Chang Zuihou

Yang En Palace is the place where Li Xiao lived when he was the prince. Since he was demoted as Marquis of Ge Zi, he has not returned for ten years.

Going back now, things are not people.

Li Xiao had finished approving the memorial, and was half-lying on the bed to rest with her eyes closed.

He reminisces about half his life, how many joys and sorrows, his face is also slightly congealed in the dream.

Xiao Lian, who had taken good care of Li Xiao for two years in Yan Prison Mansion, has now been named a princess by him.

This girl was the only one who gave him warmth when he was in the most pain, and Li Xiao didn't like to make himself owe others.

So now, he wants to repay her and let her reach the sky in one step, while what he owed Ye Piao back then was paid off in the shadow of the whip.

Xiao Lian was shocked when she first heard the news. She was guilty of a crime, and her appearance was mediocre. How could she be able to climb up to this handsome and jade-like regent?

However, when Li Xiao sent someone to bring her into the palace, she finally accepted the fact slowly.

After Xiao Lian entered the palace, she did not change her diligent, thrifty and humble style in the strict prison, she still took good care of Li Xiao's daily necessities, she did not get carried away like a princess at all.

Tonight, she cooked some white fungus soup herself to moisten Li Xiao's lungs. She knew that Li Xiao's lungs were not good, and she would cough when she was cold. In the past, she used her monthly money to save money I bought second-class white fungus for Li Xiaobao soup to moisten the lungs.

Xiao Lian smiled and came to Li Xiao's study with the maid carrying the soup, only to find that he had fallen asleep on the soft couch.

"My lord..." Xiao Lian called him softly, seeing that he was still awake, she thought he must be tired, so she immediately took the blanket from the couch and covered him with distress.

Li Xiao is dreaming.

He seems to have returned to the top of Lingyun Peak, the cold wind blows between the cliffs, and the vast sky and earth make him feel deeply lonely.

Suddenly he heard a burst of laughter behind him, and hurriedly turned his head to look.

"Emperor Brother." Su Wang Xiao Yuan's tall and straight figure came out from behind the tree, looking at him and smiling.

"Brother Emperor!"

Li Xiao was startled, but turned to joy, thinking that the two of his brothers grew up together in the deep palace. Although they each had their own selfish intentions, they ultimately had a close bond of flesh and blood.

Xiao Yuan shook his head at him, and disappeared before he stepped forward.

"Master Hou..."

Hearing this voice, Li Xiao suddenly became angry. He turned his head and looked anxiously, and he really saw the serious Fang Hongfei.

The man still pretended to be loyal and stood with his hands down, and the eyes he was looking at were still hidden as always.

"You slave." Li Xiao sneered, and was about to speak, when Fang Hongfei in front of him suddenly disappeared like Xiao Yuan.

The surroundings were once again vast and lonely.

Li Xiao looked around in a daze, and there was no one around. The pain and loneliness that penetrated into the bone marrow hit him at the same time, making him tremble all over and unable to control himself.

"Li Xiao."

At this time, a peaceful voice sounded from a corner, Li Xiao was a little stunned, turned around and saw Ye Piao, who was dressed in white, had walked over lightly.

Li Xiao stared at him walking towards her in a daze, her heart was full of excitement, and she had a lot of words, but she couldn't utter a single word.

He was even afraid that if he called him, he would disappear quietly.

Ye Piao walked over slowly, with a smile on his face, this smile was just like the day he and Li Xiao met in Yunlai Restaurant, he was bold and cheerful.

Just when the white clothes and himself were about to walk in front of him, Li Xiao finally reached out and grabbed Ye Piao.

He felt that he had caught a piece of the other party's skirt, but the person in front of him still gradually disappeared like a phantom.

Li Xiao was in a hurry, but couldn't move, so he could only call his name loudly.

But in the end, that shadow completely disappeared in the darkness, never to be seen again.

"Ye Piao, don't go!"

Li Xiao yelled in a startled dream, half of her body leaned over, and fell off the soft couch.

