Hearing Li Rong calling him, Li Chuan hurriedly threw his sword and ran towards Li Rong.
"Sister," Li Chuan's eyes were full of eagerness and excitement, "Why are you here?"
"Rong'er?"
Shangguan Yue was also at a loss: "How do you..."
"Su Rongqing led the troops to wait outside the city, just waiting for Chuan'er to kill the king." Li Rong's voice was calm, "Mother, you and Chuan'er hurry out of the palace, I'm here."
"Su Rongqing is outside the city?"
Li Chuan couldn't understand: "He... what did he do with so much?"
"Don't worry about this. Empress, hurry up and leave."
"What about you?" Shangguan Yue responded quickly, "Are you alone in this palace?"
"That won't work."
Li Chuan decisively rejected it.
"Then let's go together."
Li Rong smiled. Hearing this, Li Chuan agreed. He was happy: "Okay, let's go together."
After saying that, he went to pull Li Rong.
The hand he held Li Rong kept shaking, and Li Rong looked at him quietly.
He was actually much taller than her, but in front of her, he seemed to have always been a child.
He dragged Li Rong out of the bedroom, and before going out, Li Ming stopped him: "Li Chuan."
Li Chuan paused, and Li Ming's voice was cold: "The chance I gave you is still counted. As long as you are willing to destroy the Shangguan clan, I can give you the Imperial Forest Army."
Li Ming said, coughing lightly.
He looked very bad, but he still stared at Li Chuan: "If Su Rongqing unites with the aristocratic family, you won't be able to win with their troops. Since you don't want to kill me, I can still treat you as a son and come back. ," Li Ming stretched out his hand, "I give you the country."
When Shangguan Yue heard this, a trace of fear flashed in her eyes. Li Rong looked up at Li Chuan, she was waiting for his decision.
Li Chuan looked at the world outside the palace gate, he thought for a long time, and said softly: "No."
"Li Chuan!"
Li Ming was in a hurry, and he coughed quickly: "You are crazy!"
"Father, I don't want to kill you, and I don't want to hand over my sister and mother for my own life and death."
Li Chuan said it a bit difficult, Li Rong stood beside him, she didn't suppress her emotions deliberately, she looked up at Li Chuan, at her brother.
In the past, she would treat Li Chuan as a woman's benevolence regardless of gains and losses, but when she abandoned those deliberate calculations and watched Li Chuan as a sister, she suddenly felt that her brother was a very good person. Good, nice people.
He's just young, he still doesn't understand what's right and what's wrong.
Li Rong stretched out his hand and held Li Chuan. The moment he held him, Li Chuan was suddenly stunned. He turned to look at Li Rong, and Li Rong laughed: "Continue talking."
"I," Li Chuan said with difficulty, "I may not be a qualified prince, nor a qualified king."
He looked into Li Rong's eyes, and he couldn't help but turn red.
"But I don't want to be you."
"I think," Li Chuan took a deep breath, "I want to be a good person, I want to protect my family, I want to find someone I like to be with, I want to do what I like, and I hope not to hurt any life. "
"I want to be indecisive, I want to be naive, I want to be kind, I want to be reckless."
"Li Chuan, you idiot!"
Li Ming shouted and scolded, Li Chuan took a deep breath: "You can scold, it doesn't matter, you never liked it anyway. But whether you like me or not, father," Li Chuan gave him a last look, "I don't want to. Killing you, dirty my heart."
After Li Chuan finished speaking, he pulled Li Rong.
He felt like a bird whose rope had been untied.
It is life and death that is clearly going, but it has never been a joy.
He pulled Li Rong tightly, leaned on her, and walked all the way out.
After walking out of the corridor of the palace, Li Rong stopped.
There were soldiers everywhere, and the closest one was Li Rong's shadow guard.
Li Rong stopped, and Li Chuan felt a little puzzled: "Sister?"
"Chuan'er," Li Rong looked at him, "Will you give me the world?"
"Sister?" Li Chuan didn't understand what she said, Li Rong put her hands in her sleeves and smiled, "I don't like to make wedding dresses for others, if this time, I will protect Huajing for you, this world , can you give it to me?"
