Loyalty Hou Tiansheng rebellious

In the past, wars in the south of the Yangtze River were not allowed, and the government did not allow it, so Li Yan couldn't get away.

Now he took one year to deal with the important affairs of the government, and taught Li Shi personally for one year before leaving for Jiangnan.

This winter is so cold that the river is frozen.It was supposed to wait for the water to warm up in spring before sailing, but Li Yan didn't want to wait.

Just after the Lantern Festival, Li Yan complained to the court that he was sick, and traveled by car and horse to the south of the Yangtze River.

Li Yan thought that Chen Hen was avoiding him because he didn't want to settle the bad debts with him, but Li Yan couldn't let it go, and didn't want to let it go.

He wanted Chen Hen to explain the past events and the difficulties and difficulties to him clearly.Li Yan might not let him go so easily, but——

It's better than saying nothing.

Chen Maomao stopped him during the period, and he didn't want him to go to Jiangnan. Before going out, Chen Maomao still hugged Li Yan's feet and acted like a baby, meowing and meowing.

But Li Yan didn't understand, Li Yan just picked up the cat and patted him on the back: "I know."

Chen Hen said inwardly, you know what the hell.

"I want to see him too."

Chen Maomao touched his hand with her pink cat feet.

Don't go, you won't see it if you go.

When I arrived in Jiangnan, it was late spring and March.

Instead of going to other fiefdoms of Marquis Zhongyi, Li Yan went straight to Qingpi, Chen Hen's mother's home.Li Yan is the person who understands him best in the world.

Sheng Jia came without a sound, only a few passenger ships docked outside the city.

Li Yan had a long sword on his waist and a cat in his hand. Behind him, Bandit Jian led a group of people, as if they ransacked the house, and went to the Zhuangzi of Zhongyi Hou.

It was still early in the morning, and the concierge, Uncle Zhang, was eating breakfast under the shade of a tree.

Li Yan went straight to the door, and said coldly, "Let the Marquis of Zhongyi pick you up."

Uncle Zhang was stunned for a while, as if he was still in a dream.After getting up, Li Yan had already entered the courtyard and took the main seat in front of the hall.

Of course, Uncle Zhang couldn't find Chen Hen, and he couldn't handle it, so he could only order his subordinates to boil water and make tea for Li Yan, and then he turned around and called for someone who could talk.

The plantains and green bamboos in front of the hall were newly planted because of the war, and they were green in shades of shades.

Li Yan put Chen Maomao on his lap, with one hand resting on the tea cup, touching the porcelain cup with his fingers once in a while.

Chen Hen thought to himself, Li Tan and his elder brother would definitely not come out to see him, after all, they had formed a grudge against him, Li Yan came here aggressively at this time, they would not come to see Li Yan.

Who will come to see Li Yan?He couldn't figure it out.

Footsteps sounded outside the corridor, and one person and one cat looked out of the hall together.

When Li Yan saw this person, he sneered twice, no wonder, no wonder.

Regardless of the heat, he picked up the teacup and threw it at the man's feet. The hot tea and broken porcelain splashed everywhere, and half of the man's clothes were wet.

The visitor was neither humble nor overbearing, he took two steps forward, stood at the front of the hall and bowed to Li Yan: "Mr. Xu Xing..."

Li Yan clenched his hands in his sleeves and interrupted him: "Let Chen Liting come and see me."

Xu Xing only said: "Li Ting is not here."

"where?"

"He..." Xu Xing lied, "He went to Nanyang to play, and the emperor knows that he always likes to play."

"Call him back."

"The ship's route is uncertain, and I can't find him."

"When will you be back?"

"At least four or five years."

Chen Maomao arched Li Yan's hand with his head, go back, go back, there's no waiting.

Li Yan also knew that Xu Xing was lying to him, so he gritted his teeth and said, "He asked you to coax me back?"

"I dare not..."

Li Yan got up quickly, walked out of the courtyard quickly, and turned right into the flower corridor.

Wisteria flowers covered the carved windows, Li Yan searched from room to room, every place carefully.

After searching for a while, I seemed to remember that I brought someone here, and turned to tell Bandit Jian: "Look for someone, dig three feet and find him."

Li Yan didn't bring many people, but they were all his personal guards, and they were scattered, almost turning the whole Zhuangzi upside down.

Xu Xing was plagued by old illnesses, so he reluctantly followed, not knowing how to persuade him, it took him a while to call the emperor.

"I forgot about you." Li Yan looked back at him, "How did you end up here?"

"I was entrusted by Li Ting to help him take care of Zhuangzi."

"Li Ting? You call him that too." Li Yan laughed twice, suddenly realizing, "Oh, you have worked with him for several years, and you are close to him."

Xu Xing just said he didn't dare.

"The emperor came to look for him at a critical moment, and you helped him out. You are indeed close to him." Li Yan suddenly turned cold, and whispered, "I just lacked him for the past few years, so what Not anymore, he doesn’t even want to see me anymore.”

Xu Xing just bowed and lowered his head even lower.

Li Yan turned around and continued to move forward until he reached the room where Chen Hen used to live.

During the war, if Chen Henru didn't sleep in the barracks, he would come back here to sleep.The things inside have not been touched, even if they were moved during the war, Xu Xing and the others rearranged them afterwards.

After all, he still knew him, Li Yan knew that this was Chen Hen's room as soon as he entered the door.

The long couch under the window, the small case on the couch, the fragments of files in front of the case, and all kinds of furnishings are Chen Hen's favorite.

When Li Yan searched this room, he searched the room most meticulously, not looking for people, but looking for things, things that Chen Hen had used.

