Reborn as King again

Under Zhou Ling's persecution, every concubine had to climb up the rockery with a tray in her hand, and then throw the things in the tray down.

Seeing the dead objects in front of him, Li Chen's eyes widened. The nightmares of that year flooded into his mind. Yes, Dan'er fell from the rockery just like this and died in front of him.Li Chen lost his mind, like a soulless corpse, staring blankly at the bloody cats and dogs.

At the beginning, I could still hear Li Chen's screams, but later on, there was no sound coming from the cave. Zhou Ling thought that Li Chen had fainted from fright, so he asked the inner prisoner to check, only to see Li Chen sitting on the ground blankly. , the eyes lost focus, like dolls, I am afraid that if a few more dead cats are left behind, Li Chen will be driven crazy.

At this time, a guard hurried over, greeted Zhou Ling, and said, "Empress, the Eighth Prince has returned to the palace."

"Eighth Prince?" Zhou Ling's expression changed. At this juncture, what is he doing back here? ! "Stop him, don't let him enter the palace."

"It can't be done." The guard said in embarrassment: "The Eighth Prince has already entered the palace, and is going to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager."

"What?" Zhou Ling scolded angrily: "Are you all idiots! How can people enter the palace casually!" Everyone must pass a sign when entering the palace. Now he controls the harem, without his permission, how can people enter the palace? May come in? !

"The empress dowager, calm down," the guard quickly explained, "The Eighth Prince has a palace entry token handed out by the emperor himself. It used to be for his convenience to enter the palace to accompany the empress dowager. After the eighth prince left Beijing, he also took this token He took it away, just now he took out this token, the last general dared not refuse, no, I have come to inform you immediately."

"Okay, I know."

Now is not the time to torture the eldest prince, Zhou Ling immediately dismissed the concubines, ignored Li Chen who was squatting in the rocky cave, and immediately led people to stop the Eighth Prince.

Fortunately, Zhou Ling was fast enough. Not far from the gate of the Palace of Compassion and Ning, he saw a delicate figure in a fine attire. Zhou Ling immediately called out, "Eighth Prince, please stay."

The man stopped at the sound and turned his head.This is not the first time Zhou Ling met the Eighth Prince Li Mubing. When the Liu family impeached Li Mubing for rebellion a few years ago, he happened to return to Beijing. Li Mujing once introduced him to him, but it was just a nodding acquaintance, and he had never been alone. .

Most of the princes of the Li clan are heroic, but there are always exceptions. The Li Chen just now is one, and the Li Mubing in front of him is another.Li Mubing is petite and very feminine, with his face, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a woman.

"Are you...?" Li Mubing raised his eyebrows, completely ignoring Zhou Ling's meaning.Li Mubing did this on purpose, even if he didn't recognize the person's appearance, Zhou Ling's queen's palace uniform was not for nothing, he was trying to show off the queen's authority.

Zhou Ling didn't know Li Mubing's intentions. The eighth prince in front of him was not as easy to dismiss as the minister in the court. He was the most beloved prince of the former emperor and queen mother. The pampering meaning of the face.

Zhou Ling didn't care about Li Mubing's contempt at all, and said with a smile: "I am the queen, we met a few years ago, I am afraid that you have forgotten the eighth prince."

Li Mubing let out an "oh", then turned around and continued walking towards the Compassion Palace.

"Wait a minute!" Zhou Ling took two quick steps to stand in front of Li Mubing, and the eunuchs behind him quickly followed.

"What's wrong with the emperor's wife?" Li Mubing was a little surprised, "I haven't been back to the capital for many years, and today I finally came back to visit my mother. What do you mean by blocking it?"

"I should ask the Eighth Prince this sentence." Zhou Ling refused to back down at all. "The queen mother has been talking about you for so many years, but you refused to answer anything. Why are you coming back eagerly now that the emperor is seriously ill? This palace has to guard against it."

"Defense? What are you defending against?" Li Mubing sneered and said, "I am not a feudal lord, and I don't need to write a note when I return to Beijing. What's more, the residence of the Eighth Prince is in the capital. I can return to Beijing whenever I want." , Sister-in-Law, you are taking too much control."

