33. Chapter 33
The eldest grandson Boyi went to Tao Mansion to discuss countermeasures with Tao Wujing, and Li Shao sat alone by the window of the east wing, staring blankly at the blue sky outside the window.
"Shao, what are you looking at?" Liu Zi quietly appeared behind Li Shao, and looked at the sky outside with Li Shao, "It turns out that the sky in Li Country is so blue." Ah, no, it's not the country of Li anymore, what's it called now? â
"No name yet." Li Shao turned his head to look at Liu Zi, "You're finally here, why can't you come a day earlier?" â
Liu Zi is Li Shao's friend, a person from the rivers and lakes, and a person who even Yongning doesn't know.
A few years ago, Liu Zi, who claimed to be a thief, entered the secret room of the Zilan Hall on a dark and windy night, saying that he wanted to see what the secret room in the palace looked like, and by the way, he stole some loot so that he could go back and show off to his friends.
But after meeting Li Shao, Liu Zi became interested in Li Shao, so for two years, Liu Zi would go into the secret room every once in a while to chat with Li Shao, and the two became friends inexplicably.
Liu Zi is righteous, and the recipe that Li Shao used to regulate his body was what Liu Zi ran to ask for from the seventh prince of Ding Lingguo, although he originally planned to use it to steal. Later, Liu Zi became the seventh prince of Ding Lingguo, and his life was nourishing, but he was controlled by others, and he could no longer run around, and occasionally sneaked out with itching, and he would soon be found back by the seventh prince of Ding Lingguo.
Li Shao originally thought that he would be locked up in the prison forever, so he asked Wei Ze to find Liuzi. In this world, I am afraid that only Liu Zi can quietly take a big living person away from the prison. It's just that......
Liu Zi lay on Li Shao's back in frustration and complained: "The Seven Nerds have to come with me, but if he comes, won't this become a problem between the two countries?" In order to get rid of him, it was delayed for a few days. How? Did something happen? â
Liu Zi looked at Li Shao with a worried expression.
Li Shao turned his head to look at Liu Zi, and said with a smile: "It's okay, I'm sorry, this should be my private matter, but I involved you." â
complained about Liuzi, it was all his own doing.
Liu Zi hugged Li Shao and said with a smile: "What are you polite to me?" If you weren't cornered, how could you come to me? But Wei Ze said that you were imprisoned in the prison, so he asked me to take you away, but ...... Are you still leaving? â
This Tiance General's Mansion is where Li Shao's sweetheart lives, right?
ââŚâŚ Walk. â
Liu Zi is here, so the other thing he asked Wei Feng to do must have been done, and it is time for him and Li Zheng to settle the account.
got up and walked to the table, Li Shao laid out the paper, studied the ink, picked up the pen but didn't know what to write to the eldest grandson Boyi, after thinking about it, Li Shao only wrote four words in the end:
The grudge is returned.
Put the pen away, Li Shao left the Tiance General's Mansion with Liu Zi, from beginning to end, no one knew that Liu Zi had been to the Tiance General's Mansion, and no one knew how Li Shao disappeared from the East Wing out of thin air.
Liu Zi took Li Shao out of the city from the weakest place in the northwest of Chang'an City, and the carriage had already been prepared outside the city, Wei Ze and Wei Feng were there, and there was also a young man who was tied up by five flowers, and that young man was Li He, the only son of Li Zheng hidden in the people.
Looking at Li He coldly, Li Shao said to Wei Ze: "There should be a tattoo on his body, peel it off and send it to Li Zheng, and ask him to bring Mu Ran to Qinzhou." â
After saying this, Li Shao got into the carriage, and Liu Zi followed.
Wei Feng sat on the wheel, and then looked at Wei Ze.
Wei Ze glanced at Li He and said with an evil smile: "You and Your Highness go first, and I will go to you after I take care of this kid." â
Wei Feng nodded: "You be careful." â
As soon as the words fell, Wei Feng drove away.
