When taking a bath afterwards, Li Mao asked Qin Niang: "Are you still leaving this time?" Qin Niang said: "If you want me to go, I'll go." Li Mao stroked Qin Niang's slippery back and said, "I'm going to go to a bitter cold place soon to do a very confidential business, and it's not convenient to take you with me." Qin Niang said: "Is it convenient for you to take her?" ”

Li Mao smiled: "Qin Niang is jealous. She's different from you. Qin Niang said: "What's the difference, she can endure hardship, can't I?" Li Mao rubbed the root of Qin Niang's ear with his nose and said, "She has nowhere to go but to follow me, and you don't have to take this risk." ”

Qin Niang turned around, opened her eyes wide, and said seriously: "I know you want to do a big career, I won't drag you down." Da Lang is such a loose person, once he became an official, he couldn't bear the loneliness anymore, although he pushed and let three times this time, he still went out of the mountain in the end. When will your men's hearts not be burdened by the word 'fame', then they will really live a chic life. ”

Li Mao said with a smile: "There will be a day, my assumption is that at that time, the world is too peaceful, we go to a place near the mountains and rivers, buy a manor, build a big house by the clear lake, we boat on the lake, fishing during the day, admiring the moon at night, farming on sunny days, and reading on rainy days."

"We raised a bunch of children, the boys let them smell the chickens and dance, read and practice swords, let them go to the fields during the day, and in the evening I took them to ride horses and shoot hunting, fishing and swimming, and when they grew up, they would either plough and read heirlooms, lead the township, or go out and enter the prime minister, be loyal to the country, or hang pots to help the world, and help the common people.

"Girls, I don't put too much pressure on them, let them know a few words, learn some knitting women, singing and dancing instruments, etiquette rules, filial piety to their parents at home, go out to be a good wife and mother, husband and children, and a harmonious family."

Qin Niang said: "Why don't you let them learn from Mrs. and be a strong man who doesn't let her eyebrows." ”

Li Mao touched Qin Niang's smooth cheeks and said, "A strong woman may not be blesser than a little woman." ”

Qin Niang put her face on his hand and said yearningly: "I don't know when such a good life will be lived." ”

Li Mao said: "Within 20 years, the world will be peaceful." At that time, I will retire if I succeed, and I will retire if I don't succeed, in short, I will no longer mix in the officialdom. ”

Qin Niang said: "If you don't say this, you can't honor it." Officialdom is as deep as the sea, it is difficult to enter, and it is even more difficult to exit. You said that you would wait until the world was peaceful, but if you can't get rid of the word 'merit' in your heart, when will the world be peaceful? Now there is a strong feudal division of Heshuo, and in the future, the mountains and rivers will be unified, and you have to say that the border troubles are not peaceful, and when the four Yi guests are subdued, and the sea is unified, you will deduce that the people are embarrassed, the officials are greedy, the wealthy are arrogant, and the imperial treasury has no money. In short, there will be countless excuses. ”

Li Mao said: "Fool, I'm a monk, I saw through the red dust ten years ago, how could I be obsessed?" ”

The two stared at each other for a long time, Li Mao led Qinniang's hand to touch the crotch, and a thing at the tentacle stood proudly, Qinniang said with concern: "Don't move, I'll come." ”

Xue Rong stayed in Chang'an for less than ten days, and then set off for the south, and the urgency of the situation was beyond Li Mao's expectations.

Sending the group out of the city, Xue Rong told Li Mao: "The day before yesterday, when I entered the palace to face the saint, the holy lord did not ask a word, but I am afraid that the number of days will change, you must be cautious." ”

Xue Rong is a big clan in the river, and his connections in the capital are very rich, and he has personally met the saint, so what he said should be true.

After Li Mao returned to the city, he was about to verify the variables in the palace with Chen Shu and others, but Lin Ying entered Li Mao alone. Li Shidao has been the deputy envoy of Ziqing observation for a year, and he has been fully qualified, and someone in Ziqing is going all out to help him operate and be promoted to deputy envoy of Jiedu.

At the beginning of November, Li Shigu listened to Jia Zhiyan's suggestion and asked Li Shidao to go to the army to comfort the soldiers on his behalf, but secretly instructed his henchmen to give Li Shidao a great embarrassment.

Li Shidao couldn't go through the waterway and took the dry road, so he secretly sent people to Beijing to carry out activities to build momentum for his deputy envoy of Jiedu, and among the people who acted as a drummer in Beijing was the former Xuzhou Thorn Shi Li Fu.

Li has a lot of backgrounds. In the second year of Jianzhong, Ziqing Ping Lu Junjie caused Li Zhengji to die of illness, and his son Li Na blocked the news and took the lead in the army. The mourning began in August, please attack the father's throne, but the Son of Heaven did not allow it.

Li Na raised troops against the imperial court, and the imperial court responded forcefully and sent all the Taoist troops to besiege Ziqing. The war was imminent, Xuzhou assassinated the history, Li Na's uncle Li Yu led his troops to seize the city and dedicate it to the imperial court, causing Li Na's flanks to be exposed and almost killing him. Li Na hated this uncle to the core. After Li returned to the court, he became a free horseman, and after a few days of peace, he thought about it quietly, and began to contact the old department of Ziqing in the past two years, and recently he has been fighting with Li Shidao.

Because of this, Li Yu was also on the blacklist of Ziqing's key monitoring in the Shangdu Academy.

