"You said," Li Rong looked at Shangguanyue, couldn't help but laugh, and couldn't say anything. "He's dead?"

"Yes," Shangguan Yue said coldly, "this is what I'm here to tell you, so please reflect on it."

After Shangguanyue finished speaking, she turned around and wanted to leave. Li Rong stopped her and said indifferently, "Did you do it?"

Shangguanyue paused, and after a long time, she said slowly: "If we don't do this, others will do it."

"Is it you?"

Li Rong stubbornly asked, Shangguan Yue was silent for a moment, and finally said, "No."

"Rong'er," Shangguan Yue seemed to be unable to hold it, she said tiredly, "Mother is not as...so..."

"Mother," Li Rong took the cup, poured the tea, and said slowly, "Actually, I understand your position. As far as you are concerned, from the moment you marry into the palace, what you represent is Shangguanjia. If If something goes wrong with Shangguan’s family, it means that you have an accident. Your relationship with Shangguan’s family is much closer than me and Chuan'er."

"This is your position. You can never stand opposite the Shangguan clan."

"Aren't you?"

Shangguanyue turned her head abruptly. She stared at Li Rong. She was standing in front of the high gate. The golden steps on her head shook gently with the wide sleeves as the wind blew. The surrounding copper bells jingle, she looked at Li Rong. He lowered his voice: "You think I don't know what you and Chuan'er are thinking, but are you worthy?! Suppress the family and divide the courtiers. That is what the monarch wants to think! What are you and Chuan'er now? You are not the emperor. , You are an aristocratic family! You can only reach the position of the emperor by relying on the aristocratic family, and only Chuaner can sit in that position. What are you doing?

Shangguanyue walked in, and she looked at Li Rong oppressively: "You are a princess. Today, you are a member of a family to Li Ming. In the future, you will be a member of a family to Li Chuan. You can stand opposite Shangguan. ?"

"You are the same as me, no. Shangguan is over, you have nothing."

Li Rong did not speak, she was drinking tea.

After a long time, she suddenly said: "This Beiyan Pagoda was built for you by your father."

Shangguanyue was taken aback for a while, Li Rong poured tea for herself, and said slowly: "You were also very good, but later, you were thinking of Shangguan's family, and the emperor's father was thinking of your own power. You go further and further, even The origin of this tower is forgotten."

"I used to think like my mother." Li Rong raised her hand to pour tea to Shangguanyue, and let Shangguanyue sit down. Her expression was too calm, but Shangguanyue looked more like a young man. Shangguanyue looked at the daughter in front of her. , Li Rong said slowly: "Tie together with the family, stabilize the situation, and steadily help Zuo Chuan'er become the emperor, and then I will help Chuan'er with the family."

"With me here, if Aya also married Chuan'er, Chuan'er's sister and Chuan'er's wife are all from Shangguan family, Chuan'er will not attack his mother in any case. In the future, we will work together. Chuan'er would be a very good emperor."

"Is this bad?" Shangguanyue frowned, rather angrily said, "Shangguan family is your mother clan, do you even doubt your mother clan?"

Li Rong calmly said, "But this is what we think."

"In our imagination, everyone in a family will be just like us, knowing how to advance and retreat. But in fact, if a family is too big, there will be many unintended minor details. The more prosperous Shangguan family, the more stable the foundation stone. , Those offshoots will grow wildly where you don’t know."

"They won't tell you. After the accident, if you don't help, it won't work. Just like this time, what happened behind the Qin family case, do you know, does uncle know? And at this point, you can Do you deal with relevant people at this time? If you deal with anyone who supports you at this time, no matter what the reason, you or your uncle will be swallowed by these people."

Shangguan Yue did not speak, and for a while, she was somewhat afraid to respond.

Li Rong did not force her, she looked away, and said slowly: "Today the emperor is the father, and the emperor of the coming day is Chuan'er. If we continue according to the path described by the mother, Aya and I will be the mothers in the future. , And Chuan'er is the father of today. Such a future," Li Rong smiled bitterly, "Can't it be sad?"

"The great truths have been talked a lot in the hall, and everyone knows what is for the country and the people. After all, a person lives a lifetime, first of all, I just want to have a good life and my family. After that, there is some morality and harmony. The principle is almost the same."

