play tricks around the bed

After Li Youqing married, the war in Dongyi was also settled down.

It should have been a good thing to solve the border problem of Daqi, but no one in the entire dynasty dared to laugh, and the emperor seemed to have aged a lot all of a sudden.

The heavy affairs were put on the emperor layer by layer, and he collapsed from exhaustion in a short time.

The emperor weighed for a long time, and finally divided the power into two, half to Li Jue, and the other half to the First Prince.

As the emperor's health became worse and worse, more and more people were sent by the emperor to monitor Li Jue every day.Li Jue wasn't surprised, the emperor didn't believe him the more critical it was.

The emperor wanted Li Gou to ascend the throne, but he was worried that Li Gou would not be able to afford to put power in Li Gou's hands.Put the power in the hands of Li Jue, but he was afraid that Li Jue would rebel, so he put the other half in the hands of the First Prince.

Li Jue was also very polite every day, criticizing papers, assisting Li Gou, and instructing Li Gou to deliver medicine to the emperor every day to say hello, so as to prevent the eldest prince from taking the opportunity to win the emperor's favor and take the throne away.

The emperor gradually felt relieved of Li Jue and became less wary of Li Jue.

But Li Jue was far less well-behaved than he appeared on the outside.

Seeing that the emperor's illness was getting worse day by day, Li Jue didn't even have the intention of asking someone to prepare a birthday gift, instead, he gradually got in touch with the eldest prince.

One night, when the dew was heavy, Li Jue and the First Prince sat opposite each other, looking at Li Jue with full of alertness: "Why did you choose to help me?"

"A good bird chooses a tree to live in." Li Jue smiled and placed a black stone on the chessboard. "If I do it, Li Gou is destined not to allow me after he ascends the throne. Since there is a dead end, Jue will naturally have to find another way to live."

The First Prince stared at Li Jue like a wolf, "Where's your bargaining chips?"

Li Jue smiled: "Military power, I can get Shen Huaizhi's military power."

This bargaining chip was convincing enough, just when the eldest prince was about to agree, there was a faint movement outside the door.

Li Jue gave Liang Shang's Chang Wei a look, Chang Wei chased after him, and brought back the person who was eavesdropping outside the door turned out to be Shen Zhu.

The eldest prince became interested, and looked at Li Jue as if watching a play.

Li Jue smiled, threw the chess pieces back into the basket and said, "It's just right, I don't bother to pretend anymore, and I'm going to wrong the little princess in the next few days."

After finishing speaking, Li Jue had someone tie up Shen Zhu and lock him into the room, and snatched Shen Zhu's official seal in front of the First Prince.

The eldest prince leaned against the door frame and asked, "Aren't you going to kill him?"

After hearing this, Li Jue turned around amusedly, raised his eyebrows and looked at the eldest prince, "What are you talking about? I really like him."

Li Jue transferred troops to the eldest prince, and said slowly: "I want to save his life and play slowly."

When the blazing torch pierced the silence of the night above the capital, the eldest prince and the princes rebelled.

The emperor drew out his sword angrily, wanting to fight in person, but he only took two steps when his eyes went dark, and his heavy body fell down from the steps.

Li Jue ordered the imperial hospital to carry the emperor into the bedroom, and walked out of the palace alone, holding the order of the imperial army in his hand, only to find that Shen Zhu had come out of that room at some point, sitting on the tower, with the imperial city at his feet of the Imperial Army.

"All officers and men listen to the order!" As soon as Shen Zhu opened his mouth, all the soldiers stood ready.Shen Zhu stretched a strong bow and shot one of the rebellious princes with an arrow, then he raised his arms and shouted: "Suppress the rebels, the prince's head will be three hundred gold!"

The morale was boosted, and the soldiers flitted like ghost soldiers crossing the border. Wherever they went, corpses were strewn across fields and blood flowed into rivers.

Li Jue looked in front of him in disbelief, "Shen Zhu! What are you doing out here?"

Shen Zhu heard Li Jue's voice during the hunt and fight, and said with a smile: "What are you doing? Help you."

Shen Zhu laughed and said: "It's alright to fool that idiot of the First Prince with your lame acting skills, just trick me to go back and practice for another ten years."

"Since when did you find out..."

"It started when you pleaded for the eldest prince on New Year's Day. But you didn't tell me, so I can only guess by myself. Fortunately, I guessed right." Behind Shen Zhu was the night sky stained red by torches and blood. He smiled and said to Li Jue , "Li Shiyu, don't you fucking try to throw me away, you can't get rid of me."

Li Jue's eyes were red, but he didn't have time to move him.He stepped forward to hug Shen Zhu's head and kissed Shen Zhu's forehead vigorously, saying: "Thank you for trusting me."

Saying and repeating, "Thank you for trusting me."

