The Legacy of the First Auxiliary House of the Tang Dynasty

Under the ridge of the roof lived a row of small eunuchs, who were responsible for feeding and cleaning the pigeon coops in the East Palace on weekdays.

The pigeons in this pigeon cage are not ordinary pigeons, they are homing pigeons that have been specially trained.

Except for the royal family and the army, only the East Palace allows some pigeons to be raised. If others raise pigeons, it is a conspiracy.

Of course, it's not that no one raises and plays in private, but they are all shady, and no one is stupid enough to show it in private.

Fang Yiai's eyes were cold, and when the moon was in the middle of the sky, a masked shadow sneaked over, quietly opened the pigeon cage, and was about to wrap the paper to release the pigeon, when a silver light flashed——

A sharp sword with a murderous look was sent over, it was the sword in Fang Yiai's hand.

The masked man was startled, and subconsciously raised his head back, avoiding his vitals.

He dodged the first strike, but almost missed Fang Yiai's third strike!

But the second sword had already killed the pigeon.

Fang Yiai was holding a sword, the tip of which was dyed red.

His three swords just now were extremely fast, and they were sent in a row, which was actually the kung fu of a master Yijian.

The man in black gritted his teeth and grunted. Annoyance and resentment flashed in his wide eyes in the dark night.

——Blood soaked his black clothes, and under the night light and moonlight, we could only see that the clothes around the waist of the man in black were wet.

Fang Yiai, who landed from the ridge of the roof, pressed forward step by step, and the opponent circled the pigeon cage. The space was limited, and the homing pigeons fluttered wildly, raising a cloud of feather dust, accompanied by the special smell in the pigeon cage, making Fang Yiai He frowned.He took two extra steps, for fear of stepping on bird droppings.

Fang Yiai raised her spirits and jumped onto the pigeon coop.

At this time, the sound of fighting was already evident. Although the sound was not loud, it was enough to startle the little eunuch at night to scream "Assassin".

The other party can't do anything when he sees it, and he doesn't care if the task is not completed, and the previous note is still tied to the pigeon and has not been annihilated.

He could only focus on running for his life quickly.

The black-clothed man covered the wound on his waist with his hands, tried his best to leap up the courtyard wall—he was about to enter the bamboo forest on the other side of the wall as soon as he turned over.

That side is the most remote corner of the East Palace Garden, with verdant trees and lush vegetation, which is the best place to hide people's traces.

Fang Yiai kicked with her toe, and a stone hit the Huantiao point between the opponent's legs.

With a plop, the man in black fell to the ground.

When Fang Yiai and the belated guards of the East Palace came to check, there were only smashed bamboos and messy footprints on the ground of the bamboo forest.

Prince Li Chengqian got up in the middle of the night, listened to the guard's report, and looked at Fang Yiai who was full of fighting spirit, his eyes were full of anger.

When everyone else left, only Zhao Dezi, who was guarding the gate for the prince, and Fang Yiai remained.

Li Chengqian couldn't help asking in a cold voice: "Can you see who it is? Hegan Chengji?"

He lowered his head and glanced at the note that he took off from the carrier pigeon's leg—it was written in small and fine regular script, which was exactly what he discussed with Fang Yiai, Yu Zhining and others about the frontier wool trade today.

Hmph, he is "sight-sighted".

Li Chengqian's face was cold and cold, he had been treating Hegan Chengji as usual, keeping him because he wanted to use him to send back false information to King Wei and King Qi... and the printing technique last time was according to the prince's intention , It made King Wei and the others feel ashamed.

But it's not enough-

Li Chengqian meditated silently.

In the position of prince, although Li Chengqian occupies the righteousness, many things are very passive.

He can only defend, but it is difficult to attack others.

To be a little sharper, in the eyes of the emperor and courtiers, the prince is not tolerant and has no appearance of a wise king.

Last time, because of [-] yuan, Zhang Xuansu directly criticized the crown prince as being comparable to Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty. In the future, a foolish emperor will be in power...

The prince asked who it was, but Fang Yiai glanced at the blood-stained sword at this moment.

He replied: "It looks like him." Fang Yiai continued casually, "Not only did I stab him in the waist, but his leg must have been broken."

Looking at the blood on the bamboo and the depth of his footsteps, it is certain that the other party fled with a limp.

"Why do you want to go to the pigeon house?" Li Chengqian asked.

"It's just because I don't see someone being too arrogant and bullying my apprentice." Fang Yiai said the reason openly.

