There was only one table of guests in the entire inn, and the shopkeeper quickly served a table full of dishes.

"Little brother, how can the two of us finish eating so many dishes?!" Cao Zhong glanced at the purse placed in Ling Li's hand, turned his head and asked.

"Just now this master said to arrange a few of our chef's specialty dishes, these nine dishes are the signature dishes of our inn" The shopkeeper glanced at Ling Li, and saw that his brows were deeply locked, and his expression was not as pleasant as before, so he cautiously smiled again: "It seems to be a little too much, so in this way, I won't be on the back......

With that, he ran downstairs in a puff of smoke.

Cao Zhong saw that Ling Li was still looking out the window in a daze, so he reminded: "Your Highness, the dishes are all ready......

"You eat. I've eaten with Weizhi before. Ling Litou didn't reply.

Your Highness has eaten it, haven't you eaten it yourself? The Akiogikan has always been a dinner at the end of the day. Looking at the table full of dishes, Cao Zhong, who was heartbroken, gritted his teeth and picked up the chopsticks, and poked the braised lion's head in front of him fiercely.

In short, in the end, he, who was a retainer, was helped on horseback by his own master.

After returning to the Qiu Di Pavilion, Ling Li still did not feel sleepy, he summoned a group of ministers, servants, and maids in the family to inquire in detail about the kidnapping of the silkworm on the day of the concubine's funeral. After returning to the Zhenxi Army, he was busy dealing with the urgent affairs of the war between the two countries, and learned from his family letter that Ling Juan was no different at home, so he put the matter on hold for the time being.

Dong Yuejiao had already fallen asleep, and when she heard that Ling Li had summoned someone to investigate the disappearance of the silkworm, she hurriedly got up and rushed over, wiping her tears and begging Ling Li to help find the whereabouts of her adopted daughter the silkworm.

After returning from the funeral of Zanglong Temple, Ling Li went to Yongnian Palace to say goodbye to Emperor Chengde. Dong Yuejiao returned home with a group of family members, and on the mountain road down the mountain in Zanglong Temple, the sedan chair she was riding suddenly broke the table pole, and the sedan chair was unbalanced and planted, and she was so frightened that she exclaimed again and again. A group of people were busy appeasing Dong Yuejiao and repairing the table pole, and when they got back on the road, they couldn't find the silkworm. Dong Yuejiao immediately arranged for people to search in the mountains and forests around the Hidden Dragon Temple, and did not return home until it was dark.

corresponded before and after, only to know that the kidnappers had mistakenly tied up the silkworm for Ling Juan. Coincidentally, Ling Juan was going to eat the pastries of Fengle Lou that day, so Ming Cui summoned the little maid to carry her to Fengle Lou. After buying pastries, Ling Juan was attracted by a team of jugglers on the street, and sat in a sedan chair and watched for a long time before she was willing to go home. So much so that Ling Li couldn't find her when he went home, so he believed the kidnapper's blackmail letter.

"Where's the Mingcui?" Ling Li looked around and asked with a frown.

Juanjuan was not at home that day, so His Royal Highness misunderstood that she was kidnapped by gangsters, and took the risk to rush to Xiangji Temple to save people, and later lost contact...... Ming Cui realized that she had done something wrong, and after she came to me to ask for punishment, she left the Autumn Pavilion. Dong Yuejiao said.

She just took Ling Juan to buy snacks, what's wrong? Why do you want to ask for sin and leave?! Ling Li's heart became more and more confused.

Ming Cui was originally Concubine Chen's maid, and when Ling Li was sixteen years old and left the palace, Concubine Chen deliberately picked her out, intending to make her a concubine. It's just that Ling Li and she grew up together, and the brother-sister friendship exceeded the love between men and women, so they never entered the house.

Ling Li pondered for a moment and instructed Cao Zhongjia to send people around to find out the whereabouts of Xiao Silkworm and Mingcui.

The next day, Ling Li reported the military documents of the war in the western frontier brought back from the western camp to the Privy Council for the Privy Council to judge the performance appraisal and reward for meritorious deeds. Subsequently, he took the guards to the imperial mausoleum of the Hidden Dragon Temple, and comforted the spirit of the concubine in the sky with the great victory of the Zhenxi Army.

In the Linhua Hall of the East Palace, Ling Zhao was reclining on the brocade couch, and the purple kite was kneeling in front of the couch to feed him medicine, perhaps because he was too nervous, and the hand holding the medicine bowl was trembling all the time.

"What, I scared you?" Ling Zhao's pair of Ruifeng eyes seemed to be smiling.

