Datang's journey to death

Li Ke was so startled that he almost threw Pei Xuan down. Pei Xuan patted his paw in dissatisfaction, and the corner of Li Ke's mouth twitched: "When did you do it?"

He was not surprised that Pei Xuan was able to bury things in Li Tai's palace. After all, no matter how powerful the guards of the palace were, it was impossible to keep an eye on cats jumping in. He was surprised how long had those things been buried?

"Ah, it's been four or five days?" Pei Xuan couldn't help complaining, "Say you're smart, but you're always stupid when you have nothing to do, and you give him books when you're full!"

Li Ke felt very wronged: "Is this my fault? Who knew that Li Tai was involved in this matter, you are too divergent, right?" Four or five days, that is to say, those things are actually quite new , it was just made old by Pei Xuan - this is not surprising, Li Ke knows many ways to make new things old, and it is difficult for people to notice.

"I don't know who is going to involve Li Tai, but it's definitely not me and Li Gaoming anyway." Pei Xuan turned over, revealing her soft belly, squinting her eyes with enjoyment: "I suspect that Changsun Wuji wants to come here through Li Tai. Pull you into the water."

Li Ke frowned while continuing to give Pei Xuan a massage: "Shouldn't Changsun Wuji's main target now be Li Chengqian? What does it have to do with me?"

"Because you are many years older than Li Zhi." Pei Xuan was very comfortable after being massaged, and couldn't help grunting twice.

Li Ke was quite speechless: "It's only nine years old, okay? How can it be much older?"

Pei Xuan didn't say anything, but continued: "It's all about you, you can't justify this kind of thing, anyway, Li Tai has no way to turn around, let him make a little contribution for you." Pei Xuan said There is no psychological burden. After all, in their plan, Li Tai will be taken down sooner or later, and now it is just a little earlier.

So you ran to his house to dig holes and bury things. Li Ke couldn't help but laugh when he imagined Pei Xuan digging holes and digging soil in Li Tai's yard like a puppy with those things in his mouth.

Pei Xuan knew what he was laughing at once, and couldn't help but pat his paws: "If it wasn't for you, would I have been a thief in the middle of the night? You still laugh!"

Li Ke couldn't stop laughing, and he didn't know how Pei Xuan covered up his white hair. After all, his white body was still very conspicuous at night. Actually, Li Ke was taken aback: "Hurry up and change back, what if someone sees you?"

The Duke of Hedong County suddenly appeared naked in King Wu's bedroom in broad daylight. If someone found out, he would be very drunk to think about it.

Pei Xuan supported Li Ke's head with his hands, his long hair slid down to slightly block the light, Li Ke touched his chest and abdominal muscles teasingly and said, "I know you have a good figure, so you don't need to show off."

"If you touch me again, I'll eat you." Pei Xuan squinted his eyes. He doesn't have the same estrus period as a cat, but after becoming a human, this age is when he is very angry. It is simply a great challenge to perseverance.

Li Ke smiled and said nothing. One advantage of Pei Xuan is that he never forced him. Last time he said that he was worried about getting hurt, Pei Xuan dismissed the idea. Although he threatened him from time to time these days, he never even seduced him.

"In a few days this matter will subside, so I'd better ask myself to go out." Li Ke thought for a while and said, "It's not interesting to stay in Chang'an all the time. Changsun Wuji will be handed over to Li Chengqian. If you can’t get rid of the bogey, your life will be wasted.”

"Changsun Wuji is not something he can kill if he wants to. I didn't see Changsun Huan doing such a thing, and the saint didn't blame Changsun Wuji." Pei Xuan snorted twice, if it wasn't for this matter If Li Chengqian was involved, even Changsun Wuji would not be suspended.

Yes, now Changsun Wuji is just suspended, not removed from his official position. One can tell at a glance that he is still waiting for Changsun Wuji to be resurrected with full blood.

Li Shimin has always been partial to the people he loves, not to mention that when he was fighting for the throne, the Changsun family gave him the greatest support, and even the Gao family was won over by him. How could it be possible not to look at him differently.

Li Ke had some regrets: "It's really a failure not to get rid of Changsun Wuji."

Li Tai is not a very difficult target in the eyes of Li Chengqian or Li Ke. Even if he is good at reading, so what if he can write "Kuozhou Zhi"?In this world, one has never been able to become an emperor by writing two books.

