Chapter 73 Wax Pills Secret Letter

The next day, Li Ke entered the palace and gave a brief report on the holding of the Chang'an Championship to Li Shimin. He invited Li Shimin to visit the finals. Li Shimin readily agreed to Li Ke's request. Then, the father and son discussed some calligraphy issues. It was not until Fang Xuanling reported to Li Shimin that Li Ke dismissed.

It’s not that he didn’t want to get in touch with the government, but that he was already scared by Li Shimin’s question. Every time he asked him some problems that needed to be solved in time, he could only tell him the historical solutions he knew. Although he received the commendation from Li Shimin, he also provoked Li Tai, Li You and Li Chengqian, which made Changsun Wuji pay special attention to him, which made Li Ke feel that it was not worth the loss. Therefore, he felt that he could avoid it when he could avoid exposing his abilities too early and bringing their joint attacks.

After coming out of Li Shimin's imperial study in Ganlu Palace, Li Ke came to Yang Fei's Qianqiu Palace and reported to Yang Fei's life over the days. Then he left the palace under Yang Fei's advice.

Chang'an City was already quiet in the cold winter. Li Ke rode his horse and tightened his clothes and said to Chen Qi beside him, "Tomorrow is the final of the Chang'an City Tournament. You must take action properly for that matter and not delay time, do you understand?"

"I will understand it in the end." Chen Qi replied.

"Go to Sun Shaoqing's residence." Li Ke ordered, and then Chen Qi led the way, and Li Ke and his party headed to Sun Fujia, the residence of Dali Temple.

Sun Fujia was a native of Qinghe, Xingtai, Hebei. In the late Sui Dynasty, Sun Fujia entered the officialdom and became a humble official official. After several promotions, he became a legal officer in Chang'an County, the capital of the capital, responsible for trialing criminal prisons, supervising the arrest of traitors, and investigating stolen bribes. He was a very powerful official.

After Li Yuan became emperor in Chang'an, Sun Fujia was able to follow the Tang Dynasty by understanding the current affairs. In the fifth year of Wude, Sun Fujia was already a highly respected official by Li Yuan. In the imperial examination held in December of that year, Sun Fujia ranked first among the 30 candidates in the competition.

The Jinshi exam began with Emperor Yang of Sui, but due to the loss of history, the opening of the exam during Emperor Yang of Sui is now ominous. In the history of the Chinese imperial examination, the first top scholar who is famous for examination was Sun Fujia.

During the "Xuanwu Gate Incident", Sun Fujia supported Li Shimin and ran around and served. After Li Shimin ascended the throne, he was granted a baron and a fief of Le'an. In the first year of Zhenguan, he was promoted to the Shaoqing of Dali Temple.

However, Sun Fujia still had some remnant plot against the Sui Dynasty. For this reason, Li Ke was the grandson of Emperor Yang of Sui. Before he had appointed the crown prince, he was among the people who strongly advocated that Li Ke enter the East Palace.

Today, after Sun Fujia came to the court, he was reading a book in the study. He was quite surprised when his family reported that King Li Ke of Han had visited him. Since Li Ke returned to Beijing, he has been to Cen Wenben's mansion, and did not interact with any court officials. He was very low-key. Why did he suddenly come to visit him today? Is there anything he needs to help? He asked his servant to invite Li Ke to the study and told him that no one would be allowed to approach the study without his own order.

Li Ke came to the study and met Sun Fujia. He sat opposite him and thanked him, "I want to thank Sun Shaoqing for his support for the prince's matter, and I also want to ask Sun Shaoqing to solve a problem for me." Li Ke said directly without tempting Sun Fujia's position.

Sun Fujia was quite moved by Li Ke's frankness. He thought that Li Ke was from the previous dynasty and became close to him a lot. "Your Highness has something to do, I will never refuse what I can do. I just want to say more about Xie. Your Highness should not say much in the future, I cannot afford it."

Li Ke smiled and said, "Shaoqing has said that, how can you express your gratitude with the word "Thank you"? I will never forget your support for the prince." Li Ke said sincerely.

"Your Highness, don't say it anymore, I understand!" Sun Fujia was moved by Li Ke's sincerity, "If you have any questions, please tell me. I will do my best."

Li Ke was surprised to see Sun Fujia's excited expression, but he did not expect Sun Fujia to reveal his true feelings to him, which was beyond his expectations. He hurriedly told Sun Fujia about his case about Wang Fu.

Sun Fujia listened very seriously. After listening to Li Ke's narration carefully, he said with a serious expression, "As the magistrate of Chang'an, Wang Fu dared to commit corruption at the feet of the emperor. The emperor will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly. Therefore, Your Highness should first take the witness Wang San to Dali Temple. The empress can interrogate for two days and report to the emperor after the Chang'an competition. However, Your Highness must not bring this person to the mansion privately. This would violate the laws of the Tang Dynasty. It is difficult for the emperor to explain if the emperor really asks about it."

