Li Yan stared at the delicate face covered with tears, raised his hand, and wiped away her tears drop by drop.

"You are the noblest and purest woman in the world in my eyes. Even the priceless supernatant pearl and dust-proof jade are not worthy of half of your hair. He said.

Wei Yinniang threw herself into his arms, but she still didn't dare to cry, for fear that she would invite the slave and maid here, but the deeper she suppressed, the more difficult it was to cry.

Li Yan hugged her for a moment, the corners of her eyes gradually reddened, pressed her against the couch, kissed her clammy face and lips frantically, and went down her jade neck, fiercely touching her body that left traces of last night's love, to erase everything that did not belong to her.

Wei Yinniang didn't know when to stop crying, and suddenly she called out "Your Highness" softly.

"Enough...... Enough is enough......" she murmured, the sound of the once known Movement Workshop's beaded throat as fluttering as a tattered paper kite in the wind.

Li Yan slowly stopped.

She opened her eyes, pushed him away, got up on her own, lowered her head and straightened her messy clothes, and when she lifted her face, if it weren't for the red and swollen eyelids, it looked like she was fine. Then she closed the placket that had just been opened in front of his chest for Li Yan, who was still lying on the couch gasping for breath.

Li Yanbei wanted to overwhelm her again, she raised her eyes, looked into his bloodshot eyes, and shook her head.

"Fang is my mistake." She said.

"Your Highness doesn't have to prove anything to me anymore."

"I am already satisfied to have such a sentence from His Highness."

Li Yanruo was drained of all her strength by her words for a moment. After a while, he closed his eyes, gritted his teeth and said hatefully, "Why don't you speak?" As long as you open your mouth, no matter how shameless and despicable I, Li Yan, will fall into the hell of Abi who will never be reborn after death, I will not ask you to be so committed to others. ”

"Yes, I have no doubt that if I open my mouth, His Highness will take me no matter how difficult it is. And then what? And then what? ”

"Be your wife? Be a concubine who serves you? Even if you don't think I'm dirty, do you need it, Your Highness? What is the value of a useless me to His Highness today? ”

Wei Yinniang smiled sadly, "Your Highness, I just cried, not because I am committed to the crown prince." He was no different from any other groom before me. It occurred to me that Your Highness was near. I mingle with your enemies under your nose, Your Highness, and you can only watch, and you can do nothing. What a noble and proud man you once was, and now you are so disgraced because of me. ”

Li Yan still collapsed on the couch with his eyes closed, motionless, only showing a crooked expression on his face, which seemed to be smiling rather than smiling.

Wei Yinniang's expression was extremely calm at this time, she knelt on the side, stared at his distorted face, and said softly: "It's okay for me to do anything." His Royal Highness is still alive, and I am also a little useful to His Highness, which is the biggest reward for Yin Niang's life so far. I am willing to do things for His Highness, and His Highness does not need to have any apologies. ”

For a long time, in the dawn outside the dormitory, in the dripping sound of green branches and leaves, and in the chirping and noise, Li Yan opened his eyes and slowly sat up.

"What happened when the prince went back, do you know?"

There was still bloodshot in his eyes, but his gaze had turned cold.

"I don't know. But looking at him, it should be that something happened in Chang'an yesterday, which was extremely unfavorable to him, so the emperor urgently called him back. He was terrified. ”

Li Yan closed his eyes again after hearing this, as if he was in contemplation.

"Your Highness, is this matter related to you?" Yin Niang waited for a moment and asked softly.

Early yesterday morning, the current prince, who received Yin Niang's secret invitation, not only sent someone to quietly take her and Li Yan, who was hidden in the car, out of Chang'an, all the way unimpeded, without any inspection, but also couldn't stand her begging, famous flowers fell into the city, drunk to death under the skirt, and then he also went out of the city, and even King Ning's Qujiang banquet was absent, leaving Hu Tianhudi.

