Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

"Damn it, Qin Hui killed Yue Fei for nothing, you don't even need Wu Zetian to kill me for nothing!" Wang Wenzuo cursed secretly, but his mind was spinning fast, he knew that what the queen said just now was indeed the truth .If she really doubts herself, she can put herself in prison first, and then judge with cruel officials, and then she will definitely not be able to stand it.But it would only be worse if he revealed the truth, not to mention that he secretly conspired with Yang Sijian to fabricate lies, and also implied that Yang Sijian killed Wu Minzhi himself, and charged the deceased with raping the crown princess (although the two parties had an affair should be the truth) .Just fabricating lies to deceive the prince and queen is enough to get him thrown into the [-]th hell forever.So no matter what, I must clench my teeth and not let go.

"Your Majesty is indeed telling the truth! If Your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can send credible people to investigate!"

"Of course the widow will send someone to investigate! But after investigation, Wang Wenzuo, you don't want to pass the test easily!" Empress Wu sneered. After she suspected that Wang Wenzuo was related to the death of her nephew, the original resentment and disgust towards Wu Minzhi disappeared and replaced him. It is sympathy and pity, which further stimulates the hatred of Wang Wenzuo: "Do you think that you can't deal with you because of your high merit? No matter how high your merit is, Wang Wenzuo surpasses Han Xin? You should know what happened to Han Xin in the end, right? People, take Wang Wenzuo down, first send him to Yeting Court for interrogation, and choose another day for interrogation!"

"Yeting? I am not a concubine, not a court lady eunuch, how can I be sent to that ghost place!" Wang Wenzuo was taken aback. His only hope now is the prince. If he is locked up in places like Dali Temple, it is impossible to hide it from the prince. , will definitely find a way to rescue him, but Ye Ting is hard to say.Li Xiayu and Li Suwen were imprisoned in that ghostly place for several years, but Prince Li Hong didn't even know about it.If I was imprisoned there, it wouldn't be surprising if the crown prince couldn't be found for ten days and a half months. I'm afraid that even if I was rescued by then, I would be a cripple.

Wang Wenzuo was thinking whether to fight hard, even if he was hacked to death with random knives, it would be better than being tortured to death piecemeal in Yeting, but he heard a voice from outside, and when he looked back, it was Prince Li When Hong came in, he saw that he was holding a saber with a murderous look on his face. He went straight to Wang Wenzuo and bowed to the queen with his hands folded.

"Hong'er, who is this?" Empress Wu stared at her son dumbfounded, as if meeting him for the first time.

"My boy just remembered that there is an important matter that needs to be discussed with Saburo back to the East Palace. If the mother finishes asking, I plan to take him back. Please forgive me for being rude!"

The queen seemed to understand her son's meaning at this time, her face turned red immediately, she was originally a very strong character, after becoming a queen, even her husband seldom disobeyed him, but she didn't expect that she always It was the gentle, benevolent and filial eldest son who defied his own life for the sake of a courtier. She only felt that someone was hammering hard on her two temples, and her blood vessels were throbbing violently, as if they were about to burst in the next second.

"Mother doesn't speak, it must have been finished!" Li Hong kicked Wang Wenzuo: "It's already late at night. Now that I've finished talking, how can I continue to disturb His Majesty's rest?"

"Yes, yes!" Wang Wenzuo understood immediately, and he hastily kowtowed twice to Empress Wu: "Your Majesty's delay in rest will interfere with the holy body, and death penalty will be punishable by death!" He got up and followed Li Hong out of the hall.

"Sanlang, what did the mother in the palace tell you just now?" Li Hong asked in a low voice in the corridor.

"Her Majesty the Empress was saddened by Duke Zhou's death, saying that I was involved in Duke Zhou's death, and forced me to confess. If you hadn't come in just now, Your Highness, I would have been escorted to Yeting!" Wang Wenzuo said with a wry smile: "This time, Your Highness is really It is to save ministers from water and fire!"

"Hey!" Li Hong sighed, his face was full of sadness: "Mother is like this, she is very protective of her natal family, but two uncles are not born to her, and the relationship has always been very bad, so she puts her mother's family in a bad relationship. I put all my feelings on Wu Minzhi, the elder sister's son, and let him change his surname to Wu and inherit the title of his grandfather. But I didn't expect that everything would come to naught overnight, and it's no wonder that my mother would blame you Fortunately, I caught up, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous!"

