Chapter 167: Kneel down

Hearing Li Rong calling him, Li Chuan hurriedly threw the sword and ran towards Li Rong.
"Sister," Li Chuan's eyes were full of eagerness and excitement, "Why are you here?"
"Rong'er?"
Shangguan Yue was also at a loss: "Why are you..."
"Su Rongqing is waiting outside the city with troops, just waiting for Chuan'er to kill the king." Li Rong's voice was calm, "Queen, you and Chuan'er go out of the palace, I am here."
"Su Rongqing is outside the city?"
Li Chuan couldn't understand: "He...what did he do with so much?"
"Don't worry about this. Empress, go quickly."
"What about you?" Shangguan Yue quickly reacted, "Are you alone in this palace?"
"This won't work."
Li Chuan decisively rejected.
"Then let's go together."
Li Rong smiled. Hearing this, Li Chuan agreed. He was happy: "Okay, let's go together."
With that said, he went to pull Li Rong.
He held Li Rong's hand trembling all the time, Li Rong looked at him quietly.
He was actually much taller than her, but in front of her, he seemed to have been a child.
He took Li Rong out of the bedroom. Before going out, Li Ming called him: "Li Chuan."
Li Chuan paused, and Li Ming's voice was very cold: "The opportunity I give you is counted. As long as you are willing to destroy the Shangguan clan, I can give you the Yulin Army."
Li Ming said, coughing lightly.
He looked very bad, but he still stared at Li Chuan: "If Su Rongqing is a united family, you can't win with their military strength. Since you don't want to kill me, I can still treat you as a son and you come back. ," Li Ming stretched out his hand, "I will give you Jiangshan."
When Shangguan Yue heard this, a trace of fear flashed in his eyes. Li Rong looked up at Li Chuan. She waited for his decision.
Li Chuan looked at the world outside the palace gate, he thought for a long time, and said softly, "No."
"Li Chuan!"
Li Ming was in a panic, he coughed quickly: "You are crazy!"
"Father, I don't want to kill you, nor do I want to hand over my sister and mother to my life and death."
Li Chuan was a little difficult to say. Li Rong stood beside him. She did not deliberately suppress her emotions. She looked up at Li Chuan and at her younger brother.
In the past, she would regard Li Chuan’s gains and losses as the benevolence of a woman, but when she put aside those deliberate calculations and looked at Li Chuan as a sister, she suddenly felt that her younger brother was a very Good, very good person.
He is just still young, and he still doesn't understand what is right and what is wrong.
Li Rong stretched out his hand and held Li Chuan. At the moment he held him, Li Chuan was stunned. He turned to look at Li Rong, and Li Rong laughed: "Go on."
"I," Li Chuan said grimly, "I may not be a qualified prince, nor a qualified king."
He looked at Li Rong's eyes, and his eyes were red.
"But, I don't want to be you."
"I think," Li Chuan took a deep breath, "I want to be an individual, I want to protect my family, I want to find someone I like to be with, I want to do what I like, and I hope not to hurt any life. "
"I want to be indecisive, I want to be naive, I want to be kind, I want to ignore gains and losses."
"Li Chuan, you idiot!"
Li Ming yelled, and Li Chuan took a deep breath: "You scold, it doesn't matter, you never liked me anyway. But whether you like me or not, Father," Li Chuan looked at him last, "I don't want to Kill you and dirty my heart."
After Li Chuan finished speaking, he pulled Li Rong.
He felt like a bird whose rope was untied.
Obviously rushing to life and death, but there has never been joy.
He was pulling Li Rong hard, relying on her, and walking all the way out.
When he walked out of the corridor of the bedroom, Li Rong paused.
Soldiers are everywhere here, and the closest one is Li Rong's shadow guard.
Li Rong stopped, and Li Chuan felt a little puzzled: "Sister?"
"Chuan'er," Li Rong looked at him, "Are you willing to give me the world?"
