In the fifth year of Taihe, Ding Mao in September, the beginning of the child.

Chengdu Mansion, Yacheng Prison.

Li Zhi lay on his side in a corner of the cell, resting on a musty-smelling mass of thatch, keeping his body as far away from the air vent as he could on the roof.

After talking to Zhang Yijun, now he is already in the wind, and he is always afraid of blowing a poisonous dart from the vent, which will kill him. A cool breeze blew outside the prison, and he was transformed into a black and dark prison, becoming more like a black-and-white impermanence whisper, making it difficult for Li Zhi to sleep even if his eyelids were filled with lead.

As early as noon, after Zhang Yijun got what he wanted from Li Zhi's mouth, he left the prison and never appeared again. During this period, except for the Yacheng prison guards who delivered food to Li Zhi, and the raccoon cats who often appeared in front of Li Zhi's prison, Li Zhi was alone.

Looks like nothing will happen tonight......

When the warm sunlight was still shining from the vent, Li Zhi hated the cold silence in the prison; After nightfall, the sound of the wind above made Li Zhi upset, but it made Li Zhi nostalgic for the silence of the day.

In just a few days, Li Zhi felt the ups and downs of his life.

Victoria surrendered, Li Zhi thought he had seized the opportunity, and sent a confession to Chang'an, but it was self-defeating, and finally let Li Deyu rebel against the army. And choosing to let Linghu plot to assassinate the festival is even more entrusted. All the rapid changes made Li Zhi wonder, why did the plan that felt foolproof in advance seem to be a foolish trick in the end? made Li Zhi wonder if he was targeted?

By the way, what happened to Li Assi and the people in the house?

Li is implanted in prison, if it can really be as Zhang Yijun said, it is good to just release the degraded officials, the property is all there, and the people in the house can find a place to go by themselves, or they can go to the degraded place with Li Zhi. But if Zhang Yijun breaks his promise, I am afraid that the people in the house will be sold as slaves. However, in this Tang Dynasty, a slave for one day and a slave for life.

While the sense of sadness began to erode Li Zhi's heart, it also made him tired. In the end, Li Zhi could no longer support his heavy eyelids, and slowly fell into a sleepless sleep.

Wang Wuzheng, the head of Yacheng Prison, was leaning against the stone lion outside the gate, his left hand on the horizontal knife handle at his waist, his right hand on his belt, chewing mint leaves in his mouth, and his cheeks squirming with extra force.

Wang Wuzheng watched blankly as a prison guard who had just changed the guard carefully swept the courtyard. The tanuki cat at his feet curled up in a ball, facing the food bowl with relish, eating the leftover chicken soup cakes eaten by the guards of Shenshi Prison, and "squeaking" and gnawing on the soft boiled chicken bones.

The autumn in Shu is getting cooler, and the autumn wind is blowing. The location of Yacheng Prison is relatively remote, located on the west side of Jiandefang Yacheng, not close to Shuaifu, and it takes some time to get there by carriage. A few magnolias planted in the courtyard have withered, gone with the wind, under the reflection of the torch light, it looks poignant and moving, if the literati meet this scene, it is inevitable that they can't help but write a few poems and sing a few songs to enjoy it.

However, the head of the king yawned two or three times in a row, and did not have the heart to enjoy the scenery at all.

They have been on duty here since the beginning of Xuzheng, and it has been nearly two hours now, because the Yacheng Prison has been idle for a long time, so every time it is the right time, the Yacheng Prison will no longer have a guard, but since the day before yesterday, the Jiedu branch sent Li Zhi in, someone has to be on duty at night.

Unfortunately, tonight it was the turn of the head of the cell and the other five prison guards to be on duty.

Just when he was bored, the head of the cell suddenly faintly heard the sound of horses' hooves outside the courtyard, and the tanuki cat raised its head alertly when it heard the sound. The guards who sprinkled the courtyard put down their brooms, and the six of them looked at the main entrance of the courtyard in unison. I'm afraid someone is coming to visit me?

