Great Tang: I Arrested Li Er as a Thief from the Start

In the third year of the Zhenguan era, locusts ravaged the land. When Chen Xuan returned home, he spotted two people skulking around outside and looking in every direction. Thinking they were petty thieves, he had his guards seize them. Only after questioning them did he discover that one was surnamed Li and the other Fang!

They were both extremely curious about everything inside his estate.

"Why are your cucumbers growing on your pumpkins?"

"Your sweet potatoes yield thousands of catties per mu? Such a miraculous crop really exists in this world?"

"Why is it so warm in your estate during winter? You could practically wear just a shirt!"

"Why can that strange tube of yours let you see a thousand miles away? What is it?"

"What kind of person do you think His Majesty is?"

After that, the man surnamed Li came by every few days to ask all sorts of strange questions. Sometimes he even brought along strangers, surnamed Du or Changsun.

Then one day, Old Li quietly told Chen Xuan, "I'll come clean. I..."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.