Li Yan slowly opened his eyes: "If what I expected is correct, then it is." ”

"That's why I had to get there even at the risk of my leg being disabled. Only by seeing me alive can they be reassured of their allegiance. ”

"And I'm not going to go again. This is my Chang'an, my city. I know that the time has come. ”

"People will eventually die, if you don't try, even if you live longer than Peng Zu, what's the point of living?"

His gaze was calm and unforgiving. Not only to the woman in front of him, but also to himself.

"It's time for me to get out of here."

He straightened his clothes and got up from the couch.

Yin Niang was silent for a moment, then suddenly got down and knelt down towards him.

"His Royal Highness is planning things, and it is not Yin Niang's turn to speak. To be able to contribute to His Royal Highness is even more fortunate to be Yinniang. But there is one thing I would like to ask Your Highness to agree. ”

"What?"

"No matter what happens in the future, I won't allow you to hurt my sister-in-law."

"The source of all our suffering today has nothing to do with her. Nor has she ever been half enjoyed by our suffering. ”

Her tone was unusually sharp, with a hint of irrefutable meaning.

Li Yan turned his head and looked down at her kneeling at his feet.

"You're right."

After a long time, he nodded.

"All men, me and you, our enemies, are no longer the same as they once were. She was the only one left in the past. ”

As if falling into some kind of memory, Li Yan's face slowly relaxed, and in the end, a gentle smile even appeared on his lips.

"Yin Niang, you are a good woman."

"May God bless me so that I will not bear you in the future."

He stared at Wei Yinniang, who was kneeling on the ground, and said leisurely.

……

From Nanshan back to Chang'an, it usually takes about one or two hours to ride a horse, but because of the panic in his heart, the prince Li Mao changed his stagecoach all the way and galloped wildly, starting at dawn, and when he returned to Chang'an and ran into the Ziyun Palace, the day and night were dim in the fine house, at this time the palace leak rang three o'clock in the morning, and Chang'an City had not completely woken up from last night's sleep.

The emperor should have been sleepless all night, wearing only a coat on his body, sitting on a high futon on a seat, and his face was as solemn as cast iron.

Li Mao had just learned outside the hall what had happened yesterday, and he almost fell soft, barely cheered up, knelt down in front of him, grabbed the ground with his head, and defended in a loud voice: "Aya! Ayer! This matter really has nothing to do with it! Son was framed! King Ning returned to Beijing, his son was happy, and he deliberately built a painting boat, with the intention of his son, how dare he do such a heartbreaking thing! Someone must be trying to kill you! Please, Aya, believe me, son, go find out those people, so that you can give Ayah an explanation! For a while, he burst into tears, his forehead was bloody, and his condition looked embarrassed and a little pitiful.

"Come here."

The emperor was unexpectedly not as angry as Li Mao originally imagined, and only swept his eyes coldly.

Li Mao barely held his mind, and did not dare to get up, so he quickly came to the emperor.

"Come closer."

Li Mao went over.

"Closer."

Li Mao didn't understand what he meant, but how could he dare to disobey the order, take a few more kneeling steps, stop in front of the emperor's throne, and raise his face in fear, "Aye-"

The Emperor waved his arm and slapped him in the face.

The force was so fierce that half of Li Mao's body was crooked, and the person fell to the ground, bleeding from the corners of his mouth.

"You fool! If you really dare to do this, I will think highly of you! The Emperor gritted his teeth.

"Do you think I called you back to ask you how to move your hands and feet on the ship?"

"How dare you touch the former rebel and sinner? Is all the women in the world dead? ”

"Have you ever thought about what you want me to do if you are caught and impeached to the court? I tell you, don't say one Liu Ceye, even ten, a hundred, can't keep your position! ”

Li Mao was stunned, his face turned pale, and after a while, he finally recovered from his dazed and frightened eyes, his teeth trembled, and he desperately crawled back to the emperor's feet, and hugged his feet.

