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For a moment, Zhang Jingche almost thought he saw a ghost.

Before he recovered from his trance, Liu Yanzhao had already gritted his teeth and said, "Don't think that the Queen Mother will cover it up for you, this matter is over... What is your relationship with Concubine Shu!"

Zhang Jingche was weak after his illness, and couldn't break free for a while. He smelled the strong smell of alcohol on the new emperor's body, and couldn't help frowning: "I made it clear last night that Concubine Shu and I have fellowship and grew up together since childhood." , so help me a little bit..."

Liu Yanzhao sneered and said, "Don't fool me! If it's just for the friendship of fellow countrymen... you will give her a jade pendant on the day she marries into the East Palace? She will work hard to sew new boots for your birthday? Zhang Minghuang, you Treat me like a fool!"

He gritted his teeth: "I treat you like this, you just don't appreciate it... Turn around and hook up with my concubine again, you can do it!"

Zhang Jingche frowned slightly, he didn't know where to find strength, he flicked his fingers lightly, Liu Yanzhao felt a numbness in his elbow, and let go of his hand involuntarily, Zhang Jingche took the opportunity to push him away, broke free quickly, and retreated to the table in a few steps side.

"Your Majesty, please be careful!" He said coldly, "Concubine Shu has a deep love for you, but you are so suspicious of her intentions, isn't it chilling?"

Liu Yanzhao may not know that someone framed what happened last night. If Zhang Jingche was willing to kneel down and cry and express his feelings like a harem woman, he might be able to listen.But the person surnamed Zhang was so arrogant, he didn't even bother to argue with a few words, and he was wholeheartedly trying to excuse Concubine Shu, Liu Yanzhao's anger seemed to be poured with boiling oil, and all his brains rushed to the sky.

"I treat you like this," he thought almost indignantly, "but you only think about others... This other person is still my concubine!"

For a while, Liu Yanzhao thought a lot. He thought that he had never understood Zhang Jingche, why he supported him with all his heart, as if his heart was on him, and at the same time kept him at a respectful distance. Two, he avoids them for fear of being too late.

Now there is finally an answer.

This person spared no effort to fend off hidden arrows with all his loyalty and wisdom, not for Liu Yanzhao at all, but for the woman who was married into the palace by the new emperor!Liu Yanzhao thought that he had won a caring person, thought that he was precious and cared for in every possible way, but in the end it was a wishful joke, and he actually fed the dog with sincerity!

How can this keep him from being sad and angry?

"You, you just trample on my feelings for you like this," Liu Yanzhao's chest heaved violently, and hideous veins protruded from his forehead, "You... tell me, didn't you think about it a long time ago, when I am firmly seated on the throne, Are you going to fly away?"

Zhang Jingche was slightly taken aback, he thought he hid his thoughts well, and no one except Yang Fan could see them, but he didn't want to be told by the new emperor.

Liu Yanzhao looked at him, why didn't he understand?At that moment, he laughed miserably: "I was so angry last night that I didn't remember it for a while... Later, when I thought about it carefully, you have always been impeccable in your actions. Even if you really colluded with Concubine Shu, why did you use such a crude and simple method to catch people's eyes?" You just saw the flaws? From this, it can be seen that someone must have framed the two of you in this matter, the letter was forged by someone else imitating your handwriting, and even Concubine Shu's Changchun Palace may have been tampered with..."

Zhang Jingche didn't expect Liu Yanzhao to figure out the whole story so quickly. He didn't know what to say for a moment, so he could only say in a wooden voice, "Your Majesty is wise..."

Before the words finished, Liu Yanzhao suddenly stepped forward, swept the tea set on the table with his hand, and pressed him on the table: "But why didn't you argue last night? Someone framed you for having an affair with a concubine, and you responded without saying a word... ...Do you know what kind of crime is the crime of secretly colluding with the harem? It can range from exile to the army, or from ransacking your home and beheading you! You don’t say anything, it’s because you don’t trust me, and you think it’s useless to say it, or you’ve already saved yourself and left. Thinking of retreating, wanting to take the opportunity to stay away from the capital?"

