Chapter 144: Ice and Fire
Li Deyu invited Cui Heng, Cui Shen, and Chen Yixing to jointly perform, and invited the privy envoy Yang Qinyi to Zhongshu Province.
Yang Qinyi first told the emperor, "Your Majesty, the prime minister and other ministers jointly played. ”
Wu Zong supports his forehead, one side wants to kill, one side wants to save, he tends to cut the grass and eradicate the roots.
Then the fold was sent to Wuzong's case, and the emperor approved the fold to intercede for Li Jue and others.
Li Deyu wrote, "Li Jue and others are guilty, and they can be degraded again, and they will never be accommodating." But they should be interrogated first, and the charges should be made clear to others, and it is not too late to kill them. Now, without consulting our ministers, they sent messengers to hunt down and kill the three of them. Those who heard the news were shocked and frightened. I hope that Your Majesty will open the Yanying Hall and discuss this matter. ”
The ministers jointly played, and Wu Zongzhun played. Junchen came to Yanying Palace, "Aiqing, please take a seat." ”
Tang Wuzong gave a seat to Deyu, but Deyu did not sit. The four of them knelt down at the foot of the steps with tears in their eyes.
"Your Majesty should be cautious about this matter, so as not to regret it. ”
Wu Zong replied solemnly: "I have no regrets. ”
"Li Aiqing, please be seated."
Deyu kowtowed at the bottom of the steps, "Please think twice, and ask Your Majesty to consider the proposal of the ministers." ”
Wu Zong ordered Li Deyu to sit three times in a row, and Deyu knelt at the foot of the steps and insisted on not sitting.
Deyu and the others pleaded, "Your Majesty may be gracious to spare the three people from the death penalty, and not let the three people be killed, and everyone thinks that they died unjustly." I didn't get His Majesty's will today, and the ministers didn't dare to sit down. ”
Tang Wuzong looked at the powerful minister with gray hair, knelt down and wept, and couldn't bear it in his heart. To say yes or not to agree?
He struggled in his heart, and was silent for a long time, Tang Wuzong got up and came to Deyu's side, and helped him up with his own hands, "Aiqing, please sit down, I am willing to let them go for the sake of old Aiqing." ”
Deyu was overjoyed when he heard this, he was in his fifties, and his skills suddenly became vigorous. The four of them danced hand in hand at the foot of the steps, thanking the emperor for his grace.
Tang Wuzong couldn't help but smile when he saw the minister's excited and happy appearance.
"Spread my will, Jin Wuwei quickly sent someone to recover the messenger."
It was even more degraded to the history of Chaozhou Thorn, Li Jue was the history of Zhaozhou Thorn, and Xue Yuansheng was the secretary of Guanzhou.
Jin Wuwei received the order, and quickly sent people to ride thousands of miles of good horses, with the imperial edict, day and night to recover the three messengers.
Li Jue and the three of them parted ways and rushed to their respective posts. Although he was demoted to another office, he was able to escape death, which is also a blessing in misfortune.
The three of them were grateful for the grace of God and the prime minister. As everyone knows, they left the capital with their front feet, and the messenger who asked for their lives chased after them.
Li Jue went all the way south and came to Banqiao Post Station on this day. Li Jue and his two entourages stayed at the post station to rest, and he used to read at night. Two attendants in one room, one for himself.
The two attendants in the next room were snoring, and Li Jue thought that he would have to sleep overnight tomorrow and prepare to go to bed.
He went out to the toilet in the dark, and the latrine was behind the inn, and he turned over the gable. The neighing of horses was heard.
"We've been chasing these days, and we haven't seen Li Jue's shadow yet." One man said,
Another voice said, "Li Jue, an old man, will definitely not be able to go fast." We don't have to be in a hurry, catch up with him one day sooner or later, and deal with it and go back to the business. ”
Li Jue stood on the edge of the gable, listening to the conversation between the two, and the cool air rose from the soles of his feet.
