Li Qi was encouraged by his father, thought about it for a while, and decided to start with himself: "My father sent someone to Jiangling to preach and asked Li Shu to return to Beijing immediately. That night, the child unexpectedly found that the two soldiers who were in charge of guarding the child in the Gangneung palace were drunk and unconscious, giving me a rare opportunity to escape. So I slammed open the door, changed into the coat of one of them, and slipped out of the palace in the night. Now that I think about it, it seems that someone had arranged it all in advance, and it was deliberately trying to let me escape. ”

"Well, that's good. It is rare for Li Shu to come up with such a method in one day. ”

The Emperor nodded approvingly.

At that time, the child was still ******** thinking about rushing to Luo as soon as possible, and meeting with the delegation led by Lord Lin, so as to complete the mission of harmony under his father's instructions, and was worried that Li Shu would send someone to chase after the child found out that the child had escaped, and hid in Jiangling City until the gate of Tianming City was opened, and then he disguised himself as a beggar and went out of the city, and did not dare to take the official road, but only chose the country road and walked all the way south.

This walk straight out of a day and a night did not dare to stop, and to the east of the city of Bazhou outside an old gentleman temple, the child was really hungry and tired, originally thought of this old gentleman view in the begging for a bite of food, rest and then walk, who knew that as soon as he stepped into the door of the Taoist temple, suddenly felt dizzy, fell to the ground unconscious. ”

"My son has really suffered like this." The emperor felt sorry for his son, sighed lightly, and immediately guessed, "But the Taoist priest in the old monarch's temple saved my son?" ”

"It would not be surprising if an ordinary monk had saved the child. When the child woke up, he was surprised that it was an unkempt old beggar who rescued the child from the door and helped him into the room. What made the child even more incredible was that when the old beggar saw me awake, she opened her mouth and called me Your Highness. ”

"Oh? And such a strange thing? Could it be that this mother-in-law is the family member of one of the key officials who was convicted in the past court? The Emperor's eyes were blazing when he heard this, and he asked again with a guess.

"At first the boy guessed so, but the old beggar did not wait for me to sit up, but came up and embraced me, and wailed with tears in her eyes, 'Holy one, have you appeared in heaven?' Called Poor Dao met the little brother here today, so that the truth can be revealed to the world, and Poor Dao has no worries in this earthly world from now on, and can continue to accompany you in the Heavenly Palace......

The child was completely overwhelmed, and she was so firmly held by her, and after a cup of tea, she let go of me, stared widely, lifted the messy hair that had fallen to cover half of her cheeks, and asked me, 'Little brother, do you really not recognize me?' When you were a child, you were often taken by your grandfather to Minami Saint, and you loved to play with Poor Road at that time. Your beloved little horse is still there, but it was a gift to you on your fifth birthday......

She chattered and chattered until I mentioned the child's mount, and I suddenly remembered: Could she be the female Taoist priest who was enshrined as an immortal master by her great-ancestors? ”

"Like a fairy yuan?!"

The emperor muttered this familiar and unfamiliar name in his mouth, feeling incredulous: "Didn't she die many years ago when she was exiled to Yazhou shortly after her grandfather's death?" How could it be thousands of miles away in Bazhou? ”

The child stared at her wrinkled, but still beautiful face, and shed two lines of tears with excitement. Ruxian Yuan was very happy to see that I recognized her, and busily brought the food she begged for to relieve my hunger, and there was actually a small piece of meat in it.

Seeing me staring at the meat, with a salivating gluttonous look, she smiled and explained to me: "A year ago, Poor Dao had just settled here not long ago, and I happened to meet the old man who was here to watch the incense. From then on, every month and a half, he would send someone to bring a piece of meat, which could be regarded as a reward for the poor Dao. This meat is clean, but it doesn't hurt to eat it, Your Highness. ’

In this way, because she happened to meet Ruxian Yuan in the Laojun Temple in Bazhou, the child stayed in Bazhou for two more days, until she suddenly committed suicide, and the child was also mistaken for a murder suspect and caught assassinating Shi Yamen, and was recognized by Tang Kuan again and sent back to the capital. ”

If Li Qi's remarks were heard by ordinary people who did not know anything about the situation in the former dynasty and the harem in the past twenty or thirty years, they would seem prosaic and not enough to attract attention. However, since Li Qi uttered the name Ruxian Yuan, the emperor has been sensitively aware that the so-called shocking news that Li Qi was eager to show to him was probably inextricably linked to the current situation.

