Chapter 121 Cutting the grass to the roots
On the second day, when Xue Neng arrived at the first village, Li Bao was already able to walk. He was feeding Ling'er a medicinal soup made with licorice mixed with honeysuckle and mung beans. Seeing the presence of outsiders, Ling'er immediately blushed.
Xue Neng pretended not to see anything, and waited for Li Bao to feed Ling'er the decoction, and the two of them walked out of the house. Li Bao is now able to walk normally.
The poison smeared on the arrow that hit Li Bao was Aconitum aconitum, which was a very common and extremely vicious poison in ancient China, after poisoning, the patient would be dizzy, comatose and difficult to breathe, fortunately Ling'er took drugs for him in time, but Ling'er was nervous and did not vomit poisonous blood in time. She was also poisoned.
Fortunately, Weiyangzi arrived in time and gave them both his unique antidote pill, and now Li Bao and Ling'er are fine, but Li Bao's arrow wound will be better for a while.
However, Hu Sanbao is still in bed to recuperate, he was hit by six arrows, fortunately there is no poison on the arrows, he usually follows Li Bao to exercise, and his body is still strong, and he will get better after a period of time.
When Li Bao saw Xue Neng coming, he should have told himself that now he and Xue Neng get along very well, especially when Xue Neng participated in the proprietor meeting of the Shanhe Society, and heard that the 10,000 guan he invested became 30,000 guan.
Xue Neng decided that Li Bao was by no means an ordinary prince and nobleman, and he planned to bet on Li Bao. So when he got the news yesterday that someone was going to assassinate Li Bao, he was the most nervous, after all, Li Bao was still related to his investment and future career.
Xue Neng urgently summoned the most powerful officials in Jingzhao Mansion and the first rank of the Jinwu Guard, and hurriedly came to the scene of the crime on the side of the first village, but there was no trace of the scene except for the falling feather arrows.
Xue Neng brought people to the first village and found that Weiyangzi was treating Li Bao, he could only learn from Zhuang Ding's mouth that Li Bao's life was fine, and he was in a hurry, and there was nothing he could do.
I had to tell Wang Bushan and ask him to inform Li Bao in time when he would wake up, Li Bao had already met him in the second half of last night, and Li Bao already knew where this gang of thieves came from.
Ding Badao's interrogation skills are also good, plus those bandits are also masters who can't endure hardship, and after the punishment of flesh and skin, before waterboarding, they all obediently confessed, which made Ding Badao regret for a while.
But these bandits are all small minions, and their knowledge is limited, and the three bandits who were caught confessed were almost the same. They are from Chengjiazhai in Huazhou, and they don't know who instructed them to assassinate Li Bao.
When they knew that Li Baonai was the prince, the three bandits were already frightened, and they repeatedly called themselves deceived by the leader.
After Xue Neng got the news provided by Li Bao, he immediately sent someone to Huazhou to assassinate the history of the assassins, and gathered the soldiers and horses to exterminate Chengjiazhai together. That Chengjiazhai is a mountain village, Huazhou Thorn Shi Ping ignored him, but more is better than less, now the officials are already angry, if he doesn't do anything, it will be a dead end.
The news of the extermination of Chengjiazhai has come back, and the leaders of Chengjiazhai have not returned to the cottage, and most of the people in the village are old and weak women and children.
This morning, I got a report from Youli Zheng, saying that in a village called Qinjiawa, twenty miles northwest of the city, more than a dozen people died in the land temple there.
After Xue Neng got the news, he immediately informed Li Bao, and after Li Bao heard it, he sighed. He asked him to take the captured bandits to identify the corpses, and after the bandits identified them, they found that all the dead were the thieves who assassinated Li Bao.
Xue Neng looked at this situation extremely tricky, and now all the clues that could be found had been broken, and there was only one clue left that was the feather arrow used by the thief.
This arrow is a standard military bow equipped with for the Shence Army, but there are quite a few people who can get this kind of military bow in Chang'an City today, and Xue Neng suddenly felt that the sky was falling, which made him desperate.
Looking at Xue Neng, who had nothing to do, Li Bao said to him: "Xue Dayin, who do you think wants to kill me the most in Chang'an City now?" ”
Xue Neng thought for a while and hesitated: "If you want to kill the king, now that you look at it, the most likely one is the new privy envoy Yang Fuguang, after all, he has a grudge against the king." ”
"What else?" Li Bao then asked.
"In addition, there is Liu Xingshen, the former lieutenant of the Shence Army, who was killed by the king and returned home. It should be the one who hates the king the most. ”
"Anything else?" Li Bao looked at Xue Neng, he believed that with Xue Neng's intelligence, he could come up with these, but now Xue Neng was blinded by Li Luo's anger and the thorny case. It was he who began to enlighten Xue Neng.
Li Bao said in a low voice: "Yang Fuguang is this person, although he is good at scheming, but he knows the general trend and never does stupid things, now in this Chang'an City, he should know that I am the one who supports him, if he sends someone to assassinate me, then who will let him gain a foothold in Chang'an City?" ”
Li Bao looked at Xue Neng thoughtfully, and continued: "It is even more impossible for Liu Xingshen to send someone to kill me, the reason why I left him alive that day and kept a few of his righteous sons untouched was to leave him Liu a chance to advance." With his vision and the city, he should understand why I left him alive. If I die, then there will be no more opportunities for him in the Daming Palace. ”
"Then who else wants to kill Lang Jun?" Xue Neng asked puzzled.
