The officials in the Luoyang court are now all dressed in civilian clothes, in addition to those people, there are actually female dependents in them, and the crown princess, who is not knowing who to talk to, looked at Li Hanning from a distance, her eyes fell on her and lit up, and she said hello when she got closer:

"This must be General Li on the list, it's better to meet when I see him today."

The outer courtyard, which was originally a little noisy and crowded, suddenly quieted down at this moment, and everyone vaguely looked at the crown princess and Li Hanning.

The crown princess waved her hand, and these people in the courtyard who were taking things did their own things.

"The banquet is about to begin, I specially reserved a seat for General Li, and General Li will come with me."

Li Hanning and the guards behind her followed her, walked to the front table and took their seats.

Looking at the lively scene in front of her, she naturally didn't feel very comfortable in her heart, although there were not so many chaotic rules in the barracks before, but she recognized that these officials who had come in recent days were all above the third rank of the imperial court, and according to the seating of the banquet, she should not have sat in such a high position.

As soon as Li Hanning sat down here, the guard behind her handed over a note, and she opened it to read: "I'll leave for a while, and I'll come when I go." ”

Li Hanning glanced at him without a trace, he had heard the housekeeper say that he couldn't speak, but he didn't have a pen on him, and this note was actually written before he went out today.

Li Hanning had no choice but to lower his voice and say to him: "Remember that this is the Prince's Mansion." ”

Whatever he wanted to do, just leave the banquet and don't do anything out of the ordinary.

The guard nodded, naturally wanting to reassure her. What to do and what not to do, he is Xiao Ce, although he secretly returned to Luoyang and appeared by Li Hanning's side with this identity, he has always been very aware of it.

Xiao Ce took advantage of the large number of people in front of him, and when the prince and his princess were a little overwhelmed, he turned around and slipped into the middle courtyard of the prince's mansion while they were not paying attention, in fact, the consistent residential atmosphere in this Luoyang city is like this, like most of the mansions in the city welcome guests in the front yard, the middle courtyard is the kitchen, and the backyard is lived, and this prince's mansion is no exception.

It's a pity that Xiao Ce is wearing white today is really not easy to walk, and it is difficult for him to hide his whereabouts with outstanding skills, and now he finally found the opportunity to find no one around, he put a pigeon here with contact information with the outside world, and only relieved when he saw the pigeon fluttering its wings and flying away.

He was just about to come down from the eaves, but two maids dressed as maids came not far away, and Xiao Ce had to temporarily hide on the eaves for a while.

"Our Prince's Mansion hasn't been so lively for a long time."

"Yes, our princess and the prince are very affectionate, I think the people who came to the banquet today are all people with heads and faces in our Luoyang City."

"Naturally, the prince went to ask for a letter in person, who can not give His Royal Highness the crown prince this face?"

The maid who didn't know who it was on the side snorted coldly: "I see that no one from the Ming Palace, just sent a congratulatory gift, and left the person at the door." ”

Another maid hurriedly asked her to be quiet:

"You talk about these things quietly, you have a few lives, and carefully let others hear them."

"I'm afraid that everyone will go to the front to take care of the guests, and there is no one around here, who will hear it except you, how many people from King Ming's side have invited General Li Hanning alone, she is not a court official, and Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess still gave them a seat."

Xiao Ce had to listen to these whispers in order to wait for the two of them to leave, but these two people finally walked over, and they didn't know where the two guards who knew martial arts came.

These two are not different from those two maids, they have martial arts, and they have deep internal strength when they listen to the footsteps.

The eaves of the prince's mansion are all new tiles, and it rained heavily in Luoyang City last night, and light work needs to be borrowed, but in the face of this kind of tile, no matter how small the force, it can basically leave some sound, in order not to be discovered by those two masters, Xiao Ce can only stay here for a while, waiting for those two people to leave.

"What are you doing here, not going to the front yard to help?"

One of the guard-like people said impatiently to the two maids in front of him.

The scolded maid hurriedly explained: "We are here to get the ginseng soup of the crown princess, and it has already been taken." ”

"Why don't you hurry up and leave after you've picked it up?" It was for a frown to look at her.

The maid nodded resignedly: "Let's go." ”

The two maids quickened their pace and left in the direction of the front yard, and the two guards who followed stood at the door of the kitchen.

"Go in, move quickly, don't leave any traces."

One of the guards looked around to see that no one was on duty, turned and went into the kitchen, while the other stood in the doorway to watch the wind for him.

