Funing Hall

Zhao Shiqi was imprisoned in Kunning Hall.

Zhang Juan personally led guards.

At daybreak, it was soon known that the Eleven Lord forced the palace to rebel.Dozens of corpses wearing Xixia costumes were found outside the city, and corpses from dozens of boats at the pier were also found.The people from the Ministry of Punishment went to investigate in person, and the knife edge matched the knife of the Xixia people.

unambiguous evidence.

Mr. Eleven stood on the cusp again, but everyone knew that no one would protect him this time.

After all, this time, what he wanted was to protect his life.

Some of Zhao Shiqi's private soldiers who were originally to protect the officials ran away, and some were arrested after all, and now they have become accomplices.It just so happens that they are not rebels, who would believe it?Otherwise, who would guard the gates of these high-ranking officials most of the night?

Zhao Zongning personally interrogated many people, but most of them were very stubborn, even if they were tortured, they would not recruit anything.

Zhao Cong didn't faint again, but his energy was very low.

Until Huang Shu brought Zhao Congde back from the southwest, Zhao Cong still didn't come back to his senses, and he still lay on the couch or bed all day long.

Zhao Shiqi is still locked in Kunning Hall.

Huang Shu asked Zhao Congde how to deal with it, and Zhao Cong only told him to go to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice first, and then talk about it in a few days.

Suddenly, he seemed to lose interest in everything.

After a delay of more than a month, Zhao Zongning entered the palace again to ask him what he meant and how to deal with Zhao Shiqi.

He was silent.

"Brother, I know what you mean. I don't want to give up, but the more beautiful something is, the more poisonous it is."

Zhao Cong remained silent.

Zhao Zongning was a little angry: "He treats you like that, brother still can't bear to kill him?! He is a poisonous snake! Let him go, and I don't know how many people will be killed in the future!"

In Zhao Zongning's heart, the most important thing is always Zhao Cong.

Zhao Zongning really hated Zhao Shiqi very much, he lied to his brother's feelings, and brought his brother to such a situation, every inch of his heart was affected by him.

Zhao Cong closed his eyes, and murmured: "You go back first."

"Brother..." Zhao Zongning mourned.

"Brother is very tired." Zhao Cong's voice was indeed full of exhaustion.

"Okay, it's just brother, that Xiao Fu, do you want to meet?"

Zhao Cong thought for a while, then nodded, "See you."

In the afternoon of the next day, Zhao Cong met Mu Fu.

Because he was an important witness, he was not tortured much, and he seemed to be in good condition.

Zhao Cong asked him in a low voice: "Are you from Xixia?"

Mu Fu remained silent.

"Xiao Shishi is Xixia's third prince? I once heard Yan Mo call him Sanlang, but I made a mistake."

Mu Fu frowned secretly, but still didn't speak.

Zhao Cong didn't seem to need him to speak, and he was stunned for a long time before saying: "You go."

Mu Fu kowtowed, and finally said: "Your Majesty, Saburo may have lied to you a lot, but his heart for you is all true."

"How can a person who has no heart give his heart to others?"

Mu Fu was dumbfounded, and finally backed out.

Picking a fine day, Zhao Cong took Fulu and Rantao out of the palace together, and they went to the end of Yujie Street, the house he once personally rewarded Zhao Shiqi.

Now the house is empty.

Zhao Cong reached out his hand to touch the knocker on Zhumen's door. It hadn't been wiped for a long time, and it was rusty.

Seeing him like this, Fulu and Rantao couldn't bear it, Rantao even lowered his head to wipe away his tears.

Fu Lu asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, do you want to go in and have a look?"

Zhao Cong shook his head and said softly, "Just look outside."

This place is now a forbidden area, no one came here, Zhao Cong stood in front of the door for half a morning, and did not return to the palace until he couldn't stand anymore.

That night, he went to Kunning Hall to meet Zhao Shiqi.

After more than a month, we met for the first time, in fact, Zhao Cong can't remember how long it has been, and he can't tell what the day is like for a while.

He pushed open the door with his own hands. The Kunning Palace had been unoccupied for a long time, and the sound of the door was older than other places.

"Squeaky—"

Standing by the door, Zhao Cong saw a person sitting on the ground inside the house, his hands and feet were bound with iron chains.

