Wu Sansi didn't go out for five days, he suffered the biggest fiasco in his life, from the time he was about to climb to the top of the mountain but fell into the abyss, which can be described as two heavens of life and death.

At this time, Wu San's mind was dead, and the cruelty of the political struggle made him realize his biggest weakness, and he did not get the support of the Qing faction and the military in the imperial court, and the Wuhuang faction that supported him, such as Zong Chuke, Yang Zaisi and others, remained silent at the critical moment, which was simply watching him fall into the abyss and ignore it.

In the room, Wu Sansi sighed for a long time, sometimes resentful of the ruthlessness of the saint, and sometimes gritted his teeth at the viciousness of the Li royal family.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and Wu Sansi suddenly said angrily: "Get out! ”

"Father-in-law, it's a son-in-law!"

It was his son-in-law Cao Wen, Wu Sansi's anger disappeared in his heart, and he said, "Come in!"

Cao Wen pushed open the door and walked in, because of Wu Sansi's big backer, Cao Wen can be said to be soaring, four years ago from the county order to the governor of Luzhou, four years ago he was transferred back to Beijing to serve as a waiter in the Ministry of Works, and last year he was transferred to the Ministry of Rites.

Wu Sansi lost his most effective military advisor because of Mr. Ming's death, and to some extent, Cao Wen replaced Mr. Ming as Wu Sansi's military advisor.

For Cao Wen, of course, he hopes that Wu Sansi can become the crown prince and even ascend the throne as the emperor, then he can at least become the head of the hundred officials, and even be crowned the king, then he has not lived in vain in his life.

So when Wu Sansi lost the opportunity to be crowned prince and was demoted to the Duke of Liang, it was also a major blow to Cao Wen.

In fact, it was not that Cao Wen didn't want to give Wu Sansi advice, but this matter came too suddenly, and a series of rapid blows made him unable to react for a while, and when he realized something, the battle was over, and Wu Sansi was defeated, at this time, he could only plan some future ways out for Wu Sansi.

Cao Wen walked into the room and bowed deeply, "Son-in-law see father-in-law!"

"Sit down!" Wu Sansi waved his hand tiredly.

Cao Wen sat down, tentatively reassured Wu Sansi and said: "The matter has come to this point, please father-in-law want to open a little, take care of your body, maybe there is still a chance to turn the tables." ”

"Turnaround?"

Wu Sansi sneered, "Anything can happen in this world, but only the reversal you said will not happen again, I have seen it through, and what Wu Chengji can't get, I can't get it either." ”

Cao Wen was silent for a moment, and then whispered, "Has my father-in-law ever thought about who planned this incident behind his back?"

"Don't think about it, I know very well in my heart that the proverbs and proclamations are something made up by Wu Chenghe, and he is taking revenge on me for the poison case against him, as for Su Honghui's letter, it is either Li Dan or Li Xian, or the slut of Princess Taiping, Li Chongrun was killed with a cane, which can be regarded as a bad breath for me. ”

"Has your father-in-law ever thought of Li Zhen?"

Wu San was stunned, "It shouldn't have anything to do with him! He has been away from Beijing for many years, how could he suddenly get involved in this matter?"

Even so, Wu Sansi was also puzzled in his heart, and he also felt that what had happened recently seemed to be similar to Li Zhen's methods, and asked again, "Do you think it has something to do with him?"

"There is no evidence for the son-in-law, but I know that he is in Luoyang now. ”

"It's normal for him to be in Luoyang, after all, he is Di Renjie's son-in-law, and Mrs. Di is seriously ill, so he will definitely have to come back, but when you say this, I also think it seems to be a bit of his shadow. ”

Wu Sansi pondered for a moment and said to Cao Wen: "Actually, what I am most concerned about now is what kind of attitude the saint is, is he ready to make Li Dan the crown prince?"

