no.139 After the dust settled from the fire (end of volume 2), the emperor raised his head and everyone turned their gazes.

One is wearing a purple robe, the other is wearing a lake blue robe.

The one in purple robe is Li Tianyou. He smiles and looks at the brother opposite who he has called the emperor for more than ten years.

The handsome face, the majestic figure, and the aura that is obviously powerful and arrogant, mixed with a smile, like the compassion and cruelty of the helmsman of fate when he looks at all living beings.

The one in the blue lake is Shen Aoxue, with an extremely bright and delicate face, a pair of eyes that are captivating, and the corners of her mouth are slightly raised, but for some reason, her expression gives people a faint sense of tiredness, as if she has walked through three thousand worlds. Passer-by.

It is this tiredness that is so inconsistent with the victor's posture at this moment.

Further behind, there was the prince who was being escorted. He looked at the emperor and queen with clear anxiety in his eyes.

How could it be? Didn’t it mean that only the emperors of the past knew about the secret passage? How did Li Tianyou find it?

In the dim light of the night, the prince's original light yellow robe seemed to have been dipped in a layer of milk, making it look a little worn.

"I really underestimated you." The emperor stood up straight, looking a bit majestic among the women and children. This is the aura of an emperor. Even in his old age, even though he is a prisoner, he still refuses to be humble. 's head.

"I have no choice but to do so." Li Tianyou smiled, "If the emperor hadn't tried to kill me several times, why would I have bothered so much? What I want is only a life of peace and tranquility. Being an idle prince is much happier than being an emperor. It's a pity that the emperor never gave me this opportunity, and even the woman I love most almost became your executioner."

As he spoke, he closed his eyes lightly and sighed. When he opened them again, they were still full of brilliance. He lowered his head slightly and said, "I am seeking to protect myself, and I have no choice but to do this. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

Looking at Li Tianyou who spoke so innocently, the emperor smiled slowly, as if he was mocking himself: "What a person who has no choice but to protect himself... Oh God, everything you have done since you were a child, Everything has been carefully calculated... Aren't you tired?"

"Your Majesty is not tired, but I, the King, do not dare to be tired." His tone was so humble.

As he spoke, Li Tianyou raised his hand, and with a slight movement of his palm, a subordinate immediately presented the prepared yellow silk and ink-dipped wolf hair.

"Please give me an edict from the emperor!" Li Tianyou looked at him and bowed slightly, which was a standard request for an edict.

The emperor's eyes passed over the yellow silk. The blank yellow silk, which was specially used for the royal family, was the carrier of his decrees on weekdays.

He was not in a hurry to put pen to paper. This stroke of pen was his last decree as emperor, and it was also the reminder for him to embark on the journey to hell.

His eyes quickly fell on Li Tianyou again.

Li Tianyou, the Li Tianyou he had been jealous of more than 20 years ago! At that time, Li Tianyou was still a child, but he was already extremely intelligent. Although the emperor had no children, he liked Li Tianyou very much. He often held him in his arms and taught him to write. , and also tease him.

Many people thought that the Emperor would appoint Li Tianyou as the crown prince, but they did not expect that he would be appointed as the crown prince later. At that time, there were obviously many children of the right age and good talents in the royal family. He thought countless times, "Jiang" Did the emperor finally choose him because he was Li Tianyou's brother?

"How did you know the secret passage in the palace?" the emperor asked.

Li Tianyou looked up: "Back then, Emperor Jing took me through it once."

The emperor immediately smiled, so hard, as if he had finally found the answer to a question that had puzzled him for many years.

Admiring the Emperor, admiring the Emperor...

The one you really chose was Li Tianyou, right?! The secret passage in the palace was the emperor’s last barrier, and you actually told Li Tianyou when he was so young...

"You don't have to be so sad! He must have chosen you." Li Tianyou seemed to know what the emperor was thinking, and comforted him, "Back then, I was only 2 years old. How could Emperor Jing guess that I would be able to remember that?

The existence of a secret passage?”

The emperor was furious! This kind of pure, false comfort! Anyone who had met Li Tianyou back then would not know that he was such a talented young man and could only meet him once in a hundred years!

While other children of the same age are still babbling to learn Chinese characters, he already has a photographic memory. Even if he doesn't know the characters, he can copy them after seeing them once.

The outstanding Li Tianyou has been not only the nightmare of Prince Li Yinjun for many years, but also the nightmare of his current emperor.

In countless midnight dreams, he saw himself being tied up, and then a fire burned the entire palace, including himself, to ashes. In the light of the fire, Li Tianyou smiled nonchalantly and mockingly.

When Li Tianyou was thirteen years old, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and sent Li Tianyou to the military camp with an edict, euphemistically called: exercise.

The emperor's idea was that this kind of training would be the best way to make Li Tianyou lose his life, but he did not expect that this once-in-a-century genius not only did not die, but...

He developed good martial arts skills by chance, and with the military skills he had learned before, he quickly mastered them and became invincible. He also got a dragon tooth from nowhere, which made him even more powerful. The military even regarded him as a god.

It was precisely this ideological control of the military that made the emperor feel even more fearful.

Military power is an absolute weapon of rebellion!