"Ayya! The son was wrong! The son knew he was wrong! I implore Aya to give her son a chance! ”

Cold sweat flowed down his forehead, he gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, opened his eyes and said, "Son...... When my son went back, he got rid of her at once—"

Before he could finish speaking, there was a snap, and it was another slap.

The emperor came out with his feet, and kicked the man out with a kick in the chest.

"You useless thing! What else can you do? ”

Li Mao was kicked to the ground on his back this time, and he cried when he got up, and he didn't dare to step forward again, so he continued to kowtow: "My son is stupid, please Aya make it clear!" The son knows that he is wrong! My son really knew that he was wrong! ”

Suddenly, if he remembered something, it was like grasping a life-saving straw, and he cried bitterly: "Aye! Even if Aya doesn't look at my aunt's face, but in the face of Empress Zhaode, please forgive my son's sins! Empress Zhaode regards her son as her own son, and she has a spirit in heaven, and she will definitely hope that her son will have a chance to mend his ways......"

The emperor's eyes suddenly widened, and he turned his head sharply to look at Li Mao on the ground.

Li Mao had never seen the emperor show such a terrifying expression, and he stopped crying on the spot, not daring to move.

"You...... You ......"

The emperor slowly raised his hand and pointed at Li Mao on the ground, trembling slightly, suddenly burst out into a violent cough, and his body was twisted by an invisible hand, and he bent down in pain.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! ”

Yuan Zhi and the dumb palace eunuch who were outside rushed in, and Yuan Zhi helped the emperor to lie on a cloud bed, and the dumb eunuch quickly took the pill and took it with water.

The emperor lay inward for a moment, did not turn his head, only said in a low voice: "Get out!" Without my orders, you are not allowed to go out a single step. ”

Yuan Zhi looked at Li Mao, who was still kneeling on the ground, stepped forward, bowed, and urged: "His Royal Highness the Prince, Your Majesty has issued an edict to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to follow orders." ”

Li Mao shuddered, and finally reacted, and after kowtowing to the front, he got up from the ground, like a walking corpse, his eyes were straight, and he walked out slowly.

There was silence in the fine house, and the dumb prisoner also retreated, leaving only Yuan Zhi standing aside.

After a while, a faint noise entered the hall, and if there were many people outside, before they could meet the saint, they themselves argued and scolded angrily.

Yuan Zhi immediately walked to the door, gently closed the door, and the noise was blocked out of this deep hall and disappeared from his ears.

After another moment, the emperor suddenly spoke: "They are all here? ”

"Yes."

"What do you mean?"

"King Ning asked to see him to confess his sins. Feng Zhenping came to ask His Majesty to avenge his dead son. Liu Ceye came to defend the innocence of His Royal Highness the Prince. There is also the eldest princess, she is making trouble, saying that the lord of Danyang County almost died, and she wants His Majesty to give her an explanation, and she ......"

He stopped.

"What's wrong?"

"Your Majesty, the eldest princess was angry, and her emotions were out of control for a while, and she also knocked off Feng Zhenping's official hat."

The emperor was silent for a moment and said, "One more Wang Zhang, and today we will be ready." Why didn't he come? ”

"I don't know."

"It's fine. The court hasn't been so lively for a long time. A boat so that these nobles, high-ranking officials and ministers can tear their faces and stab each other, and they don't need to pretend anymore. ”

He moved. Yuan Zhi quickly stepped forward to support him, and helped the emperor to sit up slowly.

The emperor's face was still gloomy at the moment, but his spirit seemed to have recovered a little, and he sat on the cloud bed with his eyes closed.

"What do you think about this?"

"How dare a slave judge if he is soft-spoken." Yuan value replied.

"I give you permission."

Yuan Zhi immediately walked to the cloud bed, knelt down and kowtowed, got up and stood aside, and said: "As wise as Your Majesty, the slave also thinks that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the most unlikely person to do this. The boat was donated by him, how could he get rid of it if something happened? ”