Xiao Lian, who was waiting and taking care of him, was taken aback and hurried over to support him.

"My lord, my lord, what's wrong with you?"

Li Xiao sat back on the couch in embarrassment, his face pale, pained and dazed.He glanced at the person who was supporting him in a dazed manner, and only then remembered that it was just a dream.

"It's okay." Li Xiao shook her head, her chest hurt and she coughed.

Xiao Lian hastily brought over the white fungus soup warmed on the stove for Li Xiao to drink.

Li Xiao drank the sweet and delicious soup silently, and the disturbing dream just now slowly appeared before his eyes again.

With a cold look in his eyes, Li Xiao put down the soup bowl, turned his head and smiled and told Xiao Lian to go back to the room to rest first, he still has something important to do.

It's time to punish Fang Hongfei.The torture and humiliation he has suffered in these years must be repaid tenfold.

Chang Zuihou was not a tolerant person, Li Xiao smiled coldly, covered his mouth and coughed softly.

When Fang Hongfei was led by several eunuchs to the study of Yangen Palace, his expression was calm, without any embarrassment.

Even when he saw Li Xiao, who was already the regent, he just smiled as usual and bowed.

"This subordinate has seen Lord Hou."

Li Xiao untied the hairpin crown, and sat on the soft couch with loose hair, picking up a few strands of silver thread with her fingertips for a closer look.

"Director Fang, taking care of you for the past two years has actually given me a lot of gray hair."

"Subordinates who don't take good care of them deserve death." Fang Hongfei smiled with a trace of pain in his eyes.

Li Xiao raised her head fiercely, glanced coldly at his calm face, and admired his calmness from the bottom of her heart.

Suddenly he laughed, got down from the couch, brushed his long hair, and limped towards Fang Hongfei.

"You and I grew up together. Although there is a distinction between master and servant in name, I still treat you as a brother and sister in my heart. I trust Fang so much in charge of you, but what have you done to this king? Hurt me and humiliate me, even ..."

He lowered his head slightly, carefully looked at Fang Hongfei's calm face, trying to find some other expressions on it.

Fang Hongfei's heart shook when he heard it, and then he frowned, and said with a smile, "Everything Hongfei does is just asking for my place in Lord Hou's heart."

"Is it okay to hate you?"

"Yes, it is what Hongfei wanted to make Master Hou hate him to the bone."

"Hahahaha... I really didn't expect you to be such a crazy person. Well, I won't kill you for the sake of saving me in the Severe Prison Palace that day."

Li Xiao walked behind Fang Hongfei, looked coldly at the surrounding eunuchs, and slowly outlined an evil smile on the corner of his mouth.

He still can't forget the pain and unwillingness that Fang Hongfei felt when Fang Hongfei raped him that day. Every time he thinks about it, he can't wait to tear him to pieces.

"Come here, pass on my order. From today onwards, Fang Hongfei, the deacon of the Severe Prison Mansion, will be the head of Yangen Palace, and all the salary will remain the same."

Yang En Palace is one of many palaces, and the head of the palace in the imperial city must be a eunuch.

After listening to Li Xiao's slightly smiling words, Fang Hongfei felt a chill all over his body, and only then did he realize how vicious and terrifying his master was.

This move really makes life worse than death.

"Don't you take Manager Fang to cleanse yourself?"

Li Xiao pointed at Fang Hongfei who was stunned on the spot and laughed, and several eunuchs immediately came over to hold Fang Hongfei back.

When Fang Hongfei was placed under house arrest, his internal energy had already been sealed. Now, there is no way to escape.

He suddenly looked back at Li Xiao who was laughing endlessly, broke away from the hands of several eunuchs, and slowly knelt down towards Li Xiao.

"This subordinate knows that he has committed a serious crime and owes Lord Hou, but I hope that Lord Hou will leave a whole body of his subordinate for the sake of serving his subordinates so hard for many years."

Li Xiao stopped laughing, raised his eyebrows in disdain, and said, "Okay, when you die in the future, your descendant, King Gen, will ask someone to bury you together."