"Sister?" Li Chuan didn't understand what she was talking about. Li Rong put her hands between her sleeves and smiled. "I don't like making wedding dresses for others. If this time, I will protect Huajing for you. , Can you give it to me?"
"Sister," Li Chuan looked at Li Rong and laughed, "I know you can't believe me, but I still have to say."
"I am a prince, for the sake of my mother and queen. If A sister wants this world, I will serve it with both hands. I am not suitable for this place. In this place, I will destroy myself and maybe even others."
"Then," Li Rong stared at him, "If one day, I will be the king and you will be the minister, can you?"
"Why not?" Li Chuan seemed funny, Shangguan Yue frowned, "What are you talking about, let's go."
"Yes," Li Chuan just remembered, "Sister, I will protect you and the queen..."
Before finishing speaking, the guard knocked Li Chuan with a hand knife from behind, and the guard held Li Chuan, Shangguan Yue's face was horrified, and said anxiously: "What are you doing!"
"Mother, I can't go."
Li Rong's voice was calm: "I want to pretend to sit in the palace as Chuan'er, so that Su Rongqing cannot be suspicious. You take Chuan'er out."
"But you are a girl..."
"I can." Li Rong interrupted her, she was determined to look at Shangguan Yue, "If you don't leave, no one can leave, mother, let's go."
Shangguanyue stared at Li Rong, she didn't reply, but Li Rong already knew her answer.
Li Rong turned around and walked all the way to the bedroom. When she opened the door and entered the palace, she saw Li Ming panting on the dragon couch.
He seemed extremely uncomfortable, panting, Li Rong bent down and lifted the sword. Li Ming looked at Li Rong lifting the sword, with panic in his eyes. Li Rong held the sword close to Li Ming, Li Ming clenched his fists. Pretending to be calm.
Li Rong raised her sword to Li Ming's face, and she looked at him.
After a while, she was a little strange: "You are afraid of me."
"I haven't."
"You are not afraid of Chuaner, you are afraid of me, why?" Li Rong looked at him, she saw fear in his old eyes, she lowered her head and smiled, took the sword, and threw it aside.
"You think I will kill you, but he won't."
"Isn't it?" Li Ming said coldly, "You are different from him."
Li Rong sat by the bed. Li Rong didn't speak. Li Ming slowed down for a while. He seemed to be better. Li Rong got up, fetched water from the side, and handed it to Li Ming.
Li Ming didn't dare to drink, and Li Rong knew what he meant, and she calmed him down: "Don't worry, it's easy for me to kill you now. There is no need to poison you."
When Li Ming got a word, he became stiff for a moment, and Li Rong sat down and fed him water.
Li Ming drank the water and he got better, Li Rong helped him lie down and covered him with a quilt.
"What the are you going to do?" Li Ming stared at her, and Li Rong thought for a while, "It's okay, the last time is up, I don't want to argue with you. I have never taken care of you, take care of you in the end. grateful."
Li Ming didn't speak. He looked at Li Rong who covered him with the quilt. Li Rong thought for a while: "Where is Rou Fei?"
"I let her and King Su escape."
Li Rong nodded, but was not angry. She sat under the steps and Li Chuan was lying on the couch. After a long time, he whispered: "Aren't you out of the palace? What do you do when you come back to send Li Chuan to death?"
"It's not a death, I'm still quite smart, I am here, the chance of alive is better than him."
"If you don't kill me, are you afraid that Su Rongqing will use killing you as an excuse?"
"Is there a big difference between attacking the imperial city and killing the king?" Li Rong felt that Li Ming was a little boring at the moment. She leaned on the bed, and after a while, she chatted endlessly, "Actually I don't understand, what are you fighting about."
"You want to suppress the aristocratic family, suppress the Shangguan clan, but don't you see that Chuan'er and you mean the same thing? What's the point of desperately abolishing him? Moreover, the Li Cheng in Rou Fei's current hand is a fake. Would you like to pass a fake?"
"You don't have to slander Cheng'er," Li Ming said with a cold face, "I won't believe you."
