This disease cannot be cured, it must be cured

Chi Shangshu: "..."

He couldn't figure it out for a moment, logically speaking, the emperor who was really "playing tricks behind his back" should be furious if his thoughts were exposed so openly.

He even suspected that the emperor didn't hear what He Houcong said, "Your Majesty?"

Chi Shangshu reminded.

"Well," Li Chen took a breath, held the teacup in his hand, and looked at the tea leaves floating in it, "Go ahead."

Chi Shangshu: "..."

Chi Shangshu didn't dare to say more. The emperor was unpredictable, moody and unpredictable. He might be killed the next moment he realized it.

He Houcong saw that Li Chen's face changed, and his mood was much better than before. He thought that he stepped on the right key, thought for a while, and continued: "If Lord Shangshu can't carry out the holy will in person, don't stand up to the loyal Lord. hat, and then blame it all on someone else."

Chi Shang's bookish hands were about to shake, he gritted his teeth, and squeezed out a sentence: "Do you know how to read people's faces?"

As he spoke, he glanced at the emperor who was listening.

He Houcong moved his stiff neck from side to side, and Dayi held his hands awe-inspiringly, facing the emperor.

Chi Shangshu said angrily: "Could it be that I, a civil servant, should do things like executing punishments in the prison?!"

He Houcong: "Then you should explain clearly..."

"Okay." Li Chen finally spoke.

He interrupted the argument, thinking that the boring evening would be more interesting.

"Ding"

The celadon-painted gold teacup was placed on the table by him, making a crisp sound when it collided.

He stood up, and the gorgeous brocade uniform wrapped his strong shoulders and smooth waist, and also wrapped up his great strength and momentum, "Go and see."

Chi Shangshu and He Houcong looked at each other, neither of them convinced the other, and turned their eyes away at the same time.

The waiter looked at the situation and opened the way, and went all the way to meet Li Chen and walked to the innermost room.

King Li fell into a drowsy sleep, and when he heard the sound, he seemed to want to open his eyes and get up, but he struggled for a long time, but he still couldn't wake up from the heaviness.

After all, it was too late, and his health was really bad. Once he fell into a deep sleep, he would not be easily awakened.

Li Chen looked at his thin body.

"With him procrastinating like this, how many days can he procrastinate?"

Xu Zhuo has been following at the end, seeing the sleeping King Li, trying not to yawn.

Hearing this, he took half a step forward and bent down, and replied: "It's the end of the crossbow, and it's only through forced intervention that we can live until now."

Li Chen asked: "Didn't you say that you are not capable enough to live so long?"

This made Xu Zhuo lose face too much, but at this time, saving his life is the most important thing, so what is there to do with face, he replied: "Yes, I couldn't stand it a few days ago, but when I heard that you wanted him to commit suicide, he hanged himself again and forced himself to do so." Hold on until now."

"It means that he did it on purpose." Li Chen glanced at him and asked, "Deliberately against me, if I want him to live, he can't live, if I want him to die, but he refuses to die, is that what you mean? "

Xu Zhuo nodded cautiously.

Li Chen raised his eyebrows and said a silent "oh".

Then he stretched out his foot, "Boom!"

He kicked hard on the iron railing, shaking the hearts of all the people present, and everyone trembling.

The older ones were even more frightened and almost had a heart attack.

The whole railing was "humming—" shaking non-stop, and bits of debris fell from the top from time to time.

When King Li heard the deafening sound, he immediately opened his eyes wide, and beads of sweat hung on his face.

Obviously terrified.

He stared at the roof in horror for a long time before he realized it, and his mind came back a little.

Seeing his frightened appearance, Li Chen coughed softly.

King Li turned his head with difficulty, and when he saw that it was him, he squinted his eyes and looked at them carefully, as if he was trying to determine if it was really him.

Li Chen didn't move and let him look at him.

"It's you!" King Li saw the person coming, and changed into a vicious and angry look, but his face was ashen, his eyes were sunken, and the eyes contained in them were either white or black, and they all became a pair of eyes. The gray color of the crow's chug.

