Happy Little Scholar

"Uncle..."

Hearing this voice, Li Yi paused, chewed the white rabbit in his mouth twice and swallowed it. He turned around and saw three figures standing opposite him.

A few feet away, Lao Fang's body trembled slightly. Although the face in front of him was unfamiliar, he had already seen the portrait when he was in Shuzhou. What's more, the figure and temperament of the person opposite him were so familiar, so how could he? Can you forget?

"Uncle."

Yang Liuqing stepped forward and bowed slightly. Today, she is no longer the young girl she was a year ago. She has an outstanding temperament and stands there like an unsheathed sword.

"Mr. Li County, you are well."

The middle-aged Taoist priest in a wide robe bowed to him, smiled and spoke. He stood there casually, seeming to blend in with the surrounding world.

Li Yi's eyes stayed on the three of them for a long time, then turned around and pushed open the courtyard door.

…

"Uncle, where is the second young lady? Didn't I say that you are together?" Lao Fang looked at him impatiently and asked as soon as he closed the courtyard door.

Li Yi didn't answer. He looked at him and asked, "How is Ruyi? How is the situation at home?"

Lao Fang smiled and said, "Miss is very good. Everything is fine at home. She is waiting for my uncle to come back."

As soon as he finished speaking, Miss Liu Er walked out of the room. Yang Liuqing walked over quickly and bowed: "Master!"

Miss Liu Er looked at her and suddenly reached out to grab her shoulder.

Yang Liuqing's body swayed, and she subconsciously retreated to dodge, but in the end she didn't break free.

Miss Liu Er patted her shoulder, nodded and said, "That's right, I haven't lost my kung fu."

A figure suddenly flew out of a window of the nearby inn. The slovenly old man landed firmly in the courtyard and stood beside Li Yi. He looked at the middle-aged Taoist priest with a vigilant expression and asked, "Old Taoist Yuan, why don't you go?" Xiu your immortal, what are you doing here?"

The middle-aged Taoist priest also had a hint of surprise on his face and asked: "Old Monster Xu, you are not in Wu Kingdom, why are you here?"

Li Yi turned to look at the sloppy old man and asked, "Do you know each other?"

The middle-aged Taoist priest said: "When Pindao traveled to various countries in his early years, he had a chance encounter with him."

The sloppy old man snorted coldly and said: "Other than Taoist priests like them, who else in the world can practice the art of facial expression to such a level? This is what I looked like when I saw him thirty years ago. In the past thirty years, my martial arts has improved a lot. I don’t know if I’ve made any progress, but it looks like there’s no progress at all!”

Li Yi looked at the two of them, waved and said: "We are all our own people, sit down and talk."

Lao Fang gulped down a bowl of water, and then said: "We just arrived in Shuzhou two days ago. We heard that my uncle and the second young lady were in Qi State, so we came over without delay. The others are outside the city now and can be welcomed at any time. We can enter the city, uncle, when should we set off?"

"Don't worry yet." Li Yi looked back at the Taoist priest just now, thinking that he should be about the same age as Old Monster Xu, but he seemed to be several dozen years older. He suppressed the strange feelings in his heart and asked: " This Taoist priest..."

"According to your Majesty's order, I will take Mr. Li back home." Taoist priest surnamed Yuan said with a smile.

Li Yi was stunned for a moment and asked, "When did you become the county magistrate?"

"It's the day Li County Hou leaves Beijing." Taoist Yuan looked at him and said, "When will we set off?"

"Just these two days." Li Yi thought for a while, turned to look in a certain direction, and said, "I didn't say hello when I came. I always say goodbye before leaving..."

Lin Yong leaned against the door of Fanglin Garden, glanced at the closed courtyard door next to him again, shook his head, and murmured: "It's almost time to eat, what are you doing with the door closed?"

…

…

Fengzhou government office.

"As expected by His Highness, His Majesty recalled His Highness and the eldest prince to the capital, and even the supervisory censor also returned to the capital. According to what the envoy just said, almost all the officials in the court fell on the side of His Highness. The memorial to impeach the eldest prince There are countless people, and the voices of the people are not small. This time, the situation is very favorable to us!" Fengzhou Governor said with a smile on his face and looked at Zhao Yi.

"There is no precedent for discussing crime. Unless the father directly orders this matter, once it is discussed openly, even the loyal ministers and officials in the capital will not agree." Zhao Yi waved his hand and said: "Now that the capital has News, withdraw all the garrison outside the inn.”

The governor of Fengzhou bowed and said: "I will make arrangements immediately."

Zhao Yi breathed a sigh of relief and looked out the window habitually.

Ever since he rose to prominence in the Qi State, the conflict with the eldest prince began to intensify. At first, he only wanted to govern Fengzhou well and did not want to fight for anything. Some things that happened later made him almost die several times. Later, I gradually realized that fighting might be a way to survive, but if I didn’t fight, I would be dead sooner or later.

From being pushed on this road to this step today, there is no turning back.

Half a month ago or even a few days ago, he had never thought that this time the eldest prince came to Fengzhou, it would end up like this.

In just a few days, he went from passively enduring to having the upper hand. The changes were so drastic that he was somewhat unexpected.

Zhao Yi sighed slowly and said, "Brother Li, Brother Li, since you have done so much, why don't you come out to see me?"

When the governor of Fengzhou walked out of the door, an official came to greet him.

The man first bowed his hands and bowed, and then said: "Mr. Zhou, the person you asked me to investigate has already been found out. The Lin family caravan visited Jingguo more than two months ago. From Jingguo We brought back two people. The man's name is Li Xuan, and he is now the accounting clerk of the Lin family..."

Zhao Yi walked out of the room, looked at him and asked, "What did you say, Jing Guo, Li Xuan?"

"Your Highness..." The official was about to salute when Zhao Yi waved his hand and said, "Say what you just said again..."

"Yes!" the official said again: "The young man and woman were rescued from bandits when the Lin family's caravan came back from Jingguo and passed through Shuzhou. The man's name is Li Xuan..."

"Shuzhou, Li Xuan..., I know." Zhao Yi showed a smile on his face and strode outside, followed closely by the guards behind him.

"Fanglin Garden."

Zhao Yi stood in front of a shop in the city, looked at the plaque above, and murmured: "It is indeed so."

A person behind him said: "Your Highness, this is the Lin family's shop in Fengzhou. There are two other shops like this."

The middle-aged scribe next to Zhao Yi waved his fan and said, "Your Highness, are you going to the Lin family now?"

Zhao Yi shook his head and said: "How can you be so hasty? Let's go back to the palace first."

…

"Your Highness, there is an invitation here. Someone just sent it." In Prince Feng's palace, Zhao Yi had just returned when the palace steward presented an invitation.

"Who sent it?" In the study, Zhao Yizheng was writing with a pen and asked somewhat casually.

"I don't know, it was a dagger inserted into the door of the house." The housekeeper bowed and said.

The palace has encountered some strange things recently, and this is not the first time that a dagger has sent a message. There is nothing to make a fuss about when sending an invitation.

"Dagger?" Zhao Yi paused, waved his hand and said, "Bring it here."

He took the invitation from the butler, read it carefully several times, crumpled the invitation he had just written into a ball, and said with a smile: "Get ready, I am going out soon."