Zhao Dezi in the room couldn't help but blinked his eyes when he heard it, and then watched His Highness the Crown Prince's expression intently.

As expected, Li Chengqian pursed his lips tightly, and said with a little dissatisfaction: "If it wasn't for your satisfaction, you would definitely not interfere with the person who revealed the news?"

Fang Yiai nodded honestly, "Why don't someone stay up most of the night to catch a thief!" He snorted, his hand holding the sword felt a little sore, and casually threw it aside.

Li Chengqian took a look at it, and found that this sword turned out to be an accessory sword hanging in the East Palace. The blade was not sharpened, and the hilt was inlaid with tassels and precious stones. It was just for decorating the walls of the house, an arty thing.

Obviously, Fang Yiai took it out on a temporary basis.

Li Chengqian couldn't understand Fang Yiai's aura, when Fang Yiai entered the room just now, in fact, the first time the crown prince saw him, Li Chengqian's heart subconsciously tensed up, and his muscles tensed up.

This is an involuntary defensive reaction, a feeling of confrontation with a strong man. As the prince, Li Chengqian has not had this strange feeling for a long time.

But when he was by Fang Yiai's side, he would occasionally see Fang Yiai exuding such a strong aura from time to time.

The strange thing is that this aura gave him a different feeling, Li Chengqian stared at Fang Yiai, but in his heart he remembered something abnormal about the other party.

"Your Highness, don't you want to find this 'traitor'?" Fang Yiai really wanted to kill the other party tonight, and her body that had just relaxed became cold again.

As if killing people is a common practice for Fang Yiai, he suggested to the prince very cold-bloodedly.

His voice was cold, Zhao Dezi had never seen it before, it was just that in the cold autumn night, the concubine who always liked to talk and laugh and was a bit rascal, spoke of murder in a serious and cold tone, which made Zhao Dezi never Chill in the bone marrow.

He drew a red line on Fang Yiai in his heart, so that he would not mess with Fang's son-in-law if he could.

If you disagree, you want to kill someone.

"It's not that, even Hegan Chengji...will not move him for the time being." Li Chengqian reminded him.

It's not that Li Chengqian didn't want to deal with the traitor Hegan Chengji, but it was still useful. Didn't Fang Yiai also have any objections in the past.

It's just that tonight Fang Yi'ai's temper became demonic, and she stood upright in front of the prince very awe-inspiringly, with a sneer on her face, she dared to refute the other party's words in front of the prince.

Fang Yiai said: "The prince's methods are too gentle. Do people like this keep it for the New Year?" After Fang Yiai finished speaking, he glanced at the sword he had used and discarded earlier.

With the tip of his black boots, the sword lying on the ground sprang up, scaring Zhao Dezi into thinking that the other party was going to assassinate the prince. Saber on wooden stand.

This wooden frame is from the City of Pear Blossom Wood, and there are two swords hanging obliquely on it. The sword that Fang Yiai kicked over landed right in the empty space in the middle.

"An eyesore." Fang Yiai seemed to explain, seeming to disdain the appearance of the sword.

Zhao Dezi only felt that the son-in-law was too arrogant, and wanted to say something, but he kept his mouth shut.

Because the prince was not angry at this time, but looked at Fang Yiai with an even more "weird" expression.

Li Chengqian has always known that Fang Yi'ai is no better than Du He, even Fang Yi'ai in the past was more dandy and incompetent than Du He, at least Du He is loyal to him, although it is for the future wealth, but Du He is also a little tricky , the identity is honorable, and Shang's Princess Chengyang is also the prince's direct sister, so the two have more contacts and gradually get close.

But Fang Yiai was different, he was demoted by Princess Gaoyang right after he became a adult.

Princess Gaoyang has always been on good terms with King Wei, King Wu and others, and this face with him is just a matter of saving face, not to mention that Li Chengqian also can't understand Princess Gaoyang's appearance of stepping on her son to please the saint.

Li Chengqian sometimes admits that he is very narrow-minded. As far as family affection is concerned, Gao Yang's behavior is very obtrusive in the eyes of the prince.

Faced with the crown prince's questioning, Fang Yiai had no intention of respecting the prince.

After explaining the reason why he wanted to kill the other party, Fang Yiai thought for a while, but still despised the prince's way of doing things.

"Your Highness counterattacked the king of Wei, why should you keep such a traitor like Hegan Chengji? Anyone who betrays will die." Fang Yiai said as a matter of course.

