As dusk approached, the guards at the city gates urged the people outside the city to hurry into the city.

Suddenly, in the afterglow of the setting sun in the distance, a cloud of dust was raised, and more than a dozen horsemen came towards the city gate at a gallop.

Several guards looked a little nervous, the defenders on the city wall opened their bows and arrows, and the people at the city gate did not need to urge, and entered the city in a panic.

"Who's coming?" Seeing that most of the people who came were teenagers, the leader ordered the guards to line up and asked in a deep voice.

"We are from the Zhongyong Mansion." Li Qifu rode forward, took out the token left by Li Xuanba, handed it to the general, and said, "I have something urgent to enter the city, and I ask the general to let him go quickly." ”

The general confirmed that the token was correct, arched his hand, looked back and ordered the soldiers to move away from the horse, and motioned to the guards on the wall to put away their bows and crossbows, and then retreated to the side. The group entered the city with a grim face and went straight to the Zhongyong Mansion.

Li Zhiyun's eyebrows were full of fatigue, and it was not an easy task for anyone to travel all the way from Daxing City to Jiangdu. But as soon as he arrived at Zhongyong's Mansion, he hurriedly asked someone to take him to Li Xuanba.

"Zhiyun, why are you in such a hurry?" Li Xuanba was eating, and when he saw Li Zhiyun rushing in, his heart tightened, and he frowned: "How is the situation in Jingshi?" ”

Li Zhiyun had been on the road for a long time, his mouth was dry and hungry, but Li Xuanba didn't let him sit down to eat together, looking a little unkind, but Li Zhiyun's face did not have the slightest hint of shame, his voice was hoarse, revealing a thick sense of loss: "The acting king has passed away." ”

Li Xuanba was already prepared in his heart, he put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand, was silent for a moment, and said, "Tell me what you know." After a pause, he sighed, "You can sit down and eat something first." ”

Shizuka, Liang Xiao and the others left the side hall with interest, and the eldest grandson Wuji and they also planned to leave. was left behind by Li Xuanba.

How can Li Zhiyun still have the heart to eat? He picked up a cup of hot tea, drank it all, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and began to tell what happened in Daxing City. After getting along with Li Qifu and others for a long time, Li Zhiyun has worn away the edges and corners of the rich son, and has been contaminated with the style of the informality of the army.

At the beginning, Li Xuanba and Yang Tong came to Jiangdu together. secretly sent Li Zhiyun to Daxing. First, he wanted Li Zhiyun to accompany the Wan family, and second, if Li Yuan abolished Yang Yu, then he could try to take Yang Yu to Jiangdu.

Anyway, Yang Yu is Yang Guang's own grandson, and if he can keep it, Li Xuanba doesn't mind letting him live.

Li Zhiyun stayed in Daxing City for more than a month, and Yang Yu used his young age as an excuse. Chan is located in Li Yuan, Li Yuan made a slight resignation, and was proclaimed emperor in the hope of the public, and Yang Yu was named the Duke of Yuguo and moved outside the palace.

Li Yuanba never thought that Yang Yu, who had no power, would be able to keep the throne, he just wanted Yang Yu to live. According to Li Xuanba's instructions, Li Zhiyun entered the palace to meet Li Yuan, and expressed his intention to take Yang Yu to Jiangdu.

After all, Yang Yu is a descendant of the royal family. Since Li Yuan wanted to be the emperor in peace, he couldn't wait for Yang Yu to leave Daxing. So I agreed without hesitation.

But the night before leaving, Yang Yu died violently.

"What a coincidence." After listening to Li Zhiyun's story, Li Xuanba sneered and said: "The acting king is only fourteen years old, and he will die violently, do you believe this kind of thing?" ”

"Of course Zhiyun doesn't believe it." Li Zhiyun hurriedly said: "I learned the news." I immediately rushed to the palace of the Emperor of the Kingdom, and when I walked in, I saw corpses all over the ground, and even the people I had sent to protect the king had died tragically in the courtyard. ”

"What about the king?" Li Xuanba asked.

"He was in his bedroom, and he committed suicide by poisoning. At the side of the acting king, there was a bloodstained sword. Li Zhiyun said angrily: "Such an obvious thing, they actually said that the acting king did not want to be the king of the dead country, so he slaughtered all the guards and maidservants, and then committed suicide by taking poison." ”

A fourteen-year-old child, with only a sharp sword, slaughtered all the people in the house, this kind of thing is spread, naturally no one will believe it, but the explanation given by the Tang Dynasty court is this. Faced with the doubts of the former ministers of the Sui Dynasty, the imperial court replied that the guards of the Yuguo Mansion were poisoned before they died.

"Those corpses have different wounds, they are not done by one person at all, and when Zhiyun was about to have a good examination, my father sent someone to drive me out of the Xuguo Mansion." Speaking of this, Li Zhiyun bit his lip, oozing a trace of blood.

"It's not your fault, you don't have to blame yourself, your father treated you like that, and it was also for your good." Li Xuanba stood up, walked to Li Zhiyun's side, touched his head, and comforted: "You can return to Jiangdu alive, the third brother is already very satisfied." ”

"Why did my father kill the king?" Li Zhiyun raised his head and asked, "The acting king is just a child, and the third brother has already planned to let him leave Daxing, why is my father unwilling to let him go?" ”

"Perhaps, the whole thing was not my father's doing." Li Xuanba thought about it and set his eyes on the eldest grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others.

"If the villain didn't guess wrong, Tang Guogong didn't want to be an enemy of Gongzi, and planned to divert from north to south." The eldest grandson Wuji understood Li Xuanba's eyes and replied: "This matter is indeed like his style, as long as he kills the acting king, he can cut off the situation of peaceful coexistence between Southern Sui and Datang." And Tang Guogong had no choice but to find such a clumsy excuse. ”

"The acting king died, and his father hasn't learned the news yet, but Zhiyun has already rushed to the Xuguo Mansion, so naturally someone wants him to know the truth." Li Xuanba nodded, looked at Li Zhiyun and said, "Fortunately, he has the heart to let you come back to deliver the message, otherwise it is still unknown whether you can come back alive." ”

"You mean second brother?" Li Zhiyun was not scheming, he didn't think of these things, and said later: "No wonder my father sent heavy troops to send us out more than ten miles." ”

"Qiping, you come in." Li Xuanba patted Li Zhiyun on the shoulder, sighed, and turned his head to command.

"Childe, Qi'an is dead. As soon as Li Qiping entered the lobby, he said with a sad face: "He was stabbed more than a dozen times, and his body was thrown in the stinky ditch outside the Mansion of the Emperor of Xuguo. ”

"Du Ruhui, Du Ruhui, I really shouldn't have left your life in the first place!" Li Xuanba clenched his fists and said quietly, his eyes full of killing intent.

When Fang Xuanling heard Li Xuanba's words, he was shocked, and he glanced at Wei Zheng, seeing regret in each other's eyes.

Li Qi'an has been trying to sneak into the Du Mansion, and in the end he did get in, but unfortunately his identity has already aroused suspicion, but Du Ruhui is extremely able to endure and has always pretended not to know.

Later, Li Yuan captured Daxing, Li Shimin heard about Du Ruhui's reputation, and visited the mansion in person, I don't know what the two talked about alone, Du Ruhui was determined to follow Li Shimin.

"Little Brother Qiping, have you ever buried Qi'an's body?" Eldest Sun Wuji frowned slightly, and asked softly.

"I'm a brother and sister to Qi Ping, how can I let him die on the streets?" Li Qiping said angrily: "What do you mean by this? (To be continued.) )