Xu Ke and Hu Yiyi sat opposite each other in the Wenyu Pavilion in the back garden of their house, with the bright moonlight above their heads, and a faint fragrance of tea in front of the table.

Hearing that Hu Yiyi told him to go to Zhao Wangfu immediately, at this time, he suddenly thought that he had originally returned from Zhao Wangfu, and the deep doubt in his heart still hadn't found an answer until this moment!

Xu Ke then asked: "Sister Hu, your ninth sister Mao Jiaojiao, although I let her go ten days ago, instead of repenting, she has intensified! In the past ten days, eight men in Chang'an City have been killed by her with the 'art of harmony'. Moreover, according to my Tsing Yi Wei's investigation, most of these dead were those unemployed refugees in Chang'an City. Now Chang'an City has implemented a strict curfew, and no man is allowed to go out at night. Mao Jiaojiao can do it, and there are probably only these homeless people. We can't catch Mao Jiaojiao, so we can only think of how to deal with this group of homeless people first. Don't hide it from my sister, I went to the Autumn Leaf Cottage tonight to ask Mr. Qiu for advice on how to settle the displaced people......"

Immediately afterwards, Xu Ke told Hu Yiyi about the expulsion policy that Qiu Mingli had just gone to the Autumn Leaf Cottage and had dinner with Qiu Mingli.

Hu Yiyi listened, pondered for a long time, but asked rhetorically:

"Little disease-free, do you think...... Those displaced people in Chang'an City are all homeless and pitiful people, so you don't want to expel them by force?"

Xu Ke nodded and said: "Between heaven and earth, everyone is born to their parents and has the right to live. Now that these homeless people have been reduced to such an embarrassing situation, they are just living in secret, and if they are forcibly expelled six hundred miles away, is it too unfair to them?!"

Hu Yiyi nodded and said, "Okay, you don't have to worry, this matter started because of my ninth sister, and let me persuade my ninth sister first to see if I can make her change her mind and stop harming people in the future." ”

Xu Kexi said: "That's the best! If Mao Jiaojiao is willing to listen to her sister and stop killing people in the future, those Chang'an refugees don't have to go to such great trouble and are forced to be exiled to Xuchang to beg for a living......

However, Hu Yiyi shook her head and said: "Among my dozen younger brothers and sisters, Jiaojiao is the one who is the best at messing around, except for her second brother, no one can control her." She may not be willing to listen to my words, and besides, Jiaojiao's best skill is stealth, if she refuses to see me, I may not be able to find her, so ......"

Hu Yiyi was a little embarrassed: "Xiao Wuxi, Mr. Qiu's plan to resettle the displaced people is very clever, for the sake of safety, you still have to meet King Zhao tonight!"

Xu Ke hesitated: "According to my sister's intentions, these homeless people still have to be expelled?"

Hu Yiyi couldn't help but persuade: "Sister knows that you sympathize with the weak, but ...... If these people stay in Chang'an, their lives will be in danger! Exile them 600 miles away may also be a kind of protection for them!"

Hu Yiyi then said: "You and King Zhao have been in charge of reviewing this case in the capital for half a month, but there are still terrible dead bodies in Chang'an City. If this continues, the pressure on King Zhao's body is really too great! As his junior disciple and the deputy envoy of this investigation, you should help him share some of it!"

"Okay, I'll go see my senior brother now......" Xu Ke stood up and walked out of Wenyu Pavilion.

Hu Yiyi saw Xu Ke behind her, and she saw that Xu Ke still had an unbearable look on her face, so she persuaded again: "Little no disease, big deal, when the time comes, you will follow these homeless people to Xuchang together." With your current capacity as the deputy project envoy and the Tsing Yi Wei Qianhu, you can take care of the local government and let them take good care of these displaced people......"

Xu Ke said in his heart, don't say that it is Xuchang Mansion, the entire Huaiyang Road is a major drought-stricken area, and the local prefect is too late to be busy with disaster relief, so how can I still have the spare strength to take care of those Chang'an refugees who "fell from the sky"? Even if I am the deputy envoy of the special project and the Tsing Yi Wei Qianhu, I do not have the will of the imperial court in my hands, and I cannot interfere in the local finances at will. However, although he was worried in his heart, he still didn't say much, at this moment, it was important to see King Zhao soon.

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Only a moment later, Xu Ke had already come to the gate of Zhao Wangfu, he raised his hand and knocked on the door, and it was Ma Yun, the head of Zhao Wangfu, who opened the door.

Xu Ke arched his hand and said: "Manager Ma, has His Royal Highness King Zhao slept?" Can you please ask the chief manager to say that Xu Ke has something to see His Royal Highness." ”

Ma Yun also bowed his hand and saluted back: "Lord Xu, come in! The prince has already instructed the little one, as long as Lord Xu comes, you can go in to see him at any time, you don't have to be polite!"

