Loyalty Hou Tiansheng rebellious

The next morning after receiving the new task, Chen Hen lay on the couch, staring blankly at the task panel for a long time.

——Current task: Imprison Li Yan and establish himself as emperor (0/1)

The system is forcing him to die, but why is he willing to die like this?

Bandit Shi saw that there was no movement in his room, so he knocked on the door outside and asked, "Master Hou?"

"I am sick."

Pretending to be sick is his usual tactic.

After Chen Hen said this, he turned over and ignored him, and slowly fell asleep again.

When he woke up, old doctor Zhang was sitting by the bed and feeling his pulse.

Chen Hen withdrew his hand, afraid that the rapid pulse would leak something: "Mr. Zhang, I'm not sick."

"Bandit Shi said that you were sick, and entered the palace in a panic. The emperor asked me to come, but there was still a group of people standing outside, waiting in line to feel your pulse."

"The Bandits are real." Chen Hen sat up, scratched his hair randomly twice, "Go back, I'm just sleepy."

"Master Hou, the old man sees that you are really sick, and I'm afraid the illness is not serious."

"I'm fine, it's just..." Chen Hen got off the bed, stood still beside the copper basin on the side of the couch, bent over to pick up a handful of cold water, and splashed the cold water on his face.He thought for a while and said softly, "Doctor Zhang, there is a medicine in your pharmacy called Duhuo, isn't it?"

"Yes."

"The solitary life, what is it for?"

The old doctor Zhang gave him a meaningful look, and said: "It can cure everything, but it can't cure you."

"It can't cure me." Chen Hen wiped his face with his sleeve casually, and muttered, "It can't cure me..."

After sending away a group of people sent by the palace, Chen Hen locked himself in the room to think about things.

The mission deadline is the first day of the first month of the second year of Yongjia.

It's easy to become an emperor on his own, the system doesn't require him to announce it to the world.He just wrote an edict casually, stamped it with a seal, and found another opportunity to quietly send it to the Ministry of Rites.

No one knew there was such an emperor as him.

It is more difficult to imprison Li Yan.

He got close to Li Yan, the emperor was careful, once he noticed something, the matter would be over.

There must be a perfect plan.

But the saddest thing was the hurdle in his heart.

Rebellion, rebellion, Chen Hen pulled his hair.

Over the years, this system has spared no effort to push him on the path of a virtuous minister. When he showed his sincerity and really wanted to be a virtuous minister for Li Yan, he came up with such a task again.

Chen Hen got out of bed, kicked his shoes and went out.

Bandit Shi stood guard outside the door, and when he saw him coming out, he clasped his fists and said, "Master Hou."

"Yeah. From now on..." Chen Hen responded, and said with difficulty, "Don't just run to the palace if you have nothing to do."

"Master Hou?"

"The emperor is the emperor after all. If you bother him about my trivial matters all day long, he might get annoyed at any time." Chen Hen sighed inaudibly, "I was just late this morning. If you get up a little bit, you will be in a hurry, and you will startle half of the people in the palace, so you are not allowed to do this in the future."

Without waiting for Bandit to speak, he straightened his clothes and walked away: "I'm walking around, you don't have to guard."

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Chen Hen was unusual, and Bandit Shi was about to enter the palace again, so he took a step, remembering that Chen Hen told him not to enter the palace casually, so he stopped.

Chen Hen hugged his knees and stayed on the roof of Zhongyihou Mansion all day.

The moonlight shines softly on the bamboo trees in the backyard of the Hou Mansion, with dazzling shades.

Chen Hen sighed, his feet slipped when he climbed down the roof, and he almost rolled down.

With a little luck, Chen Hen spent more than a month in vain.

During this month, Chang'an City said that he was frightened by the booklet, and said that he ran to jump off the building the next day after reading the booklet to prove his will.He also said that if he locked himself in the mansion for a month, then the monarch and his subjects were divorced.

They all said that "Little Biography of Zhongyi Hou" will be greatly revised and specially revised.

