Zichen Palace.

Jin Liancheng received Li Nanchuan's command, and immediately tidied up his clothes and knelt in the main hall to wait. At this time, it was past dinner time, the sky was dark outside, but the lights in the hall were still brilliant, the sound of water flowing on the rockery landscape was murmuring, a few thick branches and early blooming Qionghua were placed in the vase, the carpet was woven with complex arabesque patterns, Baoxiang flowers, honeysuckle flowers, large rolls of leaves, the four corners were hollow patterns, red was the base, the pattern was mainly golden, and the colors such as emerald green and blue were jumped, Jin Liancheng knelt on it, his eyes had to look directly at these patterns, and he was a little dazzled for a while. He had just closed his eyes and was about to rest, when there was a faint sound of footsteps behind him, he knew that it was Li Huang coming, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and his eyes moved forward from the carpet - sure enough, the curtain behind him was raised, and a shadow slowly entered.

"Liancheng knocks to see Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live. ”

"Hmm. ”

Li Huang's steps were very slow, as if he was intentional, he stopped as soon as he walked to Jin Liancheng's side, and then turned to look at the door, and did not make a sound.

He didn't make a sound, Jin Liancheng still kept kowtowing and didn't move, the two of them were very quiet, and even the sound of breathing was generally regular. After a long time, Emperor Li suddenly sighed: "Back then, the first time Yao Jin entered the Zichen Palace, he also knelt here like this, like a hare from nowhere, a ghost elf." ”

Jin Liancheng didn't reply, but just kowtowed again in response.

"You're like her, but you're different. ”

Jin Liancheng kowtowed again.

"Liancheng, are you worth trusting?"

This time, Jin Liancheng didn't kowtow again, he slowly raised his head, straightened up to meet Emperor Li's esoteric gaze, and said word by word: "If it's not worth it, why bother here?"

"Hahahaha, hahahaha......" Emperor Li's laughter echoed in the empty hall, but there was no trace of laughter in that voice, and the laughter was ruthless and cold, adding a bit of coolness to this spring night.

"Excellently said. If it's not worth it, you can continue to live your little life with Yao Jin behind closed doors in Jiucheng Yijiang," Li Huang finally stretched out his hand to pull him up, "Yao Jin, she has always trusted you very much in the past. ”

Jin Liancheng's voice was a little low, as if he was infinitely nostalgic, and a little sour: "Your Majesty, Yao Jin is no longer the Yao Jin of the past, and he can't go back for a long time." ”

Li Huang's blazing eyes seemed to ask and seemed to see through something, through Jin Liancheng's skin, straight to the heart, and Jin Liancheng did not have a trace of panic, he looked at Li Huang calmly, examined himself from his gaze, and said with a smile: "Liancheng believes that no one can understand His Majesty's mood better than Liancheng at this moment." ”

"Oh, what do you say?"

"In fact, Your Majesty doesn't care who will succeed you into the royal family, what Your Majesty cares about is this person and who is behind this person, which family, which side of the forces, whether these forces will affect the balance of the current court situation, whether it will cause new changes in the current pattern of the Li Dynasty, and whether it can be completely used by Your Majesty. And before all these conditions are met, this person must have royal blood, or in other words, he must be able to prove that he has royal blood. ”

"So when you found out about this opportunity, you worked hard to weave such a big lie, and did not hesitate to use the plague to destroy the Jin family, and made such an unbreakable identity for yourself; you did everything possible to blow those news into Mo Dongling's ears, bribed some people and killed some people's mouths, and created the so-called 'evidence' to give him; you saw Mo Dongling's thoughts, and bet that he would definitely come to me for the sake of the Mo family and the queen, and you also bet that the widow knew that the news was false but would not immediately deny it- Liancheng, in this game, you bet big. ”

"If it is a gamble, isn't Your Majesty gambling the moment you learn the news and the moment you decide not to deny it? Bet on whether Liancheng can set up this game, and bet on whether I have the ability to walk in front of Your Majesty. Jin Liancheng looked at Emperor Li calmly, "If Your Majesty wins the bet, then Liancheng will not lose this game even if he gambles big." ”

"You, good. Li Huangliang spit out these three words for a long time, and then showed an expression that seemed to be smiling but not smiling: "In the past few years, Shu Dingshan didn't see that Chen Cheng was such a calm and ruthless wolf cub who was scheming enough. ”

"It doesn't matter if Mr. Shu didn't see it in the past. The important thing is that now, His Majesty can see through and see through the city, and the city is helpless, and only under the wings of His Majesty can he survive. ”

"Survival?" Li Huangmo rubbed the wrench on his hand, "Yao Jin, you, you don't just want to survive." If we talk about survival, the widow gave Yao Jinjin a lot of food and clothing, and great wealth, but what did she want? Freedom, the freedom of a person to be the king of the territory, would rather risk death than get rid of the freedom of the widow. ”

"Liancheng is not Yao Jin. Jin Liancheng leaned down respectfully, "Your Majesty should already know that Liancheng and Yao Jin have a disagreement. ”

Yao Jin's heart is not ambitious, no matter how she jumps, the widow has never taken her to heart. Li Huang walked back to the dragon chair step by step, sat on the seat that symbolized supreme power, and said aloud: "But the widow still doesn't know how wild your heart is?"

"The north of Wei and the south of the South China Sea. If His Majesty sees it, this is Liancheng's ambition. Jin Liancheng knelt down heavily, facing the place that was unattainable but not far away, "In this world, Liancheng has no family, no past, and nothing behind him, there is only His Majesty in front of Liancheng, Your Majesty is the father of Liancheng, and the person who controls the fate of Liancheng." Please Your Majesty, give Liancheng a lifetime. ”

"Good. ”

......

In the beginning of summer of this year, the Li Dynasty spread the news that the prince Li Yao was established as the king of the tomb and given the palace of the king of the tomb in the capital, and at the same time, his biological mother Jin Changqin was posthumously named Jin concubine, and Li Yao was recorded in the name of the queen. Although the background of this tomb king who came out halfway caused a lot of discussion among some courtiers, but with the support of the queen and the Mo family, and Li Yao had also made various exploits in Xiaonanguo and Milin when he was Jin Liancheng in the past, those voices of opposition and suspicion gradually sank down after a while, after all, no courtier was stupid enough to worry about the bloodline of the emperor's illegitimate son. Although Li Yao was not immediately made the crown prince, the name of King Ling is obvious, the prince is mostly named after the name of the fief or alias, and the original name of the capital is Lingjing, so there is only one title between the king of Ling and the prince.

According to the queen's meaning, he originally wanted Li Yao to live in the palace, but he said that he was not the prince, and it was not right to live in the Yongyang Palace, and he was already an adult, so he should open his own mansion. The queen seemed to like this adopted son very much, and Tete went to ask Emperor Li's will, selected a royal garden in the capital and carefully repaired it, and sent the eldest aunt around her to personally arrange everything in the mansion, and personally selected the maids and subordinates in the mansion. When people were speculating about whether the relationship between the queen and the king of the tomb was as harmonious as it appeared, the Yongyang Palace released the news to select a princess for the king of the tomb, and the Beijing circle, which had been silent for a long time, became lively again. It seems that everyone has completely forgotten that when the king of Xishan fell and the prince disappeared, they were also secretly glad at home, glad that they did not stuff their girls into the prince's mansion, which was once equally beautiful.