Chapter 1196: Turning the Face
"Li Lan, you're crazy!"
Li Longji was shocked and angry, but he didn't dare to raise his voice, so he actually roared. But what made him gasp was that Li Lan casually spilled the half of the tea in his hand on the ground, and didn't care about the copper kettle on the small stove, and looked at him with a pair of eyes. In the past few years, Li Longji was either busy with state affairs or having fun with his concubines, and he never paid much attention to his children and grandchildren, and Li Luan almost didn't get much attention from him because of his ugliness. At this moment, when the four eyes of father and son looked at each other like this, he suddenly saw something he was most familiar with from Li Luan's gaze.
That's the light of ambition and not willing to be lonely! I think when he was the king of Linzi County, he had such eyes!
Li Lan saw Du Shiyi move his body slightly, and he suddenly shouted: "Xiangguo, please don't move!" β
Just a flip of his wrist, and in an instant, there was a small and delicate hand crossbow in his hand. At this moment, not to mention that Du Shiyi immediately did not move, even Li Longji gasped.
At this moment, Li Longji no longer dared to think about the original script that he had instructed Li Lan to poison in the tea, and after trying his best to calm down, his voice trembled unconsciously: "Li Lan, do you know what this is doing?" Put it down, Du Qing has made great contributions to the country! β
"Great merit to the country? If he really made great contributions to the country, why did you instruct me to poison this tea and kill Du Xiangguo when I entered the palace last time? Li Lan asked casually, and when he saw Li Longji's pale face, and even large beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, he said meaningfully, "Grandpa, what you said before was indeed very touching, and that promise was indeed very moving. You said that Du Xiangguo had a different heart, and with heavy troops, he would usurp the Tang Dynasty sooner or later, so he wanted me, as the prince of the clan, to rise up and rape, and after the matter was completed, he allowed me to enter the East Palace......"
"Say no more!" Li Longji wanted to scream, but the sound he said was like a mosquito calling. Because, he was shocked to find that Li Lan suddenly turned the crossbow around and aimed it at him! At this moment, he only felt that all the hairs on his body stood up, where could he use the power of his father to intimidate this son whom he had never valued.
Seeing that Li Lan just moved the crossbow to Li Longji for a moment, and then aimed it at himself, Du Shiyi's eyes flashed, and then he said with a sinking face: "Your Majesty, can you tell the truth, what King Yong said is true or false?" β
"Grandpa, there is only one arrow in this crossbow, if you don't even dare to admit what you said, then I have to gamble to see if Du Xiangguo can give me a way to live after I remove the biggest stumbling block for him, or give me, the prince who has the biggest handle in his hands, to the throne!"
Li Longji didn't know what Li Luan wanted to do at all, and he was about to deny it resolutely, but his throat seemed to be choked by something, and he couldn't say a word. Although the flickering arrow was facing Du Shiyi, and it was no longer himself, he couldn't help but shudder, and then he softened his body and pleaded: "Fifteen Lang, I have something to say, I have decided to pass on the throne to you, why should you ......?"
"To this day, you're trying to lie to me? Grandpa, I'm not those two unlucky princes and brothers, I'm not Li Ju who is stupid and harder than the pillar, and I'm not Li Yao and Li Wan who are complacent just because they have a little literary name! As for the King of Guangping and the King of Jianning, they are even more stupid, knowing that their grandfather is such a cold temperament, and they still expect to go to the courtiers and let them save the prince's brother? Joke, if Grandpa could persuade him to come back, how could he have killed so many people in vain back then! Grandpa, do you just want to coax me to be the murderous knife, solve Du Xiangguo for you, and then throw me out to calm the anger? Don't look at the imperial doctor of the Imperial Doctor's Department who said that you won't live long, but as long as you live for one day, with your temperament, as long as there is a 1 in 10,000 chance, you will never be controlled, I know this character best! β
Li Lan paused slightly, and a cruel smile appeared on his face: "Because of me, I have the same temperament as Grandpa!" What I hate most is to be toyed with in the palm of my hand! β
Du Shiyi is not an immortal who has no last resort, he just deduced that Li Longji invited him to the sixteen princes mansion today with ulterior motives based on the princes whom Li Longji has met the most times in recent days. At least, it is definitely not what Li Longji swore to say about choosing the prince, but it has another purpose. He didn't know any of them, and he didn't know any of them, and he only felt that it was the same thing when he looked at their words and behaviors, but there was only Yongwang Li Luan, who had raised his vigilance since he first heard this name.
This Yongwang recruited Li Bai to enter the curtain in history, and once made a big noise in Jiangzuo, but now he is favored by Li Longji, how can there be no mystery in it? But he still miscalculated the resentment in the heart of Yongwang Li Lan, this kind of resentment is not as big as Cheng dΓΉ against Li Longji!
Therefore, at this moment, although Li Lan pointed his crossbow at his own master, he was-for-tat with Li Longji, as if he wanted to vent the anger in his heart that had been accumulated for decades, of course he would not say anything to provoke the fifteenth prince, but he just looked casually at the moment when his intentions were exposed, he pressed his chest and gasped, and his face was extremely ugly.