Zhao Cong reached out and touched his heart, it really hurt.

Hearing the sound of the door, Zhao Shiqi turned his head slowly.

He sat on the ground, facing Zhao Cong.

The most useless and dirtiest moments in my previous life have not come here.And now that he was in front of Zhao Cong like this, Zhao Shiqi felt extremely inferior in his heart, aroused by this inferiority complex, his self-esteem gradually surfaced again, and he looked at Zhao Cong with sharp eyes.

Zhao Cong walked up to him, suddenly didn't know what to say.

It turned out that they also had such a day, and they were relatively speechless.

After a while, Zhao Cong said in a low voice, "You said you told me to wait for your return."

Zhao Cong was puzzled: "It's only a month, why is it like this?"

Zhao Congxu said: "When you grow up, you don't want to be a child anymore. When you grow up, you want to fly."

Zhao Cong looked down at him for a long time before saying, "I'll let you fly."

Zhao Shiqi looked up at him.

Zhao Cong knelt down, gently reached out to touch his blood-stained face, and said softly as if in a dream: "Uncle Qi will teach you one last thing, if you want to lie, you must lie for a lifetime. If you want to hide it, you must lie You have to hide it until the end of time. Otherwise, don't lie to me, and don't lie to me again."

Zhao Cong looked at him as if looking at a treasure.

The kindness in Zhao Shiqi's body has long since disappeared, and the hostility in his body is even worse than when he first returned to Kaifeng.

Zhao Cong said again as if coaxing a child: "What are your plans when you return to Xixia? Do you want to become the throne? Don't ascend the throne, I will kill you. I will destroy Xixia. You have been with me for so long, you know what I said do it."

Zhao Cong wiped the blood off Zhao Shiqi's face bit by bit with a handkerchief, and called him softly, "Little Eleven—what a nice name, Little Eleven."

Zhao Cong got up slowly, threw away the dirty handkerchief in his hand, turned his back to him, and said, "Tonight, Zhang Juan will let you go. Take Ji Xiang and Xiao Fu away."

Zhao Shiqi said hoarsely, "Why didn't you kill me?"

"Yes, why?"

"It's better to kill me."

Zhao Shiqi couldn't see it, Zhao Cong turned his back to him, but the circles of his eyes quickly turned red.

He also wanted to kill.

But he couldn't bear it.

He worked so hard to raise such a good child, and even a drop of blood would make him feel so distressed, how could he bear to kill him.

He secretly inhaled, and said in the same tone as usual: "Only this time, if it falls into my hands next time, I will definitely kill you."

After a pause, Zhao Cong said again: "Mr. Sanlang, I hope we will never see each other again."

No emotion can be heard in it.

Zhao Shiqi smiled.

Zhao Cong lifted his foot and left.

Zhao Shiqi wanted to stretch out his hand to pull him, but was tied tightly by the iron chain.

The iron chain made a sound, Zhao Cong hesitated for a moment, but still strode out, and when he reached the door——

Zhao Shiqi whispered: "You will regret it."

Zhao Cong paused, and said in a low voice, "I only regret one thing, five years ago in May, I shouldn't have met you in Houyuan."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Cong strode away.

Zhao Shiqi smiled and lowered his head and said, "If you don't kill me, you will regret it, you will regret it."

But Zhao Cong's words still echoed in his ears.

If possible, he would not want them to meet like this.

Zhao Shiqi left at midnight, Zhao Cong was lying on the bed, the curtains were drawn tightly, but he couldn't sleep.

Facing the direction of Donghua Gate, Zhao Cong murmured: "Why can't you lie to me for the rest of your life, why can't you lie to me for the rest of your life?"

Zhao Cong told everyone that Zhao Shiqi was executed by him, including Zhao Zongning.

Zhao Zongning didn't believe it.

Zhao Cong calmly said, "Go ask Zhang Juan, he saw me kill him that night with his own eyes."

Although Zhao Zongning still didn't believe it, there was no other way.Zhao Shiqi seemed to have never existed, and suddenly disappeared from the city of Tokyo.

At the beginning, many people talked about him forcing the palace to rebel, and suddenly one day, the imperial guards personally went to various teahouses and restaurants to arrest people, as long as they mentioned a word, they were all arrested and thrown into prison.Among them, the Yuanjia Teahouse was arrested the most, and both the waiter and the shopkeeper were arrested together. The Yuanjia Teahouse, which was once the number one teahouse in central Beijing, gradually declined.

