At night, not long after the drumming of the twilight stopped, a magnificent carriage stopped at the gate of the Prince's Courtyard of the Ten Princes' Mansion.

The curtain of the carriage was raised, and several palace beauties slowly got out of the carriage.

Li Jingzhong hurriedly came out, bowed slightly, and welcomed them in.

The thin moonlight shone through the courtyard, and the corridor was silent, except for a few houses where candles were lit.

Seeing this situation, the newcomers couldn't help but be a little scared, their eyebrows frowned slightly, and they all showed a pitiful posture, and even Li Jingzhong, the eunuch, felt that they were very moving when they saw it.

"You wait here."

"Whoa."

After settling the beauty, Li Jingzhong hurried to the hall and saw the crown prince Li Heng sitting by the candlelight drinking alone.

The candle flame was not bright, but the half of the white hair was somewhat noticeable.

"Your Highness, happy event, happy event!" Li Jingzhong hurriedly saluted and said, "The saint pities His Highness for his loneliness, and has just given five beauties to His Highness." ”

Li Heng put down his wine glass and made a slight movement.

At first hearing, he was also quite moved.

But only for a moment, he sat down again, restrained the slightest thought, and shook his head.

"Your Highness?" Li Jingzhong was puzzled: "Why don't you go and take a look?" ”

Li Heng waved his hand and sighed slightly.

"If you don't look at it, it will only increase your troubles. Send it back. ”

"Your Highness, you might as well." Li Jingzhong reminded in a low voice: "Your Highness's side is indeed too lonely, this is the love of the saint, you might as well accept it." ”

Li Heng poured himself a glass of wine, drank it slowly, and said in a low voice: "Since saints are rare and loving, how can I be satisfied with just five beauties?" ”

The wind blew, and the candle flame in the hall shook slightly.

Both of them were startled, and nervously turned their heads to look at the door, and when they saw that no one was coming, they were relieved.

Li Heng beckoned, and Li Jingzhong hurriedly clung to it.

"I heard that the Zhang family intends to marry a daughter, so there is no need to lose a big ...... because of a small loss"

Li Jingzhong was slightly stunned, and immediately came to his senses.

The saint's cousin Zhang Quyi has a daughter, who has been able to speak well since she was a child, and is loved by the saint.

"Your Highness is wise."

"Go ahead."

"Whoa."

Soon, Li Jingzhong's figure disappeared on the side of the corridor, presumably to send those beauties away soon.

Li Heng sighed again, tasted the bad wine in the cup, and muttered to himself silently.

"Well, sooner or later...... When one day you are reconciled and leave, I will give you a hundred. ”

~~

After a while, Li Jingzhong rushed back to the hall, but his face was different from Fang Cai.

He hurriedly knelt in front of Li Heng and whispered, "Your Highness, it's not good." Zuo Jin Wuwei's chess piece was pecked out by the rope fighting. ”

The wine glass that was just picked up was shaken, and the wine was spilled all over Li Heng's chest.

"How is that possible? He was always careful. ”

"The news that just arrived, is...... It was Xue Bai, Xue Bai went to find him today, he didn't dare to make a move, and he didn't dare to send a message until the curfew. ”

"Quickly order down, let our people go into hiding, and the communication with the west will be cut off for the time being."

"The old slave will do it."

"Also, let Jiang Hai be calm."

"Well, the old slave can save it."

Li Jingzhong hurried out.

~~

Daozheng Fang, next to the Qingmen wine shop, there is a house with bright lights.

The hall was covered with a soft carpet, and three orchids were dancing.

They had high eyebrows and deep eyes, long hair curled like waves, half-exposed breasts and slender waists under the red veil, bare feet, tiptoeing, and their nails painted red with flower juice, lining the skin more and more white.

"Damn."

The man who was leaning on the couch and drinking scolded and said, "Turning in circles every day, turning circles every day, your grandfather's eyes are dazzled." ”

More than a dozen people drank with him, and they all burst into laughter.

"And what do you want to do?"

"I don't want to! Although he is a good man who is beaten with iron, his body and bones are weak every day, so he can't go out to breathe? ”

"It's all said, Jiang Dalang has been taken, and he has been stable for a few days recently."

