It's night.

Changan.

Prison.

It seems that this place has become only one season of the year.

The chill also invades the nerves and flesh of everyone who enters it all the time.

Li Zhi, who was wearing an ink fur, rubbed his fingers that were about to freeze and glanced at De'an.

De'an understood, stepped forward and pushed open the cell door.

Inside the door, there was a foul smell, which called Li Zhi, who could only smell the fragrance of ambergris and the fragrance of fresh flowers and fruits, as well as all kinds of fat powder fragrance and clear sandalwood, and couldn't help frowning slightly:

He really couldn't get used to smelling such a smell, but he couldn't help it for a while.

Let alone......

He glanced at the rickety figure squatting in the corner of the wall in the cell covered with only one straw, and sighed softly:

What could he not bear?

It was his own uncle who was locked up here, and he had come today to use this uncle to protect his other brother, who was already discouraged and wanted to die.

Slowly, he walked to the middle of the cell.

De'an immediately offered a circle chair, but Li Zhi glanced at De'an and said lightly:

"Two people, how can they sit on the same chair?"

De'an was stunned, immediately realized, looked at the person who was shocked by this clear voice, answered yes, and turned out.

After a while, another group was moved in, and with it, there was a charcoal brazier.

Putting down the charcoal brazier, De'an took the incense bag from his sleeve pocket, and was about to untie some incense cakes in the brazier, but Li Zhi said softly:

"It's a place like this, somehow after a night of some residual aroma......

When those people come back, can they not be suspicious?

Can you not report it to the master behind them?

Ping Suri has always acted carefully, why is he so confused today? ”

De'an was immediately speechless.

"Your Majesty doesn't have to blame him......

In the end, there is only His Majesty in his eyes, how can he see the old man? ”

An old and muddy voice, which seemed to have not spoken for thousands of years, rang out.

Li Zhi turned around, looked at the old man who raised his unkempt and gray head and stared at himself, nodded lightly and said:

"Uncle Wang is right.

However, for the sake of Uncle Wang, this incense cannot be lit. ”

As he spoke, he sat down slowly.

King Jing Yuanjing got up slowly, first gave a big salute to Li Zhi, and then watched Li Zhi stretch out his hand, signaling the posture of giving the seat, staggering to the side of the seat with heavy shackles, slowly kneeling down and sitting down, and then reaching out, roasting his hands on the charcoal basin between the two, trying to make the cold fingers slightly able to move.

Li Zhi was silent, just silently watching him do these things.

After a while, Li Zhi saw that his face was finally a little warm, so he said softly:

"Uncle Wang is here, it seems that he is not doing very well."

King Jing smiled briefly:

"No one can have a good time in such a place?"

Li Zhi looked at him and said softly:

"Really?

But I heard about it......

Where Xue Qing is, it is much better than here. ”

King Jing raised his head, glanced at Li Zhi, and quickly lowered his head, and said softly after a while:

"If Your Majesty wants to say anything, just say it......

What else can't be said when the time comes?

What else is there to play dumb puzzles? ”

Li Zhi nodded and said:

"Yes, at such a time, there is no need for it.

However, these words of mine are not dumb riddles, nor can they be said.

Uncle Wang should know what I mean. ”

There was silence in the room for a while, and only the crackling sound of the charcoal fire could be heard, and then King Jing said leisurely:

"Your Majesty wants to say that King Han has no intention of saving the old man at all?"

"No, I'm not trying to say that."

Li Zhi shook his head and said:

"What I want to say is that Uncle Han Wang is a smart person, a rare smart person.

He knew early on that his desire to sit on my throne was not something that could be done at two o'clock a day.

Therefore, the game he set from the beginning was a game that was put to death and then born.

He must have to sacrifice something first, and then in exchange for enough time for him to complete his ambitions.

And Uncle Wang, you, are his greatest sacrifice. ”

Li Yuanjing gritted his teeth and was silent.

Li Zhi looked at him and said softly:

"It seems that Uncle Wang understands.

In any case, it's not too late to understand. ”

"Not too late?"

Yuan Jing laughed miserably and said dryly:

"It's not too late, when is it too late?

Is it too late until the decapitating knife falls three thirds above the head? ”

Li Zhi said:

"Then Uncle Wang means that he doesn't want to live?"

