At the second update, the lights in the inner hall of the royal palace were on, and Li Xiu summoned four confidants to inquire about the outcome of Baoningfang.

"In general, they were all completed according to the plan, but some accidents still happened."

What Li Xiu is most concerned about is that Li Wen is dead and Li Cui is also shot to death. These two major results are completed, and other results are no longer important, but Li Xiu is more concerned about accidents and loopholes at this time.

"Tell me what were the accidents?"

Zhong Kui thought for a while and said, "First of all, there were several inside retreats. Li Guan's coachman originally planned to silence outside the city, but he was panicked. We were worried that he would be caught. Pei Jiu silenced him on the spot. Yang Qiu was already back. Bei Zhi was preparing to arrange for him to return to Beiting first. Yang Rong escaped after shooting Li Guan. Bei Zhi confirmed that she escaped from the city and ran towards Hanzhong. Zhang Yu was picked up by Miss Zi and left the city from Qixia Gate."

Li Xiu looked at Zi Linfeng, and Zi Linfeng bowed and said, "Zhang Yu is now hiding in a private house that had been rented in advance outside the city. His wife and children went to Hexi. Beizhi gave him some money and a new identity. His name is Zhang Lin. He is an official sent to Zhangye to buy horses in Tongzhou. He will meet with his wife and children in Liangzhou and wait for us to go to Beiting together."

"Where is Liu Quan?" Li Xiu asked again.

Zhong Kui bowed and said, "Your Highness, Liu Quan is now in an accident!"

Li Xiu was stunned, "What accident happened to him?"

"He was missing, Pei Min didn't find him in Baoningfang."

Pei Min nodded, "He was originally with Li Mao, and Bei Zhi kept staring at him, but in a blink of an eye he found that he was missing."

"Will you die?"

"There is indeed a corpse of a scribe at the scene. He was wearing a white robe like Liu Quan. His face was cut a few times, and his face was beyond recognition. But he was not Liu Quan and his figure was much shorter. Liu Quan should have escaped."

Wang Ze'an next to him said: "Your Highness, I asked my brother Wang Ya. He said that the Baoning House was very chaotic at that time, and a large number of people escaped. He also saw many men wearing secret robes, and maybe he was just mingling in it."

Li Xiu's request was that the retreats of several insiders would be under their control. Now Liu Quan is out of control, and he is so critical, which is really worrying.

"Your Highness, is it because he is afraid that we will silence us?" Zi Linfeng asked with a frown.

It should be this reason. Li Xiu looked at Zhong Kui, and Zhong Kui hurriedly said, "I have already agreed to him that the promise of his highness to seek a post in Beiting will not change, and he will never be killed to silence him. He also agreed that we will arrange for him to retreat. Perhaps it is just that he is worried about being arrested and escaped first."

Li Xiu nodded and said, "No matter what, I want to find Liu Quan, if he is worried that we will silence us, he will definitely have a backup plan and must remove the hidden dangers."

Zhong Kui bowed and said, "I know that he has several hiding places. After dawn, I will go looking for them one by one!"

"Where is Li Mao?" Li Xiu asked the most critical person again.

Pei Min bowed and said, "Report to Your Highness, the county magistrate Cui Chang arrived at the scene and released him. Bei Zhi has been following his carriage and he has returned home."

Li Xiu knew that this matter would inevitably despise the storm tomorrow. He had to eliminate all the evidence that was unfavorable to him. He thought about it and said to Zhong Kui: "Never mind tomorrow, you must find Liu Quan's whereabouts, and keep it confidential. You cannot let people know that we are looking for Liu Quan. The fewer people you know, the better."

"I understand, I will be careful!"

Li Xiu said to Pei Min again: "There are two things. The first thing is that you go to Prince Li Mao's mansion now and look in Liu Quan's room to see if he has any evidence of his relationship with us. Then the other thing is that the scholar was killed on the scene. I suspect that it was a substitute that Liu Quan found for himself. It would be better to give some evidence to the body, such as Liu Quan's personal belongings, to prove that he is indeed Liu Quan."

Pei Min nodded, "I will go to Prince Li Mao's Mansion now!"

Li Xiu finally said to Wang Anze: "Tomorrow morning, you go to the account office to get two thousand guan of money to your brother, and let him share a portion of it to his subordinates, so that his subordinates do not discuss this matter!"

.........

Just as Li Xiu summoned his subordinates to discuss the follow-up issues, Li Mao also rushed to Xingqing Palace. He knew that he had caused a huge disaster and that if his father did not protect him, he would be dead.

