Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 359 Raid
"Liu Qi is dead!"

"Dead? Brother Renshou, what do you mean? Is it impossible for a dead person to be the person pointed out by the prophecy?"

"That's right, if the person mentioned in the prophecy is destined to be, how can you kill him so easily if you have the destiny?"

Wang Wenzuo opened his mouth wide and was speechless for a while: "Isn't your statement a bit ridiculous? Why does the person pointed out by the prophecy have a destiny? Can't die easily? If the emperor really believes in the prophecy so much, then simply Follow the destiny, don't you just give the Zen seat to that person?"

This time it was Jin Renwen's turn to be speechless, and Wang Wenzuo's rebuttal hit the ruler's ambivalent attitude towards the prophecy: he believed in the veracity of the prophecy, so he followed the prophecy to find his potential threat, trying to put It is eliminated in the bud; but he also believes that there is some kind of mysterious power in the prophecy, so that the person who is easily killed by him will not be the person who the prophecy really corresponds to, but he just thinks that he can resist this mysterious power. Securing the throne.This kind of contradictory view makes the ruler extremely weird—after killing someone according to the prophecy, not only will the ruler not feel safe, but he will suspect that he has killed the wrong person and missed the person who should be killed. And continue to look for the enemy that does not exist.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this!" Wang Wenzuo sighed: "Brother Renshou, do you know how the Son of Heaven knew that prophecy? I obviously burned that piece of paper?"

"It was mentioned by Liu Rengui in his memorandum to the imperial court. He heard this nursery rhyme on the street when he was recuperating in Luoyang!"

"Ah!" Wang Wenzuo opened his eyes wide: "Is Liu Rengui crazy? Doesn't he know that his surname is also Liu, and he has been in Baekje before, and these two words can also apply to him!"

"That's right!" Jin Renwen sighed: "Maybe he is seeking for the country and has no time to take care of himself, or maybe he thinks that he will report it first, so naturally the emperor will not consider him. No one knows the specific reason now. Yes, I also heard it from a friend of the Zhongshu Province, and I don’t know more!”

"Crazy, really crazy!" Wang Wenzuo sighed: "Then what should we do now? Is there any way to help Mr. Liu get cleared?"

"Sanlang, I know you and Liu Renyuan have a very good relationship!" Jin Renwen sighed: "But the trouble with this matter is that it's not a crime, it's just a knot in the heart of the emperor. How can you get off without a crime? Take this matter to ask the emperor to intercede, the emperor will never admit it!"

"That's true!" Wang Wenzuo was completely awake at this time. As Jin Renwen said, being famous in the prophecy is not a crime in any dynasty or generation. There is no such thing as killing a minister directly. Even if a tyrant like Emperor Sui Yang wants to kill you, he will let his cruel officials give you a decent charge and let you die in a proper manner.Li Zhi would not do that anymore. After all, he also knows that it is not a decent thing to believe in prophecy, let alone kill innocent people because of prophecy. Anyway, he has some cruel officials who are proficient in the law and understand what he wants. As long as he casually hints After a while, someone will naturally take care of things for him, and he will never get his hands dirty.

"By the way, Mr. Liu is not the only minister surnamed Liu in the court, right? Why does the emperor only punish him for his crimes?"

"Then why?" Jin Ren asked with a wry smile: "Yesterday I heard a rumor in the palace that the emperor asked the Ministry of Officials to submit a list of officials with the surname of Liu above the sixth rank in the country. I guess he will screen it himself!"

"Officials with the surname of Liu above rank six in the country?" Wang Wenzuo gasped, and the picture of Li Zhiwu, a dark husband and wife, drawing circles and crosses on the list with a brush suddenly appeared in his mind, and he felt a chill. To the bone marrow, this is really a person sitting at home, and the disaster comes from the sky. If my surname is not Wang, but Liu, I will probably be classified into another book for no reason like those officials on this list. At the least, the future is bleak, and at the worst, the family will die.

"This feudal autocratic imperial power is really black!" Wang Wenzuo murmured to himself. In his heart, Li Zhi was definitely regarded as a wise emperor among ancient Chinese emperors. Flattering, but the emperor's personal wisdom does not mean that he is a good person. The alienation of autocratic imperial power to people is vividly reflected in their husband and wife. Wang Wenzuo felt shuddering at the thought of working under this dark couple all the time.

