"Don't bother the doctor, An An has already bandaged it for me."
Zhao Yiming refused the emperor's offer to invite the imperial physician, and quickly explained the whole story and purpose of his visit. The emperor glanced at Tian Mingwu who was standing aside with his head lowered, and in the end did not let him out. He only waved away Defu and other palace servants.
After a moment of silence, he said to Zhao Yiming, "In your opinion, why did that group of people target this girl?"
Seeing that the emperor hadn't asked his father-in-law to recuse himself, Zhao Yiming stopped being secretive and said bluntly, "I suspect the news that An An provided the glass-making method has been leaked."
Hearing this, both the father and daughter looked at him in disbelief.
Tian An didn't expect that it was all about Liuli, but when he thought about it, apart from Liuli, there seemed to be nothing else about her that could make people care so much.
Tian Mingwu never expected that the core technology of Liulichang, the most profitable factory in the imperial court that carries half of the national treasury, was actually provided by his own daughter.
Even if he didn't understand the mundane affairs, he knew that any bit of money that came out of the Liulichang could make an ordinary family rich.
What makes me even more angry is that he only found out about it today.
Poor guy, he thought his family was extremely poor, but he never expected that his daughter actually held such a big treasure in her hands.
No wonder the house was able to install glazed windows as soon as possible. No wonder my daughter could easily use glazed windows that are not available for purchase as prizes in a lottery. So that's how it is!
He was reluctant to blame his own daughter, but whenever he thought about how the emperor had watched him getting anxious about his daughter's dowry and wanted to provoke the bandits' nest without stopping him at all, he got angry. He was definitely being tricked by the emperor!
The look in their eyes when they looked at the emperor suddenly became full of resentment, and their words were inevitably tinged with sourness. "Even I, as a father, don't know about this. I guess there are not many people who know about this. So, apart from those present here, who else knows about this? Then it must be someone who leaked it!"
The emperor ignored the sour tone in Tian Mingwu's words, frowned, and shouted to the door: "Come, summon the crown prince."
In this matter, Tian An and Zhao Yiming are in the same group and can be considered the holders of the technology, while the emperor is the biggest beneficiary. It is impossible for the three of them to leak the information.
Not to mention that even the father Tian Mingwu didn't know, the emperor didn't even tell the empress!
At the beginning, only the three of them and the prince knew about this matter, so now they can only ask the prince to come and ask.
While waiting for the prince, the emperor decisively ordered martial law at the city gates and ordered the secret guards to cooperate with the Dali Temple to search for the man in black tonight, both openly and covertly.
The reason why the city gates were not blocked directly was because they were afraid that tonight's explosion and the court's search would cause panic among the people.
In order to better capture the man, Zhao Yiming and Tian An recalled all the characteristics of the man they could think of during the fight tonight, wrote them down and handed them to the commander of the emperor's secret guards.
The most important of these were the arrow wounds on his left arm and right thigh caused by Tian An's crossbow, as well as the wound on the back of his right hand caused by a poisoned crossbow arrow.
"In addition to searching, you can also focus on controlling the pharmacy. I poisoned the arrow that scratched his hand tonight. If he doesn't get an antidote, his injury won't heal.
Even a wound the size of a hair will continue to fester, and if the poison is not removed, it will gradually spread throughout the body."
After saying this, he borrowed the emperor's desk and quickly wrote down a prescription. "This is the antidote to the poison. These ingredients are not usually found in ordinary prescriptions. If anyone is seen buying these in a pharmacy, it is most likely the thief."
The emperor took a casual look and asked the commander of the secret guards to take the prescription and search.
When the prince arrived, the commander of the secret guards had just left. After hearing the whole story, he carefully recalled whether he had said anything wrong and leaked the information.
After a while, he really thought of something, "One time when my cousin Mingyu and I were talking in the study, I only had the guards guard the door from a distance, but I forgot that my Crown Princess was resting in the next room due to pregnancy fatigue.
But he shouldn't be able to hear our conversation from the distance of a wall!"
When he sent Zhao Yiming away and went back to see the Crown Princess, she was still sleeping soundly. But now he was not sure whether the Crown Princess was really asleep or just pretending to be asleep.
He rarely discussed the relationship between Liuli Fangzi and Tian An with Zhao Yiming. After thinking about it, that was the most likely time.
He had always been cautious in the past, but he didn't expect that this negligence would lead to such a big mistake.
The emperor pointed at him with dismay, "What are you still standing there for? Why don't you go check it out?"
"Yes, father." The prince was about to take his leave.
Tian An stopped him and said, "Brother Crown Prince, please talk to the Crown Princess's wife. There may be other loopholes. It may not be her. You must investigate carefully and don't wrongly accuse her, especially since she is pregnant. Remember not to get too emotional."
"Thank you, sister-in-law, for your generosity." The prince looked at Tian An with gratitude.
He almost got it wrong just now. If Tian An hadn't reminded him, he would have subconsciously concluded that it was the Crown Princess who did it.
If he really wronged her, then even if he found out the truth later, there would be a gap between them.
After the prince left, the emperor looked at Tian An and said, "You are so generous. Aren't you afraid that it was really done by the princess?"
Tian Anfu bowed his head and said, "We are both women, I just understand women better.
Besides, if we really do not distinguish right from wrong and wrongly accuse the Crown Princess's cousin-in-law, letting her take the blame while letting the real spy go, wouldn't that be a joke to everyone?"
What she didn't say was that although she had only met the Crown Princess a few times, she intuitively believed that she was not a bad person. She just hoped that the Crown Princess would not let them down!
The prince was responsible for catching the spies. The emperor gave Zhao Yiming a half-month leave to recuperate, and then sent them out of the palace.
After coming out of the palace, Tian An insisted on taking Zhao Yiming back to the general's mansion, under the pretext of taking care of his injuries and making it convenient for them to discuss the capture of the man in black.
Zhao Yiming naturally agreed. Tian Mingwu looked at the wound on Zhao Yiming's hand and rarely refuted.
After personally sending Zhao Yiming and Tian An back to the general's mansion.
Whenever Zhao Yiming thought that there were people outside who were still concerned about his precious daughter, he felt like there was a knife hanging over his head. He really couldn't just stay at home and wait for news.
After giving the two of them a few words of advice, he ordered the soldiers to impose martial law throughout the city from today onwards, and then prepared to rush to the south of the city to personally oversee the search and arrest operation.
Tian An knew that he couldn't persuade him, so he took out the crossbow he had used before, and two large handfuls of short arrows and gave them to him, and then instructed him:
"Dad, please don't act alone. Safety is the most important thing. Even if we can't catch that guy, it doesn't matter. At worst, I can bring more guards with me when I go out. We just need to be on guard."
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