Uncle Detective Di Renjie, I build a crime-solving team

Chapter 310 Troubles

Fangzhou.

Prince Li Dan was sitting by the pond, holding an exquisite fishing rod in his hand. There was no fishing line, no hook, and no fish food on the rod.

He sat there steadily, like a fishing Jiang Taigong, waiting for his King Wen of Zhou.

Yingfei, who was returning to Fangzhou from Luoyang, came here under the guidance of her housekeeper and bowed to Li Dan from afar.

"Your Highness, I'm back."

Li Dan sat on the Diaoyutai without looking back. He just opened his mouth and asked, "How is your Majesty these days?"

Ying Fei replied, "The dragon is in good health and does not seem to have suffered any illness from the Princess Taiping case."

"That's too bad." Li Dan said with regret, "How is my brother the crown prince doing these days?"

"His Royal Highness is still the same as before. When I went to see His Royal Highness, he asked me to bring you a message."

"What are you talking about?"

"He said that you should stay in Fangzhou and he would let you know if he needed your help."

"My brother is different now. He used to be such a weak person, but now he has completely drawn a line between himself and the past... I am increasingly convinced that he can really do that thing."

"Your Highness, what exactly is His Royal Highness going to do?"

"Well..." Li Dan turned around and glanced at Ying Fei. "It's meaningless to tell you, because he may not really do it, but he does have the possibility of doing it. So, you will know after he does it. If he doesn't do it, what's the point of knowing it?"

"That's what His Highness said."

"Did Cunxi get promoted?"

"No, His Majesty did not promote Li Shaoyin, but promoted others."

"Your Majesty is really amazing. Are you going to promote all of Cunxi's party and fight to the death with the sons of the Wu family? That's really exciting."

The sky is bright.

Tangzhou.

As soon as Li Cunxi stepped into Tangzhou, he was stopped by angels and guards with haggard faces.

These people did not know that Li Cunxi had secretly returned to Dengzhou before, and they went out of their way to look for him. It was not until the next wave of angels who promoted the demons sent them a letter that they learned that Li Cunxi and his party had returned to Dengzhou.

They waited along the road here and finally waited for Li Cunxi.

"The attendant Wu Yanhao received the order."

"The emperor is destined to be transported by heaven, and the edict says..."

……

Luoyang, White Horse Temple.

Wu Zetian was in a good mood and came to the White Horse Temple specially to burn incense.

The only officials who accompanied him were Prince of Liang Wu Sansi and a few of his close ministers. They were tactful enough not to follow him into the main hall and waited outside.

After burning incense, Wu Zetian went to the backyard of the White Horse Temple under the protection of General Huan Bin of the Qianniu Guard, and found the evil monk Huaiyi who had already burned incense and bathed.

Seeing Wu Zetian coming, all the male catamites, maids, servants and slaves knelt down and kowtowed, shouting "Long live Wu Zetian".

Huaiyi's four personal guards also left the courtyard and kowtowed to Wu Zetian.

In the monk's room, Huaiyi heard the noise outside and trotted out.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty."

When Wu Zetian saw Huaiyi running out, she could no longer hold the smile on her face. She hurriedly walked forward and held Huaiyi's hand intimately.

"His Majesty."

"Huaiyi."

When Huan Bin saw this scene, he lowered his head and walked out of the courtyard without raising his foot to follow in.

But less than half a cup of tea after Huaiyi and Wu Zetian entered the monk's room hand in hand, they heard a "hmm, hmm" sound from inside, accompanied by Huaiyi's panting.

Huan Bin was not a child and had experienced such scenes many times. When the sound came out, he immediately began to pace around, trying to stop his ears from being filled with the sound.

After walking outside for an unknown amount of time, Huan Bin started to turn back. Just as he walked out of the courtyard, he heard the familiar voice again.

So he wandered around again, memorized the nearby terrain in his mind, and then continued walking back.

This went on for more than twenty or thirty times. When dusk came, the ministers outside could no longer stay and the monks' room finally became quiet.

Wu Sansi, who had been waiting for Wu Zetian for a long time, came alone and asked anxiously, "Isn't it finished inside yet?"

Huan Bin glanced at Wu Sansi and said, "Prime Minister, please listen carefully."

Wu Sansi pricked up his ears and listened, only to find that there was no such sound. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Why hasn't your Majesty come out yet?"

"They just stopped." Huan Bin said lightly with his eyes closed.

Wu Sansi was a little overwhelmed. The car just stopped and he was wondering what Huaiyi was going to do.

Don’t you know that it is very dangerous to go back to Luoyang at night? Huaiyi, it was already late and he just finished.

Isn't this just disregarding the lives of the emperor and his prime minister?

Although there were thousands of thoughts in his mind, Wu Sansi dared not say them out loud. Huaiyi was now Wu Zetian's most beloved male favorite, no doubt about it. If he dared to say anything bad about Huaiyi, Wu Zetian would definitely give him a cold shoulder.

In the monk's room, Wu Zetian was finally satisfied. She leaned over Huaiyi and whispered:

"With all the turmoil in the court right now, I probably can't find a place where I can feel at ease except here with you."

"My favorite child wants to kill me, my least favorite child wants to rebel against me, my nephews are fighting each other in the court, and my favorite child is now touring the country for me."

"The various factions in the court are fighting madly, all for the position of crown prince, who will inherit my position a hundred years after I die."

"The grudge between the Wu family and the Li family cannot be resolved now. I thought that marrying Lingyue to Chengsi or Youji and letting Li Xian and Sansi become in-laws would resolve the grudge between the two families."

"But it was not until later that I understood that Lingyue would rather kill me as her mother than marry Chengsi or Youji. Li Xian and Sansi married their children to each other because they were doing it for themselves or their families."

"Li Xian has now retreated behind the scenes, letting his supporters help my favorite child with all their strength. Even Li Dan was willing to be implicated in order to make room for Cun Xi, and was later exiled to Fangzhou."

"The Wu family's nephews are about to fight to the point of bloodshed, and what can I do?"

Huaiyi glanced at the helplessness on Wu Zetian's face, sighed, and then gently patted Wu Zetian on the back.

He was nothing but a lewd monk. He had no ability to help Wu Zetian share her worries and solve her problems. In this respect, he was even worse than Zhang Changzong. After all, Zhang Changzong had lived in the deep palace for a long time and knew everything he should know.

"I can't say these words to anyone. I can't even say these words to the Grand Master of the Inner Guards, the person I trust the most."

“This is the most difficult time for a person to make a decision.”

"I want to pass the throne to the Wu family's nephews to ensure that my court will not be taken away by outsiders."

"But I also feel that if I don't pass it on to the Li family, once I die, the old ministers of the Li family will rise up with the descendants of the Li family and kill all my nephews."

"I thought about it and finally realized that there are only two people I can pass the throne to."

"Or Cunxi."

"Or inherit it."