Chen Xuanli was about to drink, but he had already grasped the wine bottle with his big hands, but stopped when he heard this.

The wine bottle stopped in mid-air, and he seemed unaware of it.

After a while, Gao Lishi took the wine bottle, raised his head and took a big sip.

"I don't understand what you are talking about." Chen Xuanli said, "The emperor's grandson is dead. We saw this with our own eyes back then. I buried the body myself. You and I reported it to the saint together."

Gao Lishi nodded.

"If you say that Xue Bai was wrongly accused by Wu Huaishi and you want to protect him, I can understand." Chen Xuanli said: "But now you say that because you doubt what Wu Huaishi said is true, you want to protect Xue Bai instead. This makes no sense.

The more people listen, the more confused they become.”

Gao Lishi shook the wine bottle in his hand and said slowly: "On April 21, the twenty-fifth year of Kaiyuan, after the saint decreed the death of three common people, we have been guarding the palace. We should have obtained it at the moment of Youshi

News?"

"Yes, the dusk drum has already sounded at that time. You, the right gate general, have to go to the Zhonglang general and the city gate man who are on duty to sign the documents together, submit them to the saint for approval, and then go and get the inspection talisman."

"We have been waiting for the palace key for a long time. When we leave the palace, has the third quarter of the hour passed?"

"It's passed." Chen Xuanli said: "Outside Anxingfang, we heard the sound of banging."

Gao Lishi said: "It was almost Xu time when we arrived at the Abandoned Prince's Mansion. I remember that King Ruyang greeted us outside the door. The turmoil that needed to be dealt with at that time had been dealt with, and the crazy soldier was also captured.

.”

"yes."

"The Prince of Ruyang arranged for the children of the deposed prince to be taken away."

"yes."

"When we entered the main hall, Concubine Xue was hanging on the beam, breathless."

Chen Xuanli's eyes showed a look of reminiscence and he nodded.

Gao Lishi said: "The body of the emperor's grandson fell not far from Concubine Xue's feet. There was a pool of blood under his head, and the back of his head was smashed."

"The murder weapon was the copper paperweight with the dragon on it. It fell not far away." Chen Xuanli said, "I picked it up. It was quite heavy and it hit someone to death."

"Did you reach out to explore the emperor's grandson's breath?" Gao Lishi said, "I thought about it for a long time. I wanted to explore it, but you said at the time, 'Totally dead.'"

"Didn't you tell me? You are always careful..."

In the middle of his words, Chen Xuanli narrowed his eyes and said in surprise: "You doubt me?"

"No. It has been so many years, and many things have been forgotten." Gao Lishi looked at the beams of the room, still thinking about it, and murmured: "After that, you and I never let anyone get close to us, and brought the emperor's grandson and Concubine Xue together

After he was buried, no one saw the emperor's grandson again before he was buried."

"So what? You and I saw it with our own eyes."

"I was very sure about this originally, but when I think about it today, I have a question and I want to ask you."

"Ask me?" Chen Xuanli looked more solemn and said, "Then I can tell you now that I have done nothing, and there is absolutely no attempt to subvert the power of others."

"In the twenty-fifth year of Kaiyuan, there were ninety-seven grandsons of the saint..." Gao Lishi said slowly, "Although Li Qian was the third son of the deposed prince, in those years, the prince was not favored by Concubine Wu Hui.

There are only one or two opportunities to meet the emperor and his grandson every year."

"What on earth do you want to say?"

"Do you really recognize the emperor's grandson Li Qian?" Gao Lishi asked: "That night, are you really sure that the child who died was Li Qian?"

"Of course..."

"To be honest, I don't recognize it."

Gao Lishi finally spoke his mind and let out a sigh of relief.

In front of Chen Xuanli, he took off a lot of his guard.

"The world thinks I am smart, but I am already sixty and six years old. I was fifty-three years old when the incident occurred. I was groping in the dark to identify two corpses in the night. The child was only six years old. The last time I saw him

When he was four years old, he was among a large group of children."

As he spoke, Gao Lishi shook his head dejectedly.

"I always say that this grandson of the emperor looks like a saint, and so does that one. Except that King Si Qi looks exactly like the saint when he was young, there is no other resemblance. To my old and dim eyes, they are nothing more than two eyes and one nose."

Chen Xuanli was silent for a long time.

Gao Lishi had no choice but to ask again: "Did you recognize it at that time?"

"I……"

Chen Xuanli looked outside the door and said: "In that situation, we all knew that it was the emperor's grandson who died. Everyone's reaction..."

"Everyone's reaction made us never doubt that the person who fell on the ground might not be the emperor's grandson."