Yuan Jing's originally dead ash gaze suddenly burst out with an incomparably hot light, staring straight at Li Zhi, and only after a while did he say lightly:

"Does Your Majesty want to give Yuanjing a way to live?"

Li Zhi looked at him and nodded for a while:

"If you don't want to, you won't come tonight."

Yuan Jing's eyes widened, he suddenly lowered his head forward, looked left and right, picked up a straw from the ground, carefully cleaned it, and rubbed it in his palms.

Li Zhi didn't say anything, just looked at his shaking shoulders steadily.

After a while, he raised his head and looked at Li Zhi:

"Your Majesty......

Are you really willing to give Yuanjing a chance? ”

Li Zhi looked at him and said slowly:

"I'm not afraid to let you know......

I have no choice.

If you want to protect the third brother, you can only be protected as well. ”

"King Wu?"

Li Yuanjing looked at Li Zhi with strange eyes, and then said softly after a while:

"Your Majesty, do you want to protect him?"

"Yes."

Li Zhi said lightly.

Li Yuanjing stopped talking, stared at Li Zhi for a long time, and then said leisurely:

"Your Majesty should know that although King Wu has never expressed his thoughts, he may not have the slightest idea of replacing His Majesty.

Otherwise, a few of us are acting like this, and Gao Yang is his sister, how can he not know about our private plots?

has been hiding from it, which already shows his attitude. ”

Li Zhi nodded and said lightly:

"My Wu Zhaoyi once said something that I had been thinking about for a long time:

Every child born in the royal family will never forget in his heart that he has a better chance of sitting on that supreme position than anyone else in the world.

It's Uncle Wang, isn't it the same?

Therefore, I never punish my heart.

Because I know that what I want to do in my heart is still a long way from actually doing it.

Not to mention such a big decision, such a big thing.

In this world, there are not many people who can truly unite thinking and doing.

So I never worried, I didn't care. ”

Li Yuanjing was silent for a long time before he said:

"Indeed, in this world, there are too many people who dare to think, but there are too few people who dare to do it, and among those who dare to do it, there are even fewer who can do it......

But King Wu ......

Your Majesty should know that he can do it. ”

Li Zhi smiled faintly:

"Not necessarily, right?"

He smiled lightly:

"The third brother is brave and strategic, both civil and military, and his father said that he is similar to himself, but he is not a lie.

Indeed, as Uncle Wang said, the third brother can indeed think and do.

But can he do it......

But it's two things. ”

Li Zhi got up slowly and looked down at Li Yuanjing, who was looking up at him:

"Let's not forget that there were uncles, Yu Suiliang and other old ministers who stared at him all the time.

Just a fourth brother is enough to teach him to act. ”

Li Yuanjing also got up and looked up at Li Zhi slightly:

"But King Pu is also dead in the end."

"Indeed......

Fourth brother is gone......"

Li Zhi's pupils shrank slightly, and he suddenly smiled:

"But even so......

Uncle Wang, can you be willing to watch the third brother step by step, smoothly stepping on his back and stepping on my throne?

Can't you?

You can allow him to pull me off the throne for you, but in your heart, whether it is Uncle Han, or the third brother, or someone else......

You can't sit in this position, can you? ”

Li Yuanjing was silent.

Li Zhi continued:

"It's not just you, I'm afraid of Uncle Han Wang, it's also like this?

Even......

Gao Yang, do you have such a thought? ”

"Gao Yang?

That horny baby?

She?

Hum! Where did she have such guts! ”

What Li Yuanjing blurted out was a naked contempt.

Li Zhi smiled faintly, and only said softly after a while:

"Uncle Wang, you are actually really smart, you knew from the beginning that Uncle Han Wang didn't have the slightest intention of helping you to take the throne at all, and he also understood that the third brother couldn't really be willing to be a future general for you......

If you are the smartest, I don't ...... the smartest."

Li Zhi slowly put his hands behind his back, turned around lightly in prison, and turned his back to Li Yuanjing and said:

"But it's not Uncle Han, it's you.

Just ......"

He turned around and looked meaningfully into Li Yuanjing's eyes:

"It's just a pity that you are still the same as Uncle Han Wang and even the third brother after all, and you don't understand who the most terrifying person is in your group."