Wang Prison Boss beat a drum in his heart, today is really a hell, Yacheng Prison is not talked about on weekdays, even if Du Yuanying and Du Jiedu were imprisoned at the beginning, except for the day of arraignment, no one came to see it. Who knew that this was the end of the festival to support the envoy, and it was so lively, it was already the beginning of the child, why did anyone come?

…… Zichu?

That's right, Wang Wu was suspicious.

The gate of the fang has long been closed, and it is impossible to enter and exit the Jiande Fang, and it is impossible for the night tooth patrol army to patrol the prison. It seems that most of the lights on the other side of the Shuai's Mansion have been extinguished, and the festival commander must have fallen asleep, so who is this visitor?

Wang Wu was a little flustered, and subconsciously made a swallowing motion, but the voice was so loud that he startled himself.

The sound of the horse's hooves disappeared, and then the horse snorted, and the rider stepped on it, and the saddle made a sound, and someone dismounted, but Wang Wu did not hear the sound of the man's footsteps landing.

"Who's coming?"

And no one answered.

The silence was a little strange, and the prison guards were also a little nervous, and they all looked at the head of the Wang cell. Wang Wu forced his composure and motioned with his eyes for one of the crossbowmen to go out and have a look. The crossbowman was a little frightened, but the cell boss did not dare to refuse the order. I had to remove the bow and crossbow from my belt, skillfully unfold it, set up the crossbow arrows, and slowly move forward.

The moment the prison guards stepped out of the main gate, the tanuki cat at Wang Wu's feet immediately bowed up, and jumped away with a "hiss" in his mouth.

And only the attention of Wang Wu and the other five prison guards was attracted by the cat, and when they turned their eyes to the courtyard door again, the crossbowman who had just gone to explore the way was gone, and the main entrance was empty!

"Mom, it's a batch!"

Wang Wu couldn't help but roar angrily, spat the mint leaf in his mouth to the ground, and pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist. The other prison guards also drew their horizontal knives together, followed closely behind the head of the king's prison, and rushed straight to the main entrance.

The sound of chains colliding with the opening of the prison gate in Tooth City woke up.

Xu is heavy clouds obscured the moonlight, and the vent was pitch black, and when Li Zhi opened his eyes, he found that there was no difference from what he saw with his eyes closed, and if he hadn't recognized the outline of the palm held in front of him, Li Zhi would have thought that he had become blind.

How long had he been cowering in the corner of his cell?

It was a long time, but it seemed like less than half a moment's work, and Li Zhi only felt that his hands and feet seemed to be paralyzed, and he couldn't move if he wanted to. The dignified darkness was like ink, tightly wrapping Li Zhi. His shirt had been soaked through the cold sweat at some point, and he could almost wring out water. Li Zhi only felt that his throat was dry and smoking, and even swallowing saliva made his throat ache.

"Zhang Yijun?"

Li Zhi asked tentatively, but his voice was swallowed up by darkness for a moment, leaving only strange echoes and indescribable fear spreading throughout Li Zhi's body.

Li Zhi swallowed dryly, he wanted to make a sound, but he couldn't spit out a decent word because of his stiff tongue.

Li Zhi pricked up his ears desperately, but he couldn't hear anything other than the wind blowing in through the gate and the vents: no footsteps, no breathing. The boundless silence pressed his ear drums, as if Li Zhi was still the only one in prison.

"Thrush...... Flycatcher, is that you? ”

Li Zhi waited with bated breath, but the silence spread with a flick of his fingers.

Although Li Zhi asked, he didn't want anyone to reply at all. However, this is just Li Zhi's wishful thinking after all, just after his words fell, he flicked his fingers, maybe longer, a breath? A deep voice sounded very close to Li Zhi, making Li Zhi terrified and almost fainting.

"It's ...... me"

With a "bang", the owner of the voice lit a fire fold, and actually lit Li Zhi's entire cell brightly, and Li Zhi's eyes, who had adapted to the darkness, were also painfully lit by the fire, he never thought that only one fire fold could be so bright in the dark.

Even so, Li Zhi didn't dare to take his eyes off the person who came.

