After many days of sunshine, it finally snowed again overnight. The so-called Ruixue Mega Year, a foot of thick snow, can make the tenants of Chang'an very happy.

But in the palace it was a different story. The Tai Chi Palace is still being renovated everywhere, and it is inconvenient to do work in winter, and the day of repairing the burned houses is even more distant after the snow has passed this night.

Although the Linzhao Palace is partial, the courtyard is large, and the only three eunuchs swept the snow in the morning, and only a rough one came out.

?? Zhen brought a cup of soup from the small kitchen, and as soon as he arrived and walked into the courtyard, a eunuch hurriedly stepped forward to help: "Auntie, be careful, the snow in the yard has not been swept away, be careful of slippery roads." ”

"Is Your Highness up?"

"When I first started, this would be in the study. ”

Sent to the door of the study,?? Zhen turned back to the eunuchs in the courtyard and said, "It's cold in the morning, I stewed some broad bean broth to warm up, and I also left some for you, and it's still in the pot." When you're done with your busy work for a while, remember to go grab a bite. ”

The three eunuchs smiled and thanked them, there are not many people in the Linzhao Palace, but the hearts of the people are united, this is ?? Zhen's ability.

As soon as she entered the study, she saw Li Xuan sitting at the table, playing with a snow-white glass bead in her hand, her eyes were stunned, and she only came to her senses when she smelled the fragrance of the broth.

"What is Your Highness thinking?" she put the broth on the table and opened the lid, and the smell of meat overflowed.

Li Xuan didn't answer directly, but asked, "Today, King Xiang entered the palace, right?"

"King Xiang didn't come, and the vice president of his house has passed. ”

"Alone when you go?"

"It's a person!"

?? Zhen served a bowl of soup and just handed it over. Li Xuan waved his hand:

"Qin Wangdian, who studies the world's techniques, is actually helpless against Li Bing's internal strength, do you believe it?"

?? Hearing this, Zhen hurriedly put down the soup bowl in his hand and went to close the door. Although the three people in the courtyard are all cronies, they also have to beware of outsiders coming in and hearing something they shouldn't hear.

Range?? Zhen replied, and he said:

"Looks like I guessed right. After the night of the fifth day of the new year, my father had already begun to suspect Uncle Xiangwang. But...... This is also a good solution:

First, Uncle Wang mobilized tens of thousands of troops around Chang'an without a military talisman, which shows that even if he has been in the opposition for ten years, he still has a huge influence in the military.

Second, the princes and eunuchs could check and balance each other. But now that the eunuchs in the DPRK and the central government have no leader of Yu Chaoen, their power is not as good as before, and the prince is not a climate, for a while, there is no one who can resist Uncle Wang's power, which is a taboo in imperial art.

Third, Li Bing was greedy for playing nonsense when he was a child, and he eliminated his father's jealousy by beating him crookedly. But coming back this time, it can't help but make my father feel that he will be successful in the future, and he has already been alert. ”

He kept rubbing the glass beads in his hand, and said:

"My father did this just to get rid of time, so that King Xiang could focus on Li Bing's affairs, and he had no time to plan. Or want to have a salary from the bottom of the kettle, and use this "Netherworld Black Scripture" to kill Li Bing and extinguish the idea of King Xiang's rebellion. ”

He let out a long sigh, listen?? Zhen asked, "In this case, isn't His Royal Highness the Prince in danger?" Do you want to send a letter to King Xiang...... Or give Han Gongzi at least a prepare?"

Li Xuan shook his head, his eyes came back to his senses, and he slowly picked up the broth:

"No need! I have already told Lin Yuan all the ways to save Li Bing. With his intelligence, if he knows the news that the palace only gave to the Qin Wangdian of the Xiangwang Mansion yesterday, he can understand the reason. This should have started his own plans, so we don't have to worry about it. ”

After speaking, he blew the fat on the soup noodles, took a sip of the soup, picked up the spoon again, and scooped a spoonful of fat broad beans.

Li Xuan has always been a last resort, but today is an exception.

It was already three poles in the morning, and Han Linyuan, who he had high hopes, was still asleep in bed.

"Knock knock!" someone knocked on the door suddenly: "Han Linyuan! Han Linyuan!

