Li Yuanchang was lying in the corner of the imperial city's blue brick wall several feet high, and he vomited the incense in a disgusting and cowardly manner for nearly a full time.
Sisters Su Lianqing and Tantai covered their noses and waved their hands: "Sexy! So cool! Just wipe him out with a sword. How can anyone bear this?"
Qin Mubai rode on the horse and said with a smile: "Concentrated child urine is really powerful."
The hundred-horse guards laughed obscenely. The young soldier who had peed stepped forward, kicked Li Yuanchang's butt hard, and cursed: "Why are you vomiting? My urine counts." You’re so precious! You’ll be able to ward off evil spirits and slay ghosts every time! —Oh, maybe you’re just a ghost, and that’s why you reacted like this after eating my urine!”
Li Yuanchang was vomiting so hard that his stomach and intestines were cramped and he was breathing heavily. After hearing what this little pawn said, he couldn't help but vomit again. After a short pause, he gritted his teeth and lowered his head, but he didn't dare to have an attack, so he could only curse in a low voice: "If you have the ability, would you like to take a sip yourself?"
"Hey, you're so stubborn!" The pawn finally found an excuse and pushed Li Yuanchang to the ground, punching and kicking him like a storm. The brothers nearby felt itchy when they saw that he was enjoying the beating, and they joined in at the same time.
Qin Mubai sat on the horse with his hands on his chest, watching the show quietly.
Just because you can't kill him doesn't mean you can't beat him severely. As long as there is still a breath left to deliver the goods, that will be enough. If Li Yuanchang, this beast, doesn't get repaired, how can he get rid of the bad breath in his chest
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" The Tantai sisters could no longer hold back. Seeing that Qin Mubai didn't stop his subordinates from beating Li Yuanchang, they stepped forward and pushed away the pawns.
Li Yuanchang was beaten so hard that his whole body twitched, his mouth and nose were bleeding, and he had countless broken bones. He only had half his life left.
Perhaps knowing that he would inevitably die, Li Yuanchang simply fought hard to the end.
Lying on the ground and twitching non-stop, he looked sideways and saw the Tantai sisters, and suddenly his eyes were like spitting fire and he gritted his teeth and cursed: "Bitch! If I had known, I should have tied you up and let a hundred bulls work you to death | you!"
"Beast, beg for death!"
The Tantai sisters had tolerated him for a long time, which was just adding fuel to the fire. Hearing this, the two sisters each flew up with a kick at the same time, and kicked Li Yuanchang's lower body in unison.
"Bang!"
Like a volley in a football match!
Li Yuanchang was hit in the lower body and flew up, hit the city wall hard and fell to the ground. He fainted on the spot.
"Oops, you knocked someone out again, you really did!" Qin Mubai shrugged his eyebrows in shock, shook his head and said, "I am the protagonist, and you all took care of him before I even touched a hair on his head. Is that true?"
"General, don't worry, depending on the villain's methods, he will wake up instantly."
A soldier stepped forward, flipped Li Yuanchang who was lying on the ground with his toes, took out a sharkskin dagger specially equipped for Baiqi from his boots, cut Li Yuanchang's belt with an evil smile, and pointed it at him The knife stabbed the white fleshy buttocks.
"ah!!!-"
Howling like a killing pig, Li Yuanchang woke up again.
Everyone laughed with hatred.
Qin Mubai jumped off the horse, walked to Li Yuanchang, who was rolling his eyes, twitching and rolling, and stepped on his chest to suppress him.
"Kill me!" Li Yuanchang roared through gritted teeth.
"The vitality is very strong, and you can still roar after being tortured like this." Qin Mubai squatted down and looked down at him, and whispered, "I won't kill you, I will torture you slowly, so that you can't survive. You can't die. If you can't bear it anymore, just bite your tongue and kill yourself. Otherwise, you can beg me, kneel down and lick the soles of my feet once a day. If you lick them clean, I'll do it. Consider not torturing you that day.”
