knows that he has just returned from the Northwest Battlefield, and killing people to him is probably like cutting a chicken.

The crowd was silent, retreated, knelt down towards the sword, and then got up and hurried away.

Pei Xiaoyuan stood in place, coldly watching the hundred officials retreat, and Fang slowly inserted the sword back into the sheath. He turned and walked briskly in again.

Chapter 152

In the second half of the night, the mountain and moon are bright, hanging high on the top of Cangshan Mountain.

In the palace, in a hidden courtyard, a young man dressed in plain clothes, with a sad expression, was sitting lonely in the incense case. On the table, the fresh fruits and sake used as sacrifices are all pure. In the rising cigarette smoke, a bunch of incense sticks used to pay tribute to the dead gradually burned to the end, and the red dots turned to ashes.

When the incense was gone, he did not go, but still sat withered.

An old palace lady came up from the depths of the corridor behind him.

"The Empress Dowager invites Her Royal Highness to come in and speak." The old woman said.

He continued to sit still, and the old woman urged again and again. Finally, he slowly got up and walked inside.

For more than a year, due to the death of the Koyanagi family after the abolition, the Empress Dowager was too frightened and her body was always restless.

She is the biological mother of the late old saint, the grandmother of the current saint, and she is from a large family, and she is unrivaled in terms of high rank. Although the saint has not been able to settle the province in the morning and dusk because of the cultivation of these years, his filial piety has not diminished, and after the empress dowager, all kinds of devotion are the same, which is no different from in the Chang'an Palace.

When the young man entered, the Empress Dowager was about to stay, obviously impatiently waiting. He hurriedly stepped forward, stretched out his hand to support the person, and carried her back to sit down, saying that he was unfilial, which made his great-grandmother worry.

This young man is Li Yan, who sneaked here quietly in the middle of the night. The Empress Dowager saw his eyes glowing with residual water in the shadow of the lamp, felt distressed, and sighed: "You haven't slept all night, are you paying tribute to the Wei family?" ”

"Yesterday was her birthday. It is still difficult for the great-grandson to protect himself, so he can only burn a few wisps of fragrance for her, and try a little bit of mourning. He explained in a low voice.

The Empress Dowager disagreed, shook her head and said: "Of course, you value love and righteousness, but since that girl has died, she is an unblessed person." You are different, the body of a real dragon, how can she pay tribute to you personally? When the heart arrives, it is. If you really can't bear it, give it to others, why do you have to do it yourself? ”

Li Yan said yes, sat down next to the couch, and gently pounded her legs for her. The Empress Dowager looked at him with loving and relieved eyes, and gradually, her eyes turned red, she raised her hand and gently stroked Li Yan's eyebrows, and muttered: "It's really like!" You and your father are literally out of the same mold. My good great-grandson, when you were forced to leave Chang'an, you were only fifteen or sixteen years old, and you have suffered a lot all these years, right? It's all to blame for the great-grandmother for being useless. Fortunately, God has finally opened its eyes, and your chance has come. Great-grandmother has endured humiliation for many years, but she is afraid that she will not be able to wait for the day when you will return. Unexpectedly, the stupid thing of the Koyanagi clan finally did a useful thing and buried people in the right place! ”

A few days ago, in a wild forest deep in the liquid pool, the bones of Empress Zhaode, who was rumored to have eloped with someone, were found. The emperor was greatly stimulated, and when he personally picked up the bones, he vomited blood and passed out on the spot.

According to a secret report from a medical officer, the emperor's lamp ran out of oil, and the person remained unconscious, which should have been the matter of the past few days. And a group of people led by the princess tried their best to cover up the news, obviously waiting for someone to arrive in Beijing. Once assembled, it is self-evident what her intentions are.

"Yan'er! My good great-grandson, Wang Zhang, they will not let her succeed in her conspiracy. This time, you can just wait with me in peace, and you won't have to hide anymore. Soon, tomorrow, at the latest, tomorrow tomorrow, my great-grandmother will personally take you back to Chang'an to ascend the main hall, you are right, it is the orthodox return of the Holy Dynasty, everything has been arranged, soon, soon! It's just, it's a pity for your father......"