Zhou Ling was speechless, but he still couldn't let Li Mubing in. Ever since the queen mother learned that Li Mujing was critically ill, she kept complaining about it, which fulfilled Zhou Ling's wish. In Zhou Ling's view, the queen mother had nothing to fear , because he has obtained the Phoenix seal, the harem is completely under his control.As long as the queen mother is obedient, when the new emperor ascends the throne, he will also respectfully call the queen mother the empress dowager. If the queen mother dares to play tricks, he doesn't mind giving the queen mother some strong medicine to make her suffer from heart palpitations due to worrying about the emperor. Bliss.

"Eighth Prince, your mother is seriously ill, you'd better come back another day." Zhou Ling said.

"Seriously ill?" Li Mubing knew that things were not that simple, "It's fine that the emperor is seriously ill and can't see you, why is the queen mother also like this? Sister-in-law, you must have done some shameful things, right?"

"You...presumptuous!" Zhou Ling was in a hurry. He had lived comfortably these few days, so he didn't need to pretend any more. Any concubine would be terrified when they saw him. How dare the Eighth Prince speak wild words? !

"Say this king is presumptuous? Sister-in-law, you are the one who speaks so loudly!" What is Li Mubing's role?When he was a little overlord in the palace, Zhou Ling didn't know where to live a hard life. He thought it was a big deal to become a queen because of his beauty?Li Mubing knows his imperial brother too well. For Li Mujing, the Empress Li is just a playboy. If she likes it, she will be spoiled. Fuck you, you have such a lack of winking and face, you can't even compare to half of Concubine Wan."

Zhou Ling was completely stimulated by Li Mubing's words, "Shut up!" Yes, Li Mujing also said that he is not as good as Jia Wanru.What's so good about that bitch Jia Wanru? !Having a tryst with King Rui behind Li Mujing's back, maybe even Li Yi and Bi'er are the kind of King Rui, so Li Mujing, that kind of bitch, is still infatuated?Doted on her for ten years? !Why!

In fact, Li Mubing just said the abolition of the empress casually, but seeing Zhou Ling's reaction was so strong, he knew that he was right, and the emperor was planning to abolish the empress.

Six years ago, Li Mubing and Li Mujing had an appointment, and thereafter they would send a letter to Feige every month. If there was no news from Li Mujing for two consecutive months, Li Mubing would have to return to the capital.In the past two months, Li Mubing has not received any letters from Li Mujing. According to the agreement, Li Mubing came back, but what he heard was that a plague broke out in the palace. clear.Concubine Wan, who was kind and friendly to her, fell into a coma due to a miscarriage, and Concubine Wen, younger brother of He Wenwu, was recuperating in the cold palace.Li Mubing didn't know anything about the situation in the capital or the palace. The only thing he could do now was to find the Queen Mother.But Zhou Ling kept blocking him from seeing him, and the more he did this, the more problematic he would be.

"Why is the sister-in-law angry?" Li Mubing sneered and said, "This king is just telling the truth."

"The Eighth Prince! Please pay attention to your identity. I am the queen, holding the phoenix seal in my hand. It is not your turn to play wild in the harem!" Zhou Ling said angrily: "Do you think that the palace dare not touch you?! The queen mother Qingxiu , won’t meet anyone, if you don’t leave, don’t blame me for doing it!”

"You are a thousand years old, and this king is also a thousand years old. Since I was a child, no one can stop me from doing what I want!" Li Mubing had never seen such a storm, so how could he be frightened by Zhou Ling's words? Glancing at Zhou Ling and the eunuch behind him, he said coldly, "If you dare to touch a single hair of this king, this king will definitely chop off your hands!"

After Li Mubing finished speaking, she bypassed Zhou Ling and the others, and continued to walk towards the Palace of Compassion.Zhou Ling, who was ignored again and again, directly gave orders to the eunuchs: "Catch the Eighth Prince for me!"

These inner eunuchs are Zhou Ling's confidantes. They have done a lot of things with Zhou Ling in the past few days. They tortured the former prince yesterday and scared the eldest prince crazy today. What dare not do it? !

Two strong inner eunuchs came out, rolled up their sleeves and walked towards Li Mubing, saying, "I offended you, the Eighth Prince." Even though he said that, there was no respect in his tone.

They stretched out their hands and were about to grab Li Mubing. At this moment, three people suddenly appeared from nowhere. They were all dressed as ordinary guards. The arm was cut off, and the four arms fell to the ground like this.The two inner eunuchs screamed incessantly, and the ground was bright red.

Zhou Ling was frightened by the three people who broke in suddenly, and he asked loudly: "Eighth Prince, are you doing something in the palace? You want to rebel?!"