"But mother," Li Rong looked up at Guan Yue, "How are you?"

Shangguanyue did not speak. She tried her best to be calm, as arrogant and cold as usual, but when she touched Li Rong's gentle eyes with a little peace, Shangguanyue was stunned. Li Rong sighed and said slowly: "Mother, the Shangguan family needs a scabbard, otherwise one day, it will hurt Chuan'er or he will be broken by Chuan'er."

"What I did today was not to oppose the family, nor to stand on the side of the father and the emperor, to hurt you and uncle." Li Rong said in a gentle and serious voice, "On the contrary, I just want me My family can have a good time."

"I hope Chuaner can choose the person he likes and the life he wants. As long as he fulfills his responsibilities as a prince and monarch, he can live like a human being."

"I hope that the tribesmen like Uncle and Aya will be able to live in peace during the years I have seen, and be protected from wind and rain."

"I hope that the people of Daxia can live in peace, and that the country where I live can be stable and prosperous."

"I even hope that one day, you and your father will be able to return to this Northern Yan Pagoda, look at the stars together, and talk to your heart."

As Li Rong said, she couldn't help but smile: "I know that my hopes are extravagant, but this is actually what I want to do throughout my life. And I want to do the first step in these things," Li Rong looked at Shangguanyue seriously, "It is the power of the Shangguan family. It cannot be a knife that will hurt me and Chuan'er. You said, it is the mother we rely on, and the Shangguan family needs the power brought by Chuan'er. Power is given to it by us, and it must be controlled by us."

"This is the reason Chuan'er refused to marry Aya?" Shangguan Yue frowned, as if he understood, Li Rong calmly said, "This is a touchstone. Marriage may not be considered a major event in the court. , But if Chuan'er can't even control this matter, then this is a major event."

"Furthermore, if Chuan'er and Aya are married, then Chuan'er is definitely not allowed to inherit the throne with His Majesty."

"Mother," Li Rong said here, also a little tired, she raised her eyes to look at Shangguan Yue, "You don't have to worry about my uncle and me. You just need to understand, in my heart," Li Rong stretched out her hand and grabbed Shangguan jerky. Yue's hand.

Ever since she was an adult, she has rarely acted like a child like coquetry. Shangguanyue shuddered slightly and listened to Li Rong's words: "Mother and family have always been important, that's it."

Shangguanyue didn't speak, she lowered her head. After a long time, she raised her head and said with a wry smile: "You and your father are so alike."

Li Rong raised her eyes in confusion, Shangguan Yue said in a low voice: "You always mix feelings and power. Many times, I don't understand whether you are telling the truth or lies."

"You said at the court, you are for the great Xia Jiangshan, you are telling me at this moment, you are for your family, and I can't believe what you say is true or false."

Li Rong did not speak, and Shangguan Yue stood up and said in a low voice: "Not much else, I will go back first. You don't have to be too sad when Pei Wenxuan is dead, and I will choose another son-in-law for you in the future."

Li Rong lowered her eyes and didn't say much. Shangguan Yue seemed to want to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything. She turned around and went straight out.

Li Rong sat alone, Jinglan stepped forward, hesitatingly said: "His Royal Highness, there is something wrong with the horse, do we want to..."

"Go find Sufu," Li Rong said calmly, "Let's change it."

"I haven't seen the corpse now," Jing Lan said anxiously, "Go find the talent first, your Highness, don't be too sad..."

"He won't die."

Li Rong must speak, Jinglan was stunned, and she saw that Li Rong's expression was full of conviction: "You don't know who he is, how could he die?"

Jingmei was a little panicked when she heard this. She didn't dare to speak, so she turned to look at Jinglan. Jinglan hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "His Royal Highness, the person hasn't returned yet, go look for it."

Li Rong responded without saying much. After a while, she said: "Go down, I will slow down."

Others only thought she was too sad, so they retreated.

After everyone got down, Li Rong sat quietly for a long time, and finally got up and sat on the edge of the desk.

She took out the paper and wanted to write something. She didn't know what to write, so she wrote at will. After a long time, when she responded, she saw that the pages were densely packed with Pei Wenxuan's name.

Li Rong quietly looked at Pei Wenxuan's name for a long time.

