0029 Li's first
"The other party's intentions are nothing more than two, either to help my family or to trap my family."
Li Tong frowned and expressed his own opinions. Although it seemed nonsense, it helped to straighten out his thinking.
The most eye-catching event in the current situation is naturally the rebellion of Li Chong, the King of Langya, Bozhou. This strange thing is most likely related to this. Some people secretly want to get Li Tong's family involved. As for the specific intentions of the person, there is too little information currently known, and there is no way to judge.
I won’t describe the problem that I can’t figure out yet. The most critical question now is how their family should deal with it? This is also the reason why Li Guangshun hesitated and wanted to come to Li Tong in private to discuss it.
Li Tong was not in a hurry to express his opinion, but asked Li Guangshun: "According to what my eldest brother saw, how should my family handle itself?"
"I just don't know what to do..."
Li Guangshun looked embarrassed and sad, and seemed to feel that he seemed too unintentional. After pondering for a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "The good and bad are hard to tell. If it is really related to the military affairs of the King of Langya, my family is better off being far away from the outside. But those who plan secretly may not be willing to give up. I, I want to continue watching myself and not to implicate the whole family. Now I tell you Sanlang, I just hope you can make some preparations. No matter what happens in the future, I will appease the Empress, Jizi, and Ah Mei..."
Li Tong was quite pleased to hear Li Guangshun say this. He saw that Li Guangshun was low-key and cautious in daily life, fearing that he would make mistakes, and even be almost cowardly. He was worried that the other party would be calmed down and was willing to accept his fate. He did not dare to make any efforts to reverse the situation.
But Li Guangshun's answer was obviously unwilling to give up and still had some desires. This also made Li Tong's understanding of this brother more meticulous and richer. People should save themselves in the end. As long as they refuse to accept their fate, everything will turn around.
"Since my brother said, how can I let you go to danger alone! I already have my second brother's successor in my family. Instead of living in vain, I should try my best to find life. Now I am on the surface and hiding in the dark. It is really not advisable to act rashly."
The extremely boring life of several consecutive months has also greatly eliminated Li Tong's patience. He does not want to miss this change, no matter how good or bad it is.
At the moment, they were completely passive. After a while, Li Tong really couldn't think of how to turn it into initiative, so the two decided not to sue Yuzhe, but just waited for the next message to be transmitted with peace of mind.
The next day, Li Tong called Xu and used an excuse to send all the idle palace ladies in the kitchen, and only let the maid Zhu Niang and the servants who followed his family stay here for many years to ensure that the matter would not be spyed by miscellaneous eyes.
As the situation in the foreign country has become increasingly tense recently, Xu is more respectful to Li Tong, obeys the rules and does not dare to disobey at all. This is not because she has changed her future for the King of Yong, but because she is very optimistic. She is worried that the King of Yong will be involved in trouble at any time, so she tries her best to release her kindness, hoping that King of Yong'an will be grateful, and even if she is really in trouble, she should not bite her out.
The ingredients of Renzhiyuan are delivered by eunuchs and palace maids in the Shangshi Bureau once a day. There are relatively more ingredients in the evening. According to Zhu Niang’s instructions, all the cloth pieces are mixed with the ingredients in the evening.
In the evening, Li Tong came to the kitchen in the yard, stared wide and looked at the palace servants of Shangshi Bureau who were responsible for transporting ingredients, hoping to get a glimpse of the clues. Those people also felt the serious look of the King of Yong'an, and their eyes were wandering and dodging. This was a normal reaction. From this, it cannot be deduced whether these people were strange.
The ingredients are classified and placed in boxes of varying sizes. After the boxes are opened, they show obvious traces of being looked through. After examining several palace servants for a moment, Li Tong pretended to be unhappy and said, "The food is so messy, how do you do it?"
When several palace servants delivered food heard this, they hurriedly bowed and apologized: "How dare I be negligent? But the guards searched on the way, and after sealing the boxes, they were not allowed to unpack the boxes, so they could only deliver them like this..."
"Which movie in Suwei is making things difficult for me? How many people are unboxing and picking it up? Come quickly, I won't make things difficult for you!"
Li Tong looked indignant, but in fact he wanted to use these people to identify the suspects who were tampering with them.
The few people said tremblingly: "Why are you, such as the lowly palace servants, dare to ask about the name of Yulin Lang. Just see the color of the clothes, it should be the hundred cavalrymen..."
The Hundred Cavalry among the Imperial Guards of the Northern Ya, and even independent of the Imperial Guards. In the early Zhenguan Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin chose a hundred people who were good at shooting as the second guards to go to the north gate and follow the field hunting. After the Empress Wu arrived at the court, the scale of the Hundred Cavalry was greatly expanded. In addition to selecting the fierce soldiers of the Southern Ya guards, they also selected the tyrants of the household slaves to serve as the soldiers. Compared with other guards, the composition of the soldiers was much more complicated.
Li Tong asked a few more questions and confirmed that he could not get more useful information from the people. At the same time, the maid Zhu Niang made another gesture to Li Tong, indicating that the kind of cloth was found in the ingredients again.