"Sister," Li Chuan looked at Li Rong and smiled, "I know you can't trust me, but I still have to say it."
"I became the prince for the sake of my mother and sister. If my sister wants this world, I will give it to you. I am not suitable for this place. In this place, I will destroy myself and maybe others."
"Then," Li Rong stared at him, "if one day, I will be the king and you will be the minister, is it okay?"
"Why not?" Li Chuan seemed amused, Shangguan Yue frowned, "What are you talking about, hurry up and leave."
"Yes," Li Chuan then remembered, "Sister, I'm protecting you and the queen mother..."
Before he could finish speaking, the guard knocked Li Chuan out with a knife from behind. The guard held Li Chuan, Shangguan Yue had a horrified expression on his face, and said anxiously, "What are you doing!"
"Mother, I can't go."
Li Rong's voice was calm: "I want to pretend that Chuan'er is sitting in the palace, so as not to arouse Su Rongqing's suspicion. You take Chuan'er out."
"But you are a girl..."
"I can." Li Rong interrupted her, she fixedly looked at Shangguan Yue, "If you don't leave, no one will be able to leave. Queen Mother, let's go."
Shangguan Yue stared at Li Rong, she didn't answer, but Li Rong already knew her answer.
Li Rong turned around and walked all the way to the bedroom. When she opened the door and entered the palace, she saw Li Ming gasping on the dragon couch.
He seemed to be very uncomfortable, the whole person was panting low, Li Rong bent down and raised the sword, Li Ming looked at Li Rong raising the sword, his eyes showed panic, Li Rong held the sword close to Li Ming, Li Ming clenched his fists, Pretend to be calm.
Li Rong pointed her sword at Li Ming's face, and she looked at him.
After a while, she was a little strange: "You are afraid of me."
"I didn't."
"You are not afraid of Chuan'er, but you are afraid of me, why?" Li Rong looked at him, she could see the fear in his old eyes, she lowered her head and smiled, put away the sword, and threw it aside.
"You think I'll kill you, but he won't."
"Isn't it?" Li Ming said coldly, "You are different from him."
Li Rong sat beside the bed, Li Rong didn't speak, Li Ming slowed down for a while, he seemed to be getting better, Li Rong got up, went to the side to bring water, and handed it to Li Ming.
Li Ming didn't dare to drink it, so Li Rong knew what he meant, and she reassured him: "Don't worry, it's easy for me to kill you now, so I don't need to poison you."
Li Ming got the words, stiffened for a moment, Li Rong sat down and gave him water.
Li Ming drank the water and felt much better. Li Rong helped him lie down and covered him with a quilt.
"What on earth are you going to do?" Li Ming stared at her, and Li Rong thought for a while, "It's okay, it's the last time, I don't want to argue with you. I have never taken care of you, take care of you in the end, don't be too much. gratitude."
Li Ming didn't speak. He looked at Li Rong who had covered him with the quilt. Li Rong thought for a while: "Where's Concubine Rou?"
"I let her and King Su escape."
Li Rong nodded, but didn't get angry. She sat under the steps and Li Chuan was lying on the couch. After a long time, he whispered, "Didn't you leave the palace? What are you doing here, dying for Li Chuan?"
"It's not a death sentence. I'm still pretty smart. I'm here, and I have a better chance of living than him."
"You don't kill me, are you afraid that Su Rongqing will use the murder of the king as an excuse to harm you?"
"Is there a big difference between attacking the imperial city and killing the king?" Li Rong felt that Li Ming was a little bored at the moment. She leaned against the bed. After a while, she chatted endlessly, "Actually, I don't understand, what are you fighting for?"
"You want to suppress the aristocratic family and the Shangguan clan, but can't you see that Chuan'er and you mean the same thing? What's the point of trying to abolish him? Besides, the Li Cheng in Concubine Rou's hand is fake, and she will take the throne. Would you like to pass it on to a fake?"
"You don't have to slander Cheng'er," Li Ming said with a cold face, "I won't believe you."
"I know you won't believe it. If I die, this time you go out and test it yourself."
