I'm here to find my son

Nan Zimu was still sleeping under the blanket, but when he heard a stranger's voice, he opened his eyes in time.

"Father." As soon as Huanxi was put on the ground by the man, she ran towards Nan Zimu's bed. Although the child was still confused about the situation, she could still feel the sense of crisis that was about to come.

Nan Zimu sat up and leaned against the head of the bed. His eyes were fixed on the man in black not far away, and his face sank like water: "Who are you?"

The man lowered his eyebrows: "I am an unknown person, and I have been with the prince since I was a child. There was news from the palace just now, saying that the second prince broke in with a large number of people, intending to force the palace, and the prince has already rushed away."

He paused at this point, and then repeated what Li Xing entrusted to Nan Zimu word by word.

After Nan Zimu listened, his face remained expressionless, and he yelled out the door nonchalantly: "Dahu, go bring a basin of water to wash Huanxi's hands. And Hongyu, ask the kitchen to heat up the food. Then bring it to my room for Huanxi to eat."

Before he entered the door, Hongyu smelled an unfamiliar smell, so she took Wang Dahu and guarded the door of Nanzimu's room together to prevent accidents.Then they heard Nan Zimu calling him, and the two walked in unhurriedly.

Hongyu rubbed her fists and said, "Li Jing's going here is more dangerous than good, why don't I go to give a friendly support?"

Although she was not smart, she could guess why Nan Zimu stayed and chose to help Li Xingzhi.

"It's not necessary." Nan Zimu said calmly, "He, Li Xingzhi, can't even handle this little trouble. Besides, if he is so incompetent, why not go back to basics and farm, and be an emperor?"

"..." The man looked up at him, thinking that he could glimpse some other emotions from Nan Zimu's face.However, after watching it for a long time, I only came to one conclusion - this Mr. Nan is really indifferent to Lord Hou.

Nan Zimu straightened his clothes, and Xiaozhen, who was feeding Yueba on a regular basis, saw this, hurriedly put down the cat food, and brought a coat for Nan Zimu to put on: "It's cold in autumn, sir, be careful not to catch a cold gone."

"Why is there gold on my face?" Nan Zimu looked at the man in black.

The man in black nodded quickly: "It's just that Master Hou said that he doesn't care about it, but you and the prince must be safe. Although the second prince's army is still outside the capital, there are still many followers of the second prince in the capital. I don't know how many pairs of eyes are staring at our Lord Hou's mansion in the dark, so Lord Hou please make plans early."

"Half of the hidden guards in Lord Hou's Mansion are ready. If you want to leave the city, they will definitely do their best to send you to Mount Zhongnan safely."

"Come on, even if his whole house is dead, Huanxi and I will be fine. You'd better let those hidden guards protect Lord Hou and his mother." When Nan Zimu said this, he suddenly paused for a second, and then Said, "Just tell him not to worry about it, he can't protect himself, and he still takes care of so many people."

At this time, the palace was brightly lit.

Li Xingzhi led a few people straight to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Before leaving, Hou Ye assigned half of the hidden guards of Hou Ye's mansion to Nan Zimu's residence, and folded the remaining half in half, and assigned it to the Crown Princess. So now there are only seven hidden guards following him.

However, these hidden guards were given to the prince by the emperor at the beginning, and their martial arts were not inferior to those of the imperial guards in the palace. In addition to Li Xingzhi and Song Ci, there were nine of them in total, Lord Hou was not in vain.

"Father..."

"You still have the face to call me Father! Cough... Cough, heh."

A hoarse shout came from the wooden bed carved with wishful cloud patterns and crouching dragons in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, but the emperor's spirit was not lifted because of these imposing words.A few quick coughs behind him also indicated that he was about to die.

After the severe cough, the old emperor was still furious: "Li Zhuozhao, you are so brave, do you know what you are doing now?"

Hearing this, Li Zhuozhao's tired eyes became red again: "Of course I know what I'm doing. This is a great crime of treason. But why should I risk the evil of the world? Isn't it all because of you?" !"

"I forced you? I forced you to be good at raising private troops, and forced you to lead troops to besiege the city, and forced you to personally force the palace?"

The eunuchs kneeling aside were so frightened that they didn't even dare to make a sound, they could only kneel on the ground and tremble.

Li Zhuozhao had been an idiot for more than 30 years, and when the emperor pointed him to that fiefdom, he obediently went there, never daring to raise any objections.Now that it erupts, the volume is frighteningly high: "Because the second prince's biological mother is humble, you looked down on him when you were young, and you were so harsh on the other princes, but you ignored him alone. But why, why! He is clearly talented. It's your eldest son, only missing a word of "秦", and a high-ranking biological mother, and you treat him so harshly!"

The old emperor took a deep breath and said in a trembling voice: "Didn't I adopt you under the name of Concubine Song Guifei?"

"I won it myself." Li Zhuozhao blushed, "I know I'm not as smart as your younger brothers, but you can make up for it with hard work. What they spend an hour learning, I spend two hours on. You don't dare to have free time for a day, and you think your ability is no worse than them. But you actually..."

"What's wrong with me? After I give you a throne and let you go to the fiefdom? You travel all day long, and you are not seen in the palace. What do you call hard work?"

Li Zhuozhao was silent, he had worked hard in the palace before, and he never enjoyed the happiness that children should have when he was young.So when he arrived in the fiefdom, he vowed to get back the lost happiness in multiples and multiples.

