Naturally, there was nothing busy in the court before the Yuan Dynasty. Officials of the Tang Dynasty basically sat in the yamen until the afternoon and went home early after attending the morning court.
By the time Li Hong came out of Shangshu Province, the six departments were deserted except for the officials on duty. Accompanied by Cheetah and Mangzhong, the three of them slowly walked to the East Palace.
When Li Hong returned to the East Palace, the first thing he did was to order Mang Zhong to go to the Pagoda Camp and invite the British King Li Zhe, who was staying in the barracks to spend the Yuan Dynasty, to come back to the East Palace first. If he didn't come back, he was afraid that his mother would deal with him. .
What's more, in Li Hong's opinion, if Li Zhe really has special feelings for the barracks and the war horses, why not test Li Zhe's thoughts and see if he has any ideas to go to Yunzhong after the first day
Xiaoxue looked panicked and rushed in with a palace maid, like a gust of wind, startling Li Hong who was thinking about replacing Li Xian with Li Zhe and becoming the distant leader of the Yunzhong Protectorate.
"What are you doing? You scared me to death! Fortunately, I don't have a heart disease. What are you doing here?" Li Hong looked at the panicked Xiaoxue. After speaking, he noticed that there was a man who had just been transferred to his mother's side standing next to him. The palace maid, Wei Tuan'er.
"Your Highness... King Yin has gone somewhere, and he hasn't come back yet." Wei Tuan'er twisted the corners of his clothes with his little hands and said tremblingly.
"Where can he go? Look for the chicken coop. Maybe he is lying in the nest with those hens, hatching chicks." Li Hong thought of that idiot Li Dan, who had caused himself to get a beating in vain. I was so angry.
Stupidly, he really thought he was hatched from an egg, and even compared the queen mother to Nuwa, swearing that Nuwa could make humans out of clay, so he was probably hatched by the queen mother.
"Your Highness, you misunderstood. He is really missing. I haven't seen him since noon. He chased a few chickens and jumped up the palace wall. Then he chased them out and never came back." Wei Tuan'er said anxiously, if it weren't for the relationship of superiority and inferiority, seeing Li Hong's indifferent expression, Wei Tuan'er would have stamped his feet to urge him.
Seeing the anxious look on Wei Tuan'er's face, who was about sixteen or seventeen years old, Li Hong began to feel nervous: "It's been almost a day and you haven't found it yet? Do your father and mother know?"
"I don't know, this servant came out secretly to find His Highness." Wei Tuan'er looked at Li Hong who stood up. The tall figure immediately put a lot of pressure on her, making Wei Tuan'er, who was already extremely nervous, involuntarily He knelt down, lowered his head and continued: "This slave has been responsible for King Yin's daily life this month. Today I was recalled to Penglai Hall by the Queen. When I go back, there will be no trace of King Yin. I sent people to search everywhere. "We have searched everywhere we can in the palace, but there is no sign of King Yin."
"So you were afraid that your father and mother would blame you, so you came to me first?" Li Hong asked Wei Tuan'er, who was kneeling and huddled in a ball.
"Your Highness makes atonement. Your Highness makes atonement. I know this. If Your Majesty and the Queen find out, I am afraid that all the slaves who serve King Yin will be... So I dare to ask Your Highness to make the decision." The thin body trembled and knelt on the ground, trembling with fear. said.
Li Hong knew what she wanted to say. If they lost the little fat boy and lost it from the palace, not to mention the queen mother, even the father would probably chop off the brains of all of them.
But who asked her to come to him for help? It couldn't really be her own idea!
But these are not the key points now, but to find out the specific information about the little fat Li Dan before he went missing.
But no matter how Li Hong asked, the information he could get out was very limited. Apart from knowing that the King of England was chasing a few escaped chickens, there was nothing else. Moreover, there was still no news from the two palace ladies who ran out with him.
"Go back. I know this. If anyone asks, it is King Yin who is in the East Palace." Li Hong frowned and said.
Wei Tuan'er hurriedly kowtowed to express his thanks, and finally walked out of the East Palace again under the leadership of Xiaoxue.
"Cheetah, let General Jinwuwei of the Imperial City come over immediately. Also, summon Zong Chu Ke and the Minister of the Ministry of Justice to come over. Immediately pass a message to Bai Chun Xing Ge. At the same time, in the name of the Minister of Finance, order that Chang'an City implements a strict curfew! If anyone disobeys , Kill without mercy!" Li Hong said calmly.
After Cheetah left, Li Hong began to wonder again, why did Wei Tuan'er look for him? How could a little palace maid get such courage
Before he could figure out anything, Li Xian ran over in a hurry, panting, and it was obvious that he had been running all the way.
Before he could ask a question, Li Xian said breathlessly: "I lost the old man. I don't know where he went."
"How did you know so quickly? The palace maid who reported to me just left, and you ran in right after." Li Hong motioned Li Xian to sit down and looked at him in confusion and asked.
"Is this the palace maid that Xiaoxue was sending out that I saw when I came in just now?" Li Xian pointed to the door, then turned around and saw Li Hong looking at him calmly and nodding, and continued: "I don't know either. , one of Li Dan’s maids came over and told me.”
