I just like the Prime Minister

Early the next morning, Li Chengzuo came to the prime minister's mansion with his forehead full of lawsuits. Hearing what happened last night from Jiang Xizhu, his whole face turned green.

Li Chengzuo held back his bad thoughts after three days without going to Fangjiewa. The old Niubi went to Liaodong. His temper has not changed, but he is courageous. He changed his old cowardly attitude and dared to collude with my prime minister to commit crimes and go home. Carry the wild man.

Jiang Xizhu saw that his peach blossom eyes were stuffy, so he knew that he was holding back his breath and was going to make the world, and if he didn't kill his moth in the cradle, he probably couldn't let it go due to his temper.

Jiang Xizhu personally told the housekeeper to prepare a table of breakfast, and ordered it to be delivered to his room. Taking advantage of his meal time, he was about to show affection and reason to Li Chengzuo.However, the butler Jiang Xizhu had just sent to deliver the food, turned around and found that opposite Li Chengzuo was an old Taoist priest who lived and slept in the open, eating and drinking with his mouth.

This old Taoist became addicted to overturning walls and eaves, coming and going without a trace. If this was in his Wudang Taoist temple, the believers would probably think it was the Jade Emperor's manifestation.

Jiang Xizhu stared dumbfounded at the old Taoist's "snoring and sulking" - he was obviously very hungry, and his face was not very good. He didn't sleep all night last night, and he squatted outside the house at some time today. Aroused the glutton in his stomach.

And His Majesty the Emperor, who always had a lot of trouble, was sitting opposite him, but he just frowned at Zi Xu's way of eating to show his disgust, and he didn't put on the emperor's airs to reprimand him for committing crimes, and he was still eating slowly.

Jiang Xizhu knew that this was Li Chengzuo's kindness to Gu Nian, so he endured it, so he didn't say anything about the great achievements of the old Taoist priest "snacking dry food from patients".

The old Taoist wiped his mouth after eating. There was no wine for breakfast, and he only had a full meal. However, he burped contentedly and twirled his goatee. Only then did he finally remember the courtesy of a monarch and his ministers Seemingly, he stood up with the edge of the table and bowed to Li Chengzuo: "See the emperor for the poor."

His etiquette is very clear-he is the master when he is eating, Gu Nian Li Chengzuo is not the master's Qiao, he is a courtier when he is full, he stands up and greets him in one go, Jiang Xizhu passed by last night, goodbye to the eclectic old Taoist Ge, I don't know why there is a strange feeling, and he can't say exactly why, but he feels that the leap before escaping is still fresh in his memory. Now, it seems to be true.

Li Chengzuo glanced at him lightly: "Master, you are polite."

He said politely, but his tone was not affectionate at all, as if he had been sprayed with gnashing saliva all over his face across the table, he wiped his face embarrassingly, and wiped away the non-existent saliva, before saying : "Your Majesty, the old Taoist knows that it is not for you to share your worries and solve the rare material, but the old Niubi should fulfill some responsibilities as a teacher for a day. Even if it was presumptuous to accept the emperor as an apprentice, it's just that the apprentice's ambition is not fulfilled. Human failure."

Li Chengzuo was silent for a moment, and said a little coldly: "What exactly does Master want to tell me?"

"Pindao is getting old, and it is inconvenient for the Seventh Prince to leave Beijing, and now Miss Song is also ill." He said to these people unhurriedly, "Your Majesty, what you want to do requires an absolute A loyal person will do it for you. This person needs to be intelligent, and more importantly, be able to understand your difficulties and wishes. There has never been a better choice for this person..."

Li Chengzuo interrupted him suddenly: "Stop talking."

Daoist Zixu didn't stop: "You always want him to stay out of the matter, but he has never been out of the matter; you want him to be wise and protect himself, but do you know that he may never value fame and safety so much? You Tell me if it's... the prime minister."

Jiang Xizhu listened to them playing charades and talked for a long time, but he didn't expect to turn the words to himself suddenly. At that time, he was stunned, and his heart jumped twice, but he seemed to suddenly know what Taoist Zixu and Li Chengzuo were talking about.

"Unbelievable" is just a very short part of his emotions. After that short moment that can be ignored, his mind has already turned to "how to persuade Li Chengzuo".

The idea of ​​"no matter what he wants to do, I am willing to go through fire and water for him" is so deep-rooted that it can be traced back to the distant boyhood when he was a prince's companion. In fact, he has wasted too much time, whether it is because of Li Chengzuo He intentionally refused to let him participate, or it was because of his own complacency—he didn't even know what the "wish" they were hiding was, and his heart had already taken the first step.

"I think so." Jiang Xizhu said, "Compared to being safe and sound, I would rather stand on the saddle and swear allegiance to the death."

