Behind Cheng Zhijie was followed by a thin old man, who was the divine doctor Sun Simiao. Sun Simiao did not politely step forward to treat Li Shimin, and finally nodded and said to Cheng Zhijie: "Demon King, His Royal Highness King Qin is strong, this time the poisoning is not deep, and he has received timely treatment, the problem is not very big; I will prescribe another conditioning prescription, and I will recover within a few days of keeping. ”

Cheng Zhijie and the people around him breathed a sigh of relief and put their hearts at ease; Li Shimin hurriedly thanked him and asked his eldest grandson to offer them tea.

Lao Cheng took it and said with a smile: "It's a great honor to be able to drink Princess Qin's tea, but there will be fewer and fewer opportunities in the future, so I have to cherish the opportunity." ”

The eldest grandson Wujian smiled: "Fifth brother Hugh wants to joke; You, your distinguished guest, can we please come? In the future, no matter what status your brothers reach, don't be divided. You and your second brother are not brothers, but they are like brothers. This brotherly relationship is very precious to the second brother and to me. ”

Li Shimin said with a smile: "What Guanyin said is exactly what I want to say. Fifth brother must remember. ”

Cheng Zhijie pretended to be flattered and happily accepted the order, and everyone laughed; A blush rose on the pale face of the eldest grandson.

Sun Simiao frowned and said: "King Qin, I don't think your body is in serious trouble, but the princess has a qi disease, which is a problem that has fallen since childhood, if you don't treat it in advance; I'm afraid that I will have to worry about my life in the future. ”

When everyone heard this, Li Shimin said nervously: "Divine doctor, Guanyin's body has been weak since she was a child, and the fifth brother often tells us to pay attention to exercise; It's just that I often forget about things. If there is any way for the divine doctor to cure Guanyin, the people of the world will be grateful. ”

"King Qin rest assured, the poor road should do his best." As he spoke, he took out a few silk threads from his backpack and asked the eldest grandson to tie them on his hand, and he pressed the silk thread with his hand and began to diagnose the pulse.

Cheng Zhijie's eyes widened, and the others also looked at each other. "Sun Zhenren will still diagnose the pulse with a suspensory filament? Is this really there? ”

Under everyone's astonished gaze, it took Sun Simiao many times longer than usual to stop. He smiled slightly and said, "The princess's qi disease is not very serious, and her health is not bad. I dare not boast of curing it, but I can suppress it. The princess should be careful not to get emotional in the future, and pay more attention to exercise; If you don't feel the wind and cold, there will be no big problem. ”

Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and thanked Sun Simiao for a thousand kindnesses, and took out three hundred gold rewards; was rejected by Sun Simiao.

When Sun Simiao finished seeing the doctor for Li Shimin and his wife, Cheng Zhijie asked Sun Zhenren to take him down to rest. Li Shimin said: "I knew that the fifth brother would not come specifically to treat me. Now that the situation in Chang'an is unstable, what can the fifth brother teach me. ”

Cheng Zhijie snorted coldly: "The crown prince and the king of Qi have already brandished the butcher's knife, you still dare to be so careless, do you really think that you are the true dragon son of heaven, and you have a hundred spirit protectors?" And what did you do to let King Qin pay the insurance alone? ”

The generals of Tiance Mansion all pricked their heads when they heard this, and Li Shimin hurriedly said: "Fifth brother, I can't complain about the generals, the prince suddenly visited in the evening, and there is also Li Shentong, the king of Huainan, to accompany him, I didn't expect him to blatantly do it, so I fell for the trick." This matter has nothing to do with the generals, I was too careless. ”

Cheng Zhijie shook his head and said: "I know that the people of the world are still worried about brothers, the friendship between father and son; Don't want to hurt loved ones. But now it has reached the point of last resort, I heard that Your Majesty planned to let you go to Luoyang in order to prevent your brothers from killing each other, but in the end you took back your life.

This is a very dangerous sign that they have decided to do something to you, or at least to take away your rights. Now I ask again, if this happens, what does King Qin want? ”

Hearing Cheng Zhijie's question, everyone also stared at Li Shimin nervously; Li Shimin's face was cloudy, and it was obvious that he was also struggling violently in his heart.

The eldest grandson Wujian gently leaned against Li Shimin's side and held his big hand. Li Shimin gritted his teeth and said: "Everyone is worth my life, I can't let you down; Since they are unkind, let us call me unjust! If there is a day, I will fight back. ”

Everyone was overjoyed and knelt down to kowtow in thanks, Cheng Zhijie said with a smile: "Since the people of the world are unwilling to be killed, then leave the rest to me!" You and the princess don't show anything now, what should you do every day; Even if they accept your military power, it doesn't matter. Leave everything to me to handle and prepare, and when it comes to act, I will report back to King Qin. ”

Li Shimin arched his hand and said: "Then I will rely on the fifth brother a lot." Saying that, he gave the Dingtang knife to Cheng Zhijie and said: "Fifth brother, please take this blade, whoever dares to disobey in Tiance Mansion can be cut first." ”

Cheng Zhijie was also not polite, stretched out his hand and took the Dingtang knife, glanced around, and said: "Today, I rely on this knife to give orders, do you have any doubts?" ”