The man was dressed in black and stepped on soft boots, no wonder Li Zhi couldn't hear any footsteps, and his face was also tightly wrapped with a layer of black cloth, revealing only a pair of deep eyes, and he couldn't see his face clearly.

"I don't even know who you really are...... All...... I don't know, I ...... I'm sure I'm not going to give you up! You have to trust me! To this day, I have never mentioned anything about the king to anyone...... Every penny of the prince! ”

Li Zhi gave up all his dignity, and his strong fear and desire to survive made him prostrate on the ground and kowtow again and again to beg for mercy, and his voice was intermittent due to the battle of teeth.

However, the man in black just didn't say a word, and looked at it coldly.

Seeing that no matter what he said, the man in black was as unresponsive as a piece of wood. Li Zhi knew that he was in a catastrophe, so he simply straightened up, slowly got up from the ground, sneered self-deprecatingly, and said secretly in his heart: Zhang Yijun, Zhang Yijun, I didn't expect the people who came to kill me to come so quickly, you will make mistakes after all......

"Door...... What about the guards at the door? ”

The man in black still stared at Li Zhi through the cell door without saying a word, and at this moment, Li Zhi felt for the first time that the cast iron bar as thick as his forearm in this prison gave him a sense of relief.

"You, ...... you?"

"I'm 'Flybolt City', have you forgotten?"

"Of course I know," Xu is other party's response made Li Zhi regain some courage, or Li Zhi has completely lost hope of life, his tongue is no longer stiff, and he is beginning to be able to say a complete sentence, Li Zhi narrowed his eyes and said, "Who is your real identity?" ”

The man in black obviously didn't want to let Li Zhi spend time here, so he silently took out a small casing bag from his belt and threw it at Li Zhi's feet. Li Zhi stared at the small casing bag, knowing what it contained, he couldn't help but shiver, the shirt on his body was soaked with sweat, and now it was a little cold to wear.

The man in black held up a string of keys to the prison door.

"Yourself? Or am I here for help? ”

Order about?

Wait a minute...... Because the fear filled Li Zhi's chest and disturbed Li Zhi's judgment, he didn't carefully distinguish the voice of the man in black. However, when Li Zhi's fear faded now, this person's voice was somewhat familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere......

"What's in this bag?" Li Zhi asked knowingly, wanting to say a few more words from the mouth of the black-clothed man.

"Yunshan Poison."

'What?' Flycatcher City's want to use Li to kill the poison that Ling Fox is killing to kill people? Li Zhi laughed, "This poison is very easy to detect......

"It is precisely because you use the same poison that no one will suspect that he killed the envoy."

It's coming, but it's not enough, and I'll have to let him say a few more words. Li Zhi thought so in his heart.

"Hehe, all the prison guards have been killed, there is only Li in the prison, will he Li Deyu and this Chengdu Facao Cui Bo be stupid enough to think that Li Mou committed suicide?"

"The guards are still alive, but they have slept and they will not remember anything when they wake up......," the man in black growled impatiently.

"Really? That ......"

The man in black was completely enraged by Li Zhi's calm attitude, picked up the key to Li Zhi's prison door, quickly opened the iron prison door, extinguished the fire, and returned to darkness in the prison. The man in black picked up the casing sac on the ground and strangled Li Zhi's neck with one hand......

Li Zhi's eyes were closed, and the sudden feeling of suffocation made him look hideous, but the corners of his lips were slightly upturned.

I know who you are!

Yes, I should have thought of it a long time ago, Flybolt City, Flybolt City...... Such an obvious hint actually fooled him Li Zhi for so long.

"I didn't expect it to be you!"

The hand in black holding Li Zhi's neck made Li Zhi's mouth open involuntarily with a slight force, and with his other hand, he lifted the casing pouch directly above Li Zhi's lips, and with just a slight squeeze, he could drip the poison into Li Zhi's throat.

Li Zhixin said, the thirteenth son of Emperor Gaozu, the fifth grandson of King Zheng Li Yuanyi, originally died like this......

"Stop!"

This sudden voice did not come from the man in black, let alone Li Zhi.

Li Zhi opened his eyes slightly, but realized that the light of the torches outside the cell had been reflected like daylight.