"What happened to Baihe back then has nothing to do with me!"
Just as Ji Yanran and Yun Yifeng entered the door, this sentence came to their ears.
Li Jun hid behind the servant and looked at the two of them tremblingly.
"It's true." He added in a low voice.
"You know the purpose of my coming." Ji Yanran signaled the others to back down with her eyes, and dragged a chair by herself, "Tell me, what do you know?"
"The one who ordered the opening of the sluice back then... was, it was Yang Boguang." Li Jun gritted his teeth with sweat pouring down his forehead, "Father also seems to know about it."
Yang Boguang is Concubine Yang's elder brother, and also Li Jun's uncle. Back then, the Yang family's power was entrenched inside and outside the court, and he was considered a big role in it. After careful calculation, he did have a heart attack and died suddenly at home without warning shortly after the Baihe diversion was completed.
"Yang Boguang wanted to take advantage of the Baihe incident to change the owner of the East Palace, but he didn't want to support me. He just took a fancy to my idiot character to cover up his ambition to become emperor." Li Jun said with a mournful face, "My Shi also lost his head, thinking that the Yang family holds great power and dare not fight against them, so... what they say, I will do what I do."
According to Li Jun's narration, after Yang Boguang single-handedly created the Baihe tragedy, he originally planned to win over the forces in the court and take the opportunity to overthrow Li Jing. The above is the process of Yang Boguang's participation in the whole incident. From the beginning of the conspiracy and planning, there is no shortage of time, place, witnesses, and physical evidence. Even if he has hundreds of mouths, he cannot deny it. There were countless casualties in the Baihe incident, and even the Liao family was involved. No matter how powerful the Yang family was, they could not keep Yang Boguang. Because of Cheng's care and compassion, he only ordered him to take poison and commit suicide, and the matter was over.
"It was only later that I heard from my concubine that Yang Boguang's father's Swallow Shadow had already found out about Yang Boguang at the beginning of his plot." Li Jun said embarrassingly.
Ji Yanran frowned, Yan Ziying is the imperial court's assassination agency, and is also responsible for spying on information on weekdays, if they found out the news at the early stage of the plan, it means that the late emperor had already learned about the whole thing, but did not take action to stop it, but acted as a bystander With his identity, he waited for all this to happen—just to get rid of Yang Boguang and weaken the power of the Yang family.
Yun Yifeng asked: "Did the Yang family teach the secret map of Zichuan to King Pingle?"
"No, no, I overheard it myself." Li Jun's forehead became more sweaty, "At that time, the Yang family had fallen and scattered, so there was no one who could teach me anything. When my father was seriously ill, one day I went to the palace to pay my respects, but I overheard my father telling my brother, ordering him to find the secret map of Zichuan no matter what, and then destroy it completely, so as not to attract criticism from all over the world and turmoil in the country. After listening to this, I felt that this The thing must be extremely important, so I made nonsense that I had heard it before, in order to save my life."
After finishing speaking, Li Jun hastily added another sentence: "But the blood ganoderma is indeed real. When the people from the Western Regions came to my house, they only dropped such a thing! I swear."
Ji Yanran looked him up and down, and said: "It seems that you have been in the hands of the Yang family these years, and life is not easy."
"That's right." Li Jun wept bitterly, "The Yang family has no money to usurp the throne and seek rebellion, so why would they need me as a puppet? I just keep it as a waste for my mother's sake."
"Since life is hard, then come with me and Yun'er to go to Yancheng in the northwest." Ji Yanran stood up, "I won't have to live in a pitiful life."
Li Jun was like five thunderclaps: "Ah?"
Ji Yanran and Yun Yifeng had already left the hall.
The stars in the sky have disappeared, turning into a misty rain and mist, the stamens are moistened, and the fragrance in the imperial garden is stronger.
Yun Yifeng asked: "What does the prince think?"
"Li Jun's character is a coward, but he has a heart. If he is just a puppet for so many years, I don't believe it." Ji Yanran said, "Although the current Yang family has no ability to plot against, they are still by the emperor's side. Keep eyeliner, what is thinking behind the scenes, you have to be careful."
"So you want to bring him with you?" Yun Yifeng thought for a while, "It's okay, there are still doubts about Baihe's affairs back then. Although Yang Boguang is dead, Yan Ziying and the Yang family can always find out one or two people who know the truth. People, help us restore the truth."