After Li Rong finished speaking, she felt that the ground was a little cold, so she got up and found a stool, moved it over, and sat beside Li Cheng.
He moved another small table, put some tea, hugged the heater, and sat down comfortably.
Li Ming watched her busy, and when she sat down, Li Rong continued, "I asked you just now and you haven't answered me yet."
"He's the son of the Shangguan family," Li Ming said coldly. "It's impossible to really leave you. He can't even do it to you now. In the future, when Zhen is gone, do you still expect him to do it?"
Hearing this, Li Rong couldn't help but laugh.
Li Chuan is more than just hands-on? He is much more ruthless than Li Ming.
When Li Ming said this, he seemed to be in a hurry: "My two sons, Li Chuan is doing well, but I just gave them up. And you, I love you so much, but you..."
"But what about me?" Li Rong turned her head to look at him, "I love you so much," Li Rong looked at him, "but you are thinking of marrying me the worst husband, and let me not interfere with your interests, Put me aside for everything."
"Hua Le, you are in pain at the top of your heart, but what about me?"
"I don't love you so much!" Li Ming shouted angrily.
"Then do I have less respect and love for you than Hua Le?"
She had never questioned Li Ming like this before.
Like a normal daughter.
Li Ming couldn't help but be stunned. Li Rong looked at him: "I am the daughter of the Shangguan family, so isn't it your daughter?"
Li Ming didn't speak, and such a question seemed to embarrass him.
Li Rong paused for a moment, then laughed: "Forget it, instead of you being unhappy, let's talk about something happy. Anyway, tomorrow, either I die or..."
Li Rong didn't continue, she shrugged: "It doesn't matter anymore. Father," she raised her hand to her belly, and seemed to think of something happy, "I have a child, and you are about to become a grandfather. "
Hearing this, the phrase "Damn" almost came out, but seeing Li Rong's happy expression, he stopped between his lips again.
He fixedly looked at Li Rong, and Li Rong looked at him with a smile: "Father, this is my first child in more than 50 years."
"Fifty years?"
Li Ming frowned: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Li Rong smiled: "I'll tell you a secret, in fact, I've lived two lifetimes."
"You're crazy!" Li Ming looked horrified, but Li Rong was not surprised, her voice was very slow: "I know you don't believe me, so I'll just say a few words to you, I say you're confused, but you don't know Chuan'er at all. Do you think he is cowardly? Does he not want to wipe out the family? No, he was much more ruthless than you later."
Li Rong calmly talked about everything Li Chuan had done, while Li Ming listened quietly.
At first, he showed disgust and felt that Li Rong lied to him, but as he spoke, he began to inquire, the details were all there, and there was no flaw.
As soon as the two asked and answered, the lights in the palace were also lit.
Pei Wenxuan followed Zhao Chongjiu in the suburbs, and it didn't take long for him to realize that something was wrong.
He winked at the person next to him, and the guard suddenly accelerated his horse and stopped in front of Zhao Chongjiu. Zhao Chongjiu was a little surprised: "Sir?"
Pei Wenxuan pulled the reins behind him and said coldly, "Where are you going to lie to me?"
Zhao Chongjiu was startled, but he didn't expect Pei Wenxuan to react so quickly.
Zhao Chongjiu pursed his lips, and after a long time, he said, "In Miyagi."
"What did she go back to?"
Pei Wenxuan was stunned, Zhao Chongjiu got off his horse and offered a letter with both hands.
"There may be 30,000 soldiers and horses ambushing in Huajing before and after Su Rongqing. His Royal Highness delayed the time in the palace and sent His Royal Highness the Prince out. I am afraid that you will also be imprisoned, so let your subordinates coax you out."
Hearing this, Pei Wenxuan tightened the reins and stared at the letter in Zhao Chongjiu's hand: "What is this?"
"His Royal Highness said, when we arrive at the inn, I will send you a letter."
Pei Wenxuan got the words, took the letter and opened it, and saw Li Rong's words.
Her words carried the skeleton of his words, because after they got married, she had his words for a year.
In this life, she seems to have picked up this habit again.
