Loyalty Hou Tiansheng rebellious

"He's not coming back?"

Li Yan only asked such a sentence, then put the folder into his sleeve, and didn't ask anything else.

On the evening when Wu Duan returned to court, a banquet was held in the Hall of Harmony to celebrate his achievements.

Chen Maomao didn't hide in Li Yan's sleeves and followed him, he just licked the fish soup in the Yangju hall as a cat.

Chen Hen thought sullenly, this could be regarded as a celebration for himself, thinking about it, he took another mouthful of soup.

Before eating two bites, the door of Yangju Hall opened, and Li Yan came back.

Chen Maomao ran towards him unsteadily, Li Yan smiled at him and picked him up.As before, Chen Maomao was put aside, and Li Yan reviewed the papers.

It's just that there is only one book approved this time, the one by Chen Hen.

"Not coming back." Li Yan murmured, "I haven't settled with him yet, he won't come back."

He picked up a pen, and instead of replying on the notebook, he picked up another piece of paper and wrote a letter full of official duties.

Talking about Jiangnan affairs, he was asked to come back to handover with the court; he was asked to return the military power given to him during the war;

The paper is full of official business, and the paper is full of urging him to come back.

In the end, Li Yan picked up Chen Maomao, painted ink on his paws, and pressed a cat paw print on the letter paper.

Your cat is still in my hands, come back soon.

Chen Hen was peeking as usual, but he didn't dare to look behind him, so he ran out the door with short legs.

There was a light snowfall during the day, it was still snowing when Li Yan came back, and it just stopped now.

Chen Maomao left a string of plum blossom footprints on the snow. He buried his head in the snow, covered his face with snowflakes, and rolled twice in the snow.

A little eunuch happened to pass by, and quickly picked up the cat: "Oh, ancestor, it's easy for you to have fun in the snow, but what if you get sick again? Just think about the emperor and stop making trouble."

——You should think about the emperor, and stop making trouble.

Hearing this, Chen Hen was stunned.

Then Li Yan came out, stood under the eaves, and stretched out his hand to him.

The little eunuch lowered his head and presented the cat to him.

Li Yan took the cat into his arms and ordered: "Prepare the horse."

It's not appropriate to go out at night and have just had a drink.Chen Maomao dared to bark twice to express his protest, but the little eunuch dared not disobey the order, and hurriedly retreated to prepare.

Li Yan hugged the cat in one hand and pulled the rein in the other, and drove the horse slowly outside the palace.

The palace banquet in the Hall of Harmony has long since ended, and the ministers have all gone back to their residences.

When leaving the palace gate, he met Wu Duan.

Li Yan reined in his horse and only glanced at him: "What's the matter?"

Wu Duan clasped his fists at him: "When the minister came, the minister from Liting must have asked the emperor to approve his paper."

Li Yan didn't speak, but left without driving the horse.He lowered his head, pinched the pink feet of the kitten in his arms, played with it for a while, and then said: "You have a way to contact him in private."

People are dead, and the way to communicate is to burn paper to dream.

But Wu Duan was not used to lying, so he bowed his head in silence, and Li Yan thought he agreed.

"Tell him, it's useless for any of you to intercede, I won't approve." Li Yan pursed his lips, and said lightly, "Tell him to intercede by himself."

After saying this, Li Yan let go of the rein and drove the horse away.

Li Yan went to Zhongyihou's mansion.

The Zhongyihou Mansion was burnt down by a big fire earlier, and after several years of exposure to the sun and wind, almost nothing remained.

Li Yan asked people to fence off the land, but he didn't move it anymore, probably waiting for Chen Hen to come back.

But Chen Hen saw clearly with a cat's eyes, there was a tree of plum blossoms on the scorched earth wasteland.

It was not the original flowering tree that was hundreds of years old, but a newly planted tree that was still short, didn't bloom many flowers, and was blown crookedly by the wind.

Li Yan drove the horse and approached directly, but raised his hand and picked a plum blossom, hugged the flower branch and Chen Maomao in his arms, and went back to the palace like this.

