Huaibi

"You are..." There was endless panic in this person's heart, and a taboo word "he" rolled down his throat and he couldn't get out.

"It's because the candles in this room are dimmed." Li Qingjue approached the shabby table and held up the lamp. The old dust on the table was left with a ring of lamp socket marks, and the light and shadow shone on his side face with ripples, casting the light on his face. The expression on his face became even more flickering, "Whoever your lord thinks I look like, that's who I am."

The person whose eyes were condensed by him did not dare to vent his breath, but he suddenly woke up and realized that this was a secret game played by the prince for more than ten years.The sixth prince knew early on that the prince had a back hand, and the mercenaries were for his own use. Although it was not a countermeasure, he never expected that the main bone here was the descendant of the He family that should have been annihilated long ago.

It's God's will, it's God's will...

"If I have merit, can I, can I survive?" Li Qingjue nodded at him with a smile that was not a smile. The city, the outer Guangmen Qi Yichou, runs from west to north, then east to south, and breaks through the south gate of Jiazi..."

Li Qingjue frowned, remembering everything in his heart.

Deep in the palace, I suddenly heard a night bird crowing. In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Emperor Hongxuan slowly opened his eyes. He couldn't tell whether the sound he heard just now was a dream or real, but his drowsiness was indeed disturbed. Ye Lai's mouth was dry. When he was about to ask someone to pour tea to moisten his throat, he saw that there was still a bright lamp burning on the side of the desk outside the curtain, so he couldn't help but ask deeply, "Who is it?"

Outside the curtain, there was a peaceful sound of writing, accompanied by a considerate and low-pitched response as he approached: "It's my son."

Ping Huaizhen raised half of the curtain, took the raised arm in front of him to help him up, and asked: "Why did the father wake up, is there any discomfort?"

"Tea," Emperor Hongxuan shook his head, waited for him to pour the warm tea, and after drinking half a cup, he turned his eyes back to his face, frowned and said, "What time is it, why is the prince still in the palace today?"

Ping Huaizhen pointed out something: "My son is in the Hall of Mental Cultivation tonight."

Emperor Hongxuan was stunned for a moment, his brows loosened and then furrowed.

"I almost forgot, it was tonight."

"Yes."

"That's all." Emperor Hongxuan smiled wryly, passed the teacup into his hand, and Ping Huaizhen took it with both hands, it was still cold when he handed it over, but after holding it, it has warmed up a lot.

The moon was dark and the wind was silent outside the palace, the father and son were silent, it was really hard for Emperor Hongxuan to fall asleep, the glitz and glamour of the past seemed to be quite light tonight, the wealth and splendor, the monstrous imperial power, in the end, couldn't make up for the coldness of the last moment.

"If the father is not sleepy, then I will talk to you." Ping Huaizhen saw the sad face on his face, tried to throw out a few words, and the words entered the curtain, and there was a bitter smile.This smile was never heard of before, and taught him that even a high-ranking emperor would show such ordinary feelings.

"What does the prince want to ask me?"

Emperor Hongxuan was not secretive, so Ping Huaizhen did not put on a show, and said frankly: "The matter has come to this point, and I have to ask, if there is something wrong tonight, how will the father punish the chaos?"

"Yili."

It's just two words.

However, according to law and not emotion, Yu Pinghuaizhen is enough.

Emperor Hongxuan was tired and closed his eyes, the seemingly light and heavy words finally exhausted his remaining mental strength, so let it go.

The surroundings of the Hall of Mental Cultivation are as quiet as green forests and valleys, allowing ghosts and ghosts to move secretly; and farther away from the multiple palace walls, fireworks suddenly burst out, which is a bright dance of demons.

The entire capital is dead silent, thousands of households are closed, and the imperial city is exposed to the cold.

Yi Chou of Waiguangmen was attacked, and the thick piles were like pillars that shook the sky, and they slammed into the gate of Zhuse City, and the force was hard to stop.It was difficult for the guards to defend the city, and the moment the door was broken, they were knocked back several feet by the thick pillar, and blood was sprayed out from the dyed pillar.

The siege rebels rushed in like a torrent, and the palace changed for a while, which shocked all the palace people. Immediately, from west to north, from north to east, Bingyin, Dingmao, Wuchen...Waiguang gates were broken one by one, and the soldiers and horses broke down one by one. Combined and returned to the south, they attacked the south gate of Jiazi.

In less than half an hour, all the seven gates of Waiguangmen fell, and the guards concealed the rebellion.

The rebel army first tasted the advantage, took advantage of the victory to pursue, and attacked the gate of the inner palace with twelve divisions. They didn't know that suddenly behind them, several heavy troops came from outside the city, and sealed the gate of the outer gate against them, which was a reenactment of catching turtles in a urn.

In the midst of the chaos, there are palace people who are calm and calm, walking along the lanes to the cold palace, Jiang Chang gets the news, turns to the depths of the courtyard and knocks on the door of the room.

Li Qingjue turned his eyes away from the bound people in the room, followed the sound of the door and left outside, leaving the descendants to break out in a cold sweat.