Xiao Ce immediately understood that these two people had martial arts, and they looked sneaky here, so they must not intend to do good deeds.

After a while, the guards who had entered the room had already come out, and the two of them looked around and confirmed that no one had seen them just entered the room, so they walked in the direction of the front yard.

Is it poisoning? Who are they going to poison?

There was no one guarding below, Xiao Ce fell to the ground a little lightly, pushed open the door and walked in, the kitchen was ready to wait for a while to serve the food and wine to the guests at the banquet in the front yard, the medicine package is not small, since it is packaged with medicine, it should be in powder form, the meal has been formed and can not be adjusted, if the meal is stirred, it is easy to be found, it is medicine in the wine.

But there are a lot of large and small wine glasses and teacups here, and they are also filled with wine and tea, where did they put the medicine. He glanced around, only to find that there seemed to be some mud under his feet, presumably it was stained on the shoes of those guards, and it was a long way to go from the front yard to the middle yard, and a few days ago there was a rain in Luoyang, and a lot of mud had not dried, and he also came by the force of the eaves, so the shoes were not stained with mud.

There was a purple clay pot on the table in front of the slightly more muddy place, and the teacups around it were all empty and clean inside, and it seemed that the medicine had been put into this teapot.

Originally, I thought that the Prince's Mansion would not be so bold, but I didn't expect him to dare to take this risk and poison, it seems that his brother must have other plans.

The guests in front of them had almost arrived, and the officials who were invited to attend this banquet had already taken their seats one after another, and the crown princess and the crown prince were almost entertained, so they returned to the main seat, and the princess's eyes fell on Li Hanning's side, and she found that the guards who were supposed to follow her were gone.

The crown princess walked slowly, came over and asked softly:

"What about the guard General Li who just entered the palace with you? Where did he go? ”

As soon as Li Hanning thought of the reason for explaining this question, the footsteps of the guards behind him got closer and closer.

The crown princess glanced at him.

Li Hanning hurriedly explained for him: "I, the guard, experienced a fire before, couldn't speak, and his appearance was ruined, so he wore a mask and didn't say hello to the crown princess, and invited the crown princess Haihan." ”

It turned out that this was the reason, but this explanation made the princess in front of her feel a little guilty, and hurriedly said:

"So that's the case, don't worry, I'll let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince start the banquet as soon as possible."

The crown princess stepped forward.

Li Hanning re-seated, and the guard behind him quietly gave him a note.

Li Hanning opened it and was stunned for a moment.

"Beware of poison in wine."

She looked down at the mud on the guard's shoes and knew where he had gone.

After the crown prince Xiao Sheng sat down on the main seat, not long after he sat down, a plate of guards and maids brought food and wine, he cleared his throat and stood up, holding a white jade wine glass in his hand.

"The first glass of wine at today's banquet is naturally to be given to my father, but my father has had a lot of things in recent days and has not come here."

The glass of wine in his hand was placed on a tray beside him.

Then the crown princess came down and toasted the people she knew before.

The next footsteps actually landed in front of Li Hanning's table, and Li Hanning had to stand up.

"This glass of wine is to General Li, before I married the prince, I often heard about General Li's name in the boudoir, today I saw General Li is really special, it is really late to see each other, if you are also willing, we may as well be friends in the future."

Xiao Se frowned and looked at Li Hanning, and on the tray where the princess followed the maid, it was the one he watched the two guards poison.

It just so happened that someone changed the wine jug in their hands just now, and it happened that the toast was to her, so many coincidences together are not a coincidence, everything is really the same as he expected, they were originally coming for Li Hanning.

Seeing that this was the wine that the crown princess took the initiative to toast, and it seemed that this glass of wine could not be avoided, Li Hanning remembered the note handed to her by the guards before, and still shirked it:

"The crown princess doesn't know, I have to wait to go to Tianwei City tomorrow, and I haven't been drinking very well in the barracks, so I ask the princess to forgive me."

This time it is true that it will not give her face.

Li Hanning naturally understood that the poison in this wine glass may not have been given by the crown princess in front of her, someone wanted to borrow her hand, maybe it would be better to kill two birds with one stone.

But the crown princess did not leave, but looked at her patiently and explained:

"Don't worry, general, I'm the same as the general, I never drink alcohol, this pot is fruit wine, it's not the same as other wines, the general will understand when you taste it."

She had already said it for the second time, and there were officials on the side watching them talk, and if she shirked it again, it would seem that she was not good.

The maid standing next to her tray still holds a wine glass and a wine jug in her hands.