For example, Xianyuan and the provincial supervisor of the inner chamberlain at that time, General Yulinwei were listed as the three most favored subordinates of his grandfather. And because Ruxian Yuan was the only one of the three monks, she was more trusted by her grandfather, who believed in Taoism, than the other two. Especially in the past few years, the rebels captured Chang'an, my grandfather moved to Shu, and my father was left in front of the rebels to rebel after a group of ministers supported the pole, my grandfather was forced to be the emperor of the name and power, in the last few years of his old man's life, he has been with this female Taoist priest such as Xianyuan.

Because when the grandfather of the emperor died, the three major interiors were controlled by Empress Zhang, although the emperor was the crown prince, but he did not know much about what happened in the palace before his grandfather's death, and only vaguely heard that Ruxian Yuan was detained for bullying the monarch and plotting against the emperor soon after his grandfather's death, and he traveled five thousand miles to Yazhou, the most savage.

After so many years, the emperor can't remember that there is such a person as Xianyuan in his heart, but she just appeared at this time, and committed suicide only two days after saving Li Qi, which couldn't help but make the emperor feel suspicious in his heart: before she died, she must have entrusted her unfulfilled wish to Li Qi for many years, so she died without regrets and died.

As soon as he thought of this, the emperor fixed his questioning gaze firmly on Li Qi, hoping that he would quickly tell what Ruxian Yuan had entrusted to him before he died.

"Before Xianyuan died, she once told the child a big secret, but this matter is too important, and she has no evidence, and the child is not sure whether to tell the truth about this matter to his father......"

When the words came to his lips, Li Qi suddenly became hesitant again.

"Since this matter is so important, there is no reason why I don't know it. Regardless of whether there is evidence or not, as Xianyuan said, there are only you and my father and son in this Yanying Hall today, and you are still hesitant and refuse to tell the truth, do you believe me? ”

Li Qi was stared at by the emperor with a decent gaze, and when he heard this implicit reproach, he was so frightened that he buried his head deep in his chest, and said in a low voice: "According to Ruxian Yuan personally told the child, the great-ancestor was drugged and killed in the Nannei Changsheng Palace......"

The emperor only felt a "buzz" in his ears, and suddenly felt a burst of dizziness: Jinggong used bloody means to forcibly force the remnants of the Zhang family to take the initiative to withdraw from the Daming Palace, so that the palace was restored to calm for only more than a month.

He trembled and stretched out his right hand, groped out the dazzling piece of red glow from his arms, and raised it to his eyes and gazed at it reluctantly: this piece of red glow was given to him by his grandfather when he was ten years old, and on the same day, he was given the title of county king by his grandfather, becoming the first emperor to be crowned king, thus laying the foundation for the future succession to the great unification.

At this time, he suddenly heard from his eldest son that his grandfather did not die of illness, but died at the hands of others, and the first suspected murderer in the emperor's mind was his father, that is, the former emperor who had supported himself without losing the position of prince under the deliberate murder of the Zhang family. Yes, only out of fear of the lofty prestige that his grandfather had accumulated in the government and the opposition for decades, and for fear that the dragon seat he had already sat on would be unstable, would he have enough reason to do the retrograde act of killing his father. Only he has the power and ability to assassinate his grandfather to death without knowing it.

The emperor regretted it, regretting that he had forced Li Qifei to tell him this fact that was enough to pierce the sky. But the words had already come out of his son's mouth, and he concluded that there was no reason not to ask the murderer.

He held Chi Xiabi tightly in his palm and asked in a low voice: "Ruxian Yuan, didn't she tell you who the rebel who plotted to kill the Emperor Taishang was?" ”

"Li Jinzhong."

Li Qi avoided his father's gaze and bowed his head in reply. (To be continued.) )