Zhaoling.

An old eunuch stood guard at the mountain gate.

He was very old, shaped like a withered weed, with white hair like a mass of withered weeds, gently fluttering in the night wind, his face full of age spots, and his arms covered with vein-like pale cyan veins.

"Father-in-law Gao, it's so late, why don't you rest?"

"Just let the minions do the door-guarding business!"

A little eunuch hurriedly went up to help, but was pushed away by Gao Quan.

He said in a muffled voice, "Sword, sword moves." ”

"What did you say?"

"The sword moved, he, he's back, back to see Your Majesty......"

"I have to ...... Wait. ”

When the little eunuch saw him talking madly, he shook his head at last, and after putting a cloak on him, he turned and left.

It is unimaginable that this father-in-law Gao was once the most trusted eunuch around Taizong, and even the prime minister was respectful when he saw him.

However, the ninety-two-year-old Gao Gonggong has been alone in the Zhaoling Tomb for more than 40 years, and no one cares about him.

The night was getting deeper and deeper, and Gao Quan couldn't stand anymore, so he sat on the ground and snooze against the mountain gate.

Footsteps sounded slowly.

Gao Quan opened his eyes suddenly, and the cloudy old eyes seemed to be lit up, and the old bark-like hand tightly grasped the white clothes.

"The mausoleum keeper is Gaoquan, see ...... National Teacher! ”

He got up tremblingly and wanted to salute, but was blocked by Li Daoxuan waving his hand.

"Senior brother, long time no see."

Li Daoxuan looked at him, with a hint of emotion in his eyes.

In the face of the years, life is really fragile, the heroic Taizong has become a dry bone in the grave, and the loyal and hard-working father-in-law is also running out of time, and is about to follow the old master.

"Gao is a eunuch, pickled body, where is worthy of this senior brother."

Gao Quan's eyes were full of tears, he looked at Li Daoxuan, who had not changed his face and was still the same, and he was very ashamed of himself.

But that sentence of senior brother made his heart stir and moved.

Forty years of wind and rain, he is used to seeing people go to tea and cool, but he doesn't want to get the respect of the national teacher before he dies.

Li Daoxuan looked at his white hair, sighed lightly, and said, "How many people in this world can guard the tomb for forty years?" ”

Although Gao Quan is only a eunuch, in Li Daoxuan's eyes, his loyalty and perseverance surpass the vast majority of people in the world.

"Senior brother is waiting here, but there is something to ask me?"

"Yes!"

Gao Quan took a step forward and said tremblingly: "Ask the national teacher to do me a favor for the sake of the first emperor." ”

"You say."

Gao Quan said in a trembling voice: "I'm dying." ”

"But Zhaoling can't be guarded by no one, after the Queen of Heaven took power, there are fewer and fewer eunuchs sent here, and the people here are becoming more and more careless, they don't fear the first emperor at all!"

"Seeking the National Teacher...... Find someone reliable to replace me! ”

Li Daoxuan was silent for a moment and said, "Only this?" ”

"That's all there is to it."

Gao Quan bowed deeply to Li Daoxuan again, and said in a trembling voice: "Those who are about to die, there is nothing else to ask for, only this matter, I really can't let go." ”

"Okay, I promise you, I've already brought that person, right behind me."

Gao Quan was stunned for a moment, and then tried to open his cloudy eyes, only to find that there was a figure behind the national teacher.

He was wearing a simple robe, forty or fifty years old, his face was very ordinary, and there was a trace of vicissitudes in his eyes.

For some reason, Gao Quan looked at him and faintly saw Taizong's shadow.

"Good, good, good!"

He said yes three times in a row, and the whole person was relieved, and he naturally trusted the person chosen by the national teacher.

Under the moonlit night, the white-haired old man laughed and left, and the gray figure disappeared in the night little by little.

Li Daoxuan glanced at the man who was a little moved, and said lightly: "Let's go, you haven't come to worship Taizong for a long time." ”

There was a hint of shame in the man's eyes.

In the Zhaoling Tomb, the man looked at the tombstones of Taizong and Empress Changsun with tears in his eyes, bowed and cried bitterly.

After a long time, his emotions gradually calmed down, and his eyes looking at Li Daoxuan were very complicated, with gratitude and incomprehension.

"National teacher, why don't you kill me?"

The person in front of him was alone with the infamy of killing the king, but in fact he did not kill him, but hid from the sky and the sea, stealing beams and changing pillars.

Burned to ashes by the true fire of samadhi is nothing more than a hair.

Li Zhi couldn't figure it out, he could have gone down in history and was immaculate, but now he wanted to leave a mark on the history books to kill the monarch and bear countless controversies.

