Fang Zhan and Heng Qiao of "Jingwei" have quietly sneaked into Cuiwei Palace. As for what they found out and where to report it to their master, they naturally have their own methods.
Li Hong followed Wenfa and Wutian into the mountain from the other side of the mountain road. Those who returned to his home could not go back. This made Li Hong become extremely gloomy. He did not say a word along the way. The five people who followed him, Naturally, he dared not speak even more.
Only on the way up the mountain, I could occasionally hear Xiaoxue's mouth gently saying: "Master, be careful where you step."
Climbing all the way up, the atmosphere in the five-person room was naturally extremely tense and depressing. After climbing more than halfway up the mountain, you can already have a glimpse of the entire Cuiwei Palace. The entire building is built on the mountain, and every place that conflicts with the mountain has been integrated by the sages with wisdom, reasonableness and skill.
Looking at the layout of Cuiwei Palace, it gives people a strong feeling of "Tao follows nature". Li Hong couldn't help but feel a little crazy. Such natural harmony could only be created in this era when Taoism was still respected.
The mountain breeze blew by, bringing a bit of cool breeze and vague voices.
Welfare and Wutian suddenly became vigilant. Xiaoxue hurriedly stayed close to Li Hong. Cheetah and Jingzhe protected the prince one after another. The five people instantly formed a strong triangular protection combination.
Li Hong's hearing was naturally incomparable to others. Looking at the inexplicable expressions of several people, he instantly knew what he had discovered.
"Keep going up the mountain, to the top of the mountain!" Li Hong felt aggrieved. His royal palace was actually blocked by others. This tone kept blocking him, otherwise he would not have the leisure to climb up. To the top of the mountain.
Lawless walked cautiously and investigated in front, while Cheetah and Jingzhe protected and guarded behind. Xiaoxue followed closely, following Li Hong closely. A swallow-winged crossbow was already tightly held in her hand.
At this time, there was plenty of sunshine at noon, and halfway up the Cuiwei Mountain with tall trees and dense forests, in a relatively flat place, there were actually two people sitting, one about fifty years old, carrying a bamboo basket behind his back.
The other one looked like... an old Taoist priest with a head full of silver hair, a gray beard, and a pale face.
Li Hong looked at the two people who suddenly stopped. The sound just now was obviously made by these two people.
Could this old Taoist priest be Sun Simiao? Li Hong murmured in his heart.
Sun Simiao is like a black man in the previous life in the history books. It is still not clear what year he was born, only what year he died.
While Li Hong was thinking, the two people also heard the footsteps next to them. They still had relaxed smiles on their faces and looked over at the same time.
I saw a young man surrounded by five servants, as if he was going to climb a mountain.
Li Hong watched the people looking over, and ignored Xiaoxue as she secretly pulled his sleeves. He tried his best to calm down the depression in his heart and tried to relax the muscles of his face.
"I dare to ask you two husbands, but are you collecting medicine here?" Li Hong waved to Cheetah and others who were guarding him, motioning for them to go aside, and then walked to the two people.
"Old god, I want to ask you a question." The man in his fifties said with a smile.
"Little baby...?" Li Hong was speechless for a while. You have a medicine basket behind you. You want me to ask him? Although the main thing is to ask him.
The old Taoist looked at Li Hong slowly walking over. He was not as alert as his servants. Instead, he walked over with a smile like the young man next door.
"Yes, I'm just looking for some medicinal herbs." The gray beard looked a little sparse with the passage of time. But his eyes were still bright and bright, not like an old man at all.
"What herbs did you find? Let me take a look." Li Hong's two-skinned face and Jilai's acquaintance were really at their best.
The man in his fifties was obviously taken aback. This young man must be too familiar.
But before he could speak, Li Hong had already walked up to him, squatted behind him, stretched out his white fingers and started to flip through it.
"Do you also know about medicinal herbs?" the old Taoist asked curiously.
"I don't understand." Li Hong replied while turning around.
The old Taoist didn't expect Li Hong to answer so quickly and simply. After being stunned for a moment, he instantly returned to his unsullied smile.
"You are Immortal Sun, right? What's your age this year?" Li Hong clapped his hands. If he didn't look through the herbs, he might not be able to talk to him.
"Young man has good eyesight, and the old Taoist is Sun Simiao. This year... maybe... 102." Sun Simiao also answered questions.
"Awesome." Li Hong gave Sun Simiao a thumbs up and sat down closely next to him.
Xia Zhi wanted to put a silk handkerchief under Li Hong's buttocks, but Li Hong naturally pushed his hand and refused.
"Young man, what are you doing here? Do you know that there is a royal palace in Cuiwei Mountain, and you are afraid of being seen and kicked out?" The fifty-year-old man asked Li Hong, who had just sat down, through Sun Simiao.
