[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Dynasty, March 30, noon, south of Chang'an City, near Jinding Mountain]

After Xu Ke said goodbye to Nangong, he personally picked a healthy horse from Shangma Camp, got out of Tsing Yiwei, and rode straight to the south of the city.

Since he practiced the "Taiyi Kunlun Decision", he has been guiding qi every day, and his internal strength has become more and more profound. Therefore, he walks in Chang'an City every day, almost never uses a horse, and when he is free, he can stroll slowly, and when there is something, he immediately raises his breath and rushes. If he really wants to urge his feet, he can walk like the wind, even if Rao Cheng is a week, it will not take half an hour.

Today, since the senior brother has a fate, he rode straight to the Mingde Gate in the south of the city, and he guessed in his heart that the senior brother must go with him to the outskirts of the south of the city to catch demons today.

As expected, he came to Mingde Gate, and after seeing Li Yi, Li Yi led him all the way to the south, straight to the direction of Jinding Mountain.

Along the way, the two men beat their horses and walked together, each reining in the reins, so that the healthy horses under their crotch would not travel too fast.

On this day, the weather is clear, a round of warm sun shines in the sky, Chang'an people thought that a heavy rain, but it did not come down for a long time, but it was the mountain wind that swept around, whirring and sounding, blowing the long hair of the two people, dancing with the wind.

The two were on the official road on the outskirts of the southern part of the city, riding horses and talking at the same time.

Li Yidao: "Senior brother, Mingyue's case is in trouble!"

Xu Ke said: "Senior brother, does the emperor not agree to release him?"

Li Yi shook his head and was silent.

Xu Ke asked, "Senior brother didn't tell the emperor the truth of the case?"

Li Yi still shook his head.

Xu Ke asked again: "The emperor already knows the truth, but he still upholds the original verdict and refuses to release him?"

Li Yi nodded.

Xu Ke was dissatisfied: "Senior brother, I wonder about this, since the emperor already knows that Mingyue is not a murderer, why does he still give Mingyue and them all to death?"

Li Yi sighed in the sky, and then he roughly told Xu Ke about what he had done when he entered the palace last night.

......

It turned out that last night, after the emperor told Li Yi the reason why he wanted to give all the people in the entire Cuiyun Tower to death, Li Yi still insisted on his opinion and stubbornly begged his father and the emperor not to give all these people to death.

The emperor was extremely irritated by his son, but he also knew that Li Yi's upright personality could not be forcibly subdued. In the end, the emperor sneered and gave Li Yi a difficult problem:

"Yi'er, my father is not embarrassed for you, right now, there is still a day before the day of these people's execution, if you can catch the culprit of this case within one day, and bring the cat demon to me, I will pardon all the people in Cuiyun Tower, if you can't catch the culprit, these people can only be executed, as for that Mingyue, you will still be punished by Ling Chi!"

"Father!"

"Say no more!"

Li Chongsheng scolded loudly, and immediately got up and went back to his dormitory.

In Li Chongsheng's life, he treats his two sons the most close and loving, one of which is Li Yi, the king of Zhao. However, at this time, his face was awe-inspiring, his eyes were not angry and arrogant, but he was a rare look of anger. Li Yi saw that the anger on his father's face was so strong, and he didn't dare to say anything more at the moment, so he had to bow down and retreat respectfully.

The emperor was behind Li Yi, and asked intriguingly:

"Yi'er, how can you care so much about the fate of those Qinglou women......? Entrusted by someone?"

Only then did Li Yi remember that after he entered the palace, he had been busy arguing with his father, and he hadn't even had time to present Xu Ke's letter.

He hurriedly turned around, walked to the front of the palace again, took out the letter from his bosom, and said to Li Chongsheng:

"Father, my junior brother Xu Wuxian, the above table impeached Yang Wenyuan of Tsing Yiwei, saying that he was uncontrollable, indulged his subordinates, and raped the girls arrested by Cuiyunlou at will, and brutally tortured, so that the female prisoners in the southern prison were all destroyed and miserable...... This is a disease-free recital, please take a look at it!"

