The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 175

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Raindrops fell on the drawn green branches, and the wind carried the rain across the eaves of the palace. The study room on the side of the Xuanzheng Hall was brightly lit, and the maids and eunuchs stood in a row waiting outside the door.

In the middle, Li Xuan yawned, took a new memorial and flipped through it, and drew a handwriting on it with the tip of a cinnabar pen, annotating his opinions on this government affairs.

The burning lamppost below radiated warmth. Among the lights, Tian Lingzi was standing there. He could see that His Majesty was in a good mood today. Between the rustling strokes, the eunuch put his head to his head and smiled.

"Your Majesty, I'm in such a good mood today, you might as well rest early. It will be some time before Chen Zhaoyuan comes back from Sichuan with Your Majesty."

"If you know I'm in a good mood, don't mention any concubines."

After approving a memorial, Li Xuan let out a breath, threw the brush to the inkstone casually, slid it onto the table and splattered some ink stains, leaned on the back of the chair and looked at the ink dots, wondering what to think, and suddenly grinned.

"You said those women locked up in Dali Temple, do you have any regrets in your heart at this time? I don't believe that you can save your life by calling a husband. I have never seen a dangerous thing in this world? Shu is so difficult, I can pass it, but I can’t pass it? It’s just that these women are easy to deceive, and they have never seen the world, so I am ashamed.”

He said it in a joking tone, but there was a sense of joy and comfort in his eyes, Tian Lingzi who was below quickly put on a smile, stepped forward and cupped his hands and said, "What your majesty said is that these concubines were born in a high-walled courtyard since they were young. Here, when I arrived at the palace, I really have never seen the world, so is Gu Changshi, who wants to die as a hero, entrusting the concubines to a crooked person like Geng Qing, isn't it harmful."

Behind the dragon case, Li Xuan looked at the eunuch with solid eyes.

"You said they didn't know much when they stayed in the palace, so they count as my share?"

Tian Lingzi opened his mouth slightly, and quickly slapped himself twice, showing a flattering smile: "Your Majesty, this servant has said the wrong thing, said the wrong thing."

Over there, the emperor leaned back in satisfaction, looking at the beams and carvings on the dome that crossed his eyes.

"You don't need to blame yourself, big buddy. You are right. Geng Qing's actions are indeed harmful to these women who don't understand anything. I really want to see how my concubines cry and regret in prison."

Li Yan smiled, and got up while leaning on the armrests, "I'll deal with the rest of the memorial tomorrow. Let's go to Chen Zhaoyuan's. It's better to be the daughter of my brother's elder brother. I know her roots well. Don't worry about her disobeying me."

"Please, Your Majesty." Tian Lingzi stepped aside with a flattering smile, opened the door respectfully, followed the emperor out, and followed the eunuchs waiting on both sides, while the other two maids walked in front with lanterns.

"Your Majesty, my servant has recently obtained a new formula, which is very effective. I heard that many families who have used this prescription have given birth to boys. The servant in the dining room has already prepared it. I will come over later."

"Big companion, just listen to folk remedies. I've never heard of prescriptions for giving birth to boys and girls." Li Yan walked in front with his hands behind his hands. He shook his shoulders, his tone was joking, and he looked sideways at the eunuch who was one step behind.

"Is it really so effective?"

"It shouldn't be fake. If the doctor dares to lie to me, the servant will kill him!" Tian Lingzi made a gesture of wiping his neck, but made some funny expressions on his face, which made Li Yan laugh out loud, and cut off the pain in his heart. A group of uncomfortable things put him in a good mood.

After exiting the Xuanzheng Houdian, walk around the Zichen Hall along the outer corridor eaves. When you get outside, the little eunuch holds up a paper umbrella to cover the emperor from the rain. Pass through the Yuehua Gate and enter the West Inner Garden. In this season, standing in the attic and looking out, pink peach blossoms are everywhere, which is a fascinating picture.