The Empress Dowager thought of her favorite eldest grandson again, and she was so sad for a while that she burst into tears.

Li Yan's eyes were red, he moved down from the couch, knelt in front of her knees, and said with tears in his eyes: "Great-grandmother is the pillar of heaven for your great-grandson, please take care of your body." ”

"Hurry up, hurry up!" The Empress Dowager hugged Li Yan lovingly, and when her gaze fell on the scar in the center of his face, her gaze suddenly turned fierce.

"Pei Er, that thief dares to ruin your face and hurt you like this! When we return to the court, I won't let him go! I will definitely break him into pieces and take out my anger for you......"

At this time, a slightly panicked voice came from behind the palace door: "The princess is here!" I don't say what it is, I look angry, and no one outside dares to stop it, I'm about to come here! ”

Li Yan turned his head and saw that it was the leader of his personal guard, a deputy general in front of Li Meng.

He was stunned, and a look of horror immediately flashed in his eyes.

The Empress Dowager frowned: "She is not in Chang'an at this time, come to me?" Then he comforted: "Yan'er, you don't have to worry. I am her great-grandmother, no matter how domineering she is, what can she do to me? I thought she had come to me for her mother's business. Hide yourself before she finds you!" ”

After the deputy general finished his service, he quickly came to the queen mother's bed with Li Yan behind a screen.

With the slight sound of a mechanism on the wall, in the blink of an eye, the two disappeared without a trace.

The Empress Dowager was lying on her back, closing her eyes and recuperating herself.

Su Yu wore a gauze hat on his head, and his steps were like the wind and rushed inward, causing his body to be in a hurry, and the sound of Lingyu was endless.

"Princess! Princess! The Empress Dowager is unwell, so settle down! I implore the princess to wait, and let the old slave go and tell her first, so as not to surprise the empress dowager and her old man! ”

The old lady kept dissuading all the way, but she didn't hear it, and walked forward on her own and came to the outside of the hall.

The old woman turned her head and looked at the hall anxiously, and was about to raise her voice again to dissuade her, when a loud "pop" sound sounded.

Yang Zaien, who was walking with Su Yu, stepped forward, raised his arm, and slapped it straight down at the old woman's face.

"Bold! Dare to stand in the way of the princess! What's the intention? Yang Zaien shook his hand and swept the dust and scolded sharply.

This old lady is the confidant of the Empress Dowager, and she never expected that she would be treated like this, she was shocked and angry, but she didn't dare to attack, covered her face, lowered her head and didn't dare to move again.

A palace eunuch pushed open the door, and Su Yu did not pause, stepped inside, and went straight to the queen mother's couch, and then stopped.

The old woman was also so startled by the loud slap that she couldn't do anything anymore, she suppressed a sense of foreboding in her heart, slowly opened her eyes, and let out a snort in her nostrils: "What are you doing?" The majesty is not small, but dare to put it on the old head? Even your father, when he comes to me, will bow down, and you will do it without regard for human morality. ”

When the old woman finished questioning, she saw that she did not move, looking down on herself. The covering tulle hangs silently, like a piece of water without waves.

It was an undisguised contempt, just as the person she was looking at at at the moment was just a mass of rotten flesh with the power of the seven orifices.

The old woman couldn't help but be furious, trembling with anger, raised her palm and struck the edge of the bed, and shouted, "Someone! Get this rude girl out of here! ”

There was a chaotic and chaotic sound of a group of people falling outside, and a group of people should have walked quickly to the outside of the hall.

The old woman supported her body with one hand, poked the young woman in front of her with the other, and desperately leaned out, shouting the name of the palace guard in a trembling voice: "Hurry up! Get her out! ”

Puff twice. Two wet, blood-stained human heads were thrown in from outside the gate.

It is the head of the two generals who are responsible for guarding this palace.

