"Qing'er, you've worked really hard this time. It's all thanks to you. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to pass the level with so many people from the Skyfire Clan."
Li Rushan looked at Xue Qing with a smile on his face.
Xue Qing smiled slightly and said, "Brother Shan, why are you being so polite to me? If I don't help you, who else can I help
It's still early, so let's quickly redo everyone's makeup. All the makeup that was previously applied has dried, so you can rub it off.
We don't need to disguise ourselves too thoroughly this time, just a simple look will do.
You will be riding horses later, and you won’t be entering the city, so just wrap the windshield around your face, and it won’t attract attention.”
Hearing Xue Qing's words, everyone nodded. Zhu Zhihua just looked at Xue Qing with a smile on her face, as if she was looking at her daughter-in-law.
Xue Qing felt Zhu Zhihua's gaze and couldn't help but blush, looking a little shy.
Ye Li thought for a moment and said, "Sister Xue, with so many of us, can we enter the gate of Tangjing City?"
Xue Qing said: "Don't worry, I have arranged everything. All actions will be carried out in sequence. We also have insiders in Tangjing City. When entering the city, everyone just needs to enter in batches. It will definitely not arouse suspicion."
Hearing her words, everyone nodded.
The Heavenly Fire Talisman Saint smiled and said, "This is what my granddaughter-in-law is playing with. Rushan has a good eye."
Hearing his words, Li Rushan and Xue Qing blushed and looked at each other, feeling somewhat sweet in their hearts.
Soon, Xue Qing used all the camouflage equipment he had brought with him on everyone, disguising the entire group of people as an ordinary cavalry.
Her men had already prepared a sufficient number of fast horses here in advance, and Ye Li's group of fifty or so people all rode on the horses.
Xue Qing glanced at his men and said, "You all go back first, sell all the goods we brought, and pretend to be ordinary merchants and wait for me to come back."
Afterwards, she followed Li Rushan and his group and headed quickly towards Tangjing City.
… … … … …
In Tangjing City, Li Ruhai lost his attention to state affairs because of a piece of bad news early in the morning.
He received news that the third and fourth divisions of the Zhenzhong Army had joined forces to disband. The leaders of the two divisions led their troops and left the Zhenzhong Army camp overnight under the pretext of training.
The two armies occupied a hilly area that was easy to defend but difficult to attack, got ready, and directly declared rebellion, arguing that Li Ruhai had killed his father and the emperor.
The most outrageous thing is that they actually expressed their attitude, saying that they were waiting for the late emperor to appear, and that only when Li Tianyuan appeared could they be accepted back in, and that Li Ruhai was not worthy of controlling the Zhenzhong Army.
This statement caused an uproar in the court and even in the entire Tang Dynasty. The people who did not know the truth had always been spreading rumors that Li Ruhai killed his father and the emperor. Now there were rumors that Li Tianyuan was not dead, but had lost the ability to speak after being poisoned. Once he recovered, he would immediately appear and take back the throne.
There were even people in the palace who said they had seen Li Tianyuan, and they spoke with certainty that he was not dead at all, but was just hiding temporarily and would show up when the time came.
"What on earth is going on? How could the Third and Fourth Divisions of the Zhenzhong Army defect? They are my direct troops, and they are troops that are only under my command."
Li Ruhai sat on the throne and roared angrily.
The people in the hall at this time were not the civil and military officials of the court, but his confidants.
Zhong Tao and Liu Yan looked at each other, and Liu Yan said, "Your Majesty, the leader of the third division of the Zhenzhong Army is Bian Yingxiong, who is Li Rushan's man, and the leader of the fourth division later became close to him, so he must have already stood on one side.
Although it was unexpected, it was also reasonable that the two of them led the rebellion. "
Upon hearing this, Li Ruhai's face surged with anger, and he said, "If I had known that I would take over, I should have gotten rid of Bian Yingxiong first!!!"
He felt a little regretful. He had thought about this matter before, but then forgot about it.
After all, ever since he came to power, the entire Tang Kingdom has been in chaos, with problems happening everywhere, and there are too many more important things to bother him than replacing Bian Yingxiong.
Now that Bian Yingxiong had successfully dispersed half of the town's army, Li Ruhai was extremely shocked. He really did not expect such a chaos to occur.
"What do you think we should do now? The Zhenzhong Army directly under my command has split up. If someone in it runs out and tells others that my father is not dead and that I killed my father and my emperor, what will the whole court think
Also, someone actually said that he had seen my father with his own eyes, how could such a thing happen!!!"
As Li Ruhai spoke, he felt his anger burning to his forehead. Tiankui Fusheng still sat beside the platform with his eyes closed. He really hated Li Ruhai. In his opinion, this guy was worse than his father Li Tianyuan.
Although Li Tianyuan is also a disgusting guy, at least he is tough and has many means.
After Li Ruhai succeeded to the throne, the tactics and methods he displayed were obviously childish and simple, and were simply unable to cope with the recent chaos.
Hearing Li Ruhai's words, Zhong Tao swallowed his saliva and said carefully: "In fact, we have heard rumors about the late emperor in the palace before, but we were worried that Your Majesty would have wild thoughts, so we never said it out loud."
Upon hearing this, Li Ruhai slammed his palm on the armrest of the throne and said angrily: "Asshole, why didn't you tell me!!!
Now, what on earth is this rumor about? "
Hearing Li Ruhai's question, Zhong Tao and Liu Yan knelt down hurriedly. Zhong Tao said, "Your Majesty, I heard a rumor in the palace before that the emperor was poisoned and his condition had been noticed by the imperial physician.
However, the imperial physician was unable to prepare an antidote to detoxify the late emperor in such a short time that he could only use a special drug to put the late emperor into a state of suspended animation.
Only by entering a state of suspended animation could the poison in his body be prevented from spreading, which would also buy enough time for the imperial physician to prepare an antidote.
Rumor has it that the late emperor's body had been replaced long ago and had not been buried, and the poison in his body had been removed with the efforts of the imperial physicians, but the poison still had some effect, causing him to temporarily lose the ability to speak.
This is also the reason why the late emperor did not show up after the poison was lifted. It is rumored that he was waiting for his voice to recover. Once he recovers from the damage of the poison, he will come back immediately and take over the throne again.
We tried to find the source of this rumor, but no one knows where it came from.
Among the imperial doctors, one disappeared some time after the late emperor passed away. No one knew where he went. The first guess was that he sneaked out of Tangjing City, but now the guess is that he rescued the late emperor."
After hearing Zhong Tao's words, Li Ruhai felt a burst of pain in his head, and even his fingers were shaking unconsciously.