Yang Wu took great pains, sweat broke out on his forehead, before he captured His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Li Zhi now had a special hobby. After Li Hong was captured, he liked to watch Yang Wu carrying Li Hong like a chicken. So, in the stunned eyes of all the court officials, the chicken was brought to the harem.

After the court officials returned to the Menxia, ​​Zhongshu and other departments below the Xuanzheng Hall, screams began to be heard from the harem, and it seemed that the Queen's cheering voice could be faintly heard from time to time.

"Father, you are the emperor, you cannot hit people." Li Hong said while being held under the armpit by Yang Wu after being brought into Wu Mei's current palace, Penglai Palace.

Li Zhi hummed and looked at him: "Queen, where is your feather duster? Lend it to me. Today I want to let the little bastard know how powerful I am."

"I'll get it for you right away." Wu Mei was very happy and ran to the dormitory happily. She took out an ugly feather duster with almost bald feathers.

There was no other way. These were the experiences gained from beating Li Hong. If a feather duster with full feathers was used instead, after a few hits, the entire palace would be filled with flying feathers. It would be a real chaotic situation.

Li Hong was pressed down with his buttocks sticking out, and Li Zhi brought down the feather duster in his hand rudely and fiercely, and immediately the screams resounded throughout the harem and even the entire Daming Palace.

Some palace maids outside the palace heard such miserable cries, their hands trembled and they almost dropped the servants in their hands to the ground.

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Taiping and Li Dan, who were being carried by palace maids to look for Xiaoyuer in Taiye Lake, had their eyes lit up when they heard the first scream. They excitedly asked the palace maids to carry them back quickly so that they could watch their brother being beaten.

When the two little guys were brought to the palace, they saw Li Hong, who had somehow escaped from Yang Wu's armpit, chasing Li Zhi all over the palace.

"Father, you are the king of a country. Beating people is against the law of the Tang Dynasty." Li Hong held the back of the chair and jumped lightly to avoid Li Zhi's blockade, and said hurriedly.

"Breaking the law? I am the emperor, I am the law. I beat my son, ahem... What kind of law is that? Or is it that only your mother is allowed to beat you? Do you think I dare not beat you? Stop and don't run."

"I'm not stupid. Why should I stand still and let you hit me? Besides, you are seeking revenge on my own behalf. Privately minting new coins is a capital crime. According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, you should apologize to the Dali Temple for being a collective crime." Li Hong hid behind Wu Mei and asked for help.

"Don't touch me, your dirty hands are all sweaty." Wu Mei was speechless. When he grabbed her clothes around the waist, many wrinkles immediately appeared.

But looking at the two-faced man's character, she was helpless: "If you have the ability, explain it clearly to your father. To be honest, I am still angry. Don't you know it? Banmei, bring another feather duster over. I get angry every time I think of it. It's a good opportunity to settle accounts with him together." Wu Mei remembered that the little bastard left one flying outside for his father, and her brows suddenly turned black.

Didn't the little bastard ever think about what would happen if Helan Minyue was pregnant with a dragon seed? The royal heir was left stranded outside, and this sin was not something that Li Hong could afford. He would see how the royal court would settle accounts with him.

Thinking of this, Wu Mei stretched out her phoenix claws, trying to grab Li Hong's ears, but Li Hong had foresight and held her soft waist with both hands and pushed her into the arms of Li Zhi who was chasing after her.

Then Li Hong ran to the door and picked up the latest protective magic weapon, Princess Taiping Li Lingyue.

A prophecy was brought to the gate of Penglai Palace by the eunuch Hua Ji when Wu Mei and Li Zhi bumped into each other.

At this time, Ashina Telu, who had just been received by Li Zhi, had just walked out of Chang'an City and was preparing to return to Yunzhong with the deputy governor Li Jun, carrying the food personally given by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

In recent years, the official roads from Chang'an to various places have been built with cement for more than a hundred miles each by Yan Liben, the Minister of Works, with the huge financial support and encouragement of Li Hong.

The most eye-catching thing is, of course, the official road leading to Luoyang, which is built entirely of cement. No matter whether it is the Tang Dynasty merchants or ordinary people, not to mention foreign merchants, every time they walk on this mirror-like road, they can't help but sigh. They can't believe that such a long road is built with expensive cement.

This official road also completely solved the problem of transporting all goods from the south via the canal to Luoyang and then by land to Chang'an.

Ashina Telu rode on a fine horse, walking at the front of the team in high spirits. Looking at the straight and flat official road, his heart was filled with pride.

There was a cavalry team of about a dozen people on the opposite side. The sound of horse hooves hitting the concrete road was crisp. Li Jun, who was supporting the team from behind, couldn't help but frowned. These dozen people on the opposite side did not look like ordinary people.