When the emperor came here, there were already palace people kneeling here to greet him, and when Li Xuan went in, Tian Lingzi, who was following behind, stopped and looked at the eunuchs who were kneeling on the ground.

"Where's Zhao Chen? Why isn't he on duty today?"

"Reporting to the Inner Prime Minister, Boss Zhao had diarrhea today. He was still here just now. Before His Majesty and the Inner Prime Minister came, he ran to the latrine."

Hearing the answer, Tian Lingzi scolded: "I can't store anything in my stomach." Then he walked in. As for the few eunuchs outside, they were all familiar faces from the palace, so they believed it.

The soldiers patrolling outside passed by, and several eunuchs stood up with low brows, patted the dust on their knees, and silently guarded the door of the attic.

In the night, a carriage was moving slowly through the uninhabited path. Occasionally, someone came out of the darkness, stuffed the note into the car, or led the way in front.

In the relentless spring rain, the carriage stopped beside the peach grove, and there was a brightly lit attic not far away. The eyes in the curtain looked around, stretched out their arms to lift the curtain, and walked out.

In Fuluan Building, sandalwood incense is curling up, and the lights are burning. The empty soup bowls are left with residue on the table. Not far away, a low bed is covered by pink curtains. Pulled in.

In the tent, the kneeling figure was pulling something furiously, and from time to time, a woman's coquettish voice could be heard, and she spread her long legs to pinch the man's waist, but was pulled high and lifted onto his shoulders.

"Your Majesty, don't be in such a hurry."

"After drinking the soup and medicine sent by my big companion, my heart is burning with fire. Quickly, untie my belt."

"Hee hee. No, let His Majesty hold back, and you will have strength later."

Outside, Tian Lingzi, who was listening to the commotion inside, smiled. Chen Zhaoyuan said that she was his niece. No matter how good his relationship with the emperor was, he was a monarch and minister after all. It will only become more stable.

Tian Lingzi went back to the outside room, found a seat and sat down, and let the maids in the building serve tea, while drinking tea, listening to the sound of rain, while waiting, it was very comfortable.

Thinking of something, he called a few eunuchs outside the vocal door to come in, but when the voice came out, there was no response at all. Tian Lingzi frowned, turned his head to call the maid who came out just now, but there was also no voice, and He jumped involuntarily, put down the teacup and was about to get up.

The next moment, outside the door, the three eunuchs on duty rushed in in a panic, pointing to the stammering opening outside with panic in their eyes.

"Internal Prime Minister Zhao Boss is dead."

"what?!"

Tian Lingzi knocked over the teacup on the table in agitation, but at this moment, figures from the other side of the door stepped in quickly, there were only six or seven of them, all dressed in green clothes, and when they came in, they punched and kicked the three little eunuchs. On the ground, Tian Lingzi wanted to run, but as soon as he turned around, one of them grabbed the back of the neck and dragged him back.

"Private Tian, ​​what are you panicking about?" That was a soft and cold voice coming from outside the door. Tian Lingzi, who was being lifted by the back of the neck, looked away vigorously, and a soft and handsome face appeared. He came in briskly in a green suit with hands behind his back, just glanced at him lightly, sneered and went straight to the stairs.

"Jiuyu, do you want to rebel?!"

Tian Lingzi yelled at him and was slapped by others, staring at his eyes, he turned his face, and saw another figure walked in, guarded by two people dressed as guards.

He was dressed in Shu brocade black-patterned clothes, his hair neatly knotted in a bun on the top of his head, and he was wearing a Lun towel. He walked up the wet steps step by step, his gaze resting on Tian Lingzi's face coldly, and he said softly to the left and right: "Tai Tian Privy come up together."

With a hasty glance, Tian Lingzi opened his lips and couldn't close his lips when he saw the face passing in front of him, "How can it be impossible? Even if the yellow thief is resurrected, it is impossible to break into the palace. How did he get in? There are also people in the eunuch's palace." people'

"Geng Qing."