"Don't you know the maid who went to your house?" Li Hong became even more curious.
"I don't know. There are many maids in the palace, and I am a prince. Do you want to know me?" Li Xian said angrily.
"This thing is very strange. Why did the palace maid bypass the emperor and the queen and find you and me? What do you think?" Li Hong asked again, looking at Li Xian who was breathing again.
"Now is not the time to think about it. Now is the right time to find a way to find Lao Ba. Don't always be like a villain..."
"Believe it or not, I will slap you." Li Hong looked at Li Xian who was about to taunt him, and raised his hand as if to beat him.
"Stay away from me!" Li Xian quickly stood up and sat across from Li Hong, warning Li Hong.
"Let me ask you, did you protect Fang Xianzhong? Do you think I can't do anything to you like this?"
"Oh, you are only allowed to give gifts to the Queen Mother, but I am not allowed to give gifts to the Queen Mother? Can you clearly distinguish the priorities and find the old man first?" Li Xian picked up the water on the coffee table and took a sip, then asked. Topic urged.
"Chang'an City is so big, how can it be so easy to find someone? Besides, I have been missing for a long time. Who knows if I have left the city. I have already summoned Zong Chuke, Xing Bu, and Jin Wuwei to come over and ask them to come immediately. Searching from house to house, the city's military guards have also notified that Chang'an City has implemented a strict curfew!" Li Hong stood up, walked to a small sand table in Chang'an City, and looked at the entire Chang'an City.
Li Xian followed behind, admiring the majestic Chang'an City, looking at the buildings made according to the proportions, and asked: "Where do you think Li Dan can run? It is said that when chasing chickens out, he also brought He has two palace maids. Those two palace maids have been by his side all year round, so there is no way they can do anything to him."
"Who knows, maybe he was kidnapped." Li Hong looked at the Daming Palace and Li Dan's palace, and he was a little confused as to what was going on.
Li Dan's palace was originally very close to the chicken coop, but as the chicken coop became larger and larger and the smell became heavier and heavier, it was almost becoming a professional farmer, and you could hear the chickens clucking every day from a distance. The sound of the call is even more precise than that of the clock tower bell.
In addition, every time the Queen Mother passed by, she had to guard against the unpleasant smell and had to cover her nose with several layers of brocade handkerchiefs. So later, the Queen Mother simply gave an order and moved the chicken coop to a secluded place. The place is close to one side of the city wall.
"Who would kidnap him? How old is he? He has no conflicts with anyone. Why kidnap him?" Li Xian scratched his head. At this time, he would admit that Li Hong was smarter than him.
"That's right. You should be hijacked as well, because you have caused so many courtiers in the court to suffer. I guess they all hate you. If you don't hijack someone who is doing evil, you will hijack a person who is not a threat. That little fat guy is really unreasonable." Li Hong turned around and looked at Li Xian, whose face was getting more and more ugly, but he couldn't argue.
Li Xian looked at Li Hong's sarcastic smile, but was unable to refute it. At this time, Mang Zhong ran in with Li Zhe and helped Li Xian get rid of the situation of being maliciously ridiculed by Li Hong.
"Brother Emperor, do you two know that I'm missing?" Li Zhe looked at the two of them and asked as soon as he came in.
Li Hong and Li Xian looked at Li Zhe, who looked anxious, and nodded silently.
In the end, Li Xian was the first to ask: "Aren't you in his barracks? How did you know this?"
"Oh, when I just entered the city, I met one of Li Dan's personal eunuchs. The eunuch told me that Lao Ba was lost."
"Eunuch?" Li Hong and Li Xian asked in unison.
What does it mean? Why did they notify the three brothers, but they did not tell the father and mother that the eunuchs and maids around the little fat man had too much energy.
"Mang Zhong, tell me what's going on." Seeing that Li Zhe was about to explain, Li Hong interrupted him and let Mang Zhong speak instead.
Li Zhe nodded and agreed to let Mang Zhong explain it to him. Anyway, in terms of vigilance, the emperor's brother was more reliable, and he might be able to discover some details that he hadn't noticed.
Li Xian is meaningless on this point. Li Zhe is accustomed to looking at the appearance of everything more than the essence, so his explanation is probably the same as what he said just now.
Mangzhong saluted the three of them one by one and said calmly: "As for your highness, King Pei, and King Ying, everything was normal when I invited King Ying back. When I entered the city gate, there was nothing wrong. That eunuch was there." He found that the carriage to pick up the King of England was already waiting there, instead of preparing to leave the city to look for the King of England. It was obvious that he knew that the King of England would pass by here. "
Li Hong nodded silently, and Mang Zhong's voice came to his ears again: "I thought it was the person sent by Your Highness, so I didn't ask any more questions. After the person finished speaking to the King of England, he went straight to the direction of the imperial city. After leaving, the servant slowed down the carriage as much as possible. Judging from his back and gait, he didn't look like he was in a hurry. "
(End of chapter)