The poisoning of the imperial concubine finally came to light more than ten days later.

Ever since Song Yingluo entered the palace to hold the phoenix seal for the concubine, the Empress Dowager has seldom been involved in the affairs of the harem. Even though she thinks that this well-known lady of the Fengcheng Houfu, who is well-known in the capital, is not so appropriate, she is the emperor's discerning eye after all. , She just opened her eyes and closed her eyes. The map was peaceful, and something was not in place on weekdays, and she always gave more pointers than criticism.

But this time something was obviously not right.

About ten days ago, people from Song Guifei's palace came to confess to the queen mother, saying that the noble concubine was ill, and asked the queen mother to forgive her for not being able to come to pay her respects.

The Empress Dowager responded without saying a word, and expressed generosity and love face to face. She spared Song Yingluo's half-month slumber, and then sent her capable aunt to invite the imperial concubine to enter the palace for the first time and show it to the imperial concubine. The head of the hospital actually changed without her knowing. He sent someone to ask, and got a very vague reply. The question was urgent, and only then did he find out that the emperor issued an imperial decree, and those who talk too much will be executed.

The queen mother has mastered the palace ban for decades, and guessed the ins and outs of the matter in a blink of an eye. She knows the temperament of the son she raised very well. Li Chengzuo was not a cowardly temperament at first. Palace ban, Li Chengzuo is angry, no one will give more face.The Empress Dowager pressed the matter, and asked the insider not to say anything, and planned to discuss it with Li Chengzuo in a few days. Unexpectedly, it was such a wrong idea. I didn't wait for Li Chengzuo to take the initiative to ask for peace and plead guilty. Imperial decree—the emperor claimed that he was in poor health and was going to retreat for three months to recuperate. All the government affairs were handed over to Prince Rui, who supervised Lin Lifu and Marquis Fengcheng. , the same day departure must not be wrong.

All the ministers were shocked when they heard about this incident. They didn't know what stimulated them when they got up this morning. The queen mother was furious when she heard about this incident. Ask the emperor for clarification. Before her old man could step out of the gate of the Palace of Compassion and Peace, she was stopped by Prince Rui and Song Yingluo who came after hearing the news. The fact that the imperial concubine was almost assassinated to death was even more surprising because she didn't know until now that the emperor was no longer in the capital.

The anger that had been accumulated throughout the winter and spring and had not had time to vent out came up so unexpectedly. This year, when the midsummer arrived, the imperial palace ushered in an unprecedented turmoil amidst the empress dowager's fury.

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Outside the capital, eighteen miles.

On the official road, business travelers are in a hurry, pedestrians come and go, and the summer is long and prosperous.Under the shade of the trees, the branches in midsummer are full of greenery. In the hot noon, the burning sun pours down. The green and red flowers and branches are twirling, winding around the trunk and swaying slightly with the summer wind. The lake in the distance is sparkling. , against the backdrop of the unparalleled freshness in front of me.

There are many tea stalls on the rural roads outside the city, where people from the rivers and lakes and business travelers who have traveled all over the country rest. The legends of the old-fashioned years all started from the tea stalls. There are tea stalls that are very colorful, but no one can explain why tea stalls have to have a proprietress, and under normal circumstances, the proprietress is hot and beautiful.

The old Taoist priest, who is full of flowers and plants outside the world of mortals, looks at the graceful figure of the proprietress walking away, almost drooling, until the figure of the proprietress turns around and disappears behind the tree, the old Taoist turned around, and He was hit by three head-on gazes.

Each of the three gazes has a name, the one on the left is called "boring", the one on the right is called "shame", and the one in the middle is the most straightforward, "rogue".

The old Taoist couldn't hold back his old face, touched his nose, and finally didn't make any excuses, and silently endured the silent condemnation.

The young scholar didn't feel the embarrassment of the old Taoist priest but he didn't give up. He lowered his eyes, looked at the tea bowl offered by the proprietress, and smiled.

He has a gentle and handsome face, gentle demeanor, and he is still so quiet in this impetuous summer weather. He politely stretches out his hand to take off the bowl of tea, but he doesn't drink it himself, and passes it to the peach blossom-eyed The handsome young man quietly changed the bowl of tea in front of him to his own.