"The Empress Dowager! Oh no! She's going to blatantly mess around—"

The old woman who had been slapped just now had her eyes wide open, stumbled in, and was only halfway through her words when she was beheaded by the soldiers who caught up.

The old woman's mouth, which was still open and had not had time to close, fell from the neck to the ground, spurting blood all over the ground.

In the lifeless screams of the palace maids outside the door, the old woman also gasped, her eyes moved from the heads of several people on the ground, and stared at the girl in front of her.

"What are you going to do?"

She gritted her teeth, "You think that scares me?" What has the old body never seen to this day? You wild girl! I don't believe you dare to do anything to me! ”

The old woman paused again, her tone softening.

"The old man also heard about the matter in the liquid pool forest. Could it be that you blame the old man's head? That's all the sins of that slut of the Koyanagi clan! It's a good thing she did in my name! I don't know even half a point! After returning to Chang'an, your father didn't pursue it at all, but promoted that slut to be the queen, how can I ......"

"Yuan Value!"

Su Yu suddenly called. There was no sound outside the door, and a man walked in and stopped behind her.

"What should I do with this old woman?" Su Yu asked.

Yuan Zhi's indifferent eyes swept over the old woman's body.

"The Empress Dowager is precious, and it is disrespectful to give people a lot of affection. The slave remembered that in the past, Li Yan had driven fierce beasts to attack and devour horses, and the slaves did not dare to use fierce beasts, and there were ready-made dog rooms in the palace, not many, and raised more than a dozen, so it was better to follow suit and invite the empress dowager in. ”

The rain is noncommittal. Yuan Zhi glanced at the person behind him. Immediately, a wolf-like guard entered.

"Presumptuous! You dare! The Empress Dowager trembled with rage. She grabbed a cane that she was leaning on, and swung it forward with a fierce scream, but the guards snatched her away, and then, holding her, took her out.

Outside the door, the old woman fell from her bed to the ground amid the suppressed and frightened cries of the palace maids. When she realized that everything that happened in front of her was true, the girl in front of her was clearly rushing at herself to avenge her mother, she clutched the pillar foot of a bed and refused to let go, full of resentment, she could no longer suppress it, and surged out.

"You wild girl! Why did I let you escape back then, and didn't kill you with you! I hate! My grandson, Grandman! He is the true son of the dragon! And your father! Why did a lowly prince born to a slave girl in the court take away everything that didn't belong to him? He should have died a long time ago! Your whole family shall go to hell and be burned with cannons, and there will never be a day of life—"

Today's saint's mother is a female official who was punished for family sins, because of her outstanding appearance, she was favored by the old saint, and later died of illness, so the saint had no mother's family to rely on in his early years, and he was not visible among the princes.

Her curses were replaced by a scream. Yuan Zhi went up expressionlessly, and stepped on the hand of the Queen Mother, who was clutching the foot of the bed. There was a slight click under the boots, and the bones of the hand were broken on the spot. The Empress Dowager's eyes rolled in pain and she closed her breath.

Su Yu slowly lifted the veil, looked around with his eyes, and said, "Brother Yan, I know you are nearby." I love you the most, and I have tried my best to plan for you, and my great-grandmother who has sheltered you to this day is like this, and you can still hold back and not come out to see you? ”

The fainting old woman on the ground let out a breath and woke up again, and suddenly, she fully understood.

Her eyes shone with a light of fear and despair far greater than at any previous moment, and she screamed with all her might, "Hurry up! Come on! Leave me alone! She's here for you! Don't fall for her nefarious schemes—"

The old woman rose straight from the ground and slammed into the edge of the hard sandalwood bed in front of her.

Bang, dull thud.

In the screams of the palace ladies again, the old woman's skull burst open, her brain splattered, she fell to the ground, her limbs twitched for a moment, and she slowly died of exhaustion with a pair of eyes that refused to blink.

In the dark world behind the secret door, Li Yan's eyes were dripping with blood, and his eyes were about to split. He got up suddenly, and was about to break down the door and rush out, but the general next to him covered his mouth and threw himself on the ground.

