Li Chongzhao's heart touched slightly, and he watched Meng Yu's figure gradually turn into a small black spot in the snow, until he could no longer see it.

There was also a person in the snow who was also looking at Meng Yu's figure, Shen Mu just glanced at it, and then didn't raise his eyebrows.

No regrets......

He asked himself.

But no one came to tell him the answer.

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The cabinet was unusually warm, and the aroma of ambergris was long.

A touch of bright yellow sat upright on the high dragon chair, and Li Chengbian sat down beside him.

Li Chongzhao frowned slightly, but he still knelt down meticulously and saluted.

The emperor is no longer young, and his chubby body seems to be filled with cotton wool, which makes people look reluctantly energetic.

The emperor glanced at him and said with a smile: "What about the girl of the Meng family?" Didn't I come with you? ”

Li Chongzhao replied: "Miss Meng just stopped by with her son, and thought that there was something important to do, so she went home first."

The emperor smiled: "Really?"

Li Chongzhao bowed his head: "My son doesn't dare to deceive my father."

Li Chengbian also smiled: "The second brother has been standing outside for a while, does my father still want the second brother to stand and reply at this moment?" I'm afraid I'm going to freeze into a crunchy ice cube. ”

The emperor's hearty voice sounded in the room: "You talk a lot." After that, he said to Li Chongzhao, "Sit down, don't freeze." ”

Li Chongzhao sat next to Li Chengbian: "Thank you father."

Li Chengbian looked at him and smiled: "I just wondered again, is there anything important for the second brother to enter the palace in the morning to see his father?"

Li Chongzhao was shocked in his heart, Meng Yu's words were still echoing in his ears.

"Lord Wang, this world is so big, there is no place for you to retreat."

He closed his eyes.

After a long time, he got up again and knelt solemnly in front of the emperor.

The emperor raised an eyebrow at him.

Li Chongzhao bowed his head and said: "Father, son, please ask Your Majesty to give you a marriage."

Li Chengbian smiled slightly.

The emperor lazily asked: "Marriage is marriage, what are you doing kneeling like this, get up and talk back."

Li Chongzhao didn't move: "Erchen didn't dare to get up."

The emperor's laughter was even louder: "You are my son, I don't know what you are thinking." Tell me, which girl did you fall into?"

Li Chengbian said softly and slowly: "The second brother and Miss Meng's childhood sweetheart must be asking Miss Meng for marriage."

The emperor's smile was fixed on his face, and he said leisurely: "Chongzhao, is it?"

Li Chongzhao straightened up and looked directly at the emperor, his face was serious, and it was indeed unshakable firmness: "No, it is not Miss Meng who the son-in-law wants to marry, but a people's daughter in the son-in-law's mansion."

There was a deathly silence inside.

For a long time, I only heard the sound of the tea cup breaking.

The oncoming inkstone smashed over, and the blood instantly blurred his vision.

The snow stopped, but no one had the heart to rejoice.

At this moment, in the palace, inside and outside the emperor's interior, a row of guards stood side by side, holding a thick torture staff in their hands.

The emperor was supported by Chief Manager Su, wrapped in a thick mink fur collar, and looked coldly at the person kneeling in the snow.

The man was almost half-kneeling and half-lying, his body could no longer stand up after the rod, and there were blood stains all over his body, but he still stubbornly wanted to straighten his spine.

Behind him, Shen Mu also knelt in the snow.

The emperor looked at Li Chongzhao, who had a stubborn face, and said coldly: "I see that you don't cry when you don't see the coffin." Then he will be punished with the rod again.

Li Chengbian hurriedly stood up, knelt beside Li Chongzhao, bowed his head and said: "Father, don't be tortured anymore, the second brother has already realized his mistake, and I beg my father to forgive the second brother this time."

The emperor's face was a little pale, and he couldn't bear to see Li Chongzhao's face stained by blood: "I can't see that he has the slightest remorse."

Li Chengbian hurriedly turned to look at Li Chongzhao, and softly comforted: "Second brother, what kind of fool are you committing, quickly admit your mistake to your father."

Li Chongzhao's forehead was smashed by the emperor with an inkstone before, and at this time, the blood stains were pasted on his face, and some of them were washed away by the snow water, which was very embarrassing, where can he see the chic appearance on weekdays.

He laughed stupidly, and looked at Li Chengbian in a low voice: "Fourth brother, aren't you tired?"

Li Chengyan was stunned for a moment, because he was facing away from the emperor, so except for Shen Mu and Li Chongzhao, no one saw a sarcastic look on his face: "Second brother, what nonsense are you talking about?"

Li Chongzhao didn't look at him anymore, just straightened his body, the pain made every inch of his muscles pull and howl, but his face was still calm, he looked at the emperor: "There is nothing wrong with the son."

The emperor shouted three good words in a row, and the whole person was trembling with anger, and Mr. Su hurriedly supported him, looking at the little prince who had seen the big one since he was a child, he finally couldn't bear it, and also persuaded: "The prince should say a few words."

The emperor waved him away and ordered the guards beside him, "Pull the four princes away."

Li Chengbian couldn't struggle, so he had to be controlled by the guards.

The emperor said hatefully: "You backbone bastard, I will teach you a good lesson today, so that you dare to rebel again."

Then he ordered the guards to be punished with the rod again.

In the open snow, there were only sticks whipped and no cries of pain could be heard. Some timid palace maids simply didn't dare to look at it.

Li Chongzhao's clothes were wet and dry, the cold sweat from the pain, the blood that flowed, and the blood stained on his clothes wet again and again, but they were dried by the cold wind again and again.

His forehead was covered with sweat, and none of the guards who performed the cane punishment dared to release the water, or perhaps the mothers of the other princes in the harem had already told him, and some sticks actually hit him directly on the back.

It's just ten sticks, and his brain is already a little blurry.

The emperor on the far side didn't know what he was thinking, but Manager Su had to remind: "Your Majesty, if you continue to fight, the little prince will either die or be disabled."

The emperor hated and said: "This kind of rebel son, it is not a pity to die." But he still ordered someone to stop, but the anger was not gone, and he saw the sinking wood behind Li Chongzhao everywhere he looked, and pointed casually: "The little prince is used to believing the words of these pickled villains on weekdays, and the master was beaten, but he was indifferent, which shows that he has no conscience." He looked at Shen Mu coldly, "Come on, kill people with canes on the spot." ”

Li Chongzhao's originally vague mind was clearer again, he tried his best, but he could only bend his fingers, wanting to speak, and his throat was full of blood.

Immediately a guard stepped forward, perhaps because of the slaves, and the rod was no longer hiding from any place.

One of the guards at the head of the guard struck him down with a stick, and Shen Mu was caught off guard, a tooth rolled out, and his mouth was full of blood, dripping into the snow below. It's a little red hollow.

He frowned, his eyes turned away, but he didn't know where to look, and then he didn't say a word.

The stick hit his body like rain, and he was not as good as Li Chongzhao, only to hear a crisp sound, and the bone in his left leg was directly broken.

Despite this, there was no word.

The emperor said coldly: "It's all bastards."

Just when the last stick hit Shen Mu's head, Li Chongzhao didn't know where to save the strength and stopped it for him.

The wooden battle was broken on the spot.

Li Chongzhao spit out a mouthful of blood, and even his nose spurted blood foam.