"Oh...... Present it!" the emperor was interested when he heard this.

Gao Liangshi hurriedly took the fold, ran to Li Chongsheng in small steps, and presented it respectfully.

Li Chongsheng unfolded the recital, looked at it for a moment, and couldn't help nodding frequently:

"Xiao Ke's words are not bad, the words are like their people, they are beautiful on the outside and bright on the inside, just and not a, good!" Li Chongsheng put down the folds, thought for a while, and said:

"Hmm...... I know about this matter, tomorrow morning, I will deal with it, and now it's not too early, I'm tired, you can go back to sleep!"

"Son's resignation!"

...... Weichang

Xu Ke listened, and immediately said urgently:

"Senior brother, it's only been one day, how can we catch the cat demon in one day?!"

Li Yi also sighed:

"Ahem, no way, my father's temper is like this, once he decides, no one can persuade him!"

"This ...... What should I do?" Xu Ke thought to himself, we have been catching the cat demon for a month, and we haven't even caught a single cat hair, and now we only have a limit of one day, unless there are immortals who come to the world to help, otherwise, even if we turn Chang'an City upside down, it will be difficult to find the cat demon!

Li Yi persuaded again:

"Fortunately, your father praised your letter, and he said that you wrote well! Early this morning, has your father's will already reached your Tsing Yi Wei?"

Xu Ke couldn't help but smile bitterly:

"The emperor's dictation has arrived, but I wrote a large number of charges against Yang Wenyuan, but the emperor only punished him for one year. Yang Wenyuan's house, as a thousand households of the Nan'an Ping Division, secretly does not know how much, will he lack the mere seven hundred taels of silver?"

Li Yi couldn't help but be very surprised, he was surprised:

"My father only fined him a year......'s worth of silver? It's also too ......."

After all, it was his father, and Li Yi couldn't help but say the next half of the sentence.

The two then went south, and for a while, they were all preoccupied and silent.

......

Li Yi thought to himself, in order to cover up the ugly things of the sixth brother, his father did not hesitate to execute more than 150 lives in Cuiyun Tower, which is really too much, but if you think about it from the overall situation, it is not unreasonable. The sixth brother is, after all, a prince, and no matter how cynical the prince is, he cannot degenerate to the extent of opening a brothel privately! If this matter spreads, not only the people of the world, but also the civil and military officers and soldiers of the Manchu Dynasty, how should they view our Li family's royal family? If this matter reaches the ears of the spies of the enemy country, will it not become a laughing stock for the enemy country to make fun of my great emperor? Moreover, the sixth brother died at the hands of the cat demon, this matter, and I have nothing to do with it, if that day I heard that the cat demon was hiding in Cuiyun Tower, I immediately went to arrest it, the sixth brother is now, wouldn't he still be alive like a tiger? Then, those people in Cuiyun Building don't have to die innocently. Ahem, all the mistakes are wrong, it's all my carelessness!

Li Yi thought back to the past, and suddenly felt that the junior brother seemed to have been bewitched by the demons, and he would have a trace of sympathy for the cat demon, that day, if Xu Ke hadn't stopped him, he and Nangong might have eliminated the cat demon a long time ago!

Xu Ke thought to himself that the emperor only gave them a one-day limit, which was obviously making things difficult for the senior brother. Han Wang Li Zuo was obviously seeking his own death, and even Mao Jiaojiao couldn't blame him, so why did he want to implicate more than 150 people in the Cuiyun Tower to be implicated in death? Looking at the severity of the emperor's punishment of Yang Wenyuan today, and then looking at the severity of his punishment for innocent people's daughters, it should be seen that in the emperor's heart, which is more serious. The emperor has disregarded the law in such a vain manner and acted only on his own will, but it is also too disappointing! In this so-called 70-year "prosperous era of Kang Yuan," the emperor also boasted that he was "the emperor of the ages," but now the state treasury is empty, the party is strife, internal and external troubles are overturned, and the people are struggling to make a living, so where is the "prosperity"? Where does the "Ming" come from?......