"Rebellion? This king just said that whoever dares to touch this king will chop off his hand," Li Mubing said contemptuously, "It seems that the emperor really doesn't love you, he I didn’t tell you about the many guards I arranged around me, they were just following orders, and they wanted to hurt the king first.”

If possible, Zhou Ling doesn't want to be an enemy of Li Mubing yet, but he is aggressive, it seems that he must get rid of this emperor's younger brother now.Li Mubing is not a vassal king, he just wanders around, has no power, soldiers, or land, no matter how many guards he has to protect him, the number can't compare with the guards he can mobilize!Zhou Ling decided to get rid of him now!

When Zhou Ling was about to issue an order to send more guards, a man walked out from the Palace of Compassion and Ning. The man was wearing cassock, holding a Buddhist bead in his hand, and his eyes were kind and peaceful. Mrs.

"Amitabha, benefactors are polite." Master Jing Miao walked towards them slowly.

Mrs. Jing Miao is a celebrity around the Empress Dowager, so naturally she has to give her face, Zhou Ling said: "It's disturbing the Empress Dowager's peace, I will immediately send someone to drive the Eighth Prince out."

"That's wrong." Master Jing Miao shook her head and said: "Recently, the Empress Dowager has dreamed about the Eighth Prince every day, and it seems that there is a sign that the Eighth Prince will come back, so Jing Miao came out to have a look. I didn't expect to meet the Eighth Prince. The prince is gone." After Master Jing Miao finished speaking, she turned her face to Li Mubing and said, "Eighth Prince, the empress dowager has become ill because of the emperor's affairs, it's great that you can come back, go and see the empress dowager."

"Let's forget it." Zhou Ling immediately interjected, "So as not to make the queen mother's condition worse."

"Does the sister-in-law want to disobey the queen mother's edict? You should be careful not to be impeached by the officials." Li Mubing is no less familiar with the rules and regulations in the palace than Zhou Ling. You have to respect your elders, so as not to be left behind.

After Li Mubing finished speaking, he ignored Zhou Ling and followed Jingmiao towards the Palace of Compassion and Ning. After taking two steps, he stopped again and kindly reminded Zhou Ling: "I forgot to tell you, sister-in-law, Oh, this king didn't come back alone, there are not only guards by his side, you should take it easy next time."

Looking at the back of Li Mubing going away, Zhou Ling clenched his fists angrily, and he immediately turned his head and said to the inner supervisor: "I called Grand Master Xia into the palace, if I have a discussion with him." This Eighth Prince is not that good To deal with it, it seems that the establishment of the new prince and the establishment of the new emperor have to be accelerated.

At the other end, Li Mubing followed Mrs. Jing Miao into the Compassionate Peace Palace, he looked around, he hadn't returned for so many years, it was still the same.He didn't believe that the queen mother would be so sick that she couldn't get out of bed and needed to rest. He remembered that when he came back last time, he was slapped severely before calling out to the queen mother. Don't get beaten again.

When Li Mubing was thinking about his little Jiujiu, Master Jing Miao beside him was too talkative, "Long time no see, Eighth Prince, you have grown up."

"Huh?" Li Mubing was stunned, he didn't remember that he had any relationship with the nun.

"Don't you remember me?" Master Jing Miao asked with a smile.

Hearing this, Li Mubing looked her up and down, and suddenly a figure appeared in his mind, "Are you... Aunt Xiao Miao?"

Master Jing Miao nodded to him with a smile.

"You...you didn't..." Li Mubing was speechless in surprise.

"I didn't die, I survived." Master Jing Miao answered Li Mubing's words.

Li Mubing's thoughts were confused for a while. This Mrs. Jing Miao is Xiao Miao, the personal maid of her biological mother Jing Zhaoyi. After Xiao Miao left the palace, she should have been murdered and silenced by Mrs. Xia. Why did she appear again? Palace?Are you still with your mother? !

"You...the queen mother..." Li Mubing really couldn't ask some words.

"She already knows the truth about Jing Zhaoyi's death."

******

The imperial garden was already empty, and the guards under the rockery had also left, but Li Chen still knelt in the cave shivering, looking at the dead cats in front of the cave, he dared not Going out, my mind is blank, and the surroundings are terribly quiet.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Chen finally heard a rustling sound. He wanted to call for help, but he didn't dare to make a sound. He could only hug his knees and wait silently.

"Wow, so many dead cats? The Royal Garden is not very fun." It seemed that someone was talking to himself outside the mountain.

