Chapter 181: Life and Death Together
Hearing the word "Xinjun", Li Bing suddenly chuckled in his heart: crazy! Xie Guang is completely crazy!
This is obviously his crazy move of jumping off the wall in a hurry to protect himself, but he still has to pull his own prince to cushion his back.
Li Bing took a few breaths and said to himself: "I can't help it, I can't help it, I can't do it!" Taifu, you transferred troops without authorization, and you were at a loss first, and it was too late to ask the court for guilt, so how could you really seek to usurp the throne? In doing so, the people of the world will never support us. If you think about it carefully, maybe there is a better way, we can have a good talk with the imperial capital......"
Xie Guang directly interrupted Li Bing's words: "Your Highness, what is there to talk about now?" Once the imperial capital sends an order to deprive me of my military power, and summon the two of us back to face the saint and ask for sin, do you dare to go, Your Highness? At that time, will it be different or will you have to raise troops to fight? ”
Without waiting for Li Bing to answer, Xie Guang continued: "Your Highness is above board, and may be willing to return to the imperial capital to confess his guilt, but unfortunately Xie does not want to be a fish on the chopping board and let others slaughter him." Therefore, there is no need to discuss this matter again, and I hope that His Royal Highness can understand the loyalty of the soldiers, return to Luoyi with the army, and take charge of the Shengtang Sheji. ”
With that, he bowed slightly, and then left the study without looking back.
As soon as Xie Guang walked with his front foot, Murong Xue walked out of the side with his hind foot. He was similar to Li Bing, his face was also pale, and he broke out in a cold sweat: "Your Highness, it seems that this time there is a big trouble!" ”
Li Bing nodded silently, and was about to say something, when suddenly a small chamberlain ran in from outside in a panic, and said hurriedly: "Your Highness, it's not good!" A large group of Xuanjia troops came from outside the line, surrounding this place! The father-in-law went to reason with them, but he was slapped twice by the other party, and then tied up! ”
"Where's the guard?" Murong Xue hurriedly said, "What about His Highness's guards?" ”
The little waiter replied tremblingly: "When Taifu Xie left just now, he said a few words to Huang Shilang, and then Huang Shilang led all the palace guards and left with him. ”
"Smack!" Li Bing slapped his palm heavily on the bookcase and scolded, "Fuck! Xie Guang, an old thief, dared to put this palace under house arrest! ”
Murong Xue couldn't help but be slightly stunned when she heard the dirty words coming out of the prince's mouth for the first time. Li Bing turned his head to look at him: "What about Shen Lie?" Where did the people go? ”
Murong Xue replied: "As soon as Xie Guang said just now that he wanted to support you to ascend the throne, Shen Lie hurriedly opened the window and left. Before leaving, he told me that Xie Guang had decided to take a risk, and His Highness would definitely become a hostage of the Xuanjia Army, so he must rush back to the imperial capital immediately, report the matter to the imperial court, and ask the emperor to issue an order to send troops to rescue His Highness. ”
Li Bing took a long breath and sighed: "Alas, fortunately, I listened to your suggestion and pulled the Reverse Scale Division in time, otherwise this palace wouldn't even have a chance to cry out now." Shen Lie was really alert, if he left a little later, I am afraid that even he would have to be trapped here by the Xuanjia Army. ”
Murong Xue also admired Shen Lie's quick reaction, nodded, and continued: "Your Highness, for today's plan, you can only rely on Shen Lie to find a way outside. We were placed under house arrest by Xie Guang's troops, and we can't act rashly. ”
"This palace is still worried about another matter," Li Bing's expression was solemn: "Just now Xie Guang said that he used my name to order the mobilization and assembly of the troops of the twelve prefectures along the river. He can do this, and this palace can understand it. However, he can still mobilize the Long Knife Army to secretly return to the Central Plains, but how can he do it? Before, the palace asked his uncle Cheng Kaiyang to serve as the commander of the Long Knife Legion, in order to watch that army, without his old man's nod, Xie Biao dared to move? ”
Murong Xue's heart tightened, and she frowned: "When His Highness said this, the minister also felt the same way. Listening to Xie Guang's tone just now, it didn't seem like a bluff, and there was no need to bluff. I'm afraid Cheng Laoguo ......"
He was about to say what danger Cheng Kaiyang might face, when he suddenly heard the noise of people outside, and then a large group of soldiers burst in, and the first person was Ye Rongcheng, the general under Xie Guang.
Ye Rongcheng was fully armored, strode in front of the two, and bowed to Li Bing: "Your Highness, the last general will be ordered by the Taifu to arrest Murong Xue of the East Palace." disturb the holy car, and hope that His Highness will forgive his sins. Come! ”
"Wait!" Li Bing was furious when he heard this, raised his hand to stop the soldiers who were about to rush up to arrest people, and shouted: "Murong Xue is a subordinate official of this palace, what crime did he commit?" Without the nod of this palace, how dare you be presumptuous?! ”
Ye Rongcheng sneered and responded: "The last general is just acting on orders, and he doesn't know anything else." Please don't interfere with Your Highness, lest the sons and daughters be rude and accidentally collide with the Holy Driver. ”
Murong Xue was furious when she saw this: "Ye Rongcheng, you are bold!" Do you dare to be disrespectful to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and want to die? As he spoke, he stepped out and stood in front of the crown prince Li Bing.
