In Chang'an City, the East Palace Linde Palace. The crown prince Li Chun seemed to be ten years old overnight. Lu Yi came in quietly, bowed and saluted:

"His Royal Highness the Prince."

Li Chun hurriedly raised his head and asked:

"Is there any news from my father?"

Lu Zhen shook his head and sighed:

"Not yet. The ministers wanted to report to the prison state, and various localities reported that the activities of the Tibetan and Uighur spies had been rampant recently, and it was necessary to take precautions. The supervising state is requested to make a decision as soon as possible. ”

Li Chun said indignantly:

"Lu Xianggong, right now, the queen mother and a few of you are still treating the widow as a prisoner. Internal and external troubles, what decision do the widows make? ”

Lu Zhen persuaded and said:

"The prison is the prince of the country, and he must not give up on himself, but should cheer up. Lao Chen thinks that His Royal Highness King Tan and His Royal Highness King Jun are just worried about Your Majesty, Your Highness must not think about it, if this is really the case, then you have fallen into the trap of the villain. In this way, I am afraid that I will disappoint Your Majesty. ”

Li Chundao:

"Lu Xianggong, how can the widow not know? However, the accumulation of broken bones! Did Lu Yuanying find out anything there? ”

Lu Zhen said:

"Not yet. Lu Yuanying found an informant who belonged to the Department of Grain and Straw Statistics, but the informant was killed the next day. Lu Yuanying is finding another way, striving to find out the truth as soon as possible and restore His Royal Highness's innocence. ”

Li Chun said dejectedly:

"I'm afraid that when he finds out, it won't be of much help to state affairs."

Lu Zhen said:

"Please forgive Your Highness for the old minister's blunt words, the old minister secretly thinks that His Royal Highness's handling is indeed inappropriate."

Li Chundao:

"Lu Xianggong, how can the widow not know!"

But there was no trace of remorse on his face. The improper handling that Lu Zhen was referring to was the incident of Guo's cane killing the palace maid that day. In fact, if you want to say this, it is indeed Guo's decision on the spot, and the prime ministers, including the queen Wang, are all in favor, but the bad thing is that somehow the news leaked out, and it became a rumor of killing people and killing people - in fact, it is also killing people and killing people, but the rumors of killing people and killing people are not the same as the actual killing and killing of mouths, which caused a lot of trouble to the crown prince Li Chun. The prince's younger brothers, who didn't believe in him in the first place, didn't believe him even more.

Yesterday, after Li Jing, the king of Tan, and Li Wei, the king of Jun, knocked on the door of the Huaqing Palace again and were not allowed to enter, the brothers led the nine princes into the Daming Palace to ask to see the queen. Tan Wang Dao:

"Queen Mother, there are rumors in the market at present, which is detrimental to the country, and the January period that my father said is approaching, but I don't see my father or the prince of the prison country have any moves. The children were worried and worried that there would be changes, so they came to disturb the queen mother in the name of unfilial piety, and asked the queen mother to lead the children to the Huaqing Palace to persuade the father to return to Chang'an, so as to calm the rumors, calm the people's hearts, and consolidate the country. ”

If you want to talk about Queen Wang, that is a famous honest person, and the relationship with the emperor and his wife has always been very good, Li Jing and Li Wei'er also saw this point before asking to come to the door, but they didn't expect Queen Wang to suddenly exert her power and scold all the nine princes for a bloody squirt, so that the matter was suppressed. This also relieved Li Chun, but the situation was indeed extremely unfavorable for the prince.

Lu Zhen looked at the aggrieved prince, and suddenly said loudly:

"May I ask who your Excellency is, sitting in the Lin De Palace?"

In the Huaqing Palace, Princess Youning sat in front of the window, staring out the window blankly, completely ignoring the cold. Several palace maids knelt on the side, and Gou Sheng stood on the side, persuading:

"Your Royal Highness, close the windows and be careful of the cold. Otherwise, Your Majesty will definitely blame the old slaves when he returns. ”

Gou Sheng's age is actually not old, but after sitting in the position of the young eunuch, his speech has become more and more old-fashioned. Youning turned her head, two huge tears hanging on her cheeks, and asked:

"Father-in-law Gou, you are a trustworthy person by your father's side, you say, can your father return safely?"

