Placid Chang'an

Su Cen went straight to the prison.

With his previous explanation, the jailers did not make things difficult for Tuduo Sanwei anymore.Su Cen was amazed by the perseverance of this group of Turkic people, and even more amazed by their ability to recover. However, after seeing these people for a few days, they became alive again, and they could even call him "Mr. Su" enthusiastically when they saw him.

These people are Li Shi's right-hand men, and they also drank wine and ate meat together, and fought side by side together.When he first came back, he was really angry with this group of people, but after thinking about it carefully, they valued Li Shi more than their own life, how could they betray?

Su Cen went all the way in silence, and found Qi Lin who was eating in the corner.

Qi Lin was injured more seriously that day, and now he can already sit up and eat something. There is some gruel in a broken bowl, and it doesn't look like he can eat when he is holding it by such a big man.Qi Lin was stunned when he saw Su Cen, and he was about to stand up after finishing the porridge in two or three mouthfuls.

Su Cen pushed him down and didn't let him get up, and said, "I'll just come over and ask two things, and I'll leave after I'm done."

Qi Lin suddenly hesitated, his light eyes flickered several times before he said: "You ask."

Su Cen said he wanted to ask, but his tone was firm, "The one who went to look for Chen Ying that day was the prince, right?"

Qi Lin's index finger scratched lightly on the edge of the broken bowl, "I can't say."

Su Cen already knew the answer from the answer, but asked again persistently, "Is the one looking for Chen Ying the prince?"

Qi Lin lowered his head and pursed his lips, staring at the plain white porcelain body to see a flower.

Su Cen snatched the broken bowl from Qi Lin's hand and smashed it to the ground with a crisp sound. All the Tuduo three guards around looked over, only to see Su Cen's eyes were scarlet and his fingertips were shaking slightly. Depressed and hoarse, "Do you really want to see him die?!"

The cell fell silent in an instant, and there was not even any rustling noise, but after a while, Wu Chiha stood up with red eyes, his Chinese was not fluent, and he could only jump out word by word, "Don't you say , let me tell you! Lord, he..."

Qi Lin raised his hand, stopped Wu Chiha's unfinished words, and turned to look up at Su Cen: "Can you really save him?"

"Who else can you count on besides me now?" Su Cen pursed her lips at the beginning, "What is it that one person is under ten thousand people, and we are the only ones around him from beginning to end?"

"Yes," Qi Lin nodded lightly after a while, "it was Chen Ying who I went to look for."

Su Cen clenched his fists hard to suppress the trembling all over his body, took a deep breath, and continued, "One more question, Miss Wen... how did she die?"

Qi Lin was silent for a longer time this time, before uttering two words softly: "Suicide."

"Miss Wen was three months pregnant when she died. My master said that if anyone talks about this, get out of Tuduo Sanwei consciously, and never come back."

Su Cen returned to Xingqing Palace just before the curfew.Li Shi is now imprisoned in the Xingqing Palace, but the size of the meal has not been reduced. Eight dishes and eight bowls are filled to the table, but Li Shi did not move a chopstick, obviously waiting for him to come back and eat together. .

Seeing Su Cen standing at the door, with half of his face immersed in the darkness, he did not come in, and just looked at him quietly with lowered eyes.

Li Shi smiled helplessly, and moved forward to take him gently into his arms, "What? Who made you feel wronged?"

When I hugged it, I realized that the whole body was shaking slightly, and the teeth were bumping up and down, as if it was extremely cold, and at the same time, it seemed to be extremely frightened.

Li Shi frowned, before he could speak again, he was suddenly pushed away.

After retreating a few steps before stopping, the smile on Li Shi's face disappeared, and his eyes sank again.

"What on earth are you going to do?" Su Cen almost growled, "What on earth are you going to do?!"

"Chen Ying was found by you. You asked him to frame you for murdering the late emperor. Qi Lin and the others were also instigated by you. You forced yourself to be accused of adultery with Turks. You directed and acted in a big show, and finally let me do it." Cha, what did you want me to investigate? Why do you want to die so hard?!"

"Zixu..." Those eyes were so deep that they couldn't see the bottom, engulfing the abyss to swallow people in, "You shouldn't come back."

Su Cen bit his lips until it was almost transparent. Li Shi also said at the beginning that he shouldn't come back. At that time, he only thought that Li Shi was afraid of implicating him. Now he understands the deep meaning of those words - he shouldn't come back, because There is no murderer or victim in this case. It is meaningless if he does not investigate and find out.

"Why?" Su Cenning looked into those eyes, feeling that her chest was tightly suppressed and unable to breathe, and she was about to drown in it.

"Have you ever heard of the Nine Dragon Whip?"

"The Nine Dragon Whip that hits the emperor and cuts down the officials?" Su Cen said, "Isn't that a rumor?"