Li Chengzuo fell silent suddenly. Jiang Xizhu waited for a long time, only to wait until he took a long breath and exhaled even longer: "Let's not talk about this, what happened to you yesterday? Take me to have a look."

He stood up, unwilling to face Xide, and left first.

Jiang Xizhu frowned in disappointment, and wanted to say something, but Daoist Zixu caught up with him and made a "shh" gesture to signal him not to press on, but he shook his head with a smile, and then chased after him. Lee Seung-jo left.

Jiang Xizhu didn't know where the old Taoist was so calm. Li Chengzuo obviously didn't want to talk anymore. He knew that there was nothing he could do if he chased after him, so he had to take a deep breath and followed up.

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The man with the sack who was carried back by the old man yesterday managed to get a much better treatment than in the previous deep house compound - he lived in the guest room of Jiang's mansion.

However, this guest room was not originally a guest room, and no one has lived in it for many years. It is said that the original owner was the concubine of a mad elder. This lady was stimulated after giving birth to a stillborn baby, and finally a white silk ended her young life.

Jiang Xizhu is not good at talking about the elders and the deceased, and only vaguely talked about the unsettled past of the hospital. Unexpectedly, this would suit the heart of the old man with a nose. Only two thin quilts were found in the dark room, and they wrapped up the lifeless person. He planned to deal with it in this way even if he settled down completely, but Jiang Xizhu couldn't see it, so he secretly ordered someone to get the wound medicine and candles, and simply cleaned up. Only then did this dilapidated haunted house move this person in.

After Jiang Xizhu sent away the servants and servants, he turned around and found that the old Taoist priest had wrapped him up neatly at some point, held a candle, and while checking his injuries, he sucked his teeth and recited "Amitabha".

Jiang Xizhu was a little stunned by his chanting, but it was even more absurd when he thought about it carefully-a Taoist priest chanting Amitabha, this is simply deceiving the teacher and destroying the ancestors.

However, before he could make any comment on the old Taoist priest who deceived his master and exterminated his ancestors, he was startled by the face of that lifeless man.

He didn't expect that he would meet this person under such circumstances.He suddenly remembered the house where he was rescued last night, the not-so-familiar railings, and the lanterns that the group of servants were holding when they chased them out...

He thought of many things wildly, such as the poisoning of the prince, the assassination of Li Chengzuo, the antidote for Song Yingluo's poisoning, and what Li Chengzuo vaguely said, that the world is what he cares about.

It would all be too suffocating if things were as he imagined.

Because of this, Jiang Xizhu didn't dare to disclose the identity of this person—in fact, he didn't have anything to say, but silently decided to hand over this person to Li Chengzuo.

Jiang Xizhu followed Taoist Master Zixu and Li Chengzuo all the way to the gate of the courtyard where this person was placed. He seemed to casually glance at Li Chengzuo's thoughtful expression, and saw that his peach blossom eyes were dull and full of anger, and he felt a block in his heart , lowered his eyes, and pushed open the dusty courtyard door for him without saying a word.

Li Chengzuo didn't notice Jiang Xizhu's thoughts at that moment, he walked in, went straight to the room where the man was locked, stretched out his foot and kicked the door, he wanted to appear domineering, but unexpectedly he was shaken by the broken door that had been in disrepair for a long time His face was ashamed all over.

Li Chengzuo gave a "tsk", patted the dust off his body casually, and stepped in.

The person in the room was only half alive, but he was extremely vigilant. He was leaning against the wall, and the sudden light when the door opened dazzled his eyes that had already adapted to the darkness. Hidden, opened it again, and saw that the emperor who had broken in was already standing in front of him, and he was forced to face Li Chengzuo face to face without any precautions.

On the contrary, Li Chengzuo took advantage of the time when the door was opened to see the face of this person, and it was not unexpected that he twitched the corner of his mouth, and Taohua's eyes were more murderous than smiling: "Back then you were assassinated in the 'Zuihuayin' When I was a storyteller, I pretended to be a storyteller with this face, and now I am a prisoner, and my original face is also this face, does this face have special meaning to you? Or is it because of your special narcissism?"

Jiang Xizhu followed behind calmly, his originally tense mind was turned upside down by Li Chengzuo's unreasonable way of speaking, knowing that Li Chengzuo had already recognized that this was the assassin who assassinated outside the drunken flower, and he knew this person even more He was seriously injured, and he didn't have the ability to violently hurt others, but he still couldn't let go of his mind for some reason.

Various emotions flashed across the man's face like a revolving lantern, and in the end, only a trace of bitterness remained on the scarred face.

He spoke very slowly, as if breathing would cause a tearing wound, and his accent made his words appear very stiff, but he said extremely resolutely: "Your Majesty has something that His Majesty wants to insist on, and I also have mine."