"Don't even think about it!" Li Yuanchang spat hard, and a ball of bloody phlegm fell on Qin Mubai's pants. He cursed, "Qin Mubai, you are just a despicable and shameless person! You will be rampant when you succeed. You are so arrogant! I wonder if you are the prince of the Li family, will you get retribution for doing this to me?"
"You're right, I am indeed a despicable and shameless villain." Qin Mubai said, "To deal with people like you, if I were an upright and upright gentleman, I would have died without even a scum left. If it were me If I fall into your hands, why don't you torture me and kill my relatives and humiliate my wife and concubines? Is this just polite to you? Li Yuanchang, if you do any unjust things, you will be punished. You are unlucky. I, Qin Mubai, have never harmed anyone in my life, but whoever dares to harm me will be punished by death. It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge, but I am a villain, so I will take revenge immediately. Stop imagining that I am a gentleman or a good person. If I become cruel and shameless, I must be at the level of a master. You, a clown with shallow morals, are really not in my eyes."
Li Yuanchang closed his eyes in despair.
It is better to offend a gentleman than a villain. As a villain, Li Yuanchang understands this truth better than anyone else. Only today did he realize that he had never known Qin Mubai as his opponent before. He was full of illusions that Qin Mubai was a sanctimonious gentleman who behaved strictly and did not dare to go out of his way.
But today, he realized that he was wrong, so completely wrong, and he lost so cleanly!
"Okay, I give up." Li Yuanchang closed his eyes tightly, not daring to raise his head to look at Qin Mubai, and said, "Just for fun, kill me with one sword!"
"What I said will not be changed. I will imprison you and torture you every day. I will also ask for an order to inspect your mansion and purge your accomplices. As far as I know, your mansion has raised There are no less than a hundred beauties, and you are very fond of them. I will detain them all and send them to Lanzhou as slaves to serve as military prostitutes. Li Yuanchang, don’t you love to fuck other people’s wives? Now I will let you try it. It's like having your woman tasted by thousands of people!" Qin Mubai raised the corner of his mouth and said evilly.
"You are shameless! You bastard! Qin Mubai, you must die a good life and give birth to a son without an eye!" Li Yuanchang cursed loudly, holding Qin Mubai's feet with both hands and shaking them from side to side.
"Can you move me?" Qin Mubai used some hidden force under his feet to trample him to death. Although Li Yuanchang was furious, he was helpless because his lifeblood had just been severely damaged. He couldn't exert much strength, so he couldn't move at all.
"Kill me!!!" Li Yuanchang finally collapsed, yelled hysterically, and started crying.
Qin Mubai raised the corners of his mouth and smiled with satisfaction. He pulled Li Yuanchang's glorious purple and yellow deer dragon robe and wiped the bloody phlegm on his trousers. He let go of his feet and said, "Li Yuanchang, in these years, I have never hated anyone. No one has ever had an enemy in the true sense. You are the first. You have repeatedly provoked me, humiliated me, and poisoned me. If I don’t repay you or torture you to death, then I will be nothing. There is no distinction between weak and incompetent hypocrites. Don't talk to me about repaying kindness with evil. That's something only a submissive fool can do. I'd rather be a real villain than a hypocrite. So, you deserve to be unlucky - why are you still standing there? Get a car and put him in, drag him to Baiqi Camp, treat him with good wine and meat, treat him with medicine, and keep him alive! Let him live and let me torture him. If he dies, I will only ask you. !”
"promise!"
"Qin Mubai, you beast! You are a madman! You are not a human! You are a demon beast!" Li Yuanchang was completely desperate, shouting in fear and anger.
"Thank you for the compliment." Qin Mubai smiled indifferently, turned over and mounted his horse, looked at Li Yuanchang, and said, "Scold me. The harder you scold, the more painful your struggle will be. The more energetic I will be when I torture you, the harder I will be." Cool."
