The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

When the people sent by Li Qiao saw that their men were killed and the tenth prince was missing, they hurried back to report to Li Qiao.

really!

Li Qiao's expression suddenly turned gloomy and ugly, and the guards were so frightened that they knelt down.

"Master, my subordinates have ordered us to search for the tenth prince. There should be news soon."

Li Qiao waved his hand and signaled the guards to retreat.

Seeing Li Qiao's bad expression, the guards hurriedly retreated.As soon as he exited the study, he heard a loud bang, which made him tremble.

Li Qiao had a gloomy look on his face and said through gritted teeth: "Very good, I really underestimated you."

He did not make a mistake, but was foolishly deceived by the tenth prince.

The tenth prince is really good at acting, and he was actually fooled!

Li Qiao has always been conceited. After spending time with Zhao Yao day and night, he didn't notice anything strange about Zhao Yao. He really thought that Zhao Yao was just an innocent and unpopular tenth prince, but he didn't expect that this was not the case.

He had just become suspicious and sent someone to take a look.In fact, he still thought that there was nothing strange about Zhao Yao, but he was suspicious by nature, so he had to confirm before he could rest assured.The unexpected result made him very surprised and angry.

This is the first time that Li Qiao has been fooled around, and it was still by a 12-year-old boy.This was humiliating for him.

It was always Li Qiao who played with people and played them around. Even the prince and the king were played by him. He didn't expect that one day he would be played by an unknown prince. .

"Interesting, really interesting!" Li Qiao laughed angrily, "Things are getting interesting."

The guard standing at the door felt his scalp numb when he heard Li Qiao's laughter.

"Come in."

When the guard heard Li Qiao calling him, he hurriedly opened the door and walked in.His tone was very respectful: "Master, what are your orders?"

"We have to dig three feet into the ground to find the Tenth Prince." Li Qiao ordered in a cold voice, "Look for me from house to house." Li Qiao guessed that someone had rescued the Tenth Prince, and that the Tenth Prince was still in Jinling. leave.

Although Li Qiao was as indifferent as usual, the guards could sense that he was very angry.

"Yes, sir."

Li Qiao sneered and said, "Tenth Prince, you have to hide better. I will be very disappointed if I find you so easily."

Zhao Yao, who was attracted by Li Qiao, suddenly sneezed.

"Your Highness, are you suffering from the cold? I'll call you a doctor right away?"

"I'm fine." Zhao Yao rubbed his itchy nose and smiled reassuringly at Shopkeeper Fan, "Someone must be scolding me."

Shopkeeper Fan was uneasy: "Is there really no need to call you a doctor?"

"No need..." Zhao Yao thought that he had been taking poison during this period. Although the poison in his body had been cured long ago, there was no guarantee that there would be no sequelae.To be on the safe side, it’s better to find a doctor to check your pulse. "It's better to call a doctor for me."

"Young man, go and call him right now."

After a while, Shopkeeper Fan returned with a doctor.

The doctor first saluted Zhao Yao respectfully, and then carefully felt Zhao Yao's pulse.

After a moment, the doctor put away his hand to check Zhao Yao's pulse and said respectfully: "Your Highness, there is nothing wrong with your body."

"Doctor, during the time I was imprisoned, I was taking a poison that made my limbs sore and weak and my whole body weak."

"Poison?" The doctor looked surprised. "The civilians just checked your pulse and didn't find that you were poisoned."

Shopkeeper Fan frowned when he heard this, and said to the doctor with some dissatisfaction: "Please take His Highness's pulse again."

"Your Highness, please let the civilians take your pulse again."

"Okay." Zhao Yao stretched out his hand in front of the doctor again.

The doctor had a serious face and took Zhao Yao's pulse seriously.

"Your Highness, your pulse is normal and you are not poisoned."

Shopkeeper Fan looked at the doctor suspiciously: "Are you sure His Highness is not poisoned?"

"I'm sure." The doctor said very confidently, "His Royal Highness's pulse is very healthy and there is no problem." Besides, His Highness's face was also very rosy, and he looked like he was poisoned.

Zhao Yao felt relieved after hearing this.

He smiled and said, "It's good that I wasn't poisoned."

Shopkeeper Fan asked the doctor to retreat, "Your Highness, would you like me to find a new doctor for you?" His Highness must not have anything happen to him, otherwise the prince will never let him go.