"Even so, the hard-working emperor can't count on one hand, so Li Jing, a young boy in his early twenties, can make great achievements for the throne."

The old emperor said coldly: "You keep saying that you are a kid in his early twenties? Then tell me, who was the one who repelled the Xiongnu in one fell swoop? Who was the one who made disaster relief several times and minimized the losses of the common people? ? Why don’t you and your younger brothers not see you and your brothers in these places where life and blood are sacrificed?”

Li Zhuozhao was stunned.

I only heard the emperor say again: "Idiots will always be idiots, I really raised you for nothing, a thing that has more success than failure..."

"Shut up!" Li Zhuozhao hated others who scolded him as an idiot, let alone his own father who scolded him.The idiot second prince drew his sword in anger for the first time, but the sword pointed at his biological father.

"You're partial, you know..."

There was a sudden sound of uniform footsteps outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation, followed by a sharp arrow, which pierced Li Zhuozhao's throat in an instant, and he fell down in shock. The last thing he saw was... Shangshu's shoe tip.

"Zhuo Zhao!" It could be seen that the old emperor wanted to turn over and get out of bed, but his strength was exhausted, so he could only tremble on the bed with his lips and eyelashes.

Song Yili knelt down on one knee towards the old emperor along with a group of imperial guards, and said sadly: "My minister, it's too late to save you."

"Get up, Song Aiqing, Zhuo Zhao...cough cough..."

Song Yili has lost a lot of weight recently. After shedding the fat on his face, there are fine wrinkles all over his face. His double eyelids are drooping slightly wider than ordinary people. When he is not smiling, he looks very gloomy.

He didn't stand up immediately, but moved his other leg, knelt down on both knees, and saluted the old emperor.

"My minister is guilty." Song Yili blamed himself, "I knew that the second prince was plotting something wrong, but after dissuading me, I thought that the second prince had repented. I didn't expect...he was so confused."

Song Yili was the minister of the Ministry of Industry of the second rank, and the elder brother of the imperial concubine Song at that time, so since Li Zhuozhao adopted him at the knee of the imperial concubine Song, he had such a cheap nephew.

Li Xingzhi walked in at this time, he glanced at the situation in the hall calmly, then squatted down and touched Li Zhuozhao's breath, but he didn't feel it.

The old emperor looked at him hurriedly, Li Xingzhi slowly raised his eyes, met the old emperor's eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Second emperor uncle, he is dead."

The emperor closed his eyes, suppressed his grief, and asked Song Yili with all his strength: "What did you mean by what Aiqing just said?"

"Returning to the emperor, I visited the second prince's mansion a few months ago, and he showed me the dragon robe that I made privately with great interest. I was terrified, so I tried to persuade him that 'rebellion is a serious crime of deviant', he At that time, I chuckled lightly and told Weichen that this is a birthday present to the emperor in half a year. So Weichen... I didn't say anything."

Li Xingzhi slightly raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Master Shangshu is not suspicious. Since ancient times, which prince would give the emperor a dragon robe as a birthday present?"

Song Yili: "Master Hou also knows that my minister is confused. At that time, I only thought that the second prince was ingenious and wanted to surprise the emperor."

"Master Shangshu, don't say that, this Marquis can't afford it. I don't know, I'm really not sure if you are really confused, or you are pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger." Li Xingzhi looked at him leisurely.

Song Yili was covered in cold sweat from Lord Hou's gloomy eyes, and he hurriedly bowed to the old emperor again: "My minister, if I knew this earlier... I would not dare to report to the emperor now. This minister also did it half an hour ago. Seeing the news that the second prince sent a geese to deliver a letter, he rushed here without stopping."

"Keep Shangshu slammed the second uncle's throat with an arrow as soon as he came, and now there is no proof." Li Xingzhi stared at Song Yili's face intently, speaking clearly.

The old emperor who was leaning on the dragon couch let out another series of heart-piercing coughs, and Li Jing hurriedly stepped forward to relieve him.After coughing, the emperor felt that it was difficult even to speak, and he said weakly, "All right, let's not talk about this. Where are the elite soldiers brought by Li Zhuozhao?"

Song Yili: "The group of 'elite soldiers' outside the hall have been suppressed by the Imperial Forest Army, but when they were arrested, they took poison and committed suicide one after another, and none of them survived."

Li Xingzhi glanced at the Imperial Forest Army behind Song Yili, and asked, "How is the Imperial Forest Army?"

The minister leading the guards said: "No one was killed or injured."

"Oh? That's the level of an elite soldier? I'm afraid that my second emperor's uncle didn't force the palace, but came in to chat with the emperor?" Hou Ye half-jokingly said.

"Report! The army commanded by the second prince outside the capital has already broken through the city gate and is heading towards the palace." A guard rushed in, knelt down and bowed.

The old emperor was furious: "Trash! What about the troops guarding the capital? Are they all living on nothing?"

"If you go back to the emperor, some of the army guarding the city gate turned against the water and cooperated with the army outside the city, causing the second prince's army to enter the city smoothly. The army in the city has now assembled, but there is no order from the emperor..."

Halfway through hearing this, the old emperor twitched his forehead: "Eating/shit can't keep up with the hot ones! The gates of the city are broken and they still take such an order into account. Pass down the order and let them stop the second prince's army immediately."

Hou Ye said: "Also, let the common people try not to go out to avoid accidental injury."

The guard Nuo Nuo kept making noises, and quickly backed away.