In the evening, a cool breeze enters the palace.

When Li Longji woke up, his old eyes were half-open, and he leaned there lazily, listening to Gao Lishi's talk about the latest news in Chang'an.

"Xue Bai is narrow-minded, and the Prime Minister wronged him once during Liu Ji's case. From then on, whenever this kid did anything, he always shouted to the Prime Minister, 'You will wrong me again'. This time, even Wang Zhongsi was implicated, and he was always a 'Jiao Structure' ', who never gets tired of hearing that?"

"Um."

Just listening to the results made Li Longji feel boring.

There had been a "Han Yu" incident before, and it happened again today. He had no patience to listen to the details.

"Wang Zhongsi's 'Jiaogou' Xue Bai, whose 'origin is unknown', is willing to attack Shibao City, saying that the weapons given by the saint may be useful. Let him think of a way to do it."

"Will you fight?"

Li Longji raised his hand and Gao Lishi lifted him up, his expression so enigmatic that no one knew what he was thinking.

Gao Lishi said: "If you are willing to fight, the whole court will say that he 'disobeys the holy orders', 'shows favors to subordinates' and 'raises his own troops'. But as soon as he heard that there was a way, he ignored the rules and went directly to the suburbs of the city to build a private factory" Arms' up."

"He regards strategy as more important than my will!" Li Longji still cursed.

But after hearing the word "strategy", Gao Lishi knew that the saint's anger towards Wang Zhongsi had subsided a lot.

Not attacking Shibao City due to strategic considerations and not wanting to attack because of some selfish motives are completely different things. The life of the general who is guarding the border is at stake, and it only depends on the saint's thoughts.

"After all, it is a child raised by a saint. How can a saint not understand his temper?"

"General Gao, you are talking nice to others again."

"The old slave must be Wang Zhongsi of 'Jiao Ge'."

"Hahaha."

Li Longji hadn't fully woken up yet, so he shook his head and wondered whether he should invite the imperial concubine to perform a dance in the Liyuan today, go boating with Concubine Mei, or invite the two nieces of the Zhang family to the palace to play cards.

Zhang Ting's eldest sister, Zhang Si, also has excellent poker skills.

Just as he was waking up, Gao Lishi had handed over several scrolls.

"Sage, General Chen has brought him back."

"Yeah." Li Longji was already used to reading stories to wake him up, and murmured, "We're going to Gao Laozhuang."

As if remembering it, Gao Lishi reminded: "Sage, the right minister is still waiting to see you."

Li Longji seemed as if he hadn't heard anything, and finally put the scroll away.

"The wording is too rough and has not been polished. I sent it back for rewriting."

"Here."

"Do things like making a fuss, work in a hurry, and report rough and inferior results. Are you fooling me?" Li Longji was slightly dissatisfied, "Let me go back and do my job well."

~~

"Why don't I explain it clearly to the saint? This matter has nothing to do with me at all."

"Explanation? The truth is that the prime minister of a country has been humiliated by his son again and again. Could it be that the saint wants to hear the prime minister say, 'Your Majesty, I was fooled by that young boy, I am so wronged.' This is what you want me to do Any explanation?!"

"But in this matter, I clearly didn't fall into the trap..."

"Crack!"

"How dare you talk too much."

Li Linfulin raised his hand and slapped Li Xiu.

"Trash! As a general supervisor, you don't know how to discipline your subordinates, but you discipline me instead?"

"My child doesn't dare." Li Xiudang fell to his knees on the ground, at a loss, "My child doesn't know..."

"check!"

Li Linfu scolded angrily: "If you don't know, why don't you go check it out? Are you going to stay with me and feed me for the rest of your life?!"

"Crack!"

Li Xiu raised his hand and slapped himself, then ran out in a panic.

In fact, this matter had nothing to do with him. It was just that the old man was angry. There were 20,000 people including the generals and craftsmen, and he didn't know Xiao Fangzhi at all...

~~

It's night, in the Xingbu Prison.

As the iron chains clanked, Xiao Fangzhi was tied to the torture rack, with a look of shock and disbelief on his face.