But as he watched everyone pass by Ashinatler, and some even smiled and greeted him in a friendly manner when they passed by him, he relaxed his guard.

When Ashnatele was high-fiving the man in the middle of the cavalry who smiled at him, he felt that several of these people looked familiar, but after thinking for a long time, he still couldn't remember where he had seen them before.

He watched the group of more than a dozen riders slowly pass by him, until the last person passed by him, he still couldn't remember who these people were.

Li Jun watched the dozen riders ride away. After the team was temporarily out of danger, he rode his horse to catch up with Ashina Tele who was at the front and said calmly, "Who are these people? They don't look like people from Chang'an."

"I don't know. Maybe it's a merchant from your Tang Dynasty. Now we're traveling from Chang'an to Luoyang... Hey? Is there something here on my neck? It hurts like a needle." Ashinatler touched his neck with his hand and couldn't help but move closer to Li Jun, asking him to help him take a look.

"Nothing. It's probably because you haven't taken a shower for many days." Li Jun joked with a slight smile.

"Impossible, I did take a shower. Today in the accommodation provided by the Honglu Temple, I took a comfortable hot bath. Alas... This time when I go back, I don't know when I can enjoy the wealth and prosperity of Chang'an again. It's simply heaven. Look at the palace where the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty lives. Our Yunzhong Protectorate is simply... not as good as other people's stables." Ashina Teler continued to stroke his neck with one hand, feeling carefully to see if there was something pricking his neck.

Li Jun saw that he looked a little uncomfortable and said, "When we pass by the post station later, wash your face and wash your neck which you can't wash twice a year. You might be very hungry."

"Haha... Who said we take a bath twice a year? Isn't it said that we only take a bath three times in our life, once when we are born, once when we get married, and once when we die. Alas... I didn't expect that the people of Chang'an would know us so well. Either they think we are prairie wolves, and think we are ruthless, fierce and cruel, or they think we are uncivilized barbarians, low, inferior and humble. In short, the people of Yunzhong and Guanzhong have very different views of each other." Ashina Tele looked up at the sun above his head at noon, then looked at the official road under his feet that was as smooth as a mirror, as if it were the road to heaven, and couldn't help but sigh.

Li Jun looked at Ashina Telu with a half-smile, and said, "I didn't expect that you would be so careful in observing things in Chang'an these few days. But it's okay. The Tang Dynasty is now in its heyday. With more merchants coming and going, those one-sided views will change."

"Why is it getting more and more painful and itchy?" Ashinatler frowned and continued to grope with his neck stiff.

Li Jun looked at it in surprise and warned, "Stop scratching it. It's bleeding."

"I didn't scratch it, I just touched it..." After hearing what Li Jun said, Ashina Telu took his hand and took a look. There were traces of blood on it, obviously bleeding from the neck.

"Are you okay?" Li Jun looked at Ashinatler who looked a little dazed and asked with concern.

"No...no...it's okay..."

With a bang, Ashinatler suddenly fell off the horse's back, lying on the ground and suddenly began to twitch.

"Stop moving forward and guard your respective carriages. No one is allowed to leave without permission." Li Jun watched Ashinatler fall off his horse and quickly dismounted. While checking on Ashinatler, he loudly ordered the accompanying convoy guards.

"Ashinatler...Ashinatler..." Li Jun looked at the twitching Ashnatler and hurriedly turned over the body lying on the ground. He wiped the blood from his face which was scratched on the concrete road when he fell, and shook the still twitching Ashnatler.

"Um... um... Li Jun, I... am dead... someone tried to kill me." Ashina Teler was in a daze. He struggled to open his heavy eyelids, his eyes were unfocused.

"How could this happen?" Li Jun was very familiar with the expression of a person before death. Looking at Ashina Teler's appearance, he knew that this guy was on his deathbed.

Li Jun checked Ashina Telu's body. His arms and chest were intact, and there was no possibility of a wound on his back. He had noticed this when he turned him over just now.

In a very short time, Ashinatler, who was still twitching in his arms, suddenly stopped moving. Li Jun's heart began to sink more and more. The head of Ashinatler held in his hands became heavier and heavier. Just when one of his hands loosened a little, Ashinatler's head tilted.

At this moment, Li Jun saw that the neck where Ashina Tele had been crying out in pain and itchiness was now completely black. The purple-black blood did not seem to be flowing out, but rather seemed to be seeping into the neck!

"What's going on? Why is this happening?" Li Jun opened Ashina Telu's eyelids. His pupils were dilated at this moment. He was truly dead, with only a little residual body warmth left.

At the same time, Wang Jing and Wang Kang, who had long been demoted to commoners in Jinyang, and two of Ashina Tele's men, Mukun and Gelulu, who were waiting to welcome Ashina Tele in Jinyang, were lying silently on the wine table, their faces the purple-blue color of poisoning.