The wind is strong, the sky is high, the apes are screaming in mourning, and the white birds are flying back from the clear sand in Zhugistan.

The endless falling trees rustled down, and the endless Yangtze River rolled in.

Wandering With Melancholy, a century on stage alone and sick.

Difficulty and bitterness hate the frost on the temples, and the new wine glass becomes turbid.

——"Ascend the High" by Du Fu

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On November 24, the eleventh year of Tianbao, Li Linfu, a powerful prime minister, finally passed away and returned to the west. He served as prime minister for nineteen years and was the longest-serving prime minister in the Xuanzong Dynasty.

After Li Linfu's death, the imperial court buried him as a state gift and gave him a precious coffin. The coffin was filled with goldfish bags, purple clothes and other royal gifts. On behalf of the emperor, Gao Lishi came to the memorial hall in person and put a bright and clean stone in his mouth.

Bright pearls.

The grand funeral and the burial objects given by the emperor symbolized the Emperor of Tang Dynasty's favor and grief for Li Linfu. For Li Xiang's family, it was the supreme honor and the greatest comfort.

Death is like a lamp going out. No matter how glorious and glorious you are when you are in power, in the end it will be nothing more than a handful of loess.

However, Li Linfu, who was "full of resentment all over the world", could not enjoy this kind of loess.

As the old saying goes, it is better to offend a gentleman than a villain. When Li Linfu was in power, Yang Guozhong did not even dare to breathe. Now he has regained his energy and does not want Li Linfu to die so easily.

In the first month of the twelfth year of Tianbao, before Li Linfu was buried, Yang Guozhong, in the capacity of Shangshu Zuopushe, reopened the old case. Yang Guozhong joined forces with An Lushan to accuse Li Linfu and the Turkic general Absi of conspiring to rebel.

Li Linfu was An Lushan's nemesis. As long as Li Linfu was in power for one day, Anlushan would be like a wolfdog on a chain. No matter how ferocious he was, he was still afraid of the shepherd's whip.

When Li Linfu died, An Lushan stayed up all night and was ecstatic. He realized that the chains that tied him had begun to loosen, and the key was in Yang Guozhong's hand.

Yang Guozhong's lobbying played into the hands of An Lushan. He hurriedly joined forces with Yang Zhao, bribed several of Absi's cronies, and came to Chang'an to give false testimony.

Under the tactics of Yin Fenglan, the big proprietor of Caiyi Club, Yang Guozhong coerced Li Linfu's son-in-law Yang Qixuan and others to betray his father-in-law.

It was also strange that Li Linfu had made too many enemies on weekdays, so at this moment the wall fell and everyone pushed against it. For a time, the trend of betrayal of Linfu prevailed in both the government and the public, adding insult to injury, and ungrateful people abounded.

Faced with the fierce accusations and accusations from the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, the old and dim Xuanzong did not investigate, and immediately issued an edict to have Li Linfu's house confiscated and his descendants dismissed from office and exiled to the border areas.

What's more, under the vicious reports of Yang Guozhong and An Lushan, Xuanzong showed his harshness and unkindness. He ordered people to open Li Linfu's coffin and took away the imperial pearls, purple clothes, goldfish bag and other items. Finally,

Li Linfu's body was stuffed into a small coffin and buried casually in a mass grave in the suburbs.

Li Linfu spent his whole life talking sweet words and using swords, harming the country and harming others. He deserved his own fault for this ending. However, as the lord of the Tang Dynasty and a generation of emperors, Xuanzong treated the old prime minister who had served him for almost twenty years in this way, which indeed made the senior officials in the court sigh with emotion and feel chilled.

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On the branches under the moonlight, Li Tengkong was lying on the roof of Prince Yin's mansion like a civet cat, staring blankly at a flower-lattice window in the courtyard.

A lamp is like a bean, and the candlelight projects a silhouette of a person on the window paper. The person keeps reading the book in a low voice, occasionally getting up and pacing, and the thin figure is particularly slender...

Li Tengkong's long eyelashes were unblinking as he stared at this figure infatuatedly, and a line of clear tears fell from his cheeks...

The scholars in the room seemed to sense something. They opened the window lattice and looked at the sky, thoughtfully.

Li Tengkong was afraid of being seen by the other party, so he quickly buried his head, shrugging his shoulders and sobbing silently under the starry sky.

…

It was late at night, and the lights in the windows finally went out.

Li Tengkong gritted his teeth and retreated silently. He spun up, jumped over the eaves of the house, and disappeared among the buildings.