Fang Hongfei remained silent, but kowtowed respectfully to Li Xiao, and said with a low laugh, "Master Hou, take good care of yourself."

Li Xiaoju looked down at him with a stern expression, unmoved, but his fingers were clenched tightly.

After Fang Hongfei finished speaking, the eunuchs didn't dare to be negligent, and hurried to help him, but they found abnormalities as soon as they touched his body.

"My lord...he..." The eunuch at the head saw that Fang Hongfei was kneeling, and lowered his head to look, only to see that his eyes were slightly open, black blood flowed from the corners of his eyes, his mouth, his nose, and he had already taken poison and died.

Li Xiao actually knew Yi Fang Hongfei's temperament, and if he really eunuched him, he would definitely not be able to survive, but he didn't expect that the other party would come to see him with the determination to die, and he had already hidden the poison in his mouth.

In an instant, all kinds of grievances and grievances are like light smoke.

Li Xiao remembered that he and Fang Hongfei grew up together, learned to read, and practiced martial arts together. Because of the disparity in status, although he regarded him as a confidant, and even had a faint brotherhood, he still couldn't let go of it. Treat him well.

If only I could have treated him better...

Even though he had betrayed himself, but now he was forcing him to die, so there was no need to mention any grievances.

Li Xiao sighed softly, stretched out his hand to close Fang Hongfei's eyes, and ordered: "Bury him generously, and give him the posthumous posthumous title of Marquis Zhongshun."

After Fang Hongfei's death, Li Xiao didn't feel as happy as he had imagined, but felt that the loneliness in his bones began to spread again.

The man he hated the most was dead, and his life was a little more empty.

He returned to the bedroom by himself leaning on the wall, and saw that the luxurious red sandalwood bed was empty and covered with a bright brocade quilt, which was so red that it was desolate.

Li Xiao sat on the quilt, staring at the red candles in the room in a daze, after a while he only felt his lungs tighten, and couldn't help coughing.

There was a fishy sweetness in the throat, and Li Xiao opened his mouth to vomit, it was indeed a puddle of blood.

Seeing the same glaring bloodstain, he turned his head away in annoyance, didn't have the luck to adjust his breath, and sat still full of thoughts.

He thought of Ye Piao's name, the handsome appearance of the other party, and the love and hatred between Ye Piao and himself.

How can everything be easily forgotten, so easily?

"Come on!"

The eunuch listening outside heard Li Xiao's summons, and rushed in hastily.

"What are your orders from the lord?"

Li Xiao stared at the pool of blood on the ground with gloomy eyes, and said coldly, "The king has ordered that Ye Piao is wanted across the country from now on, and he must be captured alive."

The eunuch was stunned. He also knew Ye Piao's reputation in the world. He didn't know how this knight-errant who traveled the world offended the current King Regent, so he asked cautiously, "What crime?"

"What crime?! Any crime! In short, this king wants him to experience the pain of prison!"

Li Xiao was so outraged by the question, he grabbed the jade pillow and smashed it to the ground.

He had lived so hard in the Severe Prison Mansion these years, but Ye Piao didn't care about him, which really made him feel hurt and resentful just thinking about it.

What's more, Ye Piao was able to break his hamstring so cruelly back then, completely disregarding how she tried to please him the night before, and how the two of them were so lingering.

Now, after he finished taking care of Fang Hongfei who had failed him, he should also take care of Ye Piao.

Otherwise, how could he be worthy of his broken leg?

After the eunuch took the order to resign, Li Xiao lay back on the bed exhausted.

He could not sleep looking up at the delicately carved bed top and rows of colorful tassels.

Life is ups and downs, and it is completely dead.

Li Xiao laughed hoarsely, her indifferent eyes contained feelings that she didn't even realize.

How much pain, how crazy, how much resentment.

"Ye Piao, I said that I don't need you to accompany me for the rest of my life..."

He groped for the cold brocade quilt beside him, not realizing how lonely his equally cold fingertips were.

The moment Ye Piao saw the arrest warrant, she couldn't believe it was an order from Li Xiao.