"Bang bang bang!" three more times.

Han Linyuan formed a ball, covered his head with the quilt, and listened to the strength outside by three points, and even the bed board shook: "Han Linyuan, get up quickly." Something happened to Li Bing!"

"Bang bang bang!"

It was Yinglan'er who knocked on the door, she looked anxious, and when she saw that there was no movement inside, she raised her foot and kicked it.

Who knew that just in time for Han Linyuan to open the door, this kick kicked him on the waist impartially.

"Ouch!" Han Linyuan took two steps back before stopping, glaring at Ying Lan'er and shouting angrily, "What are you doing!"

He hadn't fully woken up yet, and when he got down, the stamina of any overnight wine was gone.

Ying Lan'er didn't care so much, she originally wanted to go in and talk, but when she glanced at Han Linyuan's untidy clothes, she still stopped, and just about to speak, she was choked by the smell of wine in the room, and pinched her nose: "Why are you still this virtue, you haven't grown at all for so many years." ”

Speaking of which, Han Linyuan's mother is also surnamed Ying and is the same clan as Ying Lan'er. Ying Lan'er is also a distant relative of Han Linyuan, and the two have often met since they were children, but their temperaments and temperaments are too different, and they can't look at each other.

Han Linyuan saw that she didn't come in, snorted coldly, and didn't care that he was only wearing an undershirt, rubbed his left waist that was kicked, and found a place to sit down, "Yes, yes, Yinglan's children are right!"

Pouring himself a glass of water, he pinched his temples: "It's rare that the Ying Woman is willing to deign to come to my 'Han Waterfront', what are you doing!"

Ying Lan'er stood at the door, her face full of disgust: "Let me ask you, did you come to drink with Li Bing last night?"

"yes!"

"And after that?"

"After that...... I can't remember. Han Linyuan drank water by himself, Rao felt the cold wind pouring in from the door, and pulled the underwear on his body tightened: "When I got up in the morning, I already slept here, I guess the three of them sent me back." ”

After he finished speaking, he got up and slowly dressed up, while Ying Lan'er turned her back to the door and asked loudly, "Li Bing is gone...... Just now, the people from the palace came here, saying that he didn't return to the house last night, and asked if you knew where he went. ”

There was a sound of belts in the room, and Han Linyuan said again: "That's not very normal, maybe I slept in Ma Xuewen's house, or it was Wei Ze's house." What a fuss!"

He left a letter to the palace, saying that he was going out to travel, and he did not say when he would return, but told the people in the palace not to worry. ”

When Ying Lan'er said this, she was even more anxious: "But you think, he just came back, and the year is not over yet, where will there be any travel." I'm afraid that he is going to have an attack on his internal strength, so as not to follow his master's old path. ”

Hearing this, Han Linyuan felt that something was wrong, got his clothes in two turns, and came out of the room: "When did the people from Xiangwangfu come?"

"I just left, I saw that you were still asleep, so I didn't wake you up!" Ying Lan'er rarely saw Han Linyuan so anxious, and her momentum weakened: "Let me ask you, did you tell him your plan last night?"

Since meeting with Li Xuan, Han Linyuan set out to check the "middle strategy" mentioned by Li Xuan, and dozens of messages pointed to different places, and slightly used the connections in his hand to find out the approximate location of one of the places, and the process was not very difficult.

However, this matter is not easy to do, not only to conceal that the source of the news is Li Xuan, but also to persuade King Xiang to let Li Bing go with him. can only lie that he has found some information from the classics of the non-sect, which can explain this strange internal strength.

He first told Yinglan'er about it and asked for help. also planned to reveal a little news to Li Bing when he was drinking last night, and then take the opportunity to get out of the whole plan the next day and persuade Li Bing to go with him. I never thought that the wine was strong and the conversation was cheerful, so I forgot about it.

Originally, he didn't think it was a big mistake, at least there was a day before he could talk to Li Bing slowly.

But if Li Bing had gone first, the consequences would have been completely different.

"Hey! Drink and make a mistake!" Han Linyuan punched himself in the chest and hurriedly went out.