Wang Wenzuo opened his mouth, and didn't know what to say for a while, and finally he could only say: "Thank you, Your Highness the Crown Prince!"

"Forget it, between you and me, Saburo, you don't have to be so polite!" The prince stopped, with a gentle smile on his face: "Besides, you were implicated because of me, otherwise, you wouldn't have been implicated tonight." Involved!"

Looking into Prince Li Hong's clear eyes, Wang Wenzuo suddenly had an impulse deep in his heart to tell the other party all the whole story, and then let the other party decide.But in the end reason still defeated impulse, he lowered his head: "His Royal Highness is so kind, I really don't know how to repay it!"

"Sanlang, didn't I just say that? Between you and me, there is no need to be so polite!" The prince smiled, and then his smile faded again: "But don't tell the outside about your mother tonight, Also, you'd better live in the East Palace in the near future, it will be safer!"

"I understand, thank you, Your Highness, Prince!" Wang Wenzuo did not refuse. The only bottom line for Wu Zetian to do things is to have no bottom line. This is not playing video games. You can save and start again. If you die, you will have no chance.

"I want to send my wife back to my hometown tomorrow! Is it possible?" Wang Wenzuo asked.

"Well, that's a good idea!" Li Hong said with a smile: "Sanlang, you are still very thoughtful. Only when you understand everything, can you be truly safe!"

"I'm afraid there is no such thing as safety in Chang'an City!" Wang Wenzuo cursed, but he felt that he was exhausted and didn't want to say anything more. "

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Daming Palace, Hanliang Palace.

"The saint is awake, the saint is awake!"

The deep cheers were transmitted among the court ladies and eunuchs surrounding the hall. The emperor has been recuperating here for a long time.Although all available doctors have been invited, none of them dared to promise a radical cure.The common diagnosis made by several of the most capable doctors is that the emperor's disease cannot be cured, and the symptoms can only be gradually alleviated by taking medicine, guiding, and resting. Azimuth calm.

In order to abide by the doctor's order, Li Zhi had to let his son assume the responsibility of supervising the country in advance. Unlike the "Prince Supervising the Country" in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the "Prince Supervising the Country" during the Gaozong period was not just the prince's supervision of the emperor. During travel or recuperation, he presided over government affairs, but the Eastern Palace officials with the prince as the core directly participated in the government affairs.As mentioned in the previous article, the Eastern Palace official system in the early Tang Dynasty was a pocket-sized court, which itself was used to reserve talents for the future heirs of the empire.It is not difficult to imagine that after Li Hong got the post of supervisor of the country, the depth and breadth of his control over the imperial power far surpassed that of the subsequent princes.Moreover, this kind of state supervision is irreversible in a sense, because the prince of the state of supervision can return the power, but the bureaucratic group of the Eastern Palace behind the prince of the state of supervision is not so easy to give up the obtained power after tasting the taste of power up.

"Her Majesty is here!"

Following the transmission, Empress Wu came in from the outside. Her residence was only separated from her husband's resting place by a corridor.So when she learned that her husband was awake, she rushed over immediately.Li Zhi who just woke up saw his wife and said with a smile: "Ah Wu, you are here, what time is it?"

"The second watch has just passed!" The queen sat down beside her husband, and asked with concern, "Do you feel better, Pheasant slave?"

"It's much better!" Li Zhi said with a smile: "It's just that I'm still a little dizzy. After resting for four or five days, I should be almost recovered!"

"Hmph!" The queen snorted coldly: "You can wake up, just to teach the prince a few words, otherwise no one will be able to cure him!"

"Hong'er?" Li Zhi laughed: "What's wrong? Did he make you angry again? Could it be for state affairs?"

"It's fine for state affairs! I'm not an ignorant person!" The queen complained, "Isn't it because of that Wang Wenzuo? I just want to cover up, and in his eyes, I'm closer than the mother who gave birth to him and raised him!"

"Oh? What's going on?" Li Zhi frowned. Just as he was about to ask, he suddenly felt a stabbing pain in the back of his head, and couldn't help but ouch.The queen was startled when she heard this, and quickly helped her husband to lie down again: "Are you all right?"

"It's no big deal!" Li Zhi lay down for a while, and said with a wry smile: "Speak up! Explain the whole story clearly, and the widow will know your temper. If you don't understand this matter, you may be so angry that you won't even be able to eat. of!"