"I know you won't believe it. If I die, you go out this time and check it yourself."
After Li Rong finished speaking, feeling a little cold on the ground, she got up and went to find a stool, moved over, and sat next to Li Cheng.
Moved a small table, put tea, held the stove, and sat down comfortably.
Li Ming watched her busy, and when she sat down, Li Rong continued, "You haven't answered me when I asked."
"He is a child of the Shangguan clan," Li Ming said coldly, "it is impossible to truly leave you. He can't even do it to you now. In the future, I am not here, do you still expect him to do it?"
Hearing this, Li Rong couldn't help laughing.
Li Chuan is more than hands-on? He is much tougher than Li Ming.
When Li Ming said this, he seemed to be anxious: "My two sons, Li Chuan is very good, but they are nourished for you. And you, I love you so much, but you..."
"What about me?" Li Rong turned to look at him, "I respect and love you so much," Li Rong looked at him, "but you want to marry me the worst husband-in-law, and let me not interfere with your interests. Let me step aside for everything."
"Hua Le, you hurt your heart, but what about me?"
"I don't have much love for you!" Li Ming shouted angrily.
"Then my respect for you is less than that of Hua Le?"
She had never questioned Li Ming like this.
Like an ordinary daughter.
Li Ming couldn't help being stunned. Li Rong looked at him: "I am the daughter of Shangguan, isn't it your daughter?"
Li Ming didn't speak, and such questioning seemed to embarrass him.
Li Rong paused for a moment, and laughed: "Forget it, don't you say these are unhappy, let's have a good chat. Anyway, tomorrow, either I will die or..."
Li Rong didn't say anything, she shrugged: "It doesn't matter anymore. Father," she raised her hand to her belly, as if thinking of something happy, "I have a child, and you will be a grandpa soon. "
Hearing this, the phrase "jerk" almost came out, but seeing Li Rong's happy expression, he stopped between his lips again.
He fixedly looked at Li Rong, and Li Rong smiled at him: "Father, this is my first child in more than fifty years."
"Fifty years?"
Li Ming frowned: "What are you talking nonsense?"
Li Rong smiled and said, "I tell you a secret. Actually, I have lived for two lifetimes."
"You are crazy!" Li Ming showed a look of horror. Li Rong is not surprised. Her voice is very slow: "I know you don't believe me, I will just say a few words to you. I say you are confused, but you don't understand Chuan'er. . Do you think he is cowardly? Doesn't he want to level the family? No, he was much worse than you later."
Li Rong calmly said everything Li Chuan had done, and Li Ming listened quietly.
At first he showed disgust, thinking that Li Rong lied to him, but after speaking, he actually started to inquire, the details were there and there was no flaw.
When the two asked and answered, the lights in the palace were also lit.
Pei Wenxuan followed Zhao Chongjiu to the outskirts, and it didn't take long before he realized it was wrong.
He winked at the people next to him, and the guard suddenly accelerated and stopped in front of Zhao Chongjiu. Zhao Chongjiu was a little surprised: "My lord?"
Pei Wenxuan pulled the reins behind him, and said coldly, "Where are you going to lie to me?"
Zhao Chongjiu was shocked, but he didn't expect Pei Wenxuan to react so quickly. Pei Wenxuan thought of Li Rong and shouted, "Your Highness!"
Zhao Chongjiu tightened his lips. After a long time, he said, "In Miyagi."
"What is she going to do?"
Pei Wenxuan was stunned, Zhao Chongjiu got off his horse and delivered a letter with both hands.
"Su Rongqing may have 30,000 soldiers and horses lying in ambush in Huajing. His Royal Highness delayed the time in the palace to send His Royal Highness out. I am afraid that you will also be imprisoned and let your subordinates coax you out."
Hearing this, Pei Wenxuan squeezed the reins and stared at the letter in Zhao Chongjiu's hand: "What is this?"
"His Royal Highness said, I will write to you when we arrive at the inn."
Pei Wenxuan got the message, took the letter and opened it, and saw Li Rong's words.