Gou Sheng's tone was sluggish, and he said:

"Your Majesty is auspicious, so you can naturally come back safely."

Seeing that Youning didn't speak, Gou Sheng said tentatively:

"Your Highness, is Luoyang fun?"

Youning Road:

"Without news from my father, it's not fun anywhere. I knew that I would have been waiting in Luoyang. ”

Gou Sheng smiled:

"The princess is a child. If you wait in Luoyang, won't we be asked by the two princes here in Huaqing Palace? Then isn't our Tang dynasty in chaos? The emperor was known by those rebellious ministers and thieves outside, and he couldn't come back smoothly. Hey, Your Highness, how do you know that there will definitely be something here in Huaqing Palace, and you will come back on time? ”

Youning Road:

"When I was in Luoyang, Zhao Guogong sent someone to inform me, and I rushed back day and night."

Then he turned his head out of the window and said:

"I don't know if Zhao Guogong has found his father."

In the camp of Yuqingxing, he rode a fast horse to the camp gate and shouted:

"Jinxiang war report, Jinxiang war report, Liangguo public war report!"

Passing through the front hall, through the cloister, the messenger came to the middle hall of the camp, and after being ordered to enter, he knelt down on one knee and said:

"Marshal, the Duke of Liangguo pulled out Jin Township yesterday, beheaded 3,000 people under Wang Xing, captured more than 4,000 people, and the last general of the special task force presented the victory document and Wang Xing's head!"

Li Jifu suppressed his heart that wanted to beat out, and said:

"Bring it on!"

Naturally, there was a camp to present the victory document and the wooden box containing Wang Xing's head. After reading the success paperwork, Li Jifu felt that his heart was beating even harder. It was a timely victory. The Ya wanted to open the wooden box for Li Jifu to see, and Li Jifu said:

"No need, just send it to Gongcao for inspection."

Then he called the secretary and said:

"You go and calculate, and I'm going to allocate the reward of the Liangguo Public Office."

The secretary obeyed the order. Li Jifu interrogated the messenger and said:

"Does the general know where Liang Guogong is now?"

The Messenger said:

"Qi Qi Xianggong, after my marshal took Jinxiang, he immediately divided his troops into two routes, one was led by General Li Dingjin to respond to the Xuanwu army, and the other was led by my marshal himself, and went straight to Yanzhou."

Li Jifu laughed when he heard this, felt that the boulder that had been pressing on his chest for many days had loosened a lot, and said to Han Yu:

"Retreat, Fu Zhi is really handsome!"

This strategy was discussed by Li Jifu and Han Yu yesterday, and in the entire front line, Han Yu was the third person to know that the emperor was trapped in Ziqing. Unexpectedly, as soon as Li Yu took Jinxiang, he made the right decision, which couldn't help but make Li Jifu feel very relieved. Really smiling, I suddenly felt dizzy, my eyes were dark, and I almost fell over. Han Yu hurriedly stepped forward to support him, and shouted:

"Lee Sang-gong, Lee Sang-gong."

Li Jifu closed his eyes and stretched out his palm, asking Han Yu not to shake him. The doctors came in one after another, but Han Yu stopped them from speaking. The messenger sent by Li Yu stood there at a loss. After a long while, Li Jifu opened his eyes and said softly:

"It's better."

The medical officer stepped forward and asked Li Jifu how he felt. Li Jifu's answer was nothing more than dizziness, dizziness, tinnitus, and the like. After the medical officer finished asking, Li Jifu smiled bitterly:

"This symptom is very similar to that Du Sikong, and it seems that his true appearance will inevitably have to be bled out."