"I've always believed in you." Shen Zhu took a bite of Li Jue's hand, "Li Jue, I love you. In the past 20 years, I have loved you from the beginning to the end."

Li Jue's heart was moved, he kissed Shen Zhu again, and walked to the emperor's bedroom, "I'm leaving, you should be careful in everything."

"Go quickly." Shen Zhu pushed Li Jue, "I'll support you here."

Li Jue made up his mind, turned his head and left.

From this moment on, the fate of the two of them was tied together, and no one could push the other away.

The emperor was seriously ill, and Li Jue, as the only remaining prince, was at the emperor's bedside.

The emperor stared blankly at the ceiling when he heard the news that the eldest prince had rebelled.

The secret that only the emperor and Li Jue knew all these years was finally revealed by the emperor himself before his death.

The emperor asked Li Jue: "Did I really do something wrong all these years?"

Those eyes were like candles covered in dust, dim and obstinate, and they refused to go out.

Li Jue sneered in his heart, and said without changing his face: "Your Majesty is the emperor, how could the emperor do something wrong?"

The emperor's body was already inconvenient to move, so he turned his eyes to Li Jue dully, and asked, "You still hate me, don't you?"

Li Jue lowered his head slightly: "I dare not."

Looking at Li Jue's flawless smile, the emperor suddenly came to his senses and said, "It was you, you made them rebel."

The emperor was afraid that the eldest prince and these princes would rebel, so he specially assigned the military power to Shen Zhu. He knew that Li Jue and the eldest prince were not on good terms, and without military power, there would be no rebellion.

The eldest prince is greedy and brainless, as long as Li Jue proposes that he can get Shen Zhu's military power, the eldest prince will definitely agree.

He had been wary of Li Jue all his life, but he fell into the hands of his prince.

"What exactly do you want?" The emperor stared at Li Jue, who had only strength in his eyes, and asked Li Jue, "Is it the throne?"

"I'm not as ambitious as Your Majesty." Li Jue said plainly, "I just want Your Majesty to clarify what happened back then."

The old emperor looked at Li Jue's face, and laughed arrogantly after a while, "Okay, I will write."

His messengers came forward, drafted an imperial edict, and buckled the jade seal.

The old emperor looked at Li Jue with a look of "nothing more than that", and said with a sneer, "You only pursue these things, throwing away the throne that is within reach for Shen Zhu."

Li Jue took the imperial edict, smiled slightly, and remained silent.

After a while, the emperor's breathing became more and more difficult.

The emperor looked at Li Jue, who was sitting calmly by the side, raised his finger with all his strength and asked Li Jue, "Are you poisoning?"

Li Jue smiled lightly, "How can I only use such a gentle method as poisoning?"

The emperor stared at Li Jue with wide eyes.

Li Jue's voice was gentle, and he said slowly, "How does your majesty guard against your ministers? Your majesty has always known better than your ministers. Instead of doubting your ministers, why don't you think about what your majesty has imported recently?"

In his recollection, the emperor gradually remembered the deadliest thing, and asked in disbelief: "It's the medicine that Gouer sends every day..."

Li Jue smiled without saying a word.

Obviously, the emperor was right.

Li Jue stood up, looked condescendingly at the emperor and asked with a smile, "Does your majesty need your ministers to pass on the imperial physician? Just like this, maybe everyone will know that the little prince killed his father and usurped the throne."

"There are so many rebels outside, if someone finds out about Li Gou's poisoning." Li Jue looked out of the palace, "I don't know who will get the last throne."

The medicine made the emperor's breathing more and more difficult, and the emperor made a "hum-chi-hum-chi" sound.He was lying on the bed as haggard at this moment, not like an emperor, but just a decadent and lonely old man.

He had to rely on Li Jue. Other princes wanted the throne, but Li Jue simply wanted his life.

Li Jue withdrew his gaze and asked the emperor, "Your Majesty, if Gou'er grows up and finds out that he killed his biological father with his own hands, how would he feel?"

Such means, such state of mind, are very similar to the seal that Li Jue stamped with his own hands back then.

He came for revenge.

Li Jue wanted to take revenge not only on human lives, but also to pay back to these people the pain he had experienced in his heart over the years.

The old emperor saw through all of Li Jue's thoughts, he couldn't change it, he had already lost.Anger and anger rushed to his heart, and he took a deep breath, but finally didn't let it out again.

Li Jue let out a long sigh of relief, and told Chang Wei to come in, saying, "Clean up the contents of the incense burner, so that no one will find out."

Li Jue looked at the soup and medicine that Li Gou brought in every day.

Ever since he started recuperating from his injuries, he has gradually taken the Imperial Physician Order as his own.He had many chances to replace Li Gou's medicine with poison, but in the end he didn't do it.

He looked at Shen Zhu who was guarding the palace wall, but still chose to retain a bit of humanity and reason.Shen Zhu still doesn't know what his original plan was, let him do all the dirty things.