Jing Li and Deng Tianyou had never met formally. Because he was not familiar with his figure, it was not until he saw his face that he remembered who he was.
Jing Li quickly dropped the broom and went to help him up: "Master Deng... wake up!"
Poor Governor Deng was just a scholar. After being tortured like this, he actually lost consciousness and could not be awakened no matter how people called him.
Jing Li tried to calm the man down and pressed his Ren Zhong point, but after a long time he finally woke the man up.
When Qin Zhao walked over, what he saw was this scene.
"What are you doing?"
He felt unhappy when he saw the little fish cub coming back by itself, so he hurriedly carried the cub out to look for someone, but unfortunately he was a step too late.
Qin Zhao looked at Deng Tianyou who was lying on the ground, and then at Jing Li who was squatting beside him with a guilty look on his face. He already roughly understood what had happened without any explanation.
He rubbed his brows and sighed, "Let's help him into the house and let him lie down for a while."
Deng Tianyou had made an appointment with Qin Zhao to meet here.
Qin Zhao did not sit still and wait for death these days, but there was no movement in the capital, so he could only wait patiently. As for Deng Tianyou, he happened to return to the capital to report on his work in the past few days. Before leaving, he received news from Qin Zhao, asking him to come to the capital to have a face-to-face talk.
He was a cautious person, and was afraid that others would see him entering and leaving Qin Zhao's mansion and arouse suspicion, so he came alone and entered secretly through the door.
Who knew that Jing Li would happen to see it.
Jing Li has been much more vigilant these days than before. He will not let go of any movement. Of course he would be hostile if he saw someone sneaking towards his house.
As for Qin Zhao, he only roughly calculated that Deng Tianyou would come to visit in a few days, but he didn't know the exact time, so he didn't tell Jing Li in advance.
Anyway…
It becomes a result.
Deng Tianyou was unconscious for nearly half an hour before he slowly woke up. As soon as he moved, someone came to help him: "You're awake, does your head hurt?"
The wound on his forehead had been bandaged with medicine. Deng Tianyou calmed down and looked at the handsome boy in front of him: "You are..."
"He is my husband."
Deng Tianyou just noticed that Qin Zhao was also in the room.
This was a guest room in Qin Zhao's house. Deng Tianyou was lying on the bed, and Qin Zhao was sitting beside the bed. On the small table next to him were the gauze and medicine that had just been used to bandage him.
"Your Majesty, you... I am..."
Deng Tianyou was a scholar who was very polite. After seeing the current situation, he wanted to sit up, but the young man held him down and asked with concern: "Don't move. Do you feel dizzy?"
"I..." Deng Tianyou was a little dazed for a moment, and only remembered to ask after being asked, "Why did I faint just now?"
He raised his hand to touch the still aching spot on his forehead, and asked absentmindedly, "Are you injured?"
Jing Li looked at Qin Zhao guiltily.
Qin Zhaoqing cleared his throat and said calmly: "You fell down."
"… ah?"
Qin Zhao: "No, I fell down, and my husband brought you back."
Qin Zhao looked serious, Deng Tianyou believed it without a doubt, and immediately stood up and bowed to Jing Li: "Thank you, Princess."
Jing Li: “…”
This was the first time Jing Li was addressed like that, and he was not used to it. He stuttered when responding: "No, no relationship."
On the other hand, Qin Zhao did not feel guilty about deceiving others, and said seriously: "You can't stay in my house for long, I want to talk about business."
"Yes." Deng Tianyou replied.
Qin Zhao led Deng Tianyou to sit at the table and slowly talked in detail. Jing Li couldn't get a word in, but he didn't want to leave, so he took the initiative to help serve tea and water.
Qin Zhao glanced at him and let him go.
"When did you return to the capital? Have you been to the palace?" Qin Zhao asked.
Deng Tianyou replied: "I came back early yesterday morning and entered the palace at noon."
"Have you seen the Saint?"
Deng Tianyou shook his head.
"Now the Empress Dowager is in charge of all matters of the court. When asked about the Emperor, she only said that she was ill and weak and could not see anyone." Deng Tianyou paused and said, "But I heard that the Ministry of Rites is already preparing for the year-end ancestor worship."
"Oh?" Qin Zhao raised his eyebrows slightly, "When?"
"It should be December 16th."
Qin Zhao received some news.
Although he had set up an intelligence network in the capital, his sources of information varied, and were certainly not as fast as those of important officials in the court, such as Deng Tianyou.
It is now the end of November, which means we have more than half a month left.
More than half a month is enough time for him to make arrangements.
Qin Zhao said: "I want to meet with the Saint, and I need your help."
"During the ancestor worship?"