There was a skeleton of his in her words, because after they got married, she had his words for a year.
In this life, she seemed to pick up this habit again.
The above is just a short line of words, just as Li Rong is used to, concise and concise.
Only this time she didn't talk to him about the plan or the battle.
In the last most important letter, she only gave him one sentence.
"Langjun loved me more than his life, and so did I, so happy."
"Leave a word: Li Rong."
Pei Wenxuan took the letter, and for a moment, he felt that water vapor was reaching his eyes.
He lowered his head, seemingly not knowing how to adjust his emotions, Zhao Chongjiu cautiously said: "My lord, Your Royal Highness is also thinking about the overall situation..."
"Who did Su Rongqing contact?"
Pei Wenxuan folded the paper and put it in his sleeve, Zhao Zhongjiu was stunned, and then he reported his name.
After Su Ronghua's news was handed to Shangguanya, Shangguanya had all conveyed it to him. Pei Wenxuan nodded, and he called the person next to him: "Tong Ye."
"The son."
"Look for the family members of these families. If you go out of the city, you can directly hunt down. Those who are in Huajing Mansion will arrange people in their mansion week. Tomorrow morning, they will lead soldiers to surround the palace. The number of soldiers in the mansion will be reduced. People catch people."
"Wang and Su can bear the brunt of the situation. For the others, you can find as many as you want, and grab them all."
"No, son," Tong Ye was a little anxious when he heard this, "you will be infamy in the future if you do this."
"Do it."
Pei Wenxuan said, and went straight back.
Li Rong's letter was still in his arms, burning like a charcoal fire on his chest.
She seldom expresses feelings in her life, and she hardly ever said anything to him. He was always worried about his gains and losses.
But when she put his feelings in front of him, he couldn't wait for her to be high forever.
He doesn't need her to say this.
Because others say love is love.
Only this silly girl, if she loves you more than her life, she can really replace your life with her life.
Pei Wenxuan drove all the way to the city.
The Huajing City was completely chaotic. The people ran wildly outside the city. Pei Wenxuan couldn't drive in at all. He could only squeeze in the crowd and rush in.
When he squeezed the crowd into the room, he saw Shangguanya dressed as a peasant woman, squeezing out of the city with Su Ronghua. There was a young man beside them, carrying a comatose woman on his back, and leading his "mother" to squeeze out.
Shangguanya, Su Ronghua, Lin Feibai, Li Chuan, and Shangguanyue are all here, and there is no Li Rong alone.
They looked at each other in the air and seemed to entrust everything.
Shangguanya and the crowd squeezed out Huajing, Pei Wenxuan struggling to enter Huajing, shortly after the two crossed, the gate of Huajing slowly closed, Pei Wenxuan heard the people crying all day, he walked on the long street, looking up Looking at the dark sky.
Snow fell from the sky, Pei Wenxuan raised his head to look at the Northern Yan Pagoda in the distance, raised his hand to cover his heart, took a deep breath, and then rushed to the princess mansion.
After squeezing out of the city, Su Ronghua immediately checked the gray on his face, and said anxiously: "I'll stop my cousin to tell the situation, don't worry, don't behave."
"I know."
Shangguanya nodded: "Thank you."
Su Ronghua responded. He wanted to say something when he saw Lin Feibai standing behind Shangguanya.
He paused for a while, and after a while, he smiled and raised his hand and said, "Take care."
After speaking, without waiting for Shangguanya's response, he turned around hurriedly, turned and left.
Shangguanya watched Su Ronghua walk away, and Lin Feibai walked behind her.
"Reluctant?"
"Ok?"
Shangguanya turned her head after hearing the sound, and hurriedly said: "First place the prince and let people contact Xunchuan to see where Xunchuan is. Count the troops outside, I can't accompany your highness," Shangguanya calmly said, "But I have to save her. "
When Huajing's chaos became a pot of porridge, Li Rong and Li Ming chatted leisurely.
The attendant knocked on the door to report to Li Rong from time to time, and Li Rong dispatched the army.
