Chapter 515 Chapter 522 Danglang

More than three hundred miles north of Yizhou is Zitong County.

This place is surrounded by Zi Lin in the east and Tongshui in the west. It is the south gate of Shu Road.

It was winter in October, with heavy rain and light mist. A group of people and horses hurried to Qiqu Mountain in the north of the county. Because the sky was getting dark, the leading knight had to rein in his horse.

"There is a posthouse ahead!"

"Your Majesty, it's dangerous to travel at night, why don't you just rest here?"

Chen Xuanli returned to his horse, rushed to Li Longji's horse, and helped him off the horse. Lu Qi, who was on the side, took two steps forward, supported Li Longji's other side, and staggered into the ruined post house.

When the Jiannan Army mutinied, they barely resisted and escaped from the palace, running all the way to Liangzhou.

After escaping here, Li Longji was very tired and asked: "The traitors won't come after them again, right?"

"With the weather like this, they must have stopped."

At the rear, the wound on Zhang Yan's leg had not healed yet. He was helped off the horse with difficulty. When he entered the post house, the wound was still affected. He grinned in pain and felt uneasy in his heart.

He originally thought that Li Longji and Li Heng were far stronger than Li Cong and the young Xue Bai behind him in terms of name and ability. But since the An Lushan rebellion, Li Longji's series of stupid moves finally made him realize

If you follow such an old emperor, even if you escape to Liangzhou, you will no longer have a future.

Looking up, I could faintly see a temple on the mountainside through the mist.

So, when everyone fled to the lobby of the post house, Zhang Bian pretended to be weak and bowed down in front of Li Longji, saying: "Your Majesty, I am seriously injured, so I may not be able to go to Liangzhou. I sincerely ask you to serve as an official to the Supreme Emperor... From now on, I will become a monk."

Be a monk."

This last sentence is very important. If he did not express his intention to become a monk, Li Longji would definitely think that he wanted to surrender to the traitors.

Zhang Bian deliberately put on a desolate and melancholy expression, his eyes full of regret. Although he desperately wanted to continue traveling north, he had no choice but to abandon the secular world, cut off his love and sex, and no longer participate in power disputes.

"Consort?"

Princess Ning was shocked when she heard this. She rushed to Zhang Bian's side and said, "Why do you want to become a monk? How could you make this decision without consulting me?!"

Zhang Bian had already had enough of her, which was one of the reasons why he wanted to become a monk. He coughed twice and said weakly: "I am seriously injured, and I can no longer drag you and the Emperor down."

"Why is the injury serious? It's just an arrow in the hip." Princess Ning shouted, "Consort, you can't become a monk, I won't allow you to become a monk."

Zhang Bian didn't want to pay attention to her, for fear that she would continue to ruin his future life, so he whispered: "Stop saying stupid things."

He saluted Li Longji again and said: "I beg the Supreme Emperor to grant your permission."

"The old man is always ambitious, but his ambition is to reach a thousand miles. In his old age, a martyr is still ambitious."

Li Longji first read this poem in a melancholy tone, stood up, walked a few steps, stroked his long gray beard, and said slowly: "I am seventy years old, and I still have great ambitions. How old are you?

So depressed?"

Zhang Bian felt ashamed and cried: "I am an ordinary person, how can I compare with the Supreme Emperor?"

This was a nice thing to say. If someone else had taken up the official position, Li Longji would have let him go, but Zhang Bian was different.

"Get up." Li Longji stepped forward, helped him up with his old but still strong arms, and said: "Cheer up, I still need you to testify that Xue Bai is pretending to be my grandson. He is a fake.

Rebel. These are what you have said to me personally, and I want you to prove it to all the officials in Chang'an!"

Zhang Bian was stunned for a moment and responded: "Yes, Xue Bai is a lowly slave adopted by Xue Xiu. He has been a rebel since he was born. Many people can testify to this."

"Who else can testify?"

Zhang Bian couldn't help but turn his head and glance at Princess Ning Qin, thinking that all the Xue Xiu family members who had been sheltered in the house were killed by this vicious woman. How many witnesses were there?

He hesitated slightly and said, "Princess Xianyi and the consort Yang Hui can testify."

Li Longji shook his head and said, "I need you."

Zhang Yan pursed his lips and said: "I am willing to die for the Supreme Emperor..."

Before he finished speaking, due to excessive blood loss and running around for days, he finally fainted and fell to the ground, as if only Buddhism could save him.

Li Longji felt unhappy when he saw this, and his feeling of betrayal and alienation became even stronger.

The sky was getting darker. At night, Li Longji tossed and turned, and in a daze he seemed to hear something in the distance.

"Sanlang... Sanlang..."

He suddenly remembered Yang Yuhuan calling him when he was at Chang'an Palace, but as soon as his mind became clearer, he thought that Yang Yuhuan might be having a rough time with Xue Bai at this time, which added a lot of pain to his heart, and he couldn't sleep anymore.

.

