Chapter 57: Brothers Meet
Early in the morning, Li Ye stood in the attic of the heavy building of the Phantom Sound Workshop, looking at the monks coming and going in the corridor and path of the house, with an expressionless face.
Yesterday, he was told by Sheng Ji that his training career was over and that he would be received by Li Maozhen today.
This means that if nothing else, Li Ye is about to really start his own plan to fake himself.
"Li Gongzi, it's time for breakfast. Miss Xu walked into the room with a tray, "Today you are going to meet King Qi, don't dare to delay, hurry up and eat the meal and go to King Qi's mansion early to wait." If you miss the time and provoke the anger of King Qi, don't say that you will definitely suffer, and we will also suffer a lot......"
Li Ye turned around and saw the nagging Miss Xu putting the dinner plate on the table, which was quite a bit of a good wife and concubine, and couldn't help but laugh a little.
This simple and kind female monk of the Phantom Sound Workshop, after getting along with him for many days, has become more and more unestranged in words and deeds, and is also very thoughtful, serving Li Ye very comfortably, so that he has no feeling of being under the fence at all. It's just that his temperament is too lively, which leads to more talking on weekdays, and he always chatters like a yellow bird.
"Let's ......" Li Ye sat down at the table, just wanted to say that there were so many meals that he couldn't finish anyway, so it was better to eat together, but he saw that Miss Xu had already grabbed a steamed cake and stuffed it into her mouth, and bit off half of it in one bite, propping up her pink cheeks.
"What are you talking about?" Miss Xu looked at Li Ye with big beautiful eyes, and her voice was indistinct.
Li Ye was helpless, so he had to say: "Eat slowly, don't choke." ”
"Oh!" Miss Xu sat down very obediently, swallowed the food in her mouth hard, and explained to herself: "I see that you can't finish your meal every time, it's too wasteful, but I don't want to wait for you to eat and pick up the scraps, how desolate I am, and I'm not your slave - so I decided to eat with you, so that I can accompany you, so that you don't feel lonely when you eat alone......"
Li Ye saw that the other party was about to start chattering again, so he had to nod again and again, indicating that he completely agreed with the other party's opinion, and reminded the other party that there was no need to say any more.
Although Miss Xu was talkative, she was understanding, and quickly understood what Li Ye meant, and immediately closed her voice and stopped talking, quietly nibbling on steamed cakes one after another.
After breakfast, Li Ye was led by Miss Xu, walked through the porch in the Phantom Sound Workshop, passed through a side door closely guarded by monks, and directly entered the Qiwang Mansion next to the Phantom Sound Workshop.
There were two palace guards waiting here, and after seeing Li Ye, the two sides briefly explained two sentences, and one of them said to Miss Xu: "You wait here, we will take him over." ”
Miss Xu watched Li Ye go deep into the Longtan Tiger's Den alone, and her worry was overflowing, "You have to be careful." ”
Li Ye smiled in return, but he felt a little weird in his heart, seeing that the other party meant that it seemed that they were in a group.
Following the two guards for a short distance, Li Ye did not relax his vigilance along the way, ready to stimulate the cultivation in the heavenly mirror at any time, until he came to a pavilion.
The pavilion was built on a hill, with twenty or thirty steps, and two guards stopped here, let Li Ye go up on his own, and signaled that Li Maozhen was on it.
"It seems that Miss Xu is wrong, I don't need to wait for Li Maozhen at all. Li Ye stepped up the stone steps. When he came to stand outside the pavilion, he bowed and saluted, "Meet King Qi!"
Standing in the pavilion and overlooking the scenery in the house, it was naturally Li Maozhen, who was slender and had a jade tree in the wind, and when he heard Li Ye's voice, he didn't even look back, and said lightly: "Don't be polite, come in and talk." ”
"King Xie Qi!" Li Ye suppressed the urge to laugh in his heart, walked into the pavilion in small steps, lowered his head and looked like a well-behaved look, and said secretly in his heart: "This Li Maozhen is really good at pretending, I am such a person like myself, and it is related to his big plans, he didn't even look at it when they met for the first time." ”
Li Maozhen's gaze always fell on the distance, as if he was looking at his grand cause, and his tone was indifferent and majestic: "You have been in the Phantom Sound Workshop for a long time, Shengji said that you are talented and intelligent, this king asked you, do you know the general trend of the world?"
Li Ye knew that of course he had to pat himself on the back at this time, so he arched his hand and said: "The world is in chaos, and King Weiqi can help the general of the building to fall, turn the tide and fall immediately, and achieve an extraordinary cause!"
Li Maozhen was noncommittal, and said slowly: "Since this dynasty, eunuchs have seized power, traitors have been in power, and the court has rewarded and punished excessively, so that since the Huangchao disaster has been in turmoil, the world has been in turmoil, and it has been impossible to govern for a long time. As the pillar of the dynasty, this king worked hard to exterminate the thieves, dreamed of sleeping at night, and fortunately had the help of heaven to kill the traitors and protect Chang'an. ”
"Now that His Majesty is relied on, this king has the unshirkable responsibility, and it is necessary to return the people to the people! It's a pity that there are many thieves and thieves, and they all want to overthrow the Tang Dynasty, so they are against this king everywhere. In the past, when King An was there, I was like-minded with him, and I had already joined forces to clear the universe. ”
"It's a pity that King An went to the fairy realm, so that this king has no arm to help. Fortunately, the endless road has made this king discover you. Although the world is big, and there are many thieves, as long as this king can unite with the power of King An, a few thieves can only be wiped out!
Hearing Li Maozhen say such a thing, Li Ye almost blurted out two words: shameless!
