Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

"No, there is no need to tell the imperial doctor!" Li Hong raised his right hand with difficulty, asked the chamberlain to come closer to him, and said in the loudest voice he could: "Pass, tell Sanlang to enter the palace, I want to see him!"

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He walked through the battlefield, just like countless times in the past, his feet were soft and hard, there were corpses everywhere, and there were moans of dying everywhere. He looked around, looking for his guards and troops, but there was no one. He shouted loudly, but No one answered.Finally, he finally climbed onto the hill and found Liu An standing under the banner with arrows stuck in his body. "Help me, help me!" Liu An stretched out his arm, blood gushed out from the wound and soaked his armor.

Wang Wenzuo sat up in shock, his heart beating wildly and the blanket tangled.The room was dark and there was a loud knock on the door. "Master, master!" someone shouted.

"Who, what's the matter?" He felt weak all over, and got out of bed naked. The door was pushed open, and he saw Sancho holding a candlestick, looking horrified: "Someone from the palace came and said that His Majesty summoned you urgently. Enter the palace!"

"Now?" Wang Wenzuo looked at the sky outside, trying to confirm what time it was, but he failed. However, he would not be away from the emperor for more than four hours at most. Could anything happen in such a short time?
"Go and ask the people in the palace to wait! Call someone to help me get dressed!" Wang Wenzuo said. With the help of the maid, he put on a round-necked robe, wrapped himself in a cloak, hung a short knife on his belt, and then walked in the guard People came out of the door surrounded by people.

The streets of Chang'an at night are dark and silent.When the guards escorted him through the streets outside the palace wall, the moon, which had turned from waning to full, was already hanging low on the high wall. After confirming Wang Wenzuo's identity, a group of guards on night watch respectfully got out of the way and stood by the roadside and bowed. .

The residence of Emperor Li Hong is in the Ganlu Hall, facing the Ganlu Gate and located on the central axis of the palace. It is the third largest building in the entire Taiji Palace and the largest building in the sleeping area of ​​the palace.After Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty ascended the throne, he made this place his palace.After Li Hong ascended the throne, he chose his grandfather's original residence, somewhat with the intention of inheriting his ancestor's great legacy.When Wang Wenzuo passed through the Ganlu Gate, Murong Miao was guarding the door. His white cloak was cold in the moonlight.

"What happened?" Wang Wenzuo asked in a low voice.

"I heard it was a violation of the Holy Body!" Murong Mu lowered his voice: "But General, don't worry, I have already sent someone to notify General Cui!"

"Yeah! Be careful!"

"Don't worry!" Murong Nao lowered his voice: "We are all our people inside and outside the palace!"

Wang Wenzuo nodded, he patted the back of Murong Piao's hand gently and walked towards the Ganlu Hall.After entering the palace gate, he passed two rows of guards, climbed the stairs, passed through a long and narrow corridor, and saw Xu Xuwen standing at the door of the emperor's dormitory, with the moonlight shining on his face, which was pale.Wang Wenzuo only needed to look at him to know that something was wrong.Xu Xuwen opened the door and lowered his voice: "Your Majesty fainted in the carriage on the way back. I've asked the imperial doctor to take a look. The imperial doctor said it's nothing serious!"

"How many people know about this?" Wang Wenzuo asked.

"Everyone present and the imperial doctor have been controlled by slaves!" Xu Xuwen whispered: "But the time cannot be too long, the news will be leaked sooner or later!"

"It doesn't matter, as long as I can be the first to know!" Wang Wenzuo nodded: "Well done, Mr. Xu, I will never forget what you did for me!"

"This is what a slave should do!" Xu Xuwen lowered his head, and then said to the room: "The general is here!"

"Sanlang, come in!" Li Hong's voice came from inside the room, sounding a little weak.

Fires burned brightly in the symmetrical fireplaces at both ends of the bedroom, filling the room with a gloomy red light.Although it was already late autumn, the temperature in the room was still very high. Li Hong was lying on the bed with a curtain, the imperial physician stood aside, and the queen sat beside the bed, close to her husband.Her hair was disheveled, as if she had just woken up from sleep, but there was no sleepiness in her eyes.When Wang Wenzuo walked into the room, his eyes stared straight at him, as if attracted by a magnet.

"Your Majesty, I'm here!" Wang Wenzuo lifted up the front of his robe and bowed down.Li Hong bowed his hands, his voice was weak and his face was pale: "Sanlang, come closer!"

Wang Wenzuo's knees just bent and then straightened up again, and then walked to the bed: "What happened?"

