The city of Liangzhou is quite barren, and it is not suitable for farming, and only a small amount of millet and wheat are grown in the nearby townships and counties outside the city.

Commercially, the city was not favored by merchants, who chose to trade or transit, and who chose to go to Chang'an if they wanted to make the most profits.

As a result, Liangzhou City was very poor in both agriculture and commerce, and the food and other necessities in the city could only be exchanged with neighboring cities with cattle and sheep, or with merchants.

Zi Nu was squatting in the back kitchen yard of the Thorn Mansion, carefully washing a handful of spinach.

Spinach was originally known as Persian cuisine, the first from Persia to all over the world, Zhenguan 21 years, Ni Bora Wai (Nepal) to Taizong to offer spinach seeds, the Tang Dynasty has been widely planted since then.

The spinach in the hands of the purple slave was exchanged from the hands of the merchants in the city, and the green vegetables were scarce in winter, and a handful of spinach was much more expensive than mutton.

Today's Zinu is not just a maiko, she is also a maid who takes care of Li Qinzai's daily life.

In the cold winter, cook a handful of spinach for him and relieve the greasy taste of eating meat recently, which must be more pleasing to the envoy of the Tang Kingdom.

To her regret, since Li Qinzai bought her, whether she was tempted intentionally or unintentionally, he was unmoved, like a high-ranking monk who had abstained from women's sex, turning a blind eye to her temptation.

It's no wonder that she didn't know where she had revealed a flaw, which made him doubt himself, and she escaped by not touching the stack of papers in the house yesterday.

But Li Qinzai's suspicion of her was still not dispelled, and at this time, Zinu could only be careful and careful, and never dared to make any suspicious moves.

While washing the spinach, a pot-bellied peddler walked into the kitchen yard and threw half a fan of mutton at her feet.

"Girl, the Thorn History Mansion sent someone to buy it, and bought mutton from the villain, and the money and goods are cleared."

The purple slave glanced at the peddler, and the beautiful purple eyes showed a slight panic, looked around left and right worriedly, and lowered his voice and said, "Are you looking for death?" What is the intention of infiltrating the Assassin's Mansion? ”

The peddler was an acquaintance of hers, the same man who had sold her and a group of Maiko in the guise of a Hu merchant, and today he had a beard on his face, a sheep's horn felt hat, and his clothes were in tatters, and he exuded the bloody smell of livestock, like a butcher.

The peddler squatted down, pretending to clean the mutton, and whispered while busy: "The prime minister has sent someone to ask, have you gotten the details of the new weapon of the Tang Army?" ”

Zi Nu didn't raise his head, and said coldly: "The envoys of the Tang Kingdom have suspected me, I want to clear my suspicion, and it is not appropriate to do it recently." ”

The peddler frowned and said: "The prime minister can be urged, the army is nested outside the stone mountain and does not dare to enter an inch, the prime minister said that he must get the details of that weapon as soon as possible, so that he can continue to launch the army and swallow Tuguhun." ”

Zi Nu sighed lightly: "That envoy of the Tang Kingdom is more difficult than I imagined, and I don't know where I have revealed my flaws in the past few days, but I am suspected by him." If the prime minister wants to get the details of the new weapon in the short term, I am afraid that it will be difficult to obtain it here in the Assassin's Mansion......"

"So what?"

Zi Nu thought for a while and said: "That new weapon has been equipped with more than 1,000 Tang Army soldiers, half of these more than 1,000 soldiers are guarding the Assassin Mansion, and the other half is camped outside Liangzhou City, we might as well plot and steal a few new weapons from these soldiers......"

The peddler said bitterly: "There are only a few dozen of our brothers lurking in the city, how can we steal new weapons from the heavily guarded camp?" ”

Zi Nu was silent for a moment and said, "I'll try it in the past two days, if I can meet the lonely Tang Army, it's best." ”

…………

A major event happened in Liangzhou Chengguanyi, where the two countries' embassies lived.

The envoys and entourage of the Tibetan mission were all poisoned by food.

After lunch today, the members of the Tibetan mission felt a stomachache, the pain was like a knife, and dozens of people cried and shouted to grab the latrine, and those who did not grab the latrine ran to the backyard to solve it by themselves.

After round after round, in less than an hour, all the members of the Tibetan mission had weak legs, walked with their legs swinging, and their faces were very pale, and a few of them were even unconscious.

The strange thing is that the Tuyuhun mission, which lives under the same roof, is unharmed, and one by one is in good spirits, gathering in the backyard to watch the Tubo mission, and every time a person comes out of the latrine, the entourage of the Tuyuhun mission will let out a shocking cheer.

The people of the Tibetan mission glared at the entourage of the Tuyuhun mission, and the two sides began to curse each other in the backyard, accusing Tuyuhun of being despicable and shameless, and actually poisoning the food.

It's hard to explain.

Everyone ate and lived together, all the members of the Tubo mission were poisoned, but Tuyuhun was unharmed, coupled with the old feud between the two countries, after entering the city of Liangzhou, the two sides often fought with weapons, and each other was killed.

Now that the Tubo Mission has been poisoned, and the Tuyuhun Mission is fine, who else can the murderer be? There is no suspense.

The Tuyuhun mission was indisputable, so they simply did not explain.

Fortunately, due to the prestige of Li Qinzai, the envoy of the Tang State, the envoys of the two countries did not dare to do anything, otherwise with the physical strength and state of the Tibetan mission at this time, they would have ushered in another wave of annihilation.

When it was almost dark, Li Qinzai, who got the news, hurriedly came to the pavilion and saw the pale face of Non Zhongcong and the gloating Princess Honghua, Li Qinzai couldn't help but be shocked.

"What's wrong with the Tibetan envoy? Got something dirty? Li Qinzai asked with concern.

On Zhongcong cheered up, his eyes were red, and he choked up: "Your envoy came just in time, and asked your envoy to uphold justice for Tubo, the Tuyuhun mission was despicable and shameless, and he actually poisoned the food. ”

Princess Honghua said angrily: "This palace is the princess of the Tang Dynasty, how can she disdain to do such a thing as stealing chickens and touching dogs?" On Zhong Cong, don't think that you are an envoy of Tubo and can slander at will, this palace kills you like killing a dog, can you use poison? ”

Li Qinzai said gently: "Her Royal Highness the princess is angry, and the Tubo noble envoy is angry, is there any misunderstanding in this matter?" As a princess, I don't think I would do such a despicable thing...... Right? ”

Princess Honghua was stunned, pointed at Li Qinzai and said angrily: "Li Qinzai, did you hesitate just now? You hesitated! Do you even think that Hongu did it? ”

"Xia Guan never dared to have this intention, but ......" Li Qinzai said in embarrassment: "Living in the same pavilion, all the members of the Tubo Mission were poisoned, but the Tuyuhun Mission was fine, Your Royal Highness Princess, Xia Guan really doesn't know how to help you explain." ”

Princess Honghua said angrily: "This palace swears in the name of my ancestors of the Li Tang Dynasty that the poison of the Tubo mission is definitely not done by this palace or the Tuyuhun mission. ”

Li Qinzai sighed, he really should let his grandfather Li Tao come and watch, he always said that he often swore by his ancestors and ancestors, and he was not a descendant.

The royal family also has a bad one, there are envoys in the courtyard, two of them are bastards, could it be that the profession of envoys is specially tailored for bastards?