[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Yuan, March 29, Haishi, Daming Palace]

After Li Yi said goodbye to Xu Ke, he immediately stopped delaying and rushed to the Daming Palace late at night.

Emperor Li Chongsheng has not slept well these days, so he has to rest earlier than usual. At three o'clock, Gao Liangshi, the chief administrator of the inner court, carried a golden amphora basin, and was about to cautiously enter the palace to serve the emperor to sleep, when he suddenly saw a chamberlain hurriedly running in to report it. Gao Liangshi's face turned pale, and his eyes immediately shot an awe-inspiring gaze, which frightened the chamberlain almost to the ground.

"When is it, still bringing people to the palace? Do you understand the rules?!" Although Gao Liangshi's voice was small, there was a high majesty in his words.

"Yes...... It's Lord Zhao!" The inner servant said tremblingly.

"Is it His Royal Highness King Zhao?" Gao Liangshi did not dare to slack off, hurriedly walked into the emperor's bedroom, and reported to the emperor softly.

After a while, Li Chongsheng got up and dressed, and summoned Li Yi in the side hall next to the dormitory.

Li Chongsheng rubbed his sleepy eyes, and when he saw that Li Yi was about to salute after entering the side hall, he waved his hand and motioned for him to sit down on a leather pestle next to him.

The Emperor yawned and asked lazily:

"Yi'er came late at night, what's the matter?"

"Father, my son came here tonight just to see my father!" Li Yi sat down on the pestle and replied.

On the way to the palace, Li Yi kept thinking about how to move his father to change his mind once he saw him, but after thinking about it, he still couldn't come up with a set of sure words.

However, since he had already promised his junior brother, he would come to persuade his father tonight. At this time, he had already entered the side hall, and when he saw Li Chongsheng asking, he replied stiffly, saying that he just wanted to come to see his father.

It's just that Li Yi ignored the fact that his old father had planned to sleep at this time, and he had to bother to get up in the middle of the night in order to see him.

Li Chongsheng felt a little unhappy in his heart, and then he asked:

"Yi'er, knowing the son Mo Ruo's father, as soon as I looked at your face, the word 'something' was written on it, let's talk about it, what is it?"

Li Yi had no choice but to say:

"Father, my son wants to tell you about the cat demon!"

"Cat demon, what...... You caught the cat demon?"

However, according to his investigation, that cat demon has been hiding in Chang'an City for the past ten days, and it is hidden in the middle of my Daqian capital!"

"Oh......" At this time, Li Chongsheng was interested, he rubbed his sleepy eyes again, and ordered Gao Liangshi, who was standing on the side, to brew two cups of good tea.

Gao Liangshi asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, it is late at night, it is easy to wake up after drinking tea, and the emperor finally has a sense of sleep, and he has not slept well in the past few days, or ?......."

Li Chongsheng waved his hand and said with a smile: "I and Yi'er will talk for a while, and it doesn't hurt to sleep for an hour less!"

Gao Liangshi hurriedly ran out of the hall in small steps, personally went to brew two cups of "flower rain" tea, the most famous "flower rain tea" in Chang'an City, not only the tea fragrance is rich, and the tea taste is clear, awake but not hurt, in the middle of the night, it is most appropriate to drink this tea.

Li Yi heard Gao Liangshi ask this, and felt even more sorry in his heart. He thought to himself, if I had known this, I should have entered the palace early tomorrow morning to see my father!

Li Chongsheng asked:

"Where the hell is the cat demon hiding? She can't be hiding in a brothel, is she?"

It's just that Li Chongsheng also heard the report of the people below, saying that what the cat demon is best at is the "Harmony Dafa", and he specializes in having sex with men to absorb the essence in their bodies, so the emperor suddenly has such a joke tonight.

"Father's guess is right! That cat demon hid in Cuiyun Building, the largest brothel in Chang'an City, and also assumed the pseudonym 'Jiaojiao' and made the top brand in Cuiyun Building!" Li Yi replied.

"What? She really hid in a brothel!" Li Chongsheng smiled when he heard this, and then he asked with great interest, "And...... She also made a first card? What does the first card mean?"

"The top brand is a title in their brothel, which means that it is about the best among the women in the Qinglou!"

"The leader among the women in the Qinglou turned out to be a monster, it's really strange! It's strange! When this thing is said, others may not believe it......!

At this time, Gao Liangshi had already carried two glazed purple gold teacups from the Western Regions, stepped into the hall in small steps, and carefully put the teacups in front of Li Chongsheng and Li Yi.

