According to his original plan, once he made a move to take down Zeng Qingze, Liu Yi would most likely try to protect his eldest disciple on the grounds of resigning and going into hiding. Unexpectedly, today Liu Yi uncharacteristically offered to take Zeng Qingze to Puzhou to exterminate the rebellious party led by King Jiangling. It was an unexpected surprise for him.

Liu Yi said the news that King Jiangling had defected to the rebels in front of all the ministers, and there was a sudden uproar in the ranks of the ministers in the Xingqing Palace: If it is true that King Jiangling defected to the enemy, then are his biological mother and sister still virgin martyrs? Will today's 100-day ceremony of the former emperor, which is particularly grand due to the martyrdom of the concubine's mother and daughter, be held on time?

Just as the ministers were whispering and discussing, Wang Bao'er walked into the Xingqing Hall with the emperor's latest will.

Headed by Li Jinzhong, hundreds of civil and military officials lined up, and they knelt down in front of Wang Bao'er. Wang Bao'er deliberately omitted the two sentences about Lai Xing'er in the holy decree, and soon finished announcing the will. It's just that after his decree was finished, there were bursts of discussion among the crowd of officials.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please remain silent and listen to what you have to say." Liu Yi stood in the crowd and shouted, "King Jiangling betrayed his ancestors and defected to the enemy, all of which was done by himself, and it has nothing to do with the concubine's mother and daughter. In fact, the imperial court had learned of the rebellion of King Gangneung a few days ago, but my current saint is based on benevolence and filial piety, and does not blame his mother for his son's guilt. Today is the sacrifice ceremony of the first emperor, and the Holy Supreme Commission Hui Guifei and Zhongshu Ling together for the funeral of the concubine's mother and daughter, which fully demonstrates the benevolence and forgiveness of the imperial court. With such a saintly and virtuous Son of Heaven, why is there a rebellion? Now that it is approaching, please go out of the temple to participate in the ceremony with the order of the middle book. ”

Seeing that the handle of the leaked military aircraft was turned into a good opportunity to praise the emperor's sainthood in the blink of an eye by Liu Yi, Li Jinzhong swallowed his saliva, and had to take the opportunity to say: "My emperor is Shengming." Please don't mess around, all the ritual rules must be subject to the arrangements of the Emperor Pei's envoy to the mountain mausoleum......"

"Your Excellency, your Excellency."

Li Jinzhong led hundreds of officials to walk out of the Xingqing Palace, accompanied by a series of calls, Wu Xiaozhong stumbled in, panting and shouting to Li Jinzhong: "The emperor wants to come to Xing'er to bury the first emperor, my lord, go and save his little life." ”

Li Jinzhong had completely given up on Lai Xing'er in his heart three days ago, and wanted to ignore Wu Xiaozhong at this time, not admitting that Liu Yi and Jing Yuncong heard the news that Lai Xing'er's life was difficult to protect, and almost at the same time stepped forward, Liu Yi gave Jing Yuncong a look, and asked Wu Xiaozhong loudly first: "What did you say, Gonggong Wu?" Lord Li's life-saving benefactor is about to die? Oh, this little brother has some friendship with Zaixia, and Zai Xia is willing to go with Master Li to beg the emperor to let him live. Ladies and gentlemen, please wait a moment, and the two of us will go and go back. ”

After that, regardless of Li Jinzhong's reluctance, he picked him up and walked out.

In front of everyone's eyes, Li Jinzhong had a hundred reluctances in his heart, so he had to follow Liu Yi out of the Xingqing Hall and rush towards the side hall.

It was three quarters past the hour, and there was only a quarter of an hour before the ritual began. Jing Yuncong often heard his daughter talk about this Xing'er, and he had a relationship with him, and he was worried about his safety, so he followed him. As soon as the important ministers at the head of the civil and military class left, the rest of the people, no matter what kind of thinking they had, also pulled out of the Xingqing Hall and followed.

At that time, Jing Xuan had been strictly ordered by the emperor to leave the side hall and go to the Nanxun Hall to prepare for the beginning of the ceremony. Jinping cried like a tearful man, and stayed by Lai Xing'er, who was surrounded by all the sergeants. The emperor stood in front of the side hall with a gloomy face. Only Lai Xing'er, who was tied up like a brown child, looked a little gloomy, but on the whole he still seemed relatively calm, as if for him, there was no longer a big difference between life and death.

"I don't know why the emperor wants to execute Lai Xing'er?" Li Jinzhong looked back at the influx of ministers, cheered up, and asked the emperor.

The emperor wanted to execute Lai Xing'er on the grounds of martyrdom for the first emperor, but it was originally just a temporary killing attempt. was suddenly told by Jinping that the secret of Xing'er's body was revealed in a loud voice, and he couldn't help but be angry, and scolded Jing Xuan away, thinking about how to deal with this bold and impostor eunuch, and was asked by Li Jinzhong, who was ashamed to tell him the truth, and only vaguely responded: "Father Shang, don't intercede for this scoundrel child, what he committed is really a big crime of bullying the king." ”

"Your Majesty, you know, this Xing'er only saved the life of the old minister, even if he has tens of thousands of not, please read it in the face of the old minister and spare his life."

"What are you all doing here?" The emperor did not reply directly to Li Jinzhong, and questioned the ministers who were gradually surrounding him.

"Pei Baiyao."

"The minister is here."

"Father Shang, Jing Gong, and Mr. Liu will stay for the time being, and you will take the rest of the people to the altar to wait first. What kind of system is it all around here! The Emperor ordered.

The emperor issued an order, and although most of the civil and military officials wanted to know whether the powerful Li Jinzhong could save the life of the little eunuch who had just saved him, they had to follow Pei Baiyao to leave the side hall and walk towards the altar set up in the south.

When everyone walked away, the emperor said to Li Jinzhong: "I know that Lai Xing'er has just saved Shang's father, but what he has committed this time is a great crime that has never been committed since the founding of the country, and even if he dies, it will be difficult to atone for his sin. ”

The news that Xing'er left the palace without permission Li Jinzhong had heard from his subordinates. According to the eunuch without the permission of the emperor or the concubine in charge of the harem, it is a capital crime to leave the palace gate without permission, but now in this year of chaos, who will care about these many rules. Since the first emperor regained Chang'an, the palace people and eunuchs in the three major palaces did not say that they went out of the palace gate without permission, and there were always three or five people who secretly ran out of Beijing a year, and some of them were found by the officials in various places and escorted back to Beijing. The emperor kept saying that Xing'er had committed a heinous crime, but to Li Jinzhong's ears, it seemed that he was deliberately exaggerating and refuting his own face.

In the past, Li Jinzhong would do his best to save Xing'er no matter what his considerations were, but since he realized that Xing'er probably knew the true whereabouts of his biological mother, but he pretended not to know in front of him, playing hide and seek with himself, so he decided to give up Lai Xing'er, he completely lost interest in this nephew who he brought out of the idle stable.

Therefore, although Li Jinzhong was dissatisfied with the emperor, he did not insist any longer, but only spread his hands helplessly at Liu Yi and shook his head, meaning that I can no longer do anything, and you can only go out by yourself to save it. (To be continued.) )