In the carriage, Li Shao leaned against the wall of the carriage, sat quietly for a long time, suddenly straightened his face again, and asked Wei Feng, "How did you find Li He?" â
Li Zheng is really good at Tibetans, when the emperor's eldest sister was hidden, he didn't find it, and accidentally learned that Li He's storage zĂ i, but the search was fruitless, how many people in Chang'an City are looking for Li Zheng now, but no one can find him, if Li Zheng has any strengths, it is probably good at hiding.
As soon as he thought of this, Wei Feng felt unwilling.
"Following Li Zheng's example, he released the news that Li Zheng was going to be beheaded, and he found Chang'an by himself."
Li Shao was slightly stunned, and then sneered.
Li Zheng is not dead, Liu Ce has not yet ascended the throne, now is the time when the situation is chaotic, rumors are everywhere in the outside world, there are all kinds of things, except for them, these insiders, the whole world is confused, and the farther away from Chang'an City, the more there is no way to distinguish the truth of the rumors, not to mention that Mu Ran and Li He are still young, they can't hold their breath, the more concerned they are, the more panicked they are, and it is understandable that they will throw themselves into the net.
He should be grateful to a ruthless person like Li Zheng for leaving him a father-son affection, otherwise he would really have nothing to do.
At noon that day, Li Shao was already on his way to Qinzhou, and the eldest grandson Boyi had just hurried back home.
He and Li Shao agreed to have lunch together, but he chatted with Tao Wujing too attentively, and the morning had already passed, and he was afraid that Li Shao would be hungry, so he hurried back.
"Has Childe eaten?" Striding to the door of the east wing, the eldest grandson Boyi asked Xi Hu while pushing the door.
Xi Hu replied, "Lunch will be ready in a while, and the son is in the house." â
"Yes." Nodding, Eldest Sun Boyi walked into the door quickly, "Li Shao, I'm back." â
Walking from the outer room to the inner room, the eldest grandson Boyi couldn't see Li Shao.
"Li Shao?"
The eldest grandson Boyi frowned, turned around and walked out of the east wing: "Where is the son?" â
Xi Hu was stunned for a moment, and said blankly: "The son is in the room." â
"No. When did you start staying here? Eldest Sun Boyi's face sank.
Xi Hu's heart jumped, and he said worriedly: "The last general, the last general is here early in the morning, no, I didn't see the son come out." â
After saying this, Xi Hu bypassed the eldest grandson Boyi and entered the house, looked around, and sure enough, he didn't see Li Shao, but Xi Hu saw the message on the table with sharp eyes.
"General, general! General, look at this! Xi Hu was shocked, grabbed the piece of paper and ran out of the door, "General, this, this seems to have been left by Gongzi." â
The eldest grandson Boyi looked at Xi Hu suspiciously, snatched the piece of paper, and when he opened it, he felt a buzz in his head, and the four words on the paper were clearly reflected in his eyes but could not enter his mind, and for a long time Changsun Boyi did not understand what the simple four words meant, and then a series of questions popped up in his mind.
Grievances are settled? What resentment? How to knot? Where to go? When will it be knotted? When will I return?
The eldest grandson Boyi suddenly grabbed Xi Hu's collar and yelled at Xi Hu: "Didn't you promise me that I would protect him?" Didn't you promise me that I would look at him without leaving him? Where is he? What about people?! â
So if a big living person is gone, how can no one see it?
Yu Shi, who had already entered the West Wing to rest, heard the roar of the eldest grandson Boyi and rushed out again.
"What's wrong? What happened? â
Xi Hu was held in his hand by the eldest grandson Boyi with a guilty face, glanced at Yu Shi, and said in a low voice: "The son is gone." â
"What?" Yu Shi hurriedly went to see the eldest grandson Boyi, "Why is the son gone?" Could it just be a walk out? What are you doing in a daze? Go find it! All of them are looking for them! â
Finally someone gave the order, and the guards immediately rushed out.
After this period of time, they also know how important that son is to their general, if the son is gone, then of course they have to find it immediately!
Seeing that the eldest Sun Boyi was still holding Xi Hu's collar, Yu Shi stepped forward and stretched out his arm between Xi Hu and the eldest grandson Boyi, blocking Xi Hu behind him.