Everyone knew how powerful Cheng Zhijie was, and they clasped their fists one by one and said, "We will obey the order of the Demon King." ”

Cheng Zhijie nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll give the first order first, Feng Deli can be?" ”

Feng Deli was in the crowd, his mind was in a mess, and when he heard Cheng Zhijie be the first to call his name, he couldn't help but be surprised, and hurriedly stood up and said, "Here, I'm here." ”

"Good! Take down this guy with me! ”

Lao Cheng ordered the surrounding guards to rush forward and arrest Feng Deli. The generals were taken aback when they heard this, and Feng Deli shouted loudly: "I have been ordered by His Majesty to assist the King of Qin, and I am loyal to His Royal Highness the King of Qin, why do you take me?" ”

Cheng Zhijie said: "Feng Deli, as the Sima of Tiance Mansion, but you are secretly loyal to the prince, and all the secrets of Tiance Mansion have been reported to His Royal Highness the Prince, and when Yang Wengan rebelled and the emperor wanted to depose the prince, it was you who led people to recommend it, so that His Majesty took back his fate."

These secrets which you think you are doing, but if no one knows them, unless you do it yourself; See what these are? ”

Saying that, Cheng Zhijie took out some letters he secretly wrote to Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, Feng Deli saw that his face had changed greatly, and he knew that he could no longer deny it, so he had to lie on the ground and beg for mercy.

Li Shimin's face was pale, fortunately he was found out, if he leaked today's events, he would not be able to escape death, and Cheng Zhijie would have to suffer.

The generals were also angry and blue, and shouted angrily for Li Shimin to behead him; Feng Deli was drenched in sweat and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.

Cheng Zhijie said: "Feng Deli, I can give you a chance to make meritorious contributions, but I don't know how to believe you, what do you say you should do?" ”

Feng Deli hurriedly swore an oath, saying that he was loyal to the King of Qin and would never dare to betray again. Cheng Zhijie said with a smile: "Feng Deli, there is still one boy missing from His Royal Highness King Qin, I heard that you have a child named Feng Yandao, who is only 12 years old this year, but he is very smart, I want him to be a scholar in the Prince's Mansion, are you willing to do it?" ”

Feng Deli was so frightened that he almost sat on the ground, and finally appointed: "If you can be the scholar of King Qin, it is a child's; I do, I do. ”

"Okay, then you can send someone to bring Childe! Then what you did in the past, and how you still do it now; When I need you, I'll send someone to you. ”

Feng Deli hurriedly agreed and went to follow the plan; Cheng Zhijie explained to everyone again, and then let everyone disperse; He hid in the palace of the King of Qin.

Li Shimin died down, and Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji and the concubines of the harem kept framing Li Shimin to Li Yuan day and night.

Slowly, Li Yuan believed it and prepared to punish the people. Chen Shuda admonished: "The King of Qin has made great contributions to the world, and he cannot be deposed. Besides, he has a strong temperament, and if he is humiliated and belittled, I am afraid that he will not be able to withstand the sorrow and anger in his heart, and once he is infected with an unpredictable disease, will it be too late for His Majesty to regret it! ”

Li Yuan saw that all the generals were against it, so he did not punish the people. Li Yuanji secretly asked to kill Li Shimin, the king of Qin.

Gao Zu said unhappily: "He has made a contribution to pacifying the world, but the fact that he committed a crime is not significant, what can be used as an excuse?" ”

Yuan Ji said: "When the King of Qin had just pacified Luoyang, the eastern capital, he waited and watched the situation, refused to return, distributed money and silk silks, so as to establish personal kindness, and violated His Majesty's edict, what is it if it is not a rebellion?" You should only kill him quickly, why worry about not finding an excuse! ”

Li Yuan reprimanded him and did not agree to his request.

Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji failed to harm Li Shimin, so they wanted to buy off Li Shimin's generals; He wants them to break away from the Heavenly Ce Mansion and intends to lure them to his own use.

Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji secretly presented a cart of gold and silver artifacts to Chi Gong, the second deputy guard lieutenant on the left, and wrote a letter to induce him: "I hope to get your favor so that we can deepen the friendship between us." ”

Wei Chigong excused himself and said: "I am a small person who makes a tent for a household and a broken urn for a window, and I encountered the situation of endless wars and exiles in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, and I have long been in the situation of resisting the imperial court. The king of Qin gave me the grace of rebirth, and now I am registered as an official in the palace of the king of Qin, and I should only repay the king of Qin with death. I have not made meritorious contributions to His Highness, and I dare not accept such a rich reward from His Highness out of thin air. If I have a private relationship with His Highness, I will have two hearts for King Qin, and I will be a villain who forgets his righteousness, so what is the use of His Highness wanting such a person! ”

Li Jiancheng was furious and cut off contact with him. Wei Chigong told Li Shimin about this, and Li Shimin laughed and said: "Jingde's loyalty to me is as solid as the mountains, even if the gold he gave you is piled up to the Big Dipper, I know that Jingde's loyalty will not waver." You will accept whatever he gives you, and what is there to doubt about that! Besides, wouldn't it be a good strategy to understand his plot by doing so! Otherwise, evil will befall you. ”