She suddenly realized that she had a lot to say to him.

She wanted to talk to him about her mother, and she wanted to talk to him about her father.

She has a lot of words, and she can rest assured that the only person in the world who can let her speak is Pei Wenxuan.

Because other people didn't understand, she couldn't say it.

Only Pei Wenxuan, she felt that as long as she spoke and told him, he would understand.

He must know that everything she said is true.

Unfortunately he is not there.

Li Rong thought, raising her head and looking at the copper bell on the eaves outside the window.

It made a crisp sound in the wind, as if returning home invitingly.

"Pei Wenxuan..."

She whispered softly.

That night, it rained again in Huajing.

The drizzle was continuous, and at this time, there was a person wearing a Tsing Yi, wearing a hat, and a raincoat galloping through the mud road. Then before dawn, knocked on the gate of the first city between Huajing and Huangping County.

The soldiers poked their heads out one after another, and listened to the man taking out the token, under the city gate, loudly speaking: "Monitor Yushi Pei Wenxuan, come to check the grain on the order of the prince!"

Hearing this, the defender hurriedly opened the city gate, and after checking Pei Wenxuan's identity, he hurriedly introduced people to the county office.

When the prefect heard this, he got up in a hurry. After Pei Wenxuan explained the purpose of the audit, the prefect hesitated for a moment, and whispered: "Master Pei, the minister is not trustworthy with Master Pei, but Master Pei said that he was the prince who checked the accounts. Token?"

This prefect was originally a descendant of the family who supported the prince. If Li Chuan really wanted to investigate, he would not refuse. Pei Wenxuan whispered: "This matter was originally done by the prince privately. I am a member of the Yushitai. Do something."

Pei Wenxuan implied that he was in the Yushitai, working for the prince. If he wanted to bring down others, he would naturally need some evidence.

"This matter should not be publicized. I can't take the prince's order, but the princess's order," Pei Wenxuan said. He took out Li Rong's token and showed it to the prefect. "Does an adult not deny it?"

The prefect hesitated a bit, and Pei Wenxuan laughed: "His Royal Highness Pingle is the eldest sister of the prince. Adults never think that His Highness Pingle will harm the prince?"

"Don't dare." The prefect said. He thought for a moment. Pei Wenxuan is Li Rong's husband and the prince's brother-in-law. He smoothed the relationship and bowed his head and said, "Please come with the official."

After searching for only half an hour, Pei Wenxuan copied the records of grain and grass transported back and forth in Huangping County that year, and then quickly left to go to the next place.

At this time, the sky was already bright. Shangguanya was sitting in the carriage, shook her fan, and walked into the Juxian restaurant with a smile. Just after pushing the door into the private room, she saw a young man wearing a mask sitting in the room. After sitting at the small table, he looked up at Shang Guanya.

Shangguanya chuckled lightly while holding the fan, raised her hand to close the door of the room, and said softly: "I know your Royal Highness will let you come to me."

With that, she walked to the table, sat down gracefully, raised her eyes and said, "Say, what do you want me to do?"

"This list was written by Qin Lang. The defeat in Huangping County that year was caused by insufficient food and grass on the front line. These were all relevant officials of the year, and His Highness wanted their confession."

Shangguanya turned her fan. She scanned the names on the list one by one, and said slowly: "We can't move the big officials on the list, we can only pick a few."

With that, Shangguanya raised her finger and nodded a few names: "Just these few."

"His Royal Highness let me listen to your arrangements."

Xun Chuan said quietly, Shangguanya chuckled: "She is really lazy."

Shangguan Ya thought for a moment, and then said, "Let’s start with this Tanaka. He is just a seven-rank petty officer. He is in charge of keeping the accounts in the Ministry of War. He was born timid.”

As Shangguanya said, she laughed: "You find time, catch him, knock him out and tie it up, then find a girl at random and put it on the bed as if she was killed."

"You want to frame him?"

Xun Chuan frowned, and Shangguan Ya laughed low: "When I joked, I frightened him. Then I will go with you, record the confession on the spot, and promise to help him cover up the murder. This will make it easier in the future. ."

"What about the others?"

"Everyone has weaknesses," Shangguanya stroked the names of those people, with a chill in her eyes, "There are still nineteen days, one by one."