Of course, whether he himself betrayed the prince or not, he has never been "loyal" to the prince.

At this time, Fang Yiai only believes that people should be loyal to their hearts, and only the weak need to find a master and sacrifice their lives and loyalty.

This kind of thinking does not prevent Fang Yiai from liking people who are loyal to her, such as his little apprentice Xinxin.

For this little eunuch, Fang Yiai was sure that at this moment he wanted the other party to live, and if he wanted the other party to die, Xin Xin would be willing to give up his life.

Who doesn't love such a loyal person.

Fang Yiai thought lightly.

Li Chengqian didn't know what Fang Yiai was thinking, and he didn't feel sleepy right now, so he asked Zhao Dezi to go out to maintain the order of the East Palace.

Then, Li Chengqian asked him: "Why are you so loyal today?"

These words were not about Fang Yiai, but the prince did not expect Fang Yiai to be displeased with his methods.

Is this because you think you are "soft and kind"? !

Li Chengqian stared at Fang Yiai's eyes, Fang Yiai raised his eyebrows, sat on the low couch in the house, poured himself a cup of hot tea, although he didn't speak, his meaning was obvious.

Li Chengqian took a deep breath, "Why don't you say anything?"

"Your Highness asked me to say... It's okay. It's just that I think that sometimes, doing things is simpler, but clearer." Fang Yiai snorted coldly, talking about Hegan Chengji. "The traitors in the East Palace, if I say it, one of them will be killed and the other will be wiped out."

Having said that, Fang Yi'ai paused for a moment, then raised her eyes to look at the prince, and the two happened to meet each other's eyes.

Fang Yiai could clearly see the pale brown pupils of the other party under the candlelight, his eyes flickered for a moment, and his voice was slightly low, "... If the prince needs it, I can even help you solve His Royal Highness Wei Wang."

"—Fang, Yi, Ai!" Li Chengqian's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, and he couldn't help but growl in a low voice.

"What? The prince is afraid?" Fang Yiai smiled, raised her hand and took a sip of tea.

Li Chengqian's face turned pale for a while, and then Yi Ai looked at the house for a long while.

Candles flicker in the house.

On the snow-white wall, a figure swayed faintly.

At this time, the night was getting dark, and the sound of clappers sounded in the middle of the night, but the prince did not feel sleepy at all.

"Gu, so many brothers...can you still kill them all?!" Li Chengqian's lips were ironic.

Fang Yiai was stunned, "In short, get rid of King Wei...or even King Jin. Who else can threaten His Highness's crown prince? King Qi? Or King Wu?"

One of them was stupid and helpless as a bastard, and the other was naturally opposed by the courtiers.

They are all impossible to inherit the throne.

"... Yiai, I know what you're thinking." Li Chengqian looked at Fang Yiai, his thoughts were mixed.

For the sake of his status as the crown prince, this Fang Yiai was even willing to risk the world's displeasure, thinking of assassinating Wang Jia and even Yu Jia.

Kill the princes, and then, it will definitely be tolerated by the emperor.

So Li Chengqian knew what Fang Yiai hadn't said, even the sage Fang Yiai would dare to "do it" for himself.

Li Chengqian sighed, sat next to Fang Yiai, reached out and patted Fang Yiai's shoulder.

He said faintly: "Yi Ai, I can't be... a person like Father Emperor."

Li Chengqian really couldn't be like Li Shimin, who could kill brothers and brothers, imprison the emperor, and change another day...he couldn't do that kind of cruelty.

The blood of a mother's compatriots, the scene of talking and laughing at Yanyan when I was a child is still emerging in my mind, how can I kill when I grow up?

In Li Chengqian's eyes, it was the blood that spread everywhere in the Taiji Palace and the East Palace that day... Those blood, even now that he lives in the Lizheng Palace, can smell the fishy sweet smell.

Fang Yiai was silent.

Although Li Chengqian felt that Fang Yiai was a bit cruel and ruthless, he immediately thought that the other party was in front of him, regardless of his identity and the depth of his words, and he was "outspoken" to him without hesitation. Li Chengqian had to admit that Affection.

Fang Yiai's silence made Li Chengqian deeply aware that he was worried about the other party, and he would secretly "help" him, the prince, and couldn't help saying that if the throne came like this, he might as well not have it.

"Zhang Xuansu was wrong. If His Highness succeeds to the throne, he must be a rare and benevolent monarch." Fang Yiai could only sigh.

That's all.

Fang Yiai's heart just got hot, and Xingtou told the prince about this outrageous thing.