Li Chengzuo did not approve of his persistence, and glanced at him without comment: "When I was still the crown prince, En was only seventeen or eighteen years old, when Khitan and Dayu fought. They sent troops to suppress the bandits in the Northwest, and their troops moved westward. They were not prepared enough for the Khitan attack, and they suffered a defeat. This was a rare defeat in the life of the late emperor—but there was no way, success or failure was a foregone conclusion. To balance the situation of all parties, we had to agree to peace talks, the Khitan envoys sent that time were no easier to deal with than the ones you sent this time, and the condition that Zhangkou proposed was to let the late emperor "sell the soldiers of the world", how arrogant?"

The man wanted to say something, but in the end he pressed his lips together tightly, and his chapped lips turned blue and white from excessive force.

"It was very novel for me to hear this statement back then. I sent someone to inquire and found out that the envoy for the peace talks was a disciple of the second prince of Khitan, Yeluzhen. At that time, I thought that this second prince was really interesting." He said here, Smiling, he moved those peach blossom eyes from the memory to the scarred assassin, "Then, how did the second prince of Khitan, whose eyes were higher than the top, fall into the 'choir' and was almost abandoned by the choir? What about you? Why don’t you run your Huangtu hegemony well in Khitan, why did you come to my place and disturb my country?”

Hearing this, the Khitan assassin was not the only one who was stunned—maybe he should be called Yeluzhen now.

Jiang Xizhu was stunned for a moment, then stood at the door calmly, frowning and looking at Yeluzhen. This Khitan who is also said to be a well-developed mind and simple limbs has an appearance similar to that of a Central Plains person. He is a Khitan prince. Regardless of the disaster of seizing the throne, he ran to a killer organization that made money for a living and concealed his identity. Obviously, he had other plans, and the plans were not very good--before he did anything, he was caught If Taoist Zixu hadn't listened to the failure of the corner and refused to make a loss-making business, he would have died silently in a corner of Dayu, playing the leading role in haunted legends.

Yeluzhen looked at Li Chengzuo with a pale face for a moment, but was finally defeated. He closed his eyes and said with a sigh of relief: "He used the things buried deep under Liaodong as bargaining chips in exchange for that person's support."

That "he" is obviously Yeluzhen's uncle. The Empress Dowager Xiao of Khitan prefers her youngest son, and she is quite dissatisfied with her eldest son. She even doesn't want to see her grandson. Being able to strategize behind the scenes, he had no choice but to point out the young son who was cruel and vicious but was inexplicably favored by him to get rid of his grandson-the way of pointing out was to get the support of that person.

Even if the nationality is different and the territory is different, the process of wanting to sit on that chair is the same. Brothers kill each other, and those who sit on the throne and cherish the world are often the most cruel of the group of people-not cruel enough are all dead.

It was with the support of that person that Yeluzhen's uncle mastered the method of killing his uncle and nephew without a teacher, and walked this blood-stained road to heaven without hesitation, even at the cost of territory.

As for who that person was, Jiang Xizhu's heart sank deeply.

The old Taoist priest who had been doing murals for a long time suddenly heard about this tragedy of human relations, and finally found a place to use his spare heat, and pretended to be an outsider who didn't care about worldly affairs, reached into his sleeve and touched him, conjuring him out of thin air. With a wave of the brand-new whisk, he waved it in a fairy-like manner, and said "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable" with compassion.

This sound seemed to wake up Yeluzhen, who was immersed in the tragic news of the past. He frowned and tried to get up—but failed, so he could only retreat and stare at Li Chengzuo: "Your Majesty the Emperor of Dayu!" ,I need your help."

His tone of voice was too twitchy, as if he had become the old Khitan prince who didn't know the heights of heaven and earth and wanted Dayu to "sell the soldiers of the world".

Li Chengzuo didn't expect Yeluzhen to figure out such a request from his old affairs. Looking at his frail and strong appearance, he didn't know whether he should enjoy it or ridicule him, so he just stared at him with a smile: " I really should thank you for many things. For example, in order to defeat that person's plan, you let him know that the weakest moment is before the phoenix nirvana. In this way, you captured the phoenix and handed it to Dayu. In fact, it was for Dayu to subdue the phoenix safely; Another example is that my skinless and shameless elder brother did things that have no kingly law in the fief. Without your Antong song, Song Yingluo's manpower really couldn't be checked so carefully... Oh, of course, I also want to thank you for reminding me recently. The commander of my Imperial Forest Army knows who should be arrested and who should not be arrested, and Ugin, who you reminded my subordinates through a special channel..."

Li Chengzuo smiled: "These, I don't know if I have said everything... But this is far from enough, Yeluzhen, I can know what you gave me only if I lack time, but I only want it based on this information." help, then my help is too cheap."