"Yes." Qin Zhao said, "The Holy Father will personally attend the ancestral worship ceremony, and the ancestral temple is quite far from the capital, so it will take at least three days to go there and back. Find a chance for me to meet the Holy Father within three days."
Deng Tianyou hesitated for a moment, but still nodded: "Okay."
Qin Zhao asked about some recent details of the court, and Deng Tianyou answered everything he knew one by one, speaking in a gentle and appropriate manner, neither hurried nor slow.
Jing Li looked at him with interest.
Deng Tianyou won the first place in the imperial examination at the age of 18, and he had been a student of Qin Zhao all along, which made him half a student of Qin Zhao. He was indeed very good around Qin Zhao, and his behavior and style of doing things were very much like Qin Zhao.
However, he lacks Qin Zhao's calm confidence, probably because of their different backgrounds.
Looking at Deng Tianyou's appearance, Jing Li was even more curious about what the rumored little emperor looked like. He was a person who was brought up by Qin Zhao and taught for seven years.
Jing Li was a little distracted by his thoughts, and didn't pay attention to what he said next. After a while, Deng Tianyou stood up and said goodbye, leaving through the door just like when he came.
Qin Zhao sent the person out the door, and when he turned around, he was hugged by a chubby little kid around his legs.
The little fish had been playing obediently in the yard while the elders were talking about something, and only now did he come out to make his presence felt.
When Jing Li saw that he had nothing in his hands, he remembered something: "Where is my candied haws?"
The little fish hid behind Qin Zhao: "It was eaten."
"Who ate it?" Jing Li pulled the little boy out and asked in his tone, "Didn't Daddy ask you to hold it for me?"
The little fish blinked and said innocently, "But daddy said I can't eat it."
"..." Jing Li couldn't answer.
He held the little fish cub's collar, raised his head, and said to Qin Zhao: "Look at you, your son has learned your bad intentions."
Qin Zhao didn't think he had any bad intentions.
But he knew that he couldn't reason with Jing Li at this time. Husbands are for coaxing, not reasoning. He nodded and admitted it: "It's my fault. I'll compensate you with one, no, two, another day."
Jing Li was satisfied: "Deal!"
The two then took the child back to the house.
Jing Li soon forgot about the candied haws and continued to happily fight with the little fish for the cakes.
His style of raising children is also unique. Other parents always leave the best for their children, but Jing Li is not like that. Someone never lets himself be wronged. When Xiao Yucu was very young, he secretly shared his cakes.
The kid was very ignorant at that time and often didn't understand why there was only a little bit left in his mouth from such a big piece of cake.
And now, Jing Li has been caught several times by the increasingly clever kid, so he just openly competes with him for food.
Qin Zhao always felt as if he was raising two children.
"So you had been planning to use Deng Tianyou to meet the little emperor? I don't quite understand why he wanted to help you?" Jing Li asked, thinking of what happened just now.
Perhaps because Deng Tianyou was an important official in the imperial court, Jing Li had always had a natural distrust of him.
Even if his temperament is similar to Qin Zhao's.
As a disciple of Prince Rong, he was able to quickly turn against Prince Rong when he lost power and was entrusted with an important position. Is such a person really trustworthy
Qin Zhao could roughly guess what he was worried about, and explained: "I want to come back. There are many people in the court who can be used, but do you know that for the sake of my country, I have to choose Deng Tianyou and Xiao Yue?"
"Because one of them holds an official position and the other has military power?"
"No." Qin Zhao shook his head. "Deng Tianyou and Xiao Yue are two completely different people. The only thing they have in common is that they both have their own unshakable beliefs."
Jing Li understood.
Qin Zhao said: "The Xiao family has been a great general for generations and has made great military achievements for the court. His ancestors once followed the founding emperor to fight everywhere. The Qi family has a great debt of gratitude to the Xiao family. It is said that Xiao Yue's generation is unruly and unrestrained. In his heart, he wants nothing more than two things."
"The Xiao family is safe and sound, and supports the Qi family's kingdom."
As for who sits on the throne, as long as that person is still of Qi family blood, Xiao Yue doesn't care who that person is.
"Deng Tianyou is even simpler," Qin Zhao said. "He was born in poverty, and all he wanted was for the people to live a good life. He cared too much about the safety of the people, even more than he respected the powerful. That was also the reason why he disagreed with me in the first place."
“I can see that…”
Deng Tianyou has the appearance of a typical scholar, but Jing Li never imagined that he has such a kind of blood in his bones.
Qin Zhao smiled and said, "If a person like him meets a violent and tyrannical ruler, he probably won't survive more than three days."