Even so, he tried his best to sternly say: "No matter what method you think of to torture me... In short, I... refuse to accept it! I will definitely die!"

Li Chen looked at his violently rising and falling chest, and asked the crowd around him, "Who tortured him?"

Shangshu doesn't come here often, and the servant said: "No one dares to indiscriminately lynch."

He Houcong: "They are all treated according to the ancestral system. Because of the emperor's relatives, there are many cares. I can't wait for the emperor's order. I am always trembling and never dare to punish the criminals privately."

The word 'prisoner' made King Li unhappy, his brows and eyes crowded together, and he tried hard to get up, but failed.

After struggling several times, he fell back on the plank bed, panting heavily.

"You want to tell me to commit suicide, to gain a good reputation for generosity and virtuousness..."

He rested for a while, regained his strength, laughed a few times, gritted his teeth and said: "I just don't do what you want!"

"Without the imperial brother's will, I will definitely die!" He said viciously.

"Brother Huang?" Li Chen laughed lowly.

Chi Shangshu reprimanded Li Wang: "The Supreme Emperor has abdicated, and the current emperor is here, you dare to be presumptuous! Allowing you to commit suicide is a gift, but you are so..."

Li Chen raised his hand and stopped him.

Chi Shangshu flicked his sleeves in resentment, and let out a breath towards the sky.

"Do you still expect to be sympathized by your elder brother, and expect him to be soft-hearted and spare your life?" Li Chen said regretfully, "How long can you live even if you are spared with such a half-dead look?"

King Li glared at him.

After trembling a few times, he gritted his teeth: "...whatever you say, I will not commit suicide."

"If you have the ability, you can directly execute me," he lay slumped on the ground, grinning his pale and ragged lips, "Let's see what people in the world will say about you! You are cold-blooded and ruthless, even killing your own uncle!"

"Uncle and nephew are not filial, it's just a relationship." The corner of Li Chen's mouth twitched, revealing a bloodthirsty smile, "So, don't blame my nephew for not caring about friendship, let you see if you have the ability."

One night, another day and night.

In central Beijing, the sky is bright and clear during the day, and the night is also very bright. The moon is as big as a disc.

It shines all night without any clouds.

In the middle of the night, the prison of the Ministry of Justice was brightly lit.

When the emperor was here, no one dared to go home from get off work, and stood by conscientiously.

Yan Zhen went to the emperor's side for the third time, and whispered: "I haven't come back yet."

Li Chen closed his eyes, his face was very ugly.

"May I go to the Imperial Hospital tomorrow to take another day off for Imperial Physician Song?" Yan Zhen asked.

Li Chen didn't speak.

So Yan Zhen shut his mouth and didn't dare to ask again.

In silence, Chi Shangshu pulled Yan Zhen to a place where there was no one else.

"What's wrong with the emperor?" He asked puzzledly, "Why do you look in a bad mood?"

Yan Zhen sighed, "No, the emperor waited for the one inside to die, so that he could deal with the emperor. You know the emperor's temper. Few people in this world would dare to make him wait so long."

Chi Shangshu pursed his lips and nodded, and asked again: "Why don't you go back to the East Palace and wait, it's more comfortable."

Yan Zhen: "East Palace has been relocated [-]% of the time, and it is empty."

Chi Shangshu looked at him, and he looked in the direction of Li Chen, "Didn't you see that even the memorial was brought over for approval, alas."

After he sighed, he bowed to Chi Shangshu again, "You are busy, the villain has to go out."

Chi Shangshu: "You run every half an hour, what are you doing?"

"Commander Uda recently brought back the Northwest Battle Report, the Emperor is concerned and asked me to pay more attention to it," he replied.

This is considered an important matter, and Chi Shangshu dared not stop him, "Go quickly."

Yan Zhen bent over to him again, and walked out quickly.

Second watch.

Yan Zhen came in for the seventh time, this time he was in a lot of hurry, and went straight to Li Chen as soon as he came in.