The above is just a very short line of words, just like Li Rong's usual habit, concise and to the point.
It's just that this time she didn't talk to him about the plan or the situation.
In the last and most important letter, she gave him only one sentence.
"Lang Jun loves me more than his life, and so do I. It's like a sweet treat."
"Leave a note: Li Rong."
Pei Wenxuan held the letter, and for a moment, he felt that there was water vapor in his eyes.
He lowered his head, as if he didn't know how to adjust his emotions, Zhao Chongjiu said carefully: "Sir, Your Highness is also thinking of the overall situation..."
"Who did Su Rongqing contact?"
Pei Wenxuan folded the paper and put it in his sleeve, Zhao Chongjiu was stunned, and then reported his name.
After Su Ronghua's news was handed to Shangguanya, Shangguanya had already conveyed it to him. Pei Wenxuan nodded, and he called out to the person next to him, "Tongye."
"Son."
"Look for the family members of these families. If they go out of the city, go after them directly. If they are in the Huajing mansion, they will arrange people around their mansion. Tomorrow dawn, they will lead troops to surround the palace city, and the number of soldiers in the mansion will be reduced. People arrest people."
"Clan Wang and Clan Su can bear the brunt, and the others, as many as they find, will be arrested."
"No, Young Master," Tong Ye was a little anxious when he heard this, "If you do this, you will be infamous in the future."
"Just do it."
Pei Wenxuan said, and went straight back.
Li Rong's letter was still in his arms, like a charcoal fire, burning in his chest.
She seldom expressed her feelings in her life, and hardly ever said anything to him. He was worried about gains and losses, and he was always uneasy.
But when she put her feelings in front of him, he wished she would always be on top.
He didn't need her to say that.
Because others say love is love.
Only this silly girl, if she says she loves you more than her life, can really exchange her life for your life.
Pei Wenxuan drove all the way to the city.
The inside of Huajing City was completely chaotic. The people fled wildly outside the city. Pei Wenxuan couldn't drive in at all. He could only squeeze in the crowd and rush in.
When he squeezed into the crowd, he saw Shangguanya dressed up as a peasant woman and squeezed out of the city with Su Ronghua. There was a young man beside them, carrying a comatose woman on his back, leading his "mother" to squeeze out.
Shangguanya, Su Ronghua, Lin Feibai, Li Chuan, and Shangguanyue were all here, but Li Rong was the only one.
They glanced at each other in the air and seemed to entrust everything.
Shangguan Ya and the crowd squeezed out of Huajing, and Pei Wenxuan struggled to enter Huajing. Shortly after the two crossed, the gate of Huajing slowly closed, and Pei Wenxuan heard the cries of the people all day long. He walked on the long street, looking up. Looking up at the dark sky.
Snowflakes fell from the sky, Pei Wenxuan raised his head to look at the Beiyan Pagoda in the distance, raised his hand to cover his heart, took a deep breath, and then ran to the princess mansion.
After being squeezed out of the city, Su Ronghua immediately checked the ashes on his face, and said anxiously, "I'll stop my cousin and let me know about the situation. Don't worry, and don't be rude."
"I know."
Shangguanya nodded: "Trouble."
Su Ronghua responded. He was about to say something when he saw Lin Feibai standing behind Shangguanya.
He paused for a while, and after a while, he smiled, raised his hand and said, "Take care."
After speaking, without waiting for Shangguanya to respond, he turned around hastily, got on his horse and left.
Shangguanya watched Su Ronghua go away, and Lin Feibai walked behind her.
"Reluctant?"
"Um?"
When Shangguanya heard the sound, she turned her head and said hurriedly, "Set up the crown prince first, and let someone contact Xun Chuan to see where Xun Chuan is. Counting the troops outside, I can't accompany His Highness," Shangguanya said calmly, "but I have to save her. "
When Huajing was in chaos, Li Rong and Li Ming were chatting casually.
The attendant knocked on the door from time to time to report the situation to Li Rong, and Li Rong dispatched the army.
She transferred all available garrison troops into Miyagi, and Li Ming understood what she meant after listening to her actions: "It seems that you are planning to fight to the death in the palace."