"No need, the doctor said I wasn't poisoned, so that means I'm definitely not poisoned." Seeing Shopkeeper Fan's worried look, Zhao Yao comforted him, "I did take poison when I was imprisoned. I'm not poisoned now because the poison has been resolved. Don’t worry.”

"Your Highness, if something happens to you, my prince will skin me." His prince is very precious to his younger brother, His Highness.

"Don't worry, I'm really fine." Zhao Yao changed the subject and asked, "Have you found the person who came with me before?"

"I just wanted to tell you this, but I forgot." Shopkeeper Fan said hurriedly, "The people who came with you are fine. They have been looking for you."

"They are all fine, are they not injured?"

"No injuries, they are all safe and sound." Shopkeeper Fan asked, "Your Highness, would you like to inform them for you?"

Zhao Yao thought for a while and said, "Don't notify them for now, let them continue to look for me." Only if his people continue to look for him, Li Qiao and his group will believe that he is missing. "By the way, who is the person who imprisons me?"

"Your Highness, I haven't found anyone named Li Qiao."

"Didn't you find it?" Zhao Yao said thoughtfully, "Li Qiao must be a fake name. Is there anyone named Li in the aristocratic family in Jinling?"

"There is no family named Li in Jinling, but there are people named Li in the Yan Gang."

"Salt Gang?"

"Yes, there are three major salt gangs in Jinling, the Li family, the Fang family, and the Song family." Shopkeeper Fan introduced to Zhao Yao, "Among them, the Li family is the largest. Although the Li family is not an aristocratic family, it has been doing business in Jinling for several generations. The salt dealer's status in Jinling City is no lower than that of the aristocratic family." Zhao Yao asked again: "What is the relationship between the Li family and the aristocratic family?"

"Your Highness, in Jinling City, the Cao Gang and the Yan Gang have very good relations with the aristocratic families, as good as wearing a pair of trousers." Shopkeeper Fan said with a sarcastic face, "They have always been working together in collusion. sky."

"Is there anyone named Li Qiao in the Li family of the Yan Gang?"

"No."

"Is there anyone famous in the Li family?" Although Li Qiao has a fake name, his demeanor is not like that of ordinary people.Since there is no one named Li in the family, it may be the Li family of the Yan Gang.

"Your Highness, the Li family is very famous in Jinling City. Everyone in Jinling City knows about it."

Zhao Yao thought so. As one of the salt gangs, the Li family must be very famous in Jinling City.

"I mean, are any of the younger generation of the Li family famous?"

"Yes, from the Li family..." Shopkeeper Fan told Zhao Yao everything he knew about the Li family of the Salt Gang.Zhao Yao listened and found that Li Qiao was not there.

Wait, he remembered that Li Qiao said that he was a scholar and was preparing to take the imperial examination.

"Is there anyone in the Li family who is very famous in reading..." Before Zhao Yao could finish his words, he thought of Li Jue, one of the great talents in Jinling.However, Li Qiao and Li Jue don't look alike.

"The Li family are all salt traders, and no one is good at reading."

"Where's Li Jue?" Although Li Jue and Li Qiao don't look alike, if you think about it carefully, they have similar figures.

Zhao Yao had met Li Jue before at Mr. Meng's place.When Mr. Meng was seriously ill, Li Jue and the others would visit him from time to time.

"Is Li Jue a great talent?"

"Yes, where is he?" Zhao Yao remembered that Li Jue didn't seem to be a child of an aristocratic family, but seemed to come from a scholarly family.

"The identity of this great talent Li is not simple."

When Zhao Yao heard this, he immediately asked curiously: "Why isn't it simple?"

"On the surface, the great scholar Li is the son of Mr. Li of Jinling Academy. In fact, he is not the son of Mr. Li, but the son of the Li family of the Salt Gang."

"What, the son of the Li family of the Yan Gang?" Zhao Yao looked shocked, "His true identity is the son of the Li family of the Yan Gang. Why does he appear to be the son of Mr. Li of Jinling Academy?"

"You also know that the great scholar Li is very talented. If he is the son of the Yan Gang, he cannot be an official, so the Li family made him the son of Mr. Li of Jinling Academy." The imperial court stipulated that Caobang and Caobang The children of the Yan Gang could not join the court as officials, because the Cao Gang and the Yan Gang were not the right way.

