I've been reborn, who would still raise a son from another family? Go away

Xie Jingrui glanced at Liu Zhengtang, and then continued: "Our people were still a step too late. It seems that no one has lived in that thatched house for several days."

Liu Zhengtang's expression flashed with disappointment, and then he asked, "Have you searched the surrounding area? Did you find anything?"

"There are several families living nearby, but they live quite far away from each other, so we don't know much about that person's situation."

"I just heard from the son of one of the families that some time ago, he heard someone went to search the thatched cottage. They were all scared and didn't dare to come out to check. Those people left the cottage after not finding what they wanted."

"If we can master the production of gunpowder, we don't have to worry about those people in the northern border. When we were looking for that person, we didn't tell anyone that he was the one who could make gunpowder. Now someone has gotten there first. It's also possible that he noticed us looking for his whereabouts, and he is now deliberately hiding from us. In this case, it may be difficult to find his whereabouts."

As Liu Zhengtang spoke, he called Liu Yueru, Liu Zimo and others to the study.

He simply told a few people about Xie Jingrui's discovery.

Liu Zhengtang turned to look at Liu Yueru and asked, "Yue'er, have you dreamed of any useful clues recently?"

Liu Yueru was stunned for a moment when her father suddenly asked the question.

She looked up and saw everyone's eyes were on her. She pursed her lips and smiled: "Not yet. If I dream about anything, I will tell you the first time."

Liu Zhengtang nodded slightly, and everyone turned their eyes away from Liu Yueru.

at the same time.

Xie Jingrui's secret guard suddenly appeared at the door of Liu Zhengtang's study.

"Your Highness." The secret guard called out.

Xie Jingrui glanced at Liu Zhengtang, then said calmly in the direction of the secret guards: "Come in."

After the secret guard saluted Xie Jingrui, he said, "Your Majesty, we have found the person in the portrait."

After that, he took out the latest portrait of that person from his arms.

Xie Jingrui's eyes fell on the portrait, and his sword-like brows instantly frowned.

Seeing this, everyone came forward.

Liu Zhengtang also had an expression that he couldn't bear to look at, and cursed: "It's immoral, it's immoral!"

Liu Zimo stared at the portrait, his mouth twitching. "The person does look somewhat similar, but there's something wrong with the outfit. How can a person like him remember how to make gunpowder?"

Liu Yueru finally squeezed her head in and saw that person in Yihong Courtyard. Her face was made up charmingly and she was wearing a pastel-colored long skirt that exposed her waist. At this moment, she was looking into the distance with her watery eyes, looking affectionate.

Liu Yueru's forehead was throbbing.

She looked at Xie Jingrui in disbelief and asked, "Is this really the same person?"

The secret guard also scratched his head and said uncertainly, "At this time, the person who looks most like the person in the portrait can be found in Kyoto. He was found by another secret guard disguised in Yihong Courtyard. If he hadn't tried to tell whether the person was a man or a woman several times and the person made excuses to refuse, he wouldn't have found it."

"Your Highness, I came back just to ask, do you want to try it again?" the secret guard asked.

Xie Jingrui nodded: "Yes, first invite the other party to the palace and tell him that the king wants to listen to music."

The secret guard cast an admiring look at Xie Jingrui, saying that he was worthy of being a prince.

In this way, they would have a good cover to take the person away and interrogate him thoroughly in the palace. Even if they found out that the person was not the one they were looking for, they could just release him.

Liu Yueru took the portrait from the secret guard and asked, "Can I keep this portrait here temporarily?"

The secret guard looked at Xie Jingrui with some embarrassment, but when Xie Jingrui saw Liu Yueru staring at the portrait, his face did not look very good.

"Your Highness, this?" the secret guard cautiously asked.

"Stay." Xie Jingrui had a dark face and said in a low and slightly hoarse voice.

The secret guard then quickly disappeared into the night sky.

and.

When Xie Jingrui looked at Liu Yueru, he saw that her eyes were fixed on the portrait and she ignored Xie Jingrui's expression.

"Cough cough cough." Xie Jingrui coughed lightly.

Liu Zimo also curiously came closer to check and asked: "Yue'er, did you find anything on it?"

Liu Yueru extended her white index finger, pointed at the person in the portrait and said, "He is a man."

"Why do you think so?" Liu Zimo asked puzzledly.

In this portrait, no matter how you look at it, the charming face of the person looks like that of a woman.

Liu Yueru placed her hand on the man's Adam's apple: "The painter drew the right picture. This must have been deliberately covered up by the man. And his hands. No matter how he tried to cover it up, a man's hands are not as slender as a woman's. Moreover, his knuckles are thick, his palms are broad, and the proportion of his shoulders is not right. Although the man is thin, he has no flesh on his waist, but his shoulders are wider than other women."

"He should be the person we are looking for." A hint of joy finally appeared on Liu Yueru's face.

Liu Zimo was also very happy after hearing this.

Although Emperor Hexu has ordered people to speed up the development of gunpowder, it is not an easy task to complete the production of gunpowder in a short period of time.

They were also worried that the people in the northern border would not be able to hold back and would directly bring gunpowder to Kyoto to start bombing once the war began.

The people are living in misery. Even if Kyoto wins, or drives the people from the northern border away from Kyoto, it will take a long time for Kyoto to recover to its current state.

If other foreign nations in the surrounding areas take advantage of the situation and invade, Kyoto will not be able to withstand the turmoil.

Liu Yueru was naturally aware of the horrors that war brought. As long as Kyoto had the ability to manufacture gunpowder, both the people of the northern border and the surrounding foreign countries would be wary of Kyoto.

At least they wouldn't do what the envoy from the Northern Frontier did that day, throwing gunpowder directly onto the hall and starting bombing it.

Family and country are one. The so-called peaceful times are nothing more than someone carrying the burden for the country.

If Kyoto did not have the reputation of Xie Jingrui and Liu Fufeng, it would probably be as turbulent as those turbulent small states around it, with many casualties every day.

Think about this.

Liu Yueru said, "Your Highness, if you catch that man, you can't torture him at will. He is a man who can dress like this to survive. If you can encourage him well and keep him in the Prince Jin's Mansion, he can help Your Highness in the future."

Although Xie Jingrui was somewhat dissatisfied with Liu Yueru for staring at the man's portrait so intently, he also knew how important that man was to Kyoto now, so he nodded slightly in agreement.

But when he looked at Liu Yueru again, he saw that she looked at the portrait from time to time. He quickly reached out his hand, took the portrait back, and put it in his arms: "This portrait is still useful, so I will keep it for now."