Datang's free and easy concubine

Chapter 1172
Su Cheng shrugged slightly and said: "It's okay. Your Majesty is still a father and son. He doesn't want to kill the prince, but all the ministers are unanimous. In order to rectify the law of the country and warn future generations, the prince must be killed."

Princess Changle wondered: "Then why..."

Princess Yuzhang pursed her lips and said, "It must be the Duke's mediation?"

Su Cheng nodded and said: "I just made a suggestion, let's take a look at the first trial. If the prince still cares about the relationship between father and son and only wants to force His Majesty to abdicate, then he will deal with it lightly. If the prince does not care about the relationship between father and son and wants to kill the king If you kill your father, you should be executed."

Princess Changle's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she nodded again and again: "Mr. Lang, this is a good idea, yes, if the elder brother of the prince still cares about the relationship between father and son, then the emperor will not bear to kill the elder brother of the prince. In this way, the elder brother of the prince launched a mutiny Just want to force the father to abdicate?"

Su Cheng slightly nodded and said: "Yes, Your Majesty personally went to the prison to ask Hou Junji, that's what Hou Junji said, so His Majesty decided to choose a manor to imprison the prince, and he was not allowed to step out of his life .”

Princess Changle sighed softly: "That's fine, it's the best result for the prince brother."

Princess Yuzhang blinked at Su Cheng with beautiful eyes, and said curiously: "Before, I always thought that you and the elder brother of the prince were at odds, but I didn't expect you to rescue him in the end."

Su Cheng explained: "It's not a discord, it's just that I'm lazy, and the prince lives in the East Palace, so I don't move around much. On the contrary, it makes the prince feel that I have a problem with him."

"The crime of treason deserves death. I excused the prince not for the prince, but for the empress."

"Thinking about it, the empress is the most innocent, caught in the middle of a dilemma, and the saddest. I am afraid that the empress will be too sad and her body will not be able to bear it."

Princess Changle was very moved when she heard this. She was most worried about her mother along the way, because her father and Su Cheng had already discovered the intention of the prince's brother's rebellion and had already prepared, so there would be no danger.

But the queen mother must be very anxious and very sad, and the queen mother's health is not good, what should I do if I can't stand the blow and fall ill?
In the Jiucheng Palace the year before last, his mother was critically ill. If Su Cheng hadn't donated the medicine, the mother might have...

"Duke, thank you!" Princess Yuzhang said earnestly. Although she was only the adopted daughter of the queen mother, the queen mother treated her like her own daughter, so she didn't want anything to happen to the queen mother from the bottom of her heart.

"Brother-in-law, thank you, otherwise the queen mother would not know how sad it is!" Li Zhi also looked sincere.

Even the youngest Princess Jinyang said in a childish voice: "Thank you brother-in-law!"

Su Cheng smiled and said, "Don't be so polite, this is what I should do!"

Empress Changsun walked into the prison, followed by a group of court ladies carrying food boxes and clothes and bedding.

Crashing, the iron door of the cell was opened, and Li Chengqian turned his head to find that his mother was just outside the cell.

Li Chengqian stood up with a pale face, and said in a bit of a whisper: "Mother!"

Empress Changsun walked into the cell, looking at Li Chengqian's pale face, both felt distressed and hated him for being obsessed.

"Go!" Empress Changsun's call contained too many complicated emotions.

Li Chengqian almost didn't cry when he heard the "dry son". His mother had always called him that when he was young, and since he took the Biaozi, his mother had always called him Gao Ming.

It has been too long since his mother called him so. Li Chengqian took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "My son let my mother down, why should my mother come to this filthy place? Mother doesn't have to plead with my father, my son has committed crimes." For the serious crime of treason, the son-in-law will bear it all by himself, and it is nothing more than going to death, and the son-in-law will perform filial piety at the knees of his mother in the next life!"

Now that it's too late to say anything else, Empress Changsun sighed softly: "Your father doesn't want to kill you!"

Li Chengqian couldn't help being slightly startled when he heard this, he didn't expect that he had committed a serious crime of treason, and his father wanted to let him go.

He calmed down in the prison for a long time, and he felt a little uncomfortable. Now that he saw his mother and heard her say that his father didn't want to kill him, he felt especially uncomfortable.

Since he made up his mind to rebel, he thought he would die. Li Chengqian took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "My son is unfilial, rebellious and immoral, and death is not a pity. The courtiers will not let the son off, so please don't make things difficult for the emperor, the son is willing to die to apologize!"

Empress Changsun said with relief: "Today in the morning court, Su Cheng stood up and convinced the officials."

Li Chengqian couldn't help being stunned when he heard this. He had always hated Su Cheng deeply. After his musket formation was defeated by Su Cheng last night, he hated Su Cheng even more, thinking that Su Cheng had blocked his great cause.

Unexpectedly, it was Su Cheng who saved his life.

For a moment, he didn't know whether he should cry or laugh, which was really the greatest irony in life.

Empress Changsun asked the maids to come forward and opened up all the food in the food box.

"Ganer, you must not have eaten all day and night, right? These are my favorite foods, eat some!" Empress Changsun comforted.

Ever since he entered the prison, Li Chengqian hadn't eaten a grain of rice. First, he couldn't eat the bad food in this prison, and second, he thought he was going to die and he didn't have the mood to eat it.

Now that he knew that he would not die, Li Chengqian suddenly felt hungry.

Li Chengqian ate it in big mouthfuls, it was very sweet and sweet, but Empress Changsun felt a little sad when she looked at it. Although Li Chengqian liked to eat it before, she didn't know how to eat it so sweet.

Looking at the dirty and broken cell, and seeing Li Chengqian gobbling it up, one can imagine how much he has suffered.

Li Chengqian ate for a while before suddenly remembering something, raised his head and asked: "Mother, what does the emperor plan to do with the son?"

Empress Changsun was silent for a moment, and said softly: "Prisoned, you can't take half a step in your life."

Banned for a lifetime?After hearing this, Li Chengqian had no desire to eat anymore, and said with a miserable face: "If you want to imprison the minister for a lifetime, life is better than death, then the emperor might as well give the minister to death!"

Empress Changsun wanted to cry when she heard this: "Gan'er, the queen mother gave birth to you and raised you, so she wanted you to die? Have you never thought about how sad the queen mother is?"

"You must live well. You can choose the place where you are confined. You can choose wherever you like. The queen mother can guarantee that you can live a life of luxury. You can send someone to tell the queen mother what you want, and the mother will give it to you. !"

Li Chengqian couldn't help thinking silently in his heart, it was better to be imprisoned in Chang'an than to be exiled in Lingnan.

Li Chengqian sighed and said: "The son is not willing to part with the mother, so the mother will decide later. The son only hopes to be closer to the mother."

(End of this chapter)