"You!..." Li Yuanchang couldn't curse anymore, and he lay on the ground beating his chest and crying.
"Please, kill me! Kill me!!!"
The Baiqi guards worked swiftly and quickly found a car. They tied Li Yuanchang tightly and gagged him, threw him in, picked him up and dragged him to the Baiqi camp.
The faces of Su Lianqing and Tantai sisters were a little pale, and they looked frightened, and they didn't dare to look at Qin Mubai.
"Why, are you even scared?" Qin Mubai said with a smile.
Su Lianqing curled her lips and said in a low voice: "I can't believe that, General Qin, you are more vicious than us. It's not too much to torture Li Yuanchang no matter how hard you want to torture him. But why did his wives and concubines provoke you? , you want to send them to the border to be used as prostitutes in the military camp? "
"I was bluffing him. How could I do such a thing? Lanzhou is my father's territory, and the military discipline is very strict. How could I pick up prostitutes in the army?" Qin Mubai said with a smile, "A bird like Li Yuanchang must He used his own methods to attack his weak points. In fact, he knew very well that he was on the verge of death, so he just insisted on fighting with me, just to provoke me to kill him with a knife. He is relieved. I don't want to, I will slowly torture him. He likes to play with other people's wives for the greatest pleasure; I must let him keep more than a hundred concubines in the house to scare him. If you don’t give him the greatest pain, how can you be satisfied?”
The three women shuddered in unison, and Su Lianqing said: "You are so scary. It seems that no one can offend you."
"Really, Su Lianqing?" Qin Mubai smiled coldly and said, "Then tell me now, have you ever done anything to feel sorry for me?"
Su Lianqing's whole body trembled inexplicably and couldn't help taking two steps back, and said in shock: "Why do you talk like this? I came from Xiangzhou to work for you, and you suspect that I am unfaithful to you?"
"You know the truth, I don't want to say more." Qin Mubai didn't look at her and said to the air in front of him, "I'm just saying one thing, I won't do it again."
After saying that, Qin Mubai clapped his horse forward and walked away slowly.
Su Lianqing's face was covered in cold sweat, almost petrified. The Tantai sisters looked at her in shock and asked, "Sister Su, what did you do to disgrace the general? Did you betray him?"
Su Lianqing stared at Qin Mubai who was gradually going away with wide eyes, swallowed hard, nodded blankly, then shook his head in panic, and said: "Don't ask any more questions! Qin, Qin Mubai, it's so great It's terrible! I was wrong, I shouldn't have... Forget it, fortunately he spared me. I don't want to be a lady of several grades or a female officer of Baiqi. I will just go back to Wu Dong's house and be her. What a great personal maid!”
"What's going on?" Sister Tantai was confused and confused.
"Stop asking! Don't ask again! Otherwise I will poison you!"
Qin Mubai rode his horse and walked slowly near the Tongxun Gate where soldiers, horses, corpses and blood were scattered, thinking deeply.
Having deceived Su Lianqing just now, he immediately confirmed his suspicion.
That's right, the whole thing was under the emperor's control and planning from the beginning. He knew everything about the mission and origin of Su Lianqing and the Tantai sisters, as well as what the prince and Li Yuanchang had been conspiring to do.
The reason, of course, is that Su Lianqing, a clever woman with all abilities, also became the emperor's spy.
Qin Mubai was very glad that he did not go overboard and do some stupid things, metaphorically investigate the secrets in Li Yuanchang's hands, metaphorically did not get too close to anyone among the prince and the king of Wei, metaphorically, did not secretly secretly obtain the secret edict from the late emperor. Take it apart and look at it or hide it without reporting it.
It turned out that Emperor Li Shimin knew everything about his every move from beginning to end.
Walking on thin ice!
Qin Mubai closed his eyes and sighed leisurely!
Such is the world, such officialdom, such a court!
