[Wu Zetian] Queen's Road

After Wu Xu and the others came back from their trip to the East Palace, the government and the public immediately got a piece of breaking news: His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is seriously ill again.

It seems that the prince's family is still as profound as ever, tsk tsk...

It seems that in order to prove this statement, His Majesty Li Er showed more love for the crown prince than usual, not only sent the precious medicinal materials in the Imperial Hospital to the Eastern Palace, but also wished that the entire Imperial Hospital and the imperial physicians could be stationed in the Eastern Palace. just go...

In contrast, the investigation into the assassination of the King of Wei tended to be calm, and the major incidents turned into small ones...

Not only were all unfavorable news about the East Palace severely suppressed, even the victim Wei Wang Li Tai also dragged his injured body into the palace to defend the prince...

Things seem to be moving in the direction His Majesty Li Er wants...

But everyone thought it was just the calm before the storm.

The prince and the king of Wei have reached the point where they will never die.

People from both parties have already made up their minds to fight to the death!

The accident happened on a thunderstorm night in mid-May.

During the trial of King Qi's rebellion, an official of the Criminal Department suddenly entered the palace and knocked on the cabinet, expressing that he had important matters to report to His Majesty the Emperor.

At that time, Changsun Wuji was on duty in the palace. He read the official's statement about a suspect named Hegan Chengji, and immediately took someone to the Ganlu Hall to ask Li Shimin.

It was rare for Li Shimin to relax this day, so he only called Xu Hui to accompany him.The two of them were discussing poems and songs, and they were about to enter Hong Kong. Suddenly, they heard that the palace official came to report that the eldest grandson Wuji asked to see him, so they had to suspend the rare activity of adding fragrance to the red sleeve.

"Let them wait for me in the side hall." In private time, Li Shimin is always very casual, even if Tx girl was disturbed by ministers, he would not become angry or anything.

But Xu Hui always knew how to advance and retreat, and when he learned that someone knocked on the pavilion, there must be some urgent political affairs to be played, so he would not mess around, and took the initiative to get up to tidy up Li Shimin's clothes, and then retreated obediently to avoid it.

"Auxiliary machine, it's so late, what happened?" Li Shimin Hu sat on the couch, looking lazily at the man kneeling upright below him.

Changsun Wuji's face was gloomy, he glanced at the official of the Ministry of Punishment who came with him, and said, "Saint, someone knocked on the pavilion."

Li Shimin glanced sideways at the official, and recognized him as the person in charge of the trial of King Qi's rebellion.

"Why did you knock on the pavilion late at night?"

The official stepped forward and kowtowed: "Saint, when I interrogated the people who rebelled against the external relations of the King of Qi, I found that people from the Eastern Palace were involved in the case..."

"What?!" Li Shimin sat up straight when he heard the words, glared at the official, and said sharply, "Speak clearly!"

"Yes, yes!" The official was startled by Li Shimin's sudden stern expression, and lowered his head.

"Weichen learned through interrogation that there was a man named Hegan Chengji in the East Palace who was good at assassination. It was the common man Li Youjian and the crown prince...a strong man... When the common man Li You conspired against him, Hegan Chengji fought against him several times. Qidi Unicom, acting suspiciously..."

"Weichen secretly arrested Hegan Chengji for this reason. I didn't expect him to bring out the recent changes in the East Palace, which seems to have the intention of rebellion! I didn't dare to specialize, so I immediately entered the palace and knocked on the pavilion! I hope the sage will learn!"

After hearing this, Li Shimin's face turned livid, and the veins on his forehead bulged out. He couldn't say a word for a moment, but he slammed the little table in front of him, shaking all the ornaments on the couch.

It took him a while to spit out two words: "Nizi!"

Seeing His Majesty the Emperor's furious rage, the official was so frightened that he didn't dare to breathe, so he lay down on the spot and practiced the turtle's breathing exercise.

Seeing that Li Shimin's expression was not right, Changsun Wuji panicked, got up quickly and walked to the couch, and comforted him in a low voice: "Saint, calm down."

"I think, the prince is just deceived by the villain, so he will definitely not participate in the conspiracy..."

Unexpectedly, Li Shimin quickly interrupted Changsun Wuji's words, saying: "Who said that Da Lang is going to seek rebellion?! How could Da Lang be rebelling?! It's that rebellious son doing good things!! Such a villain dares to recommend Da Lang ?!"

"Where is that man called Hegan Chengji? I want to ask him personally to see if he has the guts to slander Dalang in front of me?!" Li Shimin was so angry that he slapped the young lady in front of him loudly, bearded and glared, demanding to be taken away. He Gan Chengji brought it immediately.

The official didn't dare to delay, so he kowtowed and retreated to pick up the criminal.

Changsun Wuji did not retreat, but sat beside Li Shimin silently.

The sky outside was as black as ink, and a flash of lightning flashed from time to time.

The stuffy air seemed to have a viscous feeling, so greasy that one could hardly breathe.

Li Shimin supported the small table with one elbow, and covered his eyes with his palm, so that people could not see his expression clearly.

Neither of them spoke, and the whole hall could only hear the jingling of the copper bells on the eaves as the wind blows, and there are bursts of muffled thunder from far and near...

"Auxiliary machine... Tell me, did I do something wrong?"

After a while, Li Shimin's deep voice sounded faintly.