"The general is angry, angry. If only Xi Hu didn't pay attention, it was Xi Hu's fault, but ...... But they didn't see it, this ...... And didn't Childe leave a note? That ......"
This son is really going to give them problems, where to go, he can say hello, it's gone, is he going to scare the general to death?
Taking a deep breath, Eldest Sun Boyi shook Xi Hu away, re-unfolded the note in his hand, and stared at those four words and studied them repeatedly.
Now the only one who has grievances with Li Shao is Li Zheng, Li Shao has finally found a way to fight back? But why go alone? He said that he would stay by Li Shao's side, why did Li Shao still go alone? How did Li Shao leave Admiral Tiance's Mansion? Could it be that there is also a secret passage in this east wing?
"Xi Hu, check if there is a secret passage in the room."
Xi Hu was stunned for a moment, turned around and rushed into the east wing, but came out a quarter of an hour later.
"General Qiyu, no."
The eldest grandson Boyi's face was solemn.
There is no secret passage, and none of the guards guarding outside the east wing have seen Li Shao, so how did Li Shao leave? Where is he now? Is it safe?
No, he couldn't think about it alone.
"Yu Shi, go and invite Xie Jun and Yong Ning."
"Yes!" Yu Shi's spirits lifted and he immediately rushed away.
Half an hour later, Xie Jun and Yong Ning rushed to Admiral Tiance's mansion one after the other.
"What's going on?" The moment they stepped into the East Wing, Yong Ning and Xie Jun both asked the same question.
The eldest grandson Boyi sat on the edge of the bed with his head down, looking very depressed, while Xie Jun handed the note in his hand to Yong Ning and said, "Li Shao is gone, leaving only these four words." â
"Gone?" Yong Ning was surprised, "Are you kidding me?" How could Li Shao leave his eldest grandson? â
But after taking the note and taking a closer look, Yong Ning recognized at a glance that the four words were indeed written by Li Shao himself.
After reading those four words a few times, Yong Ning said again: "Didn't you say that you would come back?" â
Hearing this, Xie Jun laughed and said, "Do you think his four words are credible?" He didn't tell the eldest grandson, he didn't tell you, so how many people can he use? I have to go to Li Zheng to settle accounts single-handedly, can he get out of the way? That person is eighty percent ready to die together. â
is obviously such an irresponsible person, but he likes to take the fault alone, and he probably feels that it is his responsibility to kill Li Zheng.
As soon as he heard the words "all the same", the eldest grandson Boyi trembled, and his heartbeat was faster than he could have imagined.
Yong Ning glanced at Changsun Boyi, shook his head and said, "Don't worry, Li Shao won't want to die with Li Zheng." If it was before, I don't dare to guarantee it, but now he has a future with his eldest grandson, and he will never give up this future lightly. â
"I believe that Li Shao will not seek death," Eldest Sun Boyi took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down, "but how can I guarantee that he is safe and sound?" Even without the assistance of Jing Yuejun, Li Zheng still has another force in his hands, but what does Li Shao have? â
Yong Ning sighed, walked to the chair in the inner room and sat down, and said softly: "Calm down, you know Li Shao, I also know Li Shao, Xie Jun also knows something about Li Shao, let's think about Li Shao's style of doing things carefully, we will definitely be able to sort it out." Li Shao is a very good person. â
"Okay, you say." The eldest grandson Boyi moved to sit on the pedal, and always felt that sitting in this position would be more sober.
Seeing that it was still difficult for the eldest Sun Boyi to calm down, Yong Ning had to speak first: "The top priority is to know where Li Shao has gone. According to Li Shao's character, he wants to make a break with Li Zheng, and he will not choose a place that has no meaning. â
Xie Jun pursed his lips and said, "For Li Shao, the palace is the place with the most memories, right?" â
Eldest Sun Boyi shook his head: "If he doesn't want to be found by me, he won't choose to be in the palace, and eighty percent won't stay in Chang'an City." â
This is all within his reach, and it is useless for Li Shao to escape.
"If it's not the palace, then what's the point?" It's rare that Xie Jun is also a little impatient.