He was thinking, the moment he said the name in his mouth, he thought of something, and suddenly shouted up: "Your Majesty, run quickly—"

Somewhere on the second floor.

There was a shrill cry, and the curtain floating in the lights was suddenly lifted. Li Yan poked his head out with his upper body naked, and looked outside. The voice was so familiar just now.

Inside the tent, long legs as white as jade stretched out to hook the emperor's waist.

"Your Majesty, what's the matter with you?"

"The voice just now seems to be from the big companion?" Li Yan suddenly lost her mind, moved her legs away, and was about to get out of bed in a hurry. look out.

Then there was a loud bang.

The door was squeezed by a huge force and opened inward. The emperor who had just put on a single shirt had never experienced such a thing, and shouted at the door: "Who dares to disturb me!"

Answering him, a knife was inserted into the wooden post at the end of the bed with a slam, and the sawdust exploded. The tip of the knife was directly exposed from the other side and pierced the curtain. The woman on the bed widened her eyes and screamed out in fright.

"I recognize you, the young prisoner over at Yeting Palace!"

Li Xuan was still shouting while holding up his clothes. Jiuyu gave him a cold look. The fear of the emperor in the past had completely disappeared that night. What was in front of him was just a cowardly man who only dared to kill women. It doesn't even count.

Jiuyu ignored him, just came in, moved a low stool and put it in front of the emperor, then stepped back, as if waiting for someone, Li Yan watched his movements, subconsciously looked at the door, and saw a A face appeared, and a person's name flashed across his mind instantly, his eyes narrowed, and in his hazy vision, Geng Qing, who was dressed in black, walked in with a smile. down.

"Please sit down, Your Majesty."

"Geng Qing, what are you going to do." Li Yan never thought that this dark-faced young man would dare to sit down in front of him, and even asked him to sit with him, his whole face twisted and reddened.

"You told me to sit down? What do you want to do when you bring people into my place? Kill the king?!"

"I am a king, you are a minister, you are in vain as Yu Cong's student, that's what he taught you!"

Li Yan's mouth opened and closed quickly, and he was speaking extremely fast. The next moment, he slapped him on the face with a "boom", printing five red fingerprints. The screaming woman on the bed saw this In one scene, his mouth was closed immediately, and he even covered his mouth with his hand, looking over there with tears hanging down his face without blinking.

The emperor at the table covered his face, the burning pain was still coming, but it made him feel unreal, "You hit me"

"Emperor. I never liked emperors, and I don't have the concept of monarchs and ministers." Geng Qing smiled and said something half-understandable, got up from the stool, rubbed the palm of the opponent who had just slapped him, looked at the woman on the bed, Walking slowly around the round table again, he didn't seem to worry about the guards patrolling outside.

The voice was soft and indifferent.

"I. This person is a bit weird. In my eyes, the emperor is no different from ordinary people. He can eat, sleep, and play with women. The emperor doesn't need to shit, does he?"

At the door, someone came in with a wooden basin and put it on the head of the bed. Geng Qing walked over to stir the water temperature, and approached the woman on the bed with a gentle voice.

"Chen Zhaoyuan, take a piece of silk and satin to make some bubbles."

"Geng Qing!" The emperor over there was baffled by his words and actions. He not only looked at his concubine, but also ordered her to do things. The extreme panic in his heart was hysterical.

"What the hell are you doing?!"

"What are you doing? Your Majesty said it just now." Geng Qing stood up and patted him on the shoulder, pushed Li Xuan back on the stool and sat down, looking at him with cold eyes on his smiling face, and paused every word: "Kill— —Jun!"

"what!"

Tian Lingzi was so frightened that his legs became weak and he sat on the bottom of the wall. Chen Zhaoyuan, who was holding the silk in his hand, also turned pale with fright. .

"Are you scared?"

