The crown prince had already passed the coming-of-age ceremony at the age of 16 and started supervising the country. Now, although Li Yao is in his prime, he is ready to abdicate after the crown prince's crowning ceremony.

Li Yao never shy away from Zheng Zhinan about these things, and would often tell him about his future plans. More than ten years later, Li Yao still has no concubine, let alone a child of his own, and he wholeheartedly wants Xie Jiazi to sit in his current position. .

And this Xie Jiazi did not disappoint Zheng Zhinan's teachings to him, he knew that water can carry a boat and it can overturn it, and he knew the duties he was born to perform.

To become an emperor is not to enjoy the world, no, no, but to shoulder responsibilities.

Although he didn't know the relationship between the Xie family and Li Yao, Zheng Zhinan preliminarily conjectured two versions. Concubine Yuan was from the Xie family, and the other conjecture was... Li Yao's illegitimate son?

After all, this is the common saying among the people that he is Li Yao's illegitimate son. After all, no emperor would allow someone who is not of his own blood to ascend to the throne.

But no matter who Xie Jiazi is, Li Yao has his own destiny.

Zheng Zhinan is satisfied with his success in education and the current peaceful and prosperous world. The Zheng family's case has been cleared and they can stand in the sun again. Grab it and scrape off a layer of skin.

He has done everything he should have done, and he has done everything he can do.

There is only one last thing left.

According to the usual practice, Li Yao would take Zheng Zhinan's private visit for two months every year. During these two months, the crown prince would handle the government affairs, and all the courtiers would do their best to assist him.

This year was no exception. After the last festival in March, Li Yao disguised himself and boarded the boat to Suzhou and Hangzhou with Zheng Zhinan, who was also in ordinary clothes.

Suzhou and Hangzhou are next to Nanzhou, and Nanzhou is Zheng Zhinan's home. Zheng's family built a century-old family on this land. The Zheng family was completely annihilated in the long river of time because of the selfishness of the king at the beginning, but since the Zheng family overturned the case, the villagers of Nanzhou can finally erect the stone tablet built at the beginning on the shore of Nanzhou, so that ships, merchants and tourists can come and go. Everyone knows the good deeds the Zheng family did back then.

They are very good people, a family of kind hearts, never bribers, let alone occupying other people's land and property, those crimes are all fake, fake.

Zheng Zhinan stood at the place where the stone tablet stood in Nanzhou, touching the words on it, even though he knew that he was a time traveler, a modern person, but when he thought of such a kind and resolute group of people being beheaded because of the incompetence and greed of the foolish king , Even the seven or eight-year-old children were not spared, and my heart ached.

The garden of Zheng’s house had been emptied long ago. After the evacuation, the house was burnt down by the government. Now it is a piece of flat land with nothing left.

When he arrived in Nanzhou, Zheng Zhinan would naturally go to burn some incense and paper money at the Zheng family's ancestor's grave. Because of the reversal of the case, the Zheng family members who were buried at will have now been re-merged into the Zheng's family's grave, and finally have a home.

Knowing Zheng Zhinan's scruples, Li Yao did not go, so that Zheng Zhinan could relax and face his ancestors.

When Zheng Zhinan returned to the inn, it was almost dusk, Li Yao was sitting in the private room, waiting for Zheng Zhinan to come back and have dinner together.

Because they were traveling in micro-clothes, the group of them disguised themselves as rich businessmen and did not disturb the government, so they stayed in the inn.

The last time Zheng Zhinan came back to worship his ancestors was after the Zheng family had been wronged, this was the second time he came here.

Although the ancestral grave was repaired regularly, the weeds could not be burnt out, and since it was spring, there were already a lot of weeds on it, so Zheng Zhinan removed it with his own hands before leaving.

Sitting by the window for dinner, the bustle of the night market can be seen in front of your eyes. Both Li Yao and Zheng Zhinan like to see such a lively and peaceful atmosphere. Along the way, they rarely see normal people begging , and it is rare to see street children wandering in the city or in the countryside. Now sales homes are set up in all states and counties to provide them with shelter and food. Children from poor families can also enter sales homes, not only providing food, but also teaching different The only requirement of the court for them is that they need to work for the factory set up by the royal family for five years after graduation, and they can freely choose to stay or stay after five years.

Li Yao was in a good mood. He drank two more glasses of wine at night. After returning to his room, Li Yao hugged Zheng Zhinan in his arms, resting his chin on his shoulder, and scratched his cheeks and neck fossa.

When the dagger in Zheng Zhinan's hand pierced Li Yao's abdomen, Li Yao still maintained the posture of holding him.

Zheng Zhinan felt the hot blood flowing on his hands, he looked at Li Yao who slowly raised his head to look at him, and pursed his lips.

Li Yao still hugged Zheng Zhinan stubbornly, his eyes were full of puzzlement, and there was hidden anger of being betrayed.

When he was thinking about how to make him live a little happier, this man was actually thinking about killing him.

