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Chapter 163: Bait

Li Chenan and Shang Di were talking about Wen Xiaowan in Jiuyu Tower.

In the Prime Minister's Mansion in Jinxiu Alley and in the Lingyan Pavilion on Lingyan Lake, Ningguo Prime Minister Jitai was drinking wine with an old man in a wheelchair.

Wine is the painting spring.

The dishes that go with the wine are extremely simple.

Just a plate of peanuts and a plate of thinly sliced ​​braised pork head.

If people who don’t know better think that the prime minister is so incorruptible, in fact it’s just because the old man in a wheelchair wearing a black robe only likes these two kinds of food to go with wine.

Ji Tai poured a glass of wine for the old man in black robe, "Are you really not tired of eating peanuts and pig head meat for so many years?"

The old man in black robe drank up the wine in the glass in one gulp, lifted up his sleeves and wiped his mouth, then stretched out his hand and put a piece of pig head meat into his mouth.

He doesn't have many teeth in his mouth, so he basically grinds them with his gums.

This is a bit slow.

But Ji Tai had long been accustomed to it, so he just looked at him like this, silently waiting for him to grind up the piece of pig head meat before swallowing it.

After a full thirty breaths, the old man in black robe stretched out his neck, and the veins on his neck even popped out.

He swallowed the piece of meat, and a wry smile appeared on his withered face, "I really can't eat the peanuts. I can only taste the taste and spit them out...feed them to the birds or fish."

Saying this, he actually twisted another peanut, and his mouth was slowly moving again. This time, it took half a cup of tea before he spit out the peanut that was still intact in his mouth.

In Lingyan Lake.

The fish in the lake seem to know this situation, and they seem to have been waiting.

When the peanut just fell into the water, they pupated into it, and some even jumped out of the water!

That’s a huge school of fish!

Those fish stirred up ripples in circles and circles, lasting for a long time.

The old man in black robe just watched until the ripples on the lake surface subsided, and then suddenly said: "If I die, don't forget to feed them."

Ji Tai smiled slightly:

"I'm worried that they are used to the taste in your mouth and won't eat the peanuts I spill."

The old man in black robe pondered for a moment:

"Fish cannot refuse the taste of food. Even if they can tell the difference in taste, even if they know that the food is full of danger... they will still come one after another to find food."

"You like fishing. You caught and put down the fish in Lingyan Lake, put them down and caught them again. You even caught the same fish several times!"

"You see, this is the stupidity of fish, and it's the same with humans..."

Jitai raised her sparse eyebrows slightly, filled another glass of wine for the old man in black robe and handed it over, "But some fish are extremely cunning. They swim outside the fish school. No matter how I try to lure them, they just won't bite."

Hook, what should I do?"

The old man in black robe also grinned. His mouth with few teeth looked very sinister, like a dark hole.

"But you can not only fish, you can also cast a net!"

"Hey... Speaking of casting the net, in the past twenty years, I have spared no effort to expand the Fish and Dragon Society, suppressing the Lijing Division at all costs, and even aroused the hostility of the old dog Changsun Jinghong."

"But twenty years have passed, and the fish has never been caught in the net."

"If he were still alive, he would be twenty years old!"

"If he doesn't know anything, he can just be a stupid fish and it doesn't matter if he can't be caught... But if the emperor knows that he is still alive..."

Ji Tai let out a long sigh. He stood up, grabbed a handful of peanuts from the plate and stood by the railing. He threw the peanuts in his hand into the Lingyan Lake one by one. Sure enough, it attracted another

The snatching of a large school of fish.

"Although the Emperor has been obsessed with Taoism in recent years, you and I know the reason why he is obsessed with Taoism."

"He ordered everyone to kill Lu Zhanxiao who was waiting for him when he got in the car. What you old guy did is a bit cruel!"

Ji Tai threw the remaining peanuts in his hand into the lake. The lake was boiling like boiling water because of the predation of the fish, but he turned around and looked at the man in the wheelchair.

The back of the old man in black robe said again:

"At that time, Queen Lu happened to be pregnant with a dragon species, but you used a trick to let Lu Zhanxiao have huge military power, and then you sow discord and made the emperor suspicious of Lu Zhanxiao, so you got into that trap in anger.

The will of the Tao."

"The water of Huanhua Stream was dyed red by the blood of the Lu family, and then your legs were broken by your junior brother Wen Boiyu, and one of your teeth was knocked out!"

"Queen Lu has not been deposed. This is your first miscalculation!"

"This is enough to show the emperor's love for Queen Lu... After all, Queen Lu was the queen chosen by the emperor himself. The emperor was not the emperor at that time, and the emperor was still the prince at that time... When the emperor ascended the throne and became emperor, he canonized Lu Qiu Shuang as the queen."

"Of course, this is also because the old lady of the Lu family is a princess of the Yue Kingdom, although she has died long ago."

"You underestimated this woman Lu Qiu Shuang. She did not fall down because the entire Lu family was wiped out!"

"She gave birth to that baby!"

"The daily record records that he is a son!"

"If he is still alive, he will be the legitimate prince!"

"The child disappeared when the full moon was over, and Lu Qiu Shuang was completely defeated. She hanged herself from a beam... I thought her death was also your handiwork, but later I found out that I was wrong."

"You didn't steal the child, so after she died, even if you searched the palace, the child was still alive and dead, as if she disappeared out of thin air."

Ji Tai walked to the table and sat opposite the old man in black robe.

The old man in black robe listened carefully, grinding a piece of pig head meat in his mouth.

He listened with great interest.

He also chewed it with relish.

He laughed again, and his words were a little vague: "Isn't this what you want? If Queen Lu is not dead, how can Concubine Ji take the throne?"

"If Queen Lu is not dead, how can the emperor be obsessed with Taoism to seek immortality? How can the emperor spend all the efforts of the country to build Changle Palace?"

"Without all of this, you don't have all of this either!"

"As for that child... twenty years have passed. Even if he is alive, he can only live in a humble way, because if he is a little smart, he will not become the fish that bites the hook or gets caught in the net!"

"Everything is under your control. You just need to wait, wait for the second prince to take over, and everything will be settled."

After saying this, the old man in black robe chewed for a while, stretched his neck and swallowed the piece of meat, and suddenly asked in confusion: "This Li Chenan...the difference between the front and back is so big, it needs to be noticed!"

Ji Tai pondered for a moment and shook his head, "The age doesn't match up."

"Besides, old guy Li Chunfu didn't return to Guangling at the right time."

The old man in black robe didn't seem to think about Li Chenan anymore, but said: "Spreading the news about Wen Xiaowan is a bad move!"

Ji Tai looked at the old man in black robe: "Isn't it just to catch your junior brother so that I can avenge you!"

"Do you suspect that Wen Zhuiyu was responsible for stealing the child?"

"Who knows? We have to catch him and bring him back for questioning."

"There has been no news from him for so many years, and he seems to have disappeared from the world. He is a cunning fish. Even if Wen Xiaowan is really his daughter, based on my understanding of him, I am afraid he will not take the bait for this matter."

"On the contrary, I'm worried that the one who bit the hook is Changsun Jinghong... This fish is too big. I'm worried that you will not only lose the bait, but also tear the fishing line in your hand!"

Ji Tai was silent for a long time, drank a glass of wine, and looked up at the face of the old man in black robe, "The emperor is on his way back to the palace."

"The general of the Yulin Army and the commander of the city defense department are both my men."
Chapter completed!
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