Xu Ke couldn't help but feel flattered when he heard this, and he immediately followed Ma Yun into the palace and came to Li Yi's study.

At this moment, Li Yi did not rest, he was sitting in front of the bookcase and closing his eyes, as if he was recalling his experience during the day. Hearing this, Ma Yun reported from afar: "Lord Wang, Lord Xu is here......" He immediately got up from the bookcase, walked to the door of the study, took Xu Ke's hand, and personally brought Xu Ke in, while walking, he also joked with Xu Ke:

"No illness, I still came to find my senior brother so late, could it be that I encountered something difficult at home? Senior brother heard that there are a lot of 'people' living in your house, but my senior brother is okay to investigate the case, but if you want to cut off your housework, then I don't have the ability...... Hahaha!"

Xu Ke was in no mood to joke with Li Yi at all, he thought to himself, what Mr. Qiu said today is quite reasonable, senior brother, you have been in charge of investigating the case for so long, but in the end, only you and I are the only ones who are really responsible for catching demons. The emperor gave you Tsing Yi Wei, Jingzhao Mansion, the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, and even the most elite forbidden army of Daqian is also available for you to deploy. However, senior brother, after checking for half a month, you only found out the name of a murderer. So many capable subordinates have been reduced to ornaments in the hands of your King Zhao. Ahem, senior brother, it seems that your ability to manage people is not much better than my Xu Ke......

Entering the study, the two sat down separately, Ma Yun brewed a cup of fine jasmine tea for Xu Ke, and then bowed down, and did not forget to close the door before leaving.

Xu Ke said: "Senior brother, I went to Mr. Qiu's thatched cottage today. came late at night to tell Mr. Qiu's policy of relocating the displaced people to his senior brother. ”

"Oh......" Li Yi took a sip of fragrant tea and said with interest: "You can say it!"

So, Xu Ke presented Qiu Mingli's words on how to deal with the displaced people in Chang'an to Li Yibei, the king of Zhao.

No, Li Yi just waved his hand after listening, and said with a smile: "There is no need to be so troublesome, these homeless people don't need to be expelled!"

"But......" Xu Ke argued: "If these homeless people are allowed to be scattered in all corners of Chang'an City, the officials and soldiers cannot control it, but the cat demon can easily torture and kill, if this continues, there will be more and more dead corpses in Chang'an City, and when the time comes, how will the senior brother explain to the emperor?"

Li Yi glanced at Xu Ke and said kindly: "Senior brother, are you still quite concerned about me! Actually, I don't care about the investigation mastermind of this Laoshizi! If my father is dissatisfied with me, it's a big deal, I just resign and don't do it!"

Xu Ke hurriedly said: "Senior brother, this doesn't look like your character! Now, so many people have died in Chang'an City, and we haven't even found the shadow of the cat demon, so do you want to leave this case alone?"

Li Yi said casually: "Who said I don't care, even if I am not the mastermind of the investigation, at least I am still King Zhao, and I will continue to investigate this case!"

Xu Ke disagreed: "However, if the senior brother resigns from the post of chief envoy, someone will take over, and the senior brother thinks, who will take over the post of the chief envoy of the case?"

Li Yi thought for a while, and then said, "According to the character of my father, most of them will be taken over by Shen Huan, right?"

Xu Ke said: "Shen Huan said to those Chang'an refugees this morning that he would 'arrest all of them in prison and torture them with hard labor'. Senior brother, please think about it, if Shen Huan takes over as the chief investigator of the investigation, according to the means of this person's actions, will those Chang'an refugees still have a good life?"

Li Yi waved his hand and said: "Senior brother, you don't have to worry too much, in my opinion, the Chang'an refugees don't need to be expelled, as for me, the main investigator of the case, as long as I want to do it, no one can let me step down!"

Xu Ke said worriedly: "Senior brother, now that cat demon is still at large, but people in Chang'an City die violently on the streets every night. If this goes on for a long time, if it takes another month and a half, even if the emperor does not punish him, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty and the people of Chang'an will inevitably complain!"

Li Yi smiled and said: "Don't worry, you don't need half a moon, the cat demon will be captured!"

Xu Ke couldn't help but be curious: "How can Senior Brother be so sure?"

Li Yidao: "Because, my Beijing trial team, from today onwards, there will be one more person to help!"

Xu Ke asked, "Oh...... Who is this man?"

Li Yidao: "He is the second son of Tianbao Pavilion, Murong Huan!"

"It turned out to be him!" Xu Ke couldn't help but nod again and again. He said in his heart, this Murong Gongzi has outstanding martial arts and Taoism, and having him join him will be a great help to solve this strange case in the capital.

