Li Hong listened to the reports of the three people while wearing a glass cover, but his thoughts passed through the glass in front of him and he found another inspiration to make money, that is, the mirror that was worth as much as gold when it first came out!
"Uh... ask me." Li Hong woke up from his thoughts and saw Liu Rengui looking at him with inquiring eyes.
"Yes, I wonder what the King of Dai thinks? Will he follow me and others to Ci'en Temple, or wait for news here?" Liu Rengui frowned. While they were talking about serious matters, the King of Dai was actually daydreaming.
Jingzhe and Liebao happened to appear at the door at this time. After looking at the people in the room, Li Hong signaled them to speak.
Liebao confirmed the people in front of him and said, "Reporting to the King of Dai, when we were evacuating, we saw the Minister of the Central Secretariat Liu Shuang and the Marquis of Jinyang Wang Jing go to Ci'en Temple again."
Li Hong nodded. He felt a little dizzy from the banging of the glass cover on his head. He quickly took it off to join in the fun and said, "If not now, when will we go? I'll go with you guys to see it for myself."
Liu Rengui and Duan Xuanbao looked at each other and agreed to go to Ci'en Temple with Li Hong.
The Grand Secretary of the Dali Temple and the Minister of Justice had already gathered 300 Qianniu Guards personally approved by Li Zhi outside Prince Pu's Mansion.
Li Hong looked at so many people and frowned. It was a bit of a big scene. Never mind. Since his father didn't care about being scolded by his mother if the matter got out of hand, he would be even less afraid. Anyway, his father would support him at that time.
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Li Hong didn't know that Li Zhi attached so much importance to the matter of his lost palace maid this time, and there was another intention or selfish motive behind it.
The gate of Ci'en Temple was surrounded tightly by Qianniu Guards. Torches illuminated the gate as bright as day. There was a noisy sound of footsteps inside. The gate of Ci'en Temple opened, and seven or eight monks looked at the dozens of people at the gate vigilantly, a little at a loss.
"Don't pay attention to them. Let Cheetah lead the way and go directly to the suspicious courtyard." Before Liu Rengui and Duan Xuanbao spoke, Li Hong had already given the order decisively.
Liu Rengui nodded secretly, feeling satisfied with Li Hong's decision. In this way, even if the people inside were alarmed, it would be difficult for them to take precautions. If the monk at the door was notified, it would give Liu Shuang and others time to evade and hide.
Xia Zhi held Li Hong in his arms, with Liu Rengui and Duan Xuanbao on his left and right. Surrounded by dozens of Qianniu Guards, they quickly followed Liebao into Ci'en Temple. Several monks at the door were instantly controlled by the soldiers left behind by the Qianniu Guards, depriving them of the opportunity to call the police.
Dozens of people walked quickly and cautiously to the backyard. Li Hong now hated his short legs. He needed someone to hold him to keep up with the crowd.
Liu Rengui discussed with Duan Xuanbao in a low voice for a few words, and then shouted: "Qianniu Guards, listen up, anyone who comes across to stop us will be killed without mercy!"
Li Hong gave Liu Rengui a thumbs up, and then continued to follow everyone to the courtyard that Cheetah had explored but was difficult to approach.
The rooms in the courtyard were still brightly lit at this time. Before they could get close, someone shouted from the shadows to stop them: "Who are you? How dare you trespass into Ci'en Temple?"
Liu Rengui snorted without hesitation: "Kill!"
Looking back at Li Hong looking at him, Liu Rengui stared at the house in front of him and said, "It seems that there is something mysterious about Ci'en Temple. Why does a temple that lives in peace with the world still have guards? They are all secret sentries. This is enough to show that there is something illegal going on."
As he was speaking, Qianniu Guard had already rushed into the room filled with shadowy figures, aiming his crossbow at the people sitting inside.
Liu Shuang, Wang Jing, Wei Ying and Yarou were all stunned, not knowing why the Tang Dynasty's Qianniu Guards suddenly appeared.
Listening to the footsteps outside, Liu Shuang's face began to turn pale, and he thought to himself: "Oh no, I have fallen into the Dai Wang's trap."
While he was thinking, he saw the Prince of Dai being carried into the room by a palace maid. Besides his personal palace maids and eunuchs, there were also the Chief Justice of the Dali Temple and the Minister of Justice on both sides.
Liu Shuang's face turned pale immediately. He didn't expect that King Dai had already made a plan and was waiting for him to sneak into Ci'en Temple.
Li Hong chuckled, looked at the four people with uncertain faces, and said to Liu Shuang: "Return Bai Lu to me. Master Weiying, I haven't seen you for a day. I hope you are well."
"I am a poor monk...meeting the King of Dai." Wei Ying looked grim and squeezed out a word from between his teeth with difficulty.
"Where is my maid? She won't be killed, will she?" Li Hong asked curiously. He believed that they had already let down their guard and would not kill Bai Lu in a short time to get rid of suspicion.
Wei Ying was silent for a moment, then said to Yarou, "Let someone bring the Dai King's maid over here."
