I wish for a long time

Lou Yanbai stared at him blankly for a while, his lips trembling slightly, and the elegant smile of the virtuous king in front of him made him a little dazed for a moment.

"Lou Xiang, please."

The palace people on the side led the way, the door of the main hall was half opened, the inside of the hall was dark, only the candles in the distance were slightly lit.

Prime Minister Lou clenched his fists, stopped at the door for a long time, and stepped in with his robe lifted.

Seeing Lou Yanbai's back disappearing at the gate of the hall, King Xian slightly raised the corners of his lips.He turned his head and looked at the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs in the middle of the field. He straightened his sleeves calmly, and even wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeves. There was an uncontrollable pain hidden in his brows and eyes.

"His Royal Highness, this incident happened suddenly, please don't be overly sad, and focus on the overall situation."

Yiyan Guan stepped forward with his hands folded, his eyes full of sadness, his words were sincere, and finally he sighed heavily.

"My lord Xu's words are wrong. Now that His Majesty's life or death is uncertain, your lord wants to choose another Mingjun. Didn't you already know the inside story?"

"Why did Master Shi say such a thing? Did Master Shi not hear what His Majesty's bodyguards said just now, or did His Excellency have resentment towards me or His Royal Highness the Wise King, so much so that he slandered him in front of all the ministers?"

"you!"

"Master Xu is worthy of being the pillar of Yushitai. He speaks clearly and eloquently, every word is clear."

Hu Bing was dressed in a crimson Shangshu official robe, and with a slight smile on his face, he took over the conversation.

The speech officer Xu Wang turned his head, looked him up and down, and said with a light smile: "It turned out to be Hu Shangshu, I wonder if there is something wrong with Xu's words?"

Hu Bing shook his head quickly, "Master Xu's words are reasonable, but we have to wait for Prime Minister Lou to come out before making a decision."

Xu Wang snorted softly, put his hands in his cuffs, and faced the closed palace door together.

The noon sun shone on the square, and also on the patch of beasts and birds on the chest of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs. The steaming heat swept everyone's cheeks, and the sweat flowed into the collar, which was louder than the cicadas on the tree. Get impatient.

When people were dizzy, the door of Rihua Palace was slowly opened, Prime Minister Lou stepped out from the darkness, his steps were frivolous, his face was ashen.

It seems that every step is on the mountain of swords and fire.

All the ministers gathered around one after another, asking in a hurry, "Mr. Lou, what's going on?"

"Master Lou?"

"Msg Lou, say something."

Lou Yanbai's complexion was gloomy, his eyelids drooped due to his age trembled slightly, and the entire white of his eyes was almost stained with blood.

All the ministers looked at it for a while, and suddenly understood something, they all gasped.

"Lou Xiang..."

"Could it be..."

King Xian sat in a wheelchair, with his head slightly lowered, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he casually straightened his sleeves.

"It's impossible! Your Majesty is just fine! Why did he die in the blink of an eye!"

Zou Zhao couldn't hold it back, he roared angrily, then he pushed away the minister in front of him, and walked quickly to the King Xian:

"And you, haven't you been paralyzed in bed and unable to speak? Why did you become so articulate when you entered and exited the hall? Could it be that you planned it in advance?"

King Xian did not change his expression, raised his eyes slightly, and looked directly at Zou Zhao, "General Zou, don't talk nonsense."

And Qiu Xinchi on the side said coldly:

"His Majesty the Xian Wang was temporarily called into the Rihua Palace by His Majesty. When His Majesty was dying, he entrusted His Highness the Xian Wang not to waste a century-old foundation, not to abolish the court program, and not to mess up the court hall. Yu broke through the blocked veins all over his body, and now he can speak and move his hands."

Qiu Xinchi glanced at the silent King Xian, and then looked at Zou Zhao, "But General Zou, seeing that His Highness Xian Wang has improved, instead of feeling grateful to God, he spoke ill and slandered me wantonly. Let me ask, what would General Zou want?" Rebellion!"

"You spitting blood!" Zou Zhao became impatient for a moment, wishing he could rush up and tear Qiu Xinchi apart, but the ministers beside him hurriedly stopped him.

"General Zou, calm down, that's a virtuous king, what you're doing is outrageous."

"Fuck his treachery, I, Zou Zhao, have only been loyal to Kang Sheng and His Majesty all my life. He is just a mere prince, what kind of way is he!"

"It's a good sentence to only be loyal to Kang Sheng, only to be loyal to His Majesty, but now that His Majesty has gone west, so General Zou wants to go with His Majesty?"

The Xian Wang slowly raised his eyes, and there was a faint chill hidden in his pair of Danfeng eyes, like the sea water in March, hot and warm on the surface, cold to the bone inside.

