Linzhi

Li Suian never thought that he would be forced to flee one day.

And the person who forced them to flee was her own biological father.

It sounds ridiculous.

A year ago, she would never have imagined that she would encounter such a thing.

But now, even if someone suddenly came to tell Li Suian that Emperor Jiayou came back from the dead, she would probably accept it calmly.

She took He Xiu's concubine, Empress Pei, and the two maids beside Empress Pei, all of whom were female relatives, including two pregnant women. It was unimaginable for such a group of people to escape, but they Now he has indeed left the Governor's Mansion, even Xiangzhou, and has arrived at a town on the outskirts of the city, where he settled down at an inn.

This is not because Li Suian is so capable, but because they still have a few people to help on this trip.

Ma Hong, Zhang Ze, and several soldiers brought by Zhang Ze.

Ma Hong is an old man who served the late emperor. He returned to the palace after three years of guarding the mausoleum of the late emperor. But what a place the palace is, the people are cold and warm, and the dark tide is raging. Let alone three years, even if you leave for a month, you may not be able to go back again. Where to stand, there are also intrigues among eunuchs, and it may not be simpler than the court.However, Ma Hong had already served an emperor, and he had no intention of being close to the emperor again. He had no ambition to be rich and honorable in the eyes of others.

Anyway, I used to stay in the palace for a long time, and serving the late emperor was also a glorious job. Ma Hong taught many disciples and grandchildren, and he had a lot of connections in the palace. It was not difficult to find an idle job. He even had contacts with He Rong secretly. , Send some news to He Rong from time to time, and even connect with Empress Pei through He Rong.

Zhang Ze had previously been ordered by He Rong to report to Chang'an, and then stayed temporarily until the emperor fled to the south to avoid the Turkic people.

Today's Zhang Ze is no longer the playboy who only knew how to linger in the flowers back then. He has grown enough for He Rong to trust him and entrust the heavy responsibility to him.Although no one could have expected what happened today, Zhang Ze responded immediately when he received Ma Hong's distress message, leading Empress Pei and others out of the city, thus avoiding Li Kuan's eyes and ears first.

As for Wen Jiang, given her status, Li Kuan would not take her seriously at the moment. She also has enough ability to protect herself. It is the safest thing to divide the troops into two groups and disperse the targets.

A group of people pretended to be wealthy families in Xiangzhou, and they were going to flee south. They took three rooms in the inn, one for Empress Pei and Li Suian and other female relatives.

It was completely dark outside, Sushuang carefully lit a candle.

The candlelight flickered, adding a little light to the whole room, but it also added a lot of shadows, reflected on the wall, shadows and shadows, a little scary.

Li Suian stared blankly at the candle, unable to move his eyes away, until a faint groan sounded.

Wu Shi pressed her lower abdomen, with a pained look on her face.

"Miss Wu, are you alright?" Su Shuang asked worriedly.

Wu shi reluctantly shook her head, and gave them a comforting smile.

"It's okay, don't worry."

Her belly is not as big as Empress Pei's, but Empress Pei is a tiger girl after all, with a good body. Right now, Wu's face is as white as paper, and there is still cold sweat on her forehead. I don't know how long she has endured it.

Li Suian frowned and stood up.

"I'll go out and look for a doctor in this town."

She was about to go out when there was a hasty knock on the door.

Li Suian stepped forward to open the door.

Ma Hong couldn't even wait for the people inside the door to allow him, so he stepped forward and stepped in.This is almost impossible for him who has lived in the court for decades and is cautious, which shows how urgent the matter is.

"The mountain collapsed, and the emperor returned to the west!" He said quickly, and tried to lower his voice so that there was a trace of breath, which sounded like he was sobbing.

Li Suian was stunned all of a sudden.

Not only her, but everyone in the room had the same blank expression. Wu Shi was so shocked that he even ignored the physical discomfort.

Looking at Empress Pei again, her face was pale and sad, but she was still able to maintain her composure and not panic.

Ma Hong didn't care about other things, strode forward, cupped his hands and said: "Madam, the incident happened suddenly, you have to make a decision as soon as possible!"

The news of the emperor's death kept reverberating in Li Suian's mind, so that she couldn't react for a while, and she didn't understand what Ma Hong said.

Decide on what?

Empress Pei wiped away her tears and said hoarsely, "What did General Zhang say?"