After being rejected by the prince at this time, he himself felt a chill in his heart.

He was out of his mind, that's what he thought in his heart, and he couldn't say that to the prince.

If the prince wants to dispose of himself one day, he just needs to pass his words in front of Li Shimin, and his Fang Yiai and even the whole Fang family will be in bad luck, let alone treason, it will be fine.

Fang Yiai left in a hurry, but Li Chengqian held Fang Yiai's hands.

Fang Yiai was startled, but saw His Royal Highness take off a jade pendant from his body and hand it to him.

"Yi love, your heart for me - I remember your kindness." Li Chengqian sighed, "I'm lucky if I get it, but my life is lost!" He said leisurely.

This throne is in the eyes of the crown prince...Prince, you really don't want to make progress!

Fang Yiai thought to herself.

Seeing that Fang Yiai didn't react, Li Chengqian didn't take the jade pendant, and just stuffed it into his palm.

Then slowly close it, let Fang Yiai hold it well.

This jade pendant room's last love felt warm as soon as it was picked up, it was actually a piece of pure white and high-quality warm jade.

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Holding the crown prince's warm jade, she went back to her room to sleep, but Fang Yiai tossed and turned but did not fall asleep, only feeling that the jade pendant was a little hot on her body.

He closed his eyes in a daze, but it was bright after he hadn't slept for a long time.

Fang Yiai felt a little sleepy when she got up early, so she just asked the prince for leave.

Before leaving, Zhao Dezi looked at Fang Yi'ai with strange eyes. Fang Yi'ai was used to Zhao Zhongshi's fuss, and it was only the result of his great power last night.

But after Fang Yiai left, Prince Li Chengqian found out that Hegan Chengji accidentally broke his leg while running a horse in the "morning", and then it was a little eunuch from Pigeon House, who was once another "intermediate person" of King Wei whom the prince and the others knew. ” After wounding his leg, he bled profusely to death.

When the prince ordered Zhao Dezi and Zhang Sizheng to check, they found that the other party also had a sword wound on his waist, and a black night clothes were also found in his house.

Zhao Dezi whispered that the wound on the eunuch's waist was stabbed after his death. If the prince hadn't made Zhao Dezi pay attention on purpose, Zhao Dezi would not have let an experienced assistant take a look at it... Only then did he realize that the injury was "added" later of.

"What a frame to blame." The prince sneered.

He tapped his finger on the table, thought for a while and said to Zhao Dezi: "Give him that thing to use..."

Zhao Dezi knew that His Royal Highness was referring to Hegan Chengji, so he responded in a low voice.

He also disliked him a long time ago, if it wasn't for scaring the snake, it would still be useful to keep him, he has more than a dozen ways to make his life worse than death in the future.

Hmph, dare to betray the master!

Zhao Dezi's eyes were gloomy, and he went to the Department of Classical Medicine in the Eastern Palace, but instead of looking for the imperial doctor assigned by the emperor to the Eastern Palace, he found a familiar female doctor...

After Fang Yiai returned home, Shu'er found time to meet Fang Yiai.

"Before Zhen'er left, news came from over there telling me that the princess went to Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Fang's family today—"

Shu'er lowered her head to report, not daring to look at Fang Yi'ai.

The door of the house was closed tightly, and those who didn't understand thought that Miss Shu'er was going to seduce her master again.

Shu'er thought it would be good to be like this, but both she and Zhen'er knew that Fang Yi'ai didn't even look at them both.

After Fang Yiai listened to it, she went to Mrs. Lu to inquire.

"Why are both of them asking where the dumb lady went?" Lu Shi was suspicious.

She sent the dumb girl away before, but she just didn't want Princess Gaoyang to be as she wished, she treated her son so badly, how could Mrs Lu make him achieve his goals in every way.

Anything that makes Princess Gaoyang uncomfortable, Mrs. Lu is willing to do it.

Besides, Mrs. Lu is not stupid. Princess Gao Yang just returned to the mansion, leaving the princess mansion next door instead of living in it. She came here to compromise, and even pretended to be filial to her and her husband.

However, after Fang Yiai said it, Lu Shi knew that Princess Gaoyang went straight to Fang's Zhuangzi when she left the mansion today.

"——I didn't tell her, which Zhuangzi did I send the dumb girl to?!" Lu Shi wondered.

"...She's so 'smart', she must have gotten the news." Fang Yiai said flatly.

"Erlang, do you know the identity of the dumb girl?" Lu asked, saying that she hadn't known the mystery of the dumb girl for a long time.