"Yes, yes, yes, that's him......" Li Yixiao looked at Xu Ke, and suddenly said: "I almost forgot, he is still your eldest brother!"

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"Where......" Xu Ke immediately said with an embarrassed face: "Tianbao Pavilion is one of the three pavilions in the world, how dare I, Xu Ke, climb high?"

Li Yi shook his head and said disapprerovingly: "His Tianbao Pavilion is the third pavilion in the world, but don't forget, above his Tianbao Pavilion, there is also my God King Pavilion!

Xu Ke desperately wanted to avoid this topic, and he immediately asked: "Senior brother, I heard that the Murong Gongzi of the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion has always been above the top and rarely responds to people's permission, how did you invite him today?"

Li Yi pointed at Xu Ke and said with a smile: "Murong Gongzi...... He's a little grumpy, but he's your future brother-in-law, so you can't say that......

"What's the matter...... Senior brother is really good at making fun!" Xu Ke said.

Li Yi picked up the tea cup and drank a sip of jasmine tea, only to feel that the tea was full of fragrance and endless aftertaste. He closed his eyes slightly, as if he was reminiscing about the fragrance of tea and the past. Immediately, after he put down the teacup, he began to tell Xu Ke about his experience of taking Yiqing and Li Qi to Tianbao Pavilion this afternoon......

At noon today, after he had lunch with Yiqing and Li Qi in the Sanssouci in the south of Chang'an City, Li Qi suddenly had a whimsical idea and was going to Tianbao Pavilion to invite Murong Huan out of the mountain on the spot.

Originally, Li Qi and Yiqing, one was a royal princess and the other was Emei Daogu, and both of them were not suitable to follow them outside the door of Tianbao Pavilion. However, how could Li Yi resist the temper of his seventeenth sister? In desperation, Li Yi had no choice but to take the two girls to the Tianbao Pavilion in the northwest of Chang'an City.

Murong Yuanshan, the master of the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, was sitting in the study with his eldest son Murong Miao at this time. Hearing that Li Yi, the king of Zhao, suddenly came, Murong Yuanshan hurriedly took Murong Miao out of the gate to greet him. When Murong Yuanshan saw King Zhao, he bowed his hand from afar, and said courteously:

"His Royal Highness King Zhao is here, and the cold house is full of flowers!"

Li Yi also returned the salute and said indifferently: "Lord Murong Pavilion, I haven't seen you for many days, it's always good?"

"Thanks to His Highness, my old body has always been fine!hehehe......" Murong Yuanshan said politely.

Next, Murong Miao also hurriedly stepped forward and bowed down and made a big salute to Li Yi.

"Come, come, Your Highness, please come inside!" Murong Yuanshan greeted warmly.

Before Li Yi could take a step, the seventeenth princess Li Qi behind him had already taken the lead and stepped into the front yard of Tianbao Pavilion. Li Qi looked at the magnificent pavilions in the Tianbao Pavilion, and couldn't help but be amazed: "Where is your Tianbao Pavilion what kind of 'humble house' is? This style is almost ready to catch up with the Daming Palace!"

"Who is this?" Murong Yuanshan had never seen Li Qi before, so he asked Li Yi.

"Oh...... She is my seventeenth sister, named Li Qi!" Li Yi hurriedly introduced.

"It turned out to be Princess Lingyu!" Murong Yuanshan and Murong Meng immediately saluted Li Qi again, bowed down and said, "Old man greets Her Royal Highness the Princess!"

Li Qi walked in front of her, she didn't look back, and said casually: "You people are really, you are not very old next year, but you want to call yourself 'old and decrepit'! You obviously look down on our women, but you still have to be so respectful!"

"Where is the princess!" Murong Yuanshan hurriedly said: "Her Royal Highness the princess, she can come to the humble house today, it's too late for the old man to rejoice in his heart!" As soon as he spoke, he immediately thought that this princess didn't like to call herself "old man", and he didn't agree that his place was "cold house", but he repeated it twice, and he was a little speechless for a while......

Li Yi followed behind him and walked to the front hall, he saw that Li Qi was so willful, and hurriedly said: "Murong Pavilion Master, my seventeenth sister is this temper, she was spoiled by my father in the palace, don't be surprised!"

"Where is it! Princess Lingyu is true and fast-talking, although it is the first time for the old man to meet Her Royal Highness the princess today, there is really a sense of déjà vu in my heart!" Murong Yuanshan was still very polite.

Li Yi warmly introduced Murong Yuanshan to Yiqing behind him. Although Yiqing is a disciple of Shushan, after all, she is only the youngest female disciple of the "Yi" generation of the Emei faction. People in the rivers and lakes are the most important, and in front of Murong Yuanshan, Yiqing is just an insignificant junior. She hurriedly made a big bow to Murong Yuanshan with her fist, but Murong Yuanshan only bowed slightly.

