Chapter 219: The Escaped Prince (Part II)
The little eunuchs of the East Palace all went out and launched a carpet search in the East Palace. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info and Li Er sat on the chair and waited left and right with Kong Yingda, and there was no news of Li Chengqian, and in the end, Li Er listened to the cry of "His Royal Highness the Prince" from the courtyard, and his patience was finally exhausted, and he slapped the table and stood up.
"Liu Bing, where are you dead, why don't you come to me quickly." Li Er said angrily.
At this time, Liu Bing was standing in the courtyard of the East Palace chatting with Zhang Nan, heard Li Er's roar, and hurriedly came to Li Er's front with a mot.
"Liu Bing, send people to start looking for it within the palace, I still don't believe it, where can Cheng Qian run, without my warrant, he can't even get out of the palace, he must still be in the palace, find me well." Li Er still said angrily.
"Yes, yes, the villain will do it." After Liu Bing finished saluting, he prepared to leave.
"Wait, bring me the Qianniu who was guarding the gate of the East Palace this morning and bring me over, I have something to ask him." Li Er suddenly remembered something again and commanded.
Liu Bing bowed, and after a while, a Qianniu guard wearing armor came to Li Er.
"See the Emperor." Qian Niuwei saluted Li Er.
"No need to be polite, I ask you, has the prince ever left the East Palace today, I asked you to look at the prince, have you ever left your post without permission." Li Er asked with a glare.
Hearing Li Er say this, Qian Niuwei hurriedly explained: "If you go back to the emperor, it is indeed not, the prince has not even missed a meeting today." β
"Didn't miss a meeting? This is strange, so why is Cheng Qian not in the East Palace, is it possible that Cheng Qian can still fly out. Li Er said to himself. That's right, fly! Li Er's heart was shocked, the current Datang is not the same as in the past, if you want to fly out, Li Chengqian is really possible.
"Come on, go to the palace treasury and see if the hot air balloon I reserved is still there." Li Erdao, it didn't take long for the palace people to report, saying that the hot air balloon was just lying in the warehouse.
As soon as he heard that the hot air balloon was still there, Li Er began to think again, where did this Li Chengqian go? Could it be that he would not be able to fly away, and after getting rid of this unrealistic idea, Li Er began to think, after Li Chengqian was caught, how to punish this unruly prince, and now Li Er is angry.
But until the sun rose and the time came to noon, Li Er still didn't get any news from Li Chengqian.
And Zhang Nan was walking around the yard, as if he was looking for something. Li Er was also very puzzled when he saw Zhang Nan's strange behavior, and walked out and asked, "Qingquan, what are you wandering around around?" If there is nothing to do, we will follow to find the whereabouts of Cheng Qian. β
The prince is lost, what a big deal this is, why did Zhang Nan start to scatter in the East Palace.
"If you go back to the emperor, the minister is looking for it." Zhang Nan arched his hand and said.
"This East Palace has confirmed that Cheng Qian is not there, what are you looking for here?" Li Er asked.
"The minister wants to know where the prince went out, since he didn't go out from the main gate, the prince must have used another method." Zhang Nan said while looking at the wall.
In the end, Zhang Nan saw the footprints on the wall at the root of the east wall, and Zhang Nan's conjecture was finally confirmed.
In fact, the inner wall of the palace is not very high, the outer wall of Chang'an City is very high, and the inner wall of the palace, especially the height of the walls of each palace, is not high, that is, it looks like a little more than two meters, and the high board of the 400-meter obstacle in the military academy is two meters high.
And Zhang Nan saw the different places on the wall where his eyes were rubbed, and Zhang Nan already understood in his heart.
Seeing Zhang Nan silent for a long time against the wall and starting to be in a daze, Li Er asked, "Qingquan, do you have an idea?" Do you know where Cheng Qian ran to? β
Zhang Nan said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, the prince should have run over the wall." β
"Ran over the wall? So where is he now? Li Er continued to ask.
"The minister guesses, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should be in this 100,000 army now, as for the army, the minister doesn't know." Zhang Nan continued to smile bitterly, and secretly scolded Li Chengqian in his heart: "Li Chengqian, Li Chengqian, your courage is really big, now I can believe that you can do something to launch a coup d'Γ©tat." β
"Why are you so sure that Cheng Qian must have left the palace, without my warrant, Cheng Qian would not have been able to leave the palace, if you want to say that Cheng Qian can climb this wall, I still believe it, but if you want to say that Cheng Qian can climb over this outer wall, I don't believe it at all." Li Erdao.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is determined to participate in this battle, and he must have been mixed with the army, needless to say, as for leaving the palace, the minister guessed that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should have swaggered out under the banner of the emperor." Zhang Nan guessed.
"Impossible, come on, bring me the guards on duty in the palace today." Li Er obviously didn't believe that Li Chengqian could leave the palace without a warrant. But in the end, the guards on night duty at night finally proved that what Zhang Nan said was not wrong at all, Li Chengqian did go out under the banner of Li Er, and he also went out with "informing the soldiers at the door in advance for his father".
The guards on duty didn't dare to ask more, after all, this was Li Chengqian, and today was also a big day for the soldiers to go on the expedition, and the guards didn't ask Li Chengqian in detail before letting them go, after all, they were deceiving people under the banner of the emperor, which was unexpected by the guards on duty.
"It's really a bastard, I'm angry, Liu Bing, quickly send people to the armies of all walks of life to find it, and bring Cheng Qian back to me after finding it."
"Your Majesty, I don't think you can find it if you send someone to look for it." Zhang Nan said with a smile.
"Why can't you find it, the 100,000 army, just look at the face one by one, and you can find it." Li Er asked.
"What the emperor said is true, but how can the emperor guarantee that you go to the prince with such fanfare, and the prince will not run away? He even ran out of the palace, let alone the encamped army? Besides, the prince is not a person in the army at all, there is no way to find it, even if he hides, ordinary sergeants don't know him at all, so how can he find it, if he finds it, I estimate that the army has already reached the grassland. Zhang Nan said.
Li Er heard Zhang Nan's explanation and thought about it, it was really what Zhang Nan said, it was too easy to hide a person in a huge military camp.
"Then you say, what should I do?" Li Er asked Zhang Nandao.