The ninth day of the third month of the first year of Yonghui.

Yetting Province.

Wang De, the inner chamber, swept the small prison cell in the inner court early in the morning, and then slowly walked in, looking at the beloved disciple who was sitting in the prison cell, with his hair scattered, still holding the dust whisk he had rewarded.

After a long time, he sighed softly, slowly walked into the open prison door, stood still, and asked:

"Is everything alright?"

Ming An heard the master's voice, and froze for a while, not daring to reply. After a while, he said in a trembling voice without looking back:

"It's good to have food and shelter."

Wang De sighed again:

"But isn't your life in the Taiji Hall better than this?

Why? ”

Ming An was silent, and said softly for a long time:

"Master, do you remember Ming An's real name?"

Wang De nodded gloomily:

"Master remembers."

Ming An thought about it, but shook his head and smiled bitterly:

"The master remembers, but the disciple is about to forget.

If it weren't for that day, the person who was found by the eldest grandson Taiwei came and called the apprentice's real name......

The apprentices almost forgot that they were not called Ming'an.

The name Ming'an was later rewarded by the master. ”

Wang De was silent.

Ming An said softly:

"So, master, if you gave Ming An a different name, how good would it be? Why do you have to carry the word An?

As a result, the apprentice always felt that the apprentice had to be like Ryan De'an, who could be treated as a confidant by the Lord, so that he could be worthy of the master......"

Wang De said bitterly:

"Is the Lord not waiting to see you now?

When the Lord saw you, did you send Dean Ryan a little? ”

Ming An nodded, but said:

"The master is right, but Ming An couldn't see it clearly before. It's just that he resents it half-heartedly, and he always feels that the Lord has never taken Ming An seriously as a cronie.

…… Although the three of us, the food and shelter are not the same...... But I still hesitated, and I always felt that if one day the Lord had to push one of the three of us to go out and die in my place, it would be my ......."

Wang De gritted his teeth and said:

"I know that you were also blinded by the people around the eldest grandson, and you only watched the lord use Hu Tu as a pawn, preparing to kill him if things were wrong in the future. But you haven't thought about what kind of character this Hu Tu is?

If his life is threatened one day, he will inevitably rebel against the Lord!

Besides, have you thought about it, that is, if there is really a day when the Lord is helpless, he will inevitably push one person out to die, and it will not be you!

With De'an Ryan's heart, and the master is in the ......

I'm already ahead of you!

Why wait for you to do something? ”

Ming An smiled bitterly:

"That's why I didn't tell Master Taiwei what kind of medicine Master ordered...... just told him that the master hated the queen very much, and it seemed that the queen's pregnancy tonic had been replaced by some other harmless tonic. ”

When Wang De heard this, he was angry and pitiful, but he shook his head helplessly, and only asked after a while:

"If you have anything else, you mean that you have listened to it with Lord Taiwei, and you will tell it to the master one by one. Master take a look, if you can leave your little life, it can be regarded as our master and apprentice. ”

Next.

Chaobi.

Tai Chi Palace.

Tai Chi Temple.

Li Zhi heard Wang De's return and didn't look up for a long time.

Seeing this, Wang De was also angry and hateful in his heart, and couldn't help but say:

"Lord, the old slave knows that Ming'an, the child, has made a big mistake, and the old slave has also prepared things. Lord, you ...... You don't have to hesitate any longer! ”

Yibi said, Yibi lowered his head and crossed his hands to salute, not teaching Li Zhi to see the tears in his eyes-

For so many years, Wang De has always regarded Ming'an as half a son, and now that he has made such a mistake, why doesn't he feel heartache?

It's just that Tianwei is like this, not to mention that Ming'an's big mistake has been made, and Li Zhi's death is a matter of course.

But Li Zhi still remained silent.

Wang De was a little worried, and was thinking about it when he suddenly heard Li Zhi speak:

"I can't believe what you say.

You bring him here, and I'll ask him myself. ”

Wang De was stunned, looked up at Li Zhi's face, and only after a long time did he sigh and nod his head to give orders.

After a while, Ming An, who had lost a lot of weight, staggered up.

Seeing Li Zhi, he didn't dare to raise his head, but just knelt down.

Li Zhi put down the pen, got up, walked down the steps step by step, thought about it, and finally sat down on the jade steps, not far from Ming An, with one hand flat on his lap, and the other hand supporting his chin, and looked sideways at Ming An for a long time before saying:

"When I first met you, you were younger than Ryan was. At that time, you would only follow the princess's side, pulling at the prince's clothes, back and forth, like a little tail.

At that time, the prince was a little annoyed with you, and he beat you a few times, I saw that I was in pain for you, so I asked De'an to go, coaxed the prince to pull you aside, and Ryan wiped your tears for you, and took sweet rice to eat with you......"

Li Zhi said word by word as if he was reminiscing about the past.

Just speaking of this, Ming An's shoulders were already shaking, tears couldn't help but fall, and his heart was full of remorse:

Yes, he understands that Li Zhi's heart will not push him out-

Whether it is because of the kindness in his nature or the pride in his nature, Li Zhi will not be allowed to push himself out to die as a member of his family.

But......

But before, he was too scared.

Hearing Li Zhi calmly talking about Hu Tu's future, and listening to Li Zhi's evaluation of Amo......

He suddenly felt that he was just a pawn. A chess piece that will be pushed out to death sooner or later?

Oh, yes......

After all, he followed the first emperor first, it doesn't seem that De'an and Rui'an, after following Li Zhi for so long, the friendship has long been deep......

If there really is such a day and someone needs to be pushed out, it must be him.

So......

So probably this is the reason why the eldest grandson Wuji found him?

Because you see through his mind?

……

Li Zhi watched him cry, watched him bow his head, knocked Bangbang sounded, couldn't help sighing, stopped recalling:

"Everything that was before is still the past.

Now, I really don't want to pursue anything more...... I've lost so much.

Therefore, I will tell your master and others to erase this incident completely as if it had not happened......

I just hope that in the future, you will not go wrong again.

Because next time, no matter how reluctant I am, I definitely can't tolerate it.

Got it? ”

When Li Zhi said that he wanted to forgive himself, Ming An was already stunned and looked up at Li Zhi suddenly.

Not only him, but even Wang De.

When Li Zhi's mind was determined, he was even more ecstatic and ashamed to kowtow to the ground, and he couldn't stand it for a long time, and cried loudly.