Chapter 282 Poor excuse
Zhao Yushu rushed back to Chang'an overnight.
I wanted to go to Taizu's mausoleum again, but I had left Chang'an for three days to track Yelu Yan. It would be troublesome if Chen Yuanwai came to train me.
This trip to Emperor Taizong's mausoleum made him at least 80% sure that both the open debate and the dirty hands of some people in private would be launched in the mausoleum of this legendary emperor.
Although Taizu is not abstract, he is still a level lower than this good boy.
Zhao Yushu followed the first group of merchants outside the city and entered the city gate, for which he honestly paid ten copper coins.
A hundred years ago, if you wanted to enter the city, you had to at least show your household registration card. Now, as long as you can see at a glance that you are a Tang person, you can pay the money and leave.
The gate of Yong'anfang opens together with the city gate. Lao Fangzheng moved a small stool and sat at the gate of the courtyard to drink porridge. His house is right at the gate.
Afterwards, Lao Fangzheng felt a flash before his eyes, as if something flashed by, but he rubbed his eyes and found nothing. He could not help but sigh that time is unforgiving and his eyes are blurry.
When Zhao Yushu entered the room, the wolf girl suddenly appeared behind him from nowhere.
"How have you been these days?" Zhao Yushu asked.
"Someone has peeped in, but they were just mortals."
It should be someone from Mr. Chen's side. Is he still worried about me? I'll just say I'm studying at home. Anyway, it's not a big deal to stay at home for a few days in this era. If you do it well, you can get a reputation for being a person who forgets to eat and sleep.
"How have you been these days?" the wolf girl asked.
"I've gained a lot." Zhao Yushu told the wolf girl everything he had seen and heard in the past three days. After all, the wolf girl was from Liao, and she might understand some things that he was confused about, especially the formation formed by the five people, which seemed to be more than just resisting the shock waves deep in the imperial mausoleum.
"I told you to go together, but you didn't want to. Otherwise, you would have known what they wanted to do a long time ago." The wolf girl stamped her feet and complained a few words, then sat aside, frowning and thinking carefully.
Zhao Yushu naturally didn't dare to say a word at this time. He just lowered his head and waited for his senior sister to think it through.
"You described too little. You didn't even remember the pronunciation of what they said. I can only guess roughly."
Zhao Yushu thought to himself, they were talking so much in a jumbled manner, how could I remember the pronunciation? It’s not like monks can strengthen their brains.
The wolf girl hesitated for a moment: "I am not good at formations, but the formations that can be used by a few second and third level cultivators are not very profound. One of its functions is to defend against the impact of the unknown force you mentioned, and the other function, I guess, is to wake up that thing."
"Which thing?"
"That thing under the imperial mausoleum!"
Zhao Yushu covered his head and said, "Why do you do this?"
"You said they poured a drop of blood?"
"Yes, but it doesn't look like blood. It's too sticky. It's a pity that I don't know where it went. Otherwise, I could bring it back for you to see."
The wolf girl grabbed his hand and looked at it carefully, then moved her small nose and sniffed it, scaring Zhao Yushu so much that he wanted to retract his hand.
"Maybe you absorbed it."
absorb?
Zhao Yushu suddenly felt a little nauseous. A drop of sticky stuff was absorbed by him, which made him instinctively think of several movies he had watched in his previous life that were not suitable for children, such as Alien...
Is there any big guy with x-ray eyes who can show me if there are any facehuggers?
"It may not be a bad thing. Think about it. They must put this thing down at that position. That position is where Li Jian will stand. In other words, this thing is prepared for Li Jian. Before you were beaten out by the thing in the imperial mausoleum, Yelu Yan was in the same group with Li Jian."
Yes, if I hadn't shown up, Yelu Yan would have given this to Li Jian. It would either be a poison to control Li Jian, or it would be to give Li Jian some bargaining chips in his fight for the throne.
Obviously, the second possibility is far greater than the first. After all, if one wants to control Li Jian, one eunuch is enough, and there is no need to go to someone else's ancestral grave to make trouble.
The wolf girl paced back and forth with her hands behind her back: "But I haven't figured out what could have given Li Jian the ability to compete with the prince there."
Zhao Yushu recalled the feeling Minghong had given him and let out a long breath: "I figured it out."
It has to be said that it was a correct decision for Zhao Yushu not to go to Taizu's mausoleum again.
Just after lunch, Zheng Pan knocked on the gate.
Seeing Zhao Yushu coming out, Zheng Pan took out a note and said, "Brother Bai, I'm here to deliver the note to you personally."
Zhao Yushu invited Zheng Pan into the house: "My humble abode is very simple, I am sorry to have embarrassed you, Brother Zheng."
Zheng Pan held the folding fan and looked around: "Once the great event is accomplished, His Majesty will certainly not be stingy with rewards. Maybe Brother Bai will be able to get a house in Chang'an. Don't forget to invite me to have a drink when the time comes!"
"Hahaha, thank you Brother Zheng for your kind words. I will definitely do that. I don't know who posted this, but you even bothered Brother Zheng to come here in person."
"Of course it belongs to our Mr. Chen. Brother Bai, have you been to Chang'an for a good stroll these days?"
"No, I have been studying behind closed doors. I am old and not well educated, so I dare not slack off."
As expected, they were the ones being followed. Mr. Chen was indeed very cautious, but since it was a fight for the throne, it was understandable that he was a little cautious.
"That's perfect. Mr. Chen is hosting a banquet at Qiyun Tower today. If you have nothing to do, Brother Bai, pack up now. I will take you for a walk first, and then we will go directly there."
"Okay, Brother Zheng, wait a moment."
Zhao Yushu changed his clothes, greeted the wolf girl hiding in the dark, and followed Zheng Pan out of the courtyard.
It was not yet noon, and it would be too much of a stretch to wait for the dinner to start, so the two of them just wandered around Chang'an City.
"Brother Bai hasn't been out for the past two days, but he didn't know that something interesting happened here."
"Oh? Then why don't you tell me quickly, Brother Zheng?"
Zheng Pan laughed: "I thought Brother Bai was really a person who didn't care about what was happening outside. Two days ago, the delegation sent by the Liao Kingdom to congratulate His Majesty on his accession to the throne arrived. As a result, Yelu Yan, the Liao Kingdom ambassador stationed in our Tang Dynasty, was not there."
Zhao Yushu pretended to be shocked: "This is really incredible. How could he not be here for such a big event?"
"Brother Bai, can you guess where he went?"
Zhao Yushu frowned. He couldn't let himself be discovered.
"Could it be that it has also been involved with the princes?"
Zheng Pan laughed loudly, "Brother Bai, you really are... How can you think about everything in that way? You really don't understand romance, hahahaha. So what I just said was a funny thing. Ambassador Yelu was drunk in a brothel for several days. He came back this morning with a haggard look on his face. He was scolded in public by Zuo Linya, the Liao State's Southern Yamen, who was on a diplomatic mission. He was ordered to follow the delegation back to Liao State to wait for punishment. Tell me, isn't it funny?"
Zhao Yushu didn't smile, but frowned even more tightly.
"Hey, what are you thinking about, Brother Bai? Hearing such a thing, you are so worried."
Zhao Yushu stroked his chin and said, "I was wondering which brothel and which girl could charm an envoy of a country like this."