Li Shimin acted quickly, and he seemed to realize that there might be other variables if this matter dragged on. In the end, it only took one day to make a verdict: Changsun Huan and his wife were sentenced to death, and their children were handed over to Changsun Wu. Avoid parenting, punish grandson Wuji with three years' salary to punish the crime of lax supervision, and Li Tai is deposed as a commoner and imprisoned in another house.

As for other people implicated in this incident, they were naturally hacked and exiled.Compared with the fate of Changsun Huan and Li Tai, Changsun Wuji was basically not punished.

He himself asked to resign, but Li Shimin did not agree after all, and said: "Your son has done this kind of thing, you have to resign, and my son has also done something that makes me sad, what should I do? "

Changsun Wuji was so moved that he burst into tears, while Li Ke and Li Chengqian felt that after working hard for a long time, except for disabling Li Tai, there was basically no other result!

After finally waiting for this matter to subside, Li Ke found that something was wrong. The royal officials all started to attack Pei Xuan as if they were full, such as Pei Xuan leaving his post without authorization.Although the confession of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases has been overturned, there is no way for him to leave his post without authorization.

Regarding this matter, Li Ke couldn't make up for Pei Xuan's handwriting. He made up for Li Jinxing because he was relatively close and had soldiers in his hands, and he was from Mohe.

But Pei Xuan was a county magistrate at the time!The county magistrate didn't have any soldiers on hand, what kind of order letter did Li Ke write to Pei Xuan when he had nothing to do?In the end, Li Ke could only write him a letter, which described the situation on his side. At the end of the letter, he also used Lin Zexu's words: If a country lives and dies for the benefit of the country, how can it be avoided because of misfortunes and blessings? . "

Li Ke was planning to play the emotional card, and asked Pei Xuan to go to him because he was in danger, so Pei Xuan came to see it because he was worried. Of course, he had to talk to Yuan Qing about this matter, and Yuan Qing would not dismantle Li Ke. After all, Li Ke's promise to him was very tempting, so Yuan Qing pleaded guilty, saying that he was guilty of letting Pei Xuan leave Sanchuan County.

In fact, the matter of leaving one's post without authorization, although it sounds very serious, but whether there is a punishment or not depends on whether there are any of his own people. Regarding this, Li Shimin said firmly: "Pei Xuanjue is a meritorious minister, and it is not appropriate to punish him severely, so... then Fine him with a year's salary."

This result can be said to be very light, but for Pei Xuan who is now about to be destitute, this kind of punishment is the most severe, and he still owes Li Ke money!Although they say they promise each other with their bodies, a cat that cannot make money to support a family is not a good cat!Especially because of the letter that Li Ke wrote to him, Li Chengqian was the one who could compete with Li Ke in the limelight among the princes!

Seeing Pei Xuan's dejected look, Li Ke couldn't help but said: "The county magistrate's salary is not much, Father said that you are fined for one year's salary based on the county magistrate's salary, but you will not be a county magistrate soon. ah."

Pei Xuan looked up at Li Ke and asked, "Huh? Then I..."

"Take care of your legs first. I'm going to investigate this matter. It's not like the censor has nothing to do. Why did you suddenly reveal the matter of your leaving your post without authorization? Someone must have ordered it." Li Ke touched Chin began to think about suspicious personnel.

But before he could make a move, Li Chengqian came to the door directly, oh, he went to Pei Xuan's mansion, and happened to see Pei Xuan grilling oranges for Li Ke.

Li Ke raised his eyebrows when he saw Li Chengqian: "Hey, you've been brought here from the northwest in this winter? Would you like to try roasted oranges? They taste good."

Li Chengqian looked at Li Ke with black lines all over his head and moved all the roasted oranges in front of him while inviting him to eat roasted oranges. Pei Xuan actually pretended that he hadn't seen it!

"Tsk tsk, Pei Xuanjue, do you still have the mind to roast oranges for others? Do you believe that if you continue to roast, they will roast and eat with you?" Li Chengqian sat down and began to mock at Pei Xuan.

Pei Xuan glanced at Li Chengqian and then turned to look at Li Ke, Li Ke said calmly, "Don't worry, cat meat is sour."

Pei Xuan felt...that he was really wronged as cannon fodder, he turned his head to look at Li Chengqian with a dazed expression and asked, "Why did Gao Ming come here, and he didn't send someone to speak in advance."

"I told you in advance that you won't roast two more oranges." After Li Chengqian finished speaking, he coughed lightly and said, "Okay, I don't have time to talk nonsense with you, Li Yuyi, what's the matter with your brother?"