Li Chongsheng picked up the glass tea cup and took a sip lightly, only to feel that the tea was fragrant, but the tea taste was very light, and it was a good tea from Chang'an!

The emperor continued: "So, that cat demon has turned into a Qinglou head card, one can be used to hide in the downtown area, and the other is that she can openly practice her 'harmony Dafa' with those prostitutes?"

"Exactly!" Li Yi also took a sip of good tea and replied.

"So...... Didn't all the men who had been subjected to her 'art of harmony' all die of Jingyuan?, did she kill many of her clients during this time?" asked the Emperor again.

Li Yi hurriedly replied: "Father Emperor, Ju Erchen found out that the cat demon was hiding in Cuiyun Tower, and there were thirteen days in total, and she ...... Only one man was killed!"

"Cuiyun Building?......" Li Chongsheng heard the point of Li Yi's words, and he immediately asked: "You said that the cat demon has been hiding in Cuiyun Tower?"

"Exactly!"

"Isn't that the place where Zuo'er died suddenly?"

"Yes!"

"Yi'er, you mean, Zuo'er was killed by that cat demon?"

"Father, the sixth brother was killed by the cat demon!"

Li Chongsheng was already sleepy at this time, he got up, left the imperial couch, walked to Li Yi's side, looked at Li Yi carefully, and there was no blame in his eyes, but this trace of blame was also instantaneous, and he then walked back to the imperial couch and sat down.

I saw the emperor pick up the teacup and take another sip, and asked lightly:

"Yi'er, you just said that the cat demon hid in Cuiyun Tower for thirteen days, but only killed one man, that man is Zuo'er?"

Li Yidao: "Exactly!"

Li Chongsheng was puzzled: "This is strange, why did that cat demon have sex with so many men, but Zuo'er died alone?"

Li Yi hesitated a little and said, "Just because...... It's just that the sixth brother was indeed a little greedy for too much that night!"

Li Chongsheng couldn't help but look unhappy, and then asked, "What the hell is going on?" Yi'er, how did your sixth brother die?

Li Yi had no choice but to tell his father how Li Zuo came to Cuiyun Tower late at night on the night of March 26, how he blindly begged Mao Jiaojiao in the embroidery room, and how he was finally bewitched by the cat demon.

Li Chongsheng's face became more and more ugly when he heard this, and in the end, he actually clapped his hands and hit the imperial case in front of him, which shocked the delicate purple gold glass cup and jumped high, and finally fell to the ground with a "snap" and fell into four pieces. I only heard the emperor angrily say:

"I hate that cat demon! I dare to openly kill my Zuo'er in my Daqian capital! It's simply lawless! I will definitely want her to be caught, and I can't cut it with a thousand knives!"

"Father's anger!" Li Yi saw that his father was so angry, he couldn't help but be ashamed and inexplicable, so he had to stand up, bow to his father, and said guiltily:

"Erchen was ordered to handle the cat demon case, but failed to catch the cat demon in time, causing the sixth brother to be killed by the monster for no reason. The sons are not only ashamed of the great trust of their father, but also ashamed of the soul of the sixth brother Quanxia!

Li Chongsheng stared at Li Yi's eyes for a long time, and the anger in his original eyes gradually turned soft, only to hear him sigh, wave his hand and say:

"Ahem...... That cat demon is cunning and good at stealth, who would have thought that the place where the cat demon is hiding is actually in the middle of the most prosperous part of my Chang'an City? Besides, you can't imagine that your sixth brother would go to that kind of place in the middle of the night......

After a pause, Li Chongsheng asked again:

"Yi'er, although Tsing Yiwei arrested more than 200 people that night, the cat demon has escaped, you came here tonight to tell me that you have found the whereabouts of the cat demon?"

Li Yi said ashamedly: "Back to my father, after the cat demon escaped that night, Erchen sent people to look around, but he still couldn't find any trace of her!"

"Then why did you come here tonight?" Li Chongsheng's soft eyes just now gradually dissipated, replaced by a faint unhappiness.

"Father, the son took the liberty tonight and disturbed the rest of the father, and the son wanted to ...... Erchen wants to ......"

"Are you...... Who came to intercede for those people in Cuiyun Tower?" Seeing that Li Yi's words were a little slurred, Li Chongsheng immediately interrupted him and told him the true purpose of coming here tonight.

