Chapter 250: Go to see the prince
This time, Xiao Guozi is a lot more honest. Although it is not much cooperation, it is still possible in terms of guidance, Xiao Guozi actually knows that even if he does not show the way, there are not many cemeteries here, so it is okay to inquire a little.
Walking all the way to the north, he didn't go far, at most it was only a mile, and he came to a wooded place, Xiao Guozi pointed ahead, and said, "The cemetery is over there." ”
This is not a treasure of feng shui, but it is not the kind of mass grave, it can only be said to be a place where the bones of the poor are buried, there are about one hundred and eighty graves, which can be said to be clear at a glance.
And right next to a grave, there was a tall figure, wielding a shovel in his hand, as if digging a pit.
No need to ask who this person is, it must be Ma Dabao!
Li Rizhi knew that they were about to go over to arrest people. But I saw Fu Guibao trotting over, it was Fu Guibao just now, following behind Ma Dabao, and kept following Ma Dabao, but Ma Dabao didn't find it.
Fu Guibao ran to Li Rizhi, smiled and whispered, "That person over there seems to have something wrong with his brain. I followed him, and when I saw that he had run back to his house, and now I knew where he lived, and then I saw him come out with a shovel from his house, and then he ran all the way here, and when he found a grave, he began to dig it. I reckon that the gold is hidden here, and I didn't bother him, let him dig it slowly, or we'll catch him later. We're going to have to dig up the gold ourselves! ”
Li Rizhi sighed, looked at Ma Dabao, and saw that Ma Dabao was working with a snort, and his heavy breathing could be heard from afar.
Li Rizhi turned around and asked Xiao Guozi: "You buried that gold very deeply, I see that he is in full swing, if he is buried shallowly, he should have dug it out at this time!" ”
Xiao Guozi said: "So much gold, enough to live for a lifetime, of course you have to bury it deeper, Ma Dabao is a powerful person!" ”
In fact, the position where they are standing now is not very far from Ma Dabao, who is working hard, but Ma Dabao is concentrating on his work and has not noticed them.
Li Rizhi knew in his heart that for a person who had been poor all along, and suddenly had a huge amount of wealth, then he would only have this wealth in his heart, and he would not care about other things anymore.
And at this time, if this person finds that he is about to lose this huge fortune, he may do anything in a state of emotion, that is to say, lose his mind, and now Ma Dabao is basically in this situation.
Li Rizhi glanced at Xiao Guozi and said, "You shout and tell that Ma Dabao, just say that the government has sent people to arrest him, let him run quickly!" ”
Xiao Guozi was about to open his mouth to shout, but the captain next to him gave him a look, and a soldier pulled out his waist knife and put it on Xiao Guozi's neck, the blade was cold, Xiao Guozi was so frightened that he trembled, but he didn't dare to say anything that he shouldn't say.
Xiao Guozi shouted: "Ma Dabao, the officers and soldiers are here, they are here to arrest you, you run quickly!" ”
Ma Dabao heard the shout, turned around, and saw Li Rizhi and them, he took two steps back, staggered, and almost fell!
But when he found out that there were not many people coming, Ma Dabao actually grabbed the shovel tightly and raised it high, but he didn't run away!
When the captain saw it, he let out a sigh, waved his hand, and rushed over with two soldiers!
Ma Dabao picked up the shovel, and looked at him, he actually wanted to duel with the captain with one enemy and three.
That's kind of funny!
Although Ma Cannon is strong and strong, he is an ordinary person after all, and the three of them are specially trained professional soldiers.
The three of them rushed to Ma Dabao, and the four of them fought in a ping-pong manner, and it was only a moment before Ma Dabao was slashed to the ground, and the two soldiers tied up Ma Dabao.
Li Rizhi and they came over, and the captain took it personally, dug out the bag of gold, and tapped it with his hand, and the captain said: "It's a lot, but it's not worth killing a person for this little bit of gold!" ”
The captain was born in a wealthy family and is a meritorious child, so he naturally looks down on this bit of gold, but it is also this gold, for others, there is nothing worth talking about killing for this.
Ma Dabao was arrested, and he didn't shout anything wronged, but his eyes were staring at the gold, his eyes were red, and he didn't even care about the knife wounds on his body, he only cared about the gold.
Seeing this, Li Rizhi thought to himself: "It seems that this Ma Dabao is the murderer, and Xiao Guozi is undoubtedly an accomplice, I really didn't expect that this case would be so solved, and fortunately, these two people don't have any experience, otherwise, it would be really difficult to catch them!" ”
Shaking his head, Li Rizhi was not thinking about the two of them, because how to deal with them had basically nothing to do with him.
Li Rizhi asked the captain and said, "This general ......?"
