Back to the prosperous Tang Dynasty to be the emperor

Chapter 80

Li Xian knew that as soon as he and Li Xian made a suggestion, Empress Wu would definitely become suspicious, but Li Xian didn't care, because he knew very well that Empress Wu's ruthlessness and meticulousness, even if the two younger brothers wanted to overthrow the situation. There is absolutely no possibility of the case, and the clues that should have have been wiped out. Even if the two brothers go all out to investigate, there is no chance of gaining anything. In fact, Li Xian really has nothing to do. He intends to investigate this matter, what he wants is very simple, is to take this opportunity to turn this case into an iron case of Wu family's treason, and kill all the Wu family children here. Of course, if the case can be extended to other Wu family children On the head, it would be great if there is a clean sweep. As for Empress Wu, in Li Xian's opinion, it is really not a big problem. Li Xian is somewhat sure that Empress Wu will agree with him. After all, as Empress Wu's empress, it is really inappropriate to be too involved in this case - beheading the brothers of the Wu family on the spot can be explained by a moment of righteous indignation, but if you are in charge of the trial, it is difficult Block the mouth of the people of the world.

"My queen, the two wives were murdered, my father will inevitably be heartbroken. If something happens because of it, I'm afraid it will be bad. My sons and others implore my mother to drive back to the palace. Everything depends on my father's dragon body." Empress Wu was silent for a long time Without saying a word, Li Xian could hold his breath, but Li Xian was a little impatient, so he spoke loudly.

"Well, it's rare that Xian'er and Xian'er are both filial and filial, and mother should be perfect." Contrary to what Li Xian thought, Empress Wu actually didn't care about the material opinions of the world, but she couldn't help worrying about Gaozong's health , Li Xian's words obviously hit Empress Wu's Achilles' heel, and Empress Wu couldn't keep silent any longer, so she looked at the two brothers in front of her with a face full of relief, nodded and agreed. , but before Li Xian was secretly happy, Empress Wu added another sentence: "This matter is very important. Although your brothers are all very smart, they just have little experience. Mother can't do it, let Yan Desheng Help close the gate."

"Yes, my ministers and others would like to obey the mother's order!"

Yan Desheng is the eunuch in charge of the Palace of Yide, one of Empress Wu's confidantes, this person is left behind only to monitor Li Xian and his brothers, there is no need to guess with such intentions, with this person, Li Xian and his brothers want to do whatever they want Obviously it is not possible. The problem is that at this moment, the two brothers cannot tolerate such an arrangement. In desperation, the two brothers can only exchange glances quickly, and each bows down and agrees.

"Come on, drive back to the palace!"

With Yan Desheng holding back the two younger brothers here, Empress Wu thought that there was not much possibility of going wrong, so she didn't want to stay any longer, so she nodded to Li Xian brothers, and then she was ready to leave. Unexpectedly, before the accompanying eunuchs and maids agreed, there was a sudden howl in the auditorium, which instantly attracted everyone's attention.

"Mother, sister, wake up, mother, mother, sister..."

Just when Empress Wu gave the order to return to the palace, He Lanminzhi, who had been in a petrified state since the incident, suddenly woke up, screamed, jumped up frantically from behind, and rushed to the ground. On the corpses of He Lanminyue's mother and daughter lying in the hall, they howled miserably, the sound was so shrill that no one could bear to hear it.

"Hey, my son, you can't come back to life after death, so let's mourn, come, go back to the palace with my aunt, and my aunt will decide everything for you."

Seeing He Lanmin's heartbreak, Empress Wu's face immediately flashed a complex look, with one part of guilt, two parts of pity, and more of intolerance, and it was not clear that Empress Wu was sincere. Love this handsome nephew who is almost evil, still has a different emotion, in short, Empress Wu did not act as decisively as she did with the brothers of the Wu family. , stretched out his hand and patted He Lanminzhi's swaying shoulder gently, and comforted him gently.

"Mother, sister, don't leave your son behind, mother, mother..." He Lanminzhi lost his father since childhood, and was raised by his mother and sister. The relationship between each other is very deep. How could He Lan Minzhi bear the grief in his heart when his relatives died so unexplainably before his eyes, and just cried loudly, how could he care about what Empress Wu was talking about.

"Yeah." Seeing that He Lanmin was already crazy, Empress Wu seemed to feel sad for no reason, and the circles of her eyes were slightly red, as if she was crying, but in the end, she still held it back. He groaned softly and winked at Yan Desheng.

Yan Desheng nodded knowingly, but didn't say a word, he just took a big stride to He Lan Minzhi's back, slashed with his right hand, and accurately slashed on the back of He Lan Minzhi's neck. He Lanminzhi's restless body froze suddenly, rolled his eyes, and then slowly fell down on Mrs. Han's body.

