"Your Highness!" Du He turned around and bowed with Li Tai.
Li Tai nodded, and his fat body slowly came down the steps. The brocade robe on his body did not fit well.
"Luo Tong, long time no see, how about going in for a cup of tea?" Li Tai said to Luo Tong with a smile.
As long as Luo Tong goes in, Li Tai will ask people to capture Luo Tong immediately.
Luo Tong is Zhao Chen's diehard loyalist. If he can be captured, it will be a big blow to Zhao Chen.
"There's no need to drink tea, just take a rest here." Luo Tong naturally wouldn't be fooled.
The message he received was that he was waiting here for Zhao Chen to come over.
Of course, if you see Hou Junji appear, start arresting him immediately.
As for going to the East Palace, it was right and wrong at the time, and it wasn't Li Tai's nonsense with red lips and white teeth.
"Luo Tong, you don't really think that my father will agree to Zhao Chen's search of my East Palace."
"Do you know where the East Palace is?"
"The prince who lives here is the future emperor of the Tang Dynasty. What kind of madness have you committed to want to search my East Palace?" Li Tai had a sneer on his face.
He couldn't figure out whether these people were too confident.
He is still the prince. If Zhao Chen really lets Zhao Chen search the East Palace, where will he put his face as a prince?
Luo Tong didn't speak.
From the bottom of his heart, he thought what Li Tai said was very reasonable.
How could the emperor allow the search of the East Palace?
However, whatever Zhao Chen asked him to do, Luo Tong would do it with all his heart.
As for the rest, Ta Luo Tong doesn't care.
Seeing that Luo Tong didn't speak, Li Tai took a few more steps towards Luo Tong, leaned against Luo Tong's ear and whispered, "Actually, you guessed it right."
"Hou Junji is in my east palace now, Luo Tong, do you want to go in and search?"
Luo Tong's complexion changed slightly.
Li Tai provoked himself so arrogantly that he even blew himself up about Hou Junji's location.
This is because I absolutely believe that Zhao Chen cannot get the imperial edict to search the East Palace.
But even if he knew the location of Hou Junji, Luo Tong did not dare to break into the East Palace.
It's good that Hou Junji can be caught, but if he can't, not only will he, Luo Tong, be dead, but Zhao Chen will also be implicated.
"Haha, compared to Zhao Chen, Luo Tong is far behind you."
"If the person standing in front of me was Zhao Chen, I would not dare to say this to him."
"That guy is a lunatic." Li Tai patted Luo Tong on the shoulder with a joking look on his face.
Even if he told Luo Tong that Hou Junji was in his East Palace, so what?
Without an imperial order to search, who would dare to take a step into his own East Palace?
As for getting the emperor's search order, it's no easier than going to heaven.
Unless the emperor didn't want his prince, Li Tai, to have an easy time.
Luo Tong frowned and wanted to refute Li Tai, but he saw Zhao Chen walking through the crowd of people watching from a distance.
"Your Highness, are you sure that Hou Junji is in your East Palace?" Luo Tong asked with a smile.
"Huh?" Li Tai frowned slightly.
Xin Dao Luo Tong asked what he was doing. Could it be that he really wanted to break into his East Palace and arrest Hou Junji?
"Your Highness, it's Zhao Chen!" Du He reminded Li Tai in a low voice from behind.
Clearly, Li Tai heard the fear in Du He's voice.
Turning his head to look, he saw Zhao Chen walking towards him.
In his hand was a roll of golden cloth.
That was Huang Jin, who specialized in writing imperial edicts.
Li Tai's complexion suddenly turned pale.
He could imagine what the imperial edict in Zhao Chen's hand would contain.
Search the East Palace!
Did the emperor really agree to search the East Palace?
How is this possible!
Li Tai couldn't believe it in his heart, and stared at Zhao Chen in front of him.
"Sir!" Luo Tong saw the imperial edict in Zhao Chen's hand, and his eyes flashed with surprise.
Luo Tong didn't have much hope for Zhao Chen's request from the emperor to search the East Palace.
So when he was talking to Du He just now, Luo Tong didn't dare to say that he was here to search the East Palace.
But he didn't expect that Zhao Chen actually got the imperial edict.
Luo Tong felt very incredible.
Li Tai was the prince, and his identity as Zhao Chen made the emperor very accommodating.
But it was a matter of royal dignity and court stability, so the emperor actually agreed to let Zhao Chen search the East Palace.
"Is everyone here?" Zhao Chen nodded and asked Luo Tong.
"It's... it's here." Luo Tong felt that for the first time, he felt awkward speaking.
"Have people guard each intersection while the others come and gather!" Zhao Chen waved.
Luo Tong went to gather people. Zhao Chen looked at Li Tai, handed the imperial edict in his hand to Li Tai, and said calmly: "Hou Junji escaped from prison, and I was ordered to search the East Palace."
"Li Tai, are you ready?" Zhao Chen looked at Li Tai and asked lightly.
Li Tai's expression suddenly darkened.
He previously believed that the emperor would never agree to search the East Palace, so he was so confident.
So what if he told Luo Tong that Hou Junji was in his East Palace?
Without an imperial edict, who would dare to break into his East Palace?
But who would have thought that Zhao Chen actually got the imperial edict.
Looking at the emperor's handwriting on the yellow brocade, Li Tai's heart instantly sank.
"Sir, everyone is here."
"Oh, by the way, sir, just now His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that Hou Junji is here in the East Palace, so let us go in and search." Luo Tong came back with his people and told Zhao Chen what Li Tai had said so arrogantly.
"Nonsense, how could I harbor Hou Junji here? Even if he is here, he came here secretly."
"How could I know about this?" Li Tai couldn't care about anything else at this moment.
He didn't know if Zhao Chen would catch Hou Junji.
But the most important thing is to keep yourself clean.
After Li Tai finished speaking, he saw Luo Tong looking at him with a sarcastic look on his face.
Naturally, there was a burst of anger in my heart.
Du He stood aside, not even daring to say anything.
Hou Junji is in the East Palace. If Zhao Chen captures Hou Junji, Li Tai, as the crown prince, will probably let him be Du He's scapegoat.
At this moment, Du He could no longer suppress the panic in his heart.
"Don't be nervous!" Zhao Chen patted the two of them on the shoulders and chuckled.
Li Tai and Du He looked at each other but said nothing.
"Luo Tong, lead people to search the East Palace!" Zhao Chen looked at Luo Tong and ordered.
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"Father." Fang Yizhi and Fang Xuanling bowed at the door of Chang'an Mingde.
"What are you studying today? Why are you here?" Fang Xuanling was about to leave the city when he saw Fang Yizhi blocking his carriage.
"No, Hou Junji escaped from prison. Sir, he led people to search the East Palace. Let us check here to prevent Hou Junji from running out." Fang Yizhi explained to Fang Xuanling with a smile.
"Father, are you leaving the city?" Fang Yizhi asked again.
"Well, I went out of town to do some errands and won't be back until tonight."
"Hou Junji has done many evil things. We can't let him run away. My father will come down right away to cooperate with your investigation." Fang Xuanling said with a smile before getting out of the carriage.
How could Fang Yizhi let his father get out of the carriage?
This is extremely unfilial.
He hurriedly said: "What did my father say? My father and Hou Junji have no intersection in the first place. How could I help him leave?"
"Father, please!"
Fang Yi stepped aside and held out his hands with Fang Xuanling to let him go.
When the other academy students saw that it was Fang Xuanling, they naturally did not bother to investigate.
Everyone folded their hands and watched the carriage slowly drive out of Chang'an City.?