Hearing her husband's ridicule, the queen laughed, and then became serious again. He told Li Hong to take Wang Wenzuo into the palace that night: Wu Minzhi raped the future princess, but the princess committed suicide after being humiliated, and Yang Sijian tried to kill Wu Min. The story is told again.As the story progressed, Li Zhi's expression became serious, and finally he said in a deep voice: "Based on your nephew's crimes, being able to strangle him is already an extrajudicial favor, and there is nothing wrong with Yang Gong killing him. As for Wang Wenzuo , he doesn’t seem to be at fault, right? Why are you punishing him?”

"Your Majesty, think about it, all of these are just the one-sided words of Wang Wenzuo and Yang Sijian. Whether it is Wu Minzhi or that Yueniang, they are all dead. The truth of the matter is not just based on the two mouths of Wang Wenzuo and Yang Sijian ?”

"Awu, do you mean that Wang Wenzuo and Yang Sijian colluded to frame your nephew?" Li Zhi frowned, "Isn't that impossible? Wang Wenzuo and Yang Sijian didn't have any friendship at first, and if nothing happened, Yang Sijian would be Hong'er's father-in-law has gained a lot; what kind of bargaining chip can Wang Wenzuo offer to bribe Yang Sijian to leave the emperor's relatives alone and lose his own child's life just to frame Minzhi? Do you think this is possible?"

Faced with Li Zhi's questioning, the queen was suddenly dumbfounded.Her suspicion of Wang Wenzuo is more out of intuition than a solid logical chain, and as Li Zhi said, how high a bargaining chip Wang Wenzuo can offer will make Yang Sijian not want his family rich and noble, and take his daughter's life as a pawn. Gambling to harm Wu Minzhi sounds too ridiculous.

"If there is no other evidence, let's forget about Wang Wenzuo! Talent is rare!" Li Zhi laughed.

"However, shortly before that, Wang Wenzuo came to my concubine's place to sue Minzhi. Doesn't it seem suspicious?" the queen argued.

"Is what Wang Wenzuo reported true?"

"True!" The queen nodded with difficulty. She knew that she had lost tonight, but he was still a little unwilling: "But he didn't finish the matter at once, but only half of it, and the rest is The concubine found out by herself!"

"Oh? What's the matter?" Li Zhi asked.

The queen hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice: "My concubine's mother passed away a few days ago, so I took some money and silk and asked Wu Minzhi to go to Da Ci'en Temple to build a separate courtyard to support the mother's dead soul. But that servant unexpectedly Qian Bo took it into his pocket, and then borrowed some manpower from the Six Commanders of the Eastern Palace to build another courtyard in Da Ci'en Temple!"

"Is there such a thing?" Li Zhi widened his eyes, and then sighed: "A Wu, it's also because you spoiled Min Zhi too much in the past, this is your family's private matter, how dare Wang Wenzuo finish it all? "

"Okay, even if he wasn't to blame that time, don't you think it's strange? These things are all related to Wang Wenzuo, and then Minzhi died so inexplicably, isn't it a little bit related?"

"You want to deal with Wang Wenzuo just because of these?" Li Zhi sighed: "No wonder Hong'er wants to stop you, how about it! You can send a capable official to find out this matter. If it is really related to Wang Wenzuo, then we will punish you It's not too late for his crime. Otherwise, if only relying on this little thing, Hong'er probably won't agree!"

"Since you said so, Your Majesty, that's the only way to go!" Seeing that her husband also said so, the queen could only nod her head.She keenly felt that after her husband fell ill, his position changed subtly, from unconditionally supporting her to being more on the side of Prince Li Hong.Obviously Li Zhi has completely recovered from himself, and he doesn't have much hope of resuming the administration.Therefore, my role as the "temporary substitute" was about to fade away, and was replaced by Li Hong, the "successor".And people like Wang Wenzuo, whom Li Hong regards as a minister, can no longer be at his disposal as in the past.

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Wangfu.

Bang bang bang!
The sound of the door knocker knocking on the copper beast's mouth was particularly harsh in the night sky, and soon there were heavy footsteps and complaints from inside the door.

"Who is it?"

"It's Mr. Lang who is back!" Li Bo said loudly.

"Ah?" There was a sudden confusion inside the door, and the side door was opened after a while, and a servant carrying a lantern came out, and bowed to Wang Wenzuo: "The villain is late, please forgive me!" (End of this chapter )