"But if he is that kind of person, why would he help you?"
Jing Li didn't understand.
Even if people like Deng Tianyou do not respect the imperial power, they will not betray it easily.
"Because I told him that there was another hidden reason behind my poisoning. I'm afraid he has the ambition to seize power and usurp the throne." Qin Zhao said calmly.
"Ah?" Jing Li was startled, "How do you know that Tai... "
Qin Zhao: "I don't know."
Jing Li was stunned for a long time before he vaguely understood something from Qin Zhao's expression.
He wouldn't just say it to deceive Deng Tianyou, right
Qin Zhao sighed: "Deng Tianyou is not as stupid as Xiao Yue, the warrior. I have to find a valid reason to convince him to help me."
Jing Li: “…”
It was the first time he saw someone taking advantage of others and confidently saying that they were stupid!
But then again, if he was really smart, he wouldn't have been deceived so badly by Qin Zhao.
Don’t people who are being sold have to help count the money
People are kind-hearted.
Jing Li looked a little dazed, and asked: "Have you ever thought about this, what if you are wrong, and this incident has nothing to do with Taiyou, and when the truth is revealed, won't Deng Tianyou know it?"
"What about the country?" Qin Zhao asked back.
Yes, knowing that how can one be like this
If Deng Tianyou had not agreed to help Qin Zhao on the night they met again in Jiangling, he might not even have been able to leave there alive. Even if the worst thing went against what Qin Zhao wanted, what was there to be afraid of
Deng Tianyou is just a civil servant. Can he threaten Qin Zhao
Jing Li wanted to understand something and fell silent.
It turns out that this person has been thinking about this thing in his heart.
No wonder the doctor said he was over-worrying.
"Why, do you think that Deng Tianyou is too cruel to me?" Qin Zhao saw that Jing Li looked a little unhappy, and quickly said, "But now it seems that my guess is not wrong. Something must have happened to Saint Saint, and it is probably related to the emperor. So... I was not completely lying to him."
Those words were purely to comfort Jing Li. Half of what Qin Zhao said was a lie and half was a guess. It was only after the emperor retired to the palace due to a serious illness and he arrived in the capital that part of his guess gradually came true.
Jing Li and Qin Zhao were not thinking about the same thing at all, and they cared more about his words of comfort.
He said, "You want to know what happened to the little emperor. I can help you."
"You help me?"
Jing Li said: "I saw it a few days ago. You can swim directly into the palace from the moat. I can help you see what the little emperor is doing."
Qin Zhao: “…”
"What are you laughing at!" Jing Li said unhappily, "I'm serious!"
This was not just a spur-of-the-moment thought. Jing Li had been thinking about this matter for a long time since he came to the capital, and he even visited the place several times when he went out shopping.
He was pretty sure the moat led directly to the palace.
"Okay, I know." Qin Zhao suppressed his smile and said seriously, "You can swim into the palace, but do you know how big it is?"
Jing Li was speechless.
"There are more than 70 palaces of various sizes and more than 9,000 houses in the palace. Do you know where the emperor lives?"
Jing Li remained silent.
"I'm afraid that before you find the little emperor, you will get lost in the deep palace." Qin Zhao sighed quietly, "Then I can only let Xiao Yue break into the palace gate and force his way in to save you."
Jing Li: “…”
How could he be that stupid
Hate.
Jing Li snorted coldly and was too lazy to talk to Qin Zhao anymore.
Qin Zhao stopped joking and coaxed, "I know you are worried about me and want to share some of my burden. But I have a plan in mind for this matter. It is enough for you to take good care of yourself."
"I know..."
Jing Li responded sullenly.
After coaxing her husband to give up his plan of "spying on the enemy", Qin Zhao felt relieved and took a sip of the teacup.
Jing Li seemed to think for a moment, then said: "I suddenly wondered, since you are so good at lying, when we first met, was I also deceived by your tricks?"
Qin Zhao paused and said in a serious tone: "Of course not, how could I lie to you?"
"That's right." Jing Li said without any doubt, "Before you recovered your memory, you were very honest and kind, and you would never lie to anyone."
Qin Zhao just smiled and nodded in agreement, not daring to say anything.
In this world, perhaps only his young husband would think that he is an upright and kind person.
Jing Li turned back to look at the cakes on the table and found that two-thirds of them were gone when he was talking to Qin Zhao. He immediately said angrily: "Qin Nuo, we agreed to give each of us half!"
I was so angry that I just called him by his full name.
The little fish was holding a piece of cake and was about to take a bite. When he heard Jing Li say that, he lowered his head to look at the cake in his hand and obediently cut it in half: "Half, give it to you."
Jing Li: “… … …”