Shen Yu's heart skipped a beat. Li Zhaonian had seen her in the palace, but she was already prepared. She nodded and saluted Li Zhaonian with calm eyes.
Li Zhaonian seemed stunned for a moment, then smiled warmly.
There was a soft sound on the bead curtain, and Li Jincheng came out of the dormitory. He had gauze tied around his arm and hung around his neck, and there were some scratches on his face.
"Father." Li Jincheng was about to kneel down, but Emperor Tongxu waved his hand to stop him.
"You're injured, sit down."
Li Jincheng did not sit down. He glanced at Shen Yu and said, "Father, this man fought all the way to save his son. He is tired from traveling all the way. Please forgive him for kneeling."
The reason why Emperor Tongxu didn't ask Shen Yu to get up before was because there were still doubts among the officials. Since Li Jincheng said this, it meant that there was nothing wrong with this person.
Li Jincheng's description of the whole incident was no different from what Shen Yu said, except that he added a little more detail to the assassin.
Li Jincheng said: "Those assassins are not ordinary people. It is impossible for ordinary civilian assassins to be so well-trained. I don't know who I am enmity with or who I am blocking, and I want to make the other person kill him with such pain."
Everyone present could understand the meaning of these words. Didn't they point the finger at the princes?
Now, there is still a seventh prince, Li Yanchang, who has not returned yet, and he is the most suspicious.
Li Jifeng looked like it had nothing to do with him. He was very grateful to Shi Yu at the moment.
If he hadn't led them to the north, today's fire would have been on his head, and Xie Tingzhou would not be able to escape suspicion.
If it was really a prince who had done it, the royal secrets could not be made public. Then Xie Tingzhou would be the best scapegoat. Even if Beilin had no objections, he could be forced to take advantage of him.
Li Jifeng felt like he was surviving a disaster.
He crooked Xie Tingzhou with his elbow and whispered: "You are a lucky star as a guard."
Xie Tingzhou said nothing, staring at Yusu with his eyes downcast, his mind wandering.
Li Jincheng struck while the iron was hot, "If it hadn't rained sometimes, it would have been hard to say whether my father would have seen the corpse of his son."
Emperor Tongxu's face became even more ugly.
At this moment, the Imperial Guard hurriedly came to report that the seventh prince Li Yanchang was back.
"Let him in."
When Li Yanchang came in, everyone in the tent was stunned, including Li Jincheng who was full of anger just now and waiting to question him.
Emperor Tongxu stood up suddenly and sat back down, "What's going on? The imperial doctor, the imperial doctor."
Li Yanchang was supported by two guards, and his crown had fallen off. His long hair was scattered behind him, and he looked even more embarrassed than Li Jincheng.
"Father..." Li Yanchang took a breath, "Father, please send people to search the mountain quickly. There are assassins on the mountain."
Li Jincheng had just been sent to the bedroom, and now Li Yanchang was welcomed back.
Emperor Tongxu patted the armrest, raised his finger and pointed in the direction of Baishan, "Go and allocate more manpower! Give me, even if Baishan is turned over, we must find the assassin. I want to see who dares to assassinate one after another." My prince!"
As a father, he couldn't control the brothers fighting behind closed doors, but he couldn't let outsiders bully them.
Emperor Tongxu gasped several times.
Defu stroked Emperor Tongxu's back, and Emperor Tongxu opened his hand to wave. Defu was stunned for a moment before realizing it. He quickly took out a bottle and poured out a pill, and brought tea to Emperor Tongxu to take.
When everyone saw this situation, they understood each other tacitly.
Emperor Tongxu's time is running out.
Li Jincheng's eyebrows had not relaxed since Li Yanchang came in.
He was confused. Li Yanchang also met an assassin. Could it be that he didn't plan this incident?
This is strange. Who is behind this plan and wants to catch them all?
Li Jifeng looked at Xie Tingzhou and felt surprised.
After a while, Li Yanchang also came out.
He was wounded in two places, one on his back and one on his shoulder.
Emperor Tongxu held his head, and the fatigue on his face was even more profound under the lamp.
"Lao Qi." Emperor Tongxu asked, "Tell me how you were attacked."
Li Yanchang said it roughly.
The assassin prepared a rope to trip the horse in the forest. One of the guards fell off his horse first. Seeing that something was wrong, he fled with the other guards, but he was ambushed and managed to escape.
After Li Yanchang finished speaking, he looked at Li Jincheng again, "How did the eldest brother escape?"
Li Jincheng said seriously: "I was lucky. I met the Crown Prince's bodyguard, who rescued me. The rest of the bodyguards were missing."
"What a coincidence." Li Yanchang said: "How come I haven't met such a master who can bring my brother back by himself?"
"Is it possible that you're unhappy that I'm back?"
Li Yanchang's expression changed.
"That's enough." Emperor Tongxu was used to such tit-for-tat confrontations between brothers, and now he just felt exhausted.
"Shi Yu protected you for your merits, and I will reward you..." Emperor Tongxu paused, and for a moment he couldn't think of what he wanted to reward, so he said, "Just a hundred taels of reward."
"My uncle is very stingy." Pei Chunli sat there all night before speaking: "The prince is not a stingy person, and his bodyguards naturally have no shortage of gold and silver."
Marquis Xuanping scolded, "What are you kidding about?"
Emperor Tongxu said: "Then what do you think we should reward?"
"He originally earned fame in the military, so why not give him an official position?" Pei Chunli said matter-of-factly: "It's better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish."
After speaking, he glanced at Xie Tingzhou secretly, and happened to see Xie Tingzhou looking at him.
There seemed to be a smile on Xie Tingzhou's lips, but the smile was a little evil, and the coldness between his brows and eyes only made people feel chills running down their spines.
Pei Chunli thought to himself, Shiyu, Shiyu, you arranged such an errand for me, aren't you trying to harm me? I was almost killed by the look in Xie Tingzhou's eyes.
Li Jincheng thought for a while, if he pushed forward and promoted Xie Tingzhou's people, it would be considered a favor to Xie Tingzhou. In addition, he was grateful for Shigure's life-saving grace, so he said:
"Anan, you usually do nothing but talk about things, but today you said something humane."
"Cousin, what are you talking about?" Pei Chunli raised his head. Now that he was riding a tiger and couldn't get off, he could only bite the bullet and said, "Shi Yu's kung fu is amazing. Isn't the imperial court currently lacking such talents?"
Li Jincheng said: "It is true that my father has been worrying about suppressing bandits these past two days."
This sentence awakened Emperor Tongxu. Since Wen Lesheng was arrested for murder, the various parties in the court were quarreling over the fat job of suppressing bandits, and they all wanted their own people to take the lead.
One of the arts of the emperor is checks and balances.
Emperor Tongxu thought for a while and then called out Shigure's name in a deep voice, "I will give you the position of Zhonglang General and order you to go to Qichang to quell the bandits. Do you have any objections?"
Shen Yu thanked her and said, "I have no objection."
"I have objections." Jiang Lianzhi suddenly stood up.