Cao Wen shook his head and smiled: "Father-in-law can't see it yet? No one will stand up for the time being, and I got a reliable news from the Konghe Mansion that the Holy Lord did not appoint Li Dan as the crown prince this time, I am afraid it is the intention of the Zhang brothers." ”

Although Cao Wen served as a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, he was also one of the scholars of the Crane Mansion, and he was the bridge between Wu Sansi and the Zhang brothers, since Cao Wen said that the news was reliable, it must be true, Wu Sansi suddenly perked up, and hurriedly asked: "Do the Zhang brothers also oppose the Li royal family as the crown prince?"

"In fact, it's not that they are against it, but they want to get the most benefit from it, so the son-in-law said that there are still variables in this matter, as long as the saint is not in a hurry to establish the prince, then the father-in-law still has a chance to turn the tables. ”

This time Wu Sansi was finally a little convinced, he was already desperate and seemed to see a glimmer of hope, in fact, think about it?, Li Xian was the emperor and came down, Li Dan was the emperor and came down, the so-called emperor and prince are just like playthings in the hands of the saint, when did she think about what social instability.

Although she was temporarily deprived of the opportunity to become the crown prince, as long as the saint still considered letting the martial family ascend the throne, then she could only choose herself, Wu Sansi, who originally wanted to die like a dead worm, came back to life under Cao Wen's persuasion, and he immediately asked: "What do you think the virtuous son-in-law should do with me?"

Cao Wen said with a smile: "My father-in-law only needs to do one thing in a few years, help the weak and help the poor, care for orphans and children, and try to gain fame." ”......

Like Wu Sansi's blow, Li Xian, the king of Luling, was almost about to collapse, but his eldest son Li Chongrun suffered an unjustified disaster, and was killed by a living rod in Yingtianmen for the crime of arguing about the government and politics, which made Li Xian want to cry without tears, and completely fell into a kind of despair.

In the room, the third son, Li Chongjun, held back his grief and whispered to persuade his father, "Father, something has happened, and it's useless to be sad, try to open it a little." ”

Li Xian was so sad and indignant that he stood on the ground with his cane and said, "I just want to know, what crime my son has committed, and I want to use him to open the knife! Could it be that the Li royal family can kill at will, but I don't see who she has killed the martial family?"

"Da Lang was killed because you were too sinking!" Princess Wei Lian appeared at the door, she was a little better than Li Xian, after all, Li Chongrun was not her biological child, although she was also annoyed, but her annoyance was not that Li Chongrun was killed, but that her husband was not angry, so weak, no wonder she was bullied by others.

However, to a certain extent, Li Chongrun's disappearance is more conducive to her completely controlling the palace, as soon as Li Chongrun dies, no one will sing against her, what she has to do now is to restore her husband's bad image in the heart of the saint, and she can't affect her husband's succession to the throne because of Li Chongrun's murder, so she first asked her husband to enter the palace to ask for guilt.

The appearance of his wife made Li Xian silent again, he knew the contradiction between his eldest son and his wife, and he didn't want to listen to his wife say hurtful things again.

Wei Lian gave Li Chongjun a look, Li Chongjun had no choice but to get up and leave, and only the husband and wife were left in the room.

Wei Lian sat down opposite her husband and sighed: "Da Lang suffered misfortune, I am also very sad, I specially inquired, Da Lang was identified as the murderer of Zhang Jingxiong's case. ”

"Was Zhang Jingxiong killed by Da Lang?" Li Xian said coldly after a while.

"Of course not! Zhang Jingxiong was killed by your brother. ”

Wei Lian said while staring at Li Xian's every subtle expression, she saw Li Xian shocked, and knew that her words were effective, in fact, Wei Lian didn't know who killed Zhang Jingxiong, she suspected that it was related to Li Zhen, because Li Zhen had looked for Li Chongrun before, but Wei Lian didn't want to mention Li Zhen, she wanted to pull this matter on Li Dan.

"Why did he ...... Want to kill Zhang Jingxiong?" asked Li Xian in a hoarse voice.

"Maybe it's to deal with Wu Sansi! Isn't Wu Sansi also dismissed from the throne? Completely lost the opportunity to be crowned prince. ”

Li Xian was silent again, he also heard about the stormy attack that Wu Sansi had encountered, and he lost the opportunity to become the crown prince, so his mother killed Chongrun in order to appease the anger of the Wu family, that was her eldest grandson!

