Soon, Li Yao returned to Chang'an City with An Babu, and entered his own mansion, An Babu couldn't stay up early in the morning and ran to the room to sleep, Li Yao was not sleepy at all, and his mood was very heavy, he didn't want An Yuyin and the three of them to pester themselves and ask questions, Li Yao didn't stay too long, just hurriedly explained a few words to Ling Niang, and he quietly left the house alone and went towards the palace.

An hour later.

Li Yao came to the palace of eternal life with a heavy heart, and saw Wu Zetian in the cabinet, Wu Zetian at this time, naturally in a good mood, since last night someone from the Criminal Department told her, saying that Li Chong and his housekeeper were arrested and put in prison by Di Renjie and Cheng Boxian, she was in a good mood when she got up in the morning, and there was no other expression on her face except for a smile.

Obviously, Li Yao did this this time, which made her very satisfied, of course, she would never have thought that it was not Li Yao who did this, but Feng Xiaobao, but now that Li Yao has regained control of his body, Wu Zetian naturally wants to attribute all the credit to him.

As soon as Li Yao entered the cabinet, she sat behind the long case and said happily: "The mourning family really didn't misunderstand you at all! You really have the ability to put Li Chong in prison, in the Tang Dynasty, there are not many people who dare to touch Li Chong, the king of Langya, you are still the first person the mourning family has seen who dares to touch him." ”

"Hehe! The Queen Mother has won the award, it's just a fluke, when Di Lao and Cheng Dutong went to arrest him last night, he was very drunk, so he didn't resist, otherwise, arresting him would not have been so smooth. Li Yao pressed down the heaviness in his heart and explained to Wu Zetian lightly.

"I see, then he deserves to be cheated by you this time. Wu Zetian nodded knowingly, pulled up a smiling face, and smiled, happy.

Li Yao looked at her happy appearance, but his heart was uncomfortable, Wu Zetian didn't know, just because she wanted to trap Li Chong this time, which made Ning Xiang lose her life in vain, Li Yao really wanted to be angry at Wu Zetian for a while, but he didn't have the qualifications and the courage to be ruthless to Wu Zetian.

For these reasons, Li Yao had to stand there with his head bored and didn't say a word.

After Wu Zetian was happy for a while, she calmed down and said to Li Yao: "Now Li Chong is locked up in the prison of the Criminal Department, and the mourning family estimates that his wine has also woken up, and he must be making trouble in the prison of the Criminal Department for a while, this matter is done by you, then you have to take care of it, and the later things, the mourning family will also have the power to be handled by you, what should I do, you don't need the mourning family to teach you, you should know it yourself, right?"

"Of course, the Queen Mother can rest assured that I will do it properly for the Queen Mother. Li Yao bowed his head in response.

"Okay! Then you should rush to the prison of the Criminal Department immediately! The mourning family still has a chapter to be reviewed, and you should come back to the mourning family early in the evening, and the mourning family will reward you well tonight." Wu Zetian suddenly smiled and said this to Li Yao.

Li Yao only nodded quietly, he should go down to Wu Zetian, he knew that he hadn't served her for two days, Wu Zetian must have a ** fever, thinking about him, he came back to her at night, and it was estimated that he would have to be tossed by her again, Li Yao was really unhappy in his heart.

But at his point, he can only have bitterness and swallow it in his stomach, and the rest, he doesn't dare to complain half a sentence, and Li Yao's heart is like a mirror, if he still wants to mix in Datang in the future, he must coax Wu Zetian, as long as Wu Zetian gives him this right, he can get ahead in Datang, now, this is not only Feng Xiaobao's fate, but also his fate.

Anyway, he can't go back to the twenty-first century, he can only resign himself to live a good life in the Tang Dynasty, firstly, he wants to ensure that the people he loves and those who love him will not be harmed in the future, and secondly, he wants to avoid things like Ning Xiang from happening again, this is Li Yao's truest thoughts in his heart now.

After thinking all of this out, Li Yao said goodbye to Wu Zetian, left the cabinet and walked outside the Hall of Eternal Life, and what Li Yao was a little surprised was that as soon as he walked outside the Hall of Eternal Life, Shangguan Wan'er took a hurried step, quickly chased after him, and came behind him in three or two steps, stretched out his slender hand to hold him, and shouted behind him: "Wait, I have something to ask you." ”

"Wan ...... Wan'er ......" Li Yao turned his head bitterly and looked at Wan'er's words.

"How is Ning Xiang, where is she now?" Shangguan Wan'er didn't talk too much nonsense, but asked about Ning Xiang's situation as soon as she opened her mouth.

Li Yao chuckled in his heart, and his words were blocked in an instant, and then he looked at Shangguan Wan'er's gaze a little dodgy, in fact, when he came, Li Yao had thought of thousands of reasons to prevaricate Shangguan Wan'er in his heart, wanting to perfunctory Ning Xiang's death, and didn't want Shangguan Wan'er to be sad.

But when he saw Shangguan Wan'er, when Shangguan Wan'er asked him about the incense condensation, the ten million reasons in Li Yao's heart were short-lived, at this time, Li Yao, he always felt that if he prevaricated Shangguan Wan'er again, what was the difference between it and cheating, he Li Yao could deceive anyone, but he could never deceive Wan'er, just because Wan'er was the goddess in his heart, and he would never deceive the goddess in his heart.

