Chapter 26: The Price of Growth

"What are you stupid about? Don't want to die? Xinyue rescued Tang Ao, came to a secluded place and threw Tang Ao on the ground angrily, and reprimanded him with concern but seemed to be annoyed.

Tang Ao was already injured a lot, but when Xinyue fell like this, his whole body was churning with qi and blood, and he couldn't help but vomit out a mouthful of blood, and slowly struggled to get up from the ground, looking at Xinyue coldly with his eyes.

"Why don't you save Li Hong? I know you can do it, did you already know that Li Hong was poisoned by the dragon dragon? ”

Xinyue was speechless, she did know Li Hong's situation, but compared to her plan, she didn't care about Li Hong's life and death, but she was asked by Tang Ao at this moment.

Tang Ao's eyes were full of disappointment, he didn't say anything, turned around and disappeared into the night, Xinyue looked at Tang Ao's stumbling steps, opened his mouth several times, and swallowed back the words when they came to his mouth, what can he say?

Xinyue's stomach was a little sour, feeling that just tonight, she had lost Tang Ao's friend, tears rolled in her eyes, and she murmured: "Tang Ao, I'm sorry, but I have no other choice, I have to enter the mirror flower world." ”

Tang Ao returned to the British Palace, closed the door, and sat on the ground slowly leaning on the door panel, unaware of the pain on his body, but felt very uncomfortable in his heart.

Is this what Di Renjie said back then? The price of growth? Seeing the world of adults clearly, Tang Ao really wants to never grow up, he doesn't like this kind of deception.

But Tang Ao knew that in just one day, he had lost a respectable object, witnessed the poisoning between family affection, and the sin of depriving others of their lives at will, whether he accepted it or not, reality was forcing him to grow up and make him mature.

Tang Ao's tears didn't hold back after all, they slid down his cheeks, his tattered clothes were torn off by him, and where he was injured by Ming Chongyan, the wound slowly healed, and the glowing palm prints faded and disappeared.

"I have cultivated the Dao Sutra for many years, and I am familiar with the light shaking technique of the Taishang Seven Star Method, why can't I have superhuman abilities like Xinyue and Ming Chongyan?"

Tang Ao was full of entanglement, if he could cultivate, he could kill Ming Chongyan tonight and avenge the death of Li Hong.

"How can you break through the acupuncture blocked by Xuyan? Only archery skills, only inhuman strength and amazing healing ability are not enough! ”

Tang Ao's injuries have fully recovered in a short period of time, but the flame burning in his heart has not been extinguished, at this moment, Tang Ao is extremely eager to become stronger, and he can have Dao magic powers like Xinyue or Ming Chongyan.

"My heart is in turmoil." Tang Ao's mind became more and more chaotic, his thoughts were myriad, and his facial features became a little hideous, which was the precursor to going crazy.

Fortunately, Tang Ao found out in time, sitting cross-legged and reciting the Taoist scriptures, with the clear flow in his mind spreading all over his body, running for thirty-two weeks, the anger in Tang Ao's heart calmed down.

When the East was white, Tang Ao woke up from his meditation, feeling ethereal like never before, as if last night's experience had made him improve his cultivation of the Dao Sutra and enter another realm.

Tang Ao washed his hands in silence and changed into plain white clothes, today the news of Li Hong's death will spread, and he is going to see Li Hong off.

Tang Ao pushed the door out and met a eunuch, seeing the eunuch's stunned eyes, Tang Ao asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"It's nothing, it's just that I suddenly feel like Tang Gongzi is a different person, and the slave and maid can't say it, it's really strange that it's still Tang Gongzi." The eunuch said resignedly.

Tang Ao's heart moved, the eunuch's words were unintentional, but in line with his feelings and feelings last night, it seems that there must be progress in the cultivation of the Dao Sutra, but unfortunately this is useless, and it is impossible to transform this body cultivation into actual combat effectiveness, resentment and obsession, it is better to hide it in the bottom of his heart first.

The news of Li Hong's death really spread, and when Tang Ao saw Li Xian, Li Xian's eyes were red and swollen, and he didn't know if he was crying and his eyes were broken.

"Lord, the festival mourns and changes." After Tang Ao said this, he felt that he had really grown up, just like what was written in the book, with the city government and scheming, he suddenly found that the distance between him and Li Xian was so far away.

Just when Tang Ao felt this way and was sad, Li Xian's actions brought this sense of distance closer all of a sudden.

Maybe it was because he couldn't vent in front of others, Li Xian faced Tang Ao and still regarded Tang Ao as the little scholar who was brought into the palace by him and accompanied him to study.

Li Xian cried loudly, and hugged Tang Ao's thighs in a disorderly manner, choked up several times, and intermittently told the brotherly love with Li Hong in his mouth, from the frolicking and fun when he was young, to the brothers, friends and brothers when he was older, the true feelings were undoubtedly revealed.

Tang Ao felt the same way, his eyes moistened and he told Li Xian about Li Hong's experience yesterday, Li Xian heard that Li Hong was eating bark and grass roots, and was reprimanded by his mother Wu Zetian for speaking for his two sisters, so he left Chang'an City to go to Hebi Palace to relax, causing him to cough up blood and die of fatigue, crying even more fiercely.

Tang Ao didn't say the real cause of Li Hong's death, this was the obsession in his heart, while comforting the heartbroken Li Xian, he secretly made an oath that he would kill Ming Chongyan in this life.