Li Daoxuan glanced at him, as if he had seen through what he was thinking, and smiled faintly.

"The world has slandered me, slandered me, praised me, and praised me ......"

"What does it have to do with me?"

He smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if you leave a name in history, or if you leave a stink for 10,000 years, I only do what I want to do, if I want to kill you, I will kill you, and if I want to save you, I will save you." ”

His voice echoed in Zhaoling, so chic and frenzied, with an indescribable grace.

At this moment, Li Zhi suddenly understood why his father respected and trusted him so much, and why decades later, there are still so many people who miss him.

Li Zhi didn't speak, but just bowed deeply to Li Daoxuan.

"From now on, you are no longer the high-ranking son of the Tang Dynasty, but just an unknown tomb sweeper in Zhaoling."

"Your mana and physical body have been sealed by me, and you are no different from ordinary people, you will gradually grow old, and even die, unless one day you can break through the demons in your heart and truly let go, then you can break the seal and resume your cultivation."

"Before that, be good for your parents...... Let's guard the mausoleum. ”

Li Zhi bowed and retreated silently.

The mausoleum was quiet, and only the everlasting lamp burned quietly.

Li Daoxuan sighed softly: "Taizong, don't say that I won't give you face, I want to change my previous temper, no matter whose son he is, I will cut him directly." ”

"You and Empress Changsun only have three sons in total, and now he is the only one who is still alive, and I gave him a chance to see that he finally woke up and took some responsibility."

"If he really died in Zhaoling, then you can't blame me."

Li Daoxuan took a sip of wine, and then spilled a lot on the ground.

"Three pots of wine, three hundred years, now that I think about it, I really lost a lot, if we can meet again in the future, you have to compensate me......"

In Zhaoling, the voice kept ringing, as if two friends who had reunited after a long time were talking all night.

……

The next day, early in the morning.

Li Daoxuan left Zhaoling, no one knew what he said that night, and no one saw him leave.

Only Li Zhi, who was sweeping the floor outside, seemed to feel something and glanced back.

He knew that the man was gone.

After being stunned for a while, he sighed lightly and continued to clean the fallen leaves, and his whole temperament became quieter and quieter.

Strange to say, away from the power struggle, in this quiet Zhaoling, he felt more at ease.

……

Chang'an City, West City Execution Ground.

It is also known as the single willow tree, which is one of the two major execution grounds in Chang'an, and the other is called Gouzhiling, which is the execution ground of the East City.

Some prisoners of identity often ask for beheading in Duliushu, such as Zhang Liang in the Zhenguan period, he was one of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, and was regarded as a rebellion by Li Shimin because he adopted five hundred righteous sons, and finally beheaded here.

Early in the morning, it was crowded with people.

Beheading has always been one of the few entertainment items for the common people, especially when corrupt officials are beheaded, everyone applauds and is excited.

What's more, after cutting off the head, they will rush up and tear off a few pieces of meat.

For example, the cool official Lai Junchen, this person is rampant in Chang'an, the people are fishy, the wives and daughters of adulterous people, killing people like hemp, in history, when he was beheaded, the people flocked to cut his flesh and cut him into pieces.

The people of the whole Chang'an are running to tell each other, beating gongs and drums to celebrate, just like the New Year.

But now the abominable Lai Junchen sat on the stage with a sinister smile on his face.

It was a fat man with a gentle face, even if he was escorted to the execution ground, he still remained calm in the face of danger.

Wu Sizong sat in the seat of the supervisor, looked at Di Renjie with a smug face, and said with a smile: "Di Gong, I didn't expect you to have today." ”

Di Renjie sneered and didn't answer, but his heart was like electricity, thinking about how to get out.

Yesterday, he didn't wait for Brother Confucius to come back in the inn, so he went to the Great Ci'en Temple alone, wanting to ask the monks in the temple and check the matter of the holy monk Xuanzang's demonization.

But I didn't want to, so I happened to bump into Wu Sizong and Lai Junchen who were violently committing violence to the woman who came to offer incense.

Di Renjie stood up and saved the woman, but he didn't want Wu Sizong to say that he, as the commander of Pengze County, entered Beijing without permission and intended to rebel.

Di Renjie took out the holy decree, but what he didn't expect was that the extremely arrogant two people actually said that the holy decree was fake, forcibly arrested him, and then quickly went to prison and fabricated evidence.

Without being interrogated by Dali Temple or reported to the Criminal Department, they convicted him overnight, and dragged him to Xishi early the next morning for beheading.

