[Chapter 23: The Hexagram of Hegemony] (2)

Empress Wei is keeping up with Empress Zetian step by step, whether she has this intention this time, Li Longji doesn't know, and he can't guess.

There is not much left of the Li Tang clan now, and if you kill it again, it will probably really be extinct. Even if Li Xian wants to stop it, once he sees that the crime is treason, it is estimated that he will not stop it too resolutely, and the Prime Minister's Mansion will definitely bear the brunt of it at that time.

Li Longji has just started, his foundation and power are not stable, and most of them are in Luzhou, after returning to Chang'an, everything has to start again, if Empress Wei really wants to do something, he is fledgling, but he can't resist it. But if he didn't return to Chang'an, he would resist the decree, which would make Li Xian and Empress Wei suspicious.

He never thought that one day, whether he returned or not, he might die.

At this time, the eunuch who received the reward came to Li Longji and said quietly: "The slave and maid are ordered by the deceased, and there is one more thing to be dedicated to the king, and the king is asked to retreat." ”

Li Longji raised his eyebrows slightly, even according to what he said. Seeing that the eunuch took out two square wooden boxes from his suite, and handed them to himself with both hands, he reached out to take them and checked them. Seeing that the portion was not light, he turned and sat down, and placed the wooden box on the long table in front of him. He opened two wooden boxes in turn, each containing nothing but a disc and a pair of chopsticks.

Li Longji was a little surprised, took out the disc and tapped it. The two objects are obviously of the same material, black as ink, with an unpretentious light, and there is nothing special about it. The material was neither copper nor iron, like stone, but it was struck with a metallic sound. He was from a royal family and was well-informed, but he had never seen this, so he couldn't help asking, "...... this?"

The eunuch always lowered his eyes obediently, and was very polite: "Xiao Neishou said that his fate is determined by heaven, and he will know it with a hexagram." ”

These...... Is it used for fortune telling? Li Longji saw a little bit of Xiao Jiangyuan's appearance from the eunuch, hooked his lips and smiled-she didn't believe in fate so much, but now she sent him fortune-telling things, and told him that his fate was determined by heaven...... It's kind of interesting.

It seems that she has mixed well in the palace in the past two years, and someone dares to help her do this kind of thing privately with the local clan. Li Longji nodded secretly and said, "What else did she say?" ”

The eunuch thought for a moment and said, "No." ”

"San Lang has thanked the angel here." Li Longji got up and said, "The angel will go to rest for the time being tonight, the climate in Luzhou is good, and I will lead the angel to have a good walk tomorrow, and invite the angel to enjoy the light." ”

"The king is serious." The eunuch immediately turned sideways to avoid it, and returned the salute with a long bow, "It's just a matter of the slave and maid, since the king has received the edict, the slave and the maid should also return to Beijing as soon as possible to restore their lives." "I didn't mention that I had sent something else.

Li Longji understood and said: "One day or two days, there is nothing to delay, the angel can live in peace, everything has San Lang." ”

"Then it's better to be respectful." The eunuch said that he was about to retreat, but was suddenly stopped by Li Longji.

She ...... Okay? "If she can trust this man, then he should also be trustworthy.

The people who came out of the palace naturally had brighter brains than the people outside, and realizing Li Longji's worries and doubts, the eunuch said calmly: "Xiao Neizhi is all right, and now he is in charge of the palace books, and he is the most leisurely." Although the sage queen ignored it on weekdays, Princess An Le and Shangguan Zhaorong often came to visit, and Yang Changshou had already married her as a brother with a different surname, so although the power was small, no one dared to bully. As for the slave and maid, it was just because he had offended Princess Anle because he had not paid attention to it, if it weren't for Xiao Nei's intercession, the slave and maid would have lost their lives early. ”

Seeing that the eunuch said it so straightforwardly, Li Longji admired it very much: "Angels are very open-minded. ”

"The king is overrated, the grace of dripping water, the spring reciprocates, that's all."

Li Longji glanced at the eunuch steadily, the smile on his face did not change, but he sighed lightly in his heart, feeling sorry for it. Xiao Jiangyuan once liked to meddle in things, and from the beginning of pleading, he should have calculated something. She saw through the eunuch's gentleman's temperament, and then used the convenience of Li Bao'er and Yang Siqiao to allow this eunuch to come to Luzhou to spread the message, step by step, and really leaked. It's just that people still regard her as a good person, it's really ......

He suddenly wanted to see her.

In two years, she should have grown taller again, her clothes can hold up, and her face should be more delicate and beautiful, but I don't know if it is a little more masculine or feminine.

Seeing that Li Longji did not speak, but fell into an intriguing thought, his eyes were full of tenderness, and the corners of his lips were full of smiles, the eunuch seemed to understand something, thinking that he had a glimpse of the secret between the King of Linzi and Xiao Jiangyuan, he coughed lightly in embarrassment, and quickly retreated, and at the same time told himself in his heart that he had never given anything but the edict, and he had never seen anything.

