The eunuch serving at the side did not dare to answer.
He knew very well how the emperor valued Wannian County Marquis.
If I say something nonsense, I will definitely offend the emperor.
"Your Majesty, Duke Lu is outside asking for an audience." A voice came from outside the palace.
"Quickly, let him in!" Li Shimin said quickly, looking a little nervous.
"I pay my respects to your Majesty." Cheng Yaojin walked in quickly and held hands with Li Shimin.
"How's the situation?" Li Shimin came down and helped Cheng Yaojin up, with a look of expectation flashing in his eyes.
"Your Majesty, Lun Qin and others have captured it, and the auspicious seeds have also been found." Cheng Yaojin took out a small bag containing rice seeds from his arms and handed it to Li Shimin.
Li Shimin took the small bag, his eyes full of surprise.
He had always thought that there was a high probability that today's action would fail.
After all, Li Shimin still hasn't figured out Zhao Chen's final move of letting them drug Lun Qin.
I even think it's a little silly.
"Okay, okay!" Li Shimin nodded, finally breathing a sigh of relief.
"Lao Cheng, how were they caught?" Li Shimin carefully collected the rice seeds and asked again.
Li Shimin even wondered whether Lun Qin discovered the poison in the food and tried to escape, but was caught in the end.
"Didn't His Majesty agree with Zhao Chen's use of poison?"
"They've all been poisoned, so just go in and grab them!" Cheng Yaojin looked at Li Shimin with some confusion.
Some people don't understand why His Majesty the Emperor would ask such a question.
This was obviously a method approved by the emperor himself.
"Poison?"
"Lun Qin didn't use a silver needle to test the poison?" Li Shimin had a strange look on his face.
"I used it, but I don't know why, but the silver needle didn't seem to come out."
"I tried it on those meals, and there is indeed no sign of the silver needle turning black." Cheng Yaojin shook his head.
He was also curious.
I thought the emperor had prepared some other means.
But now it seems that the emperor doesn't know about this either.
"The silver needle has not turned black. Is there any poison in this world that cannot be detected by a silver needle?" Li Shimin looked at Cheng Yaojin very strangely.
Cheng Yaojin shook his head.
How does he know these things?
Anyway, he has never heard that there are poisons in this world that cannot be detected with a silver needle.
"This kid has so many tricks up his sleeve, and he even hid them from me." Li Shimin looked slightly annoyed, threw off his sleeves and walked outside.
"Where are you going, Your Majesty?" Cheng Yaojin chased after him and asked.
"I'm going to find that guy and ask him clearly." Li Shimin said, opened the door of the palace and disappeared into the Ganquan Palace.
The eunuch serving Li Shimin on the side smacked his lips, feeling glad that he had not spoken nonsense just now.
Otherwise, if he speaks ill of Wannian County Marquis, he will be the unlucky one.
…
Lun Qin felt a little confused after being taken into prison in Dali Temple again.
Looking around, everyone under him is here except Gao Yuanjing.
"Gao Yuanjing, you lied to me!" Lun Qin howled with a ferocious expression.
If he didn't know at this moment that Gao Yuanjing had been deceiving him all along, he would be really stupid.
The Tibetan spies under his command were also awakened by Lun Qin's howling.
Looking at the prison, which was dark and smelled of disgusting, everyone looked panicked.
"Sir, how did we get caught here?" someone shouted.
"There must be something wrong with the food that made us all pass out."
"How could it be? Didn't you try the food with a silver needle? How could it be poisoned?"
"It's over, we're going to die here."
The sad sounds of his spies came from behind.
Lun Qin's whole body went limp and he collapsed on the ground.
He was very sure that there was something wrong with the food, otherwise it would have been impossible to capture them all so unnoticed.
It's just that they clearly haven't tried this poison yet.
What kind of poison can't even be detected with a silver needle?
…
When Li Shimin and Cheng Yaojin arrived at the tavern, Zhao Chen was lying on the counter writing a storybook.
The follow-up of Empress Changsun holding the stone notebook with a smile on her face.
Li Lizhi sat aside, also holding a book in her hand, reading it with gusto.
Even when Li Shimin walked up to them, neither of them noticed.
"Ahem—" Li Shimin coughed.
Empress Changsun finally came back to her senses. When she realized that the emperor was in front of her, her face became flustered.
The notebook in my hand was stuffed directly into my arms.
Li Lizhi on the side even ran to the backyard with her book in her arms.
The two men acted like they were facing a formidable enemy, and Li Shimin was immediately stunned.
"Your Majesty, why are you here today?" Empress Changsun said with a smile, hiding her nervousness.
"Well, we've finished the work over there, and there are still some unanswered questions. Come and ask Zhao Chen." Li Shimin explained, looking at Empress Changsun.
Queen Changsun's behavior just now was extremely strange. Is there anything in the book she read that she couldn't read to herself?
"What did Maid Guanyin look at just now? Why don't you show it to me?" Li Shimin said slowly.
"No, I promised Zhao Chen not to show the book to anyone else." Queen Changsun shook her head with a determined expression.
Li Shimin curled his lips.
Do you secretly think that you are so shameless now?
Cheng Yaojin next to him was also stunned.
The Queen is going to confront His Majesty the Emperor.
In the Tang Dynasty, in addition to Zhao Chen, the only one who dared not give the emperor face, there was now an additional Empress Changsun.
Sure enough, those who are close to vermilion are red, and those who are close to ink are black.
Cheng Yaojin finally choked out an idiom.
"What Guanyin Maid is reading is the continuation of the Story of the Stone in the Story of the Stone?" Li Shimin stared into the eyes of Empress Changsun and said slowly.
"No, Zhao Chen hasn't written it yet." Queen Changsun's expression changed and she glanced to the side, not daring to look at Li Shimin at all.
She had promised Zhao Chen that no one could read the sequel to this story.
"I'll go find him myself." Li Shimin snorted, turned around and walked towards the counter.
Empress Changsun then carefully took out the storybook from her arms and looked at the contents of the storybook with a smile.
Cheng Yaojin didn't even know what was so good about these words.
Each and every one of them looked like they were crazy.
Even Empress Changsun, who was usually graceful and benevolent, had a drastic change in temperament.
"Ahem, Mr. Zhao, bring me the continuation of the storybook to someone." Li Shimin walked to the counter, stretched out his hand and asked Zhao Chen for the continuation of the storybook.
Zhao Chen didn't even raise his head and said: "The story books have not yet been sold, so they will not be sold."
"You!" Li Shimin choked hard.
"Now that you know so-and-so's identity, you still dare to talk to so-and-so." Li Shimin hummed, with a joking look on his face.
He is the emperor, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
Everything in the Tang Dynasty belonged to him.
"My bookstore cooperates with Wei Zheng, the remonstrating official. I heard that he likes to quarrel with people in the court."
"This matter is related to the profit of the bookstore. If he knows that His Majesty has forcibly asked for the script today..."
"Okay, okay." Li Shimin quickly waved his hand, indicating that Zhao Chen didn't need to say any more. The joking look on his face just now disappeared.