Half blood

Li Xiuqi bought two kinds of medicinal materials from the pharmacy, and it was true that one plant had more leaves than the other, so the imperial physician did not lie to him.

Li Xiuqi handed the two herbs to Li Zhengya. Li Zhengya took the herbs, put them aside without looking at them, and asked, "I heard he died?"

Li Xiuqi nodded and said, "Yes, the news came from the prison yesterday."

Li Zhengya rubbed the copper ball on the dragon chair with one hand, as if thinking about something, after a while, he raised his eyes to Li Xiuqi, looked at him with a strange look, and asked, "Why do you think he wants to die?"

Li Xiuqi lowered his head, and replied respectfully: "It must be that the imperial physician felt guilty for slandering a good person."

"Ashamed?" Li Zhengya sneered, and said, "If he really felt guilty, he would not have framed others back then. He had no conscience at that time, and now this conscience will not grow out of thin air."

Li Xiuqi paused slightly, and asked, "Then how does His Highness feel?"

"I think someone forced him to death." Li Zhengya replied, his tiger eyes stared straight at His Highness Li Xiuqi. "You said, who forced him to death?"

Li Xiuqi said: "Weichen has never thought about this aspect, and I really can't think of any candidates for a while, what do you think, Your Highness?"

Li Zhengya did not return to Li Xiuqi's question, but instead asked: "I heard that you have been very close to Li Xuan recently?"

Li Xiuqi said: "His Royal Highness Wang An is a friend of this minister."

"Friend?" Li Zhengya laughed, "Some people can go through fire and water for their friends, but what about you? What can you do for your friends?"

Li Xiuqi's eyes dimmed, and he said, "I'll do whatever I want."

"Very good!" Li Zhengya suddenly got up from the seat, clapped her hands, and said, "I always thought that Li Xuan would not be able to achieve anything if you were the only one helping him. You are now a civil and military official in half of my dynasty. Li Xiuqi, I really underestimated you..."

Li Xiuqi said in a deep voice: "Why did your majesty say that?" Li Xiuqi, who was kneeling under his highness, had a thin layer of sweat in his hands, and he was extremely guilty.Once Li Zhengya found out that he had visited the imperial physician before his death, he would definitely know that the imperial physician's death had something to do with him.In fact, Li Xiuqi himself didn't care, whether the emperor was happy or not, whether he was promoted or demoted, all he cared about was what Li Xuan would do next.All he wanted was for Li Zhengya not to be prejudiced against Li Xuan, and he even really felt that it was the queen who killed the child. As for what the emperor thought of him, he didn't care at all.But now what the emperor meant was clearly accusing Li Xuan of colluding with him.

"I can... I can entrust Li Xuan to you with confidence..." Li Zhengya walked down from the hall slowly, patted Li Xiuqi on the shoulder lightly, and said: "My stupid son, I don't know what to do without you." Duo, my heart is soft, if he can really inherit my throne in the future, I hope you will be the one who assists him by his side."

Li Xiuqi raised his head and saw a faint sense of powerlessness in Li Zhengya's eyes, "If he fails to inherit my throne, you must persuade him to leave here. They will not let him go. Do you understand?"

Li Xiuqi nodded, "Your Majesty..."

Li Zhengya said: "Is there anything else?"

"Does Your Majesty know who killed Concubine Xiang?"

Li Zhengya said: "Of course I know, whoever is the biggest beneficiary of this matter is whoever did it."

"Then why didn't His Majesty prove the Queen's innocence?"

Li Zhengya said: "You are so smart, why do you suddenly not understand anything now?"

Li Xiuqi said: "My humble minister is dull."

"The queen can only save her life if she is not innocent."

These words couldn't be more clear, Li Xiuqi nodded clearly and said: "Your Majesty, you have worked so hard, but, His Highness King An doesn't understand..."

Li Zhengya said: "He may understand in the future, or he may not understand in the future. But this is the best for them." After that, he crushed the two herbs that Li Xiuqi handed over with his hands, and the grass The juice in the stem remained in Li Zhengya's palm, and there was a scent of medicinal materials. Li Zhengya murmured in a low voice: "It's just a few leaves, but it can kill people..."

Li Xiuqi bowed his head, saluted respectfully, and retreated from the hall.There was a red fire in the hall, and the cold wind outside the hall suddenly penetrated into Li Xiuqi's coat. He was so cold that he rubbed his hands lightly. At this moment, he suddenly heard a person beside the doorpost. Said to him: "My father, will my father let my mother go?"

Li Xiuqi was slightly stunned. He took a few steps forward and tried the back of Li Xuan's hand. The back of his hand turned cold, "Your Highness, how long have you been waiting outside?"

Li Xuan shook his head, and said: "It didn't take long, what did my father say? Are you willing to let my mother go?"

Li Xiuqi opened his mouth, caught a glimpse of Li Xuan's burning and expectant gaze, lowered his head, wrapped his hands around Li Xuan's, and said, "Your Highness, listen to me first."

"No, no, right?" Li Xuan interrupted Li Xiuqi and asked coldly.

"Your Highness, listen to me first."

"Okay, tell me, now tell me how my father kept my mother in the cold palace for the good of me and my mother. Tell me how he made my mother stay alone in the empty room every day for us, you say Said how my father did it for us, let my mother live alone in that kind of place, it’s so cold, it’s such a cold day, and there’s no stove. If it’s for us, then I’d rather he treat us not good."