Hearing his different footsteps, Li Chen raised his eyes, with a little expectation in his eyes.

Yan Zhen stepped forward and lowered his voice desperately, but couldn't suppress his smile: "I'm back! People from the outskirts came to report, saying that they saw Wu Da's figure. There were two people who came to the city on horseback. They should be Lord Song. them!"

Li Chen took a breath and let it out again.

The corner of his mouth moved, showing a smile first.

After a while, Li Chen fell silent, got up and went to the depths of the prison.

All the officials present followed suit.

King Li was still lying on the dilapidated bed. When he saw someone coming, he barely raised his neck, raised his hands and lowered them, and finally firmly grasped the dilapidated wooden board protruding from the edge of the bed.

Li Chen looked at it for a while, then glanced at the people around him, "Xu Zhuo."

"The minister is here." Xu Zhuo took two steps forward, bent down, "the emperor."

"How long?" Li Chen asked.

Xu Zhuo went in and opened King Li's eyelids to take a look, then came out and replied: "It's almost time, tomorrow morning at the latest, I must be out of breath."

"Li Chen..." Li Wang blushed and gasped for breath with difficulty, "You...you..."

Everyone watched coldly, and no one dared to say a word.

Li Chen looked down at him on the brink of death, and his irritability suddenly gained the upper hand.

The whole person let out a breath of irritability.

"This medicine is chronic. Is there any other medicine that can kill immediately after taking it?" He asked.

King Li looked at him in horror, "...you...you dare!"

Xu Zhuo thought that he had been waiting all day and night, why was he suddenly anxious now?

He still said: "Yes, but the cause of death can be found out. The one that has been drunk now, although it is slower, once a person dies, no one can find out how he died. It is the most useful."

Li Chen nodded, before he could speak, King Li struggled frantically.

He had been bedridden for many days, his muscles were weak, his whole body was swollen purple, and he was trembling constantly.

Li Chen raised his eyebrows and looked at it for a while, not knowing what he was thinking.

But Xu Zhuo opened his mouth and followed his suggestion: "Since they are all dead, it's better to just pour him a pot of crane-topped red, and say he committed suicide, that's all right."

It means that he can be killed openly and aboveboard, even if it is found out afterwards, who would dare to say no?

This suggestion was mentioned by Chi Shangshu yesterday, the emperor did not comment, and finally ordered some chronic medicine to make King Li die slowly, more naturally.

No one knew why he suddenly made an attack at this time, and thought that he died too slowly.

Xu Zhuo has been struggling on the verge of survival, bad luck, bad luck, no good things happen to him.

It was not easy to wait for the Queen Mother to appreciate it, but King Li came out halfway and interfered with his errand.

Since he lived in the Ministry of Punishment to take care of King Gu Li and his son, the Queen Mother didn't send anyone to rescue him. Obviously, he was ready to give up his pawn.

Xu Zhuo was frustrated and unwilling to be reconciled, so he broke the pot and threw it out.

"If you drink the poisonous medicine, if you don't treat it, you will end up with death. The difference is that death is easy or difficult." He tried his best to calm down, restraining his trembling and stiff legs from fear, "King Li is seeking power and usurping the throne. He also uttered disrespect, if it was too easy to die, wouldn't it be cheap for him."

Yan Zhen looked at him and felt that he had grown a lot of courage.

He looked at Li Chen in a blink of an eye, but found that his expression was solemn, and there was no unhappiness or murderous intent in his eyes looking at Xu Zhuo.

Yan Zhen couldn't help but look at Xu Zhuo again.

I found him to be really good looking.

What is different from the ordinary good-looking is the sunshine and handsomeness.

Even though he was in a dark prison cell with dim and weak lights in the corners, it was still difficult to hide his distinct facial features and the skin on the side of his face glowing with a hazy warm glow.

Yan Zhenxin thumped, thinking of Song Chunjing.

He quickly turned his head to look at Li Chen, Li Chen's throat twitched, his eyes were still locked on Xu Zhuo and he didn't pull back, he said: "Well said."