During the period, Li Yan sent someone to ask him, and he replied: "I was read by the censor, and I must know how to avoid suspicion in the future. In addition, it is summer, and it is very hot. I am too lazy to move, so I will not enter the palace." .”

But Li Yan couldn't hear the first half of the sentence at all, he seemed to only hear the second sentence.The pillow made of white porcelain, the folding fan made of jade bones, and the courtiers in the palace had to go back and forth between the palace and the Hou's residence several times a day.

No one in Chang'an City dared to say that the monarch and his ministers were separated.

Fortunately, Chen Hen wants to avoid suspicion, but Li Yan wants to be lucky.

On weekdays, Chen Hen would laugh at his childishness.But at this time, he could only lock up all those things, and was going to find a chance to send them all back.

After insisting on waiting for a month, the system task has not changed, so Chen Hen reluctantly began to prepare for the task.

In the middle of the night one day, he called Bandit Shi over: "Go and call Uncle Zhang, there is a meeting in the Hou Mansion."

When Bandit Shi and Uncle Zhang came over, Chen Hen was sitting cross-legged on the couch with Chen Maomao in his arms, playing with the cat constantly.

The candle shadow flickered for a while, Chen Hen raised his eyes to look at them: "Here we come, sit down."

The two of them sat down on the lantern bench in front of Chen Hen. Seeing that Chen Hen's expression was not quite right, they both turned serious and waited for him to speak.

Chen Hen lowered his eyes, followed Chen Maomao's hair, and said: "The Zhongyihou's residence has not talked together for a long time, I... have one thing."

He paused: "I want to do one thing. This matter, once it happens, will lose your head. If you get close to me, it is impossible to guarantee that you will not be implicated. So... you can take whatever I have here. , Take it and leave. But before I leave, I have to ask Bandit Shi to help me go to the Jiangnan fief and dismiss the people in the fief village."

"I will handle this matter alone. If something goes wrong, I will take care of it alone."

Bandit Shi was about to speak, only to hear Uncle Zhang say quietly: "That's not what Hou Ye said when he sent us to rescue Mr. Chen and Mr. Li."

"This time...it's different." Chen Hen put Chen Maomao aside, "I used to rely on my old relationship with the emperor, and I did some small tricks under his nose, and the emperor turned one eye and closed the other." Just let me go. But this time is different, if the emperor knows what to do this time, it will be over."

The candlelight jumped, and Chen Hen's face was obscured: "Let's go, we have known each other for so many years, thank you very much."

His voice was barely audible: "On this road, I can only go to the dark alone, and no one will accompany me."

"Master Hou." Bandit Shi knelt and kowtowed, "If I don't leave, whatever Lord Hou does, Bandit Shi will do as well."

Chen Hen smiled: "It's not like I'm using a trick to force you to show your loyalty. Don't worry, there are only so many people under my command. Which one do you not know? You can go at ease. I won't stop you, and I can't stop you either." you."

Bandit Shi vowed, "Bandit Stone will not leave."

Chen Hen patiently explained to him: "This time is different. What we are going to do this time is really dangerous. If you knew, you wouldn't be willing to follow me."

Bandit Shi still said, "I won't go."

When the entanglement got to the back, Chen Hen was so angry that he slapped the table, scaring away the cats on the bed. He said angrily: "My bastard master is going to rebel! I am a rebellious and rebellious minister! You follow me too!" rebel?"

Hearing this, Bandit suddenly raised his head to look at him, and said in shock, "Master Hou, you..."

"Yes." Chen Hen looked at him and nodded, then smiled sadly, "That's what I want to do."

"Master Hou, why..."

"Don't ask me, I can't tell, I can't tell, anyway, I have to do this." Chen Hen wiped his face, and in the summer night, his forehead was covered with cold sweat. I'll just get this out of the way."

"Master Hou, do you remember that when you and the emperor were in Lingnan, we sat and talked like this in the mansion? Lord Hou, are you crazy? You and the emperor have walked all the way, and now you are sitting in that position It's the emperor, how could you..."