Li Tong walked into the corner and took the cloth piece from Zhu Niang that was still stained with vegetable juice, and found that there were no handwriting on it. Perhaps the person who was secretly tampering with his hands could not be sure whether the message was effectively transmitted. He was cautious and did not dare to pass the message too frequently.
After pondering for a while, Li Tong instructed the palace servants: "Give more ingredients tomorrow morning, and don't have to come again in the evening."
The palace servants dared not ask why, so they took the order and left.
In the next two days, there was only one food supply. Li Tong made such a change, one was to see how powerful the person behind the scenes were and whether he could continue to send messages after blocking the evening path. Secondly, it was also to suggest that the other party was already alert to this and wanted to see what the other party would react.
After two days of testing this, no strange things happened in the yard. The cloth was not mixed with the morning ingredients and sent it. On the third day, Li Tong asked someone to send the ingredients in the evening, but the cloth was sent in again, but there was still no words.
At this point, it is already confirmed that the group of guards patrolling outside Inzhiyuan in the evening, and the other party should be just a small character among the hundreds of cavalry. Once this path is cut off, it will not be able to expand new paths.
With such a result, Li Guangshun has many regrets.
Although the other party's intentions are unknown, people always tend to think about the benefits in the difficulties. He is more willing to believe that some people in the Northern Imperial Army have sympathy and kindness towards their family, hoping to provide some help. But now it seems that the other party is low in position and weak in power. Even if they are willing to help, the help they can provide will definitely be limited.
But Li Tong felt that this might not be a bad thing, because this should be able to confirm that the other party did these things, and that kindness should be greater than malicious to his family. To a certain extent, it can be ruled out that someone intends to involve and frame their family.
The evidence to draw this conclusion is very simple. Although his family is in a bad situation, his identity is unusual after all, and not anyone can get into it.
If some low-ranking people do this with malicious intentions towards their family, once the deeds are exposed, it is still possible to see whether the Li Tong family will suffer. However, the other party must not be spared from the matter. It should be noted that the Baiqi is the imperial guard armed force that Empress Wu is the confidant. Some people dare to make some small moves in private, which Empress Wu will never tolerate!
Of course, Li Tong had thought about whether this was a play written and directed by someone who was interested in others, but he quickly denied it. Their family was just forbidden to have a nest of quails. Before he could take it seriously, the young man Li Shouyi, who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was in charge of his predecessor, was already dead.
Hundreds of thousands of troops were dispatched to suppress the rebellion, and there were many tigers in the Northern Yamen in the forbidden area. Wu Zetian really wanted to be in a mood to do such small moves. Do you want to play the truth with me or take a big risk? Wouldn't it be better to raise your hand to death?
After confirming this, Li Tong felt much more at ease and decided to continue to retain this communication channel, hoping to see the other party's intentions clearly, and it is best to contact directly what happens.
Lee Guangshun objected to this, believing that it was not worth taking risks for a low-level guard among the hundreds of cavalry.
Someone in the guard intends to contact their family who were imprisoned in the deep palace. It is a serious crime if they know that they do not report it. If they still have to actively maintain this contact, the blame will naturally be deeper. If they are sure that the other party can provide considerable help, it is worth taking risks. But now it seems that even if they contact the other party, the benefits and risks are really disproportionate.
Li Tong knew that after the war in the second half of the year, the purge of the Li clan had lasted for several years, and his family would be in turmoil. And according to his current state, there would be no powerful figures who would provide shelter to his family.
So even if it is a tiny little help, Li Tong is unwilling to miss it. After all, in such an era, when you are born in such an identity, risks always accompany you, and you don’t want to touch on the danger at all. Then there is no need to think too much, wait for death, there is no help.
Although the two brothers had differences, Li Guangshun was eventually convinced by Li Tong. Although he was a few years older, he was not as independent as Li Tong.
Although he made such a decision, Li Tong did not dare to contact him rashly before the other party revealed his feelings. Moreover, he could not ensure that his message would be received by the other party, and he could only wait passively.
After the evening delivery, only blank sheets of cloth were sent to Renzhiyuan for several consecutive days. It can be seen that the other party was also cautious and hesitant about whether to communicate further.
A few days later, the message finally changed. It was no longer a piece of cloth mixed with vegetables, but a word "天" was cut out with a fingernail on a steamed pear. If Zhu Niang had not received the instructions of the two kings to carefully pick up the ingredients, she would have missed the message.
Holding the steamed pear sent by Zhu Niang in her hand, Li Tong couldn't help but sigh that the man was quite lively and playful in secret, and he actually knew how to play homophones. If he had no mistake, this should be the meaning of Li, and it can be regarded as a disclosure of his thoughts by the other party taking a risk.
After thinking for a night, when the palace servants were delivering food the next day, Li Tong ordered the palace servants to give three raw pears in the evening. This secret interaction was so exciting that it made people feel excited and very addicted.
After a few hours of trepidation, in the evening, Li Tong came to the kitchen again. As soon as the ingredients were delivered, he expelled all the idle people and picked them up by himself. Finally, he found a small piece of cloth in a mess of water shield. When he expanded it, he saw the three words "Xizhu Pavilion".
Chapter completed!