"General Zou, don't be impulsive, don't be emotional at this time."

Hu Bing persuaded Zou Zhao to come down, and then said to Qiu Xinchi:

"We are naturally delighted that the virtuous king recovered from his illness, but now that His Majesty's death happened suddenly and strangely. Naturally, I am sincerely convinced."

"Hu Shangshu must have doubted His Royal Highness Xian Wang's words. In this case, even if His Highness Xian Wang said to break the sky, there will always be people who don't believe it."

Hu Bing frowned when he heard the voice, he turned around, and saw Dai Mingxuan, the servant of the Ministry of Industry, standing in the crowd, with a faint smile on his face, and tilted his head towards himself.

Hu Bing's face turned cold, and a trace of surprise and bewilderment suddenly flashed across his usually shrewd eyes.

At the same time, some people echoed.

"What Dai Shilang said is very true. His Royal Highness Xian Wang has just recovered from a serious illness. He heard the bad news before he got used to it. How could he know the joints? Moreover, since His Majesty let His Highness Xian Wang enter at the end of his life, he will trust His Highness wholeheartedly. That's not the case, Concubine Qi was here just now, why don't you ask the Seventeenth Prince to go in?"

There were no waves on Qiu Xinchi's face, but her calm tone caught most of the ministers' minds.

"Yes, that makes sense."

"It makes sense."

Hu Bing watched with a frown, and the uneasiness in his heart was getting bigger and bigger. Just as he was thinking, he saw the man in a green official robe suddenly took a step forward, "According to what I said, the country cannot live without a single day." Your Majesty, there is no leader in the group of dragons now, so please ask His Highness the Wise King to preside over the overall situation so as to stabilize the court."

"Yuezhang!"

Hu Bing never thought that his old father-in-law Pei Jicai, a Hanlin scholar, also came in to stir up a stick. He quickly pulled him over and said in a low voice, "Yue Zhang, don't talk nonsense!"

"Little Hu, don't stop me. As a Bachelor of Han Lin, I must fulfill my responsibility and seek stability for Kang Sheng."

Hu Bingshi pulled him back, and whispered: "Yue Zhang, you can't get involved in this matter!"

"Master Pei's words are true, and I also think that the most important thing about this matter is not to make wild guesses here, but to stabilize the court and calm the hearts of the people."

Dai Mingxuan, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, spoke again. He glanced at the silent and hesitant ministers beside him, and said slowly: "Seniors, you need to think carefully."

King Xian raised his head, looked at Prime Minister Lou who had not spoken from the beginning to the end, and the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Minister of the Ministry of Rites and others standing beside him, and spoke slowly:

"This king is dull in aptitude. I wanted to stay in bed for the rest of my life, but today there was a sudden change. There are Kang Sheng ancestors and gods, and there are civil and military officials, Li Ming and the people. Today, this king..."

"Wait!"

A low shout interrupted the wise king's rhetoric, and Prime Minister Lou, who had been silent just now, suddenly raised his hand, and the dark green official uniform shone with a faint luster against the sunlight.

King Xian froze for a moment, looked at the figure from behind, and narrowed his eyes.

"Prime Minister Lou."

Lou Yanbai clenched his fists, turned his head slowly, saw the unsteady expression of King Xian, smiled contemptuously, and said:

"His Royal Highness, let alone the fact that His Majesty passed away is still strange, and now that the Empress Dowager is still here, it would be too childish for you to hold the throne in your hands without any grounds."

But Dai Mingxuan said: "Your Majesty had a sudden illness, and before he died, he called His Royal Highness King Xianwang to his bed, and gave him all kinds of instructions. Doesn't that already explain everything? Besides, the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics. This is a matter of the previous court..."

"I'm talking to His Royal Highness, when will it be your turn to intervene!"

Lou Yanbai shouted angrily, which successfully made all the ministers including Dai Mingxuan tremble.

Seeing the tense atmosphere in front of him, King Xian smiled slightly, looked at Lou Yanbai, and said softly:

"Lou Xiang, have you thought it through?"

Lou Yanbai looked into his eyes, and every word was sonorous and forceful:

"The country will not be the country, so what's the use of me trying to survive?"

"Lou has been an official in three dynasties, vowed to help the emperor's career, and pleaded for the people. The late emperor entrusted his ancestral foundation to the humble minister. I must not let it be stolen by others indistinctly!"

The word "stolen" can be said to be very harsh at this moment.

King Xian finally frowned, and he snorted coldly, "Someone else stole it? That's good."

He paused, took out the yellow scroll from his pocket, and presented it to everyone, "What if the imperial edict is in hand?"