"Exactly!" Li Yi said busily:

"Father, since the real culprit of killing the sixth brother has been identified, then those girls and miscellaneous servants in Cuiyun Tower are all innocent people, and I ask my father to have the virtue of a good life in the heavens and spare their lives......"

"Impossible!" Li Chongsheng didn't wait for Li Yi to finish speaking, and then vetoed.

"Father, these people have nothing to do with the death of the sixth brother, why did the father want to give them all to death?" Li Yiwu argued to himself.

Li Chongsheng said coldly: "Because, the death of your sixth brother needs to punish these 'murderers'!"

Li Yidao: "Isn't the murderer a cat demon?"

"Did you catch the cat demon?" asked Li Chongsheng rhetorically.

"However, even if the cat demon can't be caught for a while, the murderer is a cat demon after all, and it has nothing to do with those people in Cuiyun Tower!" Li Yi said hurriedly.

"Who said that these people have nothing to do with Zuo'er's death? Since Zuo'er died in Cuiyun Tower, these people can't escape from it!"

"Father, in the eyes of his sons, his father has always been an enlightened holy lord, whether it is for his subordinates or for his people, he is convicted according to law, how can he get to the case of the sixth brother, and the father is like this...... Such a ......" Li Yi couldn't find the right words to describe it for a while.

"Such a willful person, isn't it? Yi'er......" Li Chongsheng sighed again, put away his sharp gaze, and said kindly:

"I know that you have always been sympathetic to those lonely, poor and weak, and you have a good heart, and I am very comforted! It's just that those who are kind can't cure the world! Now, your sixth brother is dead, and you can't catch the cat demon, how can you tell your father to explain to the people of the world, and how can you explain to the souls of your sixth brother's springs? If I don't punish the murderer, will your sixth brother die in vain? You hurried into the palace tonight to intercede for these people in Cuiyun Tower, this thought, I should be commended, but I still can't agree!"

"However, father, that Mingyue is an innocent person, and her father also sentenced her to a Ling Chi, and the rest of the more than 100 girls will hang themselves to death, isn't this ?......" Li Yi was ashamed and poor at the moment, so he had to speak up and try his best.

"That Mingyue, I can change his sentence! At most, don't let her Ling Chi, and together with the others, give her a white silk as well!" Li Chongsheng said.

It stands to reason that the words have come to this, and what should be said between father and son has been said, and Li Chongsheng is also the most tolerant and considerate of Li Yi, and Li Yi at this time should thank him and kneel down.

However, as soon as Li Yi remembered that he had agreed to the entrustment of his junior brother, and now that he had obtained such a result, how could he be willing to return home at this time?

Li Yi had to resort to the last move, and he said loudly:

"Father, can you know that this Cuiyun Building is actually opened by the sixth brother?"

Li Chongsheng glanced at Li Yi lightly and said indifferently:

"I already knew!"

"Father already knows?" This time, it was Li Yi's turn to be surprised.

"Gao Liangshi told me about this a long time ago!"

Li Yi glanced at Gao Liangshi behind him, and saw that the old eunuch was standing motionless in the dark shadow of the temple pillar, as if he was a ghost, if he didn't pay attention to it, he wouldn't notice it at all, and there was such a person in the side hall at this time.

Li Yi then argued:

"My father already knew that Cuiyun Tower was actually the property of the sixth brother's family, and he should know why the sixth brother went to Cuiyun Tower late at night that night. Although the sixth brother died at the hands of the cat demon, there is also the reason why the sixth brother himself is greedy for play and indulgence. Please rest assured! The son will definitely catch the cat demon in front of the father with his own hands, and when the time comes, the father can skin and remove the bones of the cat demon and cut it ten thousand times, so as to comfort the spirit of the sixth brother in the sky! However, there are more than 100 girls in the Cuiyun Tower, and more than 50 miscellaneous servants, they are really completely innocent people, and the son respects his father to forgive them......

"You are confused!" Li Chongsheng reprimanded in the court:

"It is precisely because Cuiyun Tower was opened by your sixth brother that I want to give all those more than 100 people to death!"

"This ......"

Li Yi suddenly realized at this time, it turned out that his father gave all the people in Cuiyun Tower to death, not because he was angry and acted rashly, but to cover up the ugliness for the sixth brother. If the sixth brother opened a brothel privately, once this matter spread, wouldn't the entire Daqian court, plus the royal face, be completely lost?

However, just because the sixth brother was greedy for fun, he opened a brothel privately, and now, more than 150 people in the brothel are going to bury him with him?

Li Yi's heart also fell into contradictions......