Li You asked, "What is the prestige of this Takahashi Kumiko among pirates?" What is the attitude of the pirates towards her? Also, what is her general attitude when she encounters difficult things? ”

Wang Huairen was originally a soldier, and he did not serve as the Sima of Dengzhou for a long time, and he was not experienced enough. He said, "This minister has not yet learned carefully. ”

Li You said: "In this way, you can go and interrogate those pirates now, find out what I just said, and strive to report to me before breakfast." ”

"Yes, Your Highness, Lord Wang." Wang Huairen and Zhou Qing left in response.

At breakfast time, Li You and Cheng Yanjin were sitting at the dining table, listening to Gao Zhiming, the chief chef of Qi Wangfu, introduce the Dengzhou special breakfast they developed.

Gao Zhiming pointed to a dish on the table and said: "Lord Wang, Su Guogong, this is a salted fish cake, the barracuda is marinated in advance and then dried naturally, and then fried to golden brown." The cake is made of millet noodles, soybean noodles and a small amount of rice noodles after adding seasoning and stirring, making it the size of a child's fist, and baking the cake pan with oil. Please try it. ”

Li You picked up a piece of salted fish with chopsticks, held the cake in his hand, ate a few bites and said: "The salted fish is crispy and crushed, but it is still a little tough, yes, the cake is okay, but unfortunately there is a lack of a raw material called corn, and when Lu Tong came back, he planted corn, and baked a cake with corn as a raw material, and then served with salted fish, that is called a real salted fish cake." ”

Cheng Yanjin was not as picky as Li You, he ate very smoothly, and said, "Yes, this tastes very good." ”

Li You said with a smile: "Su Guogong, the people take food as the sky, I just have such a hobby, I don't get tired of eating, and what I pay attention to is the characteristics." ”

Cheng Yanjin said: "Your Royal Highness, the minister follows you so carefully every day that your mouth is closed, and when you return to Chang'an, my wife will say that the minister is difficult to serve." "Cheng Biting Jin's wife is the lady of the Cui family in Hedong, she is as beautiful as a flower, and she is stable when she cleans up Cheng Biting Jin.

Li You said with a smile: "When you return to Chang'an, you send a cook to my house to study to ensure that your wife is satisfied." ”

At this time, Wang Huairen and Zhou Qing came. "The ministers have seen His Highness and the Prince."

Li You smiled: "The action is fast, come and sit down and eat together, talk while eating." ”

"Thank you, Your Highness." Wang Huairen and Zhou Qing thanked and sat down.

Wang Huairen said: "Your Highness, that Takahashi Kumiko has a noble status, and the pirates themselves respect her very much. This woman is not simple, not only proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but also has a good martial arts, can personally charge into battle when fighting, and can treat her subordinates well, and the pirates admire her very much. This woman is quite resourceful, resolute, and has the strength to not stop until the goal is achieved. ”

Li You smiled: "That's right, it's similar to what I guessed." If you think about it, a large number of pirates have been withdrawn, but it is not easy for her, a woman from a noble family, to stay in Dengzhou. That's good, it's not hard to find her. ”

Wang Huairen said with an embarrassed face: "Your Highness, although Dengzhou City is not big, it also has a population of tens of thousands, and it is not easy to find a person to hide. What's more, there is no guarantee that he is in Dengzhou City. ”

Li You smiled: "You are right, it is not easy for us to find her, so let her come to us." ”

Cheng Yanjin, Wang Huairen, Zhou Qing and others are all smart people, and they guessed Li You's thoughts, but they are not sure.

Li You said: "Our Eastern Crusade Army is going to the East to conquer the Japanese slave country, to be precise, to conquer their Takahashi family, what will she do with Takahashi Kumiko's character?" She'll try to stop us. What are some ways to stop us?

One is to burn down our fleet, which they can't do with their current strength.

The second is to defeat the command of our Eastern Expeditionary Army, to be precise, to defeat me, the commander of the Eastern Expeditionary Army. In this way, the Eastern Crusade Army will definitely be in chaos, and the Eastern Crusade will be temporarily stopped.

Well, did you say it was easy to find her? ”

"This? Your Highness, do you want to use yourself as bait to catch Kumiko Takahashi for the bait? This, this is too dangerous. No, the minister disagreed. Cheng Yanjin said worriedly.

Bai Hu, Wang Huairen and Zhou Qing also objected.

Li You said: "We are going to leave tomorrow morning, and there is only one day left for today, apart from this method, is there any other way to catch Kumiko Takahashi?" ”

Zhou Qing said: "Lord Wang, is this Takahashi Kumiko so important? What if you don't catch her? ”

Baihu said: "That's right, Lord Wang, I can't take risks for her." ”

Li You said: "This Takahashi Kumiko is really important, we have been captured by pirates so many people, Takahashi Kumiko is a good bargaining chip for exchanging hostages." Not only that, but Kumiko Takahashi is behind the Takahashi family, and although I don't know how to use them for a while, there must still be value for her. ”

"But that's not the way you can take the risk." Everyone disagreed.

Li You said decisively: "This matter is decided. Wang Huairen. ”

"The minister is here." Wang Huairen got up and said.

"I order you to spread the news immediately, just say that I, as the assassin of Dengzhou, invite the people from all walks of life in Dengzhou to participate in the oath meeting of the Eastern Expeditionary Army to conquer the Japanese slave country this afternoon. In particular, the Crusade Army will leave Dengzhou tomorrow morning. ”

"Your Ministers obey." Wang Huairen said.

Li You smiled: "We only have one day, and for Kumiko Takahashi, she only has one day to stop our Eastern Expeditionary Army." It's not waiting for the expiration date, haha. ”

Soon after, the entire Dengzhou City was spread all over the city, and the Eastern Expeditionary Army will leave Dengzhou City tomorrow morning and hold a swearing-in meeting of the Eastern Expeditionary Army at two o'clock this afternoon at the Dabei Street School Parade Ground. His Royal Highness the King of Qi and the Governor of Dengzhou, the Assassin of Dengzhou and the Commander of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, Li You, personally attended the meeting.

Yesterday, Takahashi Kumiko and the others left the Silla Trading Company and went to find another Silla merchant whom Sato had introduced to them, who had some dealings with the officials in the Dengju Governor's Office, and Takahashi Kumiko wanted to inquire from him about the news of Li You, the king of Qi, and the man also promised them to wait for a reply.

When they returned to the Silla trading house, they were alerted to the suspicious sight of suspicious people nearby, and after careful observation, they found more suspicious people. They knew that the place had been exposed, and they had tried to inform the people inside, but Ayumi Kawasaki thought that even if they did, they would not have been able to escape. In order to keep Kumiko Takahashi, Ayumi Kawasaki insisted that she get out of here. Kumiko Takahashi and others were in a very embarrassing situation, and temporarily hid in an abandoned ruined temple.

That night, Ayumi Kawasaki came to the vicinity of the Silla Trading Company and found that it had been raided and all the people inside had been arrested.

Kawasaki returned to the ruined temple, reported the situation to Takahashi Kumiko and said, "Miss, something happened to our people, the Tang Dynasty people must be searching for us everywhere, and the Governor's Mansion will definitely strengthen its precautions." In this case, it is impossible for us to assassinate the prince of the Tang Dynasty. For your safety, it is better to leave Dengzhou City. ”

The other two samurai also persuaded Kumiko Takahashi to leave Dengshu.

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