In fact, no matter what Li Jing said at the beginning that "the opening of the Baihe River was planned by Li Jun and the Yang family", or what Li Jun said just now, "I am purely innocent and was used by the Yang family, and the late emperor knew about it but did not intervene." "In fact, they are generally reasonable and self-justifying, but there is a doubtful point - the old man Jiang Lingfei and Yun Yifeng found in the village that day mentioned the prime minister Xing Chu in his confession before his death, saying that he had heard Mr. Xing personally mentioned the sentence "received the order from the superior, and the gate must be released in advance". According to Xing Chu's status at the time, neither Li Jun nor the Yang family were enough to be his "superior". Only the emperor is eligible.
"Actually, there is another possibility, but it's very small." Yun Yifeng looked at him, "Someone knew we were going, so they bribed the old man to lie in advance, and wanted to drive a wedge between the prince and the emperor."
"But now the old man is dead." Ji Yanran said, "It's okay, if you investigate slowly, the truth will come to light one day. The most urgent thing is to find the blood ganoderma to detoxify you."
Yun Yifeng sighed and said, "I don't know what's waiting for me now."
"Whatever it is." Ji Yanran clasped his fingers together, "For you, I am willing to go through mountains of swords and seas of fire."
These love words are really sweet, as if there is a fragrance of flowers in my heart. Yun Yifeng unconsciously turned his head to look at him. In such a quiet summer night, only the lanterns in the pavilion were shaking slightly, and the falling rain was all dyed golden, and the light and shadow blurred his vision. He stretched out his hand to caress the other's side face, carefully After stroking the slanting eyebrows, deep eyes, and high bridge of the nose, when his fingertips continued to slide down, he gently pressed his lips against them.
Ji Yanran embraced his slender waist with one hand, lowered her head and kissed him tenderly and affectionately.
The wind blew their hair together.
"Aren't you going back tonight?" After a kiss, Ji Yanran rubbed him into his arms and whispered in his ear, "I'll take you to Ganwu Hall."
Yun Yifeng calmly said: "We haven't asked the imperial physician yet."
"Ling Fei was almost beaten into the pond by you the day before yesterday, and he is still sulking until now." Ji Yanran smiled lowly, biting her little ear, "When you sneaked out to fight and ride horses, why didn't you think to ask the imperial physician first? "
Yun Yifeng: "..."
Ji Yanran saw that he was stiff and still, he was so cute, so she went even harder to kiss that thin white neck, Yun Yifeng was forced to back up again and again, stepping on the water. Later, maybe even God couldn't stand it anymore, suddenly there was a loud thunder, and it exploded on the top of the imperial garden, scaring the wild cats all over the garden to scream.
Yun Yifeng also took the opportunity to run, but he stepped on the moss somewhere, slipped and nearly fell, Ji Yanran had sharp eyesight and quick hands, grabbed his wrist and wanted to pull him into his arms, but he was also trapped by the cobblestone road Instead, it took him and fell into the flowerbed.
The large area of peonies and peonies were in full bloom, but suddenly encountered such a disaster, the red rain flew around for a while, and I was very wronged.
Yun Yifeng lay on Ji Yanran's body and asked him, are you all right
His Royal Highness Xiao Wang replied calmly, it's all right, but there are thorns.
Peonies, roses, and roses are all tied together, so you have to go back and pick slowly.
Moreover, the two also discovered that Li Jing's favorite golden bamboo bells happened to be planted in the flower garden. It is said that the seeds were imported from the Southern Region. They are extremely precious, and these few plants only bloomed in three years.
After Yun Yifeng squatted down to check carefully, he said regretfully, "It's all broken, will the emperor be furious?"
"It shouldn't be." Ji Yanran said, "But let's say it, otherwise the palace people in charge of the flower garden will be in trouble."
Yun Yifeng nodded, and followed him to find Eunuch Desheng, and after explaining the matter clearly, he returned to Prince Xiao's mansion.
So on the second day, the emperor fell into a long silence.
Eunuch De Sheng said: "My lord indeed said so. When he and Master Yunmen visited the garden at night, they accidentally trampled on the entire flower garden."
Li Jing still didn't understand: "It's not that there is no road in the imperial garden, why does he want to swim in the flower garden?"
Eunuch Desheng coughed twice, and lowered his tone a bit: "According to the reports of the inspectors, the broken branches in the flower garden don't look like they were stepped on, but..." He covered his mouth, "It's someone Lying on it."
Li Jing asked in surprise: "Is it in that place?"
Eunuch Desheng nodded and said, "Hey!"
In the middle of the night, it was raining, and the flower garden was full of thorns.
Li Jing thought in disbelief, how did you do it
Naturally, this confusion cannot be verified in person. Five days later, Ji Yanran and Yun Yifeng left the palace and headed all the way to Yancheng in the northwest. Apart from Jiang Lingfei, there was also the dejected King of Pingle, Li Jun. It is said that before he left, he went to beg Li Jing, hoping to stay in the king's city. He was respectfully "invited" away by Eunuch Desheng.
