's behavior."

Li Shi was stunned for a moment, then nodded for a while, "Let me think about it." ”

Guo Song estimated that Li Shi would not adopt his own suggestion, after all, the impact was too great, so he didn't say more, the two turned to Vermilion Bird Avenue, Li Shi thought of one more thing, and said to Guo Song: "Jiannan Jiedu made Cui Ning die, do you know?" ”

Guo Song was stunned, "I don't know at all, when did it happen?" ”

"The morning before yesterday, he was shot by a poisoned arrow, and it was said that he was a female assassin, and in the end, he searched all over the city and did not catch anyone."

Guo Song's heart moved, and he suddenly remembered that the female assassin who assassinated Yang Zilin was not to shoot Yang Zilin's son with a poisoned arrow?

"Guo Dudu knows about this assassin?" Li Shi observed his words, and he saw that Guo Song's expression was different.

Guo Song smiled bitterly and said, "I really met this female assassin and deceived me once!" ”

Guo Song briefly said what happened to Guo Song that night, and Li Shi smiled, "Guo Dudu has pity on the fragrance and jade, which is understandable!" ”

"Then what should Bashu do next?" Guo Song asked.

"This is also what I want to ask you, you just came back from Bashu, I want to hear your opinion."

Guo Song thought for a while and said: "Cui Ning has been in Shu for ten years, the army is loyal to him, if the imperial court sends a new Jiedu envoy to Bashu, it will inevitably cause civil strife in Bashu, I personally suggest that the imperial court appoint his younger brother Cui Kuan as the Jiannan Jiedu envoy, he can stabilize the situation in Shuzhong." ”

"How is Cui Kuan?"

"This person is not ambitious, has a gentle personality, and has a relatively good character, and is deeply loved by the Shu Chinese officials, and he has always served as the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, and his control over the army is relatively strong."

Guo Song also heard Xue Xun talk about Cui Kuan, but in fact, he himself was not very familiar with Cui Kuan.

Li Shi nodded, Han Rong also highly recommended Cui Kuan, it seems that this person can be appointed after inspection.

After a short time, the group came to the West Market.

Although it is the first day of the first lunar month, there are still many shops in the West Market that are open for business, mainly shops related to people's livelihood, such as rice shops, butcher shops, tea shops, wine shops, etc.

The guards all stayed outside the gate of the West Market, Guo Song accompanied Li Shi into the West Market, followed by Guo Song's two entourages, the two of them were responsible for leading horses and running errands and the like, the guests in the West Market were less than half of usual, and they were very quiet, without the usual noisy and lively shouting, but it was not that the business was deserted, almost every store had customers, but there were not as many as usual.

At this time, Guo Song suddenly had a strange feeling, he looked back from the corner of his eye, and saw a gray figure not far behind him, looming, like a ghost, obviously seeing the existence of the figure, but he didn't know what he looked like.

It was Dou Xianlai, Guo Song immediately realized in his heart, this person still became the personal guard of the new emperor, it seems that his martial arts are really not ordinary.

"Let's go to that rice shop!"

The people take food as the sky, Li Shi's first concern is the rice shop, which is also the main purpose of his exit from the palace today, he asked several people, and everyone told him that the price of rice is different, so he wants to come and see it in person.

There are only a few people buying rice in the rice shop, and compared with the usual overcrowding, there are indeed a lot fewer people, resulting in more guys than customers in the store.

A guy was just about to catch up, but was pushed aside by the shopkeeper, he saw that the two guests were extraordinary, not ordinary rice buyers, for fear that the guy would be rude and offend people.

"Welcome the two sons to the shop!" The shopkeeper stepped forward and said respectfully.

Li Shi looked at the rice shop and saw dozens of small bamboo baskets, each basket was filled with grain, and there was a sign on it, which was the price of rice today.

This made Li Shi startled, there are so many kinds of grains, Guo Song said with a smile: "There are many varieties of cereals and rice alone, so they are all separated one by one, shopkeeper, these are all samples, right!" ”

"Exactly! One bucket per basket, which one you like, after paying, the guy will transport the grain from the back warehouse. ”

Only then did Li Shi understand, he nodded, and walked to a basket of white rice, and he saw that this basket of rice had the highest price, and the bucket rice was eighty wen.

"What kind of rice is this, and it will be sold for eighty wen?"

"Hui Gongzi, this is Suzhou rice, the best rice in the world, the taste is delicate and glutinous, and Huzhou rice is also at this price."

Li Shi got the news that the price of rice is now 30 Wen per bucket of rice, but this Suzhou is more than twice as expensive, he groaned and asked: "Is there 30 Wen per bucket of rice?" ”

"Nope! The cheapest Longyou corn is also a bucket of rice ......."

The shopkeeper patted his forehead, "I know, the son is asking about wheat, and wheat is thirty wen a bucket, which is our cheapest grain." ”

Guo Song asked on the side: "Have you adjusted the price in the past few days?" ”

"No! This price has been the case since last December to today. ”

Li Shi's face was a little gloomy, he knew how the people below were fooling themselves, using the cheapest wheat price to pretend to be the general market price of rice.