A "fire!" How could a printing office catch fire? Li Xiu didn't wake up from a feeling of grogginess, but when he heard the news of the fire in the printing office, he also woke up all of a sudden, and immediately took a few steps forward and stared at the other party with wide eyes and asked.

"This ...... The subordinates don't know the details, only know that when the third watch is approaching today, the southwest of the imperial city suddenly burst into flames, at first I didn't know where the fire was, and then I learned that it was the printing office, His Majesty had already slept, and after learning that the printing office was on fire, he immediately ordered his subordinates to come and invite the horses into the palace! The Praetorian Guard thought for a moment before replying.

"Someone, prepare the car!" Li Xiu saw that he couldn't get any useful information from the other party's mouth, and immediately ordered, and at the same time showed an anxious look on his face, this time he was busy with the funeral of Empress Changsun, and he was dealing with the backlog of government affairs of the financial supervisor, so that he had no time and energy to go to the printing office, but he didn't expect that at this time, the printing office would catch fire.

After a while, the carriage and guards were ready, and Li Xiu was about to get into the carriage, but he didn't expect to see Princess Pingyang come out of the inner house and ask, "Husband, where are you going?" ”

"There's a fire in the palace, I need to go there in person, why did you wake up, lady?" Li Xiu saw Princess Pingyang hurriedly stepped forward and said, Princess Pingyang was already tired enough to take care of the two children, so when he came out just now, he tried not to wake her up, but he didn't expect her to know.

"It's the middle of the night, my husband should be careful when he goes out, I think it's better to bring more guards!" Princess Pingyang also knew that Li Xiu had a lot of affairs now, so she didn't stop it, but she saw that Li Xiu didn't have many guards, so she reminded her.

Speaking of the following, after Li Xiu was kidnapped by Wang Junkuo once, Princess Pingyang paid special attention to his safety, and Li Xiu could hardly go out without an escort. In fact, Li Xiu also paid attention to his own safety before, after all, the older a person is, the more he cares, so naturally he will spare his life.

In addition, after Li Xiu and Cui Mingan fell out last time, the other party also threatened him, so during that time, he also deliberately increased the guards around him, but after a long time, his vigilance was also relaxed, and this time the matter was urgent, so Li Xiu only brought a few dozen guards, which was indeed less than usual.

Li Xiu never refused his wife's concern, and immediately ordered someone to call some guards, and finally gathered a team of 100 people before going out, and Princess Pingyang personally sent him out.

Seeing Li Xiu's carriage disappear into the darkness, and finally even the light of the torches slowly disappeared, Princess Pingyang turned around and returned home to rest, but for some reason, she couldn't sleep while lying on the bed.

At the beginning, Princess Pingyang thought that she was just insomnia, but as time went by, she slowly felt a sense of irritability, which made her a little strange, speaking of which, she had slept well just now, but suddenly woke up from a dream, and wanted to see Li Xiu very much, so she came out of the inner house, and told Li Xiu to bring more guards, these are completely her subconscious reactions, there is no reason at all.

Thinking of the above, Princess Pingyang felt that the irritability in her heart turned into uneasiness, and even a feeling of fright, which made her sit up all of a sudden, this feeling was both familiar and strange to her, and it was familiar because when she led her troops to fight in the past, she would have this feeling when she encountered a critical moment, and it was strange because she had not felt like this for many years.

At the same time, Li Xiu's carriage is also galloping along the official road to Chang'an, speaking of which, after he served in the court, it is a little inconvenient to live outside the city, because the distance is too far, it takes half an hour on the road every day, and it is an hour to come and go, but Li Xiu is used to living outside the city, and Princess Pingyang They don't like the hustle and bustle of the city, plus the pace of life in ancient times is relatively slow, Li Xiu can often be lazy, so he has no plans to move to the city to live.

But now Li Xiu is anxious, although the printing bureau is a small and no longer small organization, and even the entire printing bureau has only five or six high-grade officials, and the rest are some craftsmen who work, but this small printing bureau has great significance, especially for the Tang Dynasty, the printing office is a sharp weapon to deal with the family, if in the words of later generations, the printing company is actually a weapon to defeat the cultural hegemony of the family.

Thinking of the family, Li Xiu couldn't help but sink in his heart, the printing office did not catch fire early or late, but the fire broke out during the funeral of Empress Changsun, and I remember that the last time Cui Mingan left, he also threatened him, so this time the fire in the printing office, is there a family behind the trouble?

The above speculation is not unfounded, for the family, the interests of the family have always been ranked first, and the interests of the country and individuals must be ranked last, and this time Li Shimin and Li Xiu not only want to move the interests of the family, but also use the printing bureau to dig up the foundation of the family in one fell swoop, which is simply a catastrophe for the family, so after Li Xiu rejected Cui Min before, the other party threatened him regardless of his face.

According to reasonable speculation, Cui Mingan will definitely notify the other families after he returns, so that they can understand the threat of the printing office to the family, so that the families will definitely unite.

For example, when Li Shimin had just ascended the throne, he encountered the assassination of a group of dead soldiers, and although this matter was finally over, in fact, Li Shimin and Li Xiu both knew that this assassination was instigated by the Zheng family, one of the families, but at that time, Li Shimin had just grabbed the throne, and the foundation was already unstable, and the influence of the family was too great, so in the end, he could only swallow this breath, and the family even dared to assassinate Li Shimin, let alone burn a small printing office.

Thinking of the above, Li Xiu couldn't help but be even more anxious, if the fire in the printing office was really done by the family, with his understanding of the family, they would definitely not just burn down a printing office, after all, even if the printing office was destroyed, he and Li Shimin could build another one, so those families must have a trick, and it is estimated that this is also the reason why Li Shimin was in a hurry to let him enter the palace to discuss.

However, just when Li Xiu thought of this, he suddenly only heard a "whoosh", and then a long arrow flew in from outside the car window, almost grazing his cheek and nailing it to the carriage, and the tail of the arrow with white feathers was also trembling slightly, making a "buzzing" sound!