So he stood up and pushed the door open. He saw Chen Xuanli moved a chair and sat guarding the door. He didn't take off his armor, but he seemed to be asleep.

"Saint." Chen Xuanli woke up when he heard the noise and accidentally called Li Longji by his previous title.

"I seem to hear someone calling 'Sanlang', come out and take a look."

Chen Xuanli listened for a while and responded: "That's the bell on the mountain temple ringing, and the ringing is 'Dang Rang' and 'Dang Rang'."

Li Longji said sadly: "Hearing the bell on a rainy night can break your heart."

"Your Majesty is too worried."

"Is there a piano?"

"I'll go find him right now."

Chen Xuanli hurriedly asked people to find musical instruments, but when he was kicked out of the palace in a hurry, he didn't bring the heavy piano and drums with him at all. He only found a piccolo from an accompanying actor.

"I want to compose a new song, let's call it "Raining Bell"."

Li Longji took the piccolo and wiped it with his sleeve. He didn't mind that someone else had used it, so he put it to his mouth and started playing.

The sound of the flute is melodious and melodious, as if weeping and complaining, as if telling his lament that no one can understand...

"Sure enough, it's here!"

Suddenly, a loud shout came from outside the post house, and the sound of the flute suddenly stopped.

Li Longji put down the piccolo in his hand, looked at Chen Xuanli in surprise, pouted, and finally asked: "The post house is surrounded?"

Chen Xuanli didn't know about this and was in a daze for a while before replying: "I...I am asleep. I am guilty."

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"Consort!"

Princess Ning ran to the lobby of the post house in a panic, rushed to Zhang Bian's side, kept pushing him, and said, "What should I do? The traitors are chasing me."

Zhang Yan originally planned to faint, but she pushed him too hard, so he had to open his eyes to stop her and murmured: "Stop pushing."

"What should we do? The traitors have already surrounded us."

Zhang Bian had been thinking about this matter. He believed that he had a special status and was the most qualified to prove that Xue Bai was the emperor's grandson Li Qian. In other words, he was the key figure who could give Xue Bai the title of orthodoxy, and Xue Bai would definitely not kill him.

However, there had been quarrels with each other before, and coupled with his status as consort, it was impossible for him to be reused after helping Xue Bai in his attempt to usurp the throne. When Xue Bai stabilized his position, he might be killed to silence him.

Now surrounded by this post house, there are few ways to protect himself. Zhang Bian thought about it and decided to become a monk. This not only showed that he would rather be born in the world than to be degraded as a thief, but also he could separate himself from the Li Tang royal family.

In the future, I will have more room to make choices as a monk.

"Help me get tonsured," Zhang Bian said, "I want to become a monk."

"Then what should I do?" Princess Ningqin said angrily.

"You should also become a monk." Zhang Bian advised, "Don't forget that you were the one responsible for the death of all the orphans in the house."

Princess Ningqin's face turned pale with fright. She quickly called her attendants and said, "Quickly, shave me and my consort!"

The number of guest rooms in the post house was limited, so Lu Qi also rested in the lobby. Seeing Zhang Bian and his wife behave like this, he was very disdainful and cursed: "Zhang Bian, you have been favored by the country in this life, but you don't stand up when the country is in danger.

Are you going to escape into Buddhism?"

"I fought for the country and was seriously injured and unable to move. Now that the Emperor is in danger, I want to die as a martyrdom. But if I die, who will expose Xue Bai's conspiracy?"

"you!"

Lu Qi was jealous that Zhang Bian had the talisman to avoid death, which was like an iron contract written in an elixir, and he was so angry that he could only grit his teeth.

However, he could not give up the position of prime minister that he had obtained, and hurriedly wanted to support the emperor and flee. However, there was a loud noise at the gate of the post house, and the imperial troops retreated in.

The rebels have already rushed outside the door.

"The Supreme Emperor has been kidnapped by a traitorous minister. We are going to rescue the Supreme Emperor and escort him back to Chang'an!"

With this loud shout, a group of Jiannan soldiers walked through the gate and appeared in Lu Qi's sight. He knew that the "treacherous minister" they were talking about was him, and he couldn't help but shudder.

"stop!"

At this moment, Yan Wu arrived with Jiang Hai, Tian Shengong, Tian Shenyu and other generals, and shouted: "Don't hurt the Supreme Emperor!"

Then, he asked the imperial guards arrayed in the courtyard: "The saint is eagerly awaiting his arrival in Chang'an, waiting to reunite with the Supreme Emperor and his son. Are you trying to stop him with your sword? Do you want to rebel?!"

His imposing manner was so frightening that some of the Imperial Guards wanted to put down their swords.

At this moment, Li Longji's voice came over.

"I think you are going to rebel!"

Everyone turned around and saw that Li Longji had arrived under the protection of Chen Xuanli and stood in a safe place at the rear, saying: "I was not held hostage by traitors. I was seduced by traitors because I was an unworthy son. In order to protect the clan, I
To be continued...