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"Filial piety, Ling Lang's revenge, I will avenge you!"

Li Shimin looked at Li Xiaogong, who was already crying in tears, and patted him on the shoulder comfortingly, with an angry expression, even more ruthless. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoLi Xiaogong has fought for the Tang Dynasty for most of his life and has made great achievements. In terms of military exploits alone, none of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces could match him, even Li Jing, a veteran of the Eastern Turks.

Li Shimin is a meritocracy, the Li clan is a local clan, and there are hundreds of clans, but only Li Xiaogong and Li Daozong are really reused. For these two, Li Shimin is the result of grace, and now Li Xiaogong's favorite eldest son was killed on the spot at his banquet, which made Li Shimin feel ashamed of his cousin.

When this happens, the banquet naturally cannot proceed.

Li Shimin instructed Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng and other civil officials to entertain those frightened envoys, and stay behind to deal with the assassin case himself: this assassination of Gongsun Yeyue has completely angered the anger in his heart, and the pair of man-eating tiger eyes exude a fiery gaze, "Prince, how much do you know about that Gongsun Yeyue?" ”

Li Chengqian has been frightened since the moment Gongsun Yeyue executed the assassination plan, his face was colorless, this assassination had nothing to do with him, let alone the mastermind, but Gongsun Yeyue was invited by him, he arranged to enter the palace, and he specially prepared a program wearing a murder weapon, which directly led to the accident.

Li Chengqian has long been unable to get out of it.

Hearing Li Shimin's stern questioning this time, he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground: "Erchen...... Erchen, I only know that her name is Gongsun Yeyue, she is from Lingchuan, Guizhou, and the others ...... I don't know anything else. ”

"I don't know anything, I don't know anything!" Li Shimin was furious, and just when he needed to vent, when he heard this, the volcano that had been silent for a long time erupted: "As my prince of the Tang Dynasty, you acted like Meng Lang, and actually brought a stranger whose identity was completely unknown into the palace......"

Li Chengqian was speechless, not because he wanted to make such a mistake, but because time did not allow it. Gongsun Yeyue is a native of Lingchuan, Guizhou, and Lingchuan is located in Jingnan, which is a remote area close to Guiyang. The time he invited Gongsun Yeyue was exactly a month ago, and a month was not enough to travel back and forth from Chang'an to Lingchuan, not to mention the time it would take to carry out an investigation. But in order to curry favor with Li Shimin, he could only take a risk.

Li Shimin is not ignorant of Li Chengqian's thoughts, but the clearer he is, the greater the disappointment, as the prince of a country, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, in order to compete for favor, there is no sense of hidden dangers, so that thieves have a chance to take advantage of it and use it. Although this matter did not cause great harm to Datang, if the purpose of that Gongsun Yeyue was not Li Chonghuang, but someone else, such as himself, the queen, or Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and other right-hand men, then Datang's loss would be great.

"Your Majesty, Qian'er also wants to do his filial piety, don't blame him!" Empress Eldest Sun's face was a little shocked, as a woman, she cared more about the sword shot at Li Shimin than Li Chonghuang, and the relationship between her husband and son. She also knew that Li Chengqian was indeed wrong this time, but there was no mother in the world who did not understand her son!

Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "I also know that the prince is to fulfill his filial piety, but it is an indisputable fact that his negligence caused the current situation, and it is not a sentence of filial piety that can erase everything......"

Empress Changsun glanced at the frightened and restless Li Chengqian, shook her head secretly, and sighed: "The concubine is not biased, but instead of punishing Qian'er at this time, it is better to let him make up for his mistakes." After all, Gongsun Yeyue had lived in the East Palace for more than a month, and the only person who knew her best was Qian'er. ”

Li Shimin was slightly stunned, but also felt reasonable.

Li Chengqian gritted his teeth and said: "If the father and emperor hand over this matter to the child, the child will definitely find out the culprit." ”

Li Shimin nodded and said, "Then do you have the purpose of investigating?" ”

Li Chengqian hesitated for a moment, and said: "First interrogate all the people who serve Gongsun Yeyue in the East Palace one by one, she has lived in my East Palace for more than a month, and she will definitely leave clues." In addition, he is sending someone to Lingchuan, Guizhou to investigate to see if there is such a person, in addition, the palace is heavily guarded, and Gongsun Yeyue has great ability to escape from this palace, as long as she is in the palace, there is no possibility of escape. ”

Li Shimin was silent for a moment, glanced at Empress Changsun and said, "Okay, let you start investigating this matter!" ”

As soon as his words fell, he saw thick smoke billowing not far from the west, and there were signs of fire, and the anger that had been resting for a while reappeared on his face, and his face sank and said, "Don't go quickly!" ”

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As soon as Du He left the banquet site, he directly carried the light gong to the west, and after a thousand steps, he arrived at the backstage set up at 0:00: this is a special place for performers, where they can change clothes and remove makeup. In addition, there are many performance troupes of different races who come to congratulate Li Shimin on his birthday, and they are all fresh faces in each other, and the guards cannot check them one by one, which is the only loophole in the entire imperial city.