Zhang Jingche was speechless, and could only say in a shy voice, "Your Majesty...you misunderstood, I didn't mean that."

Liu Yanzhao's eyes were red, and he sneered: "I don't mean that? Then you let others frame you... I just questioned you, but instead of defending yourself, you took the blame on yourself and tried every means to excuse Concubine Shu ...you love my concubine so much!"

Zhang Jingche was completely impatient.

He knew that Empress Wu would not tell Liu Yanzhao Zhang Jingsu's real identity. If she did, the new emperor would be charged with the crime of "taking hostages and threatening revenge". The queen can only act without telling him.

He also knew that now that Zhang Jingsu was married into the East Palace, even if he revealed all the inside information, it would not help the matter, but would actually annoy Empress Wu, causing Zhang Jingsu to lose this protection, and it would be even more difficult for Zhang Jingsu to move forward in the palace.

After weighing again and again, Zhang Jingche still swallowed the words that came to his lips, and said lightly: "I really don't have an affair with Concubine Shu, it doesn't matter how much Your Majesty suspects me, please also consider that Concubine Shu is pregnant with dragon descendants. Don't wrong her."

It was fine if he didn't say this, but when he finished speaking, Liu Yanzhao's face was already pale, listening to him saying "Ms. Concubine Shu", as if she was the most weak and innocent person in the world, and the royal family is like a dragon's pond and a tiger's den. Once you enter, you can't get out. His face looks like he wants to eat people.

"Okay...very good!" Liu Yanzhao gritted his teeth, "You really don't want to have anything to do with the royal family? I... I just don't want to do what you want!"

He was so angry that he actually pulled Zhang Jingche's collar. While struggling, he heard the sudden sound of cloth being torn, but the collar was torn apart.Zhang Jingche's eyes were slightly cold, he reached out to pick up a writing brush from the desk, and tapped Liu Yanzhao's shoulder well, this time the force was just right, half of Liu Yanzhao's arm went numb immediately, he was pushed by Zhang Jingche again, and he retreated involuntarily open.

Liu Yanzhao was stunned for a moment, and then entangled him relentlessly, Zhang Jingche turned sideways to avoid him, but he grabbed the hem of his clothes.

"Under the whole world, could it be Wang Tu, where do you want to hide?" Liu Yanzhao stared at Zhang Jingche almost calmly, "You are a person who died once, and you have a life lawsuit on your back. Once you are stabbed, there will be no more you in the world." Shelter!"

Zhang Jingche was dragged by the corner of his clothes, his patience was gradually exhausted, and anger suddenly flashed in his eyes: "Then what does Your Majesty want?"

Liu Yanzhao's face was as white as paper, but his eyes were red: "No matter how unwilling you are, since you have entered Jinyiwei, you are a member of the Tian family! From now on, you can do whatever I want you to do, otherwise..."

At that moment, Zhang Jingche heard a "buzz" in his head, as if something broke.

He thought: Fuck you, hide your strength and bide your time!I quit!

Zhang Jingche picked up a tea bowl and knocked it on the corner of the case, only to hear a crisp sound, the tea bowl was smashed to pieces, and porcelain flakes flew like snowflakes.Liu Yanzhao was slightly taken aback, and involuntarily loosened his grip. Zhang Jingche caught the fragment with his fingertips, and stroked the corner of the clothes, only to hear the sound of silk being torn, and half of the fabric was torn open.

Liu Yanzhao was caught off guard, staggered back three steps, hit the bed rail with his back, and there was a loud "bang".

"You can't be free, you can't be free, and you are not willing to live and die." Zhang Jingche tilted his head and smiled coldly, "Your Majesty, if you want the life of your minister, you can do it with one order, but you want a cat or dog from my house that day." , wagging his tail and begging for mercy, letting others humiliate him..."

Before he finished speaking, the closed door was suddenly knocked open. Liu Yanzhao was furious and shouted without looking back: "Who let you in? Get out!"

There was a moment of silence around, and then, a voice familiar to both of them sounded: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, why are you here?"

