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"Devil! Devil!" Gao Yan then pushed Li Dingzhong, who had been standing all the time, forcefully.

Li Dingzhong avoided Gao Yan.He reached out to help Tan Zhen who fell to the ground.

"Your Highness~" Tan Zhen maintained the posture of sitting on the ground, turned to look at Gao Yan, tears streaming down his face.

Gao Yan huddled under the table alone, with his arms around his legs, his body trembling uncontrollably.

Tan Zhen stood up tremblingly, keeping his eyes fixed on Gao Yan, "What should I do?" Tan Zhen suddenly looked at Li Dingzhong with red eyes again, "Tell me, what should I do?"

"Let's talk about it in the capital, maybe the imperial physician in the palace will have a solution." Li Dingzhong glanced at Gao Yan who was shrinking under the table, and frowned.

"No! Can't go to the capital!" Tan Zhen suddenly pushed Li Dingzhong away. "Can't go to the capital! Let's go back to Pingyang! Pingyang also has an imperial doctor!" Tan Zhen suddenly knelt down in front of Li Dingzhong, "General Li, please!" Tan Zhen kowtowed to Li Dingzhong twice, and then died With tears in his eyes, he said, "His Royal Highness is a dead end when he arrives in the capital! The Emperor will not let His Highness go! Please let His Highness go back to Pingyang!"

Seeing Tan Zhen like this, Li Dingzhong felt a little touched in his heart, "General Tan, get up first and then talk." He walked forward to support Tan Zhen.

Tanzhen held Li Dingzhong's arm heavily with both hands, and blood dripped from the injured hand, "I beg you to let your highness go back to Pingyang! Tanzhen is willing to leave his life to you, and let you take it back to the emperor to return to life!" "Speaking, Tan Zhen suddenly pulled out the sword that Li Dingzhong was wearing, and wiped it at his neck.

Li Dingzhong was so frightened that he raised his foot in a panic and kicked away Tan Zhen's sword-holding hand.With a bang, the sword fell to the ground, and Tan Zhen fell beside the sword, his eyes were gray.

"At this point, even if the king of Pingyang returns to Pingyang, I'm afraid there will be more disasters than good luck. If the emperor wants someone to die in the third watch, who dares to keep him until the fifth watch? You can only ask for more blessings! Don't do anything stupid! Li Dingzhong walked to Tan Zhen, picked up the sword on the ground and put it back into the scabbard, saw Tan Zhen's bleeding hand, turned around and shouted outside the door, "Come here! Bandage General Tan's hand hurt!"

Tan Zhen climbed up from the ground and walked to Gao Yan's side, "Your Highness~" He yelled in tears and stretched out his hand to pull Gao Yan, Gao Yan shrank back into the table again, raised his hand and patted Tan Zhen's hand that was stretched out to pull him , "Devil! Get out!"

"Looking at the state of King Pingyang, it is estimated that it will not get better in a while." Li Dingzhong looked at Tan Zhendao, and said after a while: "We will leave for the capital in an hour!" After speaking, he turned and walked out the door.Tan Zhen stared blankly at Li Dingzhong's leaving back, feeling sad in his heart.

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On the one hand, Li Dingzhong's team hurried to the capital, and on the other hand, they sent people to send Gao Yan's condition to the capital.

When Gao Xian saw the letter sent by Li Dingzhong, he was very puzzled by Gao Yan's sudden illness. He stared at the letter with a look of disbelief.

After traveling for three consecutive days, Li Dingzhong's army finally reached twenty miles outside the capital.According to the court regulations, the army is not allowed to enter within [-] miles of the capital, so Li Dingzhong ordered the army to station here, and went to the capital alone to return to his command.

Gao Xian met Li Dingzhong in person alone in the imperial study, and asked about the situation of the road, Li Dingzhong answered each one without any ambiguity.There is only one thing, I don't know if it is because of his ruthless redemption, or because he couldn't bear to see Tan Zhen's appearance, even Li Dingzhong himself is not sure, whether he suddenly forgot, or he deliberately concealed from the emperor that Li Zheng fled back to Pingyang fact.Fortunately, the emperor did not mention it.

Gao Xian patted Li Dingzhong's shoulder in satisfaction and said, "As long as General Li remains loyal, the imperial court still needs people like General Li."

"Your Majesty, before leaving the southwest, the less than [-] troops who took King Pingyang away from Pingyang ordered to continue to stay in the southwest. Take them back, and now they are all staying at a place twenty miles outside the capital, waiting for the emperor's instructions."

Gao Xian thought for a moment in his heart, and then he couldn't help showing a satisfied smile, "You did a good job!"

"Give over the [-] Dingyuan iron cavalry and the soldiers from the capital twenty miles away to Master Huang of the Ministry of War. He will handle it himself."

Just as Gao Xian finished speaking, Li Dingzhong suddenly knelt down and said, "Is there anything else you want to ask?"

"Go ahead."

"The last general has been fighting in the north all year round and has fought against the Tatars for many years. He has been staying in the southwest for a while. To be honest, the terrain in the southwest is not suitable for cavalry combat. When the last general fights with the Nanman, he always binds his hands and feet. Now the Nanman has been eliminated. , I would like to ask the emperor to reward me with an oracle, allowing me to continue to go to the northwest to fight against the Tatars." Li Dingzhong finished speaking boldly, then let out a long sigh of relief, stiffened his body, and waited for the emperor's final decision.

