Princess Taiping returned to Daming Palace under the escort of Jinwu Guard.

Pei Shaoqing and Cui Erlang were temporarily sent to the Heavenly Prison of Dali Temple to be detained.

Pei Shaoqing also smiled bitterly at this. He was imprisoned on the first day of traveling to the Tang Dynasty, which really embarrasses the time travelers. However, the good news is that this hell-level start should probably be considered to have already broken the deadlock, right?

Not to mention meritorious rewards or other things, there should be no problem in atonement for merit.

No matter what, they all saved Princess Taiping, which is considered to be a contribution to protecting the emperor.

However, Di Guangzhao, the two young men, were affected by Chi Yu and were taken into custody.

"Hey, Hei Bo, don't you know me anymore?" Di Guangzhao held the iron railing and said to the prison minister who was locking the door, "My grandfather is Di Renjie, the chief of Dali Temple."

Prison Heibo said, "Of course I know you, Di Sanlang."

Then the conversation changed and said, "I can't let you go even if I know you. You are a criminal now!"

"Let's go? Who said I'm leaving?" Di Guangzhao snorted, "I've wanted to stay in Tianzhu for a few days, but unfortunately I haven't had a chance. Today I finally fulfilled my wish."

Now it was Hei Bo's turn to be stunned.

"Then what are you calling me to do?"

Di Guangzhao then said with a look of shame: "Can you get some wine and food for us?"

Hei Bo thought for a while and said helplessly: "Okay, who made me familiar with your grandfather?"

After a short while, Hei Bo went there, he bought a roast chicken, a pack of dried fruit, a pack of steamed cakes and a large jar of wine from the nearby Hanguangmen Street. He found three pottery bowls.

"Brother Hei, thank you, thank you!"

Heibo shook his head and left: "This is not a jail."

Di Guangzhao arranged the wine and food, and poured wine into three pottery bowls.

"Two brothers, I respect you." Di Guangzhao picked up the pottery bowl and said, "It's done!"

Pei Shaoqing was already so thirsty that he picked up the pottery bowl and touched Di Guangzhao, and then drank it all in one go.

Oh, the taste of this wine... is a bit hard to describe. Not only does the residue have not been filtered, but the taste is still a bit astringent. It is obviously a bad wine that has not been fermented twice.

But it is OK to drink as a drink.

Cui Erlang and Di Guangzhao were both intoxicated.

Di Guangzhao tore off two more roast chicken legs and handed them to Pei Shaoqing and Cui Erlang respectively: "My younger brother Di Guangzhao, Xing San, I don't know what the two elder brothers are called?"

Pei Shaoqing was still too lazy to pay attention to this middle-aged boy.

Cui Erlang and Di Guangzhao hit it off at first sight and said, "His name is Pei Da, and my name is Cui Er."

"Okay! That's great!" Di Guangzhao slapped his thigh and said, "His name is Pei Da, your name is Cui Er, and my name is Di San. This is simply a match made by heaven! From now on, the three of us will be guarding the three brothers!"

"Puff!" Pei Shaoqing squirted out a mouthful of wine.

"Di Sanlang, if you use idioms like this, you will lose your chrysanthemums."

"The chrysanthemums are not protected? My family doesn't plant chrysanthemums." Di Guangzhao was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Brother, second brother, for this meeting today, you and my brother should be a big deal, do it!"

After two bowls of wine, Di Guangzhao began to complain.

"Now, origin is the most important thing in this court."

"What you only learn is just a cloud, it's useless."

"Just say Wu Chengsi, what will happen if he knows?"

"But just because he was the nephew of the queen, he became a secretary from the third rank once he returned to the court."

"This is a high-ranking official who is impressed with purple. How many officials can't reach this level until they die."

"Look at my grandfather, ten years of judging the master, ten years of judging the master of the Dali Temple for three years, how much did I do for the court? I am over fifty years old and I am still only from the sixth rank!"

"So I've thought about it. I don't want to be an official anymore."

"Otherwise, I will waste my whole life and be just a sesame official."

"It's boring, it's better to be a guard and catch a man and be willing to revenge."

Di Guangzhao's words were unintentional, but Pei Shaoqing's heart moved slightly after hearing this.

Di Guangzhao seemed to have provided a very important information by accident, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't think of what specific information it was.

After drinking a jar of wine, Cui Erlang and Di Guangzhao got drunk and fell asleep on the couch.

Although Pei Shaoqing was not drunk, he had been in a high tension for nearly forty hours since he entered Chang'an yesterday morning.

So once you relax, you will feel particularly tired.

In addition, after drinking a few more bowls of wine, I quickly fell asleep.

...

Daming Palace, Qingsi Palace.

Although it was already midnight, the candlelight in Qingsi Hall was still bright.

The nominal supreme ruler of the Tang Empire, Li Zhi, the Emperor Gaozong of Tang, was staring at the tent on the top of the palace, but in fact he couldn't see anything clearly.

Twenty years ago, Li Zhi's vision declined severely.

Even at a very close distance, it seems to be separated by a layer of curtains.

It was precisely because of this that he had no choice but to hand over the government affairs completely to Wu Zetian.

A subtle footsteps sounded, and an old eunuch walked in quietly.

Li Zhi's eyes immediately turned toward the entrance of the hall, but there was no focus.

The old eunuch walked slowly to Li Zhi's couch and reported in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the Zichen Palace Court Meeting is over."

"Is it finally over?" Li Zhi showed an indescribable smile on his face, "This court meeting has been so long, it's been more than a dozen hours, right?"

The old eunuch said: "It's been ten hours now."

Li Zhi asked: "Have you found any clues?"

"No." said the old eunuch, "but the queen has issued an imperial edict, ordering Dali Temple to join forces with the Ministry of Justice and the Censorate to rule over the three departments of the Censorate to restrict them to solve the case within seven days."

"Seven days? Hehehe." Li Zhi said, "Mei Niang is still so anxious."

After a pause, Li Zhi said again: "How is Taiping? Didn't you be frightened?"

"No." said the old eunuch, "Your Highness the Princess is in a stable mood, like she had an outing."

"Is that true?" A look of surprise flashed across Li Zhi's face and said, "After you bring Taiping back, tell me what happened in Zichen Palace, including every word she said."

"Here." The old eunuch said it in its original form.

Li Zhi said: "So, Taiping can come back safely this time thanks to Pei Shaoqing?"

"Yes." The old eunuch, "Although this Pei Shaoqing is young, he has good mentality and skills, and has also good poetry. The queen seems to appreciate him quite a lot."

Li Zhidao: "Taiping seems to like him a little too?"

"Yes." The old eunuch, "Your Highness the Princess herself may not have noticed it, but others can see that she mentioned Pei Shaoqing's name no less than twenty times in less than a quarter of an hour!"

"Haha." Li Zhi said, "Since Taiping likes him so much, let him stay by Taiping and serve her."

The old eunuch was stunned when he heard this, then immediately reacted and whispered: "Your Majesty means..."

Li Zhi smiled again and said, "This is called losing the east corner, and winning the sun."

While the two were talking, a shout suddenly came from outside the hall: "Grandma?"

Li Zhidao: "Bring my oral order to Wang Desheng and let him do it quickly."
Chapter completed!