The lieutenant smiled: "I'm not a general, but you call me a general, I love to hear this!" ”
Li Rizhi said with a smile: "I don't know what happened when the general and the lieutenant came to find him?" ”
The lieutenant sighed and said, "We didn't say we were here to find you, how did you guess it?" ”
Li Ri knew: "It's not a secret, I know the head of Tong Da, the injured lieutenant just now, knows the name of Zaixia, then it is estimated that he may be sent by the head of Tong Da." ”
The lieutenant nodded and said, "Yes, it was the little lieutenant sent by the head of Tong Da to find you, and we only came with him, it seems that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to see you, as for what it is, I don't know." ”
Li Rizhi sighed and thought: "It is impossible for that little lieutenant and this lieutenant to know anything, they are just people who came to report the news, so what about that Chu Tiangui, what is he here for?" ”
He asked the captain twice, and the captain said: "It's just for this case, but Chu Sima is a busy man, for this case, he actually ran here in person, I don't know why this is, you have to ask him yourself, but he doesn't look like he came to you." ”
Li Rizhi nodded, he also discovered this, if Chu Tiangui came to him specifically, he should be here at this time, instead of going to the village to rest with the little eunuch.
Everyone rushed to the village and found the small restaurant, the little eunuch and Chu Tiangui rested in the grocery store, the whole village and town, the place where the house looks like a point, that is, this grocery store, they want to go to other places to rest, there is no place!
Li Rizhi asked the little eunuch what was the matter with Chief Tong looking for him, and the little eunuch told His Royal Highness the Crown Prince that he wanted to see him, but he didn't know what it was, anyway, he looked like he was in a hurry.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Li Hong is the prince of the empire and one of the most important figures in the Tang Empire, Li Rizhi never thought that he would have anything to do with His Royal Highness the Prince, after all, he was just a scholar who came from other places to take the exam.
He asked cautiously, "Dare to ask the lieutenant, did His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ask Chief Manager Tong to send you to me?" ”
The little eunuch shook his head and said, "It was sent by the chief manager, but it was not made by His Royal Highness the Prince, so we don't know very well." We've brought the message to you, you can go back to see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince by yourself now, our leg is injured, and we can't accompany you on this trip. ”
Looking at his appearance, it is impossible to leave for Chang'an tomorrow, and it will take a hundred days to break his muscles and bones, if he can't get timely conditioning, then it is easy to leave the root of the disease when he hurts his leg, and the little eunuch is not so stupid, and he puts his leg in for official business.
Li Rizhi couldn't ask anything, so he had to find Fu Guibao Chengzi and Chen Yingying, and the four of them found a place where no one was there and discussed the matter.
Even if Li Rizhi is very good at deduction and his prediction of things can be called a half-immortal, but why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to see him, he can't guess it anyway, and Fu Guibao and they can't guess either.
Because of the inside story of the scientific examination, they don't know who they are, even if they want to break their heads, they can't guess that Li Hong actually answered the exam paper in person, and was rated first, they can't think of this, so naturally they can't think of why Li Hong wants to see Li Rizhi.
The discussion could not reach a result, and he did not dare to delay in time, Li Rizhi had no choice but to leave, and the four of them rushed to Chang'an together, while Quan Shufang stayed to deal with the case.
That Chu Tiangui Chu Sima really didn't bother Li Rizhi anymore, and when he saw that the murderers were just two poor people, he immediately lost interest in the case, and of course he was even less interested in Li Rizhi, so he went directly to find a place to sleep.
Li Rizhi returned to Chang'an overnight, and when he ran to the gate of Chang'an, it was just dawn, the city gate opened, he entered the city gate, ran directly to the palace, and arrived at the gate of the East Palace, saying that he wanted to ask to see Tong Guinu.
Tong Guinu was one of the most powerful people in the palace, and the soldiers guarding the door dared to delay, so they hurriedly transferred it to the little eunuch on duty, and the little eunuch rushed to inform Tong Guinu.
Tong Guinu had a good discussion with the crown prince Li Hong yesterday, of course, he only mentioned Li Rizhi at the beginning, and then talked about the rules of this imperial examination, and also talked about going to Mount Tai to seal Zen soon, of course, the words are inseparable from Queen Wu.
Although the crown prince Li Hong is a very filial young man, but for what Queen Wu did, he inevitably had some complaints, Queen Wu formulated the rules of this scientific examination, and Queen Wu promoted the plan to go to Mount Tai to seal the Zen ceremony, everything was done by Queen Wu, but it seemed that the men of their Li family were not good, for the prince Li Hong, this is simply unreasonable.
After chatting a lot, Tong Guinu went back to his room to rest, and after getting up in the morning, he went to Queen Wu on duty again, and when the sun was on the third pole, suddenly a little eunuch came to report, saying that Li Rizhi had arrived, and was waiting for the general manager of Tong outside the palace gate to be heard.
Tong Guinu was overjoyed in his heart, Li Rizhi could be regarded as coming.