"Not at all."
Li Rong smiled: "If you have to lose, then surrender."
"Women's family has no backbone."
Li Ming sneered, but Li Rong didn't care: "Where did we just say? Oh, the aristocratic family failed to restructure, why are there too many local tyrants, it is easy to deal with a Su clan, Shangguan clan is easy, and it is much more difficult to deal with the local gentry than them. They are too small, and there are too many. It's not worth it to fight. If you don't fight, what will you do with them?"
"So Chuan'er's decree is not only too urgent, but also difficult to implement."
"He wants to uproot them," Li Ming pondered, "but the family has been entrenched for so many years, and he wants to pull them out in such a short period of time, but he will kill himself. However, if Da Xia is tossed to death by him, he will fight for a few more years. Fight, slaughter the family cleanly, maybe the next dynasty will be different."
Li Rong smiled softly: "It always feels too cruel."
"Cruel?" Li Ming sneered, "I'm afraid I'm afraid of death. Neither of you or I want the Daxia to be destroyed. This is the heart of the people."
"Father is right." Li Rong thought about it and asked again, "However, I have never understood, what is a human heart?"
When these words fell, Li Ming was also silent. When Li Rong talked about that person, she couldn't help but smile: "Pei Wenxuan told me that after power, it is people's hearts. Saying that I don't understand people's hearts, I understand, it will be A good boss."
"You really don't understand." Li Ming's eyes were a little desolate.
"If your previous life was as you said, and if you understood people's hearts, you wouldn't be forcing Chuan'er like that, and you wouldn't be forcing yourself like that. This palace, if you force a person into a ghost, the ghost will think that this world is a ghost. In this way, go and force others."
"Actually, you had two paths back then. Either fight with Chuan'er. If you get more people, the rules can be changed. But this path is too difficult, so if you don't choose, you'd rather sink in the swamp yourself, and then Pull in those who don't get in."
"Rongrong, ordinary people follow the rules, no matter the reason, only the result."
"But the superior, his rules are not for keeping, but for using."
"So, he depends on the results as well as the reasons. As a superior, you can only use tools to restrain people who make mistakes if you know why they made mistakes. Just like Pei Wenxuan and Chuan'er's northern expedition in the early years," Li Ming laughed. "If the torture can make people not greedy, then they will not fail in the Northern Expedition. You can only have effective rules if you understand under what circumstances a person will be greedy for money and under what circumstances will he be a good person."
"Pei Wenxuan is right, after power," Li Ming chuckled, "it's people's hearts. I," Li Ming sighed, "it's too late to understand."
Li Rong looked at Li Ming quietly, and the attendant reminded him from outside: "His Royal Highness, it's time to go to court."
Li Rong nodded when she heard this.
Li Ming looked at her and said, "Are you really planning to do a full set of dramas? Do you want to go to court for him?"
"I've never sat on that golden chair before," Li Rong smiled. "It's also an experience to sit once."
Li Rong said and stood up: "You go to sleep first, I'll go first."
Li Ming didn't speak, Li Rong turned around and walked out, Li Ming watched her back, and a moment before she went out, he suddenly asked, "Why are you Li Cheng fake?"
"Su Rongqing told me," Li Rong replied frankly, "and, has the doctor who treated him seen, the royal father? Concubine Rou contacted Su Rongqing and other noble families. If Li Cheng is true, what is she doing in such a hurry? Those noble families , which is not a wolf, a tiger and a leopard, is it not allowed to call them with heavy profits?"
Li Ming was silent, and Li Rong walked out of the bedroom and went to her original palace.
She burned incense and bathed, put on the red gold-trimmed dress that was worn only for sacrifices, put on a high bun, and then walked to the main hall.
It was not yet dawn, and Fu Lai held the palace lantern for her and led her to the hall.
The main hall was empty. Li Rong had never seen it so empty before. She looked up at the high seat in front of her, and Fulai respectfully gave her an imperial decree: "Your Highness, this was written by His Majesty just now and given to His Highness."