Yarou was stunned for a moment, looking at Li Hong who was held in Xia Zhi's arms, and then looking at the plain dress Xia Zhi was wearing. He looked exactly like the person she had kidnapped.
"It seems that your appearance at the gate of Ci'en Temple yesterday was not a coincidence, but you have found the clue of your missing maid." Wei Ying calmed down, looking calm and composed.
Wang Jing and Liu Shuang stood there at a loss. They kept wondering how much King Dai knew about their involvement in this matter.
Bai Lu was brought into the room by two middle-aged women. When she saw the King of Dai being held by Xia Zhi in the room, she immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed, saying, "This servant greets the King of Dai."
"Get up. Have you suffered these two days? Have they made things difficult for you? If so, tell me and we will repay you tenfold." Li Hong said as he looked at Yarou, who was about seventeen or eighteen years old.
"Report to the King of Dai, they...they have never abused their slaves."
"That's good. Well, let's go back to the mansion. The next thing is the matter of Lord Liu and Lord Duan." After Li Hong finished speaking, he was carried out by Xia Zhi.
Li Hong patted Liu Rengui on the shoulder, and Liu Rengui, understanding his intention, hurriedly followed him out.
"We can send people to Wang Jing's and Liu Shuang's families to collect evidence. The relationship between them is unusual, and they must have exchanged letters. We should carefully investigate why they kidnapped my palace maids. Also, there are many Tang Dynasty civilians imprisoned in the last row of houses in Ci'en Temple. Rescue them and see if we can learn something from them." Although Li Hong rescued Bai Lu at this moment, he still didn't understand why they kidnapped his palace maids. Now, it was the middle of the night, and he was not interested in dealing with these people. It would be better to hand it over to the professionals Liu Rengui and Duan Xuanbao, and he would just listen to their reports then.
What's more, with my current status, if I get too close to Liu Rengui and Duan Xuanbao, it will probably cause criticism from others. It's better for me not to get involved in these things and let them handle it.
Liu Rengui nodded in agreement, then watched Li Hong and others leave Ci'en Temple, and sent a hundred thousand guards to escort him back to the palace. These people would continue to protect his safety before he returned to the palace.
The eunuch Hua Ji came out of the palace, and after seeing Bai Lu being rescued and following the Qianniu Guards to send Li Hong back home, he hurried back to the palace. Li Zhi was still waiting for his report.
Li Hong did not sleep well that night. In his dreams, he was thinking about why Weiying, Liu Shuang and others wanted to kidnap his maid, and all kinds of reasons were flying around. In short, in his dream, he even dreamed that Weiying coveted Bailu's beauty, and he also dreamed that Weiying returned to secular life and asked him to grant him and Bailu a marriage.
The next day, he slept until noon before lazily getting up from the bed. Instead of waiting for Liu Rengui and others, Princess Lanling arrived.
Li Hong felt uncomfortable with Lan Ling's strange look. He complained, "Aunt, if you have something to say, please just tell me. It's creepy to stare at me like this."
"Oh, you are so young but you are still afraid of being seen. Let me ask you, when the Xiao family came yesterday, why didn't you accept their gifts?" Lan Ling asked.
"I know that the Lanling Xiao family is rich, but don't you think it's strange that they used Concubine Xiao's things to bribe me? Aren't they a little too stingy, using Concubine Xiao's money to do things for themselves! Does this make sense? They really take me for a fool. Ha, I won't be fooled." Li Hong rolled his eyes at Lanling, then his little hands picked and chose in the food box that Lanling brought, looking for the food he liked.
Lan Ling was a little surprised and asked in confusion: "Why did they take their own money? The gift I gave you yesterday was in the hope that you could plead for Concubine Xiao Shu in front of your mother. Besides, those gold, silver and jewelry were all the means for Concubine Xiao Shu to save her life. Naturally, there is no need for Lanling Xiao to pay for her life."
Li Hong rolled his eyes at her in annoyance, but was caught by Lan Ling. Immediately, Lan Ling's jade hand reached out to his thigh and twisted it hard, causing Li Hong to scream in pain.
Li Hong rubbed the pinched thigh in annoyance and said, "No wonder you have become poorer and poorer in recent years. You have such a rich man but you don't know how to fight for your share and are used as a tool by him."
"Be a gun user? Little thing, explain to me clearly, what does being a gun user mean?" Lan Ling didn't understand, but he knew it was definitely not a good thing.
"Oh, you've been taken advantage of all these years without even realizing it."
"Hey... How dare you look down on your aunt." Lan Ling pretended to pinch his other leg.
"Hey, don't pinch me. It's not too late to pinch me after you listen to me." Li Hong quickly hid far away and looked at Lan Ling vigilantly.
"Tell me, if you don't explain it clearly, I will not let you go today." Lan Ling no longer treated him as a child, and began to listen to Li Hong's explanation with an open mind.
"Don't you think about it? If I accept those things, wouldn't it mean that the Lanling Xiao Clan will be one step closer to me in the future? To put it bluntly, if I do something in the future, wouldn't that be even more to their liking?"
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