Start from the thief

Li Jian did not live in the Duke's Mansion, but temporarily lived in a manor in the north of Jiangning City.

After all, he was once the Son of Heaven. Even if he didn't have a palace, the regulations should not be too bad. Besides, Jiangning was rich, and the food, clothing and other expenses were higher than those of a duke.

The only thing that made Li Jian unhappy was that not only the Jiangning officials but even the Duke of Yue turned a deaf ear to his request to send troops to attack the traitor Li Tong.

Duke Yue hasn't come to see me for several days.

Li Jian was very angry. The few reports from the court were not enough to satisfy his thirst for the situation in the world, but more secret information was with the Duke of Yue. If he didn't come, he would be blind.

"Your Majesty, the Duke is here."

A palace maid trotted along the way. Li Jian had clearly stated that if the Duke of Yue arrived, he should inform him immediately no matter what he was doing.

"Old minister, I have seen Your Majesty."

"Don't be polite, Mr. Wang hasn't been here for some time."

Faced with Li Jian's enthusiasm, Duke Yue showed a fleeting trace of guilt on his face.

"Your Majesty, I have something to tell you."

"please say."

"An old friend of your majesty arrived in Jiangning today."

"Old friend? Who?"

"I."

Zhao Yushu's figure seemed to appear suddenly, at least there was no warning in the entire manor.

Li Jian shook at first, then became angry, and then dejected.

He is not stupid, in fact he is very smart. He has been trying to win over Zhao Yushu since the first time he met him. In terms of vision alone, his vision is much better than Li Huan's.

So he immediately realized that the Duke of Yue was no longer his staunch supporter and could not even remain neutral.

"Are you here to kill me?"

"You can ask for a prison cart to go to Luoyang and let Li Tong judge your crime. If you are lucky, you may be able to guard Taizong's tomb with Li Huan. Of course, from my personal point of view, I hope to kill you."

Li Jian sneered: "It turns out that the academy has also become Li Tong's dog."

Li Jian knew that he was probably going to die, so he planned to go crazy before he died, such as angering Mr. Liu, and then being killed by this man who saw through him from the beginning. This was better than dying under the Tang Dynasty laws spoken coldly by Li Tong with those cold eyes.

However, Zhao Yushu was not angry nor contemptuous, he just felt that Li Jian was a little pitiful.

"In your eyes, is it either others treat you as a dog, or you treat others as a dog?"

Zhao Yushu leaned against the door frame: "Is it so difficult to treat yourself as a human being and others as human beings?"

Li Jian stood up suddenly, dumbfounded, as if he had never expected Zhao Yushu to say that.

"Does Li Tong treat other people as human beings? She and her father are not good people either!"

"If she dares, I will kill her."

Li Jian sat down dejectedly, his lips turning pale.

"You're a madman."

"I'm."

With a dagger sound, it drew an arc in the air and stabbed straight into the table in front of Li Jian.

"If you want to commit suicide, don't tell me."

Zhao Yushu turned and left without even looking at Li Jian.

He didn't dare to commit suicide. If he dared, he would not have run away in Dongdu.

"Mr. Wang..."

Li Jian looked at the dagger on the table that was shining with cold light. It was just an ordinary dagger, without any magical light or legend. It was probably something that Zhao Yushu had picked up from some guard. And he, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, was going to die with this ordinary dagger?

"Mr. Wang, do I have anywhere else to go?"

Duke Yue shook his head: "Your Majesty, please be decent."

The mission in Jiangning was completed faster than Zhao Yushu had imagined. Without even waiting for a night, Duke Yue personally rushed to where Zhao Yushu was staying and explained that Li Jian had already written a confession and could come to Beijing to meet the emperor at any time.

"I said he would never dare to kill himself."

Zhao Yushu shrugged at Lan Ling: "It's done. Do you plan to hang out in Jiangning for a few days, or should we go back now?"

"go back."

Zhao Yushu nodded and looked at the Duke of Yue: "I know you still want to seek revenge from me. It is only natural for me to kill Wang Shaolin because he killed someone. It is only natural for you to kill me because I killed your son. I'll wait."

Duke Yue looked at Zhao Yushu expressionlessly and said, "Okay."

In just half a day, Southeast made its position clear, and since then the territory of the Tang Dynasty has become complete again.

"This matter ended so easily that it felt unreal to me. Every time the academy assigned me a mission, I was just a little bit away from death. This time, I didn't even use any spiritual power, which made me a little uncomfortable. You know, if Bujie or Lao Yang were here, they would scold me and say, "How cheap is that?"

Zhao Yushu and Lan Ling walked side by side in the night market of Jiangning. The two capitals of the east and the west were the most prosperous in the world, but Jiangning, the richest capital in the southeast, also had a different scene.

Zhao Yushu tried several times to imitate the tricks from his previous life and try to casually hug her shoulders or hold her hands, but considering the customs of that era and Lan Ling's toughness, he backed down.

"Hey, this is the Qinhuai River. It was here that I met the weird brothers Li Huan and Li Jian. If I had known earlier, I would have killed them here to avoid so many troubles later. Huh?"

"what happened?"

"This ship belongs to Miss Wanqing. You still remember her, right? She went to study abroad with Sister Yun in Dongdu. I thought the ship was useless after she left. Now it seems that someone has picked her up. It's quite lively."

Lan Ling suddenly became curious: "Let's go in and take a look?"

"Yeah."

My girlfriend accompanied me to visit the flower boat, this is something I can brag about for the rest of my life!

Then the two of them went over excitedly.

Then the two of them came back dejected.

You dare to enter Xiao Qinxian’s ship without an invitation. What kind of bumpkin are you?

"No, I can't swallow this. I'm going to Tianxianglou when I return to Dongdu!"

Lan Lingqi snorted and shook her sleeves: "I want to ask Miss Wanqing if she knows that her maid used to be a swindler under her name and is also a Qin Fairy!"

"It's the Little Qin Fairy."

Zhao Yushu added in a low voice.

"Speak for her?"

"No no."

"But why do you know that this ship belongs to Miss Wanqing?"

"?"

"I remember now. Ji Leng said that you asked him to take you to Tianxianglou on the first night you arrived in Dongdu, and you were planning to stay there."

"!?"

"I also heard that you went to Siyue Pavilion in Chang'an, and the current Queen of Hanhai Kingdom has a close relationship with you."

"and many more!"

"By the way, before you went to Yuezhou, did you also go to some dog hall in Xiangzhou? What was that place?"

Zhao Yushu took a deep breath.

"You're going to lie?"

"I do not have."

Zhao Yushu shook his head decisively

"I don't think I have wronged you."

"More real than my heart."

"Did you want to say something just now?"

"Actually, I was just remembering something in my mind."

Zhao Yushu rummaged through his storage bag for a long time, and pulled out a blank notebook and a sharpened charcoal pencil that had not been used for who knows how long, then put on a flattering smile.

"Can you tell me, besides Ji Leng, who told you the rest?"

Lan Ling chuckled and grabbed Zhao Yushu's hand: "Stop being so shy. If you want to pull me, just pull me. Otherwise, I'll ride the horse and you can take the sedan chair."

Zhao Yushu scratched his head with a silly smile, and the two of them walked away along the Qinhuai River hand in hand.