"I don't want to be safe? But I came to Chang'an because I wanted to be a general one day, set up a big mansion, and seek a prosperous future for my children and grandchildren, not to drink with you stinky stupid men day and night. ”

"Who is talking about not having great ambitions? Be patient, sooner or later you will have a day of soaring, and the rope fighting is as magnificent. ”

"I think Tuoba is right!" Jiang Hai turned out of the back hall and said, "I am bored in this house every day, I might as well rescue my brother and go to Longyou to vote for General Wang!" ”

"Damn, let's be more stable."

"Jiang Sanlang, it stands to reason that you should have been ready to die in battle, but you were still alive after being taken, do you have an egg?"

"What did you say?!"

"Don't make any noise, it's so noisy that Lao Tzu's heart is just anxious, watch dancing, watch dancing, drinking."

"Ahem."

Suddenly, someone coughed and strode in from the front yard, and said with a calm face: "The people who fight cocks have found Lao Wu's head." ”

"And who's going to bring us wine? I'm tired of these orchids, too. ”

The crowd burst out laughing.

People who lick blood with a knife head have a feeling of indifference when they encounter anything.

"Shut up, I'm not kidding you! Tuoba, remember the kid we buried alive? The one that pickles in the big tank with the little girls. ”

"Hmm."

"I didn't deal with it, and now he has taken refuge in the rope fighting, biting us. Jiang Sanlang, your brother was found out by him. ”

"How so?"

There was a flicker of cold light in the candlelight, and a dagger was drawn.

"Do you want us to go again? Do it clean. ”

"Damn! If you make a mistake, you have to admit it, and hide your head in the waistband of your pants for a while! It's still clean, Grandpa will clean you first. ”

Suddenly.

There was a knock on the door in the front yard.

"Knock, knock, knock."

The big men immediately quieted down.

"Who?"

The old servant's shouts rang out in the courtyard.

"Jin Wuwei patrols the streets! Open the door! ”

“……”

The creak of the door opening was heard in the hall.

Jiang Hai had already taken the crossbow out of the back hall, put the crossbow on the window pivot, and looked out through the small crack in the window.

Across the courtyard, the light of the lantern shone in little by little through the gate.

Several Jin Wuwei in armor were standing outside the door, and a young man with a maid in gorgeous clothes was standing among them.

Jiang Hai narrowed his eyes and recognized the other party.

That is Xue Bai, who was buried alive but did not die, and Jiang Mao was also present on the day he was taken.

The angle of the crossbow arrow was slightly adjusted and pointed at Xue Bai.

Jin Wuwei, who was in armor, moved, took two steps forward, and stood in the courtyard to look.

"There's a snitch in the market tonight, and Jin Wuwei is searching! Whose yard is this? ”

Jiang Hai then sneered.

Sure enough, I saw that the old servant stepped forward unhurriedly and responded: "My family's Ah Lang's surname is Wang, and he is a welder and serves in the household department. ”

~~

"Excuse me."

Guo Qianli barely squeezed out a smile from his face, nodded to the old servant guarding the courtyard, and walked out with the people.

"Let's be next."

"Who is Wang Zhu?" Xue Bai asked.

He always felt a little strange tonight, and finally urged Guo Qianli to check according to the path of Wu Kangcheng's night patrol, and knocked on the door of a house to inquire and register, hoping to find some clues.

"You don't know Wang Weld, do you know Wang Weld?"

"I've heard of it." Xue Bai thought back to some of the names he heard before going to Dali Temple that day, and said, "It's also the right person?" ”

Guo Qianli nodded, stretched out a hand, and said while counting: "He envoy, Changchun palace envoy, household color envoy, supervising the imperial history, and Gyeonggi Guannei interview dethroned envoy...... In short, Wang Ji wears more than a dozen positions, and he is the right-hand man of the right minister, the red man in front of the saint, and his younger brother's courtyard, which we can't check. It is impossible for the prince's dead soldiers to hide inside. ”

Xue Bai couldn't help but glance back, thinking that the prince's dead man might be hiding in Li Linfu's mother's other business, why couldn't he hide in Wang Jie's younger brother's courtyard?