Yong Ning also quickly recalled the bits and pieces related to Li Shao, hoping to find clues.
The eldest grandson Boyi was also thinking, but there were few places that Li Shao could go, and they were all in Chang'an City, but these places were unlikely, and Yu Shi and Xi Hu had already taken people to search the whole city, so they didn't have to think about these places anymore, but apart from these places, where else could Li Shao go?
Eldest Sun Boyi's mind suddenly flashed with inspiration, and he hurriedly asked Yong Ning, "Where are the old lady and Mrs. Xin buried?" Where is Princess Celestia Li buried? â
As soon as they heard this, Yong Ning and Xie Jun's eyes lit up at the same time: "Qinzhou! â
However, Yongning and Xie Jun only knew that those people were buried in Qinzhou, and where they were in Qinzhou, but even Yongning didn't know.
After summing it up, Xie Jun immediately went to several Taoist temples in Chang'an City to find Taoist priests who could read feng shui.
Since they didn't know where it was, they had to look for all the places that were suitable for the cemetery.
Two days later, Xie Jun finally found a reliable Taoist priest, and immediately arranged for Changsun Boyi to lead his troops to Qinzhou, and Li Shao, who was one step ahead, had already arrived in Qinzhou.
Li Shao did not enter the city, but turned directly to a hill with lush vegetation in the south of the city.
This hill is a famous local ghost mountain in Qinzhou, it is said that the living can not enter the mountain, otherwise it will disappear halfway up the mountain, as if the world has evaporated, and the local people will not dare to enter the mountain over time.
In fact, this mountain is the cemetery of Li Shao's deceased candidates, and there are more than 20 tombs in the places above the mountainside, and more than 300 tomb guards carefully selected by Li Shao are guarded in the middle of the mountain.
It was a group of specially trained blind and deaf people who settled in the mountains and forests after entering the mountains and never left a single step. They can only recognize their employers by their peculiar smell, but if they can't smell their employers, they will be killed on the spot whoever comes close. They are the demons of this mountain.
And near the top of the mountain there is a small courtyard of a wooden house, a main house in the courtyard, two side rooms, in terms of the mountain wooden house is already considered luxury, this is the residence that Li Shao built for himself, at the beginning he just felt that if he could live a long time, the second half of his life would probably be in this mountain with the soul of death in vain and die alone, but I didn't expect that his life has not reached the second half of his life, this wooden house will come in handy.
Li Shao led people up the mountain slowly, all the way unimpeded, half a figure was not seen, and when he walked near the courtyard, Wei Ze hung Li He on a tree.
"Don't let him die." With a word of advice, Li Shao entered the wooden house.
Seeing that Liu Zi followed Li Shao into the house, Wei Feng didn't follow up, walked to Wei Ze's side, and asked in a low voice, "Where did you send the human skin?" â
Wei Ze smiled: "I pasted it on the outer wall of Admiral Tiance's Mansion, and I left only when I saw someone take it away." â
They didn't know where Li Zheng was, and the only place that could attract Li Zheng's attention was the Tiance General's Mansion, which was supposed to have Li Shao in.
Wei Feng turned his eyes to look at Li He, snorted coldly, and said, "It's good that he can come." This time, he will never be allowed to leave alive again! â
Without echoing Wei Feng's words, Wei Ze pondered for a moment and said, "When the time comes, you must protect Your Highness." â
His brother and His Highness must live unharmed.
Wei Feng's eyes flashed, and he glanced at Wei Ze before nodding, and his voice answered vaguely.
Li Zheng didn't let Li Shao wait for a long time, and on the second day, he chased to Qinzhou and followed the clues deliberately left by Li Shao into the mountain.
Knowing that Li Shao was in the mountains, Li Zheng wanted to take people to make an ambush in the mountains and forests, and killed Li Shao after rescuing Li He, but he was suddenly attacked when a group of 200 people walked halfway up the mountain, after a bloody battle, there were only ten people left around Li Zheng, one of them was Ao Shan, and the others were from a small sect on the rivers and lakes, Li Zheng was taken into this sect by chance three years ago, and in these days without the protection of the Jing Yue army, Li Zheng survived by relying on these Jianghu people.