Changsun Wuji didn't respond, he knew that now he only needed to provide a pair of ears, not a mouth...

Sure enough, Li Shimin immersed himself in his memories...

"When Dalang was born, I was going out of the town's spring palace, and it was already May of the second year when I came back. He was only this young at that time..." Li Shimin gestured in the air with his hands, "Later, he was already two years old, and he was still a child. Xiao Xiao, you don’t know me anymore…”

In the year Chengqian was born, he stayed in the Changchun Palace until October, and then set out from the Changchun Palace to lead the army to fight against Liu Wuzhou. He fought until the end of May of the following year before returning to the court with a big victory.Chang'an only rested for a month, and at the beginning of July, he was ordered by his father to set off to beat Wang Shichong.When he returned to Chang'an, Cheng Qian was already two years old, and he couldn't recognize him anymore.

"However, I still don't have time to pay attention to him..." Liu Wuzhou, Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande and other princes and anti-kings need him to conquer, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Changsun Wuji and his confidants need to be cared for, and... Jiancheng, He needs to guard against these brothers Yuanji...

He has too many things to worry about...

He paid attention to everyone, but missed his desire to pay attention to his son.

Chengqian is that he has grown up unknowingly during this period of paying attention to other people...

"The Supreme Emperor loves him... Even after that incident, the Supreme Emperor still treats him as before..." Li Shimin had a look of suspicion on his face.

The eldest grandson Wuji understood that when Chengqian was 15 years old, after Li Shimin went out to inspect and returned to Beijing, he rushed to Da'an Palace to celebrate the birthday of the Supreme Emperor, served the Supreme Emperor himself for a day, and when he wanted to help his father in person, the Supreme Emperor refused to let him go. , only ordered his grandson Chengqian to replace him...

In the early days of the Zhenguan Dynasty, in order to eliminate the bad influence of killing his brother and forcing his father to seize the throne, Li Shimin really took a lot of effort.

However, the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan was always lukewarm, and Li Shimin touched a soft nail a few times, so he no longer always went to Da'an Palace to make fun of himself.

On the contrary, Chengqian, before being crowned, must go to Da'an Palace to greet him every day.After being crowned, although Chengqian was busy with government affairs, he still remembered to send people to Da'an Palace to greet him every day.

This move continued until the death of the Supreme Emperor in the ninth year of Zhenguan.

"Da Lang is pure and filial, no wonder the Supreme Emperor loves him..."

"But why did Da Lang become like this?" Thinking of Cheng Qian's rebellious and arrogant behavior in the past few years, Li Shimin's eyes turned red, "Is it really my fault..."

Obviously he treats his children so well, but...

He himself has not been able to be a filial son, so he and his children can't be filial as father and son?

Is this retribution?

The sigh of the noble man of the empire echoed in the empty hall, it sounded so sad.

The heavy rain fell from the sky without warning, and the thick water curtain instantly connected the dark world into one.

Cui Neishi led the lampkeepers into the main hall gently, quickly switched out or lit the candles, and lit the other four large candlesticks in the hall. After doing all this, the hall was suddenly bright as day.Several people retreated silently and quickly.

The man on duty gently stepped forward to replace the cold tea soup for Li Shimin with freshly boiled ginger and salt tea soup.In front of Changsun Wuji, there was also a set of lacquered bowls and plates, which were also ginger salt tea soup, paired with a plate of steamed crispy cheese, and two plates of small pastries.

Changsun Wuji took a look at those snacks, and found that they were all his favorites, so his heart warmed.

However, he was not in the mood to eat snacks at the moment, so he just picked up the tea soup and took a sip.

The hot tea soup drips over the tip of the tongue, leaving a bitter taste after the initial saltiness.

Li Shimin almost drank the bowl of tea soup in one gulp, his complexion was not much prettier than the color of the tea soup.

Waiting always makes people feel that time passes very slowly, especially when waiting people are so anxious...

"Why hasn't anyone mentioned it yet?!" Li Shimin couldn't sit still anymore, he got up and paced back and forth in the hall.

In response to his words, there was continuous lightning and thunder and more and more raging storms.

Just as the lightning flashed, an official in red led a group of guards and escorted a man in gray to the front of Ganlu Hall in a hurry.

The king's servant guarding the gate of the main hall almost rushed back to report when he saw someone coming.

"The saint—man, man brought..."

The people who came seemed to be in a hurry, and they didn't wear tarpaulin or felt clothes or umbrellas. Several people, including the red-clothed official, seemed to be fished out of the water.

The red-clothed official tidied his clothes hastily, and let two guards escort the gray-clothed man into the hall.The rest of the guards retreated to the corridor outside the hall without saying a word to stand guard.

"Saint, the prisoner has been brought here." The red-clothed official fell to the ground, not daring to say a word of nonsense.

Li Shimin glanced at him, and said in a deep voice: "You step back first, I have something to ask the prisoner alone..."

"Yes..." The red-clothed official kowtowed quickly when he heard the words, got up and exited the hall.The two guards escorting the prisoners also left the Ganlu Hall.

In the empty hall, only Li Shimin stood with his hands behind his back, sitting on it without saying a word, the eldest grandson Wuji and the man in gray in the middle of the hall, kneeling anxiously,

"You are Hegan Chengji?" Li Shimin looked down at the man kneeling in front of him, with a killing intent flashing in his eyes.