Midnight.

Lin You.

Wannian Palace.

In the Great Treasure Hall.

Mei Niang, who was sitting on the couch drinking tea and eating snacks, looked at Li Zhi and said softly:

"Zhilang thinks that Murong Yan's words are credible?"

Li Zhi didn't raise his head, and said softly for a while:

"You mean to ...... What about cousins and Aunt Han? ”

"Hmm."

Li Zhi looked at Mei Niang, and said softly after a while:

"I don't know if it's true or not."

Mei Niang raised her eyebrows, her eyes couldn't help but worry:

"Jiro wants to see him? But if you see him......"

"See you early and see you late, you have to see you after all."

Li Zhi sighed, but his gaze was keen:

"After all, he is my cousin, although we have never interacted in our lives, but in the end...... He is also my cousin. ”

Mei Niang was silent, and said lightly for a while:

If Jiro says so, then Mei Niang should only obey her fate. But how do you arrange it? For a character like him, King Han was afraid that he would not set up a few layers of eyeliner by his side, but he didn't dare to use it with confidence. ”

Li Zhi nodded and said slowly:

"So it depends on whether he can use the fastest time to gain Uncle Wang's trust......

Mei Niang was stunned when she heard this, and soon sighed and nodded silently.

……

The next day, in the afternoon.

In the Hanwang Garden.

Yuan Jia was sitting in the water pavilion and listening to the music quietly, when he suddenly saw Shen Shu hurrying with a solemn expression, he raised his eyebrows, waved his hand, and signaled to retreat left and right.

Then, he put on his clothes and waited for Shen Shu to come.

After a short time, Shen Shu came, and he saluted first, and then said softly:

"Your Highness, Shen Shu found something, but I was afraid that His Highness would be interested, so I came quickly, but I swept His Highness Yaxing."

"It's okay, what's the matter?"

King Han looked at him with a smile.

Shen Shu saluted again, and then got up and said:

"Before, I did something in the palace to assassinate him, and Shen Shu found out about a person."

"Alone?"

"Yes. Alone. ”

"Who?"

"Cheng Jing."

"Cheng Jing?"

Yuan Jia's eyes narrowed slightly, but his expression remained unmoved:

"Who is this man...... Should the king know? ”

"Such a little person, His Highness doesn't need to know about it. It's just that...... It's just that there is a person by his side, but His Highness really needs to know. ”

"Who?"

"Murong Yan, the second swordsman in the world known as 'One Sword'."

Yuan Jia raised his head suddenly, looked at him, and said lightly for a while:

"She? She ...... with this Cheng Jing"

"Back to His Royal Highness, when Shen Shu was ordered by His Royal Highness to investigate the affairs of Zezhou, he found that the sword weapon used by the person who was the leader of our internal system was not the same as the drawings made by the swordsman in the palace. Although there is not much difference in appearance, there are some subtle inadequacies in several important places.

Shen Shu had some doubts in his heart, so he followed the sword and chased after it. ”

Yuan Jia listened to him, and his eyes finally began to light up:

"Go on."

Shen Shu answered yes and continued:

"The swordsman in our palace can be said to be beyond the reach of those so-called masters who have divisions inside, and it is really difficult for ordinary people to defeat them. Therefore, after he saw the pattern of this sword, he immediately said that although this sword looks very similar to the cast of our palace, it is actually an imitation made by an official instrument workshop called Tiangongfang in Chang'an. ”

"Tiangongfang...... Isn't that the official furniture workshop set up by the Ministry of Industry to protect the forbidden army stationed inside and outside Beijing, and the guards of the gates of the prefectures are forbidden to provide these weapons? How could it be them? ”

"Your Highness doesn't know."

Shen Shu exhaled, and then said lightly:

"The things that come out of the heavenly workshop, because they are used by the officials, according to the laws of the imperial court and the order of the Ministry of Works, are to be sealed, and the utensils used are also quite different from the private workshops or local official workshops outside. Especially the iron swords produced in the heavenly workshop, all of them have to be quenched and fired several times before they can be done.

Because the Heavenly Workshop is in charge of a very superb quenching technique, after the iron sword is made, it is born with a bright blue such as the peacock Huaibao (at that time, there is a saying called the peacock Huaibao, because I think the blue on the peacock's chest - here it should be said that the blue peacock - is very, very beautiful, like a gem, so it is called the peacock Huaibao), but it is different from the common private workshop or local government workshop cast iron with a faint blue fire color, extremely gorgeous and dazzling, so it can be seen at a glance. ”

Yuan Jia took a deep breath and nodded slowly:

"This is something that the king has heard of before......

So, are you right? ”

"Yes. Originally, I couldn't see it, but now, I really saw it. ”

Yuan Jia was silent for a long time, and then said softly:

"So, what does the Heavenly Workshop have to do with this Cheng Jing?"

"Back to Your Highness, this day the workshop is nominally used by the Ministry of Industry, but there is another owner behind it, which is owned by the Nanton Cheng clan who moved in from Jiangnan."

"Nanton Cheng's ......"

Yuan Jia raised his eyebrows:

"This king knows the five surnames and seven wangs, and he also knows a lot about the clan history established by the first emperor...... This Nanton Cheng clan is not very familiar with ......"

"It's no wonder that Your Highness doesn't know. This Nandun Cheng clan is not even ranked in the top two hundred of the clan, and naturally His Highness does not know. ”

Shen Shu said lightly.

Yuan Jia nodded, and then said:

"It seems that this Cheng Jing is the head of this Cheng family?"

"Yes and no. Speaking of this Cheng Jing, she is also a character. In the early years, because there were many clans in the family, and he was not valued by the clan elders, he and his widowed mother and young sister were expelled from the Cheng clan by the clan members on the pretext of becoming an adult and self-reliant, and forcibly occupied his family's farmhouse.