And none of the 300 grave keepers survived.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Ao Shan said to Li Zheng: "Your Majesty, let's go down the mountain first today, and take these few people to see Li Shao, this is really too dangerous." â
But this unexpected loss of personnel made Li Zheng angry: "Dangerous? What danger could there be?! It's just a Li Shao, I want to see how many more people he can conjure! Go down the mountain and bring everyone else with you! â
Ao Shan had no choice but to let the people of that sect go down the mountain and bring all their remaining 300 people to the mountain, while he and the rest of the people escorted Mu Ran to accompany Li Zheng up the mountain first.
Walking up from the halfway up the mountain, Li Zheng saw the tombstones hidden in the dry woods, and curiously checked them one by one, Li Zheng saw many familiar names.
"Haha, this royal brother of mine is really affectionate and righteous, these people are dead, and he still takes a lot of trouble to dig tombs and erect monuments, he is really idle."
After ridiculing Li Shao, Li Zheng continued to climb the mountain, and finally came to the front of Li Shao's courtyard.
"Li Shao, you bastard! Let my son go! â
Li Shao was sitting under the tree drinking tea, and when he heard this, he laughed: "It's really funny to hear this from your mouth." â
Li Zheng pulled Mu Ran in front of him and said angrily: "I brought Mu Ran here, you quickly let Li He go!" â
Li Shao lifted his eyelids and glanced at Li Zheng, and said unhurriedly: "Send Mu Ran over." â
"You let Li He go first, or I'll kill him!" As he spoke, Li Zheng grabbed Mu Ran's neck.
Seeing this, Li Shao chuckled, turned his head and said to Wei Ze, "Put him down." â
Wei Ze immediately put down Li He from the tree and escorted him to Li Shao's side.
Looking at Li He, who was forced to kneel beside him, Li Shao smiled again, slowly raised one hand to hold Li He's shoulder, and then raised the other hand, grabbed Li He's arm, and suddenly tugged hard.
only heard Li He's scream, and that arm was dragged off by Li Shao.
"Let Mu Ran go." Li Shao looked at Li Zheng with a bright smile.
"You!" Seeing Li He wailing in pain, Li Zheng was extremely distressed, and he was about to push Mu Ran to Li Shao's side immediately.
"Your Majesty thinks twice!" Ao Shanyan quickly stopped Li Zheng, "He's just scaring you, he still wants Mu Ran's life!" â
Li Zheng calmed down a little, but without waiting for Li Zheng to think clearly about the stakes, Li Shao said again: "Mu Ran is just my nephew, he died, I am just ashamed of the emperor's eldest sister, but Li He is your only son, you love him so much, in order to protect him, you didn't even let him take your surname, in order to hide people's eyes, you also specially found a husband for his mother, you would rather put a green hat on yourself than protect the son, is it really good to die like this?" â
Before the words fell, Li Shao had already pinched Li He's neck very hard.
"Stop!" Li Zheng pushed Mu Ran out in the end.
Wei Feng immediately jumped out, and quickly pulled Mu Ran back.
Li Shao let go of his hand with satisfaction, but did not return Li He to Li Zheng.
"Liuzi, it's best for you to do light work here, please take Mu Ran down the mountain first."
Liu Zi hesitated, but in the end he still picked up Mu Ran and left.
Li Zheng glared at Li Shao and said, "Now you can let Li He go, right?" â
Li Shao raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Did I make a promise to you?" I didn't say I would give Li He back to you. â
"Li Shao!" Li Zheng burst into tears, "What else do you want?!" â
"What else do I want?" Li Shao looked at Li Zheng and sneered, "I haven't had the opportunity to repay you for your many times in the past ten years, and finally with such an opportunity, do you think I will let you go?" But I guess you can't do anything that is too difficult, so leave it at that...... Let's kill all the people around you first, I think they're an eyesore. â
Hearing this, Wei Ze threw a sharp sword prepared in advance to Li Zheng.
Li Zheng was stunned, and Ao Shan and others were also shocked.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, this is his trick! It's a ruse! Think again! â