Quchifang is the most remote small workshop in the southeast of Chang'an, most of it is silt land, almost the entire workshop is a cropper, and there are no outsiders who usually come.

A few decades ago, when the Tang Dynasty was at its peak, there was a "Qujiang Pond" and "Furong Garden" next to it, both of which were royal gardens, and the people here were still prosperous. However, when the treasury was emptied, many of the royal gardens were removed, and the place lost its popularity, and it became what it is now.

A middle-aged man in a dark green official uniform took a sixteen-year-old black-clothed boy into the workshop and walked along the path to a secluded place.

"Your Highness, this is it. He opened the heavy lock and stretched out his hand to invite Li Bing to enter the door.

The official uniforms of the Tang Dynasty are easy to see from the color and embroidery. The third grade or above is purple, the fourth grade is dark crimson, the fifth grade is light crimson, the sixth grade is dark green, the seventh grade is light green, and the dark blue is the eighth grade, and there is a ninth grade of light blue below.

This room is different from the ordinary wooden buildings, loess houses or blue brick houses in Chang'an, but more like the earthen caves in Yanzhou, except that this cave is underground.

The eighth official stretched out his hand and flicked the spider web hanging in the air: "This water prison is not used often. Your Highness wants to use it, so I'll send someone to clean it up. ”

"No need. Li Bing looked at the furnishings in the room, which were all equipped with wooden frames, shackles, handcuffs and leg shackles for interrogation, and a simple wooden table next to it, as well as all kinds of torture instruments. Unlike other places, there is also a pool of water dug into the ground in this room.

He turned to the man and said, "It's not a mess here, I'll just clean up after myself." This water prison ...... What was it meant for?"

The eight-rank official is the bad handsome of Wannian County, Chang'an. The so-called bad guy is the messenger in charge of investigation and arrest, and the bad guy is its leader, from the position of the eighth grade.

He wiped the bench and table, and said: "Your Highness doesn't know, we bad people sometimes catch prisoners who are much better than our own kung fu, and if we can't deal with it when the time comes, we have to find a safe place to lock him up and sharpen his temperament."

It's called a water prison, and it's actually a torture cell. Soak in the water for seven or eight days, and then go through all the criminal laws, no matter how powerful the master is, in the end he will lose his arrogance. ”

He pointed to an iron plate on the edge of the pool on the ground: "Your Highness, look at this iron plate, there are so many small holes on it, all of them are used for ventilation.

Once covered on the water dungeon, there was only an inch of space between the water surface and the iron plate. If the people in prison want to live, they must keep their heads up at all times, and they can't sleep yet. Once you fall asleep, you will be choked awake, so tossing for three or five days, even if the gods come, in the end there is no will, you will answer whatever you ask, interrogation, twice the result with half the effort. ”

"Then if the people in the water prison have a high level of kung fu, will they escape from it?"

"There is absolutely no way! In the water, only less than 30% of the original strength can be used. What's more, there are fine iron shackles and handcuffs in this water, which binds hands and feet, making people even more unable to use them. Even if it breaks free, there are rivets around this iron plate, and once it is locked, this iron plate will never be shaken in the slightest.

Legend has it that at the beginning of the construction of this water prison, Dali Temple also sent people to try it, saying that even if the leader of the forbidden army came, he could not get out. ”

Li Bing nodded: "That's fine! Okay, you can keep the key." I'm running out of this place, so I'll send someone to send it back to you!"

The bad handsome handed the key with respectful hands, and said, "Since you are the leader of the traitors, do you want me to send some more people to fence this place?" In case thieves come to intercept it?"

"No need. This matter should not be publicized. Otherwise, I wouldn't have chosen this place. ”

"Your Highness said yes. Then the subordinate retired first. If any dispatch is made, the subordinate will surely die. ”

Li Bing politely praised two sentences, and said: "Remember! Today's events must not be mentioned to others." ”

When the bad marshal left, he closed the door, looked out the narrow window at the sunny sky, and reached out to scoop up the water in the pool, and the water floated, reflecting on the wall, rippling open.

Li Bing tied his leg cuffs to himself, sat quietly on the edge of the pool, hugged his legs, pillowed on his knees, and looked at the pool of stagnant water, as if looking at his future.