The hall was silent for a while, only the sound of gusts of wind outside the hall was in my ears.

When Xiao Jiangyuan rolled to the ground, Li Fuguo leaned forward slightly, but his face did not change, and he turned a blind eye to everything. At this moment, he suddenly raised his eyes and stared at Xiao Jiangyuan and Li Longji's overlapping hands tightly.

The edges and corners of the lotus flower pierced the palm of his palm, and Li Longji was unaware. He resolutely put the lotus silver hairpin in Xiao Jiangyuan's hair, and stared deeply into her eyes, his gaze was clear and clear like never before: "I can't do it." You blame me for being too selfish, no matter what, I can't let you die, and I can't watch you die, I ...... Reluctant. ”

After Li Longji finished speaking, he let go of his embrace, got up and walked towards Li Fuguo.

Xiao Jiangyuan had his back to Li Fuguo, he didn't have the strength to stop Li Longji, and he couldn't see him kneeling on his knees in front of Li Fuguo, holding Li Fuguo's boots with both hands, leaning over and kowtowing, but he could clearly hear him say:

"I, Li Longji, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, beg Li Kaifu to save Xiao Kaifu's life."

Wang Chengen immediately cried bitterly, and even inadvertently bit Rong Niang's hand. Rong Niang gritted her teeth and couldn't bear to look at it again.

Among all the people, Xiao Jiangyuan seemed to be the calmest, but after a moment, he suddenly spurted out a mouthful of blood!

Li Fuguo ignored Li Longji anymore, picked up Xiao Jiangyuan and ran out of the Divine Dragon Palace.

The blood on the floor tiles was red, very dazzling, Li Longji staggered to this blood, knelt down weakly, and looked at it silently for a long time.

It's not that he doesn't know that today's farewell may be the last face of this life.

But he has no regrets.

After being surrounded by large and small medical officers through the curtain for a month, Xiao Jiangyuan's illness was finally cured. She has always been locked up in a room in Li Fuguo's private residence, and she can't take half a step, so she can only draw a picture on the wall with a lotus silver hairpin every day, and in addition, she reads books and is in a daze.

Li Fuguo would come to see her almost every day, but always in the middle of the night. If she hadn't slept at the time, he would have talked to her for a while, or about the officials, or about the government; If she slept, he leaned directly on the other side of the room

The dwarf on the side collapsed on the nest for one night, and the fifth watch got up and left with his eyebrows twisted at the beginning.

He was not as happy as Xiao Jiangyuan thought, but more upset, busy and tired, and a little dazed.

He never talked to her about Li Longji's recent situation until this day.

"I didn't tell you before because I really didn't know, because I didn't send anyone to inquire at all. I don't want to let him go, but now he is really not interesting to me - he actually went on a hunger strike, and called it 'Bigu', and then was discovered by Princess Xianyi and Princess Shou'an, they found Princess Yuzhen and Princess Hezheng, and the four of them not only quarreled outside the Shenlong Palace, but also made trouble in front of the saint. They don't know that the saint is also sick now, how can they care about filial piety? ”

"And then?"

Although this voice was soft, Li Fuguo still heard it very clearly, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

This is the first time Xiao Jiangyuan has spoken to him in more than a month.

"The saint handed over the emperor and the Divine Dragon Hall to Princess Hezheng, and from then on, the emperor was still the emperor who was high above, and the Divine Dragon Hall would not lack anything. Interestingly, Princess Hezheng only sent things, but refused to enter the palace again, saying that she was shameless to see her grandfather again. She obviously understands what kind of life the emperor lives in my hands, and the saints know it, but they don't plan to care. ”

But even so, when Princess Hezheng reprimanded him, the new emperor did not help him, and angrily reprimanded him for being presumptuous when he retorted, and ordered him to apologize to Princess Hezheng.

Although this could not shake his power, it made him very unhappy.

It seems that he, a powerful eunuch, is not glamorous enough.

"Master...... You said that between Empress Zhang and the crown prince, who should I choose? Don't look young princes, they are all grandfathers, an adult emperor is always not as easy to control as the emperor, Emperor Keer must listen to Empress Zhang more, and I will have to fight with Empress Zhang again when the time comes. That woman was too ambitious, and since the saint fell ill, she won over the prince and the king of Yue on the one hand, and me on the other, thinking that I didn't know,

It's really annoying. The prince seems to be docile......"

If Xiao Jiangyuan doesn't speak all the time, it's fine, now

When he opened his mouth, Li Fuguo always wanted to listen again: "Master...... Do you want to see the Emperor again? ”

Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, Xiao Jiangyuan was only silent for a moment, and said lightly: "Conditions." ”

Li Fuguo thought for a while and said, "It's very simple, kill him." ”

“…… Is this what a saint means? ”

"I might as well tell you that the saint's illness is not light, and the medical officers have nothing to do, so I don't know how long it will last. If the saint dies in front of the emperor, this court will be interesting, and it will be very troublesome for me to do things. If Master is willing to do the work for him, you can see him for the last time and see him off for the last time. What is the point of his life now? If he could die at your hands, he would be willing. Why did Master let him continue to suffer like this? ”

Xiao Jiangyuan agreed very happily. Although Li Fuguo was surprised and knew that something was wrong, he still sent Xiao Jiangyuan back to the Divine Dragon Palace. He stood outside the temple and waited for her, but in half an hour she came out. He followed her back to the private mansion, and only then did he hear her say calmly:

"I can't do it."

"So...... You're lying to me, you just want to see him? ”

"I also said what I needed to say and did what I had to do."