"Bring Ying Guogong back to the palace!" Yan Desheng is obviously a master, and he is extremely confident in his palm strength. After this palm strike, he didn't even look at He Lanmin's soft body that was lying on the ground, but just flicked his big sleeves , with a calm face, he gave instructions to the little eunuchs who were waiting on the side.

"promise."

Yan Desheng is one of the most trusted eunuchs around the Empress Wu. Now that he has given the order, all the little eunuchs dare not say more, they each complied with the promise, surrounded the general, and hurriedly raised the congratulations. Lan Minzhi's limp body walked out of the hall.

"The sons and ministers are waiting to send off the queen respectfully."

Seeing that He Lan Minzhi had been carried away, Empress Wu didn't delay any longer. She nodded slightly at Li Xian and his brothers, and then led a group of followers to leave the hall. Seeing this, Li Xian and the others hurried After seeing each other off in a hurry, Empress Wu and his party turned out of Zhaobi under the escort of the officers and soldiers of the Habayashi Army, and went far away.

"Eunuch Yan has invited you. You are an old man in the palace. Xiao Wang and others should take you as the leader. For this case tonight, please ask Eunuch Yan to come up with a regulation. Xiao Wang and others will obey you." After Empress Wu left , Li Xian quickly met Li Xian with a knowing look, then turned sideways, faced Yan Desheng, and greeted Yan Desheng with a smile.

"Don't dare, Your Highness is being too polite. This old slave just watches, and please leave your Highnesses to decide what to do." Yan Desheng has been in the palace for a long time, and he has already become a master, so he is not willing to pick up Li Xiansai. Taking the hot potato that came over, he took a small step back, bowed, and rejected Li Xian's proposal without hesitation.

"Hey, what are you talking about, Eunuch Yan? My mother told me before leaving that this matter must be presided over by you, and we brothers will just follow your wishes." As soon as Yan Desheng finished speaking, Li Xian immediately He also came over and made Yan Desheng run out of words.

"His Royal Highness Lu was joking. This old slave is just a lowly person, how dare he be above the two His Highnesses. This matter is absolutely unacceptable. If your Highnesses have anything to do, please do it yourself."

At this moment, most of the Habayashi Army has escorted Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu to leave successively. Now the two kings' guards are basically controlling the situation in the garden. Not to mention that Yan Desheng has no imperial edict in his hand, even if there is an imperial edict, he will command Don't move the second king's subordinates, if he is in command to try the case, there is a high probability that he will be put into a cover by the second king. How could Yan Desheng do such a stupid thing? Seeing the two princes, it is obvious that he is digging a hole for him. He jumped, and Yan Desheng was really tired. He wanted to leave this den of right and wrong as soon as possible. It's a pity that Empress Wu had ordered him first. After seeing him say something with a flat face, he didn't care about the reaction of the two Li Xian brothers, just bowed and saluted, turned around, walked to a corner of the lobby, sat down cross-legged, and simply closed his eyes.

Ha, you old slick!Seeing that Yan Desheng played out of sight and made it clear that he was going to play tricks, Li Xian laughed and cursed in his heart, but he was so happy that his ears were clear, so he stopped paying attention to Yan Desheng, looked at Li Xian and said: " Brother Six, it's getting late, and the case has to be closed tomorrow morning, shall we start now?"

"Well, the seventh brother is right!" Li Xian blinked his eyes knowingly, gave a fake cough solemnly, cleared his throat, and then suddenly raised his voice and shouted: "Li Long, Wang Kai, Zhang Quan , Sun Sheng listens to the order!"

"The end is waiting!"

Li Long and other four generals are Li Xian's confidantes, and they had already been ordered to lead their troops outside the hall when the Habayashi Army withdrew. In the lobby, everyone bowed and promised.

"Listen well, tonight's case is of great importance. The king, following the order of his mother, must investigate and find out who is the chief culprit among the thieves in the garden. You all lead your troops and horses to general those gangsters. All those who have no father will be taken down, and they will be interrogated separately. You will be given three hours to find out the truth. Remember, as long as this king wants the truth, you can just figure out what to do, and you can hear clearly Huh, huh?" For the sake of confidentiality, Li Xian had never confessed to his subordinates beforehand, and now when the case came to trial, Li Xian had to say a few more grandiose words.

"No, the last general waits to obey His Highness's order!"

Li Xian's words are very crowning, but in fact the implied meaning is too conspicuous, the generals are not fools, how can they fail to understand the ambiguity contained in these words, so they promised each other without hesitation.

"Well, let's go!"

Li Xian inspected the generals for a while, seeing that all the generals had understood his hint, and he didn't want to delay any longer, so he nodded solemnly, waved his hand, and signaled the generals to do their own thing, and immediately rushed out with the generals. In the lobby, there was a riot soon outside the hall, but neither the Li Xian brothers nor Yan Desheng who was sitting in the corner of the lobby turned a deaf ear to them, they were all like wood sculptures and clay sculptures, and a strange atmosphere spread in the lobby.

(End of this chapter)