"You all stand down! Let the widow and the general talk alone!" Li Hong waved his hand, and the maids, eunuchs and eunuchs all walked out docilely, but the queen remained motionless. Li Hong frowned slightly and repeated He repeated his request: "Everyone, please go out. I have something to say to Saburo!"

The queen stood up and waved her steps in front of her forehead. She raised her head and walked towards the door. Although there were no eyes behind her, Wang Wenzuo could still feel the stinging pain. Damn it, this woman is probably cutting me into pieces in her heart. Cut it?Wang Wenzuo thought to himself.

"Your Majesty, what happened tonight?" Wang Wenzuo said after they were alone.He felt irritable, as if there was a cat scratching his heart: "Why are you like this?"

"Sanlang!" Li Hong waved his hand weakly and did not answer Wang Wenzuo's question: "Am I a bad emperor?"

"Why does His Majesty say that?"

"It's just my feelings!" Li Hong sighed: "Compared to Aye and Emperor Wen, I am a little too soft-hearted! Sanlang, you have to tell the truth, don't be like those people who say nice things to coax people!"

"Your Majesty has not been on the throne for a long time, and it is still unclear whether it is good or bad!" Wang Wenzuo said: "But if we let the ministers choose, among the three of them, the Supreme Emperor, Emperor Wen, and you, I will definitely be willing to serve your Majesty!"

"Choose the widow?" Li Hong laughed: "Okay, okay, at least for you, Sanlang, the widow is not a bad emperor! This is enough! Do you know? Yesterday the two sisters of the widow proposed two Requirements: One is to bring justice for their mother; the other is to find out the truth about the death of their brother Li Sujie! I originally wanted to agree to whatever request they made, just to compensate them for the suffering they have suffered over the years, but these two things I really have no way to agree, Sanlang, you should understand my difficulties!"

Wang Wenzuo nodded and said nothing. Of course he understood Li Hong's difficulties. If these two things were investigated carefully, they would definitely be traced back to Wu.No matter how many faults the Wu family has, she is still Li Hong's biological mother, not to mention that Li Hong himself is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the unjust killing of Xiao Shufei and Li Sujie. Anyone in the world can clear the grievances of Xiao Shufei and Li Sujie, but only Li Hong himself can't do it. "So I can only deal with it!" Li Hong sighed: "On the way back, I thought that the unjust death of these two people actually had something to do with me. After all, Concubine Xiao Shu also died after failing to compete with A Niang for favor. , and Li Sujie is the mother-in-law who wants to eradicate the root cause. In the final analysis, she still fights for the position of the prince, and——"

"Your Majesty!" Wang Wenzuo interrupted Li Hong: "You think too much. The struggle for the throne in the harem has been like this since ancient times. If you think like this, which emperor can sit firmly in the throne since ancient times?"

"Yes!" Li Hong sighed: "Aye said the same thing. He said that he was in poor health, so he had no choice but to give up power to A Niang. That's why Xiao Shufei and Li Sujie, mother and son, died so miserably. Those two His death was due to his poor health."

Wang Wenzuo was stunned when he heard this. He didn't expect that Li Zhi would be so responsible and take the blame for his wife. However, it seemed that the consequences of doing so were wrong. His son was not as thick-faced and sinister as his father, so he couldn't afford it. Those are the pressures.

"Of course what the Emperor said makes sense!" Wang Wenzuo said: "But you don't have to worry too much. I think Queen Pei is a kind person and would not do that kind of thing!"

"I'm not worried about this!" Li Hong sighed.

"Then you are—"

"When I left Qinghui Pavilion, the Supreme Emperor said that everyone in the world hopes that a kind person will become the emperor, thinking that he will be a blessing to all people, but he does not know that if he can only do good things and not do bad things, such a person cannot be a good emperor. . He also said that I still have to pass the last hurdle!" Li Hong sighed: "Sanlang, do you think I can really be a good emperor?"

Wang Wenzuo opened his mouth, but could not speak. To be honest, he agreed with Li Zhi's view that a kind man could not be a good emperor. He took himself as an example, although both his subordinates and the people under his rule Everyone said that he had a benevolent personality and was nicknamed "Bodhisattva Prince" and "His Royal Highness the Bodhisattva".But Wang Wenzuo himself knows very well that he is definitely not a good person in the worldly sense.His good reputation is due to two reasons: first, there were too many incompetents among his colleagues at that time, and they were afraid of comparison in everything. Among a group of humanoid creatures, Wang Wenzuo, who was slightly human-like, naturally looked handsome; Secondly, his killing speed and efficiency were high enough. Those enemies who had a grudge against him were quickly eliminated, and a dead man could not open his mouth to complain.

