On the seventeenth day of the first month, in Xingqing Palace, Li Longji's imperial study, there was silence, only a few people's snorts were heard in the room slightly undulating, Tai Li Heng knelt on the ground straight, lowered his head, tears were already stained with his clothes, and it had been almost half an hour since he had entered, and his legs had long been numb, but the pain in his heart was still like a cone and stabbed his heart.

On the night of Shangyuan, he asked Wei Jian to discuss the transfer of Wang Zhongsi at the Jinglong Taoist Temple in Chongrenfang, which was close to the East Palace, but was caught by the Xiangguo party.

"Clans, relatives, and concubines, if you are not close relatives, you can't return them!"

The edict issued in the early years of Kaiyuan buzzed in his mind, and after several decades, no one would remember this edict, but when the political struggle required it, it appeared, and the first article of the imperial history of Yang Guozhong was to quote this original sentence.

At this moment, Li Heng has understood that this is a bureau carefully set up by his father, he is anxious to get out of his trap, but he is getting deeper and deeper, remorse and despair are rampant in his heart, thinking back to the past ten years, the ups and downs and setbacks have been with him, never stopped, he lived under his father's imperial power like a dog with his tail between his legs, but this is it, in the end, he still did not escape the fate of being slaughtered. "Smack!" A teardrop fell from the tip of his nose and fell into several petals, sad, but his body still couldn't help but tremble slightly.

Above Li Heng, Tang Tian Li Longji tilted his head slightly, his face was gloomy, and he glanced at the son kneeling on the ground with the corner of his eye, the child's silent crying made his heart gloomy, and the kneeling below was both his son and his heir, his special identity was destined to not give him more love like his father in an ordinary family, in this splendid palace, the throne was far more important than tears.

"Henry!" Li Longji's voice was hoarse, "It's come to this, I don't want to say anything anymore, you go back and reflect on it!" ”

Li Heng's shoulders trembled violently, 'Is this the end?' Tell yourself to go back, back to the East Palace or somewhere else? Introspection, introspection of what? Li Heng's mind was blank, and he wanted to stand up, but his legs were already unconscious.

Gao Lishi stood aside and looked at Tai quietly, the heir of the Tang Dynasty who had high hopes for him, but now he has become extremely humble, he suddenly felt a trace of pity in his heart, and without waiting for the emperor's eyes, he took the initiative to step forward and help Tai.

"Your Highness, let's go!" Gao Lishi sighed secretly, and under the cover of Li Longji's cold gaze, he carefully helped the limping Li Heng out of the imperial study.

After staring at Li Heng leaving, Li Longji's gaze slowly retracted, and he took out an edict from the drawer, which was a waste edict that had been drafted a month ago, and only his last signature and seal were missing.

Li Longji's pen has not been able to fall for a long time, 'hooking up friends inside, forming border generals outside, and spoiling foreign relatives', these are the three major crimes of abolishing Taitai, just like a man who divorces his wife to find an excuse for 'seven outs', these three crimes are all weak and not enough to abolish Tai.

Li Longji was upset for a while, and slapped the red pen on the table, startling Gao Lishi, who had just entered the room, and Yu Chaoen, who was standing in the corner, and the two stood with their hands down, not daring to move.

Li Longji got up and came to the window, pushed the window open, the cold wind in early spring rushed in his face, diluting the annoyance of his heart a lot, the trouble came from King Qing's extraneous branches, Li Longji always thought that the person who was more low-key and forbearant than Li Heng was King Yong, but now it seems that this is not the case, Li Longji's heart is as uncomfortable as swallowing a fly.

If he hadn't thought that the overall situation had been decided, how could he know his true nature from his family's mouth.

'My prince will be the emperor tomorrow, and the emperor the day after tomorrow. ’

Li Longji sneered, before the position of Taizhi arrived, he thought of the position of the emperor, he looked at the anxious spring flower in the corner of the wall, the flowers had withered, the petals in full bloom had withered, and the cold of early spring destroyed it to death.

Li Longji couldn't bear the chill of early spring, he turned around and walked back to the table slowly, picked up the edict on the table again, looked at it in a daze for a long time, suddenly sighed, threw it back to the drawer, and strode out of the door with his hands in his hands.

"Get ahead! Return to the palace. ”

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Let's say that Tai Li Heng left the political hall, he did not leave Xingqing Palace, he sat alone in the side hall waiting for the end to come, his face was as white as paper, his squinted eyes were shining like emeralds, in the empty hall, he seemed to be a lone wolf waiting to be killed, all his thoughts stopped running, and his mind was as white as his face.

I don't know how long it has been, 'Your Majesty is driving!' The eunuch's long shout woke him up, he shivered, and his dead brain slowly moved again, "Is it all over?" But why didn't anyone come and tell him? ”

Li Heng walked out of the side hall in fright, but saw a figure hurriedly passing by him, it seemed to be a eunuch, Li Heng grabbed him without thinking, "You stop me!" ”

The eunuch who was caught by Li Heng was the great eunuch Yu Chaoen, the light in the hall was dim, he didn't pay attention to the person standing next to him, until he was caught, he found that the person next to him was actually His Royal Highness.

Yu Chaoen was frightened, and hurriedly knelt down, "The slave didn't see His Highness, please forgive Your Highness!" ”

"Just, get up!