She transferred all available garrison troops into Miyagi. Listening to her actions, Li Ming also understood what she meant: "It seems that you are planning to fight to the death in the palace."
"Not really."
Li Rong smiled: "If you must lose, then surrender."
"Women, there is no backbone."
Li Ming mocked, and Li Rongman didn’t care:
Where did we just talk about it? Oh, the family restructuring failed, why, there are too many powerful localities, it is easy to solve a Su clan, easy to go to the official clan, and to solve the local squire is much harder than them. . They are too small, too many, fighting, not cost-effective, not fighting, what do you do with them?"
"So Chuaner's decree is not only too urgent, but also difficult to implement."
"He wants to root out," Li Ming thought, "but the family has been entrenched for so many years, and he wants to pull them out in such a short time, only to kill himself. However, if Daxia is tossed to death by him, he will fight for a few more years. Fight, slaughter the family clean, maybe the next dynasty will be different."
Li Rong smiled softly: "I always feel too cruel."
"Cruel?" Li Ming sneered, "I'm afraid you are afraid of death. Neither you nor I want Daxia to be destroyed. This is the human heart."
"Father is right." Li Rong thought, and then asked, "However, I never understand, what is the human heart?"
When these words fell, Li Ming was also silent. Li Rong couldn't help but smile when he talked about the person: "General Pei Wenxuan told me that after power, it is the human heart. I don't understand the human heart. A good superior."
"You really don't understand." Li Ming had some desolation in his eyes.
"If the previous life is as you said, if you understand the human heart, you will not force Chuan'er like this, nor will you force yourself like that. This palace just turns a person into a ghost, and the ghost thinks this world is In this way, go to force others."
"Actually, you had two paths back then. Either fight with Chuan'er. If you get more people, you can change the rules. But this path is too difficult, so you don’t choose. You would rather sink in the swamp yourself. Pull in those who didn't."
"Rongrong, ordinary people abide by the rules, no matter the reason, only the result."
"But the superior, his rules are not for keeping, they are for use."
"So, he needs to look at both the result and the reason. As a superior, you can use tools to restrain them only if you know why the wrong person made a mistake. Just like Pei Wenxuan and Chuan'er in the early Northern Expedition," Li Ming laughed. "If torture can make people not greedy, then they will not fail in the Northern Expedition. Only by knowing under what circumstances a person will be greedy for money and under what circumstances will he be a good person will you have effective rules."
"Pei Wenxuan is right. After power," Li Ming smiled, "It is the heart. I," Li Ming sighed, "It's just too late to understand."
Li Rong looked at Li Ming quietly, and an attendant reminded him: "His Royal Highness, it's coming soon."
Li Rong nodded when she heard this.
Li Ming looked at her: "Do you really plan to do a full set of the show? Do you want to go to court for him?"
"I've never sat in that Golden Luan chair," Li Rong smiled, "Sit once is also an experience."
Li Rong said, standing up: "You can sleep for a while, I'll go."
Li Ming didn't speak, Li Rong turned around and walked outside. Li Ming stared at her back. A moment before she went out, he suddenly asked, "Why are you Li Cheng fake?"
"Su Rongqing told me," Li Rong replied frankly, "Moreover, did you see the doctor who saw him? Has your father met again? Rou Fei contacted Su Rongqing and other aristocratic families. If Li Cheng is true, what would she do in such a hurry? , Which is not a jackal, tiger, or leopard, can you use them with no great advantage?"
Li Ming was silent, Li Rong walked out of the bedroom and went to his original palace.
She burned incense and took a bath, put on a red gold-rimmed gown that was only worn for sacrifices, put on a high bun, and then walked to the main hall.
At this time it was still dark, and Fulai held her palace lantern and led her to the hall.
The hall was empty. Li Rong had never seen it so empty. She raised her head and looked at the high seat in front of her. Fulai gave her an imperial decree respectfully: "Your Majesty, this was just written by His Majesty and handed to His Highness."