As soon as Li Ke heard it, he knew that Li Chengqian was talking about Li Yin. He put down the orange in his hand and said with a smile: "How fresh, what is my brother? Isn't he your brother?"

"Don't pick your words with me, Li Yin is really good. At such a young age, he knows how to instruct Yushi to join people." Li Chengqian turned to look at Pei Xuan and said, "I said you are really big-hearted. Yes, the person next to you wants to punish you to death."

But Pei Xuan said: "Oh, I see, it has nothing to do with Yu Yi."

Li Chengqian looked at him expressionlessly: "I don't think you can wake up."

"No wonder, I just said that someone must have contributed to this matter." Li Ke dropped the orange in his hand and sneered: "It seems that I am still too lenient to him."

Li Chengqian was keenly aware that something was wrong. Li Ke didn't have this attitude when he talked about Li Yin before, so he asked: "Yo, how fresh, aren't you a baby, can't you be a baby?"

Li Ke looked at Li Chengqian in surprise and said, "You came all the way here just to play tricks?" Before Li Chengqian could answer, Li Ke looked at him sympathetically: "Okay, I understand, hold back." Are you ruthless? Don't worry, I won't say anything about you being so cheap, and probably Dad doesn't want to know that you still have this side."

Li Chengqian was almost pissed off by him, so he started to roll up his sleeves again, Pei Xuan directly threw an orange into Li Chengqian's arms and said, "Okay, don't be flirtatious as soon as you leave the palace."

Li Chengqian was heartbroken to find out that his allies had defected, and it was all Li Ke's fault!He raised his head and stared at Li Ke gloomyly, and said, "Go and warn Li Min, don't make trouble for nothing, or don't blame me for being rude."

Li Ke glanced at him: "You probably don't know what Li Min's temperament is, but as far as I know, it's useless for you to warn him, and it will make him more frustrated and courageous. If I go to warn him, it will probably be the opposite. Since this is the case, don’t give him any chance, I’ll go find Father and go out of Beijing later.”

Li Chengqian looked at him in surprise, why did he leave Beijing again after a disagreement?And seeing this posture, Pei Xuan will definitely follow, but the question is what does Li Yin's trouble with Pei Xuan have to do with Li Ke's leaving Beijing?

I have to say that Li Chengqian's brain is not small, and when he rolled his eyes, he thought of the most likely answer: "You don't even let your own brother go! It's a beast!"

Li Ke couldn't bear it anymore and just about to say something, he saw Pei Xuan throwing the plate in Li Chengqian's face directly: "Pay attention to your image, Your Highness, where is your elegance?"

Li Chengqian caught the plate without any risk, looked at Pei Xuan with a look of protecting the food, and threw the plate on the desk in front of him, stood up and said, "I don't need to worry about you, let's go!"

So Li Chengqian came like a gust of wind and then left like a gust of wind, Li Ke muttered and complained: "He just went in and out and dissipated all the heat he had accumulated so hard. .”

Pei Xuan raised his chin and reached out to hug Li Ke into his arms and said, "If you want me to hug you, just say so."

Li Ke: ...It's really tiring to fall in love with Shi Aojiao.

Li Chengqian left so simply because he knew that Li Ke would definitely have a way to deal with Li Min, so he didn't have to do anything, otherwise, no matter how flawless he did it, Li Shimin would definitely be able to find out, and he didn't want to stay with Li Shimin. An impression of not being a good brother, Li Tai has already been suppressed, and Li Zhi is still too young, as long as he is careful, even the eldest grandson Wuji may not be able to get rid of him.

Li Ke and Pei Xuan got bored for a while, then looked at the sky outside, found that it was going to snow, got up and said, "I'm going back first."

Pei Xuan hugged his waist and complained: "Can't you stay?" Every time I ran over to look for you in the middle of the night, don't you know that my white hair is very conspicuous?What if it is discovered?

Li Ke patted his head and said: "Okay, you should restrain yourself when you are in Beijing, and we will leave Beijing when your legs get better."

Pei Xuan stretched his brows and eyes. To be honest, although the standard of living in Chang'an will be higher, it gives people a very aggrieved feeling. Pei Xuan still misses Sanchuan County even more, but it doesn't matter if he can't go back to Sanchuan, as long as he and Li Ke can be together. Just go.

Li Ke is a member of the Action Party, and procrastinators cannot abolish the prince, so he went directly to Li Shimin after his downfall.Li Shimin was practicing calligraphy at this moment, and the two children, Li Zhi and Princess Jinyang, sat beside him in a regular manner and watched carefully.