Yeluzhen's expression changed.

He already knew that the battle between himself and his uncle was inevitable, so he was already prepared.

Khitan has a vast territory and few people, and its people are tough, but this has brought about a fatal shortcoming - the scarcity of capable people.

His father admired the culture of the Central Plains, and always regarded himself as a branch of the Han Dynasty—for this reason, he was regarded as a spineless alien by his grandmother, Empress Xiao, who had always been arbitrary and iron-blooded, so he always valued his uncle more than his father.

Yeluzhen has heard his father mention countless times that the mountains and rivers within Liaodong have a magical world, and the landscape has a different style from that of Liaodong outside the pass. There are outstanding people, and there have been generations of romantic figures. Emperor Dayu once He was the most respected opponent of his father, and he won once in his hands, which became the pride of his father all his life - after all, his uncle with extraordinary military force also suffered all the defeats among his generals, so he could only return home in defeat.

However, Dayu is a piece of land that he can't reach, at least, as the second prince of Khitan, he is untouchable.

So he thought of Jianghu.

He disguised himself as the son of a merchant outside the customs, and in the name of transporting goods across the country, weaved a network all over the rivers and lakes in a few years. Big and small things, customs, people, and even gossip, all could not escape his eyes and eyes. .

But he spent too much time in places other than Khitan, so that he forgot that his own country and his closest relatives had long been inseparable.

He still remembers his shock when he received the news of his eldest brother's death in battle. He woke up from a violent Jianghu dream. Looking back, his father died of illness, his uncle was forced into the palace, and his grandmother, Queen Mother Xiao, who was always iron and blood, actually joined forces when she was critically ill. He fell in love with a person he could never have imagined in his dreams, and single-handedly devoured the peaceful Khitan maintained by his father, and the disaster of war suddenly occurred.

It was also at this time that he discovered that the hometown that he had once regarded as a prison and drag was so strange that he could not go back even if he wanted to.

In the next few years, there were constant battles and escapes, until he was betrayed by his cronies and assassinated, but he accidentally exchanged his identity with the person who came to assassinate him, and it was difficult to see his true identity from now on... until he assassinated Li Chengzuo, the emperor of Dayu, suddenly gave him new hope.

That person, if he wanted to suppress that person's actions in Khitan, he could only turn to the Emperor of Dayu for help.

The world is like a new game of chess, Yeluzhen remembers his father once said to him in the language of the Central Plains people, a person can never predict what the next step he is about to take will be like.

Yeluzhen woke up from the memory in a daze, and when he looked up, he met Li Chengzuo's eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.

The emperor of Dayu has a shockingly good appearance, with slender eyebrows and affectionate eyes, the corners of his lips are always hooked, and those affectionate peach blossom eyes are always indifferent, only when he looks at a person, there will be something strange Soaring spirits.

He followed Li Chengzuo's gaze, and the people he saw stood upright like bamboo, elegant and handsome, and talented among them.

That's right, he thought, so that's what happened... Back then, when an impersonated assassin assassinated Emperor Dayu, the opponent who picked flowers and picked leaves carelessly suddenly showed a fierce look after he shot and injured a powerless scholar Same gloomy expression.

When a person has concerns, he has a weakness; no wonder it has been heard that the emperor of Dayu didn't care about political affairs, but he wasted a lot of energy on the rivers and lakes, and kept listening, that has long been forgotten in the rivers and lakes Years passed in a hurry.

Li Chengzuo is not someone who can't escape, it turns out...it's because of this.

Yeluzhen saw Li Chengzuo's warm gaze suddenly turned as cold as ice and snow before turning back to him, but he lowered his head and smiled indifferently - this touched his injured muscles and bones, and instantly turned into a wry smile: "Emperor Dayu wants to Whatever you want, I can help you."

Li Chengzuo glanced at him carelessly: "Do you know what I want?... Oh no, don't look at me like that. It's true that I'm as good as Longyang, but I'm picky, and I don't lack warm beds."

Yeluzhen: "..."

"It's not this." Yeluzhen was speechless for a while, but still said, "But I know that Emperor Dayu wants peace." He looked in the direction of Jiang Xizhu thoughtfully, "I have no malicious intentions, but your majesty, you never Have you thought about giving the person you really care about a freedom and peace? You don’t have to be burdened by the government, you don’t have to worry about being bound by your family, and you don’t have to worry about falling into the quagmire of conspiracy if you no longer hold the power of life and death... I I once thought so, but I failed, but it does not mean that I have no possibility of success.”

Yeluzhen said in a persuasive manner: "That person's ambition has never been more than one Khitan... If you want to fight against him, the things in my hand may just be able to help you."