Soon, no one dared to say such a thing again.

After the world-famous Eleven Lord was executed, His Majesty seemed to be a different person.

In the past, no matter what words were spoken in Beijing, the officials didn't care.Nowadays, as long as there are those who love to talk about royal affairs, once they are caught, they will be punished with a [-]-year-old board or a prison sentence.After a long time, the city of Tokyo seemed to be much quieter.

After His Majesty recovered, he began to dispose of the Duke Wei's family.

In the eyes of the common people, the Duke Wei's family did not know how many lifetimes they had cultivated such a bad spirit.

First, the in-laws at home rebelled and punished the nine clans, and then the sons of the family rebelled. Before I finished rebelling, my son followed suit.

Zhao Congde was brought back to Beijing, and on the day the Eleventh Lord's incident was revealed, King Wei Jun died.It wasn't suicide, but he didn't come up in one breath, and was pissed to death.

Originally, people thought that His Majesty was so cruel now that even the royal family of Wei County would be severely punished.

Unexpectedly, His Majesty only executed Zhao Congde, and the rest were reduced to common people, and their lives were spared.Moreover, Zhao Shiqing, the eldest lady of Wei Junwang's family, was not implicated at all, and her husband was also promoted to an official position, which made people more and more confused about the official's thinking.

Not only the common people didn't understand, Zhao Zongning didn't understand either, so he went into the palace and asked him, and said: "Brother, although Shi Qing is on good terms with me, you don't have to."

Zhao Cong smiled, but said nothing.

He was just doing something for Xiao Shiyi, who he loved most in his memory. Princess Wei, Zhao Shiqing, and Zhao Shiyuan were all very kind to Xiao Shiyuan, and he was willing to save their lives.

Zhao Congde died a miserable death.

The way of death was not tragic, it was the usual beheading, but his head was nailed to the city gate for public display for a month.

In that month, everyone passed by the city gate with trepidation, and there were many fewer people coming and going.

It is this incident that let everyone know that His Majesty is a little different.

During the winter solstice, Zhao Cong gave Zhao Zongning and Sun Zhuyun a marriage. They got married in March of the next year, and the city was full of joy.

Zhao Cong's health finally recovered, and he went to court and handled political affairs as usual.

On the last day of the fifth year of Kaixi, Zhao Cong held a banquet in the palace and called all the clans to come in, including those with children.The clan members became more and more honest, and they didn't mention the Prince Wei's family at all, they only talked about Princess Baoning's marriage with great enthusiasm, and the hall was very lively.

Zhao Cong didn't care about the children playing around, sitting indoors, lighting a charcoal basin, he was also cold, holding a hand stove in his arms, looking at the children running around the room, he finally showed a smile.

Zhao Cong wondered if he was old.

Old people love children so much.

However, life has finally begun to move forward again. Whether alone or sitting with two people, he has to start choosing an heir.He didn't know how many years he could last with his body.

Others don't know, but he himself knows that he doesn't have much interest in "living".

He looked at the frolicking children, and began to secretly pick in his heart.

During the excitement, he glanced out the window, and there was light snow falling.

The name of the new year has already been drawn up.

The coming year must be a good one.

On the same day, in Shangjing, the capital of the Liao Kingdom, three rows of people slowly stopped outside Chengtianmen, the main gate of the imperial palace, in the snowstorm.They were all wearing black and gold armor, riding tall horses, arching around the frontmost person.

The man was sitting on the horse, not wearing armor, but wrapped in a big black fur cloak, his face could not be seen clearly, his face was buried in the hood.Even so, people dare not look easily.

As the Chinese New Year was approaching, the city was very lively, and many people watched helplessly as they entered the city and walked to the main gate of the palace.It was so imposing that they only dared to look at it, and even dared not speak when they passed by.

At this time, the pedestrians were standing in front of the main gate. The northern part of Shangjing City was populated by Khitan people. Looking at their obviously different attire, they secretly guessed whether they were envoys sent by other countries.It's just that the official came at an untimely time, and there was no time for him to come during the Chinese New Year.

The national style of the Liao Kingdom is not as broad as that of the Song Dynasty. The people dare not approach the palace, let alone talk about royal affairs, and can only watch the darkness from a distance.

