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Li Shen shook his head and said, "You take a good rest, it's good that the servants can do these things."

Madam Yu wept and said: "These days, I can't sleep all night, and when I close my eyes, I look like Chun'er. Now that Master Hou is back, I finally have someone to rely on."

Li Shen also sighed: "I didn't think twice about sending Li Yan here."

In the beginning, Li Yan was sent here to deal with Li Xin's repeated attacks. In Li Shen's view, one Li Yan was enough to deal with that brat Li Xin anyway.

No one thought that things would turn out like this.

Li Shen sighed, pulled Mrs. Yu to a chair and sat down, then went back to his room, changed into a court dress, and walked towards the main hall of Pingnan Hou Mansion.

The chief eunuch, Chen Ju, has been waiting for a while.

Li Shen cheered up, bowed his head and cupped his fists at the great eunuch: "Grandpa."

Because of Pingnanhou's assassination of the emperor, Chen Ju couldn't put on a good face at this time, so he could only force a smile: "Master Li, Your Majesty has been waiting for you all morning, and there is no court meeting today." Go, you quickly follow our house into the palace."

Li Shen nodded and said, "Thank you, Grandpa, I'm about to enter the palace to face the saint."

Pingnanhou's Mansion was not far from the imperial city, and it took only half an hour for the two of them to enter the palace. After a while, Chen Ju brought Li Shen to the entrance of a Nuan Pavilion in the back hall of Changle Palace. The eunuch's voice was lukewarm.

"Master Hou, Your Majesty is inside, go in quickly."

Li Shen took a deep breath and walked in.

It was already the end of September, and the weather was getting colder. In the warm hall of Changle Palace, a stove had been set up. Emperor Chengde was wearing a thick robe, and was sitting by a big stove to warm up the fire.

Since the injury, he has become a little afraid of the cold.

Li Shen took two steps forward and knelt down on the ground respectfully.

"Your Majesty, Li Shen, greet Your Majesty!"

Chengde Emperor, who was warming himself by the fire in his robe, raised his eyes and gave Li Shen a serious look, and then he chuckled: "Are you back?"

Li Shen bowed his head again: "I heard that His Majesty was stabbed and seriously injured, so I rushed back immediately without stopping."

"It turned out that I rushed back because I was injured."

Emperor Chengde glanced at Li Shen indifferently: "I thought you returned to Beijing because of Li Chun's death."

Li Shen took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "It's both."

Emperor Chengde was noncommittal, but waved his hand lightly: "Chen Ju, bring him a stool."

The eunuch Chen Ju immediately lowered his head, moved a wooden pier and placed it beside the big stove.

Emperor Chengde pointed to the wooden pier and coughed: "Sit down."

Li Shen hesitated for a moment, but sat up cautiously.

The emperor narrowed his eyes and said, "Chen Ju, you all go out."

Chen Ju hesitated for a moment, and said, "Your Majesty, is this old slave going out too?"

"All go out."

The emperor chuckled: "Could it be possible that with your body, you can still be the opponent of Zhu Guo's great general?"

Chen Ju hesitated for a moment, then bent over and led the palace people back out. In just a moment, only the Son of Heaven and Li Shen were left in the warm palace.

After there were no outsiders, the Emperor Chengde seemed to be unable to bear the cold, and tightened his robe.

"Li Shen, I am very angry."

Li Shen took a deep breath and knelt down in front of Emperor Chengde.

"Your Majesty, I don't know anything about this matter in Southern Border. It's all... all those people... reckless."

Now that the matter has come to an end, if there is no outsider, denying it is an insult to everyone's IQ. The emperor of Chengde dispersed everyone in order to hear Li Shen tell the truth.

Li Shen was very smart, of course he understood what the emperor wanted, so he knelt down and pleaded guilty.

The emperor was expressionless: "I'm still very angry."

General Zhu Guo knelt on the ground, and after a long silence, he said in a shy voice, "So Li Chun deserves to die."

"It's not just Li Chun who deserves to die, people like Li Yan deserve to die even more."

The emperor looked at Li Shen coldly.

"According to what your Li family has done, the three tribes of Yi and the nine tribes are not too much!"

Li Shen fell silent, didn't continue to answer, just knelt on the ground quietly: "Your Majesty...I have no intention of harming you."

The Son of Heaven said indifferently: "But I am dying soon."

"I came to Beijing this time to appease Your Majesty's anger. I have known Your Majesty for nearly 40 years. Your Majesty regards me as a brother, and I regard Your Majesty as an elder brother. I have no intention of harming Your Majesty!"

Li Shen wept and said: "Although Li Yan did this, but he is my brother-in-law, what he does is what I do, and I wish to die to appease Your Majesty's remaining anger!"

The emperor quietly looked at Li Shen who was kneeling on the ground.

Disdainful.

Chapter 249 Li Jinchen

"Li Shen, it's very good that your father gave you this name."

Emperor Chengde coughed and put his hands on the stove.

"Since you were young, you have always respected the word prudent. With your temperament, if you think you will die if you return to the capital, you will never come back."

The emperor sighed: "You are smart, you are sure that I will not kill you."

Li Shen lowered his head and said: "Thunderstorm, rain and dew, could it be God's grace, the life and death of the subject, the life and death of the Li family, are all in the mind of Your Majesty. At this moment, Your Majesty only needs to say a word, and the subject will immediately die in front of His Majesty, with the utmost loyalty."

"What a good one with all loyalty!"

The emperor finally got angry.

"The loyalty of your Li family is to send someone to assassinate me!"

"If it wasn't for your other son, Li Xin, who sacrificed his life to save him this time, I would be lying in Zhaoling by now!"

According to the rules of the Jin Dynasty, the emperor started to build the mausoleum as soon as he ascended the throne, until the last handful of soil was put down on the day of the emperor's funeral. Because the emperor of Chengde liked hunting, his tomb was on the other side of Beishan, named Zhaoling. It has been built for 19 years now.

Li Shen lowered his head, was silent for a while, and finally said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Li Xin is not the son of my minister."