Everyone walked into the front hall in turn, and the guests and hosts took their seats. In order to express his respect for Li Yi and Li Qi, Murong Yuanshan made both of them sit on the main seat, and he just sat with the prime minister.

The buildings in the Tianbao Pavilion are all built according to a certain pattern, and the whole house is magnificent and magnificent. Although this foyer is only a place for the hospitality of the Tempo Pavilion, it is also built to be extraordinarily spacious and looks extraordinary. On the entrance hall that is more than three zhang high, there are four vermilion lacquer characters "Zhenguo Pillar Stone" mentioned by the imperial pen of the Son of Heaven. Li Qi drank tea while looking at the various furnishings in the front hall, she felt more and more that this Tianbao Pavilion was really not simple, and at this moment she was sitting here, it was no different from the feeling of sitting in the palace.

Li Yi picked up the teacup, took a shallow sip of the most precious Chang'an "flower rain" at the moment, and asked himself:

"Lord Murong Pavilion, may I ask if your second son is here?"

"In, in!" Murong Yuanshan said ashamedly: "The dog is busy with trivial matters today, and he is resting in his room at this time. ”

According to the usual practice, when the prince arrived, in his Tianbao Pavilion, in addition to Murong Yuanshan, his three sons Murong Ming, Murong Huan, and Murong Ji should also greet him together. But at this time, Murong Ji didn't know where to fool around, but Murong Huan stayed in his own courtyard, and refused to come out no matter who called him. By Murong Yuanshan's side, only his eldest son Murong Meng was left to accompany him.

Li Yi then asked, "Can you invite Murong Gongzi to come out and see him?"

Murong Yuanshan had already felt rude, but at this time, he heard that Li Yi, the king of Zhao, took the initiative to ask to see his second son, and he knew that the other party's visit to Tianbao Pavilion this time must be for Murong Huan, so he had to order Murong Huan at the moment: "Luo'er, you go to Ding Courtyard to have a look, and tell your second brother to come and see!"

After Murong Miao received the order, he immediately got up and went to the Ding Courtyard in the mansion, and after a while, he saw Murong Meng returning to the front hall alone, ashamed and unauthentic:

"Father, second brother, he ......"

"What's wrong with him?" Murong Yuanshan said hurriedly.

"No matter how much I plead, the second brother still doesn't want to come!" Murong Meng replied.

"This ......" Murong Yuanshan's face couldn't help but be even more embarrassed at this time, he slapped the table and said: "How can this be reasonable, His Royal Highness King Zhao and Princess Lingyu are here today, how dare he be so big!"

Murong Yuanshan immediately bowed his hand to Li Yi and said: "The dog has been spoiled by me, please forgive your Highness!

After that, Murong Yuanshan was about to get up and go to the Ding Courtyard in the mansion. Li Yi hurriedly stood up, stopped Murong Yuanshan, and said warmly:

"Lord Murong Pavilion doesn't have to bother, since the second prince is tired of trivial matters, it is better to let this king go to his room and sit down, lest the prince run again!"

"This ...... How can this be done?" Murong Yuanshan said politely. In fact, even if he himself can invite this precious second son, he has no bottom in his heart, and now, hearing that King Zhao himself is willing to visit Murong Huan in the inner courtyard of Murong Mansion, he is naturally happy to agree.

"It's okay, it's okay!" Li Yi also said politely: "This king has long heard that the scenery in the backyard of your mansion is moving, the weather is thousands, there is no cave, today is fortunate, this king can take the opportunity to watch, hehehe!"

Li Yi waved his hand at Murong Ming: "Eldest prince, you have to lead the way in front of you......

So, Murong Miao took Li Yi, the king of Zhao, to his backyard, and Li Qi and Yiqing Zi followed. Li Yi looked at Li Qi and Yiqing, and wanted to say something to stop him, but he didn't say anything.

Several people walked around the backyard of Murong Mansion, and in a moment, Li Yi was already outside the Ding Courtyard. Murong Miao entered first, but without thinking, he immediately walked out again, and said with a bitter face: "Your Highness, I'm really sorry, my second brother was still in the Ding Courtyard just now, and now, he actually walked away again......"

Li Yi asked, "Then do you know where he went?"

Murong Meng replied: "The subordinates refuse to say, my second brother is like this, he has always been willful, and in the entire Tianbao Pavilion, no one dares to disobey him!"

"Okay then......" Li Yi sighed: "Ahem! Maybe the second son doesn't want to see us, since that's the case, I can't be forced to wait, then let's leave first!"

After saying that, Li Yi immediately turned around and was about to lead Yiqing and his party away. Murong Miao suddenly said, "Your Highness, why don't we go to the Wu Courtyard to have a look......?"