Ma Hongdao: "General Zhang said that the matter of His Majesty's death happened strangely, and there might be some inside story in it. If it really has something to do with Li Kuan, when we leave, he is really looking forward to having a scapegoat, so that he can push everything to our head You said that we murdered His Majesty, so we will definitely send people to hunt down our traces, General Zhang suggested that we should not spend the night here, and set off south as soon as possible, to the middle of Shu."

Li Suian's heart beat like a drum, she opened her mouth to refute Ma Hong, but she couldn't say a word.

Although she already knew that her father was ambitious and was mentally prepared for the next thing, but when it really happened, she felt unreal like a dream.

Is it really his fault, Your Majesty?

How dare he do this!

She was thinking wildly, but she heard Empress Pei say decisively: "You can't go to Shuzhong! You invite General Zhang in."

Zhang Ze arrived soon. He heard that Empress Pei didn't want to go to Jiankang, so he thought she wanted to turn back, so he hurriedly persuaded him: "Your Majesty, if you go back now, it's like throwing yourself into a trap. Li Kuan won't let us go." To put it bluntly, you are pregnant with a son-in-law now, and he is worried that he will have no chance to get rid of you!"

Empress Pei shook her head: "I don't want to go back, what I mean is that Jiankang can't go, everyone knows that the south is safer, and Li Kuan also thinks so, so he will follow the road going south when he hunts us down." Go after it, the two roads of Shuzhong and Jiankang are very dangerous, so we have to go in the opposite direction and go to the north!"

Now that the Turkic people are moving south, I am afraid that the city of Chang'an has already been taken, and further north...the world is so big, there are not many places they can go.

"Go to Lingzhou!" Empress Pei said, "Go to King An!"

Zhang Ze's expression changed.

"Your Majesty is dead, there is no master in the world, there is bound to be chaos, and the Turkic people are raging in the Central Plains, and the people are bound to live in dire straits. The crown prince is dead, and King Ji..." Empress Pei glanced at Li Suian, seeing that her reaction was calm, and then continued. "I naturally hope that King Ji will be safe and sound, but at this moment, someone needs to turn the tide and take charge of the overall situation. Maybe we can set things right and turn the crisis into peace. However, King Ji and the child in my womb are not enough to take on this important task. "

Since Zhang Ze followed An Wang, he had already taken a clear-cut stand. Now that Empress Pei has expressed his support for An Wang, he is naturally very happy. All the names are laid on them, and the actions on their side are justified.

Before he could speak, He Xi, who walked in at some time behind him, said: "Your Majesty is right, the only thing that can save the situation now is my third brother, we should go to him!"

"It's just that my mother's body may not be able to withstand the bumps on the road..." Zhang Ze frowned.

"I can!" Empress Pei said with a firm expression, "I'm still in good health. At worst, I'll give birth on the road. Let's leave overnight. I'm afraid that after Li Kuan's search in the city fails, he will send someone to track him down here soon. .”

Zhang Ze nodded, ordered everyone to prepare to pack their luggage first, then turned and left.

Li Suian still remembered going to the street to find a pharmacy and bringing back anti-abortion pills for Empress Pei and Mrs. Wu.

"It's a matter of urgency, and there is no way to diagnose the pulse. We can only take pills first, and we will go see the doctor when we find a doctor on the way back."

Empress Pei smiled gratefully: "Thank you for your hard work, An An, if you hadn't reported the letter in time this time, we might not be able to escape this catastrophe, and now you are still implicated and you have to flee with us."

Li Suian shook her head, she was very confused now.

His father may have something to do with His Majesty's death, and he may have played a role in it. Thinking about it this way, did he expect this day when he asked himself to marry King Ji?In his eyes, is the life of his biological daughter so insignificant?

"I just found out today that the first half of my life was so ridiculous." Li Suian murmured.

Empress Pei said softly: "Don't think this way, how can life be free from ups and downs? You are you, and your father is your father. Although children are favored by their parents, can it be that parents do things against their will and cannot be dissuaded by children? Can you follow suit and commit crimes? There is nothing wrong with you abandoning your filial piety and being loyal. According to what you said, I actually had a sweetheart, but because of my father's death, I had to marry Your Majesty as my wife. Isn't it a marriage? Should I die before?"

Li Suian stared blankly at Empress Pei.

Not only her, but also the women in the room were stunned for a moment.

Only Su Shuang, who knew the inside story early, remained calm.

But Empress Pei herself looked calm, as if she was telling someone else's story.

