After leaving the Qingfeng Pavilion, Li Yao went to the Yongyang Palace, and at this time he was rushing to upload dinner, so he accompanied the queen to use it, and the queen was naturally very happy, so she pulled him and chatted for a while before letting him out of the palace. Although the time when the palace gate is closed has long passed at this moment, Li Yao's status is noble, and he often enters and exits the palace, and the guards at each palace gate are also commonplace, and they will not ask half a point. As usual, out of the palace gate, Zha Jiang outside had been waiting for a long time, and when Li Yao got on his pure black horse, he also turned over and followed behind with a chestnut horse. At this time, the spring night was slightly cool, the stars were sparse and the moon was bright, Li Yao raised his head and closed his eyes to enjoy this moment of tranquility, gently put his hand on the reins, and listened to the gentle clatter of the horse's hooves, until Zha Jiang's slightly stiff voice suddenly appeared:

"Your Highness, it's time to go to the palace. ”

"Good. Li Yao suddenly opened his eyes, unconsciously tightened the reins in his hand, and quickly loosened it, and saw two small Taoist priests outside the corner gate saluting him, his eyebrows raised slightly, and asked Zha Jiang: "Is there a guest?"

"The Lord of the White Cloud Temple has been waiting for His Highness in the mansion for a long time. Zha Jiang took the reins from Li Yao's hand and said in a low voice: "The one who came is not good." ”

"Oh?" Li Yao said with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "I'll go to the palace for a while." ”

With that, he strode into the Lingwang Mansion. Although it was already evening, the people everywhere in the mansion were still there, and no one dared to be lazy, Li Yao was happy to be quiet, so the Lingwang Mansion was as silent day and night. If it is not necessary in the house, it is not allowed to talk to people, there have been a few mouths that are idle or their hands and feet are too heavy and loud, all of them are gone after a night, no one dares to look for them, and no one dares to ask a word and a half, and the rest of the people are even more frightened, although Li Yao treats his subordinates neither scolding nor very generous, but serving the bowl of rice in the Lingwang Mansion, everyone eats carefully.

"Lord Li Guan came to the Lingwang Mansion, why didn't he let people know the palace in advance. Li Yao walked to the flower hall and saw Li Daoran standing in the hall with his hands behind his back, although he looked like an ordinary old man, a pair of cloth shoes and a green robe, but he was in good spirits, and his eyes were like electricity, but he knew that he was not a layman at first sight. Seeing that Li Daoran's face was not good, he didn't care, and still smiled: "Today, because I went to the palace, I came back a little late, so I waited for a long time. The little guy in the house is too ignorant, seeing you coming, I don't know how to send someone to the palace to inform the palace, it is not good for the Lingwang Mansion, and I hope the Lord will forgive me. ”

Seeing that Li Yao's attitude was cordial and the etiquette was so thoughtful, Li Daoran still had a blue face, "hummed" from his nose, and made a hasty gesture, saying: "The old Taoist priest doesn't understand the rules, so he came to the palace rashly, and I hope the prince will forgive me!"

"The master is too polite, you can come, it's too late for the palace to be happy, please take a seat-" Li Yao glanced at the little guy standing next to him, the little guy was shaken by him, and hurriedly stepped forward to bring up the tea next to Li Daoran, and said: "This tea is cold, the slave will go down and change it again!"

"Well, go ahead. ”

When the little guy went down, Zha Jiang also retreated to the door with his fists clenched, he closed the door openly, and he guarded it outside. Li Daoran glanced at Li Yao at this time, his eyes were facing each other, he couldn't help but "hum" again, and said, "The old Taoist priest doesn't say dark words. Prince, you haven't cleaned up the muddy waters in the capital this time, why do you want to let Xiao Yuebai enter Beijing!"

"Yuebai will come back sooner or later, she will be my wife and princess in the future, and she will be the queen of the Li Dynasty in the future, and she should come to the center of this power, to the top of this pyramid. If she has been in that distant little southern country, by Yao Jin's side, how can I justifiably make her the crown princess, so that this capital city full of nobles will recognize her and respect her?"

"But the Lin family is a criminal minister! Although you used the prince's ascension to the throne to turn Lin Fengtai from a capital crime to exile, the Lin Mansion has already declined!" Li Daoran paused, and glanced at Li Yao fiercely: "The prince don't think that the old Taoist's Buyunguan has been blown up, and the old Taoist priest doesn't know anything, you are not for the high-sounding reasons you said at all, you just want to use the matter of marrying Xiao Yuebai as a guide, so as to open up the affairs of the Yuan family back then! You want to wash away the grievances of the Yuan family, and you want the Lin family, The Jiao family and the old people of the Yuan Sect who survived back then are all under your door, and now you have an unstable foundation in the court, so you can only rely on the emperor everywhere, you want to use this matter to infiltrate the court and establish your own team in the court, and then you will no longer have to be firmly controlled by the emperor! Prince, what the old Taoist priest said, yes or no?"

Li Yao's smile grew, he didn't shake his head or nod, but lightly clapped his high-fives, as if admiring: "Lord Li Guan, this palace is really sorry, with the strength of Lord Li Guan and Xuanjitang, if you can cooperate with this palace, why don't you worry about this world not in my hands?"

"Hmph, the old Taoist priest is not interested in your world! If it weren't for Xiao Yuebai, the old Taoist priest would never want to have a relationship with you and the Li family again in his life!"

"Li Guanzhu's words are wrong. You keep saying that it is for Yuebai, and that I am using her, but is it not your Li Daoran's wish to wash away the grievances of the Yuan family? After so many years, you have painstakingly collected all kinds of evidence back then, not so that one day the truth of Yuan Youzhang's death will be made public to the world? In this world, who else but me can think of the Yuan Youzhang who has long been forgotten!" Li Yao's voice gradually sank, "Does Lord Li Guan think that His Majesty today will rehabilitate him!"

Li Daoran lowered his head silently, his clenched hands trembled slightly in the cuffs, like opening a cabinet that had accumulated for years, and many dusty past events were like dust in the air, which suddenly rushed to him, invaded his eyes, ears, mouth and nose, and then came to the bottom of his heart- Once upon a time, he was also a high-spirited young man, and he also had a lot of grand wishes with that person under the sunrise starlight, even though they had completely different plans for life, but this did not prevent them from becoming best friends, and did not prevent him from going thousands of miles to the bitter cold place guarded by Yuan Youzhang to invite him to drink a glass of his newly brewed good wine, and did not prevent Yuan Youzhang, who had become a general, from saying that arrogantly to a group of masters who were about to besiege him when he didn't know or like his rivers and lakes at all, " If you dare to hurt him for half a point, I, Yuan Youzhang, will abandon a thousand troops and ignore you, even if I can't beat you, I will live and die with my brother."

......

There are too many memories and too painful memories of tearing open an extremely long, very long wound, and blood gushes out inside, which cannot heal even after so many years. Li Daoran finally sighed silently, "Even if you are for yourself, if you can wash away the grievances of the Yuan family, I still have to thank you." ”

Li Yao restrained his expression and saluted him solemnly: "This thanks, this palace doesn't dare to bear it." ”

"But Xiao Yuebai ......" Li Daoran looked at Li Yao, "she doesn't know anything!"

"You should know, Hongu will tell her. The rest, she didn't need to know. ”