The reality is often extremely ironic, one of the people who presided over Li Hong's funeral was the murderer Ming Chongyan, the injuries on Ming Chongyan's face have been completely recovered, giving people a feeling of fairy wind and bones, beside Li Zhi and Wu Zetian, like a real immortal, floating out of the dust and attracting people's attention.

Ming Chongyan's divine sense suddenly gave birth to a hint of alarm, and his eyes seemed to casually glance around, but he didn't find anything.

Tang Ao retracted his gaze and looked around for the person he was looking for, Xinyue didn't come, I don't know if it was those words last night, which made Xinyue ashamed and didn't dare to come over.

The Tang Dynasty cannot live without a prince for a day, and not long after Li Hong's funeral, Li Xian, the king of Pei, was canonized as the crown prince and moved to the East Palace.

As the relationship between Tang Ao and Xinyue turned cold, Tang Ao had not entered the palace for half a year, even if Li Xian asked him to enter the palace several times to accompany Princess Taiping, he was also rejected by Tang Ao for reading poetry and books hard, and meeting friends with literature.

Tang Ao is dedicated to learning and has the intention of fame, Li Xian is the happiest, Li Xian is very appreciative of Tang Ao's talent, of course he doesn't want Tang Ao to be an attachΓ© in the British Prince's Mansion all his life, a manly husband, he should have gone on the horse to find the marquis, and he should have been on the horse to find the marquis, and he should have been on the horse to think of the assistant!

What Li Xian didn't know was that Tang Ao had studied poetry and books hard, but his heart was even more ardent and urgent.

Early this morning, Tang Ao had just picked up "Zuo Chuan" and was about to read, when a little eunuch came to report: "Tang Gongzi, someone has cast a famous assassination, I don't know if Tang Gongzi will see it or not?" ”

Tang Ao was slightly surprised, although he had also met friends with his friends many times in the past six months, he was not a nobleman of the dynasty, and he was not a dignitary, and it was a little strange that someone still threw a name at him.

Tang Ao took the name thorn over, and the name of the person was written on a red piece of paper, Zhao Daosheng?

Tang Ao had an amazing memory, and remembered that he had indeed seen this Zhao Daosheng half a month ago, this person had a lowly status, and seemed to be someone else's house slave.

"Let him in!" Tang Ao put down the famous thorn, he didn't understand why a house slave wanted to see him, and if he didn't ask, he would inevitably disturb his mood.

After waiting for a while, under the leadership of the eunuch, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy walked into the study, Tang Ao saw that it was indeed Zhao Daosheng who he had seen, and the reason why he had an impression of a house slave was mainly Zhao Daosheng's appearance.

Tang Ao thinks that he is as rich as jade, and his appearance is better than Pan An, but Zhao Daosheng in front of him is more handsome than Tang Ao, but he has a little more feminine and delicate, and he looks more like a girl.

Zhao Daosheng first bowed his hand, and then was about to kneel down to salute, Tang Ao immediately helped him up and instructed the little eunuch to make tea.

"The villain took the liberty to visit, and Meng Tang Gongzi received him, I am really grateful." Zhao Daosheng didn't drink tea, and he didn't dare to sit down, so he bowed slightly and complimented.

Tang Ao said a few polite words, and when he saw Zhao Daosheng talking about something else, he frowned slightly: "I don't know what happened to the famous assassination?" ”

Zhao Daosheng also wanted to pat Tang Ao's ass and say what he meant, but when he saw Tang Ao asking, he had a bitter face, and his eyes moistened: "Tang Gongzi, it's really not a secret, the villain has encountered a difficulty, and there is really no way to ask for help, and I hope that Tang Gongzi can lend a hand, the villain is grateful, and he must be a cow and a horse, and he will be rewarded with grass." ”

Tang Ao is no longer a child, he is upright, but he will not be fluttering when he is said a few good words, and then he takes everything to his body, and asks in a deep voice: "I don't know what you are asking for?" ”

Zhao Daosheng was stained with tears, and with his face that was more beautiful than a woman, he had the taste of Xizi's pity, and then told him what he wanted to ask Tang Ao about.

Zhao Daosheng has a distant uncle, who is also a famous man in the dynasty, who was once an official in the mansion of Li Yuanyu, the king of Deng, and later lived in Luozhou after the expiration of his term, and Tang Ao also heard of this person.

"It turned out to be Mr. Lu Zhaolin." Tang Ao has read several poems by Lu Zhaolin, although the Tang Jinshike does not test poetry, but among the literati, poetry is very weighty, and Tang Ao respects everyone like Lu Zhaolin very much.

It's just that this poet and writer seems to have a bad year, and a few days ago he was suddenly imprisoned, and his relatives and friends rushed to rescue him, and Zhao Daosheng also asked Tang Ao for it.

Although Tang Ao has no official position, people with some identities in Chang'an City know that Tang Ao is deeply valued and trusted by King Li Xian, and his appearance is still secondary, and it is the key to influence Li Xian.

At this point, Tang Ao still did not let go of Zhao Daosheng's request, picked up the teacup and asked, "I don't know what mistakes Mr. Lu Zhaolin made?" How can he be arrested and imprisoned? ”

"It's not that dog Taoist priest Ming Chongyan......" Zhao Daosheng was angry when he mentioned this matter.

"Smack!" Tang Ao's hand holding the teacup involuntarily used force, and he actually crushed the teacup, which startled Zhao Daosheng.

"The teacup is not strong." Tang Ao quietly put the scattered tea cup on the table, and hesitated: "Ming Chongyan? But is that Taoist priest who is trusted by the emperor and queen today? ”