When the good news came one after another at the border, the emperor not only couldn't sleep well, but also began to lose his appetite when eating, as if the throne would be hidden in the blink of an eye. Until——

When Li Tianyou asked for marriage, and when Li Yinjun said that Shen Aoxue was actually his ANBU, the emperor realized that things might take a new turn.

Of course, Shen Aoxue really did not disappoint them, but within three days and a glass of poisonous wine, Li Tianyou died at the hands of the princess.

However, none of them expected that Li Tianyou's death was not the end, but the beginning...

After a heavy sigh, "I lost." the emperor said.

Li Tianyou smiled and glanced at the yellow silk in front of the emperor. The meaning was obvious: issue an edict!

"Father——" came a milky voice.

The emperor glanced to the side. It was a child less than 5 years old. Next to him was his mother and concubine, who was in tears. Next to him, his eyes widened a little. His eyes looked at these women who had slept with him one by one, as well as,

own children.

Most of them had red eyes, and some were still crying, but none of them cried out.

After the fear, there was deep despair.

Only the queen next to her, the noblest woman in Xiliang who had been with her for so many years, had only peace in her eyes at this moment.

That day, when she learned that the prince had been arrested, she was in a panic. But now, when the whole family is a prisoner and the country is about to fail, her heart is unexpectedly calm.

She stood beside the emperor, quietly, waiting for the final verdict.

Slowly retracting his gaze, the emperor looked at Li Tianyou again: "I can issue an edict, but you can let them go. Although these concubines are all the daughters of ministers, each family has more than one daughter. You can marry other women. The power in the court is very high.

A new balance will be reached soon, and no one will have trouble with the new emperor because of them. As for these children, they are still young and will soon forget this matter." As he said that, he glanced at the queen next to him and reached out to hold the queen's hand.

hand, "As for the Queen, I am afraid of being lonely in the underworld, and I am afraid that I will wrong you!"

The Queen only shook his hand slightly and shook the Emperor's hand.

As for the prince Li Yinjun, he did not express any opinion. Among all his sons, only Li Yinjun was born to him and the queen, and he was the one he loved and valued the most.

However, it is impossible for Li Tianyou to tolerate this Li Yinjun, the rising prince of Xiliang!

Li Tianyou glanced at the people in front of him. The concubines who were already desperate, his eyes once again glowed with a strong desire for survival.

He smiled: "The emperor is negotiating terms with me?"

"Don't you always want to be justified, so you waited until today to take action?! This edict is of great significance to you. It is worth trading the lives of these people." The emperor opened his mouth and laid out the conditions.

appearance.

"The loser is not qualified to negotiate terms." Li Tianyou smiled again, with a trace of ridicule in his eyes, "I respect you when I ask you to issue an edict. You don't really think that I can't come up with an edict?

?”

As soon as he finished speaking, someone came out holding another piece of yellow silk.

"Li Tianyou, you forged the imperial edict!" the prince standing behind Li Tianyou and Aoxue said sternly.

"Oh, whether it's a forgery or not, let your father see it before you know." Li Tianyou glanced at the prince briefly, with a nonchalant tone.

The person who was standing in front of the emperor, holding the yellow silk, immediately stepped back. The second person hurriedly walked over, unfolded the yellow silk, and spread it in front of the emperor.

The emperor only glanced at Huang Silk, then his eyes widened in disbelief. He quickly raised his head and locked his gaze on Li Tianyou's face: "You...you...how did you get this thing?"

Unconsciously, his voice trembled a little. He knew that Li Tianyou was powerful, but he didn't expect that he was so powerful!

On top of the yellow silk is a ready-made edict!

The handwriting is exactly the same as my own! Not to mention others, even I can't tell the authenticity! And the jade seal on the edict! No matter which angle you look at it, there is no flaw!

Li Tianyou smiled: "Of course I found it from the imperial study. The emperor had already intended to pass the throne to me, but I was disrespectful! But -" he paused, "I am afraid that I will not be able to agree to the emperor's proposal just now.

.The emperor's sons are all dragons and phoenixes. Although they are still young at present, they will grow up one day. I don't want to cause trouble in the future."

With that said, Li Tianyou made a gesture to the guards behind him, then turned around with Aoxue in his arms and stepped out of the gate.

Behind him, a quick and sharp sound of metal friction came, that was the sound of a sword being drawn.

"Don't look back." Li Tianyou said softly to the woman beside him.

Aoxue nodded, then, she heard messy footsteps, a tragic cry, and then, everything returned to calm...

When she looked back again, she saw flames rising into the sky where the cold palace had been.

*

Just as she was about to turn around, a figure suddenly caught her eye.

Prince!

She saw the prince prostrate on the ground, and the prince's robe, somewhat aged by the moonlight, was spread out on the ground. She couldn't see his face clearly, but she could see that his body was shaking like chaff.

So angry and desperate.

She turned her head and looked at Li Tianyou next to her in confusion. Since he had seized the throne and killed the emperor, even children of several years old, why didn't he just kill the prince?!

Li Tianyou didn't answer, but waved his hand to his men, indicating to drag them down.

*

This summer night in Xiliang was extremely hot because of this killing. Then, it rained for seven consecutive days.

During these seven days, memorials that were previously sent to the palace were continuously sent to Prince You's Mansion.

On the morning of the seventh day, a fold with a light green cover was placed in the most prominent position of a stack of memorials and sent to the palace together.
Chapter completed!