Li Mao knew the importance of this matter, and he asked Lin Yingdao: "Is there any definite news?" Lin Ying shook his head and said, "He has been acting extremely secretive recently, and our people can't get close at all." Li Mao said: "He, a casual rider, has no power or position, and he is old, so it is impossible to seek progress in his career, I think it may be related to Ziqing." ”

Lin Yingdao: "The subordinates also have this idea. ”

Li Mao pondered for a moment and said, "Keep an eye on the people who are dealing with him and find out their identities." Lin Ying said: "There are not enough people in the hospital, so I can only ask friends on the rivers and lakes for help." Li Mao said: "Find a few reliable people and don't be stingy with money." Lin Ying promised to leave, but was called by Li Mao, Li Mao advised: "Don't show your face in this matter, fake others, and leave room for others." ”

Lin Ying said: "My subordinates understand the importance of it. ”

Shangdu Jinjuanyuan has ears and eyes in all the temple supervisors, but these people are not at the same level as the copper tiger head with great powers, they are mostly some low-level officials and officials, receiving money**, acting as the eyes and ears of the Jinjuanyuan, listening to some ordinary news that does not harm the overall situation, so that they can spy on secrets and it is difficult to reach the sky, so that they can keep an eye on and arrest people, which is absolutely impossible.

Ziqing is unwilling to invest too much energy in this because there is another line in the capital, and Wang Bingchen is from a family of eunuchs, he doesn't know the trivial things of the people, and he doesn't look down on the chickens and dogs, so he is even more perfunctory and does not prepare.

So that when something happens, there is no one to look at.

Lin Ying's proposal to ask the Jianghu people to help is reasonable, and of course, Li Mao also believes that Lin Ying can secretly detain the people who are in contact with Li even if he does not invite the Jianghu forces.

Sure enough, two days later, Lin Ying secretly reported that he had caught a person who was in contact with Li and asked Li Mao to interrogate him personally. The so-called interrogation is torture, and there is a secret room in the Jinju Yuan, which is dedicated to interrogation, but it is rarely used during Wang Bingchen's reign.

Li Mao ordered Mo Qi Shentong to preside over the trial, Mo Qi Shentong did not know any interrogation skills, but he was hard-hearted and ruthless, and the captured person could not survive the punishment, so he had to confess, he admitted that he was sent by Li Fang, the deputy envoy of the former Ziqing Yingtian, to Chang'an to send a secret letter to Li Fu, the content of the letter he did not know, but before the trip Li Fang had promised him that Li Shidao would let him be the Shouzhang County Commander on the day of the deputy envoy of the festival.

After receiving the letter, Li Fu also trusted him to bring it to Li Fang, saying that he immediately lobbied the Ziqing officials to come forward to protect the performance.

The matter couldn't be clearer, Li Fang and Li Mi secretly colluded and joined forces to operate Li Shidao's promotion to deputy envoy of Jiedu.

Lin Ying said: "The stakes are very high, and you have to know the festival commander immediately." Li Mao said: "How can it be confirmed that it was Deputy Envoy Li based on a single confession?" If it was designed by a villain, wouldn't it cause a big disaster? Lin Ying said: "It is unlikely that others will know about such confidential matters, so how can it be confirmed?" Li Mao pondered for a moment and said, "At present, the only way to do this is to ask Dr. Li to prove it himself." ”

Lin Ying was taken aback and said, "Kidnapping the three major members of the dynasty, this ...... It's too risky, if you're not careful, the court will investigate it, not only you and I can't afford it, but also the marshal will be humiliated. ”

Li Mao said: "Otherwise, it is difficult to find out the truth. It's just a matter of increasing the suspicion of the brothers. ”

He also said: "I will make the decision on this matter, and you will carry it out, and it will not affect you." ”

After Li returned to the court, his career was hopeless, he lived in a simple place, sat and waited for death, he rarely went out to participate in banquets, because he was a loose official, unless the court ceremony, the general court meeting was not on leave, and the court was too lazy to deal with the officials who came to the court in these feudal towns, just to be a favor, he didn't come and no one invited him.

Li Fu's deep residence brought many problems to the kidnapping, and several plans planned by Lin Ying ended in failure. At this time, someone reported to Li Mao that Li Fu had a habit of going to Fengdafang, which was a mile away from the mansion to eat a bowl of haggis, which was filled with spicy seasonings, and people would sweat profusely after eating, which was very effective in dispelling rheumatism.

Li Mao was overjoyed and instructed Lin Ying to buy the imperial physician surnamed Wang, who had grown into Li Fu's house, and learned that Li Fu did suffer from some rheumatism, and he had an attack on a rainy day, and he was miserable when he attacked.

Li Mao asked Lin Ying to rent a store next to the Fengdafang Sheep Soup Restaurant that Li Yu frequented, and hire a master to also do the mutton soup business. Lin Yingdao: "He often goes to that Hu Ji soup restaurant, I have been to explore, it is a century-old brand, it has been passed down for three generations in Fengdafang, the taste is very authentic, and a special seasoning is added, which is a unique secret, and it is difficult for outsiders to see the depth." ”

Li Mao smiled: "I know what you're worried about, it's okay." Although Lin Ying was nervous in her heart, she saw that Li Mao was full of confidence, and she didn't dare to say anything. After seven days, a rain fell in Chang'an City, and at dawn on the second day, the sky was clear after the rain, the sky was like a wash, and the air was very fresh.

Li Yu was tortured by illness**, suffered until dawn, got up early, and led two entourages to Fengdafang.

The spies waiting outside his door hurriedly reported Li Mao's whereabouts to Li Mao, and since it rained last night, Li Mao has been guarding Fengdafang and personally commanding the scene. Knowing that Li Fu was going out, Li Mao hurriedly sent more than a dozen teenagers to Hu Ji Soup House with wooden barrels in hand, and bought out the Hu family's mutton soup no matter how good or bad it was.

Then the second wave of teenagers was furious because they couldn't buy soup and smashed the Hu family's sheep soup restaurant to pieces. (Dissertation College)