If Di Renjie was still the prime minister, they would definitely not dare to play like this, but the current Di Renjie is just a small seven-grade county order, and it is really nothing in the eyes of the two.

"The time has come, make a decision!"

Just when Di Renjie was still thinking about it, Lai Junchen laughed and threw out the token directly.

He was a little jealous of Di Renjie, knowing that this person was extremely smart, had a wide range of connections in the court, and was quite prestigious, so it was better to be executed early.

The executioner was a little puzzled, looked at the sun that had just risen, and said depressedly: "My lord, this noon has not yet arrived." ”

At noon, the yang qi is heavy, and the prisoner will not become a ghost after being beheaded.

A knife-like smile appeared on Lai Junchen's feminine and handsome face, and there was a huge sense of oppression in his calm voice.

"I said it, then it's here, you can see again, is it noon?"

The executioner trembled, sweat fell like rain, and hurriedly said: "It's noon, it's noon!" ”

He raised his big knife and prepared to slash at Di Renjie.

The people below stepped forward and shouted loudly.

"It's only dawn, and it's still early at noon!"

"Di Gong asks for the people's life, he is a good official, why do you kill him!"

"God, is it possible that even a good official like Di Gong who takes care of our people is going to die at the hands of those dog officials?"

……

For a while, the crowd was excited, and the people stepped forward one after another, if it weren't for the officers and soldiers to stop them, I am afraid they would have rushed to the execution ground.

Over the years, Di Renjie's official reputation has long spread all over the world, no matter where he is an official, he can benefit the local people, and has outstanding political achievements.

If it weren't for him back then, the hundreds of thousands of people in Weizhou City would not know how much they would have been slaughtered by Wu Sizong.

Di Gong Ancestral Hall and merit monuments have long been blooming everywhere.

When the people of Chang'an heard that it was Di Gong who was going to be beheaded, how could they be willing, and they scolded the executioner who was about to be executed.

The executioner was also stunned and seemed hesitant.

"If you don't cut it again, you won't have to cut it in the future."

Lai Junchen's voice sounded faintly, with a chill that made people tremble.

The executioner's eyes showed a look of struggle, and finally closed his eyes.

"Di Gong, I'm sorry."

Of course, he knew that Di Gong was a good official, but there was no way, if he didn't kill Di Gong, it would be him, even his whole family, who would die.

"It's okay, you also have a wife and children at home, don't implicate them because of me."

At the moment of life and death, Di Renjie still showed his innate open-mindedness and kindness, he also wanted to live, but if the destiny was like this, he would accept it calmly.

The executioner's heart was shocked, but he could only grit his teeth and wave the butcher knife.

Click!

In a flash of the knife, Di Renjie's head had already fallen, and blood was splashed.

The angry people were suddenly stunned, showing a sad look.

Di Gong ...... Died at the hands of a villain like this?

At this time, someone suddenly shouted: "Di Gong, Di Gong has grown another head!" ”

Everyone looked, and sure enough, there was already a head on the ground, but Di Renjie was still unscathed, as if another one had grown in an instant after being cut off.

"Slash again!"

Wu Sizong, who was in charge of the beheading, suddenly shouted loudly, and there was a hint of panic in his voice.

The executioner could only swing the knife again.

The sword flashed again.

Another human head rolled down, Di Renjie's head was still growing on his neck, and he himself felt incredible.

The executioner's hand holding the knife trembled violently, he took a few steps back, turned around and said, "My lord, how-"

The voice stopped abruptly, and I saw that the main beheader Lai Junchen and the supervisor Wu Sizong had no heads, and the blood on their necks kept gushing.

His face turned pale, and he hurriedly looked at the two heads he had cut off earlier.

One is feminine and handsome, and the other has sharp-beaked monkey gills and a hateful face.

It is the cool official Lai Junchen and the general of Zuo Yuwei, Wu Sizong!

"God has appeared, Lai Junchen is dead! Wu Sizong is dead! ”

"Everyone, hurry up, cut those two dog officials with a thousand knives!"

The people broke through the defense line like a tide, ran to the execution ground one after another, and rushed to the corpses of Lai Junchen and Wu Sizong like locusts.

But Di Renjie was loosened, and he didn't know who put on a dress.

He touched his neck, feeling like he was going to be in the aftermath of the disaster.

"Brother Di, I saved your life again."

Li Daoxuan floated over and said with a faint smile.

Di Renjie smiled bitterly and said, "Fortunately, Brother Kong, you came in time, otherwise I would have to go to see the king of Hades." ”

"Don't worry, I don't agree, and Hades won't dare to accept you."

……

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