He knew that he had something on his mind all these years, thinking that he was worried about benefiting the people, when the Zheng family overturned the case, and when he was worried about the prince, but he never thought that he was thinking about how to kill him.

Li Yao's heart was cold, but he still hugged Zheng Zhinan tightly.

Zheng Zhinan let go of his hands, opened his hands that had no strength at all, and slowly stepped back a few steps, looked at Li Yao whose abdomen was still bleeding slowly, looked at his haughty face, and said to him: "You can do it!" It's all done."

"So you don't need me now?" Li Yao didn't feel pain, he just didn't want to show his embarrassed side in front of Zheng Zhinan, so he tried his best to endure the pain from his abdomen.

Zheng Zhinan wiped his hands with the cloth towel hanging beside it, which was stained with a little blood.

Li Yao said to Zheng Zhinan: "You still remember what you promised me."

"What?"

"Stay by my side forever."

"I also said that everyone in the Li family deserves to die."

"So you're going to kill me?"

"You are the Li family, just as the Li family killed the Zheng family back then, now it's just an eye for an eye."

Hearing tit for tat, Li Yao thought of what he had said to Prime Minister Xu, and for a moment he didn't know whether to be proud or angry.

Proud because they both have the same personality, and angry because they found out that Zheng Zhinan didn't like him enough.

But he kept making excuses for him, how could a word of love compare to the lives of hundreds of people in the Zheng family?

Even if he didn't like it, Li Yao still wanted Zheng Zhinan to regret it.

He used to disdain to talk about why he didn't marry a wife and have children, didn't set up a queen and didn't accept concubines, everyone thought he was sick physically and mentally, otherwise how could he make the harem empty, and adopted Xie Jiazi without leaving his own blood .

But only he knows that he doesn't want Zheng Zhinan to be sad, and he doesn't want to be with any woman to have a so-called child. He wants Zheng Zhinan to be happy every day after that incident, and not feel uncomfortable because of distressing things , showing a helpless look.

Although nearly 20 years have passed, he still remembers that night, when he saw Zheng Zhinan's skinny and dull expression, his heart ached, and he hated himself for not protecting him well.

Li Yao sneered and said, "You have to retaliate with an eye, but this time you will regret it... Ahem... I am not from the Li family. I have always wondered why I adopted a young boy from the Xie family as my stepson. With your intelligence, You should have guessed that my mother is the daughter of the Xie family, but I can't guess that she is the daughter-in-law of the Song family. Back then, she was spotted by that dog thief and killed all the [-] members of the Song family. , and then took my mother to the palace, saying that she was a daughter of a civilian family, and while hiding her, to keep the Xie family from knowing anything, at the same time, using the so-called gesture of compensation, added officials to the Xie family, and let my uncle hold the military power to guard Border, he thought that this matter would fade away with time, but he underestimated Xie's daughter's resilience..." Li Yaoyue's voice became weaker and his tone was broken, and he almost exhausted the last of his strength to finish this long sentence After finishing speaking, at this moment, his face was as white as paper, and his forehead was sweating.

Because of the abnormal movement in the room, the guards outside the door couldn't open the door, and finally broke open the door, and saw Li Yao sitting in front of the table, his stomach was covered with blood, and the ground was also covered with blood, he was shocked and hurriedly called to accompany him The imperial doctor and the guards wanted to suppress Zheng Zhinan, but Li Yao stopped him.

Li Yao said to the guards: "Stop—" He spit out a mouthful of blood as soon as he finished speaking.

Zheng Zhinan was already in a trance when he heard Li Yao's words. He shook his head and said, "Impossible." Impossible, how could this be?

The dagger in Li Yao's abdomen was pulled out under the examination of the imperial doctor, and the blood flowed profusely instantly. Although the imperial doctor knew that His Majesty was in danger, but he was well-informed and did not dare to act just because the target was the Emperor. You must know that the more you dare not act rashly, the easier it is to delay the injury. It is better to treat them equally and treat them calmly as ordinary patients, but...

Li Yao saw Zheng Zhinan's flustered expression. He was exhausted physically and mentally, but at this moment he even showed a satisfied smile, as if he was relieved, and more like a pure smile of a child who got his dream toy.

Li Yao thought in his heart, he would indeed regret it, it's not that he doesn't like him, it's just that he can't like him because of the relationship of the Li family, so it's good to suppress his liking for him.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier! Why didn't you tell me earlier!" Zheng Zhinan is not a cold-blooded and heartless person. How could he not feel Li Yao's kindness to him over the years, but every time he was moved, He would tell himself, thinking about how the five hundred members of the Zheng family died unjustly. People deserve to die, so even if the opponent was Li Yao, he never stopped thinking about killing the Li family. He wanted revenge, but now Li Yao told him that he killed the wrong person, hated the wrong person, and the other party was not The people from the Li family are victims who have also been humiliated by the Li family like him.

His body was wobbling and he was about to be unable to stand upright, but compared to Li Yao, he was still able to walk. At this time, although Li Yao's wound had been temporarily relieved, he was already unconscious.

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