"Then... where is your sweetheart?" Li Suian asked an inappropriate sentence.

"He was a general under my late father, and he is already married and has children."

Seeing Li Suian's face, Empress Pei couldn't help but smile: "Don't you think that I will risk my life for this matter, and even after I get married, I will never forget it? Speaking of it, it was just a gleam of love when I was a girl."

She looked at Li Suian and said meaningfully: "Both of my parents died, and later I became His Majesty's concubine and even the queen, and I had to worry about the housework or the housework of the harem all day long. No matter how sad and melancholy I was at that time, I have long since forgotten it. Just because I know , My background has already surpassed most people in the world. If I hurt myself all day long, how can I be worthy of my loved ones who love me and respect me? An An, the eldest princess hugged you to raise you back then, maybe I didn’t predict today The deep meaning of the situation is that even if her old man is dead now, the spirit of Zai Tian is still watching you, you have to live well to be worthy of her old man's kindness."

Li Suian was slightly shocked, as if struck by lightning, reaching the bottom of his heart.

……

The sound of horseshoes was rattling, dust was flying under the iron hooves, and above the tall horses, they were not the Imperial Guards familiar to the people of Chang'an in the past.

With high noses and deep eyes, slightly curly hair, and left lapel gowns that are obviously different from those of the Central Plains people, they walked through the city gate proudly and marched towards the inner city in the attitude of victors.

"I still think Chang'an City is so amazing, isn't it just bigger and taller than other cities?" A Turkic man riding a horse on the left commented.

But in fact, except for him, the other Turkic people all looked eye-opening.

Even though most of the shops had their doors and windows closed at the moment, and the streets were in a mess due to the fleeing civilians and soldiers, and Chang'an was no longer prosperous at all, but the wealth here still amazed the Turkic people.

Some impatient people had already kicked open the doors on both sides of the street, went in to search and loot, and there were occasional cries and screams coming from inside.

Fu Nian didn't stop him, and let his subordinates move freely, while he led some people straight to the imperial city.

"You can't say that. After all, this is the imperial capital of several dynasties in the Central Plains. It is the most prosperous place in the world. There are countless cattle, sheep, treasures, and women..."

Every time he said a word, the smiles of his subordinates deepened.

Fu Nian reined in the reins in front of the palace, and looked inside from the wide open palace gate.

"There is also the power to order the world. Drive!"

He suddenly clamped his horse's belly, and galloped his horse into the imperial palace where the emperor ordered him not to ride a horse in the past, and even galloped in the wide square paved with white jade slabs.

After him, a large number of Turkic people poured in, and the Silent Palace was suddenly filled with noise.

Fu Nian ran directly to the Xuanzheng Hall, walked to the throne in front of the throne, and sat down.

The left and right who followed him stood at the bottom of the steps and joked, "Khan, how about the throne of the emperor of the Central Plains?"

But Fu Nian shook his head: "I'm not used to sitting, I don't even have a tiger skin on it, the bottom is hard, it hurts my buttocks, the emperor of the Central Plains took all the good things away, or did he know that I was coming, so he left this place on purpose?" Location?"

"Because the sages of our Central Plains people said that the people are the most important, and the king is the least. Only by suffering can one enjoy the supreme position."

The speaker came in from the outside. He was young and plain-looking, but the Turkic people present seemed to recognize him, and they didn't yell at him or drive him away.

Fu Nian laughed loudly when he heard the words: "According to what you said! The emperor of the Central Plains must have not suffered enough, so God asked me to deal with him!"

The people around also laughed.

Fu Nian looked at the person who came: "Your master asked you to stay, presumably he is looking for me for something?"

The middle-aged scribe clasped his hands and said with a smile: "Congratulations, Da Khan, who entered Chang'an like a broken bamboo! Originally, King Ji brought [-] soldiers and horses and said that he would swear to defend the city, but when he heard that your hundreds of thousands of troops were coming, he immediately frightened you." The soldiers have to be disbanded on the spot and hide without a trace!"

"No wonder I didn't encounter resistance all the way here." Fu Nian sneered, rubbing his chin, "You came just in time, I have something to ask you."

The middle-aged scribe said: "Khan, please tell me."

Fu Nian said: "The master of your family is so powerful that he could overthrow that useless emperor long ago and become the emperor himself. Why does he insist on cooperating with me and taking the emperor to Jiankang? This cheap, like to run for your life?"