When the situation in Huajing was surging, Li Rong was in the North Yan Pagoda, and was rare and clean.

There was a widespread rumor that something happened to Pei Wenxuan, and she did not respond. She just asked Pei Wenxuan where she was going, and then asked people to declare a fake for Pei Wenxuan, and asked them to look around where Pei Wenxuan fell from the cliff, and then put on a bodysuit clothes.

Everyone thought she was stimulated by Pei Wenxuan's death, and Li Chuan came to comfort her specially and was stopped by her. She shut herself in the room, and ignored the news from Shangguanya and Xunchuan every day, and only quietly copied the scriptures.

She rarely has such a leisure time in her life. She doesn’t need to do anything. She just needs to copy the scriptures over and over again. She copied the scriptures, and she heard Jingmei’s a little surprised saying: "His Royal Highness, how come you are so like a horse of?"

Li Rong paused, and Jingmei hurriedly knelt down and said hurriedly: "It's the slave and the maidservant who failed to speak, so please punish her."

"What did you say wrong?"

Li Rong laughed, and said gently: "Retreat."

Jingmei knelt on the ground. After a long time, she hesitated and said: "Your Majesty, the horse is gone, you don't have to..."

"He's not dead."

Li Rong interrupted her, Jingmei said boldly, "Your Highness, it's been ten days."

"I said," Li Rong must say, "He is not dead."

"If you dare to say that he is dead," Li Rong raised her head and looked at the person kneeling on the ground with a calm expression, "Go and receive the punishment yourself."

Jingmei bit her lip and finally kowtowed: "Yes."

After speaking, Jingmei stepped back.

Li Rong sat at the table by herself. After a long time, she took out a piece of paper and wrote Pei Wenxuan's name in pen.

Then she began to write letters.

This is a habit she has recently developed.

She is used to talking and nagging with Pei Wenxuan every day, and now Pei Wenxuan is not by her side, she lost the person who talked for a while, and began to write letters to Pei Wenxuan.

Today is the ninth letter, and she still has a lot to say.

"Pei Wenxuan, see Xin'an well.

Today they told me that you were dead.

I know this is absolutely impossible. With your cleverness, after you leave the city, you must have already begun preparations. I am afraid that you are planning this matter. After all, the dead are the safest.

But it is also strange that when they say these words to me once, my heart is tight once.

I couldn't help thinking, fortunately, before we go together.

If I walk behind you, I must not be a good day.

You are always alive, not so lonely. "

The Buddhist scriptures were copied one hundred and seven times.

The letter was written to the nineteenth, and finally arrived the night before Qin's Wenzhan. And on this night, Qin Lin and Qin Feng from the frontier were finally escorted into Beijing. As soon as they arrived in Huajing, Xun Chuan picked them up and sent them to the princess mansion.

Before Qin Lin was locked into the room, he suddenly asked Xun Chuan, "Dare to ask an adult, do you know how my little sister Qin Zhenzhen is now?"

Xun Chuan paused, and after a while, she said slowly: "She is fine, you don't have to worry."

When Qin Lin heard this, he finally relaxed.

No one could sleep this night. The Huajing family was brightly lit in the middle of the night. On the North Yan Pagoda, Li Rong also kept the sky alone.

Everyone is waiting for a result.

Waiting for the result of the Qin family, and also waiting for the end of Li Rong.

At the dawn of the next day, the Xing Department led the people to the princess mansion, and Su Rongqing also came to the North Yan Pagoda.

Everyone was a little surprised at his arrival. He extended his sleeves and saluted, and then respectfully said: "Weichen Su Rongqing, please see your Highness."

No one answered. After a long time, the door slowly opened. Jinglan stood behind the door and saluted: "My son, please."

Su Rongqing followed Jinglan all the way up the stairs, and when she reached the top of the tower, she saw Li Rong copying the scriptures inside.

She wore a white gauze and blue robe with painted white plums, with long hair scattered behind her. She looked a little sober and looked a little widowed, but she was a little more immortal.

Su Rongqing stood at the door and stared for a moment, then raised his hand and saluted: "Your Highness."

"Today the Qin family executes torture. If you don't watch the punishment, what are you doing here?"