"What's the matter, Saburo, are you afraid?"

"Of course I'm afraid! If you're not afraid, I'll be damned. If the prophecy says not Liu, but Wang, then I will be the one who is unlucky?"

"That's right!" Jin Renwen sighed: "There is really no way to do this kind of thing. You took such a big risk to hide the prophecy, but you still do it. This is the destiny!"

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Chang'an Jingshanfang Daxingshan Temple.

In a side courtyard deep in Daxingshan Temple, Li Xiayu plunged himself into darkness.

She closed the curtains, fell into a drowsy sleep, shed tears silently when she woke up, then fell asleep again, and when she couldn't sleep, she curled up under the quilt, trembling with grief.

Sometimes she sleeps leaden, dreamless all night, and wakes up exhausted, even more tired than when she closed her eyes.But that's not bad, because if she is dreaming, it must be related to her mother.Sleeping or waking up, all she could see was the scene of her being pinned to the ground by the maid, the eunuch who announced the decree strode towards her, and then read out her mother's crimes aloud, and then...then...she just wanted to turn her head She really wanted to turn her head away, but her feet were already weak, so she fell to her knees.And somehow, she just couldn't look away.The people around showed gloating smiles, didn't my father laugh at himself?He actually smiled, and she thought everything was all right, but only for a moment, and then her father's face turned away, and it turned out that he was smiling at the woman.

As for the mother, she only remembers her mother's head drooping... and then being dragged out.At the moment before being dragged out, the mother turned her head back and looked at herself and her sister earnestly. Suddenly, the mother's face suddenly changed into that of Wang Wenzuo.

Let me die too, Li Xiayu said to herself, she found that the idea was not scary at all.Tear up the sheet, weave it into a rope, throw it over the beam, tie a knot, stick your head in it, and kick off the bench, and all misery will end, and poets will sing of her sorrow years later.Li Xiayu picked up the sheets several times, but when she thought of her sister, her courage immediately left her, and she could only bury her head on the bed and cry bitterly.

The door of the room was pushed open, Li Xiayu looked towards the door in panic, but it was the palace maid who usually guarded her, and seeing her face was full of gloating smiles, Li Xiayu's heart suddenly thumped, what could it be? Is the disaster going to fall on me and my sister?
"Both of you!" The maid saluted Li Xiayu and Li Suwen: "There is an order in the palace, three days later it will be the day when the two become monks, so the two of you have to take a shower and fast for these three days."

"Became a monk?" Li Suwen snorted coldly: "There is nothing wrong with us, why should we become a monk when we are fine?"

"Hehe!" The court lady showed a sneering smile: "Did you make a mistake? For the two of you, becoming a monk is a great blessing! Just this blessing, no matter how many people ask for it, you can't get it! "

"Fufen, why don't you get rich? Come on, I'll just give you my blessing!" Li Suwen retorted.

"My maidservant can't afford to be your blessing!" The maid smiled and said, "By the way, my maidservant has two news here, one good news and one bad news, which one do you two want to hear first!"

"You can talk about good news and bad news, so why make a difference!" Li Suwen said coldly.

"Then let's tell the good news first, and make you two happy!" The female officer said with a smile: "I remember that you two brought two beds of thick blankets, and you were reluctant to throw them away as treasures. It was a man named Wang Wenzuo who joined the army, you two still miss him very much, don't you?"

"The news about Wang Joining the Army, didn't you say that he offended Her Majesty the Queen?" Li Xiayu raised his head, his eyes sparkling with hope.

"Yes! He did offend Her Majesty the Queen, but Her Majesty is magnanimous and cherishes talents. Not only did she not blame that Wang Canjun, but she also promoted him. Now he should be a fifth-rank official, right? He and Jin Ren Ask General Jin to make friends, and how happy you are in Chang'an during this time!"

Li Xiayu didn't hear the last few words of the maid at all, she just heard "I didn't blame that Wang Canjun" and was overwhelmed by ecstasy. She just put her hands together and prostrated herself to pray to Buddha.Li Suwen on the side was startled, and hurriedly hugged her sister: "Sister, what's wrong with you, are you okay?" Even calling seven or eight times was useless, Li Suwen couldn't help being frightened, pointing at the maid and scolding: "You This bad woman is using fake news to hurt my sister again!"