When Li Ke came, Li Shimin just finished writing a piece of calligraphy, and he said with a smile: "Sanlang, come, let's see how my calligraphy is doing."

Li Ke walked over to say hello to his younger brothers and sisters, looked at the picture carefully and sighed: "Daddy's Feibai writing is getting better and better, no one can match it, but unfortunately I probably didn't inherit it from daddy." Talent, after practicing for so many years, it is not half as good as Father."

Li Shimin was very happy to be praised by his son: "How old are you? Your father and I have practiced for many years. If you can write like me at such a young age, then wouldn't I have practiced for nothing?"

Li Ke tilted his head and thought for a while before laughing: "That's right, Father still understands."

Li Shimin put down his brush and said, "Jiulang and Nineteen Niangs go to the lady to ask for some tea and fruit."

Li Zhi, who was already nine years old this year, held his sister's hand and saluted like a little adult, and then left the study, Li Shimin said: "Tell me, what's the matter."

Li Ke blinked his eyes and tilted his head to show his cuteness: "Can't you come over to accompany daddy if you have nothing to do?"

"It's just you?" Li Shimin sneered, "When it's winter, I can't wait to stay in my room, you must have something to do with the wind and snow." Speaking of this, Li Shimin felt sorry for Li Ke, he always felt that Li Ke was so afraid The coldness is still the sequelae of being poisoned back then.

The truth is... keeping warm in this era is very tricky. No matter how hard Li Ke can't adapt to the era without temperature-adjusting clothes, naturally he won't come out until he can.

Li Ke smiled a little embarrassedly and said: "I came here to beg Father, Father, you can choose a place for me to go after the Chinese New Year."

Li Shimin frowned: "Who is bothering you again?"

Li Ke shook his head: "It's nothing, it's just that I'm not used to it after running outside for a year."

Li Shimin raised his eyes: "Tell the truth." Li Shimin would not believe that he wanted to go out of Beijing without a reason. The biggest possibility is the residual influence of the previous witchcraft case. However, I haven't heard of any royal doctor who wants to join the King of Wu again?Recently, Li Ke's reputation is not good. After all, a prince who can shed his blood for the country is worthy of support. The most important thing is that Li Ke said so and he did it. Shi recently talked about Li Ke in praise.

Li Ke sighed: "Liu Lang has grown up, he is too clingy to me, I'd better separate from him for a while."

Rokuro?Li Yin?Li Shimin knew that Li Min was very clingy to Li Ke. He was looking forward to Li Ke's letter every day when Li Ke was out as an official. Li Shimin didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

It has to be said that Li Ke still has a good control over his palace. The conversation between Li Yin and them that day did not reveal anything. Of course, the most important thing is that the matter between him and Pei Xuan should not be known to others. As for Li Chengqian... If it is not With Pei Xuan's words, Li Chengqian wished that Li Ke could hang out with men.

After that, no matter how much Li Shimin asked Li Ke, he didn't say anything. Li Shimin had no choice but to let Li Ke go back first. He had to think about this matter.

After Li Ke left, the more Li Shimin thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and he became sticky. Why did Li Ke avoid it because of this? After all, Li Ke really loved Li Yin in the past, and I didn’t see Li Ke doing anything because of Li Yin’s clinging to him. Looking dissatisfied, Li Shimin finally came to the conclusion that something must have happened that he didn't know about.

Li Shimin wanted to check something very quickly, and soon his imperial case was filled with the information he found below—most of it was the conversation between Li Yin and Li Ke that day, but Pei Xuan's conversation and The conversation they started around Pei Xuan was not on it at all. It is not necessary to know that this news was revealed by Li Ke on purpose, otherwise even Li Shimin would not be able to find any clues about this matter.

After Li Shimin knew about it, he was furious instantly, his eyes were red with anger, he even wondered if God was punishing him, otherwise why his sons were so troublesome one by one?For a younger brother to fall in love with an elder brother is simply a great shame for a family. Li Shimin can completely imagine how those aristocratic families and ordinary people will make up the story.

For a moment, Li Shimin wanted to put Li Yin under confinement, but there was no suitable excuse, and this matter also involved his other favorite son, Li Ke. He didn't want Li Ke to be attacked by any rumors. , can only be suppressed temporarily.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin said in a deep voice: "Go and declare King Wu to enter the palace."

Li Ke knew what was going on when he saw the servant next to Li Shimin, so facing the cryptic reminder from the servant, Li Ke smiled and rewarded him with a lot of copper coins.