At this time, Wei Shi said in a low voice: "I also heard a piece of news, the reason why my mother believes that Da Lang is the murderer is because the real murderer left a line of words, 'Murderer, Lu ......' Do you understand?"

Li Xian trembled, and after a while, he said in a deep voice: "My brother won't." It won't hurt me!"

"You idiot!"

Wei Lian finally became furious, and roared hoarsely, "Have you forgotten what happened in Fangzhou? Who pretended to be Xingtang and would frame you, do you think that if you don't say it, I won't know? Datang only has one emperor seat, kill you, that seat is his, you don't avenge yourself, you have to protect him!"

"Enough!"

Li Xian finally couldn't help but roar, "The person is dead, you just let me be quiet for a while." ”

Wei Lian was stunned, her eyes widened and widened, and she dared to yell at her, she was almost eaten by the bear's heart and leopard's gall, and at this moment, Li Chongjun appeared timidly outside the lobby again, "Father, mother, the fourth uncle sent Brother Chengqi to send a letter." ”

"Give me the letter!" Wei Lian reacted very quickly, and stepped forward to snatch the letter from Li Chongjun's hand.

Li Chongjun has practiced martial arts, and his body is extremely flexible, he dodged his mother, stepped forward to hand the letter to his father, turned around and ran, Wei Lian was so angry that he smoked, "Little rabbit, look at me and clean you up when I turn around!"

At this time, Li Xian had already opened the letter, read it in a hurry, and without waiting for his wife to grab the letter, he threw the letter into the incense burner, Wei Lian couldn't grab it, and stomped her feet in anger, "Are you going to be angry with me?"

Li Xian said unusually calmly: "My brother said that Zhang Jingxiong was not killed by him, and he did not frame me. ”

"Who killed that?" asked Wei Lian, glaring at him.

Li Xian ignored her, closed his eyes, and fell into silence, he was also very sad in his heart, although his brother did not say it explicitly, but he understood his brother's hint that it was their sister Princess Taiping who sent someone to kill Zhang Jingxiong, that is, it was his own sister who framed herself.

Wei Lian was so angry, her husband dared to treat her like this, he didn't take her in his eyes at all, she was angry and hated at this time, angry that her husband dared to talk back against her, it was useless to hate her husband, and she wanted to give up the throne to her brother, so that her years of hard work would be in vain.

But Wei Lian was helpless, she had to stomp her foot hard, "Just wait and see, you useless thing will die at the hands of your brother sooner or later!"

She turned around and left angrily, and just walked to the door, only to hear Li Xian let out a long sigh and said, "Tomorrow I will go to apologize to my mother!"

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At night, Li Zhen sat alone in the room silently thinking about his thoughts, he would return to Chang'an in two days, but he couldn't feel at ease in his heart, and he didn't expect that Li Chongrun would become the last victim.

But when he calmed down and thought about it carefully, the front and back of this matter flowed in front of his eyes like flowing water, and the problem appeared in Princess Taiping, she snatched the assassination of Zhang Jingxiong, and he felt a little inappropriate at that time, but he still didn't expect that Princess Taiping would blame Li Xian.

What her purpose was, whether she wanted to help Prime Minister Li Dan eliminate political enemies, or whether she had other plans, Li Zhen didn't know, but at least he understood that in the face of the battle for the throne, family affection seemed so pale, which made Li Zhen have the idea of quitting the power field for the first time.

Li Zhen couldn't help but sigh lowly, if he supported Li Dan or Li Xian seized the throne, then what would his fate be? Glory and wealth or would he become a general? If he didn't have the surname Li, maybe both would be possible, but when he found out his true life experience, he clearly knew that his fate would not be the same as that of ordinary people, and neither Li Dan nor Li Xian would let him become an ordinary person.

So where is his fate?

Li Zhen slowly walked to the window, looking at the dark night with his hands in his hands, his heart was full of worry and confusion.