True Phoenix and Virtual Phoenix

Li Zhao quietly looked at the baby who was kneeling at his feet, with some bruises faintly showing on his forehead, and felt sore in his heart.

This is his good friend and the first friend he made in the palace. He didn’t call himself Zhao’er, Huang’er or His Royal Highness the Prince. He called himself Xiao Lizi. The person who said that he was so stupid, that when he laughed, he could make the brightest sunshine lose its color in an instant.Such a baby, who can bear to make him cry in pain?

Li Zhao squatted down, picked up the baby from the ground, carefully wiped off the dust on his hands, and clenched his hands tightly.

"Don't cry, baby. Little Li is your good friend. If your baby is in trouble, of course Little Li will find a way to help you. I'll go to the imperial study to find my father, and I will tell him to let you out of Huayang Palace anyway." !"

The baby looked at the little prince gratefully, and suddenly remembered that Liu Jin was still kneeling, so he turned around to help him up, but asked Liu Jin to gently brush his hand away.

Liu Jin knelt on the ground straight, stared at the prince with almost disrespectful eyes, gritted his teeth, and paused every word.

"His Royal Highness, Ruoxuan was brought up by Nanny Yan since he was a child, and has always regarded Nanny as his mother. Now that Nanny Yan has died tragically, Ruoxuan should go to the Jinghua Palace to see Nanny for the last time even if he wants to show his filial piety. If the emperor If you insist on not being allowed, you will only speak to the emperor on behalf of Liu Jin. No matter what, Liu Jin will lead Ruoxuan out of the palace even if he resists the decree. As long as he is really ruthless, he will never regret it in this life. As he likes—”

The little prince turned around and glanced at the baby standing stiffly at the side, seeing that the baby didn't intend to refute, nodded with a pale face, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, I understand, you wait here first, I'll go then back."

It wasn't until the small figure of the prince almost disappeared in the large square outside the palace that Liu Jin stood up with trembling legs, and the baby quickly stepped forward to support the crumbling girl, blaming her in a low voice for not taking risks with him like this.

Liu Jin just shook his head, looked into the distance, and murmured softly: "He won't kill you, I know!"

Before Li Zhao even had time to change his clothes, he asked his servant to prepare a sedan chair and rushed all the way to the imperial study room. At that time, Li Shun was sitting in front of the desk, staring at the memorial unfolded on the table without blinking. , so that people can't see whether he is happy or worried at the moment.

The memorial on the table is an impeachment memorial related to Prime Minister An, presented by Sima Han Mengliang of Qinzhou. The character is Prime Minister Yasuhiko Ryoan.

In the memorial, Han Mengliang impeached Prime Minister An for eight crimes, including forming a party for private interests, shorting the national treasury, embezzlement of annual tribute, colluding with salt merchants to monopolize the salt transportation on the Yale River, and secretly conferring and buying and selling official positions. His words were sharp and indignant. If any of them If it is true, An Yanliang can be called to copy his home and send it to the army.

This book was not put together with another stack of memorials. It should be said that after the early court, the book was not originally included in the memorials presented by your lords.

It must be that Sima of Qinzhou entrusted the people in the palace to quietly put it on the emperor's desk while no one was looking. If he hadn't done so, the book would have been withheld before it reached the palace.

In this way, in a few days, Li Shun will definitely receive another memorial, and the person he impeached is undoubtedly Han Mengliang.

"Report to the emperor, His Royal Highness is seeking an audience outside the imperial study."

"Prince? Tell him that I don't want to see him today, and let him go back to Huayang Palace to study hard."

Li Shun's eyes dimmed, and he put the memorial that was almost burnt out by his stare into a hidden compartment under the desk, and waved his hand to order people to go out.

The eunuch answered yes, walked out of the imperial study with small steps backwards, and came back after a while, pointing fingers this time, as if he was cautiously stopping someone.

"Your Majesty, the Crown Prince, the Emperor just said that he doesn't want to see you today, so he asked you to go back to Huayang Palace to study earlier! Alas, alas, please don't go any further and leave a way for the little one to survive. ..."

"His Royal Highness, the crime of trespassing on the imperial study is not a small one, even if you are the prince, the emperor ordered you to say he was missing, the prince please go back!"

Several guards saw that the little prince was about to force their way in, so they had no choice but to stand up, and they spoke a little more seriously, and they didn't know if the official position of the emperor's personal bodyguard and this crumbling head would still be there after today.

"Go away, I want to see my father, who dares to stop me?! Later, my father will beat me and punish me, so I admit it, but if you don't let me go, you will never want to be in the palace again." Have a good time in China!"

Li Zhao waved away the guard's hand that was about to touch his cuff with a sullen face. It was the second time in his life that he used his identity to bully the slave. The other time before was to go out of Huayang Palace to meet the baby, and the little prince was meek and weak when he came down twice The image of him suddenly changed in the hearts of the servants.