Purple Kite hurriedly shook her head, "No, the slave maid never thought that one day she would be able to serve the prince in person, and the slave maid was flattered......

"I haven't spoiled you yet, and you're shocked?" The corners of Ling Zhao's lips twitched, and then he took the medicine bowl in her hand, "I'll do it myself." ”

The purple kite was stunned, and then her face was red and her ears were red.

"You step back first, I still have something to talk to about with Gongzi Chu." Ling Zhao frowned.

"This girl is the maid of the abolished prince, and the prince should keep it?" Seeing the purple kite withdraw from the Linhua Palace, Chu Yugu asked.

"It's good to keep it. She is familiar with the personnel in the palace and is convenient to do. Ling Zhao took small sips of the medicinal liquid with a spoon, as if he was tasting a fragrant tea, "If you are obedient, it doesn't hurt to give her a name." ”

Hearing Ling Zhao say that he wanted to give this girl a name, Chu Yugu thought of the princess Xu Zhiyi, whose whereabouts were still unknown, and couldn't help but clench his fists.

"Speaking of which, the princess will give birth in two months." Ling Zhao raised his eyes and glanced at him, as if he was careless, "I was thinking, it's okay to let you meet......

"I promised the prince that I would not see her again." Chu Yugu hurriedly expressed his position.

"Good. You've finally come to understand. Ling Zhao handed the medicine bowl to Chu Yugu, and asked while wiping the medicinal juice on the corner of his lips with a silk handkerchief, "What has Ling Li been doing in the past two days?" ”

"Yesterday, he went to the imperial mausoleum to worship the loyal and obedient concubines" Chu Yugu put the medicine bowl on the wooden table next to him, took the mouthwash and handed it forward, "The day before yesterday, he took his entourage to the Privy Council to report on his work......

"Didn't he go to Dali Temple to investigate the case in Xishi in detail?" Rinsing his mouth, Ling Zhao asked while wiping his lips.

"Nope. Everything was as the prince expected. ”

On the same day, Ling Li and Shu Mei jumped off the cliff of Xiangji Temple together, Ling Li was not dead, and Shu Mei was very likely to be alive. If she had lived, Ling Li might have guessed that Ling Zhao was the person behind the kidnapping at Xiangji Temple. So, Ling Zhao devised the bitter trick on the day of the reception, and through Zhao Song's assassination, he not only dispelled Ling Li's suspicion of him, but also successfully attributed the account to Ling Chong, just by killing Ling Chong with a knife, and getting the opportunity to enter the East Palace.

Chu Yugu hesitated for a moment, and then said, "But the spies from Tianxiang Mansion said that Ling Li asked people to look for Ming Cui everywhere. ”

"Can he find it, then?" Ling Zhao asked with the jade dragon in his hand and squinted.

"Naturally, I can't."

"I'm afraid that you will be soft-hearted for a while, and you will come up with another county lord of Hejing."

"Absolutely not." Chu Yugu lowered his head and said, "She passed on the wrong news and caused us to tie up the wrong person." The person who betrayed the prince naturally can't let it go. Don't worry, the girl's bones are dry. ”

"Just drank the medicine, don't talk about these disgusting ones. The Akiogikan continued to keep an eye on it, and if there was any movement, let me know immediately. ”

Chu Yugu nodded in response, and then said, "Lord Wang, I think it's better to take advantage of Ling Li's time in Yongding to find an opportunity to kill him in the name of the West Plough Killer, so as not to have many dreams at night." ”

"If you kill him, why should I take this arrow in vain?!" Ling Zhao touched his left arm, which was still faintly painful, and muttered: "Ling Li is not a brave and unscrupulous person, he was ordered to return to Beijing to receive the reward this time, and none of the henchmen of the Zhenxi Army have brought him, and if he moves now, he will be burned......"

"But if he is successfully crowned the king and knighted, if I want to move him in the future, I am afraid it will be even more difficult."

"As soon as the war in the western border ends, the conditions for peace talks are not reached, and there may be more variables, and his prestige is still needed to guard the western border."

"The prince wants to let him go back to the West?! By no means, if he knew about the Xiangji Temple and those old things back then, he was afraid that he would not give up! ”

"Let the tiger return to the mountain, naturally you must have a first move." Ling Zhao stared at the dragon handle in his palm, and said slowly: "Let's first use this opportunity to reward the Zhenxi Army, dismantle his henchmen one by one, pull out his minions, and then slowly reduce his sharpness, sooner or later...... I'll clean it up. ”