So within three days of walking on the road, he already sighed three thousand times. Jiang Lingfei was so annoyed that his legs clamped his horse's belly, and he stepped forward and asked Ji Yanran: "Why do you have to bring this idiot?"
"Staying in the king's city, the emperor's brother is troubled when he sees it." Ji Yanran said, "Besides, in the past years, whether he was really used or whether he was hiding a secret is especially unknown now. Take it with you and watch it to save life. Something went wrong."
"Then let's discuss one thing?" Jiang Lingfei earnestly said, "You can take him with you, but can someone else watch over him? He sighs and sighs all day long, and I'm about to be quarreled out of trouble."
"Behind him is the Yang family who is dead but not dead, so don't be careless." Ji Yanran said, "I don't worry about leaving it to others, only you."
Jiang Lingfei: "..."
Jiang Lingfei said sadly: "Actually, you don't have to trust me so much."
Ji Yanran patted him on the shoulder: "In the future, I will definitely do something for you."
After speaking, he flicked the rein, leaving his good brother far behind, so as not to be entangled again.
Jiang Lingfei was speechless.
But fortunately, after more than ten days of long sighs, Li Jun stopped sighing, and just sat in the carriage with a sad expression every day, without saying a word, like a mute. Occasionally, he lifted the curtain of the car and wanted to take a look outside, but all he saw was Jiang Lingfei riding a horse. He was mighty and tall, dressed in black clothes, and wore a shining big knife on his waist, with a skull carved on the handle.
King Pingle shrank his neck, thinking, oh, it's too scary.
"We will pass through Dayuan City in a few days." Yun Yifeng said, "That is the territory of the Yang family."
Ji Yanran asked: "Are you worried that they will come to ask for someone?"
"Knowing that King Pingle is in our hands, at least we should do something." Yun Yifeng said, "If you really don't care about it, it's too... but it seems to be intentional, in order to put eyeliner around you, so even if Just to show innocence, it seems that I have to ask a question."
"Brother Huang didn't intend to let the Yang family go." Ji Yanran said, "If you can see them, you will know that those people are definitely not easy-going."
Yun Yifeng asked, "Can you still be less fuel-efficient than the prince?"
Ji Yanran laughed when he heard the words, the two were riding a horse at this time, he wrapped his arms around his waist, hugged him tighter, and asked, "Where am I not saving fuel?"
"When we met for the first time, I was thinking, even if Fengyumen doesn't accept this business, I have to come up with an excuse to make the prince happy first." Yun Yifeng leaned in his arms, "I can't afford to offend you."
"Why?" Ji Yanran was puzzled, "I deliberately lowered my posture at that time."
Yun Yifeng said: "The killing spirit is too heavy."
It was completely different from the people in the rivers and lakes, full of a strong sense of oppression, just standing there, a layer of gloomy clouds enveloped the canyon. When the wind blows the hem of Mo's brocade clothes, it will even give people the illusion that what is spread out behind him should not be green mountains and green waters, but a raging fire that will burn for three days and three nights, and the grass will wither and the flowers will wither. , and then in the depths of the dry to cracked earth, numerous bones and hunting flags were born windingly.
The battlefield is pitch black, and there is a golden-red glow on the horizon.
It is very rare for a person to have the breath of death. Yun Yifeng was only surprised at the beginning, but now he feels a little more distressed. Thinking about how many times he has been in the front line since he was a child, it is not known how many times he has raised this body. The fearful murderous intent.
"If I can kill thousands of people in Daliang in exchange for the safety of thousands of people, it will be worth it." Ji Yanran smiled, "Let's not talk about that, the weather is so good, let me take you for a run?"
Yun Yifeng turned to look at him: "When you stop being a general, let's move to Jiangnan."
I don't want to go to the bustling and bustling Suzhou and Hangzhou anymore. I just look for a misty and rainy town, buy a quiet house with white walls and black tiles, and plant flowers all over the yard. When I am free, I walk hand in hand on the wet bluestone slabs, listen to the sound of books in my ears, and watch the people live in peace and contentment. When they were old, they would lie in the yard and bask in the sun together, and then brag to the children next door about things on the battlefield—but if they didn’t believe it, they wouldn’t know if they still had the strength to jump up tremblingly and act out Boxing.
Ji Yanran shook the reins, Feishuangjiao let out a long hiss in excitement, jumped up into the air, and galloped away into the distance.
Only the billowing smoke and dust remained.
—The Secret Map of Zichuan·End—
Volume 4 Desert Witches