A small copper incense burner, a celadon plum vase, and vanilla leaves hanging in front of the bed.

The vanilla leaves were still new, so Li Yan thought that Chen Hen had put them on recently, and he became more and more sure that Chen Hen was here, but he just hid and didn't want to see him.

Finally, a small wooden box was found, which was unlocked, and inside were four letters that had not been mailed.

Li Yan recognized this style, and Chen Hen sent him one, and there were four more, but they hadn't been sent yet.

I thought he wrote it now and sent it now, who knew he wrote it in advance...

Suddenly, he realized something, but Li Yan glanced at the vanilla hanging on the silver hook of the curtain, settled down, told himself that it would not be like that, then turned around and asked Xu Xing: "What about others?"

Seeing that the letter had been turned out by him, Xu Xing thought it was something he couldn't hide, so he bit his lips, as if he didn't say anything: "Li Ting... is dead."

Li Yan smashed the four letterheads together with the wooden box on the ground, and said angrily, "Tell him to come see me!"

As if frightened the cat in his arms, Chen Maomao put his head in his arms.

Li Yan comforted Chen Maomao, then said in a calm tone: "If you don't want to see him, then you don't want to see him. He told you to say such things to avoid me. If you go to Nanyang, then go to Nanyang. I'll wait for him, and wait for him to come back." That's it, why do you still say such things?"

And Xu Xing sighed, unwilling to see him go crazy again, so he simply talked to him.

"He died. When Qingpi fell, he died."

When a basin of cold water poured down on his head, Li Yan stood there, his hands and feet were cold, and he was startled: "He..."

"His grave is in the back mountain. If the emperor wants to see it, I can take the emperor to see it."

Li Yan didn't want to see it, there was no grave, Chen Hen shouldn't have a grave, Chen Hen shouldn't die.

Thinking this way, his footsteps did not follow him, and he followed Xu Xing to the back of the mountain in a chaotic manner.

The weather in the south of the Yangtze River is good, and it is only March, and the graves are covered with grass.

This is the first time Chen Hen saw his own grave.And Li Yan stared at it for a long while, before he saw clearly that the inscription on the stele was indeed his.

A heart clenched tightly, unable to breathe.

Li Yan took half a step back, came to his senses, still did not give up, and said to the bandit: "Dig the grave."

Bandit Jian hesitated and said: "The emperor..."

Li Yan's eyes turned red, and he roared, "Dig the grave!"

No one dared to speak, and Bandit Jian led his men to carefully dig up the grass and soil on the small soil bag.

Xu Xing just stood and watched, letting Li Yan mess around, coughing occasionally because of his old illness.

Entering the city early in the morning, and dug until the sun was shining, a corner of the coffin under the mud was revealed.

Li Yan put Chen Maomao aside, stepped forward to push back the crowd, brushed the mud off the coffin with his sleeve, then drew out his long sword, and pried away the long nails nailed to the coffin one by one.

Never ask for help.At first he was holding the hilt of the long sword, but later he felt that the long sword was too long, so he grabbed the sword body with both hands and pried off the spike, blood flowed all over his hands.

He murmured, and no one could hear what he was saying.

After prying the nails open, Li Yan pressed both hands on the coffin, leaving two fingerprints, and pushed the coffin away.

There was nothing else in the coffin, only the clothes of Marquis Zhongyi.

The crown had already been scattered, beads rolled everywhere, only Hou Zhongyi's clothes were still neatly folded, which was a little rotten.

Blood condensed on the fingertips and dripped on the skirt of the clothes.

Li Yan leaned over, picked up his clothes and looked at them for a while, then smiled and said: "He is a fake death. Xu Zhenmian, even you were deceived by him. He really went to Nanyang, and even you were deceived by him. I was almost deceived by him too. He was suspended animation."

Xu Xing said softly, "He's dead."

"No."

"He's dead." Xu Xing paused, "When Qingpi fell, He Xing wanted to recruit him, so he pulled He Xing and jumped into the river. He was rescued, and he died, and his body was also picked up. Woke up."

Xu Xing continued: "They hung his body on the Qingpi city wall and exposed it for three days. General Wu and I...and some adults who were on the front line at that time couldn't even snatch his body back."

"Later, Qingpi City Gate burned his body, and his ashes were buried in the city."

"After a few months, the battle turned sharply. He Xing dug him up again and was about to throw him into the Yellow River. General Wu led his men to snatch him back, threw half of the altar into the wind, and the other half ..."

Li Yan looked up at him, and read his words again: "There's still half of it?"

"The other half is now enshrined in Zhuangzi."

Li Yanqiang swallowed the fishy sweetness in his throat, and said hoarsely, "Where is it?"

He even forgot about the cat, it was Chen Maomao who followed by himself.

It is also in a small ancestral hall in the back mountain, where Chen Hen's tablet is enshrined, and there is also a porcelain jar wrapped in red cloth.

Li Yan took two steps forward, reaching out to touch him.

Originally, Chen Hen and Xu Xing said that after he died, just throw him into the rivers, lakes and seas.Xu Xing didn't do this, he kept Chen Hen for selfishness.

This time, Li Yan wanted to touch Li Yan, but Xu Xing didn't allow it, so he stretched out his hand to stop him.

"He told me before he left. If he falls into the hands of the emperor, he will never let me go."

"He also asked me to bring a message to the emperor. He said—" Xu Xing never spoke in a hurry, and said quietly, "When he was alive, he gave himself to the emperor. Now He is dead, I beg the emperor to return him clean."