At the beginning, it was rumored that Li Shi was holding an edict that could replace the little emperor.But he knew that there had been a rift between the late emperor and Li Shi. If it wasn't true that there was no one to rely on, the late emperor would have wished to keep Li Shi at the border for the rest of his life, so how could he hand over things related to the stability of the imperial power to him? ?

"The rumors in the market have to be based on evidence. There is indeed such a thing, but it can't beat the emperor, and it can't kill the officials. It can only affect two people." Li Shi found a chair nearby and sat down. He pulled up another stool and waved to Su Cen, "Come on, sit down and I'll talk to you slowly."

Su Cen pursed her lips and remained silent for a moment, then slowly walked forward and sat down.

"In the last two years, Li Xun has actually felt that the secret door he set up with all his heart is no longer under his control, and he also knows that Li Sheng will not be content to hide in the dark all the time, and will come out one day sooner or later. Take away what belonged to Prince Chongde at the beginning. He transferred me back from the border to check and balance Li Sheng, but he was afraid that my too much power would threaten his son, so he left this thing along with a will to Mrs. Ning before he died Fu."

Su Cen felt that his voice tightened when he didn't come, "...what will?"

"This wrench..." Li Shi took off the wrench and handed it to Su Cen, "Together with the one in Li Sheng's hand, it was made from a piece of seed jade. Li Xun gave this wrench to Li Sheng and me. This is to tell us that life is life together, and death is death together.”

"So you choose to die together..." Su Cen's heart trembled, and the words he said also trembled slightly, "Do you think that when you die, Li Sheng will be able to obediently catch him and wait for him? Will you obey the will and die willingly?"

Li Shi shook his head lightly, "A Li Sheng is not terrible. The reason why he can stir up so many troubles is because Da Zhou is strong on the outside, and has long since rotted from the inside. As I said, Da Zhou is sick. The great evils of the country are the accumulation of poverty, the weakness, the corruption and slack administration, the formation of cliques for self-interest, the obscurity of the monarch, and the death of the emperor. , They have lived a peaceful life for too long, forgetting that when a sword was hanging over their heads due to internal and external troubles, they always felt that this empty shell could hold on for a while, and the sky would not be able to hit them. So Li Sheng has the opportunity to take advantage of it, if everyone is doing it for self-interest, he will naturally have a lot of leverage at his disposal, if he only sees the three-acre land in front of him, can he defend the ten thousand miles of Dazhou?"

Su Cen suddenly understood why Li Shi spent a lot of time directing this play—to murder the late emperor. When the late emperor died, there were only the two of them in the room. The case will never be cleared up.

A case that can never be solved can only be dominated by the heart. If you think he has it, he has it, and if he doesn't, he doesn't.Li Sheng used this case as an excuse to force the death of the regent who was dedicated to serving the country. In fact, he was digging his own grave. The so-called Nine Dragon Whip was just an opportunity. There is no place for him anymore.

What Li Shi asked was not to take away a Li Sheng, but the abyss was on his side. He is now the pillar of the Great Zhou. If one day this pillar is gone and the sky falls, all the courtiers can only support themselves.

Su Cen said tremblingly, "Aren't you afraid of Li Sheng's rebellion?"

"He has no soldiers," Li Shi said. "After my business is over, the military power will be left to Wen Xiu. I will let Wen Xiu reorganize all the banned troops that have been replaced. Except for the soldiers in Longyou who are not moving, the southwest is too far away to travel. Others The garrisons from all over the country will come to Qin Wang at that time."

"But Wen Xiu doesn't want you to die!" Su Cen said, "He didn't hesitate to use the cause of Miss Wen's death to tell me the truth, just to let me stop you."

"It's too late." Li Shi said softly.

The overall situation has come to an end. Chen Ying is dead, and Feng Yiming is also dead.

"You have made arrangements, you, Chen Ying, Tuduo Sanwei and even Feng Yiming, you are all martyrs." Su Cen's eyes were scarlet, as if he was about to cry, "When did this game start? One month? Half a year? Or did you ask me to investigate Tian Pingzhi's case already started? Just to lure Li Sheng out?"

Li Shi sighed softly, "The secret door is just a rotten sore. If you ignore it, it will get worse and worse. It will rot to the bone and endanger your life. So instead of covering it up, it's better to expose it to the light of the sky and let people see it." , Knowing that it hurts, you will think about gouging it out."

"Should I be the one who died instead of Feng Yiming?" Su Cen suddenly realized, "So you acquiesced in the decision to dismiss me as a civilian and never hire me! Send me away to you Only then can you carry out your grand plan, you want to be a Shangjun, what kind of great Bodhisattva! You have to save all people with your own body!"

Su Cen slid down the stool and fell to the ground, curled up in a very low posture, crying like a child for the first time, "Then can you...save me first..."