Li Mao did not go directly to find his mother, but found Gao Lishi first.

Gao Lishi was woken up in the middle of the night. He heard that Li Mao had something urgent to see him, and he felt very unhappy. If Li Xiu had no problem finding him in the middle of the night, the key is that he didn't like Li Mao very much.

I don’t like it, but I don’t like it. Since there is an urgent matter, it is probably related to Li Guan’s incident, so Gao Lishi stood up to meet Li Mao.

"What!"

Gao Lishi suddenly widened his eyes, and he couldn't believe what he had heard.

"You mean... the Regent's Crown... is dead?"

Li Mao lowered his head and said, "Who didn't expect Li Wen to come at that time, but he died inexplicably..."

"etc!"

Gao Lishi interrupted his words, "What does it mean to die inexplicably? Tell me clearly, is it yours that you killed?"

"Who knows? Maybe someone assassinated him and framed me, maybe Li Xiu did it?"

"fart!"

Gao Lishi was furious, "Yesterday it was the wedding of Thirty-Balang. He would do such a thing. You killed it, you killed it. Don't shift the blame to others!"

Li Mao's face turned red and white, and he was really angry and said, "Even if I killed him, so what? I don't want to kill him. He takes action first. He is seeking death by himself. Who can I blame?"

Gao Lishi looked at him for a while and knew that he could not tell the truth from his mouth. He could only ask the county magistrate Cui Chang for this matter.

"You go back first! The emperor was sick yesterday and needed a rest. It would be difficult to wake him up in the middle of the night. I will talk about this tomorrow."

"Mr. Gao, can I meet my mother?"

Gao Lishi shook his head, "In the middle of the night, the foreign ministers cannot see the harem. Even if it is a father and daughter, the mother and son are not good. This is the rule. Be patient and wait until dawn."

After hesitating for a while, Li Mao finally asked his most worried question, "Mr. Gao, how about I...?"

"We don't know about this. This kind of thing has never happened. At least your mother will try her best to plead for you."

"I did this for my father, at least the main responsibility should not be borne by me!"

Gao Lishi's eyes were slightly cold. He said such bastards. You don't want to take responsibility. Do you let the emperor take responsibility?

"You go first! If you have anything to do, we're a little tired."

Li Mao left, Gao Lishi immediately found his confidant and handed him a silver medal.

"You rushed to Wannian County Government immediately and told County Magistrate Cui that you should investigate and interrogate overnight. You must provide a real brief before dawn tomorrow morning!"

.........

Li Mao's palace was silent. The warriors were all taken away by the county government, and Li Mao rushed to the palace. What happened in Baoningfang did not affect the palace, and most people were still sleeping.

A black shadow jumped into a separate courtyard in the west courtyard of the royal mansion. This private courtyard was the residence of his aide Liu Quan. Liu Quan originally rented a house outside, but when his wife, children and mother returned to his hometown, he moved back to the royal mansion, and the chief manager arranged a private courtyard for him.

In addition to Liu Quan, there are two little maids in the courtyard. They live in the side house next to them. The three rooms on the front are living rooms, study rooms and bedrooms.

Li Mao didn't care whether Liu Quan came back or not. This was his shamefulness. Regardless of his life or death, he escaped first. Perhaps Li Mao thought Liu Quan was also captured by the county government.

The black shadow in the yard was Pei Min. He observed for a while and confirmed that there was no one in the house. He gently pried open the small window with a knife and jumped in.

The room was clean and neat. Pei Min’s target was the study. He searched around the study but found nothing. He went to the bedroom to search, but also found nothing.

Pei Min suddenly realized something was wrong. Even if he didn't have the evidence he wanted to find, at least Liu Quan's important items should be in the room, such as silver, valuable jade, jewelry, etc., and nothing was left. The clothes in the suitcase were still there, and two pairs of shoes were there.

But there is nothing truly valuable.

Pei Min immediately realized that Liu Quan was ready to escape.

At this time, Pei Min took out more than a dozen taels of broken silver and a ingot of twenty taels of gold into the suitcase, and then went elsewhere to find a valuable piece of jade pendant and two pairs of official kiln celadons, and placed them in Liuquan's bookcase. Li Mao could not find that Liuquan had an intention to escape, so he would suspect that he had cheated.

Pei Min found a letter written by a friend to Liu Quan, put it in his arms, and left silently.
Chapter completed!