The next day, Li Longji was a good talker, asked a group of Luzhou heroes to accompany him, and took the eunuchs to have a good time in Luzhou City, and then sent the eunuchs away "reluctantly" the day after tomorrow. As soon as he sent the eunuch away, he immediately invited the familiar warlock Han Ningli into the palace. He put the two wooden boxes on the same length, and leaned on Shi with one arm, watching the people not speak.

In the study, there were not only the two of them, but also Zhang Wei, Wang Maozhong and Li Longji's newly bought slave Li Yide in Luzhou. These are Li Longji's henchmen, Han Ningli couldn't help but be serious when he saw this scene: "Han heard that the sage invited the assassins and clans from all over the country to return to Beijing to hold a ceremony to worship the heavens. The king was about to return to Beijing, but he didn't see a look of joy, but instead found Han, presumably because he had some doubts in his heart and wanted Han to answer a little. ”

"Exactly," Li Longji said, "I have an old man who sent these two things, saying that it was fate determined by heaven and let me count a hexagram, so I invited Mr. Han here." ”

Han Ningli looked at the things in the wooden box, nodded at Li Longji first, indicating that he could, and then took out the disc, laid it flat on the long table, and took out the pair of chopsticks. He held the chopstick in both hands and slowly stood it upright on the disc, feeling some resistance inexplicably. Sighing that this was not a mortal thing, he let go of his hand in awe, and the pair of chopsticks seemed to have been bounced off by something, and then fell to the ground!

Except for Li Longji, several other people were taken aback by this scene, and Han Ningli hurriedly picked up the chopstick, stroked and looked at it for a long time, only to find that one end of it was a little thinner--Could it be that he just put it back?

"Don't be impatient, the king." Li Longji raised his handsome eyebrows, his eyes were deep, Han Ningli said busily, and repositioned the thin one with his head down, and this time he felt an inexplicable suction. He sighed in his heart, and slowly let go of his hand, only to see that the pair of chopsticks only shook slightly, still standing on the disc, and did not fall!

He originally wanted to look at the situation of the chopstick's fall to analyze the number of fate, but now that the chopsticks are not falling, how can he say it?

Wait a minute...... Such a hexagram?!

He hurriedly thought about it, his expression becoming more and more shocked, and in the end, his face was full of surprise. He got up and took a few steps back, and bowed to Li Longji: "Big ...... The king, this is an image without hexagrams, the dragon and phoenix among the masters, the omen of good luck, unspeakably expensive! ”

Li Yide, who has always been slow to react by half a beat, knelt down with Wang Maozhong to congratulate him this time, but he didn't hear the master's response for a long time. He slowly raised his head to glance at it, only to see his master staring at the chopsticks on the disc, hooking the corners of his lips, as if smiling.

Han Ningli's heart was surging, and her voice trembled a little: "Han Mou has only heard of this hexagramless phenomenon since he was a child, but he has never seen it. I want to come to the king's deceased is also good at this, once for the king of a hexagram, seeing such a rare and precious to auspicious, so he directly sent his usual auspicious things, wanting the king to see it once. He wanted to use this hexagram to tell the king that he could return to Beijing with peace of mind this time, and what the king thought in his heart, no matter how difficult and dangerous it was, it would definitely happen! ”

Li Longji couldn't help laughing: "In this way, it seems that I can't go back to Chang'an." ”

"Exactly!" Han Ning saluted again, "The grand plan for hegemony is all in this hexagram!" ”

"Presumptuous!" Li Longji suddenly reprimanded, "You dare to say such a rebellious remark? You're not afraid of death, but I'm still afraid! ”

"As long as the king can complete the great cause, let alone Han, he is all the brothers in Luzhou, who doesn't go to the soup and fire, and he will not give up?"

"Really?"

Zhang Wei suddenly said categorically: "Really! ”

"Good!" Li Longji smiled loudly, "Blood is a brother, honor and disgrace depend on each other, life and death are shared, in this life and this life, we will not lose each other!" ”

A few days later, Li Longji embarked on the journey back to Chang'an.

Because Zhao Roujiang had not yet come out of the moon, Li Longji did not want his wife and concubine and two sons to fall into the whirlpool of Chang'an, so he temporarily left them in Luzhou, and then took them back to Chang'an when they settled down in the future.

Along the way, Wang Maozhong wanted to speak several times, and Li Longji was very impatient, and finally when he was resting at a post station, he said: "Say whatever you want to say, it's a love affair that grew up together, what else can I do to you?" ”

Wang Maozhong finally made up his mind and said, "Ah Lang really believes in that hexagramless image? ”

Of course, Li Longji didn't believe it. Where did Xiao Jiangyuan know what divination, but he didn't know where to get these two things, and he read all the books and learned about such a hexagram. She did all this just to guess that he would have doubts about returning to Beijing and give him a reassurance. It's just that she has gone too far, a good omen, unspeakably expensive, this is a fate that anyone can have? Did she also coax her grandmother with this, so she felt that he also ate this set?

Well, he does eat this set.

Hearing Wang Maozhong ask himself like this, Li Longji was in a trance for a while, as if he saw Xiao Jiangyuan standing with his back straight in front of him, with an indifferent smile on his face, and he was also asking himself softly: "Do you believe this hexagram?" ”

Li Longji couldn't help laughing: "What about believing it, what if you don't believe it?" ”