Han Yu saw that Li Jifu came to his senses, so he hurriedly asked everyone to withdraw, and ordered his own soldiers to watch the middle hall and not let the idlers and others approach. Li Jifu said weakly:

"What about the little general from Ziqing? Don't forget to tip him. ”

Han Yu realized that there was another one on the side, and he hurriedly beckoned this young general to go. Li Jifu rested under the care of a medical officer. The medical officer asked Li Jifu to lie down, but where was Li Jifu willing to lie down? He also ordered someone to call Han Yu in, and instructed:

"Retreat, don't forget, send a Taoist document to Li Guangyan, and order him to choose a day to enter the army."

After finishing this sentence, he lay down to rest, but after the person rested, his mind was still moving. Both the medical officer and Han Yu were worried. I only hope that the former enemy soldiers will win more battles, and I hope that the emperor will return as soon as possible.

"Stop, stop!"

After leaving Yunzhou for forty or fifty miles, Guo Rihu's two big cars were suddenly stopped. This is a small forest on the edge of a gentle slope, and the official road is passing through the woods. According to the rules of Yunzhou, Guo Rihu went to Yanzhou to take office because he left his family in Yunzhou as hostages. So he only brought a few cangtou and two wooden boxes on the road, and Li Shidao naturally sent a Marquis Yu with a few old and weak officers to escort and monitor. Manpower was really limited, so when a rattling arrow came out of the forest and nailed to the carriage, everyone was stunned.

They really didn't expect that there would be a ringing horse on the territory of Ziqing Li Dashuai. You must know that Li Dashuai is the biggest loud horse in Ziqing.

"We are Li Dashuai's people."

When a group of masked men rushed out of the woods, the leading Yu Hou jumped out of the carriage and stammered. The hand subconsciously pressed on the hilt of his sword.

The horses didn't pay attention to it at all, grabbed Yu Hou's chest, and asked:

"Say, who's in the car?"

Yu Hou was sullen for a while, and hurriedly said:

"Yes, it is the judge of Ziqing Li Dashuai, who went to Yanzhou to serve as the assassin Guo Rihu Guo. Haven't you heard of Master Guo? It's better to retreat quickly, or Li Dashuai-"

The ringing horse did not wait for him to finish, and said:

"Otherwise, what about Li Dashuai? Otherwise, Li Dashuai will reward us! ”

After that, he laughed and threw the Marquis of Yu aside. Another ringing horse pointed at Yu Hou and the officers and said:

"You guys, stay outside for two days and then go back to Yunzhou to resume your life. When he returned, he said that the person had been delivered safely. ”

The weird tone of yin and yang makes people feel creepy when they hear it. The officers wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask, so they had to go. Why don't you dare ask? Because Ziqing has been in Ziqing for so many years, there have been too many cases of transferring people out first and then killing them, no matter how far away, there are Gao Mu and Li Yinghao this year. This group of Xiangma had such a tone, and the officers naturally thought that it was sent by Li Shidao to solve Guo Rihu. And staying for two days is naturally because I want to hide people's eyes.

Not only did the officers think so, but even Guo Rihu in the car had a heart that sank to the bottom, and he fell crookedly on the side of the box, muttering:

"How can this be, how many years of love! Mr. Huang, Guo has troubled you. ”

It doesn't matter if Li Yu in the box can hear it. Li Yu was in the box, and his heart was also tense for a while. The few paddleheads brought by Guo Rihu were also as dead as ashes. The Marquis of Yu hesitated a little and said:

"But Li Dashuai ordered me ~~~~"

A ringing horse said impatiently:

"What do you want? If you are told to go back, you will go back, and then stay here and be careful of eating a knife! ”

After that, he kicked on the tree next to him, and the thick tree with the bowl mouth broke with a "rattle", fell on the official road, choked on a piece of floating ash, and scolded angrily:

"Grandma, don't show off if you don't have the ability!"

However, the Marquis of Yu and the officers were completely convinced that these so-called ringing horses were sent by Li Shidao, so they nodded and went busily. Seeing that the officers had run away, several of the men in Guo's mansion also panicked, and knelt down one after another to beg for mercy, some for themselves and some for Guo Rihu. Only one stood to the side, grim, without saying a word. The leading "ringing horse" was strange and asked:

"Why don't you beg for mercy?"