He hugged his missing left arm in some pain, his eyes wandered, and he read and reread the words on it carefully.

This seems to be an official document, but after that, Chang Zuihou has hidden much resentment towards himself.

Is he really desperate?He punished himself for such a great crime as treason.

Ye Piao smiled bitterly, the two years of depression in her heart began to gradually dissipate for some reason, and she finally felt relieved.

Since Li Xiao was already in the right position, but he always offended him, he was well known for how to take revenge, and he was willing to bear his anger.

In the past two years, Li Xiao must have had a hard time.

It was time for him to let go of his resentment.

I don't need you to accompany me all my life!

Ye Piao sighed self-deprecatingly as the unfeeling words of the past rang in his ears, squeezed into the crowd and said to the officers and soldiers, "I am Ye Piao."

The officials of Luo Town did not expect that Ye Piao, the traitor who was wanted by the king regent, would end up in such a small town, let alone such a well-known gangster would surrender himself without any resistance.

They were eager to get promoted, so they hurriedly sent people to escort Ye Piao to Beijing overnight.

Cages, shackles, cursing and even beatings by the people along the way, this is all that the traitors "enjoy".

Ye Piao stood in the cage, only thinking about whether he would have a chance to see Li Xiao again.

The pain that Li Xiao suffered two years ago has already made him empathize with him at this moment.

And in the past two years, he has also figured it out. The so-called family, country, and heroism are all vain. What he is thinking about is not the name of a hero after all, but the smiling face of that person.

"Master Hou, that Ye Piao actually cast himself into a trap, and is now being escorted to the capital."

The eunuch of Yang En Palace immediately reported to Li Xiao after getting the news that Ye Piao had been arrested without any delay.

These days, apart from caring about Sha Mu's war, Li Xiao is most concerned about Ye Piao's affairs.

Li Xiao raised her eyebrows and was reviewing the memorial, when she heard this, the pen in her hand trembled.

He raised his head slowly, looking at the eunuch coldly.

"Who told you to escort him to the capital? Listen, since he has been arrested, he will be dispatched to White Wolf Mountain immediately, and will never be pardoned!"

White Wolf Mountain is an extremely cold place in the north of Tianchao, where the snow does not melt all year round, and it is also a place where criminals are forced to marry.

After Li Xiao finished speaking, she dismissed all the people around her, sat there for a while, and finally slowly put down the pen in her hand.

The reason why he wants Ye Piao all over the country is nothing more than to make him regret what he did in the past, and he wants to take the opportunity to take revenge, so that this so-called chivalrous person will experience the same suffering of ruin as he did back then.

Of course, he also wanted to meet this ruthless lover in the past.

But... suddenly, he didn't want to see Ye Piao anymore.

It is better not to meet each other than to meet each other.

Yes, since we are ruthless, why bother to meet each other.

Li Xiao frowned tiredly, and the corners of his mouth lightly lifted into a wry smile.

If Ye Piao had more friendship with him, he would not be so determined to take revenge.

It's a pity that he has been tortured in the strict prison for the past two years, but he can no longer expect the slightest concern from that person, how can he be reconciled?

As Fang Hongfei said, if he really had feelings for him, how could he ignore him?

Now seeing that he has gained power, he pretends to be a posture, throwing himself into the trap, and he can no longer make his heart flutter.

Forget it, let him go to White Wolf Mountain. Seeing that he ignored it, he would naturally run away.Everything is left to fate.

Li Xiao's eyes dimmed, and he no longer thought about the entanglement with Ye Piao who had been with him, but couldn't help but let out a soft sigh.

On the way, the prison car changed its course and stopped heading for the capital.

When Ye Piao heard the herald tell Li Xiao's words to the officials escorting him, great loss and inexplicable pain soon surrounded him.

He looked at the surrounding scenery aimlessly, and when the prison car started to drive slowly again, his eyes fell on the direction to the capital.

He could imagine how proudly Chang Zuihou would stand above the court after regaining power, accepting everyone's congratulations, and even he could clearly see the indifference and alienation in the other party's eyes.