After saying that, the scroll was shaken open, and the big red seal in black and white appeared in front of people instantly.

For a while, the ministers were all boiling.

"edict??"

"There is really an imperial edict?"

"Impossible!" Lou Yanbai turned pale with shock, he snatched the scroll in a calm manner, read it up and down carefully many times, his fingers trembling: "Your Majesty suddenly fell ill, why is there still an edict?"

"Where is Eunuch Fang Zhi?"

Fang Zhi was always in charge of drafting summons, but now he was nowhere to be seen, Lou Yanbai had no choice but to be suspicious.

The ministers also figured out something, and raised their loose hearts again, and echoed: "Yeah, why don't you see Director Fang?"

"I want to see Eunuch Fang!"

"I'll see who dares to make a mistake!"

Qiu Xinchi suddenly shouted loudly, followed by the sound of stomping around, two rows of soldiers holding spears emerged from both sides of the hall, and quickly surrounded them.

And the one who came first was Xiao Lanfeng.

Seeing this, Hu Bing frowned more and more.

He didn't expect that even Xiao Lanfeng would...

From this point of view, I'm afraid the little duke is in danger.

A sharp-eyed minister recognized the soldier's uniform, and his voice trembled: "Imperial city guards??"

This His Majesty the Xian Wang's attack turned out to be the Imperial Guard who belonged only to the emperor? ?

"I don't know why His Royal Highness sent the guards to surround the ministers and others. What's the reason?"

Seeing that the situation was becoming more and more out of hand, some ministers also realized that the matter was far more complicated than they thought, so they raised their hands and questioned the virtuous king.

King Xian sighed, brushed off his sleeves, leaned on the handrail, and slowly stood up under the astonished eyes of everyone.

"My colleagues have so many questions, which one should I answer first?"

After the words fell, the two rows of soldiers suddenly took a step forward, making the ministers in the middle tremble in fright.

"What are you afraid of! Isn't this obvious? It's clearly..."

"General Zou, you have to think about it before you talk."

Zou Zhao was halfway through speaking, and suddenly fell silent, only to see the strong man with beard raised his head slightly, and a long sword was stretched across his neck.

"Chu, Peng."

Zou Zhao gritted his teeth, looking at the young man with curled lips in front of him, his eyes wished to burst into flames.

"You traitor."

And Hu Bing at the side trembled all over, he only felt that there was a crack in his cognition, and he didn't know whether it was wind or water pouring in for a moment.

The ministers subconsciously took two steps back and looked at each other, all dumbfounded.

Which of the princes and ministers who attended the banquet was not searched to the armpit, but if the Minister of the Ministry of War has such a big sword, if he is not in collusion with him, where can he steal it?

Everyone suddenly understood something and shut their mouths.

"General Zou, since you returned to Beijing, you have taken over the recruitment of recruits. Now, except for a group of half-grown boys, I am afraid that there is no one who is useful." Chu Peng smiled casually, and tightened his grip sword in hand.

Zou Zhao's face sank. It is undeniable that since he returned to the imperial army, he does not have a decent army in his hands now, but Chu Peng is different. He is in the yamen of the Ministry of War and has the right to dispatch the capital guards under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War.

In this way, together with the guards of the imperial city controlled by Qiu Xinchi, and Xiao Lanfeng's garrison—

They have no chance of winning at all. It can be said that they are at the mercy of others.

Obviously, he was not the only one who thought of this aspect, even Lou Yanbai, Hu Bing, Xie She and others turned cold.

King Xian was very satisfied with the result, his eyes slowly swept across the ministers with different expressions, curled the corners of his lips, and said lightly:

"All the 'Love Qings', do you still have any objections?"

"Hehe, I haven't worn the Huanglong robe yet, so I can't wait to change my name."

Suddenly a laughing voice came out from the crowd, King Xian's complexion changed, and he hurriedly followed the place where the voice came from.

A soldier in brown armor with a spear in his hand lowered his head and sneered, standing out from a row of soldiers.

Sensing everyone's gaze, the man dropped the spear in his hand to the ground in disgust, and said in a low voice with his mouth pursed: "It's sinking me to death."

King Xian frowned and stared at the soldier closely, and all the ministers also blinked their eyes.

Qiu Xinchi drew out his sword and said in a low voice, "Who is here?"

The soldier walked towards them slowly, and took off his helmet at the same time, showing a familiar, gentle and spirited smiling face.

Ye Jiu bent his lips, looked straight at the Xian Wang who was standing still in the distance, and said with a light smile, "It's only been an hour, and the Xian Wang won't recognize me?"

The author has something to say: The lost protagonist is finally back, and I am very happy.

All the way to the end, rush duck!