Liu Yanzhao heard the sound familiar, turned his head with a bad expression, and saw that the person who came in was none other than Yang Fan, Marquis of Dingbian.

Yang Houye stared wide-eyed, and glanced back and forth between the Ninth Five-Year Supreme and the Commander of the Jinyiwei in surprise, the astonishment on his face was genuine.

The lineage of Dingbian is the pillar of the country, and even Emperor Taiping has to give up three points. Not long after Liu Yanzhao ascended the throne, even if he was very angry, he had to endure it at this time: "Yuanzhou? Why are you here?"

Yang Fan seemed to have just come back to his senses, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "My minister is reckless... I really heard about an important matter, and I don't know how to deal with it, so I had to come to Commander Zhang to discuss it. Just now I saw the hidden guards all over the yard Not here, I thought there was no one else, but who knows..."

When he said this, his voice was cut off unexpectedly, and he just pleaded guilty again and again: "This humble minister is reckless, please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

The hidden guard in the courtyard was retreated by Liu Yanzhao himself. He was full of anger and had no way to vent, so he could only force himself down: "What is so important that you can't even wait for the notification?"

Yang Fan showed hesitation, stood up under Liu Yanzhao's impatient urging, and whispered something in the ear of the new emperor.The new emperor's expression changed slightly, most of the anger in his eyes dissipated, but he was still a little upset, and gave Zhang Jingche a deep look.

Yang Fan followed his gaze to look at Zhang Jingche, as if he suddenly discovered something: "Commander Zhang doesn't seem to be looking well...why are you sweating so much? Are you sick?"

Liu Yanzhao was slightly taken aback, and looked carefully, and found that the man's face was pale, and a lot of sweat was indeed oozing from the forehead and neck, and the collar was completely pierced.

He frowned: "What's wrong with you? Are you really sick?"

Zhang Jingche has sharp eyes and ears, how could he not tell that Yang Fan was helping him out?Just now he smashed the tea bowl and cut the corner of his clothes, and he really made up his mind to do everything he could. Now, after Ding Bian Hou made some adjustments, his sense of loneliness and indignation gradually subsided, and his rationality returned.

"Perhaps it was raining this morning, and when I came back, I had a fever," he said in a low voice, covered his lips and coughed twice, showing a faint expression of distress, "I just got a fever, and if I offend, please don't blame the emperor."

Liu Yanzhao's last lingering anger was dispelled by his weak words. He was silent for a long time, and finally heaved a long sigh. He ordered his eunuchs to invite the imperial physician, and ordered You Yunwei to take care of him. Then he gave Zhang Jingche a mixed look, and turned around. walk away.

As soon as he walked on his front foot, Zhang Jingche couldn't stand on his back foot. He staggered and took two steps back, almost falling over.Fortunately, Marquis Ding Bian reached out his hand in time to help him just right, so Commander Zhang didn't ask Commander Zhang to face up to the sky.

"Are you okay?" Yang Fan poked his forehead and exclaimed in a low voice, "Why did it burn like this? What about the people who followed you? Are they all dead?"

"Don't make a fuss," Zhang Jingche said wearily, "I've asked the doctor to see it. I drank the medicine, slept again, and felt better. Who would have thought that such a fuss would happen again..."

He paused, feeling empty and exhausted in his heart, feeling a little annoyed and helpless for a moment: "I don't know when it will be a head..."

Yang Fan half-helped and half-carried him onto the bed, pulled off the quilt to wrap him up, caught a glimpse of the broken porcelain in Zhang Jingche's hand, and calmly picked it out: "I just smelled alcohol on your Majesty, I think it's because of drinking." Too much, just ignore the smell of alcohol... You too, just follow the comforting words, why bother to fight the emperor? If you really get into trouble, it's not that you are at a disadvantage!"

Zhang Jingche didn't have the strength to delve into this, and rubbed his aching forehead and asked, "How did you come here so fast? Is it a letter from Xu Shen?"

Yang Fan said calmly: "That's not true! He saw His Majesty barging in with a bad look, and he knew it was wrong, so he hurriedly asked someone he could trust to report to the Hou Mansion... Fortunately, I am at the mansion today, otherwise I don't know what will happen!"