"Your Highness! The 2,000 armor soldiers trained by General Li are waiting for you outside! They are all loyal to His Highness! Where there is life, there is hope! ”

A voice rings in my ears.

The two thousand armor soldiers hid this to escort him into the city gate of Chang'an with glory. Tonight, however, the dream may be shattered once again.

Li Yanshen kicked deeply, shallow with one foot, followed the light of the fire staff in the hands of the people around him, and walked along the secret passage. He looked at the black shadow cast by the firelight on the low wall of the secret passage, hastily and strangely, swaying indiscriminately without direction, and the somewhat funny appearance made him suddenly think of the Haiyu who was common in the Chang'an court banquet when he was a child, and he specialized in pretending to be ugly to make people laugh. Hot tears flowed from his eyes.

Finally, he came to the end of the secret passage, behind the palace, near the Qinglong River.

He stumbled as if drunk, and after stumbling out of the secret passage that his great-grandmother had made for him, he could barely stand still, and was held to the right and left by several men waiting at the exit, so that he did not fall. He stood still, closed his eyes, and took a few deep breaths of the cool breeze of the spring night sent from the depths of Cangshan, and at this time, he finally felt that the palms of several subordinates holding his arms were full of sweat.

"Your Highness, look." Someone whispered in his ear, and the voice was tense.

He opened his eyes blankly and looked across the stream.

Through a sparkling wave, a riding shadow quietly stopped on the opposite bank.

Pei Xiaoyuan sat on horseback.

He urged his horse and slowly waded through the babbling stream, gradually approaching.

"All the passages out of the mountain have been laid out."

"Take your men, lay down your swords, and avoid useless resistance."

He looked around at the quiet Cangshan Mountain in the next spring night and said to Li Yan.

Chapter 153

The fifth watch had only passed, and there was still some time before dawn, but for reasons that everyone knew, hundreds of ministers had already ridden horses from all directions of the city with lanterns and rushed to the waiting courtyard, waiting for the latest news that might be available today.

Although there were many people, there was no sound in the hall. Only some of the lower ranks, from time to time peeked at the few courtiers sitting in front of them, they did not close their eyes and wait quietly, they looked solemn, as if they were thinking about their hearts, and the rest of the people saw this, naturally they refused to speak out.

Han Kerang entered the palace early as usual, and prepared to go to the Jinwu Courtyard to arrange for today's duty. He bowed his head slightly, walking on the palace road, obviously preoccupied, and suddenly heard someone behind him calling him, and saw that it was Lu Jinghu, the husband of the eldest princess, who came.

Lu Jinghu approached him and said in a low voice that he had something to say. Seeing him looking in the direction of the Purple Cloud Palace, he said, "Don't worry! It's just a few words, and it won't delay the general's value. ”

In the past, they all followed the saint to determine the world immediately, and in order to avoid suspicion over the years, although the two did not have much contact in private, their friendship has been good. Han Kerang thought about it for a while, and when he saw that it was early, he nodded, and followed him to Lu Jinghu's duty room in Nanya. I just went in, and I was stunned.

Lu Jingchen, the general of the forbidden army, was already in the house, and it seemed as if he was waiting for him early.

Although Han Kerang and Lu Jingchen have also worked together for many years and are considered to be the two major humerus around the saint, the actual relationship between the two is average. In recent years, there have been even more rifts due to the struggle for power between the two sides, and even disputes between subordinates on the street. Not only that, more than a year ago, Lu Jingchen's subordinate Jiang Zhao arrested Gu 12 in Xishi, but was stopped by Han Kerang. Later, although Lu Jingchen smiled and said that it was okay, the gap between the two sides was deeper, and there was no doubt about this.

Han Kerang stopped at the door and turned to look at Lu Jinghu. Lu Jinghu looked ashamed, and repeatedly waved at him to show his reparation, and then withdrew, covering the door by the way.

On the other side, Lu Jingchen had already strode up and invited him to come in to talk. Han Kerang had to endure his displeasure and asked what was the matter.