Jiaohua

Lu Mingfeng has always been a clean person, with a neatly trimmed beard and a long beard that reaches just to the Adam's apple.

Now, his beard grows thick and dense, his hair has not been washed for many days, his face is unkempt, covered with withered grass, and his body still has a strong smell of sweat and a damp, cold musty smell.

Li Ju looked at him as if he was looking at a stranger.

Lu Mingfeng who had not waited for Li Ju to speak did not know why, but he was sure that if he looked up at the emperor's eyes at this moment, he would definitely have something good to eat.

So Lu Mingfeng just knelt on one knee, motionless, with his head bowed.

Time passed slowly, and Lu Mingfeng's legs began to ache and numb.

Because of the iron chain tied between his feet, his kneeling position is very cramped.

Finally, he shook his body, and the iron chain rubbed against each other sharply.

After all, Lu Mingfeng raised his head. After seeing the emperor's eyes, he was always as calm as him, and this was the first time he was shocked like this.

The light from the oil lamp was dim, making the emperor's aging face even more ferocious and cold.

As for his eyes, Lu Mingfeng, who knows countless people and is proficient in people's hearts, can see two words at a glance: hatred.

Your majesty, hate him?
Lu Mingfeng whispered: "Your Majesty..."

"Lu Mingfeng," Li Ju said, "How many years have you been with me?"

Lu Mingfeng clenched his palms tightly and said, "29 years."

"It's no different from 30 years," Li Ju said with a sneer, "It is said that the general of Tianrongwei is under one person and above ten thousand people. His power is not even comparable to that of princes, princes, and prime ministers. I hear this every year. I got it, but I turned a deaf ear to it, never cared about it, and had no taboo."

The emperor would not have such a head for no reason, Lu Mingfeng is a smart man, his heart was getting colder and colder, and he clasped his fists together: "Humble post, thank you, Your Majesty, Long En!"

"Long En?" Li Ju looked at him contemptuously, and walked slowly towards the oil lamp with his hands behind his back, "Yeah, for the past two months, I have been unable to figure out why you have such power and favor. Follow me well? I can't figure it out."

Lu Mingfeng said sadly: "But Your Majesty, the humble position has never had two hearts!"

Li Ju didn't speak anymore, he tapped on the dilapidated table with his fingers, very slowly, with a slow rhythm.

Lu Mingfeng was flustered, and knelt and went over: "Your Majesty, someone with a heart is stirring up our monarchs and ministers, trying to use your hand to get rid of me! I know that I am in an important position, and I have offended tens of thousands of people. If this person hates me, just let me go I'm afraid, getting rid of me is to deal with you, Your Majesty."

Li Ju's eyes hardened, and he suddenly turned around and pointed: "Lu Mingfeng, what do you think you are!"

Lu Mingfeng shuddered, and then realized that he had said something wrong.

This emperor, he hates being blackmailed the most!
"Beside me are the Jinwu Guards, the Forbidden Army, the Qin Xun Yi Guards, and the Habayashi Xun Guards! Outside the palace there is the Guangning Army, and there are my Li Family Cavalry! What do you think you are? Get rid of you to deal with me? Without you, I can't survive, can I!"

Lu Mingfeng hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, forgive me! I don't mean to be humble!"

"How do you explain the Chongtiantai incident!" Li Ju said angrily.

Lu Mingfeng frowned and raised his eyebrows to look at him, not knowing what he was referring to.

"Tianrongwei seldom has difficult things to investigate, but you have not given me an explanation for the serious disaster that is right under the nose of the capital!"

Lu Mingfeng was still puzzled.

The disaster of offering sacrifices to heaven at the Chongtiantai is certainly a serious disaster, but after so many years, it is considered an old account, why did the emperor suddenly turn over this volume.

"Lu Mingfeng, you really deserve to die!!!" Li Ju yelled violently.

"Your Majesty, it is really hard to find out about Chongtiantai!"

"How difficult is it to find out?" Li Ju took a step forward and glared at him angrily, "How could a thousand birds, a thousand rats, and a hundred cages appear out of nowhere? Everything is traced, traced from the top, followed by the vines. In other words, how difficult it is to check! In my opinion, this is not difficult to check, but not to check! Why not check, because I don’t want to check myself!”

The word "self-examination" made Lu Mingfeng's eyes widen in shock.

Thinking of the book in Bao Chengle's hand that Lou Chunping sent people to say, Lu Mingfeng hurriedly raised his hands and cupped his fists: "Your Majesty, but what did Bao Chengle say to Your Majesty!?"

Li Ju didn't answer, and looked at him with the same cold eyes as before.

It was obvious that Li Ju's initial anger was gradually calming down, but it made Lu Mingfeng's chills stand on end.

After a long time, Li Ju said sadly: "Lu Mingfeng, you and those people in the northwest have a long relationship."

"Your Majesty is right, but it's still about Mountain View City?"

"Mountain View City," Li Ju smiled, "Your receipts from Mountain View City, written in black and white, are here with me."

"Your Majesty, I have already said that I borrowed the hand of Lord Zhi to beat Shen Lie's spirit!"

"Shen Lie's vigor?" Li Ju frowned, and his anger flared up again, "Lu Mingfeng, how dare you speak nonsense here! What is the value of Mountain View City to Shen Lie? Shen Lie abandoned the city long ago and went to the northwest. Suppressing bandits in the northwest! Are you trying to beat his spirit? I see that you are both yin and yang, and joined forces with Master Zhi to seek the mines in Mountain View City, and the wealth in Mountain View City! Come back to deceive the king again!"

Lu Mingfeng swallowed hard: "Your Majesty, are these the ones that Bao Chengle investigated?"

"These? I have more here! Lu Mingfeng, you deserve to die!" Li Ju almost yelled through gritted teeth.

It was the first time that Lu Mingfeng really understood what it means to be unable to argue with a hundred mouths.

He stared blankly at the emperor whose face was distorted due to anger, and felt that the emperor who had sacrificed his life to serve the emperor for nearly 30 years was so strange.

After a long time, Lu Mingfeng murmured: "Your Majesty, I have never been disloyal to you..."

Li Ju looked at him disgustingly: "I've never had a trace of loyalty!"

"Your Majesty!!" Lu Mingfeng's lips trembled, "You, why did you say such words!"

But Li Ju suddenly took out something from his sleeve and threw it at his head.

Just as Lu Mingfeng was in grief, he couldn't take care of it for a while, the object directly hit the bridge of his nose, the pain made his eyes go dark, and tears rolled down.

This object has sharp edges and corners, but when Lu Mingfeng came over, he saw that it was a bunch of keys.

He picked it up with both hands, and one of the strange-looking keys suddenly awakened his memory that was about to disappear.

Lu Mingfeng said in shock: "This key..."

"As expected, you are no stranger." Li Ju wanted to vomit.

"It's the key to those cages!" Lu Mingfeng raised his head and said, "Your Majesty, back then we filled the keyhole with glue soup, and the white glue after solidification was exactly the shape of this key, I am no stranger to it!"

After a pause, Lu Mingfeng said again: "Your Majesty, if someone with a heart wants to use this key to frame a humble official, it's really easy!"

"Really?" Li Ju sneered, "I sent people to the Ministry of Industry, and then I sent people to ask Wei Yan and Xu Huazhi, and everyone said that the general shape of the key is common in the Northwest! When the Tiantai disaster happened, why didn't you mention to me that the key was related to the northwest?"