As soon as the city gate of Chang'an opened in the early morning, the messenger soldier who had been waiting outside all night rushed to the palace.
But Li Shimin was going to court and had no time to see him. He could only continue to wait in the Manlu Hall.
However, Queen Changsun and Changle arrived suddenly. In fact, Changle had not heard from Lin Yi for such a long time. She was a little worried and had not slept well for several nights. So early this morning, she went to find her mother and asked her to accompany her.
She asked her father to send some people to see how Lin Yi was doing and when he would be back.
"My lord, please pay homage to the Queen and Princess Changle." The soldier knelt down to say hello.
"Well, get up. Are you the messenger?" Queen Changsun just asked casually.[
"Your Majesty, the Queen, I am here to deliver the message."
"Urgent letter? Where are you from?" Changle glanced at the letter in his hand and found that there was an urgent letter sign on it, so he asked about it.
"To tell you what the princess is saying, I'm from Lishan."
"Lishan? What happened to Lishan? Is it related to the King of Zhongshan?" Changle was shocked. It was Lishan that Lin Yi said he was going to. Could it be that something happened to him?
"This..." The soldier couldn't say anything, he just begged for mercy with pleading eyes.
"Is it true that something happened to Brother Yi?" Changle panicked. She really didn't expect that the question she asked unexpectedly would lead to news about her sweetheart, and it seemed to be bad news.
"Chang Le, come here, sit down first, we will wait for your father to come back." Empress Changsun pulled Chang Le over and pressed him on the chair.
"Mother..." Chang Le was so worried that she almost cried. She was very anxious to know if something happened to Lin Yi.
"It's useless to ask him. If he tells her, it will be a death penalty." Empress Changsun was calmer.
Changle stopped talking and just lowered his head, waiting anxiously for his father to return from the court.
The soldier began to worry. The emperor said it should be kept secret, but now the queen and princess seemed to have guessed, would they be beheaded?
Footsteps gradually approached, and Eunuch Gao was walking in front. When he reached the door, he raised the curtain. Li Shimin walked in.
"Eh? Maid Guanyin, Changle? Why are you here? What's the matter?" Li Shimin asked doubtfully. If he came to see him at this time, there should be something wrong.
"Father, please read the letter first. It's an urgent letter from Li Shan." Changle urged, she had even forgotten to greet Li Shimin.
Letter? Li Shimin's eyes fell on Chang Le's hand, and then moved away. He looked at the soldiers standing aside in an orderly manner.
"Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from Lishan." The soldier said timidly and bravely.
Urgent report! Li Shimin took it, read it three lines at a glance, and then thought about it. It seemed that he couldn't hide it anymore! So Li Shimin handed the letter to Empress Changsun.
"The letter was written yesterday. Why was it only delivered this morning?" Li Shimin asked the soldier. It was precisely because it was delivered at this time that Queen Changsun and Changle met.
"When we arrived last night, the city gate was closed, and my subordinates asked to enter the palace. But I heard that General Xue did not agree, so I did not come in." The soldier lowered his head and said. They all faced the emperor.
Li Shimin was used to calling himself a subordinate, and Li Shimin thought it was very cordial, so he never changed it.[
Li Shimin nodded without showing any expression on his face. By this time, Queen Changsun and Chang Le had already finished reading the letter.
"Brother Yi is missing? How could it be? Father, I want to go to Lishan." Changle knelt down and begged.
"Nonsense, how can your majestic princess leave the palace casually?" Li Shimin scolded Chang Le.
"Father..." Changle cried and begged again.
"No." Li Shimin refused.
"Don't cry. Your father is also worried about you. We have watched Xiao Yi grow up. We are also very worried about him. Everyone is looking for him now. Please don't cause trouble and wait for the news." Empress Changsun felt a little difficult.
He knelt down and persuaded Changle.
"Chang Le, be sensible. Seeing how hard your mother is working, don't you know how to help her?" Li Shimin said dissatisfied, and at the same time he stepped forward to help Empress Changsun.
Her body was getting heavier and heavier, and it was inconvenient to move around normally, and her mood swings should not be too big, so Li Shimin didn't tell her about it because he was afraid that she would worry. Unexpectedly, after only one day of hiding it, the secret was revealed.
"Father, I..." Changle was only worried, and she ignored the fact that her mother was not feeling well.
"Your Majesty, Changle was in a panic for a moment and didn't think about it. Don't blame her." Empress Changsun smiled and adjusted the awkwardness between father and daughter.
"I didn't expect that there is an imperial tomb under Lishan Mountain. I just don't know which emperor it belongs to. But now that I have found the entrance, I believe it will be a matter of time to find Xiao Yi. Then the child may have found something inside and is studying it.
, you also know his temperament. Once he starts to study something he is interested in, he loses track of time. He probably just won’t look for it. When the food he brought is finished, it’s time to come up." Queen Changsun Rou
Speaking softly, it really eased the tension between the father and daughter.
"You're right, that child will be like this sometimes. Don't worry, Changle, I will definitely get Xiao Yi back." Li Shimin took a deep breath. His emotions were a little out of control. There has been bad news these days. He was a little nervous.