Li Rong turned her head, she looked at the imperial decree in front of her, she took the imperial decree and opened the contents on it.
The words "Princess Superintendent" fell into her eyes. She fixedly looked at the content above. After a long time, she lowered her head and smiled: "What is he doing? Does he believe me?"
"If it were a normal day, it would be unbelievable," Fu Lai smiled. "But today, Your Majesty, Your Majesty may be willing to believe it. Besides, now His Majesty's life and death are in your hands, so you can't lie to him."
When Li Rong heard the words, she looked at Fulai and said, "Who the hell are you?"
"Old slave, of course, allegiance to the eldest son."
Fu Lai did not shy away: "But there are some things, if you say something good to His Highness, then you will naturally say it."
Li Rong didn't say anything, she thought for a while, took the imperial edict, and said gently, "Go back and take good care of him, I'll sit here by myself for a while."
Fu Lai respectfully saluted, and then stepped back.
There was only Li Rong left in the hall. She looked up at the golden seat and walked up slowly.
She walked over the imperial road, stepped on the soft cushion, raised her hand and stroked the smooth armrest of the golden seat.
The armrest was as cold as jade, making people feel unspeakable nostalgia.
Then she turned around and sat down gently.
She sat here for the first time, and then she found out.
Here, it's so high and so cold.
The morning time was approaching, and Pei Wenxuan also arranged the manpower at the door of Wang's and Gu's houses.
He doesn't know the situation outside, but now he only knows the situation inside Huajing. Li Rong withdrew the guards at the city gate ahead of time, and Su Ronghua took over the city tower and closed Huajing.
The Su clan had already evacuated, and the Wang family and the Gu family felt that Huajing was safer and did not leave, so they left someone to guard.
But Huajing was already closed, and they figured that Li Chuan's people were all in the palace city, but the guarding of their own house was relaxed.
Su Rongqing stayed up all night, and everyone stayed with him.
"Cousin will arrive at dawn." Su Rongqing's voice was calm, "With all the adults, we have a total of 30,000 available. Now the inner palace has been blocked, but the news has been spreading, and the early morning has not been cancelled. Li Chuan is afraid that he will be there. If he dares to announce his enthronement, His Majesty will almost…”
Su Rongqing glanced at everyone: "I am also justifiable, and it is not a rebellion."
"However, before the guards assigned by my cousin and Lord Wang arrived, there were only more than 10,000 troops in the city. I hope you don't hide your secrets, otherwise the imperial city will be difficult to attack. We will go to Zaochao for fear of being controlled."
"Don't worry," Gu Zichun said immediately, "Since I have formed an alliance with Master Su, I will not hide my secrets. This matter is a matter of life and death, and nothing will happen."
Everyone responded one after another, and Su Rongqing nodded.
It was almost time for the early morning, and everyone went to the palace together. Pei Wenxuan waved his hand as he watched them transfer the soldiers away, "Go on."
At Mao Shi, the palace was brightly lit, and the ministers entered the palace one by one dressed in black and red-trimmed court uniforms, as if they were the same as usual.
When it snowed at night, they stepped on the snow and made crunching noises, making the palace extraordinarily quiet, and these ministers also lost their usual habit of talking, which made the sound of the snow being trampled to pieces more and more obvious.
They stood at the door of the main hall, listening to the rustling of the wind and snow.
The emperor did not come out of the inner palace today, he seemed to be waiting in the hall early, and the ministers were not surprised.
As the eunuch's soaring "Enter the hall—" resounded through the square, the palace gates of the main hall opened layer by layer.
Su Rongqing stood at the top of the group of ministers, holding the wat board, and slowly raised her head with the creaking of the palace gate.
Then he saw that behind the palace gate, two rows of Suzaku bronze vertical palace lanterns with pearls in their heads went to the heights of the main hall. On the golden seat at the end of the main hall, a woman dressed in a red gold-trimmed Chinese dress with a high bun and a golden hairpin looked calmly on her face. he.
They stared at each other quietly across the entire hall, and after a long time, Li Rong's lips parted slightly, and she uttered two words indifferently and arrogantly.
"Kneel down."