The Li family was rich and had spent money to buy officials in the previous dynasty. However, after the founding of the Zhou Dynasty, the officials purchased by the Li family were lost.In the previous dynasty, the Li family bought quite a lot of officials, and they relied on being an official to exercise authority and prosperity, which was very impressive.Naturally, the Li family could not accept this sudden inability to serve as an official.

In order to have another official in the family, the Li family made some plans and decided to give their talented young son out to be a son to someone else.

Mr. Li of Jinling Academy is not a member of the Li family, but everyone has the surname Li, so it is most appropriate to give his youngest son to him as a son.Sure enough, the younger son did not disappoint them. He was good at studying since he was a child and became a famous talent in Jinling City.

"So that's it. The Li family is quite good at planning." Zhao Yao didn't expect that Li Jue had another level of identity. "Do many people in Jinling City know Li Jue's true identity?"

"Not much, but everyone in the family knows it." Shopkeeper Fan is a smart man. When he heard Zhao Yao ask about Li Jue, he reacted, "Your Highness, do you suspect that Li Qiao who is locked up with you is Li Jue?"

Zhao Yao nodded slightly and said, "I think it's very possible." The more he thinks about it, the more he feels that Li Qiao is Li Jue.

"Your Highness, if you say that, it is possible that he is the great talent Li." Shopkeeper Fan didn't know if he could say something to Zhao Yao, so he could only say something carefully. "Your Highness, this talented man Li is extremely smart. He must know that you have escaped now. With his methods, he will probably be looking for you door to door starting tomorrow."

"Isn't this Li Jue very capable?"

Shopkeeper Fan hesitated and said, "Yes, and he is very sinister and vicious."

Zhao Yao thought to himself: Sure enough!
"Your Highness, you lied to him, he will definitely not let you go." Shopkeeper Fan did not expect that the person with Zhao Yao was Li Jue. The most important thing is that His Highness actually deceived Li Jue. escaped under his nose.

"I didn't lie to him, and he didn't let me go." Zhao Yao said angrily, "If I hadn't been smart, I would have fed the fish in the Jinling River by now."

"Your Highness, I'm afraid you are the first, no, the second person to deceive Li Jue. With his temperament and methods, if he finds you..." Their prince is the first person to deceive Li Jue.

"Will you let him find me?"

Shopkeeper Fan said without thinking: "Of course not."

"Then I'll be relieved." In Zhao Yao's opinion, Li Jue does have some tricks, but they are far behind compared to his eighth brother. "When will Bago arrive in Aurous Hill?"

"It will be here in a few days." Shopkeeper Fan knew that his prince had a good relationship with Zhao Yao, but he wanted to say a few words for his prince, "The prince has been very worried about you these days since you have been absent. The prince came to Jinling this time. To find you."

"I made Bugs worry."

"Fortunately you are okay, otherwise the prince..." If something happens to His Highness the Tenth Prince, I am afraid that his prince will massacre all the Li family.

"I'm lucky and it's impossible for anything to happen to me." Zhao Yao said with a smile, "I'm fine now, and Brother Bage can rest assured."

"Your Highness, before the prince arrives, I have wronged you in the past few days."

"Not wronged."

Shopkeeper Fan saw that it was getting late and did not dare to disturb Zhao Yao anymore.

"Your Highness, it's getting late. You should rest first."

Zhao Yao stopped Shopkeeper Fan and said, "Wait a minute, I'm here. Will Li Jue's people find me or cause trouble to you?"

"Your Highness, don't worry. Even if Li Jue and the others cover the sky with their hands, they won't dare to come to our store and act recklessly." Shopkeeper Fan said this with a very firm tone.

"That's good." It seems that Bago's people are quite powerful in Jinling City.

Shopkeeper Fan saw that Zhao Yao had nothing to ask or give instructions, so he withdrew.

Zhao Yao walked to the table, picked up a pen and prepared to write a letter to Liang Bin to report that she was safe, and then wrote a letter to He Lianfang to tell his second uncle what happened to him in Jinling City.As for the emperor, hehe, he didn't believe that his father didn't know about his being caught and missing.He even didn't believe that the secret guards who had been following him couldn't find him. They deliberately didn't look for him.

His father knew that he was captured but still refused to let the secret guards come to rescue him. He must be planning something.Although he didn't know what his father's purpose was, he remembered this account.

Also, Bage's people revealed some things to let him know. It should be Bage's order. Is Bage planning to have a showdown with him to seize the legitimate son?
Finally, I would like to thank the veterans for their monthly support this month, (`).