Irritability.
"Let's go, let your father concentrate on finding Lin Yi." Empress Changsun exchanged a look with Li Shimin, and then pulled the reluctant Chang Le away.
"Okay, you can go down and report back if you have anything to do. Gao Yuan, go and reprimand General Xue for delaying my affairs. It's outrageous!" Li Shimin waved his hand to let the soldier go back, and then sent Gao Yuan beside him.
go out.
There was silence in the Ganlu Hall. Li Shimin sat at his desk and calmed down for a while before he opened the letter and read it in detail.
Are there traces of machinery in the underground passages? Is there really a person like Lin Yi? Then where did he take Lin Yi? Could it be... another country?
Or, he wants to be the only genius in the world and wants to kill Lin Yi?
Li Shimin had countless speculations in his mind, but he could only wait for further news.
"Fang Yan, why didn't the young master come back for so long? Did he go directly to the grassland?" Li Ran sat at the door of the small courtyard and asked Fang Yan with some resentment.
"Young Master wouldn't do that." Fang Yan replied very firmly.
"How do you know? Maybe he wants to have a world with Sister Bing'er, and then rush to the free prairie after falling in love. How can he still remember us." Li Ran's mood was quite low.
"Nonsense." Fang Yan rolled his eyes at Li Ran. This kid loves to think wildly. The young master is not as unreliable as he thought.[
"How do you know I'm talking nonsense? This kind of thing can't happen. Who do you think we should ask for information? Princess Changle must know, right? It's a pity that she hasn't come to see the eldest lady recently, otherwise
We can still ask." Li Ran rolled his eyes, thinking of ideas.
"You'd better go see Ling'er! Don't worry about the young master." Fang Yan shook his head, he had never been able to do anything about Li Ran.
"Do you think I don't want to? Linger is waiting for Madam. By the way, you can ask her to help ask Madam. The young master cannot write to us, but he will write to Madam and the Master." Li Ran acted as soon as he thought of it.
After saying this, he stood up and walked towards the main courtyard.
Fang Yan shook his head, then he might as well ask the eldest lady. The master and his wife are illiterate, so the young master just wrote a letter back, and the recipient of the letter was also the eldest lady. After thinking about it, Fang Yan decided to go to the little girl next to the eldest lady.
Yan inquired about the news. After such a long time, he was also a little worried. He was not worried about Lin Yi escaping, but worried about his safety.
The news of Lin Yi's disappearance has not been revealed yet. Not even the ministers in the capital know about it, let alone Li Chengqian and his group in Dingxiang.
They were busy building Dingxiang and standardizing various regulations. In the words of Chang Sun Chong, they were as tired as dogs!
The distribution market has been built to a certain scale and it is estimated that it will be put into use in about a month.
"Are you writing a letter again? What are you showing off again this time?" Changsun Chong walked in from outside, waving his fan, but he found Li Chengqian lying in front of the desk writing a letter again.
"What can I show off? It's good if I don't get scolded, but it's been ten days since the last letter was sent, why hasn't Xiao Yi's reply arrived yet?" Li Chengqian was a little confused, although Lin Yi always spoke with caution in his letters.
Like gold, but the reply will be very timely, only this time it is a little late.
"Do you miss his handwriting so much? If there are ten words in a letter, it will be considered worthy of you." Changsun Chong said with a smile. His cousin is very interesting. No matter how independent he is when he is trained outside, when he sees Lin
He became a yes man, and if Lin Yi didn't force him, it would be as if he had completely lost his ability to think.
"Ten words? I want it even if there are only four words. Do you think the soldiers lost the letter and did not dare to come to see me?" Li Chengqian was a little anxious as he waited.
"Do you think this is possible? They don't want to live anymore?" Changsun laughed out loud.
"I'm just guessing. You said everything has gotten better here. Logically speaking, Lin Yi should be back too? Didn't he go to the capital to solve Bing'er's matter? Could it be that...his father is giving him a hard time?" Li Chengqian
Change your mind and continue guessing.
"I don't think it's possible. It's just the watch Lin Yi brought back, so the emperor can't punish him too severely." Changsun Chong lay on the rocking chair, shaking his fan comfortably.
"I have Liangyu in this room, okay, what are you fanning? Isn't it cold?" Li Chengqian thought Changsun Chong's fan was an eyesore.
"What do you care about me? Since you want to know the news about Xiao Yi, why don't you write a letter to Changle quickly? She definitely knows what's going on." Changsun gave Li Chengqian a blank look. This fool knew how to guess, so he could just ask him directly.
Already.
"Yes, it seems that you are sometimes smarter than me." Li Chengqian nodded, immediately changed a piece of paper, and started writing a letter to Changle.
"It's not accidental, I've always been smarter than you." Changsun Chong corrected him leisurely. Unfortunately, Li Chengqian's attention was already focused on the letter, and he didn't even listen to what Changsun Chong was saying.
Changsun Chong glanced at Li Chengqian sideways, and then shook his head helplessly. This guy is like this. Whenever he encounters something related to Xiaoyi, he treats it as the biggest priority and throws everything else aside.