But no matter how Wang Wenzuo understood the objective necessity for rulers to do evil, he would rather wipe the butt and do the dirty work for a kind-hearted emperor like Li Hong every day than work as a subordinate for humanoid creatures like Li Zhiwu. After all, Li Hong would not stab himself in the back, but Li Zhi and his wife just threw them away like toilet paper after use, without any psychological burden.

"Your Majesty, the world's evaluation of whether you are a good emperor is based on the results!" Wang Wenzuo said: "Your Majesty, there is no need to worry so much. If there are some things you don't want to do or take care of, then just leave them to me. You will deal with it properly! As long as the world is peaceful and the barbarians are fine, people in the world will say that you are a good emperor!"

"Really?" Li Hong's eyes lit up: "Yes, Sanlang, you have this ability, you can do everything well!"

"Yes!" Wang Wenzuo tried his best to look confident: "Please leave everything to me!"

"That's great!" Li Hong closed his eyes and lay back on the bed. After a few minutes, his breathing became slow and even, and he fell into sleep.

After confirming that Li Hong was asleep, Wang Wenzuo stood up and quietly walked out of the door. He nodded to the person outside the door: "Your Majesty has fallen asleep, there should be nothing wrong!"

"Really?" The Queen came forward and said, "General, are you sure that His Majesty is in good health?"

"I am not a doctor!" Wang Wenzuo bowed to the queen and said, "If your majesty is feeling well, you should ask the imperial doctor. But your majesty has fallen asleep just now and seems to be fine!"

"That's what the imperial doctor said too! But when he came back, he looked really scary. He was groggy and muttered something from time to time, as if he had lost his soul!"

"Lost your soul?" Wang Wenzuo laughed: "There must be too many things in your heart, right? You know, His Majesty is kind-hearted and keeps too many things in his heart, so -"

"General!" The queen interrupted Wang Wenzuo's answer: "You can't do this. His Majesty regards you as a buttock. How could you let it go so easily? This is obviously someone secretly using evil spells to curse your Majesty. You must be strict." Investigate more and find out the culprit and deal with it severely!"

"Practice evil?" Wang Wenzuo was stunned. Only then did he notice that the queen's face, which was about [-]% similar to Pei Judao, had turned red and looked a bit like a cooked crab. No wonder His Majesty chose Yang. My little lady, she would do the same thing if she were in her shoes.

"Your Majesty the Queen!" Wang Wenzuo slowed down his speech: "You have a noble status, but even you cannot say things like cursing the emperor casually!"

"I have proof, how can I say it casually!" The Queen sneered: "Your Majesty came back from Daming Palace at night and it turned out like this. Could it be that someone was doing evil curses behind your back!"

"Pei Judao is so impatient! It's really true that the tiger has fallen into peace. Li Zhi and Wu Shi fell from the throne within a few days before someone attacked them. There are really tigers and wolves in this court!" Wang Wenzuo secretly thought in his heart. Thinking about it, he said: "Your Majesty, the curse is not a bow and arrow, the method will be effective immediately. Your Majesty went to the Daming Palace at night, but it may not be the evil spell from the Daming Palace!"

Queen Pei opened her mouth and said forcefully: "That is not an evil method, it may be poisoning. Besides, His Majesty not only went to the Daming Palace at night, but also went there before. General, why don't you order an inspection? Do you want to Are you protecting someone?"

Hearing the Queen's reprimand, the smile on Wang Wenzuo's face immediately disappeared. The palace maids and eunuchs on both sides lowered their heads subconsciously. The Queen suddenly felt an invisible pressure coming towards her and subconsciously took half a step back.

"Your Majesty the Queen!" Wang Wenzuo said with an indifferent expression: "I am a minister of the imperial court. Even if I make a mistake, I will be impeached by the Yushitai, punished by the Three Laws Division, and issued an edict by the Emperor. Although you are the master of the harem, there are differences between the inside and outside, and you are not the one who can punish the crime. Yes. I will naturally take good care of Your Majesty's safety, but if someone plays some tricks behind your back, they will suffer the consequences. As for Your Majesty, the Queen, the most important thing you should do now is to give birth to a dragon son as soon as possible, so that the world can benefit from it. Antai. As for other matters, we will naturally handle them, so you don’t need to worry too much!”