"A shy girl can't do this kind of business, and a vulgar woman can't take care of the daily necessities." The young man had a good look, and he didn't chase the proprietress for thousands of miles like a stinky and shameless old Taoist priest. After a sweep, he respectfully averted his eyes, waited for the proprietress to walk away, and then opened his mouth to explain the doubts that no one had asked, and smiled slightly like a gentleman, "Folk tea is not as exquisite as that in the house, It is better than nature, son, try it."

It's strange to say that the bowl of hot soup that boiled against the sky at noon in summer, when he said so, became dry and delicious for no reason.

The young master with peach blossoms in his eyes was about to frown in distaste, but upon hearing his words, that disdain was replaced by an easy-going smile, and he drank the large bowl of tea that was slightly hot in the mouth carelessly, and threw the tea bowl away : "Jun Chi is right, it's better than the natural meaning."

The young man who served the tea was naturally the prime minister of the court, and he smiled back when he heard the words: "It's good to be able to enter, and Yecheng is ahead."

This smile seems to be an encouragement, and the peach blossoms in that glance are outlined by this smile into a rain of colorful flowers.

The old Taoist priest who admired beauty was stabbed all over by Li Chengzuo's affectionate eyes, and became stiff from head to toe. He learned the orthodox etiquette of "see no evil" without a teacher, just like the " "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerate" finally had supernatural powers today.

On the other hand, another person at the table couldn't understand His Majesty's virtue of being unable to walk. He snorted coldly, threw the empty tea bowl on the table with a "bang", and said coldly: "Hurry up when you have enough water. The man flew pigeons to send letters to the city three days ago, do you think that other than you, everyone else is so ignorant of sorrow?"

Li Chengzuo was poured cold water on his head, his nose was not his nose and his eyes were not his eyes. He turned around and looked at the unsmiling young man. Some people have to rely on robbing to go back."

"you!"

The young man couldn't hear this sentence the most, he jumped his feet every time he heard it, but Li Chengzuo was good at beating people in the face, cursing and exposing faults, if he didn't talk about him feeling uncomfortable, it would be like wasting a lifetime of practice.

The young man had nothing to say to him, and as soon as he slapped the table, he became furious, retreated three feet, and touched the scimitar behind his back with his backhand.

Li Chengzuo is even more of an unscrupulous bastard, seeing that he was about to make a move, he turned around and protected Jiang Xizhu behind him, picked up the tea bowl on the table, and prepared to use it as a weapon to smash his head and blood.

"I'm afraid you won't succeed." Li Chengzuo thought in his heart, and glanced at him coldly, the provocation in that look was full of "I'm defeated, if you have the guts, let me go."

Jiang Xizhu was tightly guarded behind Li Chengzuo, so he could only sigh silently, and kept winking at Daoist Zixu.

Holding the teacup, the old Taoist quickly hid behind a big tree, showing the tip of his beard tremblingly: "I have something to say..."

He hadn't finished his sentence, and before he saw what was going on, three strands of his beard were shaved off by a blast of cold air from the sky, and he suddenly became a dumb and dull man.

——There are so many things along the way.

More than ten days ago, Li Chengzuo explained everything to Prince Rui in detail, and ignored Song Yingluo's nonsense that she would go too, arranged all the matters in the capital, and appointed a few capable shadow guards to accompany him secretly all the way.He took the prime minister with his left hand, and dragged the old Taoist priest who was even more intrusive with his right hand. Before the queen mother and the officials could react, they ran out of Beijing all the way without stopping.

The emperor was still immersed in the excitement of running away with his family, but Jiang Xizhu had been careful all the time, for fear that Li Chengzuo would attract pursuers with ulterior motives when he left Beijing. It came in handy—when they were about to settle down in a family in the suburbs of Beijing, they found that they were being followed.

Then it was to set up a situation to lure the enemy to show their supernatural powers. When the two sides met face to face, they found out that the person following him was Yeluzhen, the second prince of Khitan who was still dying in Jiang's residence a few days ago.