Shangguan Wan'er saw him talking like this, she became even more anxious, and kept asking: "Are you going to say it quickly! Do you want to kill me in a hurry? I'm really anxious now, I just want to know how Ning Xiang is, you and Dong Mingzhu, didn't you change Ning Xiang away last night? Where is she now, is she safe?"

"Wan'er, I'm ......" Li Yao was speechless again.

"What the hell is wrong, don't you talk like this?" Shangguan Wan'er stiffened her face and asked.

Li Yao stood in place, raised his head and breathed a long sigh of relief, he finally mustered up the courage in his heart, suddenly lowered his head and glared at Shangguan Wan'er, and said in a deep voice: "Ning Xiang is dead." ”

"What......" Shangguan Wan'er exclaimed.

"I'm sorry, it's all my fault, I went late, Ning Xiang thought Li Chong would spoil her, so ...... Blame me for all this, blame me for not telling her clearly in advance, if she had made it clear, Ning Xiang would not have hanged herself, Wan'er, if you want to beat or scold, come at me! It's all my fault. Li Yao almost finished this long sentence in one breath.

After finishing speaking, he lowered his head and stood in front of Wan'er, as if he was a child who had made some big mistake, just waiting for Shangguan Wan'er's next scolding, because in Li Yao's heart, all the responsibility for Ning Xiang's death was him, if Shangguan Wan'er scolded him twice and slapped him a few times, he would feel more comfortable, and he would not have to bear such heavy self-blame and guilt in the future, and go on sadly.

But what he didn't expect was that after Shangguan Wan'er was startled for a moment, her expression immediately became sad, and then, a drop of tears was like a pearl with a broken thread, constantly sliding from Shangguan Wan'er's eyes, but Shangguan Wan'er didn't cry out, just stood there and kept sobbing, the palace maids and eunuchs who came in and out of the Palace of Eternal Life, seeing this strange scene, they couldn't help but look sideways, but no one stepped forward to ask what was going on, asking Wan'er what was going on.

Li Yao saw Shangguan Wan'er crying so sadly, he had to reach out and touch Shangguan Wan'er's shoulder, and said to her, "You hit me!"

"No, let's go! we'll talk again when you come back in the evening. Shangguan Wan'er said this to Li Yao with tears on her face.

After finishing speaking, she turned around and left, and walked back to the Hall of Eternal Life with sad steps, Li Yao stood in place, looking at Shangguan Wan'er's sad and lonely back, his heart was not a good taste, but at this moment, a wave of anger suddenly surged from Li Yao's heart.

With this anger, Li Yao didn't even think about it, and immediately turned around and left, heading towards the criminal department.

As soon as he walked to the door of the yamen, he reached into his arms and took out the gold medal order given to him by Wu Zetian, and shouted to the two guards guarding the door: "Call you adults out, just say that the queen mother's personal guard Feng Xiaobao will come to deal with the matter of King Langya for the queen mother, and ask him to come out to greet him." ”

"Yes, Master Feng, the little ones will go. The guard guarding the door on the right hurriedly responded, and after saying that, he ran in with a puff of smoke.

After a while, Zhao Yang, the waiter of the Yamen of the Criminal Department, ran out of it quickly and came to Li Yao, Zhao Yang hurriedly hugged his fists and said to Li Yao without saying a word: "Zhao Yang, the waiter of the Criminal Department, see Lord Feng." ”

"Excuse me!" Li Yao replied lightly.

"Lord Feng, the lower officials have been waiting for you for a long time, as early as in the morning, the Queen Mother had already sent someone to send the imperial decree, telling the lower officials to wait for the time being, saying that she would send someone to deal with the case of King Langya, but the lower officials did not expect that Lord Feng would come. Zhao Yang replied to Li Yao with a sneer.

Li Yao looked up at this Zhao Yang, and saw that he was tall and thin, and his whole face was full of shrewdness, he knew that this bastard was working hard in the officialdom, and he must have understood the truth in this officialdom, otherwise, he might not be able to do the position of the squire of the criminal department, and when dealing with such a person, you are either more insidious than him, or more upright than him, which can suppress him.

And if you want to be more upright than him, at least you have to be like Di Renjie, he sighs to himself, this way works, but Li Yao is naturally not as good as Di Renjie, then he can only be more insidious than this Zhao Yang, if you want to say insidious, Li Yao definitely has this self-confidence, and he is more experienced than Zhao Yang, the servant of the Criminal Department.

Seeing this, Li Yao also deliberately pulled up a smiling face, and said to Zhao Yang: "What Lord Zhao said is yes! I didn't expect the Queen Mother to send me! As soon as I am a personal guard, where will I deal with such a big case! So I have to rely on Lord Zhao's help, Lord Zhao said yes?"

"Alas, it's easy to say, even if Lord Feng has said so, then I, Zhao Yang, will naturally handle this case with Lord Feng!" Zhao Yang immediately stretched out his hand and patted his chest and said to Li Yao.

Obviously, he was still very happy about Li Yao's politeness to him, after all, Li Yao was Wu Zetian's personal guard, and he had Wu Zetian's gold medal special order, so he could still give himself face like this, so why was Zhao Yang unhappy?

The two stood at the door politely for a while, and after praising each other, Li Yao followed Zhao Yang into the Criminal Department.