Chapter 14: The Eastern Capital
The eastern capital is Luoyang
Luoyang Palace is also known as Ziwei Palace
Ying Tianmen
Li Lingmo stood at the gate of the palace gate and looked up at the city tower above
"Who would have thought that it would be the palace and the palace would be moved here in a few years."
He looked at the towering Yingtianmen Tower above him and sighed, only to see two guards coming over
"No, it won't! Again? Doesn't this guard have a brain? Want to do it again? ”
Li Lingmo remembered the scene when he was stopped at Danfeng Gate that time
"See His Royal Highness the King of Chu!"
It turned out that he was just overthinking himself
"Hmmm! Step aside! ”
Li Lingmo greeted and led Qingying towards the interior of Luoyang Palace
"Your Highness, wait a minute! Please also bother Your Highness to hand over your mount to me and we will place your Highness in the royal stables. ”
"Huh? All right! If there is any mistake in the green shadow of this king, I will ask you! ”
"Your Highness, please rest assured!"
"So be it! I'll go and settle it myself, go down! ”
Li Lingmo left Ying Tianmen
"Qingying, either we return to Chang'an, anyway, we will go back soon."
On the street of Luoyang, Li Lingmo was holding Qingying and choosing a post station to stay in, in fact, he didn't want to move the capital to Luoyang from the bottom of his heart, although he couldn't fight fate.
"Let's go! Qingying settled in the inn in front of him, and then entered the East Palace from the Mingde Gate later, and tested how that kid's cultivation was! ”
East Palace
"Someone!"
Li Hong was vigilantly guarded
"Yo! Bu Lai Ha, my brother hasn't seen the peak of the spiritual silence period for half a year"
"Big brother, you scared me, I thought an assassin had come in."
"Good vigilance!"
"What?"
Li Hong was confused by Li Lingmo
"I said you were on good alert! Just to test your vigilance! ”
Li Lingmo repeated it angrily
"Oh! Why did the eldest brother come back so suddenly this time? ”
"It's nothing, I just think there's nothing to deploy over there, and the Anxi side has not yet set up a protectorate, so it's not interesting for me, the nominal deputy to protect over there."
He said nothing about the Assassin encounters on the way
"Since the eldest brother is back, let's go and meet my parents! Anyway, I will return to Chang'an in two months! ”
Inside the Luoyang Palace
Five halls
"Son, meet my father and queen mother!"
Li Hong and Li Lingmo bowed to Li Zhiwu and Zetian together
"Hong'er! Mo'er! Get up, there is no one else here who does not have to salute."
"Mo'er, didn't you say that you were going to Anxi to secretly lay out? Why did you come back after only a year? ”
Li Zhi asked suspiciously
"Father, have you forgotten that the Anxi Protectorate has been withdrawn for many years, and I don't have any rights over there, so I just learned about the situation in the past, and I didn't make a layout! And one thing I want to say next, father, you and A-Niang don't panic. ”
Li Lingmo thought about it for a while and said to Li Zhi and Wu Zetian
"Some people can't stop having a good time! It didn't take long for me to come across an assassin on my way back to Chang'an! ”
"What! Assassin! ”
Li Zhi's tone suddenly became nervous
"Father, don't worry, I didn't hurt in the slightest, but when I was about to interrogate that guy, that guy had already bitten his tongue and killed himself! So I'm now thinking about who wanted to kill me, and I'm asking my father to send a reliable person to secretly investigate who is so bold! And who revealed my whereabouts! ”
"Wu Liangfu!"
Li Zhi shouted angrily
"No! What does Your Majesty command? ”
Wu Liangfu trembled and walked in from outside the palace gate and asked
"You go and arrange for me to have competent men to thoroughly investigate all the royal family members and civil and military officials, and I want to see who is so bold to move my son!" And the person who searched for me and revealed the whereabouts of the King of Chu found it and escorted me here! ”
After listening to Li Lingmo's words, Li Zhi turned from worry to anger, and he wanted to know who wanted his son to die in a foreign country.