After hearing Sun Fujia's statement, Li Ke realized how stupid his decision was last night. He actually wanted to bring witnesses from Wang Fu's corruption case to the palace. In this way, even if Wang San confessed Wang Fu's corruption crime, if any strong evidence could not be found, not only would Wang Fu not be cured, but he would bite him and say that he secretly told Wang San to deliberately frame the court officials.

When Sun Fujia saw Li Ke's regretful expression, he knew that he had thought of this and comforted him, "Have you not taken the person to the royal palace yet? I will send someone out of the city to raise people later. After dark, he will take him back to the prison. Your Highness is not worried too much."

"Well, there are my kings guarding outside the city. Now I will go back to the mansion to arrange for people to send them a message and ask them to hand over the kings to Dali Temple." After hearing Sun Fujia's comfort, Li Ke still felt a little uneasy. Therefore, he wanted to hand over the person to Dali Temple as soon as possible.

"Then I will not leave Your Highness, I will make arrangements now." Sun Fujia also knew that things could not be delayed, so he said bluntly.

"Then it's a blessing for Sun Shaoqing." Li Ke thanked again.

"Your Highness is serious." Sun Fujia was a little dissatisfied.

Li Ke knew that he was too modest, which made Sun Fujia feel unfamiliar and just accused him of guilt. Then he came out of the Sun Mansion with Chen Qi and hurried back to the Han Palace. As soon as he entered the Han Palace, Li Ke immediately ordered Chen Qi to arrange for someone to hand over Wang San to Dali Temple. After the matter was arranged, he felt relieved.

When he returned to the study, he practiced calligraphy as usual. The night in Chang'an City in winter came early. As soon as he wrote a few words, the sunset shone on the window of the study.

Looking at the afterglow of the sunset and thinking about the few months he had arrived in the Tang Dynasty, Li Ke was filled with emotion.

He is just an ordinary person, but when he travels to the imperial family, he is no longer an ordinary person, nor will he have a life like an ordinary person. Therefore, there are many things that he must do that must be faced. However, he will not be a butcher, and will not kill innocent people indiscriminately. However, if anyone fights against him and endangers the lives of himself and the person he loves the most, even if that person is a good person or a woman, he will not let go. Because being kind to the enemy is cruel to himself, he is not a fool, and he will not do such stupid things.

During dinner, Li Ke gathered Ma Zhou, Liu Rengui, Su Dingfang, Xu Jingzong, Chen Qi and others to have a meal together. When there were too many people, it became lively. After a long time of contact with Li Ke, everyone was not very restrained when eating. Therefore, the dinner was delicious. Just as Li Ke and others were having tea with everyone in the front hall, they saw Yang En walking in with a serious expression.

Li Ke found that Yang En's expression was wrong and asked hurriedly, "What happened to Mr. Yang?"

"Your Highness, you see, this is something I found in the backyard. It seems that it was thrown in in the afternoon." He handed a paper ball of wax ball to Li Ke. "If it weren't for the old slave discovery, no one in the mansion had noticed it. If he was so careless, his highness should have arranged the guards in the mansion well. He should not take the guards in the mansion for the sake of the competition and threaten your safety."

After hearing Yang En's words, Li Ke saw that he was doing this and comforted him, "Old Yang, don't be angry. I have to do it because of insufficient personnel in the competition. It means that the Wolf Guard and Eagle Guard will withdraw after the game, and nothing big will happen. Besides, aren't you? Who dares to hurt me at all with you?" Li Ke did not forget to put a high hat on Yang En.

Yang En knew that Li Ke was not concerned about his safety for the sake of the game, and saw that he was not concerned about his safety, he shook his head helplessly, stopped talking, and stood quietly behind him.

In fact, the reason why Li Ke dared to be so bold was not only that no one dared to cause trouble in the Han Palace, but also that there were two masters Yang En and Liu Heng in the mansion. Therefore, he would all draw the guards in the mansion to inspect and arrange the competition site. If even Yang En and Liu Heng could not deal with those who could find trouble in the palace, it would be useless to arrange more guards.

Li Ke looked at the wax ball, crushed it, revealing a piece of paper. When he opened the piece of paper, he saw eight words written on it, but they were all medicine names: Angelica, Tangerine peel, red arrows, and blood remnants.

Li Ke passed the note to everyone, and when the note returned to his hands, Li Ke asked, "What's the problem?"

Everyone looked at each other and didn't understand what the names of the four medicines written on the note were for? Ma Zhou saw that everyone was silent, "Your Highness, I don't know who threw this note, and it's not clear what the purpose is for the time being, and I can't see clearly whether it was written by a man or a woman. Therefore, it is difficult to tell what it means and what it means."

"Also, only four medicine names are written on the note. Do you want to tell us what you want to remind us? Or are the enemy who set up a suspicion array to distract us? No one can tell whether the opponent is an enemy or a friend clearly. Therefore, there are only a few words on the note, and it is difficult to judge its meaning." Xu Jingzong also said.

Li Ke discussed with everyone for a long time but did not get a result. It was getting late. Considering that sleeping too late would affect the final of the next day, Li Ke asked everyone to rest early. He knew nothing about medicine and watched it alone in the study room for a long time, but he finally didn't guess what the purpose was.
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