When the man saw the leader of the ringing horse and asked him, he hurriedly ran over and bent down and said with a smile:

"Uncle, the little ones are not in the same group as them. The small one was sent by Li Dashuai to monitor this Guo Rihu. Didn't Lord Wang mention it to you when you came? ”

Guo Rihu, who was sitting in the carriage, had an incredible expression on his face:

"Guo Da!?"

"Ringing Horse" Head:

"Oh? What physical evidence do you have? ”

The man hurriedly lifted the jacket, reached in and groped for a while, found something and handed it over:

"Master, please take a look!"

The head of the "ringing horse" took it and looked at both sides of it, and said:

"It's such a thing. Hmm, you're doing a great job. Come, lead the carriage into the woods. Brothers, take them all into the woods! ”

Some of them cried out, but they were frightened again. Guo Da was triumphant, gloating, and owed no affection. When the "ringing horses" saw that everyone was heading towards the forest, they glanced at the few people behind them, and the three "ringing horses" chased after the officers who had just run.

There is a clearing in the middle of the forest. The "ringing horses" stopped the carriage, looked aside the few people who had just begged for mercy, and left the one who pleaded for Guo Rihu by the carriage. The few isolated heads all felt that there was hope of escape.

The head of the "Ringing Horse" asked:

"Do you still want to intercede for Guo Rihu?"

But the pale head was very stubborn, and said:

"My life was saved by the master, so naturally I have to intercede for the master."

The head of the "Ringing Horse" nodded and said:

"Very good-the one named Guo Da, come here!"

Guo Da ran over and asked:

"Master, what do you command?"

Guo Rihu couldn't sit still any longer, lifted the curtain and leaned out and said:

"There is a wrong, there is a debtor, a certain is Guo Rihu, if you want to kill, you have to listen to the respect, but don't-"

Before he finished speaking, he saw Guo Da's body suddenly stiffen, and a white dangling blade pierced through his back. The "ringing horse" turned Guo Da's head and said to the stubborn man:

"Before you die, let me see what loyalty is."

After saying that, Guo Da fell straight to the ground. The "ringing horses" over there also took action and killed all those blue heads. Guo Rihu was stunned, and couldn't think of why, "Xiangma" threw the waist card into Guo Rihu's hand, and said:

"Lord Guo, pick your family to pay attention to it in the future."

He patted the stubborn shoulder again and said:

"Don't stand stupidly, go help and bury these corpses!"

The pale head and his legs went limp. The "ringing horse" turned his head again, pulled off the face towel, and said to Guo Rihu, who was standing in the carriage:

"Master Guo, thank you, please come out of our Master Huang!"

It turned out that this was what Duan Wenchang said, and someone answered. Guo Rihu woke up like a dream, and hurriedly pulled back to the carriage, but hit his head on the door frame and knocked his hat crooked. After a while, after cleaning the outside, Li Yu also came out of the carriage with the door, and when he saw the head of the "ringing horse", Li Yu smiled and said:

"Wang Wu, why did you come here and stretch your legs."

Wang Wu bent his knees, knelt down and said:

"Master, Wang Wu is incompetent, so I am tired!"

Li Yu naturally didn't blame him, and asked Wang Wu to get out of the car and move his legs and feet. After a while, the three people also came, and one of them had their own baggage in their hands. First of all, he asked Li Yu for peace and reported:

"Master, those officers are all solved."

Li Yu was noncommittal and said to Wang Wu:

"I'll leave it to you for now. I don't ask about other things, master, I only ask if you can send you and Master Guo to Yunzhou safely. ”

Wang Wu was overjoyed, knowing that this was Li Yu giving him a chance. Busy dispatching. It turned out that the three of them were holding the clothes and waist tags of those officers, and after Wang Wu asked Li Yu and Guo Rihu to board the car, he ordered his guards to quickly change their clothes.

Moments later, Guo Rihu's convoy re-entered the official road. Target: Yanzhou.

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