"I heard that your Royal Highness is going to leave Beijing today," Su Rongqing said calmly, "Weichen came here to take a look."

Li Rong's movements paused. She raised her eyes to look at Su Rongqing. Su Rongqing stood at the door with a constant calm expression. Li Rong looked at him for a moment, put down her pen, and instructed humans: "Since it's here, bring the chess table up. Have a cup of tea."

Jinglan answered, Li Rong stood up and led Su Rongqing to sit in front of the chess table.

After the two sat down together, Li Rong said slowly: "I didn't expect that Master Su would come to see the palace so early. I don't know where the news of Master Su came from." Li Rong raised his eyes to Su Rongqing and smiled. Surely this palace will lose?"

"That person is dead."

Su Rongqing said calmly: "His Royal Highness cannot bring out the evidence collected by the people under His Highness."

"Why not?"

Li Rong chuckled. Su Rongqing took the lead and put the chess pieces on the chessboard, and said slowly: "Because your highness dare not. There are too many people on that list. If your highness really takes it out, I'm afraid Hua Jing can not get out. "

Li Rong's expression was calm. After a long time, she said slowly: "You know who they are."

"know."

"I thought," Li Rong thought for a while, and laughed, "Master Su will not tolerate this."

"Corruption of the Mexican army's salary, this matter, whether it is me, my father, or Lord Shangguan, can't tolerate it."

Su Rongqing spoke slowly. Li Rong looked down to watch him move and listened to him in a moodless voice: "But your Highness should not deal with this matter, but we should do it internally. If this matter is done by Your Highness, it is equivalent to We gave ourselves an extra knife. So it is impossible for us to give this power to His Highness."

"You tell me this so clearly," Li Rong dropped the chess piece, rather puzzled, "Don't you worry about me being angry?"

"If I don't say it, your Highness doesn't know?"

Su Rongqing returned quickly. Li Rong thought for a while and laughed, "Yes."

"So," Li Rong looked at each other with a smile, "Master Su came to show off with this palace today? This palace loses to you, and the Supervisor Division can't build it. It will be difficult for your Majesty to have a reason to build in the future. The second supervisory department, Master Su is satisfied?"

Su Rongqing's movements stopped. After a long time, he slowly raised his eyes and looked at the woman who was draped in front of him with ink divergent, and her eyebrows were full of mockery.

He stared at her with countless emotions in his eyes, and finally he was calm again.

"Weichen has a puzzle, and would like to ask His Highness to answer."

"You said."

"His Royal Highness is an enemy of the aristocratic family," Su Rongqing lowered his voice, "Is it for Master Pei?"

Li Rong was taken aback when he heard this.

At this time, the Qin family were pushed onto the field one by one, and they were pressed down to their knees.

Outside the dharma field, Xun Chuan was among the crowd, holding a long sword, quietly watching the scene on the dharma field.

A young man dressed in Tsing Yi, drove in from outside the city gate on a horse, galloped across the long street and rushed into Miyagi.

"Why does Master Su have such a question?"

Li Rong slowed down for a while before reacting, quite strange. Su Rongqing looked at her and only said, "Because I want to discuss something with His Royal Highness."

"Master Su speaks frankly."

"Now the royal family is angry at His Royal Highness. They want to expel His Royal Highness from Huajing. We have a good plan to avoid His Highness from suffering."

"Oh?"

Li Rong was a little strange, Su Rongqing lowered her eyes and said calmly: "Weichen is willing to marry His Highness."

Li Rong was stunned, Su Rongqing raised his eyes: "I wonder if your Highness can agree?"

Su Rongqing's expression was very calm, but at the moment he spoke, Li Rong clearly sensed an unspeakable, restrained, and extremely surging emotion from him.

Li Rong couldn't tell what it was, she just stared at him blankly, Su Rongqing stared into her eyes, neither of them spoke, and then there was a rush of footsteps outside.

"His Royal Highness," Jinglan rarely loses his temper, and rushes in panting, "Courage, the concubine is back to Beijing!"

The author has something to say: Su Rongqing: "Weichen is willing to marry His Highness."

Li Rong: "I'm married."

Su Rongqing: "Already dead."

Pei Wenxuan: "I won't die if you die, you crawl! You crawl for me!"