"Everyone, are you mistaken? It was I who exposed Wang Zhongsi and Xue Bai who secretly made weapons. They were good at making heavy artillery in the capital without any supervision. I investigated impartially and did not violate any laws. I am an official of the imperial court. What do you think? Charge me?!"

He shouted for a long time, but no one answered.

Until someone started talking outside the execution room.

"Do the officials in the Ministry of Punishment also know how to torture? It's better for me to do it."

"I have admired Luo Gong's name for a long time."

"Someone, bring my donkey's colt over here."

Xiao Fangzhi looked around, and when he saw a shadowy man wearing a light green official robe coming in, the hair all over his body stood up in an instant.

Because he knew who the person in front of him was, Luo Xishi, Luo Qian.

Standing behind Luo Qian were three purple-robed officials, who actually came to the execution room to watch the execution in person.

"No, no, you have no crime against me!"

"Xiao Fangzhi, you framed the general of Border Town, who instigated it?!"

Luo Xishi hadn't started yet, still asking people to move things.

Xiao Fangzhi couldn't bear it anymore, and said tremblingly: "Luo Yushi, I am one of my own, the right minister asked me to do this, it is really the right minister's order..."

"Now that things have happened, you still dare to quibble?"

"Really! Really! It was the censor like you who ordered me to do it with his right hand..."

"It doesn't matter." Luo Xishi smiled, "I was tough at first. I have plenty of time to ask you slowly."

"..."

Screams rang out, and even the torches on the wall swayed.

~~

Xue Bai has returned to the house in Changshoufang.

Qing Lan knew that he was afraid of mosquitoes, so he took a lot of mugwort and fumigated the house as soon as he came back, so he slept particularly soundly that night.

It seemed like he had a dream, in which he planted many fishing poles on the shore. The first one he pulled up was empty, and the second one had an unknown person hanging on the hook. It was miserable.

When he pulled the third one, he caught Princess Xianyi. She cried very sadly and said that he could punish her in any way. When Xue Bai took a closer look, he found that she had a body and a fish tail, and she turned out to be a mermaid...

What a strange dream.

"Lang Jun, are you dreaming?"

Xue Bai opened his eyes and saw Qing Lan squatting beside his bed.

The weather in late April was a bit hot and her spring shirt was not tied high, making her look very green.

"Um."

"Are you going to the teacher's house today?"

"Anyway, I got up late and will go to the county office to find the teacher later."

Xue Bai turned over and Qing Lan looked at him and felt that his bed looked very comfortable.

After staying in bed for a while, waiting for things to be tidied up, Xue Bai was practicing in the corridor, and then he vaguely heard someone knocking on the door in the inner courtyard.

After walking around the bamboo garden and opening the door, I saw Xue Shiyilang standing there, knocking on the door and sweating profusely.

"I'm so tired. Sixth brother, why don't you put a knocker on the courtyard door?"

…

Xue's house, front lobby.

Liu Xiangjun and Du Wulang are entertaining guests.

What came was a guard soldier under Wang Zhongsi named Guan Chongsi.

"There's no rush. The general didn't send a greeting card first, so I took the liberty of visiting. It doesn't hurt to wait a while."

Guan Chongsi was indeed willing to wait, but Xue Xin kept staring at him, making him a little uncomfortable.

"General Guan, how tall are you?"

"Don't call me General, just call me 'Chong Si'. I respect General Wang, so I changed my name. I am seven feet two inches tall."

"That's really high. Has the general ever killed an enemy on the battlefield?"

"There are nine thieves' heads in the tent."

"Wow." Xue Xin asked again, "Can I compete with the general?"

Just when he couldn't stand this talkative child, Xue Bai came. Guan Chongsi stood up quickly and said respectfully: "I have met Xue Lang. General Wang would like to invite you to meet him."

This attitude was not against anything else, but because he knew that if the giant stone cannon could save the Helong Army from killing a few people, it would be his comrades around him, or even himself, who would be saved.

"We have seen that General and General Wang went to Fenggu Prison and measured the distance of stone throwing. I remember that the general's name should be Guan Chongsi?"

"Xue Lang actually remembered this villain, I'm so honored." Guan Chongsi was overjoyed.
To be continued...