"There is another person who hates me the most in Chang'an City, you should be able to figure it out. Although my grudge with him is not obvious, with your intelligence, it should not be difficult to guess. With that, Li Bao went back to the room alone to rest, leaving Xue Neng who was thinking alone.
Xue Neng analyzed Li Bao's words, and then slapped his thigh, how could he forget Guo Jingshu's words. Xue Neng now has a direction and knows how to check.
Li Bao no longer cares how Xue Neng investigates the case, since he thought about it, he thought that Guo Jingshu was going to murder him.
The reason is very simple, although Guo Shufei was poisoned, but she was not really crazy, that day Li Bao arranged for the doctors of the Imperial Medical Department to report to Li Yi collectively, Guo Shufei was crazy, but it was an allusion to "three people become tigers".
As long as the Imperial Medical Department insists that Concubine Guo Shufei is crazy, Li Yi will definitely believe it. Of course, the poison in Concubine Guo Shu has indeed penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and she can't control her itching in front of Li Yi. It further confirms the fact that she has gone mad.
With such an arrogant personality as her, how could she tolerate Li Bao's poisoning of her and be indifferent, she must have contacted Guo Jingshu through the channels in the palace, and asked Guo Jingshu to contact Li Bao.
Li Bao is very remorseful now, and his soft-heartedness at that time has caused today's disaster. The yellow donkey who was harmed died, and he and Ling'er were deeply poisoned.
It is because Li Bao can no longer be soft-hearted, and the scourge of Guo Shufei must be removed.
Li Bao asked Wei Yang Zi to recruit Wei Yangzi, who had been taking care of Li Bao's master and servant in the first village for the past few days, and when he heard Li Bao's summons, he immediately came to meet Li Bao.
Weiyangzi bowed to Li Bao, and then said, "What's the matter with the king looking for the poor road?" ”
Li Baodao: "I want a poison, this medicine has a name, I don't know if you have it?" ”
Weiyangzi said: "What kind of medicine does the king want?" There is a small research on poison here, and I dare not say that it can be concocted, but it shouldn't be too difficult. In the past, the immortal master once gave an immortal spectrum to the poor road as a sidekick, and the king said it. ”
"The poison I want is called 'pulling the machine'," Li Bao has been admiring this highly poisonous medicine that has been passed down through the ages. In the history of later generations, after the poisoning of Empress Li, the pain was abnormal, and the death was extremely miserable. For a poisonous woman like Guo Shufei, this medicine must be used in order to get out of Li Bao's evil spirit.
Hearing Li Bao say the name of the medicine "pulling the machine", Weiyangzi felt in his heart for a while, how could this Lang Jun be so knowledgeable, this "pulling the machine" medicine is mainly made of strychnine, and then combined with other secret medicines.
After taking it, the pain is abnormal, the bones of the whole body are distorted, and finally the bones of the human head and feet want to connect, and the shape is very similar to the pull, hence the name.
Wei Yangzi said to Li Bao: "This flavor medicine will not be able to be configured for a while and a half, I'm afraid it will take five days to prepare it, is Lang Jun in a hurry?" ”
Hearing Weiyangzi's words, Li Bao said: "Then you go and prepare this medicine quickly, I want to go back to the palace." See how it is going in the palace. In addition, once this medicine is prepared, it will be sent to the palace immediately, and I have an urgent need for it. ”
After speaking, Li Bao summoned Wang Bushan and asked him to prepare the carriage and horses and let Jin Wuwei's sergeants quickly form the team, and he was going back to the palace.
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It was already noon when he returned to the palace, Li Bao first went to meet Li Luo, reported the details of his assassination, and implored Li Yi to strictly investigate the bandits, Li Yi also immediately said that he would focus on asking the Shence Army, the left and right street patrol envoys and the Jingzhao Mansion to urgently investigate Chang'an City. Then Li Luoyou encouraged Li Bao and rewarded him with a lot of rare treasures, so that he could recuperate from his injuries with peace of mind.
Li Bao said goodbye to Li Luo and came to Qinghui Pavilion again, and Li Ying recounted the experience, Li Ying saw Li Bao so haggard, and immediately left beautiful tears, Li Bao comforted his sister again, and then hurried back to King Ji's house.
Li Bao went to King Ji's mansion and summoned Cui Niang and Lin Jiaying, and now in this palace, Hu Sanbao and Ling'er are not there, and the two of them are in charge of major affairs, and now there is such a big thing.
Cui Niang and Lin Jiaying were also under a lot of pressure, and when Li Bao summoned them, they reported to Li Bao one by one the situations they had detected in the past two days.
Concubine Guo Shu has been moved to the Xuanwu Hall in the northernmost part of Daming Palace, first, for fear that her pain howl will disturb the emperor, and second, it is quiet and convenient for her to recuperate.
Lin Jiaying found out that Han Qide, Concubine Guo Shufei's chamberlain, had left the Daming Palace a few months ago, and his current whereabouts are unknown.
After listening to this information, Li Bao was even more sure that this Guo Shufei really deserved to die, but this Guo Shufei was under his hands, and she could be killed at any time, but Guo Jingshu would not be able to kill her for a while.
After all, behind him stood Wei Baoheng, the first prime minister in the political hall.
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ps: Today's first one is a little late, hehe, forgive me! I'll go to the code word again.