Li Jue said secretly, thanks to his gratitude for the grace of God, he got up early and hurried away greedily. If you are lazy, you have become a ghost under the knife, and you will end up with the people in the Xuanzheng Hall that day.
Li Jue quietly slipped to the stable, and his mount was a thousand-mile horse. When you have eaten enough forage, you can stand and take a nap.
Li Jue walked up to it and whispered, "Old friend, we still have to go in the starry night." ”
The horse snorted, Li Jue untied the reins and led the horse out of the post station.
The two messengers presented official documents, and the post station messenger arranged rooms for the two and brought meals.
"Li Jue, has Lord Li been here?" The messenger asked.
"Master Li is here at night, and he rests in his room." The officer replied.
"Which room?"
"Of the two rooms at the back of the main hall, one for him and one for his two attendants."
The Shence Army sent personnel to the army, and the messengers arranged the main house for them. The two of them entered the room and had dinner first.
From the window, you can see the two rooms in the back, one of which is still lit.
Li Jue walked out of the post station, looked at both sides, the road ahead was blocked, and the people who asked for their lives were in hot pursuit. He mounted his horse and rode along the way back.
What can I do when I go back, the edict of the request was given by the one on the throne.
In the dark night, Li Jue's heart was at a loss, and the trees on both sides of the road were like monsters lurking in the dark night, jumping out at any time to give him a fatal blow.
Li Jue is full of relatives, and the old tears are rampant. I think he has been up and down in the sea for most of his life, and he has been conscientious, diligent, and loyal to Datang, and in the end he ended up dying in a different place.
The two envoys were full of food and drink, came to Li Jue's room, raised their hands and knocked on the door.
The attendant opened the door and came out and asked, "What are you looking for Master Li?" ”
"On the emperor's orders, I came to arrest the guilty ministers."
The two envoys pushed the entourage and entered Li Jue's room together. There was no one in the room, only a light that flickered on and off.
"Where's Li Jue?"
Where did the old man run in the middle of the night? The attendant crawled out of the bed, still confused.
"Where's the adult?" The two attendants asked each other.
A messenger ran to the latrine to check that there was no one around, and then ran to ask the officer, "Have you seen Li Jue?" ”
The guests are all stationed, who still pays attention to their whereabouts. The officer shook his head, "I don't see it." ”
A supernatural event in the Great Black Sky? A big living person has no trace out of thin air, Li Jue can't be unpredictable? Guessing that they were coming after him, he slipped away first.
The messenger brought the messenger to the stable, and the messenger said, "This is the guest's mount, four horses in all, and the rest are the horses of the inn." ”
"How many guests?"
"Li Jue and the two of you, there are no other guests tonight."
The old man really ran away. The two envoys tied up Li Jue's entourage and ordered them to guard it.
"When was the last time you two saw Li Jue?"
"When we came here, the two of us rested after dinner, and adults generally read books and slept late."
The two messengers rode on horseback to chase Li Jue. Li Jue did not ride his horse and galloped, and the night drowned him.
Two fast horses came from a distance, and the sound of horses' hooves knocked on Li Jue's heart. Is it for him that someone came? Isn't there one, how many are it?
Two Jin Wuwei passed by Li Jue's side and reined in their horses. This person staggered on the side of the road in the middle of the night, and Jin Wuwei took out a fire fold and held it up to shine on Li Jue's face.
"Who are you, and why are you stuck here late at night?"
"Someone who can't find his way." Li Jue saw that the other party was Jin Wuwei.
"Isn't this Li Jue, Lord Li?" Someone who came recognized him.
What should come will always come, Li Jue was silent, he thought that the two groups of people were in a group.
"Lord Li, who are you?" The old man himself looked gloomy outside in the middle of the night.
"It's useless to talk too much, let's do it." Li Jue said sadly.
"Master Li, you misunderstood, we are here to save you on the orders of the emperor."
Li Jue thought, this time is too tired, his head can't turn around, Li Jue didn't understand the words of these two people.
Someone wants to kill him, someone wants to save him, all on the emperor's orders, does the emperor kill him or let him go?