"No! The old slave will do it! ”
After hearing this, Wu Liangfu prepared to walk outside the hall
"Wait! Secretly bring me the leaker with a black cloth sleeve! I'd like to see who it is! ”
Li Lingmo stopped Wu Liangfu and added
"No!"
Wu Liangfu withdrew and began to deal with this matter, his legs at this time were no longer listening to his call and had been shaking, he had been by Li Zhi's side for so many years, he knew that Li Zhi regarded Li Lingmo as more important than anyone else, and this time this kind of thing happened, it is estimated that some people will suffer.
"Mo'er, this matter must not be tolerated, otherwise it will only fuel their arrogance, don't persuade me, I have to do this!"
Li Zhi said to Li Lingmo, he knew what his son would say, so he opened his mouth first to block Li Lingmo's words
"Father, I'm not going to stop you, but I think we're changing our plans now!"
Li Lingmo's words were beyond Li Zhi's expectations, he thought that Li Lingmo would open his mouth to dissuade him, but he didn't, but instead said words of support.
"Change plans? What is the plan? ”
"Father, do you remember what I told you earlier?"
"You said earlier that the more I don't care about you, it is equivalent to protecting you invisibly, is there anything wrong?"
"It's nothing, it's just that now the situation is going in the opposite direction, so my father re-summoned the fief and changed it back to Chang'an, the richer the better."
"Why is that?"
Li Zhi was puzzled
"Father, is it still useful for you to be lukewarm now?"
"It didn't make you criticize and be assassinated"
"So it's time to change your attitude!"
"Mo'er! I see."
Li Zhi understood what Li Lingmo was going to do, so he didn't ask any more superfluous questions
"Okay, I've said what I should say, and I'll leave everything to my father to solve! What about the four of them? Didn't you bring Luoyang? ”
"Mo'er! Don't digress the topic, are you hurt? ”
Wu Zetian was still stuck in the topic just now, and asked Li Lingmo with a worried face
"No, it's just that after that incident, I could have returned in a month, but I didn't come back for half a year, just to prevent this thing from happening again! Auntie, if you don't believe me, you can open my clothes and check."
Li Lingmo waved his hand at Wu Zetian and said comfortingly, unbuttoning his clothes casually, and standing naked in front of Wu Zetian.
Wu Zetian walked around Li Lingmo, and when he saw that he had no scars on his body, he became relieved and put his clothes back on
"Mo'er, don't go that far, okay?"
"Auntie, didn't you listen to what I just told my father to withdraw from the position of deputy protector of Anxi and stay in Beijing?"
"Ahh I was so preoccupied with your assassination that I didn't even hear what your father and son were talking about! ”
"That's it! Auntie, don't worry! ”
"Good! I'm not fooling around! ”
Wu Zetian's heart was completely let go at this moment.
"Hey, hey! Boy, did you get split for a day and a night during the Heavenly Tribulation of the Soul Silence Period half a year ago? ”
Li Lingmo said to Li Hong with a wicked smile
"Big brother, how do you know?"
"What do you say?"
"Big brother, did you do it that day?"
"Sort of! I was also split with Qingying that day for a day and a night, but I wasn't as embarrassed as you! ”
"Sure enough, it was your eldest brother, you killed me!"
I saw Li Hong running towards Li Lingmo with his fists in a puff, Li Lingmo quickly wanted to dodge to the side, Li Hong rushed at Li Lingmo again, but he fell, causing Li Zhi and Wu Zetian to laugh.
"You guys! Hum! I'm going back to the East Palace! Big brother, you wait for me, sooner or later I will come back with revenge."
Li Hong grimaced at Li Lingmo and walked out of the fifth hall
"Father, A-Niang, I'm also going back to the inn!"
Li Lingmo also walked out
"Mo'er, how do you stay in the guest house?"
Li Zhi and Wu Zetian asked at the same time
"Father, Auntie, I don't want to stay in Luoyang, so I stayed at the inn, and I will return to Chang'an in two days. I'm going to have to build my own mansion outside the Daming Palace! ”
Li Lingmo turned around and replied, then walked out of the five halls, leaving only Wu Zetian and Li Zhi here. They never expected their son to be so tired of being here