On the way back to Beijing, many people came out of Chang'an.

Bai Song inquired about the news and heard that there was a conflict between the emperor and the crown prince.

There are rumors in Chang'an that the prince has a rebellion, and there may be a big turmoil in Chang'an.

There is no reason for this news, it is only said that it spread in Chang'an City overnight, causing panic.

Such news made the people quickly think of the Xuanwumen incident that year.

Although Li Shimin spent his whole life suppressing the events of that year, the people finally had a spectrum in their hearts.

If there is a rebellion, no matter what the outcome is, the people of Chang'an will not end well. It was through purge after purge that it became stable today.

No matter how good Li Shimin's benevolent government is, it is undeniable that in order to conceal the truth, he has used many shady means, leaving a lot of shadows on the people of Chang'an.

Therefore, the people fled, so that this news, which had no root cause, spread farther and farther, and became more and more true, and even the parties began to doubt the authenticity of this information.

"Why?"

In the carriage, Xiang Nan asked with a melancholy expression.

Shu Wang also sighed: "We haven't been in Chang'an for long, and I don't want such a big thing to happen in Chang'an." The crown prince has always been filial and respectful to the emperor, how could he rebel? ”

Bai Song didn't answer, thinking about all possibilities.

He has been avoiding Li Chengqian's path to history, but in the end, it seems that everything is converging towards history.

Could it be that Li Chengqian will definitely come to his own end?

Bai Song didn't care whether the news was true or not, and no matter what caused all this, he knew that the news was true, even if it wasn't true now, it would become true in the future.

……

Inside Chang'an City.

The Imperial Court is doing its best to hunt down those who spread rumors.

But with little success.

Rumors have spread, and it is not something that can be stopped by arresting a few people.

In the three months since Bai Song left, Chang'an City seemed to be calm, but the undercurrent in the secret had been surging for a long time.

Recently, Chang'an has more teachers from Tibet, preaching Buddhism and recruiting believers everywhere.

At the same time, there are also more Dongying warriors, these people have no clear purpose, they just walk in the streets and alleys of Chang'an City, as if they are preparing something, but they are not preparing anything.

In these three months, there were always secret battles in Chang'an City, occasionally one or two Tubo mages died, there were also corpses of Dongying warriors, and there were some people from the rivers and lakes of Hero Village, and even some officials of the imperial court.

In a seemingly tense situation, everything is still under control.

The root cause of Chang'an City's nervousness has to be when rumors have been spreading recently.

This is to put the secret battle directly on the surface, which has affected the hearts of the people, so Chang'an gradually has signs of turmoil.

The prince wants to rebel?

Li Chengqian himself didn't know.

His leg injury had just healed, but he also ended up lame.

Li Chengqian is still sad and sad about this, his mentality has collapsed, where does he have the heart to rebel?

Li Shimin also thought so, he didn't believe that his obedient son had the courage to rebel, and he had no reason to rebel.

In order to put an end to the rumors in the city, Li Shimin decided to take Li Chengqian to worship his ancestors.

And it can allow people to travel with the team.

It is to perform a picture of the love between father and son in front of the people.

Even if it can't completely dispel the rumors, it can at least play a certain role in alleviating it.

When the news reached the East Palace, Li Chengqian gladly accepted it.

Turning his head, he began to prepare for the next day's ancestor worship activities.

Just tonight, Li Chengqian received news again, saying that Bai Rou was in a bad mood and invited him to drink.

Li Chengqian was even more overjoyed and immediately went to the appointment.

The relationship between Li Chengqian and Bai Rou has eased, this is something that Li Chengqian is happy to see, and drinking tonight is a rare opportunity, so he drank a lot and drank to his heart's content.

Back in the East Palace, it was already midnight.

was already drunk, and happened to meet Princess Danyang who came to visit.

Princess Danyang wore a white and soft dress tonight, half-covered and half-hidden on the bed.

Li Chengqian tossed with his aunt for a long, long time with the strength of wine.

As a result, the crown prince was absent from the ancestor worship activity the next day, and the original plan to dispel the rumors became more suspicious.

Li Shimin was furious and punished the prince for being grounded in the East Palace for half a year.

After such an incident, there were suspicious clouds in Chang'an City.

The emperor's imminent change of crown prince seems to be a certainty.

Just at the juncture, Bai Song returned.

Chang'an City was paying attention to the prince's affairs, and no one even noticed that there was an extra carriage in Chang'an City that looked dusty.

After three months, Bai Song felt like several years had passed.

Because there are obviously fewer people on the streets of Chang'an, and they are not lively, except that the water of the Yongan River is still flowing, everything around seems very strange.

Not only did Bai Song feel like this, but the woman in the same car also felt the same way.

Back in Beiding Palace, there was not even a guard at the door, the gate was dusty, and it didn't know how long it hadn't been opened.

"Let the county lord take care of the house, what do you think of it?" Xiang Nan grumbled.

Bai Song didn't say anything, and when he went home and saw such a scene, he was also a little unhappy.

At this moment, a man entered the corner alley at the end of the street.

"It seems to be the ninth brother." Said to the south.

Bai Song beckoned everyone to dismount and followed in the direction of the alley.

That alley can be detoured to the back door of the palace.

Sure enough, the back door of the palace was opened, and Li Zhi entered the palace alone, which was very natural, and it seemed that he often came here alone.

The family at the door was just about to close the door, but Bai Song blocked the door.

When Jia Ding saw Bai Song and several ladies around him, he was slightly stunned, and then he was surprised and wanted to shout.

Bai Song made a silent gesture to make people be silenced, and now he wanted to secretly observe the situation at home.

Bai Song followed Li Zhi to the back garden.

This way was not discovered by Li Zhi.

The person waiting for Li Zhi in the back garden was not from the palace, but Xiao Wu, who became a princess.

Today's Xiao Wu is more and more like a princess, her beauty is not reduced by half a point, but she has an extra luxury that belongs to a princess.

Seeing Li Zhi coming, he ran over happily: "Why did you come?" ”

"I'm sorry, I'm late today."

"You should know, right? Yesterday, the ancestor was worshipped, but the prince did not participate, and his father was angry and grounded the prince. ”

"Of course I do."

"Then you have to behave."

"Why?"

"Of course, because the prince made a mistake, my father may change the prince."

"If you want to change the crown prince, you are the best candidate, you must perform well during this time, you can't make mistakes, you know?"

"Oh." Li Zhi rubbed his eyes, sleepy-eyed, and didn't seem to care too much.

"Can you cheer yourself up a bit? If you can become the crown prince, I will marry you when we are all grown up. ”