"But it can't be fake. There is no need for anyone to take him away and put a fake body there." Chen Xuanli said: "As for Xue Bai, the initial reactions of the emperors and grandsons can already prove that the one who was killed was

Li Qian, Princess Boping is the witness!"

"If Li Qian is alive, it is possible that King Ruyang took him for treatment, or someone else..."

"King Ruyang doesn't have it!"

Chen Xuanli said something arbitrarily at first, and then said: "Don't you know if King Ruyang has done this?"

Gao Lishi said: "King Ruyang is dead, and Wu Huaishi, who poisoned King Ruyang to death, believes that Xue Bai is the emperor's grandson. He believes in his own judgment. He really thinks so."

Chen Xuanli scratched his hair irritably and whispered: "This is impossible, and it is impossible for the emperor's grandson to become Xue Bai."

"I know it's impossible." Gao Lishi said.

"Then you can still have such thoughts? Are you crazy?"

"I just want to understand why there are people like him in the world."

This sentence was a bit confusing, but Chen Xuanli understood it as soon as he heard it.

A young man was born out of nowhere. His eyes were pure, but he was as deep as a hundred-year-old goblin. He knew astronomy from above and geography from below. He could sing with Li Taibai when he wrote poems. He was able to win the first prize in the imperial examination. His far-sighted vision seemed to have seen through all generations.

Qianqiu......

Apart from the saint, Chen Xuanli really only met Xue Bai in his life.

To be honest, at this age, the saint was not as good as Xue Bai.

"General Gao, you...are hoping that Xue Bai will be the emperor's grandson, right?" Chen Xuanli asked, "You have expectations in your heart, so you are deliberately looking for clues based on this expectation."

"Maybe." Gao Lishi said, "Maybe I really thought that if he were the grandson of the emperor, it would be a blessing for the Tang Dynasty."

He knew clearly that Du Jin was so anxious that he wanted to take action.

But it was precisely because of this that he saw Xue Bai's strength and courage. Then, if Xue Bai was really the emperor's grandson...if the prince failed to convince the public in the future and King Qing succeeded him, Xue Bai would be able to help King Qing stabilize

of the current situation.

Just like what Gao Lishi experienced in Tang Long, it was an innate change.

After thinking about it for a while, he shook his head and stopped thinking about those unrealistic questions.

"General Chen, you haven't said yet, did you recognize the emperor's grandson Li Qian that night?"

"It couldn't be someone else who died there." Chen Xuanli replied stiffly, and finally muttered: "I thought you recognized it."

Gao Lishi said: "I don't want to kill... such a person by mistake."

"I understand. Did the saint promise to let him go?"

"No."

"If you take action, what's wrong?"

Gao Lishi pondered: "The saint asked me to deal with it, but this time, I can't figure out the saint's mind."

Having said that, he actually guessed the saint's thoughts.

He has only seen two extremely extraordinary people in his life, one is a saint and the other is Xue Bai.

But if we must compare, the saint may not be as good as Xue Bai.

~~

"Do you know why you lost your Holy Familiar?"

"I've caused too much trouble."

"It's not scary to cause trouble. What's scary is that you are disgusted by it."

Xue Bai was a little surprised and asked: "Do I look disgusting?"

Across the wooden fence, Gao Lishi nodded and said, "Do you know what kind of people are the most annoying?"

"People who are selfish and bring trouble to the common people." Xue Bai added: "Just like An Lushan."

"You are a smart person." Gao Lishi's face turned cold and he said, "Do you think you are the only smart person in the world? Without you, the world would be in chaos?"

Xue Bai wanted to say "yes", but he also realized that this was very annoying, so he became more sincere and said: "Please teach me, General Gao."

"I can't teach you." Gao Lishi said, "I've reminded you of what I should remind you, so you can take care of yourself."

He didn't tell Xue Bai that he had rescued him. He still didn't say anything and still tried to find out some secrets from Xue Bai.

It was another day. Xue Bai seemed to have figured out a lot and planned to confide something to Gao Lishi.

"I want to take care of myself. After much thought, I still want to tell General Gao something, but I don't know how to say it."

"Then let me ask you, do you know how much speculation Wu Huaishi has about your life experience?" Gao Lishi asked, waiting to see Xue Bai's reaction.

Xue Bai said: "I also found some, it seems..."

"explain."

"It's really hard to say." Xue Bai shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Princess Ning said that I am Zhang's illegitimate son."

Gao Lishi was stunned.

"This matter must be false, but General Gao should also know that I was discovered by Princess Ning Qin in Zhang's consort's courtyard. According to some speculation... Zhang Consort could not explain to Princess Ning Qin at that time, so he had to
To be continued...