Southside.

After many rounds of fighting along the way, I finally arrived safely in the south after stopping and stopping.

Qianyun's injuries had also healed most of them, and after arriving in the south, he and Li Shuo went to check on the soldiers who had become medicine people.

Li Zhen hid in the tent arranged for Li Shuo.

On the side, it was Jiuyu who was reporting to him the recent situation of Liyang City that he had received a secret message.

"What, then what is the secret guard of the Yu family and Hua'er sharing the same bed!"

Li Zhen frowned and glared angrily.

Jiuyu knew that his Highness's focus was this, and he had already skimmed this paragraph concisely and quickly, and he was still noticed by His Highness.

"It's to catch the man in black, so it's a play. Your Highness, don't get excited. ”

Li Zhen roared again: "Can I not be excited, that Yu family's secret guard is so bold that he dares to climb into Hua'er's bed, I think he is impatient!" ”

"What's the name of that secret guard, report it to me!"

Jiuyu paused, but hesitated for a few moments and said, "It's called falling leaves." ”

After getting the name, Li Zhen began to greet his ancestors for eighteen generations.

Jiuyu hooked his mouth, so he had to shut up and stand aside.

Li Zhen scolded for a while, and then remembered what Jiuyu said just now.

"What else did you just say, what other helpers does Li Zhan have?"

Seeing that His Royal Highness had finally started to ask about the matter, Jiuyu said again: "It was Your Highness that you have been arranging for the secret guard to keep an eye on the Great Prince's Mansion to send a message, saying that it was observed that Li Zhan had sneaked into the palace at night to have a private meeting with someone. But it was too dark, and the other party was in night clothes, so I didn't see the appearance clearly, but I saw that the figure was a woman. Our people speculated if it was a helper who helped him secretly kill the man in black who was captured in the dungeon of the Black Imperial Guard. ”

"What did they say and didn't you hear clearly?"

Jiuyu shook his head, "Li Chong's martial arts are extraordinary, and our people are afraid that they will be discovered if they are too close." ”

Li Zhen was thoughtful, and was silent for a while before saying: "If the helper just wants to kill the man in black, it is simple, any assassination will definitely leave traces, and the charge of Li Advocate for the murder of the prince will be deducted from his head sooner or later." ”

"But what if the other party is not trying to kill that person, but is plotting a rebellion?"

Jiuyu suddenly said, "Then the princess will be in danger!" ”

"Do you want your subordinates to fly pigeons and pass the book to the princess!"

Li Zhen shook his head, "The news came, at this time, I think they have already succeeded, and it will be too late to pass it on." ”

"Solve the matter in the south as soon as possible, and you and I will return to Liyang City as soon as possible!"

Li advocated that he did not hesitate to use the dark chess buried in the palace, but only to rebel against a captured subordinate, which is absolutely impossible.

He must have to do something more, otherwise, wouldn't he have wasted this chess piece in vain?

As for what else he is ready to do.

"Second Highness! Your Highness will let you go over! "The guards around Li Shuo came to report.

Li's thoughts retracted, and he nodded and followed the guards to the camp dungeon, where the medicine man was held.

The dungeon is very simple, and the prison that was originally one by one has become two prisons, one on the left and one on the right.

The people inside were like zombies, their faces were pale, their eyes were red, their arms were stretched out of the fence and they were pulling hard, and their faces were pressed against the fence.

While headbanging frantically, he roared something roughly.

Because the prison does not see sunlight all year round, there is a stench.

Very choking.

He half-covered his mouth and nose and walked down the stairs.

When I got below, I looked around at the medicine men on both sides before I said, "What's wrong?" ”

Li Shuo's expression was solemn, and he glanced at Qianyun and nodded, and Qianyun spoke.

"These medicine people have been poisoned for a long time, at least four or five years, and I am afraid that my antidote will not be able to save it."

Li Zhen was puzzled: "Four or five years? How is it possible, isn't it just a seizure? ”

Qian Yun said again, "The poison in their bodies is latent, and it is no different from a normal person before the attack, but when it happens, it is what His Highness sees." And this group of people are people who were poisoned four or five years ago but have not had a seizure. ”

"And ......" Qian Yun stopped talking, raised her eyes to glance at him, and said seriously: "According to my speculation, there should be people in the military camp who have been poisoned but are in the incubation period, and I am afraid that there are not a few." ”

Li Zhen's heart was startled, his brows lowered, and his clenched fists gradually clenched.

"And those who have been poisoned but haven't had a seizure, you might have a way to find out?"