Generally speaking, Gao Xian is very satisfied with Li Dingzhong's performance along the way. According to his previous promise to Li Dingzhong, he pardoned Li Dingzhong's crime of privately transferring troops.Li Dingzhong left the army that Gao Yan took to the southwest to stay in the southwest. This was to use Gao Yan's soldiers to help him guard the country. At the same time, considering that Gao Yan was detained in the capital, there might be a situation in Pingyang. Gao Xian thought why he should not do this favor Woolen cloth?

"I agree."

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

After Li Dingzhong took the order to thank him, he galloped towards Dingyuan overnight.

After Li Dingzhong left, the imperial study room suddenly became silent. Gao Xian sat alone on the high dragon couch, looking at the deep twilight outside the door, and the nerves that had been tense in his heart felt abnormally relaxed at this moment.

After a long time, Gao Xian said solemnly to the surroundings: "Where is Gao Yan now?"

"Your Majesty, you don't remember. Just now when General Li asked you how to deal with King Pingyang, you said you should hand it over to Jin Yiwei first."

"Oh." Gao Xian dragged out the ending, "Is that what I said?"

"That's not it."

"Jin Yiwei's prison is not a place for people to stay." Gao Xian had a sly smile on his face, "Call for Imperial Physician Hu, let's go and see King Pingyang."

"The slave obeys."

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A group of people walked through the narrow, long and deep corridor, "Your Majesty, in front of you is the cell where King Pingyang is being held. Since I didn't get your instructions, I haven't tortured King Pingyang yet, so I just locked him up first." Point to one of the cells.

The closer to the cell, the more damp and stench Gao Xian could feel coming towards his face, he couldn't help raising his hand to pinch his nose, Gao Xian slowed down, and walked slowly towards the cell where Gao Yan was being held.

In the cell, Gao Yan was seen curled up on the hay, with his hair scattered in front of him. He couldn't see his expression, and he didn't know what he was doing.Gao Xian stared at Gao Yan for a long time, and saw that he just kept the posture just now, without moving.Feeling puzzled, he couldn't help but ask the person next to him, "What is he doing lying on the ground?"

The governor of Jinyiwei lowered his head and said with an embarrassed smile, "I don't know about the lowly position." Then he stepped forward and shouted loudly into the cell, "You don't kneel down when you see the emperor!"

Gao Yan's body trembled suddenly after hearing this sentence, then he scrambled on the ground for a while, then raised his head abruptly, and grinned loudly at Gao Xian, his hair covering his face Other organs only showed a stern smile.

That smile was as frightening as an evil devil crying in hell, Gao Xian was startled, and took two steps back.

At this time, Gao Yan opened his mouth wide, and kept grabbing handfuls of straws on the ground with both hands and stuffing them into his mouth. He giggled and said, "It's delicious." The moisture and dirt, mixed with the sour smell around, made Gao Xian feel sick for a while, so he hurriedly said to the doctor Hu next to him: "Doctor Hu, go inside and show him." After saying that, he stepped back quickly to ten steps away.

Jin Yiwei on the side hurriedly opened the door, Doctor Hu walked in carrying the medicine box, and then Jin Yiwei locked the door of the cell again outside.Imperial Physician Hu turned around and glanced at Gao Xian in the distance, then looked back to see Gao Yan on the ground with a distressed face, his brows were deeply frowned.

Imperial Physician Hu stretched out his hand to feel Gao Yan's pulse, but Gao Yan shrank back in fear, until he shrank into the innermost corner of the cell. Imperial Physician Hu approached step by step, and when he reached Gao Yan's side, he suddenly grasped Gao Yan's pulse. Yan struggled for a while, humming and chirping loudly in his mouth. Doctor Hu made a vigorous hand, and whispered in his mouth, "Your Highness! It's me!"

Hearing the familiar voice, Gao Yan instantly relaxed his vigilance and stopped struggling.

Physician Hu's voice came from the cell, "His Royal Highness King Pingyang! Don't move! Let the officer give you a pulse~" Then he whispered, "Your Highness, the emperor is watching outside."

When Gao Yan heard Doctor Hu say this, his calm emotions suddenly became agitated again, he waved his arms and babbled non-stop.

"Is there anything I need to convey?" Imperial Physician Hu whispered.

"Tell Ge Cheng in Pingyang, don't mess around, and wait for news from me!" Gao Yan pushed Imperial Physician Hu away as he spoke, and raised his head while beating his chest with his hands and yelled loudly!

Imperial Physician Hu was staggered and fell into the cell by Gao Yan's push, Gao Xian saw this and hurriedly asked Jin Yiwei to open the door to let Imperial Physician Hu out.

Physician Hu got up tremblingly and walked out of the cell, then knelt down to Gao Xian and said, "King Pingyang's brain has not been severely injured, and now he is in a state of madness. No one knows him. I am afraid that this disease is a low-level job, and there is nothing he can do about it."

After Gao Xian listened to Doctor Hu's report, he looked at the crazy Gao Yan in the cell, flicked his sleeves, and said, "Let's go back."

Imperial Physician Hu walked out of the prison following Gao Xian, Gao Yan watched their backs going away, his thick hair covered his face, and there was a chilling smile on his face.

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King Pingyang was at the end of his strength, on the way back Gao Xian suddenly said to the governor of Jin Yiwei: "Tell Tan Yu to come back."

"Humble job, let's do it."

The author has something to say: Ah... In the next chapter, the fourth little brother will appear