"how?"

Outside, Jiang Chang raised his hand to help him step over the threshold, closed the door and fastened the copper lock, and whispered in his ear: "The rebels have gone to the gate of the inner palace."

"Well, how about Prince Ping's army horse?"

"Wai Guangmen has been sealed."

"it is good."

Jiang often made him nod his head, spread out the tuft of wind robe in his arms and covered him, couldn't hold back his worry and asked one more question: "Master Li will plan, seeing that the rebels are trapped in the city, is it all right?"

"It doesn't count as a strategy," Li Qingjue shook his head, "I know the hostility, and the enemy also knows my intentions. Because of Zhou Junyu's incident earlier, the sixth prince knew that the prince secretly hired private soldiers, so he must have a countermeasure. Even if the rebel army enters the imperial city, it is me It was done on purpose; presumably it was the Sixth Prince who appointed King Ping to guard the Wai Guang Gate."

Jiang Chang was startled by his words, no matter how clever he was, he was stunned, and suddenly became nervous: "Isn't that, isn't it..."

"Leading wolves into the house?" Li Qingjue smiled lightly, looked at him for a moment, then put on his windbreaker cap and stepped forward.

Jiang Chang followed closely, protecting him and went to the prince's place together, the sound of fighting was still in his ears, the surrounding was full of peace, if it wasn't for his heartbeat, he almost forgot where he was going with this person.

It wasn't until outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation that Li Qingjue paused, looked up over the soft brim of his hat to look at a little candlelight in the distant hall, and said indistinctly, "It's not the outer gate or the inner palace gate, but this place."

Jiang Changli stood where he was, followed his line of sight to stare at the ball of light for a long time, and slowly came back to his senses, finally understanding what he meant, only to realize that this game between the crown prince and the sixth prince was all about retreating. The advancing chess seems to be retreating step by step, but it pushes Fengyan from outside the palace to the palace of the emperor!

A fighter is brave; a schemer is cunning.

He didn't dare to think about it anymore, no matter how peaceful the palace was, it was never a place for him to understand.

Jiang Chang swallowed the last words silently, beside Li Qingjue, he did not move forward any further, and turned away. He watched behind him for a while, and when he disappeared, he bowed towards the Hall of Mental Cultivation, waited in the porch, and merged into one All the night watchmen, wait for the long night.

Before the ugly time passed, the inner palace door was broken.

The chaotic sound could finally be indistinctly transmitted to the deep palace, and the soldiers and horses entering the palace rushed towards the emperor, heading towards the twelve branches of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and then joined together to besiege.

Gradually, a maidservant in the palace felt something was wrong, and she turned her head to ask the immature girl next to her in a low voice: "What did you hear?" The girl was sleepy, and raised her eyes in a daze. Coughing and suppressing it back, he bowed his head and dared not speak nonsense.

Jiang Chang retracted his eyes, worried when he was not noticed by others, and looked at the sky like a curtain, watching the thick clouds slowly cover the stars and the moon.

"Maybe it's going to rain."

The other person under the same cloud was also raising his head, feeling that the sky was not in danger, and Ping Zeng felt countless restlessness in his heart.

Li Qingjue patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't be restless, don't be impatient", then he was puzzled, as if he was thinking about something.

Rong Xi turned her head to look at him: "Why is Daddy uneasy?"

"I have read the list in the hands of the prince many times," Li Qingjue said bluntly, "I know all about the available generals of the sixth prince, but I always feel that there is a link missing."

"Who and what happened?"

"I don't know," Li Qingjue shook his head, "Maybe it's worrying too much, but it's really uneasy... The sixth prince's current plan is inferior to the crown prince's. It seems like he shouldn't take such a risk. It's too rash."

"If you can't figure it out, then don't bother yourself, just be on guard," Rong Xi knew what he said was reasonable, and felt that the sixth prince really had a dark hand behind him, otherwise how would he dare to act dangerously, but right now there is no way to know and everything is imminent , I can only see tricks, so I comforted him, "Father is worried about this, so I will guard the palace with Lianhua."

Li Qingjue nodded: "Alright."

Not far away, a small piece of fireworks shot up into the sky, Li Qingjue's words fell into awe, and he turned his head to meet Rong Xi's eyes.After a long while, Rong Xi turned around and walked away, the word "take care" came into his ears.

Li Qingjue wished he could go with him, his two sons and Ping Huaizhen were both in the palace, but he was still tied to his identity more than ten years ago and could not appear in front of the emperor, struggling back and forth, helplessly clenching his fists to suppress his impetuosity.

The wind in the ear is getting worse, and the surrounding chill is getting worse. However, the sky has not changed in time, and everything in the world has already shaken.

The rebel army went straight to the land of Longtan, and the palace people panicked and screamed for a while, and the torchlight pierced the darkness, waking up the Night Palace.

In the Yangxin Hall, Emperor Hongxuan slowly closed his eyes, and Ping Huaizhen stepped forward to put down the bed curtain, but he seemed to have sensed it, and raised his hand to stop it.Such a move made Ping Huaizhen have no choice but to give up, retreated from the dragon couch, quietly looked at the bright yellow beaded curtains at the entrance, listening to the noise getting closer, getting closer...then it stopped abruptly.