Li Bing grabbed Murong Xue and motioned to him with his eyes not to speak, and to deal with Ye Rongcheng by himself. Then, Li Bing turned his head and said to everyone: "You go back and tell the Taifu what you said, if you still want the cooperation of this palace, don't fight Murong Xue's idea again." The chaos is imminent, there can't be no one around the palace to serve you, if Murong Xue has any three longs and two shorts......"
He stopped talking, glanced at the menacing Xuanjia Army, and then said to Ye Rongcheng word by word: "This palace will start a hunger strike until death!" ”
Ye Rongcheng was slightly stunned, he didn't expect that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would make such a sacrifice for Murong Xue.
After waiting for a moment, he suddenly smiled sadly: "Your Highness, you don't have to be like this. The last general is a soldier, and in his eyes, there is only the word order. If I can't take Murong Xue away today, I can only go to see Taifu with my head up. ”
After that, Ye Rongcheng waved his hand at the soldiers: "Take it for me!" ”
Li Bing's eyes widened in anger, he directly picked up the tea cup on the bookcase, and threw it at a Xuanjia soldier who rushed to the front, and at the same time raised his leg and kicked sideways, kicking down another soldier approaching from the side.
Immediately afterwards, he dragged Murong Xue behind him, grabbed a small paper-cutting gold knife on the bookcase, pressed it against his neck, and shouted hoarsely: "Ye Rongcheng, you bastard!" If this palace is forced to death by you here today, all of your Ye family's nine clans, young and old, will have to resist their lives! And you, all of you, are all ruined! No mercy! ”
Shouting the words "no forgiveness" from the mouth of the crown prince of the imperial family, it is born with a thunderous might, and no one dares to doubt its effectiveness. Seeing Li Bing's appearance like a mad tiger, all the Xuanjia soldiers were frightened, and they didn't know what to do for a while.
Ye Rongcheng's brows furrowed, and his back molars creaked. The scene in front of him was really unexpected.
I have seen the courtiers desperately protect the king, but I have never seen the king of his mother sacrifice his life to protect the courtiers!
With his Ye Rongcheng's martial arts, of course, he was sure to take the small broken knife in the prince's hand, and even Murong Xue was subdued.
However, Ye Rongcheng knew the character of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince very well, and knew that as long as Li Bing was stubborn, he could do anything. Because of a Murong Xue, he really wanted to force the prince to death on the spot, and then affect the Taifu's plan, and he couldn't afford to wait for Ye Rongcheng to die no matter how many times.
After hesitating for a moment, Ye Rongcheng waved his hand, signaled his subordinates to take a few steps back, and then said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, please calm down." The last general can not arrest Murong Xue, or he can bring your words to Master Taifu, but the premise is that you are safe and sound. If His Royal Highness is in poor health, Murong Xue will definitely not survive the next day, right? ”
After saying that, he glared at Murong Xue viciously, and ordered the deputy general to lead a team of soldiers to surround the entire study, and he was ready to lead the rest of the people back temporarily.
Li Bing saw that Ye Rongcheng was leaving, and suddenly his heart moved, and he shouted to stop him, and then changed the golden knife from his right hand to his left hand, and cut the finger of his right index finger with the tip of the knife, and in the blink of an eye, red blood flowed out gently.
Li Bing didn't care about the pain, pulled a piece of yellow silk on the table, and quickly wrote on it with the freshness of his fingers: From now on, Murong Xue and the palace will be one, life and death together, and never give up.
After writing it, he threw it directly to Ye Rongcheng: "Take it!" Show Xie Guang! ”
Ye Rongcheng took people away for a short time, and suddenly turned back. He first glanced at Murong Xue meaningfully, and then said to Li Bing: "Your Highness, Taifu has something to say." Fang Cai's edict can be regarded as the first decree of the new emperor of the Holy Tang Dynasty, which is very precious, and Taifu will definitely treasure it. In addition, Lord Taifu hopes that His Royal Highness will take the country and the world as his thoughts, take care of the dragon's body, and do not disappoint the support of all the soldiers. The last will be retired. ”
With that, he ordered the siege of the imperial study to be lifted, and walked away with the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army.
As soon as the figure of this group of black crows disappeared, Murong Xue immediately lifted her robe and bowed down, kneeling in front of Li Bing, with tears in her eyes: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, the minister failed to protect you and let you suffer the humiliation of being trapped, and you deserve death!" Now instead, His Royal Highness wants to threaten death to protect the cheap life of the minister, and the minister ......"
Murong Xue was speechless for a while, crying so much that she didn't know what to say, Li Bing secretly breathed a sigh of relief, wrapped her fingers in a silk handkerchief, and said with a wry smile: "Come on, hurry up." There was no way to do it in this palace just now, so I had no choice but to play a bachelor with them and force each other to die. Murong Xue, now the two of us are grasshoppers tied to a rope, only by keeping you can I have someone around me who can rely on me. You and I live and die together, and we will never give up! ”
"Your Highness!" Murong Xue burst into tears, bowed to the ground and sobbed softly.
Li Bing saw it in his eyes, and his nose was also sour, so he hurriedly reached out to help. However, he didn't know that the thrilling scene just now, whether it was the revelation of true feelings or an expedient measure in a crisis, the eight bloody characters of "life and death together, never give up" had been deeply imprinted in Murong Xue's heart.