Qianyun locked his eyebrows and didn't nod or shake his head, but said: "I'm not sure, at present, it's only complicated to detect the poison in their bodies, and the secret antidote for medicine people in our Qianyun Pavilion can't be solved in the current situation." Whether I can find out if I have been poisoned or not, I will need time. ”

Li Zhen's brows were almost furrowed, he didn't expect that after coming here, he would face a greater crisis.

Thinking of another plan in Liyang City that had not been discovered, he was a little more worried in his heart.

In the current situation, it is difficult to solve it in a few days.

"Second brother, if there are still many people in the barracks who are in the incubation period, and we don't know when they will get sick, if they all get sick together and start attacking the soldiers frantically, we are afraid that the barracks will suffer heavy losses! If the northern kingdom knows about it, then the southern border will probably be lost. ”

Li Shuo looked at Li Zhen with worried eyes.

He had thought of these things a long time ago, and he wrinkled his brows and pondered.

This batch of sick soldiers was four or five years ago, that is, when the three princes divided the court.

This poison was cast at that time.

It must not be the second prince, that is the poison of the eldest prince and the third prince in order to win the military power in the south.

But no matter who of the two of them was, how much poison was put in this barracks, and what the antidote was, they would certainly not say.

But this approach is inevitably too risky, and it is uncertain that the disease will occur, and what if the soldiers have not had time to wait for them to seize the military power, and the soldiers will all fall ill and die? Isn't it a failure, if the northern country takes the opportunity to ambush, the entire Li country is afraid that it will be finished.

Thinking of this, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"These soldiers were sick together, and the timing of the illness happened to be not long after we got the Tiger Talisman. How could the onset be so coincidental? ”

Li Zhen looked at Li Shuo and muttered.

Li Shuo locked his eyebrows, "Second brother is saying that this disease is artificially manipulated?" ”

Li Zhen nodded, "That's right, only if you can manipulate it artificially, the situation you said will not occur, and moreover, it can also cause chaos and seize military power from it." ”

"As for how this person manipulated it, I have to ask Qianyun."

Hearing his speculation, Qianyun was shocked and amazed, shocked that Li Zhen had only guessed that it might be human manipulation by the time of onset, and she was amazed that she had just thought of the ancient secret book of Qianyun Pavilion, which recorded a kind of poison for refining medicine people, which could control the time when the medicine person was awake and unclear at any time.

But he knew there was such a thing.

She nodded vigorously and said, "I will research it out as soon as possible and formulate an antidote." ”

Back to the tent.

Li Shuo had been sitting on one side, keeping his head down and silent.

Li Zhen was still thinking about when Qianyun would be able to develop an antidote and a medicine to control the onset, so he could calculate how long it would take to rush back to Liyang City.

Thinking so, he took a sip of the fragrant tea in his hand and slowly sipped it.

A cup of tea, sipped for two quarters of an hour, before it was finished.

When he put down the teacup, he saw Lishuo who was still sitting still, hanging his head and being silent.

"What's wrong with you, keeping your head down and not talking?"

Li Shuo withdrew from his thousands of thoughts, and pouted with an embarrassed look on his face.

said: "It's nothing, I just feel like I'm a child who hasn't grown up compared to you, nothing." ”

Li Zhen poured another cup of tea for himself, picked it up and sniffed it on the tip of his nose and put it down, leaning his back on the table, but his fingers were taken away from the teacup, gently turning the teacup, and said casually: "You are only fourteen years old, aren't you originally a child?" ”

Li Shuo's brows furrowed even tighter when he heard this, and he hurriedly denied: "That's not what I said, it has nothing to do with my age, I mean, it's ......"

"Are you acting like an idiot in front of me?"

Hearing him say this, Li Shuo bit his lip and nodded vigorously.

Although he didn't want to admit it, no, he was very reluctant to admit it, but he had to admit it.

Li Zhen glanced at him, smiled clearly, and comforted: "You are much better than an idiot, but you are really like an idiot compared to me." ”

He nodded approvingly.

Li Shuo's little face suddenly turned red, "How can you be so comforting!" ”

"Am I comforting you? I didn't say yes. ”

"You-" You are still my brother The words were held in my heart, but in the end I still didn't say it.

With a hook on his mouth, he got up and walked out of the tent.

Li Zhen's expression was indifferent, looking at his angry back, the corners of his mouth unconsciously rose.

His younger brother, when he first came to Li to meet, always looked like he was a refusal thousands of miles away, and he was still a young adult.

At this point, I finally have the appearance of a child.