The two of them rode all the way, thinking all the way, and in the blink of an eye, they had traveled more than forty miles south. Xu Ke looked at it from afar, and in the distance, a large number of mountain peaks gradually emerged, and Jinding Mountain had arrived.

That large area of mountains rose and fell one after another, lying quietly on his stomach, like an old man who had been weathered, lying there quietly, I don't know how many thousands of years of wind and rain had been experienced......

Among the mountains, there is the highest main peak, the top of which protrudes upwards and spreads out in the form of a round arch, like the bottom of a round pot, upside down there. At this moment, the noon sun spreads down all over the sky, shining on the top of the main peak, rendering the whole round summit into a golden color, looking from a distance, it is like a golden pot bottom, lying upside down on the peak. Xu Ke saw this scene from afar, and then thought of the locals calling this mountain range "Jinding Mountain", and suddenly felt quite appropriate in his heart.

Xu Ke asked, "Senior brother, you said that the cat demon is really hiding in this Jinding Mountain?"

Li Yidao: "This is calculated by Li Laodao of Xuandu Guan! This Li Laodao, the junior brother may not know him, but his ability to calculate and predict, the entire Chang'an City, I am afraid that no one can match!"

Xu Ke immediately said: "Li Zhenren of Xuandu Temple, I have also seen his ability, don't hide it from Senior Brother, at that time, my life was saved by Li Zhenren!"

Li Yiqi said: "Senior brother, it turns out that you and Li Laodao have known each other for a long time?"

Xu Ke nodded, and he said that he was injured and poisoned by Sun Xun's poisonous tribulus terrestris that day, and his life was in danger, but fortunately Li Chunfeng rescued him, and then he relieved the experience, and he talked to Li Yi roughly on horseback.

At the end, Xu Ke said again: "Senior brother, do you know that a month ago, the heavy rain that relieved us of the great drought was all the credit of Li Zhenren!"

"Oh...... This good rain was brought down by Li Zhenren's practice?"

"It can't be counted all, but thanks to the practice of the real person, the old dragon king was able to rain in time!"

"Old Dragon King, junior brother, have you even seen the Dragon King? Is it Ao Guang from the East China Sea or Ao Yan from the West Sea?"

"Senior brother, this is all my business in the Divine King Pavilion......"

While speaking, the two of them had already beaten their horses to the foot of Jinding Mountain, and Li Yiyao pointed at the whip and said:

"Senior brother, since you also know Li Zhenren's skills, since he has calculated that the cat demon is hiding here, let's simply look for her today, how about it?"

"Okay!" Xu Ke replied loudly.

However, he thought in his heart, if we really found Mao Jiaojiao, should we arrest her and bring her to justice? If she resists arrest, my senior brother and I will inevitably have to fight her. I was the only one that day, and I almost stabbed her to death with a sword, and now that there are me and my senior brother, Mao Jiaojiao must have no way to escape. If Mao Jiaojiao is caught in front of the palace, although Mingyue can be pardoned, the other one who will be executed is Mao Jiaojiao?......

Xu Ke's hesitant thoughts at this time, Li Yi had no way of knowing. He suddenly clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and shouted "Ride!" He put a green horse on his crotch, and at this time he comprehended, the front hooves were raised, the hind hooves followed, the horse's head was high, and the long neighing sounded, and then suddenly accelerated, and rushed forward like a gallop!

I only heard Li Yiren on the horse, and Wu Zizhao called Xu Ke behind him:

"Senior brother, let's run around these mountains a few times first, and see if there is any whereabouts of the cat demon?!"