Li Rong turned her head, she looked at the imperial decree in front of her, and she took the imperial decree and opened it.
The five words "Princess Jianguo" fell into her eyes, and she was determined to look at the content above. After a long time, she lowered her head and smiled: "What is he doing? Does he believe me?"
"If it's on weekdays, naturally you don't believe it," Fulai smiled. "But today, your majesty, your majesty may be willing to believe it. Besides, now your majesty's life and death are in your hands, you can't lie to him."
When Li Rong got the answer, she took a look at Fulai, "Who are you from?"
"The old slave is naturally loyal to the eldest son."
Fulai did not shy away from it: "But if there are some things that are good for your Highness, then they will naturally be said."
Li Rong didn't say anything, she thought for a while, took the imperial decree, and said gently: "Go back and take good care of him. I will sit here alone for a while."
Fulai saluted respectfully, and then stepped back.
Li Rong was the only one left in the hall. She looked up at the golden seat and walked up slowly.
She walked through the imperial road, stepped on the soft cushion, and raised her hand to stroke the smooth handrail of the golden seat.
The handrail is as cold as jade, which makes people have a kind of unspeakable nostalgia.
Then she turned around and sat down gently.
She sat here for the first time, and then she found out.
It's really high and cold here.
The time of the early dynasty was approaching, and Pei Wenxuan also arranged the manpower at the door of Wang's and Gu's.
He didn't know the outside situation, but now he only knows the situation inside Huajing. Li Rong withdrew the guards at the gate ahead of time, and Su Ronghua took over the tower and closed Huajing.
The Su family had all evacuated, and the Wang family and Gu family felt that Huajing was safer and did not evacuate, so they left someone on guard.
But Huajing was closed, and they figured that Li Chuan's people were in Miyagi, and their guards were relaxed.
Su Rongqing stayed up all night, and everyone stayed with him.
"My cousin will be here at dawn." Su Rongqing's voice was calm, "Plus the adults, we have a total of 30,000 available in our hands. Now the inner palace has been blocked, but the news has been coming out. The morning has not been cancelled. Li Chuan is afraid If he dared to announce his enthronement early on, his Majesty would almost..."
Su Rongqing glanced at everyone, "I am justified in waiting, and I can't be considered rebellious."
"However, before the defenders transferred by my cousin and Lord Wang arrived, there were only more than 10,000 troops in the city, and I hope you don't hide your personalities, otherwise the imperial city will be difficult to attack. We will go to the early court for fear of rebellion."
"Don't worry," Gu Zichun said immediately, "Since I have formed an alliance with Master Su, I will not hide my personalities. This is a matter of life and death, and nothing will happen."
Everyone responded one after another, and Su Rongqing nodded.
When it was almost the morning time, everyone went to the palace together. Pei Wenxuan watched them move the soldiers away, and waved, "Go."
At the time of Mao, the lights in the palace were brightly lit, and the ministers entered the palace one by one in black and red dress, which seemed to be the same as usual.
When it snowed in the night, they stepped on the snow and made a crunching sound, which made the palace extremely quiet. These ministers also lost the habit of communicating with each other on weekdays, making the sound of the snow being stepped torn apart more and more apparent.
They stood at the door of the hall, listening to the rustling sound of wind and snow.
Today the emperor did not come out of the inner palace, he seemed to have been waiting in the main hall early, and the officials were not surprised.
As the eunuch's high "entering the hall" resounded through the square, the palace gates of the main hall opened one after another.
Su Rongqing stood in the first place among the ministers, holding the wat board, slowly raising her head as the palace door creaked.
Then he saw that, behind the palace gate, two rows of vertical bronze lanterns with Zhuque carrying beads were heading to the height of the hall. On the golden seat at the end of the hall, a woman dressed in a red gold-rimmed costume and a high bun with golden hairpins looked calmly. he.
They looked at each other quietly across the entire hall. After a long time, Li Rong and Zhu's lips opened slightly, and he uttered two words indifferently and arrogantly.
"Kneel down."