Over there, Geng Qing's nose was almost at the distance of the other's nose, grinning, then slowly retreated to the edge of the bed, reached out and squeezed the soaked satin in the woman's hand, in front, two guards came in, grabbed Pressing back Li Xuan who was about to get up, he yelled loudly, and the majesty of the emperor that he had just pretended was shattered in an instant. He was pressed down like a dog waiting to be slaughtered, his whole body was shaking.

"Geng Qing, let me go"

"I will reinstate the officer."

"It's okay to let you be right. I don't want to die and let me go."

"Tell me, spare my life—"

Geng Qing put a finger on his lips and 'shh', "Your Majesty, you don't want to die, and my wife doesn't want to die either, but if she dies, there are more wives who will die too. Only you die, I, There are still a lot of people left to live."

The wet silk was spread out on the palm of his hand, and he pressed it down in Li Xuan's wide-eyed eyes——

Dali Temple.

"Who are you?" The cell was opened, and the head of the cell and a group of jailers rushed forward with weapons. After a while, something was thrown, which was the token of the Ministry of Punishment.

"These women, we will take them away for interrogation, and if they stop them, they will be executed together!"

Someone didn't believe it, and went up to stop him, but a thick Yanyue knife slammed down, and the body blocking the road was instantly torn in half, flying left and right.

"Whoever dares to stop me from saving others will only be offended!"

Dozens of arresters rushed in with swords in their arms, stepped on the bloodstains on the ground and the split corpses, and walked to the cells one by one. His subordinates fought a cold war.

In the dim light of the torches, the prisoners in the nearby cells also stared blankly at this scene. For a moment, they watched the people from the Criminal Department walk through the corridor and go deeper in. I heard from the jailers before that the innermost room is closed. It was the concubine who was about to beheaded.

"Catch them and behead them in the middle of the night."

Fuluan Tower.

The lights reflected the shadows of several people standing or sitting on the wall. The woman under the bed was trembling with her head in her arms and could not speak. On the table in front of her, the wet silk was pressed against the face of the person, and the emperor kicked his feet , the arm was pressed tightly, struggling crazily, and groaning.

"The emperor is superior to others? In the eyes of the minister, the emperor is also a human being, an ordinary person. Why can you kill people casually, and you don't have to pay for it?"

Geng Qing pressed the silk tightly, covered Li Xuan's mouth and nose, and his voice became more and more cold: "You don't want to give me such a beautiful woman, why kill her?! I have done so many things for your family , If you say turn your back on me, turn your back on me, are you going to kill me if you leave the city? I'm afraid I haven't lived enough yet."

His eyes were red, he pressed his head firmly, his arms were trembling, but he didn't dare to let go, as soon as he let go, his heart might soften.

At this juncture, being soft-hearted is killing yourself and everyone around you.

"I can't die. I can only let His Majesty die."

The emperor, who was pressed on the stool and leaning against the table, struggled less and less, his legs were gradually losing strength from his frantic kicking, his shoes and socks were skewed to one side, and he rubbed against the ground again, and finally stopped moving up.

After a while, Geng Qing let go, took off the silk and satin, looked at the dead face with wide-eyed eyes, took two deep breaths, wiped his face with the silk and satin, Jiuyu who was facing over there still had Several eunuchs waved their hands.

"Kill the women on the bed together, and I'll go outside to get some air."

After finishing speaking, he left the silk and satin and walked over the corpse, only Tian Lingzi who was sitting by the wall was left blankly watching the eunuch beside him go to the bed.

Amidst the screams of his niece, he was still staring blankly at the dead body facing up. Then, he suddenly sat up, crawled out of the door like a dog on the ground, and hugged Geng Qing's thigh.

"Geng Shangshu, show mercy and let the slaves live."

Then, he was kicked away and fell to the ground, his crotch was wet and full of water stains.

　Directly a big chapter, not divided into chapters.

　　Let’s continue tomorrow. After finishing this volume, we’ll release the update. After the details of the end of the volume are handled, the next volume will be easier to write.

　　
　
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