"Your Highness, please calm down first." Li Xiuqi interrupted Li Xuan's chattering complaints, and said, "If Your Majesty doesn't temporarily let the queen stay in the cold palace, then Wang Yuan will continue to think of more vicious schemes to harm her. Now I can only pretend to be the queen. Only those who are guilty can make Wang Yuan relax his vigilance and let you go."

"Enough!" Li Xuan shouted, "Give me the trick of being involuntary again. Who is Wang Yuan? No matter how powerful he is, how powerful he is, how powerful he is, is he the emperor? ? He is not, my father is! Then why did he leave such a disaster, a disaster that killed his child?!"

"Your Highness," Li Xiuqi gently squeezed Li Xuan's hand, and said, "Wang Yuan can't be killed now."

"why?"

Li Xiuqi said: "He has 30 elite soldiers in his hands, stationed in the capital in the name of protecting the city, the emperor can't touch him."

"Can't he take back the soldiers in his hand?"

"I can't take it back," Li Xiuqi replied, "He opened the city gate for the prince back then, do you remember? Those soldiers followed him all the time."

Li Xuan nodded, of course he remembered that Li Xiuqi was teasing Wang Yuan with this matter that day.Wang Yuan is a traitor to the prince, but a hero to Li Zhengya.But a traitor is always a traitor, like a grass on a wall, waiting for the slightest sign of trouble, and then changing from one wall to another.Since he can do the thing of betraying the former master, he can naturally do the thing of treason and usurpation.

Li Xuan pulled his hand out from between Li Xiuqi's, he turned around, and said, "I see, you don't need to say anything. I'm not an unreasonable person either. Since Father is powerless, I won't force him What." Li Xuan paused, and then said: "You go back in the carriage now, it's cold outside. Me, I won't go back for a few days."

Li Xiuqi asked: "Where are you not going, Your Highness?"

Li Xuandao: "I'm going to see the queen mother."

Li Xiuqi said: "But you can't stay there either."

Li Xuandao: "I know, I will go to my original bedroom in the middle of the night. My mother is not feeling well these few days, and she keeps coughing."

Li Xiuqi said: "Your Highness, you have to take care of yourself, it's cold these days."

"I know," Li Xuandao, "you yourself too." After saying that, he turned his head and gave Li Xiuqi a deep look, as if he had changed into a different person.Then he turned his head and walked into the howling wind.A fiery red cloak was draped over his shoulders, and that cloak was like a ball of fire burning on his black clothes.

Standing outside the hall, Li Xiuqi quietly watched Li Xuan turn into a fiery red spot in the misty night. He stretched out the palms of Li Xuan's hands that he had held tightly just now, and he suddenly thought of what Li Zhengya asked him today. How far did Li Xuan do it?No hesitation.

Li Xuan's proposal to rebuild the city wall was approved by most of the ministers in the court.

Now he, Li Xuan, is the only son of the sage, the only competitor died before he was born, turned into a bloody mass, wrapped in cloth and buried in the soil.

But there is still one person who still disagrees. The only one who objected was the aggressive old man that day. He is a veteran of the Tai | Ancestor's generation, and he will return to his hometown after a while. There is no need to sell Li Xuan's face. .

He walked out of the queue and said to Li Zhengya: "Your Majesty, this is absolutely impossible. Now the people are already dissatisfied with the disaster victims in the capital. It will undoubtedly make things worse if you let them repair the city wall."

Li Zhengya thought slightly, and said: "Repairing the city wall can allow these victims to move out of the city, and they can be sent back as soon as the city wall is repaired, and it won't affect anything."

The old man knelt down in the hall with a plop, and said: "Your Majesty, many things did not seem to have any impact at the time, but only later did I realize that they were scourges that should be eliminated.

Li Zhengya showed displeasure on his face, and said: "Does this mean that I have left disaster behind?"

"Exactly," the old man said loudly, relying on his seniority, he didn't even sell Li Zhengya's face, "This proposal was made by His Highness Wang An, and anyone with a discerning eye knows that His Highness Wang An's mother is not our Yujin. People of the country, it is understandable to turn your elbow outward, but your Majesty cannot do this, you have to think about the people of Yujin Kingdom."

These words again made Li Xuan feel a little funny in his heart. As long as he put on such a face, no matter what he did or said, he would be selfish. In the traitorous camp.

"What does Mr. Hao mean by this?" Li Zhengya asked: "This clearly means that my elbow is turned outward."

"In my opinion, Mr. Hao is old, and he didn't think clearly before he said such a thing. And the repair of the city wall is just to defend against the Qingzhou Kingdom. Now let the victims of the Qingzhou Kingdom repair it for us at a very low price. Why not take advantage of both ends?"

Mr. Hao found that Li Zhengya was so determined, so he had to use his trump card.With tears in his eyes, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed a few times, saying: "Your Majesty, I am getting old, so I can only sue my old age and return home..."

Li Zhengya made a slight gesture, reached out to fetch the jade seal, patted it on Li Xuan's booklet, and said, "Master Hao, I'm sure about returning home!"

Li Zhengya made the decision, and that was it.The hundreds of disaster victims who were living in the capital were recruited by the police sent by the yamen, and moved to the city wall outside the capital together.