The guards on the tower saw that the door was unusual, looked down at the posture, and knew that they were not small people, so they hurried down and a few people asked what was going on.

The people watched from a distance a man got off one of the horses, said something to the guards, and handed them something.The few people were startled, as if they wanted to look at the person who was sitting on the high horse, but they didn't dare, after all, they returned to the city gate after paying a big salute.

"Tsk tsk, who is it? The guards don't dare to chase people away when they are blocking the gate of Chengtianmen? How can you still do such a big ceremony?"

"Even if you are a foreign envoy, you don't have such a big face."

"The gentleman sitting on the black horse looks very mighty!"

People only dared to discuss softly, but those outside Chengtianmen were still solemn.

Mu Fu walked under the leading horse, cupped his hands and said softly: "Sanlang, I'm afraid they will come out to meet you."

The person on the horse was noncommittal, with half-covered eyes exposed under the hood, looking darkly at the still closed Chengtian Gate through the heavy snow.

He didn't speak, neither did Mu Fu, but Mu Fu knew that those people would definitely come out.

The Empress Dowager of the Liao Kingdom has no ability at all, and the officials in the court have suffered enough from her long ago, but the rest of the princes are not as good as the little emperor today, and their abilities are not even as good as the Empress Dowager.

unless--

Then came a more noble man.

Mu Fu glanced at their lord again, but remained motionless.

He sighed secretly, ever since he left the Great Song Palace, their lord has been like this all day long, don't mention laughing, talk less.

Many systems of the Liao Kingdom are imitated from the Song Dynasty. Today is the last day of this year, and the palace is also lively. Almost all the officials from the upper capital are there.

And as Mu Fu expected, someone came out to welcome him soon.

But when Mu Fu saw the people coming, he couldn't help being speechless, how far did Queen Mother Xiao push people, at least 100 people came out!

The heavy Chengtian Gate was pushed open with a "buzz", and more than 100 people headed by the Prime Minister Yelufeng all walked out of the Chengtian Gate.

Mu Fu clasped his hands: "Villain Mu Fu, I have met the prime minister."

Yelufeng's eyes lit up: "Mr. Mu!" He was still a little worried at first, but he was half relieved when he saw Mu Fu.Mu Fu was the late emperor's personal eunuch back then, and then suddenly disappeared. In fact, there were rumors at the time that Mu Fu left with the unconferred Empress Chen.

It's just that after the first emperor heard about this, he killed all those people with sticks. It was not an honorable thing after all.Empress Chen seemed to have never appeared before.

If he hadn't been close to the late emperor, the late emperor would often miss empress Chen, and he would not know how much empress Chen was in the late emperor's heart.

Unexpectedly, Mu Fu would really come back this day!

Yelufeng rolled his eyes and looked at the young man on the horse, just in time to meet his half-covered eyes.

Good guy!

Yelufeng immediately looked away again, just the knife-like look in his eyes made people tremble.

Mu Fu smiled and said: "This is our third prince."

Yelufeng thought about it for a while, and asked: "Third Highness, I wonder if I will be lucky enough to see my true face?" He was still worried when he disappeared!

Ji Xiang scolded: "What are you, dare to say such a thing?!"

Yelufeng was not happy when he was reprimanded by a brat, but he saw Mu Fu's smile on his face, and he also saw the black gold cavalrymen behind them showing their knives.He also lamented in his heart, the token that Mu Fu took out could not be faked, and neither could Mu Fu, so let's pass this test first.

Empress Dowager Xiao has been debauched so far, and she has messed with her own brothers and sisters. Could there be anything worse than this?

Yelufeng immediately knelt down on the ground and said loudly: "Welcome the Third Highness to return to the palace!"

The rest of the people saw that the prime minister was kneeling, and they also knelt down one after another: "Welcome the third highness to return to the palace!"

Yeluqin also knelt down, but he was a little puzzled, why did he feel that the little eunuch who spoke just now looked familiar, he seemed to have seen it before.

The man on the horse did not dismount.

Knowing that this was not enough, Yelufeng couldn't help shouting three more times, "Welcome Your Highness the Third Highness back to the palace!"

The sound was so loud that the people in the distance also heard it, and they were stunned.