"You...... You...... Rebel ......"
The intention of using Li Lan had been completely seen through, and after Li Longji spit out these words with difficulty, seeing a sneering smile on Li Lan's face, he couldn't help biting the tip of his tongue hard, and kept his mind calm with the help of that strong tingling sensation. Such a masochistic method finally had a little effect, and he finally forced out a smile, and said word by word: "Okay, good, Fifteen Lang, since you don't believe in my promise, I can write an edict to you immediately." We are father and son, and we have anything to say......"
"Okay, Grandpa, please write now." Li Lan immediately smiled, and pouted in one direction in the grass pavilion, only to see that the four treasures of the study room were prepared in it, and then pointed at Du Shiyi with a crossbow and said, "Du Xiangguo, please go over there and send things to my grandfather." By the way, although my quasi-head may not be able to hit the point, but the crossbow arrow is coated with poison that seals my throat with blood, who asked Grandpa to remind me to use poison? Even if you really wear the best soft armor on your body, you don't have to gamble on the possibility of escaping death, do you? β
Du Shiyi didn't speak, he slowly stood up. did not pass in front of Li Longji, but deliberately bypassed the back of this son of heaven, seeing that his shoulders trembled with anger, he smiled in his heart, took a pen, ink, paper and inkstone and put it in front of and behind him, and did not return to his old position, so he sat down cross-legged on the other side.
Li Lan seemed to have been out of the way a long time ago, and he didn't care where Du Shiyi was sitting, so he looked at his father with a smile, but his tone was quite cruel: "Grandpa, my patience is limited, don't delay my time!" β
After the Tanglong coup d'Γ©tat killed countless people, Li Longji led his troops to besiege the city tower, and once wanted to kill his father Ruizong Li Dan, so as to never suffer in the future. At that time, it was Guo Yuanzhen who stopped in front of him with the only soldiers and became the only loyal minister. And after he sat on the throne, he made an example of the monkey and got rid of this guy who was in the way. But now, there are no thousands of troops and horses in front of him, no iron horses, swords and guns, only such a murderous son, but there is no loyal minister like Guo Yuanzhen in front of him!
He glanced at Du Shiyi and tried his best to tell him to be patient. Yongwang Li Lan is just a junior who has never been out of the Sixteen Princes' Mansion at all, and can only talk on paper, as long as he uses this paper edict to trick him into being fooled and kills Du Shiyi for himself, after he gets out, he can immediately let the forbidden army get rid of this rebel with a backbone! As for Li Lan's words, with this edict of succession that he was forced to write, no one will believe it, never!
Just after a little thought, Li Longji took a pen and dipped it in ink and wrote down the first word. Although his wrists were still trembling, the kung fu of nurturing qi and calming that had been sitting on the throne for many years was not idle after all. In an instant, he wrote a few lines of ink-drenched words on white linen paper. But when he held the paper roll and waited for the ink to dry, he wanted to roll it up and hand it to Li Lan, but he didn't want people to smile at him: "Grandpa, please don't move, Du Xiangguo, don't move if you're bothered." β
After warning the two, Li Lan stood up suddenly, and looked condescendingly at the handwriting on the white linen paper scroll. This is not only a reflection from the bottom up, but also a reflection from the right to the left, if it is replaced by someone else, so distracted, I am afraid that it may not be able to see the reason for spending twice as much time. However, Li Lan just swept his eyes casually, but he withdrew his gaze in two or three breaths.
"Okay, very good, Grandpa, you can write something like this, it is indeed enough to satisfy me." A sneer of sympathy appeared on Li Lan's face, and the arrow suddenly moved downward, and it actually shot at Li Longji like this!
Li Longji was completely stunned, but as someone next to him kicked him hard, he finally escaped the vital point, but he was still shot in the left shoulder by the crossbow arrow. The moment the arrow pierced into the flesh, Li Longji was completely stunned. He never thought that when Li Lan got his edict of succession, he didn't kill Du Shiyi, but directly aimed the arrow at him! Why? Why is that? Could it be that Du Shiyi and Li Lan colluded, the two had already reached a tacit understanding, and this scene was simply played for themselves?
Just when he fell into infinite despair and confusion, he only heard a sneer from Li Luan in his ears: "Du Xiangguo, if you want to blame you, you are a famous general with a vain name, and you don't have a good martial art to take the head of a general among thousands of troops...... Come on, come on, Du Xiangguo will stab His Majesty! β
The two sentences before and after were extremely soft, and the other was extremely loud, but they smashed into Li Longji's heart like a heavy hammer. At this moment, he finally fully understood Li Lan's treacherous plan.
This rebel actually wanted to kill him and blame Du Shiyi!
At the last moment before he fell unconscious, Li Longji saw Li Lan throw the crossbow, and suddenly he wiped the sole of his shoe, and there was a cold light in his hand, and then he rushed towards Du Shiyi. Although he desperately wanted to see this last result, he was lost in the deep darkness. He doesn't want to die yet, and he can't die either!