King Zhao, as the third prince of Emperor Taizu and the youngest prince, is naturally a figure who is loved by thousands of people.

Everyone in the world has the saying "old son, big grandson". refers to the younger generation that every old man loves the most, one is his youngest son, and the other is his first grandson.

Li Longji, as the first grandson of Taizu, inherited the throne smoothly, but the third prince was named King Zhao at the age of a weak crown, and the rest of the princes did not have this treatment.

As the two most favored people by Emperor Taizu, King Zhao's care for Li Longji can be described as meticulous, when Emperor Taizong managed the affairs of the Ming Dynasty with Emperor Taizu and had no time to play with him, King Zhao took him over the city wall from a young age, took him to drink for the first time, and gave him his favorite horse.

In Li Longji's childhood, King Zhao can be said to have spent half of his time with him.

But when he was twenty-two years old, and the second year of his reign, he died mysteriously. At that time, it was said that it was a sudden and vicious disease. This incident caused Li Longji, who was far away on the southern border at the time, to violate the military order and return to Chang'an to handle the funeral for him.

And after Taizu learned about this, he was also heartbroken and died soon after.

Li Longji slowly returned to reality from his memories, and asked the old man: "Uncle Zhao Wang didn't leave an heir back then, this is a well-known thing, how can there be such news." ”

The old man replied: "There is also a strange matter in this matter, and the old man can't make up his mind, so he has come to consult Your Majesty." ”

Li Longji exhaled a long breath and thought carefully, and in the study, the two were silent.

"Who said that?" Li Longji finally asked after a long silence.

It was Yang Zhao, Yang Yucheng said it himself. ”

"Yang Aiqing. Li Longji touched his chin with a solemn expression, "Come on, pass on Yang Zhao." ”

Outside the door, a little eunuch ran out to spread his will, and Li Longji said to Li Zhiwei: "Zong Zheng, please sit down and wait for Yang Aiqing's arrival with me." ”

Li Zhiwei said yes, sat down in the closest place to him, and waited quietly. Li Longji looked at the open palace gate in front of him, and his eyes were deep.

After Qin Keqing waited for Wang Yi to be carried back, he hurriedly cleaned up Wang Yi's clothes, put them on the bed, and boiled a pot of sobering soup for him.

Sitting next to the charcoal fire, the fan in Qin Keqing's hand kept fanning to ensure that the charcoal fire would not be extinguished.

At this time, a carrier pigeon flew in the sky, breaking Qin Keqing's busy figure.

In the night, the carrier pigeon was illuminated by the starlight, as if it was a porcelain, and fell into Qin Keqing's hands.

The arrival of the carrier pigeon also brought a letter.

Qin Keqing took off the letter on the white pigeon's leg and read it slowly.

After reading the entire letter, Qin Keqing hurriedly extinguished the charcoal fire, ran to Lu Zhong's room, and handed the letter in his hand to Lu Zhong.

Lu Zhong was in the room, and then he saw Qin Keqing hurriedly running in, still holding a letter in his hand.

"Lord Lu, there is a situation. ”

Lu Zhong's face changed dramatically after reading the letter, and he immediately changed into his official uniform, pushed open the door of the Jinyi Guard, and rushed towards Yuhua Palace.

But none of this has anything to do with Wang Yi, after coming back, most of his drunkenness has disappeared. Now is the best time to get rid of Liu Cheng, with the alibi of Li Yuan, the son of King Yan, and Lu Zhong going out again, it is a favorable condition for Wang Yi.

There is a saying in Chang'an City that the east is rich and the west is expensive, the south is cheap and the north is poor. It is said that in the east of Chang'an City, most of them are merchants who come and go, and they are here to rest for a while. The west side is inhabited by wealthy families in Chang'an City, such as Yang Zhao and the Yang family. In the south, there are some green buildings, martial arts halls, and the most famous is the flower boat building. In the north, there are poor people who have fled to make ends meet.

Liu Cheng is a very strange person, as an official of the imperial court, he does not live in the west of Chang'an City, but is willing to live in the east with those merchants who come and go.

It is said that it was because Liu Cheng had a medicinal herb shop and needed to deal with them, so he lived in the east.

Wang Yi walked in the streets and alleys of Chang'an City, feeling the summer wind blowing across his face, and Chang'an City began to restore his silence at night.

Wang Yi wore a mask on his face and an embroidered spring knife wrapped in coarse cloth behind him. After evading the husband, Wang Yi quietly took out the map he had gotten.

He is used to being ready for everything after doing things.

After determining Liu Cheng's address, Wang Yi put away the map in his hand, took the embroidered spring knife behind his back, and walked towards Liu Cheng's house.

The place where Liu Cheng lives looks very large, and there is something abnormal in the east of Chang'an City. However, the composition of these courtyards, which are difficult for outsiders to clear, is in vain in the face of Jinyiwei's powerful intelligence system.

After climbing over the high wall, Wang Yi landed in the courtyard, looking at the empty place here, Wang Yi frowned, he felt that something was abnormal.

How can an official have such a large courtyard without the emperor's reward, but it is still very deserted here. In Chang'an City, where every inch of land is expensive, it is the biggest problem to have such a large private courtyard.

On the lake in the courtyard, a bright moon appeared there, and Wang Yi walked towards a house in front of him, which on the map was where Liu Cheng lived.