Li Chen stared at the outside obsessively. He hoped that the person could get rid of the dead cat outside, and then he could come out.But after a while, those dead cats were still lying on the ground, and Li Chen's heart became colder and colder. He was afraid that the person had already left. At this moment, a small head poked out of the rockery cave.

Maybe it was because Li Chen's eyes were too hopeful, or maybe he was too enchanting. The moment his little head saw Li Chen, he was stunned for a long time, staring at Li Chen's face eagerly, and then She blushed when she was worried, like a red apple.

The two of them were in a stalemate like this, and they remained in a stalemate until finally Li Chen broke through, "Why are you blushing?!"

"I think you are so beautiful, as beautiful as a flower." The child said fearlessly. He scratched his head, as if he wanted to find some other adjectives.

Li Chen knew that he was beautiful, and he had never heard of the names given to him by the dignitaries in the capital, but they all tabooed his identity and never talked about it in front of him. This kid was the first one who dared to praise himself in front of him. The appearance, and the word "beautiful as a flower" is used to describe a woman.

"Why are you here?" asked the child.

"Outside..." Li Chen shrank back inside.

"Those dead cats? It's nothing to be afraid of." The child stretched out his hand to Li Chen, and said with a smile, "I'll take you out."

Li Chen shook his head, he didn't dare.

"You're so timid." The child said, grabbing Li Chen's sleeve with his outstretched hand and pulling it out.

"You... what are you doing?!" Li Chen exclaimed, he didn't want to go out, there was blood all over the ground outside.Li Chen patted the child's arm, trying to break his hand away, but he didn't expect the little kid to be so strong, he couldn't break free at all.

Li Chen was dragged out of the cave step by step by the child, the outside sun shone on the two of them, Li Chen wanted to scream in horror, but his eyes went dark, he felt the touch in the eye sockets, and the child covered his eyes.

The child pulled Li Chen's sleeve and walked out. Li Chen had no sense of direction and could only follow the child's pace.

The child didn't let go until he left the Royal Garden. Li Chen couldn't open his eyes because of the glare. It took a long time for Li Chen to get used to it. During this time, the child was still staring at Li Chen's face. not enough.

In the cave before, the light was dim, and Li Chen could not see the face of the child clearly. The reason why he thought he was a child was because the voice he made was that of a child.Now that it's out, Li Chen can finally take a serious look at this guy who pulled himself out with brute force.Li Chen still thinks that he is a child, still childish, with baby fat on his face, decent appearance, beautiful eyes, but his body is a bit tall, he seems to be as tall as himself.

"Stop staring at me, what's so interesting?!" Li Chen frowned slightly. He has a good temper, but he can't stand people like this.

"I won't say it all, because you are good-looking, and you look good when you frown." The child had no idea that his words had completely touched the bottom line of the First Prince.

Li Chen didn't want to get too entangled with this brat. Since he didn't recognize him, it meant he wasn't from the palace. There was chaos inside and outside the palace recently, who knows how he got in.Li Chen didn't speak any more, turned around and was about to leave.

"Wait a minute." The child grabbed Li Chen's sleeve.

"Why?" Li Chen said angrily.

"I saved you, shouldn't you show it?" The child smiled brightly.

"What do you want?" As the eldest prince, Li Chen would still do such things as rewards.

"I seem to fall in love with you. You promise me that you will marry me as your concubine in the future." The child made a request boldly.

"Elder Concubine? Are you... the eldest son?" Li Chen thought for a moment, as if there was no such ignorant child among the eldest sons he knew.

"En." The child nodded and said with a smile: "My name is Li Yao, and my father is the Eighth Prince. I just returned to the capital today. What's your name?"

"My eldest prince, I can't be your concubine." After Li Chen finished speaking coldly, he shook off the child's hand, turned his head and left.As he walked, he analyzed in his heart, since the eighth uncle Li Mubing came back, the queen should not be able to separate her mind from torturing herself again, the eighth uncle is not so easy to deal with.

But just after Li Chen walked a few steps, the kid named Li Yao grabbed his sleeve again. This was the third time. Li Chen was really going to get angry, "What the hell are you trying to do?!"

"You can't be my concubine, so how about you wait until I grow up to be your concubine." Li Yao smiled ruffiantly.

Seeing Li Yao's rascal appearance, Li Chen really couldn't get angry anymore, he couldn't help but mutter in his heart, how could his eighth uncle be so handsome and smooth-tempered, how could he give birth to such a rascal son.