There are no eternal enemies, no true friends, only eternal interests. After all, it is impossible for a king and his ministers to be true confidants and friends. Even if this minister is the king's own flesh and blood, he can't. Li Shimin couldn't even trust his own son and tried to test him. As a result, the prince was recruited and dismissed. What did he think of a mere son-in-law and minister in his eyes? If there is even the slightest act of disobedience, it will be wiped out in an instant!
…
Qin Mubai rode his horse and walked slowly to Tailemen and went up to the tower. Li Daozong was still here.
"What's the situation? Have you caught Li Yuanchang?" Li Daozong asked.
Qin Mubai nodded and said: "The soldiers and horses of the East Palace are vulnerable to a single blow, and Li Yuanchang and others are even more idiots. They succeeded in one attack and captured Li Yuanchang alive. I have secretly escorted him to the Baiqi Camp Prison and kept him under strict guard."
Li Daozong breathed a sigh of relief, patted Qin Mubai's shoulder, turned to look at the distant horizon, and said, "Li Yuanchang, he should have died in the military chaos."
"I will arrange it." Qin Mubai responded. He had already expected this result. Li Yuanchang was just the fuse in this huge political storm. In fact, his life and death had nothing to do with the overall situation, and the emperor did not want to see him or face him again.
Perhaps, when the imperial edict in Li Yuanchang's hand was stolen, he was already a corpse. To the emperor, he had long since become meaningless.
"Mubai... now, what are your plans?" Li Daozong suddenly asked a question that made Qin Mubai a little confused.
Qin Mubai frowned and asked, "The prince is asking... what are your plans?"
"What do you think?" Li Daozong smiled softly and played Tai Chi Push Hands with him.
Only then did Qin Mubai come to his senses. It turned out that Li Daozong was referring to the issue of establishing a prince.
The emperor's illness released all the hidden crises in the court. This is like hunting across the mountains to scare snakes in the grass. All the prey hastily escaped from the grass. After a hunt, Da Jie is about to see the end.
This may be something Li Shimin has no other solution for. In his mind, it should have been decided long ago. Prince Li Chengqian must be abolished, but there is no good way or reason. Previously, at Su Lianqing's place, the emperor must have known about the conspiracy between Li Yuanchang and Li Chengqian, so he played hard to get and struck later.
However, Li Shimin still gave Li Chengqian a chance. In the morning of today, if Li Chengqian had not jumped out to question Li Zhi's supervision of the country and had not muddied the waters further, then at least he would have been safe for now. Unfortunately, Li Chengqian had already sentenced himself to death, so he risked his life and fought back openly.
Thus, his end was doomed.
Throughout the entire incident, Li Shimin remained hidden deep in the palace, "sick" and did not show up. But his series of tricks are enough to make people marvel, wow, and make one’s hair stand on end.
Qin Mubai couldn't help but think of what his father said a few years ago when he first entered his official career: Never underestimate the emperor. Everything is under his control.
Now it seems that Li Shimin knows everything about the overall situation of the court and the details, and arranges everything perfectly.
"Everyone, including me, Qin Mubai, is just a pawn in his hands..." Qin Mubai sighed deeply deep in his heart!
"Why don't you say anything?" Li Daozong asked again, "You don't want to go to Lanzhou and leave, do you?"
"To be honest, Your Majesty, I have this thought." Qin Mubai said, "I just want to do something that is my duty. I don't want to get involved in the overall situation of the court, such as establishing a prince and seizing the heir. In addition to being dangerous, it is also a bit cruel. . Instead of participating in such things, I would rather go to the border to deal with the enemy. On the battlefield, I can kill people without batting an eye; in Chang'an, I can only sigh when I win or lose. "
After hearing this, Li Daozong narrowed his eyes slightly, sighed leisurely, nodded and said: "Yes! If you win or lose, you can only sigh. In fact, the prince is not bad in nature. It is enough to reach this stage today. It’s embarrassing. For outsiders like us, can you imagine the pain in His Majesty’s heart at this moment?”