…

Not long after Li Tengkong left, the door of the room where the lights had been turned off opened with a creak. A person walked into the courtyard with a quick step.

I saw him wearing night clothes, covering his mouth and nose, leaving only his eyes exposed. In the dark night, he was full of energy and his eyes were like shooting stars. It was Bai Fu.

…

Half an hour later, Li Tengkong returned to a small courtyard in Yong'anfang, the southwest corner of Chang'an. She has been hiding here since her home was ransacked.

Li Tengkong paced anxiously in the courtyard. These days, officers and soldiers with falcon mastiff dogs have been searching house to house in Chang'an City, and relatives of the clan have been arrested. Sooner or later, the eagle dogs will also search here.

More danger.

Tonight was the time she had agreed with the visitor. After getting the customs clearance token and the ultimatum, she planned to leave the city in disguise as soon as the city gate opened tomorrow morning.

"Click", three stones were thrown into the courtyard according to the rhythm of two long and one short, which was the secret code she had agreed with the visitor. If the secret code was wrong, she would immediately escape from the secret passage and sneak into Yong'an Canal.

Li Tengkong looked through the crack in the door again. The man in black outside the door was tall and majestic, like an iron tower.

Li Tengkong then took off the door bolt, put his head out and said softly: "Brother!"

The strong man in black put his finger to his lips and made a silent gesture. He looked around to make sure no one was watching, and then ran into the hospital.

Entering the house, the man in black took off his mask. He had a black face, a long beard, narrow eyes, and high temples. He was none other than General Yu Wenba of the Qianniu Guard.

Yu Wenba's eyes were eager and he asked: "Flight girl, have you brought everything?"

Li Tengkong nodded, turned the mechanism, and a secret compartment appeared behind the vase on the bookcase. Li Tengkong took out a stack of letters from the secret compartment, handed it to Yu Wenba, and said, "Brother, the letters are all here. You should read them all."

?”

These letters are private letters written by Yu Wenba to Prime Minister Li in the past, involving secrets such as the deployment of Qianniu Guards, the transfer of generals, military expenditures, etc. If the court finds out, they will be jailed at least, and at worst, they will be delayed.

Yu Wenba finished counting, and there were quite a few letters. He quickly opened the fire folder, lit the letters, and threw them into the brazier.

After the letter was burned to ashes, Yu Wenba breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Miss Kong, thank you for being alert, otherwise my brother would have died without a burial place."

Li Tengkong sighed softly and said, "If my father hadn't given me all these letters before he died, I wouldn't have been able to find them all even if I wanted to help my brother.

By the way, brother, I am going to leave tomorrow morning, do you have all the customs clearance tokens and documents?"

"Of course!"

Yu Wenba took out an oilcloth package from his arms. When he opened it, he found that it contained the Qianniu Guard's special envoy token, customs clearance documents and other documents.

Yuwen Ba said: "Kong sister, with the Qianniu Guards Special Envoy token, not only can you enter and leave Chang'an City Gate at will, but no one dares to check you even at Tongguan, Hulao Pass and other passes.

When you are settled, write me a letter so that I can rest assured, brother."

With tears in his eyes, Li Tengkong said, "Brother, take care of yourself too. You have been raised by your father since you were a child. I'm afraid you won't be able to get away with it this time, so please be more careful."

Yu Wenba sighed: "My eldest brother is no better than you. You still have your sister-in-law and children at home, and a group of brothers under you. We can't just ignore a big family and just leave."

Having said this, Yu Wenba's eyes were blazing and he said: "Sister Kong, although my eldest brother is already married and has children, after so many years, my eldest brother's feelings for you are always the same!" After saying that, his body involuntarily moved closer to Li Tengkong.

Li Tengkong was quite embarrassed. He took a step back and said, "Brother, we grew up together and share the same affection as brothers and sisters. I have always regarded you as my dearest brother and have never had other distractions. Please respect yourself, brother." After that,

, turned around and went to open the door.

An evil light flashed in Yu Wenba's eyes, his hand was like lightning, his five fingers entered the wheel, and he hit the key point on Li Tengkong's back.

Li Tengkong was horrified and his body slowly fell down.

Yu Wenba took her in his arms, smiled ferociously, and said: "Don't worry, Sister Kong, my eldest brother won't be rude to you. I heard that His Majesty loves you very much. Maybe in the future, eldest brother will have to rely on my sister. Hahaha."
Chapter completed!