In the past, Lu family only took in the dumb lady. After a long time, the dumb woman has an ugly face, but she knows a lot, and she is honest and responsible. She acts in a low-key and unassuming manner in the mansion. Good housekeeping talent.

Only then did the dumb lady slowly do a few things, but in the end everything was safe, which couldn't have been better.

"By the way, this dumb girl was kept by you when you were a child." Shi Lu suddenly remembered.

Hearing that Fang Yiai was taken aback for a moment, then patted his head, he completely forgot about it.

Then Lu said that when she was a child, Fang Yiai was pitiful and lovely, very kind-hearted, when she saw a dumb woman passing by begging, she begged her, and forced her parents to accept this servant.

You must know that the life of the servants in the house is much better than that of the ordinary people outside. The dumb girl did not work as a farmer's wife in the village from the beginning, but directly entered the house and started as a sweeper.

This third-class job is also the envy of the children of the Fangfu family.

Who doesn't want to show their face in front of the mistress.

Fang Yiai couldn't stand Lu Shi's nagging, so she hurried to Zhuangzi where the dumb lady went to check the accounts.

It's also a coincidence that there were not many Zhuangzi outside Chang'an City in their Fangfu, and the place where the dumb girl went was the one where Fang Yiai took Fang Yize, Fang Yiyi and others to, and he even saved the prisoner. Nong Han, who suffered from intestinal carbuncle, was fortunately fatal. After opening his abdomen, he applied Sun Simiao's decoction and acupuncture, but there was no infection.

When Fang Yiai came over, before he entered the village, a child in the field remembered him, so he ran away quickly, and hurried back to tell the adults at home that the great benefactor and the great devil had come.

Aren't those who can disembowel people the devil in hell?

The world in the children's eyes is simple, and they all hide from Fang Yiai like a madman, and some girls scream and run away with their holed cloth shoes.

Xiao Qi kicked the broken shoe to the side of the road in disgust, arguing for his master.

"Who is this man!"

"Stop talking nonsense, go ask Gao Yang where she went?"

When Fang Yiai entered Zhuangzi, he asked the housekeeper to find the dumb girl.

Lu Shi asked Fang Yiai who the dumb lady was before, but Fang Yiai really didn't know, but Princess Gao Yang paid so much attention to her, and with the King Jin's reaction to the four daughters around Fang Yiyi in the mansion, Fang Yiai couldn't guess. What's up.

In short, this matter is related to the palace... However, the person who is closest to the King of Jin and whom he misses the most is the princess of Jinyang who was nicknamed Sizi and was most loved by the emperor - Li Mingda.

"His Royal Highness went to the back of Zhuangzi—" the butler called someone over, and after a while, he came back to reply Fang Yiai.

Fang Yiai looked at the sky, frowned, subconsciously feeling bad.

He asked, "How long has Gao Yang been here?"

The man in the house dared to call the princess title directly, but the steward was still not used to it, so he just said: "Your Highness has been here for less than half an hour, and I just asked where the dumb lady is..."

"Not to mention that this Zhuangzi belongs to the Fangfu, who told you to allow Princess Gao Yang to enter the Zhuangzi, huh?!"

"—and you actually told her where the dumb girl is?"

Standing in front of the butler with her hands behind her back, Fang Yiai was a head taller than him, when she asked a question, her expression turned cold, and she suddenly became very powerful.

Faced with Fang Yiai's anger, the housekeeper hurriedly shook his head and said that he didn't know, so he didn't say anything to Princess Gaoyang at that time.

In his heart, he felt that the little master's eyes were getting sharper.

The butler couldn't help but added at this time: "When the princess came before, the dumb woman still settled accounts with the people below. After the princess came, she was nowhere to be seen."

Hearing that Fang Yiai didn't talk nonsense, she went directly to the back of Zhuangzi, Xiaoqi spoke for the master along the way, and hurriedly asked the people on Zhuangzi, so which direction did Princess Gaoyang go?

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"Nurse Sun made it easier for me to find—"

Princess Gaoyang's voice was heard from a distance, but there was a cool breath in this voice.

Fang Yiai had good ears and eyesight, and Xiao Qi didn't hear anyone talking at all, only the rustling of leaves on the back mountain was in his ears.

——Just now there was a faint breath of two people, but now only the breathing of Gao Yang is left.

Fang Yiai frowned, not caring about waiting for Xiao Qi's footsteps, he hurried over.

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