As soon as he arrived, he found that the backstage was in chaos, the clothes of the tent were in flames, all the actors in the backstage were in a mess, and the nearby soldiers were already busy fighting the fire.

"Damn!" Seeing this scene, Du He couldn't help but curse secretly.

The palace is so big, although it is heavily guarded, it is impossible to cover everything, and it is impossible to "three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry". If this is the case, the entire imperial city will need a full 60,000 soldiers and horses to guard, plus shifts, the guards of the imperial city will need 120,000 elites, which is too wasteful of manpower and material resources.

Therefore, the palace guards are very strict, but they are only in the important places and a few places at the palace gate, and there are only occasional patrolling soldiers passing through the palace walls.

These patrolling soldiers, once they were put into fighting the fire, they couldn't detect which direction Gongsun Yeyue was running away.

"Damn Li Chengqian, there is more than enough success and more failure!" Du He secretly cursed in his heart, Gongsun Yeyue can know the situation in the palace so well, it is rare to live in the palace in the past month, Li Chengqian is the accomplice of all this.

He grabbed one of the soldiers and shouted, "Who, who was the first to inform you of the fire, and where?" ”

Now it is difficult to judge the direction of Gongsun Yeyue's escape, but the thief shouting to catch the thief is the most effective and direct way to prove his innocence and cover up the crime. The news of the assassination had not spread, and it was impossible for the forbidden army to embarrass a woman who was shouting for help from the fire.

It is not normal for a guard to feel like a firefight in the background for such a short period of time.

It is very likely that Gongsun Yeyue took advantage of the chaos to flee when he was shouting for firefighting.

The guard let Du He catch him, and hurriedly said: "Back to my lord, in the west, we met a woman in the west who was shouting for firefighting." ”

Du He asked them to step up the firefighting, and chased them straight to the west.

For the royal palace, Du Ho is very familiar.

At the end of this corridor in the west is the Taiye Gate, which is the key entrance to and from the imperial city, guarded by three hundred soldiers, including a hundred strong crossbows, a hundred longbowmen occupy the high ground, there is no token to enter and exit the palace, no matter how good Gongsun Yeyue's martial arts are, it is absolutely impossible to break out.

The only place she hid was a small courtyard close to Taiye Gate, where the palace maid who was responsible for cleaning and tidying up the Taiji Hall was living.

The Taiji Hall is the center of the palace, solemn and solemn, must be cleaned from time to time, and the pursuit is that there is not a single fallen leaf on the ground. Therefore, the palace maid's residence was specially arranged nearby, so that it could be cleaned all the time.

When I came to the small courtyard, the small courtyard was not big, and there were only more than 20 palace maids living there. They are responsible for everything in the Taiji Palace, and their status has a certain status among the palace maids. Now a banquet is being held in front of the Taiji Palace, and the palace maids here are all going to be helpers, and there is no one.

He first searched the outside of the hospital, and searched all the places where he could hide, but found no trace.

Entering the house to search, there is no shadow of Gongsun Yeyue in the place where people can be hidden.

"Strange! Could it be that she broke into the Taiye door? ”

"Impossible!" Du He sat on the bed, closed his eyes and pondered: Gongsun Yeyue has superb swordsmanship, and her martial arts are by no means weak, but she is not so brave as an overlord that she can see thousands of troops and horses as nothing, she can't break through the Taiye Gate, even if she has that ability, it's impossible to break through.

The efficiency of the Tang Dynasty Forbidden Army is unmatched in the world, as long as Gongsun Yeyue reveals his true body, the forbidden army will block that area in the tea room, and then Gongsun Yeyue will be like a turtle in an urn, and there is only a life to be captured.

Gongsun Yeyue was able to make himself nowhere to inquire in this short period of time, he was definitely not a reckless and unwise person, and it was impossible to forcibly break into Taiyemen.

Where will she hide?

Du He opened his eyes, and he didn't have a clue for a while. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that there was something abnormal on the bedside table next to his right hand, and his heart moved, and he moved the bedside table, revealing a beautiful red dance costume, which was the dance costume worn by Gongsun Yeyue when he danced the sword.

Du He held the red dance dress in his hand, and could vaguely feel the temperature on the clothes that was about to disappear.

In a flash!

A bolt of lightning struck in my mind!

"What a smart fellow!"

Du He's eyes lit up, flashed a strange color, she was wearing a bright red dress, red like fire, extremely conspicuous, once she changed into an ordinary palace maid clothes, it became inconspicuous, she used a visual blind spot: now the whole city is looking for the assassin wearing the big red clothes, but I don't know that the assassin has changed his clothes, and the clothes are no longer gorgeous, but disguised as an ordinary palace maid, so that he can naturally be confused.

Gongsun Yeyue must be wearing the clothes of a palace maid and mixed in with the fire team, as long as she is integrated into the fire team, no one will notice her existence!

He took his clothes and hurried back decisively.

When I came to the backstage of the banquet, because the water source was far away, and a large number of flammable materials were stored in the burning place, the fire was still spreading and had not been extinguished.

Du He followed the team of people who fetched water, and searched carefully one by one.