Ignoring his etiquette, he waved his hand, stared at him and whispered, "The right will come out." ”

Yu Chaoen's brain was extremely active, he immediately understood what Li Heng was referring to, looked to both sides, and saw that there was no one on the left and right, so he approached Li Heng and whispered: "The emperor took out the holy decree, hesitated for a long time, and never issued it, and now he goes back to the palace." ”

"You're telling the truth?" Li Heng grabbed his chest and looked at him in disbelief, his eyes flashing with doubt.

"Slaves don't dare to deceive Your Highness!"

Li Heng slowly let go of his hand, his heart was at a loss, 'Why? What's going on? ’

He suddenly remembered what the elder had said to himself yesterday, 'Father, the child is certain that you will get through this.

Originally, he was only thinking that he was comforting himself, but now that it turns out that what he said is true, Li Hengxin suddenly flashed a thought, there must be a hand behind this matter that is manipulating this matter, and Er knows the truth.

'This little devil! Li Heng's heart began to clear, and he suddenly remembered that he had invited himself to watch his training yesterday, and he could take this opportunity to interrogate him.

He looked at Yu Chaoen, nodded at him and smiled: "You are very good, you will pass on the news to me in time in the future, and I will never treat you badly in the future." ”

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It is not far from Xingqing Palace to Yongxingfang, and it is on the way back to Donggong through Anxingfang. Having learned the lesson of Shangyuan Night, Li Heng no longer dared to walk around at will, and only planned to take a look at Li Jiao's training on the way back to the East Palace.

The sound of wheels echoed on the street, Tai Li Heng's guard of honor passed through Anxingfang, and slowly drove into Yongxingfang, which was a team of more than 200 people, the Yulin Army closely guarded Tai's carriage before and after, and there were special people in front of the road, and the pedestrians on the street dodged to both sides, giving Tai's chariot no way to come.

In the distance, I have seen the shadow of the small school field, which is surrounded by a large number of houses, neatly distributed, with white walls and black tiles, green trees on both sides of the road, and small streets and alleys interspersed with it, just like a square vegetable field.

The road ahead was a little narrow, there were quite a lot of pedestrians, and the speed of the chariot slowed down, but just a hundred paces away from the chariot, in a private house by the window, a tall man with long hands and feet holding a bow and arrow, his eyes were like torches, staring closely at Li Heng's carriage approaching, close! It was less than a hundred and twenty paces, Han drew a long arrow from the quiver and put it on the bowstring, the sharp tip of the arrow reflected the cold light, he slowly raised the longbow, the bowstring creaked and rattled into a full moon, the tip of the arrow pointed straight to the window of the carriage, but the hand that squeezed the arrow feather did not let go, he was still waiting, waiting for the last opportunity to come.

Tai's carriage had come to a small crossroads, suddenly, a long neighing sound came, from the mouth of a small alley rushed out of a startled horse on fire, to be precise, the tail of the horse was ignited, straight towards Tai's carriage, the sound of hurried horses' hooves, the sound of sand splashing, the horse's painful scream, stunned Tai's guards, but only in an instant they reacted, they raised their horses, pulled out their horizontal knives to the rushing horses, slashed, the horses did not crash into Tai in the end, and fell to the ground a foot away from him.

A hundred paces away, the man's eyes stared at the window of the carriage, without blinking, his eyes flashed with a faint light, and at the moment when the frightened horse fell, he saw that under the sun, a figure was reflected in the curtain, and he looked out through the gap in the curtain.

Han's hand that clenched the arrow feathers finally loosened, and the feathered arrows shot like lightning towards the black shadow on the curtain of the car, slightly deflected, and took his shoulder and arm, and then the Han threw away the bow and arrow, and no longer cared about the result, turned and left the house, and ran away, and disappeared without a trace in a moment.

Tai was assassinated, was shot through the left shoulder by an arrow, and the news spread like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, and instantly spread all over the streets and alleys of Chang'an, shocking the government and the opposition, 'Who is it?' Who's the hand? Almost all eyes are on the direction of the Ten Princes' Mansion, if Tai is assassinated, who will be the biggest beneficiary, this is really worth playing.

An hour later, martial law was declared in the entire Chang'an City, and groups of Yulin Army and Garrison Army ran on the streets, searching door to door, looking for suspicious people, especially inns, green buildings, hotels, and other places where the floating population is relatively concentrated.

But the strange thing is that the area around the Ten Kings' Mansion is quiet, and there is no shadow of half of the soldiers, and no soldiers enter the mansion to search, as if they have nothing to do with this matter.

At this moment, the topics that everyone in Chang'an City is talking about are related to Tai, Shangyuan Night is too private to meet relatives, too conspired by political enemies, true and false, and makes people's hearts unstable, but one thing is certain, two hours after Tai was stabbed, the emperor personally went to the East Palace to visit Tai's injury, so that the rumors of the abolition of Tai that spread dramatically came to an abrupt end.

Disappointment, joy, anger, indifference, all kinds of tragicomedy in the world alternately staged in all corners of Chang'an at the same time, the seventeenth night of the first lunar month, is destined to become a sleepless night for countless people.

Late that night, martial law was quietly lifted, and at the same time, news came out from Zongzheng Temple that tomorrow's martial arts competition of the emperors and emperors and grandsons will be held normally.