Ye Piao slowly caressed the rough wooden pillars of the prison cage, as long as he squeezed with enough internal strength, the wooden pillars would instantly turn into sawdust.

Although I only have one arm, it is not difficult to escape from here.

But even if he escapes from this cage, there is another cage waiting for him.

Ye Piao smiled slightly, and slowly sat down in the cage. He closed his eyes, touched his empty left arm, and laughed hoarsely.

"My lord, Shamu was defeated in the Battle of Blacktail Valley. Our army has captured Shamu's Khan King Xiao, and Shamu surrendered!"

The lieutenant general who came back without sleep for three consecutive days and three nights to report the military situation was full of excitement and knelt in the Hongde Hall of Yang En Palace, and was reporting to Li Xiao in detail the battle ahead in the past few days.

Xiao Lian was on the side massaging Li Xiao's right foot that was sore from the cold due to an old injury. When she heard the news of China's victory, she couldn't help showing joy and glanced at Li Xiao.

Li Xiao was lying on the couch in a thick sable fur, reviewing the memorial in his hand, coughing lightly from time to time, his eyes were indifferent, as if he didn't care much about the news of the victory.

After the deputy general reported everything to Li Xiao, he looked up at the powerful regent strangely, why the other party didn't respond.

"It's fine if you win. You're tired too, so go down and rest, the king will make his own decision in court tomorrow."

After a while, Li Xiao sat up, put down the scroll in his hand, smiled softly, and took Xiao Lian's slender hands that were massaging her, "Go, accompany me to comfort the late emperor."

The solemn and solemn Taimiao is always accompanied by a bit of desertedness.

Li Xiao stood in front of the tablets of the successive kings of the Xiao family, his eyes wandered, and finally he slowly landed on the tablets of Xiao Yuan and his son.

"Emperor brother, emperor nephew, in the world of the Xiao family, those who are able will rule in the end. Now that Shamu has leveled off, your father and son can rest in peace."

Li Xiao raised her head and smiled, finally venting her grief and anger well today.

He seized the throne twice, lost to the father and son successively, and was even imprisoned and tortured because of it, how could he be reconciled so easily?

Xiao Lian was ordered by Li Xiao to wait outside, so she had to stand far under the tree, looking at Li Xiao who was standing inside, not daring to make a sound.

She saw that the man who had become her husband first looked up to the sky and smiled, then bowed his head in silence, his slightly tired back was even more lonely and distressing.

When she saw Li Xiao walking out slowly, she immediately stepped forward to support him.

"My lord..."

She faintly knew that Li Xiao had something on her mind to hide from her, because after leaving the prison, she saw him smile less often.

Seeing Xiao Lian's worried face, Li Xiao smiled and held her hand tightly, "Now that the Shamu has fallen, all the late emperors of my Xiao family can rest in peace."

Unknowingly, it was late autumn again.

The Taimiao was built at the top of the imperial city, so the wind was stronger.

Xiao Lian's hand was held warmly by Li Xiao, and she was very satisfied in her heart.

Suddenly, she felt her husband's footsteps slow down, and when she turned her head, Li Xiao was staring at the fallen leaves under the tree in a daze.

Autumn leaves always fall with the wind, which is not surprising, so Xiaolian wondered what he was looking at.

"My lord, what are you looking at?" She asked with a smile, and suddenly found that Li Xiao's profile showed a bit of loneliness.

Li Xiao turned her head slowly, and a gust of wind blew past, blowing up close to the ground, disturbing the fallen leaves all over the place.

Looking at the fallen leaves floating in the air, he felt a stabbing pain in front of his eyes, and a sharper pain in his lungs, but he couldn't help laughing.

"I didn't see anything, let's go, go back."

That night, Li Xiao got very drunk in her bedroom.

Some court ladies and eunuchs even said that they saw the regent running barefoot in the empty palace after drunk, shouting a person's name almost frantically, obviously coughing up blood, but kept drinking, even the princess couldn't persuade him not to stop.