Of course, this was just one of the many mansions he visited tonight, and all he could do was write them all down.

~~

"Gone."

In the lobby of the house, Jiang Hai turned around and saw that a group of big men were still drinking.

No one took a few Jin Wuwei as the same thing, and calmly put away the Mo knife and dagger in his hand.

"There are only a few armor-clad goods in total, and they are lucky not to come in."

"Ha, the old one, Jin Wuwei Guo Qianli, who was also a veteran of Longyou before, couldn't speak, was demoted to Jin Wuwei, and took refuge in Suo Douji."

"It doesn't matter who he is, if you dare to come in, you will chop him up."

Jiang Hai smiled, in fact, he was a little eager for those Jin Wuwei to come in.

Since following the East Palace, he always feels panicked, making him want to cut something.

~~

Xue Bai walked up to the Wanghuo Tower again, glanced at the northeast corner of Chang'an City, lowered his head and wrote and drew on the paper in his hand, completing the map.

When he does these things, he often forgets what loyalty and treachery, and just accepts the documents of the imperial prime minister normally and does things normally.

Compared to other perfunctory people, he is much more serious.

He believed in his own judgment that Wu Kangcheng was probably using his position as a street patrol envoy of the Jin Wuwei to contact the veterans of Longyou for the East Palace, and somehow sent a message to the East Palace tonight.

"After walking around, the wine is sober." Guo Qianli yawned and said, "Xue Langjun is really not mistaken?" There is no evidence to prove that Wu Kangcheng is related to the Jiang brothers. ”

"Make bold assumptions and be careful to verify." Xue Bai said: "It's okay, let's check slowly." ”

Guo Qianli sighed and said, "I thought I could make a contribution in front of the right minister...... Where does Xue Langjun live? I'll send you back. ”

"Shengpingfang."

"Then I'll send you back, I'll live in the workshop."

"Thank you."

Walking down the Wanghuo Tower, Xue Bai glanced back, and if he realized, he took out a pen and paper and made a stroke on his paper.

~~

"Huh? What is it? Map? ”

At noon the next day, Du Wulang walked into Xue Bai's room and soon saw the notes he had placed on the bedside.

"The results of last night's investigation." Xue Bai hadn't woken up yet, and he answered in a daze.

"You don't have to hand it over to the right minister?"

"The right minister is not in a hurry to persecute the prince, what are you anxious about."

"I'm in a hurry?" Du Wulang said: "I have something to worry about, but how can I do it?" The prince killed you and Qinglan and made a feud. And if this matter is not resolved, the right minister will always force you. ”

"Then you're mistaken." Xue Bai yawned and said, "I told you a long time ago that this is a power struggle, not a question of right and wrong. ”

"What do you mean?"

"The power struggle is about chips and interests, not about results, so there is no hurry."

Xue Bai responded casually, got up, took back his notes from Du Wulang's hand, glanced at them, and put them away.

"Huh."

Du Wulang seemed to understand a little, and asked in a low voice: "Did you find something, deliberately not to give it to the right minister." ”

"Why do you say that?"

"Didn't I ponder what you told me?"

Xue Bai shook his head and smiled bitterly, and he didn't know if it was good or not to teach Du Wulang this.

"Hey, get up, it's noon." Du Wulang said: "Grandpa wants to see you." ”

"Really?" Xue Bai looked at the sky and wondered, "Did he go out in the morning?" ”

"No, but there have been guests."

"Who?"

"In short, it's someone from the Jingzhao Du clan."

Xue Bai nodded, and for some reason, his mind thought of the hope of Du Wang, the governor of Shanzhou who had defeated Tubo, that he heard a few days ago.

He recently checked Longyou and realized one thing-

Li Linfu couldn't catch the evidence of the East Palace not because the East Palace was really powerless, but the fact was the opposite, because the relationship network of the East Palace was too deep and too wide, so they could cover each other and hide it deeply.

Only what he knows so far are Jingzhao Wei's, Jingzhao Du's, Taiyuan Wang's, Anding Huangfu's, and Hedong Xue's......