The world stopped for a moment.

In the silence, there was a sudden sound, and the door of the Hall of Mental Cultivation was pushed open heavily.

People dressed as palace servants lined up all around, like shields, five feet away from the dragon couch, headed by Rong Xilian, all the prince's private soldiers.

The rebels stopped outside the curtain, and after a while, the only person picked up the curtain and entered. He took a few steps forward, ignored the guards as nothing, and knelt down to Emperor Hongxuan: "I kowtowed to my father, and I was shocked to hear that the thief was making trouble, so I came here to escort you. !"

Ping Huaizhen smiled heavily, as if he had heard a joke: "When did the sixth brother learn to 'call a thief to catch a thief'?"

Emperor Hongxuan opened his eyes and turned his head away. A few figures looked at the kneeling man on the ground. The son of Zeng Chenghuan was straightening up very slowly, with a frivolous smile on his lips that absolutely did not match what he said. , is completely different from what it used to be today.

"It's you." Emperor Hongxuan's voice was as calm as water.

"It's Erchen," Ping Huaihao knelt upright without changing his expression, "Father has seen clearly, it is Erchen who came to escort you."

Emperor Hongxuan was not angry: "I should have thought of it earlier."

"Father Huang thought about it a long time ago," Ping Huaihao only said half of what he said, and now he said whatever he thought in his mind, and corrected his mistakes without hesitation. , "If the father doesn't doubt the son under his knees, then let it go. If he doubts, he should only doubt the son."

Emperor Hongxuan laughed out loud, "Why?"

"Due to the prince in this palace, Wei Erchen can assume the throne."

"Then tell me, what is the prince inferior to you?"

When Ping Huaihao heard the words, his eyes showed jealousy for a moment, so he no longer answered the question seriously, and threw out his intentions. People? The prince secretly hired soldiers, imprisoned the father and the emperor in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and used it to take over the government and seek power to usurp the throne. Is it as loyal as a son and minister? This crime alone makes the prince unbearable to be a prince."

"The sixth one has even prepared for the prince's crimes." Emperor Hongxuan shook his head, ready to stand up.Ping Huaizhen approached and helped him to sit on the bed rail, his heart was not completely open, because he did not tell the truth about his status as a guard in the palace, the crime of a mercenary is not wronged.

When Ping Huaihao saw that the prince did not make any objections, and felt that he was in control of what he would do tonight, he couldn't help being bolder, and arrogantly remonstrated: "Please draw up an order immediately to dismiss the crown prince, and put all the thieves in the palace in prison, and put them on the sidelines of the Qing emperor." .”

"Leave the crown prince," Emperor Hongxuan raised his head slightly, but he said calmly, "But I'm not young anymore... Forget him, who will take this seat?"

"I have my son," Ping Huaihao was furious, and he could hear the irony in Emperor Hongxuan's words. He didn't want to pass it on to him until now, and he was unwilling to pour it on him for many years. He said with a sneer, "Your minister can hold back The rebels in the palace have the ability to suppress the world."

Emperor Hongxuan didn't answer any more, and after pondering for a moment, Ping Huaizhen found a gap, and asked in a timely manner: "Sixth brother can suppress those inside this palace, but can he also suppress those outside the palace?"

Ping Huaihao laughed wantonly before he finished speaking, and turned his eyes from Emperor Hongxuan's old face to him jokingly, teasingly said: "Does the prince place his hope on King Ping or the Yuan family? It's a pity that the mantis is catching the cicada, and the oriole is in the middle of it." Afterwards, how could I let all the soldiers and horses enter the imperial city? The so-called cooperation between the inside and the outside, the younger brother had already expected that the elder brother would have this arrangement.

It was not surprising for Ping Huaihao to hear the words, this link is still in the scheme of him and Li Qingjue, if there is no difference, the so-called people of Ping Huaihao are probably not enough to compete with King Ping, so he probed again: "How many people can you count in your hand?" , shouldn't I know it well?"

"I'm afraid the prince underestimated it." Ping Huaihao responded calmly, his face was calm and not pretending, which suddenly made Ping Huaizhen alert, with a hidden feeling of something bad.

In addition to him, this conversation also taught someone to wake up.Rong Xi thought about what Li Qingjue had said to him a moment ago, and felt that there seemed to be gaps in the circle.

Just as he was thinking about it, someone suddenly shouted outside the hall. Those who came to report were not allowed to enter because the rebels blocked the door of the hall, so they could only kneel down outside the steps and shouted anxiously: "To the prince! The people of King Ping urgently report, the city Sudden increase of rebels outside, I don't know where they came from!"

There was a slight movement in Ping Huai's eyes, the person in the hall continued to smile happily, stood up spontaneously, and threw a shocking number into the room.

"I don't know if the prince still remembers someone, his name is..." Ping Huaihao paused lightly, "Zhou, Jun, Yu."