Zhang Jingche said sleepily: "You just told His Majesty that you have something important to discuss with me... What is it?"

But Yang Fan refused to disclose: "You still care about this? Hurry up and lie down and sweat, and wait until the fever subsides before talking about anything else!"

Zhang Jingche was forced on the bed by him, knowing that it would be useless to ask any more, so he could only close his eyes wearily.He thought that after Liu Yanzhao's incident, his mind became a little heavier, and he couldn't fall asleep no matter what, but Yang Fan patted him on the back like coaxing a child, and the rhythmic comfort made Zhang Jingche gradually let go of his guard, unexpectedly fell asleep.

While half asleep and half awake, someone picked him up, opened his teeth, and stuffed the medicine bowl in.Zhang Jingche was vaguely conscious, swallowed, and accidentally passed out, coughing until the sky was dark, the man quickly turned the bowl away, and patted his vest again to calm down.

In his sleep, Zhang Jingche seemed to have grown wings, soaring with the wind howling in the sky.The sky is high and the ground is vast, the yellow sand is vast, and the ground shrinks to an inch under his feet. He feels the pleasure of deja vu in the violent storm, which is the freedom he has not seen for a long time.

He opened his eyes, and heard the wind blowing outside the window, the sky was covered by thick clouds, and he couldn't tell the time.The doors and windows were tightly closed, and an oil lamp was lit on the case. Before someone buried his head in the case, he leisurely flipped through a page of the storybook.

Zhang Jingche curled his fingers tentatively, and found a hard object clasped in his palm. After groping around, he recognized that it was his portable fan.

He thought of the oolong that night, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. He grabbed the folding fan and stuffed it into his arms to hide it.He thought he didn't move much, but Yang Fan in front of the case heard the movement, looked back, and raised his eyebrows at Zhang Jingche: "Are you awake? Are you hungry?"

Zhang Jingche shook his head.

Yang Fan came up to him and squatted down to look at him. Zhang Jingche felt aggression from this gaze, but he didn't feel disgusted.Just like a wolf raised at home, although it has seen the sharpness of its claws, it also knows that it will never show its edge to the person who raises it.

Yang Fan fished out a food box from nowhere, broke off a flower roll and brought it to Zhang Jingche's mouth.Zhang Jingche didn't start, and heard Yang Fan say: "Open your mouth... Open your mouth and I will tell you what I said to the emperor this afternoon."

Zhang Jingche took the three-year-old Dingbian Hou Meizhe, so he had no choice but to gnaw half a flower roll with his hand, and was forced to drink a bowl of bitter medicine.Wrapped in the quilt, he sweated profusely, probably because the high fever had subsided a bit, so he wasn't so sad at all.

Yang Fan then said: "Actually, it's not new news... Didn't it say earlier that an old couple was forced to occupy a fertile land by Pei Guogong and his son, and wanted to go to Beijing to sue for imperial court, but in the end it was nothing?"

Zhang Jingche listened very seriously: "So what?"

Yang Fan didn't know what to think, but he boldly pushed Commander Zhang's chin, and said with a smile, "The whereabouts of those two people have been found!"

Zhang Jingche was taken aback for a moment, and didn't care about Yang Houye's hands and feet, and asked eagerly, "Where is the man?"

"Don't look at me, I don't have people in my hands," Yang Fan said, "You know why they went to Beijing to sue for impeachment, why didn't it go away?"

Zhang Jingche pondered for a moment, and it was not difficult to come up with the answer: "Is it Mr. Pei Guo's business?"

Yang Fan snapped his fingers: "That's right! That old boy originally planned to kill the weeds, but who knows that the Skynet is well-established and meticulous, and the killers he sent actually returned without success—guess what?"

Zhang Jingche was not in the mood to listen to his storytelling, rubbed his sore forehead, and asked straight to the point: "Who saved them?"

Yang Houye didn't sell it out, and he said bitterly: "This is also an acquaintance... Do you still remember the Zong boss you ran into in Jiangnan?"

Zhang Jingche was taken aback, and the corners of his eyes narrowed slightly.