He is also a man with bones, one did not sue, two did not make trouble, at the age of thirteen or fourteen, he actually made a group of achievements, and even turned over and regained his family's original farmhouse, and the family that was in charge of taking his family property back then was calculated to make the family ruined, and finally the elder who received the benefits of this family and drove their mother and son out of the ancestral house was given the name of the Cheng family. Then he somehow did something to make this elder lose face, and he had to put the head of the Cheng family with him Cheng Jing.

And according to people, among Cheng Jing's superiors, there is no lack of Murong Yan's help. ”

Yuan Jia suddenly narrowed his eyes and said with a smile:

"Interesting...... It's funny...... This king also said that this world's second mad sword is a figure who does not eat fireworks in the world...... But it turns out that it is also seven emotions and six desires, and there are five poisons! ”

Shen Shu nodded, and said:

"So Your Highness, Shen Shu knew that this matter involved these two people, so he felt that something was wrong, so he went into the palace again to investigate, and found that the leader of the assassins made in Zezhou actually had a sister in the family, and this sister was currently on duty in the palace and the government."

Hearing the three words of Lizheng Palace, Li Yuanjia immediately cheered up with 120,000 points, and suddenly turned his head to look at Shen Shu:

"Make it clear!"

Twilight.

Lin You.

In the Palace of Ten Thousand Years.

The Great Treasure Hall.

Li Zhi rarely had nothing important to do today, so he returned to the inner hall early, while holding Li Hong in his arms to teach him to read and write, while listening to the Shen Shu message brought back by Li Dexian.

After a while, Li Zhicai looked up at Mei Niang, who showed the same approving smile as himself, and said:

"Sure enough, it's cousin...... With just a touch from the master, he immediately knew what to do. ”

Mei Niang also nodded, and said with a smile:

"Isn't it? But it's really hard to say...... can grasp King Han's mind and poke it in the most taboo place, so that King Han has the ability to jump in even if he thinks that it may be a trap...... is really a genius who does not lose to several His Highnesses back then. ”

Li Zhi nodded, looked at her with a smile and said:

"That's got to have you work with you well! If you hadn't designed it, after the assassination failed, you transferred the girl who looked like the assassin into the palace, and deliberately assigned a very generous idle job with her......

I'm afraid that Uncle Han Wang won't be able to trust his cousin for a while. ”

Li De Award also nodded and praised:

"Niangniang really figured out King Han's temperament, and even more predicted that the situation would be like this, so she arranged it early in the morning."

Mei Niang shook her head, but said:

"I don't know who this step is going to be used for...... It's just a matter of preparing in advance, knowing that whoever comes to investigate will always be able to hide the truth and lead everything in the direction that is most beneficial to us. ”

Li Zhi nodded, watched Li Hong write straight and yawned, then smiled and kissed his little forehead, patted him on the back, smiled and told him to follow Minghe, and find Mu Niang to eat snacks, then picked up a peony fu written by Ai'er and read it with a red pen, correcting some untidy strokes, and said with a smile:

"That's right, it's like a trick we played when we were kids. Seeing that Sister Xu and the others were coming, they cleared the garden well, did not let unrelated people enter, and then only buried the treasure and let them find it.

Anyway, whether Sister Xu finds it or Sister Yuan finds it, there is no way, but for us, it is the same. ”

Mei Niang glanced at him, but shook her head and said:

"How can it be the same? That kind of game is something we rejoice in. But this time the game ......"

She sighed:

"Even if you win, you won, but you don't really like it."

When Li Zhi heard this, he raised his eyes to look at her, shook his head with a smile, put down the paper in his hand slightly, and said lightly:

"If you think about how many people you will hurt in front of you, you will not rejoice; But if you think about what these so-called injured people have done to Sister Xu and them before, and think about how good your life with your children and with me will be when these people are gone......

Then why not rejoice? ”

Li Zhi said something, but Mei Niang was stunned, and it took a long time before nodding with a smile:

"Yes, I'm sentimental. I don't know why. ”

Li Zhi laughed when he heard this, dropped the pen and paper in his hand, reached out to hold her shoulder, and said:

"I'm afraid it's because of this little guy in your womb!"

Mei Niang was ashamed of the presence of the German Award, and couldn't help but throw him a roll of the eyes, and then suddenly thought of something, turned her head to look at the German Award and said:

"That'...... Shen Shuke once said, what is King Han going to do next? ”

The award nodded with a smile:

"I was about to talk about this part. According to Shen Shu, because of this incident, his performance can be regarded as impressing King Han, plus the matter involves Niangniang, and now his eyeliner in the inner hall has been removed, so he generously arranged for Shen Shu to enter the inner house, and wanted to get the news......

In this way, the Lord wanted to see Mr. Shen Shu, and naturally there was a chance. ”

When Li Zhi heard this, he was extremely happy, and nodded again and again:

"So very good, so very good.

Just ......"

He hesitated, looked at Mei Niang and said softly:

"But I don't know if he will see me?"

Mei Niang understood and said with a smile:

"That'...... Let Mei Niang be a pioneer, and take a look at His Royal Highness the King of Runan back then! However, Zhilang, if Mei Niang wants to see him, I am afraid that whether it is in the Qianqiu Hall or the Wanchun Palace, I will have to fold one or two people in order to meet him smoothly. ”

Mei Niang's words made Li Zhi shake his head helplessly:

"Anyway, you just can't see how many days they live. Maybe it's for them, it's also for them, it's convenient to fold a few arms early, and it is also convenient to start at the last moment. What you want to do, just discipline the people below to do it. Just one case, don't make an excuse for yourself. Otherwise, if you ...... as last time"

Li Zhi's warning gaze caused Mei Niang to smile and purse her lips silently.