After the loud noise, there was silence, and in the silence, the man on the horse finally got off his horse.

He walked forward, passed Yelufeng, walked up to Yeluqin, and said in a low voice, "Look up."

Yeluqin felt that this voice was very familiar, so he raised his head wonderingly.

Zhao Shiqi lifted his hood.

Yeluqin was so frightened that his eyeballs almost popped out, he said in a panic, "Ten, eleven—"

Ji Xiang said angrily: "This is His Highness the Third!"

Yeluqin felt miserable, although he didn't know the details, but he already knew that the throne he obtained might be lost, so he kowtowed: "I have seen the third highness, I wish the third highness well."

"Get up and talk."

Yeluqin had no choice but to get up.

Zhao Shiqi had actually grown taller in the past few months, even taller than Yeluqin. He was very close to Yeluqin, and asked, "Where is Gu Ci?"

"……This this--"

Jixiang showed the knife, Yeluqin confessed the location with a bitter face, Jixiang took the knife back, turned around and led the people there.

Yelufeng thought to himself, this is a warning, although he didn't hear their conversation.

Zhao Shiqi then said to Yeluqin, "From today onwards, you will stay in the palace."

Yeluqin's heart is bitter, you just came back, you haven't got a firm foothold yet, you just think about these things.But looking at the posture of the former Eleven Lord and now the Third Highness, he somehow felt that this was a matter of course.

I saw him standing with Emperor Song in the past, he was always elegantly dressed in sky blue clothes, he looked like a scholar.But I haven't seen you for a few months, how come you look like a bandit.

It's not that he looks like a bandit, it's just that he looks like a bandit, he's not afraid of the sky, he's the biggest daddy in the world.

Yelufeng was also really curious, and finally couldn't help but look back, not knowing that the Third Highness also looked at him.

His legs went limp.

As someone who was lucky enough to meet Empress Chen, I had to admit that that face was really carved out of the same mold.The eyes of the Third Highness are exactly the same as those of the First Emperor, even more like that of the Eldest Princess.

This son can tell at a glance that he is not something in the pool, and he is better than his brothers.If he continued to toss like this, he wanted to rebel.

Fortunately, God opened his eyes and finally gave them a glimmer of life for Daliao.

Yelufeng knelt down again, and shouted again with sincerity, "Welcome Your Highness the Third Highness back to the palace!"

His Highness, after three bows and nine kowtows by all the officials, walked into this strange and brand-new imperial palace through Chengtian Gate.

On that day, everyone in the palace learned that the only son of Empress Yuan and Empress Chen returned to the palace after living in Jurchen for many years.

Although Empress Chen has never actually performed the canonization ceremony, she is the love of the late emperor and the only empress who has ever been canonized.

The third prince is the legitimate son of the Empress Yuan, with a noble status.

According to the decree of the first emperor, he was given a name——

Yelu Yanli.

The author has something to say: I didn't intend to say anything more to affect everyone's reading sense, but after thinking about it, it will be over soon, so I will say a little bit.

That's right, Zong Bao finally met Xiao Shiyi, which is why there is a "love and kill" in the tag of the article.However, this article is not deliberately trying to abuse the heart, so in fact, there is nowhere to go.The plot of these dozens of chapters, apart from Yi Yu's talk about Taiyuan, including about Zhao Congde and others, has also been about Xiao Shiyi's psychological changes.He is undoubtedly very willing to listen to Zhao Cong, and willing to be used by Zhao Cong.But he wants to do things openly, and wants to be the strong and true self.

In fact, during this period of time, I often see people commenting that such and such things can obviously not be messed up, why the two of them are not honest, and so on.

The crux of the matter is this, both of them have something to hide.Time travel, rebirth, everyone is even, but Xiao Shiyi still has a big problem of bad intentions.No one can accept that your lover is here to kill you, but he is indeed here for this matter, and no one can predict what happened before we met.

This problem must also be solved.Open and close, or take it easy.

Zhao Cong has never been ambiguous about major issues. He is actually a very rational person, so he would rather choose this way, but his heart softened in the end.

And Xiao Shiyi will also return to himself to the greatest extent, whether good or bad, he is himself.

The real him can also face Zong Bao frankly again.

In the end, I have the clearest relationship. This is my greatest expectation and starting point for the relationship between the two in this article.