Chapter 129: Forever Old Friends
"The cardamom lady danced in the city, and it really deserved its name!" Song You looked at the boiling situation in the arena and sighed sincerely.
Ling Li looked at the woman on the drum, but slowly frowned, "This woman is a little familiar......
Song You smiled: "It's possible to meet you on the streets and alleys one day." ”
At the end of the dance on stage, Ling Li suddenly stood up, squeezed sideways past the applauding audience, and walked towards the back of the stage. Song You and Dou Ji glanced at each other, both of them looked surprised, and then got up and followed.
There are also maiko performances on stage, and the audience's attention is still drawn to the stage. Ling Li quickly walked through the crowd and walked into the backstage along the dimly lit corridor, but as soon as he stepped up the steps, he was stopped by a man with a big black mole between his right eyebrow, "This master, you are going the wrong way." ”
"I'm an old friend of Cardamom Lady."
"I don't see my old friend during the performance, and I ask you to visit her home another day." The man blocking the road did not change his face.
Ling Li looked backstage and saw several women in blue skirts waiting behind the crimson gauze curtains. Hearing their words, the women covered their lips and chuckled, as if they were used to such scenes.
Song You stepped forward, took out a token from his sleeve and handed it to the man, "Can you recognize this?" There is an urgent task in the army, but I am afraid that you can't afford to delay! ”
The man glanced at the token, and said without surprise: "Naturally, I know what the military masters are in urgent need to see my lady?" ”
"Do you need to tell you about the suspected collusion with the enemy and traitor?" Song You said coldly.
When the man heard this, his face changed suddenly, and he immediately became a little shorter, "The villain will lead the men in." ”
Song You looked at Ling Li with a smug face, but Ling Li only dropped the word "eventful" and followed the man inside.
"Lady, you've got an old friend coming to visit." Turning the verandah, outside a door of openwork makeup, the man stopped and knocked on the door, and reported loudly.
After a while, the openwork makeup door opened from the inside, and the cardamom, who had already broken up the bun, stood against the door, and Yingying's eyes swept over Ling Li and the others at the door, hooked her lips and asked with a smile: "I don't know how many adults summoned cardamom?" ”
"You don't recognize me?" Ling Li asked.
Cardamom was stunned when she heard this, she looked Ling Li up and down seriously, and finally asked with a blank face: "Have we met?" ”
"Two years ago, south of Yongding City, Suzaku Lane ......"
"Hehe, are you kidding, Cardamom has never been to the national capital, how can he meet an adult in Yongding?" Cardamom burst out laughing.
"You said you've never been to Yongding?!" Ling Li's eyebrows suddenly gathered, and his well-defined face was as sharp as frost.
Cardamom was frightened by Ling Li's appearance, and immediately restrained the smile on her face, lowered her head and said respectfully: "Lord Hui, although Cardamom yearns for the national capital, but there are performances every day, and he has not been able to take a step out of An Yuan." The person in the hearts of adults may just look similar to cardamom. ”
Ling Li looked at Cardamom, and his heart was full of suspicions: he had clearly seen her in Ling Zhao's mansion, at that time, she was called "Liu Ji", she was extremely affectionate to him that night, but she said that she had never left Anyuan?!
"A few adults, you must have recognized the wrong person, my lady has never left Anyuan, unless she is ill, she will dance on stage every day...... All those in the city who watched her dance testify. Seeing that Ling Li's face was wrong, the man who had led the way before hurriedly stepped forward to protect Cardamom, "You can't take her away!" ”
"Yuntong, why did the adults say they wanted to take me away?" Cardamom glared at him.
The man named Yuntong said nervously: "They, they just said ......"
"I may have mistaken the wrong person and disturbed the Cardamom Girl." Ling Li arched his hand towards the cardamom, turned around and walked out.
Song You and Dou Ji were digesting the dialogue between Ling Li and Cardamom, imagining a beautiful past between General Zhenxi and this Cardamom Lady in the national capital, but they didn't expect him to turn around and leave.
The two looked at each other helplessly, and hurriedly followed. As soon as he turned the verandah, Ling Li stopped, and Song You couldn't restrain his steps and collided with Dou Ji behind him. Dou Ji rubbed his nose and was about to complain, when he looked up and saw Ling Li's index finger in his lips, he gave the instruction to "silence", and immediately covered his mouth.
"Yuntong, you are always so nervous, don't come to Wazi again in the future, so as not to cause trouble for me!"
"Several of them belong to the Zhenxi Army, I just looked at the token, they are here to investigate the collusion with the enemy and betrayal of the country...... Sister Cardamom, don't have anything to do with those people in Xili......"
"Are you crazy, you can say that!"
"I ......"
Hearing this conversation between Cardamom and Yuntong, Song You and Dou Ji suddenly realized, and then gave Ling Li a thumbs up.
Out of the Sangjia Wazi, Song You whistled, summoned the plainclothes guards who had been arranged to be responsible for defense around the streets and alleys, and told them to stay and continue to keep an eye on the cardamom lady, and report to the post house immediately if they found any suspicious movements. Then, he handed over his horse to Dou Ji and bowed down to Ling Li's carriage.
"Your Highness really saw her in Yongding?"
"The Maiko I saw in Lingzhao's Mansion looks exactly like her, if it's not her, it's her sibling." Ling Li lifted the curtain and glanced at the brightly lit Sang family tile, "Keep an eye on me, see who she is dealing with in Xili, and also, find out where the money for her to build the villa in Shannan came from?" ”
"Okay." After Song Youying got down, he asked puzzledly: "Why did His Highness suddenly pay attention to her?" ”
"I originally just wanted to find the girl who saved me that day, but I never thought that a portrait would involve a lot ......of old things," Ling Li told Song You about the information he had gotten before. He had arranged for Shen to track down Gu Zhun's case, Chen Ping kept an eye on Tianxiang Building, and on the western side, he asked Song You to focus on tracking down a few clues such as Cardamom Niangzi, Yan Siniang and Yeyu Pavilion, and asked him to cut off the spy network in the western border on the grounds of consolidating border defense.
Song You was originally in charge of espionage work in the Zhenxi Army, and he connected the clues collected by Ling Li in his heart, and suddenly said: "In this way, the person behind the kidnapper case in Xiangji Temple may not be the abolished prince Ling Chong......"
"Quite possibly. In the past, I only thought of Ling Chong's hatred for me, but I ignored the biggest beneficiary of the whole thing. Over the years, Ling Zhao has been provoking the relationship between me and Ling Chong, and if the two of us fight to the death, he will be able to enjoy the benefits of the fisherman......" Thinking back to the many past events in his mind these days, Ling Li couldn't help but feel a little distracted, "Sure enough, he still responded to that sentence, and he was the most ruthless emperor." ”
"If these things are clarified, what will Your Highness do?" Song You asked tentatively.
Ling Li seemed to be a little tired, leaned his head against the wall of the car, closed his eyes, and replied after a long time: "Naturally, I want to seek justice." ”
"Is it just a matter of getting justice?" Song You seemed a little disappointed.
"The Nanyue rivers and mountains that the brothers of the Zhenxi Army have guarded with their blood must not be handed over to people who are not worthy of the position!" Ling Li opened his eyes and looked at Song Youdao.
Song You's eyes lit up, and he immediately arched his hand and said, "The last general understands." ”