When the guard heard the prince's threat, he was stunned at first, and then wondered if he had an auditory hallucination. He glanced at the prince in surprise, and saw the little prince staring at him with his eyes biting his lip fiercely. Only then did he realize that what he heard earlier was true real.

Let it go or not?Neither side can afford to offend...

The guards here didn't even think about it, but Eunuch Chen backed out from the imperial study room backwards, shaking his legs. Seeing the unrelenting little prince, he knelt on the ground and mourned: " Your Royal Highness, you should go back quickly! The emperor lost his temper inside, and the emperor said, said..."

Eunuch Chen relayed what Li Shun had said, but he didn't dare to say it for a long time. He was so frightened that he broke out in cold sweat and tears almost fell from his eyes.

"Oh, the prince would rather not blame the slave, who is also passing the message for the emperor - the emperor told you to get out of here, don't let him see it within three days, saying that this is an imperial decree, if you resist the decree, then follow the law together Punishment."

The middle-aged eunuch was so frightened that he was about to piss his pants when he finished delivering the message. Li Zhao stiffly squeezed his fist and stood there for a while, then suddenly pushed everyone away and walked forward, shouting at the door of the imperial study. : "Father, filial piety is the first thing to do. The mother who raised the baby has gone. How can you bear to let him not see him for the last time? The father is above, and the son is below, and the son will never be rude." Violating filial piety, but if the father is so iron-hearted, then Zhao'er is just like the father. The child minister has the same meaning as the baby, no matter whether the father agrees or not, he will definitely try his best to kill him or not. "

After Li Zhao finished speaking, the entire imperial study room became silent. Li Shun half leaned on the desk and listened to every word the little prince said, before lazily saying: "Send the prince back to Huayang Palace According to the decree, the crown prince has no dignity and is good at intruding into the imperial study, and I will punish him to confine himself in the crown prince's hall for seven days to reflect on it, and no one will disturb him, and anyone who breaks the law will be beheaded!"

"Father—"

The little prince blushed and wanted to break in abruptly. Now the guards were confident and strong. Without thinking, they put up Li Zhao's small arms and forcefully asked him out of the imperial study. go.

"I won't leave, I won't leave! Father, the baby is really pitiful. He knelt on the ground begging his son, his head is black and blue. You can show him a favor once for the sake of his filial piety!"

Li Zhao was suspended in mid-air, with his legs kicking wildly, but his stature was too small, and his strength could not even reach a chicken, so he could only see the door of the imperial study getting farther and farther away from him.

Li Shun clenched a writing brush tightly in the study, and then gradually let go of Li Zhao's voice getting softer and softer. The high-quality red sandalwood brush fell off half of it with a snap, and rolled a few times on the table in embarrassment. , like a dead body.

"The Queen Mother is here!"

A loud and high-pitched male voice suddenly came, followed by the sound of a group of people rushing in. Seeing that the prince was coming, the guards quickly let go of the crown prince they were carrying, and knelt one after another. on the ground.

"What's wrong with this imperial study room? It's been a while since I left, and I'm about to fight?"

A woman wearing a phoenix crown, dressed in colorful clothes, with huge cuffs hanging by her side, and a belt embroidered with birds and phoenixes was tied tightly around her waist, with a fat face and a smile on her mouth, but she was not angry but mighty. The hand of the eunuch beside him stepped into the middle door, and he slightly hooked the corners of his mouth and started joking.

"Grandma!"

Li Zhao's eyes lit up, and he rushed forward and threw himself into the woman's embrace, hugging him intimately and refusing to let go, the woman also lovingly touched Li Zhao's small face, then just turned her head away With a smile on his face, he glanced at the servants who were kneeling on the ground four times, and frightened a group of people, waiting for the three souls to disappear and seven souls.

When the Empress Dowager arrived, Li Shun could no longer turn a blind eye, so he strode out of the study room, bowed slightly in front of the woman, forcefully curled the corners of his lips and said respectfully: "Why did the Empress Dowager come out of Qingxin Nunnery? It's been less than two months this time, son It's still too late to go to greet her, I hope the Queen Mother will forgive me."

"I have suddenly been upset recently. Even though I meditate and pay respects to the Buddha in the nunnery every day, I still can't calm down. Thinking about it, I don't know if something happened in the palace. That's why I came out early. I didn't send someone to inform the emperor in advance. It is my recklessness. Now, how can the emperor be blamed, it’s just that he hasn’t seen the emperor for many days, so he went to the imperial study to take a look, how come he saw a large group of slaves who had eaten their ambitions and dared to sit around and bully my good grandson!”

The Empress Dowager's tone suddenly became heavier, and the warmth she had previously expressed when she spoke to Li Shun was withdrawn in an instant, and she cast a sharp glance at the servant on the ground again, and the air in the royal study suddenly turned cold.