Li Maozhen's intentions, of course, Li Ye understood. As the lord of the people, of course, he will not be like Shengji, who will open his mouth and close his mouth to glory and wealth, he will give himself a sense of mission and glory, influence himself psychologically and spiritually, control himself, and let himself be willing to be used by him from the bottom of his heart.
To put it simply, it is to brainwash oneself with righteousness, so that one can feel that the other party and one's mission are very sacred.
This is the height that the Lord of Man should have.
Li Ye immediately surrendered happily: "King Qi's hero, no one in the world can match, and he will sweep the world!
Li Maozhen nodded, "Okay, ambitious." When the thieves are calmed down, this king will protect you as king!"
Waiting for Li Ye's thousand thanks, Li Maozhen waved his hand, "Stand down, prepare to enter the palace to face the saint." ”
Li Ye withdrew.
From beginning to end, he found that Li Maozhen didn't even look at him.
"I didn't find out before, this guy is so capable of pretending!" Li Ye smiled secretly in his heart.
When Li Ye left the pavilion, his figure disappeared into the palace, and Zhao Bingkun came to Li Maozhen's side.
"Li Yan and Li Ye are small, let this imposter enter the palace in such a hurry, will Li Yan see the clues?" Zhao Bingkun asked worriedly.
Li Maozhen's expression remained unchanged: "It is reported that Gao Yu's soldiers and horses have completed the assembly on the south bank of the Huai River, and they will cross the river to the north for a few days at most, and we have no time." If this guy can't even pass Li Yan's pass, how can he not show his stuff in front of King An's old subordinates in the future?"
Zhao Bingkun pondered for a moment, "If he is really useless, what should he do?"
Li Maozhen's eyes were cold: "Then we must change the plan." As for this man, what is the need to keep the useless person?"
Zhao Bingkun said no more.
From time to time, Li Maozhen's henchman Liu Zhijun hurriedly came to the pavilion.
Earlier, when Li Maozhen rushed to the Heavenly Dao Secret Realm, he appointed Liu Zhijun to preside over affairs large and small, which shows the weight of this person.
Liu Zhijun brought an urgent military situation: "Your Highness, 100,000 soldiers and horses from Tubo have invaded the border of Lingzhou, and they have plundered several counties one after another!"
Li Maozhen's face sank, and she gritted her teeth: "These barbarian thieves are simply looking for death!"
His anger is beyond words, which shows the depth of his resentment against Tibet. And the root cause of the resentment is because there is nothing to do with them for the time being - after Li Maozhen sat in Guanzhong, the top priority was to send troops to the Central Plains and Hanzhong.
Since Zhang Yichao left Shazhou and went to Chang'an, the Guiyi army has gone through several civil strife and suffered a great loss in strength, and the land of the 11 states that was originally recovered has fallen into the hands of Tubo and Uighurs, and there are only a few states left such as Shazhou and Guazhou.
The states of Sha, Gua and other prefectures, which do not border Li Maozhen's territory, were cut off by Tubo. Entrenched in Liangzhou, Shanzhou and other places in Longyou and Hexi, the territory of Tubo is connected with the original territory of Tubo, and often invades the northwest of Li Maozhen's territory, burning, killing and looting, and doing all kinds of evil.
When Li Maozhen was still the envoy of the Fengxiang Festival, he suffered deeply.
Tubo has become more and more arrogant, and even Fengxiang Mansion has been threatened by soldiers.
......
Through the side door, Li Ye left the Qiwang Mansion and entered the Phantom Sound Workshop.
"You're back so soon?" Miss Xu, who had been touching her hands in front of the door and walking back and forth, and from time to time glanced at the deep palace through the side door, greeted her excitedly as soon as she saw Li Ye appear, probably thinking that Li Ye was really happy to come back alive. It's just that when I think about it, it doesn't seem like a good thing for Li Ye to come back so soon.
Li Ye smiled with relief: "King Qi has a lot of opportunities, of course he won't have too much nonsense with me, and of course he will let me come back early after I have met." ”
"I see. Miss Xu thought about it, nodded like this, and then she opened her bright eyes wide, and asked with great interest: "What does King Qi look like? Is it as handsome as the legend? Did you see King Qi was so frightened that his legs trembled? What did King Qi tell you? Alas, don't go so fast, wait for me ......"
The two walked all the way, and before they reached the heavy building, they met the monk who came to deliver the message: "The Holy Concubine has an order, enter the palace immediately." ”
"Entering the palace?" Miss Xu was shocked. How much of an honor is that?
Leaving the Phantom Sound Workshop in a carriage, staggering all the way, it didn't take long for Li Ye to enter the palace. He was not interrogated all the way, let alone stopped, so it can be seen that Li Maozhen's order has already been passed over.
Thinking that he was about to meet Li Yan as a "fake An Wang", Li Ye felt interesting at the same time, but also had to carefully think about how to perform this performance, I have to say that this is a test of acting skills.
And there must be many viewers sent by Li Maozhen around, who will always stare at his words and deeds to judge whether his acting skills are passable. For Li Ye, acting like himself, but not really himself, is indeed not low.
Li Yan enjoyed singing and dancing in the palace, and was surrounded by a group of fat swallows drinking and having fun, and laughter was heard from time to time.
Although his psychology and spirit are painful, his material life is still very chic.
The door of the temple opened without wind was suddenly closed neatly, and the sunlight was blocked out for a moment, and the hall suddenly became cool.
The musicians and singers who played music, sang and danced, all stopped their movements and fell to the ground silently.
The hall fell silent, and the needle drop could be heard.
The concubines beside Li Yan stiffened, and their eyes widened to look at this strange picture, and they were cold all over their bodies.
Only Li Yan, who suddenly got up, saw the figure standing in the hall, his eyes were red in an instant, the wine glass in his hand fell to the ground, and his body trembled.
"Minister Li Ye, see Your Majesty!" Li Ye leaned over and saluted.