The letter sent to Jiangnan has not yet been answered.

Of course there is no answer, how could there be an answer?

Before Chen Hen died, he left a note and five letterheads, but he couldn't predict what kind of letter Li Yan would send him, so he couldn't leave a reply.

Although there was no reply, Jiang Nan sent a letter to Li Yan.

It's a poem copied by Chen Hen--Crossing through the robbery, the brothers are here, and when they meet, smile and grieve.

When Li Yan saw the letter, he laughed angrily.I have done everything that should be done, and I have done everything that should not be done. I am still a brother, and I am still a monarch and minister.

After laughing, he approved the paperwork Jiang Nan handed over, agreeing that Chen Hen would stay in the fief.

This is what Chen Hen expected before his death, and he will allow it.

But maybe Chen Hen didn't know it before he was alive, but Chen Maomao knew it.Li Yan has been planning secretly, he wants to go to the south of the Yangtze River himself.

If Li Yan really went to Jiangnan, he couldn't hide anything, so Chen Hen didn't want him to go.

The good news is that the overall situation has only been decided, and Li Yan has not been able to find a suitable person to supervise the country in the clan, so his going to Jiangnan has been put on hold for the time being.

In the past few years, because of the numerous affairs in the DPRK and China, Li Yan has been busy.

In June of this year, he found time to go to Sanqing Mountain to pay homage to his mother and the emperor's sister.

When he came out of the Sanqing Temple and was about to go down the mountain, Li Yan saw a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, holding a lotus lantern, walking across the corridor.

So he turned around and asked Princess Changqing beside him: "Sister Huang, who is that?"

"That's Prince Xiaorui, Li Shi."

Li Yan frowned, and thought for a while: "I don't remember ever sealing King Rui."

"Yes..." Without time to make up a lie, Princess Changqing only said, "He came to Guanli to pray for blessings, was bullied by his stepmother, and left the pavilion..."

"Who?"

"Li Ting." Princess Changqing said softly, "Li Ting helped him out of the siege, and when he left, he was afraid that he would be bullied, so he made an exception and made him king, and left him in the temple, entrusting me to take care of him."

Li Yan sneered, turned his head and told Bandit Jian: "Tell this Prince Rui to come into the palace tomorrow."

Seeing his appearance, Princess Changqing felt that something was wrong, so she wanted to persuade him: "Ayan..."

"Just let him go to study in the palace. Why are you panicking?" Li Yan lowered his eyes, bent down and picked up the cat following him, and said coldly, "I don't dare to touch his people."

Princess Changqing consciously made a slip of the tongue, and turned her gaze to the cat in his arms: "This cat?"

"His cat." Li Yan rubbed Chen Maomao indiscriminately, "If you dare not touch him or his people, I will only lose one cat."

Princess Changqing persuaded: "A Yan, you should let go a little bit."

Li Yan grabbed Chen Maomao's nape of the neck: "I won't let it go, I won't let it go for the rest of my life."

Originally thought that the emperor would go to Sanqing Mountain and come back in a day, taking advantage of this time, Eunuch Gao planned to tidy up the entire Yangju Hall and change the decorations, which can be regarded as a change of heart for the emperor.

So when Li Yan went back, Highness Yangju was busy with work.

At that time, behind the front door of the hall, a young eunuch picked up a scroll from nowhere, and he didn't know who the girl in the painting was, so he gave it to Eunuch Gao to see.

Eunuch Gao put away the picture scroll after just one glance: "It's just a few years ago when the emperor, the loyal Hou, took charge of the government temporarily. The ministers knelt in front of the Yangju hall and insisted on choosing a concubine for the emperor. At that time, they handed it over Later, Lord Hou asked someone to take down his portrait. For some reason, only one was lost."

The little eunuch said: "Seeing that this girl is pretty, I thought it was..."

Eunuch Gao's face immediately pulled down, and he said solemnly: "Speak carefully."

