The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 263
"Your Majesty, Chang'er is still so young, leaving his concubine, he will come in the future"

The wind blew through the crack of the window, and the candles standing on the round table flickered gently. The voice of Empress He, who was holding the swaddling baby, choked up, sucked her nose, tears fell down, and sobbed and rubbed her face against the delicate baby's face. In the voice, Li Ye, who was holding a wine glass over there, closed his eyes.

"What the queen said, I know that Chang'er is also my child. But he is the prince. If he stays, I fear that in the future, he will be a puppet again. He is still young, no more than his elder brothers. He has never seen this world before. , I can’t bear to stay here until I’ve lived a good life.”

"His Majesty!"

Empress He is a woman after all, so how can she give up her own child, she knelt down suddenly with her baby in her arms, stretched out her hand and tugged at the corner of her husband's robe, "Your Majesty, please don't let Chang'er leave my concubine, he is still young and cannot live without a mother."

"Queen!!" Li Ye grabbed her hand, clenched his teeth, and glared angrily, "You still don't understand that Chang'er will suffer more after following us. He lost his mother for a while, but always It’s better than losing your life, and being free outside is better than being a bird in a cage like me, and my Li family can still have a queen.”

The woman hugged her swaddle tightly, and lowered her head silently. Not long after, the eunuch's announcement sounded outside: "Your Majesty and Queen, Dr. Hu Qing of Zijin Guanglu has arrived."

"Ask him to come in." The emperor took a deep breath to calm down, and the queen beside him got up from the ground, turned her back, and quickly wiped away the tears on her face.

The next moment, the door squeaked open, and an old man with white hair in a bun bowed in. He still kept his etiquette when he entered the door, and respectfully performed the great gift of meeting the emperor, but was stopped by Li Ye.

"Hu Qing doesn't need to perform such a grand ceremony." He helped the old man, and then asked the eunuch outside the door to close the door, and they walked to the table together. Although Doctor Zijin Guanglu is a lord of Sanguan, Hu Qing is always by the emperor's side, and he knows that Emperor Xin, calling him late at night must have something important to order, without asking why, he bowed his hands and begged Li Ye to give his orders.

What the old man waited for was the emperor over there who suddenly bowed his hands and bowed down. He was so frightened that he lost his position, and hurriedly bowed forward to support Li Ye's hands.

"Your Majesty, why are you doing this, but if you have ordered the old minister, just make the order, and the minister will do it if he puts his life into it."

Li Ye looked at the old man's face with tears, and suddenly felt that he had never lacked such courtiers around him, but he had never looked at them with a straight eye.

"Hu Qing, you must accept this gift from me."

The emperor pushed the old man away, and in front of the empress, he bent down and bowed his hands, "I have something to ask you." Then, he asked the empress to bring the prince Li Chang to him, and looked at the sleeping little boy in his arms. People, really cute.

"Hu Qing, Chang'er is my youngest prince, too young, I can't bear it, so I let him go with me to the place where life and death are uncertain, I want to entrust him to you, take him out of Huazhou, out of this vortex, let He lives freely and freely, and doesn't need to be as useless as his father."

Li Ye reluctantly looked away from the baby's face, endured the pain in his heart, and handed the swaddle to the old man. The latter's arms trembled slightly, and he took the baby in his arms. He also had sons and grandchildren. Yes, no one wants to be separated unless they understand it is absolutely necessary.

Empress He by the window looked at the son who let go of the old man's arms, tears fell again, "Chang'er."

"Your Majesty, Queen."

Hu Qing hugged her baby and knelt on the ground, "The old minister will teach the prince well, let him be a man of indomitable spirit, and also tell him his life experience, so that he will recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors in the future!"

"No, just follow your last name and don't let him know. After he is the royal family, don't let him do big things."

Li Ye took one last look at the child, turned around, and waved with his back to the old man.

"Let's go. Hu Qing takes Chang'er away."

"Respect His Majesty's will!"

The old man kowtowed to the figure facing his back for the last time, turned around and walked quickly to the door, opened the door and disappeared into the night.

"Chang'er!"

Empress He rushed to the door, looked at the figure of the old man walking away into the night, called out in a low voice, and slowly knelt and sat on the ground leaning against the door frame.

"I heard that someone entered the palace in the middle of the night, is there anyone who is doing harm to His Majesty?"

A nightmare-like voice came suddenly, from the palace gate ahead, it was Jiang Xuanhui speaking, and a team of iron armor was extending in behind him.

The guards in the palace wanted to stop them, but they were chopped down to the ground, and the voice shouted again: "Okay, there are more than one assassin, who disguised themselves as guards, left and right soldiers, and killed all the maids and eunuchs here, so they must not be misplaced!" one person!"

Then, the sound of fierce fighting boiled over, and the screams of people and maids suddenly continued.

Empress He, who was leaning against the door frame, woke up in a start, closed the door hastily, turned around and looked at her husband: "Your Majesty, hurry up, it is definitely not a good thing for Jiang Zemin to bring troops into the palace late at night!"

Outside, the noise of fighting and screaming became more and more clear. There were maids and eunuchs running around in a panic, and when a smear of blood splashed on the window lattice, Li Ye came back to his senses.

"Hu Qing must have not gone far with Chang'er in his arms. If they find out that Chang'er is not there"

Thinking of this, Li Ye suddenly ran to another window, pushed open the window lattice, and looked back at the queen, "I attract them, buy some time for Chang'er, if something happens to the queen, you must live on, live on!" To live too."

As he spoke, he roared: "Escort—"

He jumped, fell outside in a state of embarrassment, got up stumblingly, and ran into the courtyard.Empress He rushed to the window, before she could see her husband clearly, the door behind was knocked open, Jiang Xuanhui came in with a knife, looked around fiercely, saw only the empress, and the voice just now, glanced at the open window, waved : "Your Majesty was hijacked by thieves and jumped out of the window, and chased after—"

Everyone under his command ran away, and here, Jiang Xuanhui glanced at Empress He.

"Queen, it's best not to wander around, the thieves are still running around in the palace, it's not good to disturb Feng Jia."

The night wind is gentle, mixed with the sound of cicadas, one after another torches spread in the palace, and there are screams everywhere, and soldiers with torches and swords are flying around quickly, and the corners of the artificial landscape are not to be missed. , when Jiang Xuanhui came over, someone was shouting over there.

"His Majesty is here!"

"The thieves held His Majesty at the side of the water pavilion"

When Jiang Xuanhui came over, Li Ye's clothes were disheveled, his hair was disheveled, and he was constantly retreating. Looking at the surrounding fire in horror, his feet suddenly stepped on the air, and he fell into the pond with a bang, splashing countless water splashes.

Bingfeng swarmed over, blocking the water around the pond. In the light of the fire, Jiang Xuanhui looked at the figure struggling and waving his arms in the water, with cold eyes, and reached out to his confidant.

"Your Majesty was transferred by thieves, and there are assassins in the water!"

(End of this chapter)