When he arrived in the palace, Li Ke really found that Li Shimin's face was very bad, so he went over to salute carefully, before Li Shimin could speak, he threw a stack of papers and asked, "Is this the reason why you want to leave Beijing?"

Li Ke took the paper with a blank face, and after scanning it, he was relieved to find that the news that shouldn't be on it was not on it, but what appeared in front of Li Shimin was his third son with a pale face holding the paper. Trembling, as if the rebellious person is not Li Yin but him.

"Father." Li Ke swallowed hard.

"It's not you but him who should go out!" Li Shimin was obviously still angry.

Li Ke knelt down and said, "Dad, calm down, Liu Lang is still young, he just doesn't understand..."

"Don't say he is young!" Li Shimin said with a serious face, "You are used to him!"

Li Ke smiled wryly: "It's my fault, it's just Dad, he's not old enough to go out to be an official."

Even if he was born with a rank because he is a prince, he can't let a child take charge of a state's general affairs or military affairs. Even if Li Shimin wanted to do this, the minister would not agree. The reason why Li Ke was able to go out was because he was old. It is only two years away, but in the eyes of many ministers, there is a lot of difference.

Li Shimin was also a little upset, he reluctantly said: "When the weather is warmer, you can go out to observe the customs."

Although it's not a long-term stationing in other places, it's okay, the world is so big that he also goes to see it, and it's boring to stay in one place all the time, and he can't come back after going for a year or so.

"Then... Dad, why don't you let Xuan Jue go with me." Li Ke lowered his head and said, "It's not suitable for Xuan Jue to be a county magistrate, and it's a bit sudden to change to a military position. He is almost twenty It's not appropriate to be so indifferent, why don't you let him go with me."

Well done, Pei Xuan's resume can become very beautiful, and it will be more logical whether he enters the sixth department or transfers out, because he understands.

After hearing this, Li Shimin thought it was good, but he waved his hands in no mood to pay attention to these things now and said, "Go back first, don't go to see Liu Lang these days."

Li Ke smiled wryly: "But I can't keep him out of the door even if he comes."

Li Shimin's face turned cold: "I will talk to him."

So Li Ke rolled away smoothly, and the next day, he heard the news from Li Chengqian that Li Shimin called Li Yin over, scolded him bloody and ordered him to shut himself up and think about his mistakes.

Laozi asked his son to think about it behind closed doors. This matter can be big or small. After all, Li Yin just moved out and went to the court to listen to politics and has no real job, so his presence or absence will not cause too much shock. It's Chinese New Year, why did the sage suddenly lock up his son?

It's been a good year, at least Li Ke thinks it's not bad. Although the New Year's banquet still makes him feel unpalatable, it still feels good to sleep with a warm cat at night. If the cat doesn't turn into a naked man every now and then better.

After the new year, when the weather got warmer, although Li Shimin was very reluctant, he still ordered Li Ke, the king of Wu, and Pei Xuan, the Duke of Hedong County, to be the custom envoys.

Before that, Li Shimin packed a lot of things for Li Ke, and even the good doctor prepared several, for fear that his son would get sick outside. In the end, he knew that it was King Wu and the Duke of Hedong County who went out to inspect the Quartet. I thought it was some family that moved, but after such a toss, it was already June when Li Ke and Pei Xuan set off on the road.

Li Ke's inspection route is very capricious. Because of the weather, he first goes to the south, and then gradually goes to the north. The first stop Li Ke arrives at is Jinzhou.

The local officials really treated the two of them as uncles, so that they would not dare to go west. After all, everyone knew in their hearts that King Wu and the Duke of Hedong County were just here for a visit.

As long as they were all similar, Li Ke didn't intend to embarrass anyone, but he never expected that there would be a problem at the first stop.

Li Ke and Pei Xuan were welcomed into his residence by the governor of Jinzhou, and they had a very enjoyable banquet. The chef of Jinzhou governor's family made good venison, but Li Ke was afraid that he would get angry if he ate too much He didn't dare to eat more, and he didn't let Pei Xuan eat more.

When they returned to Bieye and Pei Xuan went to sleep in their respective rooms, Li Ke suddenly felt that the flowers in this yard were a bit special.After drinking the wine, he turned his mind slowly, and suddenly remembered, why is there a Polygonum sylvestris planted in this yard?The reason why he knew this thing was mainly because he used it to tease Pei Xuan...wait...wait?Pei Xuan?