The little eunuch hurriedly confessed his mistake.

It also frightened him, so Eunuch Gao eased his tone again and said, "Master Hou met at that time and said..."

I don't know why, but Eunuch Gao stopped talking. Through a door, Li Yan asked, "What did he say?"

Eunuch Gao was startled, turned around and was about to kneel down and confess.

Li Yan was paranoid and still asked him: "What did you say?"

"'Color is emptiness'." Eunuch Gao replied, "Master Hou said: 'Color is emptiness.'"

Form is emptiness.

Li Yan thought about this sentence twice secretly. At that time, was Chen Hen unhappy because the ministers wanted to choose a concubine for the emperor?

Is he a little uncomfortable too?Have a little taste?

Li Yan was thinking about something and didn't speak, but Eunuch Gao thought he wanted him to continue talking.

"At that time, Lord Hou was about to fight against the rebellion, and the courtiers knelt in front of the Yangju Hall, and Lord Hou sat on the steps of the Yangju Hall, cut off his sleeve with a long sword, and spoke the truth to the courtiers, Sent them back."

Li Yan bit his words and read it again: "Cut off the sleeves."

"Yes." Eunuch Gao replied, "The old slave was far away, so he didn't hear what Lord Hou said to them, but the old slave could see clearly that Lord Hou drew his sword and cut off his sleeve."

"Who's there?"

Eunuch Gao mentioned the names of several veteran officials in the court: "It is probably in the hands of these adults."

"What are you doing with them? Send someone to get it back."

"Yes." Eunuch Gao suddenly remembered something, and said again, "It was snowing that day, and the clothes of Lord Hou were wet, and the old slave also kept the clothes that Lord Hou changed."

Li Yan glanced at him and said, "What are you keeping for? Take it here too."

Chen Maomao was hugged by Li Yan and scratched his lapel with his paws angrily.I had already agreed with Eunuch Gao not to mention him in Yangju Hall, don't mention him, why...

Do you have to make Li Yan worry about it?

The subordinates worked quickly, and within a short time, the clothes and half of the sleeves that Chen Hen changed that day were neatly placed in front of Li Yan.

He didn't wear any good clothes that day, the half-worn smoky green robe, very plain.Half of the sleeve was cut off, and the broken silk thread was like a big wound.

At that time, Chen Hen still thought that he was wearing old clothes, and if he wore new clothes, he would not be willing to scratch them.

Li Yan put his hands on his clothes.

Chen Henxin sighed, Chen Liting, Chen Liting, at that time you burned the Hou's mansion with a torch in order not to keep anything for him, not to keep him as a souvenir, look now, you made a mistake, a big mistake.

Prince Rui Li Shi was taken into the palace to study.

Li Shi probably didn't know about Chen Hen's death, he just thought it was Li Yan's fault that Lord Hou didn't return to Chang'an, so he didn't have much to deal with Li Yan.

Although it was not easy to deal with, Li Yan was ready to let him supervise the country in the absence of a better candidate.

"I claimed to be sick, so I went to Jiangnan to see Lord Hou." Li Yan explained to him, "I have a misunderstanding with him and haven't resolved it yet, so I'll go and see him, and then see if I can pick him up return."

As soon as he heard that he was going to pick up Lord Hou, Li Shi didn't like him any more, so he agreed to everything.

The 15-year-old boy has learned early on not to show his emotions and anger. Li Yan has never seen him so happy when he gets along with him in the past few months, and his eyes are full of smiles.

Li Yan was not very happy, and asked him in a cold voice: "Is he and you on good terms?"

Li Shi gave a rare smile and said, "Master Hou treats me very well."

Li Yan hugged the cat in his arms, and asked him coldly: "Has he told you a story?"

"What story?" Li Shi was taken aback, "No."

"Not one?" Li Yan continued to ask him, "Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Three Kingdoms, Sui and Tang Dynasties, not one?"

Li Shi shook his head: "No."

Li Yancai finally smiled, and his eyes were full of smiles.