The mother who was beaten a few days ago didn't know this person, but in Li Chengzuo's words, "Khitan's stupid roe deer has rough skin and thick flesh", and I don't know if he was deliberately pretending to be seriously injured, or to be a hero. After a few days of recuperation, he actually regained his spirit.

Yeluzhen had been in contact with Jiang Xizhu several times in those few days, knowing that Emperor Dayu intended to fulfill his request, and when he was about to take out chips to exchange in good faith, he found that the seal that had been hidden by him had been He was gone, and just at this time, he suddenly heard that the prime minister was ordered by the emperor to go out to inspect government affairs in a low-clothes. He didn't know how to be so lucky, and realized that the emperor might also take the opportunity to run away, so he followed all the way, rightly Let him catch it.

Li Chengzuo's mouth is hard and he is also a little depressed. He thought that this person is worthy of being an evildoer in the "choir" kind of killer organization. He was seriously injured and his speed made the royal shadow guard feel ashamed. .

The two sides have mutual support, and neither of them is willing to let go of their dignity, and naturally they are even less willing to shake hands and make peace.

Jiang Xizhu saw that this was not the way to go, so he simply pressed two proud fighting cocks one by one, and confessed that he was going to the rivers and lakes to investigate the incident of Wujin's inflow into Yecheng, and this matter also involved Khitan. Now, I don't know if you are interested in going all the way.

Jiang Xizhu had no worries at the time—although Taoist Zixu bluntly said that the 72 Demon God Yin was passed down from generation to generation, and he only saw Yinxin acting and did not recognize the person behind it, but this thing has been tossed and turned in the rivers and lakes. Naturally, someone like Taoist Zixu has been born. He made some thoughts not to be loyal to Yinxin blindly, and Yeluzhen has been in charge of Yinxin for many years, and the people on 72 Devil God Seals have dealt with far more people than Li Chengzuo. If you are more skilled in handling this matter, you can save a lot of trouble.

However, one wave of ups and downs and another wave, the prime minister only thought about the long-term arrangements in the future, but he really didn't care about the bad temper of these two childish ghosts who would fight tit for tat if they disagreed, and the journey was miserable.

Taoist Master Zixu persuaded him at first, but he was no match for these two when he started to fight, his hair was shaved and many roots were shaved, it was really embarrassing to put down the whisk and become a Buddha immediately.

Right now, the two men are going to fight again.

This is not in an inn—it’s okay to be in an inn. Once the gate is closed, no one comes and goes. Dao, it is close to the land under the jurisdiction of King Qi again, and there is a commotion, how will it end?

And Li Chengzuo and Yeluzhen didn't care what Jiang Xizhu was anxious about, the two killing gods were coming and going, fighting for their killing intent, their swords were on the verge of breaking out.

Yeluzhen has a bad temper, and every time he fights with Li Chengzuo, he always strikes first, and the long knife comes out of the sheath with a "squeak" from behind, and goes straight to Li Chengzuo's face.

Li Chengzuo shook off Jiang Xizhu with one hand, and seeing Yeluzhen's blade approaching, he still didn't panic. He pinched his two fingers in the air, and the three-foot-long blade was fixed between his fingers effortlessly, unable to advance or retreat.

The two were in a stalemate for a few moments, which already attracted several people around to watch.

Jiang Xizhu was worried that something big would happen if this went on like this, and was about to speak out to stop him, when he saw a graceful figure coming out from the crowd of onlookers, and seeing that he was in front of the two of them in a few steps, he slapped Li Chengzuo's elbow with a flick of his finger, and raised his palm Pointing at Yeluzhen's wrist, when everyone didn't realize how dangerous it was for her to insert between the two, they were easily separated.

Jiang Xizhu said "Stop" and got stuck in her throat. Seeing the outstanding woman smiling and clapping her hands, standing between Li Chengzuo and Yeluzhen with her hips akimbo, she scolded mercilessly: "I, Xu Sanniang, at the tea stand How dare someone make trouble? Are you impatient?!"

This turned out to be the tea stall proprietress who made the old Taoist stare straight at her.

The author has something to say: Will everyone feel a little uncomfortable with this chapter so early?

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