Li Fuguo was furious and directly imprisoned Xiao Jiangyuan in the prison of Dali Temple.

On this day, Li Longji has been groggy and collapsed on the couch. He could feel himself being fed warm, sticky porridge and hear someone whispering in his ear. The voice was so familiar to him that it forced him to open his eyes with all his might.

He saw Xiao Jiangyuan and watched her sit on the edge of the couch with her head down, concentrating on sewing the purse he was carrying. He didn't dare to speak, he was afraid that as soon as he spoke, the dream would be gone.

Or Xiao Jiangyuan found that he was awake, and while stuffing the sewn purse into his hand, he smiled gently: "You let me live, I listen to you, but how can you waste your life so much?" Don't do that again, you

Listen to me, too. And this purse, you must keep it safe......"

He couldn't hear the rest clearly. He began to be groggy again, closed his eyes without resistance, and only felt a warm kiss fall on his forehead before he lost consciousness.

When he woke up again, Li Longji was much more awake and had more strength in his body. He just wanted to sigh that it was indeed a dream, and he found that the purse was really in his hand.

He was stunned, and hurriedly opened the purse, and saw that there was a strand of black hair neatly inside, and there was a broken long-lived strand.

He suddenly clenched his chest with one hand, unable to make a sound for a long time.

Later, when he heard Rong Niang talk about it, he realized that Xiao Jiangyuan came to see him the day before yesterday.

Xiao Jiangyuan pretended to agree to Li Fuguo's conditions, in addition to coming to see him, he had another purpose.

She told Rong Niang about Li Fuguo's intention to murder the Emperor Taishang, and asked Rong Niang to tell Princess Hezheng, and then Princess Hezheng secretly presented to the new emperor. In the eyes of the subjects of the world, Li Fuguo's murder of Li Longji is no different from the murder of the new emperor, with the new emperor's pathology and Li Fuguo's power, the new emperor will definitely choose to suppress the matter, stabilize Li Fuguo and the court, and at the same time give Li Longji the most solemn flattery and the most solid protection in order to avoid suspicion.

As for whether Li Fuguo's idea was instructed by the new emperor, although it is not important, it is not without a trace. After all, it was Xiao Jiangyuan who agreed to do it, and she was the one who temporarily rebelled, if killing Li Longji was really the new emperor's decision, the new emperor would definitely kill her to vent his anger, but if Li Fuguo insisted on going his own way, the new emperor would more or less spare her life as a proof of his innocence.

Within three days, the new emperor issued a system, dismissed Xiao Jiangyuan from all official positions and titles, and exiled him to Wuzhou.

Wang Chengen invited himself to go with Xiao Jiangyuan to take care of his master's daily life, but Princess Hezheng refused: "Xiao Gong, I will find a way, you will return to the Inner Servant Province tomorrow." I can be your backing, and there is only one thing you have to do - no matter what, replace Li Fuguo. ”

In the first year of Baoying, on the fifth day of the fourth month, Li Long died at the age of seventy-eight based on the Shenlong Temple, and the temple name was Xuanzong.

Thirteen days later, the new emperor died at the age of fifty-two, and the temple name was Suzong.

Two days later, the crown prince succeeded to the throne.

Since Emperor Suzong had granted amnesty to the world once before his death, Xiao Jiangyuan was able to return to Chang'an within a few months of his arrival in Wuzhou.

The new monarch praised Xiao Jiangyuan for his hard work, and decided to let Xiao Jiangyuan still open the house with the three divisions from the first product, and at the same time give 500 households a real seal, and also sent someone to welcome him back.

At first, I heard that Xiao Jiangyuan was a guilty eunuch, and the local people in Wuzhou, as well as the officials and soldiers, all had a lot of complaints about her. Later, I learned through my parents that she was the loyal eunuch who persuaded the emperor to kill Yang Guifei in Ma Weiyi, and seeing that she was old and sick, they respected her, and gradually even didn't need her to do the work of a criminal.

At present, the war is still raging, and within a month, the country has lost two generations of emperors one after another, and the people only feel that the sky above their heads is gray. Xiao Jiangyuan's book-making of the reinstatement of officials was like the biggest light in the night of Shangyuan, which made them regain their joy and excitement.

They hadn't seen the Qincha from Beijing yet, so not only did they come forward to see the excitement, but some of them also took the initiative to lead the way for the Qincha and arrived at Xiao Jiangyuan's house.

In recent days, Xiao Jiangyuan's knee has become more and more serious, and it has reached the point where he can only walk with a cane. Since she didn't need to work, there were still people who were willing to serve her and live, and she was happy to lie down at home. This lay down for several days, and when she went out again to breathe outside, she found that her eyes were full of vegetarian.

She was stunned for a while, and then saw a crowd of people, officers and soldiers, surrounded by Wang Chengen, who was dressed in plain clothes and wearing filial piety, and rushed towards her.

Wang Chengen read out the book with tears of joy, but Xiao Jiangyuan didn't hear anything clearly. She firmly grasped Wang Chengen's wrist, and she didn't know how much effort it took before she finally spoke: "What about the emperor?" ”

Wang Chengen immediately knelt down in front of Xiao Jiangyuan and cried loudly.

Seeing Wang Chengen kneeling, the people around him also saluted Xiao Jiangyuan. They didn't hear Xiao Jiangyuan's very light question, and congratulated Xiao Jiangyuan in unison.

(End of chapter)

The swan song of the Tang Dynasty listens to the book