The maid smiled and said, "Young lady, that's not right! I told you about Wang Wenzuo out of good intentions. It's because your sister has a ghost in her heart. By the way, you two are about to become monks." You people, you must abide by the Buddhist rules and regulations. Then Wang Wenzuo is not related to you, and your sister’s family with a daughter is very disgraceful. If it spreads, your royal dignity will be completely lost by your sister! "

"You—" Li Suwen was furious when she heard the words, and was about to quarrel with the female officer, but she was held back by a hand behind her. When she looked back, it was Li Xiayu, with tears streaming down her face, her eyes were clear, and she was clearly insane .

"Sister, you're all right!"

"Suwen, I'm fine!" Li Xiayu patted his sister's hand, and bowed deeply to the female officer: "Thank you for telling me that Wang Canjun is well now, he is kind to our sisters, I really miss him We were implicated because of our sisters, so that our sisters can become monks without any worries. Just now you said that there is another bad news, what kind of bad news!"

"Bad news?" The female officer rolled her eyes: "You two heard some commotion outside a few days ago?"

"That's right, the monk who delivered the food said that there were mobs making trouble!" Li Xiayu said, "I just don't know if it's true or not!"

"That's right, that's true. Tens of thousands of people set fire to looting, and the thieves even held bows and crossbows to resist the government's conquest!"

"There are other things like this? So what's going on now?" Li Xiayu was taken aback and asked hastily.

"It has calmed down. Thousands of thieves were beheaded. That Wang Canjun made great contributions to this matter, so he was promoted!"

"Amitabha, thank you Bodhisattva for protecting you!" Li Xiayu hurriedly clasped his hands together: "Is he not injured?"

"It's not scratched at all!" The corner of the female officer's mouth turned up slightly: "Don't thank the Bodhisattva first, the court is now strictly investigating the people behind the scenes, and the two elder brothers, Li Sujie, were also implicated in it. He hanged himself in the prison!"

The elder brother of the two, Li Sujie, was also implicated in it, and just last night, he hanged himself in the imperial prison!
Li Xiayu seemed to be hit by a thunderbolt on the head, and she fell down without saying a word, Li Suwen quickly reached out to support her, and called her sister's name, but she didn't respond, she turned her head and cursed: "Good you bitch Wife, are you here today to specifically harm our sisters?"

"Hehe!" The female officer laughed: "What a heartless person, I just said it clearly, a good news, a bad news, you must listen to it, I just said it, who knows that she was hurt If you can't stop, what does it have to do with me? Besides, as I said just now, being able to become a family is a blessing for the two of you. Think about it, if your elder brother Li Sujie also became a family like you, it would be a blessing. How could he be implicated in the next incident? How could he die at such a young age? You two only hate the loneliness of the monastery, but you have not realized the love of your Majesty's son, you really don't know what is right and what is wrong!"

Li Suwen was furious when she heard the sound, and was about to yell, but felt her sister in her arms move twice, and quickly patted her back twice, saying: "Sister, sister, are you okay!"

"I'm fine, I just didn't come up in one breath, it's blocked!" Li Xiayu let out a long breath and showed a wry smile. With the help of her sister, she stood up and walked in front of the female officer: "Brother really hanged himself last night. And died?"

"That's natural, can you still deceive you about this kind of thing?" The female officer laughed.

"Then you brought only one maid to see us today?"

"Really?" The female officer was confused by Li Xiayu's strange question: "As you know, Daxingshan Temple is a clean place, and there can't be many people there!"

"that would be great!"

As soon as the words were finished, Li Xiayu suddenly punched the female officer's right eye. The female officer wanted to scream, but was covered by Li Xiayu's left hand, so she couldn't make a sound.The two fell to the ground and wrestled.

"Suwen, come and help, hold her hands and feet!" Li Xiayu sternly said, she covered the officer's mouth with one hand, and held a bloody gold hairpin with an eyeball protruding from the tip of the hairpin in the other hand It turned out that she had secretly removed her gold hairpin just now, and the first stroke blinded the female officer's right eye.

(End of this chapter)