Chen Hen's eyes were red, and he blinked quickly, resisting the soreness in his eyes, and asked sharply: "How could I? How would I know how? I treated him wholeheartedly, how did I know... how could I know……"

——How do I know, but in the end, I have to be hard-hearted and wave my sword to give up?

Chen Hen supported his forehead, leaned against the desk, and murmured: "How do I know? You ask me, how would I know?"

Uncle Zhang hurriedly stepped forward to help him, turned to Bandit Shi and said, "Don't argue with Bandit Shi, Lord Hou is probably really crazy."

Chen Hen was pressed on the couch by them, covered with a quilt, lying flat, staring at the roof in a daze.The two lines of tears were illuminated by candlelight, but they only flashed.

Uncle Zhang fed him half a cup of hot water, Chen Hen calmed down a bit, and still said: "I'm not crazy, I have to do what I have to do."

Bandit Shi thought for a while, then knelt down in front of the couch again: "Whatever Master Hou wants to do, Bandit Shi will do it."

Uncle Zhang wiped his face with a handkerchief, and said softly: "I also listen to Lord Hou. Over the years, Lord Hou has done so many things, which one is not my responsibility?"

Chen Hen said: "But that's the one who lost his head."

Uncle Zhang coaxed him: "You will only lose your head if you are discovered. For so many years, nothing that Lord Hou has done is impossible."

Hearing this, Chen Hen went crazy again.

"Okay, okay." Chen Hen knocked his head on the couch several times, "Anyone can keep loyalty, but it's me, I can't keep it."

Uncle Zhang hurriedly supported his head: "Master Hou really wants to rebel, he has his own reasons, no one else can say for sure, I believe in Master Hou."

Bandit Shi said at the right time: "I also believe in Lord Hou."

Slowing down, Chen Hen said: "I didn't force you to conspire with me. If you go quietly at night, I won't pursue it. Go back and think carefully before talking."

He struggled to get up, got off the couch, and sighed: "Let's go, I'll see you off."

Uncle Zhang left with Chen Maomao in his arms, Bandit Shi stood at the bottom of the steps, and Chen Hen stood on the steps under the eaves.

In the middle of the night, when the dew was heavy, Chen Hen gathered his clothes, and suddenly called out to him: "Gaoshi."

Bandit Shi also looked back at him: "Master Hou."

"You said I don't remember when we were in Lingnan, which time are you talking about?"

"I mean...we sat together like tonight in Lingnan's mansion." Bandit Shi paused, "At that time, the emperor and Lord Hou sat cross-legged on the long couch, and I and Bandit Jian is on the bench. Hou Ye turned over the ledger for us and asked me and Bandit Jian to eat less to save money. Hou Ye also joked that if we really came to the end of the mountain, Bandit Jian and I could go to perform to earn money. The emperor said he could do it too, the Hou Ye said no, and the Hou Ye joked again..."

"what did I say?"

Bandit Shi suddenly lowered his head and cupped his fists: "I lost my composure."

"It's okay, just keep talking."

"Hou Ye smiled again and said that the emperor is his treasure."

Chen Hen gave a low laugh, and seemed to be talking to himself: "You said I don't remember, how could I not remember?"

"Master Hou, you should rest early, if there is anything, Bandit will help you."

"I..." Chen Hen lowered his eyes and hid all his thoughts, "You said, I have done so many things under the eyes of the emperor, and he never cares about it. If after this incident, I kneel down and ask If the emperor apologizes, will he not care about it?"

Bandit Shi didn't know how to answer his words, but just stood still.

After a long silence, Chen Hen said to himself: "How could that be? He is a king, even if I am not a virtuous minister, he is not a fool. How could he?"

Chen Hen sighed quietly, and when he returned to the room, Chen Maomao was lying on the couch, it must be that Uncle Zhang folded back and left the cat to him.

He stepped forward and held the cat in his arms: "It's still yours."