Qin Mubai was silent for a moment and said, "Is your Majesty okay?"
"I heard that after the rebellion in the East Palace, he was really ill and couldn't afford to be ill." Li Daozong said, "Maybe he had expected such a thing, but he still couldn't withstand such a blow. Who is the emperor? He had gone through many storms and storms along the way, and he could fall ill from such a blow. It can be seen that the prince was hurt a lot. After all, the emperor was also a human being, with seven emotions and six desires. Many times, we regard him as a god and a symbol, but we ignore that he is also a husband, a father, and a son. It is not easy! - Mu Bai, the emperor and I have been brothers for decades. You know him. I have something to say to you now. I hope you can listen to it, write it down, and don’t forget it.”
"Your Majesty, please speak."
"No matter what the emperor has done, even if he feels sorry for you, don't blame him." Li Daozong looked into the distance and said softly, "Just like, to this day, when the prince inherits Qian, he doesn't blame the emperor."
"Well..." Qin Mubai responded and nodded lightly.
"When a man has the world in mind and shoulders responsibilities, he often cannot help himself. Because he has to be responsible for more people, the dynasty, and history." Li Daozong said, "Your Majesty may not be able to be a man in this life. He is a good son, a good husband, a good brother, and a good father, but he is worthy of the world, worthy of history, and has a clear conscience."
Qin Mubai was speechless and had mixed feelings.
The two of them stood side by side, looking at the Chang'an city that looked like a chessboard with stars, and were speechless for a long time. Finally, Li Daozong said: "Leave the rest of the affairs in the palace to me for the time being. You don't have to rush to see the emperor. Go back and call Gao Yang and go home together. At this moment, the people who are thinking about you the most are your family. Go back and stay with them. If anything happens to them, I'll send someone to call you."
"That's fine. Thank you, Your Majesty." Qin Mubai took the Emperor's Sword and handed it back to Li Daozong, saluted him, and then went down from the tower.
Su Lianqing and the other three girls were waiting for him here. They didn't dare to say anything when they saw him, and silently followed him to the harem.
In front of the Danfeng Gate of the Daming Palace, there are many imperial guards guarding it, and the security is quite tight. Qin Mubai stopped and said to Su Lianqing: "It is inconvenient to enter and leave the harem at this time, so I am too lazy to talk. You go in and invite Princess Gaoyang out. Just say that I will take her home to say hello to my mother."
Su Lianqing bit her lip and hesitated. Seeing Qin Mubai's resolute attitude, she had no choice but to nod her head in resignation, walked forward, showed her waist card, and walked into the Daming Palace majestically.
The Tantai sisters suddenly opened their eyes in surprise and whispered: "It turns out that Sister Su really has another way, and even the imperial harem can travel unimpeded!"
"Her abilities and skills are far beyond your reach." Qin Mubai smiled slightly and said, "But her virtue is destined to not be truly trusted by others."
"General Jin Yan, we will remember it!" Sister Tantai suddenly fell down in panic.
"Get up, what are you doing? I didn't mean to make any insinuations." Qin Mubai said, "The emperor once mentioned something to me before, saying that it is always inconvenient to use hundreds of cavalry or eunuchs to protect the female relatives in the harem. , it would be most suitable if we could recruit a few female generals or soldiers. I think you two are loyal and reliable. What do you think, are you interested in working as an official in Baiqi?"
The two girls were immediately overjoyed and kowtowed: "Everything depends on the general!"
"Then let's leave it like this for now. The emperor has the final say on the specific situation. After all, it's a new thing." Qin Mubai breathed a sigh of relief and smiled slightly, "Get up! From now on, Your only master is the emperor."
The two sisters looked at each other and nodded solemnly: "We remember! The emperor is our only master; but the general is our reborn parent!"