Pushing the door open, a somewhat handsome man sat at his desk, his face shining with a dim oil lamp, where the years had left many marks.

Liu Cheng put down the brush in his hand, looked at the young man who pushed the door in, and said softly: "Visiting late at night, Your Excellency is afraid that the person who came is not good,"

On the desk, thick books came into view, and Wang Yi guessed that it should be Liu Cheng's account book. It seems that tonight, Liu Cheng is sorting out the accounts of his family's medicinal herb store.

"So I'm going to get straight to the point. Wang Yi replied.

Liu Cheng stretched out his right hand and said, "Please." ”

After Wang Yi was silent for a moment, he asked, "Who instructed you to do tricks on the documents of sending troops to rescue King Qi in Youzhou?" ”

Liu Cheng frowned slightly and looked at Wang Yi. He originally thought that Wang Yi would come here at most to ask for money, or to be his enemy, but he didn't expect it to be for the affairs of Youzhou back then. It shouldn't be, except for the county lord, all the people in the Qi Palace's mansion should have died.

Liu Cheng was silent for a moment and said, "You killed Zhang Xianzong?"

Wang Yi nodded, Liu Cheng looked at Wang Yi's movements and sighed in his heart.

"Did you go to find the others?"

Wang Yi looked at Liu Cheng, who was a little regretful and sad, "Zhang Xianzong just said you, as for the others, I'm sorry." ”

After that, Wang Yi shrugged, very helpless.

Liu Cheng also smiled bitterly and said with emotion: "I knew that Zhang Xianzong couldn't keep a secret. ”

"Then you can tell who's behind it. ”

Liu Cheng shook his head and said, "No, because after I say it, my family will die without a body." ”

"If you don't say it, then you will die here today. Wang Yi pulled out the embroidered spring knife in his hand and placed it in front of him.

Liu Cheng looked at Wang Yi, who had drawn his weapon, and smiled, "Do you really think that Zhang Xianzong's death is indifferent to us people?" ”

Liu Cheng waved his sleeves and took out a sword in his hand.

"Unfortunately, we're not stupid enough yet. ”

Wang Yi's hand tightly grasped the embroidered spring knife in his hand, and he knew that an accident had happened. I thought that Liu Cheng was an imperial history, and the court officials would not practice.

But Liu Cheng is not only a cultivator, but also the most lethal sword cultivator, in the first few years in the Sword Pavilion, Wang Yi knew very well how terrifying the lethality brought by a sword cultivator.

Liu Cheng stood up, shook off the shawl on his body, pointed outside and said, "It's better to go outside, it's not good to break my things." ”

Wang Yi doesn't care about this, he doesn't know Liu Cheng's cultivation realm, plus Liu Cheng's swordsmanship, the ghost will fight with him.

Escape.

He fled without looking back.

Wang Yi tried his best to flee in the direction he came.

Liu Cheng stood at the door of the room and looked at the young man who had escaped, and said with emotion: "It's really young, but this can't let you escape." ”

Liu Cheng threw out the sword in his hand, put his index finger and middle finger together, pointed in the direction of Wang Yi's escape, and the sword flying in the air suddenly glowed, as if he had received an order, turned into a black light, and stabbed at Wang Yi.

As Wang Yi ran, he felt a chill in his back. Then he heard a crack behind him.

Wang Yi's eyes were calm, he looked at the upcoming flying sword, attached the starlight to the surface of the embroidered spring sword, and then met the flying sword.

Bite.

The flying sword and the embroidered spring knife collided together for the first time.

Wang Yi's body began to recede incessantly, and a long mark was drawn on the ground. Wang Yi's eyes were staring at the flying sword, and he knew that if the flying sword penetrated the embroidered spring knife, he would definitely die.

Wang Yi looked back and saw that there was only a line between himself and the high wall. He made a quick decision, and Starlight condensed on his right foot, stepping on the high wall hard, using the high wall to resist the flying sword.

Rumble.

Wang Yi fell on top of the high wall, stirring up a cloud of dust.

Liu Cheng slowly walked out of the door of the room, came to the courtyard, waited for the dust to disperse, to see if Wang Yi was dead, he was not in a hurry to take back his flying sword, he had to be sure of Wang Yi's death, otherwise there would be a big problem.

Time dissipated minute by minute, and the dust began to slowly dissipate, revealing the true face inside.

It was not Wang Yi's corpse that greeted Liu Cheng, but his embroidered spring knife.

After Wang Yi was knocked down on the high wall, his right leg kicked at the flying sword, deceiving it with his own starlight, attracting the hatred of the flying sword to the past, and Liu Cheng could not perceive his state due to the fog.

Wow, wow, wow.

He stepped on the high wall, and began to fall ash on the high wall, and then avoided the attack of the flying sword again, and put the embroidered spring knife across the high wall, and the embroidered spring knife in his hand was quickly pulled out with the help of the strength of the high jump.

After doing all this, the dust has not completely dispersed, Liu Cheng frowned, he still can't detect the situation inside, and the flying sword is also interfered with.

Call.

A sound of breaking the air came, and in the dust, a figure flew out, it was Wang Yi, he flew high, holding an embroidered spring knife in his hand, and slashed towards Liu Cheng.