"I knew it was Cuiwei Palace. I almost entered through the Jinhua Gate just now. I didn't take two steps before I was kicked out, so I found this path and climbed up. Unexpectedly, I met a god in the mountain." A small note. The little flattery made Sun Simiao shake his head and smile bitterly. This young man really had a natural temperament.
Li Hong took the water bottle prepared by Xiaoxue and was about to drink from it. Suddenly he stopped, stretched out his head to look at Sun Simiao and the man, and asked, "Did you bring water? Is it for you to drink?"
"Thank you so much." Sun Simiao has lived for a century and has never seen anyone before, so he took it over politely.
The man in his fifties looked at it and gave Li Hong a thumbs up to praise him.
"I wonder who this is...?" Li Hong watched Sun Simiao take a few sips and then handed the kettle to the man without minding it.
"He, he is the county magistrate of Lantian County. Today I have an appointment with the old man to go to the mountain to collect medicine. This is another old friend that I have made over the years." Sun Simiao replied on behalf of the man.
"Oh...? What about your other year-end friend?" Li Hong asked.
"Died a few years ago."
"..." Li Hong was instantly petrified. Damn, at such an old age, he still has a cliché in his words.
The magistrate of Lantian County listened to Sun Simiao's words, put down the kettle and laughed twice, and then said to Li Hong: "Brother, don't mind, Sun Shenxian is now a child again. This is because he is destined to be like this. , otherwise, Sun Shenxian would not easily tell others about his other friend. "
"Yes, yes, then you should be careful." Li Hong was thinking about how long Sun Simiao could live. He didn't pay much attention to the Lantian County Magistrate's words, so he said it casually.
"Haha..." Lantian County Magistrate laughed loudly again without mind.
"Haha..." Sun Simiao was also amused by Li Hong and laughed.
"My little brother is really good at not taking any chances. If the old god teases you, you will win him back with his other year-end friend." The Lantian County magistrate liked Li Hong and continued to say.
"I haven't asked you yet..."
"I am Zong Chuke, a native of Wannian County, Chang'an, and he is now the magistrate of Lantian County." Zong Chuke said.
Lantian County and other counties around Chang'an City belong to Ji County, which is one level higher than the county magistrates in other places, and is the sixth grade. It is only lower than the county magistrate of Chang'an in Chang'an City and Wannian Liangchi County, and is on the fifth rank.
This Zong Chuke looks like he should be in his fifties, but he didn't expect to get an official position at the sixth rank. However, among the many officials of the Tang Dynasty, he was already pretty good. After all, he was the magistrate of Ji County, and there should be people in the court.
If he catches a good opportunity and is at the feet of the emperor, it is not impossible to even advance to the third level.
Li Hong took the kettle from Sun Simiao and took another sip. Xiaoxue watched with fear as Li Hong tried to drink from the spout, and hurriedly said: "Master, please use this kettle." Xiaoxue took out another one and touched it. Said the same thing.
"It's okay, what are you afraid of?" Li Hong said to Xiaoxue nonchalantly, then picked up the kettle and drank.
"Brother, are you in trouble and need help?" Sun Simiao's bright eyes swept over Xiaoxue and the others, especially Jingzhe and Cheetah at the back, and he suddenly became confused about Li Hong's identity.
In Sun Simiao's opinion, Jingzhe and Cheetah, no matter how well they were disguised, he could tell at a glance that they were two eunuchs, and they must have come from the palace.
Then the identity of the little boy next to him is self-evident.
But just now the young man said that he was kicked out as soon as he entered the Jinhua Gate. It didn't look like he was telling lies, because when the young man spoke, there was still a trace of anger in his brows.
But if he is not a royal prince or a clan prince, how can he have a eunuch next to him
Sun Simiao turned his eyes to Li Hong, and saw Li Hong looking calm. He thought for a moment and said, "Well... I hope you can help me feel my pulse to see if I have any disease."
"Oh? Looking at Xiao Langjun's expression, brows, and complexion, he doesn't look like someone who is ill." Sun Simiao became even more curious.
"In case there are some diseases that cannot be seen, I would like to ask you to check my pulse." Li Hong stretched out his fair arm, his sleeves were already pulled high, waiting for the miracle doctor to take his pulse.
Behind them, Xia Zhi and others looked puzzled. Even though Divine Doctor Sun had superb medical skills, there was no one who didn't have a disease and had to ask someone to take their pulse! This is not an auspicious thing, so why are you forcing it
They didn't know it in their hearts, but Li Hong knew his purpose and what it was for!
Because according to historical records, the cause of his death was too strange. When he was 23 years old, his father was unable to go to court due to illness for a long time, so he deliberately planned to abdicate the throne to himself.
Coincidentally, just after his father planned to take the throne, he, his father, and his mother went to Luoyang, and soon died suddenly in the Qiyun Hall of Hebi Palace in Luoyang.
History books record that he died of a disease: tuberculosis (tuberculosis). It is also recorded that he died at the hands of his mother's dove.
(End of chapter)